A few days ago in Kyoto, Tokugawa Kei Atsuk's maternal uncle, that is, Prince Sugawa Gong Chihi paid a respect to Emperor Xiao Ming. Needless to say, this old man is a steadfast barbarian sect, but he hasn't even thought about falling down. As for the king, he didn't say it accurately, just barbarian.

Earlier, he got financial aid from Tokugawa Kei Atsushi, and he moved around in Beijing. In addition to contacting those middle and low-level officials, he also spoke to Emperor Xiao Ming several times.

Before, Emperor Xiao Ming was busy with the big wedding between the public family and the martial family, so his remarks about Prince Chiren were just perfunctory. Don't look at Xiao Ming, the emperor is feudal and rigid, but this person's brain is not bad, and normal thinking is fine.

He knows very well that you said to the shogunate in a vain voice, hurry up to get rid of the barbarian, how could this shogunate take care of it, how could it be done immediately. In his plan, he took advantage of this big wedding to persuade the shogunate to rush the barbarian. Such persuasion is better than dry imperative imperatives.

The idea is very good, and there is really nothing wrong. If you have been with the shogunate, or marry you an Odaisho, you can't just send sixty thousand taels of gold as a betrothal gift.

If you know it well, it's a political marriage. How can it be done without any political conditions? Therefore, the Emperor Xiao Ming is going to let Kyoko Kanae marry into Oo. As the wife of the general's wife, Odaisho, he carefully talked to Tokugawa Isaiah, and conveyed the ardent expectation of Emperor Xiao Ming.

The Emperor Xiao Ming also said this to his good friend Tokugawa Keiho, and Tokugawa Keiho also conveyed it to the shogunate. Anyway, the Emperor Xiao Ming always asked to fight the barbarians. After the shogunate received the news, Ii Naobi became accustomed to it, and did not give a specific answer.

In addition, as the Anglo-French allied forces went out to Kamchatka and conquered Lucia, they liked Emperor Xiao Ming for the time being, so Emperor Xiao Ming did not understand the reply to the shogunate, so he was not very anxious for a while.

Hasn't Lucia been banished, one this year, one next year, and it will be over after a few years. The Emperor Xiao Ming almost hinted at himself like this.

When Keiko Konoe is sent to Edo, there will be no major events in Kyoto, and Keiatsu Tokugawa and Keiun Matsudaira continue to build momentum in Kyoto, hoping that the Emperor Takashi will come forward and ask the shogunate to fight against the barbarian. In the beginning, the Emperor Xiaoming was just a deaf ear. He was still very supportive of the shogunate, and the shogunate had reported the results of fighting barbarians, so he was basically indifferent.

When there were more people to persuade him, he was finally provoked, especially Sanjo Mikiman and Iwakura Koshi to persuade him. Since the shogunate has the ability to smash Lucia, other countries must be able to smash it too. Those of us are all thinking about you and standing with you. If you want to get rid of the barbarian, we also think that we are very anxious.

Or ask the shogunate...

When he said this, Emperor Xiao waved his hand tomorrow, indicating that he had other arrangements. He had already sent Keiko Kanto to the bedside of the Tokugawa family, and he was not in a hurry to know these three days and two days.

As an attendant, Iwakura knew the thoughts of Emperor Xiao Ming, so he proposed a workaround. We have Prince Suikawa Miyachihito who is the mother-in-law of Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Kei Atsushi, and Tokugawa Kei Atsushi is one of the three imperial families, and he is in the same family as the shogunate.

Or let's ask Tokugawa Keiatsu to bring a message to the Tokugawa family and ask. In the past, these were all verbal transmissions, which was too unreliable, and there might be ambiguities in semantics during the transmission.

Let's write a private message to ask!

Both left and right suggested the same, and the Emperor Xiao tomorrow also thought about it. Before, I asked Tadao Kanae, Keiho Tokugawa, Tadao Shimazu and others to pass on the message, and the shogunate never returned a clear reply. Is there something that hasn't been said clearly in the middle, which caused the shogunate to seriously fight against barbarians, but didn't answer me seriously.

Write a private letter, which will be forwarded by Prince Chihito to Tokugawa Keisha, and then to Tokugawa Keisha by Keisho Tokugawa. They are all self-conscious, and the news will not be spread out casually, which is very good.

Tomorrow, the emperor will write as soon as he picks up his pen, eloquently write hundreds of words, and write immediately. The letter also set up a set of friendship with the Tokugawa family, indicating that the imperial court and the shogunate will continue to maintain a good relationship, and the shogunate is pleased to dispel the barbarian with peace of mind.

Prince Chiren, who received this private letter, was overjoyed. The emperor’s private letter was also an imperial edict, but it was not stamped with a seal. And the emperor's seal is in the hands of Iwakura Jushi, and it is very convenient to build one quietly.

The private letter stamped with Baoxi became a standard imperial decree, and it was delivered all the way to Tokugawa Keitsu's hands, which took only four or five days.

And the whole process was really secret. Except for the few public officials who were in the temple at that time, everyone else didn't know it. Even Tokugawa Keiho, who had friendship with Emperor Xiao Mingming, and several of the temple masters of the Sheguan family were all kept in the dark. inside.

Kei Atsuk Tokugawa, who had obtained the "sacred decree", had a hard waist in an instant, and this was enough to force Naobi Ii and let Naobi Ii not come to Taiwan afterwards. In turn, the reputation and prestige of Ii Naobi were shaken, and eventually he lost his power.

As long as Ii Naobi's cabinet collapses, doesn't this power have to be redistributed? At that time, Matsudaira Keiyong will be the first in the old middle school, and Tokugawa Keiatsu will be the president of political affairs. After taking office, they can change their skins. They can humiliate the barbarian and push the pot if they can't. Anyway, he drove the country when he was in office, and it was all his fault.

Politicians must have a flexible moral bottom line. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com In history, the group of people who shouted at the king to fight the barbarian, entered Edo Castle, and the opening of the country was many times faster than the Shogunate. They were all the same.

Now that "sacred decree" has finally been delivered to the general Tokugawa Iamatsu, but it is different from the private transmission and secret communication that Emperor Xiaoming hoped at the beginning. The holy purpose is publicly read in front of most of the princes in the world. Today, it is only known to the whole city of Edo. It will be known to all of Japan in a month.

Just as the people of Central Austria thought, the daimyos had just left the gate of Edo Castle, and the Emperor Xiao Ming sent down the imperial decree to ask the shogunate about the specific day when he could get rid of the barbarians.

The people under the castle of Edo started talking all at once, and the samurai of the feudal domains, as well as the tycoon merchants, also paid close attention to the movements of the shogunate. Especially those middle and lower-level samurai who desire to change their status and seek more political power are keenly aware that the foundation of the shogunate is shaking.

It's not just that the outside daimyo is seeking more power, and even the shogunate itself is experiencing infighting. This is definitely the death of the Tokugawa shogunate.

All kinds of people, with countless gazes, all looked at Edo Castle to see how the shogunate handled Tokugawa Keiatsu!