Edo Traveler

Chuemon did not speak while drinking tea, but rather pretentiously ate cakes with a spoon. This twisted look, I didn't know it, I thought it was a sissy.

　　 Bao Ling did not continue to say that he did not like green tea, but he spoke highly of the fruit cream cake roll with honeydew melon. I ate the small piece in front of me in a few bites. It's not bad for him, so Chuemon asked him to quickly serve him another one. I can't say to invite someone to have afternoon tea, not even a snack is enough.

　　 "This cake tastes very good." Baoling's son, who is also a secretary, praised with a smile.

　　 "If you like, I will send someone another one tomorrow." Chuemon nodded towards him with a smile.

　　 Said that the son of Baoling is very famous, at least very famous in the history of China's customs. His name is Holaday Nelson Lee (~1898). As for the more widely known name in China, it is called Li Thai.

　　En, it is Li Thai who founded the modern China Customs and served as the first General Taxation Department of Customs. I am 21 years old this year, but he is already a "China Master".

　　Look at this, he might be sent to Yokohama to serve as the British Taxation Department of Yokohama Customs. But depending on what his father Baoling meant, it would be good to be a consul in Yokohama, who knows.

　　 "Have you heard that your country has had contact with Russia?" Bao Ling didn't move the cake that he had brought before his eyes, and wiped his mouth.

　　 "There have been contacts, and there have even been some conflicts."

　　 "Russia ever tried to colonize Ezo in your country?"

　　 "It started as early as a hundred years ago, but the people of our country kept paying attention and did not make it succeed." Chungemon felt that Baoling might be testing the relationship between the shogunate and Tsarist Russia.

　　 "That's it..." Bowing nodded, lowered his head to eat the cake, without saying more.

　　 Didn’t the United Kingdom have two frigates separated from the Mediterranean Fleet and guided the US forces into East Asia together to force the Shogunate’s founding of the country? The two warships arriving from the Mediterranean also brought news of the immediate Russian-Turkish conflict to Hong Kong Governor Bonham. Prior to this, Lord John Russell stepped down and the Earl of Derby became prime minister.

But the Earl of Derby’s prime minister did not serve for a few days. In the general election, the Conservative Party defeated the Whigs. The patron of Bonham, Lord Palmerzun, re-entered the government of the Earl of Aberdeen and served as the Minister of the Interior of the British Empire. He actually became The second person in the British government.

　　 Lord Palmerston publicly expressed his support for the Ottoman Empire’s sovereignty in Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Grand Duchys. Greatly angered Tsarist Russia, the war has begun!

　　Of course, the East Asian side does not know that Russia and Turkey have started war. It will take a few days for the news to reach Hong Kong. But the fact that the war does not go to war does not prevent Bonham from fighting for his patron, Lord Palmerston. Even if you can't pull the thugs, it's not bad for Tsarist Russia to be disgusted.

　　 The shogunate showed a certain degree of combat effectiveness in the founding conflict that just ended. Although it may not be able to fight against the regular army of Tsarist Russia, the conflicts between the colonists and the small armies of Tsarist Russia in the Far East have some chance of winning.

　　Do not seek victory, only seek harassment!

　　 And even if the shogunate’s new army is small, it still has more troops than Tsarist Russia in the Far East. If now Tsarist Russia has been able to pull out 10,000 Cossack cavalry in the Far East, he would have annexed the entire Northeast and North Korea a long time ago. This is not because the Trans-Siberian Railway has not been built yet, and there are only two or three cats in the Far East.

　　 The battle really started. The shogunate mobilized three to five thousand people. Not to mention sweeping the rule of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, at least it would be good to hit his colonial power hard and destroy the colonial achievements of Tsarist Russia.

　　 There are some colonial sites in Tsarist Russia, and there are only a few hundred people when they are full. These are all large colonial sites. The shogunate sent people to fight over, basically the same as a general military exercise.

Encourage the younger brother to charge forward. The history of bringing the British Empire to fight with dogs is very long. If you don’t want to talk about it, let’s say the Napoleonic Wars. In the British army, the most powerful fighting force is not the abducted British King German Army and the Scottish Highlands. Legion. In the past, the First World War was not about pulling the little brothers from Canada, Australia, and India to fill in the trenches.

　　 Now I am taking Ying to go to disgusting Tsarist Russia with Ottoman, naturally I hope to go to disgusting Tsarist Russia with the shogunate. If one more soldier was hacked to death, the tsar would lose one gray animal. Although Russia is large, its population is only so large. The manpower is consumed, and it can't be replenished for a while.

　　 "Does your country have a conflict with Russia?" Chuemon pretended not to understand and asked actively.

　　 "I can't say no..." Bao Ling's words were really full of diplomatic rhetoric.

"Understood."

　　 The two clicked until, after all, they did not get any authorization, but only a simple contact. Who knows when the war between Britain and Russia will start? It's really going to start. It's only useful to talk about it. Now it's just to explore the direction of the wind.

After 　　, I didn’t discuss any major issues in the afternoon tea~www.readwn.com~ Mainly exchanged views on the issue of opening and closing Yokohama as soon as possible. The shogunate can do it at any time, just follow the treaty. You can trade whatever you want, as long as you abide by the agreement not to leave your place of residence for seven days.

　　 It happened that Bao Ling was here, so Tademon asked, "Big British banks should have established business outlets in Hong Kong and Shanghai." When can I come to Yokohama to open a business? The shogunate is waiting for direct financial exchanges with the United Kingdom.

　　 Bao Ling just didn't know about this, and he hadn't asked about it before he came. But as soon as Chuemon opened his mouth, he guessed that the shogunate wanted to borrow money. After all, when he was docked in Nagasaki, he saw Blochov, who was full of joy. The Dutch reportedly had borrowed two million to the shogunate. , In exchange for a large number of military orders from the shogunate.

　　 The shogunate’s determination to expand its armaments seems very firm, and British financial institutions should not miss this feast. They must join the shogunate’s mass military order competition as soon as possible.

　　 "I will return to Hong Kong later, I will consult the banks and give you an answer as soon as possible." Bowring took this matter to heart.

　　 "Thank you for that." Chuemon nodded.

　　 Baoling didn't know that Britain would declare war on Tsarist Russia in March next year, but Chuemon knew. This news must be reported to the upper echelons of the shogunate. In the past, it was the British who could not replace the dead ghost in the Far East. Now history has changed, and the shogunate is rapidly colluding with Britain.

　　 By sending troops, perhaps you can get huge military aid from the British Empire for free. It is not only military aid, but also huge amount of financial aid, as well as a large amount of military investment. It would take the shogunate to spend several years to take two of them from the fingers of the British Empire.