Edo Traveler

Seeing some commotion in the crowd, pushing each other, a few samurai of Owari feudal clan came forward and shouted, asking everyone to make way. After all, if there was a riot, it would become an excuse for Chuemon not to ask questions, and they would not let this happen.

Chuemon glanced at it with his hands and raised his eyebrows, and he knew that he was a "flying foot" when he looked at him wearing a haori and a hat. To put it bluntly, it is a postman, or a courier, so understand.

Hiking is a hard job these years. It usually takes eight days to go back and forth from Edo to Osaka. There is a full five to six hundred kilometers between the two places, and going back and forth in eight days is still a test of the feet of these flying feet. It doesn't mean how fast you run, it has to be good endurance, and it is not easy to run like this for a lifetime.

Basically, these flying kicks are relay races. Thanks to the blessing of the Edo Shogunate, the streets in various places have probably been renovated. A large number of lodgings and post stations along the way have also arisen due to attendance and accountability. Each site can be equipped with personnel, and even some key sites can be equipped with horses to send mail all the way.

But the hard work comes from the hard work. This line is quite profitable. At the beginning, it helped the two wealthy merchants between Edo and Osaka to pass on the redemption information, which is the paper currency "Yaza" currently in circulation in Japan. These banknotes circulate between Edo and Osaka and need to be checked regularly. So the "Golden Flying Feet" was born that quickly transported account books between the two places.

Later, the two houses and the big merchants began to issue promissory notes, which is a kind of cheque. The amount is larger and more can’t make mistakes. The original temporary "Golden Flying Feet" has become a fixed time. Set flying feet".

Now Feijiao’s business is no longer limited to the delivery of books and bills to the wealthy merchants, but also daily delivery of ordinary letters and packages that are not so heavy. Even many official documents of the shogunate were transported by flying feet that had established trade guilds.

After all, Hikyaku can send official documents from Edo to Osaka in four days, but the samurai of the shogunate is absolutely impossible to rush from Edo to Osaka in just four days. The samurai have all become masters, and they spared their lives so much that they refused to give up their lives to run.

"Today is not the day when flying feet will pass..." Zhuliu held the bamboo shoot bag, while watching the flying feet that controlled the rhythm, while breaking his fingers.

"It doesn't seem to be..." Chuemon was also counting his days.

Hikyaku departs from Edo to Osaka at a fixed time. Generally, it is the three days of 2, 12, and 22 of each month. Unless there is a natural disaster that will cause delays, there will be no delays under normal circumstances, so the people of Edo call it "three degrees of flying feet." The same goes for Hikyaku that departs from Osaka. It departs on the 6th, 16th, and 26th of each month, and there are few mistakes.

Owari is right in the middle of Osaka and Tokyo, and both sides are more than 200 kilometers away. Seeing the direction that man came from, it was the flying feet that transported letters from Osaka to Edo. Today is August 30th. It stands to reason that the Hikyaku from Osaka has arrived in Edo. The Hikyaku that suddenly appears now should be the kind that transports urgent items.

"Oh, it's an urgent letter from the shogunate!" Zhuliu's eyes were also very good, and he saw the word "Queen" written on the basket behind the flying foot.

Sure enough, the normal operation time of the entire postal line can be changed, and it would be a master if you add flying feet. Needless to say, this must be a message sent by Osaka to Tokugawa Ieki. Of course, it may also be a message sent by Kyoto. However, there is a Hikyaku service every ten days. What kind of major events need to be temporarily called for Hikyaku Express.

The emperor died?

Impossible. Chuemon still has some impressions. In history, the emperor of the new government was called Meiji, and the chocolate brand was still a liquid. His father Xiao Tomorrow is probably still a child now, because this servant was poisoned to death by Iwakura, and the death was quite sudden. Chungemon knew a little about it, and he must have only succeeded a few years later.

Then it's definitely not the death of the emperor! As for the emperor giving birth to a son, there is no need to use express mail at all, because the emperor Xiao Ming will be the prince, and the other princes are completely insignificant, and no accident is a decline in official status.

Is there anything else worth sending to Osaka or Kyoto? Chuuemon turned his head slightly, as if he had touched the side of something, and he didn't seem to touch it.

"It's not the news from Nagasaki..." Sukeru seemed to have thought of something too.

"Yes! It must be news from Qing Dynasty!"

Chuemon leaped up, because it was August 30th, the 22nd year of Daoguang, and the time difference between Japan and the Qing Dynasty was only one hour, which was completely negligible. And July 24th of this year, which is more than a month ago.

"Nanjing Treaty" signed!

One of the biggest historical events that shocked the entire East Asia was that the Qing State, the core of East Asia, was defeated by a mere 20,000 horses by a small state thousands of miles away, and signed the "Nanjing Treaty" that humiliated the country. As a result, Hong Kong Island was ceded and the compensation was 21 million silver dollars. The once incomparable lock-up system was completely broken.

It was not only that some people in the Manchuria finally felt panic, thinking that the country was depressed ~ www.readwn.com ~ next door to Japan, but also a large number of scholars were beaten up. If the news of Ningbo's fall was heard before, people would suspect that the Qing Dynasty might have been defeated. But at that time, there was still a trace of luck. I felt that the Qing Dynasty was so huge that it would not be defeated by a mere 20,000 people.

It was not until the signing of the "Nanjing Treaty" that humiliated the country, and the whole of Japan was awakened. The European powers have already reached the door of the country. If they shut themselves down again, they will be complacent, and Japan will surely repeat the mistakes of the Qing Dynasty. The country was smashed into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country by the British with powerful boats and guns, and plunged into an endless abyss.

"Has the Qing country been defeated again?" Shuroku's expression also changed slightly. As a "scholar," he certainly knew that after the Qing country was knocked out of the country, Japan would be next.

"This time I am afraid it is not only as simple as losing the battle..." Chuemon mourned in his heart, but he could only let out a long sigh.

"..." Zhuroku did not answer.

"Hachirou, that's it for today." Calling Amano Hachirou to close the stall, Chuemon knew that he could almost go back.

With such an earth-shattering event, the shogunate could not be in the mood to bother Ojang-fan and Akashi-fan such a shit. Driven by the fear in his heart, the shogunate must be thinking about how to resist the British who might be calling Japan in the next step. As for the disparity between Tokugawa Qizhuang and Songping Qixuan, it's yours!

The shogunate has no time to take care of this. Chuemon and Sukeruku are still staying in Owari to investigate. It is a waste of time. Even if you pack up your baggage and leave now, it's nothing serious. Tokugawa Qizhuang went to file a complaint with the shogunate, and the shogunate would not have time to talk to him.

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