I assembled the strongest swordsman group.

The British side received the goods with dignity.

Everyone's happy!

The world where only Samo was injured is now complete!

Samoa will likely have some reservations about Qing Deng's actions.

However, Qing Deng cannot be blamed for this.

Anyone with a modicum of rationality knows that this doesn't even qualify as shifting the blame.

The "raw barley incident" was a mess caused by Satsuma, so it is perfectly reasonable for them to clean up the mess.

In terms of the outcome, the shogunate achieved a perfect result in this "Shogunate-Hei negotiations," directly achieving a perfect effect of killing two birds with one stone!

Firstly, Edo was spared from disaster, thus averting the risk of war.

Secondly, it weakened the strength of Satsuma.

The former is easy to understand.

As for the latter—given the current political landscape, the shogunate must both severely crack down on Choshu and appropriately guard against Satsuma.

Although Satsuma is currently maintaining neutrality... to put it bluntly, it's playing the fence... unlike Choshu, which openly opposes the shogunate.

However, no matter what, it is still an outsider daimyo, and a very powerful one at that.

The influence of the Satsuma Domain's rebellious forces was considerable.

After Shimazu Hisamitsu came to power, he orchestrated the bloody "Teradaya Incident" and used an iron fist to suppress the pro-revolutionary forces within the domain.

Although a major purge has taken place, the pro-imperial forces within the Satsuma Domain have only temporarily gone into hiding, and there is still a possibility that they will rise again.

Who knows if Satsuma will later turn against them and form a united front with the Choshu Domain?

Therefore, it is necessary to find a way to weaken its power.

How Satsuma will deal with the British fleet that is about to visit its doorstep is none of Qingdeng's business.

However, he still felt a little guilty about it.

After all... Satsuma is the hometown of Tenshōin.

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"Edo relieved! 'Niou' Tachibana Ao takes to the screen to repel the British warships"—this news spread like wildfire to all directions.

Although people often say "good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels fast," this time is an exception.

This is an incredible stroke of good news that has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Edo!

My heart, which had been suppressed for more than a month, was finally freed.

The excitement and jubilation of the people of Edo were beyond words.

In just half a day, the great achievements of Seido were being sung everywhere in and around Edo.

Immediately afterwards, Tokugawa Iemochi and Tenshōin, who were still in the Tōkai district and on their way back to Edo, also received the good news from Seidō.

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Donghai Subdistrict, somewhere—

What happened to the big tree?

"After reading the urgent letter, he burst into laughter, beaming with joy."

"This is the first time I've ever seen the old tree so happy."

"Yes, he is usually expressionless, making it impossible to guess what he is thinking. He doesn't seem like a 17-year-old boy at all."

"That urgent letter must have contained some great news."

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During the break, Tokugawa Iemochi's personal attendants gathered together, whispering and discussing the strange behavior that had just occurred to him.

This all started 10 minutes ago.

Ten minutes ago, a member of the troop flew up to Tokugawa Iemochi's ranks and said that he had an urgent letter from Edo to deliver to the shogun.

[Note: Hikage: The fastest of the Hikage (couriers in the Edo period), specializing in official business]

After reading the letter, Tokugawa Iemochi, who was usually stoic, showed an unusually excited expression and even laughed loudly.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly ordered "rest on the spot," and then summoned Tianzhangyuan to bring his personal sedan chair.

Neither of them has come out yet.

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Inside Tokugawa Iemochi's sedan chair—

Tenshōin read the letter in his hand over and over again.

Sometimes he skimmed through ten lines at a glance, and sometimes he read word by word, as if he wanted to examine the texture of the paper.

After a long while, she slowly put down the letter in her hand, and murmured in a daze:

"Sheng Qing succeeded..."

A moment later, she adopted an even more impassioned tone, her cheeks flushed with disbelief, and repeated herself:

"Sheng Qing succeeded...!"

Sitting opposite her, Tokugawa Iemochi smiled again, his hands, which seemed to have nowhere to go, kept slapping his thighs.

It's no wonder that the mother and son were so shocked and excited.

It's not that they don't believe the Qing Deng Conference will succeed.

However... they never expected that Qing Deng would take such a short time to subdue the British fleet in Edo Bay!

From the moment he returned to Edo, it took him a mere two days to drive the British fleet, which the previous high-ranking officials of the shogunate had been unable to resist despite their best efforts and methods, out of Edo Bay! He also persuaded the British to cease demanding reparations from the shogunate!

Such a shocking story, such a remarkable achievement, is worthy of no praise!

Tenshōin quickly composed himself and then excitedly asked Tokugawa Iemochi:

"Jia Mao, Sheng Qing has made another great contribution. How do you plan to reward him?"

Before she could finish speaking, Tokugawa Iemochi replied without hesitation:

"I've already thought about the rewards for Qingdeng."

As he spoke, he took out a scroll from his pocket and handed it to Tianzhangyuan.

Tenshōin unfurled the scroll and took a closer look—at just one glance, her expression was overwhelmed with intense shock.

"Jia Mao, are you serious? You really want to hand over this unit to him?"

Tokugawa Iemochi nodded slightly.

"Of course! No one but Qingdeng is qualified for this position!"

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Three days later, the shogunate officially announced to the world the rewards bestowed upon Seito for yet another great achievement.

An additional 1500 shi of grain is granted to the family stipend! The Eighth Prince is granted the title of "One Heart for a Thousand Men"!

Hachioji: A Thousand People United – The Most Famous Sacred Group Under the Shogunate.

At the end of the Sengoku period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan, transferred Tokugawa Ieyasu's fiefdom from Mikawa and Sunpu to the Kanto Plain in order to weaken Tokugawa Ieyasu's power.

At that time, the Kanto Plain had not yet been extensively developed and was covered with swamps.

Furthermore, Tokugawa Ieyasu was completely unfamiliar with the area and had no foothold in the Kanto Plain.

Therefore, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's transfer of Tokugawa Ieyasu to a fiefdom was a classic example of a promotion in name only, a demotion in reality.

The Toyotomi clan's base was in Osaka, also known as the Kyoto-Saka region.

From the Keihan area to the Kanto Plain, the vast Koshu Mountains lie between them.

To guard against the invasion of the Toyotomi clan and to prepare for future conquest of the world, Tokugawa Ieyasu established a semi-agricultural, semi-military samurai army to guard the entrance to Koshu.

He gathered the remaining retainers of the Takeda clan and samurai without lords, ordering them to settle around Hachioji.

These people were then divided into 10 groups, with about 100 people in each group.

This local militia was known as the "Hachioji Thousand-Man Unity," also called the "Hachioji Thousand-Man Spear Corps" or the "Hachioji Thousand-Man Group."

Although the group members were samurai, they usually engaged in farming as high-ranking commoners—which can be understood as commoners of a higher status.

Part-time farmers and part-time soldiers, also known as "military agricultural colonists".

The leader of this group was "Eighth Prince, with a Thousand Hearts United".

Now, following his appointment as the Commander of the Capital Region, Qing Deng has been given this new position.

In other words, Aoto now commands two armies simultaneously: the Shinsengumi and the Hachioji Sennin Doshin!

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Historically, the shogunate dutifully paid £10 in reparations to weather the crisis. Although war was averted, the treasury was nearly bankrupt, and the people under the shogunate's rule became increasingly impoverished.

Chapter 700 Qingdeng's New Title: [Ship Slayer]! [4100]

Initially, when people were discussing what kind of reward Qing Deng would receive, they generally believed that he would become a daimyo in one fell swoop.

After leading his troops to eliminate the bandits in the Ise region, Aoto's stipend increased to 8220 koku.

He was just one step away from becoming a daimyo, the standard of a ten-thousand-koku family fortune.