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What is the immediate priority?

There is no such thing as selling the head to help the Qing Dynasty. The first thing Chungemon needs to do is to quickly send hundreds or thousands of people to the island of Hawaii, at least so that there is such a Japanese community in Honolulu. In case you really want to do something in Hawaii in the future, you won't even get a **** that you can find right away.

The dozens of Japanese and their descendants found by Oguri Tadashi before on the island of Hawaii, Chuemon is going to grant them all the rights to the Miao sword, and can try to send them to their relatives who are willing to defect to them in their hometown. Go to Hawaii.

It is similar to appointing them as leaders of the diaspora, which is almost the same.

At the same time, don't we also have John Manjiro, a minister who has lived in Hawaii for several years. Originally, this little brother was still at the Yokohama Shipyard. Anyway, the shipyard is no worse than you, and the shogunate is your kid who is most familiar with Hawaii.

Appoint you as Consul General in Hawaii!

In short, the work of the Japanese-Summer merger was started as soon as possible, and taking advantage of this rare window period, we managed to complete all the preparations for the matter. In the future, when the shogunate brings Ying forward to "uphold justice" and "maintain international order", the shogunate will also be able to have something to say and have a theoretical basis for arguing.

But when it comes to this matter, Chuemon has another place in his mind. We are about to start taking the British as an anti-Russian pioneer, the No. 1 horse boy in the Far East. It seems that just seeking a small Hawaii is not enough.

If you think about it, Hawaii was the point of contention between Japan and Japan during World War II. To say that he was the key to the entire Pacific War is not bad at all. But now, Hawaii is just a safe harbor in the Pacific Ocean, and Dai Ying, who pays attention to the world's sea power and hegemony, has not taken a fancy to him, which shows that he is really not that important.

If that's the case, then Chuemon can definitely ask for a little more. It is not very important to take a little bit of British, which is convenient for the shogunate to manage the future.

New Guinea?

May I?

Chuemon had no map of the world at hand, nor did he have a map of the Pacific Rim. But Chuemon knew about this place. It is quite close to Australia, but it is not the same colony as Australia. Even Australia itself is not now a unified colony.

Bringing Ying to Australia is not very caring for the time being, although not long ago, he was pulling a whole ship of prisoners to Australia to enrich the colony. But compared to India, Canada, or South Africa, Australia is definitely not as good at this time.

We don't want Australia yet, as long as New Guinea, it's not difficult to recognize what the shogunate has for New Guinea with the confidence of the great cause of the British family.

Although New Guinea is poor and backward, the population is not very large. But Chuemon didn't expect much development in this place at first, wanting to get this place is mainly for one thing.

rubber!

This place is very suitable for growing rubber, and of course coffee, cocoa and other plants. But those things can be obtained from international trade, not necessarily rubber.

The shogunate already had oil, coal, steel, etc., but not rubber. Some people may have said that if they seized Luzon, they had rubber, but Luzon had to send troops to fight Spain. As long as New Guinea gave a nod to Ying, it could be included in the name of the shogunate.

According to Continental's statement at this time, New Guinea was a completely unclaimed land, and even a large part was later occupied by the Second German Empire. The shogunate sent someone to plant a flag, and then it was recognized by Britain and France.

"The matter of the Qing Kingdom still needs to be considered. You might as well send someone to the Elgin Army immediately to prepare for the emergency." Songping Qi Xuan finally suggested.

"Yes!" The old middle school left and right still agreed with this proposal.

"The same is true of Yu Yi." Chuemon also nodded.

Send a small observation group of officers to follow Elgin's army and keep an eye on the latest developments of the British and French coalition forces. Only in this way can the shogunate be able to respond accordingly. It's really not beautiful to have a black eye, or just sit in Edo and wait for second-hand news from Shanghai.

Anyway, we are not in the war, three or five people will go to see the situation. The main purpose is to understand when the following will continue to sign a new treaty with the Qing, and whether the content of the treaty will have any impact on the pattern of East Asia.

"There's another matter that can't be decided yet." Chuemon sat down in front of everyone.

The old and middle-aged people who were either leaning against the back of the sofa or leaning on the armrests all stood up and waited for Chuemon's orders.

"Envoys must be dispatched to the European countries."

"It really should be!" Mizuno Tadashi immediately stated.

Chuemon knew that he could not change the current situation in which the entire world was centered on the European continent. The world order was in the hands of the European countries headed by the British. In the past, the shogunate managed internal affairs, so it was still possible to ignore foreign affairs. Now to seek international recognition, then diplomacy must be launched.

Especially now that Chuemon is still thinking of putting the Hawaiian Islands into the hands of the Tokugawa shogunate, the recognition and recognition of Britain, France and other countries is even more necessary.

Mizuno Chusei, who had traveled around Europe, had long wanted to advise Chuemon to send envoys to European countries. Not just a temporary envoy like him, it is better to be an envoy who is permanently stationed in Europe all year round and can handle all matters immediately.

Britain and France now each have hundreds of Japanese students studying abroad, and the shogunate also had to send a person in charge to assist them in their studies in Europe.

"It's just that the candidates are rare. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" Matsudaira Qixuan was somewhat aware of the importance of diplomacy, but few people in the shogunate could engage in diplomacy.

"Yes!" Chuemon has a choice.

Among the first batch of students sent to study in the UK, there was a young man who gave up his official position and rushed back all the way from the Western Country, only to be able to study and make progress, called Tanabe Taiichiro Guansuke.

Now he has long since returned home and is teaching at Edo University. In addition to teaching lessons, translations are calibrated for British books. Such a person who not only understands the situation in Europe, but also is proficient in foreign languages, and the focus is still on Zhongemon, why not use it?

"Any position before? Do you have a resume? Is it appropriate?" Mizuno Tadashi didn't question Chuemon, but he knew that diplomacy was no trivial matter, and he had to choose someone who could be used to get things done.

"rest assured!"

Chuemon turned around and asked Kurokawa Ketoku to fetch Taiichi Tanabe's resume. With our support, let him be the consul in London first, no problem.

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