After observing the time of nearly a while, except for a lot of problems, Anmasa Fukushima did not feel that he had gained anything, and he could not see anything after looking at it. Although Anmasa Fukushima was disappointed, he had to leave the frontier position and return to the Japanese army's garrison.

But after walking not far, I saw a few Japanese soldiers escorting three Qing people in front of me, and also heading towards the garrison. The Japanese soldiers occasionally hit the Qing people with their butts, urging them to leave quickly, and kept cursing.

Fukushima Anmatsu's heart moved and immediately ordered his guards to go over and see who they were catching? The guards rushed forward, stopped the Japanese soldiers, asked a few questions, and immediately rushed back to Fukushima Anmatsu and said, "Sir, the Qing people they caught ran out of Dagu's mouth and were caught by them."

After hearing the guards' words, Fukushima An Zheng suddenly felt energetic and said, "Take them to my room and I will interrogate them myself."

In fact, these Qing people did not run out of Dagukou, but wanted to go back to Dagukou. It turned out that they were the first people who were released from Dagukou after the army captured Dagukou.

But after walking around outside, they found that the village they originally lived in had been destroyed by the Eight-Nation Alliance. The family didn't know whether they could live or not. After wandering outside for a few days, they couldn't survive at all. Therefore, they remembered that they would travel through the army and stayed outside and could go back to Dagukou. So they planned to turn back to Dagukou, but they ran into the Japanese army. Someone was beaten to death while hiding away, and the three of them were caught by Japanese soldiers. When the Japanese soldiers asked, they did not dare to hide it and honestly explained their experiences.

Fukushima An was responsible for intelligence work, and of course he also learned the skills of interrogation and the ability to observe expressions. After the three people who were caught were taken to his office, Fukushima An was not even worried about dinner, so he began to interrogate them. As a result, it took more than five hours to interrogate the three people separately, and each person interrogated at least twice, verified and compared the confessions of the three people, and basically emptied all the things that these three people knew.

However, these three people did not last long in Dagukou. After being released, they only stayed in Dagukou for one day before leaving. Therefore, they did not know much about the situation of time travelers. They only knew that this group of people claimed to be overseas Chinese, and they were subordinates who remained overseas when Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty voyage to the West seven times. After Zheng Chenggong's old subordinates also fled overseas after losing Taiwan. These groups of Chinese gathered overseas and established a country. Now they wanted to return to China, so they returned to China with several warships.

After listening to their talk, Fukushima Anmasa first felt absurd. Of course, he knew that there were indeed many Chinese living overseas. However, in Fukushima Anmasa's impression, overseas Chinese seemed to be extremely weak and could only survive in the gap between colonists and indigenous people. Every few decades, they would be cleaned up by local colonists and indigenous people. Not only would the wealth accumulated with great difficulty be looted, but most of the people were killed, and then they would slowly recuperate. After recovering their vitality, they would often clean up again and repeat themselves. Even if overseas Chinese founded a country, they would often be short-lived and soon destroyed by colonists and indigenous people, such as the Lanfang Republic. So did these overseas Chinese really build a country overseas? And now they can build warships by themselves. You must know that Japan can build warships less than 3,000 tons.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Anmasa Fukushima felt that this was not completely unreasonable, because the overseas Chinese he knew were all living in the South Ocean, and this group of overseas Chinese might not necessarily come from the South Ocean. Anmasa Fukushima certainly knew the concept of the world, and overseas was not just the South Ocean. Anmasa Fukushima was also familiar with Chinese history and knew that when Zheng He went to the West, he reached the eastern part of Africa and the Red Sea of ​​the Middle East, and also reached the Americas and the west coast of Africa. Therefore, their tribes may not have stayed in the South Ocean to establish the country, perhaps in the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean were some islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

The ancient Chinese nautical technology was quite clever, and Zheng He's fleet could not be. Even Zheng Chenggong was born in a navigator family. His father Zheng Zhilong almost cut off the maritime trade in East Asia at that time. Even the Dutch, who was known as the maritime coachman at that time, was no match for it. It was precisely with the powerful naval power that the Zheng group fought against the Qing court with the power of Taiwan Island for decades. Compared with the contemporary European state, it was not at a disadvantage. After the man invaded China, he implemented the policy of seclusion and banning the sea and locking the country, which prevented China's nautical technology from developing.

If it were indeed a country established by Zheng He and the descendants of Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, they would probably not stop sailing. If this continues, they may not be able to build steel warships themselves. Japan also implemented a policy of seclusion for nearly three hundred years, and only started to establish the country nearly thirty years ago. Therefore, it is not actually comparable.

Moreover, according to the interrogation, the appearance of this group of people is indeed very similar to that of the Qing people. They are all black eyes, black hair, and yellow skin, but they don’t have braids without shaving their hair. Of course, An Zheng, Fukushima, can understand this, because both Zheng He and Zheng Chenggong are descendants of the Ming Dynasty, so they naturally will not shaved their hair and braids. The accent of these people is definitely Chinese. They can not only speak Mandarin, but also dialects from Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Nan and Guangdong. Other East Asians cannot learn this. In addition, the military style of this group of people is almost the same as Fukushima observation, which proves that they have no lies and it also shows that this group of overseas Chinese is at least more civilized than the Qing people.

He ordered the guards to take the people they had caught and imprisoned them. Only then did Fukushima Anmasato feel that he was hungry, so he asked someone to get two laces for himself, a bottle of sake, and while eating, he thought about the results of the interrogation.

Although he knew the origin and identity of the enemy, Fukushima's doubts not only did not decrease, but were becoming more and more. If the result of the interrogation was true, this group of people was indeed a group of Chinese who founded overseas. So why did they want to return to China until this time? What did they do for more than two hundred years after the demise of the Ming Dynasty?

Of course, Anmasa Fukushima knew that both Zheng He and Zheng Chenggong were all officials of the Ming Dynasty. They were strictly hostile to the Pure Country ruled by the Manchus, which replaced the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the Ming Dynasty has been destroyed for more than 250 years, and the Manchus have steadily ruled the land of China. Therefore, this group of overseas Chinese is unlikely to want to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. They are likely to just want to find a foothold in the land of China. Anmasa Fukushima understood that the Chinese people have a very strong plot of falling leaves returning to their hometowns. Then it is understandable that these people have not returned to China until now, and it should be related to the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Fukushima Anta roughly deduced a clear lineage: when the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, a group of Chinese were indeed wandering overseas, because the land of China was ruled by Manchu at that time, and the policy of shaving hair and leaving braids was being implemented. These overseas Chinese could not return home, so they had to establish a Chinese country on an island overseas. However, unlike the Qing Dynasty's seclusion, these overseas Chinese inherited the developed navigation technology of the Ming Dynasty and further developed, and were able to build iron-armored warships. Now is the weakest time of the Qing Dynasty, so this group of overseas Chinese decided to return to China. If they really had a technical level similar to that of the West, it would not be difficult to get a foothold from the Qing Dynasty.

Although this explanation sounds bizarre, it can indeed be self-realized, so this possibility does not exist. The question now is where the country established by this group of overseas Chinese is, how large is the area, how many people are there now, how strong is it, how technological level is, how well is it developed, is the army that captured Dagukou full of their strength or is it just the vanguard? Behind them, are there any subsequent fleets?

In addition, what is their attitude towards the Qing Dynasty? Is they planning to accept the rule of the Qing Dynasty or to establish their own country on the land of China and compete with the Qing Dynasty? If it is the latter, will Japan have an opportunity to take advantage of this group of overseas Chinese to gain greater benefits in the Qing Dynasty for Japan?

Fukushima Anmasaki knew that many Qing Dynasty reformists and revolutionary patriots have established their own associations and gangs in Japan, including the famous royalist association established by Kang Youwei and the Xingzhong Association established by Sun Yat-sen, and they are actively recruiting Tongjue and developing believers. The Japanese government either explicitly or secretly gives them political and economic support, and some Japanese politicians have good personal relationships with them.

But Fukushima Anmasa certainly knew that the purpose of the Japanese government doing this was not to help China achieve new changes and become prosperous, but to a political investment, using these royalists and revolutionaries to restrain and threaten the Qing Dynasty, or to fund these royalists and revolutionaries to deal with the Qing Dynasty, in short, in order to allow Japan to gain the greatest benefits from it.

Fukushima Anmasa certainly agreed with the Japanese government's approach, because Japan has a narrow territory and few resources, and its development potential is limited. China is vast and has vast land and abundant resources. Therefore, if Japan wants to become a real power, it must obtain land and resources from China.

However, although the Qing Dynasty was incompetent, China's territory was too large and there were too many people. In addition, the European and American powers had huge interests in China, so it was not easy for Japan to obtain capital for rising from China. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan originally planned to threaten the Qing Dynasty to ced the two lands of the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan, but Russia, France and Germany jointly intervened, forcing Japan to give up the Liaodong Peninsula. As a result, only two years later, Germany forced Qingdao, which was across the sea from the Liaodong Peninsula, and Russia rented the Lushun Port on the Liaodong Peninsula, and took Japan's land that year as its own.

So using the Chinese to expand Japan's interests in China is a step forward. Can these overseas Chinese be used as well? Fukushima Yasushi thinks it might as well give it a try.
Chapter completed!