Volume 1: The Empire Awakens Chapter 14: Imperial Grudges (Part 1)
The two letters were written by two women, one of whom was Liao Yingyu.
Tan Renhao did not go to the cafeteria for dinner. He bought a bag of biscuits and returned to the dormitory. He did not even take a cold shower as usual. Instead, he hurriedly opened the letter sent by Liao Yingyu and threw another letter on the table.
Liao Yingyu's handwriting is very beautiful, but there is a hint of masculine firmness in her strokes. If one judges a person's character solely by her handwriting, then Liao Yingyu can definitely be regarded as a heroine like Hong Fu Nu.
Now, she has been assigned to the Yantai Imperial Naval Sanatorium and is the assistant to the head nurse.
In addition to introducing her own situation, the letter contained nothing more than complaints about Tan Renhao not taking the initiative to write to her.
After reading the letter, Tan Renhao couldn't help laughing.
His acquaintance with Liao Yingyu was just a coincidence, a coincidence caused by an accidental car accident.
That car accident deprived Tan Renhao of the opportunity to have the Gold Sea Lion Medal personally pinned on him by the principal, Nie Renfeng, but it also allowed him to meet Liao Yingyu.
As the saying goes, "Misfortune may be a blessing in disguise." If he had not known Liao Yingyu, there would have been no possibility of inviting Liao Yingyu to the dance, and there would have been no possibility of letting the arrogant Fan Peikun end up in such a disgraceful situation.
This might be fate. Tan Renhao was also secretly blaming himself. It had been more than half a month since he arrived at the Fifth Fleet, and he had almost forgotten his promise to Liao Yingyu. Now a girl had written to him first. This alone must have affected his image in Liao Yingyu's mind.
Thinking of this, Tan Renhao did not hesitate any longer and immediately took out paper and pen. However, just as he wrote his signature, he saw another letter that he had thrown on the table.
After hesitating for a moment, Tan Renhao put down his pen and picked up the letter.
After hesitating for a long time, he opened the envelope.
The letter paper was more than ten thick pages and was divided into two parts.
This is a family letter. The first part was written by Tan Renhao's sister Tan Qinglian, and the second half was written by his mother.
After reading only the first page, Tan Renhao put the letter down.
Tan Qinglian is two years younger than Tan Renhao. She has just graduated from Wenzhou Girls’ School and is at home helping her father run the business.
There are only these two siblings in the Tan family. Originally, Tan Renhao should have been the one to inherit the family business, but Tan Renhao "ran away from home" and became the first soldier in the Tan family in five generations. As a result, the responsibility of managing the family business fell on their younger sister Tan Qinglian.
Tan Renhao's mother, Gu Xiujuan, is also from Wenzhou, and her family is also a business family.
When she married Tan Jingkang, the father of Tan Renhao, the Tan family was at its lowest point and she met with strong opposition from her natal family.
Later, the two started from scratch and worked hard for more than 20 years. Not only did they have their current business, but they also raised two children.
Gu Xiujuan also came from a wealthy family, which can be seen from those beautiful words.
When they were young, because their father was often away, Tan Renhao and Tan Qinglian's enlightenment education was taken care of by their mother.
Tan Renhao has a very good relationship with his sister. When they were young, he often fought with the little hooligans who bullied his sister, leaving him with many scars.
However, Tan Renhao was very clear about the purpose of his sister and mother writing this letter, which was nothing more than to make him change his mind and make him make sacrifices for a promise made by the Tan family twenty years ago!
Thinking of this, Tan Renhao suddenly became upset and didn't even have the mood to reply to Liao Yingyu.
That day, he went to bed early and slept in a daze until dawn.
The second time, Tan Renhao was not the first person to arrive at the office. Chang Jianxin arrived half an hour earlier, cleaned the office, and was eating breakfast.
"Mr. Chang, you came really early today!"
Tan Renhao said this as he sat down in his seat.
Chang Jianxin smiled and continued eating his breakfast.
Ten minutes later, Hao Dongjue also arrived, but he looked like he was still sleepy. Maybe he went out and acted crazy again last night.
"Renhao, Lao Chang!"
Hao Dongjue greeted the two of them, then sat down, "It's really comfortable, I've never slept as comfortably as last night. Renhao, do we have a new job?"
"The colonel gave us a few days to rest."
Tan Renhao stood up, now that everyone was present, "However, a Japanese fleet will come to visit in more than a month, and then conduct a friendly exercise with our fleet. The colonel asked us to make a rough plan."
"exercise ?"
Chang Jianxin frowned, "These things should be handled by other people, right?"
Hao Dongjue also nodded. This kind of foreign-related activities should not be handed over to three newcomers.
"I asked about it, but the colonel just asked me to make a rough plan."
Tan Renhao took out the cigarettes he had prepared and gave one to each of them.
"We are still unable to confirm which fleet is visiting, but judging by the captain's tone, I'm afraid this friendship exercise is not ordinary."
"The Japanese fleet? Come on, do we have to entertain them?"
Hao Dongjue put his feet on the edge of the table and said, "I think it's best to send them back directly. They have the nerve to come to visit. It's obvious that they are just a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken. They don't have good intentions!"
Hao Dongjue's anger was not without reason. Almost all the imperial soldiers and civilians hated Japan to the core.
Japan was once the empire's most friendly neighbor and also a "good student" of the empire. For thousands of years, the empire provided Japan with all the help it could, just like taking care of a younger brother. In terms of culture, economy, military and other aspects, the empire provided Japan with support almost without reservation.
As a result, more than two hundred years ago, Japan stabbed the Empire in the back for the first time when the Empire was fully focused on dealing with the Western powers. Until before the last war, the "Hundred Years' War" with Japan not only had a huge impact on the Empire's national strength, but also caused the loss of large tracts of overseas territories, giving the Western powers the best opportunity for development.
The most hateful thing is that in the last war, the empire was attacked by Japan again. Although the empire defeated Japan in the end and completely recovered the Ryukyu Islands, it also recovered the Northern Ryukyu Islands (Tokara Islands and Osumi Islands) that Japan had stolen more than two hundred years ago.
However, this made the empire lose the opportunity to achieve a complete victory, and ultimately it had to sign a series of armistice treaties with the Western powers that were extremely unfavorable to the empire.
You can imagine how the teacher and the father would feel if a student betrayed the teacher and a son betrayed the father. Now, this is how the imperial army and the people feel about Japan!
