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Chapter 123 - You and I are the same kind of people

Negotiations between political figures would always have more nonsense than the main text. The threat of hiding needles in the process of mutual flattery gradually surfaced. Those in the circle didn't really understand what they were talking about.

Dragon Lord, Luo Huo and Xiao Hexin who were guarding outside the courtyard heard their master and that Japanese midget praising each other. They were extremely polite as if they were good friends, but how could they know that the two people in the room were sweating profusely?

In the fierce exchange of words, the two of them had never talked about the current situation in the Ryukyu or how to resolve the predicament. On the contrary, the two of them began to talk about the political situation of their countries. One was focused on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's civil war and the current uprising, while the other was focused on the confrontation between the Tsurukawa's Palace and the local people.

With a thousand words, the two nations aren't much better. In the thousand years of major change, the two ancient nations have entered a period of confusion.

Xiao Letian had always planned in secret that he had the ability to break the rules of the imperial court, and had even faintly threatened Sakamoto Ryoma to instigate a civil war in the Japan. Sakamoto Ryoma, on the other hand, had always emphasized the Qing Dynasty Government's policy of slavery towards the Chinese.

On the surface, both of them looked like they were laughing like flowers, but looking at the sake bottle that he had not drank for half a day, it was obvious that the battle between the two had reached the stage where they were ready to fight.

A bottle of sake s took two hours to drink. This could be considered to be the first time Xiao Letian had experienced something like this in a banquet. But in the end, a person's life and a country's national destiny were definitely not of equal importance. This coupled with the fact that Xiao Letian had gone through such miraculous transmigration in two lives, gave him an inexplicable sense of self-confidence about his own fate.

A Transcender would not be killed that easily. Xiao Letian believed in this point, so in their confrontation, the person who held himself back the most was still Xiao Letian. Little by little, beads of sweat appeared on Sakamoto Ryoma's forehead. He realized that Xiao Letian was the most difficult opponent he had had to deal with since the beginning of his negotiations.

"Mr. Xiao, I remember you saying in《 Journey to the West》 that the essence of politics is compromise. Humans do not live in this society by forcing another group into a corner. There can be conflicts between different groups of people, but there can be no extermination of another group, because people are called people because human nature represents society … "

At the end of the battle, Sakamoto Ryoma's own knowledge was insufficient to convince him. He could only look for a way to break through from , and the human, social, and political compromise that Xiao Letian repeatedly mentioned in his books were the most powerful weapons that the Dragon Horse possessed.

In your book, you have stated more than once that social groups should tolerate each other and compromise each other. But why are they so unrelenting when facing the Ryukyu riots? Nearly a hundred thousand Japanese residents were living under surveillance. Today, Sakamoto Ryoma even saw that the Japanese residential area had already begun erecting fences and wooden walls for isolation. Was the Japanese being reared like livestock?

In addition to that, there were also the businesses in the Japanese, and a large amount of warehouses and even ruins. If Jin Changsen, this little person who was swaying left and right, were to betray the Japan, he would be even more ruthless than the Chinese. Hundreds of years of Japanese wealth have been plundered.

Take a look at those red-eyed Chinese and Glazed sphere aboriginals. They have opened one warehouse after another and moved all the resources away, not even a grain of rice was left. What was even more despicable was that they did not even let go of the ruins of the fire, and took out the unburned gold, silver and copper coins from the charcoal. Even this wealth was not left for the Japanese.

"Mr. Xiao! As a scholar and a Grandmaster, you can't be more greedy than bandits, can you? I don't see a shred of benevolence or compromise in what you do, let alone compromise. I only see you want to starve us, a hundred thousand Japanese residents, to death … This is wrong! "

When Xiao Letian heard this, his eyes almost jumped out from their sockets. He smashed his fist against the short tree trunk, causing the food and wine to fall to the ground.

"Eight!" How dare you change your mind in front of me. What compromise and tolerance do you want to talk to me about? You are worthy of... Let me ask you, who started this conflict? Why did Kiyoshi Yamamoto and E Balang try to kill the commoners? Where was the compromise in your mouth when the innocent Chinese were being slaughtered? Do you blame me for fifteen years after you've done your first semester? "

Xiao Letian really wanted to rush up and give him a few slaps, but seeing that Sakamoto Ryoma and his group were not the same type of people, he endured it forcefully.

"The biggest premise of tolerance and compromise is that all men and women treat each other as equals. Only by looking at the equality of mutual identity and status can they have the basis for mutual compromise. But in that night of Tyrant Blood Fire, I did not see any trace of humanity in your Japanese, but under the light of the fire, their beastly nature had been magnified infinitely, killing and robbing with impunity. When they raised their butcher knives to the Chinese, did they think about the feelings and experiences of two races living together for more than two hundred years? "

"No, they didn't think of anything. At that moment, they had long since forgotten all the good memories of their hundreds of years of life together. They only remembered the friction between the two races, and they infinitely enlarged it … "

"So when they killed the Chinese, they showed no mercy. In the moment of the fire, they had already forgotten that the Chinese are human beings, just like them. At that moment, their hearts were filled with nothing but beasts … Yes, the greatest sorrow of your people is that you will never be able to escape the control of the beast-like things! "

After saying that, Xiao Letian suddenly grabbed the bottle that had been poured over, raised his head and took a big gulp, then looked at the flushed Sakamoto Ryoma with incomparable contempt and said, "Japan's national destiny, is to become a warrior, and defeat is also a warrior!"

Hearing these words that sounded like an prophecy, Sakamoto Ryoma suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest. His face immediately turned from red to white, and the deepest fear in his mind started to churn and churn.

The kung fu path was a double-edged sword. If it was used well, it would be a sharp weapon that could kill the enemy. However, if it was used carelessly, it would cause fatal damage to the user. Sakamoto Ryoma himself had grown up amongst the lower levelled warriors. He was extremely familiar with the real lives of the warriors and their thoughts.

This was a petty, short-sighted, and tyrannical group, and it was their fault that they coveted the small benefits in front of them and ignored the big benefits in the long run. In terms of military performance, this group was very famous for evaluating 'heavy tactics while light strategies'.

For example, if he had used all his power to attack Xiao Letian from the very beginning and used his power to protect his own people, Xiao Letian would definitely not have instigated the wave of 100,000 Chinese. Furthermore, if Kiyoshi Yamamoto listened to Huashan Liyuan's orders and focused all of his strength to attack and destroy the Shouli City, controlling at the first possible moment, then the later stages of the negotiations would not result in any interference from the foreign armed forces, but would instead give the negotiations an advantage.

Unfortunately, everything was destroyed by these middle and lower level warriors. They were too fanatical, so fanatical that they didn't hesitate to destroy everything in order to raise their status.

Sakamoto Ryoma's entire body was filled with a feeling of helplessness, but in the end, he had actually submitted to the tatami and said in a weak voice, "Please teach me, please teach me, Sir, to teach me more …"

Seeing Sakamoto Ryoma's pitiful look, Xiao Letian couldn't help but sigh deeply in his heart. He couldn't help but remember some of the wild rumors and histories of the future generations. If those wild history stories were true, then this nation of Japan was truly a martial arts path, and defeat was a martial arts path.

According to wild records, when the Japan won the world shocking gamble in the Battle of A afternoon, they received a huge compensation of two hundred million silver taels, as well as Taiwan, Penghu and the Korean peninsula, which was a huge new territory that surpassed the size of the Japan's own island. Domestic politicians were already preparing to stop.

In the civil service at that time, they all believed that it was enough for Japan to have so much wealth and double its territory. If they didn't manage it properly for more than a hundred years, they should not have continued to expand. Once upon a time, this thought had been mainstreamed into the Japanese landscape.

After the second world war, politicians agreed that if Japan had been calmer and avoided two world wars, modern East Asia would not have been where it is now. At that time, the Western Powers, including the Great Qing, had already recognized Japan's ownership of the new territories, which meant that Japan's occupation of Taiwan, the Ryukyu, Penghu and North Korea had been recognized by all countries as well as being absolutely legitimate.

It was a pity that everything was destroyed by the hands of the fanatical soldiers. Those fanatical soldiers who had their minds brainwashed by the martial dao would never consider any bullshit about balance or compromise. In their eyes, Japan without war was an incomplete Japan. Society without war was a stagnant society, and their God of Heaven would protect them forever until the end of the world.

It was under the influence of this trend of thinking that the Japanese political scene showed the phenomenon of military force oppressing the civil service. A large number of dissenting civil officials were pushed aside or even threatened with their lives by military forces, and 'accidents' were inevitable. In any case, it was not rare for some officials to be assassinated in the imperial court in Japan.

In addition, the military adventurers had been taking advantage of the military for the past hundred years. Gradually, the civil service compromised, or rather, the civil service was integrated into the big circle of military forces. The militarism became the iron law that all the Japanese believed in, and even after the end of World War II, this kind of thinking was not completely wiped away from Japanese politics.

Xiao Letian shook his head, his thoughts returning to Sakamoto Ryoma's body, and sighed, "What can I do? That is the culture of your nation, a legacy that has lasted for thousands of years. Do you really think you can change the fate of this country? Mr. Ryoma! "Idealism is a death sentence..."

What Xiao Letian had said was not wrong. In the true history, only two years later, Sakamoto Ryoma was assassinated in a house near the river in the capital. Even to his death, he did not see what the Japan looked like after he gave advice.

Sakamoto Ryoma smiled bitterly at Xiao Letian. "Idealism? That's right, I am a little idealistic now, hoping to use my own strength to change the luck of Japan and even the nature of my people … But what about you, Mr. Xiao? Your book shows more idealism than I do, and the prophecy you give me doesn't apply to you. "

"The Qing Dynasty was a hundred times more complicated than in Japan. The complexity of the various powers was hard to imagine. Do you really think that cooperation, including political compromise, will succeed? "

"In the end, we are both the same type of people …"