"It's amazingly powerful!"

On the deck of the USS Columbus, former Secretary of State and current Special Presidential Envoy Daniel Brown. Webster exclaimed as he held up his binoculars.

They are the guests.

This drama of conquering Kagoshima was also performed for them.

In order to bring in a big financier who can pay a huge amount of money to build the railroad as soon as possible, John . President Taylor not only sent a friendly mission to the Ming Dynasty and entrusted the recently resigned Secretary of State to act as a special envoy, but even sent a huge fleet to visit Ming in order to show solemnity, which included almost one-fifth of the warships of the United States Navy, or more exaggeratedly, one-half of the capital ships of the United States Navy......

Uh, although there are only two battleships.

Anyway, the U.S. Navy at this time was still very miserable, they only added a real capital ship in these years, that is, the famous USS Pennsylvania first-class ship, although after being stimulated by the British burning the White House, the U.S. Congress ambitiously approved the construction plan of fourteen large battleships, but soon these stingy capitalists enthusiastically passed, and then the vast majority of battleships were built in half, or they were built and thrown away at the dock, after all, maintaining a fleet is actually more expensive than building a fleet. Very few were actually built and put into service, and even if they did, they were quickly decommissioned and left to fend for themselves on the docks, and only hastily repaired and reopened when needed, such as the Pennsylvania, which was finally built in 1837 and comparable to stars such as the Valmy, Victory, and the Holy Trinity, was no longer in active service at this time.

However, the 90-gun Columbus has been traveling across the oceans, reflecting the existence of the United States.

Originally, it was also the one who came to China in history.

The U.S. Navy's active battleships also have a 74-gun third-class ship, the Delaware, which was originally decommissioned by next year, and in addition to the powerful, 130-gun USS Pennsylvania was thrown on the dock and left idle or turned into a Hulk ship......

This word, which has the same name as the Hulk, has many meanings, including prisons, dormitories for sailors, gunpowder warehouses, and abandonment before it is fully built, in short, throwing boats without sailors and sail guns on the shore for waste use. In addition to this powerful first-class ship, the US Navy also has seven battleships, including the 90-gun USS Franklin, the 74-gun USS Washington, the USS Vermont, and the USS New Hampshire, among which the USS New York and USS Virginia have not even been in service since they were built into shells, and the USS New Orleans and other ships were pulled down before they were completed.

So the USS Columbus is currently one of the two main ships of the US Navy.

And it's the most powerful.

The other one in the same boat is the more famous USS Constitution, a shameless warship that pretends to be a frigate with a second-class hull, and several other equally shameless oversized frigates, which are the current main force of the US Navy, and they rely on them for ocean-going visits or armed intervention.

In fact, the total number of such ships does not exceed ten.

Most of them were in Brazil at this time to warn the parties to the war in Uruguay.

"It's clear that our friends are a bit strong, and it's hard for us to get a good seat at the banquet, and Congress should give us a real navy, not a servant who needs to be dragged across the Pacific."

This was stated by the commander of the fleet, Brigadier General Biddle.

They were actually dragged by Ming warships all the way from the United States, and the two warships were responsible for loading the two Ming warships with coal, and the Ming army stockpiled enough high-quality coal in advance in coastal ports, including Panama City, and then finally stuffed four warships in Panama City. With the help of ocean currents and monsoons, they were dragged to Keelung at an average speed of five knots, and after replenishing coal in Keelung, they rode the Kuroshio Tide directly north to Kagoshima to visit the battle. Compared with the powerful fleet that is shelling Kagoshima at this moment, the US Navy is undoubtedly like a small supporting role, and their entire navy combined cannot catch up with Yiyu's fleet!

Uh, Yilu's first fleet.

"James, we're separated by half of America and the whole Pacific!"

Webster patted him on the shoulder and smiled.

"Your Excellency, General, they invited us to visit their landing battle!"

An officer shouted.

"Forward!"

Brigadier General Biddle said, waving his hand.

At this time, the bombardment of the Ming army's shore defense batteries had ended, and the few shore defense guns of the Shimazu family on the beach were completely destroyed, in fact, even their batteries were bombarded into ruins by six-inch shells, and after solving these obstacles, the Ming fleet began to sail forward to the mouth of the Katu River. The soldiers of the Shimazu family who were preparing to resist the landing, after seeing the ferocity of the Ming army's artillery fire, wisely gave up the resistance to the landing, and then retreated to Kagoshima Castle on the castle mountain, and the moment the last group of soldiers with flags behind their backs entered the city, the landing of the Ming Army's 1st Marine Brigade also began.

This time, it was only one brigade that landed and operated.

It would be an exaggeration to use more than a brigade of marines to fight the Satsuma Domain.

In the eyes of the American missions and sailors on the USS Columbus and the USS Constitution, the soldiers of the 1st Marine Brigade rowed to the shore, and soon as a battalion landed and quickly took control of the docks, the transport ships that had been waiting for a long time landed and began to unload the cannons and ammunition, while the soldiers who had already landed quickly completed their assembly, and then the infantry and artillery armies began to march to the nearby city mountain. Just as they arrived at Shiroyama and completed the formation, the six-inch guns on the battleships on the shore slowly raised, and the spectacular flames erupted again, and the ninety-pound shells whistled through the air, exploding terrifying flames on Kagoshima Castle......

Well, this poor little castle is actually just over a thousand meters from the coast.

The flames of the explosion engulfed Kagoshima Castle in an instant.

Obviously, it is impossible for the defenders who have just taken refuge in the city to hold under this kind of shelling, although the power of the army's six-inch cannon with black powder is at most the level of a 105-gun gun in World War II, and the effect of bombarding a city is not great in theory, but the problem is that this Kagoshima Castle is too small. The so-called city of the Wa Kingdom is nothing more than a big mansion of a landlord's family, and it may not even be able to catch up with a post city if it is really calculated, and a small county town in China is larger than them, and this kind of pocket city can withstand this level of shelling. In less than five minutes, the defenders inside rushed out to make a decisive assault without fear of death, led by a general with an exaggerated and strange helmet on his head, a large group of samurai wearing armor, plus hundreds of low-level samurai and ashigaru, and even twenty or thirty cavalry rushed out together, holding all kinds of weapons and shouting to attack, and then ......

And then they had it.

A brigade of more than 3,000 breech-loading rifles against them!

These valiant warriors all fell a hundred meters away from the Ming army.

The general was also shot and killed.

Immediately after the formation of the Ming army stepped on the ground full of dead corpses into the ruined Kagoshima Castle, as a dragon hugged the sun and moon flag raised on the castle mountain, the castle of the Satsuma Domain was thus returned to the Ming Dynasty, including the lord of the Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Saiko, was also killed, in addition to his favorite son Shimazu Tadakyo, the most important minister of the transfer of Hirogo, all died in Kagoshima together. However, his other son, Shimazu Saibin, was not in Kagoshima at this time, and the Satsuma Domain was not only the castle of Kagoshima, but in fact, the entire southeast corner of Kyushu Island was the territory of the Shimazu family, because the Ming army was too fast to break through Kagoshima Castle, and the other high-ranking samurai who had fiefs had not yet arrived!

In short, Kagoshima Castle was conquered in this way.

"Your Excellency, are you interested in going to Edo together?"

Li Cheng, director of the Americas Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, boarded the Columbus and said to Webster with a warm and sincere smile.

"Perhaps your country can get a treaty as well."

Then he added.

"Why not? As friends, the Navy soldiers of the United States of America are very willing to join forces with the Ming Navy soldiers to punish those who dare to disrespect His Majesty the Emperor of your country with cannons, as a gift to His Majesty the Emperor of your country. ”

Webster said with a smile.

This is an invitation for them to fight together against the Japanese kingdom!

It also means that when negotiating with the Japanese state, the United States can also follow a piece of the pie, which can be said to be a gift to the door, and they don't need to do anything at all, just let the Columbus go over and fire a few cannons, and then the sailors organize a marine corps to land with the Ming army. With the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, there is no need for them to really participate in the war, it can be said that it is purely for nothing, and then the United States can participate in the negotiations between the two sides, even if the compensation is not a few, but it can take this opportunity to force the Japanese to trade, so this is also a country with a population of tens of millions, even if it is just to follow the Ming Dynasty to get a piece of the pie, it is also very exciting for the United States.

In other words, this is the famous El Dorado!

"Then please!"

Li Cheng said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, this is too cheap American, isn't it?"

And at this moment, in a newly built small building in Cuizhou, Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing, Lin Sheng, a scholar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, asked the Emperor in confusion.

At this time, Xuanwu Lake Cuizhou has been restored to the forbidden garden, and the other continents have become parks, so that the people can play casually, because the palace has not yet been built, and the God Emperor still lives in Chaotian Palace, but most of the time he still lives in Cuizhou, anyway, he does not have three palaces and six courtyards, it is nothing more than dozens of female attendants, and there is no need for too big a place, basically a slightly larger small building can be solved. And those female attendants are not always serving, they are in shifts like waiters, working three shifts twenty-four hours a day, and they can go home when they are not on duty, and there is no forbidden circumstance of the God Emperor, in fact, with the age of the God Emperor who is hundreds of years old, the problem of this woman is already very light.

The time and space of the Tang Dynasty belonged to the Qing period, and the time and space of the Southern Song Dynasty were not so serious.

After all, he is more than five hundred years old.

At this age, he is about to lose interest in women or something, and at present, he has been able to control his endocrine by himself, so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of some emperors due to aesthetic fatigue, in short, the god emperor at this time is not very interested in both beautiful women and beautiful boys.

Of course, if he needs to, he just changes his face and slips out.

But the God-Emperor is not close to women......

Well, it's not close to men.

"No big deal!"

The God Emperor said indifferently.

Since this is the case, Lin Sheng is not good to ask more.

Of course he didn't know, this was just because the Emperor felt that he was too slow to plague the Japanese Kingdom alone, and was ready to turn the Japanese Kingdom into a bus, not only the Americans, but in the future, he would also guide the French, the British and even other European countries to go to the poor Japanese people together, and turn the Japanese Kingdom into the role of our Qing Dynasty in the original history, and all kinds of jackals, tigers and leopards together. This is also the reason why he has not expanded the subject countries of Southeast Asia until now, including those small countries including Myanmar, and those small countries covered by the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty must have no right to reach out, after all, the Ming Navy is not something they can provoke.

But those who are not in the Ming vassal system, such as the Wa Kingdom, Brunei, Aceh, etc., are different.

It is not possible to invade the subject state of the Ming Dynasty.

But it can intensify the aggression against these small countries!

Those European and American colonists always have to find some targets to vent their excess energy, they live on the colonies, those who have become subjects of the Ming Dynasty have been clearly labeled as the Ming Dynasty, and they must not be touched in the case of not being able to defeat the Ming fleet, but those who do not belong to the Ming Dynasty will definitely become the fat meat they fight for, because the number is limited, they will definitely fight for these territories more fiercely, and they will also be more brutally squeezed these places because of the limited territory, and in the end, these places will be more miserable.

Anyway, Yang Feng has no interest in attacking these places in a short period of time, so it doesn't hurt to hand them over to the European colonizers to destroy.

What he wants is nothing more than the population reduction in these places, and if he doesn't have time to make a move, it will be the same if he hands it over to these European colonizers, anyway, the final population reduction is no different, and he took the Americans to open the gate of the Japanese country, and forced the Japanese to sign some treaties that humiliated the country, that is, to tell those European colonists that there is another fat sheep to be slaughtered here, and Emperor Yang generously invited friends from all walks of life to have a big meal in the Japanese country. He also told the other colonists that he had eaten enough in the East, and that he was lying on the side of the bison like a well-fed lion, watching his little brother eat the fat, so as to tell the wandering hyenas that he could already share food with others, that he had eaten a little, and that you could eat the rest together.

And for those small countries, it is also very simple to get the protection of the Ming Dynasty.

It's okay to believe in the God Emperor.

Those who believe in the Emperor of God are naturally the Emperor of God, and those who do not believe in the Emperor of God and believe in those heresies are eligible to be protected by the Emperor of God? Being colonized, exploited, and **** deserves it, even if it is all dead, it is none of the Emperor's business.