One day at the end of May 1861, the port of Kagoshima was still bustling with activity, and the residents of the port continued to live their lives without being affected by the raw wheat incident.

Twenty nautical miles off Kagoshima, a fleet of smoky ships was approaching, and the commander of the fleet, Fremant, was consulting with Pashali.

"If you notify the foreign merchant ships in the harbor, isn't it obvious to tell the enemy that we are coming?" Filimante was resented by Pashali's request that foreign merchant ships in Kagoshima be informed of their departure before firing, and the Japanese were not fools and would have been prepared.

"But General, pay attention! We must be clear that Japan is a vassal state of China, so their traditional sphere of influence, once they accidentally injure a Chinese ship during the fire, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the Chinese, and in addition, there must be ships from other countries in the port of Kagoshima, and if we do not handle it properly, it will bring great diplomatic disputes to our British Empire. Pashali insisted on persuasion.

"Alright! All right! Then send a transport ship into the harbor to signal those merchant ships. At 12 noon, my fleet must open fire. ”

"Thank you very much, General." ――

At this time, the Kagoshima garrison general was Tsuda Nakaho, who had accompanied the Hiroto of the Dispatch to the Imperial to meet with Lin Hong, and since seeing the strength and wealth of China, Tsuda Nakaho has been firmly following the pace of the Hirogo of the Tunsho and actively participating in the reform of Satsuma. This time, in the face of the huge enemy of Britain (he still knows this), he is actually more inclined to Taoguang and keep quiet for the time being, but the orders of the governor are something he cannot disobey, and perhaps only the deceased Lord Guangxiang knows what to do now!

While he was pondering, a samurai in the distance was running towards him, "What did you say?!" The British drove foreign merchant ships in the harbor, what happened? ”

"My lord, it is a British ship that declares in the harbor in the international flag that it requires all foreign merchant ships in the harbor to leave the port within two hours, otherwise it will not be responsible." The samurai gasped and repeated the situation, "My lord, what should we do?" ”

"Quickly inform the battery to prepare to meet the enemy, and let the people on the dock evacuate quickly, as far as they can." Tsuda Nakaho, who calmed down, immediately gave the battle order, in fact, he had a premonition that the British would attack Kagoshima, but he still didn't want to believe the fact that the British had arrived at the doorstep, and he preferred to see the British accuse the shogunate of discrediting the Tokugawa family.

Unlike in history, the former was Satsuma who fired first and caught the British fleet off guard, and now the British newly formed Japanese fleet decided to make a good start. On August 11, 1863, the British fleet sailed to Kagoshima to negotiate with Shimazu Hisamitsu, demanding 25,000 pounds in compensation and the arrest and punishment of the perpetrators. It is said that it may be due to a mistranslation, but Shimazu Hisamitsu thought that the British wanted to punish him, so he flatly refused. On 13 August, Satsuma Domain's plan to surprise the British fleet failed to warn the British. On 15 August, the British fleet seized three steamships of the Satsuma Domain. At noon, the Satsuma Domain's coastal defense battery, equipped with 80 cannons, preemptively launched and began shelling the British ship. The British fleet was taken by surprise and did not return fire until 2 p.m. with 100 naval guns on its armament. Due to the favorable location of the Satsuma Domain (the storm was coming at the beginning of the war, the British fleet was heavily shaken and poorly prepared with a very low hit rate. However, the place where the British fleet was anchored happened to be the place where Satsuma often conducted military exercises and training, and the sea area was narrow, which was not conducive to giving full play to the advantage of the long range of British artillery), and the British army was blindly arrogant and did not make full combat preparations because of the victory in the Second Opium War, so that although the British army had a clear advantage in weapons and equipment, it was unable to take much advantage in the battle. Soon after the start of the war, the Satsuma army's artillery hit the British flagship captain's room, killing the flagship captain and many people below the first officer. After a fierce battle, the British fleet had to retreat to the vicinity of Sakurajima, ceasing its combat behavior. The next day, another artillery battle broke out between the two sides, and the British still failed to overwhelm the Satsuma army. By 17 August, the British fleet had almost run out of ammunition and was forced to retreat from the battlefield.

The first thing that Filimant's fleet thought of was to use its own artillery to knock out Satsuma's coastal defense batteries one by one at range, but it seems that history has returned to the original track, first of all, Satsuma's coastal defense batteries are all equipped with coastal defense large-caliber guns that have just been eliminated by the Empire, and the naval guns of the British fleet are not much different in range and power, and the only gap between the two sides now is that the number of artillery of the British fleet far exceeds that of Satsuma's shore defense guns, and it is more coincidental that the place where the British fleet moves is the sea area where Satsuma often trains coastal defense, In the face of the enemy's artillery bombardment, Filimante's fleet successfully plowed Kagoshima's batteries, docks, markets, and residential areas with its high naval tactical literacy, wartime damage management and artillery hit rate, and of course most of the warships of the British fleet were damaged to varying degrees. The trip was unfavorable, and it was a headache for Filimante. What made him even more difficult was how to repair these damaged warships, although there are many shipyards along the coast of China, how could he be allowed to repair them? Edo! Edo had no shipyard for repairing warships, and after consulting with Pashali, he decided to return to Edo first and leave Pashali and a few lightly damaged cruisers in Japan, while he himself shot a few seriously damaged ships and went south to Manila in the Philippines.

On the third day after Filimante left with the fleet, Satsuma surrendered on his own initiative!

In this war, Satsuma can be said to have fought valiantly, but in the end it was still completely defeated, and Shimazu Hisamitsu saw the huge gap between the Satsuma domain and the British in the battle. In addition, the Satsuma Clan's many years of painstakingly operated the Seikan (modern factory area) and the Mint were severely damaged, and the Kagoshima Castle Gate and Arrow Tower were destroyed, and more than 500 houses were destroyed. The Satsuma clan suffered heavy losses in strength. If the British army had recuperated and attacked for the second or third time, the Satsuma clan would eventually be defeated.

It is precisely on the basis of this sober understanding that Shimazu Hisamitsu decided to abandon the viewpoint of "rejecting the country" and instead adopt a policy of "opening up the country," comprehensively carrying out modernization and reform, and learning from the West. And the first step in the "founding of the country" was to lay down the victor's shelf and seek reconciliation with the British. Pasha also had to re-evaluate its strength due to the tough counterattack of the Satsuma Domain, hoping that Satsuma would become a powerful foothold for intervening in Japan. Instead, this event developed into an opportunity for cooperation between the Satsuma clan and the British.

On May 3, 1861, on behalf of the British Empire, Pasha Li and Shimazu Hisamitsu of the Satsuma Domain signed the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity on the Raw Wheat Incident, and of course a secret treaty