C148 (1/2)
Chapter 148 - Who is the enemy
The autumn sky above the Yellow Sea, the entire ocean suffused with a faint azure-black hue. The pure white scissor boat sails sliced through the air as they flew towards Tanggu's port at a fast speed.
Xiao Letian quietly stared at the beautiful scenery of the sky and the sea, listening to the waves and the cries of the seagulls. Behind him, Dragon Lord stood there silently. He knew that Teacher must be thinking about something right now.
”Oh Dragon Lord, do you know how many enemies I have now? ”I'm afraid the odds are against me returning to my homeland this time around …” Xiao Letian did not finish his sentence, the corners of Dragon Lord's eyes trembled as he said, ”I'll see who dares. Don't worry, I'll chop off anyone who dares to make a move, and I'll cut off their head.”
Listening to Dragon Lord's murderous words, Xiao Letian smiled. He knew that this was not a joke, the brothers under him had all changed after this bloody battle, and they were completely different from when they were in the Great Qing Dynasty.
”Gather our brothers here. We should talk about the current situation. Otherwise, we won't be able to catch anything when the time comes …” Right at the bow of the ship, Xiao Letian began to teach classes for his brothers. This was the first time Xiao Letian was giving his brothers a systematic political lesson.
”Brothers, the situation we are facing is actually very simple. Two allies, two hidden enemies, and two hidden enemies. The only thing left is a bunch of soy sauce …”
”Yes, sir, what do you mean by soy sauce?”
”En...” ”Calm down, calm down. That's not important …”
Xiao Letian was referring to the Western Powers. They carefully watched Xiao Letian's every move. The current Xiao Letian was not worth for them to suppress or support him, so a low intensity riot in a small Ryukyu was not a big deal. Right now, the eyes of the Europeans were still fixed on the rising Prussian Germany and their increasing appetite.
As long as Xiao Letian did not obstruct the European powers' business interests in Asia, who would be so patient as to care about the infighting between the Chinese people? At this time, the envoy area of East Crossing Folk Lane was still not busy yet. The ambassadors would occasionally discuss about this Eastern Asian westerner at a wine party, and other than a few words of praise that were not enough to help him, no one else would.
Only the United States, in the entire Western World, was willing to interact closely with Xiao Letian. However, the United States had just finished a civil war, and the entire army was only a little over a hundred thousand people, so the construction inside was the most important. It could only provide some technical and commercial assistance to Xiao Letian.
From the looks of it, the Western World posed no threat to Xiao Letian at all. All of their hostile gazes came from Asia. The angry Tsurukawa's Palace had already sent someone to reprimand Shimadzu Family, and requested for an investigation to be conducted immediately. However, Shimadzu Family denied the existence of war and only admitted that there was a large-scale security conflict.
Tsurukawa's Palace had already lost all patience when he heard these rogue words. Two groups of emissaries, one group went to Ryukyu and the other pair went to the Great Qing Dynasty. They wanted to get to the bottom of this bizarre conflict.
In the end, the group that went to the Ryukyu did not even see Xiao Letian, while Shang Tai was even more frank. He directly stated that all the diplomatic work of the Ryukyu had already been entrusted to the Prime Minister, and he did not care about anything else. This attitude almost made the Tokugawa's messenger angry to the point that her nose was crooked.
The group of emissaries that went to the Qing Province were even more aggrieved. Not to mention the emperor and the empress dowager, they even went as far as Prince Kung Yi? They could not even meet face to face, only the middle and lower level officials of the Social Security Council and the Social Security Council brought them to Beijing to eat and drink.
Every time these emissaries got anxious, these officials would come up with all sorts of excuses to reject them. In short, before Xiao Letian returned home, no one would care about your feelings, if they wanted to protest, they would go and find Xiao Letian.
The Great Qing Empire once again used the ”drag” technique. The only problem that they could not understand and could not solve themselves was this. It was drag on until they ran out of patience.
Qing Liu and the others who also lost their patience. These students were born with a grudge with Xiao Letian, in their eyes, all those who spread their knowledge were all evil monsters, and all of them wanted to overthrow the traitors that wanted to take the Imperial examinations.
These torrents had already connected up and down, and they were waiting for Xiao Letian to return back to their country before carrying out the largest scale denouncement activity. They wanted to use snowflakes as a memorial to drown out the Forbidden City. Not only that, but there will also be an Enke this winter, at which time all the scholars from all over the country will gather in the capital.
Xiao Letian, Xiao Letian. We'll show you how hard a scholar's bones are, and we'll make it impossible for you to stay in the city for a whole day.
Xiao Letian was not blind now, he had already set up a huge information network in Li Li, especially in the capital. At that time, the Beijing would not be able to hide any secrets, not to mention that Xiao Letian's silver bullet attack would not be able to defeat him.
The Japanese Tsurukawa's Palace and Qing Liu were the biggest threats to Xiao Letian, and also the most obvious ones. There were also quite a few enemies hiding behind the scenes. The first response that the nobles of Qing Dynasty had towards Xiao Letian was to kill him with a soft knife. This was a very sinister plan.