According to the "Fuso-American Peace Agreement" signed in March 1854, Hakodate was designated as a port of refuge and supply, and the shogunate subsequently designated the place as a direct imperial territory.

According to Naohide's memory, the shogunate took back most of the Ezo territory in 1855.

The original lords, the Matsumae family, received generous compensation - a new territory totaling thirty thousand koku and an annual deposit of eighteen thousand Tenho gold. The new territories were in Ryokan, Mutsu Province and Higashine, Dewa Province, and the Matsumae family's original headquarters was Fukuyama.

The castle and Matsumae Town were also preserved.

Naohide didn't know whether the Matsumae family would suffer a loss or not. Anyway, they were just sitting on the ground and collecting money, so they wouldn't lose much. But if this kind of thing really happened, Master Bai would suffer a big loss and might completely lose his strategy of developing southward.

space.

Therefore, in mid-March of the Western calendar, "White Lord's annexation" Egawa Hidetoshi went to Edo for activities, hoping to free up some space.

This year is a warm winter. In previous years, the port of Baidu was still frozen at this time, but this year it thawed half a month earlier, so Naohide joked with Yingmin:

"What a good sign. I wish brother Yingmin success and success!"

"How can anyone cast a bell and strike copper now? This matter should have been planned earlier."

Ying Min grinned angrily, he didn't accept this, "There are people in the court who are good at being an official", but Lord Bai now has no backer in Edo, so it means that it's not easy for him to be an official.

Last year Oguri Tadjun went to Nagasaki to serve as a missionary, and his father also resigned from the Ginmi Service and went to Izu Shimoda Port, so Hidetoshi was not optimistic about the outcome of this mission.

While he was hoping that Naohide's guess would be inaccurate, he embarked on the journey with an annual tribute of four thousand furs, three thousand taels of gold and a large number of special products.

In order to avoid drifting ice, the ship went around Matsumae Town from the west, and then went south via Tokai Road. By the time Eito arrived in Edo, it was already the beginning of March in the Japanese calendar.

Why are you so afraid? As soon as Hidetoshi got home, he received the news, "The shogunate in the second month of the Japanese calendar has designated the Ezo land north of Otobe Village, east of Mokuuchi Village, and the land in the south and west of Toshima Peninsula as imperial territory. All these places are

Return to the Box Hall to implement management."

So he took a short rest and started his activities - Ezo Land is so big, don't tire out the Hakodate priests, can Master Shiro share some of the work?

In theory, it's a done deal, but actually Yingmin is treating a dead horse as a live doctor.

But there is no end to the road, and he actually found an opportunity:

This hole was opened by the new Hakodate himself.

The original leader of Hakodate was Yasutori Takeuchi, but this old man was very unlucky. He suffered from vomiting and diarrhea on the boat to the Northland. He was finally cured by Shirozhu, but after arriving at Hakodate, he suffered from vomiting and diarrhea.

He was not accustomed to the local environment, so he took advantage of the opportunity to report back to Edo at the end of last year, and Takeuchi said he would do nothing.

He doesn’t want to do it, but some people are still jealous!

Mifusuke Horihi, who had previously failed in the competition for the position of Hakodate, personally visited Takeuchi Yasunori. The two of them did not know what they talked about in private. Anyway, Takeuchi recommended Horihi to the shogunate to take over Hakodate on the grounds of "physical discomfort"

pursue.

They were the two fighting before, but now that Takeuchi has given up the choice, Omefuhori Toshihi has become popular, so he finally got his wish and was appointed as the new Hakodate Chief Minister, just because he raised various materials and manpower in Edo.

So I haven’t taken up my post from Edo yet.

Egawa Hidetoshi visited Horihi in private, and then pleaded hard. Horihi was very easy to talk to, saying that "Hakodate and Shiro are in the same spirit and depend on each other, so everything is easy to discuss."

However, although he spoke loudly, in fact he only agreed to assign Zonggu to Lord Bai for management.

Small mosquitoes are also meat. Thank you very much Yingmin.

Afterwards, he continued his activities - Hakodate had agreed to follow Hori Toshiki, but this was just a tacit understanding. Could it be that Hori Toshiki actually asked Hori Toshiki to write a letter on his own, saying, "I can't handle it any more, so I'll give Soya to Lord Shiro." This myself

No fool would take the initiative to cut away one's own rights.

It can be said that Yingmin's trip was blessed with good fortune, and this time it was Oguri Tadashi's father Tadaka who came to the rescue.

It turns out that Tokoku Tadaka returned to Edo early this year to report on his work and seek medical treatment due to physical discomfort. Hidetoshi's subsequent actions received strong support from Tadaka.

Tadaka was an old bureaucrat who had traveled far and wide, and had many friends and connections. Under his operation, Shirozu finally obtained the jurisdiction of Soya and firmly laid a nail at the northern end of Ezo Land.

In fact, this matter is reasonable and reasonable.

According to previous estimates by the shogunate, the total developed area was as much as two million koku - this estimate was made by the famous traitor Tanuma Yiji (1719-1788).

Even if this is not accurate, the compensation given to the Matsumae family after the Ezo land was transferred to the Imperial Territory this time is quite large. The territory of thirty thousand koku and the annual gold of eighteen thousand koku add up to nearly fifty thousand koku.

They are all pursued by the Yuan Kingdom. Hakodate has fifty thousand koku, while Bai Zhu only has the specification of "five thousand koku stone high" in name. The two places are next to each other. The difference is too far. Can Shiro Lord be okay with it?

So Egawa Hidetoshi wrote a letter requesting that Sogaya should be transferred to Shiro, "to provide Shiro with a port that is not very frozen in winter." It sounded pitiful, and Hakodate also privately expressed that he had no objection to this, so the old and middle-aged people

Going with the flow, "That's right!"

Because Naohide and Hidetoshi don't have much appetite, they know that it is not Shiro's turn to reach out to Ezo land, so their goal is "to get the Soya, so that Hakodate and Shiro can trade freely", so the goal of getting the Soya is considered complete.

Half of it.

As for "free trade between Hakodate and Shirozu", this means "the prefectural officials are not as good as the current administration". As long as Hakodate adheres to it and agrees to it, everything is easy to say. In this regard, Hori Toshihi was in favor of it before, but it is better to do it than to say it. We have to wait.

Hori Toshi didn't know the authenticity until she arrived at Hakodate, so the verbal agreement doesn't count now.

Yingtoshi had done everything he could, and even if the mission was over, the remaining time was his own, so he planned to spend a happy time in Edo.

But before that, he had to go to Izu Country to visit his father, Mr. Tanan.

After going through last year's Far East Great War, Yingmin has become much more mature and steady. Therefore, after meeting Mr. Tan'an, he was very satisfied, "This son has grown a lot in less than a year since he left home."

Mr. Tanan is also very proud because he finally copied the Napoleon cannon last year - of course, in Naohide's original world, the Napoleon cannon was nominally designed by Napoleon III in the 1850s, but Naohide took out the design in advance after his intrusion.

The name has not been changed, Naohide said it was designed by a certain rice armorer.

But the design was there, and from 1849 to 1854, it took the Niushan Ironmaking Works five years to successfully cast it.

Although the Napoleon Cannon is a front-loading smoothbore gun made of bronze, its performance is very good. It can accurately project a standard 12-pound shell to a distance of 1480m at a firing angle of 5°, and an astonishing range of 1480m at a firing angle of 10°.

of 1911 meters.

Moreover, the performance of this gun is very stable, the barrel is not easy to wear, and explosions rarely occur.

As far as Fuso’s current level is concerned, it can be said that “when the Napoleon Cannon comes out, there’s no way it can compete with it”!

But after Mr. Tan'an finished boasting and praising himself, he sighed as he remembered something.

Yingmin now understands cold and hot. With his comfort, Mr. Tan'an told him an important event. It turned out that after the Napoleon cannon was successfully cast, the shogunate did something that Jiangchuan thought was stupid.

On the twenty-seventh day of October in the Japanese calendar last year, the small court in Kyoto announced a change to the Yuan Dynasty, and the seventh year of Jiayong (1854) became the first year of Anzheng - the word "Anzheng" comes from the Chinese Tang Dynasty book "Qunshu Zhiyao", "

When the common people are in peace and order, then the gentlemen will be in power."

Seeing Yingmin listening quietly, Mr. Tan'an nodded slightly, "My son has indeed grown up. He doesn't ask questions impatiently. He has a palace."

Originally, if we change the Yuan Dynasty, we should change it to the Yuan Dynasty. It would be nice to change it to a year with a better meaning.

However, on November 27, the Imperial Court sent two ministers, Sanjo Shiwan and Fangcheng Toshiaki, to Edo specifically to inquire about the situation of coastal defense.

On December 23rd, the small court announced a decree to the public: "The matter of the foreign invaders has deeply troubled Chen Jin, but I can also worry about it. In the next year, the Mo barbarians came back and entered the Sagami Sea. It is an urgent matter for the country.

Only in Haiphong. Because I want to use the Buddhist bells from the temples of other countries to cast cannons and small guns and place them in key places in the country to be prepared for danger. I quickly order the temples of all countries to know the current situation. In addition to this temple, except for the ancient famous utensils,

As well as the bells that tell the time, the rest can be cast into cannons and used as weapons for the support of the imperial state. When there is trouble at the border and sea, it is better to sell the weapons and use them as whale bells. There should be no objections. All countries should accept the knowledge and act according to the announcement.

To practice it.”

This thing is too outrageous!

When the Tokugawa shogunate was first established, it forced the small imperial court to agree to the "Prohibition and Incorporation of Public Laws", the first of which was that "the affairs of the emperor's talents are the first imperial knowledge", and the Fuso royal family agreed to "entrust major political affairs and

"Shogunate", this is the first time in more than two hundred years that the small imperial court has interfered with the shogunate!

At that time, there were a lot of discussions among the ministers, and there were many angry people. Many Daidai and Hatamoto believed that this was a disorderly fate, and wrote to the ministers asking them not to understand.

Yingmin was shocked when he heard this, because the decree "Destroying Bells and Casting Cannons" was promulgated in the past two days. At that time, he thought it was the shogunate's own decision, and he did not know that there were other reasons behind it.

"Napoleon's barrel was cast in Jiushan, but it turned out to be the reason for the promulgation of this decree."

Mr. Tan'an sighed, destroying the bell and casting the cannon was nothing, but there were two reasons that made him very worried:

First of all, the small imperial court began to interfere in the shogunate affairs, and in the end it interfered. Once this happened, there would be endless troubles - one body and two heads, and Jiangchuan was very worried that the power of the shogunate would be lost.

What follows is the hidden murderous intent of this law.

At this time, Buddhism was flourishing and theology was weak. On the surface, this decree was "destroying bells and casting cannons", but in fact it was "destroying Buddhism".

Who is proud of the temple being hit?

Of course it is Fuso Shinto.

The source of Fuso Shinto is the royal family. Once this decree is promulgated, the relationship between the shogunate, temples and Buddhist believers will be in vain. Under the ebb and flow of one another, the power of Shinto will prosper, and the influence of the small court will naturally increase greatly.

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"Then the shogunate has so many discerning people, how did this law pass?"

"Mito is rampant and the old and middle-aged are cowardly!" Mr. Tan'an said bitterly.

It turned out that this decree was strongly supported by the old Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Saiaki's family, and the old middlemen headed by Abe's servant were promoting "unification with Fuso". Therefore, although there were many people who opposed it, it was delayed for three years.

The month passed.

"There is no shortage of tricks and strategies!"

When Mr. Tan'an saw his son angry, he became pregnant and said, "Yingmin has finally taken responsibility!"

"Yingmin, tell me what you did at Baizhu?" Mr. Tan'an was very pleased that his son had such a big change, and he became very interested in what he did at Baizhu.
Chapter completed!