Edo Traveler

Vol 12 Chapter 55: Qingbao went to the house to talk about the cavalry

The ceremony of sending the Tokugawa family order was naturally very grand. At two or three in the morning, tens of thousands of various messengers in Edo Town were mobilized to clean up the streets.

After confirming and clearing the stray people on the road from Edo Castle to Ueno Kanei-ji Temple, monks chanting sutras began to be arranged along the entire road at four or five in the morning.

In addition to the large and small monks who opened 2,600 temples in Edo itself, monks from major temples in the country were also summoned to Edo. Mi gathered more than 90,000 monks, and it was only after the placement along the road was full.

When the singing and chanting outside the city lingered, a horseman rushed out of the city. Ma Bian, dressed in white, held a large flag with the word "Open the Way" written on it, and nothing else. Seeing this flag, everyone on the left and right knew that the Tokugawa family was going to send it out.

Different from the funerals of previous years, this time, 600 bannermen rushed forward on horseback as pioneers. All of them were selected from the flag book of suitable age and good equestrian skills, and used as cavalrymen to clear the way.

After that, there were 1,200 infantrymen from the training team, but the infantry didn't carry rifles or anything. All kinds of flags, banners, sticks and sticks held in their hands are destined to send spirits to the Tokugawa family.

After them, there are more than 200 daimyo riding horses. One by one dressed in a simple, sad face. If you don't cry out loud at this time, it will be disrespectful to you, right? That's not just a sentence. Anyway, I have been crying for so many days, and now I am crying hard, and I have to wipe two tears, which makes people feel very sad.

Of course, you can't cry too loudly. If you cry too loudly, it can be considered a disgrace before the king. You have to cry in moderation, you can't scratch your face or anything, it's too embarrassing, and you don't have the dignity of being a prince.

After the group had finished, it was Tokugawa's turn.

Originally, the idea of ​​Zhongyouemon was to learn from the Western model, and directly use the cannon to pull the coffin to show the situation of the general who immediately seized the world, immediately ruled the world, and at the same time gained the support of all the armies. It's just that in the end, the ministers of the Muge did not agree with this method, saying that it was too much beyond the usual practice.

So in the end, everyone still compromised and used the big bar normally to carry the Tokugawa family out. It was carried by more than 80 people when it was inside the Sewa Western-style Museum in Edo Castle. After they were carried out of Edo Castle, they were replaced by more than 120 people. It was carried all the way to Kuanyong Temple, and then it was buried.

After all these have passed, it is Chuemon and others, as well as a group of close officials, including foreign envoys, who are close to the guardian spirits and slowly walk with the team.

The whole journey is about eight or nine kilometers, and it may not be possible to walk in half a day, so I am busy.

After a day of running back and forth, I finally settled this matter. The Tokugawa family was also considered to be buried in the ground. When he was buried in Kanei Temple, Tokugawa Keibao, the guardian of Kyoto, who came back from Kyoto overnight, cried miserably. He looked like a dead father.

The Chuemon guards who watched it were unbearable. In the end, Tokugawa Keibao was loyal to the shogunate, far better than other ordinary people. With such sincerity, even a foreign envoy would feel that this person can handle it. Gu Yu

After crying, Chuemon originally said that Tokugawa Keiho would stay in Edo for a few days, just in time to discuss the future administration of the shogunate. As the head of the Owari family, one of the three imperial families, Tokugawa Keibao is also an important minister relied on by the shogunate. It is also quite necessary to have his support for some things.

After all, there are hundreds of Shinsengumi guards in Kyoto. After a large-scale arrest, the rioters in Kyoto have been suppressed. There is no problem with Tokugawa Keibao being away for three or five days. And now that the train is connected, you can arrive one day and one night, and it is extremely convenient to come and go.

Tokugawa Keibao said that he had no talent or virtue, no great ability, and everything obeyed Shangmao's instructions. You treat me as a gun in the hands of the shogunate, and shoot wherever you want. The remaining major affairs of the shogunate will be handled by the shogun's Gong Gong, and I am only responsible for taking care of the stall in my hands.

Chuemon asked him again how the 2nd Osaka Division, which had been training recently between Osaka and Kobe, was doing. Tokugawa Keibao also answered truthfully, saying that the troops were quite capable. Cooperating with the strong city of Osaka, it is impossible to defeat tens of thousands of people.

Before Chuemon was about to open the main line of the Sanyo Railway, Matsudaira Qixuan and Sukeroku were still worried. Now, after listening to Tokugawa Keibao's words, it was naturally nothing to worry about. After all, there is no need for Tokugawa Keibao to deceive us. He must have seen it in his eyes and confirmed it before saying so.

Moreover, Tokugawa Keibao also specially said that the French cavalry skills are quite good, and the cavalry department should be added immediately in the restructured army non-commissioned officer school. Although the rate of fire of muskets is getting faster and faster, the power of cannons is getting bigger and bigger, and cavalry is not suitable for impacting infantry phalanx, but in such battles as breaking the logistics line, reconnaissance, and covering the battlefield, the cavalry is still very good. Good to use.

The shogunate could not only have the few hundred cavalry of the 2nd Osaka Division, but had to train and train more cavalry in order to gain an advantage in future wars.

What he said was not just about foreign warfare. External operations are most likely just naval battles or near-shore landing battles. Internal warfare requires cavalry to carry out large-scale battlefield cover and surprise attacks on the enemy.

If the shogunate had thousands of cavalry, then if anyone in this world wanted to rebel, he would become blind and deaf as long as he raised an army. Thousands of cavalry were enough to cut off all sources of information about their army, and all logistical supplies were destroyed. In the end, a decisive battle had to be fought on the positions set by the Shogunate.

The suggestion is very good~www.readwn.com~ Songping Qixuan was the first to express his approval. It's just that Japan doesn't have so many good horses. Since the Tokugawa family made diplomacy with France and obtained foreign ocean horses, the shogunate has been trying to cultivate excellent military horses suitable for its own use. But nurturing is not a game, and within three or five years, the results are hard to see.

So the shogunate only had so few cavalry.

It's not that I don't want it, it's that I can't want it temporarily.

The status quo is so, helpless. Tokugawa Keibao also knew that he said that he could add horse farms in the Ezo region and the West Country region. The Ezo area is sparsely populated, and it is a good place to breed good horses. The western part of the country has a long history of animal husbandry, and it is easy to obtain talents. At the same time, it is close to Kobe, which is convenient for importing Yanmar.

By the way, the French have already eaten Japanese Tajima beef in Kobe and thought it was delicious, so they gave the Tajima beef a new name "Kobe beef". And it was also passed on to the outside world that Kobe beef was delicious and was going to be funded to cultivate.

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