After entering the summer of 1865, the world situation as a whole became calmer, of course, this calm specifically refers to the fact that the world's major industrial countries did not break out large-scale wars and the like, with the end of the American Civil War, the end of the Danpu War in 1864, the large-scale Central Asian conflict between China and Russia in 1864 did not evolve into a large-scale war, and finally gradually subsided because of the restraint of both sides.

In this way, in 1865, the major countries of the world were basically at peace!

This kind of peace is very rare for the nineteenth century, you must know that for most of the nineteenth century, the whole world was full of wars, for example, the historical Prussia, they fought the Prussian-Danish War, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War in 1864, 1866, and 1870.

Russia and Ottoman Turkey, Britain and France also fought many wars.

Coupled with the American Civil War, the wars of aggression against China by the great powers in history, China's own civil wars, etc.

In this environment, it is quite rare that there has been a period of time when all the major powers in the world have maintained a state of peace.

However, this kind of peace is limited to the great powers, and in fact, almost every day, there is a war breaking out in the world, but people don't pay attention to it.

For example, in the current civil war between Japan and Japan, although China, Britain and France have intervened, but in addition to the Chinese Empire's concern, the attention of Britain and France is actually very limited.

The French simply wanted to demolish the Chinese Empire, so they sold a large number of ordnance to the Downfall faction. However, they were only limited to the sale of ordnance, and they did not have the heart to really send troops to intervene in the Japanese civil war. Well, even if they want to intervene, they don't have the ability to do so.

The only one who really paid attention to the Japanese civil war was the Chinese Empire. Strictly speaking, it should be Lin Zhe's personal concern!

In the minds of many military and political leaders of the empire, Japan is just a small oriental country, and its status is roughly the same as that of Thailand, and even in the hearts of many imperial officials, the importance of Japan is not even comparable to that of the Kingdom of Vietnam and the Kingdom of Ning.

The Empire's attention to Japan was based on Lin Zhe's concern for Japan, if Lin Zhe was not so concerned about the situation in Japan. The high-ranking officials of the empire will be in charge of the life and death of the shogunate or the shogunate faction!

Under Lin Zhe's attention, the empire further strengthened its intervention in the situation in Japan, the most obvious expression was to provide military loans to the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate, and sold a large number of rear-loading rifles, front-loading rifled guns and other advanced weapons, and at the invitation of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate, sent dozens of military instructors to Japan to help them train a new army.

These military advisors even appeared directly in the western expeditionary forces of the Japanese shogunate, providing military advice to the main military commanders of the Tokugawa shogunate, such as Tokugawa Yoshiki.

Of course, there are foreign instructors and advisers in the Japanese army. It's not a big deal, and the Shogunate faction also has military instructors and advisors from France.

From the beginning of 1865, the two sides of the Japanese Civil War began to deploy troops in the vicinity of Kyoto and Osaka, and there were many small and medium-sized battles.

Originally, the shogunate was planning to launch an attack on Kyoto in one go, and a quick victory!

But on the advice of Chinese military advisers. However, the shogunate army gave up the plan of a quick victory, and instead adopted a steady and steady attack, with Osaka as the rear. A large number of fortifications were built on the front line.

The strategic defensive posture was adopted because the Chinese military adviser warned Tokugawa Yoshiki. At present, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the shogunate army, the victory rate against the fallen shogunate army is only less than 30 percent.

The numerical superiority of the shogunate army faced the qualitative superiority of the fallen shogunate. It's useless!

The only way the shogunate could win the war was to stabilize the situation and then use this precious time to train the existing troops so that those who had not yet completed their recruit training could really grow.

In addition, a large number of munitions ordered by the Shogunate from the Empire are still arriving, and the Shogunate has begun to massively form new armies that will be equipped with newly purchased ordnance.

At present, 5,000 recruits are being trained, and the Chinese military advisers have suggested that the Tokugawa shogunate should train at least 5,000 new troops.

In this way, the new army directly under the Tokugawa shogunate was able to reach the size of 20,000 men!

In contrast, the coalition formed by the four powerful feudal lords of the Fallen Shogunate faction, which had about seven or eight thousand men, now has nearly 10,000 men, and as the war drags on, they will definitely continue to expand more armies.

However, considering the economic strength of the Shogunate, it was difficult for them to support a new army of more than 20,000 men in a projectile land.

Of course, it would be another matter if the French once again offered large military loans to the Shogunate.

In short, militarily, time was on the side of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the longer it dragged on, the more new troops the Tokugawa shogunate would train.

The Tokugawa shogunate also hoped to delay the time so that they could have time to implement the system of public and military cooperation, so as to solve the embarrassing problem of the legitimacy of the current shogunate's regime.

In fact, in the face of this situation in Japan, the Imperial Minister to Japan, Li Bochang, also privately asked Tokugawa Ieshige and Tokugawa Yoshiki whether the Tokugawa family was interested in replacing the existing emperor and then ascending the throne as a new monarch and establishing a new Japanese monarchy.

However, this inquiry was directly rejected by the Tokugawa family.

It's not that they don't want to directly ascend the throne to become a king or emperor, but the national conditions of Japan are seriously different from those of other countries, and the Japanese emperor system has existed for thousands of years, and the emperor has already been mythologized in Japan, and this emperor is not a man, but a god.

This traditional system is enough to deter anyone who tries to overthrow the emperor's system!

To what extent did you become obsessed with the emperor's system?

Even if they were threatened with two nuclear bombs in World War II and even more nuclear bombs, they insisted on maintaining the emperor system.

Therefore, you can change an Imperial Family to become the new Emperor. You can even make two emperors, one true and one false, but you can't just abolish the emperor system. And then build a whole new country on your own.

If the Tokugawa family did this, no one else would be left behind. Even its many vassals had to overthrow the shogunate first.

Therefore, what the Tokugawa family can do now is to promote the combination of public and military forces, continue to hold the emperor high, and at the same time the Tokugawa shogunate will gain legal dominance.

The Tokugawa shogunate army did not advance, but adopted a strategic defensive posture to shrink, and the shogunate faction wanted to take the initiative to attack, but their troops were small, and they still couldn't pry open the turtle shell of the shogunate army for a while.

And so, in the first half of 1865. Although the war of the fall of Japan had broken out in full force, there were no large-scale battles in practice, only some battles of hundreds or thousands of men, and these small-scale battles could not affect the trend of the whole situation.

For this situation, Lin Zhe is still quite satisfied!

Although the shogunate failed to defeat the shogunate, at least the Tokugawa shogunate had not yet been defeated, and the shogunate was not defeated, which was a victory for the Chinese Empire's strategy against Japan.

The summer of 1865 was generally peaceful!

The development of all aspects of the empire is still progressing steadily and orderly. The empire takes the three major coastal cities, namely Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tianjin, as the three leading cities of industrial economy, and promotes the development of industrial cities in the country.

At the same time, it is to further develop the coastal economy and expand international trade!

The Empire had already negotiated bilateral international trade with Great Britain. The talks included opening up more coastal areas in China, allowing British people to do business and live in cities along the river, and some agreements on tariffs between the two sides, mainly to discuss how to effectively reduce tariffs on both sides. For example, the British have always hoped that China would reduce tariffs on textile products, and China also hoped that Britain would reduce import tariffs on raw silk, tea, porcelain and other products. It is hoped that the UK can reduce the export tax on some industrial raw materials, especially cotton and rubber.

Then there are the negotiations on the financial side. At present, the empire officially announced in 1864 that all commercial banks established in the empire must pay deposit deposits to the central bank of the empire, and both private and foreign banks need to pay deposits to ensure the stability of the financial market and avoid the loss of depositors caused by the sudden failure of banks.

This is a nationwide deposit deposit deposit system, which can be regarded as a historical precedent, and has a very far-reaching impact on the contemporary banking industry.

The British have no objection to the Chinese Empire's implementation of the margin system, because after all, this is the Chinese Empire's own financial policy, but in the margin system, the margin paid by wholly-owned foreign-funded banks is 50 percent more than that of Chinese-funded banks, and this is discrimination against foreign-funded commercial banks.

At present, the majority of foreign banks in China are British-funded banks, and there are very few banks from other countries.

In response, the British accused the empire of discriminatory financial policies and violated the 'Sino-British Treaty of Friendship and Commerce'.

For this reason, Britain has also added this aspect of the condition to the negotiations!

Unlike most of today's bilateral trade negotiations, many treaties in those years were signed after the war, although they were signed with treaties of friendship and commerce.

Negotiations with China and the United Kingdom to further deepen commercial and trade cooperation between the two countries are relatively rare!

With the development of industry, the empire's economy grew rapidly year by year, and the most important part of the empire's economic development was fiscal revenue.

In 1865, the central government budget for the empire was 440 million yen, an increase of about 10% from 400 million yen in 1864, and the increase was still mainly due to the growth of industry and commerce.

The rapid and stable development of the empire's economy has also greatly developed the empire's education, national defense, and infrastructure, especially the development speed of urban infrastructure, which is comparable to that of later generations!

At present, most of the large cities of the empire, especially those that are developing or want to develop industry, are undergoing intensive infrastructure construction.

The construction of these infrastructures can directly drive the development of the industrial economy, and finally form a virtuous circle!

Today's empire is developing well, which also makes Lin Zhe put his mind away from heavy state affairs on some trivial things that he doesn't pay much attention to on weekdays.

For example, the education of several of your own children!

His eldest son, Lin Xuan, is already seven years old this year, although Jiang Daoquan gave lectures to him in the first two years, but this kind of teaching is only limited to the most basic enlightenment, and now, it should be the time to officially enter the school.

It was not that Lin Zhe officially paid attention to this issue, but that he suddenly remembered that his son should go to school, but that some courtiers still risked being demoted or simply dismissed, and asked the emperor to allow the emperor's eldest son to officially enroll!

In ancient dynasties, whether or not a prince could enroll in school, and when to enroll, was never a simple question of education, but a political issue of great significance! (To be continued.) )