Masanobu Ishihara said with a smile: "As early as the Asuka era, the ancestors of our Yamato nation rowed small boats, broke through the waves, and hunted whales on the vast sea. They have gone through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, and Edo eras, and have never stopped until today. This is why our Yamato culture is different from your Chinese culture, the ocean is the core of our culture, while the land is the core of your culture, one is enterprising and the other follows the rules."

Lin Yuan thought: "These are fallacies that are not worth refuting. I might as well take this opportunity to bring the topic to the Ainu people." So Lin Yuan said: "Our Chinese culture is willing to tolerate and absorb all kinds of cultures. , Just like an old saying in China: "The sea is tolerant to all rivers, and tolerance is great! And your Dahe culture is not tolerant enough."

Ishihara Masanobu was a little displeased when he heard it, and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Let me give you an example. The Hokkaido you ruled was not originally a place for the Yamato people. I don't know if I'm right?"

This sentence just hit Ishihara Masanobu's sore spot. The aborigines in Hokkaido are indeed not the Yamato people, but the Ainu people. Ishihara Masanobu said with a bitter face: "Yes, our Yamato people came to live on the island later. .”

Lin Yuan said: "The same is true for the Thousand Islands. The Ainu people are the aborigines here. After you come here, you will not let them carry out the original fishing and collection..."

Before Lin Yuan finished speaking, Ishihara Masanobu rushed to say: "Is there anything wrong with doing this? Didn't you also gather herdsmen in Mongolia and stop letting them live a nomadic life?"

Lin Yuan was not angry when he interrupted him, but said with a smile: "But we didn't force them to learn Chinese? We didn't force them to wear Han clothes, and we didn't force them to give up their original names and change their Chinese names."

These things were done by the Japanese to the Ainu people. Ishihara Masanobu felt ashamed when Lin Yuan said this, and he was tongue-tied and didn’t know what to say. At this time, Aota Ichiro hurriedly said: “Mr. I don’t know, we let them learn Japanese, change to kimono, and change to Japanese names for their own good!”

"Our Japanese merchants brought a lot of goods to them. They have learned Japanese to exchange trade; their original clothes are not warm, and it is better to change to kimonos; the change to Japanese names is also for the convenience of our management. Besides, we also provide for them. You can go to the places where the Ainu people live, and many things are still the same as before.”

Lin Yuan sneered in his heart: "You are really eloquent, you can really find an excuse for yourself! Didn't you say that you have preserved the culture of the Ainu people? Then I will give you a big problem." Thinking of this, Lin Yuan said: " Do you know the 'bear sacrifice' of the Ainu people?"

Aoki Ichiro said: "Of course we know that the 'Bear Festival' is the grandest festival of the Ainu people. Before the bear festival, the Ainu people will catch a cub, raise it, and then grow it up in the bear festival. Kill the bear, eat the bear's flesh, drink the bear's blood to sacrifice to all things."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Since this bear festival is their biggest festival, I don't know if you have reserved it for them. If not, why are you talking about preserving their culture?"

Aoki Ichiro and Ishihara Masanobu were embarrassed when they heard this, because this "bear festival" required a big bear, and the Japanese thought it was too troublesome and dangerous, so it was abolished long ago, but today Lin Yuan The conversation has come to this point, and Ishihara Masanobu has a very good face, so he bites the bullet and says, "Of course I keep it!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Well, as far as I know, the bear sacrifice will be held in ten days, and I will come to watch the ceremony then!"

Ishihara Masanobu nodded heavily, and said, "Okay, in ten days' time, we will hold the Bear Festival, and I will be watching the ceremony in person!"

Lin Yuan took a sip of the sake and thought: "It seems that my plan can be put on the day of the bear festival!" Lin Yuan made up his mind and said loudly: "Good wine!"

The three of them talked about some irrelevant gossip again, and Lin Yuan got up to leave. As soon as Lin Yuan left, Aoki Ichiro said to Ishihara Masanobu with a sad face: "Senior, are we really going to hold a bear sacrifice? If we want to raise a cub, where can we find it? Even if we find it, how can we raise it in ten days?"

Ishihara Masanobu said fiercely: "Find a circus from China and buy one! On the day of the bear festival, inform the domestic reporters, make a fuss about this matter, and talk about how friendly the Yamato and Ainu people are!"

No matter what the Japanese thought about Lin Yuan, he walked to the post house after he came out of the county governor's office. Zhanshou Island is not a big place, so the market is not very lively, and the people coming and going are sparse, so Lin Yuan walked. Suddenly, he saw a man standing behind a needle and thread stall. The man was holding needles and threads in his hands, as if he was picking them out. Lin Yuan looked funny and thought: "Such a big man is playing with needles and threads."

But soon Lin Yuan found that there was something wrong with this man, because his eyes were always looking forward, as if looking at the person in front, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "This man must be following someone? He is following Who are you following?" Lin Yuan looked forward while thinking, and saw a short black man sitting on a stall in front of him, Lin Yuan recognized at a glance that that man was Dahei.

Lin Yuan's heart moved, and he thought: "Could it be that the person this man is following is Dahei? Could it be that the Japanese think that I am not a good person and have started monitoring the people who came with me?" Thinking of this, Lin Yuan hurried to Dahei , patted him on the shoulder, motioning him and himself to go back to the post house.

Dahei hurriedly stood up and followed Lin Yuan, and when he returned to the post, with Zhang Yang as the interpreter, Lin Yuan asked, "What did you go out for?"

Dahei said: "I haven't been back for a long time, and I really want to taste the food from my hometown."

Lin Yuan asked, "You didn't try to win over your clansmen, did you?"

Da Hei shook his head again and again, Lin Yuan's heart was relieved, and he asked again: "Have you noticed that someone is following you?"

Dahei shook his head again, and Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "It seems like a mistake for me to let Dahei pull up the rebel team. This Dahei is too thick, and he can't do this kind of thing that pulls up the rebel army under the enemy's nose." Work meticulously, let Wan Qing handle this matter!" Lin Yuan told Dahei not to go out for a few days, and then returned to his room.

After Lin Yuan went back, he thought to himself: "Wan Qing is definitely coming, so I will let her come as a reporter. The Japanese side will definitely not doubt it. I also need a language expert, because Zhang Yang is a woman, and it is too uncomfortable to take her with me all the time." Convenience, we are operating under the nose of the enemy, and Wan Qing can't do it alone, so I need to send some helpers to Wan Qing, why should I bring these helpers?"

Just as Lin Yuan was thinking, he heard a burst of noisy footsteps outside, and then the door was knocked open with a "bang". Lin Yuan looked into the yard and saw a group of Japanese soldiers with live ammunition rushing in. The room was surrounded in an instant, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the room, and the bright bayonet on the gun was glowing with a faint blue light.

Lin Yuan had a dozen or so guards with him. When they saw the Japanese soldiers rushing in with guns, they also rushed over and pointed their guns at the Japanese soldiers. Lin Yuan stepped out and shouted at the Japanese soldiers. Said: "What's going on? Who asked you to come?"

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