Chapter 267 32. Three-round volley full of surprises

  Edo at the beginning of March is generally cold and cold. Spring comes a little later this year, and there is no new green around the rivers and canals. As for the cherry blossoms, which represent warmth and clearness, even the flower bones have never fully burst out.

  But this does not prevent flower vendors from starting to sell flowers in the streets and alleys, and the natural cherry blossoms have never bloomed, but the artificially cultivated cherry blossoms are already in full bloom. For example, the primal spring "Kai Weng Sakura", which has been very popular in Japan until later generations, was actually harvested and stored in November or December last year.

  Build a special storage room in the mountains and build a pool. The depth of the water only needs to be submerged to a person's calf. Bundle each branch of Qi Weng Sakura into a bunch of about 300 branches, soak it in water, and keep it fresh at low temperature. The water needs to be changed frequently to ensure that the water temperature is not high, so that the cut branches will not freeze to death, and it will keep him fresh.

When it is still ten degrees or ten degrees or two or three degrees outside the mountain, transfer these fresh flower branches to the greenhouse. The greenhouse needs to be heated up to ensure that the temperature in the room is 18 to 22 degrees. Then these cherry blossoms will think Spring has arrived, and the buds are beginning to bloom.

  Businessmen who grow flowers and sell flowers will hire young people with agile legs and feet to fly all the way to Edo with the blooming branches on their backs. At the moment of entering Edo, these flowering branches have reached the critical point of flowering.

  In front of people is Qi Wengying, who has the meaning of reviving the spring.

  In the later generations, those big hotels in Japan or old hotels, hot springs, and even old dim sum and fruit shops will decorate such flowers in the New Year.

  In addition, there are many other flowers like Peony Sakura, Higan Sakura, Guanshan, Golden Leaf, Waxpetal Flower, etc., which should have bloomed after spring. At this time, they were all sold in the streets by children holding flowers.

  Our general Tokugawa Iekimoto, of course, does not need to go to the streets to buy flowers, but from him to buy forest rights and interests, and the merchants who have the right to sell flowers have already sent the shogunate and the Oo’s necessary weight into Edo Castle. Now Tokugawa Iamaki is admiring the flower arrangement arranged by his beloved concubine himself, and there are still some guardians on the left and right, mostly Gaojia, monks, Confucian scholars, etc., who are arranging flower-linked songs.

  It's still cold early spring outside, and Zhongao is already a warm mid-spring!

  Ieki Tokugawa is now back to leave everything alone to his good teacher Mizuno Tadakuni’s good time. After all, he is our good teacher, who can take care of everything. There is no need for the Tokugawa family to pay attention to everything. Regardless of how Mizuno Tadakun dealt with it, he is always dealing with it all the time. The entire shogunate's institutions can also operate in an orderly manner.

  The world is peaceful, the world is peaceful...

   Picking up a wagashi, Tokugawa Ieki was about to put it in his mouth, and took the first bite. There was a loud "boom", although it was not close by, but it was not too far away. Shocked, Tokugawa Ieki didn't know what happened to Edo, and forgot to swallow the wagashi in his mouth.

  Before waiting for the shocked people from left and right to react, the remaining twenty-seven heavy guns on the upper side of the Vincennes fired one after another. The earth-shaking cannon tore through the sky, and the violent gunfire went straight to Edo.

  At that moment, it seemed like the sky had fallen!

  Finally someone jumped up. It was the head of Lin University. He pulled up Tokugawa Jiaqing, who was still in a daze, and prepared to run out. It doesn't matter if it is an earthquake or something, if it is suppressed in the house, it is basically a death. If you are on a flat wilderness, your chances of survival will be relatively much higher.

  Of course, it would be better if there is a hillside nearby. Unfortunately, this is not in Edo Castle. How could there be a hillside? We should run to the open land.

  Tokugawa Kayuki, with a wagashi in his mouth, was sleeved by Lin University and didn’t even wear shoes. The carefully arranged cherry blossoms were randomly discarded, and a large number of adults hugged their heads, without any prestige of the past. If it weren't for the magnificent service on his body, he wouldn't be able to see that these old men running around were the monarch ministers who ruled the country.

   ran to the largest open space in the city, that is, the construction site of the castle tower. Mizuno Tadakuni was right here. Seeing Tokugawa Isaiah nothing wrong, the two were about to say something.

  The Vincennes, which had already been calibrated and fired a salvo, fired again. There was another loud noise of twenty-eight cannons. The entire Edo seemed to be frightened by the terrifying sound of the guns. There were fearful screams and trampling sounds from men and women everywhere in the city. I don't know how many people ran around like headless flies.

  "It's a warship from the United States, and the warship from the United States is bombarding the city!" It suddenly occurred to Yobe Ryobi, who was once again appointed as a general practice.

   "The war is on? The war is on? The war is on?" The wagashi in Tokugawa Ieki's mouth is no longer known where it fell halfway. At this time, he grabbed Mizuno with both hands and almost hung it on Mizuno.

"Impossible! If there is a war, there is no news about Uraga!" Mizuno knew that the Chuemon and three others who were sent to Uraga were all working people. It was impossible to be confused, and even the war was about to start. The news of ah will never come back.

   "Miyi is in great power, Shangju should leave the city quickly and retreat to Shimo Toshogu, calling on the kings of the feudal vassals for help!" Lin University was worried, and at the same time, he was afraid that he would die in Edo together, so he immediately suggested.

  Shimono Toshogu, we said that it was the retreat built by Tokugawa Ieyasu after the fall of Edo ~lightnovelpub.net~ in order to prevent the shogunate from being defeated. Even if Edo falls, you can still use the strong fortress-like Toshogu as a base to gather the genealogy of Kanto and the ministers of the feudal vassal to fight together.

  It now appears that the Americans have gone to war and are bombarding Edo. Soon the U.S. troops will land, and may even have landed. If they don’t leave, they may not be able to leave later.

"No! Umatsu is a general, and the city of Edo is perfect, and there are thousands of people in the city. If you don’t resist, you will give away Edo, and the world will be lost!" Fortunately, there was Mizuno Tadakuni, a sensible person at the scene. exist.

  Although the situation is unclear at the moment, the strong Edo Castle built over hundreds of years of repairs and the large number of towns under the castle can completely delay the American troops that hindered the landing. At least you have to wait until you can't resist it before you can abandon the city.

  "Boom boom boom boom..." A salvo of twenty-eight heavy artillery shots came again in the third round.

   "Go, go, go!" Tokugawa Ieki, who was still undecided, lost his soul immediately and ordered to run away.

  At this time, on Edo Bay, James, who had finished three rounds of salutes to Tokugawa Ikaikei, immediately ordered the two ships to turn around and leave Japan. I hope that the friendship of the United States of America has been passed on to the prince of Japan. When I come next time, I should be able to reach a trade agreement between the United States and Japan.

  (End of this chapter)