Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 76

The stars move, and the autumn goes to the spring.

Chuemon personally spoke to the students of the Naval Academy and sent them off to Etajima. Among the students were more than a dozen students from Hawaii and more than forty students from Qing.

Earlier, the Qing court bought the armored iron warship, but due to the dispute between the Manchu and the Han Dynasty, it still spent another 800,000 yuan to buy the second iron warship. Today’s Eight Banners Jiangnan Navy, with strong soldiers and strong horses, is by no means easy.

With the benefit of the navy, Duolonga led his troops to Jiangning City. Just last summer, he broke the Dinghuai Gate and the Yifeng Gate, attacked from both sides, broke the city defense first, and obtained the first merit of conquering Jiangning.

After he broke the city, the Hunan army also broke the Taiping Gate and took the Tianwangfu directly. The two sides competed for merit, and the results were mutually exclusive, and there was almost an accident.

Li Xiucheng stared at the flaws and fled out of the city with the young king Hong Tian Guifu, accompanied by a thousand people. First go to Jiangxi, the war will be unfavorable, and then turn to Fujian. In Jiangxi, Li Xiucheng and Hong Tianguifu separated. In the end, Hong Tianguifu was captured and dedicated to the Qing court.

And Li Xiucheng and other Taiping troops of more than 100,000 people ran to Fujian without help. It happened that Brazil recruited people from the coast and went to Brazil to reclaim, and more than 100,000 people formed camps and moved to Brazil. Afterwards, more than 100,000 people, including Li Shixian and Tan Tiyuan, lost in Guangdong and were also picked up by Brazil to go abroad.

Brazil has recruited more than 400,000 Taiping troops before and after, and it is unknown what the future will be.

Duolong A, who conquered Jiangning, was named Beizi after accumulating merits, and became the second general in the Manchu Qing Dynasty to be named Viscount Bei from a surname other than Fukang’an. The scenery is the same for a time, and it is praised as a pillar stone with Qing Dynasty. According to Fukang’an’s example, Duolonga must be posthumously appointed as the county king after his death, which is also in line with Emperor Xianfeng’s will.

Zeng Guofan, who entered the city later, was not as lucky as in history. He was given a third-class wait, and he was sent away. It’s no surprise that it fits perfectly.

Because of his mastery of the navy and his achievements, Dolonga became the upper-level ruler who most supported the construction of the navy in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Not only managed to establish the Shanghai Ship Administration Bureau, but also established the Jinling Machinery Institute in Jiangning, which laid the foundation for the maintenance and construction of steam ships.

After talking about the foreign affairs, Chuemon also has something to talk about.

Before the development of Rabaul, because the sea route was far away, according to Elgin’s suggestion, the shogunate at that time took Palau. A transit station was also established in Manila, Luzon, to facilitate immigration to the south.

Palau will not talk about him, just talk about this Luzon, because the shogunate has continuously increased its investment in the Rabaul colony, and more and more people have migrated south. Manila formed a small Japanese settlement, with about a few hundred thousand Japanese living there and assisting Japanese ships heading south.

With the expansion of the Japanese community, the influence of natural Japanese in Manila has gradually expanded. In order to protect the Japanese residents living in the local area, the Edo side dispatched warships to cruise the route of Yokohama-Manila-Rabaul all the year round. From time to time, there will also be warships docked in Manila for supplies.

Sometimes it’s easy to get excuses or something.

On the Edo side, of course, it is impossible to attack immediately. Although Lu Song is very good, he must have enough strength to take it. Chuemon is waiting, waiting for the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War, when the Spanish royal family lost the big backer of France, and could only go to war with Japan single-handedly.

It was a long wait, until 1870, but it wasn’t very long either. With the foresighted Chuemon, a warship cruising to Manila suffered a terrifying explosion because it was attacked by Spanish violent elements who rejected immigrants.

On the same day as the explosion, the French Emperor Napoleon III, surrounded by a steady stream of Prussian armies at Sedan, lost the possibility of winning the war.

Then Napoleon III surrendered at Sedan, and the news of the attack on the Japanese warship in Manila was delivered to Edo on the same day.

The crowd is excited, and the troops are also fighting for their lives. However, Chuemon was not in a hurry, and sent people to negotiate with France first, and obtained the support of Prussia, demanding the abolition of all unequal treaties signed between France and Japan, and the return of the Kobe residence area.

The shares owned by France in the Tokugawa Railway will also be redeemed at the current price in Japan. Of course, the special authority of diplomatic personnel and the embassy area is still reserved and cannot be affected.

At this time, the French government was already surrounded by the city of Paris, and had no time to take into account a small concession in far-flung East Asia. As for Japan’s de facto robbery, it could only be quite “painful” to agree to Japan’s conditions.

Of course, Chuemon himself is very kind. In order to thank His Majesty Napoleon III for the huge amount of additional capital he provided for Japan’s development, the shares of Besshi Copper Mountain, which was owned by Rijindoujin, still belonged to Napoleon III. The shares of many dignitaries in Paris in the Tokugawa Railway were not actually redeemed by UU reading www.uukanshu.com.

In the future, they will be required to lobby for Japan in France. On Chuemon’s side, they mainly bought things that belonged to the former French Second Empire.

When the Franco-Prussian War ended and the French industries of all types began to move outward, Chuemon hoped to have a share of the pie. The gentlemen of France will well become the hosts of usury imperialism. For those industries that you dislike, Japan wants as much as possible.

After the negotiation with France was basically completed, and the domestic sentiment became more and more exciting, the Kingdom of Japan officially declared war on the Kingdom of Spain!

At the age of nineteen, he was dressed in Yuan clothes, and named Shi Wan of Tokugawa Jiaxing, and was appointed as the governor’s ambassador to conquer Luzon. Led more than 40,000 naval and land officers and more than 20 warships to expedition to Luzon.

Spain’s local naval strength, to put it uglier, can’t even match a hair of the Japanese navy. Ironclad ships purchased from the United Kingdom and France, as well as large and small warships built by Japan themselves, are a burst of output against the Spanish navy left behind in Luzon.

The battle lasted only 4 hours, and the Spanish navy was completely wiped out, not even sinking any Japanese warships. Afterwards, the soldiers of the Chuanxi team swaggered through Manila’s weak defense, landed and took over the city of Manila.

As for the local defenders in Spain, they finally chose to surrender because of their isolation and helplessness and the running of some foreign diplomats.

As soon as Manila fell, the Quartet disintegrated, and even Guam, far above the sea, declared its surrender. Tens of thousands of Spanish soldiers laid down their weapons and became prisoners. The Japanese side negotiated with Spain on the condition of these ten thousand.

Spain, which lost its French backer and whose national strength was dwindling, finally accepted the terms of the shogunate’s purchase of Luzon at a price of 1.5 million pounds.