Edo Castle, where the Tokugawa shogunate was located, was located in Edo Bay, and the entire area was densely populated, and there were three or four hundred thousand Japanese living around Edo Castle, which was equivalent to a large city in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to Edo, nearby Musashi and Sagami, which surround Edo Bay, are densely populated and agriculturally developed, and are one of the best of Japan, which is why the Tokugawa family built their castle in Edo.

Uraga is located in the southern part of Sagami, in the territory of Miura-gun, where the famous Yokosuka military port was located, with Kamakura County to the north and Odawara Castle to the west. Uraga held Edo Bay, the gateway to Edo, and because of its geographical location at the entrance to Edo Bay, it was a place directly under the jurisdiction of the shogunate.

In order to protect the safety of Edo Bay, the Tokugawa shogunate stationed a naval army in Kaura, and cast a fort, but after the Warring States period, the Edo shogunate's regime was basically stable, and there was no fear of a threat from the sea, so Uraga's status was reduced, and it gradually entered a state of abandonment.

On October 10, the moon is like water, and Edo Bay on the east side of Uraga and Sagami Bay on the west side of Uraga are sparkling, and the waves of the sea crash against the reef on the shore of Uraga with a roaring sound.

On a stone-clad fort on the shore, several braziers burned, and three samurai wearing hats and bamboo armor and two katana swords stuck in their waists were talking in Japanese.

On the fire next to it, a little soup was boiled in an iron pot, and when the three samurai saw that the soup was hot, they divided a little of it, and then took out the rice balls and served them with a little pickles to fill their stomachs.

Ancient Japan was poor in resources, and the upper nobility and samurai class maintained the habit of vegetarianism for almost a thousand years. The three famous samurai were eating, and one of them took a sip of soup, raised his head, and suddenly exclaimed, "明かりがある!" (There is light!) ）

When the other two soldiers heard this, they also raised their heads and looked at the sea in the distance, and sure enough, they saw a light flashing on the sea.

The lights were connected in one piece, some stacked on top of each other, as if a city had appeared out of thin air, like a mirage, and the three samurai were horrified and thought that a miracle had flashed.

The lights that suddenly appeared on this sea were the Ming Dynasty fleet that set off from Ryukyu and headed straight for Edo. Man Dazhuang originally wanted to rush directly into Edo Bay, but out of politeness, and because he didn't know much about the water ripples and channels in Edo Bay, he was afraid of hitting the reef and running aground in the dark, so he still chose to drop the sail outside Uraga and wait for dawn before negotiating with the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Ming army parked the ship on the sea, and in the dark night, many torches were lit on the deck, but they frightened the untouchables near Miura County, who all thought that some demon god had appeared, and they were so frightened that they did not sleep all night.

On the Fort in Uraga, more than a hundred samurai had gathered at this time, and they looked out at the sea and spoke a bunch of Japanese, as if they wanted people to row over and look at the lights, but no one dared to do so. Although the samurai are brave, they are still a little timid when faced with the unknown.

Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, the samurai led by him gave up his plan to send someone to investigate.

The fleet was full of Da Zhuang and the others, and except for a few people who monitored the state of the ships, most of the entire fleet fell into a deep sleep.

Soon after, it was getting lighter, and tens of thousands of Japanese had gathered on the shore where the fleet was anchored at night. Many thought that the demon gods had come to attack the coast, and the samurai and fishermen came with weapons, the samurai held the katana, and the untouchables held harpoons and shoulders, and gathered on the shore as if they were facing a great enemy.

As the sky grew brighter, the city of lights on the sea gradually leaked its original appearance, and ten giant warships and ten lucky ships slowly showed their outlines.

After the closure of the country, Nagasaki in Kyushu became the only treaty port in Japan and the only area with access to foreign ships, and Edo Bay has never seen such a large ship.

The Japanese samurai were a bit like the scholars before the Sui and Tang dynasties in China, in addition to knowing martial arts, they also had to read and write, and the first samurai saw the outline of ten sea fortresses and judged that they were sea ships, so he asked someone to find a ship, and took a few samurai with them, and rowed towards the fleet by the bright light of the early morning.

The boat rose and fell on the waves, but the great ships in the distance did not move, and when they stood on the shore and observed, they were already shocked by the enormity of the ship, but when they approached the door, they found that the ship was much larger than when they were looking at it from the shore, and the height of the hull and mast was almost as high as three castle towers.

"Ming Guo の flag、これは Tang boat!"

When the small boat approached the giant ship, the huge three-masted gunboat was dozens of times the size of the small ship, and the samurai on the ship could only look up at the tall gunboat as if standing under the castle, and the samurai led by him could not help but let out an exclamation when he saw the sun and moon flag fluttering on the mast.

"これはKarafunaです!" The samurai on the ship looked up at the giant and were shocked.

Looking at the ten huge sea ships in a row, the samurai were dumbfounded, and they remembered the existence that had made Japan worship for nearly a thousand years, and they were extremely shocked in their hearts.

After the First World War at the mouth of the Baijiang River, Japan was transformed into a Tang Dynasty for thousands of years, and it was full of admiration for Chinese things, but since the Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, Japan's mentality has changed a little.

If the entire region under the influence of Chinese civilization is called the world, Japan can be regarded as a vassal on the periphery, who originally respected orthodoxy, but orthodoxy was destroyed by the barbarians, and then the heart of fighting for the world was born. This kind of thinking can be said to have lasted until the First Sino-Japanese War, when the theme of Japan's Qing Dynasty was still to conquer the world, but after this war, Japanese nationalism rose, and Japan began to think that Japanese culture was higher than Chinese culture, so it turned from fighting for the world to colonial conquest.

Japan has a very long history of exchanges with China, and Japan has always admired Chinese culture for a long time, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties, Japan specially sent "Sui envoys" and "Tang envoys" to China to study culture, and these results made Japan one of the most culturally intimate countries in the world with China.

Japanese culture is deeply influenced by classical Chinese culture, and is even closer to Han culture than some minority cultures in China, but this cultural closeness has not made China and Japan like Britain and the United States become close friends because of language and cultural ties, but have become enemies.

In addition to China, the only country in the world that uses Chinese characters is Japan, and South Korea, Vietnam, etc. have abolished Chinese characters, which is enough to make people sigh. This is the result of the decline of the entire Chinese language and the spiritual and cultural colonization of the West.

Edo Castle, Honmaru, and Castle Tower, Tokugawa Ietsuna was discussing with several bigwigs, and one was the uncle of Tokugawa Ietsuna, and the other was a shogunate boss, and they didn't approve of the shogunate standing on the side of the Ming Kingdom.

The two believed that even if they wanted to deal with the Shimazu clan, they should come to the shogunate themselves, not be coerced by the Ming state, which would damage the majesty of the shogunate in Japan. For the Ming country, the best way for the shogunate is to delay, neither offend nor help, Japan has national conditions here, and the mistakes made by the Shimazu family cannot be remembered by the shogunate.

Several people were talking, but at this time, a samurai hurriedly entered the temple, and then knelt in the middle, prostrate himself on the ground, saluted and said: "General, Ming Guo のenvoy 節団を dispatch した江戸灣外!" ”

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