Ask for recommendations, ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, in short, ask for a lot of things, and then the greedy Rollo thank you for your support, xiexie everyone

After Zhu Jishi refused to support the opium ban, Davis really didn't have a problem with him. The spring of 1847 passed in peace. Although the battle of the Ming and Qing dynasties can be said to have begun, the progress is very slow. After the Guangdong Navy Division was submerged, the coastal areas of Guangdong and the city of Guangzhou were nervous for a while, and the branches of the HSBC Bank in Nanguan and Kowloon in Guangzhou were even more busy, and they were all Guangdong officials and wealthy businessmen who had brought money to deposit -- even Lin Zexu had deposited more than 4 million taels of silver from the Western-style yamen. As for HSBC's zero-interest rate policy, it is not a problem. The chaos is coming, everyone is concerned about the safety of the principal, who cares if there is interest?

However, in stark contrast to the tension of these bigwigs, the battle situation in Baiyun Mountain and the coastal areas of Guangdong was calm and chaotic. Where do the military attaches of the Guangdong Green Battalion still have the heart to fight now, they are all wondering whether their top and head under the top can be saved! At the end of May, the Guangzhou general Mu Ten ordered the arrest of the families of 117 rebellious Han officials who had not escaped in time! Most of the military attaches of the Guangdong Green Battalion are related to each other, and if the company is more extensive, everyone will have to pack up and prepare to fill the army, and they will not even be able to save their lives.

As for Mu Tern's 6,000 Eight Banners New Army, he has no intention of fighting in this situation - who knows if this green battalion Han official will take a risk? They have 10,000 or thousands of green battalion soldiers in their hands, which is several times more than the Eight Banners of Guangzhou. If he takes refuge in Zhu Jishi, won't the sky in Guangdong fall? So I can only be appeased with good words. On the one hand, let the Eight Banners soldiers guard the city of Guangzhou. As long as Guangzhou is not lost. Reinforcements from the imperial court arrived. He mutern is a great achievement.

And the mutant people on Baiyun Mountain do not seem to have any intention of coming down the mountain to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army. After all, they are not the rebels who rebel with iron hearts like the Worship of God, but they were coaxed and deceived by others, of course, and forced by the government to go up the mountain, but they never thought that they would rebel against the Qing Dynasty and seize the country. Even if Zheng Hong and Lu Siyuan go all out to do ideological work, it will not change overnight. Many of them still have illusions about Daoguang Dusk, hoping that Daoguang can forgive everyone's sins with an edict and exempt them from the harsh taxes imposed on them by corrupt officials......

Therefore, outside the city of Guangzhou, there was a sit-down battle between the people and the official army! Let's do it. It looks ridiculous, but this kind of thing really happened in the original history. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebelled, it took half a year from Hong Xiuquan's issuance of the regimental camp order requiring the congregation to go to Jintian Village to concentrate the regimental battalion and organize the army to the battle with the Qing army. After the capture of Yong'an Prefecture, the Taiping army confronted the Qing army besieging Yong'an Prefecture for more than half a year, during which it not only divided the kings to establish the official system, the ritual system, the military system and legislation, but also held a imperial examination, which made Feng Yunshan addicted to being a champion. It was not until the grain stock in Yong'an Prefecture was exhausted that the Taiping army broke through and went north, and the pace of rebellion in this era was really slow enough.

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One day in the middle of summer 1847, in the study of the Deep Water Bay mansion. Zhu Jishi, who had just returned from teaching at Jishi University, met Zhu Mo and Zhu Jianyu, who had returned from a trip to Japan.

The two also brought a surprising news to Zhu Jishi. Tokugawa Iekei, the twelfth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, wants to invite Zhu Jishi to Japan for a while!

This Tokugawa Iekei seems to be also a fan of Zhu Jishi. After reading his "Theory on the Founding of the First Army" and "The History of the Fall of India", I was greatly moved and thought that every word was insightful. According to Zhu Jianyu, the general himself could even recite "The Theory of the Founding of the First Army" in its entirety.

In addition, Tokugawa Iekei invited Zhu Jishi to Japan for another purpose, that is, to treat the shogun himself and the shogun's son, Tokugawa Iese. Speaking of which, it seems that the Tokugawa family has also reached the end of their gas. Tokugawa Iekei gave birth to a total of 24 children, but except for one Tokugawa Iesada with cerebral palsy, the others almost died young. What a hell of a life. The dignified Tokugawa clan can't find a suitable heir to be the thirteenth generation of generals now.

And Tokugawa Iekei himself, who is already fifty-six years old this year, is going to see Tokugawa Ieyasu in a few years, is he really going to pass on the throne of the general to a child with cerebral palsy? Don't die in the hands of the Tokugawa family!

After reading Zhu Jishi's introduction to the situation of Shijie countries, especially the tragic history of Egypt, Ottomans, India and other countries for more than a hundred years, Tokugawa Iekei is almost an ant on a hot pot, and it seems that he has seen the demise of the Tokugawa family and the tragic situation of Japan becoming a Western colony, and he also regards Zhu Jishi, a "saint" and "miracle doctor", as a life-saving straw.

Zhu Jishi gently put a sincere invitation letter written by Tokugawa Iekei on the desk, and the abacus in his heart quickly started.

Japan, historically China's great enemy! But this great enemy was not Japan under the weak Tokugawa shogunate, but Japan after the Restoration. Judging from the current situation, the Tokugawa family, which has ruled Japan for more than 200 years and passed down 12 generations of shoguns, is already old. This is an old and frail ruling group, not the new government that flourished after the Meiji Restoration.

So the Tokugawa shogunate was a feudal dynasty that was coming to an end, perhaps a little stronger than the Manchu dynasty, but still a declining dynasty. For China, maintaining the Tokugawa shogunate is definitely more beneficial than overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate!

"Lord Gongfang said that as long as the Ming Gong can go to Edo for a while, the Jishixing can open a trading house in Edo, and the Tokugawa family and the Zhu family can also form an alliance." Zhu Jianyu smiled impeccably, and very formally took out a gold national letter from the broken one, and handed it to Zhu Jishi with both hands.

Zhu Jishi took the letter of state, opened it and looked at it, and it was in the name of the Japanese monarch Gen Jiaqing.

"The Maharaja of Japan?"

Zhu Jianyu explained with a smile: "We have the emperor Bixia in Japan, and Bixia is the king of a country, and the shogunate is only appointed by the emperor to manage the national affairs of Japan. Therefore, there is only the name of the general of the Seiyi, and this title is not very suitable in foreign exchanges, so the name of "King of Japan" or "Maharaja of Japan" is used in the national documents of Japan. And the source is the clan of the princess, and the Tokugawa is the Miao character, and the surname is used in the national book. ”

The name is not right, the word is not good!

This was probably the biggest problem facing the Tokugawa shogunate! After all, Japan is a country of monarchs, and the emperor is the king of a country, and the general is no more than the emperor's minister. The minister controls the country and sets up the emperor, no matter how you look at it, he is suspected of being a chaotic minister and a thief. If the feudal lords in Japan who were dissatisfied with the Tokugawa shogunate wanted to raise an army and overthrow the shogunate, the name of the king would always be in Kyoto. Therefore, the Tokugawa shogunate had to focus most of its efforts on Annai...... As long as this feudal politics exists, Japan will not have a chance to rise in the Haidong and spread its wings in Asia!

At this point, he must also regard the Tokugawa shogunate as an ally, and it is still necessary to go to Japan.

"What? Ming Gong, are you going to Japan? There's a lot going on here in Hong Kong! ”

When Zuo Zongtang heard that Zhu Jishi was going to Japan, he was a little dumbfounded. The rebellion of the Qing Dynasty has not yet been created, so why did you think of going to Japan to interact with the Tokugawa shogunate?

"Ming Gong, do you want to go to Japan to recruit elite soldiers?" Han Si, who was recruited with Zuo Zongtang, thought about it and said, "If you can find some strong men like Saigo Takanaga, it is worth going to Japan." ”

"I'm afraid there won't be a second one in Japan like Saigo, right?" Zhu Jishi smiled and waved his hand, "It's really not to go to Japan to recruit soldiers, but to make friends with the Tokugawa shogunate...... Our eyes cannot only look at the country, but only at the Manchu Qing Dynasty. You also need to think about shijie, and beware of the West!

Now Japan is also facing a Western invasion, and it needs to join forces with us and import Western weapons from us. This is a good opportunity for us to get an ally and earn a lot of benefits. I didn't lose anything on this trip. ”

Zuo Zongtang shook the paper fan and thought about it: "It's reasonable, this Japan and we are close neighbors, and if we can form an alliance, we can become a dependent." I'm afraid that they will grow stronger after importing Western weapons and jishu, and they will enter Korea while we are fighting a decisive battle with the Manchus......"

Zhu Jishi smiled and waved his hand, interrupting: "Then I have to go to Japan even more, how can I let them stay on the island honestly!" (To be continued......)