I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Needless to say, due to the fact that the nomadic peoples in the north are surrounded by wolves and their land resources are extremely rich, the Chinese nation has never been a sea nation for 5000 years.

Even when Zheng He sailed to the Western Seas, the huge fleet did not actually set foot on the ocean, but only advanced in shallow seas along the coastlines of the Asian and African continents.

After Liu Daxia, who consciously left a mark on his bones, but actually left a bad reputation for thousands of years, burned the charts, only pirates and Zheng Ming, who was born as a pirate, were the protagonists in the history of Chinese navigation.

But at the same time, China in the future will be an out-and-out maritime power.

Even in terms of trade volume, China in later generations can be said to be an "island country".

It sounds strange to say so. How could China be an island country with such a long land border?

But just looking at trade, it does.

Because in the trade volume in 2019, the vast majority of my country's trade is seaport trade.

The proportion of trade passing through land borders is smaller than that of the British!

You know, the so-called land border of the United Kingdom is only a short section between Northern Ireland and Ireland!

That was before the British left the European Union. If it is after Brexit, China's land trade ratio will be even worse than that of the United Kingdom.

In other words, in the future, my country will rely heavily on ocean trade, and our national interests are closely related to the sea.

But in this day and age, no Chinese are aware of this at all.

Even Lin Zexu only knew to strengthen the coastal defense, and never thought about going to Deep Blue.

In Zhu Fugui's impression, only the 26th year of Daoguang (1846) in the puppet Qing Dynasty had a flat-bottomed Chinese ship called Qiying, which was bought by the British and Chinese sailors together, and completed the feat of sailing from Guangzhou to London.

However, after Queen Victoria's visit, the ship was dismantled and the sailors were missing.

Regarding the structure of the ship, Zhu Fugui has blueprints in his hands, and even gritted his teeth and bought a top-end high-end model airplane to dismantle it.

Among the Chinese laborers, Zheng Baoguo, who knows how to sail a boat best, is just a fisherman. It would be good to sail a boat from Guangzhou to Changsha thousands of miles away.

It was too embarrassing for him to cross the Pacific Ocean.

Just as Zhu Fugui was thinking hard about how to break the situation, suddenly a sharp whistle sounded from the direction of the pier.

"what happened!"

Zhu Fugui quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted Zheng Baoguo who was stationed at the pier, "Is the white bandit from Seattle coming to attack?"

"Long live the report, it seems that it is not a ship from Seattle, and it seems to be coming from the open sea from the direction of the ship!"

"Outer sea?"

Listening to the report on the walkie-talkie, Zhu Fugui frowned.

Because of being suppressed by Port Angeles, and Seattle itself has a port, Brapeton, which is relatively inward, is not prosperous. Few ships arrive at the port every year, and it is only used as a transit point for gold diggers heading to the extreme west.

Why did he come to the ship just after he shot it down?

Zhu Fugui secretly thought it was bad luck, could it be because of changing Brapeton's name to Xinjin?

"Which country's national flag is the other party flying?" Zhu Fugui was ready to confirm the ship's registry before making plans.

"Flying the Stars and Stripes of Citigroup..."

"Sure enough, it's the Yankee's ship!" Zhu Fugui frowned.

"Long live, besides the Stars and Stripes, there is a very strange flag..."

"What is it?"

"It looks like a big golden circle, and there are three big butts inside the round tube...is it the three-butt flag?"

Zheng Baoguo replied not quite sure.

Chapter 110 The Messenger of the Tokugawa Shogunate

North America, New Bohai Bay.

The American merchant ship Pembroke slowly entered.

If you get close enough, you can hear a special ditty from this American merchant ship.

"さくら sakura,

sakura sakura,

Yayoi の空はyayoi no sorawa,

见渡すかぎりmiwatasu kagiri..."

Inside the boat, several women in kimonos with their faces covered in white powder are dancing lightly.

Sitting in the main seat are two middle-aged Caucasian men, and in the lower seat is a Japanese man who has been sitting for several months.

One of the white men was wearing a Japanese-style bathrobe, with a thick mane on his chest, and a drunken face.

He smiled and stared at the dancing posture of the geisha, and when they got close, he would reach out to touch them from time to time.

The other white man was wearing the official U.S. Army attaché uniform.

At the same time, he seemed to be in a slump, eating vegetables with his head covered.

Just looking at his skillful use of chopsticks, he is obviously no stranger to Asian culture.

"Lieutenant Colonel McCann, you are really boring. I remember that you were not like this when I saw you in Shanghai!"

The slightly drunk white man poured a jug of sake for the poker face named McCann beside him, hugged a geisha casually, and said with a smile, "Don't you want to try these little Asian lambs? I promise you will try it once and then come back again." I can't forget that these Japanese people are excellent at serving people!"

The middle-aged soldier named McCann raised his head and drank the sake, with an angry look on his face: "Asians are a lowly race, and they are not worthy of combining with us whites!"

McCann's undisguised vicious words slightly changed the faces of the young Japanese accompanying him, and one of the young samurai even clenched his fist unconsciously.

"Morishita, don't be impulsive!"

The companion beside him hurriedly reminded secretly.

The middle-aged Japanese in the lead, however, looked terrified, and immediately ran out of his position, lay down on the ground, and said in the posture of Doshizaza, "Your Excellency McCann, I was rude in the hospitality, please forgive me!"

"Hmph! A bunch of idiots who don't know what to say!"

McCann stood up abruptly, kicked the coffee table over, splashed tea and food on the geisha, and the women bit their lips so as not to scream.

"Don't think that you can make up for your responsibility for bombarding merchant ships with a few good words that don't hurt. Monkeys in East Asia will never learn what civilization is!" After speaking, McCann went back to his room to rest without looking back.

The leading middle-aged Japanese man lay on the ground humbly, not daring to move.

After a while, the white man in a bathrobe smiled and stretched out his legs and kicked him: "Jing Yi-kun, you can get up now, Lieutenant Colonel McCann's temper is not a day or two, you don't have to pay too much attention to it."

The Iihiro people seemed to be pardoned, like a tortoise turning over, struggling to get up, causing the white people to laugh.

Suddenly he stopped laughing, and whispered in a mysterious tone: "Mr. Yijing, do you know why Lieutenant Colonel McCann is so angry with you Asians?"

Yijing Boren wiped the fine sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, and said humbly: "Mr. William, please be sure to tell my brother so that I can pay attention to it in the future journey."

"Notice?"

William laughed, "This is not something you can solve. To tell you the truth, McCann was originally a cheerful guy, otherwise he wouldn't have applied to come to the Far East as a military attache at the consulate."

"However... I heard that when I was in Shanghai last year, McCann's only daughter fell in love with a man from the Qing Dynasty. This incident completely changed him."

Hearing this, Ii Hiroto quickly apologized and said with a smile: "There are people from the Qing Dynasty who are so ignorant of the sky and the earth. Sure enough, no matter in Japan or the Qing Dynasty, there are many stupid people who are uncivilized and can't understand the general trend of the world!"

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The reception was not complete, and Hiroto Ii took several young people back to the warehouse.

As soon as he entered the room, he said straight to the point: "My lords, the state affairs are difficult, please be patient!"

He took a special look at the young warrior named Xia Mori: "Corporal Morishita, the general ordered you to come to the United States to learn how to drive a warship. Please be patient and not conflict with the adults of the United States, do you understand?"

In the just-concluded war, although the Changzhou Fan was beaten black and blue by the Westerners, the strength they showed, especially the new formation of the Changzhou Fan, which used Western fast guns and the new gunboats that could drive away American merchant ships, caused a lot of trouble. The attention of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Therefore, in addition to coming to the United States to make amends and discuss compensation matters on behalf of the Tokugawa shogunate, Ii Hiroto also had needs for military purchases.

Since Hiroto Ii's uncle, Naosuke Ii, was assassinated by a ronin from the Mito and Satsuma domains in the first year of Wanyan (1860), the activities of the anti-barbarian faction have become more and more frequent.

Their advocacy was supported by young warriors from all over the country, and even fan masters, and various assassinations of foreigners emerged one after another.

For this reason, the shogunate paid compensation to the foreign powers many times, and arrested and executed those who assassinated the foreign masters.

This made the foreigners in Japan more and more arrogant, and incidents of raping women and beating gentry happened frequently.

Alcock, the British Minister to Japan, once marched in Edo Castle.

Later, he seized the Tozenji Temple in Edo Castle as the British Legation in Japan.

They even took people to show off their might on Mount Fuji, the sacred mountain in the hearts of the Japanese.

This guy has done almost everything that Chinese people want to do in later generations.

The emperor was naturally furious about this.

However, the Tokugawa shogunate chose to let everything go and make no bottom line concessions.

This intensified the antagonism between the Tokugawa shogunate and the young samurai.

From last year to the beginning of this year, this situation reached its peak.

In the end, the Changzhou feudal vassals combined with the ministers of the anti-barbarian faction in the imperial court to control the political situation in Kyoto and forced the Tokugawa shogunate to declare anti-barbarians. Starting from shelling American merchant ships, they declared war on the four countries of Rice, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, and Shimonoseki broke out. war.

The outcome of the war was not surprising.

The Japanese attacked fiercely, and none of the merchant ships of the four countries sank, only some sailors were lost.

But the revenge of the great powers followed.

Although the United States was busy with the civil war, the gunboat Wyoming happened to be on mission in Asia.

After receiving the news, the Wyoming immediately entered the waters of Yokohama.

The Wyoming, which had only 6 guns, easily destroyed the three main battleships of the Changzhou Fan, the Nimgo Maru, the Gengshin Maru, and the Guihai Maru (among them, the Gengshin Maru and the Guihai Maru were Western-style gunboats purchased in Shanghai), and also destroyed the Yokohama fort. .

In June, at this time, it was not the France that could be seen by people every day. The two warships Semiramis and Theodore of its Navy's Eastern Fleet launched an attack on Japan.

Among them, the Semiramis is a large battleship equipped with 36 heavy guns, which destroyed the fighting will of the Changzhou feudal lord and the shogunate in one blow.

The next step is the standard process of begging, signing, and indemnity.

To put it simply, as long as Japan is replaced with "My Great Qing", this script will be very familiar to us Chinese.

Chapter 111 Onboard

Since the Black Ship incident, the United States has been one of Japan's main sufferers.

In this Shimonoseki shelling incident, the anger of the United States is also the largest among the four countries.

Hiroshi Iihiro held in his arms the letter of credence written by Tokugawa Yoshiki to Lincoln, which was full of pleadings for forgiveness, talking about how he was forced to fight against the barbarians, and he really did not intend to offend the commander-in-chief's majesty.

It is precisely because of this that Hiroto Ii and his party have become thorns in the eyes and thorns in the flesh of the people with lofty ideals from the very beginning.

Hiroto Ii has also received personal threats many times.

Fortunately, the journey was safe and sound and finally arrived at Millikin, and the victory was just around the corner.

However, the Iihiro people did not relax their vigilance because of this.

Because the accompanying samurai who protected him on his visit to the United States this time were all orthodox samurai loyal to the shogunate.

But it is hard to say whether these young people have been bewitched by the heresies of the Yiyi sect.

Those passionate but simple-minded young people can't see the world in front of them clearly, and they don't understand the principle that we must first settle down when fighting against the outside world.

The Iihiro people know very well that Japan has no chance of winning a war with the big powers, even if the country is destroyed, it will only happen in an instant.

On the contrary, if Japanese women can be used to satisfy the appetite of Western adults, and women's bodies can be used to generate foreign exchange, the shogunate will be able to purchase enough Western equipment.

With these equipments, it is possible to suppress the powerful clan in the Southwest, and at the same time let the public (royal family) who are about to make a move recognize the situation.

Whether it is the integration of public and military forces or the return of the great government, this is a situation that the Tokugawa shogunate is unwilling to accept.

Of course, such magical things as going to war with Western powers are not within the scope of Ii Hiroshi's consideration.

After all, he once traveled to the Qing Dynasty.

He and Shinsaku Takasugi, a famous minister of the Changzhou feudal clan who also inspected the Qing Dynasty, came to the same conclusion: China is no longer the China of the past.

Foreign merchant ships shuttled and competed in Jingang, foreign business houses lined up in the streets, teams of sailors disembarked from warships to perform tasks, and the Waibaidu Bridge on the Suzhou River was only open to foreigners for free...

"Shanghai's momentum can be described as a British vassal state!"