Chapter 318

On May 1, 1867, when everyone was paying attention to the attitude of the Russian Empire towards the sanctions against the French Empire, the small country of the Far East, Sun Ben, attracted the attention of all countries.

Because on this day, the country's new emperor, Meiji, announced that the Japanese ben he led would enter the national reform, and the cabinet elders meeting was directly named Meiji-restoration.

At the same time, he announced that he would not join any fight against Western countries, so his ri would not sanction the French Empire, but would continue to use diplomatic actions to call on the French Empire not to wage war on the Kingdom of Siam, because the Japanese did not want to see to the death of innocent people.

At the same time, he called on Western countries to increase investment in Japan to help the economic development of China. At the same time, Emperor Meiji-Emperor also announced that Japan will purchase the most of the more than 10,000 supporting ammunition in the European army equipment from the Netherlands. Strong Mauser Rifle while buying 2 naval battleships of the most powerful naval power Britain.

After these arms purchases were announced, European and American countries could not help showing their greed. Obviously, seeing the fate of the Kingdom of Siam, the Mei-Ji-Emperor had just taken the hands of Toku-Chuan-King-Ki, the ruler of the Toku-Chuan-Shogunate-fu. Taking back the power, in order to appease the countries, especially the United Kingdom, and to check and balance the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, which has now become a general trend, was pulled in. Therefore, these two arms purchases can be described as carefully designed balances, not to mention, this is still a kind of purchase The protective effect brought by the arms purchase seems to remind those countries with ambitions for Japan that their interests are closely related to the great powers such as the UK and the Netherlands, and remind countries not to use the French Empire's practices on the Japanese.

The Meiji Emperor also appealed to the UK and the Netherlands for protection. In the end, the UK and the Netherlands passed the arms purchase in Amsterdam, London. The Meiji Emperor of Japanese Ben was finally relieved. .

European and American countries are interested in this poor country with a population of more than 40 million. After all, a population of tens of millions means a huge market. Among them, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, which had established commercial ties with Japan as early as the 18th century, attached great importance to it. The two countries expressed their willingness to provide assistance, including capital and technology, for the reform of Japan. The two countries strived to occupy more market shares. .

The Lincoln administration and the Davis administration also successively asked the Meiji-Emperor to open the domestic market to the two countries. The extremely weak Japanese had no choice but to nod their heads.

See here. Other European and American countries have come one after another. In this regard, riben has entered an era of using European and American technology to cooperate with its own reforms. Although many people in the country think it is economic colonization, more people think it is friendly, because the civilian life in the country has become better.

William IV doesn't care about the feelings of the Japanese people, he just thinks about how to occupy more market share of the Japanese. As early as the 18th century, ri was the most important source of platinum in the Netherlands, but in the war between Britain and the Netherlands , In order to contain the Netherlands, the United Kingdom began to block the inflow of Dutch silver in Japan into the Netherlands, so it entered the country, and the two sides fought those in power to join their ranks, and eventually the Netherlands was robbed by the United Kingdom. The shogunate fell to Britain.

However, after entering the 1850s, the voice of opposition to the Toku-Chuan-Shogunate in Japan grew louder and louder. Finally, after 1850, the previous emperor Taka-Ming-Tian-huang began to suppress Toku-Chuan. -The shogunate forces, but they were still successful, they died in early January of this year, and Crown Prince Muren succeeded to the throne under the name Meiji.

Meiji received a good cultural education since childhood, and was proficient in Chinese and Japanese and other Confucian classics, but since the seventh year of his grandfather Ka Yong, that is, in 1854, the major powers of Western capital in Europe and the United States forced Japan to sign an unequal treaty with him. After opening the door of the country, under the urgency of the national crisis day by day, the country began to accept the submissive mentality, and began to enter the era of submissiveness when it could not resist, that is to say, accept the Westernization of Japan.

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"Acquire knowledge equivalent to Western science and thought", "Learn the general trend of development at home and abroad", etc.

It is for this reason that Prince Muren, who is only a few years old, has a palace, but under the influence of this, he began to actively face the West, and he was unconsciously influenced by the ideological trend and influenced by different degrees of Western civilization, so he had the lofty goal of reforming the society. ambition.

Beginning in 1860, his father Xiao-Tomorrow-Emperor launched the overthrow of the powerful Toku-Chuan-Shogunate-fu. He saw his father's desire to return to the royal family's power, so he agreed with this approach, but he didn't want to, Before it was successful, his father Xiao-tomorrow-huang passed away.

So at the beginning of the Ming-Ji-Tian-huang's succession to the throne, when the official Toku-Chuan shogunate-fu feudal-rule was crumbling, because the Toku-Chuan shogunate-fu was helpless against the invasion of Western countries, the British dominated Japan. began to be invaded, so the Toku-Chuan family suffered a decline in influence at home.

Under the operation of the royal family in the country, the reverence-king-rejection movement that has sprung up on the major islands of the country has gradually developed into the reverence-king-down-curtain movement, and the southwestern powerhouses such as Changzhou and Satsuma who participated in the reverence-king-down-curtain movement advocate reforms The lower-level samurai of the bourgeoisie, represented by Kubo Toshinori, Kido Takayoshi, etc.

Most of them were born in the middle and lower classes of Japanese ben, and have strong dissatisfaction and deep anxiety about the status quo of the society, trying to find a way that is beneficial to themselves in the self-reform of the society, which makes them Piche demand the overthrow of De-Chuan- The shogunate ruled, they worked together to change the political status quo in Japan, participated in various fan-political reforms and reforms, and firmly grasped the real power in the fan. The power has fallen, tightened the exclusion and cold treatment of the De-Chuan Mu-fu, and the royal family, who was deeply opposed to the German-Chuan Mu-fu, was brought up as their backing. Facts have proved that this is right, the deceased filial piety-tomorrow-huanghe The current Mei-Ji-Tian-Emperor is close to them.

In the end, in early January 1867~www.mtlnovel.com~ Emperor Meiji held a secret meeting of Satsuma and Choshu Qiang, two strong reformers who were selfless, and formulated a plan to overthrow the Toku-gawa shogunate-fu by force. Action plan, and passed the Toku-gawa shogunate-fu "imperial" insider deduction action, and ultimately, they succeeded.

In order to save his position and life, the ruler of the Toku-Chuan-Maku-fu Toku-Chuanqing-xi preemptively presented a report on "returning the great policy" to the Emperor Mei-Ji-Ji on January 10, 1867, expressing that he would resign from the "Expropriation of the Barbarians". General" position.

However, at this time, the sakusaku faction that prevailed led the political-bian in the internal rule of Tokugawa, and instructed the Toku-gawa shogunate to hand over power peacefully to the Mei-Ji-Ten-Emperor. In March, the "Five-Article-Oath" - about" was released, and then the fall army defeated the shogunate-jun near Kyoto-to, and soon occupied E-do, Mei-ji Tian-huang renamed Edo to Dong-jing, and officially declared it as the capital on January 20.

Unexpectedly, Japanese bne, who has been low-key and quiet for 4 months, appeared now.

William IV's eyes suddenly shone, and he began to plan and calculate something.

"With me in this life, I will see how your Japanese rise up. In my eyes, you are just the nutrients for the rise of the Netherlands."