Edo Traveler

v11 Chapter 111: All responsibility lies with the UK

Looking at the soldiers of the rebel army and their families being shipped to Hakodate Port, Chuemon had a slight sense of failure. For some reason, I always felt that negotiating with the British would not lead to any good results.

Suddenly they were tied with straw ropes and strung together, and the family members of the rioters who were arrested and sent away cried miserably. Because there was a shortage of women in the Ezo area, the officials responsible for sending them to the north often broke up the family.

Officials at the Kobokan place properly handle the distribution, and to put it more bluntly, refer to single miners, lumberjacks or beet workers as wives.

This is what Jingyi Zhibi ordered. Not only did his family members sit together and travel 5,000 miles away, but he also had to dismantle his family, exterminate his species, and leave no remnants behind.

You ask why Chuemon didn't intervene? Because Chuemon clearly saw the angry eyes of his cheap brother Tokugawa Iada, for fear of saying a few more words, it would turn into killing the whole family directly.

When something like this happens, do you expect the feudal king to calm down? Then he is no longer a feudal monarch, he has to be a monarch who is famous for all ages, and the kind that has been immortalized for generations.

Hiroshu Kusei and Yasaka Wakisaka, who arrived in Yokohama earlier, led the troops to quickly suppress the rebels outside the settlement area, and contacted Alcock, who had been moved to the ship for office, and cooperated with the British military police and Japanese patrol police. The insurgents in the residential area were also basically eliminated.

The biggest victory was that more than 20 backbones who had brought Lin Hachiro and others 170,000 taels of gold were reported and arrested in the suburbs of Yokohama. After interrogation, it was determined that there was no more money, and he was directly pulled out and shot.

In the whole chaos, apart from the more than 1,000 people who were lying in the hospital and who were always firmly guarding the camp, the rest of the training team was basically wiped out.

A rough count shows that at most twenty or thirty people are missing, including the remains found in the fire site of the Edo Castle Honmaru.

The follow-up will definitely be to investigate the identity clearly, and the whole country will be caught in the sea. As for now, it is time to put it aside and turn all attention to negotiating with the United Kingdom.

In the small British army barracks, more than 100 people were directly beaten to death. After excavation and rescue, more than 40 soldiers survived. The embassy and customs staff were not killed, only two were injured.

In addition to the loss of personnel, and then the loss of property, Lin Hachiro and other key personnel were relatively restrained when they acted, and they could be called strict discipline in the early stage. In addition to completely destroying the small British barracks, only the British embassy was bombarded with artillery, resulting in partial damage to the building. Binhaiguan is even more intact, and the vault has been re-locked.

On the contrary, the losses on the shogunate's side were greater. The Yokohama City Representative Office was completely burned down, and the Yokohama Railway Station was also destroyed by arson. A locomotive was smashed by soldiers who were looting copper, and the copper that was handed over to British merchants was also being recovered.

The most wronged are Chuanlu Shengmo and Enomoto Wuyang, because they were captured by the chaotic soldiers. Among the current martial arts laws, they are considered to be disrespectful samurai. Originally, it was said that they would be sentenced to incision, but fortunately, both of them were from the Mudai Muchen, and there was no need to plead for Zhongyouemon, and there were people who helped to protect them.

So Enomoto Takeyo was kicked to Sapporo, dropped three levels in a row, and served as Sapporo Yuri. As a prince, Chuanlu Shengmo was cut down with 5,000 stones, demoted as a flag, and sent to Huatai, where he served as Fengyuan and built the Nanhuatai area.

British envoy Alcock was extremely dissatisfied with what happened in Yokohama, and was completely unwilling to communicate with Kuze Hiroshi and Wakisaka Yasaka who came to negotiate. The shogunate chief Ii Naobi was asked to come forward in person, to apologize to the British government on behalf of the Tokugawa family, and to promise to severely punish all rebels and compensate the British for all losses.

Naobi Ii was not willing to negotiate with Alcock, so he had no choice but to ask Chuemon, who was sorting out the First Edo Division, to go to Yokohama to meet Alcock. We must handle this matter satisfactorily to avoid conflict between Britain and Japan.

So what's the tone?

The shogunate does not take the blame!

According to the thinking after the agreement between Tokugawa Iada and Ii Naobi, the shogunate must not be able to take the main responsibility for this incident, and it is better not to take responsibility.

The responsibility rests entirely with the UK!

Having dealt with foreigners for so many years, the rulers of the shogunate must have learned it too. Once the responsibility falls on the shogunate, the foreigners will make a big fuss and make a big deal out of the sky, guaranteeing that the shogunate will be turned upside down. Therefore, the shogunate cannot admit its mistakes. Once the shogunate assumes the main responsibility, the remaining sovereignty of the shogunate will not be sold enough to fill the gap between the British people's teeth.

Come on, with such a core of negotiation, Chuemon will know where the key to the whole negotiation is.

The training team recruited the Indian army, not the shogunate officers and soldiers, but Britain's own mercenaries!

The military salaries of the two sides have not been settled, and the entire employment relationship is still in existence. It also caused the rebels to attack the property of the shogunate, causing the shogunate to suffer losses in person. It is already very good that the shogunate does not claim compensation from the British. How can the British bite back?

And this argument, in addition to shameless, the evidence is very sufficient. The supreme commander of the Indian Army of the Tradition Team is Alcock, and some of the officers are directly British officers. All military supplies such as weapons, ammunition, and uniforms are provided by British organizations.

When the shogunate signed the treaty, it also stated that the shogunate was only responsible for the recruitment of personnel, and the rest of the training, mobilization, deployment and operations were under the jurisdiction of the British side. This army has nothing to do with the shogunate.

Is it difficult, UU reading www. uukanshu. com The Indians, Sikhs, Gurkhas, and Tu-Australians recruited by the British are not British? The Indians are still raising their troops. Are you going to trouble the Indian colonial government?

Everyone is a civilized person, and they must speak reason!

When Alcock heard Chuemon's remarks, he was stunned for a moment, and then his face was not very good-looking. In the past, I was the only one who led the British Empire to be so shameless. Now, let me teach a more shameless student.

However, these remarks are quite similar to the same thing. The agreement to hire the shogunate army to participate in the war was signed by Alcock. It is indeed clear that these are Japanese soldiers hired by the British government. Under the jurisdiction of the other side, accepted the dispatch of the British army, and went to India to suppress the uprising.

"You must be a bit arrogant..." Alcock began to think about how to refute Chuemon.

"I'm just stating a fact below." Chuemon was ordered to come, and he must try to turn around and settle the matter.

We can't end up making trouble like Zeng Guofan's handling of the "Tianjin Lesson Plan"...