The middle-aged man only glanced at Ma Xingkong, nodded slightly, and asked, "What's your name?"
"Suzuki Shota!" Ma Xingkong replied loudly.
The man said: "When people come to our place, they have to bring something with them. I wonder what Mr. Suzuki brought?"
Ma Xingkong looked down at his hands and thought: I'm careless. How can I come empty-handed to visit others? There was really nothing to say, so he said loudly: "I brought myself, but I don't know if Mr. Kawashima dares to do so."
Dare you accept it?"
"Oh?" the man said in surprise: "What's so special about you? There are so many people who want to be servants or servants of the Kawashima family. A little captain doesn't need to be so arrogant!"
Ma Xingkong smiled: "This is not called arrogance, this is called advertising. I think Shota Suzuki is a top student at the Army University. I will graduate and become a great student. The Kawashima family is famous for being good at recognizing people. Why?"
My piece of rough jade cannot get into Mr. Kawashima’s eyes, which only proves that Mr. Kawashima’s reputation for slander is unfounded!”
"Hahaha..." The man laughed loudly: "What an arrogant boy, then come in with me and let you see if Mr. Kawashima is really worthy of his reputation for being so arrogant."
Ma Xingkong didn't care. He straightened his clothes and followed the middle-aged man into the door of Kawashima's house. The Kawashima family was a famous family, so the home was naturally quite grand. The large living room was right in front of the door.
.The left side of the living room should be where the guards and servants rest, and the right side is a small garden.
The man led Ma Xingkong all the way around the small garden and continued towards the top of the mountain. The yard at the back was even wider. Compared with the front yard, the houses here were quite incongruous with the yard. A circle of low houses surrounded the garden.
Get up. Ma Xingkong was led to the middlemost house.
"You wait here first. If Mr. Kawashima wants to see you, someone will come and notify you!" After saying this, the man changed hands and walked away.
Ma Xingkong stood outside the door and looked around. Half of the hillside was the Kawashima family's yard. He had long heard that the Kawashima family owned half of Kyoto, so he looked at the size of the garden.
This kind of place may only be owned by the imperial family and the Kawashima family.
Taking off his leather boots, Ma Xingkong stepped on the wooden board. The thick pine floor was indeed extraordinary. It didn't have the "squeak" sound of ordinary floors and was more stable. The room was not big, and there were two small tables inside.
There was a cushion, and there were layers of books placed all around the windowless areas.
Browsing through a few books, these books cover a very wide range, covering astronomy, geography, agriculture and military, and all known sciences. Some of the books are actually written in Chinese, which makes Ma Xingkong even more surprised. He randomly finds a book.
In the "Hai Guo Tu Zhi" compiled by Wei Yuan of the former Qing Dynasty, I found the page of Japan. A map like a bug appeared on the paper. Although it is incomparable with the current map, the meaning has been roughly explained.
Read each article one by one. Ma Xingkong has stayed in Japan for almost six years, and his horizons have broadened a lot. He is no longer the country bumpkin who doesn’t know how big the world is. He looks at a person who has never left.
It is indeed a very difficult thing for a former scholar from mainland China to achieve such a feat with only some knowledge.
"I didn't expect you to understand Chinese?" It was the middle-aged man again who walked into the room where Ma Xingkong was.
Ma Xingkong smiled: "What's weird about this? I don't need to explain the current situation. Everyone understands that entering China is a matter of time. If you don't understand Chinese and go to China, you won't understand even if someone scolds you."
"Hehehe..." The man chuckled: "This is a good excuse."
The man walked into the room and sat cross-legged opposite Ma Xingkong: "It's very interesting to talk to you. I wonder why Mr. Suzuki thinks that there must be a war between our Empire of Japan and China?"
Ma Xingkong casually raised the "Illustrated Book of Sea Kingdoms" and said: "You will understand after taking a look at it. How big is our Japan and how big is China? China has a vast land and rich products. Even if it is a train from here to there, it will probably be too long.
It takes more than ten days, but in Japan, the train from Kyoto to Beihai Island only takes more than ten hours. Based on this, we will take advantage of China's weakness to capture it."
"Suzuki-kun, do you think we can win China?"
Ma Xingkong shook his head: "I didn't say that. It's not a trivial matter to conquer China. Because of China's vast area, their army has a very wide room for maneuver in a war. China has a large population, and our Japanese population is too large."
"Young Master, if I were the commander, I would never aim to occupy the whole of China. My goal is here, and occupying the Northeast is enough!"
"Why?"
"We have occupied North Korea. Using North Korea as a springboard, it is easy to occupy the Northeast. The Northeast is rich in products, enough for us to move the entire Japanese country there. Moreover, this place is convenient for defense. The Chinese call themselves Central Plains people. Occupying these places will not provoke
Their excessive resistance will eventually make this place ours, Japan’s!”
The man nodded: "What if the goal is to occupy the whole of China?"
Ma Xingkong smiled: "Then you will lose miserably!"
"Nonsense! Nonsense! Baga! Bastard!" A large group of young people suddenly poured in from the door, and they all glared at Ma Xingkong. The leader turned out to be Yoshio Okamoto.
Yoshio Okamoto looked at Ma Xingkong and said to the middle-aged man: "Mr. Kawashima, this guy used to be Chinese, so of course he has to speak for the Chinese. Our Imperial Japanese Army is invincible. No matter how big China is, it will not be able to defeat three people."
I can win them all in a month!"
Ma Xingkong did not expect that there would be so many people eavesdropping outside the door, many of whom were his classmates from Army University, and he did not expect that the man opposite, dressed like a servant, was actually Naoto Kawashima, the head of the Kawashima family.
, quickly stood up and bowed to Naoto Kawashima to apologize.
Kawashima Naoto stopped everyone's noise, looked at Ma Xingkong and said: "Suzuki-kun's words seem to be very unpleasant to everyone!"
"But what I said is all the truth!" Ma Xingkong's expression remained unchanged.
Kawashima nodded: "Actually, I see it that way too. It's a pity that the idiots at the General Staff Headquarters and the Army Department are unwilling to listen to me. They will only bring disaster to Japan! What is China? China is a sleeping lion. As long as
No one can do anything about him when he wakes up! We Japanese value our own strength too much, and if this continues, it will only make the lion like China wake up sooner."
"Mr. Kawashima!" Okamoto wanted to say something, but was stopped by Naoto Kawashima: "You all can go! I will report today's matter to the Emperor. I hope he can understand. Suzuki-kun, are you willing to do it for me?"
Write this memorial? The title is "On China and Japan"! What do you think?"