Matsudaira Yasufuku's head was eventually cut off, he was ordered to be disemboweled, and then his head was cut off by mistake, embalmed with lime, and put into a wooden box. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This head was given to the Tang people as a gift, and Tanuma Yiji personally placed the wooden box in front of Lee Seung-an's eyes, which made Lee Seung-an startled and almost made a fool of himself.

"The Tang Dynasty of the Fu Wei Holy Dynasty originated from the thousand-year-old Li Tang, and its prestige was extended, and its edification was preached, and the barbarians from all directions were respected. Open the public and the benevolent way, the virtuous should govern, and the people's livelihood is happy. Since the time of Li Tang thousands of years ago, Japan has taken Tang as its teacher, been educated by Tang Dynasty, humble and obedient, and has been civilized today. The minister Matsudaira Yasufuku betrayed the friendship between the Lord and the Tang Dynasty, and acted ill words, causing the swords and soldiers of our two countries, and the lives of the people were devastated, and begged the Tang Dynasty to raise his noble hand, and my Japan was willing to attach it to the peace between the two countries through the ages. ”

Tokugawa Ieharu personally inscribed the letter, and Li Shengan roughly skimmed it. In this era, learning Chinese is a necessary content for Japanese people with relatively high status, so the shogun can also write letters in Chinese. Li Sheng'an put down the letter, looked at the shogunate old Nakata Numa Yoshiji who was kneeling there, and thought about the domestic explanation.

Mutsu Izuha has already been defeated, and there is absolutely no reason to hand it back, so Li Shengan understands that no matter how he talks to Tanuma Yiji today, he must not make concessions on this issue.

Li Sheng'an pretended to be still angry, and said: "A letter and an inexplicable head, is it the greatest sincerity you can show?" ”

In fact, Tanuma Yiji can roughly see that the young Tang Governor in front of him is not an old and spicy politician. But the trouble is that behind this governor Li is the powerful Tang State. And he understands perfectly well what his country needs. And his conditions must have been predetermined, and he didn't have the power to decide, so it was impossible for Tanuma Yoshiji to talk to him about something.

"Lord Li, my country is deeply sorry for this faux pas, and I hope that we can express our remorse to your country in an appropriate way, and hope that your country will be magnanimous and forgive us." Tanuma said.

Li Sheng'an sat there and said with a serious face: "I am personally very disgusted and angry with your behavior. ”

Obviously, it was the Tang people who first laid down the Matsumae Domain. Then the shogunate courtiers spoke disrespectfully to the Tang Dynasty. However, it is not a reasonable thing to do now, and the Japanese have never believed in perfect righteousness, but rather absolute strength.

Li Shengan continued: "The matter between the two countries has gone beyond my jurisdiction. Now whether there is war or peace between Datang and Japan still needs to be decided by the State Council of China. ”

Tanuma Yoshiji didn't know much about it, and asked, "May I ask what kind of government affairs your national government is specifically responsible for?" ”

Li Sheng'an said: "You can regard my country's State Council as your shogunate or the Qing court, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the State Council is responsible for foreign affairs. I have no right to unilaterally end this war with you, but if the shogunate really wants to cease the war, I can send a ship to send the shogunate's envoys to Los Angeles, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, where you can start negotiations. ”

Tanuma nodded inwardly. He had long hoped to be able to go to the country of the Tang people to see it. He encouraged business development and had a modern vision. A country so strong, he hoped to find out why the Tang State was so strong. After the bombardment of Edo, the shogunate came to the conclusion that even if the shogunate combined the forces of other daimyos, it would not be able to defeat the Tang army, so in order to maintain the national system, it had to give in to the Tang people. Tanuma Yoshiji even proposed to learn from the Tang Dynasty and learn the knowledge of national progress, thus making Japan stronger. Shogun Tokugawa Ieji agreed with Tanuma Yoshiji and decided to decide the state of war with the Tang people as soon as possible, and at the same time improve the relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and use all means to learn the skills of the Tang people.

When Tanuma Yoshiji left, Lee Katsu-an sent a passenger ship to pull the small broken ship he brought back to Edo, and when Tanuma Yoshiji approached Edo Bay, he changed back to the Japanese ship and arrived at Edo Castle. With Tokugawa Ieharu's approval, he assembled a delegation of more than 100 men, boarded the adrift Tang ship in the bay, arrived in Sapporo, changed to a larger ship, and sailed directly to Los Angeles.

Just these two large ships with a speed of about 12-14 knots shocked Tanuma Yoshiji, who wrote in his memory: "The size of the Tang people's sea ships is nearly 10,000 stones, and they can carry thousands of people, and one ship is more than dozens of Japanese ships, which is amazing." It is rumored that the Tang people are good at business, and they sell their own commercial goods from all over the world, which is unmatched. The size of the ships and the number of cargoes carried alone are far superior to other countries, and they should be ahead of the world. ”

Not only was he amazed, but Tanuma also wanted to understand how this sea ship could travel so fast without relying on sails and oars. The Europeans also knew the steam engine, but the Japanese didn't understand anything. Even Tanuma Yoshiji, a fairly enlightened politician, had never heard of the steam engine from the Dutch. And many of the crew members of this ship were Americans and Europeans, and they didn't know much Chinese, let alone Japanese, so Tanuma Yoshiji and his envoys tried to get information many times but failed.

In the end, a Japanese translator who accompanied them directly told them that the reason why Datang's ship could run so fast was because of the steam engine. The translator knew that it was not taboo to explain this, in fact, Datang now exports many steam engines and steam ships to European countries. Tanuma wrote down these things like a treasure, such as the steam engine burning coal, producing steam as a thrust or something. He believed that the Japanese could make such things themselves by understanding these principles, but he somewhat underestimated the difficulty of the industrial age.

On the Kara boat, Tanuma saw a lot of things made of metal, and it was unbelievable to the Japanese that there were so many metal products. The ground deck of the ship is metal, the doorknobs are metal, all kinds of special tools and even the spoon for eating, Tanuma Yiji keenly estimated that the strong strength of Datang had something to do with their perverted metal production. Most of the iron produced in Japan today has been turned into farm tools and katanas, and they don't know that metal works better when made of other things, but they don't have that kind of luxury at all.

This time, Tanuma asked the Japanese translator how he could produce more metal, but the translator told him that he didn't know.

It took more than ten days for the ships to sail from Sapporo before the Japanese shogunate delegation arrived in Los Angeles. There was no grand welcoming ceremony, and not even a special official came to receive it. However, the Japanese people did not feel humiliated by the cold reception, on the contrary, they were immersed in a great shock at the moment.

As the largest port in Datang, the Port of Long Beach is extremely busy. Hundreds of ships were anchored here, bringing all kinds of raw materials from Hawaii, South America, the East Coast, Qing and other places, and taking away various goods produced in China and distributing them to Europe, the United States and Qing China. At the same time, tens of thousands of immigrants every month make the port always popular. I don't know if it was intentional or coincidental, but on the day of Tanuma Yoshiji's arrival, the port did not receive immigrants, only the loading and unloading of various raw materials and commodities. But despite this, it was still completely subdued by Tannuma and others.

People always talk about the beauty of industry, and it is undoubtedly this kind of industrial beauty that Tanuma and others now experience -- it is the beauty of greatness, beauty, strength, and strength, but it is full of heat in the cold metal, and it is full of vitality in the strict and rigid procedures. Huge port equipment stands in the port area, shore cranes, cranes, gantry cranes, grabs, conveyor belts, conveyor pipes, winches, tractors, they all perform their duties, and send a cargo to where it should go. Hundreds of ships in the harbor were either docked or sailing, and their eyes were full of huge ship shadows, the smell of burning coal in their noses, and the muffled whistle that constantly echoed in their ears.

Some in the Japanese mission even thought with horror that this was a terrible and strange hellish world, but Tanuma knew that he had found a paradise, and he could see clearly the strength behind all this, which he had never imagined in the shogunate.

He said to his colleagues in the mission, "We should be glad of the Shogun's reputation, such an opponent we cannot defeat." ”

At this time, the Japanese translator took the group of Japanese like Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden to the parking lot of the port, where several buses were already waiting. The explosion of population has made the competition in the automotive industry more intense, especially the emergence of new competitors, which has made both GM and FAW feel threatened. Several of the buses here come from Yutong, a professional bus manufacturer that has been established for less than three years.

Like a group of elementary school students on a spring outing, Tanuma Yiji boarded the bus one after another, and Tanuma Yiji touched the soft sponge cushions, very surprised. As the bus started moving, a group of Japanese people let out a startled sound.

"There's no livestock pulling the cart at all!"

"Running so fast, faster than a horse!"

"I mean, it's much better than riding a horse, it's steady, it's not bumpy at all."

There was a lot of talk in the Japanese, and Tanuma Yiji seemed to have become a little accustomed to the surprise that the Tang people brought him. He thought about it, and wrote in his memory: "The Tang people seem to have studied the laws of the operation of many things, and thus created all kinds of miraculous machines that can replace more manpower, or can make people work better." A country with machines, even if the population is only one million, may exert the strength of ten million people. Japan is going to get the machine anyway! (To be continued.) )