Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

(Thanks to Jiang Yuze, who loves stewed winter melon and pork, for the tip and update)

The incident in Ergou Village was just a small ripple and Li Qinwu did not pay much attention to it. At this time, his eyes were looking towards the east, towards the sea.

The construction machinery he sent to the United States to buy has returned. Two 100-ton cargo ships carrying construction machines, spare parts, and nearly a thousand barrels of fuel are about to dock at the Shanghai Port.

The arrival of this batch of machines announced that the island space reclamation plan has been accelerated. Similarly, the combat effectiveness of the Punishment Army will also be greatly enhanced. In the future, when fighting positional battles with the Japanese, the Japanese only need to give the Punishment Army a week, and they will be able to build a super-type machine that can defend against 240mm artillery. I believe the expressions of the Japanese who come to the Ken position will be quite interesting.

But now there is a problem. The port of Shanghai is surrounded by the Japanese fleet. The Japanese army has designated Shanghai and the area within 30 nautical miles of the coast of Shanghai as a military exercise area. No ships are allowed to enter!

Yes, it's coming! The war in the economic center of southern China has begun!

The 128th Battle of Shanghai!

At eight o'clock in the morning on January 1932, 1, two 28-ton cargo ships flying the American flag were slowly sailing on the sea. The two cargo ships were loaded with construction machinery purchased by Li Qinwu and 1000 barrels of fuel.

Originally, the two cargo ships should have arrived at Shanghai Port around this afternoon, but now they are drifting on the sea 50 nautical miles away and are not allowed to approach Shanghai Port.

Because the Japanese marked the sea area around Shanghai as an exercise area, no foreign merchant ships were allowed to approach. For this reason, the Japanese also sent the Mutsuki-class destroyer Kikuzuki to block them. This move made Captain Joel Perry, the commander of the freighter formation, very angry.

"We are an American merchant ship! We are free navigators! The despicable Japanese have no right to block our trade routes!"

The old captain, smoking a pipe, shouted wildly in the Cambridge command room. The telegraph operator sent his words, but the Kikuzuki destroyer, which was parked two nautical miles away, remained indifferent and just kept repeating by telegram that they were conducting military exercises and that for the smooth progress of the military exercises and the safety of merchant ships, they were prohibited from entering.

"Damn those Japanese dwarves! Is this all they can say?! Do they know how much fuel a freighter consumes if it stays at sea for one more day? We are burning money!"

Captain Joel's roar rang out for the nth time in Cambridge. The American crew members were a little frightened and lowered their heads to do their own things. Only an Asian face was watching all this with a smile.

This man was called Li Ruinian. He was one of the clones that Li Xin had developed in Shanghai. Because they were going to the United States to buy goods and needed someone to look after them, they sent more than ten clones to the United States. Half of them stayed and planned to live there for a long time, and the other half returned to China with the goods.

Li Ruinian moved closer to the high-power telescope and looked at the lone destroyer Kikuzuki 2 nautical miles away. He licked his lips unconsciously, his eyes filled with frightening greed.

This is a good opportunity! If we use the island space, is it possible to take this ship away?

In an instant, a thousand thoughts flashed through his mind, and he acted very quickly. He immediately walked to Captain Joel, the bearded man, and talked to himself in a very low voice.

"Alas, the United States was so powerful in the past that it could easily use its black ship fleet to knock on the door of the Japanese shogunate. But in just a few years, the Japanese have turned the tables and are shitting on the suzerain country!"

Captain Joel was stunned by these words. He slapped the navigation table in front of him and yelled to the telegraph operator: "Telegram order, tell the other side to get out of the way immediately! They are a bunch of damned dwarf monkeys! It was our black ship fleet that helped them open the country's door and introduced civilization to these primitive people! The damned monkeys don't know how to be grateful!"

The telegraph operator hesitated. The words were a bit too dirty. After all, the ship on the other side was a warship. If they got angry after being scolded like that, a single salvo would be enough to destroy their thin-skinned and bulky freighter.

"Captain, isn't it a bad idea to say that? They are warships after all!"

Captain Joel's eyes widened!

"Send it to me like this! Don't change a single word! Our USA ships can go wherever they want! Oh, and add one last sentence: my name is Joel Perry! Matthew Perry is my great-grandfather!"

The corners of Li Ruinian's mouth twitched wildly. Damn, that curse was too harsh. Although this was exactly his purpose, to stir up conflicts between Japan and the United States, but... well done.

Captain Kazuhiro Otake of the destroyer KIKUTSUKI also thought this was too much. After hearing what the telegraph operator translated, he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage from anger.

The Japanese shogunate had its doors forcefully opened by Mashu Perry, and the black ship fleet was sent directly into Edo Bay, injecting strong cultural factors from the Western world. This kind of humiliation is something that all Japanese will never forget. It is a national humiliation!

Xiaozhu and Hongqi's noses were crooked, and he immediately asked the telegraph soldier to respond.

"Matthew Perry is a respectable general. He really brought civilization to Japan. In fact, we have memorial statues of General Matthew Perry in many areas of Japan. We in Japan will remember this great general. Even I admire General Matthew Perry very much. It's a pity that we are not from the same era and will never meet again.

However, I am honored to meet the general's descendants today. I wonder if Mr. Joel Perry would do me the honor of taking you to the famous Yunxian Hot Springs in my country to experience the local customs and practices of my country."

Xiaozhu and Colonel Hong spoke a long string of words, and the telegraph operator on the freighter took a long time to translate it. After the telegraph operator read out the translation, Captain Joel was still a little confused. He didn't know why the Japanese said all that. He had scolded him so much, so why did he invite him to be a guest?

"Li, you are also an Oriental. Have you ever been to Yunxian Hot Springs? The captain of that warship invited me to visit there. Is the scenery there nice?"

Li Ruinian almost burst out laughing when Joel asked him this. You old bastard really thought the other side was inviting you! Your knowledge of history is not that good.

Unzen Onsen is located near Nagasaki. It is just an ordinary small hot spring. The reason why it is named in history is that during the Tokugawa Shogunate period, Spain spread Christianity on a large scale in Japan. The shogun felt that his rule was threatened, so he ordered the extermination of Christianity.

The die-hard Christian was taken to Unzen Hot Springs and boiled to death in front of his family as a means of intimidating other Christians.

Although most of those boiled to death were local Christians and Spanish missionaries, the Perry family were all Christians. This was a wave of dark history, and Li Ruinian gave a thumbs up in his heart.

In line with the principle of provoking conflicts, Li Ruinian told Captain Joel the story behind the Yunxian Hot Spring clearly, and then the old white man Joel's face turned visibly red.

It's like when Noxus beat Teemo to low health and had full bloodrage, and he wanted to kill Teemo with one R. But Teemo blinded him and pulled a mushroom on the spot to gain invincibility, and Noxus was poisoned to death. I'm afraid that Noxus players are in the mood to smash the keyboard.