On August 15, 1858, there were many people coming and going from Edo Hori's house, but the atmosphere was not warm.

To those who don't know what's going on, it's as if something unfortunate has happened to this family.

However, the opposite is true, the owner of this house has just recently been appointed by the shogunate as the Hakodate commissioner, and the guests are all here to see him off.

"Brother Yiqing, please think about it carefully. Naoxiu is in need of great guidance, please. ”

"It's too much love, and it's really deserved. Thank you for your care over the years! ”

Seeing that Yoshida Jufang's attitude was very resolute, in desperation, Naohide could only agree to his request.

In the seventh year of Kaei (1854), Yoshida and his disciple Kaneko Shigenosuke failed to smuggle into the black boat, and was sent to the white lord by Mr. Tanan.

In the autumn of the second year, Naoxiu thought about it again and again, and finally decided to help him realize his dream - after all, he was the first three heroes of the Restoration, and talents were rare, so he asked Little John of Sanjiang to send him to London to study.

At that time, in addition to Yoshida's disciple Kaneko Shigenosuke, there were also five foreign students of the white lord - Kondo Chojiro and four other young boys.

Now, three years later, Yoshida and the others have returned from their studies.

Originally, Naohide wanted him to play in Northland, but Yoshida insisted on returning to Choshu, and Naohide thought it would be okay, after all, it would be a pity if the famous Matsushita Village Juku was really lost by himself.

Because there were still guests waiting, Yoshida and Kaneko, who had been approved, left with a salute. Naoxiu, on the other hand, continued to be busy, not sending the last guest away until the evening.

Finally free, thirteen-year-old Fukutaro couldn't help but vomit, "In the past, when my father was idle, I didn't have so much entertainment. ”

Naoxiu knew his thoughts, "My son is reluctant to leave with Yingzi and wants to get along with him more, so he hates these people to bother." ”

So he smiled slightly, pulled Fukutaro and went to Eiko-sama together.

Speaking of which, Naohide has been living in Edo for almost a year.

In December of the third year of Ansei (1856), the Gongkata family was scheduled to marry the princess of the Shimazu family, Atsuhime. As a courtier, Naoxiu, who was the white lord at the time, was also specially recalled.

In the spring of the second year, Naohide returned to the White Lord.

But I didn't expect that there would be one and two, and in the autumn of that year, Naohide went around and went back to Edo - however, this time it wasn't the shogunate who took the initiative to recall him, but Naohide who came back on his own initiative, and if he didn't come back, he got into trouble!

It turned out that the White Lord and Lucia had a fight!

The reason is that after the official end of the Crimean War in 1856, in view of the exhaustion of the fleet of the Okhotsk district, the following year Lucia sent four sail warships from Europa to Kamchatka.

Originally, it was possible to make a detour to Mizhou, but Emperor Alexander II thought it would be better to go to the Far East via the Cape of Good Hope and the Tianzhu Sea, which would show that the powers of Lucia and Europa had reconciled as before.

But just after experiencing a big fight, it is a little naïve to think so.

Sure enough, when the fleet arrived at the Xiangjiang River, the British Xiangjiang Detachment sent ships to accompany it, and the name was "protection", which was actually surveillance and demonstration.

It wasn't until they arrived at Hakodate in Fuso that the British ship did not continue to follow.

Originally, the Rusia fleet held its anger up and down for the demonstration of the British ships, but when they arrived at Hakodate, they were refused to enter the port by Fuso, and this anger could not be suppressed at once.

However, there is no agreement between Rusia and Fuso, so it makes sense for Hakodate to insist that Hori Toshiki do so.

At that time, the British ship was on the side, and the Lu people had to endure this breath.

But then at the northern tip of the Shiretoko Peninsula, the Rusia fleet encountered the Fuso merchant ship again, and at that time it had a bad heart attack and asked the other party to stop the ship for inspection.

No one is a fool.

Seeing that the other party was menacing, the Fusang merchant ship turned around and fled in the direction of the white lord.

Lucia saw that the other party was running away, and he opened fire while chasing, and in this way he chased until the white master.

After the merchant ship docked in the port, the Lu people still did not give up, and after approaching, they used naval guns to shoot the merchant ship into the bottom of the sea.

The atrocity angered the White Lord defenders at that time, and the two sides fought fiercely.

By the time Naoxiu arrived, the dock had already turned into a sea of fire - the white lord only had two rifled cannons and a few old bronze cannons in name, and there were many merchants from other places on the scene, so he didn't dare to take out other ordnance, so he fell behind.

The white lord has never suffered such a big loss.

Naohide was furious on the spot and ordered the ban to be lifted and an all-out counterattack.

But who knew that Murata Yongmin gave a completely opposite order, demanding that all retreat, and the ships, docks, and warehouses were gone!

Murata is a big man on land and a genius military advisor, so Naohide had no choice but to agree.

Later developments proved that they were right - the Lucians refused to give up when they saw the white lord withdraw from the front line. He actually organized sailors to attack the shore.

But the white lord suffered because he didn't dare to go all out at the beginning, and it wasn't that he couldn't really beat it.

From south to north, it is divided into dock area, factory area, commercial area, public area, residential area, camp and factory. Such a plan was planned in advance to be attacked by warships, so the business area was four or five kilometers away from the pier.

It stands to reason that there are still some possessions in the warehouse and workshop areas of the docks, but the Lucians are not here to rob them, but to vent their anger! So he chased all the way to the vicinity of the business district, and finally fell into the ambush circle set up by Murata.

The White Lord has four hundred standing troops alone, and these four hundred people are usually stationed in the White Lord.

In addition, all the white lords were soldiers, and both men and women in the prime of life had to participate in training, and each family had at least one flintlock pistol.

The careless Lucian can still have a good one!

In a big battle, the Lucian navy that came ashore was beaten and fled.

However, the Admiral of the Lucia Navy was not decisive enough, and actually wanted to pick up the crew members that Murata had deliberately let go onto the ship.

How can there be such a good thing.

Under the siege of dozens of rifled guns of the white lord, the two ships that docked in the harbor soon caught fire.

It stands to reason that the remaining two ships were able to escape, but in the end only one armed supply ship escaped - the other ship approached for support, and was also lit with candles in the confrontation with the shore guns.

Eventually, only one of the four Rucian ships slipped away, and the other three did not last long to surrender due to the fire after being severely damaged and unable to sail.

But the white lord was very angry with the atrocities of these people, so no one went to the rescue, these people could only jump into the water and swim to the shore, and finally the three boats sank to the bottom of the sea due to the fire.

The total number of Lucian warships participating in this battle included a fourth-class sail battleship, a fifth-class sail cruiser, a sloop warship and an armed supply ship, with a total of 111 guns and a crew of more than 820 people.

More than 400 were killed or drowned, 372 were captured, and only 40 escaped on the supply ship.

The losses of the white lord were also very large, the docks were in a mess, and most of the warehouses and workshops were burned down, but fortunately, they were well-trained in peacetime, and the losses were few, with more than 40 civilian casualties and 14 casualties in the fan group.

The three cargo ships docked at the pier were not spared.

In order to appease the people, all the losses announced by the government will be compensated by the government, and the white lord paid more than 10,000 gold for this afterwards.

But that's far from the end of the story.

The Lu supply ship ran to Hakodate to ask the English for help, and seven days later an English steam-sail mixed battleship came to deal with the aftermath.

After negotiations between Naohide and Captain James, the White Lord sold the captives to the English for twenty pounds per person - in fact, not a single copper coin was confiscated, and Naohide deliberately tried to sow discord between the English and the Lucians.

Later, three English sail warships also arrived, and after transporting all the prisoners at once, the white lord finally returned to normal.

Such a big event happened, and the Hakodate commissioner, Hori Toshiki, also rushed to the white lord.

He advised Naoxiu:

Although the battle was won, the attitude of the shogunate center is unknown. You must go to Edo immediately. Whether it is guilty of guilt, it is good to be cautious, anyway, the attitude should be respectful, so as not to be taken advantage of by villains. ”

Naohide felt that it made sense, and listened to the advice of people to eat enough, so he simply arranged the following, and then set off to Edo to plead guilty.

The battle took place on August 15, 1857, and Naohide arrived in Edo in mid-September.

Knowing that such a big event had happened, the shogunate center was shocked at that time!

What, three of the four ships of Lucia were sunk by you, half of the eight hundred people were killed, and most of the rest were captured.

Kyogen doesn't dare to say that!

Fortunately, there was a handwritten letter from Hori Toshiki from Hakodate as evidence, and the important ministers were skeptical. But then how to deal with the aftermath has become a difficult problem:

In October of the third year of Ansei (1856), the Kokata family appointed Hatita Masatsu as the president of foreign affairs - in December of that year, before the marriage of the Kokata family and Atsuhime, the name of "Masatsu" was changed to "Masamu".

Hotta Masamu is both the first of the old and the president of foreign affairs, so he has no idea how to deal with the Lucians.

Besides, he couldn't let it out.

In addition to himself, there are only two shogunates who can undertake and are qualified to undertake foreign affairs, one is the former chief of the old middle and the current victor Fang Lao Naka Abe Masahiro, and the other is his sworn enemy, the old lord of Mito, Tokugawa Saiaki.

Killing Hotta will not let Qi Zhao interfere:

The relationship between the two has always been bad, and when they meet, they throw flying knives at each other, and face-to-face disputes often occur.

Moreover, in May of this year, Qi Zhaoyi was sparsely admonished, "The Tokugawa clan of the Zhizhi clan set up two positions of the elder and the old middle, and the elder was abolished from time to time, and the old and middle were often in power, and the pro-clan took turns to discuss politics."

This is a naked seizure of power!

In the past, he just despised his ability to govern, but now he has gone one step further and directly become a "big boss" to be his father, which is unbearable!

But another Masahiro Abe can't count on it:

This year, in June of the fourth year of Ansei (1857), Masahiro Abe, who had given him the title of chief of the old manchu, suddenly fell ill and is still dying on a tatami mat. If it weren't for the imperial doctor Ito Xuanpu to come to the rescue, Abe would have hung up a long time ago.

There is no way, the first seat of the old middle school and the president of foreign affairs, Hotta Masamu, can only carry it himself.

But what makes him happy is that Shiro is mainly targeting Lucia - speaking of which, the Rusia people do not have a high opinion in the eyes of the shogunate:

As soon as he came, the other party's envoy Pu Jiating gave up halfway - with a lot of momentum to Nagasaki, but there was no trace of this person later, and this person was nowhere to be found.

This Lu people don't have any spectrum at all.

Second, Xianheng Foreign Bank clearly stated the results of the Crimean War in the wind story. It's human nature to go high and low, so the defeated Rucia will inevitably be looked down upon.

However, no matter how much you look down on it, people are also strongmen who can mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops.

Besides, daring to challenge England, France, Sardinia, and Ottomans at the same time is a failure, but it is not to be underestimated. The shogunate is based on this, and Hotta Masamu and others are very clear that others can not take Lucia seriously, but Fuso can't!

But Hotta waited and waited, and from the beginning of November of the fourth year of Ansei to the first month of the second year, there was no trace of the Lucia people.

In fact, Lucia really had an envoy in the Far East, and it was this defeated fleet that sent him, and he was in Songjiang in China at this time.

However, after receiving the news of the defeat, he was also at a loss - the newly arrived warship was gone, and the original Far Eastern warship had already seen the sea god. Now that he has empty teeth and doesn't even have a decent warship in his hand, what's going on?

He had the heart to ask outsiders for help, but the timing was not right, and besides, no one wanted to deal with him.

The Western powers of the Far East were the first to recommend England, followed by the French and the Mi. But since the war between Britain and China began in October last year, both have encountered new troubles:

On the English side, Tianzhu was unstable in early 1857, and in May a rebellion swept across the entire Tianzhu continent.

France, on the other hand, was obsessed with the dispute in Da Nang, where its roots in the Far East were located, so although 13 warships arrived in the Far East in October this year, they were not meddled at all.

Besides, it was only in 1856 that the two sides stopped fighting, and in 1857 they helped their former mortal enemies, and this turn is too big.

Moreover, the English were quite happy to see Lucia's deflated in Fuso - after the Paris agreement was signed, the British forced Lucia to sell Alaska to themselves. Knowing that this place is across the sea from Kamchatka, it is necessary to limit the expansion of Rusia in the Far East.

Therefore, neither the Anglo-Buddhist nor the two Lucias could count on it.

After all, the strength of the East Tianzhu fleet is okay, there are two steam sail ships alone, and the relationship between everyone has been good in the past two years - in the Crimean War, although the rice people remained neutral, there was a lot of ambiguity in private.

Unfortunately, in 1855, the Mi people organized the "North Pacific and China Sea Expedition", but they did not die, and four warships participated in the military operations of the Kamchatkaluans, and were caught by the British, and the ships were sunk, and the British did not give up.

Therefore, the Mi people are now acting very cautiously in the Far East, and no matter what he says, the envoy Lewilliam will not let go.

How to make bricks without straw. Therefore, except for carrying a letter to Emperor Alexander II for help, the envoy of Rusia had no tricks and could only endure for the time being.

The Lucians never appeared, but Hotta and the others were in a hurry.

And the white lord won the battle ship of Lucia, and after three months of fermentation, the matter became bigger and bigger:

Although some people privately blame Naohide Hori for being troublesome, from the public to the shogunate, from the daimyo to the small court in Kyoto, as well as the people from all over the world, most of them think that the white main hit is good and has a feeling of raising their eyebrows.

Especially Qi Zhao, he launched a letter at two ends in three days, saying that he wanted to promote the art of war of the white master, and he would make great use of talents like Naoxiu Hori!

And he also publicly declared, "The central fox is hesitant and does not recognize the heroes as soon as possible, showing incompetence!" ”

This is a mess of Hotta.

Therefore, in the first month of the fifth year of Ansei (1858), taking advantage of the shogunate's suspension of public service, Hotta Masamu gave a decree to Naohide in the name of the old junior high school assessment committee, "Recuperate with peace of mind, and all affairs of the white lord will be handled by Egawa Hidetoshi."

Naohide was in Edo, except for the shogunate who sent someone to inquire about the details of the battle that day, he took leave at home the rest of the time, and closed his door to thank customers, the reason was that he was "seriously ill".

This decree is actually the official house arrest of Naohide - nominally he is still the White Lord, but he is not allowed to go anywhere in Edo, and the White Lord's Office is also handed over to the commission and managed by Eitoshi.

didn't go to Naoxiu's service, but also to wait for Lucia to negotiate before making a decision, after all, the other party hasn't come yet, and it's really unreasonable if he kneels first.

But the old chief Hotta Masamu never expected that until he himself was deposed, the Lucia people did not appear, and the Naohide who "opened the border provocation" was not only not punished, but was actually promoted in the end.

It's unpredictable!