At the bow of the boat, looking at Masahiro Abe and his party who were going away in embarrassment, Lin Weiye asked puzzledly: "Why don't you go directly to Edo and shoot the cannon and smash the Yellow Dragon?" ”

Xia Nan asked: "Only when the arrow is on the string and does not trigger can the deterrent effect be maintained, and the shogunate will be afraid." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info really bombarded Edo, how did it end, did we really launch a war of annihilation? Do we have the capability at the moment, just with the strength of this fleet and two battalions of the army? At the end of the day, we're here to blackmail, not to go to war. ”

He looked northeast, which was where Edo was.

"Moreover, I have been to Tokyo, and the central area is about seven to eight kilometers from the nearest coastline -- the rest of the narrow waters are difficult for large warships to get into -- close to 20 miles, and our shells can't fly that far even with their wings."

Lin Weiye understood: "I understand, instead of stopping at Edo Port to let them see through our details, it is better to stop here and keep them afraid." ”

"Exactly. The literati all said that 'a cannon can erode dozens of miles', and the deification of the cannon made it impossible for the ancients to accurately understand its true range, and if we did not fire at Edo Castle, they would fantasize that the cannonballs could fall in the city, and the unknown would cause them to be afraid, and they would not be able to play if they were seen through. ”

Five days later, Masahiro Abe came to Koshiba Village again as promised to negotiate with Xia Nan.

"Your Excellency, the Shogun agreed to most of the conditions and made only minor changes to some of the terms, but after the negotiations are completed, I hope that Your Excellency will be able to withdraw from Edo Bay and maintain peace with the shogunate."

Xia Nan was noncommittal: "Let's talk about the revised terms first." ”

Masahiro Abe replied: "Regarding the compensation part, one million taels is too much, and the shogunate can't come up with so much money, so how about changing it to 500,000 taels?" Your warships may henceforth call at any port in Japan, except the port of Edo, and shall not enter Edo Bay without permission; On the question that unpaid merchant ships could not enter the trade, we could order Nagasaki to cooperate, but exempt Japanese ships from commercial taxes. The other two, whether they are exempt from government punishment and 100,000 catties of sulfur every year, will be handled according to your words......"

"It's okay to pay less, but you have to make up an auspicious number, 500,000 to 600,000. It is also possible not to enter Edo Bay, and it is not a problem to be exempted from taxes on Japanese ships. But with the addition of the other two, there are only five...... Xia Nan frowned, "The first and most critical one, why not mention it?" What to do with the murderer? ”

Masahiro Abe was slightly embarrassed, bowed his head and said, "Please also forgive me, the murderer is one of the candidates for the future governor of the Shimazu family, and if he is arrested, I am afraid that it will lead to a joint war between the shogunate and the Satsuma domain, which will lead to the destruction of human lives......

Xia Nan sneered, "Just say that the central government can't help the local strong domain, why beat around the bush." ”

Masahiro Abe looked at his nose and his nose and his heart seemed to be deaf to this sentence - he really didn't know how to answer, and it was not appropriate to answer yes or no.

Xia Nan pondered for a moment and said: "In this way, I still feel the sincerity of the shogun, and I will not embarrass him about the murderer, and I will solve it by myself in my own way." But this article cannot be done, and it must be changed to another one. ”

Masahiro Abe was relieved when he heard him say that he didn't entangle the murderer, and when he heard the last sentence, his heart rose to his throat again.

"Allow me to recruit samurai in Japan, and I will not be subject to the ban on leaving the border under the shogunate's lockdown decree."

Xia Nan suddenly made this request, not on a whim. The attack on Nagasaki showed him the excellent hand-to-hand combat ability and excellent obedience of well-trained Japanese samurai, which were not possessed by the firearms troops. Although the bayonet armament gave the musketeers melee combat capabilities, and the training of the Qiongzhou battalion allowed the assassination tactics to shine, this tactic was more suitable for the battlefield than for hand-to-hand combat in confined spaces. In terms of purely cold weapons, the Japanese samurai who have been immersed in this way all their lives are far better than a single Qiongzhou battalion soldier. Therefore, Xia Nan had the idea of recruiting samurai in Japan as cannon fodder in hand-to-hand combat.

Masahiro Abe didn't expect the other party to make such a request, and was stunned for a moment. However, if you think about it carefully, during the Warring States period, many daimyo were destroyed, causing the samurai who lost their main generals to become ronin, and the number of these people was very loyal to the original main general, and most of them were unwilling to serve other daimyo or the shogunate, and it was a big hidden danger to wander between the feudal states. And the summer south recruited Japanese samurai, and he could only start from such a crowd, and he couldn't dig up the rest of the samurai who swore allegiance to the major names, and he also contributed to the elimination of hidden dangers for the shogunate. Moreover, this clause is nothing compared to the arrest of Shimazu Chiyo, and it can also lead the water to the east and direct the anger of this Ming general to the Satsuma Domain, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

He made up his mind and replied, "Your Excellency has no objection to what you said, and I believe that the general will agree." The contemptible people dared to decide for the general: the compensation was 600,000 taels; The recruitment of samurai was permitted, but not within the territory of the Tokugawa main family and the Gosanya; When it comes to apprehending the murderer, please take care of yourself, and Shogun Tokugawa will not interfere. ”

Xia Nan sneered in his heart: The so-called non-interference, I'm afraid it's the idea of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, right? Whether it was his own outsider who ate the Satsuma Domain, or whether the Satsuma Domain broke the teeth of the outsider, there was no damage to the shogunate, and it would only be happy to see it. However, he didn't expose the other party's thoughts, but just asked, "What do you mean by the so-called Royal Three Families?" ”

Masahiro Abe explained, "The Gosanke is the so-called daimyo of the pro-feudal domain, and the fiefs are in Kii (Tokugawa Yorinobu), Mito (Tokugawa Yoribo), and Owari (Tokugawa Yoshinao), and they are called the Kii Tokugawa family, the Mito Tokugawa family, and the Owari Tokugawa family. These three families are related to the Tokugawa family by blood, and have the right to inherit the shogun Seiyi, and if the Tokugawa family has no children, the heirs are selected from the Gosan. ”

Xia Nan heard it, isn't this just the rest of the Ming vassal system? He waved his hand: "This is no problem!" ”

Thus, the "unequal treaty" proposed by Xia Nan was finalized. Masahiro Abe, as the plenipotentiary of Tokugawa Iemitsu, signed an agreement with Natsunan called the "Edowan Treaty", and the first unequal treaty in history was released. It reads as follows:

1. The murderer who attacked Xia Nan was arrested by himself, and the shogunate would never interfere;

2. Compensation of 600,000 taels of silver;

3. To permit the Qiongshu Battalion fleet to call at any Japanese port outside Edo Bay;

4. No one under the banner of the Qiongzhou Battalion shall be subject to legal trials or sanctions in Japan, and shall enjoy extraterritoriality;

5. Any merchant ship coming to Japan must hold a tax payment certificate issued by the Qiongzhou camp before it can be traded in Nagasaki, but ships with seals in Japan are exempt from tax;

6. The Qiongshu battalion was allowed to recruit Japanese samurai in any feudal kingdom other than the Tokugawa family and the Gosanke family.