I'm really not doing business

Chapter 618: Human power can conquer nature, but even if nature forsakes us, man will not.

The emperor knew very well that there was no problem with the Jiekuyuan, and Zhang Juzheng was also very clear about it, but the people of the Ming Dynasty were not aware of it. Zhang Juzheng requested an investigation in the name of the cabinet. The reason was very simple, which was to prevent the spread of conspiracy theories and to give a final characterization of the matter.

The critical illness of the Ming Emperor this time was a huge crisis. For the Ming Dynasty, which had just stood up from the quagmire and was the center of the new policy's centripetal force, once His Majesty had problems, the Ming Dynasty would immediately slide into an unknown abyss. The imperial system had always been like this, and its rise and fall was closely related to the emperor's personal relationship.

The Ming Dynasty has survived a catastrophe. If there is a final official conclusion to this catastrophe, conspiracy theories will no longer have a breeding ground, which will be good for everyone.

Including His Majesty himself.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty underestimated his current influence.

A very simple and straightforward example. There is a consensus on the grassland now, that is, you can oppose the Han Dynasty, but you cannot oppose Your Majesty. There are still widespread conflicts between the northern barbarians and the Han people on the grassland, mainly because of the contradictions in means of production. Land, pastures, alkali ponds, mines, etc. are all triggers for the outbreak of conflicts.

But people on the grassland cannot oppose Your Majesty, because the current stable life is brought about by Your Majesty and your heavenly soldiers and generals. This is the greatest consensus among Hou Yu Zhao and all the king's subjects. It only takes two or three generations, and as long as the means of production are distributed, we will become one and the same, and we will no longer be able to distinguish each other.

The reason why Zhang Juzheng wanted to conduct an investigation was to prevent the breeding of conspiracy theories. Due to the existence of the assassination case, many people in the society believed that Wang Chonggu and his nephew Zhang Siwei were the ones who assassinated the king, so an investigation was needed and a conclusion was needed.

Soon, after several rounds of review, the result of the review by the Jie Ku Yuan was that there was no problem.

Your Majesty has symptoms of chills and a cold because your body is too strong, which leads to an immune response, that is, an adverse reaction of the human body to foreign objects or drugs entering the body, and it is a super acute rejection. Your Majesty's rejection reaction can be roughly explained as the immune system searching for the enemy in the void, and Your Majesty the Emperor himself is very strong, which leads to this fever.

Your Majesty had three stitches on your transverse tooth, and it was the thread from these three stitches that caused this phenomenon. Most people would only experience local inflammation or pain.

The chief doctors in the dissection hospital were very curious about how the emperor survived. Generally speaking, if a patient has a fever after surgery, the patient can be covered with a white cloth and prepared for the funeral. But Li Shizhen could only say, "Just wait for death. There is no hope."

Of course, although the chief doctors of the Dissection Bureau felt that His Majesty the Emperor was very special, no chief doctor said that they wanted to dissect the emperor.

There were no problems during the emperor's surgery at the Jieku Hospital, but Zhang Juzheng discovered during his investigation that the Jieku Hospital was operating in violation of regulations. The Jieku Hospital had quite a lot of rules and regulations, and the management of drugs was very strict. Analgesics even required three people to supervise each other before they could be withdrawn. Many of the rules and regulations were specifically established because the Jieku Hospital treated the emperor.

The violations of the Jiekuyuan were mainly concentrated on experiments. The Jiekuyuan had a clear ban that no chief medical officer could use himself as a sample for drug testing. His Majesty the Emperor had painstakingly collected so many beasts that could not even be called anthropomorphic animals, and sent them to the Jiekuyuan to let the chief medical officers conduct experiments.

However, it was common for the chief physicians of the Jieku Hospital to test drugs on themselves. For example, Pang Xian, a chief physician who had already left the observation period, implanted cowpox on himself after repeated verification and gained immunity to smallpox.

"So, sir, do you want to punish the great doctors who are kind-hearted? They are responsible for their own experiments, which is why they test the drugs on themselves. How can you bear to punish them?" Zhu Yijun spread his hands. Zhang Juzheng demanded that such behavior be punished, but the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty disagreed.

“Your Majesty, every great medical officer walked into the Dissection Institute under the strange gazes of the crowd to study the infinite principles of biology. Each of them is very valuable, and the specimens are non-human beasts. Every soldier who died in Nagasaki was a loyal and righteous man of the Ming Dynasty. No matter how many Japanese pirates die, it cannot offset the sin of the Japanese. The Oda family, the Mori family, and the entire Japanese country will pay the price!” Zhang Juzheng was very stubborn and still wanted to deal with it according to the rules. This was a punishment, but also a protection.

Moreover, Zhang Juzheng used the Battle of Nagasaki as an example to convince His Majesty that the punishment was intended to eradicate this kind of trend.

"Some of the medicines and treatments developed by the chief medical officers need to be used on me and my royal relatives, such as caesarean section, old brine, and allicin. If there are any problems, my family will be implicated. Will they die in the drug test, or will they kill me and my whole family be buried with me? This is an obvious choice for the chief medical officers."

"Sir, if the punishment is too light, it will be useless. If the punishment is too heavy, I will not be happy." Zhu Yijun still insisted on not punishing him, which involved the issue of the severity of the punishment.

If the penalty is too light, the ban will be meaningless, which means that one can gain the right to violate the ban by paying a negligible price.

For example, some traitors will definitely continue to test the law as long as they are alive. Moreover, with the traitors around, the ban cannot be enforced. People are not worried about scarcity but inequality. If this traitor is not dead, why should he punish us?
Wang Chonggu always said: Killing people is really useful, because killing people is a clear punishment, it is a clear prohibition that cannot be violated, it makes the national law more solemn, and being a compromise can only bring temporary peace, and then the situation will get worse and worse.

"Then I ask Your Majesty to issue an order to reiterate that everyone in the Jiekuyuan must follow the rules. If they break the rules again, they will be expelled from the Jiekuyuan." Zhang Juzheng said helplessly, "Your Majesty, there is no lack of rules in the world. What is lacking is the way to make people abide by them."

Why make regulations if they are not enforced?

Zhang Juzheng had no choice. If the emperor did not agree, he could not force it through. He could only do as the emperor said. He had to settle for the next best thing. If he could get an imperial edict with strict regulations, that would be enough.

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng, the emperor and his minister, did not always agree with each other. Disagreements were the norm, and Zhu Yijun often won.

"Will my decree be useful?" Zhu Yijun was willing to issue the decree, but he didn't know whether it would be useful or not.

"Your Majesty, issuing an edict is really useful." Zhang Juzheng said with certainty. The edict is really useful. Your Majesty's credibility and prestige are all there. If the edict is strict, the chief medical officers will not violate the regulations openly.

The Jiekuyuan was not tolerated by the Ming Dynasty's etiquette and laws. "One's body and hair are given by one's parents," is a Confucian teaching. It can be said that the Jiekuyuan existed entirely under the emperor's protection, so of course the emperor's words had effect.

"What are the results of the cowpox test?" Zhu Yijun signaled the eunuch in the inner study to draft an edict. After reading it, he would seal it and then talk about the cultivation and promotion of cowpox.

Zhang Juzheng said excitedly, "I learned from the Jiekuyuan that smallpox is classified into several types. Even a mild case has a mortality rate of over 30%. If it is severe or bleeding, the patient will die! Take Wulizhai in Datong, Shanxi as an example. In the eighth year of the Wanli reign, smallpox broke out. The city gates were finally closed. When they were reopened, only people were left out of ."

"If cowpox is really effective, it will save countless lives. It would be like the reincarnation of Saint Qi!"

"How can one be judged for merit?" As a latecomer, Zhu Yijun could not empathize with the horror of smallpox and the harm it caused, because he had not experienced it. In later times, there was no smallpox, and even the cowpox vaccination was no longer used. The vaccine planted on his shoulder was BCG, not cowpox.

Zhu Yijun could not understand people's fear of smallpox at that time, but Zhu Yijun had experienced life and death, and he knew that death was really scary and there was great terror between life and death.

"First-class Merit Award!" Zhang Juzheng said very accurately. This year's Technological Progress Award has already been won, and it won't even be awarded until the New Year.

Pang Xian won a first-class merit medal on behalf of the Jie Ku Yuan.

“Your Majesty, in places where smallpox breaks out, we have no choice but to close the city gates. Everyone, regardless of age or gender, must be locked up in the city until everyone is infected, becomes ill, and dies. This is equivalent to... the court has abandoned the people. Now we finally have a solution.” Zhang Juzheng clenched his fists and said forcefully.

It took three years from closing the city gates to opening them again, three years of the great epidemic.

Wherever smallpox broke out, there was death. Any city that experienced smallpox would be abandoned for a period of time, which led to various legends of being abandoned by God.

Zhu Yijun's agronomy teacher, Xu Zhenming's teacher, Ma Yilong, once said that human power can conquer nature.

God has abandoned the people here, but the court has not abandoned them.

God forsakes but man never forsakes!
The cowpox method was really effective. When the cowpox method was widely used, His Majesty immediately announced that he was the reincarnation of the Great Emperor Zhenwu, and he also had a large number of supporters who firmly believed in him.

War and plague are the biggest killers of human beings. They are equally matched and often complement each other.

"Pang Xian will eventually go down in history as the first person to vaccinate against smallpox." Zhu Yijun approved Zhang Juzheng's memorial requesting collective credit for the Jiekuyuan.

Sanniang had not left yet. She had been waiting for Pang Xian to finish the observation period so that she could understand the results of this method with Pang Xian. The grassland was also severely affected. Smallpox had been called Luchuang since the Han Dynasty, which meant it was a vicious disease brought from the northern Huns.

Smallpox was rampant on the grassland.

There are four types of smallpox vaccination to prevent and treat smallpox: the smallpox coat method, the smallpox plasma method, the dry seedling method, and the water seedling method. Each of them uses the smallpox virus and is extremely dangerous. The cowpox method, on the other hand, almost does not cause smallpox and is not fatal. This is the magic of the cowpox method.

"Then let's give it a try first, starting from the capital and then expanding it." Zhu Yijun decided to conduct a pilot project first, starting from the capital.

During the Chongzhen period, due to unprecedented lack of rain and drought, mosquitoes and rats became rampant, and an era of great plague with Shanxi as the source arrived. Along with the drought, people had to migrate, and the plague was brought to the North China Plain. This plague was both a major plague and a smallpox outbreak, because it was called the lumps plague at the time.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, five or six out of ten small households along the street were closed down, and there was no trace of children in the neighborhood. There were more than 200,000 people with or without coffins in the nine gates.

A major plague broke out in the capital city. Five or six out of ten households had to collect and bury corpses. There was no one to be seen in any room on the streets. The number of dead bodies, both with coffins and without, exceeded 200,000 if counted at the Nine Gates alone.

From August to December of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the plague broke out again. According to the most conservative estimate, the scale of the plague was comparable to that of the 14th year of Chongzhen. When Li Zicheng captured the capital of the Ming Empire, he did not encounter any resistance, because he was facing a dead city with "bones on the road, ghosts and humans mixed together, and people dared not walk at dusk."

Wang Xiyuan ran to the emperor to complain, saying that he was suffering and tired and wanted to retire because he could not bear it anymore. It was because the responsibility on his shoulders was really heavy. At that time, the population density of the capital was relatively low, and Shen Yiquan's term of office was extremely short. Wang Xiyuan really took on a hot potato. With the increasing population, epidemic prevention was also a huge test.

Wang Xiyuan is an administrative officer and has to deal with these matters. If he fails to handle them well, he will be held responsible.

"Xunzi's Wangzhi says: 'When the grass and trees are flourishing and growing, axes and saws should not be used in the mountains and forests, so as not to kill them and stop their growth. This is the rule of the sage kings. Guanzi says: 'When the mountains and swamps are ripe, the people will not be careless.'"

"Your Majesty, the capital has become visibly greener in the past two years." Zhang Juzheng talked about environmental protection and mentioned the visible changes in the capital.

In his book "The Kingly System", Xunzi mentioned that when the grass and trees are flourishing, the axe should not be brought into the mountains and forests. This is the system of the sage king that follows nature. Mountains and swamps should be properly developed at the appropriate time. Cutting down the grass and trees while they are growing is against nature.

The law is naturally a common understanding recognized by all the pre-Qin philosophers. The greening of the capital is the biggest change Zhang Juzheng has noticed in recent years. From a gray area to the current greenery, even the houses of the people in the suburbs have trees planted, and there are trees in front of every household. In addition, Shuntian Prefecture has vigorously planted trees to respond to the attacks of the lowly Confucian scholars on the Xishan Coal Bureau, and finally achieved this result.

Human activities have a huge impact on the environment. Ever since the Xishan Coal Bureau began to supply coal at a stable price of six cents per pound, the woodcutters and wood carriers did not disappear. They no longer went into the mountains, but gathered near the coal market. The wealthy families in Xitucheng were beheaded for making clamorous remarks about wind power when the emperor was critically ill. The coal market was now under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry.

Nature recovered quickly. Birds carried seeds from afar to everywhere. With the nourishment of rain, the seeds took root and sprouted. They gradually grew and blossomed without being disturbed. Forests and grasslands appeared in the mountains and fields, and there were more trees in the fields. When the wind blew, the branches and leaves danced, and the shadows of the trees were swaying.

Zhang Juzheng said with a sigh, "Perhaps this is the will of heaven. In the past three to five years, the capital has been blessed with good weather and good harvests. Snow in winter freezes locusts to death, and rain in spring nourishes all things. I have lived in the capital for 30 years, and these three to five years have been the years with the least drought."

Shouldn't it be natural for it to snow in winter and rain in spring? Actually, it's not.

From the 36th year of Jiajing to the 45th year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing went to the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests six times to pray for snow, but only succeeded once. During the six years of Longqing, Emperor Longqing prayed for snow three times and rain once.
Until the twelfth year of the Wanli reign, only on the fifth day of the twelfth month of the seventh year of the Wanli reign did the emperor go to the Temple of Heaven to perform the Great Rain Ceremony, conduct self-reflection and pray for snow. Less than three days after the Hongying Altar began to practice self-reflection, heavy snow fell.

If it doesn't snow or rain, it will be a huge challenge to the imperial power and the court. The emperor may be abandoned by God, and the court needs to organize disaster relief and reduce taxes.

"Hmph! This is a good time for the weather. I heard that the wealthy families in our Xitu City have built 1,200 villas along Baiwang Mountain, with mountains, water and gardens. What are they called? Bainiao Chaofeng House, Si Ma Tuoche House. They are building big houses right under my nose! It has become a place where famous scholars linger! Why didn't they build big houses when Baiwang Mountain was bare!" Zhu Yijun got angry when he talked about this.

With the recovery of nature, the vegetation on Baiwang Mountain (near the Summer Palace) recovered very quickly. Together with the water diversion canal, the wealthy families in Xitucheng built an artificial lake comparable to the scale of Longchi. They constructed 1,200 villas along the lake, each with its own name. The most expensive one, "Bainiao Chaofeng", has only eight buildings.

They did not dare to build nine buildings, mainly because they were afraid of usurping the throne and having it confiscated by the emperor, so they built eight buildings.

There is a long street at the foot of Baiwang Mountain, where rare items are sold, even red-haired and golden-haired foreign girls. It is a place of luxury and enjoyment, so it is no surprise that these famous scholars linger here.

"These eight houses have been sold out before they are even completed?! I want to see who is so rich! Has he paid the taxes?" Zhu Yijun slammed the table.

"Feng Daban, please report to the Ministry of Revenue. Courtyards with more than three entrances and exits will be subject to luxury tax, starting at 30%. For villas like these with nine birds paying homage to the phoenix, 100% tax will be imposed. Aren't they rich? If they don't pay the tax, they won't be allowed to live there!"

Zhu Yijun included large villas that clearly exceeded living needs in the scope of luxury tax collection. It would be unjust if this thing was not collected! Want to live in a large villa without paying taxes? If you can't afford the tax, don't buy it!
"I obey your order." Zhang Juzheng did not expect that the luxury tax list that had just been established would be updated so quickly, and a new item would be added.

This tax should be collected. The world is so big. If you don't want to pay it, you can build a big house overseas. No one will care about you in those places, and the court will even support you.

Zhu Yijun's plan to award Pang Xian a first-class merit medal fell through because Pang Xian had already agreed to go to Guihua City, the capital's pilot project, where with great medical officers such as Chen Shigong, Li Shizhen, and Wu Lian, there would be no omissions or problems.

Pang Xian had to go to the grassland in person to promote the smallpox vaccination method.

Pang Xian would return to Beijing before the New Year and would not delay His Majesty's awarding of the prize. Pang Xian's refusal was unanimously agreed upon by the chief medical officers. His reasons were very sufficient. The main reason was that there had been no large-scale application and no actual practice. Pang Xian was not sure about the specific effect of the cowpox method. It would not be too late to accept the award after the pilot project.

It was the consensus of the great medical officers not to leave any handle for the lowly scholars.

Zhu Yijun's plan to hold a mid-year awards ceremony fell through.

The end of May is the annual sales inspection, and all the Ming Dynasty liquor will gather in the capital. Compared with the haste of last year, this year's preparations are very sufficient. This time, the world's best liquor with the emperor's personal calligraphy will be sold. The price has increased from 50,000 silver coins to 100,000 silver coins, but people are still flocking to it.

Before the Kaigu inspection began, the Japanese envoy, former Minister of Civil Affairs Shinichi Kanda, arrived in the capital.

Along the way, Shinichi Kanda kept his mouth shut, he was so shocked that he could not say anything. Shinichi Kanda was a die-hard resistance faction in Japan, and his resistance was blatant. He wanted to use privately minted coins to counter imported money, and refused the Ming Dynasty's use of treasure notes to take it away at will.

Then he was dismissed because of the Ming Dynasty's request.

This time, Kanda Shinichi arrived in the capital on behalf of Oda Nobunaga.

"To help with military expenses, 4 million taels of silver, with an annual interest rate of 300%, million taels of silver to be paid within a year and repaid in years? Impossible, absolutely impossible! Where does Japan get so much silver!" Kanda Shinichi had just arrived at Shiyi Pavilion when he received a note from the Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty.

"After the Battle of Nagasaki, the Japanese navy was completely destroyed in Nagasaki. Two of the ironclad ships that you are so proud of will be towed to Tianjin in fifteen days. Shuri Marquis Chen Lin is respectful and will tow these two ships to the Ming Dynasty, intending to dismantle them and use them as decorations for Your Majesty." Shaoqing Gao Qiyu said with a smile on his face.

Chen Lin really planned so. This kind of ship would not be used by the Ming Dynasty. Its only use was to serve as a figurine for His Majesty. This time it was not a model, but the real thing, which was disassembled into parts and placed in the Taiye Lake for His Majesty to enjoy.

Your Majesty cannot see the victory, so we give you two ironclad ships so that you can feel involved.

"Why doesn't the Ming Dynasty go and rob!" Kanda Shinichi shouted angrily.

"Isn't this just robbing? You don't think that I am here to argue with you, do you? What you can't get on the battlefield, you can't get at the negotiation table! Of course Oda Nobunaga can refuse to give it, it doesn't matter, the Ming navy will get it by themselves. Now is the time to make a decision, should we let the Ming navy rob it by themselves, or should Oda Nobunaga give it to us?" Gao Qiyu was calm and not angry, but every word he said was like a sharp blade stabbing Kanda Shinichi's heart.

The Ming Dynasty could get it on its own, which is why it dared to demand such a huge amount of war reparations.

"The Ming Dynasty is not like this. How can it be so full of the smell of money as a noble country?" Kanda Shinichi was stunned for a long time, then sat down and said, "It was Kuki Yoshitaka who acted on his own. It was the navy that acted alone. It was not the general's fault. Why should the general bear the responsibility for the mistake?"

"You are kidding me. The navy went alone. Kuki Yoshitaka was so bold that he dared to resist Oda Nobunaga?" Gao Qiyu slammed the table and shouted, "Do you think the Ming Dynasty is stupid? Who gave him the cannons? Who gave him the gunpowder? Who gave him the pirates in the navy? It was all Oda Nobunaga! The damn navy went alone!"

"The war reparations of 15 million silver silver cannot be paid by Oda Nobunaga himself. And the Mori family, they sneaked ashore and sneaked away, and they can just pretend nothing happened? What is the Ming Dynasty? Prostitutes in a brothel, can come in and out as they please?! Don't you want to pay?"

What Gao Qiyu said was very unpleasant. He was the first special envoy to the West. These foreigners were all like this. They couldn't understand reason.

What about propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame? Gao Qiyu only wants money!
He has no hope of promotion. While Zhang Juzheng is here, he cannot be promoted. Now that Zhang Juzheng is gone, he cannot be promoted either. Your Majesty will definitely not promote him, because that would become a breakthrough for counterattack.

At the negotiating table, people use their words to fight for the interests of the Ming Dynasty. After winning a battle on the front line, they must expand the results. The negotiating table is also a battlefield!
"Fifteen million taels of silver is really too much. Japan does not have that kind of financial resources." Kanda Shinichi said in pain. If they do not agree, the Ming Dynasty will launch a full-scale attack on Japan. Something needs to be done to appease the Ming Dynasty's anger.

He thought the Silver Sulfur Treaty was harsh enough, but he didn't expect that an even harsher treaty was waiting for him to sign.

"Silver, if you squeeze it, you'll always get it." Gao Qiyu said calmly, "What you don't know is that His Majesty the Emperor rejected the silver-sulfur treaty proposed by the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office. The Nagasaki Governor-General's Office is closer to Japan, and His Majesty is worried about the safety of the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office. But the Japanese are courting their own destruction and insist on attacking the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office."

"It's your own fault and you won't survive."

This is equivalent to digging a piece of flesh out of His Majesty's heart. His Majesty's attitude towards the Silver Sulfur Treaty is cautious. He asked Nagasaki to study it further and not be so harsh to prevent the dog from jumping over the wall in desperation. As a result, before a conclusion was reached, the dog had already jumped over the wall in desperation.

The emperor's face has been damaged. How much silver is needed to restore His Majesty's dignity?

"And Tsushima Island." Gao Qiyu reminded Kanda Shinichi that what the Ming Dynasty wanted was not only silver, but also everything on Tsushima Island, including barracks, military equipment, factories, ports, Japanese, and all objects. They should be ceded to the Ming Dynasty as a permanent rule.

Tsushima Island is a very important island. It is the only way for Japan to attack Korea. With the opening of the sea, Japan's wolf ambitions have become obvious. The Ming Dynasty naturally has to take precautions. If Japan wants to steal China's power, it must first take Korea.

Then Tsushima Island and the strait controlled by Tsushima Island are the strategic locations that the Ming Dynasty must definitely control.

"Tsushima Island is the foundation of the Silver-Sulphur Treaty. Without Tsushima Island, Japanese ships can still reach Korea and then use Korea as a pretext for trade. Don't think the court doesn't know. Again, it doesn't have to be given, and the Ming can take it themselves." Gao Qiyu looked at Kanda Shinichi and said, "For Oda Nobunaga, it doesn't matter."

"Anyway, Tsushima Island belongs to the Mori family, not the Oda family."

The encirclement formed by Jeju Island, Nagasaki Governor-General's Office, and Ryukyu will lock Japan firmly on the island, making it unable to move.

Did Oda Nobunaga not care? Oda Nobunaga claimed to be the ruler of the world. As the shogun of Wa, the result of signing this treaty was that he would be nailed to the pillar of shame forever. It would be better for him to die in the hands of an assassin.

Oda Nobunaga had to bear all these infamy.

"The general will not agree!" Kanda Shinichi said in pain.

"Just right." Gao Qiyu stood up and said with a smile, "If you ask me, what's there to talk about? The Ming Dynasty sympathized with the assassination of Oda Nobunaga, so they specially established the Nagasaki Xingdusi and the Osaka Bay Defense Thousand Households. He was ungrateful and even plotted a rebellion, killing Oda Nobunaga and her daughter as sacrifices and launching a full-scale attack. What's there to talk about!"

Gao Qiyu flicked his sleeves and made a gesture to leave. His attitude was extremely arrogant, as if he had no intention of negotiating at all. But in fact, Gao Qiyu knew very well that the time had not come yet. Hu Yuan had hastily attacked Japan and was defeated by the "divine wind" because he did not understand the hydrology. Moreover, there were too many Japanese now, so he needed to wait a little longer.

"Wait a minute!" Shinichi Kanda stretched out his hand and said with embarrassment: "Wait a minute, we can talk again."

Gao Qiyu, with his back to Kanda Shinichi, smiled.

The weaker Japan is, the easier it will be to destroy it.

(End of this chapter)