Chapter 329 Oh no, the Qing Dynasty is calling with foreigners! (Please order, please vote)
Nagasaki, tenement house.
The tenement house is not a house, but an "urban village". It is an urban village in Nagasaki. It consists of several streets of Chinese-style houses. It is located in the most prosperous area of ​​Nagasaki. It is also a popular place for Chinese businessmen and merchants who come to Japan to trade.
A gathering place for overseas Chinese living in Japan.
According to the regulations of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Dutch merchants who came to Japan for trade could only live on an artificial island called "Dejima" and were not allowed to leave at will. Chinese merchants, on the other hand, were treated slightly better and could operate in the urban village of Tenya.
One by one, I can finally enter Nagasaki City.
"Master Hong, this is it...\n::.\n. This is the Chinese Association of Tenement House. Chinese businessmen who come to Nagasaki for trade usually settle here. However, this year there are far fewer Chinese businessmen coming to Japan for trade than in previous years.
And now that the end of the year is approaching, there are even fewer people. There are no residents in the Zhonghua Guild Hall. You and your subordinates can live here. If you need anything, you can send someone to the Tangwu Zheng House to inform you.
In addition, the Japanese government is relatively slow in handling affairs...\n...\n. I will report the matter you mentioned to Nagasaki for implementation, and then report it to the next level.
It usually takes two or three months until you get to the public. Please don’t leave Nagasaki Town until you get a reply."
Since Hong Daquan entered Nagasaki with a trade "trust card", Zheng Qianfu followed his past practice and took him to the Chinese Guild Hall in the Tenement House to settle down.
Hong Daquan clasped his hands behind his back and looked at the Chinese-style buildings and narrow streets in front of him.
Perhaps it was because Hong Daquan's Heavenly Kingdom mission was making a lot of noise, with dozens of people carrying foreign guns and holding the flag of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" coming in force.
In addition, there are hundreds of Japanese coolies wearing shorts in winter and carrying boxes to carry goods for them. The momentum is really quite big. Recently, the business at Nagasaki Karaya has been light, and everyone is quite idle, so they heard the noise outside.
, all ran out to watch the fun.
Both sides of the narrow street were lined with overseas Chinese wearing kimonos or Chinese gowns. They all looked at this legendary army with amazement.
How did this Taiping Army end up in Japan?
Hong Daquan also knew that he was attracting attention, so after standing outside the Chinese Association, he turned around and faced the Chinese people who were watching. The Chinese people clasped their fists and shouted in a loud voice: "Dear fellow citizens, I am Hong Daquan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
That's right! This time I came to Nagasaki under the orders of the True Lord Tenno. One is to make good friends with Japan and fight the Western barbarians with the Tokugawa family; the other is to spread the "True Pact" of worshiping God in Japan...\n
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As he said that, he waved to the Taiping soldiers beside him, and someone immediately ran to open a few boxes. The boxes were full of books, and they were "True Testament"!
Nowadays, the New Testament and the Japanese Testament are banned books in Japan, and anyone who reads them will be beheaded.
But the "True Testament" written by Hong Xiuquan is not a banned book. When Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tokugawa Hidetada decided to ban Christianity, they didn't know about the "True Testament"!
Moreover, these days in Japan, all educated people know Chinese characters. It is very convenient to take a copy of "The True Testament" and read it back without having to translate it.
It is said that there are many "Onkirijidan" in Japan, that is, "underground Christians" who have not read the Bible seriously for many years.
If they get the "True Covenant" first, they might become the "True Covenant Sect"... This is called seizing the market!
Hong Daquan picked up a copy of the "True Testament", waved it vigorously, and said loudly: "Everyone, this is the "True Testament" compiled by the True Holy Lord of Heaven.\n... Take it and read it morning and night.
Take a look and keep it for good luck and longevity!"
The bow of the steam-powered wooden-hulled cruiser USS Powhatan plowed up a white wave, and its track headed straight south. The sailors on the deck were conducting routine gunnery drills, and following the commands of a U.S. Navy lieutenant
, the gunners nervously adjusted the shooting parameters, inserted the training bullets from the muzzle of the muzzle, and then simulated firing...\n
Matthew Perry, commander of the U.S. East India Fleet, the Nanyang Minister of the Qing Dynasty, and Luo Xueyan, the Shanghai governor, stood on the bridge, observing the training of the sailors with interest. On the deck at the stern, Zhang Baozheng led a dozen Taipings
Cadets from the Shanghai Naval Academy, who were former military boy scouts, practice using a sextant to find direction and positioning under the leadership of an American instructor.
The surface of the East China Sea in front of us is undulating and gray and yellow. The smoke from the single chimney is rising. The whole ship is sailing towards the Naha Port of Ryukyu Kingdom at a speed of eight knots. Behind the Powhatan,
There were six other American steam-powered frigates, three British steam-powered frigates, two French steam-powered frigates, and two Qing steam-armed merchant ships.
A total of fourteen steam-powered ships formed a strict column on the sea. This was also an invincible presence on the entire East Asian sea!
Everyone in this four-nation joint fleet seemed very relaxed. The sailors who were not on training missions were looking at the sea view on the deck and discussing where to go to relax after arriving in Ryukyu. Almost no one thought about the possibility of the Japanese illegally occupying Ryukyu.
Will it resist a powerful fleet of fourteen steam gunboats?
Isn't this too stupid?
Luo Xueyan, the "traitor general agent of East and Southeast Asian countries" who facilitated this four-nation joint operation, hopes that the Japanese soldiers sent by the Satsuma clan of Japan to Ryukyu can be more brave and courageous, and that they will be more courageous and brave towards the "traitor general agent of East Asia and Southeast Asia" who is commander of Matthew Perry.
"Four-Nation Combined Fleet" opens fire!
In this way, he could justifiably send Feng Zicai to lead the first regiment of the Shanghai New Army to Ryukyu and kill all the Japanese samurai in Ryukyu!
If the Satsuma clan is still not convinced...\n.Then the next stop is the Shimadzu family's Kagoshima Castle!
When Luo Xueyan was thinking about something good, a long whistle suddenly came from the lookout post. Matthew Perry, who was standing next to Luo Xueyan, showed a rather proud smile on his face and nodded slightly to Luo Xueyan: "Your Excellency, Minister,
We're almost there!"
In front of the arrogant U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, Luo Xueyan certainly could not forget to flatter him: "It really comes and goes like the wind! It took less than three days to cover several hundred nautical miles. Steam power is really surging!"
The distance between Shanghai and Ryukyu is only 700 to 800 kilometers, which translates into more than 400 nautical miles. And this "four-nation combined fleet" can maintain a speed of six to seven knots, and it will naturally take more than three days to cover more than 400 nautical miles.
For the navy in the mid-19th century, it was really just a matter of steps!
But this also shows from another aspect that the Ryukyu Islands have become the coastal defense gateway of southeast China after the advent of the steamship era!
With Ryukyu in hand, Shanghai and Ningbo will not face the powerful enemies coming from the sea.
Once Ryukyu is in the hands of the enemy...the prosperous place in the southeast, it will be under the enemy's gunfire at any time.
In history, the Qing Dynasty actually handed over strategically important places like Ryukyu to others when the Fujian Navy had begun to take shape.
It's extremely stupid.
Luo Xueyan will not make the same mistake. Even if his Nanyang fleet now only has three steam-armed merchant ships, he will still use the British to
The United States and France took advantage of Japan's opportunity to win over this vassal state that still belonged to China in the name of justice.
Even if the condition for taking Ryukyu now is to allow Britain and the United States to set up consulates, establish concessions, and build ports in Ryukyu...\n.\n:.\n. Luo Xueyan will not hesitate!
Anyway, Britain and the United States can't station a few troops in Ryukyu at the moment, but Luo Xueyan's new army can station an entire regiment in Ryukyu!
As long as there is a group of people holding Ryukyu and not leaving, Britain and the United States will have to leave sooner or later! Japan will never be able to hold Ryukyu again.
Ryukyu Kingdom may be the most unique country in the world today!
The kings of other countries may be turned into puppets by their own powerful ministers, but the Shō dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom was completely ousted by a yamen named Zaiban Gongsho sent by the Satsuma feudal lord of neighboring Japan.
Although Japan's Satsuma Domain ousted King Shoji of Ryukyu, for more than two hundred years, the Ryukyu Kingdom has been claiming to be a Chinese vassal both internally and externally. It first paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and later to the Qing Dynasty, and even had to wait for the king to ascend the throne.
The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty came to seal it. It was like North Korea!
Naturally, the current Satsuma clan leader is also a feudal lord from Satsuma clan, named Komatsu Seiyu. This guy is young, only in his twenties, but his health is not good. He has been ill for the past two days and has a low fever.
He was squinting in a daze in the asylum.
When he was half asleep, he suddenly heard the sound of rapid footsteps, and then one of his men shouted anxiously: "Master Xiaosong, it's not good...\n.\n.\n.\n. The Qing Dynasty brought foreigners with them.
The call is coming!」
What? Xiaosong Qingyou opened his eyes and looked at a dark, stocky man rolling and crawling with some confusion: "Dongxiang,
What did you say?"
The samurai surnamed Togo said angrily: "Lord Komatsu, there are more than a dozen British, French, and American gunboats coming from Naha Port, led by two Qing Dynasty steam paddle steamers... It seems that they are coming to seize the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Chapter completed!