Chapter 195: The Meiji Restoration (11)

Not to mention the confusion and excitement after Ito Hirobumi opened the side door and was buried by a pile of drawings, Huang Xuan and Dian Wei rode to Kyoto on a pony.

Kyoto is located in the northeastern part of Osaka, and the commercial circles of the two cities are almost connected on the map, and even in 1868, the workshops here were booming, with blacksmiths producing knives and armor used by samurai, shops producing and selling muskets, and various trading houses serving the imperial family and the shogunate.

The Kyoto Imperial Palace is now the imperial palace of Japan, and it was the residence of successive emperors from the Nara period to the Meiji Restoration.

From the perspective of the Chinese, this is a simple building complex, a simple moat, a simple inner city wall, and a simple palace gate.

Huang Xuan circled around the outer city of the palace for half a circle, and encountered a slightly tricky problem. Laying a biological bomb in the outer city is not enough to guarantee its power, and the opening hours of the palace gate have passed, so he cannot use a camouflage cover to sneak into the city, and he also cannot find an inn in the city, which also requires a guarantor and a household registration.

After sleeping in the woods outside the city for the night, Huang Xuanfang asked Lorraine to help, and took advantage of the food delivery vehicle to turn into the palace.

However, he was greatly disappointed by the simplicity of the Kyoto Imperial Palace. In his opinion, this is simply a dilapidated small villa area, after the abuse of successive shoguns, the emperor's resentment is about to be very deep, and the imperial city is gray.

Yesterday evening, Huang Xuan walked around the imperial city on foot, and he felt very fast, but he didn't think about it that much at the time. Now it took a few minutes to walk to the other side, and I couldn't help asking, "Lorraine, how big is this place?" ”

"It is 700 meters wide from east to west and 1,300 meters long from north to south. The outer area is 900,000 square meters, and the imperial palace is 110,000 square meters. ”

Huang Xuan almost fell to the ground and said, "The relationship is the same size as the old house of the Huang family? ”

"Maybe it's still a little bigger. There are 9 famous gates, 10 main halls, and 19 halls. ”

"It's a medium-sized pedestrian street, and it's a shopping mall with more than four floors." Huang Xuan shook his head, dropped the 50g biological bomb on the ground, rubbed it with his foot, and said, "This is the main hall?" ”

He was referring to the wooden building with long eaves in front of him, which would not exceed 300 square meters.

"That's right."

Huang Xuan had no choice but to shake his head again, feeling that it was a bit of a waste to use a 50g bomb.

In order to ensure that the explosion would cover the entire palace, even the garden Huang Xuan did not let go, although according to his idea, the bomb should be detonated at midnight, but who knows if Mr. Meiji was in the lonely shadow of the bush and the little palace maid tryst at that time. Biobombs are more than enough, and it is always necessary to ensure that the effect is good.

For every 500 square meters of a 50g biological bomb, 110,000 square meters of explosives are required for a total of 11 kilograms of explosives, plus more explosives dropped in places with complex terrain and near buildings, a total of less than 20 kilograms were used, and the remaining 80 kilograms were more than twice as powerful as the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

Qingliang Hall is the bedroom of Mr. Emperor, Huang Xuan specially prepared a 200g biological bomb, with his hand to pinch the square, carefully buried in the center of the hall, it is said that when it explodes, the instantaneous temperature within a range of 300 meters can reach 6000 degrees, which is equivalent to the surface of the sun, and will burn out all the oxygen within 100 meters in just two seconds, theoretically, 3 meters thick lead plate or steel plate is not effective here.

Dian Wei liked the structure of Qiong Island, which was built in imitation of ancient Chinese legends, the lake represents the sea, and the white gravel paved in the palace looks like a beach. The hero jumped in the gravel pile for a while, stepping on countless stones, hoping that the guards would not think that the elephant had crossed the border.

After disposing of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, Huang Xuan circled around Kyoto and nearby Nijo Castle, where most of the so-called public families lived, and although their influence waned from that of the samurai, they were always an important political force.

The success of Japan's Meiji Restoration was inseparable from Emperor Meiji. Although the shogunate was unpopular, only the emperor was the orthodox place of Japan, so before January 1868, due to the return of Tokugawa Yoshiki to the emperor, the shogunate lost its legal foundation, and for a time it was ruled by the shogunate army. If it weren't for the shogun's unwillingness to be lonely, it would be really hard to say what would happen next.

In addition, the Japanese daimyo system was an important separating factor in the Edo period, as can be seen from the defeat of Tokugawa Yoshiki, after the victory of the shogunate, several daimyo rebelled and even became independent kings, and once the whole of Japan lost its favored rulers, Emperor Meiji and his sons, Yang or shogun and his heirs, the history of Japan in the second half of the 19th century needed to be revised.

On the fifth day of coming to P129, Huang Xuan returned to Osaka.

Accompanied by dozens of famous Osaka businessmen, there were not only Mitsui Takasui and Hirobumi Ito, but even a celebrity who had just returned from the front: Okubo Ritsu. After the success of the Meiji Restoration, he successively served as Secretary of Treasure, Senate, and then Secretary of the Interior, one of the three heroes of the Restoration, and most importantly, he was also a diplomat who could be included in the top three in Japan during this period.

Huang Xuan was naturally unfamiliar with him, but if Lorraine mentioned this name, it would mean that Nengdun would earn. Xiao Huang swept over Okubo with strange eyes and looked at a bearded man next to him.

It's an Englishman.

"Mr. Paul wants to be able to build a steel mill in Japan, and we have agreed. He will guide us in our construction work. Mitsui Gao then saw Huang Xuan's suspicious gaze and couldn't help explaining.

"Paul. WMS. The Englishman introduced himself.

“.” Huang Xuan said in English as if he were a master.

Ito Hirofumi looked at Huang Xuan in surprise, he had studied in London for many years, so he could naturally hear Huang Xuan's accurate London accent, as far as he was concerned, his spoken language was not so standard.

Paul smiled slightly, shook hands with Huang Xuan, and said, "Thank you." ”

"You're a diplomat?" Huang Xuan asked in a rather affirmative tone, he didn't believe in any nonsense to guide the construction work, the drawings he gave to the Japanese, the British themselves probably couldn't figure it out, the design of the open-hearth was still in the hands of the German Siemens company, and he refused to show it easily. Moreover, Lorraine has been monitoring the port of Osaka at all times, and there have been no British steamers coming and going recently.

Paul was embarrassed, he didn't expect Huang Xuan to be so direct, Mitsui Gao Sui hurriedly said, "Lord Huang, we still have some questions......

"Is the money ready? There are 4 days left and I don't have time to delay. "What Huang Xuan said is quite reasonable, in fact, he can indeed be reasonable. And the reason why Mitsui Takasui and Okubo Ritsu created such a big battle was to take down the drawings in Huang Xuan's hand as soon as possible, because the British had promised to pay half of the money as long as there was no problem with the contents inside.

Four British engineers were already waiting at the docks, waiting to appraise the drawings.

Although Huang Xuan does not know this, he is very familiar with the Japanese business habits of later generations, after all, Japan is China's third largest trading partner, and the Huang Fund and the Japanese chaebol are also inextricably linked, which cannot be broken clearly at a moment, whether it is Zhang Xinyi or Huang Jindi, when it comes to Japan, there are many things to say.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can win all battles, Ito Hirofumi thought that Huang Xuan was a Qing Dynasty official, so he used the same set he used to deal with Qing Dynasty officials, and he didn't know anything, which was counterproductive.

Ito Hirobumi muttered, stood up from behind Mitsui Takasui and said, "Lord Huang, you have also seen that our country has just gone through a big war, and the military expenditure is quite huge, and it is difficult to support the ......" As with Japanese foreign policy in the Meiji period, senior officials usually have to leave room for maneuvering, so when talking about diplomatic issues, they try to be vague as much as possible, and the middle and low levels are used to describe them in detail, and once there is a problem, the senior officials will pretend to be innocent, and others will take responsibility for it, so as to continue the negotiations......

Although Huang Xuan is not familiar with this celebrity, he is extremely familiar with Japan's negotiation method, remembering that when the Quad Group first did business with Japan, the two negotiations broke down, both of which were handled by low-level officials, bowed and apologized, and finally signed a very favorable contract with the Quad.

If there were no British, Huang Xuan might have lowered the asking price a little more, but Paul's status as a diplomat shows that the drawings he took out must be of great value.

Huang Xuan insisted: "800,000 taels of silver, of which at least 400,000 taels of silver are abalone, and the rest can be replaced by various fish and livestock." ”

"Lord Huang......" Ito Hirobumi hurriedly shouted.

"If you don't agree, then let's treat it as if it didn't happen." In the last sentence, Huang Xuan used a very Japanese expression.

Ito Hirofumi stopped talking, and Okubo Toshitsu looked at Mitsui Takasui and said, "Lord Huang, there are so many materials, you need to raise time......

"5 days." Huang Xuan raised his finger and said, "After 5 days, the transaction will be automatically closed." And ......", he paused, and continued, "I'm going to see half of it now, and of course, you can get half of the drawings." ”

Mitsui stood silently in the crowd, as if it didn't exist, this time it was Yataro Iwasaki who stood up, pursed his mouth, his mustache gently rose and fell, and he said in a thick voice, almost pleading: "Lord Huang......"

"No more talk." Huang Xuan shook his hand, he was always reluctant to take out all the drawings, he was still a little worried that Little Japan would be beastly and fatal, with the intention of snatching it, although he was not afraid of robbery, but once the two sides tore their faces, they would always reduce the income, speaking of which, even if they gave him a thousand children and eight hundred people, it would be difficult to snatch away a million taels of silver, let alone meet his needs, therefore, proper communication is necessary, but it is also necessary to ensure benefits.

Perhaps it was the British who satisfied the vanity of the Japanese, or perhaps it was Paul's promise that strengthened Mitsui's confidence, and he finally coughed and said, "Lord Huang, then 800,000 taels of silver." There's a lot of supplies at the dock right now, so let's go talk over there. ”

"That's the pleasure." Huang Xuan snickered in his heart, beckoned Dian Wei to come over, he pulled seven or eight horses, all of which were bought nearby, and each horse was dragging heavy drawings, as if Tang Sanzang was going home.