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On the second day of October, it will be light snow tomorrow, but the snow has fallen early, and although the sky is snowing, the Japanese fishermen in Edo Bay are still fishing outside the bay in the snow, and the colder the weather for them, the more fish they need to catch, after all, the New Year is coming. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just as these fishermen in dilapidated boats struggled to drag their fishing nets.

Suddenly I felt that something was wrong, and when I looked into the distance, I saw several black things that seemed to be approaching, and the black shadows were getting bigger and clearer, and after a while, I could see their outlines clearly

Black Ship!

Now they weren't the ignorant fishermen of a year ago, they had seen the black boats several times. Again they saw these black ships.

In an instant, when he realized that the black boats were attacking again, a patriotic fisherman rowed his boat towards the shore, wanting to report to the shore, in fact, the gunners in Shinagawa Odaiba had already seen these black boats!

Last year, the commander of the United States Navy, Matthew? The four warships led by Perry easily broke through and landed in Uraga, breaking Japan's long-standing policy of seclusion. Because of this incident, the shogunate was inspired to have a sense of crisis, so it commissioned Hideryu Egawa, the acting official of Nirayama Prefecture of Izu Kunitakata Prefecture, to set up forts on the seashores of all parts of Japan in order to defend against foreign invasions. Among these many forts, the series of forts built off the coast of Shinagawa in Edo Bay is particularly important and famous, and is called Shinagawa Odaiba.

At that time, Egawa invested about 750,000 taels of money, using stones transported from Izu and other places, and soil and sand obtained from the excavation and demolition of Shinagawa Gotenyama, to successively complete a number of Western-style forts surrounded by square or pentagonal stone walls, called "Odaiba".

However, even if these odaiba were repaired, it didn't make any sense, and when he got the report from the soldiers, Egawa Hideryū stood by the fort, and looked through the binoculars, looking at the black ships heading towards Edo Bay, and he just commanded.

"Report to the old and middle school ...... immediately"

After a slight pause, Jiang Chuan Yinglong spoke.

"The Black Ship Strikes Again!"

Although the gunners in Shinagawa Odaiba reacted very quickly, they could only let the black ships break into Edo Bay without receiving orders, and sweat broke out on Egawa Eilong's forehead as he watched the black ships sail into Edo Bay.

"Didn't you say that all the black ships were wiped out by China? How come it again! ”

This will make Egawa Yinglong not know that these black ships are actually from China, and they are the same fleet that wiped out the American black ships!

The Black Ship Strikes Again!

When the news came, the entire Edo Castle was shocked!

However, instead of being afraid, everyone was excited.

They still remember that a few months ago, when the last time the black ship attacked, hundreds of empty cannons would be fired every day, and it was not the time for them to watch the excitement. Now when these Japanese learned of the "black ship attack again", they immediately reacted: the time to see the excitement has come again.

As a result, a large number of Edo people once again rushed out of their homes and flocked to the beach, and an unprecedented number of onlookers and artillery were watched, and even more so, they even brought their own small boats and came to the vicinity of the warships to observe at close range and planned to have another close contact with the "Westerners" on the black ships, after all, the Westerners on the ships were extremely generous.

"Drink the dew, drink the dew ......"

Speaking in Japanese-style English, Jiro Ejima stood at the bow of the boat, greeting the huge black boat from time to time, holding a few apples in his hand, these fruits were the most popular among foreigners on foreign ships in the past, and this black ship was no exception.

Just as he was speaking in English that he had learned from the Westerner, he was startled by the man who suddenly appeared on the side of the board - instead of blonde and blue-eyed Westerners, there was a row of yellow-skinned and black-eyed people who looked about the same as them, and they were dressed in white Western-style clothes.

Japanese?

Just when he was surprised, Jiro Ejima heard the person on the side ask.

"How do you sell these apples?"

What the?

With his eyes wide open, Jiro Ejima simply couldn't believe his ears,...... Chinese, Chinese.

He was no stranger to Chinese, in fact, although he was a small businessman, he had also read private school, and the private school was familiar with Chinese, so he could naturally speak Chinese, so he tentatively asked in stiff Chinese.

"Yours, who?"

Li Yunqing, who has been a little confused by the enthusiasm of these Japanese, although he learned fluent English in the naval training center, but he does not speak Japanese, will look at this Japanese trader, listen to him can speak Chinese, and immediately answer.

"We are the Chinese fleet, where are your local commanders?"

There is no need for Li Yunqing to ask this question at all, there will already be a sampan sailing over, and it is Jiang Chuan Yinglong on board, when he knew that this black ship was actually a "Tang ship", his eyes suddenly widened, and he muttered in surprise.

"Your ...... No, Don! ”

The ship is a "Tang ship", and the people are "Tang people"!

The news suddenly spread throughout Edo Bay, and I heard that it was the "Tang Boat" that the Japanese became more excited, in the past two months, they have been talking about how the Tang Fleet defeated the Black Ship of the United States, and now, the "Black Ship of the Tang Dynasty" that defeated the Black Ship of the United States is in front of their eyes, how can they not be excited, compared to the previous enthusiasm and the mentality of watching the excitement, this will make their mentality change fundamentally, it is a kind of enthusiasm that has become excited, excited, so that even small traders like Jiro Ejima, He also excitedly sent the apples on the ship to the ship, and when the sailors gave him money, Jiro Ejima blushed and waved his hand vigorously and said.

"Your ...... A true samurai! ”

As he spoke, Jiro Ejima bowed.

"My apple, the samurai don't want money!"

Fruits, all kinds of sweets, at this time in Edo Bay, those Japanese civilians who came to visit in small boats, although they did not have permission to board the boat, did not prevent them from expressing their enthusiasm in their own way.

In the past few months, the news of "the Tang people defeating the rice country black ship" from the foreign ship has already spread throughout Japan, and now in their opinion, the "Tang ship" that visited the country is naturally different from the rice country black ship, and the Tang people on the Tang ship are all samurai who defeated the rice people, since they are samurai, it is natural to respect and revere them......

In the midst of this enthusiasm, the atmosphere in the shogunate in Edo Castle was a little tense.

After receiving the report from Odaiba, the shogunate also had to discuss countermeasures, after all, the black ship came again, and the person in charge of taking over this matter was the chief of the shogunate, Nakabe Masahiro.

Laochu is the official name of the shogunate, usually held by the shogunate's direct retainers, that is, the so-called flag, mainly to replace the general to deal with the country's government affairs, generally set up 4~5 people, take turns to deal with different things every month, including a chief. In fact, it is equivalent to the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty in China, and the chief Lao Zhong is the first assistant.

When Masahiro Abe, who was only 35 years old, became the chief senior junior high school in the second year of Honghua, that is, nine years ago, he was only 26 years old at the time, and he was the youngest chief senior junior high school in the more than 200 years since the establishment of the shogunate.

In the face of the arrival of the Americans, this young veteran had thought of countermeasures for several days and nights, but there was no way to deal with them, and finally he had to reluctantly open the country and sign a treaty with the Americans, which seemed to him to be no different from allowing the Dutch to come to Japan for business.

But after the signing of the treaty, the situation of the black ship coming back will always give him a headache.

Since the Americans came, England, Francia, and Lucia have all flocked to sign treaties with Japan, and now there are some black ships, is it a Western country again?

When is this the head?

Those foreign devils with yellow hair, blue eyes, and noses that look like tengus don't have any good intentions, just look at the Qing Kingdom next door. But even if you know that those barbarians don't have a good heart, what can you do, the Qing Kingdom can't beat those foreign devils, what can Japan do?

For Japan, which has been in peace for 200 years, he has long been accustomed to peace, and for Masahiro Abe, he is well aware of the difference in strength between the two sides, and he does not think about resistance at all. In the past few years, since the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" was transmitted to Japan, he would read it every day, and it can be said that he has long been very familiar with the situation in the West, and naturally knows that there are many Western countries.

"Hey, I don't know which country I'm from."

Masahiro Abe said to his officials.

"It may be Austria-Hungary, among the great powers of Europe, there is still this country that has not yet arrived ......"

Yes, there are so many countries in Europa, if you go one, you will always come back.

"Okay, let's follow the precedent, receive them well, and then sign a treaty with them according to the requirements of the Mi people......"

Although the signing of this treaty was a little reluctant, but Abe Masahiro didn't even want to refuse, even if he had already signed contracts with several countries, he didn't care about one more.

In fact, it's no wonder that he didn't think of refusing, even if he says to fight now, everyone will feel quite inexplicable, since this country has been opened, then why fight? So it's better to live a peaceful life like now.

"These foreigners have ill intentions!"

Abe said with a sigh waving his big hand.

"Since the visit of the black ship of the United States, this black ship has continued one after another, which is really a worry for Japan, and we have to deal with state affairs, and this platform is bound to still need to be strengthened ......"

Abe's words made everyone nod their heads in disbelief, isn't it, if this black ship breaks in at two ends in three days, can the big guy still sleep steadily?

Just as Abe's words fell, there was a sound from there, and a samurai came in and knelt on the ground, holding a scroll in both hands, and everyone looked at the scroll, but what surprised them was the words in this person's mouth, and Abe muttered in surprise.

"Medium, Chinese...... This, how could this be! (To be continued.) )