Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 9

The latest website: Chuemon turned around and discussed the request of the Brazilian Empire with the ministers of the shogunate, while Jose ordered the shogunate’s Omufu Izawa Masaru to accompany him to stroll around Edo.

Edo’s neat streets, thriving water and road transport, and crowded markets all surprised Jose. After visiting the Edo No. 1 Machinery Institute and Edo University, I was even more impressed.

In Brazil, because Portugal only regarded Brazil as a large plantation in the early years, there was neither a good education system nor a complete industrial system. There are only some factories that exist mainly to facilitate the export of wood, or the processing of crops such as sugar cane and coffee.

It was not until the current Pedro II came to power that Brazil began preliminary industrialization, accumulated industrial capital, and planned to establish Brazil’s own universities. As a result, the graduates of the Portuguese University of Coimbra, who were originally full of high positions in Brazil’s political arena, were gradually replaced by large domestic planters or large landowners.

As for railways, highways, telegraph lines, etc., they all began to appear in Brazil after Pedro II succeeded to the throne. The industrialization process of the entire country is far slower than that of Europe.

Originally, Jose thought that Brazil was already keeping up with the trend of the times and developing rapidly, but now look at Edo, and then look at Yokohama, Brazil is actually like that. Perhaps the level of industrialization alone is not as good as that of Japan.

“I’m afraid immigration will be difficult to handle…”

The common people are willing to emigrate mainly because they cannot survive in their home country. In the future, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved. In the present, it is generally the poor and the lowly who are willing to move. Of course, some immigrants choose to go to the New World for reasons such as religious oppression.

The poor and the lowly were forced to move, and the most typical example is not the Irish. Because of the natural and man-made disasters caused by Taiying, almost one-third of the people in the whole country starved to death and one-third immigrated. For this part of the immigrants, there is no distinction between high and low, and if you don’t have to eat, you have to run away.

That’s why the Irish went to the United States, and there were even social elites like doctors and professors. The English lord doesn’t treat you Irish as a human, whether you are a doctor or a professor. The federal government is better. President Lincoln set up a recruiting station directly at the customs in New York, the Irish disembarked, and a man was sent out of the family, and the others could get visas.

You must also sign a voluntary letter, my dear, it is the same in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Today, Japan’s economy is developing rapidly. Although the main development dividends fall into the hands of the shogunate, princes and comprador capitalists, the dividends of the development of the times are so great that even if it only falls a little, it can benefit mortals.

Therefore, Jose felt that ordinary Japanese people would not be willing to run to Brazil if they were able to get a full meal in Japan themselves.

In addition, the shogunate itself is also arranging immigration to enrich its colonies. Brazil is afraid that it will not be able to get this injection.

Just as he had imagined, at the imperial meeting in Hitotsubashi Mansion, everyone was almost one-sided against Brazil’s proposal to recruit immigrants in Japan. Ezo and Kata have not been fully completed, and there is no extra population to distribute to others. Farther afield, Hawaii, the Shogunate had to spend half a million pounds to recruit people.

Of course, Chuemon’s heart was not happy, and he was still thinking about how to refuse Jose, and Pasha Li’s suggestion arrived. One million Taiping troops and their families in the Qing Dynasty had to avoid the pursuit of the Qing court. The shogunate could recruit some to go to Rabaul, and Brazil could also recruit some to go to Rio.

But when it comes to the Taiping Army, it can be seen from the last time that the Qing court purchased second-hand steam warships from the shogunate, formed a navy, and attacked the Taiping Army. The central part of the Qing court, after more than a year of turmoil, finally regained its calm. The Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces and Prince Gong, Yi? and others determined a new form of power distribution and began to concentrate their power to attack the Taiping Army.

At this time, the Hunan Army has also formed a considerable fighting force, Anqing has also been conquered, and there is no barrier in the upper reaches of Tianjing, and will face the main offensive of the Hunan Army.

Duolong A, who replaced Li Hongzhang, also received orders from the capital after defending Shanghai. The camera is in and out, and as soon as possible, they will conquer Fuzhou and Changzhou, and prepare to participate in the general attack on Tianjing.

In fact, after the Qing Dynasty recovered, the Taiping army’s defeat was already a matter of time.

In two or three years at the most, Tianjing will be conquered, and this large-scale peasant uprising that has spread to half of China will be suppressed, and the Manchu Qing will usher in a short period of military recovery.

In addition to catching people, there is one more thing that needs to be done quickly.

Sell ​​used weapons!

Once the war in the Qing Kingdom is roughly over, the astronomical arms business will not be easy to do. The Gobes fire gun that the Americans didn’t want, the Qing Dynasty wanted, whether it was the Hunan Army or the Taiping Army.

The so-called Hunan army formed a strong fortress and fought a stagnant battle, not just setting up a fortress, and then arranging guns and guns to suppress the Taiping army’s offensive with firepower. And the Taiping Army, since the old brothers in Guangxi withered away, a large number of poor people encircling Huguang and Liangjiang joined the army. For example, Li Xiucheng had more than 300,000 troops and attacked the 30,000-strong Hunan army’s camp, but it was difficult to conquer.

The main reason is that the old Guangxi brothers who dared to fight and dare to fight in the Taiping Army are basically dead. Don’t look at the 300,000 troops under his command, in fact, most of them are the level of firing guns and then waving the flag behind the array.

Since there is no hand-to-hand combat anymore, this long-range attack is playing with guns and guns, and the one on both sides fights happily. As long as it is a foreign gun that can be used, both sides are willing to spend money on it. Even artillery shells, gunpowder and the like are bought from outside.

Those modern military industrial enterprises built by the Westernization faction will gradually build up after the Taiping Army has been suppressed.

At this time, the Taiping Army is of course not the grasshopper of the Autumn Queen, but Zhongyouemon knows that the Taiping Army will not have a few days. I have to take this opportunity to quickly clear the remaining old military supplies from the shogunate to Shanghai. I can earn one by one, and if I earn all of them, I can use them to imitate the Dreiser striker and the Sharps rear-loading rifle.

By the way, the branch of Tokugawa Industrial in Shanghai has long been flying the British flag and has done business with the Hunan Army and the Taiping Army. Because the employees of Tokugawa Industrial Co., Ltd. are East Asian faces, it is easier to gain the trust of both sides than foreigners at the beginning. Coupled with the large quantity and excellent price, it has won the favor of both sides.

If Jose goes to the Qing Kingdom later and wants to get immigrants, it is not impossible to introduce the relationship of this line to him. Brazil has a big appetite, and it’s okay to have two or three million immigrants. The shogunate has more than ten or two hundred thousand yuan, and it should be given to him.

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