In the twenty-second year of the Holy Dao, the hearts of a country were first cleansed in the country, and then rushed to the north, and in the twenty-third year of the Holy Dao, when it was still in January, even the old farmers in the fields still gathered together to listen to the villagers read the newspaper to know the news that the imperial court led the Twelve Nations Alliance into Beijing. But in February, various newspapers went to Beijing to carefully rush out in-depth reports, trying to exaggerate the scene of the signing ceremony of the Forbidden City, but not many people watched it.

Why?

As Bai Zhengli said, Britain and China are already countries with a global outlook.

In February, the news of the discovery of large gold mines in Nanzhou and Dongzhou came out, and Nanzhou was a joint venture of a group of Jingxiang people to buy colonial land south of Coral Prefecture, named Chuzhou, and then I am afraid that it will be renamed Nanjinshan, and Dongzhou is of course Puzhou, maybe it will be renamed Dongjinshan.

The large gold mines in the two states have been jointly certified by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry and the Supervision and Colonization Institute, and for this reason, the two colonial companies published eye-catching news in the newspapers to recruit Chinese people to open mines and cultivate crops.

Relying on newspapers to convey news, even in the interior of Sichuan and Shaanxi, countless people rushed to the south with their families, and unlike the usual spontaneous non-governmental immigration, the British and Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs and Commerce cooperated with colonial companies, shipping companies, and banks to pull up a conveyor belt of organization, loans, and transportation, and continuously sent these immigrants onto merchant ships and headed for Jinshan. Even the 7,000 Shanxi miners who were originally going to go to the Western Regions for reclamation would rather bear a loan twice as high as before, and also transfer to the Nanzhou Golden Mountain, the magic of gold is so powerful.

People in the country feel that the news of the discovery of these two golden mountains is too coincidental, just when the hearts of the people of a country are pressed in the north and the imperial court is pushing the northern expedition, is it that the imperial court and even the emperor have already known about it, and just chose to release it at this time, so as to divert the attention of the people?

Ask the imperial court. Of course, the princes will categorically deny it, and ask it ruthlessly, at most, they will talk about it left and right, and the emperor ...... There are only a handful of people in the world who have the opportunity. Also have the guts to ask.

The eldest princess Li Kexi is one of them, look at her and Xin Keming are the champions, a young man obsessed with astronomy and mathematics has the right eye, the two use the Tiandao Academy as the stage to keep coming and going, and it has come to the point of talking about marriage, Li Xian said: "Half right, half wrong." ”

Strictly speaking. Li Xian's words are still false, he knew that there were gold mines in these two places, but after all, he had to find real gold in the field. What he said was half right was that Fan Sihai reminded him that the Holy Dao had been discovered in twenty years, and it was officially confirmed after a large-scale survey in twenty-one years, but the news had been blocked, so he was ready to throw it out at the right time.

Nanzhou was an unexpected surprise. Half of what I said was wrong, the Chuzhou Colonial Company had been operating dismally for several years, and there was no major discovery. In the second half of last year, the geological team that surveyed Dongzhou was pulled away, and it was not too deliberate to announce it at this time.

With these two golden mountains, Li Xi and the court can breathe a sigh of relief, the Chinese people have to make trouble for two or three years, and the immigrants will stop for tens of millions of people, and the Chinese people will no longer only focus on the north, and the layout can be less disturbed.

Yinghua is about to usher in the most critical stage of power expansion, and the "green zone" in the next 100 or even 200 years will be officially hammered. The Northern Expedition was the most central part. After that, there was the disposition outside the border, then neighboring Korea, Japan, and at the same time Siberia.

And the ongoing battle of the Western Regions, looking at the layout of Wu Ya, has also reached a critical moment, and the decisive battle is within the year, in the direction of Tianzhu. Jia Hao is also about to swallow Bangladesh and start to create a Tianzhu colonial model. The wrestling with Britain, France, and the Netherlands should also come to fruition, and the borders should be formally set within these two years. …,

The Manchu Qing Dynasty and Nian Qianyao, and even North Korea, which became the target of the two's manipulation, were all included in the scope of the North-South Affairs Administration, and Chen Wance led a group of people to burn brain cells. In Li Shi's eyes, in Asia, Tianzhu's movements are worth paying attention to.

Before, Li Shi was still quite concerned about the situation in Japan, but Lin Peng, deputy commander-in-chief of the Beiyang Fleet, and Bai Zhengli, the temporarily appointed Japanese system, led the division to do a beautiful job, and the Japanese paid a heavy price and became more well-behaved and deferential. The situation has calmed down, and there is no need to pay more attention to it for the time being, and although the Japanese situation at this time is still far from Li Shi's ultimate vision, it is moving step by step in the "right" direction.

The reason why Japan is in turmoil because of the Erchen case is not only due to the pressure of the British and Chinese, but also because of the consistent disposition of the Japanese: they have the courage to cause trouble and fail to shoulder the responsibility.

When the Changzhou Domain was doing something to Bai Yanding, he was ready to drag the shogunate into the water. The vanguard of the Beiyang Fleet went to Choshu to ask for the guilt, and the Choshu clan went to the Tokugawa shogunate to cry and beg it to mediate on its behalf. The Tokugawa shogunate was ignorant, and while denouncing the Choshu Domain for being bold and reckless, it also felt that Yinghua was too deceitful, and the Choshu Domain was a domain under his rule after all, and what happened, you have to talk to my shogunate, how could you go directly to the Choshu Domain to settle accounts?

So the shogunate sent someone to communicate with the Anglo-Chinese Consulate in a careless manner, saying that the Choshu Domain was about it...... Is the lord of the Celestial Empire calm down first, let my shogunate investigate the truth, and then give the lord a satisfactory explanation?

Okay, Feng Jingyao, the deputy governor of the General Affairs Embassy who was urgently transferred to Japan, roared: Investigation? Do you want to kill me again and investigate again!? Erchen was assassinated, maybe it was your shogunate who did it! Your shogunate will have to be investigated!

After yelling, Feng Jingyao threw over a copy of "The Shogunate Hinders the Relationship between Britain and Japan", which frightened the Tokugawa Shogunate. The shogunate pondered over this document for several days and came to two judgments: Yinghua had the intention of taking advantage of this matter to change the general, and even had the intention of weakening the shogunate's power to govern Japan! (It may seem like a no-brainer, but diplomacy is never the right thing to say.) ）

Faced with such a terrible prospect, the Tokugawa shogunate panicked, and while asking for explanations, he plotted to bring disaster to the outside world. In the Tokugawa shogunate's view, if the Celestial Empire really had the iron heart to do this, the shogunate alone would not be able to bear it, not to mention the Celestial Empire, it would be the Satsuma Domain, the lackey of the Celestial Empire, which had already controlled the lifeblood of Japan's foreign trade, and at least a small half of the people in Japan now relied on the Satsuma Domain to seek wealth, and the Celestial Empire only instructed the Satsuma Domain to do something, and Japan would have to be in chaos.

Who else can the shogunate blame on? The Emperor, of course.

Over the years, although Japan has benefited greatly from the opening of its borders and the Satsuma Domain following in the footsteps of the Anglo-Chinese colonization of Asia, at the same time, the shogunate has always been dissatisfied with the Anglo-Chinese policy of controlling the shogunate, and the Anglo-Chinese colonized Japan and plundered resources. From the feudal clans to the townspeople, there were many Japanese who suffered from it. This kind of suffering has aroused the anger of some Japanese patriots, and people of insight have also profoundly pointed it out. Japan was mired in separatism, and it was necessary to clarify the harm caused by Anglo-Chinese colonization and re-establish righteousness in Japan.

Under the banner of "Japan is unified," an anti-British force has emerged. However, this was originally divided between two forces, with the shogunate advocating that the "one" return to the shogunate, and the people and other foreign feudal clans arguing that the "one" should go to the emperor, and the two factions used to regard each other as mortal enemies.

At this time, the Choshu clan was in trouble. Yinghua asked for the guilt, and the shogunate had to borrow external forces, so he compromised with the emperor's faction and wanted to use the emperor as a guise to overcome this difficulty. The shogunate conveyed to the emperor through some people sent by the emperor that at present, Japan is in trouble, and the Celestial Empire wants Japan to make changes, and the shogunate does not dare to take it all over, hoping that the emperor will speak and set a tone.

The Shogunate's idea was simple. If the emperor was brought out and the emperor bowed to Yinghua, the shogunate would not have to bear the responsibility of being weak and betraying the country. If the emperor does not bow his head. With the Celestial Empire to clean up, the shogunate can also stand by and watch. …,

The emperor's faction was also very simple-minded, and they were excited, coupled with the secret encouragement of the Choshu domain, the young and vigorous Emperor Sakuracho thought that he could take the opportunity to enter the stage of Japanese national politics, and prepared to secretly send an edict to the feudal domains, and set off an anti-British movement on the grounds of crusading against the "non-ministers" of the Satsuma domain.

In front of the Satsuma Domain, which had already controlled the lifeblood of Japan's foreign economy and firmly embraced the thighs of Yinghua, the petty tricks of the shogunate and the emperor were meaningless. The Satsuma clan struck decisively. On the grounds of crusading against the Choshu Domain's "non-ministers", he used the officers and veterans who had followed Yinghua for many years to pull out 4,000 elites, rely on merchant ships to transport troops across the sea, and went straight to the Choshu Domain, defeating the 14,000 troops hastily organized by the Choshu Domain, and besieging Hagi Castle, the Choshu Domain.

The war took place in December. When the Manchu anti-British movement was coming, the Anglo-Chinese middle schools were also filled with righteous indignation because of the Manchu atrocities, and once again raised a group to clamor for the Northern Expedition, and not many people cared about Japan.

Bai Zhengli was temporarily appointed by the emperor as the envoy of the Japanese system, and led the 2,000 temporarily patchwork Fubo army to the Choshu domain with the main force of the Beiyang Fleet. I leisurely watched a naval artillery bombardment exercise of the Beiyang Fleet, and then conducted a landing exercise. As soon as the Fuba army came ashore, the Satsuma army entered Hagi Castle through a gap in the collapsed castle wall, and the feudal lord Mori Munehiro committed suicide by seppuku after leaving a will to "do not hurt our people".

Then the Beiyang Fleet transferred to Edo Bay, and carried out another naval artillery target drill and a landing exercise of the Fubo Army, and the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune hurriedly abdicated on the grounds that he was not effective in restraining the Choshu domain, and supported the ninth shogun Tokugawa Ishige in an attempt to preserve the power of the shogunate.

Considering the uniqueness of the role of the emperor, stepping into the Japanese political arena was harmful to the Anglo-Chinese control of Japan, and the Tokugawa shogunate escaped, but at the cost of Kamiraku to liquidate the people around the emperor, and used abdication as a threat to force the emperor to make a statement that he would never interfere in politics.

At the same time as the shogunate and the emperor were being rectified, the Choshu domain also underwent a harsh purge, and a large number of important officials of the domain were killed, leaving only a few moderate figures.

Ironically, noticing the Satsuma Domain's arbitrary style and ability in this matter, the Anglo-Chinese Liaison Office specially granted mercy to the Satsuma Domain in order to warn the Satsuma Domain and balance the Japanese situation. It was allowed to formally operate the Asahi trade and get involved in the maritime trade affairs to northern China through the Beiyang Company. At the same time, it was allowed to serve as an interface to the Anglo-Chinese Navy, and sent a servant army to follow the Beiyang Fleet.

In other words, the plan of the bloody samurai of the Choshu Domain succeeded in the end, and they used their own blood and the blood of almost half of the upper echelons of the Choshu Domain to pave the way to serve Yinghua.

That is, from this day, the army line of the Japanese Satsuma Domain and the naval route of the Choshu Domain were laid, as the servants and younger brothers of the two major armed groups of Britain and China, the two sides regarded each other as enemies, and they could never get together on a plate, even if it was a new era of Japanese revolution, there was a certain cooperation in the face of the shogunate, but once it was in the overall situation dominated by the British and Chinese, it was always fighting. Although this has affected the relationship between the Anglo-Chinese army and navy to a certain extent, there are already two competing groups, and it is not a delicate harmonious relationship to vent the contradictions to the servants and younger brothers, and to reconcile themselves and the United States.

"This pattern should be stabilized, and at least for the rest of my life, Japan will be a loyal servant, closely following in the footsteps of China. As for what happened after me...... The people of this world do the things of this world, and I can't manage it until a hundred years from now. ”

In the Yanwu Hall of Weiyang Palace, after Li Shi examined the situation in Japan again, he covered up the top-secret file jointly formulated by the General Headquarters and the General Affairs Hall, and a chrysanthemum bloomed on the cover of the file.

Then Li Xi picked up another document, which was the "Friendship Agreement between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Seris" delivered by Sir Lawrence, Minister of Great Britain, which had been initialled by King George II of Britain, the Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Britain, and Wang Youtun, Minister of the Anglo-Chinese Consulate in Portugal and acting for Europa Affairs. It is also out of etiquette that there must be a ceremony for the emperor to officially sign, and one last look must be taken before the ceremony.

"Aren't the Britannicas still negotiating with the Dutch over the ownership of Ceylon and wanting to stay in India? I thought that this agreement would be half a year late. ”

Li Shi opened the agreement and examined the terms of the agreement with Lawrence a year and a half ago.

Seeing that a certain clause did not belong to the previously agreed terms, Li Xian tasted it for a while, raised his eyebrows, and then his face was irrepressibly shocked.

"I can't believe that George Anson's adventure would be so exciting! And the villain protagonist of this great adventure is actually my Huaxia ...... Haha......"

Li Xian looked up and laughed out loud. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )