Edo Traveler

The next morning, Chuemon took a strategy that combined Yoshida Shoin's ideas, and was going to the Ichibashi Mansion to discuss with Matsudaira Qixuan. After all, if the Tokugawa family wanted to land safely, in addition to abolishing the shogunate system and modernizing political reforms, it was also a very necessary part to firmly grasp the support of the military.

The person just arrived at Yiqiao Mansion, and before Songping Qi Xuan came, he received a letter first.

The Count of Roche of France has been jumping up and down in Japan for several years, and he has done a lot of things. He finally got the affirmation of Napoleon III and was recalled to France.

In order to continue the diplomatic relations between Japan and France, Napoleon III has sent Duchesne de Baileycourt (gustaveduhesnedebelleourt) as the new minister to Japan. In addition to further strengthening the cooperation with the Tokugawa shogunate, Napoleon III also sent a new person to deal with the Ryukyu affairs by the way.

Britain and France are fighting for Ryukyu, and they are fighting against the Qing Kingdom. It is necessary for a person who was ordered by Napoleon III to come to the Far East to deal with it well, so that it will not cause any bad effects. There is one thing to say, Napoleon III is a man who is quite good at diplomacy in diplomacy. He is indeed more diplomatic than Napoleon.

Of course, the ability to fight wars is stretched, and it is not even worse than Napoleon.

Now that Bailey Court has arrived at Annan, and will soon arrive in Yokohama, Count Roche is here to speak to the shogunate first. Because he has to rush to Biezi Copper Mountain in the past few days and arrange his own interests as soon as possible. Don't take a job in Japan, except for buying and reselling some local products, and then earning some loan fees, you haven't lost any big money.

Hearing this news suddenly, Chuemon was still very surprised. It is really "very pleasant" to cooperate with Count Roche, and the two sides have established a certain degree of mutual trust. The new Bailey Court doesn't know what kind of character he is. If he is arrogant and thinks he is an idiot who came to Japan to colonize, then Chuemon's many things that rely on his strength will not be able to be done.

Strategy or something, although it is a major event, it is not in a hurry. But the replacement of the French minister is indeed a major event that will happen immediately. At a time when the shogunate was still a weak and small country, losing a certain degree of "protection" from France, it was very difficult to sell a good price to Daiying.

After going back and forth in the official hall for two laps, Matsudaira Qi Xuan and Zhu Liu came to Yiqiao Di Fenggong one after another without waiting for a long time. Chuemon immediately handed them the letter from Count Roche, and he already had a certain international perspective. He knew that the shogunate had two ministers who took advantage of the needs of the French. Hearing the change of ministers, he knew it in his heart. critical.

"The legal envoy is replaced, I don't know what the new minister is." Songping Qi Xuan put his hands behind his back, thinking a little.

"It's fine if it's a good one, but if it's a bad one..." Zu Liu put down the letter, but he didn't say anything worried, mainly because he was in charge of foreign affairs.

"Roche, the law envoy, will come to see you today, so let's just ask." Where did Chuemon's know Bailey Court, you can only take one step at a time.

"Alright!" Songping Qi Xuan and Zhu Liu also thought of acting by chance.

As a result, Roche came in a hurry, and left in a hurry, because he was completely unfamiliar with Bailey Court and had no experience of working together. Colleagues in the embassy and consulate also expressed that they are not familiar with Bailey Court. According to the information obtained by the Count of Roche, the last post of the new minister was that of the French consul in Tunisia. It is said that he has done a good job and can speak fluent Arabic.

Other than that, it's gone. The public appointment information is not a secret, and Count Roche also inquired about it.

It doesn't help the shogunate...

At the same time, Bailey Court, who had already boarded the ship and was heading for Japan, was smug. He had done diplomacy in Copenhagen and Frankfurt before, and also served as a consul general in Tunisia. Now that he has the eyes of Napoleon III and has removed the ambassador to Japan, he is naturally ready for a big fight.

As a diplomat in usury imperialist France, he was very sympathetic to the use of usury to manipulate weak countries. And he did it in Tunisia, and it was very successful.

Compared to the one hundred thousand lent to the Tokugawa shogunate, how much do you think the French lent to the Tunisians?

Billion!

You are not mistaken, France lent the Tunisians more than one billion francs, and then plundered 100,000 hectares of land in Tunisia, as well as the construction rights and ownership of the national railways.

Of course, the Tunisians are also big-faced. Anyway, all the people who can bet in China are bet, and they still owe four or five billion to the United Kingdom and Italy. One dares to borrow, the other dares to give, very magical.

Oh, thankfully Chuemon didn't know, if he knew that the railway could sell for so much money, Chuemon would be **** to death.

The debt-ridden Tunisians have been deeply influenced by the French in all aspects of state affairs. So those big brothers who are worried that the French borrowed money and will not get it back can rest. Because imperialism lends you money in pursuit of your entire country. The benefit he finally got was definitely more than that money.

In short, if nothing else happens, in ten or eight years, Tunisia will have the surname France.

(The Franco-Prussian War interrupted the process and took twenty years, I know.)

The work in Tunisia was so successful that Bailey Court was ready to replicate the trick perfectly in Japan. Before he came, he knew that the British had Yokohama and the French had Kobe. His predecessor, Count Roche, laid the foundation for him to further develop in Japan. He only needs to work **** this basis.

Before leaving, Napoleon III also talked to Bailey Court, as long as the shogunate could get a mortgage, he would try his best to lend to the shogunate. It is best to drag all the economic lifelines of the shogunate into the hands of France.

At the same time, the influence of the French in the shogunate army was vigorously strengthened, and the number of free military academies in France could be expanded by three or five times. Not missing any opportunity to control and penetrate the shogunate army, carefully try to squeeze out the British forces.

This time, the two French ironclads entered Yokohama. The naval officers who stayed in France will definitely strengthen their power. They must vigorously win over these elites, open clubs, hold banquets, invite them to banquets and play, and further love France.

Finally, as mentioned above, Bailey Court came to the shogunate's biggest killer. That is, the highest authorization he received from Napoleon III, is now lying quietly in his briefcase.

Except for him, no one knows about the whole of East Asia. The French government is ready to carry out a comprehensive "cooperation" with the shogunate, and we will stop digging, we will do it in one step.

I, France, lend you fifty million today!