The second year of Bunkyu (1862) was actually a very good time for Fuso to innovate.

Why?

From the outside, the Western powers have no time to look eastward:

The Crimean War (1853-1856) had just ended, and not long after the world economic crisis of 1857 ended, and after the Battle of Yarrow (1856-1860) two years earlier, the Europa powers were really a little war-weary, at least Fuso, a mosquito leg, everyone was not very interested.

Moreover, Mizhou was the focus of the world at this time, attracting the attention of almost all Western powers:

On April 12, 1861, the war between the north and the south officially broke out, and in today's eastern battlefield, the south of the rice people has been defeated by the north, and it seems that it is a good opportunity for the outside to intervene to "take advantage of his illness to kill him".

The Trent incident in November 1861 provided such a good opportunity, when the Northern navy recklessly intercepted the English cruise ship "Trent" and captured two envoys from the south to Europa.

This incident quickly aroused the dissatisfaction of the British government and the public, and the British government sent an official note to the northern part of the Mi people, threatening to go to war, demanding that the matter be properly resolved.

This is not a rhetoric, as the first power, England has a fierce style, and immediately sent a fleet to Quebec in the north to send 8,000 soldiers to the border to watch.

And not only that, it also handed over a new type of warship to the south of the Mi people, which was the cruiser "Alabama" that later made the north quite embarrassed.

The eldest brother who took the lead made a move, and the younger brothers who wanted to share the soup naturally only had to follow closely, and Francis, Prussia, and Osmaga also echoed the British, demanding that the north of the rice people immediately release the two southern envoys who had been captured.

And for the rice people, what is even more deceitful is that at this time, the southern neighbor Mexica, is stationed with Francis soldiers, and it is not too easy for these powerful people to take advantage of the fire to rob:

In 1860, Juárez and others won the "War of Innovation" in Mexica. Owing to financial difficulties, it was decided the following year to suspend the payment of external debt for two years. On October 31, 1861, Britain, France, and Spania signed an agreement to invade Mexico.

In December of that year, 6,000 Spanians captured Veracruz; In January 1862, 700 British troops and 2,000 French troops landed in Mexico.

In February, the parties held negotiations in La Soledar.

In April 1862, England and Spania withdrew their troops, but Francie gained an inch, increasing its strength to 6,500 men, and then formally declared war on Mexica.

By July 1862, the French army had swelled to 34,000 men.

At this time, it has been less than forty years since the Monroe Declaration was issued, and the words of "Mizhou of Mizhou" are still in my ears, but the soldiers and horses of the Europa powerhouses have entered Mizhou in a big way, and the Mi people have nothing to do about it.

If this Francis went north from Mexica, merged with the south, and then attacked the north together, the Mi people would probably face an even worse crisis.

To sum up, the rice people, who have been established for less than a hundred years, are facing tremendous pressure from inside and outside, and if they fall apart, they will leave huge benefits for others to eat.

Therefore, all the Western powers are salivating, who still cares about what happened to the distant island country of Fuso.

When this tiger and wolf don't pay attention, isn't it a good opportunity for self-improvement?

At this time, the conditions for internal innovation in Fuso were also good:

In the second year of Bunkyu (1862), the prestige of the small imperial court in Kyoto had not yet been established.

At this time, in addition to the so-called righteous name of the imperial court, the real reliable power in its hands was only a few instigated ronin, and the princes who came close to each other were all under the idea of taking advantage of the opportunity to make profits, and they wanted to harden the shogunate, which was no hope at all.

Why is it said that the weakness of the small court at this time is good?

That's what Naohide thinks about this,

This small court and the shogunate are worse than bad at this time, and the shogunate is still good.

You don't see, before the curtain was successfully overthrown, the small court was in a daze, and there was no brain at all, and Fusang was completely finished.

During this period, its only achievement may be to get the government and the opposition in Fuso to reach a consensus, "it seems that the country will be wiped out, and it will not work without thorough reform."

As a result, his teammate Shogunate, as a symbol of the old era, was completely wiped out - from this point of view, the Shogunate's combination of public and military forces was to find a pig teammate to kill himself.

In the period of the Restoration after the fall of the curtain, the small court of Fusang was all kinds of hind legs, manipulating people's hearts, fighting for power, and then fooling the people in various ways, which can be called a hundred years of harm.

Later generations said that the Fusang Restoration was not easy and all kinds of rare, so they praised the small court more, but in fact, everything was done by others, and the small court just took the merit - have you ever heard of picking fruits, it is these people who are talking about.

In the original world of Naoxiu, everyone's consensus is:

"The Fuso royal family played the role of a banner in the Restoration, promoting the unity of forces, and as a symbol of Fuso society, it was conducive to the formation of national consciousness."

Translated into human words, it is "the mascot is not easy to find, it is good to have one, and cherish it".

But in Naohide's opinion, it was not easy to overthrow the shogunate mountain, and it didn't take long for the royal family to become the overlord father again, what a bother, fortunately, it was taken away in a wave, clean, refreshing, how good is this.

Of course, a good meal is not afraid of being late, things have to be done step by step.

Compared to the Imperial Family, although the shogunate is not a good cake, but after all, there are still desires and actions for innovation at this time, so let's make do with it first, and then talk about it first, before you are ready, after all, you must cherish resources and use waste as much as possible.

Therefore, in the second year of Bunkyu (1862), the small imperial court had not yet torn Fuso apart, and there was still a little foundation of mutual trust between the shogunate and the princes, and the government and the opposition were interested in innovation, so Naohide thought that the internal conditions were good.

After this village, there is no such shop.

When it comes to Keio innovation later, it's not so much about innovation, but actually about the shogunate's self-help, and it really doesn't have much to do with saving Fuso or something.

Moreover, in addition to the external enemy's sideways and internal consensus, there are also benefits in addition to these benefits:

Today's turmoil in Fuso stems from the shortage of goods and soaring prices caused by the opening of the port to the outside world, but Fuso will soon get a respite.

In 1860, 85% of Europa's cotton came from the south of the United States, and from now until the end of the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, the supply of cotton in the south of the rice people was gradually reduced to zero.

As for cotton yarn and cotton cloth, they account for more than half of the total imports, which effectively alleviates the trade impact of Fuso.

In addition, there are two more positives:

The rice people themselves are in full swing, and they don't care about trade with Fuso at all, which is one;

On the other hand, it has been two years since the Battle of Yarrow ended, and although there is still a long-haired rebellion in China, foreign trade has also recovered, so it has also invisibly reduced a lot of pressure on Fuso.

Therefore, at this time, the long-term innovation of the time, place, and people are basically complete.

Originally, it didn't do a good job because of too much appetite and operation errors; But now that Naohide has been in chaos for so many years, the shogunate and Fuso have saved some more foundation, and if it doesn't work out, hehe, the shogunate should die!

And today's Hashimoto Tsunaki Reception Banquet is actually related to the next big move of Wenjiu's innovation - it's really impossible for everyone to come over and hold their boots when they have nothing to do.

Although Tsunaki Hashimoto doesn't have any service now, all the people here are well-informed, and they have long known that the shogunate elder Keinaga wants him to take over two major things:

One is the establishment of a Western-style university in Edo.

The other is even more remarkable, supposedly

It was Hashimoto himself who asked for the construction of a Western-style shipyard.

And these two things actually originated in Yokohama Quanye Bank.

The purpose of this reform was to rebuild the shogunate system externally, to eliminate the old evils internally, and to promote the industry—as for the combination of public and military forces, it was actually only one way to rebuild the shogunate system.

Why do you say that the shogunate system should be rebuilt?

Of course, the original shogunate system could no longer be maintained.

In the past, the shogunate had the Tokugawa family as the backbone and the daimyo of the pedigree as the minions, while the outer daimyo only had the share of the slippery side to be angry. But the reason why this can be maintained, in addition to the advantage of force, is also that the shogunate is not just taking advantage of the advantage, it is also responsible:

Maintaining the stability of the families and even Fuso was the most important task of the shogunate.

For example, during the Tenpo Famine (1833-1839), the shogunate repeatedly mobilized food to help the princes.

But since the opening of the port to the outside world in 1859, Fuso has been turbulent and the people have no livelihood, and then all over the country has flocked, but the shogunate has no way to do it - it was a natural disaster in the past, and the east wall was demolished to make up the west wall. Now it's a man-made disaster, and it's more widespread, and the shogunate has no tricks.

But that's okay, the shogunate didn't care about the lives of others, and actually came up with such a loss trick as Wanyan coinage and Wenjiu Yidang's four big coins, and under the crazy rise in prices, everyone looked, "Hey, this is not the shogunate's beggar-thy-neighbor", so they completely centrifuged - especially the princes of the western country, because these families suffered more losses in Wanyan coinage.

It's just that everyone supports Qi Zhao and his family to engage in the combination of public and military forces to respect the king, and exclude the factor of ambition, which is basically due to this reason.

Now that Qingxi and Qingyong are in power, these two have learned their lesson and began to compensate the princes.

How to compensate for it?

The four major evils of the Shogunate's military service, the Shogunate's Invitation, and the Zhuzhongma Franchise are called the four evils, so let's start from these four aspects:

In fact, in the first year of Ansei (1854), the monopoly trade guild "Zhu Nakama" had been disbanded by order of Masahiro Abe, the first old middle school at that time. However, in the first year of Wanyan (1860), the Gobin Edo Rebellion led to the fact that Yokohama now has a nameless "Zhu Nakama".

Therefore, at the same time as the establishment of the Yokohama Bank, the shogunate liberalized the license and allowed merchants to trade directly with foreigners.

In fact, there is a reason for this:

The unified purchase and sale of these five products in Edo was to control foreign trade. Suffering from the three-month account period, businessmen came to the bank to mortgage the bill to withdraw cash, so through the bank, they could still manipulate the market.

Therefore, deregulation is nothing - of course, the interests of the original monopoly businessmen are damaged.

As for the other three, the pilgrimage explained and assisted the military service of the shogunate, and the hand servant, in fact, this is now not called the princes of the family, so it is also lightened.

Therefore, the shogunate decided to alleviate these two arrangements, and the princes had not yet benefited.

Not to mention that once every two years has become once every three years, allowing the wives and important ministers of the princes to return to their hometowns is very happy.

At that time, the families of the princes and samurai returning home from Edo crowded the roads.

But Edo is known as a million people, and there are countless small people who depend on these people in the prefecture to survive, and these people have run away, what can they do to make a living?

If you don't want to recruit townspeople who don't have a livelihood to make trouble, then Edo will be in chaos, so Keinaga and other important ministers thought of a way to follow the example of Yokohama Koye Bank, establish a Western-style university and various industries, and then recruit people back.

And this burden fell on the shoulders of Tsunaki Hashimoto.

Zhixiu contributed to this and agreed very much:

Well done, there is no bond of interest, who is innovating with your shogunate!

And all the guests who have stayed until now are undoubtedly important participants in this, just waiting for Hashimoto to reveal some inside information.