On the blue sea, a fleet of sails was sailing to the north by wind and waves. The vast Pacific Ocean was extremely empty. As long as the fleet carefully avoided those busy sea routes, they would not be afraid of being discovered.

Xiao Letian stood on the towering stern of the Rome, watching the elite navy sailing and loading exercises on planets, and from time to time, he also gave applause to the best-performing soldiers. The morale of the fleet was inspired to the peak.

Zaichun also came with him this time. Xiao Letian hopes that he can witness a real war with his own eyes. The violent, passionate and extremely masculine place is the most mature thing for a man.

"I hope that after seeing the real massacre, you will understand what war is. You will understand that governing a country is actually governing ten thousand lives... I hope you can understand what life and death are."

At this time, Zai Chun didn't know that his destination was actually a hell. He was carrying a long rope in his hand and the fish hook at the front was wearing fresh bloody chicken. This guy was having a fishing trip.

The smell of blood traveled far away in the sea, attracting sharks in the deep sea. At the command of Xiao Letian, 12 naval water ghosts jumped into the sea with their upper bodies naked and holding daggers in their arms.

The shark whose mouth was hooked by the fish hook was already crazy, and his body twisted desperately in the sea. Now Zaichun could no longer hold the rope, so the four guards rushed forward to help the emperor control the rope.

General Cai Mao sneered from the side, "This is a white shark, which is extremely strong in the ocean. You cannot resist the collapse of strength. You must know how to go with the flow... Seeing that our water ghost has stabbed him, put the rope quickly..."

Blood emerged from the furious shark, and he began to desperately escape from the encirclement. The force jumped straight, and the four Forbidden City guards were almost dragged into the sea.

"Put the rope, don't push the beast hard... Let it consume some energy, and then recycle it when he is exhausted..."

The rope was relaxed, and the shark rushed forward dozens of meters, and then was trapped by huge force. Then another water ghost took the opportunity to give it a knife.

Zai Chun looked at the blood rolling in the sea and clapped her hands excitedly and laughed wildly, "Okay... Kill him... Leave me the shark fins, I want to give them to the master."

When Xiao Letian heard that it was okay, he didn't teach him in vain. He actually knew that he was filial to the master. However, Xiao Letian was not loving because he had no meat at all. Although he had a little collagen, eating two pig's trotters or some Zhenjiang meat could make up more than this thing.

As for what some people say about umami flavor, in fact, some seafood in the sea that is more delicious than this thing is that if you catch two hairpin fish, crabs will be more delicious than this one.

After all, things are precious because they are rare, and what they satisfy is human vanity. In addition, people have the mentality of following the herd, and gradually shark fin becomes a treasure.

However, the apprentice's filial piety cannot be suppressed. It seems that this shark fin still needs to be accepted.

At this time, the battle between the human sharks in the sea had come to an end. Twelve water ghosts besieged a great white shark. Even if the beast is strong, it is no match for no matter how strong it is. After more than ten minutes, its blood was dried and its white belly flipped onto the water.

"Hahaha... OK... pull up." Zai Chun jumped wildly excitedly, and the four guards worked hard together that great white shark of more than 1,000 pounds was lifted onto the deck.

Twelve water ghosts climbed up from the rope ladder and waited proudly for Xiao Letian's inspection. Xiao Letian walked over and patted his shoulders one by one, "No, good, remember this bloody spirit. My Xiao Letian's navy should be like a national water ghost. He dares to fight for his life. Each person will receive a bottle of strong wine. Next time you are on the commando team..."

The four guards were stunned at the time. They did not expect that the Prime Minister's reward was to give these soldiers priority to die. What surprised them even more was that the twelve naval water ghosts actually toasted and celebrated excitedly.

They knew that the new army valued military merits the most, and the more dangerous the mission, the greater the credit they received. Military merits are the only way for soldiers to improve their social status.

How much taxes can you exempt from retirement, how much housing subsidies can you get, the privilege of not accepting officials, and even whether your children can get the best education for free in the future, all of which require improving military merit.

Xiao Letian never considered the so-called equality, freedom, and high welfare systems in later generations. In his governing philosophy, he expected to hypocritically deceive the people and everyone equally. It would be better to tell them directly and clearly that the world is unfair and has hierarchical levels.

What Xiao Letian needs to do is to create a smooth ladder for all classes, and a person's social identity must be able to go up and down, and not to be solidified in class.

As long as people in Ryukyu are diligent, brave and kind, they can improve their social status. For example, if they join the army and become military merits to a certain extent, you will naturally enjoy some political special zones that others do not have, such as tax exemption, housing subsidies, free medical care, free education, etc.

But if you are a villain who is lazy, selfish, and violates the law and secular morality, then the Prime Minister's iron fist doesn't mind crushing you to pieces. The lightest one is exiled to Ryukyu and expel your household registration and die wherever you love.

The four guards came from Beijing, and the Manchus were in a twilight morning. The land was severe in society, and the Eight Banners nobles controlled the top-level resources. Although the imperial examinations could solve the demands of a small number of people at the bottom to change their destiny, there were too few opportunities. At a time when the sales of official positions and titles became increasingly serious, the class solidification phenomenon of the Qing Dynasty could no longer be reversed.

For a person who came out of such a dull society, he would naturally feel a little uncomfortable with a vibrant society like Ryukyu. It would be normal for the four guards not to understand why these naval soldiers were excited.

At this time, the shark fins had been cut off. Zaichun held them in his hands and sent them to Xiao Letian. "Master, I caught a shark. This shark fin is the filial piety of his disciple..."

"Okay... I'm in charge of your filial piety. Let's let you dry up. I'll send someone to the Forbidden City... Your mother must miss you very much, don't give birth to your kindness to your mother."

When talking about Cixi, Zaichun's eyes suddenly turned red. In the Forbidden City, he was extremely disgusted with his mother's high-pressure education, but after leaving his hometown for thousands of miles, his mother's figure kept appearing in his dreams.

Just then, a flying scissor ship was sailing rapidly from the West, and the latest information from Japan had been delivered. The panting intelligence officer brought the latest battle situation in Osaka Castle. The words on it were shocking.

"The negotiations chaired by Prince Mitsuhito and Miyagi were completely broken... The Shimazu family and the Tokugawa family each made a fair duel, but at the last moment, the Shimazu family used pistols illegally, and the heads of the 100 Tokugawa samurai were cast into Kyoto..."

"The Tokugawa family's old junior, Okanoi Masashi drew his sword on the spot and vowed to fight the Shimazu family on the spot. He also scolded the defeat of Mu Si Fan as the murderer who provoked the civil war, and praised Sakamoto Ryuma's ship's eight-pointed corps, saying that he was the pillar of the country..."

"What." Xiao Letian was angry when he heard this. "Damn it, isn't this obviously a trap for Longma Jun? Longma Jun is in danger..."

The visitor then reported that "After the negotiations broke down, the downward army began to tentatively siege the city. The Shimazu family's new musket team shot in three consecutive shots, which made Osaka Castle unable to counterattack... Then, as the night fell, the Tokugawa family sent three dead soldiers to carry out night attacks, killing countless soldiers from the downward coalition, which relieved the pressure on Osaka Castle..."

"At the morning of the next morning, the Choshu Fan used six British-built field artillery to carry out continuous artillery bombardment on Osaka Castle. Osaka Castle, which suffered heavy losses, launched twelve French-built field artillery to fight back, and the artillery battle lasted throughout the morning..."

"At 2:15 pm, with the support of the artillery of the Choshu clan and the muskets of the Satsuma clan, the Tosa clan dispatched samurai and ninja troops to attack the city, and two gates were set in one afternoon... But in the evening, the Tokugawa elite samurai regiment was dispatched. After three hours of competition for the station, the Tosa clan soldiers retreated..."

"In the following two days, both sides carried out siege battles of all sizes and small, and the preliminary statistics on the number of casualties between the two sides reached 5,000..."

When Xiao Letian heard this number, he couldn't help but breathe a breath of air. "Five thousand people, what a tragic siege. Are both sides going crazy?"

Zai Chun and the four guards next to him were very puzzled, "Why did the Prime Minister say this? Is it still called a war? The war since the founding of the Qing Dynasty was not hundreds of thousands of casualties."

"Barring, can Japan compare with China? The population and resources are not on the same scale. During the Warring States Period, Japan killed the worst, and I have never heard of a battle that killed 5,000 people."

"As a Chinese style of play, the Japanese will die in less than two years." Xiao Letian glared at them, "I'm ignorant... Okay, report the current fleet position..."

"North latitude 33, longitude 136, east... Now to the northwest of us is the Kii Peninsula of Japan... You can reach the Seto Inland Sea and Osaka Bay within 10 hours..."

"Very good. Let the intelligence ships set out in advance, and the main fleet slowly considers Japan... Remember that all Japanese ships along the way are captured and escorted to Ryukyu, and the information we set out on the expedition must not be exposed..."

Several of the most common hard-sail merchant ships off the fleet and headed northwest. At this moment, Pierre, whose face was pale in the cabin, suddenly walked out.

"This is my latest intelligence deduction. According to the existing intelligence, the possibility of the French directly joining the war is 65%. Once they join the war, with the temper of the French Minister Roche, it will be a decisive battle. Come on..."

Pierre spent more than a year familiarizing himself with Asian intelligence and culture. He had not given any advice for a long time, but today the battle involved France. As a traitor to the French emperor, he decided to teach the warlike Napoleon III a lesson and a tragic lesson.

Xiao Letian followed Pierre's pencil and walked on the Japanese map. He suddenly realized, "I understand, the coalition forces of France and the Shogunate wanted to release the last drop of blood from the collapsed coalition forces in Osaka Castle... It's too sinister."

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