"In other words, Your Excellency Gentaro Kodama is planning to betray his motherland?"
"Mr. Lin, we believe that joining hands with you is the right way to save Japan. Presumably Her Royal Highness Kutsuhime has discussed the relevant content with Mr. Lin a lot, so I won't show my shame. However, Mr. Lin, although I am not talented, but
I often think about the situation of the world, and I have gained a little bit. I wonder if Mr. Lin is willing to listen to me?"
Lin Youde made a gesture of invitation, and decided to first listen to what advice Tamamotoro Taro's emissary had to offer before making a decision.
"Mr. Lin, there is an old saying in China that everything will reach its peak and then decline. I think this is very true. As long as anything develops to its peak, what awaits it is inevitable decline. Looking at the ancient civilizations of the world, it is like this.
, but China can continue to this day, and until a hundred years ago, it was still the most prosperous and prosperous country in the world.
"I believe that the reason for this is that whenever China becomes more prosperous, there will be random people who will mess with China and bring new 'bloodlines' to China."
"I agree with this." Lin Youde unexpectedly interrupted Zhu Zhong, "Diversity helps maintain the vitality of national culture. The national integration that began in the Han Dynasty has indeed continued to inject fresh blood into Chinese civilization, and many have become Chinese culture.
Some of the things were originally imported from the barbarians."
"Diversification..." The Japanese recited this new word that popped out of Lin Youde's mouth in blunt Chinese. He seemed not to be able to fully understand the meaning of the word for a while.
Lin Youde then remembered that the word diversity seemed to be a thing that only became popular in the mid-to-late twentieth century. He had accidentally coined it in advance. The Japanese might not even know what three characters the word consisted of.
So he dipped his hand in some tea and wrote the new word on the table.
In this way, Zhuzhong stared at those three words for a while, and then gradually came back to his senses: "Well, diversification, this word is good, good. I have heard for a long time that Mr. Lin is very talented in literature, and today I finally saw it.
Yes, what I mean below is this 'diversity'. Therefore, absorbing new things is also very important for the continuation of China's glorious civilization. Japan and China are separated by a river, and Yamato's culture has a lot of similarities with Chinese culture.
, and there are many differences. At this time when China is in trouble, Mr. Lin, don’t you think Japanese culture is best suited to take on the important task of adding new blood to China?”
Looking at Zhuzhong with an excited face, Lin Youde was secretly speechless.
From the very beginning, he felt that this Japanese theory sounded familiar to him, and he had been wondering if he had heard a similar theory somewhere before traveling through time. Now he finally remembered it.
In the last time and space, Japanese historians during the imperialist period adopted a similar tone in their research on Chinese history: civilization will accumulate "toxins" as it develops itself, and then needs an external "stimulus" to detoxify. So.
The Five Husties disrupted China and created the prosperous age of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Mongol invasion and destruction of the Song Dynasty finally gave birth to the Qiang Ming Dynasty. No matter how you look at this argument, it is just whitewashing the war of aggression. Lin Youde naturally despises it, but what Mr. Takenaka said in front of him is different from the previous one.
Time and space are a little different.
If you look at the statement that Lin Youde agrees with that national integration promotes the continuation and development of Chinese civilization from a dialectical and materialistic perspective, there is actually only a layer of window paper between it and the so-called detoxification theory, because China is a big country.
All ethnic integrations on earth are accompanied by cruel wars.
However, from Lin Youde's personal and subjective idealistic point of view, there is a key difference between the two: In terms of integration, China is the stronger side, we allow barbarians to join our system, and we grant
Your qualifications to become a member of the Chinese nation; Jiedu said that the invaders are the powerful side, and they offer salvation to us as a savior - this is intolerable...
Because of this subjective difference, Lin Youde suddenly felt that the Japanese in front of him was quite cute.
Cute is cute, and you must not be soft-hearted when it's your turn to be a general.
"I understand what you mean." Lin Youde stopped his words thoughtfully and gently turned the teacup in front of him with his hand. The bottom of the porcelain teacup rubbed against the coaster, making a slight rustling sound.
Over the years that Lin Youde has been a leader, he has mastered many techniques to put pressure on the other party during interviews, and this cup spin is one of them.
Only when beads of sweat began to appear on the Japanese's forehead did Lin Youde speak again.
"That's a very insightful opinion, Mr. Konan Naito."
The body of the emissary under the pseudonym Zhuzhong trembled as if he was electrocuted.
Seeing this reaction, Lin Youde knew that he had made the right bet. Of course, he originally thought that the bet was a sure bet, because the name on the name card handed to Lin Youde by the emissary was Takenaka Torajiro, and later he proposed the "antidote theory."
Naito Honan's main theoretical basis is the "Tang and Song Dynasty Transformation Theory". His real name is Naito Torajiro. Naito Honan is his nickname, which is the same as Mr. Goryanagi. In 1910, he published "Summary of the Historical Views of the Tang and Song Dynasties"
"After this paper, Naito Konan gradually became a famous name in Japanese history circles.
At present, the name Naito Konan is probably only known to personal friends of Torajiro Naito.
That's why Lin Youde directly blew out his account number in order to achieve the "Zhenhu" effect.
It’s no wonder that Naito Torajiro was so shocked. This time he went to Horangaha and kept the confidentiality to the extreme. During the whole process, only a few confidants of Kodama Gentaro knew his true identity. As a result, Lin Youde exposed his disguise when he came up.
——Even if you want to expose it, you have to use a nickname that even Kodama Gentaro doesn’t know!
In fact, Naito Torajiro was not the only one in the room who was surprised. Tomoe, who was kneeling next to Lin Youde, was also shocked. Lin Ji's intelligence agency had tried to find out the origin of the emissary in many ways, but found nothing. To this end, Tomoe did not hesitate to use his own
He mobilized the people in the Choshu Domain of the Japanese Overseas Chinese District to provide clues - but still found nothing.
It's better now, Lin Youde said a simple word, and so many people in Lin's family were busy in vain.
Tomoe quietly looked at the back of Lin Youde's head, and his clear black eyes showed a rare color of confusion. At this time, Lin Youde's entire attention was focused on Naito Torajiro, and he was completely unaware of it.
"Lin... Mr. Lin," Torajiro Naito finally couldn't hold it any longer, and took out a handkerchief and began to wipe the sweat from his forehead, "Your... Lin's intelligence capabilities are indeed well-deserved. You must have an intelligence officer who is like the reincarnation of Hanzo Hattori.
people."
Lin Youde thought to himself that you were wrong, I was just cheating.
On the surface, Lin Youde put on a humble look: "I don't dare take it seriously. In order to survive in this dangerous international environment, we are forced to strengthen our espionage efforts."
Lin Youde's words made the doubts in Tomoe's eyes even stronger. Naito Torajiro seemed to have noticed something, but when he looked at Tomoe, the girl smiled at him very calmly, then lowered her eyes and returned to her original respectful expression.
People make things happen.
At this time, Lin Youde continued: "Mr. Naito, I already understand your purpose of coming, and I also know what Gentaro Kodama thinks. However, to make us believe in your sincerity, this alone is far from enough."
"What you said is absolutely true. However, given Mr. Kodama's current position, it is really inconvenient for him to do something too obvious. He can only privately collect 500,000 taels of silver as a meeting gift. I hope you can understand.
"Originally, we planned to complete most of the preparations before contacting you, and we would start the attack immediately after you dispatched a naval fleet to cooperate. However, in the past six months, the intelligence chief of the Japanese Imperial Government, Akashi Colonel, has placed many spies in Taiwan to spy on you.
and the assassination of people who have a tendency to be close to Horangabo; the imperial government has also made quite frequent personnel transfers to Taiwan in the past six months. Under such circumstances, we are really unable to complete the preparations for the Taiwan uprising on our own.”….
"So you came to me?"
"My lord is wise."
Lin Youde thought for a while and finally decided: "I will accept the money first. I still need to discuss with my staff how to cooperate with you. Mr. Naito, please go back and draw up a detailed concept of cooperation..."
"That idea has already been prepared." Torajiro Naito took out a large and substantial envelope from his arms.
Lin Youde couldn't help but shook his head, thinking that if someone stole this, wouldn't it become evidence of collaboration with the enemy? But he wouldn't be so bothered to mention the Japanese mistakes, so he took Torajiro Naito from the envelope
He took out the file from the middle, flipped through it briefly and put it aside.
"Well, Mr. Naito, that's it for today. I will study the details carefully when I get back."
**
After sending Lin Youde back to the base camp and handing him over to Josephine to guard, Tomoe returned to the big shrine in the Japanese overseas community again and found Jiu Jinji who was resting in the palace with her eyes closed.
"What's wrong?"
In order to avoid suspicion, Tomoe has rarely visited Kutsuhime privately in the past four years. When he has to come for something, he always brings a large number of entourage with him. Therefore, Kutsuhime's "What's wrong?" can clearly hear her surprise - even though she
Still maintaining a state of meditation with eyes closed.
"..."
Tomoe sat on his knees near the main entrance of the palace and did not immediately answer the shrine maiden's question.
Kutsuhime did not urge her, so the huge palace fell into silence.
When building this palace, Lin Youde deliberately ordered the designer to triple the area in order to reflect his importance to Princess Kutsu. As a result, the entire palace was grander than the palace at Ise Jingu, and the interior was as empty as an indoor football.
With such a huge area, coupled with the extremely Shinto style layout and interior decoration, as long as this space is in a quiet state, it will naturally give people a solemn and solemn feeling - this feeling can only be found in the entire space.
When there are two people, it becomes especially intense.
Ba sat on his knees in such a hall, his eyes lowered in thought.
Finally, she raised her head and met Jiujinji's eyes.
"Your Highness, why did you choose to place your future on Youde... on Mr. Lin?"
Jiujinji smiled.
"If I said that at that time I was simply desperate and came to seek refuge with you, would you be disappointed?"
"..."
"However, many decisions that are forced to be made, when looking back, often give people a feeling of 'fate'. This experience is quite wonderful."
"..."
Seeing that Tomoe still didn't speak, Jiujinji continued: "I can more or less guess what you are wondering about now. Tomoe, do you remember the oil agreements we signed with the Americans?"
"……Remember."
"The outside world thinks that I used my magical power to divine the location of the oil fields. But in fact, you and I both know that the first person to know where the oil fields are from the 'god' was not me, but Mr. Lin. In the past few years
I have read a lot of Western geological works, so I know that there is a large area of oil-storage rock formations under every large oil well, so the areas that Mr. Lin drew for me that look large at first glance are actually where the oil-storage rock formations are.
, I just divined which position is most likely to produce oil."
"……Um."
"Since then, I have felt that Lin Youde is different from ordinary people. You see, our goddess is obviously different from ordinary girls? But this difference is innate, even in science and force-guiding technology
In such a developed modern world, humans can only use "God's gift" to explain the power we possess. And I have always had a question, that is, the only gifts God has given us humans are wisdom and this erratic power.
Shen Ji’s bloodline?”….
Ba's body shook slightly.
Jiujinji didn't speak anymore. She used her silence to tell Tomoe that she was waiting for an answer.
"I...I don't know." There was obvious wavering in Ba's voice.
Jiujinji sighed.
"In China, there have always been expressions such as 'dragon energy' and 'imperial appearance'. This country has experienced more chaos and changes than the ancient civilizations in Central Asia and Europe, but those civilizations have declined, but China has
It has survived to this day. A very important reason is that in every time of trouble, there will always be a talented and strategic person who can reunify the country.
"Chinese people always like to say that 'the times create heroes', and Westerners have also put forward many theories on the rise and fall of society in recent hundreds of years, and tend to believe that social progress is the main motivation. The reason why heroes are
Heroes just because they happen to be there.
"But, maybe it's not that complicated and difficult to understand after all? The reason why heroes are heroes is just because they were born with such a fate. They are just like us holders of the Shenji bloodline. Their blood vessels
The blood of the Son of the Dragon flows in it. Why can we accept warriors who are given power by God, but we cannot accept those leaders who are designated by God as the end and founder of the era?"
"But..." As soon as Ba opened his mouth, he realized that his tone had entered the category of disrespect, so he hurriedly paused, coughed a few times, and then said in an elegant and decent tone, "But, Your Highness, Lin Youde and I have shared the joys and sorrows.
After many years, no one knows better than me that he is not a god, but a human being."
"Yes, he is the one chosen by God."
As she spoke, Jiujinji slowly opened her eyes, her unfocused pupils burning with a fanatical light.
Ba took a deep breath subconsciously. Regardless of etiquette, she shrank her whole body back.
"……I can not accept."
"It doesn't matter," the goddess witch closed her eyes again, "Those just now are just my personal baseless assumptions."
After saying this, Jiu Jinji stopped talking.
Tomoe sat in the imperial palace for another ten minutes and finally stood up to leave.
When leaving the palace, the girl's expression was as solemn as when she came.
——Although it is unacceptable, if this is the case, then many incredible things can be explained. Including his insistence on abandoning the chores of Helangyabo and going to the United States to find Sophie when he was not yet stable, including him
The performance skills he suddenly learned recently, as well as his incomplete past and mysterious identity, can all be explained. No... it's the only way it can be explained.
Thinking of this, Ba sighed and murmured to himself: "After all, I fell in love with such an incredible guy..."
**
Over there, Lin Youde had no idea about the troubles and confusion in the heart of his second wife...'s number one choice. He was currently in the war room of the base camp, looking at the newly replaced giant map of Taiwan on the wall of the war room.
"Taiwan... you guys, please formulate a combat plan for landing in Taiwan and occupying the entire territory of Taiwan. The more detailed the better."
The staff members looked at each other, wondering why the boss was so crazy. Lin Ji had just finished the war and hadn't recovered yet. What's the matter, he wants to attack Taiwan again?
However, Lin Youde was the big boss, and he rarely gave orders directly to small staff members like them, so a few people did not dare to neglect and immediately expressed their "resolute completion of the task."
Then Lin Youde waved his hand and signaled all officers to leave the war room temporarily.
Josephine looked at her husband from the side. She was dressed in a military uniform. She had just engaged in a war game with her staff. After they were the only two left in the war room, Josephine asked: "What's going on? What's going on?"
Happy?"
"Kodama Gentaro wants to surrender to us."
"So you ordered the formulation of a plan to attack Taiwan?"
"This is one of the tactics used by suspicious soldiers. Isn't it often said that 'in order to deceive the enemy, you must first deceive your own people'?"
Josephine looked at her elated husband, shook her head slightly, then walked up with a smile on her face and gave Lin Youde a firm hug from behind.