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Chapter 745 Daming Who Picked Peaches (First update, please subscribe)
The happiness of a few people is often based on the pain of the majority.

Perhaps in this special period, perhaps a very small number of businessmen will strive for huge profits from it.But what about most people?

They said that the pain of life they endured was indescribable, just like how hundreds of thousands of Tokyo people lived in an environment of lack of clothing, food and heating fuel in this snowy and cold winter, and more People can only sleep on the streets.

Of course, this is only for Tokyoites.

When countless people in Tokyo can only sleep on the streets in the snowstorm, the embassy district is a different world, where neither crowded refugees nor beggars can be seen.Foreigners from all over the world still enjoy the same life as in the past.

"Millions of people are disarmed, and none of them is a man!"

Standing by the window of the club, looking at the Japanese shacks made of cardboard and rags on the other street, Zhao Teng, the Ming consul, said with a bit of admiration.

"A city with a population of nearly one million is actually conquered by more than [-] sailors. This is simply... a joke!"

Is this joke funny?
The Japanese can't laugh, even in Tokyo now, since the collapse of the shogunate, a large number of feudal lords and their entourages have left Edo, and the total population here has been reduced from 130 million to half!
But there are still [-] to [-] people, but what did these Tokyoites do when they faced the invasion?
Nothing!

Of course, they are in no hurry to do anything.

"Hey, the country doesn't know its people, and the people don't know its country. The reform government has long since lost its heart! In the past few years, the reform government has not only betrayed the gentry they once seized power, but also made the peasants bear the burden. With a land tax that is several times heavier than in the past, how can anyone defend such a government when it is invaded?"

Standing beside the consul, Li Chenglin said with a sigh.

"But now we support the reform government, it is really worth the loss!"

"Who said that we are going to support the new government? What we support will always be our interests. In diplomacy, the interests of the country are the most important."

Zhao Teng said with a smile,

"Alright, Counselor Li, let's see if they're here!"

A moment later, in the conference room on the second floor of the club, Zhao Teng directly rejected their proposal yesterday in the face of the two ministers, Bacharley and Delang.

"Very complaining, we don't see any reason to cancel the safe zone, as far as we have information, just yesterday more than 1300 Japanese were injured by British and American sailors. Men were killed and women were raped. Rich People were robbed, if we cancel the safe zone now, we can guarantee the safety of civilians.”

At this extremely special time, Zhao Teng still stands on the position of protecting the Japanese, which is a humanitarian concern.

"There are hundreds of thousands of civilians living here. Based on humanitarianism, we have the responsibility to protect their safety. This is the fundamental reason why we set up a safe zone. If..."

Looking at the two ministers in front of him, Zhao Teng said directly.

"If you promise to withdraw your troops from Tokyo, return the occupied area to the people of Tokyo, and let the people here enjoy peace again, I guarantee that we will also return the safe area to the people of Tokyo at the same time. But now? My Conscience prevents me from making this kind of decision, because I can't face the people here, what kind of bad luck might the people living here suffer after the safe zone is abolished? I don't know, but I understand, they need Da Ming's shelter."

Zhao Teng didn't talk about interests at all. The reason why he set up the safe zone was for humanitarian reasons, just to protect the people.

Of course, he didn't deny that after setting up the safe zone, he personally got extremely rich rewards through some operations, but... everyone is like this, okay!

The safe zone...is just business.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, you understand!

"Mr. Consul, there is no international precedent for setting up a safe zone. We can promise to protect the personal safety of the Ming Dynasty nationals, but the current situation must end. Now Tokyo is under our control, Daming! Daming is here again. What happened in this incident?"

Bacharley said extremely dissatisfied.

"Safe Zone, how can you take advantage of the collapse of the Japanese government to usurp the fruits of our victory?"

In fact, when Daming set up a safety zone, the reason why Bacharley chose to accept it was because he didn't think it was necessary to conflict with Daming.

However, according to London's instructions, the existence of the safe zone has seriously affected the interests of the United Kingdom and the United States.After all, because of the existence of the safe zone, they cannot unscrupulously influence Japan's political situation according to their will.

Because everyone has seen that there are still Ming forces in Tokyo, under such circumstances, how could those people fall to Japan?
"The fruit of victory? This means that you are going to annex Japan!"

Zhao Teng said directly.

"Gentlemen, I can tell you very clearly that Ming Dynasty will never accept any country to occupy Japan. After all, for Japan, especially the people of Japan, we have responsibilities that you will never understand, just like we protect the people here now. , it’s like a father’s duty to his children.”

After uttering these words righteously, what Zhao Teng didn't know was that only a few days later, his words spread in Japan, and I don't know how many Japanese people were moved by his words.

In this special period, who can stand by Japan's side to protect Japan?
No!

No country will protect Japan, only one country will stand up, and that is Daming.

They used dozens of soldiers to protect hundreds of thousands of Tokyo citizens. Facing the threat of British and American ghosts and animals, their consuls resolutely chose to protect them!
How could this not be inspiring?

Facing such a straightforward answer, Pacharley said directly.

"Japan, what does Japan have to do with you? Japan is an independent country. What responsibility do you have to bear Japan? Japan..."

"Daming is the country of Japan's parents! Mr. Bacharley, I hope you will learn about the history of East Asia."

"History is just history and has no practical significance!"

DeLong retorted directly.

"Mr. Consul, what we are going to discuss now is the future of Japan. Of course, we do not rule out that you have reasons to participate, but you must understand that the current Japan should be negotiated by us, not by Ming alone. decided!"

In fact, before the negotiations started, they had already received instructions from home—on the Japanese issue, they could conduct some negotiations with Ming, and while guaranteeing their special interests, they also guaranteed their own interests. This is also the purpose of the trilateral talks root cause.

In other words, they do not want to have a direct conflict with Ming Dynasty on the issue of Japan, they prefer to solve the problem through negotiations.

"Some issues are not possible to negotiate at all, after all..."

Just as Zhao Teng's words fell, there were bursts of excited shouts from outside.

"Da Ming Class!"

"Emperor Ming Dynasty class field!"

(End of this chapter)