Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

Looking at the things that Ma Liang threw at him like a Dorayaki, Mr. Muto Kenichi felt a little humiliated because he was a samurai, not a beggar.

But just looking at the number on the check, thirty thousand U.S. dollars, Muto Ken was completely stunned.

At that time, a fighter jet only cost 3 to 5 US dollars. Compared with modern times, it is like a boss giving you million.

Then look at the $600 advance salary.

He immediately realized that Ma Liang had discovered that he was penniless and in such a desperate situation, but for his sake of face, he did not tell him directly, but instead deliberately arranged for his living expenses.

"Your Excellency! I..."

Faced with Ma Liang's thoughtful concern, even a strong man like Muto Kenichi felt moved at this moment, and he quickly looked up to thank Ma Liang.

But just as he looked down at the Citibank check, Ma Liang had already gotten into the car and left.

So people passing by were surprised to find that a young man in a samurai costume was bowing deeply to a driving car, and there were faint traces of water on the ground.

Many years later, whenever Muto Kenichi recalled the first time he met his lord, he would always want to stay alone for a while away from his descendants.

The reason why Ma Liang wanted to recruit Kenichi Muto was not simply because he appreciated this alternative person with bottom line in his daily life, but also to prepare for taking over BAT company.

He plans to use daily routines to regain control of BAT companies.

The reason why Ma Liang dared to do this was very simple.

At this time, life seemed to have entered the ranks of modern countries, but culturally it was still the culture of a feudal empire.

For example, in daily life, what matters is loyalty to the people, rather than loyalty to the country.

In essence, it is still a kind of private loyalty between master and servant, rather than the public loyalty advocated by modern countries.

Especially among the samurai, the samurai have always been known for their loyalty, but the samurai's loyalty is only a private loyalty between master and servant. The object of their loyalty is their own lord, not the locust or the country represented by the locust.

To put it simply, I will be loyal to whoever supports me and gives me a house, a car, and women. If my master wants to do something stupid, I will do it too. I have no concept of country or nation.

Under such circumstances, which modern government would be willing to continue to support these privileged and anarchic warriors!

Therefore, in order to advance from a feudal state with a shogunate-style system to a centralized capitalist state with an emperor, the samurai class had to be mobilized.

Interestingly, the main force that launched the anti-shogunate movement, overthrew the shogunate, allowed the emperor to seize real power and establish the new Meiji government was the middle and lower samurai class.

Now, the new government that they had established with the shedding of countless blood turned around and attacked the samurai class without hesitation.

With the slogan of "equality of the four classes of people", the samurai class was deprived of many privileges and the "Sword Ban Order" was issued to prohibit samurai from carrying swords.

Despite repeated resistance from the samurai, the Satsuma Rebellion, led by Saigo Takamori, broke out, with the rebellious samurai armed with traditional weapons such as swords and spears, fighting against the gun-wielding imperial army. The movie "The Last Samurai" tells this story.

Although the samurai class was eliminated by the common people through national laws and force, the samurai private loyalty culture that has lasted for hundreds of years will not disappear easily.

This concept of "loyalty belongs to whoever gives me money" is still prevalent among the lower class people living a simple life, transcending national and ethnic boundaries.

This is also the reason why Ma Liang dared to recruit Kenichi Muto, who has traditional samurai ethics, based on him as a model to regain the power of BAT company.

Theoretically, as long as the money is in place, loyalty in daily life can be guaranteed.

From the performance of Japanese-American soldiers in the United States during World War II, we can see that their combat effectiveness is top-notch. They fight for America more desperately than genuine white people, and they can still fight even when more than half of them are killed or wounded.

The US military organized them into the 442nd Infantry Regiment and sent them to the European battlefield for one year and seven months, participating in more than 1 large-scale battles.

The 442nd Infantry Regiment was officially organized into 3800 men. By the end of the war, a total of 1.4 men had joined the regiment, and more than 9000 men were killed or wounded during the war.

In other words, in just one year and seven months of fighting, the officers and soldiers of the entire regiment experienced three rounds of life and death.

During the 1 year and 7 months of fighting, a total of people from this corps received various medals of honor.

In other words, everyone who joins the group will receive one more medal on average.

In addition to having the most individual medals, the regiment is also the regiment-level unit that has received the most Presidential Collective Citations in the history of the U.S. Army, with a total of 8 times.

When it comes to spending money to buy people's hearts, I'm sorry, but Ma Liang dares to say: All my little days are about my younger brother!

After dealing with Kenichi Muto, Ma Liang immediately left Shanghai and began to move at full speed towards a destination in the north day and night.

If there were any blockades by the Japanese army along the way, he would go through them in person, and if there were no blockades by the Japanese army, he would drive as fast as he could.

Finally, after 4 days, Ma Liang arrived at a deep mountain where there was no one.

"Hmm! The cliff is yellow, with a waterfall. One man can block a thousand! Hmm, this should be it!"

In a crevice deep in the mountains that was only wide enough for one car to pass through, a dusty young man was holding a map in his hand, comparing the surrounding scenery and confirming everything.

After turning a big bend, Ma Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the iconic huge cave on the rock wall in front of him.

"Finally I found the right place!"

After confirming the destination, Ma Liang took out a set of drawing tools and began to measure with various tools while writing and drawing on paper.

As a science and engineering man, I have seen many things in modern times that ordinary people would never see.

It only took one day to complete the preliminary design, and then I began to continuously take things out of the space, putting a little here and a little there, like a landlord hiding treasures.

Then they took out a truck from the space, loaded it with heavy objects, and madly rolled back and forth at the entrance and the road connection, leaving deep tire marks.

After completing these, Ma Liang returned along the same route.

While Ma Liang was busy with these things, even if Inaba Shiro was unwilling, he did not dare to hide it anymore and reported the news that BA company was taken over and the master's small treasury was about to be gone.

"Baga, Inaba Shiro you are a loser, you can ruin this kind of business for me? Wait till you go to the battlefield?"

In a private room of a Japanese restaurant in Hongkou, a short and strong middle-aged man who was dressed in casual clothes but could not conceal his military temperament was cursing at Shiro Inaba who was kneeling on the ground.

"I'm so sorry, General Linnei!"

Mr. Inaba, a well-known figure in Shanghai, was lying on the ground like a dog, not even daring to raise his head, and loudly apologized to General Rinnai, who was in charge of distributing the slush fund.

When Shinichi Iwai heard that his improvement funding was going to be cut in half, he looked unhappy. After all, he needed money to improve himself.