Edo Traveler

In the second month of the first spring, the lords of the great names of the Western Kingdom arrived in Osaka or Kyoto in turn. There are thousands of troops passing through Kyoto day and night, but this has been the practice for more than 200 years. No one thinks there is anything wrong with passing troops every year.

Even Kyoto's guardian, Tokugawa Keibao, didn't think there was anything wrong. Moreover, the general princes will spend a few days in Kyoto. It's not for anything else, it's mainly to visit Kyoto, or to buy all kinds of Jinggong.

Of course, there are also people like the Shimadzu family, who have a good relationship with the ministers in Kyoto, and will hold a song party or a big tea party with the ministers in Kyoto. The Beesuka family often does this. Although their family is from a water pirate, isn't this the right master, who has become a national master of 200,000 stone.

Moreover, many samurai in the ranks of the princes, who stayed in the countryside all year round, finally had the opportunity to come out and see the world, but they had to spend a few more days in prosperous towns such as Kyoto and Osaka.

On this day, the vassals of Mouri Gentoku, the prince of the Hagi Domain, arrived in Kyoto. The relationship between the Maori family and the court officials is not bad. There will be some reception and exchange activities, which are normal. But after all, it is a special season right now, and Tokugawa Keibao still dispatched some of the loyal team members to monitor him in the Jingfan mansion.

The Fukui domain soldiers who had been waiting in Omi for a long time entered the Fukui domain mansion in Kyoto on the second day after the Hagi domain soldiers arrived in Kyoto. The situation of the team being double-teamed.

The Hagi domain had 3,500 soldiers, and the Fukui domain had 3,200 soldiers, totaling 6,700 people. And the soldiers of the two feudal feudal lords who have undergone a certain degree of modernization and reform, most of them use Mini rifles this time, and a small number of them use Prussian Dreiser striker guns, which have changed a lot in equipment.

enough to rely on!

In the shogunate army, there were 1,700 soldiers from the Owari clan, and they had not yet been fully equipped with Miner rifles, and they were about half and half of the old-style Gobes guns. Tokugawa Keiho has been in Edo for many years, and has recently been guarding in Kyoto. There are few political reforms in the domain, and the financial resources are relatively weaker than those of the Hagi domain and the Fukui domain.

Followed by the 500 people of the Jingzhong Langshi group, half of these 500 people have begun to use muskets, but most of them are Gobes fire guns, and the rest are fighting with cold weapons. After all, when this force was established, it was mainly used as a security and police force in Kyoto, and they did not expect them to go to the battlefield.

The most reliable ones are the 1,000 veterans of the training team, all of whom are Dreiser striker guns. If this unit is put into the game "Total War of the Empire", it will be a silver bar private, even if it is not an elite unit, it is the main backbone.

There are still more than 300 Mingshi soldiers left, which is better than nothing. The shogunate army, with a total of 3,500 people, is not empty, but it is not sufficient.

According to the script, Mouri Yuantoku suddenly suffered from cold, and quickly reported to Kyoto guardian Tokugawa Keibao. At the same time, he applied to Edo and asked for treatment before explaining it. Reasonable and legal, everything follows the rules.

Tokugawa Keibao also went to see Maori Yuande, and took a look from a distance, only to see Maori Yuande's complexion slightly worse, and coughing from time to time, it seemed that he was sick, and he was relieved. In fact, Maori Yuande is a night of fun, and then stays up all night and gets up to play again. This person's natural state will not be much better.

Come on, then ask the doctor.

Seeing the gathering of soldiers from the two vassals, the ministers in the capital, and the arrogant elements were a little more courageous, and finally stopped perfunctory Songping Qi Xuan, saying that the Emperor Xiaoming was free, and he could preview the provisions of the year to confirm the matter.

Umeda Yunhama, who has been active in the center of the entire conspiracy, is now lurking in the dark, watching the development of the situation. He had already learned a little about the situation from his disciple Yamada Kanjiyu.

The Hagi Domain and the Fukui Domain are not on the same page!

Or maybe they were thinking of something else, maybe they just planned to let the Zun Rang faction act as a surrogate ghost to stand in the front, to test the reaction and strength of the shogunate. One thing is absolutely certain, Hagi and Fukui did not fully help the Zun Rang faction to fight and sit on the country, and they would never die in front of the Zun Rang faction.

More importantly, neither the Hagi Domain nor the Fukui Domain has reached a deep mutual trust. To put it bluntly, although these two clans have already arrived in Kyoto, and according to the plan, they will be stationed near Kyoto on the left and the right. On the positive side, you can say that they have double-teamed Tokugawa Keibao, but on the negative side, it is probably because they are on guard against each other.

In such a situation, how can they work together to completely push back the unreasonable demands of Ii Naobi and the shogunate. At the same time, it is determined that the "Eighteen Regulations on the Legal System of Gongwu" is a false edict and does not exist.

Gotta give them a boost!

In the past two or three months, UU reading www.uukanshu. com Umeda Yunhama not only colluded with the two powerful clans of the Hagi and Fukui clans, but also made extensive contact with respectable elements scattered all over the place. He needs to have a force that he can control or influence, in order to gain enough benefits for himself and the Zun Rong faction in the future chaos.

Dark night, Ikedaya, Kyoto.

Ikeda House is just a small hotel near Sanjo, Kyoto. It also has the function of a tavern. Of course, it also provides some special services.

In such a crowded inn, Umeda Yunhama was meeting with the leaders of the sectarians who had gathered from all over the city, including Banping Tai and others. According to a rough estimate, there are at least seven or eight hundred people who have moved to the vicinity of Kyoto. Moreover, many respected elements from Western countries and Kyushu are still gathering in Kyoto.

If nothing else, there may be as many as a thousand people in the end. In order to arm the rebels, Umeda Yunhama made a series of connections. Not only did he get a certain number of Gobes firearms from the Hagi and Fukui domains, but he also contacted the blacksmiths of Setsu and Yamato to forge two cannons. The old-fashioned bronze cannon should have been used 200 years ago, but now it's just an old-fashioned product of a backward era.

But he knew very well that the soldiers of the various vassals and the shogunate troops who traveled to and from Kyoto did not carry cannons. With such two cannons capable of hitting both solid bullets and cannonballs, the military strength of the gangsters can also rise to a higher level.

It is still very difficult to stir up a **** storm in the big pond in Kyoto today with a mere 1,000 people. Therefore, there are some special means that naturally have to be used, and everything is for the great cause of respecting the king and shunning barbarians.

"Tomorrow morning, Marquis Songping Akashi will enter the palace to see you."

"How many guards are there?"

"No more than forty-eight people!"