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Chapter 743 International Safety Zone (Third Update, please subscribe)
"The journey of the Great Dao also means that the world is for the public, selecting the virtuous and capable, preaching faith and cultivating harmony... This is called Great Harmony."

This is the definition of Datong by the ancients, but what is the real Datong?

In fact, no matter how "Great Harmony" is defined, in essence, before "Great Harmony", there is "Tianxia".

The premise of great harmony in the world is unification and expansion.

Only through expansion can there be a world, and only with the world can "great harmony" be possible.In fact, this also expresses the "mission of the empire" in a relatively subtle way.

The mission and responsibility of the Empire is to expand.

Compared with the obscurity of the Eastern style, the Western world is more fruitless. The Roman Empire clamored that "the mission of the empire is to conquer the barbarians, in more land, and more slaves.".

And what about the British Empire?

"The real goal and direction is to expand British rule in the world."

Expansion has long been engraved in the blood and bone marrow of the empire, no matter what excuses and reasons it is, it essentially serves this purpose.

Just like Tokyo in 1875, Britain and the United States ostensibly joined forces to prevent Ming's expansion.

But in essence, they are serving the expansion of the United Kingdom, but they "advance" their long-term goals a little bit.

After all, in Britain's long-term plan, they want to occupy the entire East Asia.The most fundamental reason why it was not implemented was that the interests of the great powers were too different.

This is also the biggest problem in the international colonial game.The expansion of a country is always subject to other powers, and the cooperation between Britain and the United States has resolved their differences to some extent.However, there are always some surprises.

Originally, after the Anglo-American occupation of Tokyo, the problem should have been very simple—Tokyo was under their occupation.Then they can naturally carry out their policies as they wish.

In order to reduce differences as much as possible, they even intend to bring Russia into it. After all, Russia has always had ambitions for Hokkaido.

But now the problem has undergone some changes—for example, Daming, such as the "Tokyo Safety Zone" established by Daming.

When the British and American sailors went ashore, relying on less than [-] marines and staff of the embassy to take refuge in overseas Chinese, the Ming Dynasty successfully designated half of Tokyo from the "Imperial Palace" as the center to the east of Edogawa. "Safe place".

A crossroads, a stake.

This is the boundary between the safe zone and the occupied zone. There is a sign on the stake - "Special Protected Area of ​​the Ming Empire", and a Ming flag is hung on the flagpole on the stake.

Behind the wooden pile, several soldiers were carrying old Schneider breech-loading rifles on their backs. They were not tall, and they didn't even have military uniforms. They only had a Ming-style military cap on their heads in casual clothes. At most, it is the white cloth armband on the sleeve that reads "Volunteer Squad".

The so-called "Volunteer Team" is a "security team" composed of temporarily recruited overseas Chinese from Daming and a small number of locals. The officers are from Daming. After the fall of Tokyo, Daming relied on dozens of embassy guards and Japanese police officers recruited temporarily. , Nobility, established this safe zone.

Compared with the daily violence in the occupied area, a safe zone with good law and order is undoubtedly a paradise. Almost every day, citizens in the occupied area enter this safe zone.

However, it is not easy to enter the safe zone from the occupied area. Along the way, you may encounter Western soldiers or "maintenance associations" at any time-the maintenance association is a security team composed of scum recruited by Westerners. There are both policemen and gangsters. member.

Takahashi Shiqing led dozens of students and looked around nervously. On the other side of the intersection, those Western soldiers who looked like beasts stood there. Their eyes seemed to be fixed on the women in the team. Every day, women are dragged away by Western soldiers and raped in barracks or taverns.

When those Western soldiers saw young girls, they always whistled from time to time and spoke extremely obscene words in English. For their molestation, the women with pot ashes on their faces bowed their heads in silence.

"It's daytime now, they don't dare to mess around..."

Shiki Takahashi said to the students.

"After entering the safe zone for a while, it will be safe."

In fact, as early as the day Tokyo was occupied, like many people, he wanted to escape to the safe zone after he knew the safe zone, but who would dare to go there in the face of those wolf-like Westerners?There were thousands of Japanese who were shot, beheaded, and ravaged in those days.

Although law and order seems to have been restored now, atrocities by the coalition forces still occur from time to time, especially at night. There are even rumors that even Emperor Meiji's concubine was brutally ravaged by Westerners.

Japan!
The country is really extinct!

Just when Takahashi Shiqing sighed, suddenly, five or six members of the Maintenance Committee wearing white armbands at the intersection pointed at them and shouted.

"You all stop!"

There were two Western soldiers behind them, and they stared lewdly at the women in the crowd, and all the women hid behind the boys in fright.

"What's the matter with you!"

Takahashi Shiqing shouted loudly.

what?
The members of the maintenance club with sticks in their hands were all stunned. What was he talking about?
Born in a samurai family, he even grew up as an adopted son. Although his family was poor, he learned Nanjing dialect from his adoptive mother.

Although not fluent, it sounds like the same thing.

"What do you want to do!"

Takahashi Shikiyo, who was wearing a suit, asked directly, and at the same time spoke in "stiff" Japanese.

"I'm from Daming, why do you stop me and my students!"

Afterwards, Takahashi yelled at the two Westerners clearly and loudly in English.

"You are sailors from that country, I will report this to the consulate!"

He is actually a native of Ming Dynasty who can speak both Japanese and English.

The person who maintained the meeting immediately bowed and apologized.

"I'm very sorry, Your Excellency. An American sailor was attacked and killed last night, and the suspects are now being searched for."

suspect?
For the evil you have done, every Tokyoite may be a suspect!

"They are my students, and they are going to study in Daming, how could they be suspects!"

Takahashi Shiqing yelled without timidity.

"I will definitely report this matter to the consul!"

Originally, he wanted to stop this group of people to extort some money, and by the way, he would get two more women to honor the foreign adults, so he couldn't help but bow down to accompany the ceremony.

Master Yang is a master, and Master Ming is also a master!
Don't say that they can't provoke them, even the British can't afford to provoke them!Who doesn't know, the British have been protesting for a long time.

Finally, all the way to the entrance of the safety zone without any risk, Gao Qiao Shiqing saw two entrances, one was the Japanese entrance with a sea of ​​people, and the other was the "expatriate entrance" where no one entered at all.

"It would be great if it was from Daming."

Yamamoto Daji, who followed Takahashi Shikiyoshi, said with a sigh.

"Haha, if you can speak Nanjing dialect and write Chinese characters, that's no problem. Westerners can't tell our identities."

After all, he looked at the teacher and said.

"Teacher, after entering the safe zone, you must teach us Nanjing dialect. If you want to study in the West, you might as well go to Daming!"

"That's right, Daming, that's the heaven that can't save us!"

While the students were talking about each other, Takahashi Shiqing looked around in a daze.

It was under Daming's protection that Tokyo had such a paradise during the war.What kind of hell would Tokyo be without the protection of daimyo?

In the occupied area outside the safe zone, Takahashi Shiqing once witnessed the atrocities committed by those Westerners.For him who has lived in the United States, he certainly knows how Americans treat those Indians.

If Japan falls to the hands of the United States and becomes their colony, then the Japanese will become another group of Indians who are slaughtered and bullied by the Americans...

(End of this chapter)