Negotiations between politicians always involve more nonsense than substance. In the process of mutual flattery, the hidden threat gradually emerges. People who are not in the circle really can't understand what they are talking about.
Long Ye, Luo Huo and Xiao Hexin, who were on guard outside the courtyard, only listened to their husband and the Japanese man complimenting each other back and forth, as politely as if they were good friends, but they knew that the two people in the room were now full of blood in their palms. Sweating.
In the fierce exchange of words, the two never talked about the current situation in Ryukyu and how to solve the dilemma. On the contrary, the two of them talked loudly about the political situation of various countries. One focuses on the Taiping Civil War and the current Nian uprising, while the other brings the topic to the confrontation between the Tokugawa shogunate and local daimyo.
Anyway, a thousand words can be said to say that both countries are not very good now. During the millennium of great changes, the two ancient countries have entered a period of confusion. Please come to more and faster chapters.
Xiao Letian has always secretly reflected that he has the ability to break the situation in Japan, and even vaguely threatened Sakamoto Ryoma that he could provoke a civil war in Japan. Ryoma Sakamoto has always emphasized the Qing government's enslavement policy towards the Han people, and has always insisted on the master-slave perspective. He even mentioned the literary inquisition that was common in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties.
One is threatening Japan's fragile political situation, and the other is simply using a borrowed knife to kill people. On the surface, both of them are smiling like a flower, but when you look at him, they haven't finished a bottle of wine in a long time. The sake bottle already knew that the confrontation between the two men had reached the stage where the bayonets were red.
I drank a bottle of sake for an hour. This was an unprecedented banquet that Xiao Letian had ever experienced. But in the final analysis, the importance of a person's life and the destiny of a country are definitely not equal. In addition, Xiao Letian has experienced such wonderful things as time travel in his two lives, so he has no confidence in his own destiny. I have an inexplicable sense of self-confidence.
A time traveler cannot be killed so easily. Xiao Letian firmly believes in this view, so in the confrontation, Xiao Letian is the most calm one. Gradually, Sakamoto Ryoma began to sweat on his forehead. He found that Xiao Letian was his most difficult opponent since he had negotiation experience.
"Mr. Xiao, I remember you once said something in "Journey to the West" that the essence of politics is compromise. Human beings living in this society do not achieve their purpose of survival by driving another group to a dead end. It is different. Groups can have conflicts over uneven distribution of spoils, but they cannot act to exterminate another group, because the reason why people are called people is because human nature represents sociality..."
At the end of the confrontation, Sakamoto Ryoma's own knowledge could no longer convince Xiao Letian. He could only seek a breakthrough from "The Journey to the West", and the human nature, sociality, and political issues repeatedly mentioned in Xiao Letian's book The principle of compromise is the most powerful weapon in Longma's hand. Please come to more and faster chapters.
You, Xiao Letian, can't always say one thing and do another. You have stated more than once in your book that social groups should tolerate and compromise with each other, but why are you so reluctant to deal with the Ryukyu riots? Nearly 100,000 Japanese residents are under residential surveillance. Today, Ryoma Sakamoto even saw that Japanese residential areas have begun to erect fences and wooden walls to isolate them. Is this to keep Japanese people in captivity like livestock?
In addition, there are Japanese industries. A large number of warehouses and even ruins have been confiscated. Once Jin Changsen, a swaying villain, betrays Japan, he will be more ruthless than those Han people. More than 90% of the secret materials will be lost to him. It was turned out. The wealth accumulated by the Japanese people over hundreds of years has been robbed.
Look at those red-eyed Chinese and Ryukyu natives. They opened the surviving warehouses and moved away all the materials inside, not even leaving a grain of rice. What's even more abominable is that they didn't even spare the burned ruins and dug out the gold, silver and copper coins that couldn't be burned from the charcoal, and even these wealth were not left to the Japanese.
"Mr. Xiao! As a great scholar and a master, you can't be more greedy than bandits, right? In what you do, I can't see the slightest kindness or concession, let alone compromise. I just Seeing that you want to starve all 100,000 of us Japanese residents to death...this is wrong!"
Xiao Letian's eyes stood up when he heard this. He punched the low wooden table, knocking the food and drinks all over the floor.
"Baga! You actually dare to secretly change your concept in front of me, and you want to talk to me about compromise and tolerance? You are worthy of it... Let me ask you, who started this conflict first? Why did Yamamoto Kiyoshi and Ohachiro Killing civilians? When innocent Chinese are being brutally killed, where is the compromise you are talking about? You are in the first year of junior high school and you still blame me for being in the fifteenth year? "
Xiao Letian really wanted to rush up and give him a few words, but seeing that Sakamoto Ryoma and Yamamoto Kiyoshi were not the same people, he forcibly held back.
"The biggest prerequisite for tolerance and compromise is that each other is regarded as an equal 'human being'. Only by psychologically recognizing the equality of each other's status can there be a basis for mutual compromise. More and faster chapters are here. But from Naha Blood and Fire During that night, I didn’t see any humanity in you Japanese people. In the light of the fire, their bestiality was infinitely magnified. They burned, killed, and looted without hesitation. When they raised their butcher knives to the Chinese, did they ever think about the two hundred or so people in the country? What are the emotions and experiences of the two ethnic groups living together for many years?”
"No, they didn't remember anything. At that moment, they had already forgotten all the good memories of hundreds of years of living together, and only remembered the friction between the two groups, which was infinitely magnified..."
"So they killed the Chinese without mercy. At the moment when the fire started, they had long forgotten that the Chinese were human beings, just like them. At that moment, they only had animal nature in their hearts... Yes, your nation is the biggest The tragedy is that you can never get rid of the control of animal nature!"
At this point, Xiao Letian suddenly grabbed the poured wine bottle and took a big sip. Then he stared at the red-faced Ryoma Sakamoto and said with great disdain, "Japan's national destiny, success is Bushido, defeat is Bushido!"
Listening to these words that were almost like a prophecy, Sakamoto Ryoma suddenly felt a stabbing pain in his chest, his face turned from red to white in a flash, and the deepest fear in his consciousness suddenly surged.
Bushido is a double-edged sword. If used properly, it can kill the enemy, but if it is missed, the damage to oneself may be fatal. Sakamoto Ryoma himself grew up in the lower class of samurai. He was too familiar with the real life of samurai and their thoughts.
This is a stingy, short-sighted and tyrannical group. Their shortcoming is that they are greedy for immediate small interests and ignore long-term big interests. In terms of military performance, they are also famous for their "emphasis on tactics and light on strategy". They say they don’t understand strategy at all. Please come to more and faster chapters.
Just like the Naha riots, if they had used all their strength to attack Xiao Letian himself from the beginning and tried to calm the people at the same time, Xiao Letian would never have inspired a wave of 100,000 Chinese. Furthermore, if Yamamoto Kiyoshi obeys Kaguyama Rigen's order, concentrates all his efforts to attack Shuri Castle, and controls King Shotai immediately, then it will not trigger armed intervention from foreigners in the later stage, and it will give the negotiation an added advantage.
It's a pity that everything was destroyed in the hands of these middle and low-level warriors. They were so fanatical that they would destroy everything in order to improve their status.
Sakamoto Ryoma felt a wave of powerlessness all over his body. In the end, he actually bowed to the faint voice on the tatami and said, "Please teach me, sir. Please give me guidance for future students..."
Looking at Sakamoto Ryoma's pitiful appearance, Xiao Letian sighed deeply in his heart. He couldn't help but think of some unofficial rumors from later generations. Please come to more and faster chapters. If those unofficial stories are true, then the Japanese nation is really Bushido in success and Bushido in failure.
According to unofficial records, after Japan won the astonishing gamble of the Sino-Japanese War, they received a huge war compensation of 200 million taels of silver, as well as huge new territories such as Taiwan, Penghu, and the Korean Peninsula that exceeded the area of Japan's main island. back. Domestic politicians have already begun to prepare to stop.
In the civil service system at that time, it was believed that it was enough for Japan to gain so much wealth and double its territory. It should not continue to expand without operating well for more than a hundred years. This kind of thinking once became the mainstream of Japan's ruling and opposition parties.
Politicians after World War II also agreed that if Japan could be calmer and try to avoid being involved in two world wars, the territory of modern East Asia would really be different from what it is now. You must know that at that time, the Western powers and even the Qing Dynasty had recognized Japan's ownership of the newly added territories. In other words, Japan's occupation of Taiwan, Ryukyu, Penghu, including North Korea, had been recognized by all countries and had an absolutely legal basis.
It's a pity that everything was destroyed at the hands of fanatical soldiers. Who would consider such bullshit balance and compromise among fanatical soldiers who were brainwashed by the spirit of Bushido? In their eyes, Japan without war is incomplete Japan, and a society without war is a stagnant society. Their Amaterasu will bless them with eternal victory until the end of the world.
It was under the influence of this trend of thought that the military forces overpowered the civilian system in Japanese politics. A large number of civilian officials with different opinions were ostracized and even threatened with life by the military forces. Serious "accidents" were inevitable. Yes, it is not uncommon for Japanese officials to assassinate several officials in the court anyway.
In addition, the military's military adventures have indeed been taking advantage of it for hundreds of years. Gradually, the civil service system compromised, or in other words, the civil service system was integrated into the larger circle of military power. Militarism officially became the iron law believed by the entire country of Japan. , until the end of World War II, this kind of thinking was not completely cleansed from Japanese politics.
Xiao Letian shook his head, his thoughts returned to Ryoma Sakamoto, and he sighed and said, "What can I do? That is the culture of your nation, an inheritance of thousands of years. Do you really think you can change this?" The national destiny of a country? Lord Ryoma! Being too idealistic will cost you your life..."
What Xiao Letian said is correct. In real history, just two years later, Sakamoto Ryoma was assassinated at Omiya in Kyoto. He never saw what Japan was like after he gave his advice until his death. He was 31 years old.
Sakamoto Ryoma faced Xiao Letian with a wry smile, "Idealism? Yes, I do have some idealism, trying to single-handedly change Japan's national destiny and even its national character... But what about you, Mr. Xiao? The idealism revealed in your book There are many more than me, so why can’t the prophecy you gave me be used on you?”
"The Qing Dynasty was a hundred times larger than Japan, and the various forces were unimaginably complex. Which of the Manchu nobles, Han officials, Confucian officials, and even the ethnic minorities on the border would truly believe in your ideas? What you said Can win-win cooperation, including political compromise, really succeed?"
"In the end, you and I are both the same kind of people..."
