On July 1, 1859, Nagasaki, Kanagawa (Yokohama), and Hakodate were opened to foreign trade.

It stands to reason that the trade conditions of Hakodate are really different from those of the other two ports, and there is no comparison at all:

In terms of time, location, and people, these three places are the first batch of Westerners to open ports and trade, and there are all kinds of days, but when it comes to location, people, and Hakodate, it is far behind!

Nagasaki is located in the western part of Fuso, the closest to the two Far Eastern commercial ports of Xiangjiang and Songjiang, and has the most convenient travel points, and as a place of trade with the Lan Kingdom and the Tang people for more than 200 years, this influence is very profound, and the management of the Nagasaki government is also quite thoughtful.

Compared to Nagasaki, Yokohama is stronger.

It's right next to Edo, so unless the other two capitals, Osaka and Kyoto, are also open, there's no better place to do it.

In addition, the nearby Kanpachi Prefecture is rich in products, and the nearby Tokaido, Ono, and are also fertile places, so it is believed that these materials will be shipped here after the opening of the port of Yokohama.

Sure enough, as soon as Yokohama opened its port, the local area was bustling in vain.

Compared with the first two, the box house is miserable, not only is the location not good, but even the office has been established for less than five years, how to look at it is a pure addition!

This business is nothing more than buying and selling:

This buys, do Westerners come so far to buy framing and aquatic products?

This sale, not to mention the Ezo land where the Hakodate is located, is to tie the nearby North Ezo land, Dewa, and Mutsu together, just these few poor places in the bitter cold, how many things can Westerners sell!

Therefore, everyone thinks that it is useless for Hakodate to open the port for trade, and this rice man is here to hunt whales, and the remaining Lucian people not only can't count on business at all, but also have to be careful to beware of sudden attacks.

But things are always unexpected.

Before June 2, before the port was officially opened, the English and Mi cargo ships gathered in the box house - of course, the gathering is an exaggeration, but there are always seven or eight large merchant ships.

A boom in business indicates a steady stream of money, and everyone is naturally happy about it.

Of course, as long as there are Westerners coming, it's a good thing, after all, when Lucia attacks, he always has to throw a rat bogey, isn't it - it's pitiful to say, ordinary townspeople haven't built up confidence in Naohide and others, and they are really worried about the war with Rucia.

However, even if you are worried, you have to work and eat, and in the anxiety of the townspeople, the time came to mid-October 1859 - the two battles of the White Lord were fought in August, and the Lucians were not on time, and they could not come!

After much anticipation, good news finally came from Edo, "Fuso and Rusia have negotiated peace!" ”

There was no need to fight, and everyone in the office breathed a sigh of relief - even the Naohide series.

To be honest, it's best not to fight.

After the opening of the port to trade, it is a good opportunity for the development of the north, and if it continues, what is the picture?

After two sweeps by the Anglo-Buddhist forces in 1853 and 1854, Lucia's territory in the North Pacific was so damaged that even Alaska was forced to sell to the Viceroyalty of Quebec.

What's more, a rebellion broke out in the land later, and now the northern Lucia territory is full of holes, and under normal circumstances, it is estimated that it will not be able to slow down in ten years.

Besides, according to the Tianjin Gate Agreement in 1858, Miaotun was designated as one of the new treaty ports. After the agreement takes effect, presumably the Tang people will vigorously manage the Wulong River estuary, which will naturally block the space for Lucia's eastward expansion.

Therefore, the Naoxiu family has long wanted to stop.

However, the shameful knife is difficult to sheath, and the Lu people have always been unrelenting, so the war drags on, and there is no possibility of ending at all.

But now, all of a sudden, Lucia uncharacteristically agreed to negotiate peace, what the hell happened during this period, it's really curious!

According to the Edo envoy, this time it was the shogunate that used razing to control the raze, and put pressure on the Lu people through England and France, which finally ended the war - of course, the price was not small, and the matter cost the shogunate a million taels of gold!

It all started at the end of August of the fifth year of Ansei, when the shogunate offered money to Britain and Buddhism through the purchase of ships, after which the envoys of the two countries agreed to mediate the war between Fuso and Rusya.

At that time, the two sides agreed that the shogunate would purchase two third-class sail battleships and one Francis second-class sail battleship from England and France, with a total price of 500,000 tenpo small awards.

You must know that in terms of gold content, 1 pound is equivalent to 1.24 Tianbao small judgments, and 500,000 gold is equivalent to more than 400,000 pounds, which is equivalent to more than 1.2 million taels of silver in the Tang Dynasty.

What can be bought? It's a pure sail battleship, or second-hand!

In fact, the shogunate also knew that steamships were popular today, and it would be a loss to buy the old sail warships, but if you don't buy them, why should people help you!

At the end of the day, it's just a donation.

Besides, although these sail warships are outdated in Europa, they are not available anywhere in Fuso, and they are still good things. At that time, the strength of the shogunate's naval army can be greatly increased, so it really can't be said to be useless.

At that time, the British and French envoys Ergin and Gros had already decided to limit the expansion of the Lu people in the North Pacific after discussion, but there was no excuse, so it was just the right time for the shogunate to propose the purchase of ships!

Under public international law at this time, neutral countries could not deliver ordnance and warships to the two sides that were at war.

But after the sale of the ship, Ingfo has an excuse to intervene in the war between Fuso and Lucia - if this war does not stop, the transaction cannot be carried out, and you Rucia must not delay everyone from getting rich!

You must know that although the British and Buddhist families have a great business, there is no surplus food for the landlord's family at this time!

After the Crimean War of 1853-1856, the European powers that participated in the war knew that they were suffering:

Soaring prices and declining livelihoods in Lucia led to a wave of innovation, but England and France were not much better!

Large military spending and post-war pensions led to economic problems in both countries, especially in England, where there was a run on paper money for gold, and Thames Street almost collapsed.

England was the most powerful country at the time, and it was so embarrassed that France's predicament can be imagined.

Therefore, in order to expand exports and revitalize the economy, there are deep reasons behind the war between the two countries and the Tang people's Yarrow - of course, Fuso, as an addition to the Far Eastern market, was also unfortunate to be affected by Western countries.

The economic crisis of 1857 was called the first worldwide economic crisis! Not only did this happen to Europa, but North America was not spared – the collapse of the Ohio Insurance Company that year triggered an economic panic across the country.

The total purchase price of more than 400,000 pounds for Fuso, although it is a drop in the bucket, is an old ship to be eliminated, so the cost is only 20%, and it also adds to the merits of the two envoys out of thin air.

Besides, it's easy to let Fusang open up the country and trade after China, how important is it to make money in this war!

Whether it is to "restrict the expansion of the Lu people in the Far East" or to ensure commerce, it is believed that the centers of the two countries will agree to mediate this small friction in the Far East.

As the two envoys had predicted, after they returned to Europa, the British and the Buddhists simultaneously demanded that Lucia end the war with Fuso as soon as possible.

It was already the spring of 1859, and it was a little late to mediate, but it was not too late!

As the victorious country, the economic crisis broke out in Britain and France, and the defeated Lucia was naturally even more difficult - since the signing of the "Paris Agreement" in March 1856, the people's livelihood in its territory has withered, and the wave of innovation has been rising, and the situation of the Lu Emperor Alexander II is very worthy of the name - "the pressure is great"!

On August 19, 1858, after the Second Battle of the White Lords, the Lu people used the Amur River to send the news to Irkutsk upstream, and then through the Siberian Post Road, and finally arrived in St. Petersburg at the end of October.

The reason for the slow delivery of messages is that today's means of communication are extremely backward:

Although the cable telegraph appeared in 1837, long-distance communication was still a tragedy:

It was not until the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 that the submarine cable from the Europa continent to the Tianzhu continent was laid, and then the submarine route from Tianzhu to Xiangjiang began to be assumed.

As for the cable telegraph from Xiangjiang to Songjiang, it was not laid until 1870 and finally began operation in 1872.

The cable telegraph across the two oceans, the Atlantic submarine cable, was not successfully put into operation until 1866, and the telegraph communication across the Pacific Ocean was even later than 1902.

Thus, until the Anglo-Evangelist returned to Europa in the spring of 1859, the Lucians continued to die during this intervening period:

Although there is no capital to continue to make trouble, the defeat at the hands of the small countries of the Far East will hurt the reputation of the empire too much, so the struggle is always a struggle.

In December 1858, under pressure from the angry nobles, Emperor Alexander II ordered eight warships to go to sea.

Unlike the previous ones, this time the route did not take the Cape of Good Hope, but diverted from Europa-Beimi-Cape Horn to the north, stopping in Kamchatka for recuperation and replenishment on the way

Later, it invaded the northern land of Fuso.

But the timing of this dispatch is wrong - going to sea at the turn of winter and spring is a taboo at this time! As a result, not to mention Cape Heen, even the North Mi Continent was not completed.

While crossing the Atlantic, eight ships encountered a rare storm, and only one lucky steam ship made it back to Europa.

Previously, Rusia originally had three fleets, one large and one small, with the Okhotsk district in the Far East having the smallest fleet and the Black Sea and Baltic fleets being larger.

However, the two fleets of Okhotsk and the Black Sea were wiped out in the previous Crimean War, and this storm hit the Baltic Fleet, which was the only one with combat strength.

In 1856, the Baltic Fleet had 27 battleships alone, and although there were only a few steamers, it looked like a behemoth after all!

But in 1857 and 1858, in the two battles of the White Lord, five battleships were lost alone.

To add insult to injury, five more Poseidon ships were given during this Atlantic storm.

This belt-tightening newly-built ship has not lost as fast as it gets, how do you think this thing is broken?

Sending ships to the Far East would make the empire's finances worse, and the Baltic Fleet, which had lost half of its strength, would really find it difficult to defend its territory, and if there was any war, it would be really dangerous;

But it's not sent, even a little Fusang can't be cured, isn't this a laughing stock of Europa? This is a fatal blow to the empire that has not yet come out of the shadow of the defeat of Crimea!

The court quarreled endlessly, and until the spring of 1859 no result came to an end.

You must know that although the emperor and foreign minister Gorchakov are both staunch eastward entrants, they can't stand the disagreement of the majority of nobles:

"What's so good about this thing in Beria? It's a big financial pit, and the gold coins put into it don't even have an echo, so stop being willful!

Isn't it fragrant to have this spirit and give the vast number of farms some tax exemption or build a few factories?

You know, the foundation of the empire is not in the Far East, but in Europa! ”

At this time, a joint Anglo-French mission visited St. Petersburg and demanded that Lucia and Fuso make peace and that they all make a fortune together.

"Make a ghost fortune!"

Who doesn't know, it's the two of you, who have made a mess of the empire's territory in the North Pacific, and now the empire has no capital in the local area, what kind of business can you do!

But at this time, Lucia was deeply worried, and the emperor and foreign minister Gorchakov did not dare to make a mistake, so he pinched his nose and agreed to the mediation of Britain and Buddhism.

In the sixth year of Ansei (1859) and the eighth month of the calendar, the Lu envoy Pirovsky, accompanied by the special envoy of Britain and Buddhism, visited Yokohama.

After a fierce quarrel, in early September, the shogunate signed the Fuso Lusia Trade Agreement, which included:

Fusang opened trade with Shandong, and the terms were the same as those of Britain, Buddha, Mi and Lan;

The Thousand Islands of Cloud and Mist are divided in the middle, except for the four islands of Cloud and Mist, the rest of the islands are all attributed to Lucia;

The land of North Ezo is shelved this time;

In addition, the shogunate sold 500,000 pieces of Tenpo small judgment as a condolence payment to the families of the Lu people who died in the war.

In fact, compared with other trade agreements, the shogunate did not suffer much:

500,000 gold, which was given in the name of condolence money, was not a reparation for defeat - although the fact was that money was given, it was not nominally good;

As for the Kuril Islands, the shogunate and Lucia had already reached a consensus on such a division during the conflict between the first year of culture (1804) and the tenth year of culture (1813). It was only because the French Emperor Napoleon swept the hinterland of the Lu people in the ninth year of culture, and then the Lu people had no time to look east, so the agreement was not signed, and the matter was shelved until now to be remembered again.

Therefore, it is not that the shogunate is too relenting.

Moreover, the kamikaze is powerful again, which inevitably makes people think about it:

The damage to the Ruren warship in the storm was later leaked by the envoy of the Hidefu in a casual conversation with the foreign envoy of the shogunate. Hearing this, the shogunate ministers were very emotional, "The kamikaze has blessed Fuso again, it's better to be late than never, maybe, this is a sign of the shogunate's prosperity!" ”

As soon as the agreement was signed, the shogunate sent a ship to inform Kitachi of the matter.

After receiving the news, the entire Hakodate office breathed a sigh of relief, the guillotine on the top of the head has always disappeared, so good!

But who knew that a wave of unsettled waves rose again, and after informing the agreement with the Lu people, he actually took out a hot potato again, "Edo is going to send a group of rebels here recently, and it must be strictly guarded!" ”