1850 American Gold Tycoon

The first people to see the black ships were fishermen fishing off the coast of Uraga.

Against the backdrop of the huge black boats, these fishing boats are as small as ants.

The fishermen in Uraga looked at these big black boats puffing out black smoke and sounding piercing whistles. Some were so scared that they were stunned and speechless, while others regarded these big black boats as coming from Monsters on the bottom of the sea, escaping in a hurry.

"Is this the black ship that was rumored to appear in Nagasaki? These monsters are so big!"

On the shore of Uraga Coast, the Chiba Dojo students who were studying swordsmanship looked at the monster-like Kurofune and sighed.

Before Nagasaki was captured by the American army, Namasa Nabeshima, the feudal lord of Hizen Saga Domain, and Osawa Yasawa, the chief minister of Nagasaki, had already sent envoys in advance to inform the Edo authorities about the American black ships.

In addition, the American fleet swaggered through the city along the way, which was very high-profile. Edo, which was originally lifeless, also caused an uproar due to this incident.

"We need to practice our swords hard so that we can defend our enemies from outside the country."

An older student said to the students in Chiba Dojo in a senior tone.

The students all nodded in agreement.

But there was an unusually tall student who looked at the thin and fragile katana in his hand, and then at the huge black ship sailing into Uraga Port, and murmured to himself in a skeptical tone: "Swords can really defeat people." A black ship? More than a thousand warriors stained the outer fort with blood, but they couldn't prevent the fall of Nagasaki."

This discordant sound made all the students at Chiba Dojo feel uncomfortable, and the older student became even more furious.

"Sakamoto! You Tosa country bumpkin, what are you talking about in such a depressing way!"

At this time, in the captain's room on the Roland, Liang Yao and Perry were looking at the Uraga generation's defense map. It could be said that there was no comparison and no damage had been done for a long time.

Compared with Nagasaki, Edo's coastal defense can be said to be completely useless.

There are five forts to the west of Uraga, namely Chiyozaki, Chidazaki, Hoshiyama, Oura and Kenzaki. These forts are all under the jurisdiction of Hikone Domain.

However, these forts were of little use. First, the artillery on these forts was old and had extremely limited range, and could not threaten ships entering and leaving Edo Bay.

However, the location of these forts was not good and they were too scattered, which further weakened the role of these forts.

Compared with these incompetent feudal lords in Edo, Nabeshima Naomasa can be said to be an outstanding figure among the feudal lords.

"The Tokugawa shogunate's response has been somewhat slow, and it has not yet given us a clear reply."

The Tokugawa shogunate's delay in replying made Perry impatient.

"We have already entered Edo Bay. It is unrealistic for the Tokugawa shogunate to turn a blind eye to us." Liang Yao said with his hands behind his back, "After six hours, if the Tokugawa shogunate has not responded, we will bombard Edo. Put pressure on the shrinking turtle Tokugawa Ieki."

"What if the bombardment has no effect?" Perry asked.

"Then land in Kanagawa." Liang Yao said confidently, "But this possibility is very low."

The paper strength of the Tokugawa shogunate was about 80,000, but due to the low organizational and mobilization capabilities of the Tokugawa shogunate, the actual mobile troops that could be mobilized were only 20,000 to 30,000.

This number looks very scary, but these are medieval armies, which are qualitatively different from Liang Yao's army.

Although Liang Yao left half a regiment in Nagasaki to control the external fort, he only had one and a half regiments of regular troops in hand that could be used for landing.

However, this half-regiment has complete troops and well-equipped equipment, so there is no problem in defeating the rabble of the shogunate.

What's more, he also has a navy to rely on, and the lineup is much more luxurious than Perry's simple American East India Fleet in history.

"Very low?" Perry was unsure. He learned from Liang Yao and Liang Sen that the Tokugawa shogunate had a lot of troops.

"Yes, with the lessons learned from Nagasaki, the Tokugawa shogunate will not rashly start a war with us directly. If we encounter resistance as strong as the Nagasaki Gaite Fort in Edo, it will be negligible." Liang Yao gave his judgment, "I think The Japanese shogunate is now discussing how to deal with us."

"Your Excellency, Colonel! Your Excellency, General!"

At this moment, Liang Sen walked into the captain's cabin and reported to Perry and Liang Yao: "A sentry ship came from Uraga to let us leave Edo Bay."

Leaving Edo Bay?

Liang Yao seemed to have heard a joke and just thought it was funny. If he left Edo Bay now, wouldn't he come here in vain?

"Who sent the ship?" Liang Yao asked.

"Uraga was sent by Tsutsui Masanori." Liang Sen replied.

"Let them go back and tell Masanori Tsutsui that we want to talk directly with the top leaders of the Tokugawa shogunate! He, an Uraga minister, is not qualified to talk to us directly." Liang Yao knocked on the desk and said, "If Tokugawa Ieki doesn't take the initiative If you want to talk to us directly, then we will break into the castle tower of Edo Ooku, and Colonel Ben will talk to him at the castle tower."

"Yes!" Liang Yao took the order and relayed Liang Yao's words to the people on the sentinel ship.

Liang Yao walked out of the captain's cabin and looked at the bustling Japanese people on the Uraga coastline while working overtime. He said to Perry: "General Perry, it seems that he still needs to put some pressure on the Tokugawa shogunate."

"Bombarding Uraga?" Perry asked.

"It's not Uraga, it's Edo." Liang Yao shook his head and said, "Bombarding Uraga is not as effective as directly bombarding Edo."

Perry nodded, agreed to Liang Yao's proposal, and sailed the ship into Edo

After the black ships sailed into Edo, each ship fired cannons in the direction of Edo. The huge sound of cannons made Edo chickens and dogs restless and people panicked.

In the imperial palace of Edo Oku, the twelfth shogunate, who was disturbed by the Western naval guns and the de facto supreme ruler of Japan, Tokugawa Ieki, summoned his guru to discuss countermeasures.

"General, the Americans are extremely rude. The envoys sent by me were driven back by them. They bluntly said that they would have a direct dialogue with our senior officials, otherwise"

Tsutsui Masanori, who looked panicked, hesitated to speak.

"What else?"

Tokugawa Ieki's brows instantly twisted into the word "Chuan".

"Otherwise, they will break into Edo and interview the general at the Edo Castle Tower about the founding of the country and trade." Tsutsui Masanori said with a wince.

"Ahem damn Americans."

He was so weak that he slapped his thigh with anger, but these Americans were very arrogant, but when they thought about Nagasaki, they did have the capital to be arrogant.

Tokugawa Ieki asked someone to bring the declaration of war submitted by the United States last year. This was the first time he carefully checked the declaration of war of the United States.

Before this, no one in the shogunate took America's declaration of war seriously, and no one would have thought that the United States would actually attack Japan and Edo.

Reading this declaration of war written in English, Chinese and Japanese, Tokugawa Ieki felt very conflicted in his heart, weighing the pros and cons of founding the country and continuing to seize it.

Let's open up mutual trade between countries. Once we open up trade with the United States, Russia (Tsarist Russia), England, France and other countries will definitely come one after another. How will we deal with it then?

Instead of opening up mutual trade, the American fleet is parked in Edo Bay, and their guns are pointed at Edo.