What Shinsaku Takasugi and Gabriel are talking about tonight is indeed a big business.

Just when the feudal daimyo was still arguing whether to order Tokugawa Yoshiki Daimasa to return and take responsibility for some of the mistakes made by the shogunate before, Takasugi Shinsaku had already made a decision to fall by force in Kyoto, and the main purpose of his visit to Kyoto was to meet with Okubo Toshitsu and Saigo Takamori and make a plan to bring down the curtain by force.

They decided to trick Tokugawa Yoshiki from Edo to Kyoto first, and then use force to detain him directly, but Tokugawa Yoshiki himself was also very vigilant and suspicious, and he may not have guessed their plans, if he came to Kyoto, there would inevitably be soldiers and horses to protect him at all times, and the strength of the Kyoto shogunate was originally very strong, in addition to the people of the Gosan family and the Qing family, there were also ronin groups such as the Shinsengumi and the Mikai group.

And if the soldiers and horses of the Choshu or Satsuma Domains were transferred to Beijing, Tokugawa Yoshiki would inevitably be aware of it, and then it would turn into a nationwide melee.

This is not what Takasugi Shinsaku and Okubo Toshitsu want, but they still hope to complete the change of power through a small-scale palace coup d'état, preferably a palace coup, to preserve Japan's vitality to the greatest extent, and this will require more manpower, and they will have to send these people to Kyoto without the shogunate.

They ended up pinning their hopes on Gabriel, a French businessman.

As early as when the Chōshū Domain reformed and strengthened the army, Takasugi Shinsaku had contact and cooperation with Gabriel, he knew that the latter's path was very wide, not only cotton yarn, iron cannons, arquebuses He was doing it, and even Takasugi Shinsaku's purchase of the new warship Bingchen Maru was led by Gabriel, coupled with his French identity, few people dared to check his cargo ship.

Takasugi hoped to quietly order a batch of weapons from Gabriel to be transported to Kyoto under the cover of a cotton yarn cargo ship, while a samurai squad of 300 men would be transported to Kyoto as a secret weapon against Tokugawa Yoshiki, for which the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains were willing to pay a high price of 10,000 taels of gold.

However, Gabriel did not immediately agree.

It is the nature of a businessman to pursue profits, no matter which country, not to mention Gabriel is also the most greedy businessman, and his business in Japan has made him a lot of money over the years, but it is precisely because of this that he has to carefully consider the deal proposed by Takasugi Shinsaku.

Gabriel, like other Western merchants, was also silently watching the civil war in Japan, but except for the previous shouting for their own safety, the British, American, French, and Dutch combined fleets retaliated against Shimonoseki, and foreigners still tried not to participate in the civil war in Japan.

For example, the shogunate's second war of conquest was repelled by Takasugi Shinsaku, and the Western countries were only in a state of onlookers from beginning to end, because for the time being, both the shogunate and the shogunate faction were likely to achieve the final victory, and the shogunate faction had a history of assassinating Westerners before, but now advocated the founding of the country, while the shogunate led by Tokugawa Yoshiki was the opposite, and had cooperated with the West before, but now it is inclined to continue to lock up the country, so the Western countries do not have a clear position to support which side to support.

Political investment is very risky, and if it fails, it will be hostile to the next ruler, but on the other hand, political investment is also the most lucrative investment, and although Gabriel did not agree to Takasugi's request, he did not explicitly refuse.

This is actually a clear attitude and asks Takasugi to increase the weight.

All the samurai present secretly scolded Gabriel for greed in their hearts, but now the initiative is indeed in the hands of the French merchants, and if he does not nod, Choshu and Satsuma will not be able to transport troops in, and the matter of the fall of the armed curtain will not be able to be continued.

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Zhang Heng was actually a little surprised.

In history, Okubo Ritsu and Saigo Takamori were indeed the main forces that overthrew the curtain by force, but the time was not so far ahead, in fact, the side of the shogunate faction dragged on for a while, and Tokugawa Yoshiki himself would play the trick of returning the power of the shogunate to Emperor Meiji, and take the initiative to return the rights of the shogunate to Emperor Meiji, in exchange for his status and rights in the new government.

Not only did Okubo Toshitsu and Saigo Takamori no longer have an excuse to carry out a palace coup, but they also succeeded in dividing the forces of the Shogunate faction, and after the return of the Omasa, Tokugawa Yoshiki's reputation began to change, and more and more people wanted him to join the new government with good things for him, while Okubo Toshitsu and Saigo Takamori became more and more isolated.

In the end, the military force was actually a last resort after being forced into a desperate situation, with the strength of the Satsuma Domain at that time, there was actually no advantage over the shogunate side, but in the end, Saigo Takamori still won the Battle of Toba Fushimi, which determined the direction of the times, in the face of the shogunate army three times his size, of course, these are all later stories.

Compared with history, it will undoubtedly be a big variable for Takasugi Shinsaku to be alive and kicking now, but although he came to Kyoto with his strong body and talked eloquently in front of everyone, he may be able to hide from the samurai of the two clans in the teahouse, but Zhang Heng's observation skills trained by the deductive copy still let him see that Takasugi Jinsaku did not have much time, and his face was already full of death.

This may be the reason why he can't wait to start a big thing, because he wants to see the new era he has created before he breathes.

But before he can do that, he needs to negotiate the deal with Gabriel at hand.

French merchants had a great appetite and were not satisfied with more than 10,000 taels of gold, but Takasugi Shinsaku also had his own bottom line, and although some of the people in the Shogunate also advocated learning from the West, many were also wary of Westerners meddling in their own affairs, such as Saigo Takamori.

The Kanagawa Treaty caused the shogunate to lose its prestige among the people, and such a lesson is still vivid, and the new regime obviously cannot repeat the mistakes of the past, so according to the consensus reached by Takasugi Shinsaku and his group before, Gabriel can negotiate if he wants money, but it can only be money, and if he wants something else, the Shogunate faction can only find another way, even if it has to postpone the Shogunate action.

In order to prevent communication barriers caused by language differences, both sides bring interpreters to convey their respective meanings as much as possible, and at the same time, they can also correct the translation errors of the other party and try to ensure that their true intentions are known to the other party.

However, Zhang Heng's mind was not on this business meeting, he had been thinking about how to get the Shuzhu Pill Hengji on Nakamura's waist, and the most important thing was how to get out of this flower street alive.

Since the person who came here tonight was Takasugi Shinsaku, it was obviously impossible for the Shogunate faction to let him, a temporary translator who had been hired halfway, get out of this teahouse alive.

Once the two parties negotiate a good business and reach a consensus, then his value is no longer there.

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