Many things in Japan were learned from China, and even the policy of "closing the country to the outside world" was also learned by the shogunate. It wasn't until nine years ago that Commodore Perry of the U.S. Navy led four blackened gunboats into Edo Bay, and the door to Japan was opened.

Edo, which later became Tokyo, was the seat of the shogunate.

When the black ship came, the Edo earthquake struck, and the Japanese wrote a poem on the spot, lamenting: "Shangxi wrote to wake up the dream of peace, and drank four cups and then couldn't sleep."

Kamiki is a kind of Japanese tea, which is the same as a steamship, and four ships are equivalent to drinking four cups. Guan Zhuofan said that this idea of the Japanese is really strange.

Whether it was said that the shogunate was cowardly or wise, in short, it was not necessary for the Americans to open fire, so they obediently signed the "Kanagawa Treaty".

After nine years of this, the people of the Shogunate began to attack the Shogunate with this matter, saying that it had lost power and humiliated the country. In desperation, the shogunate had no choice but to issue an order to "respect the king".

It is to drive out the foreign devils. However, the shogunate knew that Japan was no match for foreigners, and this order was actually a bluff and no actual action.

There are two powerful local princes, the Choshu Domain and the Satsuma Domain. Guan Zhuofan knew that the so-called "Battle of the Emperor" was a small-scale struggle between the two feudatories and the foreigners. And since these Japanese warships came from the north, most of them were the naval forces of the Choshu Domain.

When the fleet joined the Wyoming, the news came, and it confirmed Guan Zhuofan's guess. These three Japanese warships were the only three steamships in the Choshu Domain's navy. Because of the "Tsuoyi", the "Mibu Maru" shelled American merchant ships in the Shimonoseki Strait. Caused heavy casualties. As a result, he was targeted by the Wyoming. Chased all the way from Shimonoseki to Nagasaki, and had to sink it.

Guan Zhuofan thought to himself, the Japanese zuihou was finally afraid of the Americans, was he afraid of such ruthlessness?

If you provoke me, I will kill you.

Nagasaki was hit by the atomic bomb.

"That's ruthless," he said to Wall with a smile, "and it's been chasing so far." ”

"That Captain David. It's a bull's temper," Wall shook his head and said, "Yixuan, do you know that his Wyoming, Weishenme, will be in Japan?" ”

“weishenme？”

"He was chasing one of the attack ships of the Yugoslav Army, the Alabama, from the United States all the way to Asia."

Guan Zhuofan was dumbfounded, thinking that there are really such ruthless people in the US Navy.

But when he thought about it again, it wasn't the most ruthless.

The most ruthless. If you don't provoke me, I'll kill you.

It was as if I had heard his words. On the six merchant ships to the north, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out -- some of the Japanese sailors who had fallen into the water had already struggled to swim close to the fleet, and the soldiers of the Xuan Army lined up on the broadside, since they had identified them as enemies, naturally began to fire into the water with a volley of guns.

"They can't do that." "These are prisoners of war, and I want to give the order for the soldiers to stop shooting." ”

"How can you see a prisoner of war?" Guan Zhuofan said slowly, "Maybe I'm here to grab the boat." ”

Wall was stunned for a moment and said, "Yixuan, this is clearly enshrined in the public law of all nations!" ”

Guan Zhuofanxin said that after the troop carrier Gao Sheng, which was sunk by an undeclared Japanese warship, the thousands of Chinese soldiers who fell into the water, except for those rescued by Western warships, were shot dead by the Japanese army. At that time, I wonder who told them about the public law of all nations?

However, when Wall said this, he couldn't help but buy his face, so he sighed and nodded.

"Since it's the public law of all nations, let's stop." Guan Zhuofan said expressionlessly, "But these Japanese did not get on the ship, so they must not be American prisoners of war." They are very good at water, so let them swim back to Nagasaki by themselves. ”

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When the fleet sailed into the port of Nagasaki, the shogunate's Nagasaki port guard immediately panicked - there was a fleet coming, this knows, it needs to add water and coal, and this also knows, but it is not a fleet full of tens of thousands of armed soldiers?

This time he didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he sent someone to negotiate first, and on the other hand, he sent someone to invite the chief official of Nagasaki.

There were two chief officers stationed in Nagasaki, whose position was called "Nagasaki Commissioner". The one who came now, called Shiro Takeuchi, was older and more authoritative. He had a lot of experience dealing with Chinese businessmen, but this was the first time in his life that he had encountered such a situation.

Guan Zhuofan sent down to negotiate was Xu Silin, who was wearing a full set of official uniforms -- he was a four-grade Taoist platform, which was equivalent to the "four main positions" in the original Japanese official position, and he was just the enemy of Nagasaki.

"Takeuchi-sama." Xu Silin arched his hand.

"It turned out to be Master Xu...... Lord Xu! ”

The two of them have known each other for a long time. Shiro Takeuchi is not only proficient in Chinese, but also can see at a glance that Xu Silin has been promoted. However, Takeuchi also knew that Xu Silin's original official was nothing more than for the convenience of doing business, and he was not a real Qing Dynasty official. Now that he is representing the entire fleet, his identity is different.

Shiro Takeuchi had to negotiate that the soldiers were not allowed to disembark. If you need to buy something else, please issue a list and the Nagasaki local government will handle it.

This request is not excessive, and it is reasonable. After all, there are only more than 1,000 troops stationed in the whole of Nagasaki, and if tens of thousands of foreign soldiers are rashly released into the city, once things change, I don't know who to cry to.

Xu Silin quietly listened to Takeuchi's words, and did not answer, took out a list from his body, cleared his throat, and read aloud: "Guan Zhuofan, the minister of the Great Qing Dynasty and the second-class marquis, was ordered to go to the United States, passing through your land, with a slight object, to pay special tribute to Lord Tokugawa Ieshige, the general of the Zhengyi. ”

Tokugawa Ieshige, the current head of the Tokugawa family, is the fourteenth shogun of the shogunate. Takeuchi was stunned, and said in his heart, which one is this?

"Two hundred large silver ingots cast by the official, 10,000 taels."

"Breech guns with sub-medicines, three hundred."

"Fifty packets of finest raw silk."

"A hundred tribute satins."

"Twenty boxes of porcelain from Dehua official kiln ......"

Xu Silin read it endlessly, and it took a while to finish reading the entire list and hand it to Shiro Takeuchi.

"Your Excellency, these gifts are going to be disembarked, please take them."

"This ......" Takeuchi asked hesitantly, "Lord Xu, is this the meaning of your imperial court, or is it ......?"

"This is a little bit of my own heart."

That's good! Takeuchi breathed a sigh of relief. This gift is too heavy, and if it is made into a reward from the Qing court, it will be a big joke.

The next thing to talk about is the matter of disembarkation. According to Xu Silin, the soldiers on the merchant ships can not get off the ship, but the Marquis Guan said that he wants to go into the city to go shopping.

"Lord Takeuchi, this Pujiang is the ship of my family, and the ships are all Guan Houye's personal soldiers. Hou Ye wants to enter the city, and his personal soldiers will naturally follow the guards. ”

Takeshi thought to himself, since he gave such a heavy gift to the shogun and didn't let him enter the city, how could he not say, but how many people would he have to bring with him?

"A thousand!" Xu Silin said categorically.

Takeuchi was taken aback, a thousand people, how can that be?

"Marquis Guan's status is precious, and he comes with an escort, of course, it is limited to fifty people."

"Minister, how can fifty people be enough? At least 800! ”

"A hundred, no more."

Bargaining like this, Zuihou finally set the number at five hundred.

Now that the talks have been negotiated, Xu Silin boarded the ship to report. Guan Zhuofan heard this, nodded, and said with a smile: "It's very good, let's go." ”

Just go. Túrin pointed out five sentry posts from the pro-soldier camp and the middle army camp of the Guards Regiment, all dressed in draped clothes, and went ashore from the marshal.

"Master Guan, the horse is ready." When Shiro Takeuchi saw Guan Zhuofan, he bowed down first, "Please go to my mansion to have tea." ”

"Takeuchi, you're too polite." Guan Zhuofan thought to himself, this devil's Chinese is really good, "But I went into the city this time to see your Kabuki." ”

Takeuchi was stunned for a moment, it turned out that this Guan Hou Ye was very familiar with our Japanese things.

"Hay! Yes, yes," Takeuchi still bowed and said, "Danjuro of Yoshidai Society, and Mannojo of Asai Society are all top haode." ”

"I don't want to look at this," Guan Zhuofan shook his head, "I'm going to the Crane Pavilion." ”

Shiro Takeuchi's face changed, and he hesitated for a long time before bowing down and answering, "Hai! ”

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(On the second day of the business trip, I will forgive me.) ）

*(To be continued......)