Xiao Letian nodded when he heard this, "But Shinsaku Takasugi who has visited Shanghai, your surprise team is very beautiful, and you can use new foreign guns."

Takasugi Shinsaku is only 28 years old now. Although he is brave and diligent, he is definitely not a mature politician. When he heard Prime Minister Xiao of Donghai's praise, he immediately shook his head and choked up and said, "Thank you Prime Minister Xiao of Donghai for your righteous deeds. Without the Prime Minister's foreign gun funding, the surprise troops may not be able to win. I remember the hearts of my subordinates..."

Xiao Letian looked at Takasugi Shinsaku and sighed in his heart. If history had not changed, this young man would have died of illness this year, and Ryuma Sakamoto was assassinated within a few months after his death.

Two heroes died within a year. The Meiji Restoration in Japan lacked two real strategists and two politicians who knew how to advance and retreat. In the end, the entire political situation in Japan was controlled by the fanatical soldiers and the emperor who did not know how to restrain themselves. All the strategic gains after the Meiji Restoration were left with one Ryukyu in the end, and the rest were all lost.

"Takasugi, the waves in East Asia have just started, so you must take care of yourself." Just when Takasugi Jinzu was inexplicably moved, Xiao Letian looked at Yuto Yama Prefecture again.

Yutoto Yama Prefecture is known as the founder of Japanese warlordism and the strongest Japanese political figure after Hirofumi Ito. Although he is just following Ryuma Sakamoto and others, Yuto Yama Prefecture has one of the biggest advantages of longevity. Among the earliest group of real power figures in the Anti-Sutra, he lived the oldest.

Aritoto Yama Prefecture did not die until 1922. It was already the eleventh year of the Republic of China. This powerful soldier experienced two battles in Changzhou, Meiji Restoration, Wuchen War, and the Southwest War that changed the original intention of the reform, which helped the Emperor complete the first centralization in Japanese history.

He was involved in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and he was still there during the Northeast War of Japan and Russia. When the Boxer Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, Yutomo Yama Prefecture was already the Japanese Army Marshal and Prime Minister.

After Hirofumi Ito was assassinated in 1909, no one in Japanese politics could restrain the Tai, and the power of the Choshu clan in the army reached its peak.

"You warlord leader, I have found you. Don't worry, I will stare at you tightly. You are still useful now. When you become a thorn in my eyes, I don't mind dealing with you with my own hands..." Thinking of this, Xiao Letian suddenly stretched out his hand to Emperor Tongzhi who was sitting upright behind. The little emperor grabbed the Western sword in front of him and handed it to Xiao Letian.

"You have friends in Shan County." Xiao Letian roared.

"Hay..." The young Shanxianjun shouted and took a step forward, respectfully kneeling down to Xiao Letian. Prime Minister Xiao's counterattack in Europa had deeply shocked Yupeng of Shanxian. This natural warlord had a heartfelt admiration for the strong. When he saw the command knife, he was trembling.

"Mr. Shanxian, I heard that you were extremely brave in this battle in Changzhou, Xiao Cang City was captured by you." Xiao Letian asked.

"Hai... the duty of the warrior is to fight, and hundreds of thousands of lives are fighting, so I dare not do my best."

Yama County, who is only 29 years old, is still clearly distinguished, and is far from reaching the political awareness of the founder of Japanese warlords in later generations. He is no match for Xiao Letian, an old fox who has been a human being for two lives.

"Shanxianjun, this is the command knife I seized from a Prussian noble on the European battlefield. Now I give it to you. I hope that one day you can defeat the Westerners and let Asia be colonized like me..."

Since ancient times, cooperation has had to have a common program. If Xiao Letian wants to unite the hearts of the people of the Anti-State and make them obey their orders, he must start to put a certain hat on both sides from this moment, that is, expelling the barbarians.

Respecting the king and expelling the barbarians have always been the core idea of ​​the Japanese reformists, but the way of expelling the barbarians has changed in the entire reformist thought. At the beginning, expelling the barbarians was a real expelling the barbarians, which was to do everything possible to push the emperor to the throne and push the shogunate to war with foreigners.

People like Tosa Kishi's Takeshi Banheta were representatives of the early expulsion factions. The Shimonoseki incident in Japan, the Changshu family fired fire at foreign merchant ships, which was also the ultimate expression of this idea.

This idea of ​​respecting the king and expelling the barbarians is actually the same as the proposals of many literati in the Qing Dynasty. They do not want to change themselves, but they just want to beat foreigners out in a passionate way and restore the old order and dignity of their country.

But unfortunately, this kind of anti-barrier expulsion was quickly suppressed under the strong ships and cannons of the West. Wushi Banping was too separatist, and Xiaguan allowed Britain, France, the United States and the Netherlands to be defeated by one shelling. The Changzhou vassal did not even dare to repair the bombed artillery.

At this point, the sect of the king and the expelling barbarians declined, but the sect of the sect was prospered. Takasugi Shinsaku, Sakamoto Ryuma, Yama Prefecture Aritomoto, Okubo and others realized that in the face of powerful Western power, Japan must learn to bow its head and try to change itself first and accept new things.

The idea of ​​the anti-shog faction is to push the emperor to the throne, to step down the corrupt and declining shogunate, and ultimately let the country carry out Westernization reforms.

However, learning from the West does not mean that they have forgotten the idea of ​​expelling the barbarians. In fact, the entire Meiji Restoration of Japan challenged Western civilization. The ultimate injustice of the Japanese rulers at that time was to become the leader of Asia and replace the historical status of the Central Plains civilization.

In the Russo-Japanese War in Northeast China, the world war I was able to get along well, and in the second World War, the attack on Pearl Harbor and eventually surrendered unconditionally. This nation had a dream of expelling the barbarians for eighty years.

In the end, the Americans broke Japan's dream of expelling the barbarians. The country completely bowed to Western civilization psychologically and became a vassal of the United States. It took a thorough break from Asia and Europe.

Xiao Letian put the command knife he snatched from Viscount Alan in the hands of Youpeng in Shanxian County. Looking at the excited and trembling warlord leader, Xiao Letian knew that his words had worked. The Anti-State was still the Anti-State in history. Their hostility towards Western powers was heartfelt.

"Try to do it, Shanxianjun, maybe one day you will become a general around me and lead 100,000 troops to circulate this world. This is not impossible." Xiao Letian laid a nail in his heart.

Just when Youpeng in Shan County expressed his loyalty to Xiao Letian, suddenly a very complicated gaze among the people kneeling below shot towards Xiao Letian. A strong sense of dissatisfaction and stubbornness made Xiao Letian keenly capture it.

"Rongmajun, who is the young man sitting at the back? His eyes are so heroic. Stand out and let me see."

Before Ryuma Sakamoto introduced, a short young man quickly walked to the middle of the tatami and spoke very fluently in English: "Dear Prime Minister, Hirofumi Ito, graduated from the University of London, England, and returned to Japan after the Xiaguan incident. When he heard that the Prime Minister's military power was shocking Europa, he was inexplicably excited. Today, he saw that the Honor was a little incompetent, so please forgive me." After that, he knelt on the tatami.

Xiao Letian felt a thrill in his heart, "Damn, Hirofumi Ito, Japan's first prime minister, leader of the civil servant, a civil servant can suppress the entire Japanese warlord system. When he was alive, Akito Yama Prefecture did not dare to jump around at all. All factions in the army and navy surrendered to his power..."

Awesome, this is awesome. Although he led Japan to win the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Xiao Letian was very disgusted with him psychologically, but he had to accept that this was a big powerful man.

He led the war of Sino-Japanese War, and he led the war of Russo-Japanese War. Even during the Reform Movement of 1898, he even visited Beijing City and proposed reform suggestions for Kang Youwei and Emperor Guangxu. After the reform failed, he actively rescued Huang Zunxian and Liang Qichao.

Xiao Letian was very complicated about this short man because Hirofumi Ito is one of the few strategists in Aizhi Reform. To put it bluntly, he is a politician who knows how to advance and retreat.

His diplomatic strategy for East Asia was very clear, that was to protect the actual interests of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, deeply manage North Korea and Taiwan, and refuse to get involved in mainland China.

Unofficial History once said that Hirofumi Ito once had a so-called political will. In his plan, Japan must learn to calm down and the newly obtained territory will take a hundred years to continue to raise troops.

Japan is too thin. After eating two pieces of fat in one go, you must keep your mind calm and not be greedy. Dige the meat in your stomach into energy and make yourself stronger first and then consider getting new benefits.

Blindly advancing to the inland Central Plains, or even starting a war in the Western world with a hot brain, is an unwise move. It is very likely that you will not get new fat and you will have to spit out the two pieces in your stomach.

Facts proved Hirofumi Ito's wisdom. Less than forty years after his death, his heirs spit out all the fat meat they ate after the Meiji Restoration, leaving behind a Ryukyu. It was because the Americans had their own little abacus to save it.

It's terrible to think about it carefully. If Japan had completely followed Hirofumi Ito's diplomatic strategy and adhered to the fruits of the Meiji Restoration's victory, and did not launch an aggressive war but only adopted a defensive national policy to survive World War II, perhaps Asia would have been the Japanese world now.

"Ito-kun... how old are you this year?" Xiao Letian asked coldly.

Hirobuki Ito was stunned and then said, "I was born in 1841 of the Western calendar, and this year it is exactly 26 years old..."

"Ahem..." Xiao Letian coughed twice, thinking that he was so young, and he was still an age that he could fight for. I won't kill him for the time being, so I'll keep it for now. Let's talk about it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Letian turned his head and explained to Master Long. Master Long nodded and walked out quickly. Soon, a worn-out notebook with a cowhide cover was brought in like a treasure by Master Long.

Xiao Letian reached out to Hirobuki Ito and said, "Come on, you'll take a few steps closer... This note is my diary when I went to Europe last year. It contains a lot of my judgment on the situation in Europe. You see, there are still many photos here as evidence."

"You will definitely understand it after returning from studying in the UK. Take it, as I will give you a gift. I hope you can become a real Japanese strategist instead of a short-sighted politician..."

After saying a word, there was a sound of gasping in the room. No one expected that Xiao Letian had such great expectations for Ito Hirobuki. Is this teaching the mantle? Is this choosing disciples?
Chapter completed!