On the blue sea, a sail fleet is sailing north on the wind and waves, and the vast Pacific Ocean is extremely empty, as long as the fleet carefully dodges those busy sea lanes, there is no fear of detection.

Xiao Letian stood on the towering stern tower of the Roma, watching the elite navy sail and reload on the planet, and from time to time applauding the best soldiers, and the morale of the fleet was inspired to the peak.

This expedition Jae-chun also followed, Xiao Lotian hoped that he could witness a real war with his own eyes, that place full of violence, blood, and extreme masculinity is the most mature for a man.

"I hope that after you see the real slaughter, you will understand what war is, and you will understand that governing the country is actually governing 10,000 lives...... I hope you can understand what life and death are!"

At this time, Jae-chun didn't know that his destination was actually a hell, he was carrying a long rope in his hand, and he was wearing fresh bloody chicken in the hook at the front end, this guy was fishing.

The bloody qi pierced far in the sea, attracting sharks in the deep sea, and Xiao Letian gave an order, and the 12 water ghosts of the navy jumped into the sea with their bare bodies and daggers in their mouths.

The shark that was hooked by the hook was already crazy, and its body was writhing desperately in the seawater, and now that Jae-chun could no longer hold the rope, the four guards hurriedly rushed up to help the emperor control the rope.

General Cai Mao sneered on the side, "This is a white shark, it has surprising strength in the ocean, you can't resist the strength of collapse, you must know how to follow the trend...... Seeing that our water ghost has already stabbed us, put the rope quickly......"

Blood poured out of the enraged shark, and he began to desperately try to escape from the encirclement, the force of which made the rope jump straight, and the four Forbidden City guards were almost dragged into the sea.

"Put down the ropes, don't fight with the beasts...... Let it expend its strength, and then recycle it when he is tired......"

The rope was loosened, and the shark lunged forward for dozens of meters, then trapped by the tremendous force, and then another water ghost gave it a knife.

Jae-chun looked at the blood rolling in the sea, slapped his hands excitedly, and laughed wildly, "Okay, good...... Kill him...... Leave me the shark fin, I'm going to give it to the master!"

Xiao Lotian heard that it was okay, he didn't teach him in vain, he actually knew good things to honor the master, but shark fin Xiao Lotian is loveless, because there is no meat at all, although there is a little collagen, but eating two pig's trotters or some Zhenjiang meat can make up more than this thing.

As for what some people say about umami, in fact, there are seafood in the sea that are more delicious than this thing, and the two hairtail fish and crab are more delicious than this.

In the final analysis, it is rare and expensive, and it is human vanity that satisfies it, coupled with the fact that people have the psychology of conformity, and shark fin gradually becomes a treasure.

However, the apprentice's filial piety still can't be beaten, and it seems that this shark fin still has to be accepted.

At this time, the battle of the human shark in the sea has come to an end, twelve water ghosts besieged a great white shark, even if this beast is not an opponent no matter how strong it is, its blood was drained after ten minutes, and its white belly turned on the water.

"Hahaha...... Okay, good...... Pull it up!" Jae-chun jumped excitedly, and the four guards worked together to lift the great white shark of more than 1,000 catties to the deck.

Twelve water ghosts climbed up from the rope ladder and proudly waited for Xiao Letian's review, Xiao Letian walked over and patted his shoulders one by one, "Yes, yes, remember this blood, I, Xiao Letian's navy, should be like the head of the country, dare to fight with my life! Each person will be rewarded with a bottle of spirits, and a few of you will be given priority to the commando team for the next mission......"

The four guards were stunned at that time, they didn't expect that the prime minister's reward was to let these soldiers die first? What surprised them even more was that the twelve naval water ghosts actually toasted excitedly one by one.

They knew that the new army valued military merit above all else, and that the more dangerous the task, the greater the credit they would get in the end, and that military merit was the only way for soldiers to improve their social status.

In the future, how much tax will be exempted after retirement, how much housing subsidies can I get, and how much privilege I will not worship in the office, and even whether my children will be able to get the best education free of charge in the future, all of these need to improve military merit.

Xiao Letian never considered the so-called equality, freedom, and high welfare system of the future generations, and in his philosophy of governance, it is better to directly and clearly tell them that the world is unfair and hierarchical.

What Xiao Lotian has to do is to create a smooth ladder for all strata, and people's social identities must be able to go up and down, rather than be solidified by classes.

In the Ryukyus, as long as people are hardworking, brave, and kind, then they can improve their social status, for example, when they join the army and accumulate military merits to a certain extent, you will naturally enjoy some special political zones that others do not have, such as tax exemption, housing subsidies, free medical care, free education, and so on.

But if you are a villain who is lazy, selfish, and violates the law and secular morality, then the iron fist of the prime minister will not mind crushing you into powder, and the lightest of them will be exiled from the Ryukyus, and you will be expelled from your household registration and die wherever you love to die.

The four guards came from Beijing, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was gloomy in the morning, the land in the society was seriously annexed, and the nobles of the Eight Banners controlled the top-level resources, although there were imperial examinations that could solve the demands of a small number of low-level people to change their fate, but the opportunity was too few, and at the moment when the selling of official beards was becoming more and more serious, the class solidification of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not be reversed.

For a person who came out of such a dull society, it is natural that there will be some discomfort in such a vibrant society as Ryukyu, and it is too normal for the four guards not to understand why these naval soldiers are excited.

At this time, the shark fin had been cut off, and Zaichun held it with both hands and sent it to Xiao Letian, "Master, I caught a shark, this shark fin is the apprentice's filial piety......"

"Good, good...... Your filial piety is under my command, and I will send someone to the Forbidden City to dry it when I turn around...... Your mother must miss you very much, don't give birth to your mother for your kindness!"

At the mention of Cixi, Jaechun's eyes suddenly turned red, and he was extremely disgusted with his mother's high-pressure education in the Forbidden City, but when he left his hometown for thousands of miles, his mother's figure kept appearing in his dreams.

At that moment, a clipper ship came from the west, and the latest Japanese intelligence had been delivered, and the panting intelligence officer brought the latest battle situation in Osaka Castle, and the words on it were shocking to those who read it.

"The negotiations presided over by Prince Ninwanomiya outside Osaka Castle broke down completely...... The Shimazu family and the Tokugawa family each sent 100 samurai to engage in a fair duel, but at the last moment, the Shimazu family violated the rules and used pistols, and the heads of 100 Tokugawa samurai were cast into the Kyokan ......"

"The Tokugawa family's elder and Okochi Masako drew their swords on the spot at the tea party and vowed to fight a decisive battle with the Shimazu family, and angrily scolded the four feudal clans for provoking the civil war, and praised Sakamoto Ryoma's Eight Strategies in the boat, saying that it was the pillar of the country......"

"What?" Xiao Letian was furious when he heard it, "Damn it, isn't this a clear trick for Ryoma-kun? Ryoma-kun is in danger......"

The visitor then reported, "After the negotiation broke down, the army of the fallen shogun began a tentative siege of the castle, and the Shimazu family's new musket team fired three shots in succession, and Osaka Castle could not fight back at all...... Later, as night fell, the Tokugawa family sent dead soldiers to carry out three night attacks, killing countless soldiers of the Coalition Army, which relieved the pressure on Osaka Castle......"

"Early the next morning, the Choshu Domain used six British-made field guns to carry out a continuous artillery bombardment of Osaka Castle, and Osaka Castle, which had suffered heavy losses, used twelve French-made field guns to counterattack, and the artillery battle continued throughout the morning......

At 2:15 p.m., with the support of the artillery of the Choshu domain and the muskets of the Satsuma domain, the Tosa domain dispatched samurai and ninja troops to attack the castle, and in the space of an afternoon, two ships were captured...... But in the evening, the elite samurai of the Tokugawa clan were dispatched, and after three hours of fighting, the Tosa soldiers retreated......"

"In the following two days, the two sides engaged in six siege battles, large and small, and the preliminary statistics of casualties on both sides reached 5,000 people......"

Xiao Letian couldn't help but gasp when he heard this number: "Five thousand?

Zaichun and the four guards next to him were very puzzled: "Why did the prime minister say this? With 5,000 casualties, is this still called a war? Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the war was not hundreds of thousands of casualties?"

"! Can Japan compare with China? Population and resources are not of the same magnitude, and during the Warring States Period, when Japan killed the worst people, it had never heard of a battle in which 5,000 people were killed or wounded!"

"A style of play like China's, the Japanese will die in less than two years!" Xiao Letian glared at them, "If you don't learn, you can't do it...... Well, report the fleet position now ......"

"Latitude 33 north and longitude 136 east...... To the northwest of us is the Kii Peninsula of Japan...... You can reach the Seto Inland Sea and Osaka Bay in 10 hours at full speed......"

"Very well, let the intelligence ships depart early, and the main fleet slowly considers the Japanese...... Remember that all the Japanese ships were taken prisoner and escorted to the Ryukyus along the way, and the information of our expedition must not be revealed......"

Several of the most common hard-sailed merchant ships off the coast of Japan broke away from the fleet and headed northwest, when Pierre, who was pale and stuffy in the cabin, suddenly stepped out.

"This is my latest intelligence deduction, according to the available intelligence, the probability of the French directly entering the war is 65%, and once they do, with the temper of the French Minister Roche, it will be a big battle, you see......"

It took Pierre more than a year to get acquainted with the intelligence and culture of Asia, and he had not made a plan for a long time, but today the battle involved France, and as a traitor to the French emperor, he decided to teach the belligerent Napoleon III a lesson, a tragic lesson.

Xiao Lotian followed Pierre's pencil, his eyes wandered over the map of Japan, and he suddenly realized, "I understand! The combined forces of France and the shogunate just want to drain the last drop of blood of the coalition forces that have fallen in Osaka City...... It's too insidious!"

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