I'm really not doing business

Chapter 240 The traitor of the Japanese country, offering soil for peace

Xu Wei's dissatisfaction with the imperial court was not dissatisfaction with the emperor, but dissatisfaction with the Ming cabinet.

He didn't understand why Zhu Wan was forced to commit suicide. He didn't understand why Hu Zongxian was forced to die in prison. But they are fighting each other, and have no interest in the matter of destroying the Japanese.

Xu Wei personally experienced Hu Zongxian's death. Xu Jie wanted to kill Hu Zongxian. If he really wanted the Taoist to nod, Xu Jie didn't have to do something so ugly that people would die in prison.

Xu Wei has no dissatisfaction with the Ming emperor. In the 21st year of Jiajing, until now, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a clay statue, and the cabinet is in charge.

"Xia Yan, Yan Song, Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng are all short-sighted people." Xu Wei said very affirmatively to Sun Keyi.

"Is Mr. Yuanfu also a short-sighted person?" Sun Keyi slightly disagreed.

In his opinion, Zhang Juzheng is really too powerful.

"I once ate a kind of rice in Liaodong, called random stew. It didn't stick to the shape or taste. Everything I got was stewed in one pot." Xu Wei sighed and talked about the past.

He felt that Zhang Ju was just a cook, and not a very good cook at that.

In the 41st year of Jiajing, Hu Zongxian presided over the pacification of the Japanese in the southeast, and achieved an unprecedented victory. The Japanese infestation in Zhejiang and Fujian gradually subsided, and everyone knew clearly that the Japanese infestation in the southeast finally had peace.

In May of the same year, Yan Song, Hu Zongxian's backstage, was dismissed because Yan Shifan asked Prince Yu's Mansion to ask for bribes, and Hu Zongxian's situation immediately became precarious.

In the same year, Hu Zongxian was impeached by Lu Fengyi in Nanjing for ten crimes. During this turmoil, Hu Zongxian was dismissed from all positions. Emperor Jiajing pardoned his crimes and ordered him to go home and stay idle.

That year, Hu Zongxian dismissed all his staff, and Xu Wei went to Liaodong to find a job. At that time, he met Li Chengliang, became Li Rusong's teacher, and ate random stew.

"Current Zhang Juzheng's New Deal is a messy stew without a clear context, let alone a long-term plan. It's like a random stew to fill the stomach." Xu Wei commented on Zhang Juzheng's New Deal.

Ma Jin, the former general of Datong and now the commander-in-chief of the Songjiang Navy, immediately clenched his fists when he heard Xu Wei say so about Zhang Juzheng's New Deal, and said angrily: "You are taking such a big step. If you don't understand it, you don't understand it. What nonsense are you talking about?" !"

"I'm a rough person. Although I can't tell you why, I know that what you said is wrong!"

"What's the matter with the stew? Just this pot of food, can others cook it? I'm so hungry, I can eat even soil, not to mention delicious! It's only because of your big actions that you can't get tired of eating fine meat and meticulous food. There are so many details about a meal!"

Xu Wei looked at the General Manager and blinked. Datong Counselor Ma Jin was organized by Wu Baipeng, Zhang Juzheng's henchman, with the Xuanda Great Wall Ding Construction Project, and now Wu Baipeng is the Xuanda Governor.

It was Zhang Juzheng who knocked Ma Jin down from heaven to the mortal world when he was exiled to Songjiang, but Ma Jin actually defended Zhang Juzheng in every possible way. This is really the sun coming out from the west.

This is at sea, Ma Jin is so afraid of Zhang Juzheng, so afraid that he dare not speak ill of Zhang Juzheng at sea, and even wants to defend Zhang Juzheng?
Ma Jin didn't have any strange hobbies, all he knew was that Zhang Juzheng valued martial arts, and martial arts fought wars. Zhang Juzheng worked hard to raise food and grass, instead of relying on the front line to defeat the enemy with will and loyalty.

In Ma Jin's world view, this is a good person, and he was indeed beaten up by Zhang Juzheng, but it was under the premise that the situation in the Northwest was corrupt and the Xuanda Great Wall Dingjian was leaking everywhere.

Just like on the battlefield, Ma Jin, who was repelled head-on, didn't have too many complaints. From his personal point of view, he did suffer a disadvantage, but from the point of view of a soldier, Zhang Juzheng is already a rare man in Ming Dynasty. Zhenwu situation.

In the case of Zhang Siwei's conspiracy to set fire to the palace, Ma Fang, Ma Gui, and Ma Jin, military generals who were born in the northwest and relied on the clan party, were not regarded as being arrested by the same party. Forgiveness.

Xu Wei said that Zhang Juzheng was not a good cook, Ma Jin would of course refute, these measures are big, always like this, asking too much for good people, but too forgiving for bad people.

"The good guy you call Zhang Juzheng, isn't he a Cuo Da? And he is a Cuo Dazhong. He passed the Jinshi examination and is the best in Cuo Dali." Xu Wei looked at Ma Jin and said with a smile.

"I can't say no to you! Anyway, you are too big, Mr. Zhang is not." Ma Jin was numb immediately. The scholar spoke, and he argued with a tricky angle. His hand touched the handle of the Qi family's waist knife, and he was about to use it Wufu's way solved the problem.

"Calm down the boss, we're all on the same boat, and we've all been ordered!" Sun Keyi saw that Ma Jin was about to use force, and immediately came out to persuade him to fight.

"This is at sea." Ma Jin pulled out the knife for three points, can't you win the fight if you can't win?
Seeing this, Sun Keyi hurriedly said loudly: "Boss, we all have a sacred destiny!"

"Hmph!" Ma Jin put the knife back.

Sun Keyi looked at Xu Wei, and said tentatively: "I have heard that His Majesty seems to like to stew randomly. When he went to the Beijing camp to reward him, he always stewed all kinds of meat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and seasonal vegetables together. His Majesty once said: It is extremely delicious, give it to Mr. Yu to taste."

These are the emperor's original words, but if you find something useful and delicious, you will send it to Zhang Juzheng.

"You study under me on weekdays. Let me ask you, if I say that the ambition of the wolf of the Japanese country will be the vastness of China, do you believe it or not?" Xu Wei stood on the deck, let the sea breeze blow, looked at Sun Keyi beside him, very Said calmly.

There are 13 provinces in the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty. On a day of severe cold in the north, the cicadas are already singing in the extreme south. The Ming Dynasty is vast and boundless, and wars are frequent in the Japanese Kingdom.

When it comes to the Wa Kingdom, the courtiers in the capital have complicated and contradictory attitudes.

On the one hand, he despises the Japanese country extremely, thinking that it is inhumane to be crowned with monkeys. On the other hand, he gnashes his teeth at the damage caused by the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast; Problems, small problems, on the one hand, it has to be admitted that Japanese pirates are indeed a threat to Ming Dynasty.

This kind of complicated cognition caused Jingtang to underestimate the Wa Kingdom too much.

Xu Wei told Sun Keyi that the Wa country would inevitably attack the Ming Dynasty with the whole country. After hearing this, all the officials in the capital would sneer and dismiss Xu Wei as an alarmist.

And he has been working under Hu Zongxian for a long time, and he knows the Japanese people very well. He knows with certainty that the Japanese country will inevitably become a confidant of the Ming Dynasty in the future, because the Warring States pattern and the century-old turmoil of the Japanese country after the Yingren Rebellion are slowly subsiding.

"I believe." Sun Keyi said very solemnly: "I have seen merchants from the Japanese country more than once. Their eyes are full of greed. All the merchants from the Japanese country were beheaded. There are no unjust cases, and they are all spies."

Sun Keyi believed Xu Wei's words and gave his own reasons. He and Xu Wei looked at problems differently. He said that he was not very good at using contradictions to analyze and predict future events, but he had long been in contact with merchants in the Japanese kingdom Well, one of these damn Japanese merchants counts as one, and they are all spies.

And sending merchants to do espionage operations is generally a precursor to a war.

Sun Keyi understood the greedy look in the Japanese eyes too well, and that desire had already been rooted in his bone marrow.

"You and I do a slightly different way, but we have the same goal." Xu Wei looked at Ma Jin and said, "That's why I said that Zhang Juzheng is a poor cook. hazard."

"In his heart, the situation of captives in the northwest is far more important than the Japanese invasion in the southeast, so before the Japanese invasion in Guangdong and Guangxi was settled, Qi Jiguang was transferred back to the capital, and the safety of those elders guarding the capital was more important. The people are the people, and the people in the southeast of me are not the people?"

"If Qi Jiguang hadn't gone north, the Japanese invasion in Guangdong and Guangxi would not have caused the subsequent battles. It took Yin Zhengmao four years to calm down the Japanese invasion in Guangdong and Guangxi with Yu Shuai's prestige."

"In his contradictory theory, he prioritized things. In his eyes, the elders of the capital are more important than the displaced people in the southeast. So when I say he is short-sighted, it means that he does not see the danger of the Japanese pirates!"

"If it wasn't for Baiyin, in his eyes, the Japanese would not be a concern, and he wouldn't be tempted to destroy the Japanese. He obviously has the ability and means to do this, but he just doesn't think it's important, so he doesn't Just do it."

"That, that..." Ma Jin's mouth is stupid, he can't quarrel with Xu Wei, Xuanda has experienced more than 20 years of war, under the disaster of war, he is riddled with holes, and when he arrives in Songjiang Mansion, he can see the scars of Japanese invaders everywhere .

In the second year of Longqing, Qi Shuai went to the north, which was indeed good news for the north, but for the people of Guangdong and Guangxi who were looking forward to Qi Jiguang continuing to go to Guangdong and Guangxi to fight against Japan, wouldn't this be cruel news?

"There is only one Qi Shuai. What can we do? We can't divide him into two people. Later, when Liangguang pacified Japan, Yuanfu also sent Yu Shuai. Wasn't it pacified in the end? The problems were solved one by one. "Ma Jin didn't know how to tell Zhang Juzheng, so he could only forcefully argue.

The more Ma Jin thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he said very dissatisfied: "You have taken such a big step. If you are in power, the barbarians invaded the country in the first year of Longqing, and Qi Jiguang continued to fight against the Japanese in Guangdong and Guangxi, or went north to preside over the Rongzheng in Gyeonggi. There are two difficult choices. How do you choose?"

Xu Wei spread his hands together, and said with a sneer: "I'm not a cook, I can't even make a stew, ask me what I do, I can't even pass the exam, and it's a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the Wenhua Palace. , you ask me what to do, how do I know what to do?"

"I'm not the chief assistant, I'm not the emperor's teacher, I'm not that capable, and I don't have a solution for both. He's the emperor's teacher, he's a dignified scholar, he's the chief assistant of the cabinet, He has to find a way, and he has to find a way, who made him a tutor?"

Ma Jin was dumbfounded, and stared blankly at Xu Wei. This is a big move, and he should throw it into the water to feed the fish. He shouted loudly: "You have no other way, why bother talking!"

Xu Wei pointed at himself as a matter of course and said: "Don't you know that this is the face of a scholar? He obviously has no skills, he insists on being cynical, he insists on pointing at those who are capable, and he insists on venting about things he doesn't understand. , this is a scholar."

"It's shameless!" Ma Jin wanted to draw his sword again.

Xu Wei took two steps back, he had a bit of kung fu, but compared with these giants, his strength was negligible, he waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Your Majesty just took a fancy to my shameless attitude, so I can't wait for you!" Are you sending us to the country of Wa? If you still need face, courtesy, righteousness and a sense of shame to go to the country of Wa, what are you going to do?"

"Ah?" Ma Jin stared blankly at Xu Wei. What the scholar said seemed to make sense. They went to the Japanese country this time to pick out the inside and the outside, to sell... transoceanic matchmaking, and to cultivate the spirit of the Japanese country. If you want to face, follow the set of etiquette, righteousness and shame, it seems that you can't do these evil things.

"It's too shameless." Ma Jin withdrew the knife and said sincerely.

Xu Wei said almost shamelessly: "Thank you for the compliment."

Ma Jin looked at Xu Wei with mixed feelings. He is now sure that Xu Wei may be a lunatic, and that he may destroy the Japanese. This is Xu Wei's lifelong obsession, and it is also the only remaining obsession. He went to sea this time. After Hu Zongxian died, he During these seven years in prison, he was frantic with fear and committed suicide nine times. After he was released from prison, his life became miserable.

Xu Wei continued: "I said that Zhang Juzheng is a poor cook. The second reason is that Zhang Juzheng is too embarrassing. Zhang Juzheng is a good person, but he shouldn't be a good person. Not only can he not be a good person, he has to be a good person. Big bad guy, be that kind of big bad guy, big devil king full of evil, too many to write down!"

"How did Xu Jie treat Yan Song and Yan Shifan? How did he treat Hu Zongxian? Zhang Juzheng still maintained a trace of benevolence and righteousness in the midst of court turmoil. This is his biggest mistake. There is no turning back in his new policy. It is a dead end. But he refused to use decisive means."

Xu Wei, Sun Keyi, and Ma Jin went out to sea with nearly a thousand soldiers. They were not unprepared. At this time, Japan was ruled by Oda Nobunaga, who called himself the Sixth Heaven Demon King, and Oda Nobunaga was worthy of his Sixth Heaven Demon King. It dealt a devastating blow to the Tiantai sect of the Japanese Buddhist sect, Yixiang Yikui, etc.

Buddhism has a great influence in the country of Japan. For example, if there is no heir of the clan who has inherited the throne of the emperor, he must become a monk to worship the Buddha. The major temples have rich industries. In order to protect the temple property, they will even form monks and soldiers, and then gather together without anyone's order , a separatist regime, a place for fish and meat.

At the beginning of May in the fifth year of Wanli, the ship led by Sun Keyi came to Nagasaki.

In the fourth year of Longqing, Omura Junzhong, the governor of the Omura family in Hizen, opened Nagasaki Port and started maritime trade with the Portuguese. Nestorianism was very popular in Japan.

Life is already miserable and some comfort is needed.

And the person who preached in the Hizen country of Kyushu Island, Western Kaido was Francisco Sander, the former governor of Luzon. Francisco’s trade and missionary work in Japan were carried out on a dual track, which is the so-called: silver and soul are equally important.

Facing Yin Zhengmao's great efforts to perform miracles, Francisco was helpless and was captured by Daming in Manila, and he is still imprisoned in a Manila prison.

And Francisco’s close friend, Father Torres, is still preaching in Nagasaki, presiding over the trade between Japan and the West, and sometimes writing letters to Legaz, the special envoy in Gyeonggi, asking Legaz to help rescue Francis. division.

As the special envoy of Philip II, Legas actually has the right to mobilize all the forces in Spain in the Far East to retake Manila, but Legaz sits in the capital all day long arguing with Chen Xuexue, which is not very important for retaking Manila. care.

Felipe II also didn't care about Manila. Felipe II paid more attention to trade. Legaz knew what Felipe II valued more. Therefore, Legaz said he could do nothing about Father Torres' request.

From Legasit's point of view, Luzon and Manila are a piece of insurance, the link between Ming and Spain's ocean-going trade.

Manila is in the hands of Da Ming, so Da Ming doesn’t have to worry. The long coastline of Da Ming is full of pirates composed of red-haired fans, black fans, Japanese pirates, and desperadoes; In other words, it is a small piece of insignificant and insignificant territory far away in the sky, in exchange for Da Ming's opening of the sea and commerce. As long as Luzon is still there, Da Ming will not close it again out of military concerns. The gate to the sea.

Since the special envoy of the Portuguese royal family, Huozhe Yasan, and the court pharmacist Tome Piles visited Daming, Portugal has been thinking about how to open the door of Daming. Beside him, he asked Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty to open up ocean trade.

However, no effective results have been obtained.

Merchants from Taixi, in fact, like Sun Keyi, find it hard to understand the imperial court’s decision to ban the sea, the fat ones are private doors, and the ban on the sea makes all merchants who go to sea all pirates, because going to sea is prohibited, and the sea trade of Ming Dynasty Because the Forbidden Sea has become a zero-sum game without any rules at all. In any zero-sum game, there is only internal friction.

Sun Keyi couldn't figure out why the Ming Dynasty's ban on seas, which only enriched private families and bred Japanese pirates, didn't have a Yuegang switch until the second year of Longqing, just like Xu Wei didn't understand Hu Zongxian who had been fighting Japanese pirates all his life Why do you have to die.

Although Hu Zongxian is Yan Song's crony, but Yan Song has been in the country for 20 years, and Hu Zongxian wants to pacify the Japanese. If he is not Yan Song's crony, how can he pacify the Japanese?

Daming is like this, many things should be like this, but they never are.

Sun Keyi's merchant ship arrived at the port. The three-masted plywood ship was originally a Carrick sailing ship. The soft sails were changed to hard sails, and the cabin was changed to a watertight cabin. No further improvements were made.

But the flags it hoisted aroused the horror of Omura Juntada, governor of the Omura Clan of Hizen Country. Omura Juntada looked a few more times in doubt, and finally affirmed that the flags hanging on the thirteen plywood ships were the Seven Stars of Ming Dynasty. flag.

Thanks to Omura Junchu's knowledge, he knows Chinese and has read some history books. When the Muromachi Shogunate was canonized by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's angel fleet flew to Hong Kong with the seven-star flag.

Especially after seeing the three warships, Junchu Omura was even more convinced that they were Daming's official ships.

The battleship is the warship of the Ming Navy. The Japanese ship is small, and it is a small sampan in front of the battleship. It will break when touched. The Japanese are extremely afraid of this kind of ship and know it well, but they have no ability to build this kind of ship. .

Omura Junchu immediately sent an envoy to connect, and then the big ship began to dock.

Sun Keyi, Xu Wei, and Ma Jin just walked off the trestle bridge when they saw a man kneeling on the ground with no hair on the top of his head, hair on the temples, and a braid behind his head. This hairstyle is called Yuedaitou, and he was wearing A corset, the shoulders are purple with pot drape, the hem is green with arrow jacket pattern, which is the tail of the arrow, and the white cloth in the middle has paulownia leaf pattern.

As soon as the three of them stood still, the person who was kneeling on the ground walked up to the three of them on his knees and made a nondescript salute.

"Tomorrow, the angels from the Kingdom of Heaven will come to the Kingdom of Heaven, but you cannot meet them far away. Please forgive me." The person who pleaded guilty was none other than Junchu Omura, the Governor of Omura Clan in Hizen Country.

Sun Keyi, Xu Wei, and Ma Jin looked at each other in blank dismay. They had made more than a dozen contingency plans, but they didn't have such a plan that they kowtow when they meet.

Omura Junzhong is a man of life. He may be a devout believer, but he is definitely not a good house governor. In the war-torn Azuchi-Momoyama era, Omura Juntada, the house governor, did not perform well, and was even useless. Bully.

Before coming, Sun Keyi had already done a full investigation, at least for Nagasaki, Sun Keyi knew very well.

For example, one of the things that Junzhong Omura has been active recently is to dedicate Nagasaki and nearby Motegi to the church. The main reason why Junzhong Omura wants to dedicate Nagasaki is that he finds that he is almost unable to keep it. , offering soil for peace.

Because there are many benefits in competing for sea trade, such as the Matsuura family who was robbed of the Nanban trade by Nagasaki, such as the Buddhist governor of the Xixiang family near Nagasaki, Xixiang Junyao, Fukahori Junxian, etc. These people are not jealous, or even Often send troops to attack Nagasaki.

Just the night before the big Ming ship arrived at the port, Omura Junzhong was assassinated and almost died.

In order to survive, Omura Junchu intends to dedicate Nagasaki and Motegi to the Taixi Church, and use the power of the Taixi Church to keep the territory.

On the other hand, Father Alessandro Valignano, inspector of the Roman Holy See, has been reluctant to agree to Omura Junchu's request, because Omura Junchu donated his land and wanted taxes.

Before Sun Keyi came, he knew that Omura Junzhong was a coward, but he never expected that when he got off the boat, this person would accept his head and worship him.

Omura Junchu also had something to say, it's no wonder he wasn't afraid of Da Mingping Waping when he came to Wa country!
Sun Keyi is a businessman, Xu Wei is a scholar, but Ma Jin led three warships across the sea, and those carrying hooks and sickles, bows and arrows, firecrackers, and waist knives were six hundred soldiers.

Just these six hundred guest soldiers were enough to kill Omura Chunchu.

He Dacun Chunzhong is a cowardly person, how can he need six hundred soldiers to calm him down?How can there be such a blessing to be served by Ming soldiers?
Omura Junzhong is very aware of the power of the Ming guest soldiers. After all, the Japanese pirates who ran to invade Daming and were repelled and fled back played the strength of the Daming guest soldiers all the time. Features, how can Omura Junchu not be afraid?
There are more than 200 pairs of the shining iron armor.

Even if the Emperor Daming came to Omura Junzhong and said loudly, this is not a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general, and Omura Junzhong didn't believe it.The heavenly soldiers and generals descended from the sky, they didn't come to fight the Japanese, what did they come for?

Could it be that he came to Nagasaki for business?

The iron armor on the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is really invulnerable. This thing is not the white iron plate armor of Taixi, but the seamless steel armor made by the imperial court.

To objectively describe the performance of these steel armors, it can be described as follows: These steel armors are not different from the steel armor worn by the Ming emperor except for the decoration.

This is a steel armor that has been personally identified and used by the Ming emperor.

That's why Xu Wei said that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty really did not send hungry soldiers, and he sent out 220 copies with a wave of his armor, for fear that the Ming soldiers would be bullied when they went out.

"Well, I'm a little obedient." Sun Keyi listened to the very unproficient Chinese, but finally nodded, affirming that Omura Junzhong has a somewhat submissive heart and can be cultivated as a shrewd person.

Xu Wei squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the surrounding environment of Nagasaki. This place is very suitable as a springboard for Daming to exert influence in the country of Wa.

It took them a total of seven days to come this time. According to the speed of Daming's current ships, it only takes three days to travel from Songjiang City to Nagasaki, but the compass failed on the way, and the boat master spent a few days. , to find the direction again.

It only takes two days and one night to transmit the news from Nagasaki to Tianjin Wei.

Xu Wei saw Valignano, the inspector of the Holy See. Tessie's face was very recognizable, and this inspector stared at Xu Wei and the group with suspicion, scrutiny, and even the gaze of an enemy.

Xu Wei suddenly showed a sinister smile to the inspector.

They still have a long way to go if they want to gain a foothold in Nagasaki, and this inspector is one of the obstacles.

Omura Junzhong entertained Daming's envoy, and he was a little surprised when he learned that the envoy was really here to do business.

Do you need to bring six hundred soldiers to do business?When that Owari fool Oda Nobunaga started his family, there were only [-] slaves. Isn’t he also Jian’an Tucheng now, and he claims to be a man of the world?

"Is it really just for business?" Omura Junzhong asked with some doubts.

"Not necessarily." Sun Keyi looked sloppy, and asked with a smile: "I heard that the family governor has encountered a lot of troubles recently? The sea trade is very profitable, and there are many people fighting for profits. Some troubles are normal."

"I have indeed encountered some troubles." Junzhong Omura did not hide anything, and explained the troubles he encountered recently in detail. To Omura Junzhong, the sea trade in Nagasaki is like a child holding gold Ding is in the downtown area, pregnant with bi is guilty.

Junchu Omura was a little bit overwhelmed.

"It's not surprising that we have reached the point where we need to offer soil." Sun Keyi asked calmly, "Want to help?"

"I beseech the heavens to have mercy." Omura Junzhong replied very precisely, he originally offered soil for Gou's safety, who was it not?Dedicated to Daming, Daming is at least a country of etiquette.

"I'm afraid not. I heard that you have already converted to Nestorianism. You should ask your heavenly father for help." Sun Keyi said with a melancholy face, "It would be great if you could convert."

"If you convert, do you believe in Buddhism?" Omura Junchu asked suspiciously. It is not difficult for him to convert. He paid homage to Buddha before, so he also converted to Catholicism?
"No, no, convert to Emperor Zhenwu." Sun Keyi said very precisely.

The Emperor Ming claimed that he was the reincarnation of Emperor Zhenwu, but in fact, he believed in Emperor Zhenwu, which means he believed in Emperor Daming.

"What sutra?" Omura Junzhong asked with a frown.

Xu Wei said, "The True Martial Classic."

　The fact that Omura Juntada donated soil to the Holy See was not made up by me. The sea trade was so lucrative that Omura Juntada couldn't bear it, so he donated Nagasaki directly.Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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