Chapter 187: The Meiji Restoration (30)

Matsudaira Keichi: From the perspective of Lord Keiki, can we put pressure on the feudal domains, continue to gather troops, and continue to besiege the long domain, in order to achieve a good solution once and for all.

Hitotsubashi rejoiced: The boss is dead, the power is different, the feudal domains do their own thing, and they will be defeated if they fight again! We are the commanders, do our best, follow the will of God!

Matsudaira Keicho: The war is stalemate, and a sudden retreat will collapse!

Ichibashi rejoiced and said: I will immediately ask my emperor to decree a truce of the long domain. The former warship pursued the victory of the sea boat, and was bent on stopping the war. This person went to lobby, and the chief clan would definitely obey his words.

At the beginning of September, Katsu Haizhou went straight to the Choshu Domain alone, and said that Kido Takayoshi, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Sakamoto Ryoma Michi: Defeat the strong with the weak, and the war is very smooth, and the monarchs think that they will win the battle?

Kido Takayodo: Definitely! My clan reformed the military system, and its face was completely new, so there was no way to do it.

Shenghaizhou said: Lao Tzu said, the disaster is greater than the light enemy, the light enemy lost a few treasures, so the resistance to the army is added, and the mourner wins. The sudden death of the general is a mourning for the whole country; in the same room, who benefits? After the Yizhi ship crossed the Edo, the tiger looked at us, and the Yiren side was a great trouble for our country.

Takasugi Jinsaku said: I don't know, if the curtain soldiers do not advance, our domain will no longer fight, and when our emperor approves our lord's original position, we will immediately put away our swords and guns.

Sakamoto Ryomamichi: Enlightened teacher, now that the war is extinguished, I will return to Nagasaki and revitalize the Kameyama trading company.

When Xiaoming heard about the death of Tokugawa Iemao, he said sadly: Heaven does not fulfill people's wishes, but Lingqing's family is in its prime!

Guan Baiying Si Fuxi said: Your Majesty, as the saying goes, life and death are determined by life and wealth, and Your Majesty must not be sad.

Xiaoming Dao: Mao Qing left a three-year-old child to succeed to the throne, and the officials selected Ichibashi Qingxiqing to inherit the throne, and the two must choose one of them, and they are sad! Qing Xiqing asked for a truce, allowed?

Ying Si Fuxi said: Your Majesty, internal and external troubles, the country is struggling, a three-year-old child, how can he succeed to the throne! Shenzhou is safe, and the crowd is self-serving; Hitotsubashi celebrates the invitation of the truce, which is very good!

Xiaoming Dao: Three-year-old succession, like child's play; If the country is strong, who is responsible? The officials of the Kwantung region were properly selected, and they were very comforting. Xiqing's request for a truce, I will grant it! The request for the reinstatement of the Naga domain should be decided by the shogun convening the daimyo of the feudal clans.

Former Left Minister Konoe Tadashi secretly played: Your Majesty, eventful autumn, when employing people, when the curtain will be announced, Your Majesty should quickly pardon Nakayama Tadano, Iwakura Gushi, Sanjo Minomi and other ministers, this opportunity must not be missed, this moment cannot be delayed!

Xiaoming said: I don't know! However, the national situation has been the same as fire and water, and it is okay not to do anything to put out the fire and add fuel to the fire! The governor of the forbidden guard, the commander of the defense of the sea, made Ichibashi Qingxi Ying's enlightenment, this person inherited the position of general, and vigorously promoted the integration of public and military forces, and jointly resisted foreign humiliation, and the country was fortunate.

On the same day, Takaaki personally summoned Matsudaira Yoho, the guardian of Kyoto and the lord of Aizu Domain, and said: The Lieutenant General's request to return to Japan yesterday has been repeatedly thought about and decided to grant it.

Matsudaira Rongbao said: Thank Your Majesty Longen, the minister will return to Edo immediately, and persuade the general to succeed to the throne as soon as possible.

Xiaoming Dao: I and the lieutenant general have the same voice, the lieutenant general and I are both burden-bearers, and I hope that the lieutenant general will overcome obstacles and move forward, and I am grateful.

Matsudaira Yohodochi: Thanks to His Majesty's kindness, on the day the minister took office as the guardian of Kyoto, negotiations were to be used as the only way to settle the dispute. Unexpectedly, in the past four or five years, the ministers have used the Mibu Ronin group to kill all the lawbreakers. The people of the Aizu clan are stained with the blood of the people, but the minister has no regrets, even if the people of the Aizu clan are exhausted, the minister is also determined to guard His Majesty, this is the righteousness of Aizu, and it will remain unchanged for eternity. After the minister saw the Tokugawa clan succeeding as the fifteenth general, the minister returned to Beijing and reported to His Majesty that he had met Longen.

Xiaoming Dao: The lieutenant general has not returned for four years, and when the general is ordered to take office, I will help the lieutenant general return to the country.

On November 20, Matsudaira Yohochi, the lord of the Aizu domain, arrived in Edo, and after meeting the shogun, he saw Hitotsubashi and said earnestly: Kyoto is full of treachery, and his majesty is the only one who upholds the unity of public and military affairs. Lord Qingxi's delay in taking office is very worried.

Hitotsubashi rejoiced: I don't know, but the will of Lord Gongfang must not be obeyed! It is also said that the shogun will establish an heir, and he will not choose Mito, and if Mito becomes an heir, he will die in the shogunate.

Matsudaira Rongho Road: The adult is the successor, and it is the head of the Ichitsubashi family! If Lord Keiki is more respectful and humble, the Utokugawa family will definitely fall into a situation from which they will never recover.

Hitotsubashi rejoiced: Men with lofty ideals are benevolent, there is no survival to harm others, and there is killing to become benevolent. In today's situation, there is no way to steal a living, but not to avoid the axe and face the difficulties!

On December 5, 1866, Yoshiki Hitotsubashi changed his name to Tokugawa Yoshiki and officially took office as the 15th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

On the day of Tokugawa's succession, he recruited peasants and citizens to form a new army; borrowed $6 million from France to buy warships and build a new navy with the mines of Ezo as collateral; Prepare for the establishment of five bureaus of domestic affairs, foreign affairs, accounting, army, and navy, which will be divided between the five elders and the chief senior lieutenant to oversee the national government affairs; Jointly established a company with France, built railways, opened mines, and cultivated industries.

When Xiaoming heard this, he was relieved and drank happily, but he felt the wind and cold, and he was cured for a long time, and he was infected with smallpox.

Xiaoming died, Tokugawa was overjoyed, and said abruptly: There is no more service in Kyoto!

Matsudaira Yohodo, the lord of the Aizu domain: "General Kaiyu, I will take the role of guardian of Kyoto and lead the army into Luo, so as to consolidate the foundation.

Tokugawa rejoiced: If you don't call into Luo, you will be a thief to the enemy!

President of Political Affairs Matsudaira Keido: The new emperor ascended the throne, amnesty to the world, Iwakura Gushi, Sanjo Minoru, Nakayama Tadano, Konoe Tadashi and other fans appeared, this trend is not good for me!

At the beginning of the early dynasty, Mutsuhito's maternal grandfather, Nakayama Tadano, said: Your Majesty, the soldiers of the Aizu and Kuwana domains have left Beijing, and the Kyoto ronin is raging, and I implore Your Majesty to allow the Satsuma clan soldiers to enter Luo and garrison Kyoto.

Sekihakutaka Sifu-hee, court minister Iwakura Gushi, and Masakin-cho Sanjo Minoru seconded the proposal.

Muren Dao: Accurate!

On January 1, 1867, Shimazu Hisamitsu, the head of the Satsuma domain, together with the feudal lords Saigo Takamori and Okubo Ritsu, led more than 1,000 troops and stationed in Kyoto.

Shimazu Hisamitsu visited Muren and said: Your Majesty, Yidi invaded, and the people of Shenzhou rose up to punish him, which is really his duty. In the third year of Wenjiu, the lord of Changzhou was ordered by the emperor to take the lead in Xiaguan, but he was helpless and could not speak, and his success was successful; The people of the Changzhou clan appealed to Luo, and by chance, the Changshu clan was denounced as a thief to the enemy of the country, which is unreasonable. I implore Your Majesty to wash away the grievances of the long domain, so as to show Your Majesty's justice.

Muren Dao: The rights and wrongs of the long domain have their own public opinions; Quickly summon the shoguns and the daimyo of each domain to discuss it.