Edo Traveler
Vol 8 Chapter 4: Harmony and foreign talents can enter people's hearts
The latest website: The preparations for Edo University have come to an end. Chuemon began to assist Matsudaira to establish the Infantry Training Institute. The school buildings and venues are easy to find. It is the eight- to twelve-year-old Kimoto Yu Family’s children that are not easy to find, especially the eight-year-old boy who is committed to learning and willing to loyally guard the family of General Tokugawa for thousands of years.
The last one is the recommendation system, and talent is not the most important aspect of selection these days. Only loyalty to Tokugawa Jiaqing is the key. First determine loyalty and then consider talents.
Moreover, for the first period, there is no need to recruit hundreds of people at once. Thirty people will come first, and the first period will be brought together. Later, depending on the results, we will study whether to expand the recruitment.
I was discussing this with Matsudaira Qixuan, and it was said that there was a letter sent back to Edo by a group of overseas students sent to Britain. At this time, there was no censorship system for letters. The letters were first sent to the Nagasaki Commercial Building in the Netherlands, and then sent all the way to Edo by Hikyaku.
At this time, the home letters of ordinary students have been distributed and delivered to each house. Only Oguri Tadashi and Katsukaishu individually wrote letters to the shogunate, and they were all sent to the foreign hand of Chuyouemon.
"How do you say?" Songping Qixuan asked casually.
"Let me finish reading." Tadaoemon raised his head, Oguri Tadashi's letter was a bit long.
The content of the letter is actually gratifying. After learning that the shogunate sent overseas students, the British not only exempted all students from tuition, but also led a group of country buns to visit the Woolwich Shipyard and Dartford of the Royal Navy. Shipyard.
The thousands of tons of warships under construction on the berth are like behemoths that swallow all things, so that Shenghaizhou in the team is very enamored, and they have to stay in place and learn shipbuilding with others. On the other hand, Tadashi Oguri kept recording everything he visited in these industrial departments, and all this time has been mailed back to Edo for the general view.
In addition to saying that the British military machines are powerful, Oguri also visited the British steel department. He was very touched by the tall boilers and the molten steel left behind. Sheng Haizhou loves the navy, while Oguri Tadashi cares about these advanced and prosperous industries, and hopes that the shogunate will one day build such a powerful industrial enterprise.
Anyway, every day in the UK is a shocking day, everything is novel, everything has never been seen before. Tadasun Oguri deeply felt the backwardness and ignorance of the shogunate at this time, and said that he would definitely learn the new British technology and return home to serve Tokugawa Ieki.
The last, and very important one, Oguri said that he knew Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, and with his support, the British Parliament had approved a bill.
Every two years, the shogunate can send 30 international students to the UK, and all the expenses of these students are paid by the British government. Ten batches of students will be arranged for the time being. If the follow-up studies are successful, the diplomatic relations between the two countries will have a more in-depth development. The scale and scope of this funding can also continue to expand.
This is the point!
At the beginning, let the shogunate pay twenty thousand taels. It was really a life-and-death. Now there are 30 students studying abroad every two years, and all of them are free. There should be no strong opposition from the shogunate.
"The U.K. allows us to send 30 people to study abroad every two years." Chuyouemon handed Oguri Tadoshi's letter to Matsudaira.
Then he opened the letter of Sheng Haizhou, which contained the experience of Sheng Haizhou at the Royal Naval Academy in Greenwich, England. The training of British naval officers has formed a very effective system. The selection and promotion of intermediate and junior naval officers , There are traces to follow.
Coupled with those extremely powerful warships, the unity of man and ship is invincible in the world!
The shogunate must start the training and construction of the navy as soon as possible, otherwise, due to Japan's natural geographical environment on the coast, if foreign enemies invade in the future, there will be flames everywhere. Moreover, the navy is galloping across the ocean and cannot be easily captured or intercepted at all.
Don’t have the police in Nagasaki today, the war in Osaka tomorrow, and the war in Edo the next day. Even if the Shogunate has trained a hundred thousand troops, it will not be able to defend everywhere on land. At that time, the troops will be dispersed and will only be destroyed by foreign enemies.
He is now eagerly studying the reports and research of the first Sino-British war before, which has considerable reference value for the shogunate. He also sent back a copy of the research materials along with the letter. It was very detailed and accompanied by the British military report. I hope the shogunate will pay attention to it.
"Go, go to the castle, this matter must be reported to the Supreme." After reading it, Matsudaira Qixuan immediately took Chuyouemon and ran towards Edo Castle.
Yingmi’s ghosts and animals came in droves, one year more than one year, and one day passed by. On the surface of the shogunate, it looked like that, but in reality?
To use the words in "Dream of Red Mansions", that is, even the inner bag is fully loaded!
Race against time to develop yourself is the most important thing. Others don't need to worry, Songping declares that they are anxious. Now that there is an opportunity to continue sending students to the UK, why not send it early?
Previously, Sakuma Kojiyama’s "Western skills, Eastern morality" said, now it is spreading more and more throughout the world. As the governing veteran of the Shinano Matsuyo clan, he is actively practicing his theories and ideas in the clan.
Affected by his thoughts, Matsudaira Qixuan, who originally had this idea, even praised Sakuma Xiangshan. Even Yoshida Shoin also has many works by Sakuma Shoyama, saying that it is a pity that there were no good students to ask for advice when they met in Edo.
There is a saying that the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries have come to Uraga to knock off the pass one after another, which has indeed greatly shocked the people of insight in Japan. Many people have realized the importance of learning Western skills. UU reading www. uukanshu.com Otherwise, when Edo University was organized, how could so many people come to study voluntarily.
For example, Taichi Tanabe even abandoned his official position and returned to Edo to study. The other feudal vassals also actively sent students to Edo because they had been in the southwest for a long time and had seen the power of foreign warships.
There has been a trend in the whole society that is willing to learn from foreign countries. Although it is still very small in the face of feudal conservative forces, this kind of ignition may one day burn into a raging fire.
When they reached the castle, the two first met Ooka Tadago and Kuse Hiroshi on duty, and presented the letters of Oguri Tadasun and Katsukaishu. Then he asked to meet Tokugawa Kayoshi and state in person the need to continue sending foreign students.
Tokugawa Ieaki, who was happy right now, sent someone to pass the message directly, and there was no need to state it. He was right about it. The news spread, because the family letters of more than 30 students, the fact that the Shogunate sent overseas students to study in the UK was also known to the world. Now I don’t need money to study abroad, and I want to go too.
The princes and daimyos, including the pro-family genealogies and foreigners, asked for the quota of foreign students in the shogunate.
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