Chapter 395 Signing of the Treaty of Edo, New Goal: Kyushu Satsuma Domain!
"Is that what he said?" Tokugawa Jiaqi was wiping a treasure knife in his hand with a piece of white silk, feeling the beautiful pattern on it, and said faintly. Although his heart is very anxious, he must maintain his dignity as the lord of a country, the head of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the eleventh generation of generals. Therefore, he calmed himself with a wiping knife, but the hand that clenched the white fingertips of the handle still exposed the gloom and anger in his heart.
Looking at the chill soaked on the knife, and the burning anger in the eyes of the vicious Tokugawa family. Nobuaki Matsudaira tried to lower his head a little more. Exactly, now, the Shangguo general has led his fleet to stop at Yokosuka Fishing Village on the other side of Edo Bay, saying that he would berth there and wait for our reply.
"Ten thousand and twenty million, that is, one and twenty million taels of gold, which is a shame for them to say this amount. Not to mention the Satsuma clan, even if the strength of our country wants to compensate for this amount, I'm afraid it's not enough to empty everyone's pockets. Next to him, an old man in his fifties slowly spoke. This person is the biological father of the Tokugawa family.
Tokugawa Ieji, the heir of Tokugawa Ieji, the tenth general of the shogunate, died suddenly after a hunt, and Sadajiro, another son of Iejiru, died early, so Ieji had no male heirs. At that time, his father Zhiji worked at the family's important minister Tanuma Yiji. It was probably recommended by Yici. The eight-year-old Jiaqi became the adopted son of Tokugawa Ieji.
After, he became a general. Tokugawa Jiaqi was very clear about his father's ability and respected him very much. Otherwise, he would not want to honor his father's rule as a great imperial office, but the imperial palace is a title that only a person who has been a general can have. Matsudaira Dingxin strongly opposes it. Finally, Tokugawa Jia Qi and his father finally dismissed Songping's letter through the incident of a Russian businessman.
Hearing that his father had spoken, the Tokugawa family handed over his love to his little surname and said respectfully to Zhiji, "Father, what do you think you should do?"
"Mr. Matsudaira, Mr. Makino, do you think the general should sign this treaty?" Zhiji also has a headache. This fact is too much, so he wants to hear the opinions of Nobuaki Matsudaira and Tadayuki Makino.
"I can't sign it. I think that the Qing Dynasty is really insulting our country. As soon as such a treaty is signed, the name of the general and the Tokugawa family will fall sharply. Therefore, I think that soldiers and horses from all over the country should be urgently mobilized to help Edo. I am willing to fight to the death to let the Qing Dynasty know that I am the spirit of the warriors of the country." Makino Zhongjing replied loudly.
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Hearing Muye Zhongjing's answer, there was a faint smile on Zhiji's face, which can be called a gratifying smile. In fact, he scolded this guy in his heart for being really an old fool. If this stupid idea can be used, do you still need to negotiate? Makino Zhongjing is simply pretending to be stupid.
"I think that some treaties can be signed. After all, the Qing Dynasty has many things that our country needs, such as grain cloth and silk... Of course, everything is up to the general." Matsudaira Nobuaki also said this as if he didn't say it.
"You two, what I ask is that if things have reached the point where it is impossible, do you think the emperor should come forward to sign the treaty." These two guys are cunning, but Zhiji is also cunning, so they simply point to the center of the problem.
Makino Zhongjing immediately shouted loudly: "You can't sign, you can't sign in any case. General, since those Qing people dare to moor in the area of Yokosuka, I asked the general to mobilize the three imperial warriors to defend Edo. I led the dead soldiers, sneaked in at night, and set fire to the enemy. If they could gather and annihire them, they could subdue the great names. They don't dare to be strange. If they can hit this fleet hard, they will definitely have no choice but to retreat.
"What if your plan failed and angered the Qing people?" Matsudaira Nobu understood Makino Zhongjing at a glance and said coldly.
Hearing this, Muye Zhongjing couldn't go on. He really couldn't guarantee that his plan would be 100% successful. However, he still retorted reluctantly, "If you don't try, how can you know that you can't succeed?"
"General, the ninjas sent out have come back." At this time, a small surname came over and reported respectfully.
"Let him in." Tokugawa Jiaqi waved his hand, and soon, a ninja wrapped in tight black clothes entered the palace. General, the villain has found out that the Qing warship has been moored in Yokosuka Fishing Village. After they went ashore, they did not live in the fishing village, but built their own camp on the shore. The defense is very strict, and the villain can't sneak in at all. However, the villain can see from a distance that there are at least thousands of their soldiers, and they all hold iron cannons, and a lot of big barrels are also carried ashore, which seems to be used for defense.
Hearing the news, Tokugawa Jiaqi couldn't help taking a breath: "You mean, they all have iron cannons in their hands?"
"Exactly." The ninja replied affirmatively again that Matsudaira Nobuaki and others couldn't help but feel cold. They knew very well that this kind of thing was far more powerful than bows and arrows, but it was very expensive. Even the Tokugawa shogunate's army in Edo had only one thousand-person iron artillery team.
Of course, although the heinously dense warship gun made them feel almost hopeless, it was on the sea, so they still felt a little reluctant and wanted to fight with each other on land.
But when I heard that the number of soldiers on the other side was thousands, and everyone had an iron cannon. Thinking of the scene of thousands of iron cannons roaring neatly on the battlefield, even Makino Zhongjing, who thought of being unparalleled in bravery, withered.
"When did the Qing Dynasty become so powerful?" Tokugawa Jiaqi couldn't help sighing. In those years, Fengchen Xiuchen's expedition to North Korea not only disabled North Korea, but also greatly damaged the Ming Dynasty. However, today, the other party only sent such a fleet, so there was nothing he could do, and there was no way to deal with the other party's powerful force.
"General, the old minister thought that for the present plan, we can only summon the three royal families..." Zhiji's words made everyone stunned and looked at the general's own father in astonishment.
Three days later, the Tokugawa clan finally made their final decision to let the emperor send envoys to negotiate with the Qing people, at least in the name of the emperor to sign the treaty.
When the news spread to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, the Guanggetian Emperor was silent for nearly half a cup of tea, and a smile appeared on his face: "Gentlemen, Tianzhao God bless me..."
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" On the floor in front of him, those confidants were all in the shape of five bodies, and they cried loudly with tears on their faces. Takayama Zhengzhi sobbed and kowtowed to the emperor repeatedly, causing his forehead to be red, swollen and bleeding, as if he didn't realize it.
At this time, Emperor Guangge stood up, walked to Masayuki Takayama, and reached out to help up these loyal confidants one by one when he was embarrassed. Look at these excited faces. Emperor Guangge was so excited that he wanted to howle. He bowed his head slightly to these people: "This matter, please..."
Soon, the envoys of the Qing Dynasty visited and asked for the opening of the port for concessions. The news of recognizing Hokkaido as the territory of the Qing Kingdom began to spread in Japan. After that, the Tokugawa family, the eleventh generation of the Tokugawa shogunate, invited His Majesty's envoys to Edo to negotiate with the envoys of the Qing Dynasty. For a moment, the famous people looked sideways in astonishment. Unexpectedly, the shogunate, which had been closely monitoring and suppressing the emperor, would allow the emperor's envoys to go to Edo to negotiate with the Qing envoys, which made some indescribable things in their hearts. Some people were even suspicious. Could it be that the Tokugawa shogunate wanted to return the emperor? Yes?
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Emperor Guangge's envoys, Fujiwara noritsuna, deputy envoy Masayuki Takayama, and the shogunate chief middle-aged Nobuaki Matsudaira and the deputy envoy of Osaka Castle Yamano Tadayoshi, rushed to Liang Pengfei's warship before the ultimatum of Liang Pengfei.
After just two days, except for a few minor changes, they worked together on the surface, but in fact, the emperor's envoys and the shogunate envoys generally agreed to all the terms.
However, there are differences between the two items proposed by Liang Pengfei. That is to say, it is admitted that the Huaxia Dynasty is the suzerain of the Japanese dynasty. In the name of the Japanese dynasty, if there is disrespectful to the Chinese summer dynasty, the Chinese summer dynasty has the right to directly requisition the name until the name confesses its guilt and repents and makes corresponding compensation. The shogunate and the emperor shall not interfere.
After half a day of bargaining between the two sides, but still failed to reach an agreement, Master Liang finally couldn't help pointing out Ni Ming, the negotiator of the other side, and this sentence made the shogunate and the emperor's representatives shut up.
"If you think that you want to take responsibility for the names that angered our heavenly dynasty, then should our heavenly army come to you for this 12,000 taels of gold?" After Ni Ming said this, Fujiwara Jigang, Matsudaira Nobuaki and others were collectively dumbfounded. No matter who they were, they were unwilling to bear this responsibility for the Satsuma Domain.
In the end, it took less than five days for all the terms to be agreed to be signed. After just five days, the content of the Edo Treaty signed between Emperor Guangge and the representatives of the shogunate and the heavenly kingdom was gradually known by those big names.
Japan will no longer be able to follow the original trajectory of their history. Hokkaido has become a piece of meat in Liang Pengfei's hand, and Kyushu Island will also become two bright fangs to look at Japan in the north and south of Hokkaido.
And when the treaty was signed, Liang Pengfei immediately pulled the anchor and set sail after leaving 2,000 troops in Yokosuka. The target was Kagoshima City, the residence of the Shimazu family in Kyushu.
(to be continued)