After defeating the shogunate fleet and marching into the eastern city with a large group of men, by the way, the marines rushed over with a platoon of guns, and the warriors who called themselves the shogunate samurai had little ability to resist. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, after losing the most effective samurai and the military generals and retainers who stayed behind, the remaining shrinking scum and civil ministers, after comparing the military strength of Edo and the strength of Xiyi, Minzhi surrendered.

So for these two days, Lorraine and his mercenary army were able to have time to get a good taste of the political center of the eastern island country, Edo Castle, where Oda was in power.

According to Miura, who is desperate for the dog, with the continuous development of the Oda family over the years, it has now become a resident population of 800,000 and has 233 residential areas (towns, island country street nouns)!

That's a wonderful number......

In terms of population and size alone, the New World had a capital of this size only after unification, and the problem was that the Orientals were too wealthy.

There is no shortage of food (only rice), no shortage of clothing (there is a lot of silk), and magic has a long history (witchcraft and yin and yang), and it is really a country worthy of diplomatic relations.

"Speaking of which, you don't seem to see any mages here."

"Mage? Do you mean monk? ”

"Is a monk that bald? I'm talking about people who can cast spells like me. ”

"Oh! It turned out to be an onmyoji and a shrine maiden! ”

Under Miura's explanation, Lorraine once again learned that the knowledge is different from that of the earth, and that the mage is generally called a monk in the East, and believes in Buddhism from the East, but because the war of the gods many years ago has long been gone.

It's all the sages' war against the gods.

In any case, the monks, like the Lady of Dawn and the goddess of the sleeping moon, are mainly used for prayer, exorcism, healing, etc., and their skills are very useful.

As for the shrine maiden and the onmyoji, you can tell from the name that they are the existence of taming magic, just like mages and warlocks, using rune paper, magic weapons, Shikkai and the like, a bit like a local tyrant flow mage.

"What a wonderful Oriental spellcaster." Lorraine said that there were so many mages in the Orientals that he came to the Edo Castle Tower, the core castle of Oda's administration, and that there was a meeting waiting for him here.

Located in the center of the city, the castle tower is lined with low wooden buildings, with the occasional brick and stone house resembling a flock of tall chickens.

It doesn't seem strange.

"Your Excellency General Lorraine, what do you ...... Your Excellency, General? Did you hear what I was saying? "The short Oda retainer saw General Xiyi who was participating in the council, and he was actually in a daze over there!

"Huh? Ah, it's okay......" Lorraine came back to her senses and noticed that the members of the guard that Miura had brought with her wanted to laugh a little, shrugging her shoulders to indicate that everything was normal.

"You!! Is it insulting Dongei's administration!? ”

"If you think Brittania is insulting you...... That's an absolute slander! ”

I almost said "so what", but fortunately I changed my words in time, now that Lorraine and they have occupied the city, even if it is not a problem to insult the Orientals.

However, an eastern country with a population of tens of millions cannot be conquered by less than 10,000 Bretons, right?

"Okay...... You and your fleet, occupied Edo, and now what exactly do you want? ”

"If I say I want to have normal diplomatic relations, do you believe me?"

“…… Please don't torture us again! Otherwise, you must take a look at the Oda family's solar terms! ”

This negotiating retainer really looks really angry, if you don't let them a little more, it seems that it is easy to have a major accident, right?

"Okay, then let's get down to business, I only ask for a few points, you can listen to it."

"Please."

"Ahem!" Lorraine took out the report that had been urgently written in the past two days from his bosom, "First of all, I must apologize for your country's unauthorized dispatch of fleets to attack foreign envoys. ”

"Make no mistake! So many iron-gun battleships actually said that they called themselves envoys! ”

"Do you want to listen?"

"You say what you say." The old retainer dragged the impulsive young man down, and hurriedly said with a smile.

"Okay, so after apologizing, you must also compensate us for 200,000 gold coins, and the specific conversion value will be told to you by Mr. Miura."

"The next step is to implement only after you have agreed to an apology and compensation, that is, the formal establishment of diplomatic relations, and the opening of trade ports, allowing Brittan merchants to trade freely, without collecting taxes!"

This is the so-called trade duty-free, why not choose trade priority...... In addition to Songyue and Batu, which other country can do business in this hellish place?

Wouldn't it be nice for the weak to send troops directly to loot?

Robust...... Those who can stammer, and those who cannot...... Wouldn't it be better if I chose his enemy?

Lorraine admired his strategy, but the Oda retainer on the other side didn't think so.

"My lord, this is absolutely impossible, once this precedent is opened, the reputation of the lord will be greatly reduced, maybe other barbarian countries will have a similar learning!"

"My lord, these white skins are the first to fire like pirates, with that Murong Ying's pirate group is not enough to harass the border, do you want another wave?"

"So what do you say?"

Several young people looked at each other a few times, "My lord, stabilize this group of people first, let's go find mages, onmyoji, and witches, as long as we have them, we will definitely be able to ......"

Seeing the short Toei whispering, Lorraine touched his chin a little embarrassed, did they think they couldn't understand what they were saying when they saw that they were negotiating through Miura's translator?

Thanks to the spell, thanks to Dongying's stupid melon for not paying attention, he actually played conspiracy in front of himself, it seems that there is a good show.

Sure enough, the group agreed to Lorraine's conditions, invited him to a banquet in Kabucho by the way, and specially told him that it was best to come alone.

"Hey, are these Dongying people stupid?"

"Maybe I think we're all brutes, and I said I can go?"

"Huh? Alexander, you're not going to ......"

"Don't get me wrong, I just think there may be news of Miss Charlotte where there are many women, you have to believe me!"

Hehe, blind.

Lorraine didn't believe the verbal agreement of the Dongying people, but of course the banquet or something had to go, and it must be safe to have a black warrior present as a meat shield, plus the ambush of the marines......

Well, this time the banquet must be good.

So Lorraine went on the road, taking Alexander and some sneaky soldiers, or the blatant marines, straight to the banquet hall.

There, I was very happy to meet the Oriental spellcaster, the cool onmyoji, the serious-looking mage, and the delightful shrine maiden.

Although their faces are not very good-looking.