On the 6th day of July in the second year of Bunkyu (1862), Shigeshi of the Gongkata family worshiped Hitotsubashi Keiki as "Shogun Goki", and the shogunate generally believed that Kyoto and the small court were too deceitful.

However, on July 14, the shogunate issued the first issue of the Imperial Newspaper, in which it published the edict of retirement from the Imperial Palace:

"Since the sixth year of Jiayong (1853), Fuso has been turbulent. …… Forever look at the precepts, terrified and fearful. But thinking about it is in one person.

Today's biography is located in the new, it is advisable to bow down and deny oneself, Xuanliu weathering, feeling against yin and yang, the light of the three lights, and the sum of the masses.

If we sweep away the old evils, open up our opinions, and use talents without restricting the noble and lowly, we can save the foundation of public and private danger.

I hope not to live up to the cause of our ancestors, the hopes of each family, and the expectations of all peoples. ”

This edict was written in February, when the general's family was determined to abdicate in seclusion, so he left this document for his heir, Jia Shige, to encourage him to continue his efforts.

Originally, this was a liturgical text, and it passed after reciting it on a major occasion, and it would not be solemn without this.

But now that the shogunate has published it, it's worth figuring out:

Take a closer look, isn't this just a guilty edict, before the family set to retire, he took all the sins since the founding of the country on himself, which can be called well-intentioned.

And not only that, but this newspaper also published the decree of the current public Fangfang Jiamao, which is the first big move of the new general:

"Yu is young and flattering, and he can't be weathered and feel against yin and yang, so that the people and townspeople will be famine, and they will eat each other. Eternal mourning, if attached to the abyssal water. The blame lies in the lack of help.

Originally, since the ugliness, it has suffered from unprecedented national disasters, and the ancestors have suffered for many years, and the feelings of anxiety are well known to the public. Therefore, the foolish will has been decided, and the renewal will be carried out to save the foundation of the national crisis.

If you want to be virtuous, there is no difference between branches, genealogies, and appearances, and you will share weal and woe with the world.

Therefore, I hope that each of them will encourage, sweep away the bad habits of arrogance and laziness, and strive to serve the country with the sincerity of loyalty!

Heaven and earth can be learned, and it should be known. ”

General Jiamao didn't actually say anything, in addition to the ordinary clichés, he said one thing, that is, innovation, and innovation is currently only one major event, regardless of the use of talents!

This family's condemnation of the edict comes first, and Iemo's innovation order comes later, but both mention the promotion of talents without restraint, so the criticism of Hitotsubashi Keiki has weakened - after all, the two generations of generals don't care, and this outsider is aggrieved, and it is somewhat suspicious of being troublesome.

Ke Qingxi breathed a sigh of relief, but the envoy Ohara Shigetoku quit:

Originally, the Kyoto Imperial Court had the current momentum, and it all relied on attacking the shogunate.

But now that the shogunate is blaming the fault on one person from the Daigosho family, these others, especially the shogun Iemo, aren't they washing their hands and going into battle lightly.

Moreover, what is called "no difference between branches, genealogy, and appearance" of talents, to put it bluntly, isn't it an invitation to buy people's hearts. This person's heart, that's all, the shogunate pulled over more, and the court got less.

Therefore, Ohara's heart was very unfair.

But in addition to the grievances, he also had some fear in his heart:

In the past ten years, the minister has relied on manipulation to negotiate the material to have some of the capital he has today.

But as soon as this report came out, the big killer was born, and if you want to call for wind and rain in the future, I'm afraid it won't be so simple.

According to the head of the Shimazu family, Saibin, the newspapers and periodicals of this residence were distributed all over the world, and they were received by the princes, the shogunate's offices, and the official offices.

This edict can Ohara not understand, the newspaper said that it was for important samurai, but under word of mouth, I am afraid that all the people in the world can also receive the rumors.

Therefore, if you want to discredit the shogunate in the future, I am afraid it will not be easy.

As a result, Ohara was restless, so he desperately urged the shogunate to reply to the edict so that he could return to Kyoto as soon as possible to inform Edo of the changes.

But the elder Qingyong and all the elders shirked in every possible way, there are three things in this edict, Qingyong and Qingxi are in power, but the general Shangluo and the five big guys have not yet been established, what are you anxious about, wait for two more days for good food and drink.

But then things go bad:

Now that the Ronin is gathered, the Fushimi Commission of the Shogunate was burned down in April, and if it weren't for Shimazu Saibin's bombing at Fushimi Teradaya at that time, things would have been almost out of control.

But then Qi Bin was not

Accompanying the envoy to Edo, the acting Kyoto office representative Sakai Tadashi who stayed behind, the lord of the Himeji domain was a little overwhelmed, and finally made trouble:

On the 21st day of the seventh month of the calendar, the ronin beheaded nine retainers Shimada Masachen, and the head of the four moraines was listed, and the charges said: "Zhengchen and the traitor Nagano have the main meal, and the same picture is wrong." Because of the heavens. ”

At this point, the object of the Heavenly Punishment finally spread from attacking Westerners to their own people, and for a time the Fuso Langshi slashing and killing wind flourished - from then on, the Heavenly Punishment became a common phenomenon at the end of the Edo period, spreading from Kyoto to all parts of Fuso, as long as there was a serious disagreement with the political opinions, everyone drew their swords against each other, and there were people who died everywhere.

This Shimada Masatsu is Shimada Sakami, a retainer of Sekihaku Kujo Natadada, and is friendly with Nagano's main minister, and Nagano is the confidant of the main messenger of the Ansei Prison, Ii Naobi.

When the news reached Edo, the shogunate center was indignant, there is no Tianli King Law - Sekihaku Kujo Shotada is one of the few pro-shogunate factions in the court, if he falls, the shogunate will have no place to cry!

In Naohide's original world, although the shogunate was not exhausted at this time, it was also running out of oil and lamps, so it was beyond the reach of the riots in Kyoto and could only be resigned.

However, the situation of the shogunate was much better due to the intrusion of Naohide, and at the very least, the military and economic forces were still a bit old-fashioned, so the Edo Central Decision could not ignore them.

Think about it too:

Originally, Keinaga and Keiki would not be able to ascend to the throne until the beginning of July, and after some intrigues, it would not be until the top level of the shogunate in leap August that a preliminary agreement could be reached, but by then the overall situation in Kyoto had already been decided, and it was too late to interfere in anything.

But now that Keiyong was appointed as the elder of the shogunate at the beginning of June, he also hooked up with the old man Jiushi Hiroshu, Omu Fu Izawa Masayoshi, and the people who stayed behind Ihori Riken in advance, and at the same time, Gongfang Xiang Jiamao was not dead because his father's family must not have died, and there was a reliance behind this, and he was not overly suspicious of Qingyong.

Therefore, this is two more months to come out, and there are rich people with armaments, and the situation will naturally change at that time.

Elder Qingyong, General Hou Jian Qingxi and the joint proposal of the old and the middle:

"is restless, Kyoto is turbulent, please send a good general to Shangluo, in order to protect the imperial family and stabilize the situation."

In fact, the shogunate had long looked at the Kyoto Minister's displeasure, but because the king was the first to be initiated by Qi Zhaoyi, and now this Qi Zhaoyi family is powerful, so he had to pinch his nose and endure it.

Now Qi Zhao jumped out and said that he wanted to quell the chaos, so what else to say, just one word, "!" ”

So the public side of the family ordered that the head of the Matsudaira family, Aizu Hoko, be the new director of the Kyoto office, and immediately went to Luo.

Matsudaira Rongbao is one of the four Takasu brothers, and after the change outside Sakurada Gate, he strongly advocated not to crusade against Mito, and is considered a sworn friend of the Qi Zhao family.

It stands to reason that although this errand was an order from General Jiamao, it was actually the idea of his own people to celebrate and rejoice, so Rong Bao should gladly accept the order.

But there are accidents in everything, Qingyong and Qingxi felt that Rong Bao was fine, so they decided directly for him, but Rong Bao didn't think so:

In fact, the root is still in the military service of this pit father - the Aizu Domain was ordered to go to Luo, and the number of soldiers of the domain was set at 3,000, but this person ate horses and chewed horses, and he actually asked the Aizu Domain to deal with it himself.

Bring your own dry food, and then go to extinguish the fire, this is not what a pit daddy is!

Therefore, the retainers of the family, Saigo Yorimu, Tanaka Tosa, and other retainers who received the news, rushed from Aizu and urged the head of the family not to do this—the poor descendants traveled nearly 300 kilometers in less than four days, day and night, and almost exhausted the horses and men to death.

In fact, this also reflects the situation at that time from the side, since the founding of the country in 1854 and the opening of the port in 1859, Fuso was turbulent, prices were boiling, and the people were struggling to make a living.

The retainers also said in the words of Rong Bao:

"Although Aizu has 230,000 koku, it can afford an expedition of 3,000 people, and there is no fixed number, so I don't know how long it will take and how much food will be wasted.

Besides, the root of the Langshi troubles lies with the court and the minister. If this root cause is not solved, why should we go to this troubled water. ”

But Rong Bao can't help it, this Qi Zhao is on the top, he can't hold back - he is only twenty-seven years old this year, and he doesn't know the suffering of the world, so he is really a little naïve.

Seeing that Rong Bao insists on being like this with his loyalty, the retainers are helpless - Rong Bao is still relatively generous and quite popular.

Therefore, the retainers did not engage in a set of tricks in front of them and behind their backs, otherwise, they would collectively engage in ghosts, go back to recruit feudal soldiers and drag it for a year and a half, the law does not blame the public, and Rongbao has no temper.

In the end, Rong Bao, who knew that he had received a hot potato, and his retainers hugged their heads and cried:

"This matter is full of righteousness, and our monarchs and ministers will die together in this place of Jingshi."

Just crying has a fart use, and as soon as the eyes of the old Xixiang Lai's mother rolled, he remembered a ghost idea:

This Baoke Rongbao is Songping Rongbao, and Baoke is the Miao word of the ancestor Baoke.

Masayuki is the third son of the second generation general Tokugawa Hidetada, because Hidetada's Masamura is jealous, Masayuki was raised outside since he was a child, and later passed on to the Hoshina family. Zhengzhi has always been grateful for the kindness of the Baoke family, so let future generations take Baoke as the seedling word.

But by the time his son Masaei became the lord of the domain, it was time for the Aizu clan to return to the Matsudaira surname, but he usually regarded himself as a hoke to show his ungratitude - he took advantage of the pro-clan and used it under the guise of kindness to the outside world, which was simple.

This old Xixiang Lai's mother adheres to the feudal school, and the ghost is very good, and his idea is that if he wants to die together, how can he pull a cushion:

"Didn't you let Aizu bring his own bean bags to help the military service, this fire pit can't be jumped by oneself, we have to find someone to share weal and woe."

Rong Bao is not stupid, he thinks it makes sense when he hears it:

This minister refused to send troops on the grounds that the five sides could not be moved lightly, and asked Qi Zhaoyi to dig the pit and fill it by himself, but this does not mean that he can't find foreign aid.

But who to look for?

First of all, this teammate must not be a weak chicken, otherwise there is something to count on, and it will be bad.

Moreover, you have to have money.

Otherwise, if you don't eat or drink, you have to subsidize yourself, and you have more fathers for no reason, so what's the pain.

And the most important thing is that you have to be with the shogunate and Qi Zhao, otherwise, the strong is strong, but when there is a disagreement, the two families will fight first, and this will be a lot of fun.

The old Xixiang Lai's mother said, since I dare to say it, then naturally there is a candidate, what do you think of the white lord Matsudaira's family?

Rong Bao was happy when he heard it, this is a good idea:

Can you fight, right, they have defeated the Lucian twice, and in Fuso, it is a scorpion baba poison (alone);

As for being rich, the white lord is not bad.

In September of the 6th year of Ansei (1859), the shogunate ordered six families, Date Keibang, Matsudaira Yoho, Nanbu Toshitsu, Satake Yoshiharu, Tsugaru Seori, and Sakai Tadaha, to help reclaim Ezo land.

Therefore, this outsider doesn't know, can he not know that his own family is cultivating in Ezo, this box is rich in flowing oil.

Let's take helping to reclaim Ezo land as an example, I originally thought it was a chore, but this year is the third year of resettlement and reclamation, so I can turn around my losses in one fell swoop this year and return to my capital next year.

Moreover, according to the feedback of the subordinates and the people who went to the Northland, the life of the people of this box hall is comfortable, and the ordinary people are no worse than the samurai of Aizu.

And so on, counting from the white master, Hori Naohide has been cultivating in the north for twelve years, and this person is a well-known internal minister, I don't know how much benefit he has secretly made!

Not to mention anything else, according to rumors, at the beginning of the year, the White Lord established the country, and the Hori family spent more than 100,000 gold!

Who believes that there is no money.

Actually, this is a miscommunication, at that time, Tian An's family received 10,000 gold, and the public Fang Xiang Jiamao accepted it as 30,000, and the two husbands and wives of the Great Imperial House and Atsuhime also received 30,000 gold pensions, plus 1,000 matchmakers Yokose and 1,000 guarantor Hori Toshiken, before and after, Naohide only spent 70,000.

But who shouted after receiving the money, that's why there is this exaggerated number of 100,000.

However, Rong Bao really believes it - there is no way, now the family is not rich, so the larger the amount of money, the more enjoyable.

can fight, have money, and the last one is also satisfied:

The head of the white lord Matsumae family, Mao Min, is nominally the son-in-law of the Gongfang family Shigeru and the adopted son of the head of the Tian An family, Kei Lai, who is a blood brother of the Qi Zhao line, loyal to the shogunate and loyal to the Qi Zhao line, no one can question it.

It's perfect!

So Rong Baoxing rushed to Edo Castle and found Keiyong and Keiki:

"You guys are too unrighteous, this military service can't just pit your own people, the white lord Matsudaira family, count him in."