In the sixth year of Jiayong (1853), the black ship came to sail, and Perry knocked on the pass. In the first year of The following year (1854), Perry visited again, and the ironclad ships plus the guns of the Pecsan ships were extremely powerful, and the Tokugawa shogunate immediately prostrated and conceded defeat, and signed the Japan-U.S. Goodwill Treaty with Perry.
Matthew Perry
In the third year of Ansei (1856), U.S. Consul General Harris raised the flag of the U.S. consulate at Shimoda Ngoczumi-ji Temple, and two years later signed the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Japan and the United States. Since then, there has been a wave of treaties breaking with Japan, demanding the abolition of unequal treaties of trade and the return to the treaties of goodwill. Then came the vigorous Kingship Movement (1860-1863), similar to the time of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
The whole king of Zun yi, in Japan is roughly the left faction and the right faction each holding their own strength, the king of the king, the yi, the founder, the curtain, everyone opened the posture to let go of the voice and quarreled fiercely. On the one hand, the right side is the shogunate's lackey, and the other side scolds back that the right side is clearly worth half a million. Words could not be persuaded, so they had to curse the thieves of the country, eradicate the traitors, sword and light sword shadow, and the head of the person fell to the ground.
If we want to say that Japan had any major diplomatic actions against the United States at that time, the first thing that can be found is the envoy group sent to the United States in the first year of Wan Yan. In February 1860, the shogunate sent a delegation of 81 people, headed by Masahiro Shinmi and Muragaki, to arrive in San Francisco via Hawaii via Hawaii (the mission also met with king Kamehameha IV of Hawaii) on the American warship Pohadan.
Mission leaders: Muragaki Fanzheng, Shinmi Masayuki, Oguri Tadashun
The Japanese mission stayed in San Francisco for nine days before reaching Panama. Before the Panama Canal was completed, the mission moved by train from the Pacific side to the Atlantic side, then arrived in Washington by sea vessel and was received by President Buchanan. During this period, the Japanese delegation exchanged instruments of ratification with the United States Government of the "Japan-US Treaty of Friendship and Commerce." The U.S. envoys continued to visit Philadelphia, New York and many other cities, and legend has it that when they passed through Broadway, half a million New Yorkers marched to greet them, which was really a "half a million". In 2010, the City Museum of New York held a special exhibition entitled "The 150th Anniversary of samurai visits to the United States."
President Buchanan received the mission
Capitalist Wine Pool Meat Forest – White House Reception
Wan Yan sent the United States to the Civil War exactly the year before, and the Japanese and Rice were friendly and like glue. Big pretty country to see small... The Tokugawa shogunate, which had a good life, was particularly kind, and it was difficult to open an overseas market, which had to dump products and earn hard currency. At that time, the United States was poor and white, and its own life was also very difficult, and what it could get its hands on everywhere was the arms of the old era that were about to be eliminated. What the shogunate wants most is nothing more than weapons and ammunition, the sale of killing people, which is good for Katakari and @ John Jr. to marry Niigaki Yui - I want to go together.
In short, Japan's biggest foreign affair with the United States during the Civil War was to send people to beautiful countries to desperately pick up leaks and buy arms. The most famous of these is the story of the ironclad ship "Armor Iron".
In 1863, the U.S. Confederate Army ordered an ironclad ship from the Bordeaux Shipyard in France. The next year the launch was completed and named "Sphinx". The ship is a wooden hull, clad in 4.5 inches of iron armor, displacement of 1358 tons (or 1800 tons), steam sail hybrid, maximum speed 6-8 knots. The bow was equipped with a 28 cm Armstrong 300-pound front-loading smoothbore gun, two 12.7-centimeter 70-pound Armstrong front-loading guns, and several other mountain guns. Similar to its contemporaries, the stern of the "Sphinx" was also equipped with a 3.5-meter-long angle of impact.
The Sphinx, later the Iron Armor Ship
The French government banned arms trade between its shipyards and the Southern United States, and ships were forced to be sold to Denmark. As a result, the warship traveled to Copenhagen, the price was not negotiated, and the Danish government refused to accept it. The Bordeaux Shipyard was unable to do so, and again contacted the Southern government and renamed it the "Stonewall" ship, which was named after the Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. The warship traveled to Havana, Cuba, where the Civil War ended and was eventually taken over by the Government of the United States.
In 1865, the Tokugawa shogunate sent Ono Tomogoro to the United States to purchase warships. As soon as Washington saw the wronged boss head to the door, there was nothing to say, and he conveniently promoted the "Stone Wall" number ordered by the Confederate Army. The two sides hit it off at once and sold for $40,000. Four years later, the captain, Lieutenant Colonel George Brown, arrived in Japan with an ironclad ship, and the Tokugawa shogunate had collapsed, and Japan was in the midst of the War. Both the Meiji government and the remnants of the shogunate shouted to receive the ship, and each happily paid the balance of ten thousand dollars. Captain George accepted the balance of the two sides, and in the name of neutrality, the ship was not issued.
Ironclad ships
When the Meiji government defeated the Okuwa-Etsu Domain, the Americans delivered the ironclad ships, named "Kotetsu" (the 10,000 tail payment paid by the shogunate is not known which one gave to Misi). To be precise, the official name of this ironclad ship is "East Ship", also known as "Azuma Ship". "Kotetsu" was just the Japanese name for this ironclad ship at that time.
The Meiji government received the "koji iron", and the Ezo Republic of Yumoto Takeyang became a fish on the chopping board, which could only be slaughtered.
Takeshi Enomoto
Takeyoshi Yukimoto was originally the second in command of the shogunate's navy under katsukai, commanding the seven main warships of Kaiyang, Mt. Fuji, Panlong, Asahi, Huitian, ChiyoDagata, and Kanko. In Edo Kaesong, Yukimoto led the fleet (four capital ships Kaiyang, Panlong, Chiyo Tagata, and Huitian, and four transport ships, Kenrin, Shinsu, Migaho, and Naga whale) to the sendai Domain north to participate in the Sakumi cause of the Okuwa Etsu Domain Alliance. At this moment, however, the Samu Alliance was scattered under the crusade of the imperial army and was on the verge of disintegration. The ship carried loyal samurai north to Ezo to establish the Ezo regime.
Hakodate Goryokaku
Takeyoshi arrived in Ezo, and with Keisuke Ōtori and Togata as his generals, the soldiers attacked Hakodate in two ways and pacified Matsumae. During the Battle of Matsumae, Tsukimoto sent the main force of the fleet, the Kaiyang ship, to support it, but for some reason ran aground and sank a few days later. Built in the Netherlands, the Kaiyang was the most elite ship in Japan at the time, the trump card in the hands of Yukimoto. The sinking of the Kaiyang warship seriously damaged the confidence of the Ezo regime, and the officers and men of the whole island were "bold and cold."
In the second year of Meiji (1869), the imperial army gathered in the northeast, with a total strength of 12,000 troops, preparing to attack the Box Pavilion. The imperial court fleet led by Kotetsu was on standby at Miyako Bay. When Yu ben took the news, he formed a surprise attack team with the three warships of Huitian, Kaohsiung, and Panlong to seize the armor and iron and reverse the disadvantage.
On May 6 of that year, the Ezo Republic Armada attacked. Under the fierce wind and waves, the Panlong ship was the first to get lost, and the Kaohsiung ship ran aground in the middle, and only the Huitian ship burst into Miyako Bay. Captain Koga Gengo secretly approached Kotetsu with the American flag and launched a gang battle. Samuto bravely fought to the front, and the armored iron ship Gatling machine guns attacked fiercely. The shoguns fell one after another, one by one, and finally even captain Koga was killed to repay the country. The Huitian ship was unable to return to the sky and had to retreat.
An ironclad ship in the Battle of Hakodate Bay
Miyako Bay was defeated, and the subsequent Battle of Hakodate was no suspense, and the Ezo Republic was finally suppressed by the Meiji government's iron fist and shattered into slag.
Picture of the Great War of Hakodate The leftmost man riding a white horse and holding a spear is Yukimoto
Think about it, if the South had not been defeated in the Civil War, the Stone Wall Ships would not have fallen into the hands of the North to be sold at a price, and the Meiji government would not have destroyed the glory of the Republic with the power of armor and iron.
If Takeyoshi Takamoto held high the banner of the shogunate and divided Hokkaido, he might be able to make a comeback and reproduce the military might of the gods. Imagine it like that, it's really a taste.
Wuhu, the beginning of Tianxing, the end of Jing Kang, the destruction of the country and the death of the family are cool and similar.
This is true of kings taking others, and it is common in this dynasty.
You don't see that the two million families are completely red, and the eighty miles of the city are all rubble.
There were more white bones than Qingcheng, and the remnants wept alone to Wang Sun.
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