In 1860, when Hamin Maru visited rice, New York held a grand welcome ceremony for the Fuso Mission.

But Saigo Takayong and other international students clearly understand that "this is not to welcome guests, but to show the strength of the country itself." ”

In May 1851, England hosted a major exposition in the capital of Wudu, after which the exposition was recognized as the first real world's fair. Subsequently, in 1855, France also held the second Universal Exhibition in the flower capital.

But there was one more fair in between, but it ended in notoriety: the New York Exposition of 1853.

At this expo, there are such eye-catching products as the prototype "elevator" of the elevator of later generations, and even the new agricultural machinery and seeds and breeding animals on display are also treasures, but on the whole, this expo shows the real strength of the United States - it does not have the strength to challenge the powers of the old continent.

At that time, the English people used glass to build the world-renowned Crystal Palace, and the rice people were not willing to be lonely, so they also built one, but they didn't expect the quality to be leaking, not to mention the damage to the exhibits, and the audience could not escape the fate of the soup chicken.

In addition, although it is claimed that there are a total of 23 countries participating in the exhibition, each of the other 22 exhibits has only one exhibit - note that it is not a booth (laughs), so the outside world does not recognize the "world" nature of this expo, and the rice people are ashamed to argue due to the poor results.

But despite this, as the powerful of the New World, the Mi people are still eager for the outside world to recognize their strength.

And the arrival of the Fuso mission undoubtedly greatly satisfied the vanity of the master, and for a time the newspapers and the people discussed this matter, "We, no one else, were the first to open the door to the world's 'ancient' country!" "—It can't be said that Mito's "History of Fuso" is useless, no, it's a lame one. Of course, it's not easy to say much about this one's willingness to fight and the other's willingness to suffer.

Along with the boasting and praise came the "true description" of Fuso—"barbaric", "closed", and "backward", in order to contrast the wealth and civilization of the country, a large number of false rumors were published, and even some tabloids began to make up absurd stories.

These naturally deeply hurt the feelings of Saigo and other international students - in fact, there are no deep feelings, but people will inevitably have admiration in the face of a strong civilization, and the relationship between civilization and country, the relationship between the two is not easy to distinguish.

Speaking of anecdote, most of the international students who arrived in New York visited a person's grave - yes, Admiral Perry, who opened the Fuso gate with a black boat, died of rheumatism in March 1858, and as a local, his grave was in New York.

As the culprit who oppressed Fuso's founding of the country, everyone's feelings for this person are very complicated, hate, this surging trend and personal grievances are not easy to get together; I like it, it's true that Perry didn't do it at the time, but it's not good to be bullied and grateful to Dade.

In the face of the impact of Eastern and Western cultures, most international students are confused and confused.

However, the remarks of the rice people triggered by the visit of Hamrinmaru in 1860 completely punctured the illusion of friendliness, and everyone began to face up to the real world outside the ivory tower of Vanderbilt University.

Throughout his life, Saigo was deeply wary of Westerners, so although he was committed to promoting science and industry, he always insisted on "cultural exchanges and self-defense by force", and eventually became an alternative "lock-up party".

Before Saigo left Kitome in the summer of 1861, a lot of great things happened in the world:

In the Far East, in 1859 the English finally crushed the revolt that had spread on the Tianzhu continent since 1857, while the French invasion of Annam from 1858 onwards had not stopped.

At the same time, the hugely influential Yarrow War finally came to an end, and the battle between the Tang and the Anglo-Buddhist that began in 1856 ended in a great victory for the Anglo-Fosmen - unlike the original world of Naohide, the victory of the Anglo-Buddhist alliance was quite difficult.

Of course, Saigo only knew the general outline of this matter in the United States but didn't know the details, but after returning to Fuso, Okubo introduced him to the inside story.

Although the Armstrong breech naval guns still showed enough power, in

After conquering Beitang in early August 1860, the coalition forces were blown up by the black medicine they had already bought; As for the capture of Jinmen on August 24, he was harassed by the elusive cold gunners.

After the whole city of Dasuo, Ergin and Gro had a disagreement between the two Anglo-Buddhist envoys, Ge Luo insisted on continuing the offensive to "teach the opponent a greater lesson", but Ergin believed that "as soon as the Tang people changed their strategy of facing each other, they increased the number of guerrilla attacks, and this matter needs to be carefully considered." ”

Originally, Erjin, like Ge Luo, vowed to take revenge in front of the Beishang Jinmen - the second Dagukou fiasco in 1859 caused public opinion in the two countries to boil, and only then did he increase his troops in a big way.

But tactics must be subordinated to strategic needs, if the person is invincible, it is naturally easy to say, but it is obvious that the Tang people have changed, and the slight unsmoothness of the early war made the experienced Ergin a little alarmed, and he began to consider ensuring the fundamental purpose of this trip - to expand the market.

Lord John, the foreign secretary who had switched to the Partist Party, was a supporter of "Little Anglicanism" and favored a policy of "not blindly expanding the colonies and focusing on the development of free trade". Therefore, the defeat of the Qing imperial family was not Ergin's goal at all, but the expansion of trade after regaining face was his main task.

Considering that the opponent agreed to make another concession on the basis of the 1858 Tsumen agreement, does it still need to take unnecessary risks? - Of course, because of the Celtic John Jr. Brian, the traitor, coupled with the mention of Che Guevara, so the Qing court's seizure of the Pakus mission did not happen at all.

The reason for the change in the situation was that Guevara had previously informed the Qing court that "the British and the Buddha had no intention of defeating the imperial family, and everything was to expand trade and make money", and the Qing court envoys also confirmed this from the side in subsequent negotiations. Since this is the case, Emperor Xianfeng naturally offered better conditions.

Despite this, the coalition eventually continued to advance north, as both the coalition commanders, Clinton and Montauban, sided with Gro. After all, the glory of storming the capital of the Far East is very tempting, not to mention the great temptation of gold and silver treasures.

On the fourth day of the eighth lunar month (September 18, 1860), the Bali Bridge series of battles inevitably broke out - on the same day, about 3,500 allied troops suddenly launched an attack on Zhangjiawan. On the morning of the 21st, the coalition army of 5 or 6,000 men attacked Bali Bridge in the east, west, and south, with the South Road Buddhist Army as the main force.

Because of Naoxiu's incurrence, the breech gun appeared in advance, but in this battle, the breech gun was not the main weapon, but the Minnie front-loading rifled gun continued to exert residual heat.

The English did not use breech guns because most of the soldiers who participated in the war were colonial troops, and they were not afraid of rebellion when equipped; The reason why the Francis came from the regular army was even more ridiculous - the Mini gun was invented by the Francis themselves, and it shined in the Crimean War a few years ago, and the Lucians suffered heavy casualties, so it was respected as a gun of glory, and at this time the breech gun was easy to leak and hurt people and get stuck many times, so the Francis had not changed their equipment in large numbers.

As for the mature technology of the breech gun, Naoxiu was not stupid enough to go home, so it was not leaked out at all - the breech gun appeared in advance as a last resort, and at that time, one was to make money and the other was to fight Rucia.

As a result, the coalition forces were in big trouble at Bali Bridge - because the Tang people also used Mini guns; The rifled front-loading artillery coalition has an advantage, but there are mines and trenches; In addition, the prince of Bodol Gatai, Seng Grinqin, was instructed by the master and would rather die than let the cavalry charge in a group, so the Congreve rocket and the dense line of fire did not play its original role.

Moreover, Monk Greenqin is also an old fighter, and he also used a trick to drag the knife at the critical moment.

It turned out that it took a lot of effort for the coalition forces to conquer the Bali Bridge, but the cooperation between Britain and Buddhism finally showed loopholes. It may be that the Buddhist army Montauban led about 2,000 people forward and rushed across the Bali Bridge.

At this time, the horse team of Monk Lingqin finally appeared.

The ambush soldiers in the hidden cave near the position were the first to attack, and the chaotic Francis army did not block the decisive charge of the Tang centaurs this time, so the more than 2,000 Buddhas who crossed the bridge were almost completely annihilated.

After that, the British colonial army was constantly harassed and feinted in the process of retreating, so it finally collapsed under great pressure, and there were a total of five or six thousand forwards who invaded the Baliqiao area, but in the end only more than 400 were able to escape back to the rear to meet the army, which was definitely a tragedy

Defeat - General Montauban, a famous military adventurer, buried a crucial battle decades ahead of schedule. Of course, he rode fast and still saved his life.

And according to the deserters' reports, behind the Bali Bridge were countless ditches and bumps.

"This Tang man is smart, it's not easy to do!"

Erjin and Gro, the two envoys of England and Buddy, Clinton and Montauban, all have a headache, if they continue to fight like this in the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the remaining 10,000 people will definitely not be enough - it was originally more than 17,000 people, but more than 6,000 have been defeated by the Tang people, and if they continue to attack, they will have to divide their troops to defend the Jinmen and the back road.

Do you want to continue to attack desperately?

Erjin and Gro are both old and respectful, of course they should be cautious in their choices, but if they don't fight, what should they do with this face? How is the task completed?

China has the word "it is difficult to ride a tiger", and the West also has "Have a bear by the tail", which caught the tail of the bear, what do you say?

At this time, the opponent's Prince Gong came to negotiate peace, and the most important thing was that the conditions were not changed because of the big victory, and the coalition forces that died also proposed compensation compensation, so Ergin and Gro both intended to stop.

This expedition across the sea, this slight setback is inevitable.

After all, Jinmen is still in the hands of the coalition forces, who dares to say that the army has been defeated? What's more, this lion didn't catch it with a big mouth, but it was also meat in a small bite.

Wouldn't it be good to wait until I go back and find a way to fool the local people, and not delay the addition of officials to knighthoods.

Just when the two hesitated, Rusya's envoy Pirovsky put the last key nail in the matter:

At this time, the battle of Aihui that took place in May of that year had already spread, and Lucia lived up to expectations and became a big joke!

This can't beat the Tang regular army and there are excusable circumstances - of course, this evaluation is after the Battle of Bali Bridge, but before that, "I was careless again, I didn't bother to count how many times it happened".

But this "Sauron tribes" is just a tribal alliance, and there are no black volcanoes and saltwater lakes, how can they be defeated?

Because Pirovsky was rude, he was extremely unpopular as a special envoy, and although the Mi minister Lewilliam was in transit from him, he was still of little use.

Moreover, after receiving the news, Pirovsky tried his best to encourage Yingfo to fight, and the meaning of killing people with a knife was too obvious, and Ergin and Gro did not bother to pay attention to him.

Now that the Battle of Bali Bridge was defeated by Britain and Buddhism, Pirovsky jumped up and down more and more, saying that "Lucia will also send troops immediately, and then the three families together will inevitably destroy the Qing court."

It's not good, how can I drop, I don't give great Britain and France, besides, when will you arrive?

Besides, even if we win, only you, Lucia, and the border with the Tang people border, then we will contribute, but won't the bulk of the benefits fall into your hands?

Moreover, Prince Gong Yixun also told the British envoy Erjin that "long-distance friendship and close attack are the way of foreign affairs, so I only gave in, because there was no fundamental conflict between the two families, and it was all instigated by Lucia" - Pirovsky used to tempt the Qing court with dozens of truckloads of ordnance, hoping that the two ends would be sold well and then make a lot of money, but now against the scene, this is a sin.

After the two British and Buddhist envoys confirmed that the Tang people had the intention of "uniting Britain to resist Lu", they were quite moved - the British blockade of Lucia as a coastal country was the national policy at this time, and France hoped to expand its influence in helping Britain and Lu, so if they could really pull the Tang people on the ship of "resisting Lu", it would be a great achievement for both of them.

As a result, the "fierce loyalty" of the Lu envoy Pirovsky finally played a role - of course, it was counterproductive, and then the Anglo-Buddhist and Tang quickly negotiated peace and signed a new Jinmen agreement, and the Yaluo War, which lasted for nearly four years, finally came to an end.

Because the Battle of Bali Bridge resisted, in fact, the Tang people were not as badly damaged as in the original world of Naoxiu. And because it retained a lot of vitality, the subsequent Westernization Restoration also went a lot smoother.

But while the east wind is surging, the rest of the world is not peaceful.

Saigo paid extra attention to these news, hoping that "the Western powers would mess with themselves", and the facts did not disappoint him too much.