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Chapter 719 New Year on the Warship (Third Update, Please Subscribe)
After leaving Xie's house, Li Songmei walked along Binhe Road towards home. Along the way, she occasionally cast her eyes on the New Qinhuai River. She has been in Daming for six years, and she has always liked it since she started working. Walking along the New Qinhuai River is not only because of the beautiful scenery and fresh air, but more importantly, the carefully planned plants and trees here remind her that this is Daming, the best place.

Li Songmei is a Japanese immigrant. Six years ago, her father sent her on the ship to Nanhua, not as a maid, but to escape from Japan.

"Go to Daming, at least there, you are not a loser's daughter."

A loser, his father was a loyal samurai of the shogunate, the shogunate failed, his father lost everything as a loser, and even had to sell the family house in order to make ends meet.

At the beginning, she didn't know why her father sent her to Nanhua, but now she understands that from the moment her father put down the knife, his father's heart died, and sending her to Nanhua was his father's last effort Responsibility.

In the past six years, she passed the high school aptitude test, graduated from the normal school, entered the school and became a teacher, and no one even knew that she was Japanese, thanks to the Nanjing dialect taught by her father when she was young, even in the When she boarded the ship, no one except her father's friends knew she was Japanese.

Now, in Yingtian, everyone thinks that her ancestral home is Nanjing, where she can start again.She even lived a life that she couldn't even imagine in the past. In Japan, she would never be able to become a respectable lady like she is now.

"Father, in fact, you should come here too."

Li Songmei couldn't help thinking about her father silently, where is her father now?
When thinking of her father, she thought of the handsome naval officer she met here a year ago. They only got along for a few months, and he went to East Asia with the fleet.

He... should be in Japan now.

Thinking about the news she read in the newspaper, Li Songmei thought to herself.

Will he meet his father?If the father is still alive.

More importantly, is he... okay?

"Zhao Jun, you must protect yourself! I will pray for you every day!"

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"January 1, Xiaoxue, nothing happened!"

When Zhao Haitao got up in the morning, he took a look at the records in his diary yesterday. Writing a diary was a habit he kept in the military school, and every student who came out of the military school had this habit.

After closing the diary casually, he glanced at the photo in the diary, which was a photo of him and Songmei.

Looking at the petite and lovely girl in the photo, the corners of his mouth were raised slightly, and he said to himself.

"It's a pity that I can't celebrate the New Year with you."

In fact, they just met, but only for more than a month, but he knew that the girl was the one he wanted to marry.

"I will propose to you when I return home."

While talking, he reluctantly put the photo back into the diary and put it in the drawer.

When he walked out of the officer's cabin, he saw the New Year's atmosphere in the corridor.

Although the Ming Dynasty used the Western calendar, they still maintained the tradition of celebrating the lunar year. From the Dragon Boat Festival to the New Year, the Western calendar is the Western calendar, and the tradition of the lunar calendar must continue to be adhered to.

According to the lunar calendar, today is New Year's Eve, and the "Nanhua" is very lively, everyone is busy there, and a piece of "Spring" written in red paper is posted on the door of all cabins.

The New Year, even for these sailors who are far away overseas, has a special meaning. In the kitchen, the sailors are making dumplings and preparing meals for the New Year's Eve dinner.

The New Year's dishes are extremely rich, including pork, beef and fish.On the way to the upper deck, Zhao Haitao nodded to the sailors from time to time. Today, on this special day, everyone does not need to have obvious class distinctions as in the past. When officers pass by, the sailors do not need to immediately Saluting by the aisle, all you need to do is to smile and say "Happy New Year".

When they came to the deck and the gangway, Zhao Haitao changed posts with the officer on duty. When receiving the post, he took a travel booklet. Only those whose names were listed in the booklet could leave the ship and go ashore.

Although Hiroshima is now under the control of the rebels, it has no impact at all on the officers and soldiers of the Ming Fleet.

In fact, when the rebellion just broke out, the fleet had already deployed accordingly.

For example, on the day when the rebellion happened, Shen Yaozu directly sent troops to take over Hiroshima's coastal defense batteries under the pretext of safety.When the rebels tried to take the fort, their actions were of course repulsed.

Then again?

The two sides negotiated, and Fleet Commander Shen Yaozu resolutely refused the Japanese plea to "hope the Ming Navy to return the fort".

"Without being able to determine the enemy and the enemy, it is absolutely impossible for us to hand over the fort that may affect the safety of the fleet to anyone!"

In this regard, Kawamura Junyi is more determined than Shen Yaozu-absolutely not to hand over the fort to the rebels.

There are not only cannons in the fort, but also thousands of rifles. Wouldn’t handing over the fort to the rebels mean strengthening the power of the rebels? Of course, the Tokyo side agrees with this, even in the eyes of some desperate high-level officials of the reform government. If the rebel army can clash with the Ming army, it would be God's blessing.

It's a pity that although most of the rebels are samurai, it doesn't mean they are fools. On the second day after the rebels took control of Hiroshima, they took the initiative to say that the urban area has returned to calm and everything has returned to normal.Of course, the Daming sailors can continue to go ashore to relax.

As the saying goes, people with high skills are bold.The same is true for the sailors of the daimyo. On the day when the market returned to calm, the sailors resumed their travels. As for safety issues, they did not worry at all.

It's not that they don't worry, but the fleet at the port gave them the courage to be confident. After all, when anyone faces them, they are not only facing a few sailors, but the entire fleet.

Why does "My Great Qing" kneel down habitually when they see foreigners.What they fear and worry about is never a foreigner, but the country behind the foreigner.

like now.What the Japanese are in awe of is definitely not the sailors who went ashore, but the Ming Dynasty behind these sailors, and of course, more importantly, the fleet behind them.

He has just completed the handover and started to check the personnel who are going to disembark, check their travel documents, and check their names. Every sailor who is about to disembark seems a little impatient. After all, the sailors on the "Nanhua" every five Geniuses have one chance to go ashore, and the number of personnel on board must maintain a certain standard, and 80% is the basic number required to maintain combat readiness.

"Happy New Year, Second Lieutenant Zhao."

Dong Hachiro smiled and handed over his travel pass.

Zhao Haitao asked curiously as he looked at the lieutenant officers behind Dongbalang.

"Happy New Year, Captain Dong, you are..."

"Isn't it the Chinese New Year? Take a few officers to go shopping and buy some local specialties to bring home."

After returning the travel pass to them, Zhao Haitao said.

"You have to be back by eight o'clock in the evening."

Tohachiro laughed.

"Don't worry, it will never waste time."

(End of this chapter)