In the first month of 1864 AD, Edo.

It is another National Conference of Princes, but this year's Conference of Princes is no longer a simple and pure unified coordination and deployment meeting for the raw silk industry, but a serious political consultation meeting.

The meeting period is no longer one day, but is prepared for several consecutive days, because there are many things that need to be discussed and handled in this conference. The shogunate even issued a special meeting outline to make preparations for the princes in advance.

Of course, what the princes are most concerned about is the withdrawal of the vassal states!

Since Kagoshima Hashimazu's letter of withdrawal of the vassal state in late October last year, the past two months have been a turbulent wave. The news spread like wildfire, or there was no concealment, and it spread on the same day.

Just as people were talking, Joseph Mori Keiki, the Hou of Nagashu, actually responded to Shimazu's definition, wrote a letter to the shogunate to request the withdrawal of the vassal. Mori Keiki himself was willing to resign from his post and receive land, and his article was returned.

After all, he is now a state-owned participant in the Tokugawa shogunate's treatment of old and middle-aged people. His response immediately set off a wave of small high-end (blocking) among the princes of Edo.

And normal people think that if the shogunate wants to withdraw the vassal state, the first thing that corresponds to the genealogy or the relative vassal state, especially the princes who can serve as the old middle school and have less than 20,000 stone territory.

Unexpectedly, the first one to propose the withdrawal of the vassal family was the Kagoshima Shimazu family, and the first one to respond to the withdrawal of the vassal family was the Mori family of the Choshu family.

Do you have no grudges with the shogunate?

Really no revenge?

What is even more exaggerated is that the Hiroshima clan and the Fukuoka clan also wrote a letter to request the shogunate to withdraw the vassal state, mix the country, and combine the major policies to face the trend of the world and the harsh trend.

The crowd of powerful vassals knelt one after another, and the remaining small vassal opinions naturally became less important. The shogunate immediately ordered that a final resolution would be made on this matter at the National Conference of Princes in the New Year.

But this incident was the finale drama. At the beginning of the meeting, the other minor matters must have been discussed. The first one, or the last drama, was also the layout of the last drama.

Abolish the U.S.-Japan Inequality Treaty!

Ueno Kamiru Tadashi Oriri, who had been on a mission to the Americas for many years, represented the Tokugawa Shogunate and signed a new covenant to abolish all unequal treaties in Japan with the United States, namely the Northern Government of the United States.

On behalf of the Tokugawa Shogun, Oguri Tadaru, promised to fully support the north. As long as the shogunate has it, the north can buy it. The shogunate even allowed the north to pay for two or three years, three or five years to purchase guns, ammunition and other military supplies.

In order to repay the kindness of His Majesty Tokugawa Tadmasa, President Lincoln from the north unified the Republican Party in Congress and formally approved the passage of the new US-Japan Treaty.

The two sides have developed diplomacy with an equal intersecting position. The tariff agreement rights obtained by the United States in Japan, the concession of the Box Hall residence area, the right to station troops, and other economic priority will be abolished!

Now that the new treaty has been signed, the United States Congress has also ratified it. Tadashi Oriki rushed back to Japan with the new treaty, asking Tadaoemon to sign immediately and exchange the contract with the United States.

Needless to say, Chuanyoumon signed very quickly. The shogunate did not have a parliament, and the emperor was abolished. Just Chuanyoumon needed to sign and approve it, and the treaty would come into effect immediately.

From now on, the customs duties stationed in Yokohama, Nagasaki and Hakka will resign and return home on their own. The U.S. embassy and consulate areas at various trade ports will naturally be retained, but the Hakka residence area will be fully taken over by the Hokka Envoy. The U.S. troops and warships stationed in Japan will need to report to the shogunate completely, and it is prohibited to exceed the limit of reasonable protection of diplomatic embassies.

The news was announced and I sat down and talked a lot.

The shogunate is really strong, even the American ghosts are bowing their heads. This is the so-called real "extinguishment of the barbarians"!

The so-called "exorcist movement" has its right to speak officially by the shogunate. You are a group of stupid people who have been silly for decades, but it has not been used by birds. Through diplomacy, the shogunate has achieved a real "breaking the contract and expelling the barbarians". All the privileges of the United States in Japan have been abolished. Is there any more suitable anti-barbarians than this?

The first news was announced, and the second news began to be announced immediately. This also has a certain relationship with the United States and is also the result of Oriki Tadasumi's diplomacy in the United States.

By acknowledging and only recognizing the Northern government, Tadashi Oguri made the United States publicly declare that it had renounced its interests in Hawaii and accepted the claims made by King Tokugawa Tadashi of Japan to Hawaii.

How to declare?

That naturally comes from the new Hawaiian king Kamehameha V!

Hawaii Holot, who received the shogunate military aid, strongly defeated the rebellion of the American forces on the island, and his brother Kamehameha IV also formally established Lot's inheritance rights in the Hawaii parliament.

After executing and exiling a group of Xia traitors, Lott became the regent prince and took over the regime in Hawaii. His brother Kamehameha IV survived for another two months, returned to heaven and glory to his holy heavenly father.

Lott immediately succeeded to the throne, saying that Kamehameha V. The Japanese power rose sharply in Hawaii due to this wave of military coup and the replacement of the throne.

As the Japanese Junior Ma Ye and the former minister of the Japanese King Tadmasa Tokugawa, the Japanese forces began to enter Honolulu smoothly. After the United States announced that it had given up its interests on the island, Tador Eemon received support from Britain and France.

Hawaii Protectorate was established!

Of course, it was impossible for Tadaoemon to completely destroy the Kingdom of Hawaii immediately. It was just that he established a protector under the recognition of the great powers based on the reasons that Kamehameha V was originally a vassal.

Later, the diplomacy and military affairs of the Kingdom of Hawaii were managed by the Honolulu consul sent by the shogunate, and the rest of the economy, people's livelihood, trade, and other matters were decided by Hawaii.

Once this second major event was announced, the princes were not as enthusiastic as they were just discussing. One thing is that the news today must be very exciting, and the other is that the shogunate enfeoffment of Hawaii is that it is too far away from them and I really can't raise too much interest.

It’s just that the shogunate has expanded its territory again, and Tadaoemon’s reputation has risen again. There are no one in China who can challenge Tadaoemon’s prestige.

US Minister Pruen was also on one side of the venue at this time. When the countries signed the treaty in the front, he also signed it. Now that he had finished the agenda passed on the "Japanese Parliament", he would send the text of the treaty back to Washington for ratification.

Because of the American Civil War, Pruen didn't think there was anything too much about giving up an island in the Pacific. After all, he had accumulated a lot of wealth by buying arms from Japan and then turning it back to the country.

It can even be said that he hopes that Japan-US relations can be further strengthened, allowing him to make a lot of money in Japan and earn enough for three lifetimes of retirement money.
Chapter completed!