The wedding of Wakamiya and Ieshige was held as scheduled, but the radical Shogi faction did not give up.
After the assassination of Nobumasa Ando failed, these people did not die. Since Edo Castle is heavily guarded, go to Kyoto! "Kidnapping" the emperor is certainly not enough to rely on the shogunate alone, and there must be traitors in the secretary of state, so first go to the chief representative of the secretary of state, Lord Guan Bai, to settle the account!
This time, the action was replaced by a man from satsuma domain, led by a man named Shinchi Arima, who had also been involved in the planning of the "Incident outside the Sakurada Gate", but for various reasons did not personally carry it out. This time, he gathered more than a dozen samurai of satsuma domain to the Satsuma domain's guest house in Kyoto, Teradaya, to prepare to blackmail lord Guan Bai of the imperial court.
This was learned by Shimazu Hisamitsu, who was rushing to Kyoto to advise on the public-military community, and Hisamitsu was furious: These bastards! This is going to be a big deal for me! Come on people! You immediately rushed to the Beijing Office, tied up those bastards for me, and if there was any resistance, shoot and kill!
So someone took the order, and the person who took the order was called Okubo Kazuzo, and later changed his name to Okubo Ritsu.
One of the three masters of the Meiji Restoration, a statue of Ōkubo Ritsu
When Okubo came to Teraya, he said to Arima Shinchi: Brother, I know that you have the country in mind, but you can't do this. You see, the Father of our country is on his way to Beijing, if he and His Majesty talk well, we may be able to do what you want to do without bloodshed.
Arima Shinchi is the king of the eight to eat the scales - iron heart, no matter how Okubo Ritsuru persuaded not to agree, in the end there is no way, Okubo Ritsu can only order the action. The people of satsuma clan and the people of satsuma clan fought in this way, and the result was that six people, including Arima Shinchi, were killed, three people committed suicide by cutting their stomachs, and one person brought by Okubo Ritsuru died. The other eight or nine Zhizhi saw that eight or nine of them were dead on their side, and things could not be done, so they went back to the Father of the Nation to collect their sins. Among them were two men, one named Oyama Iwa, one of the nine elders of the Meiji Restoration, a field marshal, one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Army, and the main commander of the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War; the other was Saigo Congdao, one of the nine elders of the Meiji Restoration, the first admiral of Japan, and he also had an older brother named Saigo Takamori.
Japanese Field Marshal Oyama Iwa
Japan's first admiral Saigo Fromdō
Shimazu Hisamitsu handled the Teraya riot in this way, and the emperor and the shogunate praised him, winning unanimous appreciation from both sides. So he also took the opportunity to lobby around Kyoto, which eventually led to the "Bunhisa Reform".
Because 1862 was the second year of Japan's Bunjuku, it was called the Bunhisa Reform, and the core idea of this reform was to promote the "combination of public and military forces" and resist the radical movement. The main contents of this reform are:
1. In order to assist the young shogun Tokugawa Ieshige, Ichibashi Keiki was appointed as "Shogun Toshimi" and Matsudaira Keinaga was appointed "Chief Executive Officer". These two positions are actually equivalent to the "great elder", but according to the regulations, the elder can only be held by the daimyō of the lineage, and both of them are from the clan, so this position is tailored for the two. The reason why these two people were chosen was because they were both representatives of the "Zun Wang Zhiyi".
2. Suspend the "attendance and accounting". As we have explained earlier, the system of attendance was formulated by the three-generation shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the daimyo had to set up a mansion in his domain and Edo, and the two places lived in turn for one year, and his wife and children must live in Edo. Now it has changed, going to Edo every three years, and as long as you live for 100 days, as for the family members, you can live anywhere. The implementation of this system completely lifted the shackles of the daimyo, and henceforth they were free to practice their political ideals.
3. Resist excessive and reckless actions. This really poured cold water on the satsuma clan's warriors, who had previously suppressed the actions of Arima Shinju and others, and now wanted the public to resist them, which eventually shifted the center of the shogunate from satsuma to Choshu.
4. Implement the "five old collegiality" system. This system is what I mentioned earlier, and the expectation for the daimyōs of the public-military community is the establishment of the "Daimyo Council". This system was not implemented in the end, but the seeds of "collegiality" had been planted in the hearts of the strong clans.
Now that Wakamiya has been married and the course of action has been decided, Ieshige will come to Kyoto to show the whole of Japan the determination of the combination of public and military forces and the determination of The Imperial Family!
The Tokugawa shogunate has not been a shogun since the three generations of shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1634, so this time Iisho Kami-rakami was bound to cause some twists and turns, and we will talk about it slowly in the future.