What Takasugi Shinsaku and Gabriel were talking about tonight was indeed a big deal.
While the various feudal lords were still debating whether they should order the Tokugawa Keiki Emperor to return the throne and take responsibility for a series of mistakes made by the previous shogunate, Takasugi Shinsaku had already made a decisive decision and decided to bring down the curtain by force in Kyoto. His main purpose in coming to Kyoto was He met with Okubo Toshimichi and Saigo Takamori to formulate a plan to bring down the world by force.
They decided to deceive Tokugawa Keiki from Edo to Kyoto, and then use force to directly detain him. However, Tokugawa Keiki himself was also very wary and suspicious, so he might not have guessed their plans. If he came to Kyoto, there would be something wrong. Soldiers and horses protect them at all times. In addition, the Kyoto shogunate's side is also very powerful. In addition to the troops of the Gosan family and the Seisan family, there are also ronin groups such as the Shinsengumi and the Mikaigumi.
And if soldiers and horses from Choshu or Satsuma Domain are mobilized to Beijing, Tokugawa Keiki will definitely be aware of it, and it will most likely turn into a nationwide melee.
This is not what Takasugi Shinsaku and Okubo Toshimichi want to see. They still hope to complete the change of power through a small-scale, preferably palace coup, and preserve Japan's vitality to the greatest extent. This requires more manpower and more Send these people to Kyoto without telling the shogunate.
They finally pinned their hopes on Gabriel, a French businessman.
As early as when the Choshu Domain was reforming and strengthening its military, Takasugi Shinsaku had contact and cooperation with Gabriel. He knew that the latter had a wide range of businesses. He was not only engaged in the cotton yarn, iron cannon, and matchlock business, but also in the business of arquebuses. Even Takasugi Shinsaku's purchase of the new battleship Hyouchenmaru was led by Gabriel. Coupled with his French identity, few people dared to check his cargo ship.
Takasugi Shinsaku hopes to quietly order a batch of weapons from Gabriel and transport them to Kyoto under the cover of a cotton cargo ship. At the same time, a 300-person samurai team will also use this as a secret weapon to deal with Tokugawa Keki. The channel was transported to Kyoto, for which Satsuma and Choshu were willing to pay a high price of 10,000 taels of gold.
However, Gabriel did not immediately agree after hearing this.
It is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, no matter which country they are in. What's more, Gabriel is also the most greedy businessman. His business in Japan has made him a lot of money over the years, but it is precisely because of this that he has to think carefully. The deal proposed by Shinsaku Takasugi.
Gabriel, like other Western businessmen, is also silently paying attention to the civil war in Japan. However, except for the previous calls for resistance to the foreigners, which were too loud for their own safety, and the joint fleets of the United Kingdom, the United States, France and the Netherlands retaliated through Shimonoseki, foreigners still tried not to participate in Japan. country's civil war.
For example, the Second Shogunate War was repulsed by Takasugi Shinsaku. The Western countries were just watching from the beginning to the end, because at present, both the shogunate and the overthrow of the shogunate were likely to win the final victory. There were assassinations before the overthrow of the shogunate. The Westerners have a criminal record, but now they advocate the founding of the country, while the shogunate led by Tokugawa Yoshiki is just the opposite. They have cooperated with the West before, but now they tend to continue to seize the country, so the Western countries now have no clear position to support which side .
Political investment is very risky. If it fails, it will be hostile to the next ruler. But on the other hand, political investment is also the most profitable investment. Although Gabriel did not agree to Takasugi Shinsaku's request, he did not explicitly refuse it.
This actually makes it clear that Takasugi Shinsaku is asking for more.
All the warriors present secretly cursed Gabriel for being greedy, but now the initiative is indeed in the hands of the French businessman. If he doesn't nod, Choshu and Satsuma will not be able to send troops in, and the armed collapse will not continue. implementation.
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Zhang Heng was actually a little surprised.
In history, Okubo Toshimichi and Saigo Takamori were indeed the main forces in the fall of the curtain by force, but the time was not so early. In fact, if the downfall faction delays for a while, Tokugawa Yoshiki himself will use the trick of returning the great power. , took the initiative to return the power of the shogunate to Emperor Meiji in exchange for status and rights in the new government. His move to risk death and survive was indeed powerful.
Not only did Okubo Toshimichi and Saigo Takamori no longer have an excuse to carry out a palace coup, but they also successfully divided the power of the rebel faction. After the return of the great power, Tokugawa Keiki's reputation began to change, and those who spoke well of him and hoped that he would join the new government More and more, while Okubo Toshimichi and Saigo Takamori became more and more isolated.
The final deployment of troops to Beijing to overthrow the situation by force was actually a last resort choice after being forced into a desperate situation. The Satsuma domain's military strength at that time actually had no advantage over the shogunate. However, in the end Saigo Takamori still won against the shogunate's army that was three times his own. Of course, the Battle of Toba Fushimi, which determined the direction of the times, is a story for later.
Compared with history, Takasugi Shinsaku is still alive and kicking now, which will undoubtedly be a big variable. However, although he managed to come to Kyoto and talked eloquently in front of everyone, he might be able to hide it from the two clans in the teahouse. Samurai, but Zhang Heng's observation skills honed through the deduction method still allowed him to see that Takasugi Shinsaku did not have much time left, and his face was already filled with deathly energy.
This may also be the reason why he can't wait to start something big, because he wants to see the new era he created before he dies.
But before that, he still needs to negotiate the current business with Gabriel.
French businessmen have a huge appetite and are not satisfied with just 10,000 taels of gold. However, Takasugi Shinsaku also has his own bottom line. Although some people in the overthrow faction also advocate learning from the West, at the same time many people are also wary of Westerners interfering in their own country. things, such as Saigo Takamori.
The Treaty of Kanagawa caused the shogunate to lose its reputation among the people. Such lessons are still vivid in our minds. The new regime obviously cannot repeat the same mistakes. Therefore, according to the consensus reached by Takasugi Shinsaku and his group, Gabriel can negotiate for money, but it can only be Money, if he wanted something else, the overthrow faction would have to find another way, even if it had to postpone the overthrow.
The negotiations entered a tug-of-war. In order to prevent communication barriers caused by language differences, both parties brought translators to convey their respective meanings as much as possible. At the same time, they could correct the other party's translation errors and ensure that their true intentions were known to the other party.
However, Zhang Heng's mind was not on this business meeting. He had been thinking about how to get the Shumaru Tsuneji on Nakamura Hanjiro's waist. At the same time, the most important thing was how to get out of this flower street alive.
Since the person who came here tonight is Takasugi Shinsaku, it is obviously impossible for the rebel faction to let him, a temporary translator who was hired halfway, walk out of this tea house alive.
Once the two parties negotiate a business and reach a consensus, its value will be gone.
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