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After receiving the light of Hagi for free, Kei Maori gave Yoshida Shoin a clipper and sent him to Nagasaki. As a Maori imperial officer on this trip, of course, he is qualified to bring three more companions. Chuemon just didn't spend a penny, and got on the boat to Nagasaki.

The boatman was a Maori boat attendant, who relied on a sail to borrow the wind from all sides, and sent Yoshida Shoin and Tadaoemon to Nagasaki in just two days. They were good hands on the water. In the Warring States period, the Maori navy was once a powerful navy that crossed the Seto Inland Sea. Only in the battle of Kizu Kawaguchi, the so-called iron-clad ship of the Kuki navy was overturned.

Later, the Maori clan was reduced to the two defense ministers. The Kwaishima navy, Kobayakawa navy, and Murakami navy, who were once subordinate to the Maori, were all separated from the Maori family for this and other reasons.

Hagi wasn't for the Japanese seaside and one of the important maritime shipping traffic points in the San'in (shielded) area, the Maori family might not even be able to retain this talent on the water.

And Satsuma has always maintained contact with Ryukyu, so the size still retains a navy. I don’t know whether the formation of the Satsuma navy’s chief state army pattern in history is more related to the navy traditions preserved by the Satsuma Shima Tsu’s clan. Who knows.

Ships in Japan, Dutch ships from Dejima in Nagasaki, and ships from Qing and North Korea are generally not allowed to be mixed together. Each port has its own planned area, and the shogunate strictly guards against foreign ships carrying Christian missionaries and religious books about Christianity.

In order to prevent ordinary people from coming into contact with these, corresponding isolation is naturally necessary. Didn’t you see that Nagasaki also built a special Dejima as the Dutch business district in Japan?

I just don’t know the rumor that during the legendary Napoleonic Wars, the Dutch mainland has been subjugated, and the puppet Batavia Republic under Napoleon’s control was established. Only this small Nagasaki Dejima is left in the world, and the Dutch flag is still flying. ,Is it real.

It is a pity that most of the people involved have passed away. Otherwise, you can ask what kind of national flag was hung on Dejima in Nagasaki at that time. Has the resident Dutch business hall changed because of fear of the British warships that came to attack and tentatively several times? I will regret it when I change my faith, it's a trivial matter.

In addition to this interest, Chuemon also specially observed the defense of Nagasaki. The entire Nagasaki defensive system is quite complete. After more than two hundred years of continuous improvement by the Shogunate, it is quite large.

On the mountain of authority of Nomozaki, the southern tip of the Nagasaki peninsula, which has not yet entered Nagasaki, a strong stone observatory and signal tower is set up, allowing ships to glimpse far away and becoming the eyes of the entire Nagasaki defense system.

And what is used to control the enemy is a huge number of fortresses scattered all over the place. In the second year of acceptance (1653), the lord of the Hirado domain, Matsuura Jinnobu, was ordered to set up forts at the seven locations of Daetsu, Goddess, Kanzaki, Shirasaki, Takayasu, Nagatoiwa, and Umio. These forts were called "Gudaiba". Or "Lae Odaiba".

During the five years of culture (1808), the shogunate, who was shocked by the Phiton incident, ordered Saga lord Nabeshima Qizhi to add forts around the goddess, Kanzaki, Takara, and Umio. This was called "New Odaiba." In the following year, new forts were built on Iwase Road, Inasa, and the distant Takahama, Nomu, and Kashima (all of which are located on the protruding part of the Nagasaki Peninsula).

In seven years, he ordered the lord of Fukuoka Masaki Kuroda to build additional forts at Kanzaki, Takayama, and Nagasaki Rock. This was called "Zoudaiba". In the same year, a new fort was built in Uomidake. In the sixth year of Kayinaga (1853), Saga Domain Lord Naomasa Naomasa was ordered to build forts on Kamijima and Iojima. This was called "Saga Odaiba".

These forts are horns to each other, guarding Nagasaki, Japan's only window for diplomatic relations, and also guarding the harbor under the winged forts to prevent them from being attacked.

Naturally, it is not enough to have a fort, and there must be enough soldiers and horses to garrison. For example, our old leader Mizuno Tadakuni, the 253,000 Ishikari Karatsu clan where he was before, needs to be responsible for the task of guarding Nagasaki. For this reason, the Karatsu clan lord only needs to confess to Edo for 100 days at a time, while other daimyos need a whole year.

It can only be explained in Edo for a hundred days, and of course it is impossible to serve as the veteran of the shogunate. Therefore, in order to realize his ambition, Mizuno did not hesitate to cut one hundred thousand stones and renamed Hamamatsu. He was really a fierce man.

In addition to the Karatsu clan, in the eighteenth year of Kanei, the shogunate ordered the Fukuoka Kuroda family to build a bansho at Tomachi at the entrance of Nagasaki Port and Nishimari on the opposite bank, and garrison them. In the second year, the Nabeshima family of Saga was ordered to come and explain, and it became a rule after that. The two feudal vassals are accounted for once a year, and they will be stationed in Nagasaki in turn.

If nothing happens, this measure will continue for 223 years and will be abolished in July of the first year of Yuanzhi (1864). These two places are called Chongliangsho because they are located at the mouth of Nagasaki Port. They are also called "Qianrenfansho" because they have a capacity of nearly a thousand troops.

In addition to the standing forces, there are temporary personnel from various feudal vassals to assist these feudal soldiers. Among them, Kumamoto, Tsushima, Ogura, Hirado and other four feudal feudal feudal feudal lords are permanently stationed in Nagasaki. Kagoshima, Choshu, Kurume, Yanagha, Shimabara, Karatsu, Omura, and Goto eight feudal feu From mid-May to late-September (this is the peak of the arrival of foreign ships, Chungemon is to catch this wind letter). People will be stationed during this period.

However, all of the above are things that exist on paper, and basically none of them have been implemented. I didn't see Yoshida Shoin because he heard the news that there was a policeman in Nagasaki, so he rushed from Hagi-fan in a hurry.

To put it bluntly, rush to the quarters, the rated one thousand people, this will be up to one hundred people, let alone resist the aggression of foreign troops, even most people are struggling to die. .

The Kuroda family in Fukuoka and Nabeshima family in Saga are both famous outsiders, and they are responsible for the various labor projects of the shogunate on a daily basis. It was really poor and couldn't open the pot, and took the great risk to reduce the 1,000 soldiers who should participate in the defense to a hundred.

And because these hundred soldiers were not in the domain, they were selectively forgotten by the domain, and they were often in arrears despite their salaries being halved. Although there are no records of soldiers guarding Nagasaki Bansho from starving to death, there are records of these feudal soldiers who were weak, described as dead trees, and unable to raise their swords to fight.

Soldiers are like this, and of course so are forts. The shogunate ordered the Nagasaki Nagasaki feudal clan to build fortresses, and it was natural to send troops and horses to maintain the defense. By now, I might as well tell you that there are only rusted cannons on these forts.

Don't talk about shells, there is no gunpowder!

Because saltpeter needs to be imported ~lightnovelpub.net~, it is very expensive. The feudal lords who were assigned to guard the fort felt that the world was peaceful anyway, so they pretended that there was nothing wrong with people and stopped replenishing the ammunition for these fortresses.

It wasn't until the British ship Phaiton invaded Nagasaki that all this was discovered by the then Nagasaki Master Matsudaira Bookmaster Yasuke. He ordered the turrets to fire, and the turrets were all "silent". He ordered the soldiers in the Fansuo to go to war, but the soldiers who came out were old and young, and they struggled to walk and couldn't hold a knife. There were only more than 140 soldiers.

Then he called on the vassal vassal to dispatch small boats to carry out the strategy of burning and attacking the British warships. Once the vassals did not arrive, the two-way drums did not come, and the three-way drums called for Naihe.

Anyway, this one peeled off the defense situation in Nagasaki. Only a British ship named Phiton, which is not even a Tier 4 frigate, stayed in Nagasaki for three days, and then went to Nagasaki. Extorted a lot of food and fresh water, and finally left contentedly. It is said that the Dutch Chamber of Commerce also paid a large ransom for this purpose, which may be called the "Hong Kong Redemption Fee".

Matsudaira Yasuke was also able to bear the responsibility, so he cut himself off that night and urged him to the shogunate. It's a pity that he is utterly admonishing. The shogunate had no money and no one, and was unable to rectify the defense of Nagasaki, so everything could only watch him deteriorate.