If the reformers were in control of their internal opponents in Fuso, then the only thing they were worried about was the turmoil of the Western countries:

Not to mention anything else, people's ships are strong and artillery, and the blockade of the sea route alone is enough for everyone to drink a pot.

But with Zhixiu here, is this foreigner's problem still a problem?

In a word, 1867-1868 was the window period for the Far East, and if you want to carry out any internal innovations, please do it as soon as possible, otherwise it will become obsolete!

Why?

Just look at it and you can see that last year's Bingyin Yang disturbed France and the rice people suffered a big loss, isn't that it.

After all, Prussia is about to rise, and the countries of Europa are too busy to take care of themselves; And the Mi people experienced a great loss of vitality after the war between the north and the south, and they couldn't toss it if they wanted to.

In addition, other circumstances also determined that 1867-1868 was a rare window of innovation in the Far East:

First, the second world economic crisis has erupted in the past two years.

Therefore, there is one count, and none of the Western countries are willing to make a big move - this is different from later generations, the crisis at this time is really a crisis, the kind of national turmoil, not only the economic malaise.

Moreover, the grain failure in Europa in recent years will be worse by next year, 1868.

In this case, if the foreigners still dare to use troops on a large scale, it is really uncomfortable for the old man to hang himself - have you heard of the mutiny?

Second, the Suez Canal will be opened in 1869.

At that time, the voyage will be greatly reduced, and it will not be too cool for Europa to send ships to the Far East to intervene.

In addition, in two years, the submarine cables from Europa to Tianzhu and to Xiangjiang will be laid. At that time, no matter what the wind and grass were, it was not so easy to do tricks.

To put it bluntly, at this time, the reformers only need to deal with the ministers of various countries and let them not make extraneous troubles.

And Fusang is far less remote than China, and even the ministers of these countries are not popular students and hope stars, so these people don't have any big extravagance:

Entire events, brush up on the sense of existence, and ask for a promotion to make a fortune.

And if it really makes a big deal, in case it is difficult to end and provokes the local center to be furious, why bother?

Here I have to talk about the cleverness of Naoxiu:

At that time, he devoted himself to the development of the Northland, although the main reason was other - taking advantage of the turmoil of the founding of Fuso and the lack of attention of the shogunate to develop his power, but it was also his far-sighted strategy to resist the expansion of Lucia in the Far East.

You know, if it weren't for his indiscriminate incursions, Britain and Buddhism would have attached more importance to Fuso, which the two powers regarded as a bridgehead to contain Lucia.

The traditional and powerful England has always been heavily armed, not to mention, and even Francie later invested a lot of money:

Not only has it been stationed in Yokohama, but its naval army in Fuso is also quite strong.

In June 1883, after expansion, a separate "Buddha Province Edo Fleet" was formed, and the total number of ships reached 25!

But things are very different today:

Because of Naoxiu's troublemaking, Lucia not only failed to seize the mouth of the Wulong River, but also suffered a great loss of vitality in its Far Eastern territory.

Therefore, without the Lu people eyeing the side, Yingfo's attention to Fusang has been greatly reduced.

This is also one of the reasons why Naohide has confidence in handling the ministers of various countries.

As for how to get it?

It's not enough to get the right medicine, so easy!

In fact, what the envoys were most concerned about was the three-point results of the joint warships of the four countries in September, which were the regular opening of ports, the opening of the country, and the change of taxes.

With regard to the regular opening of the port, this reformist faction will not overthrow, so the guaranteed performance of the ministers is there;

As for the opening of the country, the reformers could not ask for it, and naturally they would not oppose it;

The only thing that needs to be overturned is the change of taxes.

However, Naoxiu has already thought about the price, Fuso's modernization is weak, and it is inevitable to introduce foreign capital, and this exchange is enough for them to explain to the center:

Although England is the most industrially powerhouse, after all, the land is scarce and the people are sparse, so its industrial potential has bottomed out now, and the trend of financialization has begun to be unstoppable - in the next twenty years, its capital will pour into the country of the rice people.

Isn't it a difference between who you vote for and who you don't vote for?

As for the financial industry in the Buddhist country, the history of prestige is much longer than that of the British, so there is no problem.

The only thing to worry about is whether you can make money by investing in Fuso?

But for this, the ministers are more confident than Naoxiu.

Worried about the financier's passing by plucking his feathers, gouging out his eyes quickly, and even squeezing out oil from the sand, worrying about this is the biggest insult to his profession!

As long as the Anglo-Buddhist minister is dealt with, the little Vanderbilt of the Mi people is not a problem:

It turned out that because of the outbreak of the second world economic crisis, the British began to engage in malicious competition against the shipbuilding industry, and this situation was not alleviated until twenty or thirty years later.

Now Fusang is willing to accept the transfer of the Miren shipyard, and Vanderbilt Jr. is not willing to accept this-now his family is second to none in the shipbuilding industry, even if he doesn't care about others, can't he even care about himself?

Once the British, Buddha, and Mi ministers agreed, the rest of the Lan, Prussia, and Lucia were floating clouds:

is willing to go along and pick up some scraps to burn cold;

I don't want to, well, who has time to pay attention to you.

And the reformers are not afraid of foreigners, after seven years of continuous improvement, there is a gyroscope of the fish ~ mine, although it is not a big killer, but with a small clipper,

Playing a raid is still quite intimidating.

Therefore, these deeds did not need to be done by Nao-su in person, and Qingyong and the foreign commissioners ended the matter completely.

And after arranging the foreigners, the reformers who went to the hidden dangers didn't start to let go:

On October 24, 1867, Naohide occupied Osaka as a pioneer and sent a "list of traitors" to Kyoto.

Naohide led a strong army to sit in, and the reformists began to rush forward in various places.

The first to be pacified was the shogunate.

On October 20, Edo opened the castle bloodlessly and unified the new shogunate army, and the new army began to clear up in the Kanto region.

"After the rape, the princes discuss the big policy", who supports and who opposes it?

With a hand of food and a stick in the other, naturally no one dares not to be interested.

And in order to show loyalty, the soldiers and horses who joined later were extra powerful - the poor Toda family of Utsunomiya was a little hesitant, but the Ando family of Mutsu Iwaki Taira couldn't wait to take the lead in sweeping it away.

Who made the Sakashitamon Incident (1862) planned behind the scenes by the Toda family's retainers?

This anger Ando's family has been holding back for five years, and now how can they still bear it.

In addition, the Toda family actively renovated the Imperial Tomb afterwards and was an ironclad king-honoring faction.

And now the king means opposing the founding of the country, and the reformers are making an example of chickens and monkeys, which is not what the Toda family found themselves.

After the Toda family disappeared, whether the Kwantung princes wanted it or not, they could only be summoned and honestly signed the "Petition for Adultery" and the "Great Political Return" - after all, the "Great Political Confession" wanted "public discussion", and when you studied it carefully, each family actually had nothing to lose.

The real unlucky ones are the famous names of the original shogunate genealogy, such as the Sakai family, and it will be difficult for them to easily influence the government in the future. But the reason why the famous family is called the famous door, it must be a small number, if it is as many as a big root, the famous door is not worth much.

Qingyong led people to remove the remnants of the Kanto region, and of course the reformers in other places refused to lag behind:

Four of them were the first to be decided.

Tosa and Uwajima joined forces, relying on the eloquence of the "long-faced marquis" Date Munejo, and they didn't let Tosa make any big splashes - poor Yoshida Motoyoshi's strong army built up more than ten years of painstaking solitude has become the help of Date Mouyu.

And on the island of Kyushu, there is a fierce man named Shimazu Saibin, plus Satsuma, Saga and Chikuzen Fukuoka are fierce, and the two feudal clans of Kumamoto and Kurume verbally protested, and then the entire Kyushu family took advantage of the trend to follow the reformers.

As for the Sanyo Province in the western part of Honshu, it was Choshu who was the thug and Fukuyama who was prepared to preside over the overall situation.

It turned out that when he came to such a field, the prestige of the former old middle school first Abe Masahiro, he couldn't sit still.

When the black ship came to visit Fuso to open the country, as the leader of the reconciliation faction, Abe bridged left and right, but he couldn't suppress the division within the shogunate, so he was discouraged and resigned while he was sick - if it weren't for Naohide's inconvenience, this one would have died of illness like Jiamao and Qi Bin.

Don't look at Abe as an old-timer, because he became famous very early, he is only 49 years old this year.

The Restoration faction was sent to Qingyong in the second year of Wenjiu, and the earliest basic plate, except for the enlightened shogunate, was the original conciliatory princes.

This time, at the invitation of Kei Yongyan's letter and the instigation of his retainers, Abe, the "Wisdom Shizhou", finally came out of the mountain again.

In fact, Abe also saw that this victory or defeat will definitely determine the future direction of Fuso, such a major event, if you miss it, there will be no more.

And because he always stood in the wrong line—the navigation strategy, the shelling of Shimonoseki, the change of August 18, and the change of the Aoi Festival, Changzhou could not afford to lose this time, so it was extremely fierce after the army.

There is Abe, who has amazing prestige and long sleeves and is good at dancing, plus Changzhou, which has amazing combat power, who can withstand the princes of Shanyang Dao.

And, at this time, good news also came from Hokuriku:

The soldiers and horses of the Restoration faction in the Kanto region were mainly Kitachi, Mutsu Okuha, and the Restoration princes, but because of the long distance, Keiyong's own Echizen soldiers did not appear.

But fortunately, Keinaga is the leader of the reform faction, so the soldiers and horses of Echizen are also holding back their strength to make a big one.

And what they are eyeing is the Kaga Maeda family, known as the deputy general of the world - the Maeda family is one million high, and it is the highest prince in the territory except for the Tokugawa shogunate.

Although the Maeda family has been a slippery head for generations, so they are unwilling to express their stance easily, but as the news from all over the world continues to come, the Maeda family also reacted quickly - once the slippery head makes up his mind, the speculation must not be faster than anyone else.

Waiting for the Echizen and Maeda families to join forces to stand on the side of the reformers, where can Hokuriku Province dare to have other noises.

So, on November 20, Keinaga arrived in Osaka, and before he waited until the end of the month, the situation in Fuso was completely clear:

If you don't count the northern land, according to the ancient system, Fuso is divided into five and seven provinces.

But now, in addition to Owari, Higashiyamado (Mutsu, Dewa), Hokuriku, Sanyo Road, Nankaido (Shikoku Island), and Saikaido (Kyushu Island), all of the seven provinces, except for San'in~do, are all under the banner of the Restoration.

And the remaining San'in ~ Dao, whether it is the past and the present, or even counting the future, is a famous poor place in Fuso, and the influence cannot be said to be none, but it is about equal to nothing.

As for Goki, except for Yamashiro Province, where Kyoto is located, the others were also lured by Naohide with food.

The general trend has gone, and even the Kyoto small court and Keiki themselves are desperate.

Originally, the four brothers, Sang and Takasu, had a lot of forces rushing to Kyoto to save the princes. But by the end of November, as if the snow and ice had melted, everyone was gone.

That's when you see Fuso

The cleverness of the princes:

Kyoto was heavily guarded, and it was difficult for the brigade to get out, so these princes took a few cronies and ran away in disguise. When they ran to Osaka, they sent a letter to their subordinates to leave.

At this time, Qingxi and the others did not dare to be too persecuted.

Therefore, the whole family can escape victoriously.

At the beginning, the small court in Kyoto and the Qingxi family were still counting on Cao Mengde's fight against Ma Chao to be staged again - after all, the princes gathered in Osaka, and this competition of interests led to infighting or something, and it was normal to disperse in a hurry.

But they didn't expect that there was experience on the other side.

When Naoxiu was in the original world, he admired the flexibility of these people who fell behind the curtain:

These people first respected the king, and when they found that they did not succeed, they quickly became the king and fell;

But after the curtain fell successfully, they played a hand of the version and returned it;

Seeing that the edition has not caused a large-scale backlash, then they began to abolish the feudal county and the equality of the four people;

Later, it was discovered that the old and new elites began to merge, and these people expanded the scope of the Chinese people.

……

Although there are mistakes and the persecution of the current situation, it cannot be said that it is the result of careful consideration at the beginning, but in the end, this routine can be called endless.

First play the shogunate, then dissolve the princes, and finally defeat the samurai, this step by step, never want to make too many enemies, always digest the stomach first and then eat the second bite.

With these examples, Naoxiu can't just copy it.

Therefore, although the princes gathered in Osaka, the reformers did not get carried away, and everything focused on "raping" and "returning the great government":

To fight for adultery is to purge the Qingxi faction that overthrew the reformers at the beginning of the year;

And the return of the great government is the future plan of Fuso.

The so-called great government is returned, and the reformers explain that it is to change the government to the people and the princes to govern it. In fashionable terms, it can actually be interpreted as the formation of Fuso Lianbang.

As for what to do in the future, the rice should be eaten in one bite, and we will talk about it when Lianbang starts it.

And the result of the stalemate between the two sides is that Kyoto can't stand it first:

One is that the tree is falling and scattered, which understands that there are not too many people;

In addition, when is it now, Keio is a murderer.

Naohide didn't need to block the grain route, as long as he ensured that the food he raised would not flow in, Kyoto would not be able to support itself.

Kyoto and Yamashiro Province are a consumption area, not a production area at all. The more people there are, the more serious the food problem is, and there is no need to eat without food, who doesn't tremble just by watching the price of food soar!

During this period, it was not that no one came out with a moth, taking the stranded general Jiamao and his wife as hostages, as well as the decisive battle of jade shattering, and even burning Kyoto to win sympathy, all of which were proposed.

But after all, this is reality, not illusion, how can these ridiculous and bizarre theories be realized.

So, on December 9, after a meeting of the small imperial palace, the imperial court finally issued the "Great Political Restoration Order", which accepted the proposal of the reformers in its entirety:

The little emperor abdicated, and the palace took over, and his husband Jun Jiashige stepped down as the general of the Seiyi and became the prince, and then the imperial court and the shogunate returned the great government to the people - in fact, it was not about the people and the townspeople, but the princes and the princes discussed the government.

And Qingxi and others, because there was no big war, also fell into the leniency, but it was just a fine and resignation.

In addition to the intimidation of the Restorationists' aggression, there was also the factor of "300 years of chaos".

This view is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and with the current situation as evidence, everyone knows that Fuso is bound to change drastically.

People's hearts are like water, and the general trend is the same.

Since it's going to change anyway, what's unacceptable?

This initiative to retreat, how much can you leave some capital.

On December 10, the envoy entered Osaka, and the guilty minister was accompanied by Jing Jing, and the people were watching in the empty alleys at that time. Now that the heroes of the Restoration are gathered here, Zhixiu doesn't have to worry too much, so he also smiled and led people to watch.

But at this moment, a sentence floated behind him, which made him laugh:

"Wake up, I used to fight for Fusang, and from now on, I will work hard for my own glory and wealth!"

Naohide turned his head to look, and it turned out to be Okada Izo and the newly emerging battleship head to take the box Pavilion Left Guard muttering together.

He wanted to teach a lesson, but after thinking about it, what they said was right:

If there is no "self", then all righteousness is not just water without a source and a tree without roots, and in the end, they will all become outright hooligans.

Moreover, in the process of civilization and enlightenment, in addition to education, there is also the building of legal principles and legal systems.

In order to develop these, we must pay attention to people's livelihood and civil rights.

As far as he knew, because this big hole had not been honestly filled, all the countries of the Far East had suffered greatly—and the problem had not been completely solved until he entered the mess.

It's a long way to go, and it's up to Okubo, Saigo, and Ryoma in the future.

In the midst of the laughter and laughter around him, Fuso began a new chapter.

End:

In the spring of 1868, the first year of the reign of the People's Republic of China, the Fuso Mission, which had participated in the Paris World Exposition, returned with honors.

Despite the fact that this was a comprehensive exposition with the theme of agriculture, the electric light of the Fuso Mission was widely praised, "The light from the east illuminates the palace of the west!" ”

Since then, instead of the original family and bloodline, science has gradually become a new belief that can satisfy oneself.

(End of book, thanks for reading)