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Chapter 75 Britain’s Purpose

This was not the first time that Sa Daoyi encountered an assassination. When Britain first chose Tozenji as its embassy, ​​he and Minister Alcock encountered an assassination.

It was obviously the first time for Gilad to meet him, his face was pale, and he had not recovered his senses for a while.

Sa Daoyi asked with some dissatisfaction: "Mr. Yagyu, I heard from the shogunate that you should clean up all the anti-barbarian elements in Kyoto."

Yagyu shook his head slightly and explained: "I just suppressed them so that they could not be as unscrupulous as before. There are still too many anti-foreign radicals hidden in Kyoto. Their purpose today is to kill you two and destroy this time. negotiations."

Gilad was puzzled: "Why? Opening the port will also be good for you. We will bring advanced civilization to you."

Yagyu asked: "Are they really all benefits? As far as I know, the price of your goods is far lower than the price of our goods, and the quantity of goods is huge. When your goods pour into our country in large quantities, there will be many people Bankruptcy and social unrest.

Because of these problems, many people do not want to open Hong Kong, so they try their best to prevent it.

But I know that our country has fallen behind and needs to learn from your technology, so I agreed to open the port and facilitated this negotiation.

I sincerely hope that this negotiation is a win-win situation so that I can continue to open the port. "

Sa Daoyi sighed and said: "These things cannot be decided by me as a translator."

Yagyu stood up and said, "Sorry, you two, we can't hold the banquet tonight. It's better to go back to the palace and rest."

Sa Daoyi and Gilad did not refute, and immediately followed Yagyu Sheng out of Flower Street and returned to the Procuratorate for Non-Violations.

Because of the assassination, Satoyi and Gilad did not dare to hang out in the streets of Kyoto. They could only teach Yagyu to learn English and French every day.

Yagyu has a foundation in English and learns quickly. French is starting from scratch and the progress is relatively slow.

Sa Daoyi, who was not very busy, decided to write a letter to the embassy.

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Tozenji Temple is the British Embassy in Japan. Generally, few Japanese people come near it, and the officials only go there because of official business.

On this day, the official brought a letter to the acting minister John Neal.

The embassy assistant received the letter and handed it to Neil as soon as possible.

Neil looked at the signature and said with some surprise: "Oh, it's a letter from Sa Daoyi from Kyoto. It seems that Sa Daoyi has a lot to say."

Clerk Mitford asked curiously: "It seems that Mr. Neal is looking forward to the content of this letter."

Neil held up the letter, looked at everyone and said, "Of course, I think you will also be interested, but I want to take a look first."

He opened the envelope and took out several pages of letter paper and looked at them one by one. The first page was written about the meeting between Satoyi and Yagyu in Kyoto when he first arrived in Osaka.

Neil read it out directly, which attracted the attention of Mitford and others.

Mitford was surprised: "This ambassador named Yagyu Heiyan can really kill more than 100 people by himself?" Another secretary Orifan said: "It is very possible that last year, this incident happened in Edo There was a lot of fuss and many Japanese people were discussing this matter."

Wei Jinsheng followed up and said: "Haven't you noticed? This murderous Ambassador Yagyu also trained an infantry team. You must know that many warriors in Edo relied on swords and disdained foreign guns. This swordsman If you are so powerful, why would you train an infantry team?”

Neil was also somewhat interested and put forward his own opinion, saying: "Wei Jinsheng, this Ambassador Yagyu is from the founding faction, and he is the one who is forcing the shogunate to open the port.

Such a person will naturally not be short-sighted and think that the sword is the master of the battlefield. I can only say that this Ambassador Yagyu is not like the people in the shogunate. "

Milford nodded and said: "Mr. Sa Daoyi has written a lot. It seems that Ambassador Yagyu has many things that surprise us."

Neil changed the next piece of paper and read: "Mr. Yagyu's execution ability is very fast. Mr. Gilad from the French Embassy and I started teaching Mr. Yagyu on the second day after we arrived in Kyoto.

Mr. Yagyu learns English very quickly. I estimate that within six months, Mr. Yagyu will be able to speak fluent English. However, Mr. Yagyu’s progress in French is not that good.

Mr. Yagyu spends eight hours a day studying the language. The rest of the time he has to deal with security issues in Kyoto, and he will also take us to observe the training of the infantry team.

I have to say that Mr. Yagyu’s men are trained very strictly, and they will be beaten and scolded if they make the slightest mistake. I believe this will be a well-trained army.

In addition, I have some information to explain about this opening of the port. On the evening of my arrival in Kyoto, Mr. Yagyu invited us to a banquet in Flower Street. During this period, we were assassinated. Those people were targeting me and Gilad. Here comes sir.

Mr. Yagyu explained to us that there are still many people who oppose the opening of the port. Once we start trade at the port, we may also encounter damage from our own side. Mr. Yagyu hopes to get more benefits during the negotiations. Soothing..."

Sa Daoyi's letter was very long. After Neil read it, he couldn't wait to take a sip of tea and then asked: "What do you think?"

Milford felt a little sorry for Sa Daoyi and said: "Mr. Sa Daoyi is so pitiful, and those Japanese are too barbaric."

Wei Jinsheng thought seriously: "If those radicals continue to carry out sabotage and assassination after the opening of Hong Kong, it will be a big trouble for us. Moreover, if Mr. Yagyu fails to handle the problem well and loses his official position, maybe the opening of Hong Kong Again, it’s a long way off.

Mr. Neil, I think we can make some concessions on some inconsequential conditions. "

Neil nodded slightly and said: "Wei Jinsheng, what you said makes sense. If the Japanese court can support us, then we will have forces in the Far East that can contain Tsarist Russia."

Speaking of Tsarist Russia, Wilkinson said rather angrily: "Tsarist Russia is so despicable. We defeated the Qing government, but it gained more than 150 million square kilometers of land!

If we had not handled the matter of Tsarist Russia going south for Japan in time, Japan would have become the territory of Tsarist Russia. "

Neil knocked on the table and said: "If Yagyu Hiyan is worth cultivating, we can make some concessions. Now we must curb Tsarist Russia's expansion in the Far East!"

Although Tsarist Russia was defeated in the Crimean War, Tsarist Russia had strong financial resources, especially the reforms carried out by Tsar Alexander II, and Tsarist Russia's strength was recovering.

Britain did not want to see a giant, so it tried to win over forces around Tsarist Russia in many ways, and Japan was one of the options.

　I slept for fifteen or six hours today, and I finally felt a little more awake.

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(End of this chapter)