Tokugawa Iamatsu, who was not too incompatible with meeting foreigners, met Alcock in the house of Chuemon at the foot of Edo Castle and accepted Queen Victoria's letter of credence.

　　 The broken house of Chuemon miraculously survived the last fire. The reason for the survival is quite simple. Tokugawa Kayuki thought that his good son Shimaru lived too narrowly, so he paid more than 20,000 yuan out of his own pocket and demolished all the houses near Chuemon's house.

The space that 　　 was demolished, more than half of it was used to dig a large pond, forming a natural fire barrier. As a result, the earthquake increased the fire last time, and other places were swept by fires. It was luck that Chuemon's house had nothing to do with it all around.

　　 So today I didn’t come to see Alcock, but to see the little princess who had already been named Shiji!

　　 Alcock didn't know if he didn't care about this, or didn't understand it, anyway, as long as he was sure to see the Tokugawa family, he would be done. Simply drank an afternoon tea and chatted about the friendship that has brought the British Empire and the Tokugawa Shogunate to each other over the years. The meeting is over now, and you are left for dinner.

　　 Go to Yokohama by bus early, but there will be no service if it is late.

　　Alcock, who has completed his duties, also wants to do a little business in Japan. Erjin has become post minister after returning to China. He also wants to rise up and move up. Is there anything that can cooperate with the shogunate and gain merits?

　　 How about two more talks with the shogunate? Are Osaka, Shikoku Kochi, Harima Kobe and other places opened? It doesn't seem to be necessary. Now that the British and even the Qing country have not eaten and wiped out, in recent years, there have been so many things in Europe, and it is inseparable from the energy to operate so many trading ports.

　　 And he had learned before he came that the shogunate had suffered a terrible national disaster, and it was in ruins from south to north. Now the Edo Castle is still a large construction site. It is simply impossible to mobilize many people to go on the expedition, nor can it be used as cannon fodder for bringing the British Empire.

　　 This doesn't work either, that doesn't work either, it's annoying!

　　 Forget it, let’s take a stroll in Yokohama. After all, the two-square-mile residential area in Yokohama is Alcock’s jurisdiction. As a minister and governor, you must be familiar with your own governance.

　　 Of course, to measure the land step by step, Alcock doesn't do it. Directly host a dinner party, greet the people in Yokohama's head to come and have a drink, and everyone can communicate.

　　 The British shipowner who happened to be stranded in Yokohama, who is also a capitalist, must be among the invited and rushed to the banquet. Everyone eats, drinks, chats and dances, but they are also happy.

　　I've had three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, so people asked the owner of the ship, what he would sell in Japan. He didn't hide it, he was all British, so he was afraid of something.

　　 I am pulling arms for India!

　　 Hearing this news, everyone was curious, what's the matter, India’s own guns are not enough, need to pull Yankee’s third abuse?

　　 This will be the quality assurance made in Britain, and made in the United States is the next three indiscriminate goods, which everyone looks down on. This name will be passed on to German manufacturing, and then to Japanese manufacturing, the most recent one, not to mention it.

　　 Speaking of what he knew, the ship owner drank a few more glasses, chatted together, and started blowing with everyone. It turned out that the year before last, at the meeting in 1855, the peasants in Bangladesh launched a large-scale uprising, and tens of thousands of people attacked the city with great momentum.

　　The British troops stationed in India, even at the highest peak, do not exceed 40,000, and they have to station at various locations to guard against other protesters who are ready to move. To suppress the large-scale uprising in Bangladesh, the British and Indian government had to issue a new order. Valley

　　 July 25, 1856, the "General Military Service Act" was promulgated!

　　 The bill requires recruits to be recruited in a larger area of ​​Bangladesh, and the recruits must accept the terms of overseas service. However, most of the Indian veterans come from the Awadga caste family. Once a large-scale conscription will infringe on the interests of these people, these people and their relatives will lose the opportunity to serve as soldiers.

　　 was originally intended to suppress the peasant uprising in Bangladesh, but it turned out that even the Indian native soldiers who were dragged to suppress the peasants were upset. You said it was done.

　　 This is another war and recruitment. At that time, all European weapons and equipment had to be drawn to the Crimea. The British and Indian governments had no choice but to buy weapons from the Americans.

　　 I am very unhappy!

　　 Even if they pinched their noses and bought American weapons, the British and Indian governments also disliked these illegal goods from the United States. There are really no guns available, and they are forced to be helpless.

　　Speaking of which, the British people who do business around Shanghai and Yokohama all year round are more interested. India, thousands of kilometers away, is so uneasy. India is the brightest jewel on the crown of the British Empire. If something goes wrong in India, the finances of the British Empire will collapse by at least one third.

　　 "The situation in India is indeed not very good..." The owner, who was surrounded by the crowd, also said vigorously.

　　 In addition to the deteriorating situation in Bangladesh, there have also been riots and protests in other parts of India. The British squeezed and exploited India, and at the same time they dumped various industrial products in India, causing a large number of handicraftsmen and farmers to go bankrupt.

　　The contradictions across India are accumulating rapidly, if only the people are dissatisfied. However, in order to strengthen the rule of India, Taiying tried to unite the entire South Asian subcontinent and began to mobilize the monarchs of the Indian monarchs. If they cooperate with your rule, you have to sever their feudal throne.

　　 Come on, some monarchs are not satisfied...

　　 The businessmen who had learned a lot from the British shipowner sighed that the situation in India is so bad, maybe someday war will break out.

　　 At the same time, in India, thousands of kilometers away from Japan, the various contradictions that had been suppressed for a long time were finally ignited greatly on a piece of paper wrapped in butter.

　　 A large number of Indian soldiers declared an uprising, besieged foreigners’ homes and shops, and attacked Christian churches. After taking the city of Delhi, he supported the so-called Mughal Emperor Shah II and prepared to resist the British colonial rule.

　　 The British government offices and garrison camps in Delhi were all captured by the uprising Indian soldiers. Many British officials and British soldiers who were on vacation in the city were killed by the insurgents.

　　The anti-British national uprising in India has begun vigorously!

　　 The news was accompanied by a speeding ship, in a very short time, to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama where Alcock is now. The rebel army, which claims to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, greatly threatened the British colonial rule in India.