Episode 107: Queen of the Qing Dynasty

If it was Zheng Yuxiang, the first thought would be: the secretary married the military officer! This is the military officer’s home!... Otherwise, how could the military officer in the embassy be here too? No secretary would live in such a good house.

But this is the fourteenth princess. Her head doesn't have so much romantic gossip, she pretends to be a conspiracy of power and tricks.

Therefore, the first thought of the Fourteenth Princess was: Although Sako Asakura was just a small embassy secretary, she was an important piece. Because she was the only one who was both her classmate and now worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she naturally sent her to Nanjing and naturally had to prepare a decent big house for her - so that she would come to "visit" her often in the future!

In fact, the 14th Princess suspected that although Sako Asakura was a staff member of the Embassy in the Ming Dynasty, she might not be sure whether she could speak Chinese or not.

Needless to say, the protagonist tonight is not himself and his old classmate Sako Asakura, but himself and the Japanese military officer in the Ming Dynasty - Kenji Doihara.

The owner of the house was Asakura Sako, at least in name was Asakura Sako, but when Ichiro Doihara and the Fourteenth Princess were in conversation, Asakura Sako immediately stumbled to the side with a tactful look. Kenji Doihara took over the conversation, took over the big bag, and chatted with the Fourteenth Princess like a master, introducing several guests present one by one.

These are indeed Japanese. Two are directors of Mitsubishi Co., Ltd. (Nanjing). Two are staff members of the embassy military system and accompanied Kenji Doihara. The other four women are their female relatives. The four fourteen male princes have never seen them, but their names sound familiar. Especially the two people from Mitsubishi seem to appear frequently on the People's Guard's surveillance list.

Japanese trading companies, especially large consortiums like Mitsubishi and Mitsui, generally have a function in various branches in China (regardless of the Ming and Qing dynasties), which is half of the intelligence organization. This is why Japanese trading companies have this characteristic, and it is basically nothing like this in other countries. This is already an open secret in the intelligence circle of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

That means that the people who came tonight were not outsiders.

After a brief introduction and greeting, the 14th Princess learned that this was indeed Sako Asakura's residence, and Doihara half-jokingly stated that the Princess' residence in Nanjing was secret and inconvenient to disclose it. In order to take care of the convenience of contact with his old classmates in the future, he found such a decent residence for Miss Asakura so that when His Royal Highness arrives, it will not be particularly shabby.

Sure enough, this is the same as what the fourteenth princess thought.

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After chatting, we had dinner. Dinner was Western food. From the Meiji Restoration to the present, Japan has been in a state of "respecting foreign countries and fawning on foreign countries", and the whole society has been completely westernized in all aspects. In particular, we saw examples from the Ming and Qing Dynasties: when the Ming Dynasty learned well, the result was more civilized and richer; when the Qing Dynasty learned poorly, the result was darker and poorer. This also stimulated Japan to learn more thoroughly about everything in the West, and the upper class also took Western-style life as a fashion.

However, in recent years, Japan's nationalism has been rising, and a trend of "everything is still Japan's own good" is emerging, especially the 2016-26 incident in 2016 became a turning point, marking the advantage of Yamato extreme nationalism. However, in these overseas circles, it is still a relatively "respecting foreign countries and fascinating foreign countries", so that tonight, the fourteenth princess thought he could eat sashimi, but he ended up eating steak.
Chapter completed!