Chapter 746 Dad is Here (Second update, please subscribe)
On the morning of March 3, fishermen in the Yokohama area were fishing at sea as usual when they unexpectedly saw a row of warships approaching them aggressively.
"Another Western warship!"
The fishermen on the boat shouted.
"Alas, Japan is finished. Tokyo has been occupied by Westerners."
"Alas, the emperor has treacherous ministers around him, and all the samurai masters have been laid off. Without samurai, who will defend Japan?"
"Isn't there still the governor?"
"Zhentai? They are just a bunch of peasants..."
For the fishermen, the respect for the samurai has long been engraved in their bones. Thousands of years of tradition have made them believe that the emperor is just a decoration, and the generals are the ones who govern the country. What about the peasants? Of course, they belong to the samurai masters. When the fishermen were talking to each other, the fisherman in front of them was surprised.
"Look, that's not a Western warship. It's, it looks like... it's from the Ming Dynasty. Yes, it's a warship from the Ming Empire!"
"Yes, it's the Sun and Moon Flag!"
"Hey, now we are saved!"
The Ming fleet is coming!
It took only a few hours for the news to spread from Yokohama to Tokyo, and from Tokyo to all parts of the country. For a time, people who had been worried about the fate of Japan were all excited, and the originally depressed public morale was boosted.
Dad Daming is here!
No need to worry anymore!
For a time, shouts of "Great Ming Banzai" and "Great Ming Empire Banzai" were heard everywhere, not only in Tokyo but also in other places.
"Damn Western dog!"
After knocking Fukuzawa Yukichi to the ground with a single sword, the warriors who broke into the classroom began to chop at the tables, chairs and other objects. Books, pens, ink and other objects were all overturned on the ground by the blows of the wooden swords. As they struck, the classroom was in a mess.
"Take off your clothes and come to Europe, Fukuzawa, you damned fellow, you are really a running dog of the Westerners!"
Kamikawa, holding a wooden sword, stared at Fukuzawa Yukichi and shouted.
Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was knocked to the ground, never thought of fighting back. Since the day the Westerners invaded, he and Keio Yoshikichi had become thorns in everyone's eyes. Especially when he faced the invasion, he advocated the speech that "we must learn from the West and Europe at the critical moment". He had long been regarded as a spy. Now, after learning that the Ming fleet entered Tokyo Bay, people were excited and finally found a backbone.
As a result, samurai immediately came to his house and smashed his Keio Yoshishu.
"It's people like you who have been misleading people these years. It's you who introduced Western evil into Japan. Now the emperor has been killed and Tokyo has been occupied. It's all because of you! Smash it all, smash it all..."
Not only smash it, but also burn it.
Soon a fire was lit in the classroom. Looking at Keio Yoshiki who was engulfed in the flames, Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was covered in wounds, muttered to himself in a daze.
"You, you don't understand, you don't understand, learning English and foreign knowledge is not for the sake of Japan, but for the future of Japan!"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone spat at him.
"Pooh!"
A passerby exclaimed.
"The foreigners want to swallow up Japan and make it their colony. If we follow their lead, we will be walking into a trap!"
"That's right, Ming Dynasty. Only learning from Ming Dynasty is the right path. If Tang Dynasty hadn't treated the envoys well, there wouldn't be Japan. Today, Japan is occupied by Westerners. Ming Dynasty didn't bear grudges and sent troops to help. It is truly the duty of the Celestial Empire! If we don't learn from such a benevolent Celestial Empire, but learn from Westerners? Isn't that associating with wolves?"
"Oh, what is the superior country? It is obviously the mother country. The Ming Dynasty is China, and China is the mother country of Japan!"
When they talked about the Ming Dynasty, their tone was extremely respectful. Even when they mentioned "China", "the motherland", and especially "the strength of the motherland", they looked so excited that they seemed to be proud of it, even more than that.
There was no other way. After all, the heavy blow from the Western devils had completely destroyed the Japanese's courage. In fact, if the samurai class had not been destroyed, perhaps they would not have lost their courage so quickly.
But the problem is that the Meiji government has just destroyed Japan's samurai class. This backbone of society is not just Japan's elite. The samurai ideology has long penetrated into every aspect of Japan. The samurai who are extremely loyal to their lord have been abandoned just like that. How many people are still willing to serve the emperor?
The old values were destroyed, and the new values had not yet been established. The ideological confusion had an unimaginable impact on the Japanese. In addition, the Western artillery fire was so fierce that it took only one day to occupy Tokyo. The fear of Westerners was deeply rooted in the Japanese.
This is the character of the Japanese. They admire the strong and bully the weak. They are extremely arrogant and extremely self-abased. It is precisely this character that makes the Japanese, when facing psychological shocks, if the opponent is weak, they will be extremely arrogant, and if the opponent is strong, then they will be extremely self-abased. Almost on the day when Tokyo was captured, when everyone in Japan talked about Westerners, the first feeling that came to their mind was that the opponent was invincible.
In the past, Westerners were just powerful, but what about now?
It is simply invincible. One thing that is even certain is that Japan is simply vulnerable in front of Western countries. If it is vulnerable, why should it resist?
For a time, the morale of the Japanese fell to the bottom, and defeatism spread rapidly. Even the Japanese did not think there was anything wrong with this. After all, the Japanese adhered to a principle - the strong are respected.
In the past few years, why have the Japanese people been willing to be oppressed by the samurai? The samurai could even use the people to test their swords at any time, and the people were willing to be chopped off. If their eyes collided, it would be normal to be beheaded.
The Japanese are M at heart, and their national character is that the strong are respected. Since they are Westerners, then they should surrender to them. There is nothing wrong with that.
However, despite this, they still felt a little unwilling in their hearts. After all, Westerners were like beasts, and if they accepted their rule, wouldn't that be like being in the company of beasts? But they had no choice but to accept it.
Of course the most important thing is the atrocities committed by those British and American devils in Tokyo during this period. They are also outrageous. Who doesn’t have a wife and daughter?
But what about now?
The sudden emergence of the Ming Dynasty, or rather the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, gave them another glimpse of hope.
First of all, the Ming Dynasty was very strong. Secondly, from a historical perspective, being a dog of the Ming Dynasty was very happy. It was definitely better than being a colony of the Westerners!
Being a dog of the Ming Dynasty is actually a good choice!
Thus, almost overnight, the Ming Dynasty became a ray of hope for the Japanese who were in desperate situation, like a beacon in the dark night, illuminating their dark and hopeless lives.
Because of this, countless people became Ming fans overnight. Overnight, they completely changed many of their views and ideas. After all, in many cases, reality can always teach people to grow.
Listening to people's words and seeing their excitement when they mentioned Ming Dynasty, Fukuzawa Yukichi muttered in confusion in his heart.
"The Ming Fleet was clearly still in Hiroshima, when did it go to Tokyo?"
(End of this chapter)
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