Everyone looked at the gate of the hall, and Chuemon didn't even change his clothes, so he hurried back to Edo starry night. At this moment, no one cared about such small details as clothes, but asked Chuemon to enter.

Chuemon immediately sat down at Tokugawa Iasaki, and on the way to Zhongao, he had learned that the Imperial Conference had been arguing for at least three hours, and so far there was no result. In and under the Edo Castle, people are panicking at this time, waiting for the shogunate's ruling. There must be a saying whether it is war or peace.

"You guys can have a fair view?"

Three hours have passed, at least one arguing is about it, not a dozen people have more than a dozen opinions, the big guy, like the aunt of the vegetable market, dominates the hills.

"There is no public opinion yet..." The Tokugawa clan wanted to shoot the big gangsters down to death. After discussing it for a long time, they didn't say anything, but they were all their own ministers.

"If this is the case, I thought that there should be the determination to make peace with war!" Chuemon scanned the audience.

The shogunate was completely different from history. Not only did Mizuno Tadakuni and Tadaemon’s efforts to improve the fort of the entire Edo Bay, but also trained a training team of more than 6,000 people, at least with supporting fortifications to carry out Strength of defense.

The fort in Edo Bay is not an old earth-built fort, but a new type of fort designed by the Dutch engineer Hallides. There are semi-underground bunkers and double-layer staggered firepower. The entire Edo Bay has more than two hundred artillery pieces, with strong firepower and sufficient ammunition. The artillery has certain live ammunition training.

As for the quality of the training team, even the recruits recruited last year have undergone three months of physical endurance training and three months of spear and artillery training. They are completely qualified cannon fodder. Moreover, the training is in the charge of the Dutch officer corps, and the spirit is infused with great lessons, and the soldiers are willing to work for the Tokugawa family.

At present, the strength of the British-American coalition forces is still unclear. There are hundreds of warships, and Tademon doesn't believe it, nor is it fighting a world war. How could Britain and the United States assemble more than a hundred warships to attack a small Japan. Not to mention that the current U.S. Navy is a joke, adding up to dozens of ships.

Let’s just say that it’s not too cold. A few decades ago, Haiti’s navy was stronger than that of the United States!

It's not that Chuemon looked down on him, and brought out a hundred large and small warships that the British Empire could take out. But the United States, hehe, if you swell his face, he may not dare to claim that he has a hundred warships.

As for the 20,000 army? That's even more impossible. If the United States can take 20,000 people on an expedition, what will happen to the Kingdom of Hawaii now? Hao Te has occupied Hawaii, a rare naval base in the Pacific, and allowed him to exist independently?

Of course the British can come up with an army of 20,000 in East Asia, and he can also come with an army of 50,000, but he has the ability to come alone, so why does he want to bring the United States? The ability to take the British to eat alone is not small.

And the Crimean War is about to begin, and the British need to mobilize people from all over the country to go to the Crimean front. The total force mobilized by both sides will be exaggerated to almost two million people, affecting half of Europe.

Two million army!

That's not a joke. Even if Tsarist Russia mobilized 700,000 to 800,000 people, and then Ottoman assembled an army of more than 300,000 people to help Ottoman resist the British and French of Tsarist Russia, and mobilized 500,000 people to participate in the war. .

Bringing the British will not spend 20,000 people coming to Japan to knock off at this time!

Even if two thousand people came here, it would give a face to an opponent at the level of the shogunate!

Therefore, the top priority now is to temporarily maintain restraint and calmness, contact the British and American forces, understand their strengths and intentions, and prepare for war with all their strength to prepare for resistance.

"Regardless of the war, you have to ask Yingmi's intentions."

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At this moment in Uraga, the United Kingdom and the United States did not issue any ultimatum. Fighting is the next policy after the breakdown of negotiations. If not necessary, it is not economical to take a wooden battleship and fight the artillery on the coast.

Perry immediately dispatched his lieutenant, and Zu Abbott proposed a series of requirements for the opening of Hong Kong, delimitation of concessions, ambassadors, free (gold and silver exchange) trade, and extraterritoriality to Shengmo Chuanlu.

And also proposed to send personnel to Edo to deliver the letter of credence to the Japanese King Tokugawa Isaiah!

Uraga is now equipped with an English translation, and Abbott's request was immediately translated and forwarded to Kawalu Shengmo. Shengmo Chuanlu didn't even think about it, but refused all. If he dares to agree to one of these conditions, his reputation in Japan will be stinky, and it may even be stinking for thousands of years.

His task now is to stick to Uraga, and at the same time tell the British and American forces that it is the shogunate's national policy to close the country and it will not change because of any circumstances. If you want to trade, you only need to send a boat and a dozen people to come and apply with the shogunate. After the shogunate discusses it, it will decide whether to open Nagasaki to them for trade.

I had long guessed that Shengmo Chuanlu would refuse, and he also knew that Shengmo Chuanlu, a small local official, did not have the power to decide such a major matter. Abbott asked Shengmo Chuanlu to report to the shogunate as soon as possible, and give it to the shogunate within three days. reply.

You Chuanlu Shengmo can afford to wait, but the hardships and guns of our British-Mitsubishi coalition forces can't afford it!

A group of international students who stayed in Yokohama also arrived in Uraga. Katsukaishu and Nakahama Manjiro lived in Britain and the United States. UU read www.uukanshu.com to understand the situation of British and American ships, and the two carefully counted the ships at sea. The ship was carefully identified.

Roughly speaking, the Anglo-American coalition has between 22 and 30 warships, the total number of artillery does not exceed 500, and the remaining ships are troop carriers and supply ships with little arms. As for the number of troops, warships are easy to guess, and those troop carriers and supply ships are hard to guess, but the total number is definitely less than 10,000.

With expert calculations, this data is much more reliable. Kawaji Sanmo immediately wrote the memorial and sent a fast boat to Edo. Both the left and the right are desperately fighting for the chance to send the letter back to Edo. They run faster than the rabbit, and there will be no delay in this report.

Edo is now mobilizing the entire army, and in accordance with Matsudaira’s vision, ordering 80,000 horses and the vassals of the princes, a total of 200,000, all inspection weapons, knives and guns, it is best to cooperate with Yingmi ghost animals on a large scale under Edo Castle Preparation for a decisive battle.

At the age of sixty, and at the age of ten, a samurai must pick up a sword and fight for the general!

The rumbling of the wind suddenly felt, and before the troops were fired, some people fled Edo, and the hearts of the people were extremely corrupted. Even the Miban group guarding the main castle of Edo has people who cannot be named, panic, even if the Tokugawa family stays in the castle, they can't calm down.