Edo Traveler

v11 Chapter 24: New official takes office, Neng Jianyan

The Mu Pavilion has been very stable and peaceful in recent days. Jingyi Naobi went back to his hometown to supervise the repair of the railway and telegraph lines. The puppets and the flag books were still fighting for the newly released positions, so they had no time to worry about other things. Therefore, the entire screen pavilion is in a peaceful atmosphere, and all the seniors and middle-aged people are happy.

It is Shimadzu who defines this young man. He became the prime minister of the shogunate at the age of nineteen. When he held the tea party in front of the imperial court, although he was his brother-in-law in front of him, he couldn't help but have other people present. Although he looked calm on the surface, Chuemon looked at the teacup in front of him and didn't move at all.

Fortunately, Tokugawa Jiading could not embarrass his brother-in-law. Tokugawa Jiading, who was already thirty-five years old, looked at the definition of Shimadzu at nineteen, and it was actually similar to looking at his own children. It is not unusual for a man to have a son at the age of sixteen these days, and there is nothing wrong with his age.

Everyone also knows that the definition of Shimadzu is only under the competition of all parties. Even if there is any official business that requires him to make a decision, he will only raise it at the tea party in the imperial palace, and then give him time to go home and ask his father, Shimadzu Tadako.

Or he could ask his sister, Madame Atsuhime. In the system of the shogunate, Dao had a certain political power, and the powerful people of Dao could even participate in the shogun's reserve. The eighth generation general Tokugawa Yoshizong entered the Great Olympics, which was the result of the battle between the Tenying-in and the Moonlight-in in the Great Olympics at that time.

When the five-generation general Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's mother, Guichangin, was alive, she also had a great influence on the shogunate. On the issue of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's successor, he also spoke a lot, and even played a considerable role.

As for the current Mrs. Atsuhime of the Imperial Palace, of course, there is no way to talk about the harem. As a general who came from the Shimadzu family of a foreign feudal lord, Mrs. Atsuhime is usually seen as harmless to humans and animals.

However, in the event that Shimadzu defined Yuanfu to marry, Shimadzu Zhongjiao lived in seclusion, and caused Shimadzu to appear as the first old school since the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the lady's pillow style definitely played a big role.

Another day of the Imperial Tea Party was over, and Shimadzu, who was already familiar with the whole process, finally drank a cup of tea boldly, and even had a dialogue with Tokugawa Jiading about the drills of naval sailors.

It is easy to become an old school and a navy, and the definition of Shimadzu and his father, Shimadzu Tadako, definitely hope that some people from the Satsuma domain can be stuffed into the monolithic navy of the shogunate.

Everyone should still remember that Queen Victoria gave the Tokugawa family a Kasuga pill, because it was publicly displayed in the Yokohama Port, and the princes saw the most advanced warships in the world at that time.

So Shimadzu Chujiao found Chuemon, and let Chuemon be the middleman. He was also going to buy two large ships of about 1,000 tons. Later, Chuemon introduced the Dutchman Blokhov for him, and Shimadzu got his wish to purchase the thousand-ton wooden-hulled steam-powered battleship Shohei Maru.

Now Satsuma also has a main battleship, three small boats of three or four hundred tons, and several armed merchant ships. Moreover, Satsuma also started the cultivation of naval talents. People such as Eda Xinyi, Dashanyan, Kuroda Kiyotaka, Yamamoto Quanbei, Togo Heihachiro and others all appeared on the stage of history.

When it came to Okubo Toshinori, Chuemon didn't know what happened to this person. Among the students that Satsuma sent to Edo University, the Infantry Training Center, and the Naval Training Center, there was never such a person. It seems that the Shimadzu family was purged because someone else came to power.

The specifics are not clear, and it is impossible for Chuemon to specifically ask Shimadzu Chugyo for a small person. By the way, Xixiang Longyong, that is, Xixiang Longsheng later, also disappeared.

Satsuma domain even picked out the five generations of friends and sent them to the UK to study. The ship for studying abroad just set off this month. Before Chuemon didn't poach Tomohou Five generations, I'm quite disappointed.

Perhaps these two figures who stirred up the historical situation from another plane have disappeared into the tide of history.

The power struggles of the Shimadzu family have occurred many times in the past few decades and hundreds of years. Every time, the number of people was killed, and the number of samurai who died was unknown.

Regardless, let's go back to the Shimadzu definition proposal. The young man's idea is that the shogunate now has a large navy, and indeed recruited some warriors from the princes' families in the training center, but there is a problem.

The shogunate and the navies of the feudal vassals were independent. Don't talk about unified combat, if you can meet and don't do it directly, even if it is to save face.

So whether to conduct a certain degree of training for the national navy!

A good proposal, whether it was proposed by Shimadzu himself or by Shimadzu Chugyo, this is indeed a direction that can be considered. It is also in line with the identity pursued by the Navy, which is related to his business in charge.

Now the vassals build their own ships, and they also buy ships from foreign countries. The shogunate is so hungry that it even buys ships from countries like Prussia. Today, there are many steam battleships and sail battleships in Japan.

What a pity that Shimadzu's definition says it! If one single family is mentioned, it is absolutely impossible to beat the foreign powers who have come prepared. Perhaps only by bringing together the navy of the whole country can it be possible to deal with the military threats of the great powers.

It's just that this issue may not be easy for the princes to accept~lightnovelpub.net~ In today's Japan, one domain is one country, and the so-called single-ethnic unified country concept has not yet been formed among the whole people. The warships of our clan are of course the property of our clan, so how can they follow the shogunate?

Did the shogunate want to embezzle the warships of our feudal clan, and incorporate the warships purchased by our subjects with the money saved by eating bran and vegetables into the navy of the shogunate?

This worry is bound to happen! At this time, it is necessary for the Shimadzu family to come forward in person, as the liaison officer of the shogunate naval center, to lead the way, and to persuade the princes.

After all, the Shimadzu family were genuine feudal lords, and no matter how they counted, they were not members of the shogunate, but at most close allies. If the Shimadzu family is happy with their own navy, they will practice together with the navy of the Shogunate once a year. Then the persuasiveness of the whole incident will be greatly increased, and the resistance of the vassals will decrease a lot.

Of course, the Satsuma clan must dispatch personnel to work on each warship. Learn about the conditions of each ship, and even stay on the ship, eat and live with the sailors of the shogunate.

It is impossible to directly grasp the navy that controls the shogunate. Let us know the whole picture of the navy of the shogunate, as well as the strength and level of the navy of the feudal vassals. For the Satsuma domain, there are only advantages and no disadvantages.