This year, the reformers have lost their momentum, but most of them can get out of the way, and they really think that the opponent's knife is unfavorable, which is simply impossible.

Speaking of which, there is one reason, their strength is so strong that people dare not act rashly.

Now, Zhixiu and others will be able to make a comeback in half a year, what does this mean, I believe anyone with a heart can figure it out now-isn't it just the old routine of wanting to promote the first and lead the snake out of the hole.

Where in the world is there an impermeable wall!

Before the celebration of the second month of the new year and the start of Sakai Tadashi, the reformists had already received rumors. If we really follow the general thinking of the reformers at that time, there would have been no such thing as a later occurrence:

It's true that Matsudaira Keinaga is a gentleman, but no matter how gentleman he is, he can't be humble about seizing power;

And Shimazu Qibin's temperament is even more resolute and strong, it is impossible to back down, and the front is hard just now!

As for the rest of the reformers, there were also more supporters of a complete reversal at that time.

But after the persuasion of Naohide, Tsunaki Hashimoto, Saigo Takanaga and others, everyone decided to endure this last time.

The so-called "punishment without teaching is called abuse", but "teaching without changing, punishing it, it is called the royal way".

To put it bluntly, the mind of the reformers is to take the opportunity to wipe out their opponents!

Is it so crazy?

It's really like that.

Unlike Yoshiki, Sakai and others, who had been staring at the imperial court, the shogunate's important ministers, and the princes, through these years of down-to-earth work, the vision of the reformists has long surpassed the past:

There is a hair to look at from the top down, and now you have to learn to look down and up!

We all know that it is a "change unseen in three thousand years", so don't you take the initiative to find death if you rest on your laurels.

Yes, Fusang has been turbulent and weakened since the opening of the port to the outside world, but the more this is the case, the more important the strength is.

Moreover, Keiki, Sakai and others played too much with their intrigues and tricks, and they actually fooled themselves and tried to use the power of the imperial court and the shogunate to overthrow the reformers.

What do you think?

In the past, the "righteousness" and reputation were useful, but the people and the rice riots have proposed "changing the world", and now the credibility of the government is completely gone, you know!

But the Restorationists are different, the basic plate is solid:

Yes, since the opening of the port to the outside world, Fusang has been in turmoil, but those who are willing to bury their heads in work, as long as they persevere, it is better to develop than those who think about intrigue and power and profit all day long.

Because of Naohide, the innovations of Keinaga, Oguri Tadashun and others no longer patronize the military situation, and have always attached equal importance to the military and the people, so don't look at the upper echelons of the shogunate who are wary of the reformers, but the middle and lower classes and the people welcome it very much.

After all, no one can fool anyone who is not for the rest of their lives.

Hokkaichi, which was developed by Naohide, Echizen Domain of Keiei, Kagoshima of Saibin, Tosa, Choshu, Saga, Uwajima, Kuroda House of Chikuzen, and Izu Nirayama, etc., are all reborn from the ashes because of their effective management.

Even the traditional backwoods of Michinoku and Dewa helped to reclaim Ezo in the sixth year of Ansei (1859), and under the influence of the Northland Economic Circle, it was also changing with each passing day.

Combined, these powerful reform forces alone led more than 500 people.

That's all, only the core forces that the reformers can firmly control are counted, and if the goodwill forces are counted, the strength is even more incalculable.

As for Keiki, Sakai and others, on the surface, the power is really huge.

The four brothers, Huisan and Takasu, plus some decrepit genealogy daimyos, and even their in-laws and allies, seemed to have a territory of four or five million stones.

But in fact, the virtual is not good, the upper and lower centrifugation, the paper tiger is undoubted!

As soon as this head-on conflict arises, they will definitely be exposed.

In the past, the reformers were suppressed and did not fight back fiercely, only because they were unknown—these opponents were not good at doing things, but their methods were superb, so they could not grasp the key points at all.

Therefore, as soon as Naoxiu and others proposed a plan to lure the snake out of the hole, the more the reformers thought about it, the better it became:

In the past, the reformers were repeatedly picky about everything they did, but in the troubled times, they did not have too many sore feet to carry out innovation;

Now, simply let go of the opponent to perform, this has a contrast, and I believe that the truth will be revealed to the world. At that time, whether it is round or flat, it is not at the disposal of the reformers.

The only thing to worry about is what to do if the fake becomes true?

In case the other party goes to the shit luck to stabilize the situation, or really changes the past and starts to do practical things, it will be troublesome.

"You're in control!"

In this regard, Naoxiu absolutely dares to pat his chest.

He asserted that these five scumbags may not survive for a year after coming to power.

Why?

Of course, it's because Keio is murderous.

After all, Naoxiu has also been the chief acting official of the world for less than three years, and with his heart, he knows Fusang's economy well-the so-called "chief acting official of the world", in fact, he has no real power, it is just a joke. In order to reward the white lord and win over the princes, Naohide was appointed as the Shogunate's surveyor, and his duty was to contact the princes to engage in colonization and industrial development.

But what kind of character is Zhixiu, and if you give a little light, you will shine it, so you can do it quite well.

Not to mention anything else, the murderous attack that was supposed to break out in the second year of Keio (1866) was suppressed by his co-ordination.

But this pressure is only temporary.

Among them, many princes disobeyed the yin and yang, holding the mind of "the sky is falling and there is a big man on top", and they did not take it seriously from the reminder of the great famine of Zhixiu, and they were still frantically changing the farmland into mulberry gardens and tea houses.

Naoxiu definitely can't check it one by one, but there is a record of the Dojima Rice Club.

He took out the default records of the Osakadoshima Rice Club in the past three years, and the reformists were shocked at that time!

I knew it was serious, but I didn't expect it to be so serious now:

Originally, the Dojima Rice Club, as the largest grain trading place in Fuso, could not only trade cash rice, but also sign forward contracts.

According to the record, forward contracts have been in default in recent years, and more than one year after another.

What does this mean?

In fact, it is very simple, that is, the grain production in various places is constantly declining, and every year it is much lower than in the past.

As for whether it was a fuss, or whether it was caused by changing a large amount of cultivated land to mulberry gardens and tea houses, this is "the benevolent see the benevolent, and the wise see the wise".

In fact, Naohide also played the same information to the shogunate before, but despite the many appeals of the president of political affairs, Keinaga, it was not very effective:

First, everyone thinks Naoxiu is alarmist.

In today's era, it would be good for Naoxiu to come up with evidence, where can he do everything, so it gives others room to question.

The second one is "nothing to do with yourself".

Now it is the reformers who are in power, and they will die first if something goes wrong. Moreover, there are people who wish something would happen.

However, now that Naoxiu has added some new information, and after all these years of running-in within the Restoration, there is a foundation of trust in Naoxiu, so everyone finally believes it.

At this point, the plan to lure the snake out of the hole was passed.

In fact, not everyone is convinced, and the president of political affairs, Qingyong, disagrees with this.

According to his thoughts, the reformers have no merit and hard work, and they have always put the overall situation as the priority to make forbearance, even if they are not satisfied with themselves, it is impossible to do it behind their backs, so don't they talk about upright martial virtues?

But in February, Qingyong was planted firmly,

This time, he really understood, so he was completely disappointed and resigned in anger, and waited for Keio's murder to break out and complete a counterattack.

How hard it was suppressed at that time, how fierce the rebound was after that.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and what the reformers did not expect was that

The ministers of various countries actually jumped out to steal the show.

This is really not a ghost made by Naoxiu, he is not so bottomless - since Ping Tui can win, then why bother to belittle himself.

Perhaps because of the defeat of the Bingyin Yangyu last year, seeing the fall of the reformers and the subsequent loss of control of the situation in Fuso, the Westerners actually threatened to take the sea with the joint fleet of the four countries on September 16.

According to the original plan of the reformers, the outbreak will start at the Kyoto Gongwu Cooperative Conference in February next year.

But since the opportunity has come, it can't be missed.

Therefore, after learning of this, Naohide preemptively attacked, and the army of the Hokkaido King landed in Nakaminato on October 2, and then ~ entered Edo.

Qingyong, the former president of political affairs, who received the news temporarily, also hurried to the scene on 5 October.

At this time, the parties to the Restoration had already acted as planned:

On the one hand, the princes of Mutsu, Dewa and even the Kanto region have written and sent troops to support;

On the other hand, the new army of the shogunate began to clamor.

In the final analysis, the shogunate has no money in recent years, so the salary of the new army is not high, and it can be maintained by invisible benefits. As for welfare, most of them are cheap grain and salted fish and other specialties in the Northland.

Because Naoxiu and others are willing to suffer silently, no one usually notices this - it's not that no one has found out, it's just that how Xiaobing supports his family, there are almost no high-level people who are willing to care.

And even if this was discovered, who would have thought that the Hakodate Office would be the opposite?

This is the old vision to see the new problem.

Hakodate pursues the rampant soldiers of the township, and there is no reason not to make trouble in ordinary times. But now that there is a call for a straight show, what can you do if you change it before?

It's not as good as raising one's own children, not to mention the Hakodate people, who have never been looked down upon by the Sakai family, who have always been high.

So, when a large number of grain ships arrived in Edo, the Sakai family knew that the general trend was gone—they were not afraid of being bad, but they were more than doing practical things, and there was no way to do it.

It turned out that he had known that Keio's murder was going to break out, and Naohide couldn't be prepared. The Restorationists' counteroffensive was successful, and this trouble had to be solved.

He is a person who has a hanging, and he must know that Bingyin and Europa have a bad harvest, so he can't reserve in advance and buy at a higher price - for this reason, Naoxiu hemorrhaged heavily, and sold a lot of his own property in Beimi.

In fact, if the big murder is really about to break out, it is violent, and it cannot be solved simply. If there was no Naohide, the unlucky one would be the Tokugawa shogunate.

But before Qingyong and Zhixiu rushed and shouted, some people still believed it.

In addition, other people's territory can't be controlled, so the Restoration's own territory can always be prepared in advance - of course, there is a death that is not saved, after all, it can't be sold and help people count money with a smile.

The grain ship entered Edo, which was the last straw that overwhelmed Sakai and others, and the momentum was inferior, and there was no one to support it, so what are you waiting for if you don't surrender.

In addition, it was Qingyong who came forward to promise that he would not be to blame for the past, so he didn't hurry up and borrow a ladder to go downstairs - the so-called past is not to blame, and they also know that if they lose their position, they will definitely lose power. But he didn't kill the reformers before, so now he is not afraid of excessive punishment from others.

Moreover, according to Qingyong, the imperial court and the Qingxi family must be severely punished. This is more unlucky, and everyone is easy to accept their own loss.

After Naohide led the vanguard to persuade Osaka to surrender on October 24, he just didn't move, in fact, he was preparing to cut the grass and eradicate the roots:

If you don't give time, the other party can jump out all at once.

As in the previous three years, there are people who point fingers at everything and pull back the hind legs, but it is better to solve it vigorously this time.

As for the delay, it will change, and it does not exist.

is poised to attack, but in other parts of Fuso, how could the Restorationists not take advantage of the victory to pursue?

Besides, 1867 is such a good window period, what a toss.