It was a sunny day on the morning of April 1, 1861! The spring sun shines on the city of Yokohama in Japan! Yokohama was controlled by the Satsuma Domain, also known as the Satsuma Domain, and was the main port for trade between Japan and the Western powers!

Merchant ships from all over the world are parked outside the port of Yokohama, the sea is calm, the waves crash on the shore, and many merchants and civilians walk on the beach! And outside the port, there is a bustling business district with hotels, inns, restaurants and other businesses! It's time for lunch!

George Jack, a British businessman, with his daughter and two business associates, is heading out of the harbor for lunch! They set out from London, and arrived in Yokohama last night with five ships of raw wheat, and after a busy morning, these five ships of raw wheat had just been unloaded! After a busy morning, they all generally felt a little tired, thinking about taking a nap and resting after lunch, so they were in a bit of a hurry when they walked!

Unfortunately, George Jack bumped into a man while walking!

"Baga!" This man is Japanese, a Japanese samurai! At this time, the Japanese samurai was basically the identity of a big hand, so his personality was more arrogant, and his temper was more fiery or irritable! These two samurai are Nara Hara Kizomon and Umieda Nobuyoshi, behind the two stood more than a dozen subordinate samurai, relying on the strength of the crowd, and in Japan, coupled with the propaganda of the Raid movement and the revolutionaries, so the samurai class generally did not have a good impression of foreigners who came to Japan!

Different from history, Japan's king is still appearing, but the content has become unrecognizable under the control of Lin Hong, the revolutionary faction is the curtain faction, and the king here is no longer the emperor of Japan but the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Lin Hong, Japan's "people with lofty ideals" hope to follow the example of the Lanfang Kingdom to rebuild Japan, yearning for Japan to become the internal vassal state of the Chinese Empire like Lanfang, which is also what Lin Hong wants to see, since 1840, Lin Hong has been through various ways, methods to transform the minds of Japanese citizens and intellectuals.

"I'm sorry!" George Jack hurriedly apologized and said, "Your Excellency the Samurai, we are a little tired because we have been busy all morning, and we have inadvertently bumped into Your Excellency, I hope to get your understanding!" ”

After all, George Jack was a businessman and far from his homeland, so his attitude was still relatively humble, even if it seemed to him to be an inferior country.

However, under the sun, I am not afraid of no good things, I am afraid of no good people!

At this time, the two samurai behind Nara Hara Kizomon and Kaieda Nobuyoshi stood up directly and shouted: "Baga, it is simply unbearable for you to see the heroic samurai not standing aside and replying, but directly confronting it!" The British, the French, and the Japanese should drive you all out of the world! As soon as the words fell, the two warriors directly pulled out their swords from their waists, and before everyone could react, poof, ah, a few slashes were slashed at George Jack and others! These knife wounds are not fatal, but they are also serious injuries, although they are not fatal, but George Jack and his party of five people all fell in a pool of blood, the scene is very bloody!!

"Baga, what are you doing?" Nara Hara Kizomon and Kaieda Nobuyoshi were immediately furious, the two of them originally wanted to hit these foreigners, but they definitely didn't want to stab these foreigners directly, so the two of them directly gave these two low-level samurai two slaps!

After the two samurai were slapped twice, angry expressions appeared on their faces, but the two held back, bowed down and said, "Hey! With that, he stepped aside!

Five people fell in a pool of blood in the bustling Yokohama business district, and the painful moans and screams immediately came out, and suddenly a crowd of onlookers immediately appeared around, including Japanese, as well as foreigners from Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands and other countries!

"Get them to the hospital!" Then an English merchant said, "Otherwise, their lives will not be saved!" You executioners, we in the British Empire will not rest on our laurels! After saying that, the Englishman hurriedly called several of his companions and sent George Jack, who was lying in a pool of blood and screaming in pain, to the hospital!

Nara Hara Kizomon and Umieda Nobuyoshi haven't reacted yet, the two of them who originally wanted to vent their anger ended up in a tragedy, and the victims were British, so it was not possible to make a crisis between countries! After standing there for a while, Nara Hara Kizuomen reacted first, if something happened to him, there must be someone who carries the black cauldron! Just now, the two lower-level samurai not only directly shot and hurt people, but it was also necessary to carry the black cauldron! But when he reacted and looked around for these two low-level samurai, where was they still there?

Speaking of these two low-level samurai, they also came to them just a few days ago, one is called Saburo Inoshita, and the other is Shiro Inoue! Today, they deliberately took these two subordinates who had just been cast to visit the business district and grow into the world, but they didn't know the specific life history!

The samurai in Japan have always been inextricably linked with the underworld, so the composition of the samurai class is also relatively complex, generally acting as cannon fodder and big hands in war!

Seeing that the two lower-level samurai were missing, Nara Hara Kizomon and Kaieda Nobuyoshi glanced at each other, and immediately had a feeling of impending disaster, and at the same time, the two also subconsciously nodded to each other, run, are you still waiting to be caught?

In this way, Nara Hara Kizomon and Kaieda Nobuyoshi also ran away without a trace!

This is not a historical raw wheat event! But this is the raw wheat event that Lin Hong wants.

Immediately after the Raw Wheat Incident, the British Empire sent its acting minister, John Brown. Neil negotiated with the Japanese shogunate faction and demanded that the murderer be handed over or go to war!

The Tokugawa shogunate in Japan is also relatively unlucky, and Japan is now in a state of political separation. The shogunate nominally ruled Japan, but for the Satsuma Domain in southern Japan, the shogunate was actually powerless! But the British Empire is looking for trouble with the shogunate, who made you the nominal ruler! The catastrophe was broken by the Shogunate faction, and the black cauldron had to be sent by the Shogunate, how could there be such a cheap thing!

The Tokugawa shogunate's Okubo Ritsu immediately agreed to the British request and paid 100,000 pounds in compensation, but at the same time pointed out that the murderer was a samurai from the Satsuma domain in southern Japan, so now the shogunate faction is unable to track down the murderer!

Johnniel also knew about the situation in Japan, and after receiving 100,000 pounds of compensation from the shogunate, he immediately negotiated with the Satsuma Domain, demanding that the Satsuma Domain immediately hand over the murderer who had harmed the British merchants! The shogunate government is considered unlucky, so the Satsuma Domain is even more unlucky, and it can't hand over the murderer at all! Nara Hara Kizomon and Kaieda Nobuyoshi were captured by the people of the Satsuma Domain before they ran away, but these two samurai claimed that they were not murderers, and the murderers were two low-level samurai! In order to save their lives, the two of them also lied that they didn't know these two low-level samurai either! After investigating the onlookers at the scene of the murder at that time, the statements of Kizomon Nara Hara and Nobuyoshi Umieda were also confirmed, and the British businessman was indeed not injured by them! But the two low-level samurai they were talking about called Saburo Inoue and Shiro Inoue have long since disappeared!

The Satsuma clan had no choice but to answer the British minister Johnnil truthfully, but Johnnill was not satisfied with this answer, which was obviously the Japanese Satsuma Domain's protection of the murderer, so Johnnil reported the Japanese attitude of favoritism to the British. British Prime Minister Palmuston, after successfully lobbying Parliament, immediately appointed the commander of the East Indies, Vice Admiral Augustus Cooper, to lead seven warships, with the Yuriales as the flagship, to arrive in Kagoshima Bay on July 15, 1861! No matter how many warships there were, the British did not dare to send them, after all, Japan was the sphere of influence of China, the hegemon of the Far East, and its attitude towards this matter was not clear.

On July 15, 1863, after the British fleet commander-in-chief, Augustus Coopa, led a fleet to Kagoshima Bay, he seized three steamships of the Satsuma Domain, the Hakuho Maru, the Tenyo Maru, and the Blue Eagle Maru, all with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons.

After the British seized the battleship of the Satsuma Domain, Shigehisa Shimazu, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, ordered Kagoshima Coastal Defense to start attacking actively! Eighty guns of Kagoshima's coastal defense against the British fleet were shelled in rounds! Augustus Coopa definitely did not expect that the Japanese Satsuma Domain would dare to take the initiative, and in his impression, the chaotic Japan must have surrendered immediately when it saw the British fleet like the African natives! So the British fleet was taken by surprise!

Because of the unfamiliarity with Kagoshima Bay, the position of the British fleet happened to be in the most powerful position of the Satsuma Domain in Japan, so the British fleet suffered huge losses, one of the battleships was directly destroyed and lost its combat effectiveness, and two more were also damaged by varying degrees, and their combat effectiveness was also affected by the eyes! The captain, deputy captain and naval officers of one of the battleships directly lost nearly seventy people!

After receiving the report from the damage management team, Augustus Kupa ordered the fleet to temporarily retreat to the port of Naha in the Ryukyu Kingdom, a vassal state of China, to reorganize and repair the damaged ships!