More than twenty minutes later

The two cars drove into a quiet three-entry house on Pidgin Road, which was small in size, but fortunately the trees were towering, and it looked quiet and comfortable in the warm California sun of late May.

Yangjingbang Road is an area with a large number of embassies abroad, and there are many aristocratic mansions on the nearby streets, and it is a high-end residential block in Chang'anli, the imperial capital, and many luxurious buildings of different styles can be seen along both sides of the street.

A few years ago, when the Fuso Legation in Tang purchased this property, the price of construction property in Chang'an City has soared for more than 10 years, and I don't know how much it has turned.

The purchase of this one-and-a-half-acre property alone cost 37,500 Tang Yuan, which is still a preferential price.

Today, the property is worth at least 60,000 Tang Yuan.

It's not easy to live in Chang'an!

According to the valuation of the famous British Chris accounting firm, the Daming Palace, which occupies more than half of the entire Longshou Yuan District, is the core essence of the entire Chang'an City, and it is also the most expensive area.

The hundreds of hectares of land occupied by the Daming Palace alone, not including the palace complex that cost a lot of money to build, are worth hundreds of millions of Tang yuan, about 20 million pounds.

The name of the richest royal family in the world, the real thing.

More than ten days later

In the Fuso Legation, there is a Japanese-style room.

The predecessor Sekihaku Ichijo Yuki and his son Ichijo Shuji, both dressed in kimonos, sit facing each other on tatami mats, on a low Japanese-style table in front of them, each with a cup of tea wafting in front of them, and nothing else.

As is customary

The five regents took turns to hold the administrative power of the shogunate, held the position of Sekihaku, and the important ministers during their tenure were all appointed to their own children and loyal vassals, which was quite similar to the style of a son of heaven and a courtier.

After the Ichijo family stepped down, the original children of the Ichijo family went into hiding one after another, and were replaced by the current retainers of the children of the Sekibai Nijo family. Ichijo Shuji was one of the few remaining people in the shogunate, and he was inevitably marginalized.

The main reason why he was able to stay in office was that Sekihaku Nijo Saikei wanted to use the rich experience of the Ichijo family to deal with the difficult situation facing the shogunate.

His father, after all, is the former Lord Guan Bai.

"Before the trip to North America, Nijo-sama and I had a deep talk, and now, including the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain, the positions of the daimyo tend to be "respecting the king, eliminating the accumulation, replacing the old government, and trying to revitalize the country".

There is a growing voice in society, and there is a dangerous tendency of anger brewing among the people, which may explode at any time with the passage of time.

It's like sitting on a crater now, and there's not much time left for Lord Sekihaku, it's really an embarrassing situation! ”

A chizuki's gray-haired head shook slightly, and Wei Ran sighed softly.

During his reign as the predecessor of Kanhaku, he also demolished the east wall to fill in the gaps in the west wall in order to maintain the shaky rule of the shogunate, and he knew this situation very well.

Ichijo Xiuji is a middle-aged man in his thirties, and he doesn't feel strange when he hears and witnesses it over the years, but he just listens quietly to his father's narration, and he doesn't mean to interject at all.

Pause a little

Ichijo Yuki continued with a somewhat solemn expression;

"In today's domestic situation, there are three paths ahead of the shogunate;

The first way is to strike first.

The reason why the daimyo of the domestic powerful feudal clan has been slow to move is that no one wants to be the first batch of cannon fodder.

It was fortunate that after the sudden "lieutenant incident," the powerful countries of Europe and the United States dispatched strong ships and sharp cannons to deal a fatal blow to those reformists who shouted "respect for the king" all day long.

So up to now, those rebellious forces have not slowed down.

A lesson from the past, a teacher for the future.

The shogunate should seize the opportunity to quickly mobilize troops and deal a severe blow to those powerful feudal lords who have undisguised rebellion, kill a group, arrest a group, and deal with a group of traitors and thieves, so as to eliminate the Qing Dynasty.

In order to shatter the dream of the eternal puppet emperor, the shogunate will go back and slowly reform the rule of officials and punish corruption, which is the best strategy at present.

The second way is to wait for change.

This is also the current response strategy adopted by Lord Nijo Sekihaku, with the help of the military deterrence of European and American powers, it can be maintained for a period of time for the time being, but this is not a long-term solution.

The third way is to be caught.

Once the feudal daimyo join forces to overthrow the shogunate's rule, the final defeat is a high probability event based on the shogunate's current flag book and imperial family.

How many ants bite and kill elephants!

Lord Sekihaku and I tend to take the first path, and we have passed the anger with the other family heads, so we must not be restrained. Watching the Five Shooters inherit the millennium (Note; including the Teng Yuan period), lost in our hands.

In that case, I won't be willing to die! ”

"So what?" A show asked an extremely concise and appropriate question.

"Xiuji, you have also seen and heard a lot of reality when you come to the Tang Empire, this is an empire that is far more powerful than we imagined. The answer is already very clear, just be a dog of the Tang Empire. ”

"I agree with you, father, that this may be the most feasible and powerful support for the future of Fuso. Not to mention anything else, if the remnants of the fierce Taiping army on Amami Oshima can be used by me, it will be okay to unite the military forces of the banner and suppress the powerful feudal lords who are the most happy. Ichijo replied without hesitation.

"Amami Oshima remnant...... It's a sharp knife! Ichijo Yuki's face changed slightly, and he still had lingering fears about the remnants of the Taiping Army wreaking havoc on Fuso Island two years ago.

That's really ruining the village and destroying the town, killing people and killing people, and the items that can't be taken away are burned to the ground, which makes people forget it!

Ichijo Shuji was much more ruthless than his father, his face twitched slightly, and he gritted his teeth and said;

"Father, I'd rather have a beacon fire everywhere on Fuso Island than tolerate traitors and thieves running rampant, and this is a good opportunity to completely clear the place.

Where the army arrives, the daimyo of the feudal clans will surely be wiped out.

We can take advantage of this opportunity to strengthen the authority of the shogunate and collect local power, so as not to control it everywhere and do its own thing.

We should learn from the Tang Empire, the policies and laws promulgated by the central government are implemented unconditionally in various places, and only one voice is spoken, and there is a lot less useless involvement and resistance from the feudal towns.

To really get this far, it is only a matter of time before the country is relevant.

In this way, the Tang Empire agreed to pay tribute, and the shogunate could take advantage of the Nagasaki garrison and the armed militia of Amami Oshima, and it would be even better if they could send troops from the mainland to fight together, and they were afraid that those powerful feudal daimyo would not be killed?

Wars do kill some people and burn down towns and villages, so what is it worth?

Stubble after stubble of untouchables grows like weeds, and it's time to clean up some. ”

"That's right, so let's do it." Yuki Ichijo finally made up his mind.

Originally, they were also going to go to European countries, and the destinations were mainly Britain and France, after all, selling themselves as dogs also had to find the right owner, and it was reasonable to compare.

But in the past ten days, seeing that the Tang Empire is so strong, the rest of the journey is unnecessary.

After the "bombardment of Tokyo," the five countries of Tang, Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands forced Fusang to sign a series of unequal treaties, further opened the door of Fusang, added concessions, stipulated the legal garrison of troops in the treaties, leased important ports, and a series of other humiliating clauses, which deepened the status of Fusang as a semi-feudal and semi-colony, and turned it into a playground for European and American countries.

In today's era, the Fuso Kingdom was poor and weak, with many internal ills and rampant corruption, and the rule of the shogunate was extremely unpopular.

This was the original intention of the daimyo of the powerful feudal clans to put forward the slogan "Respect the King" in an attempt to overthrow the corrupt shogunate rule and reform politics.

It's not good to say

Except for some big and strong feudal clans who can barely get by, those many weak feudal clans and small feudal clans are really poor, and in the spring famine, there is no way to watch the people in the fiefdom starve to death, and the landlord's family has no surplus food!

As for the five regents who held the power, their glory and power came from the shogunate, and they naturally stood firmly on the side of the shogunate, and they have been trying to launch a comprehensive attack on the traitors and thieves.

What is lacking now is not enough strength!

Among the five major powers stationed in Fuso, the Tang Empire topped the list with a garrison of 4,300 troops, which was more than the other four countries combined, and was also the strongest.

The French Empire had the second largest garrison in Fuso, with a total of 1,173 troops stationed in Nagasaki, Kobe, and Yokohama.

The British Empire was the third largest garrison in Fuso, sending a total of 685 officers and soldiers, the vast majority of whom were soldiers of the Weihai Weihua Yong Battalion, and only a few dozen British officers.

Reputedly;

The British Empire planned to send the Foreign Legion to garrison the Fusang Concession, but the Foreign Legion was also mainly Chinese soldiers, plus some Caucasian and Germans, and it is estimated that the vast majority of the troops stationed in Fusang were still Chinese soldiers.

The fourth largest garrison in Fuso was the Russian Empire, which sent a total of 300 officers and soldiers, and the last was the Netherlands, with only 61 men.

It's not that the Tsarist Empire doesn't want to send troops, according to the Tsarist Empire's own ideas, it is more appropriate to send an army of 2~30,000 people, and another 10,000 or 20,000 will be.

However, Britain, France, Tang and the Netherlands did not want to see the expansion of the greedy Tsarist forces in the East, let alone leave an opportunity for Tsarist Russia to expand its influence...... It is not easy to remove when you attach it.

Under the joint suppression of Britain, France and Tang, Tsarist Russia was only allowed to send a maximum of 300 troops, and not one more.

With the dominant naval power of these three countries in the Pacific, the Russian Empire had no room for bargaining.

The Royal Navy of the Tang Empire really has no presence in the Atlantic, and the few dozen ironclad steam ships in the Atlantic Fleet are not conspicuous in the booming navies of European countries, let alone powerful.

But in the Pacific Ocean, it is different, in the entire Pacific Rim region, the Pacific Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire is the most powerful ironclad fleet in the region, and the strength is undoubtedly the most powerful.

In the British and French Royal Navies, the Indian Ocean and East Asian fleets were all sub-fleets that were at the bottom of the construction priority order, and were filled with a large number of backward sail warships and old warships, not a single advanced steam ironclad warship.

As the world's oldest ocean-going navy, both the British Royal Navy and the French Royal Navy are equipped with a large number of sail warships, and the historical burden is very heavy, and it is impossible to replace them all at once.

This process of replacing the old with the new should be calculated in at least 25~30 years.

The advanced steam ironclad warships built from the shipyards were to be equipped with the European homeland fleet and to be formed to a certain size in order to maintain its traditional maritime position.

Under this guiding ideology, it can be said that in the next 15 years, the Indian and Pacific Ocean fleets of the British and French navies will not be equipped with steam ironclad warships, unless a sharp war for maritime hegemony breaks out with the Tang Empire.

Otherwise, these old sail warships will be enough in the Asian region.

In addition to the garrison factor, the predecessor Sekihaku Ichijo Yukiki decisively chose to defect to the Tang Empire, and the strong combat effectiveness of the armed militia on Amami Oshima and the strong military and economic power of the Tang Empire were two other important factors.

How much military power can Britain and France commit in East Asia in comparison?

The answer is very limited

In 1857, during the Second Opium War, the British and French forces gathered a total of more than 5,700 people, including more than 1,000 French troops, using sharp firearms to attack Wuyangcheng, capturing Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, and winning the first stage of the war of aggression.

to 1860

The Second Opium War brought together the largest number of British and French invading troops, totaling more than 23,000 people, including more than 5,600 officers and soldiers of the respective fleets of the British and French forces, which could be used for land operations of no more than 18,000 people.

With such a scale of troops, fighting a war to exterminate the daimyo of various powerful feudal clans in Fuso Province is far from enough in Ichijo Yuki's opinion, and it must be at least doubled.

His family knew his own affairs, and his predecessor Sekihaku Ichijo Yukiki knew very well that once the shogunate launched a war against a local powerful feudal lord, it was very likely to encounter strong resistance from all over the country, and the war would be very tragic and bloody.

The poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and they are talking about the current Fusang Island.

Don't look at the royal people under the rule of the feudal lords of Fusang Kingdom, they don't have enough food and clothing, they still starve to death every year during the spring famine, and the poor people don't have enough clothes, but so what?

As long as they can eat a rice ball, these samurai royal people will dare to fight to the death, and they will not give an inch.

The samurai spirit is widespread in the market, and even the townspeople are willing to take up swords and guns to fight in order to defend their homes.

The sharp firearms of the European and American oceans could not guarantee victory in the war.

For example, if you are surrounded, if you are fighting in the mountains and forests, if you are fighting when it rains, if you are attacked at night, you will be defeated.

The Fuso Civil War was more difficult than the Second Opium War.

Ichijo Yuki has learned that in the North American War, the Tang Empire has continuously imported well-trained recruits from the Shenzhou Continent, with a total number of hundreds of thousands, which has strengthened the confidence of the sugar daddy.

Britain and France are beyond the reach of the whip, and the Tang Empire is more suitable.

If you think "Wild North America 1846" is not bad, please paste the following URL to share it with your QQ, WeChat or Weibo friends, thank you for your support!

( Book URL: /xiaoshuo/69084/ )