Ito Hirobumi kowtowed to the prince and King Shangtai frequently, "Your Majesty! Young Master! Please put the overall situation first. We cannot let the Qing Tatars disrupt our own positions at this moment!"
"The British fleet is getting closer and closer. It will cross the Strait of Malacca in October! We don't have much time left. How can we care about the Qing Dynasty's bad things at this time?"
"Your Majesty! You are right to follow the Führer's strategy, but there must be a sequence!"
"All the old ministers from Ryukyu are here, what do you think, madam? This is a taboo, this is forced into the palace!"
"What do the Four Heavenly Kings think? What do the business community think? What do the young people in the Navy and Army think? Which is more important, the life of Emperor Tongzhi, or the unity of our Chinese race?"
"Your Majesty! Please think twice, think twice... don't force the prince like this!"
King Shang Tai frowned and looked at Ito, "Well...are you also opposed to medication?"
"No, it's not!" Ito straightened up suddenly and looked at King Shangtai, "Your Majesty! I don't mean this. On the contrary, I support medication, but not now!"
"When the crisis between us and the British is resolved, no matter whether a war breaks out or not, things will come to an end by the end of this year!"
"When the crisis is over, we will give Emperor Tongzhi the magic medicine!"
"Haha... What if Emperor Tongzhi cannot survive until then? Is it the end of the year?" Old General Cai Mao retorted.
Ito turned around and sneered, "That means his life is doomed! We are all floating between heaven and earth, and what we do depends on people, and what we do depends on heaven. If he, Tongzhi Emperor, has the good fortune to pass this test, the clouds will naturally clear up!"
"If he was born short-lived, would we Chinese have to pay for it with our lives?"
"Of all of us here, who is not counting the days? Which one will come first, tomorrow or the accident? The great ghost of impermanence will come unexpectedly. Who can guarantee that he will live a long life!"
"Even if we give him Emperor Tongzhi's magical elixir, who can guarantee that he will not be killed by Prince Gong's assassins the next day?"
"Let's protect ourselves first! How can we get through this British challenge!"
Cai Mao was speechless for a moment, and Ito's logic made him unable to refute it for a moment!
King Shangtai knew that he could no longer force him at this moment. He held up his hands and said to Fu Yin'er, "Junior brother! I'm really sorry for today. I didn't expect that my wife would be so excited..."
"I don't dare to be angry with my wife anymore! Senior brother has confessed first. Please stay with my wife for a while and tell me if you need anything!"
Fu Yin'er didn't know what to do, so he had to bid farewell to his senior brother and watched the Ryukyu veterans and the group leave the presidential palace.
Seeing that the prince was speechless for a long time, Ito whispered, "Prince...the Ryukyu faction has already made its position clear. Why would King Shangtai get involved in politics at this juncture?"
"Could it be that...when the head of state is away, King Shangtai also has other thoughts? I want to end it..."
Fu Yin'er raised his eyebrows, "Don't say that... Senior brother is not that kind of person! Besides, if senior brother wants to take charge of the Chinese clan, he should do it!"
"You go down first, I will accompany my mother..."
Ito's instigation failed and he didn't dare to say more, so he quickly retreated. Fuyin'er quickly walked to the back hall to visit his mother.
When he arrived at the door of the Nuan Pavilion in the back hall, A Chou stopped him with an embarrassed look on his face, "Prince! Madam just drank medicine and fell asleep. The doctor prescribed medicine to soothe the mind and help sleep. You'd better not disturb her..."
"My lady said before going to bed... that you should never forget the hatred between the Tartars and us!"
Fu Yin'er bumped into the door, bowed nonchalantly outside the door to say hello, and then walked out. He had nothing to do and just strolled around the back house without anyone else accompanying him.
The back house of the Head of State is not the kind of garden in the Central Plains. The buildings are relatively dense. The back house is completely surrounded by a whole mountain.
Don't say that Xiao Letian is too luxurious. In fact, the area here is large but the construction cost is not high!
Because the entire inner house basically retains the original appearance of the mountain, it just builds a few more roads, reinforces some dangerous areas, and builds some loose building clusters according to the natural geographical scenery.
The buildings here are far apart. After a short walk, the scenery is already very primitive. The mountains are high and the forests are dense and quiet.
While walking, thinking about the current problem, young Fu Yin'er fell into deep confusion, and soon he came to a sea of bamboo.
As they were walking, a sudden smell of wine came. Fu Yin'er walked into a side road and walked around some rocks. "Ah! Uncle here, my nephew salutes you!"
The ones drinking were King Yi and Master Longshi, two people with very subtle identities within the Chinese clan.
"Oh...haha, we were hiding here and were lazy, but you found us? That's fine, you can fry these fish!"
Around a small fire, there are many bamboo sticks with various sea fish skewered on them. They are inserted diagonally into the soil to keep the fish close to the bonfire!
You have to turn it frequently to allow the fish to be heated on multiple sides so it doesn't get burnt or half-cooked!
Fu Yin'er didn't mind that the ground was dirty, so he sat on the ground and began to carefully take care of the fish, saying, "My nephew is confused today, please tell me about it!"
After listening to Fu Yin'er's tortuous experience in seeking medicine, King Wing and Ryoma Sakamoto fell into silence!
It took King Yi a long time to say, "My child... you also know that the Tartars have a life-and-death feud with me... What answer do you think I will give you?"
"Of course it is the answer that is most beneficial to the Chinese people!" Fu Yin'er was not stupid.
Sakamoto Ryoma laughed, "Haha... clever guy! In fact, you already have the answer in your mind, don't you?"
Fu Yin'er turned the grilled fish and nodded, "Actually, I want to give him medicine! After all, he has the title of senior brother to me, and refusing to save him is not the life principle my father taught me!"
"Besides, even if the medicine is given, judging from Emperor Tongzhi's current situation, it will still be powerless!"
"His failure is highly likely, so what threat does it pose to us?"
"If we save him, we can get an edict to abdicate, so that my father's strategy can be realized! Then our Chinese race will really make history!"
"Breaking the bloody old path of dynasty changes in China for thousands of years, the people with the fewest deaths can do the biggest things!"
"And my nephew has a little thought... Although our miracle medicine is good, it will have to be mass-produced sooner or later!"
"If word spreads about rescuing Emperor Tongzhi! That will make our medicine famous all over the world! What a great advertisement!"
"Ah ha ha ha..." Wing King and Sakamoto Ryoma laughed so much that they squirted their wine.
"Hahaha...you little brain! You have already turned to business..."
King Yi took a sip of wine and pressed it down. "Now that you have an idea in your mind, just do what you want to do? Don't think so much!"
"But my mother..." Fu Yin'er lowered his head again.
The version of Ryoma sighed, "We can't help you with this matter... unless one person comes forward..."
Before they finished speaking, the three of them suddenly turned their eyes in the same direction, which was the courtyard of the eldest lady Fuhui deep in the bamboo sea!
