"Is that what he said?" Tokugawa Isachi was wiping a treasure knife in his hand with a piece of white silk, feeling the beautiful patterns on it, and said lightly. Although his heart was very anxious, he had to maintain his prestige as the head of a country, the head of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the eleventh shogun. Therefore, he used the knife to calm himself, but the white hand that clenched the fingertips of the handle still revealed the gloom and anger in his heart.

Looking at the slightest chill soaked from the sword, and the burning anger in the eyes of the ruthless and vicious Tokugawa family. Nobuaki Matsudaira tried to keep his head lowered. "Now, that Admiral has led his fleet to the fishing village of Yokosuka on the other side of Edo Bay, saying that he is going to anchor there and await our reply."

"Ten and twenty million guan, that is, ten thousand and twenty million taels of gold, and they are embarrassed to say this amount. Not to mention the Satsuma Domain, even if our country wants to compensate for this amount, I am afraid that it will not be enough to empty everyone's pockets. Next to him, an old man in his fifties said slowly. This man is the biological father of Tokugawa Ieqi.

Tokugawa Ieji, the heir of Tokugawa Ieharu of the 10th shogunate, died suddenly after a hunt, and Ieji's other son, Sadajiro, died young, so Ieji had no male heir. At that time, his father, Jiji, was working with the important minister of the family, Tanuma Yoshiji, and it may have been recommended by Yoshiji, and the eight-year-old Ieji became the adopted heir of Tokugawa Ieji.

Later, he became a general, and he was very clear about his father's ability, and he respected it very much, otherwise, he wouldn't have wanted to honor his father as the Great Imperial Palace, but the Great Imperial Palace was a title that only people who had been generals could have, and Matsudaira Dingxin strongly objected, and finally, Tokugawa Ieki and his father took advantage of the incident of a Russian merchant to remove Matsudaira Dingxin.

Hearing that his father had spoken, the Tokugawa family handed over his love to the little surname of the body, and said respectfully to Jiji, "Father, what do you think should be done?" ”

"Matsudaira-kun, Makino-kun, do you think the general should sign this treaty?" Jiji also has a headache, this matter is really too big, so he wants to hear the opinions of Matsudaira Nobuaki and Makino Tadashi.

"I can't sign it, the minister thinks that the Qing country is too insulting to our country, and once such a treaty is signed, the name of the shogun and the Tokugawa family will definitely plummet, so the minister thinks that it is necessary to urgently mobilize troops and horses from all over the country to aid Edo, and the minister is willing to fight to the death, so that the Qing country knows that I have the spirit of the samurai of the country." Makino replied loudly.

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Hearing Makino Tadashi's answer, Zhiji showed a faint smile on his face, which can be called a relieved smile, in fact, he scolded this guy in his heart that he was really an old fritter, if this kind of stupid idea can be used, it still needs to negotiate? Makino Tadashi was simply pretending to be stupid.

"The minister thought that some treaties could be signed, after all, the Qing country had many things that our country needed, such as grain, cloth, and silk...... Of course, it's all up to the generals. Matsudaira Nobuaki also said this, which means that he did not say it.

"What I'm asking, two, is that if things have reached a point where things are out of the question, do you think the emperor should come forward to sign the treaty?" These two guys are cunning, but they are also cunning, so they simply point to the center of the problem.

Makino Tadashi shouted loudly at the moment: "I can't sign it, I can't sign it anyway, general, since those Qing people dare to anchor in the Yokosuka area, the minister asks the general to mobilize the army of the three samurai to defend Edo, and the minister himself leads the dead soldiers, sneaks in at night, and sets fire to the enemy. ”

"What if your plan fails and instead angers the Qing people?" Matsudaira Nobu understood Makino Tadashi's glance and said coldly.

Hearing this, Makino Tadashi couldn't hold back, and he really didn't dare to guarantee that his plan would be 100% successful, but he still retorted a little unwillingly: "If you don't try, how do you know if you can't succeed?" ”

"General, the ninja sent out has returned." At this time, a small surname came over and reported respectfully.

"Let him in." Tokugawa Ieki waved his hand, and soon, a ninja wrapped in tight black clothes entered the hall. "General, the villain has found out that the Qing warship has docked in Yokosuka Fishing Village. When they came ashore, they did not go to live in a fishing village, but built a camp on the shore. The defense was so tight that the villain could not sneak in, but the villain could see from a distance that there were at least several thousand of their soldiers, and they were all armed with iron cannons, and there were many large barrels that were also brought ashore as if they were used for defense. ”

Hearing the news, Tokugawa Ieki couldn't help but gasp: "You mean, all of them have iron cannons in their hands?" ”

"Exactly." The ninja replied affirmatively, and Matsudaira Nobuaki and the others couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, the power of the gun team, they knew very well, this kind of thing was far more powerful than bows and arrows, but it was very expensive, even the Tokugawa shogunate's army in Edo only had an iron cannon team of 1,000 people.

Of course, the outrageously dense battleship guns, although they felt that they had almost lost hope, but it was on the sea, so they still vaguely felt a little unwilling, and they wanted to fight with the other party on land.

But when he heard that the number of soldiers on the other side was thousands, and each of them had an iron cannon. Thinking of the scene of thousands of iron cannons roaring neatly on the battlefield, even Makino Tadashi, who considered himself to be unparalleled in martial arts, withered.

"When has the Qing Kingdom become so powerful?" Tokugawa Ieqi couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Back then, Toyotomi Hidetomi's expedition to Korea not only crippled North Korea, but also greatly damaged the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, but today, the other party only sent such a fleet, so he was helpless, and there was no means to deal with the other party's powerful force.

"General, the old minister thinks that for the sake of today's plan, he can only summon the three royal families......" Zhiji's words made everyone stunned, and looked at the general's father in amazement.

Three days later, the Tokugawa clan finally made their final decision to have the Emperor send an envoy to negotiate with the Qing people, or at least to sign the treaty in the Emperor's name.

When the news spread to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, Emperor Guanggetian was silent for nearly half a cup of tea, and only then did a smile appear on his face: "Gentlemen, Amaterasu bless me......

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" On the floor in front of him, all the henchmen threw themselves to the ground, crying out with tears streaming down their faces. Takayama Masayuki couldn't cry even more, and kowtowed to the emperor again and again, until his forehead was red, swollen and bleeding, and he didn't realize it.

At this time, Emperor Kokaku stood up, walked up to Takayama Masayuki, and stretched out his hand to help up these henchmen who were still loyal when he was embarrassed. Look at these excited faces. Emperor Guangge was so excited that he wanted to howl, and he bowed to these people slightly: "This matter, please leave it to you......

Soon after, the news of the opening of the port and the recognition of Hokkaido as the territory of the Qing kingdom began to spread, and the 11th Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Iesai, asked the envoys of His Majesty the Emperor to go to Edo to negotiate with the Qing envoys. For a moment, the daimyo were stunned, and they could not imagine that the shogunate, which had been closely monitoring and suppressing the emperor, would actually allow the emperor's envoys to go to Edo to negotiate with the Qing envoys, which made them have something indescribable in their hearts, and some people even wondered, could it be that the Tokugawa shogunate wanted to return power to the emperor?

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Emperor Guangka's envoys, Nayan Fujiwara Noritsuna, deputy envoy Takayama Masayuki, and shogunate envoy chief elder Matsudaira Nobuaki and deputy envoy Osaka Castle Daimakino Tadashi rushed to Liang Pengfei's battleship before Liang Pengfei's ultimatum.

After just two days, except for a few minor changes, the emperor's envoys and the shogunate envoys, who had worked together on the surface, but in fact dismantled each other, roughly agreed to all the terms.

However, there are differences about the two items proposed by Liang Pengfei. That is, it is recognized that the Huaxia Celestial Empire is the suzerainty of the Honhon, and if there is any disrespect to the Huaxia Celestial Empire, the Huaxia Celestial Empire has the right to directly demand the daimyo until the daimyo confesses his sins and repents and makes corresponding compensation, and the shogunate and the emperor must not interfere.

After a full half day of bargaining between the two sides, and still failing to reach an agreement on this article, Young Master Liang finally couldn't help but point out to Ni Ming, the negotiator on the other side, and this sentence made the shogunate and the emperor's representatives shut their mouths.

"If you think that you have to take responsibility for those great names who angered my Celestial Empire, then, should my Celestial Empire army come to you for these 20 million taels of gold?" After Ni Ming said this, Fujiwara Noritsuna, Matsudaira Nobuaki and others collectively dumbfounded, no matter who they were, they were not willing to take this responsibility for the Satsuma Domain.

In the end, it took less than five days for all the terms to be agreed and signed, and after these five short days, the contents of the Edo Treaty between Emperor Kokaku and the representatives of the shogunate and the Celestial Empire were gradually known to the daimyos.

The Japanese country will no longer be able to follow the original trajectory of their history, Hokkaido has become a piece of meat in the hands of Liang Pengfei, and Kyushu Island will also become two bright fangs with the north and south of Hokkaido.

And at the time of the signing of the treaty, after Liang Pengfei left 2,000 garrisons in Yokosuka, he immediately pulled anchor and set sail, targeting: Kagoshima Castle, the residence of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain in Kyushu.

(To be continued)