Wild North America 1846

Chapter 531

The Lunar New Year is the most important festival in the Tang Dynasty. Before the end of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, families in the Tang Dynasty are immersed in a strong festive atmosphere. Government departments are on vacation, and most factories and enterprises are also closed for vacation.

A heavy snowfall in the third day of junior high school made the flavor of the fifth day of junior high school more intense.

Just as the entire Tang Empire was celebrating the Spring Festival of 1870, in the State Guest House, Lord Guanbai Nijo Qijing, General Moto Takeyo and other members of the Tokugawa shogunate were preoccupied with the table full of delicacies but had no intention of eating. pharynx.

its root cause

It is now that the civil war in Fusang has been fought everywhere, and it has lasted for a long time.

Tens of millions of people in Fusang were involved in the flames of war and were displaced. The extremely tragic "Boshin War" left a ruin from the central capital of Kyoto to the southwestern half of the country.

The nationwide famine triggered by the war became more and more serious, and countless bones were exposed in the wild, and tens of millions of people died of hunger and turmoil at every turn.

It has been three years since the "Boshin War" and there is still no hope of a complete solution.

The Shogunate and the Fallen Sect had suffered heavy casualties each, and now they were like two exhausted samurai fighting in the mud, unable to fight any longer.

in the original history

In 1867, Emperor Fuso Komei died and Emperor Meiji ascended the throne.

On January 1868, 1 (Boshin Year), Emperor Meiji issued a secret edict "The Great Order of the Restoration of the Royal Government", intending to abolish the shogunate and order the shogunate general Tokugawa Yoshihito to "resign from office and accept the land". This move is bold but reckless , thereby intensifying the contradiction completely.

If you want me to die, then see the real chapter under your hands.

The shogunate was not helpless. On January 1th and 8th, Tokugawa Yoshinori announced in Osaka that the "Royal Government Restoration Order" was illegal.

On January 1868, 1, 27 Emperor's Army, with Sakura and Cho as the main force, fought fiercely with 5000 Shogunate Army near Kyoto. Tokugawa Yoshiki was defeated and left Edo, and the Boshin War began.

The Emperor's army made a large-scale eastward expedition, forcing Yoshiki Tokugawa to hand over Edo Castle on May 1868, 5, and put down the rebellious feudal clans in the Northeast by early November.

In the spring of 1869, the Emperor's army set off to Hokkaido, and on June 6 they captured Goryokaku (in Hakodate City), the last stronghold occupied by the remnants of the shogunate, and the Boshin War ended.

But today's history is completely different
The Tokugawa shogunate, which relied on the Tang Empire as its suzerain state, received great military aid and secretly trained 6.8 new troops equipped with advanced weapons and two artillery divisions in Beihai Province, eagerly waiting for the rebellious southwestern feudal clans to jump out.

Beginning of the "Boshin War"

The 6.8 new troops trained by the Beihai Province took the merchant ship provided by the Tang Empire and went south in a large scale, surrounded and broke through the Kyoto occupied by the "Fanbai" army, and retaliated wildly against the "Fanbai" army and townspeople, and bloodbathed the city of Kyoto...

With the support of the Tang Empire's funds and military instructors, the Boshin War was much larger and more intense than the original history, and the scope of influence naturally expanded accordingly.

General Tokugawa Yoshiki, the shogunate who won a big victory in the first battle, fell into fanatical blind arrogance, thinking that "the four powerful vassals in the Southwest are strong outside and middle-ranked, and they are nothing more than a clown".

After the shogunate army rested, on May 1868, 5, the troops marched southward in three ways.

The reality surprised General Tokugawa Yoshiki. The original move to divide the troops was extremely stupid. While weakening its own strength, it was extremely difficult to fight against the strong city and deep fortifications that had been operated by the Southwest Powers for hundreds of years.

in life and death

Satsuma, Choshu, Tosa, and Hizen’s four major feudal clans mobilized all their members, taking advantage of the high mountains and dense forests and geographical advantages to fight bloody battles with the shogunate army, and received support from other daimyo clans, as well as large sums of weapons and food supplies from the British. Grit your teeth and fight the war.

The bloody battle lasted nearly two years, and both sides suffered losses.

The Satsuma clan was crippled, the Tosa clan's resistance was basically wiped out, Changzhou and Hizen were still struggling to support them, and most of the new troops trained by the shogunate army suffered casualties and basically lost their offensive capabilities.

In order to support the "Boshin War", the Tokugawa shogunate successively borrowed three war loans from the Tang Empire to purchase a large amount of food and weapons, totaling 1650 million Tang Yuan. The war was indeed a gold-swallowing beast.

No...the money is gone again.

"For the current plan, the only way to do this is to ask the Tang Empire to mediate and unite with the British to mediate the war. If the fight continues, the Yamato nation will be over. More people will starve to death this year, and no matter what, they will not be able to provide relief." Master Er Tiao Qi Jing bitterly Said with a straight face, then poured a glass of white wine into his mouth, the spicy liquor made his whole face wrinkle together.

After a short pause, he slowly exhaled a strong smell of alcohol.

General Ben Wuyang nodded silently. This is the current consensus of the shogunate.

The unyielding performance of the Southwest Qiangfan made the shogunate army quite afraid.The war is fought with money and food, but the poor Fusang Islands lack both. How can the war last with borrowed money?

General Ben Wuyang picked up a piece of fat and thin braised pork belly with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. He closed his eyes and chewed slowly. The thick fat filled his mouth, and the deliciousness made him sigh uncontrollably. .

he said;
"Master Guan Bai, what I saw and heard in the Tang Empire these days made me feel deeply powerless. The grain here is piled up like mountains, and the herds of cattle and sheep are as endless as the clouds in the sky. The vast land Poor imagination.

It takes 23 days and nights to travel from Panama in the south to Vancouver in the north by train, across tropical rainforests, desert rocks, endless pastures and farms, from bustling metropolises to the white mountains and black waters in the north.

And this is only 1/3 of the territory of the Tang Empire from south to north (including South America, Yukon and Alaska). How can God favor the Tang people?

Even if my Yamato nation has 1% of the resources, it will not be reduced to such a desperate situation? "

Qi Jingguan Bai couldn't answer this question, he had nothing but envy and admiration in his heart, he said while eating;

"Master General, I'm afraid you haven't walked through the back yard yet, have you?

In the backyard of the State Guest House, the woods are covered with pickled salt pork, salted pork legs, salted ducks, salted geese, salted fish, sausages and other meat products, the quantity is too numerous to count.

This surprised me so much that I once asked the officials of the State Guest House about it.

The official replied;
Because the State Guest House has a lot of reception tasks all year round, the demand for meat food is huge. This year, there are more than 80 tons of cured bacon, tens of thousands of various salted ducks and geese, and there are about 26 tons. The fresh beef, mutton and fish delivered daily can basically meet most of the needs.

Pickling these meats is a tradition of the Tang people. In their own homes, at the end of each year, hundreds of catties of bacon are pickled and filled with dozens of catties of sausages, which can basically be eaten until early summer.

The Tang Empire had too much food to eat, so it encouraged township farms to breed fat pigs.

According to newspaper reports;
During a Lunar New Year festival in the Tang Empire, more than 1700 million pigs, 85 cattle, and several million sheep were slaughtered to meet the festival needs of urban and rural residents. "

Speaking of here
Guan Bai Ertiao Qi Jing shook his head and smiled wryly. These unimaginable numbers have exceeded his cognition, and he envied the happy life of these Tang people from the bottom of his heart.

You must know that raising pigs requires food. Pigs without food will not be fat or large. After two or three years of raising pigs, they will be eighty or ninety catties at most, with very little fat.

There is not enough food for people to eat, so where can they be used to raise pigs?

Because of this, fat pigs are an extremely rare resource in the Fusang Islands. To slaughter more than 10 pigs requires an approval letter written by Mr. Guan Bai. Being able to eat a piece of meat is almost as happy as Chinese New Year.

Like the subjects of the Tang Empire, eating meat with their stomachs open, the lord of the Fuso Islands would not dare to be so extravagant, no... the emperor would not dare to be so extravagant.

Most of the pigs fed in the Tang Empire were wheat bran and soybean meal. These good things were smashed and mixed into rice balls in the Fusang Kingdom. The townspeople in the towns ate this, and the people in the poor fishing villages could not eat it!

Most of them are rice balls made of mixed wild vegetables. The rice grains are so pitiful that they will not form no matter how hard you squeeze, and they will fall apart after steaming.

Fusang people often say that it is a very happy thing to eat a rice ball.

The rice balls they call are real rice balls made from rice, not rice balls made from wild vegetables mixed with rice bran, wheat bran and soybean meal.

The paddy fields in Fusang are intensively cultivated, and in years without chemical fertilizers, the yield is about three to four hundred catties per mu, which is already very high compared to the yield of wheat.

However, due to the large population and the need to keep rice seeds, there are many miscellaneous taxes and taxes, so the livelihood of ordinary farmers and townspeople is quite difficult, with little food and malnutrition.

"The heavenly kingdom is rich in natural treasures and rich resources. This is something we can't envy. Let's think about how to solve the troublesome civil war? After the Spring Festival, I guess it will be early March at the earliest. The Tang Empire Only then will he come forward to preside over the mediation."

"Early March is the beginning of March. Trouble always makes people feel uneasy."

"Master Guan Bai, do we still want to borrow another loan for this trip? There is no food in the country, and a large amount of food aid is urgently needed. At least 4 to 5 tons are needed to survive the intensifying famine right now! "

"Don't think about it, the food in the Kingdom of Heaven did not fall from the sky. It is unlikely that such a large amount of food aid can be purchased at a reasonable price. Thank God, not to mention that the money also needs a loan. Whenever I think about it, I have to go to Pray for help, I'm really disturbed!"

People are poor and short-spirited, but horses are thin and long-haired.

Guan Bai and Er Tiao Qi Jing feel like a beggar, holding a broken bowl every year, traveling across the ocean to pray for help, his inner self-esteem and self-confidence have long been shattered by reality, leaving only a thick ashamed.

Today's civil war in Fusang has shattered half of the country, hundreds of millions of people have been displaced, forming an astonishing wave of refugees, and countless people died on the road and in the dense forests of the mountains.

Praying for food aid during the spring famine is one of the main purposes of this trip.

Due to the severe famine in the Fusang Islands, not to mention 4 to 5 tons of grain, even 30 tons of grain may not be enough.

The aid of the Tang Empire will give hundreds or thousands of tons of grain, and the rest will have to be bought with money.

Then it involves the second purpose of this trip, requesting a huge loan.

1 tons of grain is worth about 4 to 5 Tang Yuan in the mainland of the Tang Empire, and at least 12 to 13 Tang Yuan can be transported to the Fusang Islands. The transportation cost is higher than the value of the grain itself, because the journey is too far away.

If you purchase 10 tons of grain, it will be 130 million Tang Yuan.

Guanbai Nijo Qijing estimated that the daimyo of the shogunate's feudal domain had almost 10,000+ tons of grain to survive the spring famine. The grain was just boiled gruel, and it was impossible to eat enough.

As for the rebellious Southwest and Northeast feudal vassals, the shogunate will not care about their life and death. The people are like weeds. Once a crop is cut off, a new crop will be born again.

(End of this chapter)