In February of the beginning of spring, the princes of the Western Kingdom arrived in Osaka or Kyoto in turn. Thousands of troops passed by Kyoto day and night, but this has been the norm for more than 200 years. Every year, no one thinks there is anything wrong with this.

Even Kyoto protects Tokugawa Keibo, I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. Moreover, ordinary princes would spend a few days in Kyoto. For nothing else, they mainly visited Kyoto or purchased various Beijing workers.

Of course, there are also people like Shimazu family who have good relationships with the ministers in Kyoto and will hold songs or tea parties with the ministers in Kyoto. The Beesuka family often does this. Although their family is a water thief, it is not like the right master. It has become a country with 200,000 stones.

Moreover, many samurai among the princes stayed in a corner of the countryside all year round and finally had the opportunity to come out to see the world. They had to stay in bustling towns like Kyoto and Osaka for a few more days.

On this day, the princes of Hagiban Crown Prince Mototo arrived in Kyoto. The relationship between the Maori family and the imperial court ministers was quite good, and there were normal reception and exchange activities, which was normal. But after all, it was a special season, and Tokugawa Kyoho still sent some of the Shin-kun team members to monitor him in the Kyoto residence.

The Fukui vassal army, who had been waiting in Ome, entered the Fukui vassal residence in Kyoto on the second day after the Hagi vassal army arrived in Kyoto. The two teams were one on the left and one on the right, and there was a vague situation where the general Ohashi vassal army and the Shintachi teamed up to double-team.

The Hagi family soldiers were 3,500, and the Fukui family soldiers were 3,200, totaling 6,700. And the two vassal soldiers who had carried out a certain degree of modernization reform, most of the Minni rifles used this time, and a small number of them used Prussian Dresser firing guns, which made a lot of improvement in equipment.

Enough to rely on!

In the shogunate army, there were 1,700 Ohashi's soldiers, who had not yet fully equipped with Minie rifles and were about half and half of them. Tokugawa Keio was dedicated to the public in Edo for many years and has recently been guarding Kyoto. The political reforms in the vassals were less, and their financial resources were poorer than those of the Hagi and Fukui vassals.

The second is the Jingzhong Langshi group of 500 people. Half of these 500 people have begun to use muskets, but most of them are Gobes muskets, and the rest are fighting with cold weapons. After all, this army was established at the time and mainly played a role in Kyoto's public security and police forces, and they did not expect them to go to the battlefield.

The most reliable thing is that there are 1,000 veterans of the teaching team, all of which are Dresser's firing guns. They have been in the conquest for success over the years, and are not inferior to the British lobster soldiers. If this unit is put into the game "Imperial Total War", it will be a silver bar privateer, even if it is not an elite unit, it is also a main backbone.

The remaining more than 300 Aishi Fen soldiers were better than nothing, which was considered a big deal. The shogunate army had a total of 3,500 troops, and the troops were not empty, but they were not sufficient.

According to the script, Mototo Moto suddenly suffered from cold symptoms and quickly reported to Kyoto to protect Tokugawa Keibo. At the same time, he applied to Edo and asked for treatment before explaining it. It is reasonable and legal, and everything is done according to the rules.

Tokugawa Kyoho also went to see Mori Motoku. He looked at him from a distance and saw that Mori Motoku looked a little worse and he coughed from time to time. He seemed to be sick, so he felt relieved. In fact, Mori Motoku just had fun all night, and then he stayed up to move again after a big night. Naturally, this person would not be in much better condition.

Come on, then ask a doctor.

Seeing that the two vassal soldiers gathered, the nobles and the officials in the capital had a little courage, and finally stopped perfunctory and Xuanxuan, saying that Emperor Xiaoming was free and could preview the provisions of that year to confirm the matter.

Umeda Yunhama, who has been active in the entire conspiracy center, is lurking in the dark, watching the development of the situation. He has learned something from his disciple Yamada Kazuyoshi.

Hagi and Fukui are different!

Or they each have their own ulterior motives, perhaps they just plan to let Zunrong Sect be the scapegoat as a scapegoat, and test the reaction and strength of the shogunate. One thing is completely certain. Hagi and Fukui Sect do not have the intention of fully helping Zunrong Sect to fight the country and live in the country, so they will never die in front of Zunrong Sect.

More importantly, the Hagi and Fukui sects have not reached deep mutual trust. To put it bluntly, although these two sects have arrived in Kyoto, they are stationed near Kyoto on the left and right according to the plan. You can say that they are double-teaming Tokugawa Keibo on the front, but on the other hand, it may be a sign that they are guarding against each other.

In this case, how can we work together to completely support the unreasonable requests of Ii Naohime and the shogunate? At the same time, we determined that the "Eighteen Articles of the Gongwu Legal System" was a false edict and did not exist.

I have to add a dose of hot stuff to them!

In the past two or three months, in addition to colluding with the two powerful vassals of Hagi and Fukui, Umeda Yunhama has also been in contact with the scattered elements scattered in various places. He needs a force that he can control or influence in order to facilitate the gains of himself and the scattered faction in the future chaos.

Dark night, Ikedaya, Kyoto.

Ikedaya is just a small hotel near Sanjo, Kyoto, and it also has the function of a tavern. Of course, it also provides certain special services. Xiao is small, but Suri is also doing a prosperous business.

In such a crowded hotel, Umeda Yunhama is meeting with the leaders of the Zunren elements gathered from all over the world including Banheita Takeshi. It is roughly estimated that the Zunren elements that have moved to Kyoto, at least seven or eight hundred people. Moreover, many Zunren elements in Western countries and Kyushu are still gathering in Kyoto.

If nothing unexpected happens, there may be as many as a thousand people in the end. In order to arm the supreme elements, Umeda Yunhama connected everywhere, not only obtained a certain number of Gobess muskets from Hagi and Fukui, but also contacted the blacksmiths of Satsutsu and Yamato and cast two cannons. The old-style bronze cannons should have been counted as two hundred years ago, but now they are just masters who are backward.

But he knew very well that the vassal soldiers who traveled to and from Kyoto and the shogunate army did not carry cannons. There were two cannons that could both fire solid bullets and shoot guns, and the military strength of the lord elements could also increase by a step.

It is still very difficult to stir up a bloody storm in the current large pool of Kyoto with just a thousand people. Therefore, some special means naturally have to be used, and everything is for the great cause of respecting the king and expelling the barbarians.

"Tomorrow morning, Matsuhei Akishi Marquis will enter the palace and see you."

"How many guards are there?"
Chapter completed!