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"Lord Shangguo, there are the Miura Peninsula and the Fang Zong Peninsula in front of you." On the third-class cruiser [Liuhe], which was at the forefront of the Huaxia Expeditionary Fleet, the captain of the Ataku ship, who had been captured in Sanhe Bay, introduced to the military attache of the Huaxia Navy Division in front of him with a mixed expression of cringe, flattery, distress, unbearable, and fear. "In the middle is Edo Bay."

"Oh, it's already here?" Ma Jinxiang, the deputy conductor and navigation officer of the Liuhe, took the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and carefully looked at the mouth of the bay, only to see that the mountains on both sides of the peninsula were undulating, and the bay was stretching and twisting and falling to the bottom. "Signal, inform Lord Admiral, we've arrived."

"My lord," a moment later, the flagship [Hengshan] came to signal. "The Admiral ordered this ship to explore the waterway first together with the [Shenjiang] patrol ship and the [Pleiades 9] notification ship."

"So what are you waiting for?" Sima He shouted. "Put away the sails at once, be vigilant, let's go in"

"That's, what's that?" Kainosuke had just finished harvesting a field of radishes, and he was sweating and raised his head and was about to take a sip of water, but the familiar scenery of the seaside in the past appeared unfamiliar white sails, which made him dumbfounded and didn't even know that the water hyacinth in his hand had fallen to the ground. "Is it a ship?"

Kasukesuke swept around blankly, and the people of the same village appeared abnormally at about the same time, and many people had already rushed to the edge of the sea pond, wanting to take a closer look at these ancient monsters with huge shapes that were different from ordinary Japanese ships.

"A bunch of wild monkeys." [Shenjiang] took Jiang Da to notice the Japanese peasants dancing on the shore and looking into the distance, and he couldn't help frowning. "The signal is given to the [Liuhe], and our ship is ready to open fire to disperse the Japanese people on the beach."

Almost at the same time, a huge hole suddenly appeared on the beach not far from the sea pond, and an astonishing amount of sea mud and sea water suddenly exploded, crackling as if a hailstone had just fallen from the sky.

Since the pacification of the Shimabara Rebellion, Japan has not experienced a war for more than 60 years, so not to mention ordinary people, even ordinary warriors have never seen what is going on with the big barrel, so the shelling just now seemed to the peasants to be almost as powerful as the gods, and they were immediately frightened and scattered

The peasants who fled first reported what had happened to the land, and then reported it to the lord or the shogunate's local government and the force. Faced with the flood of information, the sluggish shogunate finally knew that it was not good, and several middle- and lower-ranking samurai risked their lives to dive to the seashore and confirmed that a large unnamed fleet had sailed into Edo Bay, and the shogunate was shaken.

"It's been confirmed, it's a military ship of the Xia people." The Edo Town Commissioner, in a solemn tone, reported to the generals and seniors in the upper seat. "There are more than 40 boats in total, which is not the largest number, but each ship is ten times larger than the largest Ataka ship in Japan today, and each one has a large cylinder."

"Xia Guoren?" The old middle school's faces were blue, and many people secretly looked at Xi Yanagisawa Yoshihei, but Yanagisawa was deeply favored by the general Tsunayoshi, and if the responsibility was put on his head, it would be almost equivalent to blaming the general, so some people pretended to be indignant. "Damn, I actually sent a ship to Edo to threaten it, this is really too deceitful, and I ask the general to order the dispatch of troops immediately."

Dispatch troops? Someone scoffed at the moment. That's right, although the shogunate is the largest military organization in Japan, claiming to have 80,000 iron horsemen, but the actual owner of horses is only more than 5,000 people, and the rest are just the armorless Ashigaru and the unarmored and horseless concentric in between. It may be possible to fight 6 battles with these military strengths, but how to deal with the enemy at sea, you must know that the pirate daimyo of the year has long been transferred to the inner 6, even if their descendants are recruited, they may not be able to fight, let alone the ship cannon of the attacker.

Of course, the words can't be so straightforward, otherwise there will be a suspicion of fearing the enemy like a tiger, so the old Nakadoi Toshikan (Pedighiro, the lord of the Ohno domain, and the five lower Iga Mamoru) just said: "To put it lightly, where is the money?" It costs money to mobilize the army, and the shogunate is so financially embarrassed that it can get the money to support the war. ”

If the Shogunate asks the Shogunate to abolish the "Trade Style", will the Shogunate agree or not, and if they do not agree, and there is no money to gather troops, is Doi-sama ready to give up Edo Castle to the Natsu people to ravage?" ”

Seeing Doi's red-eared appearance, another old man on the side hurriedly came out to ease: "Lord Doi doesn't mean to sit back and watch the Xia people enter the Shogunate, but the financial resources of the Shogunate are indeed insufficient, and the Xia people are mostly at sea, and the Shogunate is gathering tens of thousands of troops, so what can it be, but the order is strictly rejected by all places, and when the food and water are exhausted, maybe the Xia people will retreat without a fight." ”

"When the Xia people retreat, it is better to pray to the gods and Buddhas to descend again." Someone in charge of the shogunate's military affairs on the side said strange things. "And if all the places are strictly refused, shouldn't they gather troops and horses? Isn't that an expense? ”

"The problem of money is still easy to solve." Itakura Shigeto, one of the Kanding Governors (the lord of the Spectrum and Anchu Domain), spoke. "Foreign enemies invade, the country is in danger, the daimyo from all over the country should repay more, and the merchants of Sandu should also actively donate." Itakura's words made everyone's eyes light up, really, this was definitely an opportunity to improve the shogunate's economic situation, and everyone's faces suddenly looked much better for a while. "As for the people, it is appropriate to add some taxes."

"Itakura-sama is right," Yoshihei Yanagisawa looked at Shogun Tsunayoshi who was sitting there like a puppet figure, and now the dictator's eyes flashed with an inscrutable brilliance, and his heart immediately moved. "Then this Yang is tentatively settled, but although the problem of money has been solved, Xia Kou in Edo Bay must always have an explanation."

Before Yanagisawa could finish speaking, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor, and soon a voice reported outside the hall: "Lord Kaiyu, Xia Ko suddenly bombarded the shores of Chiba and Tama River"

The people present were shocked, Yanagisawa looked at Tsunayoshi and responded, "Got it." ”

The little surnamed Fantou, who was guarding the door, didn't know what to whisper to the outside of the hall, and the footnote immediately retreated.

At this time, General Tsunayoshi made a hidden gesture, and the little surname with a knife on the side immediately said solemnly: "The general changes clothes." ”

Tsunayoshi stood up and turned around and walked backwards, and the high-ranking officials of the shogunate knew that Tsunayoshi just didn't want to take the responsibility of making a decision at the moment, so they fell to the ground respectfully one by one, and praised in unison: "Congratulations to the general"

As soon as Tsunayoshi left, the atmosphere in the hall relaxed slightly, and Yanagisawa, who was presiding over the meeting, even loosened his shoulders: "It seems that the people of the Xia Kingdom are waiting for the shogunate to send someone forward?" A few adults, you say, do you want to act according to the rhythm of the Xia people? ”

"Lord Yanagisawa, now there is only more than a month left before the autumn harvest, it is not a good thing if the Xia people have been blocking, besides, the Xia people can swim around with the benefit of boats, and Japan is facing the sea on all sides, if this matter is not properly resolved, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles in the future."

The speaker's subtext has been clear, either the offender is eliminated cleanly, or the two sides sit down and talk clearly, otherwise there will be no war and the most damage to the shogunate, not to mention anything else, at least it will be a big blow to the prestige of the shogunate.

"That's right." Yanagisawa nodded. "Please ask the temple to send someone to talk to the Xia people, no matter the final war, we must always find out what the Xia people want." Speaking of this, Yanagisawa glanced at several big and new heads who were a little eager to speak. "Of course, Qiben still has to be mobilized immediately in case the Xia people raid Edo"

The boat gradually left the beach, looking at the big boat of the Xia Kingdom that was constantly enlarged in his line of sight, the expression of Michihiko of the temple shrine was extremely heavy, the ship he was on was not small, but it was only an inconspicuous boat on the other side, and the closer he went, the closed portholes on the opposite boat made him more uneasy

Since there were no Japanese ships on the sea, Michihiko's actions naturally fell into the net of the Huaxia fleet, and a small notification ship met it, and its speed can be described as an arrow from the string, which made the shogunate envoy exclaim. And although this notification ship has 1,500 materials, it is the smallest type of the entire naval fleet of the Xia Army, and it is still an overwhelming deterrent in the senses compared to the pitiful wooden ship of the forbidden sea that the Japanese are extremely pitiful.

"It turns out that under these square planks is a large cylinder." Looking at the open portholes, Michihiko couldn't help but tremble at the same time as he suddenly realized, because all the Huaxia warships in his line of sight had dense portholes on both sides, and if there were all large cylinders hidden underneath, then any one of them would be enough to suppress the entire firepower of the shogunate. "Shout, we are the messengers of the shogunate"

"Your Excellency is the Shogunate's Elder Michihiko of Hopfukuji Temple." As Anton, he was not yet qualified to board Gongtian's flagship, so Dai Tongjian, the former owner of the Nagasaki Merchant Hall, as a representative of the Governor's Yamen, received Andong Michiya on an ordinary second-class cruise ship [Leshan]. "Since the shogunate sent an elder here, there is no need for this official to hide anything, this is the request of my court, and my lord can look at it, but you only have two words: yes and no, no need to say anything."

"If not, does it mean that the two countries are at war?" Daoyan, who was proficient in Chinese, asked while looking at the text handed over by Dai Tongjian, but as soon as the words in the text fell into his eyes, he couldn't even hear what Dai Tongjian answered. "The lockdown decree was abolished and Chinese merchants were allowed to trade directly in nine ports, including Nagasaki, Hirado, Shiki, Tsuruga, Wajima, Niigata, Akita, Yokohama, and Kashima; ceded Minami Ezo and Sado; compensate the Chinese merchants for the loss of 150,000 taels of gold; Compensation for Huaxia's military expenses of 2 million pieces of silver. Michihiko looked up suddenly. It turns out that your country does not want to negotiate with the shogunate"