Edo Traveler

  Chapter 330 33. Agree in a few words

  The suggestion to build a new-style warship was made by Chuemon, but it was not enough. It was also this year in history, and also during this time period, Masahiro Abe, who had defeated Mizuno Tadakuni, also proposed to the shogunate a new approach under the new situation.

  "The Difficulty of Fighting Foreign Ships and the Urgent Task of Naval Ship Construction"!

The reason is naturally that American ships and British ships have invaded Japanese ports this year. So Masahiro Abe pointed out that Japanese water-carriage sailing ships could not compete with foreign warships. He suggested that strong battles should be built at the fortress ports of Uraga, Nagasaki, Matsumae, and Satsuma. Boat.

  In fact, there is a problem here. The ban on the construction of the ship is clearly written in Article 17 of the Wu Family Laws. This is no problem.

   But there are still twists and turns. In the early days of the shogunate, in order to restrict the foreign trade and transportation of the Japanese, in 1609 (the 14th year of Keichang), all military ships and merchant ships of more than 500 shi were confiscated nationwide. After that, in 1635 (12th year of Kanei), the Shogunate clearly stipulated in Article 17 of the Samurai Laws that "a ship of more than 500 stones should be stopped", which is known as the "large ship construction prohibition order" in history.

  Then the Shogunate issued another order in 1638, clearly stipulating that the objects of the prohibition of construction were "military ships represented by Azaya ships, not merchant ships." For example, the Benjai ship (with a carrying capacity of about one hundred and twenty tons), which is called the Sengoku Ship, and the merchant ships such as the Hishigaki Ship, the Tarn Ship, and the Kitamae Ship, are not within the scope of the "Large Ship Construction Prohibition Order."

  In other words, this so-called ban, the shogunate has a special online side!

  You build a large merchant ship without violating the laws of the shogunate!

  In history, after Masahiro Abe wrote a letter, Naobi Iii also wrote a letter, directly advocating that "the ban on large ship construction should be revoked, and trade with foreign countries must be strengthened in the meantime."

  There is another man who is also conceived in the same way, but because he is not a genealogist, he can only express himself in private. The Satsuma Domain lord Shimazu Qibin pointed out, “Even if the fort is built and the foreign ships are temporarily driven out, it is really difficult to catch up with the capabilities of our military ships. After the other party is far away from the coast, we still have nothing to do. If we don’t catch up, we will wait for the other party to repair It will come again later, just like driving away the flies that linger around." Shimadzu compares foreign ships to flies. Although ridiculous, he honestly points out that the agility of Western steam warships is far from what Japanese sailing ships can match.

  In fact, in the third year of Honghua, the entire shogunate was up and down, but anyone who could open his eyes knew that just building fortresses and strengthening defenses were no longer useful. If you want to stop the enemy from outside the country, you can only build all kinds of warships.

  But why was it not built in the end?

  No money!

  Is the reason very good? The old Naka Abe Masahiro, who was in charge of the central shogunate at the time, was not a prime minister at the time. He could understand some things, but he did not help the Tokugawa shogunate reorganize its finances and expand its financial resources.

  Since the Tokugawa shogunate cannot build large sailing warships, let alone steam steamships. Do you think that Tokugawa Ikeki will agree to lift the ban and let other daimyo build new ships? You don't need to pat your little head, just pat your own big **** to know the answer.

  If it is let go, Shimadzu and the Maori navy will directly drive a large warship and rush down to the Edo Castle with men and horses. Tokugawa Ieki does not have a large warship that can fight the enemy, so can't the Tokugawa shogunate be better?

Today’s situation is different. The Shogunate allocated 750,000 taels of gold for the construction of the Shinagawa Fort and 50,000 taels of cannons for the Saga Domain, as well as the gold held in Mizuno Tadakuni’s hands. At least 1.2 million taels.

  Before Tokugawa Kaki had already swallowed a lot of benefits from it. Now Mizuno Tadakuni is tightly covering his money bag. This time, even if Tokugawa Kaki comes to make money, he will be taken back by Mizuno Tadakuni.

  Forget it if you are greedy once, you can't go on forever!

  Even if you are a general, you have to abide by a rule. Only when you work with each other in a tolerable "degree", you can get things done. People who don't follow the rules, like Tokugawa Qi Zhao, don't bother to whip again this time.

   So right now Mizuno has the money to build a steam steamer, and what Chuemon said is really good, so he was willing to bring him to play to Tokugawa Ikei and ask for Tokugawa Ikei's permission.

  Tokugawa Jiaqing is not a prince, but he is not a pure faint prince. He is greedy for money and lustful, nepotism, and at the same time slack in government affairs, but he is at least a reasonable person. He knew that the shogunate was rushing into the abyss now, hoping that someone could come out and drag the shogunate's broken car.

   At least step on the brakes, right...

  The majestic Shogun Seiyi listened to the reports of Mizuno Tadakuni and Tadaemon, and sat there in a daze for a while, said, "Go ahead!", then turned and left without a word.

  Sometimes think about it, it’s okay to run into such a monarch. As long as you can serve you well, everything will be entrusted to you. There is no resistance at all, and you can easily agree.

  Of course, it’s also very bad. When I really want to kill you, I just shut you up in a house without water and rice, and it’s him who thirst and starve you to death.

  Human is indeed a kind of contradiction, which cannot be summed up in a word!

  Since Tokugawa Ikeki has agreed ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Mizuno Tadakuni also agreed. The dispatch of international students to Europe is naturally on the agenda. According to Mizuno Tadakuni’s idea, he now chooses people to study Dutch in Nagasaki for half a year to one year. After learning, he will go directly to Amsterdam on a Dutch ship and study for four or five years. You can come back, and it is convenient to have Dutch people take care of.

  Katataemon knows very well that if you want to learn industrial technology these years, you have to take the British Empire. France is also okay, the level of the Netherlands has fallen behind. As for Prussia, Germany has not been unified under the leadership of the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck. In the next 20 to 30 years, he will be in chaos for a period of time, and it is not suitable for learning for the time being.

Russia? Sorry, I haven't considered it.

  Tadakuni Mizuno hesitated to hear Tadaoemon say that Britain and France are better. He still knows a little bit about the size of the Netherlands, but he doesn't understand Britain and France at all, and maybe even not as good as the United States. After all, he had seen what Americans looked like and knew that the United States was not a feudal kingdom.

  Maybe going to the United States is also an option. After all, the United States will have a civil war in a few years. If you send military academies to go there, you can directly participate in actual combat, which is better than studying in the classroom for ten or eight years.

  The Civil War took place in a few years. Chungemon thought for a while. It seems that it was 1861. It is just a while away from the current 1846.

  (End of this chapter)