In May 1862, England held the International Industrial and Art Expo in Thames. The Fuso mission from afar also got a valuable opportunity to showcase the existence of Fuso.

In fact, Europa did not lack Fuso’s artworks before, but their influence was very small:

Before the founding of Fuso, the Orchid State Commercial House monopolized its trade with the West. In addition to copper, camphor and other items, porcelain, pottery, lacquerware, Fuso swords, folding fans, paper umbrellas and even ukiyo-e were exported.

Dr. Siebold, the protagonist of the Siebold Incident in 1828 and expelled the following year, transported back a considerable amount of Fuso art before being arrested.

These, together with the many animal and plant specimens shipped back, even supported the doctor in opening a museum.

However, as a distant and mysterious country, the art produced by it is difficult to be accepted by Europe. Except for some particularly curious audiences, its popularity is not high.

In 1859, Fuso opened its port to the outside world. The number of Fuso goods flowing into Europe increased day by day, and the number of Fuso artworks that appeared also began to increase accordingly.

In the original history, it was also because of the Fuso Mission's participation in the Thames Fair that Fuso's artworks, especially ukiyo-e, began to be gradually accepted by Europeans, which in turn affected the development of Western painting, especially Impressionism.

But everything is difficult at the beginning. Therefore, although there are fuso exhibits at this Times Expo, there are still not many interested tourists.

Almost no one paid attention, who could bear this, so the bored members of the Fuso Mission found excuses to leave one after another. Everyone, including Oguri Tadjun, went to watch a peepshow. In the end, only Saburo Kusanahara, the Otome couple and

The servants stayed behind.

But when Oli and the other leaders came back from shopping, they found that their exhibition area had changed drastically:

The location here is relatively remote, and the few tourists who finally came here were not interested in Fuso art, so it was quite quiet.

But now, a large group of well-dressed gentlemen and ladies have gathered.

Some of the Fuso servants left behind were clever and rushed over to report. Only then did everyone understand what had happened:

It turns out that it was Otome, the troublemaker, who caused the incident again.

Aren't all the members of the mission gone? Among the remaining people, it turned out to be Saburo Kusanahara. Otome had the highest status. Therefore, when tourists came, they could only receive them.

In fact, what the servants didn't dare to say was, we don't understand what this foreigner said. The interpreter and the British foreign affairs staff have left with you. What should we do? Only Hara Saburo and Otome can speak English, so they can only accept them.

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Next, things get funny.

Originally, the mission was cautious and carefully selected all the items for the exhibition. Even the ukiyo-e paintings, which were nicknamed "human body paintings" by later generations, mainly featured landscapes, and the only ones that appeared were human figures.

A few paintings should also be dignified and elegant.

Ukiyo-e are usually made from woodblock rubbings onto Japanese paper. The mission was going to sea with a lot of hardships, so they brought not many woodblocks but quite a lot of rubbings.

But I don’t know what happened. Among the rubbings that had been strictly inspected, several hot-style “beauty paintings” appeared. Then, they were actually discovered by a few tourists who came here accidentally.

When Oli and others heard this, they wanted to curse:

“What ‘I don’t know what happened’, this must be someone who secretly hid the beauty painting, and then was in a hurry during the exhibition, and it was sneaked in by mistake!

It's such a shame to be thrown into the Thames, I'm really speechless."

The servant who came forward to report was originally in high spirits, but when he saw that the nobles' faces were ashen, he did not dare to show off, so he quickly made a long story short and explained the matter clearly in a few words:

"Someone is causing trouble. Otome will show off her divine power again, which will greatly increase my Fuso's divine power."

But this was too brief. Xiaoli and others were so angry that they asked carefully to find out what happened:

It turns out that the few tourists who discovered the beauty paintings are actually good people - serious people. Even if anyone has the leisure to wander to a remote place like the Fuso booth, he can't look carefully at the Fuso exhibits.

So, after discovering the beauty painting, these libertines started shouting and yelling, and they also sent people to call their friends, and it didn't take long for a group of people to watch.

These people admired the openness of Fuso's atmosphere. When they saw the Fuso booth, some brave ones became even more bold. They said obscene words while staring at Otome lustfully - in the eyes of Fuso people, Otome was too strong.

, does not meet the standards of traditional beauty; but in fact, her delicate features and heroic spirit are quite in line with Western aesthetics.

Harasaburo and Otome were not willing to take advantage of this inexplicable loss, so they started quarreling with each other.

Originally, this conflict was easy to avoid:

The British assigned foreign affairs staff to the Fuso Mission. If they came forward, these foreigners would not dare to cause trouble. But these people went out for a walk with Oguri and others, so they were not present.

The inspection of the expo was not able to catch up because of the remote location of Fuso’s booth.

Therefore, no one stopped the conflict, and the two sides became more and more noisy and angry, and they actually played tricks:

In desperation, Saburo Kusanahara explained that these beauties were drawings of gynecological tools used by doctors.

But who could be deceived by these lies? In addition, these Westerners were so busy that they actually found a gynecologist and came to confront the Fuso people.

But something surprising happened. The gynecologist was quickly defeated in the debate with Otome. Otome, who was sharp-tongued and sharp-tongued, even beat the gynecologist hard and asked her to try not to treat people in the future.

Who couldn't tell this? The Fusang woman was swearing in different ways, implying that this doctor was not only a quack, but also suspected of being a veterinarian.

At this time, the exhibition patrol also arrived, and after understanding the whole story, they dispersed the crowd.

Originally, this matter had come to an end, but what I didn't expect was that the defeated doctor who left in despair did not give up and actually called in a lot of colleagues.

As for Otome, she became more and more courageous as she fought. She took out a bunch of equipment, books, and pictures from nowhere. Compared with these doctors, she was not inferior at all.

There were already a lot of people coming to see the expo, but as the news spread, the remote location could not stop people's curiosity - "The Oriental witch actually defeated the British doctor", how exciting it was. Those inexplicable and wonderful works of art and silly

We can't understand the big, stupid machine, and we can't explain it clearly when we get home, so we might as well just watch the fun.

In this era, surgery is really "surgery", and amputation is relatively reliable. There are many people who dare to operate intra-abdominal, intra-thoracic, and intra-cranial operations, but they are basically all nonsense - Theo, the father of surgery.

Bill Rotter is only 33 years old, and he is still in the emerging stage. His father is like this, so of course his son has not grown up in surgery.

As for Otome, her big killer weapon is caesarean section, so of course, she must be invincible.

Cesarean section surgery has been around since ancient times, but it was not until 1610 that the first modern caesarean section occurred in the West. At that time, people did not know how to suture the uterine incision, so the survival of pregnant women basically depended on their lives.

In 1876, someone finally realized that the solution was to simply remove the uterus during caesarean section.

It was not until 1882 that doctors began to suture the uterus, 22 years after the British doctor Joseph Lister invented catgut in 1860.

Although the surgical plan that Otome comes up with now is much rougher than that of later generations, it may always be good to save lives.

At this expo, there were quite a few knowledgeable surgical professors who originally came to watch the fun, but after listening carefully, they were shocked.

However, after these professors expressed their appreciation, it was not their turn - at this time, childbirth, especially the first child, is as scary to a woman as being outside the gate of hell, so the madam watching the excitement

They had already swarmed up and surrounded Otome.

When the members of the mission came back, they saw this scene.

Of course everyone is just stunned.

Although the development of orchidology in Fuso started with the input of anatomy, it was not until the sixth year of Ansei (1859) that dissection of the human body was allowed. At that time, Saipu, the head of the Fukuoka Kuroda family in Chizen Province, first agreed to do it in this domain.

After implementing it, the ban on fusang was opened.

Cesarean section in the North was first developed after overseas students used American medical resources to research and accumulate.

In short, except for Beidi, Fuso and Europa do not have such preliminary and mature techniques.

Therefore, Otome gets

After being confirmed by professionals, it was very popular among English ladies.

Moreover, Otome brought out more than just this:

The safe period is an ancient achievement, and forceps are also being improved today. However, like the mature caesarean section, birth control rings, birth control pills, corrective knee-chest positioning exercises, and blood transfusion technology to determine blood type, these are all in use today.

It's a miracle.

Especially later, Her Majesty the Queen of England also heard about Otome's miraculous contraceptive technique.

His Majesty has been suffering from the problem of having too many children. After confirming that Hara Saburo and Otome's several caesarean section surgeries in Thames were successful, he immediately met with Otome. Although Hara Saburo was the surgeon, who interested the Queen?

How to prevent pregnancy.

Afterwards, Otome's chubby face suddenly appeared on the pages of The Times, and she became the first Fuso person whose face appeared in the newspaper!

Compared to Otome, who is chased by the media, Hara Saburo is more recognized by professionals.

In particular, his promotion of acupuncture to relieve asthma, Heimlich's first aid and appendicitis surgery earned him the title of "Oriental Magic Hand".

At the same time, both of them were loved by people in the British industry:

Well, this disease doesn’t look at people’s financial status and treats everyone equally. Who doesn’t like a doctor who can save lives?

And the other reason for liking it is very funny.

Because of the antibacterial properties of folic acid, linen was recommended by Saburo Hara and Otome as the fabric of choice for surgical gowns and recovery gowns.

At that time, the North-South War between the Mi people and the Mi people had started for more than a year, so the cotton supply in the south of the Mi people began to decrease significantly. Although England was supplemented by Tianzhu and other places, the reduction in raw materials was still considerable.

Linen is so highly praised by Fuso Miracle Doctor, which undoubtedly opens a new door for those in the industry. Needless to say, surgical clothes and recovery clothes, linen must also be the first choice for pajamas - because there are diseases that can be treated but not diseases that can be prevented.

With the Otome couple's outstanding reputation, the environment of the Fuso Mission has also been greatly improved:

Originally, as the top power in the West, England took the little Fuso seriously.

Without Naohide's intrusion, the postponement of the two ports and capitals would have been agreed to by the British, but it would have come with a huge price.

According to the Times Memorandum of June 6, 1862 (Bunkyu 259), the opening of the ports of Niigata and Hyogo and the opening of the markets of Edo and Osaka were postponed for 5 years from January 1, 1863, that is, postponed

By January 1, 1868. But in exchange, Fuso must give up controls on free trade such as the type, quantity, and price of trade goods, and abolish restrictions on port openings.

In short, in order to negotiate the extension of the opening of the port, the shogunate gave up the restrictions and interference it had imposed on domestic and foreign trade.

These can be compared to the trade facilities that Britain and France gained from China after the "Arrow War".
To be continued...