Chapter 309 12. From the Shinagawa Fortresses

  Transport to Shinagawa Estuary?

  That is not to build Odaiba!

  Ryobi Atobe saw Chuemon's sudden realization, smiled and nodded, then motioned to the two of them not to say anything, and came over to eat together.

  It was the first time that I had eaten the white food of Yoshibe Yoshibi. What's more, what identity is Ryobi Tobe? If you ask them to eat, it will save face. How could he not agree?

  The three of them sat down, it didn’t matter what they ate, and no one cared what. The main thing is to talk about Shinagawa Odaiba. Mizuno Tadakuni restarted the construction of Odaiba, which means that the shogunate began to plan for the Edo Bay, especially the maritime defense around Edo. Originally, Edo, which was directly exposed under the muzzle of a U.S. warship when the black ship arrived in history, will have a well-prepared fort!

  That Perry is still crazy!

The Saga Domain has the technology of casting cannons that closely follows the trend of the times. The reverberatory furnace can guarantee the source of the steel cannons. Then Perry may encounter dozens of hundreds of coastal defense cannons in Edo Bay by then. .

  As soon as I thought of this, Chuemon really wanted to see what Perry's expression would look like. Let’s quickly listen to what Ryobi Mizuno said, what is Mizuno’s plan now.

  Compared with the plan back then, this time Mizuno Tadakuni’s plan is even bigger, because he is rich and rich, so the stall spreads out very much.

  The first phase of the project is mainly concentrated on the five forts at the mouth of the Shinagawa River. It is necessary to reclaim the sea to make land, create five small islands, and build the forts. The materials for the construction of Odaiba hired Izu masons to mine the granite on the Izu Islands, then wrap it with bamboo strips and sink into the Edo Bay.

  Based on a large number of granite rocks and filled with silt collected from various parts of Edo, it is possible to fill a sufficiently large Odaiba in the coastal waters of Edo, which is not so deep.

  Reclamation of the sea to create land, the Japanese still have experience, such as Nagasaki Dejima, in fact, it was also reclaimed to create land. Even the famous Osaka Castle in later generations actually had a considerable part of it was reclaimed from the sea to create land. By the way, Osaka used to be called Kosaka, which may not have much to do with the land area. When the land area gradually expanded, it was changed to Osaka, and then it became Osaka.

  Less gossip, once the construction of Odaiba is completed, Mizuno is ready to hire Dutch engineering technicians and craftsmen from the Saga clan to build Western-style square or pentagonal forts.

  The preliminary estimate is to install 40 to 60 cannons. If the construction of Odaiba goes smoothly, it will increase to seven or even eleven, so that the firepower of the forts outside Edo Castle is not afraid of any foreign fleet.

  The other is to rebuild the fort in Uraga on the Miura Peninsula and the fort in Futtsu on the Boso Peninsula. The two face each other across the sea, and the narrowest place is only seven or eight kilometers. After the fort is built, it can cover most of the sea surface between the two forts, shield the Edo Bay from inside, and protect foreign warships from coming back and forth.

  As for the second phase of the project, it is the coastal defense project of Osaka Bay. It mainly depends on how much money is left after the construction of the Edo side is completed. Overhaul if there is more money, minor repair if there is less money, if there is no money left, haha...

   "I never thought Hamamatsu had such a big plan!" Chuemon sighed sincerely.

   "The project in Edo Bay is estimated to be as much as 700,000 taels. If you install more cannons, it will take a lot of money." Ryobi Yobe obviously does not have the broad vision of his brother.

  I only saw that the construction of the Shinagawa fort would cost a lot of money, and it was also his brother Mizuno Tadakuni who had such an ability to do such a thing. But he didn't see Mizuno's determination, nor did he see what Mizuno did for him.

   "Such a big project, I don't know that it will take a few years to complete..." Sudoku said suddenly.

  All three of you here know that James, the commander of the U.S. East India Navy, was only taken away by Tadashiemon. If the fort had not been built, he would run back and he would be blind. They can still swagger into Edo Bay, and then they will set off three rounds of salutes for you to have fun.

  "It will take two years..." Speaking of this, Yobe Ryobi was not quite sure.

  Perhaps the last time Chungemon’s deferment was delayed for two years, perhaps less than two years. The decision on this matter is in the hands of the Yankees, and the shogunate has no way to manage Yankee matters.

  There is nothing to talk about if they can’t guess. The three of them have to go back to the construction site to dig the river mud in the afternoon.

  Tadaemon’s project is a bit more troublesome, because the shogunate has also summoned Anata too. The stone wall of Edo Castle has been immersed in water for many years, and the silt at the bottom of the river has been excavated this time, fearing that the stone wall may loosen or collapse due to changes in the environment.

   also came across, Ishigaki is not a war, and I might not care about him for decades. This was a rare opportunity, and it happened to find someone to come over and renovate. If it is not repaired, it will be the same as the Kumamoto Castle in later generations. Heavy rain, typhoon and earthquake, large-scale collapse and destruction of the stone wall may not be able to recover in ten or twenty years.

  Those Anata who were summoned by the shogunate were all specialized craftsmen for fortification, and repairing a stone wall was not easy. People don't dislike the cold and stinking odor below the river ditch. They just took the mallet and beat them underneath. We even touch the stone walls directly~lightnovelpub.net~ We are the person in charge of the moat maintenance project, and we can only follow them around in the ditch. It took more than two days to turn around this trip, but Chuemon was very choking.

  But we are not completely undiscovered. When Tokugawa Ieyasu built Edo Castle back then, considering that Edo was a flat castle, there would be drainage problems, so culverts were set up around the entire city. It is said that it is a culvert, but in fact it is not small in scale. It used to be hidden below the water surface, but this time it was exposed after the water was completely drained.

  The culvert of the black hole can fully accommodate one person in and out. For the city defense, it is very dangerous, right, but according to the point of Taizhong, there is no problem in fact. Because the culvert is not flushed straight through, but has a tortuous setting. This resulted in that after the moat was filled with water, even if someone tried to dive into the culvert, it would not be possible.

  Unless you have the ability to hold your breath for more than three minutes, you are considered amazing!

  More importantly, this is a place similar to a sewer. It is filled with biogas. Even if you show your head out of the water and want to take a puff, you may be poisoned to death by the biogas. The city built by Tokugawa’s old tortoise is really comprehensive.

  Anyway, this river trench was dug until the third year of Honghua (1846).

  (End of this chapter)