The atmosphere in the castle tower suddenly became strange. Ito Hirobumi looked around without saying anything, and his eyes fell on the four maids.
"Don't look anymore, these girls are my confidants, you can say whatever you want!"
"Hai..." Ito Hirobumi nodded and took out a thick piece of writing paper from his arms. According to the ancient folding method, he folded it vertically into a pile, raised it respectfully over his head and sent it to Huniu. .
The maid took the paper and opened it sideways and was stunned. Huniu was also dumbfounded. She didn't expect that this was actually a blood book with names densely packed on it. The strong smell of blood made her want to vomit.
Vomit... vomit... Huniu kept retching. The maid next to her felt the water stroking her back and scolded Ito Hirobumi, "Baga, what did you give me? Damn it, you should be disemboweled to apologize for hurting the Lord." Can you bear my mother's body?"
At this time, Ito Hirobumi got excited, and instead of apologizing, he smiled and said, "Hehehe... This is the best gift in the world. Don't you, madam, take a good look at it?"
Huniu vaguely guessed something. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and whispered, "Open it, I want to see it!"
Looking at this blood letter again, Huniu finally understood what Ito Hirobumi meant. This blood letter written purely in Chinese was actually a letter of allegiance. The names and forces on it actually expressed their intention to kill Huniu. The children are loyal.
The names of reformist generals such as Ito Hirobumi, Takenaka Inoue and others are vivid in my mind, and there are even many feudal lords who are loyal to them. Matsumae clan, Kuroishi clan, Hachinohe clan, etc. are all feudal lords in the Tohoku region.
There are also the Dewa area, Kanto area, Shimo and Ueno areas, as well as the Chugoku, Tango, Izumo, and Bizen lords. There are actually sixteen Ling Ling Zongsong.
Although these feudal lords are all small foreign feudal lords with little influence, they are overwhelmingly numerous. Moreover, they are not loyal to an adult young lord, but to an unborn young lord, which adds to the weirdness.
"What...what does this mean?" Huniu asked tremblingly.
"Master Mistress, it means literally. It is very clear. We know that the one our Mistress will give birth to this time must be a young master, so we offer our loyalty in advance!"
"Loyalty..." Huniu's mind was like a boiling pot. She was no longer the big-footed girl born to the concubine of the Fan family in Shanxi. She had never said a word after following Xiao Letian for all these years, but she had always been there. Seeing as she is learning, she has already touched the door on many things.
Ito Hirobumi understood the deep meaning in Tigress's eyes. It was the firm belief that a mother is strong as a mother, and it was a powerful spirit of a tigress protecting her young.
"Mistress! The Prime Minister is a rare genius in East Asia for hundreds of years. His future career will definitely be comparable to that of Tang Zong and Song Zu. No matter which step he takes, no matter what title the Prime Minister will end up with, his career will be affected. All of Asia’s political landscape!”
"The Chinese will become a super power, even different from traditional countries, covering all aspects of economy, culture, military, science and technology..."
"The Prime Minister is like the blazing sun, we are just fireflies!"
"But...but we have to admit that people are not the eternal sun after all. People are always born, old, sick and die, and the prime minister will also encounter the problem of power change!"
Ito Hirobumi looked at Huniu with a deep and calm face, he finally threw all his chips into this big gamble.
"With all due respect! The prime minister has two wives. I thought he was a Manchu rich and intelligent, and one is a Han, which is you... Sooner or later, there will be a problem of establishing a heir. Now whoever sires the son has the greatest chance of winning!"
"I never hide my selfishness. I long for power, but I know how to face the facts! I am only a second- and third-tier official within the Prime Minister's court. My place in the first-tier echelon has long been gone. If I want to make any progress, We have to find another way!”
"I'm still young, I still have time, I'm here to assist the young master! Protect the young master to the top, and I can also climb on the tail of the real dragon and soar into the sky! The subordinate has opened his heart and exposed it in front of the mistress. It's a living thing. It’s up to the mistress to make a final decision..."
After saying that, he knocked his head on the tatami and acted like a rogue.
Huniu's face turned red and white. She didn't expect to encounter such a thing today. She knew it was wrong. Xiao Letian must hate her fighting for power. Back then, she had sworn to stay close to Sister Fuhui for the rest of her life. Absolutely no conflicts will occur.
But when motherhood began to overflow, when the little life kicked in her belly, all the vows came to nothing. There was only a devil in Huniu's heart to bewitch her.
"This is what you deserve, this is what your child deserves! Fuhui herself is not blessed, she can't give birth to a child, everything you do is not wrong, you are just doing it for the good of your child..."
"There will be many storms in the future, so it is always good to have an extra umbrella..."
There was dead silence in the castle tower. After a full fifteen minutes, Huniu laughed and said, "It's really nonsense. I don't know if it's a boy or a girl. What are you fooling around with..."
Ito Hirobumi suddenly raised his head in ecstasy, "It must be the young master! I really went to Tang Zhaoti Temple to beg! It must be the young master, absolutely the young master!"
"Okay, okay, even if he is the young master according to your statement, you have to remember that he is also Xiao Letian's son. It is useless for you to do these things. If you want to show your loyalty, you should give him a blood letter..."
Ito Hirobumi secretly laughed in his heart that this was just a pretense. It seemed that this woman was also very proficient in the ways of politics. Not daring to neglect Ito Hirobumi, he fell to the ground.
"No! Our loyalty is naturally to the young master first, and then to the prime minister! This will never change..."
"Not only that, I also brought a second gift to Madam!" After saying that, Ito Hirobumi took out a thin silk roll from his pocket.
"After you hand over our blood letter of allegiance, this imperial edict will automatically come into effect. His Majesty the Emperor will confer upon my wife the official position of Lady Tiger of the First Rank. From now on, you will no longer be an ordinary person!"
"Congratulations, mistress, for being a first-class official!"
In the castle tower, all the maids and minor surnames all prostrated themselves in front of Huniu, "Congratulations, mistress, for being a first-class official!"
The scene in front of her was like a dream, and Hu Niu's head was dizzy. "How could this happen? Why did such a thing happen? What virtue can I have? This is against the rules..."
"Madam, there is no need to be modest. There are two kinds of people in this world. One is those who accept the rules, and the other is those who change the rules. The status of a mistress is precious. It is not an exaggeration to have a single title for mistress, let alone Without such an identity, how can the mistress order the Fusang vassals?"
"Command the vassals?" Huniu asked in confusion.
"Yes, madam, don't blame me for talking too much. The war in the Far East is going very badly right now. I heard that 50,000 reinforcements from Tsarist Russia will arrive in an instant. The volunteers are under too much pressure!"
"Now that the Prime Minister is fighting hard on the front line, it would be great if Madam could recruit a supporting army for the Prime Minister! With this title, you already have the qualifications to coordinate the vassals!"
"Madam, please don't hesitate any longer. The war ahead is tense. I beg my mistress, for the sake of the soldiers who died in the battle... please give the order!"
