In September of the first year of Manyeon (1860), Naohide, Hori Toshiki, and others returned to Hakodate.

On the boat, Naohide began to ask Hori Ri Hee - no way, he was really curious, this box hall was nine out of ten at that time, how did Hori Ri Hee get rid of it?

There are many people who scold Wanyan coinage, even if you make a lot of nonsense - okay, you can't let Shangguan get off the stage in person, this hat is not unjust, but Zhixiu is still very curious, what are you talking about?

At first, Hori Lixi was still indignant and twisted, and when the ship arrived at the Black Water Ocean, the sea and the sky were wide, he also let go of his thoughts, and 1510 told Naohide:

Actually, he didn't want to, but the conditions didn't allow it - he finally returned to Edo, and he couldn't understand the situation, but when he inquired, his lungs were blown up.

On July 1, 1859, Nagasaki, Kanagawa (Yokohama), and Hakodate were opened to foreign trade. The importance of Fuso in this trade and Fuso has increased in Western countries, and each country has sent ministers to stay there.

In February of the first year of Wanyan (1860), the English minister Ali Guo arrived; In May, the Flannish minister Bercourt took office.

It stands to reason that this is nothing, and the special envoy of the Mi people, Harris, has not left since July of the third year of Anzheng (1856), not to mention that the Languo Commercial Hall has existed for more than 200 years.

But people are not the same, this British and Buddhist means are much more powerful than Mi and Lan.

These two ministers were originally dissatisfied with the shogunate, and when they arrived, they naturally had to point fingers:

Kanagawa opened the port, and the Western countries originally intended to be Uraga, this place is good, it is the land of the key to Edo Bay, and it can be attacked and defended, but the shogunate is not stupid, and it is not stupid to let out the wind early, saying that the place where the port is opened is in Yokohama, and as a result, foreign merchants and local merchants heard the wind and moved, and they all ran to Yokohama to enclose, which caused a fait accompli, so that the foreigners suffered a dumb loss.

Later, in the third month of the first year of Mangen (1860), the shogunate issued a Gobin Edo Edict, requiring that "in order to avoid a shortage of Fuso, the five products of miscellaneous grain, water and oil, wax, gofu (silk), and raw silk must be prohibited from direct trade with the West, and must be operated through Edo Tsuya."

As soon as this method of unified sales and purchase came out, it added a lot of dissatisfaction to foreigners - the price was not easy to manipulate, and the private gold and silver exchange was also easy to do.

In May of that year, the shogunate issued Wanyan coinage, which fundamentally blocked the opening of gold and silver reselling, and the double profit was gone.

You can't just leave it at that!

But Aliguo and Belkut wanted to protest or threaten, but they couldn't do it.

The foreign commissioners who came forward from the shogunate were quite docile, but everything was pushed to the top, and they couldn't do anything, and they finally saw the foreign royal hanging elder Ando Shinmu, but Ando said, "I'm just a worker, and everything has to be arranged by the public" - not as good as people, and the ruffian cavity is really not the patent of Lord Li.

The new official took office with three fires, how uncomfortable it was that the fire didn't burn, and in the end, the British and Buddhist ministers were combined, and they still had to see the general's family, and these people below couldn't tell clearly!

In the seventh month of that year, that is, before Naohide returned to Edo, after many intimidations and threats, Alikoku and Belkut finally "met" with the shogun Ieda.

What happened at that time is not known to outsiders, but according to the news that has been circulated, the scene is not very good anyway.

Three bows and nine bows, Fusang does not, but there are a lot of etiquette related to meeting the public, but since the Mi envoy Harris, the foreigners have not paid attention to these, and a shallow bow is worth it.

And it is estimated that the words are not too polite, although there is a translation to turn around, but the arrogant demeanor and commanding tone still use translation!

After that, not only did the shogun's family lose his temper, but the important ministers of the shogunate were also disgraced.

On September 11, 1860, he climbed Mt. Fuji with his wife, and it is said that he was disrespectful to the temple at the top of the mountain.

In 1848, he used the Qingpu teaching plan to coerce the Qing court to expand the English Songjiang lease more than three times, and in 1854, he united with the rice and Buddha to control the Songjiang Cargo Pass in one fell swoop

Mouth.

Mt. Fuji is a sacred mountain in Fuso, which is of great significance, and the move of Mt. Ari caused a lot of dissatisfaction at the time.

In addition, the price of goods in Edo and Fuso skyrocketed after the trade with foreign countries, which led to the incessant voices of the British and Buddhist envoys, and the actions of the British and Buddhist ministers undoubtedly added fuel to the fire.

What made the government and the opposition even more dissatisfied was that this foreign trade aroused public indignation, but the shogunate signed more and more trade agreements:

On June 17, 1860 (August 3, 1860), Fuso and Franky signed a trade agreement.

At the same time, Prussia, the Customs Union, Suevia, Mirniren and other countries were also negotiating terms of trade with the shogunate.

As a result, there was a lot of discussion, and Hori Rixi was also quite affected - he saw that Naohide was not humble or arrogant when dealing with foreigners in Hakodate, why did he deal with Edo but become a dwarf?

Naohide smiled dumbly, he colluded well with the foreigners in this box hall, and the joint efforts of several parties were profitable, and more importantly, he could have room for activity when the shogunate was in front of him - if he really let Naohide rush to the front line to negotiate with the foreigners, he also had to kneel! It's not a matter of means, it's a big gap in strength.

And the funniest thing is that this summary actually came from the mouth of Hori Toshiki, you must know that in the original world, this old brother was held accountable by the shogunate because of the unfavorable negotiations with Prussia and the Customs Union, and finally shamed himself - the crime was that the mouth was too wide and how deep he knelt!

Hori Rixi was uncomfortable in Naoxiu's playful eyes, and he had to explain:

"Of course, I know that I am not as good as others, I didn't say this."

What did you say?

If you want to take over the box house, especially to pay the New Year's tribute, of course, a big guy has to come forward to ask, but don't mess up the box house:

"Hori Rixi, are you okay? Don't be easily defeated by the Rusians. ”

Of course, if you don't hit someone in the face, the big guy still has a level, and he is more skillful in asking.

The so-called painting the tiger according to the cat, Hori Rixi has been mixed with Naohide for two years, and it's really hard to talk about it, but it's also the way to talk about it.

But he shouldn't have mentioned the Anzheng coinage - but don't say no, this soaring price is a problem faced by Jeon Fuso, and Hakokan is not avoidable, so he must deal with it.

Originally, it was enough to make a fool of yourself and blame the soaring prices on foreign businessmen, or to the reselling of gold and silver by Westerners.

However, Hakodate Governor and Egawa Hidetoshi told him before, "The shogunate had secretly worked for five years to 'trade Fuso gold for overseas silver'", so Hori Rishi felt that the shogunate could completely depreciate in a stepped manner, and it should not be in place at one time, so as to avoid too much impact on people's livelihood.

For this matter, he quarreled with his father Hori Riken in his own mansion - Hori Riken only stepped down from Ometsu in the fifth year of Ansei (1858), so he was also an insider. His father couldn't persuade him, which shows how much Hori Rixi is worried about this matter.

Therefore, when discussing how to deal with the boiling prices, Hori Rixi couldn't help but add a sentence in addition to "strictly control the loss of gold and silver, and implement the five-product return order (overall planning and sales)":

"The righteousness of the cloth is greater than that of foreigners, and the influence of the weak and the small judgment is weak."

In fact, who doesn't know that Wanyan coinage is an important driver of rising prices, and in the final analysis, it still can't control the wanton arbitrage of foreigners' gold and silver exchanges. But you can't say it to your face, isn't this scolding the monk for being bald!

At that time, the old man Ando attendant Nobumu who was listening to the excitement was not happy, because he was a foreign royal hanger, and he was mainly responsible for dealing with Westerners, so he was a thief and reprimanded angrily:

"Kid is ignorant!"

Actually, Ando said something else, it is possible that Hori Rishi will endure it - of course, it is more likely that he will not bear it, but Hori Rixi can't recognize the word "boy".

Ando was born in the 2nd year of Bunsei (1820), and Hori Toshiki was born in the first year of Bunsei (1818).

But Ando is an old man with real power, and he usually has a relationship with the peers who stayed in Hori Riken, and Ando served as a shogunate earlier than Hori Toshiki, so calculated, Hori Rishi is really a junior, and the word "kid" is right.

But how can the communication between people be based on what one party thinks, Hori Lixi has been sneaking with Naohide recently, and he was already in a conflicted mood and under great pressure, and this was humiliated, he blurted out a sentence:

"Ignorance is better than shamelessness!"

This can be pouted into the lung tube of the old middle Ando.

It turned out that after the assassination of the head of the Da Lao Jing Yi in March this year, it was full of rumors. As a result, there was a saying, "The mastermind behind this is Ando!" ”

Why?

Therefore, after the death of Jing Yi, Laozhong changed again, only Naito Nobu and Ando Nobumu remained in office, and then Ando rose rapidly, and the authority in his hands became heavier and heavier, according to the logic of "the murderer is the beneficiary", Ando is really suspicious.

Moreover, Ando was promoted to the old middle school by the big old I, and the murderer of Iyi's death was a political opponent of the Mito Domain, and Ando didn't bite Mito and didn't let go, that was disloyalty, could it be that the two sides had already been unable to communicate?

In fact, after the assassination of Daiji Ii, the shogunate was still trying to sweep down the Mito Tokugawa family. But at this time, people from all sides came forward one after another, saying, "This is not appropriate" - no matter what, Mito is also the top relatives of the three royal families, and it is too reckless to uproot Mito without finding out.

Then investigate it in detail, and it turns out that it is indeed the assassination carried out by the Ronin of the Mito Domain, and the planner is also the former Jinson Erlang of Mito County, but these people are really not angry with Qi Zhao's father and son, otherwise after the assassination, it must be a wave after wave of followers, how can they run away like this? It is obviously the style of the angry and reckless people.

To put it bluntly, Qi Zhao used the king to hold the shogunate hostage, and as a result, he got away with it - this fire was out of his control.

Many samurai in Mito were implicated in the Ansei Prison, and they all lost their jobs and became ronin, and after the trade was opened, the voices of the people were high, and perhaps the fanning of the small court in Kyoto, as a result, these ronins were assassinated!

The shogunate's important ministers were dumbfounded by this result, "If Mito is not punished, then who will dare to govern; Mito can be punished.,Theoretically, Ronin is no longer from Mito.,This division is unknown.。 ”

As a result, because the methods of cutting off political opponents when the big old Jing Yi was in power were too rough, his death, the evil consequences were revealed.

The successor of the Hikone Domain, Ii Naoken, was only thirteen years old, and his biological mother was a side room, so the bullying of this orphan and widow was not too pleasant, so the assassination was actually over - the murderer was pursued on a large scale, but there was no action against the Mito Domain.

Of course, didn't the shogunate always claim that Odai Ii died of a sudden illness, and now it's always a fig leaf to the outside world - in fact, this is also related to the surge in popularity at that time, after all, "the thousand people pointed to die without illness", no one wants to face the general trend against the hard top.

But after doing this, as a person promoted by the big old Jingyi, Ando Shinmu was aggrieved, so he poured all the dirty water on him.

Therefore, Hori Rixi's sentence "Ignorance is better than shamelessness" really made Ando angry, and the scene was out of control at that time, and he didn't want his demeanor anymore, so he scolded Hori Rixi.

Afterwards, in order to vent his anger for him, the first seat of the old middle school, Kushi Hiroshu, took off the Hakodate that Hori Rixi was about to get his hands on.

Although Hori Rixi's father, Hori Riken, who has served as the big eye for many years, is now a high-ranking official who stays behind, but he can only keep his son in place.

To be honest, after listening to Hori Rixi's narration, Naohide felt that he was secretly having fun - he could continue to be a box pavilion, and he could only say that "the family background is extraordinary, and the second ~ generation is a cow", if Naohide dares to do this, I am afraid it will be difficult to get out of it in the end.

However, this is not a good thing for Hakodate.

After returning to Kitachi, Hori Toshiki decided that there were traitors in Edo, and he agreed more with Naohide's concept that "the shogunate is difficult to get up, and Hakodate can only secretly accumulate vitality for the Tokugawa family".

In the first month of the spring of the second year of Wanyan, when the news came out that "the shogunate had begun to mint large coins (copper coins), with ripples on their backs, and one as four", he angrily scolded Edo for being shameless and "exploiting endlessly", and at the same time more actively assisted in the implementation of the "new policy" implemented.

At the beginning of the month, Hakodate was also the first railway in Fuso, and the line from Hakuju to Toyohara was opened, of which Hori Toshiki contributed a lot - he led people to do the supervision in the later period, which can be called meticulous and selfless.