In the fifth year of Ansei (1858), the shogunate signed trade agreements with Western countries without receiving an edict.

Such a move to break the rules of governance brought about the emergence of the "Wuwu Secret Decree", and the appearance of the secret decree triggered the beginning of the Anzheng Prison, and the "Wuwu Difficulty" began.

In fact, the small court sent the will to Qi Zhao, and its intentions were very sinister - don't look at the will, it seems to be all good words to persuade peace, but if this is the case, why should it appear in the form of a secret decree? Since it appeared in the form of a secret decree, it was actually to grant Qi Zhao "great righteousness", and I hoped that the Mito clan would not be able to bear it and launch a military admonition.

You must know that among the two people who sent the letter, Monk Tsukizhao is a close confidant of the minister, while Saigo Takanaga is close to Qi Bin, the head of the Satsuma Shimazu family!

In the world that did not enter Naoxiu, Qi Bin was actively preparing for war in Kagoshima, Kyushu at the same time as the Wuwu secret decree appeared, but before the official start of the army, he died of a violent illness on the 16th day of the seventh month of the Japanese calendar. Speaking of which, Qi Bin is still the father-in-law of the current public family, but isn't the Mito Tokugawa family also a top pro-feudal family? There is only interest in governing this thing, and there is no human affection at all!

Therefore, Wuwu's secret decree is a knife, and handing it to Qi Zhao is to urge him to immediately start an army in the name of this.

But Mito is very close to Edo, and according to later generations, it is only about 100 kilometers, so does Qi Zhao have the courage to do this?

Naturally, there is!

Qi Zhao is an unusual character, and he is very decisive in killing.

Since the succession, this one has not taken the usual path. Tokugawa Saiaki became the lord of the Mito domain in 1829 in the 12th year of Bunsei, but the process was not a common succession of sons to fathers:

At that time, the lord of the eighth feudal domain, Qi Yu, died of a sudden illness, because he had no children, and the then Gongfang family Qi wanted his son Heng no Cheng to take over Mito.

But although Qi Yu has no children, he has a younger brother, and this person is Hu Saburo. Based on the samurai of the Mito School, Torasaburo mobilized lower-ranking samurai to make trouble everywhere, and finally drove away Heng Zhicheng, who tried to occupy the magpie's nest, and he himself got his wish and became the head of the family, changing his name to Qi Zhao.

The farce, like the struggle for family property by the wealthy families of later generations, has brought two serious consequences:

First, from then on, the three princes were like Qi, Jiaqing, and Jiading were not in harmony with Qi Zhao;

Second, because of the ability to protect the country, and Qi Zhao wanted to use them as a basic plate to prevent accidents, the samurai of the Mito school began to influence the feudal government from then on.

Although in the first year of Honghua (1844), Qi Zhao was ordered to retire by the shogunate, but the real power of the Mito domain did not fall into the hands of the new feudal lord Keito, and it was still firmly held by the Qi Zhao family.

Therefore, although Qi Zhao was "cautious" by the shogunate again this time, after all, it was only a little more than a month, so the strength of this army is still there - of course, whether he can win or not is another matter.

However, although the secret edict was delivered to the hands of the two generations of heads of the Mito Tokugawa family, the small imperial court in Kyoto and the expected army did not happen, the reason is, "if a few things are not secret, it will be harmful" - the news leaked, and the shogunate was wary of this, so Qi Zhao and his son did not dare to act rashly.

Moreover, if you really talk about it, whether Qi Zhao agrees to raise troops is probably also a big question:

Qi Zhao's family is incompatible with the shogunate's ruling elder Jing Yi and others at this time, but although they fight to the death, they can raise troops to clear the king's side, and I am afraid that Qi Zhao can not easily decide.

After all, the so-called Qi Zhao lineage, although it won over the ministers and the daimyo of the outside, but the core is the top pro-feudal royal family such as Mito and Owari, and the political dispute is just the internal struggle of the shogunate, so even if the Qi Zhao family loses power, the punishment they get is just seclusion and caution, at least their lives are worry-free.

And if the army is raised, the nature will change, and the sword and soldiers will be bleeding together, and it is easy to say that if you win, you will inevitably die if you are defeated, and the risk is very great.

Moreover, although Qi Zhao's family is in the same breath as foreign daimyo such as Uwajima, Kagoshima, and Kochi, Qi Zhao is actually very wary of these people, and he is also wary of these people taking advantage of the fire to rob.

Therefore, although the Wuwu Secret Edict reached the hands of Qi Zhao and his son on August 16, the expected Mito military advice did not happen, but caused a resolute counterattack from the shogunate because of the leakage of the news:

On August 19, a copy of the secret decree was sent to the shogunate, and the leaker was Mito's "All Lives Party"!

The so-called "Tsuyosei" is relative to the "Tengu Party" - Qi Zhao controlled the Mito domain for nearly 30 years and promoted many lower-ranking samurai, all of whom were deeply influenced by the Mito doctrine that advocated "respecting the king", and were slandered as "tengu" because of their "madness"; The name of the "Zhusheng Party" is because most of the personnel are influenced by Zhu Zi's Confucianism.

On August 19, 1858, the Mito Shosho Party members submitted a copy of the secret decree to Edo, which led to an in-depth investigation by the shogunate.

At the beginning of September, the shogunate finally began to take action - on the night of September 7, Tadayoshi Sakai, the director of Kyoto, and Nagano Mosa, the mastermind of Ojii, joined forces to capture Genjiro Umeda, who would later be known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Evil Schemes".

The "Four Heavenly Kings of Evil Schemes" designated by the shogunate were Umeda Yunhama, Ryokawa Hoshiiwa, Yorimiki Saburo, and Ikeuchi University. Among them, Umeda is a ronin; Liangchuan is a poet and has the reputation of Fusang Li Bai; The latter two were famous Confucian scholars.

These four people are very close to the minister, often in Kyoto as the center of the activities to respect the king, among which Umeda is a group of action, in his hands some private ~ armed forces, the latter three are famous, influential.

Almost at the same time as Genjiro Umeda, the shogunate also began to act on the Edo side.

Among them, Tsunaki Hashimoto was first summoned by the Edo Town Commissioner, who was a close associate of Matsudaira Yoshinaga, the lord of the Fukui domain, and Keinaga was one of the core figures of the Qi Shoichi lineage.

Since then, people have been arrested in Kyoto and Edo.

In October, the shogunate appointed the old middle department to Kankatsu Kamiraku, and the situation escalated.

"Quansheng said that he was not sick, and he divided the Quartet, made up for dozens of people such as Kobayashi Yoshinori and Lai Alcohol, and sent them to Edo. Edo also arrested dozens of people, including his party and Iizumi Kinachi, and imprisoned them. ”

In the past, they were all retainers and celebrities of ronin, ministers, or daimyos, but from October onwards, the targets of punishment gradually increased, and began to involve ministers and daimyos, and the area was no longer limited to Kyoto and Edo, but gradually expanded to the whole of Fuso.

Under Miki, why can't you get it? Under the heavy punishment, the prisoners began to climb each other, and more and more people were involved:

In October, the courtier, Taiko Takashi Masatsu, and the former interior minister, Sanjo Minoru, were forced to shave their homes.

In December, Prince Zunei of the Province "lived in seclusion and eternal residence", and Date Munejo, the lord of Uwajima Domain, was ordered to retire.

In February of the 6th year of Ansei (1859), Toyonobu, the head of the Tosa Yamauchi family, was "cautious", and he took the opportunity to retire and decisively relinquished the position of head of the family, and from then on he called himself "Rongtang" to show that he was open and had no resentment towards the shogunate.

In March, the left minister Konoe Tadashi and the right minister Eagle Si Fuxi resigned and cut their hair, and the secretary of state was deposed for a long time and a thousand miles of paths.

At the same time, the Edo Law Enforcement Office and the Town Commission began to concentrate on interrogating important criminals sent from various places.

The Ansei Prison began in September of the fifth year of Ansei (1858) and was not initially subsided until August of the sixth year of Ansei -

In the same month, the shogunate center gave the final verdict:

The five cores of the Qi Zhao family, in addition to the former lord of the Owari domain, Tokugawa Yoshikatsu, Qi Zhao's father and son, Hitotsubashi Yoshiki, and Matsudaira Yoshinaga were all additionally punished;

Yuping old middle middle Ota Shishiki and Tosa Yamauchi head Toyonobu;

The rest were sentenced to beheading, beheading, exile, seclusion, prudence, decapitation, and moving to the left.

This sentence plus the previous punishment, the Ansei Prison, that is, the Wuwu Disaster, involved 18 ministers, 7 new and old daimyos, more than 10 shogunates, and more than 100 courtiers - all of them were to be committed, and the misdemeanors were directly dealt with by local commissions and daimyos, and it is said that the number was more than ten times.

Mito as one of the "first evil", the retainers were implicated a lot, Mito's leader in Kyoto Yashiki, Ukai Yoshima was beheaded, his son Ukai Kokichi was convicted of the first crime to show the public, and at the same time, the old Anjima was ordered to cut his stomach with a knife, and among the rest of the retainers, there was 1 beheaded and 12 other punishments.

There are more than ten ministers in it who are the most wronged, and they have nothing to do with Wu Wumi's secret edict, not to mention those who openly express sympathy or oppose the severe punishment for this, and some of them are completely deducted from being unfavorable, so they are involved. Therefore, the government and the opposition generally believe that the Daijii Yi family is taking this opportunity to crack down on dissidents.

Speaking of which, it's no wonder that others - Ii's original ally, the former chief of the old middle school, Hotta Masamu, was given an additional punishment of "prudence", and the old man Hisashi Hiroshu was also deposed for advising him. Before and after the Anzheng Prison, Guang Laozhong and Damu Fu each went down to four, and the survey and determination were carried out to make up for three, and other important positions were also adjusted frequently.

Through this Wuwu disaster, Jing Yi established an absolute prestige among the shogunates.

Of course, because of the wide range of implications - ministers, daimyos, shoguns, and celebrities were all punished by him, and his methods were fierce, and his name as a red ghost also spread throughout Fuso.

However, due to Naoxiu's intrusion, some situations in Ansei Prison have been changed:

The first is Satsuma Shimazu family head Qi Bin.

In the fifth year of Ansei (1858), he fell ill with a sudden illness, but because of the aspirin, he was cured and did not die. Since he is still there, it is difficult for him to stay out of this turmoil. However, because he was the father-in-law of the Gongfang family, and Kagoshima was strong, he was extrajudicially favored, and he only lived in seclusion - Saibin's fifth son, Yujiro, took over as the head of the family and changed his name to Definition. But the definition is only eleven years old, so the power is still in the hands of his father Qi Bin.

Secondly, Yoshida was not affected - he only secretly returned from England after five years of security, where did he have time to participate in this matter.

And the biggest change comes from the public sample.

He was as sick as Qi Bin and did not die, so he could still restrain Da Lao Jing Yi to some extent. This led to a significant decrease in the number of beheadings except for a few who had been convicted, including Matsudaira Yoshinaga's retainer Tsunori Hashimoto, who was not beheaded but sentenced to exile.

But although Jia Ding is still alive, the outcome of Anzheng Prison has not changed much - after all, Wu Wu's secret decree involves a major crime of rebellion, and it would be good for Jia Ding to be willing to spare some of them, so it is not possible to give these people a feeling.

Moreover, the family is not dead, which also brings courage to the Jing Yi family - no matter how noble the identity of Qi Zhao and the others is, but under the banner of the public family, it is also justified to rectify them, after all, there is a difference between the pro-clan and the main family.

In this turmoil, the Hakodate commissioner Naohide Hori was originally out of the way, but he didn't expect that he couldn't hide - the shogunate actually sent the exiles to the northland, and some of this hot potato still fell into his own hands after all.