No one could have predicted a storm in the vast ocean thousands of miles away, and the storm that Zhu Wu was about to experience did not fall in the depths of Edo Bay at all. But at this time, the tense and solemn atmosphere in Edo Bay was no weaker than that of the Zhu Wu exploration ship, which was about to face the test of life and death......www.biquge.info

Because the Chinese naval fleet has already fought two wars with Japan.

The First Battle of the Southern Route Fleet destroyed Kagoshima, destroyed the main force of the Satsuma Domain, and destroyed the efforts of Shigehiro Shimazu over the past few years. The entire castle of Kagoshima was burned to the ground, and the towns under Kagoshima Castle were also burned to the ground, and many goods became the spoils of the southeast naval division. The Odaiba on Sakura Island, the Ichicho Maker's Hall, the Planetarium, and the base of the Sakurajima Satsuma sailors were all destroyed......

The losses of the North Route fleet in Edo were much lighter than those in Kagoshima, because the Chen-Han North Route Naval Division was in charge. What is the standard of a Japanese sailor? In this era, they are not even as good as the combat effectiveness of the Manshui Division, and the repair of the North Route Fleet is like a strong man teaching a young child. In one battle, half of the Edo Naval Division was easily defeated, and the battlefield was in Edo Bay.

Then, under the bombardment of the Odaiba cannons in Edo Bay, the Chinese sailors rushed to a position of three or four hundred meters from the Edo pier and fired two refueling rockets at Edo Castle, burning down hundreds of houses and shops near the landing site. The sea breeze that day was relatively small and small.

The chief of the Tokugawa shogunate who remained in Edo, the elder Nakatanuma Yoshiji, was about to kneel after seeing this scene.

He can understand and tolerate the fragility and comprehensive backwardness of the combat effectiveness of the water division, just as Emperor Xianfeng understood the "heroism" of Seng Lingqin after the defeat of Baliqiao. Tanuma Yoshiji never expected the Japanese sailors to win against the Chinese sailors, and he felt that as long as the Japanese samurai could show the bravery and loyalty they deserved, they were worthy of praise.

But what about this scene now? Doesn't this mean that the Chinese could set fire to the entire Edo Castle at any time?

The whole of Edo was in turmoil, and countless people poured out of the city. The yen's exchange rate on the black market staged a plunge on Mount Everest, at a time when people believed more in real gold and silver, and the prices of various Japanese stocks, including Mitsui Bank, plummeted.

For the first time, Tanuma saw Japan's weakness so clearly. Japan, where all cities in the country are made of wood, is a dead hole that is clearly exposed, and it is so vulnerable under the guns of the Chinese sailors. Japan really doesn't have the capital to fight the Chinese now. Even if they don't land, they can make Japan kneel no longer with just this super-powerful flowering bomb and scorching bomb.

The wooden buildings are so full that Japan will never be able to withstand the ravages of the firepower of the Chinese sailors.

After a brief battle in Edo Bay, the latter evacuated Edo Bay in its entirety and ran to the Kii Suido, where it joined the Minamiji Naval Division and went straight into the Seto Inland Sea.

The 'activity points' of the North China Water Division are not high, but what it has brought to Edo is the impact of the collapse of the sky.

Whether it is the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Mitsui, or the stock exchange run by the Mitsui family, the unstoppable run frenzy and the stock market are all desperate and soberly aware of the absolute fear of war among the Japanese people.

Edo, the residence of the Mitsui family.

An old man with his hair about to fall out sat cross-legged in the middle of the room, the moonlight shone on the old man's body through the screen window, and the gloomy old man looked like a poisonous snake hidden in the dark, and a pair of crystal eyes radiated a cold poisonous light.

There were several pages scattered in front of him, and the moonlight could be vaguely seen on the paper: Mitsui Bank, opening 11.53 yen, closing 10.22 yen, Mitsui Department Store, opening 2.44 yen, closing 2.05 yen, ......

Satsuma Bank, opened at 0.25 yen and closed at 0.25 yen;

Iwasaki Shipping Co., Ltd., opened at 1.90 yen and closed at 1.58 yen......

The stock prices of the 140 companies listed on the Edo Stock Exchange, from the Mitsui family itself to ordinary wealthy companies that are far inferior to the Mitsui family, have all fallen sharply. Only Satsuma Bank, where the stock has actually become waste paper, can ensure the stability of the stock price.

Take Mitsui Bank, the core industry of the Mitsui family, from the highest 28.6 yen, to the current 10.22 yen, the old man wanted to pick up a katana and slash people with resentment, so he cut people like a broken wind lamp in front of him.

There was also a middle-aged man kneeling in front of the old man, wearing a red and blue samurai uniform, his head buried deeply, and he couldn't see his face clearly, and he could only see the incomparably strange and bright hairstyle that is unique to Japan at this moment - Tsukiyo head.

The breath in the room was condensed to the extreme, until the old man took out a box with a silver lock from his hand, and then solemnly took out an exquisite architectural model from it, and the breath loosened a little. This is the architectural model of the Edo Stock Exchange, and now many things in Japan have begun to learn from China, and architectural design and models have become commonplace, although the attitude of the Japanese people towards China is becoming less and less good.

Taking the Mitsui family as an example, whether it is the name of a bank or a stock exchange, or the name of a department store, a manager, etc., it is all copied from China.

The Edo Stock Exchange was of great significance to the Mitsui family, and like the Mitsui Bank, it was far higher than the retail industry of department stores and clothing companies, so the architectural model of the stock exchange was always regarded as a collector's item by the old man who dominated the Mitsui family.

One day when he dies, he will bring this model of the building to his bedside and sleep with him.

"Click......"

On weekdays, the architectural model that the old man loved as a treasure was crushed under the wooden shoes. Yuedai's head knelt on the ground, and his body couldn't stand the shaking.

Although the ruthlessness on the old man's face was stronger, and the cold aura was about to solidify the substance, although he was reluctant to give up, he still did not hesitate to step on the entire building model to pieces.

"Go ahead and do it. Don't leave the slightest handle behind. ”

"Hello."

The middle-aged man's head, which had just been raised, lowered deeply again.

In less than a month, Mitsui Bank's stock price fell by more than half, which was a loss that the Mitsui family could not tolerate. But no matter how big the loss is, the stock exchange will not be able to delist Mitsui Bank, or even suspend trading, because that will bring a greater blow to the entire Mitsui family.

The loss of money has already driven the Mitsui clan crazy, and if the reputation is also hit hard, the Mitsui family will be finished.

The Chinese did not fight in Edo Bay, which allowed Mitsui Bank and the Mitsui family to escape, but the contradictions between China and Japan still existed, and the Chinese did not fight Edo not because they could not defeat Edo, but only needed to fire dozens of flowering bombs at Edo Castle in the windy weather, fearing that the entire Edo would be turned into a sea of fire. They just don't fight.

The Chinese went to Osaka, and their spearhead was always pointed at Kyoto. And after the fire of that day, not many people dared to open their mouths again. With two quick-release flowering bombs, hundreds of houses and shops could easily be set on fire, and if the shogunate really wanted to fight to the death with China, the whole of Edo would inevitably turn into a sea of fire. This is a price that no one dares to 'carry'. Otherwise, it is harboring evil intentions, and their hearts can be punished. Nowadays, there are many people in Edo who are clamoring for the city to be rebuilt as soon as possible, and even if the entire Edo Castle cannot be made of bricks and mud in a short period of time, the area near the pier must be renovated.

This kind of thing takes a long, long time, and has complex and diverse problems. It can be said that Edojo's eyes have 'shifted' to the end of the war.

Now, one of the biggest problems is that the final direction of China's diplomatic relations with Japan will not take a few days to reach a final conclusion.

If those damned royalties and ministers don't bow their heads, the whole of Osaka will be reduced to ashes, and the subsequent Edo Castle will be able to escape the catastrophe of the war again? This is also the biggest reason why the stock market has fallen again in the last two days.

Unless it is a stock equivalent to the bankrupt Satsuma Bank, there are very few stocks in the market that have fallen less than 5%. The most frightening thing is that if bad news comes from Kyoto, the stock market in Edo will once again usher in the dark period of the same avalanche......

Since the concept of a stock exchange spread in Japan, few people could resist the temptation to grab money, that is, the Bank of Japan, which was run by the shogunate, could not be listed because of its role as the central bank, and other business owners, including the Mitsui family itself, coveted the listing of the stock exchange.

As long as the market behaves and people are confident, they only need to take out a small part of the shares to exchange for an unimaginable huge amount of money, which can lay a solid foundation for the next development of the enterprise itself or for the development of its overall industry.

This is no better than the corporate banks mentioned above.

The Edo Stock Exchange has a much lower listing status than in China, and if it weren't for this sudden change, 200 stocks would have been listed on the stock exchange by the end of the year. The benefits that the Mitsui family can obtain from it and the huge influence that it can drive will be the improvement of the quality of the Mitsui family. The stock exchange will also become a true pillar of the Mitsui family.

But the war changed all that.

As victims of this war, the Mitsui family must now consider the consequences of the collapse of Sino-Japanese negotiations in Kyoto, and if there is a full-scale war between China and Japan, the terrible impact will not be at all something that the Mitsui family can bear.

If Edo Castle was also destroyed like Kagoshima, the entire Mitsui family could also be destroyed.

So how do you change all that?

In addition to mobilizing all their connections to threaten the imperial family and the minister, the Mitsui family went to help the Tokugawa shogunate, which was to transfer their own property, and at the same time, they also had to stifle the fire point of the stock exchange. Mitsui's plan is to make the Edo Stock Exchange 'pause'!

That night, a beautiful flame bloomed in the middle of Edo Castle. It is said that a Japanese samurai who lost his fortune by using all his belongings to fight for stocks set fire to the entire Jianghu stock exchange in desperation.

The desperate laughter of the arsonist was heard far and wide in the fire......

"Heh, this Mitsui family is decisive enough." He burned his own stock exchange, Wang Junda sighed. He was a sect at the beginning, and he was not so ruthless and decisive. This drastic method of the Mitsui family made his heart tremble.

"Burning the stock exchange, or because a bankrupt guy killed himself, there is a delay in talking. As soon as the stock exchange closes, even if those stocks are still falling in price, there is not such a big place for them to trade, and there is such a convenient channel for them to quote...... "The big fluctuations in the Japanese stock market have stopped.

Without this stock exchange, Japan's stock trading would have returned to the tavern days of the past, changing from four wheels to two legs at once, and the speed of the entire industry has dropped by an unknown number of times. The opacity of mutual transactions makes many people worry about each other's quotes, and the speed of transactions and the volatility of the stock market will slowly calm down. In particular, Wang Jun also knew that His Majesty had no real intention of attacking Japan, and in a few days the incident would subside, and the Japanese stock market would turn from winter to spring. As long as the Mitsui family survives the current wave and the river crabs in the coming days, they will be like the flowers and bones that have survived the cold winter, and they will be able to shine again if they give a little sunshine.

"Don't mention that. Our task is still to negotiate. The imperial court has already set up a stage for the Tokugawa shogunate, and if Tokugawa Ieji can't do his job more beautifully, it will be a waste. ”

Wang Jun took a puff of his cigarette and said to Zong Weifeng beside him.

In the current Japanese court, the little emperor doesn't understand bullshit, and he is not even qualified to make a brand, and it is the little emperor and his father who really catch the problem, and there are also ministers such as Shirakoemai Neizen, Left Minister Kujo Naomitsu, and Eagle Sifuku.

At this moment, Prince Naohito, the second-generation Xianyuan Palace, knelt on the floor, and the surrounding figures were longing. The palace in the southwest of Kyoto Gyoen was already surrounded by the Shogunate.

Of course, Tokugawa Iyoji would not go out in person, but the shogunate elder Matsudaira Yasufuku appeared in front of the second Prince Naohito of Kanin Palace.

The latter is about to be 'disemboweled'.

The person who served as the wrong person was the sixth Prince Orihito of Arisugawa Palace, another branch of the four palace families. A famous swordsman in the royal family.

At this moment, his face was solemn and could not hide his paleness, so that Prince Orihito of the Arisugawa Palace stood upright beside the second generation of Prince Naohito of the Idle Courtyard Palace. The latter wore a white samurai robe, a white belt tied around his head, a white silk scarf and a katana that had been passed down for two generations by his father from Emperor Reigen (the father of Emperor Higashiyama and the grandfather of the first generation).

When the news of the destruction of Kagoshima reached Kyoto, the Osaka merchants pointed the finger at him in fear, and the Tokugawa shogunate also took the opportunity to attack, and the second Prince Kanin Miyahito became a living dead. But at that time, Tokugawa Isaharu didn't want to take the life of the second generation, didn't this come from Edo, didn't the war report come from Edo, and the entire Edo Castle was burned by the Chinese sailors to the sailors, and the frightened Tokugawa Isaharu immediately decided the fate of the second generation of Prince Naohito of the second generation of Kanin Palace, and he didn't even have the possibility of becoming a monk.

The collapse of a powerful feudal clan caused the entire Edo Castle to fall into the danger of being on fire, and now that the Chinese fleet had reached Osaka again, the Osaka merchants who had a certain connection with the Kyoto Imperial Family were all on the opposite side of Kyoto, and the power and prestige of the entire Imperial Family fell to the extreme. Tokugawa Ieji asked the second Prince Kanin Miyahito to atone for his sins, and the second Prince Kanin Miyanahito had no choice but to commit suicide by breaking his abdomen.

Apply force to the abdomen from left to right and make a transverse incision; Then from the bottom to the top, cut straight to become a cross, and reach the heart for the degree. Or hit the abdomen with a cross-cutting knife and immediately return the knife to cut your throat. After a horizontal cut in the abdomen, immediately use the knife to pierce the heart socket, and then pull down to form a cross shape.

Although Wang Jun has a certain understanding of Japan's suicide by breaking his abdomen, he really doesn't know that there are so many tricks. Moreover, the seppuku knows that such a death is physically painful, but he must always hold back the pain and actively achieve his goal. When they die, they have to keep a clear and clear will, and they follow the rituals one by one. First, keep the body from leaning, but prostrate itself forward. If you are facing the sky on your back, you are considered to have lost your manners. Second, the knife marks on the abdomen are not allowed to be wrinkled. Third, the knees must be closed, and if they are released, it means that they are not cultivating enough. Finally, suicide weapons must be properly placed and not left to be scattered.

The wrong person holds the head, that is, swings a knife to cut off the neck of the disembowelment, but does not completely cut off, so that the head and neck are still slightly implicated.

To be honest, Wang Jun is not incomprehensible to Japan's 'samurai spirit', although he feels that this belief is too persistent and too extreme in terms of 'loyalty, faithfulness, honesty, martial arts, reputation' and so on.

The Japanese samurai group, which regards this concept as a universal value, feels like a beast to Wang.

Their tradition of suicide by breaking their stomach seems to embody a national ethos that can be killed and humiliated in order to maintain dignity. In fact, it is like a beast without intelligence, and in the last moments it will only think about everything and not think about the longer and longer future. This nation should be very 'short-sighted'.

Wang Jun is also a scholar, although he did not gain fame in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in the Chen Han New Dynasty he was a Jinshi of the Eight Classics. His three views are also largely influenced by traditional Confucian thinking, Wang Jun looks at Japan from his own point of view, and really feels that the Japanese country is too lucky. Even if they change places with North Korea, I am afraid that they will be killed a long time ago.

Of course, Wang Jun has not yet realized what an island nation is and what is a mainland nation. And the harsh living environment of frequent volcanic eruptions in Japan since ancient times has injected factors different from those of the Han nation into this nation.

But now Wang Jun very, very much agrees with the emperor's many practices towards Japan, such a nation is too 'wild', and there is already a 'lesson' from the Korean War in the late Ming Dynasty, so it is necessary to firmly tie a chain to them.

"Send a message to Nanjing, Japan's overall situation has been decided!" (To be continued.) )