"Then let's do what Ito-qing and Kido-qing say!" Emperor Meiji said, his gaze sweeping over Okubo Ritsu, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, and Kawaji Toshira.

This time, the three Okubo Ritsu did not object.

Emperor Meiji looked at his ministers and stood up: "I'm tired, let's stop the meeting!" After he had finished speaking, without waiting for the ministers to answer, he left the throne and walked towards the gate of the main hall.

Looking at the back of Emperor Meiji, Okubo Ritsu's face turned iron-blue, and he stood there in a daze, even forgetting to bow to the emperor's back with his ministers.

At this time, Kawaji Toshira, his heart was also as shocked as Okubo Ritsu, he thought that today would be at most a reprimand, but he didn't expect that the emperor would support Ito Hirobumi's suggestion in the end!

When the figure of the emperor disappeared from the entrance of the main hall, the Japanese military and political leaders straightened up one after another and walked out of the hall.

Kawaji Toshira came to Okubo Ritsu's side, and Okubo Ritsu came back to his senses.

Kawaro Toshira looked at Okubo Toshitsu and said in a deep voice, "Okubo-kun, why don't you stop Ito-kun and Kido-kun?" Don't you know what kind of terrible disaster this will bring to our next actions? ”

Okubo Ritsu just let out a heavy sigh and didn't speak.

Kawaji Toshira didn't look at Okubo again, but turned around and strode away.

Okubo Ritsu walked out of the palace, got into the carriage, and remembered everything that happened at the Imperial Meeting, and his heart was still angry.

It was the first time he had been so embarrassed at a royal meeting.

What made him especially unbearable was that the emperor actually vetoed his opinion!

The most incredible thing about Okubo is Saigo Takamori.

Okubo Ritsu, who once played Saigo Takamori in the "Expedition to Korea" controversy, never imagined that one day, Saigo Takamori would be counterattacked in such a way.

In all fairness, he also admits that the emperor was quite embarrassed in this matter, and that taking the advice of Hirobumi Ito and Takayoshi Kido was actually a last resort.

"Saigo-kun, you dare to treat me like this, and say that you have no objection? Hum! Okubo Ritsu sneered.

After a while, the carriage arrived at Okubo Ritsu's house, and Okubo Ritsu got out of the carriage and found that the servants of the family were gathering at the door with a large group of people, forming a human wall.

"What happened?" Okubo said with a frown.

"Sir! Take a look! I don't know who sent a big box! When a servant saw Okubo Ritsu returning, he immediately ran over and said.

"Big box?" Okubo was stunned.

"Yes! Mr! There is also a seal on it, which says that it is addressed to you, sir! The servant replied.

Okubo Ritsu came to the door, and the servants and onlookers saw that Okubo Ritsu had arrived, and they all made way for it.

Soon, Okubo Ritsu saw the big box.

This is a large wooden box used to hold clothes, square, the four corners of the box are wrapped with white copper skin, and there are copper locks on the lid of the box, which are made of solid wood, without any carving, and are the kind of clothes box used by ordinary people.

It's just that from the lid to the body, a long seal was affixed with the words "Mr. Okubo Toshitsu receives" written on it.

Okubo Ritsu stared at the box for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Go and ask the chief of Kawaji to come over immediately!" And ask him to bring a few people who are good at defusing explosives! ”

Hearing Okubo Ritsu's order, several servants said "Hai" and immediately ran to the Metropolitan Police Department to report the news, while several other servants and onlookers heard the sound of Okubo Ritsu's words, and immediately dispersed away from the box, and in front of the box, Okubo Ritsu was the only one left.

"Saigo-kun, will it be your gift to me?" Okubo seemed to have guessed who had sent the box and sneered.

"If it's really explosives, it means that your Saigo-kun is not necessarily much higher than my Okubo......"

"Saigo-kun, I still didn't misthink you after all......"

Not long after, with the sound of hurried horses' hooves, the chief of police, Kawalu Liliang, and a team of sergeants galloped all the way on horseback.

Kawaro Toshira and others rode to Okubo Ritsu's side, dismounted one after another, and saw the box placed on the ground, Kawaji Toshira's first reaction was to pull Okubo Ritsu back.

"I got the news and rushed right away." "I thought it was just a small box, but I didn't expect it to be so ......big."

"It's a big box indeed." Okubo nodded.

"I think it's better not to open it here." Kawaro Toshira looked at the box and said, "If it contains explosives, once it is detonated, people on this street will be affected, so it is better to take it to the Metropolitan Police Department to open it." ”

"Okay." Okubo Ritsu looked back at his carriage, "Let's use my carriage to transport it!" ”

Kawaro Toshira commanded two strong sergeants to carry the box onto Okubo Ritsu's carriage, and after watching the coachman drive the carriage away for a long distance, he got on the horse with Okubo Ritsu and followed far behind.

The group soon arrived at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, located at the intersection of Sakurada Gate, an English-style building that had just been completed. The construction of such a building not far from the palace involuntarily evokes awe.

The carriage with the boxes drove into the courtyard, and in order to prevent the explosion from destroying the newly built building, Kawaji Toshira ordered the "explosives disposal team" to carry the boxes to the garden in the backyard, where they were processed, and he and Okubo watched them with binoculars from a long distance.

In the lens of the telescope, Okubo Ritsu saw that the "explosives handling team" first carefully checked the box, and after making sure that there was no mechanism outside the box, he carefully removed the seal, sawed off the lock with a chainsaw, and then hid in the pit dug in advance, leaned out, and slowly pulled the lid open with a long hook-like thing.

Okubo Ritsu stared at the box closely, the lid of the box was opened, but there was no explosion as he expected, only a faint white smoke came out of the box.

Several sergeants were also apparently surprised, and they looked around the pit for a while, and only after making sure that the box would not explode did they jump out of the pit and came to the side of the box.

Maybe there was some unpleasant smell coming from the box, and Okubo Ritsu saw several police officers fanning their noses with their hands.

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