Feimura could feel his heart pounding violently. This kind of pounding even affected his emotions, causing him to suddenly think of his wife and daughter in the face of such a powerful enemy. If the Hokkaido Army can find him, can't they find his wife and daughter?
At this thought, Feimura felt his heart beating even faster, and his interest became even more unstable. A few moments later, Feimura realized that he had lost his composure. He used his composure, which he had gained from years of experience in killing, to adjust his state of mind to battle mode. Feimura even began to think of the person who had betrayed him. After that, Himura confirmed that he was getting old. He was no longer the executioner who was able to focus completely on combat and calmly make the most accurate decisions in a split second.
Two hours later, Harada Zuosuke, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Security who had met with Himura, went to visit the Commander-in-Chief of the Hokkaido Army, Hijikata Suizan. Tu Fang Suisan was already 54 years old. Even though he was a Sword Master, his figure was still the same, and he still exuded a powerful aura. However, Hijikata Suisan's expression was very calm when he mentioned the reformists he had fought during the Tobaku era. He even revealed a nostalgic expression. Lighting a cigarette, Hijikata Suisan said slowly, "That executioner is still alive and well."
"I wonder if he will leave immediately." Harada Zuosuke sat on the sofa opposite the earthworks, he did not have the respect that ordinary Japanese people had for their superiors.
Hijikata didn't care, Harada Zuosuke was a rough man, and the Hokkaido Army had learned from China's military structure. Influenced by the concept of equality between officers and soldiers for 30 years, coupled with their weak strength, the Hokkaido Army could not maintain the traditional Japanese system. As long as it was not a deliberate provocation, the commanding officer would not question the actions of his subordinates.
Moreover, the question raised by Harada Zuosuke made Hijikawa feel that it was somewhat interesting. He asked, "Do you know who gave the information?"
Harada Zuosuke shook his head, "It's a letter, so it's hard to check. However, I had a feeling that if they did it once, they would do it again. It seemed like Meiji and the others weren't united either. That Himura is so pitiful. "
Hijikata Suisan had no intention of commenting on his subordinate's evaluation. This Harada Zuosuke really made everyone speechless. When he was in the Shinsengumi, he killed a spy with a single slash and sighed in satisfaction. "I'm so happy." Then, he was reprimanded by Kondo Yūichi. Now, he even said that his betrayed opponent was pitiful. His state of mind was like that of a child who only pursued his own happiness.
Since he knew Harada Zuosuke's temper, Hijikata Suiso went straight to the point, "China asked if we have the chance to negotiate with Meiji, and try to solve the problem peacefully. The Parliament also believes that it would be best to resolve this peacefully. If the war continues like this, I'm afraid it will take a few more years and many people will die. "
"But will that Himura bring the news back?" Harada Zuunosuke didn't have full confidence in Hijikata Suisan's expectations.
"Him being able to return alive is already a form of publicity. Moreover, that fellow isn't here to assassinate us. According to our discussion, he isn't someone we need to kill. "Hijikata Suisan explained.
"From what you're saying, it seems like you're afraid that I'll go and kill him?" Harada Zuunosuke asked with a hint of ridicule.
"I'm worried that you'll go and find him to compete in martial arts." Hijikata Suisan said straightforwardly.
After Harada Zuunosuke heard this, he revealed an expression that said, "I knew you'd ask that." He smiled and said, "Don't you want to compete with him?"
Hijikata Suisan raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the door. He said to Harada Zuunosuke, "Go to work!"
At this time, Himura met his wife and daughter at his old residence. When he confronted Harada Zuunosuke, Himura was most worried about his wife and daughter, not himself. In the end, Harada Zuunosuke didn't fight with Himura. He only told Himura that according to the Hokkaido Army's new policy, the matters of the shogunate era were not within the scope of investigation. Therefore, Himura could stay in Tokyo, provided that he obtained a Zhang Liangmin certificate. He also told Himura that it was easy for him to cause trouble if he stayed in someone else's house, so it was better for him to go back to his own house first. After that, he retreated.
Himura wasn't stupid. He felt that these words were too strange, so he ran all the way to his small house in Tokyo. In the end, he saw his wife and daughter in the house. There was no longer any value in talking nonsense. Himura's trip was indeed completely exposed. He could either obediently tuck his tail between his legs and sneak back to Osaka, or he could tuck his tail between his legs and live a good life in Tokyo. After comparing the two options, Himura decided to obediently return to Osaka.
Before he left, he didn't fall down. Instead, he went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to look for Harada Zuunosuke. Harada Zuunosuke didn't put on airs and calmly invited Himura in for a chat. "Himura, I don't know if those people in Kansai have thought about peace. If they have, you might as well try to convince them. Both sides are probably evenly matched, but those people in Kansai have England behind them, and we have China behind us. Once England is completely defeated by China, China can mobilize their fleet to attack the navy in Kansai. I don't know how long Kansai can last without the navy. Wouldn't it be easier for everyone to take advantage of this opportunity to negotiate? "
"According to your conditions?" Himura wasn't scared, nor did he lose his cool.
"The Meiji Emperor wants to abdicate, Kansai needs land reform, and the people in the Kansai government have to be relieved of their duties, and the army has to accept our reorganization. Of course, we will protect their personal and property safety. And once they pass our review, they still have a chance to be hired by the government. "Harada Zuunosuke took out the Hokkaido army's request for peace.
Even without going back to discuss it, Himura knew that it was impossible. The Meiji Emperor finally regained power, and to ask him to abdicate and return to a state where he has no power, it would be better to kill him. Most of the other high-ranking officials of the Meiji government refused to give up their power, and when they still had the army, their only choice was to fight to the death. As for the land reform …. The noodle shop owner made it clear that the landlords were using their lives to fight against the Hokkaido government. In Kansai, there were also many landlords or landlords' families who fled to the Meiji government, and their hatred for the Hokkaido army was as deep as the sky and as deep as the sea. The Meiji army hoped to use this army to deal a heavy blow to the Hokkaido army.
Himura quietly thought about it, and finally realized that only a poor person like him would think that the Hokkaido army's proposal was not bad. If Himura brought his wife and children back to his hometown to farm, according to the regulations, he could apply for land from the government. And for those who originally had a lot of land, the Hokkaido army's revolution was an evil policy to completely deprive these people of their property.
As a poor person, Himura's simple social position naturally leaned towards the poor. The reason he left his master and went down the mountain was to overthrow the Shogunate and build a Japan that was more beneficial to the poor. However, the development of the situation did not satisfy Himura, although the Shogunate was overthrown, the people of Japan were far from happy. However, this was not a reason for Himura to immediately join the Hokkaido army, so Himura took a document from Harada Zuunosuke and prepared to go home.
Just as he was about to go out, he saw a middle-aged man walking quickly outside. Even though they couldn't see each other from the corner, both of them heard each other's footsteps and immediately stopped. When the two of them reached the corner at a suitable speed, they saw each other and looked at each other seriously. This was really a guy worth looking at.
After the man walked around the corner, he went straight to Harada Zuunosuke's office. After entering, he immediately closed the door and then said in a low voice: "Chief, we received news. The British are looking for a candidate to assassinate the Emperor of China in Kansai. "
Harada Zuunosuke was stunned, the person who came was the new captain of the Red Newspaper Unit. The Red Newspaper Unit was an organization that worked hard to overthrow the Shogunate. After the establishment of the Republic of Republic of Prawn and the implementation of state ownership of land, the Red Newspaper Unit merged with this group of Shogunate organization. The Republic of Prawn didn't want to waste such a famous name like the Red Newspaper Unit, so they kept the name and turned this organization into an organization similar to the Wushu Unit in the enemy's territory. With the development of the war, this organization also included the function of spying on the enemy's intelligence, it was a mixture of half open and half secret work.
"Are you sure?" Harada Zuunosuke was very surprised, it was not unusual for the British to assassinate the Emperor of China, it was also not unusual for the Meiji government to be hostile to China, the two sides working together to assassinate the Emperor of China was originally quite in line with the concept.
What Harada Zuunosuke cared about was if this information could be confirmed and confirmed. At that time, with this information, the Hokkaido Army could go to China and negotiate with the Chinese government. If the Chinese government didn't have the intention to directly intervene in the civil war of Japan, when their Emperor's life was threatened, the Hokkaido Army really couldn't think of any reason for China to refuse to participate in the war. China's powerful Navy could easily crush the Navy of the Meiji government. China's Army had always dominated Asia, and now it was thousands of miles away in North America against the Caucasians, nearly a year ago, it also had glorious results. The Japanese who worked as servants in the army had made a lot of money from it.
Of course, Harada Zuunosuke also had to consider whether the Executioner Feimura was also involved in this conspiracy. But after thinking about it, he felt that it was unlikely. If Feimura agreed to participate in the assassination, he should be preparing to assassinate the Emperor of China now, instead of foolishly bringing his wife and children to Tokyo for a "trip."
Thinking of this, Harada Zuunosuke was happy and disappointed at the same time. He was happy that the opportunity to compete with Feimura was not destroyed, but disappointed that he didn't know how long it would take for the Red Tabloid Team to grasp the accurate movements of the Emperor of China. He said to the head of the Red Tabloid Team, "You guys carefully investigate this matter, and if there is a chance, kidnap the British who may be in charge of this matter. It's not easy to find the Japanese, but is it easier to find the British? "
This idea made the Red Tabloid Team feel enlightened. With the rise of China, as China seized foreign colonies piece by piece, the number of foreigners in Japan decreased. After losing their colonies in Asia, both the Portuguese and the Spanish disappeared. The French can't even enter the Indian Ocean, let alone the Pacific Ocean. The Russians were completely driven out of the Pacific Ocean, and not long ago, the Americans officially lost all their land along the Pacific coast. The number of foreigners in the whole of Japan was about one-twentieth of what it was in its heyday. These people were basically concentrated in Kansai, and it was a simple matter to accurately locate these people.
In the first half of December, the Red Tabloid Team's spies in Osaka accurately collected and sorted out the information of this group of people. On the 15th of December, the arrest operation began. The British in Osaka were basically in contact with the official Meiji government, so as much as possible, they were arrested. In one night, this group of British disappeared. It happened to be the second day after Feimura returned to Osaka.
Feimura could have come back earlier, but he felt that since he was in Kanto, which was controlled by the Hokkaido army, he might as well take a look. So he decided to go back to his hometown. When he returned home, he saw that the village was being paraded through the streets with a group of people looking at them with happy and uneasy expressions. Feimura could understand that this group of people had always been the local leaders, people who could directly collude with the government, and the main force to oppress the people. Now that the Hokkaido army and the poor people of Japan were standing together to fight against the master, even if the poor people did not dare to jump out, they had no reason to go against the new government. If they showed too much local consciousness, they would be labeled as a "traitor" by the government, and they would immediately be beheaded. Not long ago, the government had already done this.
The face of Feimura's wife, Ba, was already very ugly. Feimura felt that his wife's hand, which was holding him tightly, was trembling slightly. After the parade, several young people with red cloth wrapped around their heads began to list the crimes of the landlord in the hall. It was really impassioned, and every word was filled with tears of blood.
This time, it was not only Feimura's wife who was frightened, but also Feimura's daughter. Feimura could only take the two of them back to the house where they were staying for the night. When he returned, the heads of the landlord and his lackeys had been chopped off and hung high on the bamboo poles in front of the public trial platform. Feimura thought that he would be a little sad, but he found that he was not sad at all. It was not that there had never been such a trial in the past, but that was when the government and the masters tried the poor people who caused trouble. After the trial, the heads of the poor people were hung high on the bamboo poles or wooden poles. He had seen countless such trials where the poor people were beheaded, but this was the first time that he saw the killing of the master and the beheading of the master. Apart from inexplicable emotions, Feimura really had no other emotions.
It was because of this event that he returned to Tokyo a few days later. In Tokyo, he ate two more beef noodles from the noodle house and entrusted the landlady to rent out Feimura's house in Tokyo. Then, Feimura took his wife and children on a ship from Tokyo to Kansai.
It was already December 19th when Feimura received the message from Yamayama Aritomo, hoping that he could help find the Kanto spy hidden in Kyoto. That was the fourth day after a large number of British people disappeared.
On December 20th, the Hokkaido government officially invited the consul of China in Tokyo to participate in an interrogation meeting. The British people, who were tortured to the point that they no longer dared to speak, confessed with bruises on their faces that they were ordered to find and assassinate the Emperor of China, Vézé.
Of course, the consul of China dared not evade this matter. On the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the news to the military commission. The military commission immediately debated whether to let the fleet that was about to arrive in Japan return. This was a fleet composed of four battleships. There was a specially modified cabin on the flagship, where Emperor Vézé lived. The destination of this fleet was North America. Few people knew that the purpose of this fleet was to go to North America for long-distance training. Among those who knew the destination of this fleet, only a few people knew that Emperor Vézé was on the warship.
The purpose of the emperor was to visit the North American region of China. Not only to express his condolences to the local government and people, but also to the troops fighting in North America.
The face of Feimura's wife, Ba, was already very ugly. Feimura felt that his wife's hand was trembling slightly. After the parade, several young men with red cloth wrapped around their heads began to list the crimes of the landlord in the meeting hall. It was really impassioned, and every word was filled with tears of blood.
This time, it was not only Feimura's wife who was frightened, but also Feimura's daughter. Feimura could only take the two of them back to the house where they were staying for the night. When he returned, the heads of the landlord and his lackeys had been chopped off and hung high on the bamboo pole in front of the public trial platform. Feimura thought that he would be a little sad, but he found that he was not sad at all. There had been such trials in the past, but those were the trials of the poor people who caused trouble by the government and the lords. After the trial, the heads of the poor people were hung high on the bamboo pole or the wooden pole. He had seen such trials countless times, but this was the first time he saw a trial where the heads of the lords were chopped off. Feimura felt nothing but inexplicable emotion.
It was because of this that he returned to Tokyo a few days later. In Tokyo, he had two meals of beef noodles from a noodle shop, and asked the landlady to rent out Feimura's house in Tokyo. Then, Feimura took his wife and children on a ship from Tokyo to Kansai.
It was already December 19 when Feimura received the message from Yamayama Aritomo, hoping that he could help find the Kanto spies hidden in Kyoto. That was the fourth day after a large number of British people disappeared.
On December 20, the Hokkaido government officially invited the consul of China in Tokyo to participate in an interrogation meeting. The British people, who were tortured to the point that they no longer dared to speak, confessed with bruises all over their faces that they were ordered to find and assassinate the emperor of China, Vézé.
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