In the second year of Wanyan in the Heli calendar, in the first month of the Western calendar, 1862.

The meeting of princes was held, and another major event happened this year, a major event that changed the world trade pattern. Not only foreign ministers attended, but even several large-scale friends from the shogunate attended this year's meeting of princes.

Because the Civil War broke out in the United States, although the Southern Army generally maintained its offensive last year, the Southern Army also had a huge weakness. That is, the number of naval forces (quality is also discussed) is far inferior to that of the Northern Army, and the number of merchant ships available for foreign transport is naturally not as good as the Northern Army.

This leads to a very big problem. The south of the United States, as the world's major cotton production area, is now blocked by the northern navy. Cotton from the southern states cannot be transported out, and the British textile industry collapsed!

It was a literal collapse. After losing raw cotton, the British textile industry experienced a serious recession. Now it is not that you can still buy cotton with money, but there is not much cotton on the market at all.

At the same time, the textile industry in the United States itself has also fallen into recession due to conflicts between the north and the south. The New York Cotton Exchange in the United States collapsed, and the London Cotton Exchange has also collapsed.

The two major textile exporters were suddenly defeated to the prototype due to a Civil War.

A few years ago, Shogunate's corporal member Hiroki Yoshi began to develop textile and cotton planting industries because of the reason why Chuanyoumon supported his country's industry and commerce. Not only did he organize his own hands to grow cotton, he also purchased ordinary lint and processed and produced it in the Qing Dynasty, and then provided the shogunate with cloaks and tents and other logistics military supplies.

Because the shogunate has been expanding its military forces in the past two years, and the staff of the Railway Corporation and the Shipbuilding Corporation also order a large number of uniforms from Hongchi-sun every year, overall, Hongchi-ya's textile office is constantly expanding production.

Britain and the United States used cheap textiles to open up the Japanese market, but now market demand has existed, but the goods have disappeared. What does this mean?

Of course, the market fell out of thin air to Hong Chishan, who was prepared for a long time!

Moreover, Hong Chi Shan can not only eat all his strength in Japan's local market, but the market in the Qing Dynasty next door is also empty. Neither Britain nor the United States has sold textiles to Japan, so how could there be textiles to be sold to the Qing Dynasty?

The only thing that made Hong Chishan feel sorry for is that the cotton planting area is not large, and it is already very good to be able to eat half of the Japanese market. I really want to eat even the Qing Dynasty market, but there is not so much cotton.

At the shogunate meeting this year, he arranged for Hongchi to come forward to speak, saying that the focus of the shogunate's work in the next two or three years can be shifted to the cultivation of general cash crops. After all, the southern United States is still one of the important production areas of tobacco, coffee and sugar, and the shogunate must be prepared to reliably.

Everyone has grown a kind of cotton tobacco and other things in the past two years, and the shogunate has already started to solve the problem of food. He has not seen the British Minister, Lord Bashali, sitting aside.

Well, that's right, at the beginning of the new year, the British minister has been replaced.

After Chuanyoumon tried his best to apply eye drops and gave gifts and money to Earl Erkin, London finally responded. In addition, Lord Parmesun is now prime minister again, so he naturally has to implement his own strategy of curbing the development of Tsarist Russia, supporting small peripheral countries, and intercepting Tsarist Russia.

Therefore, Aliguo was ordered to return to London and have other appointments. To put it bluntly, he would deprive all his ranks and go home and sit on the bench. He replaced him with Bashali, the younger brother of Earl Erkin, and served as the Minister to Japan.

He was rewarded for running back and forth in the Second Sino-British War, and even almost lost his life's credit and hard work. Give him some chance to make money and save some pension.

As for Earl Erkin, according to the news brought by Bashali, he has been promoted to the Governor of India. He officially took over Earl Canning's stick and began to manage the most dazzling pearl on the crown of the British Empire.

It is precisely because Erkin was promoted to the Governor of India that the diplomatic dispute between the British and the shogunate had been handled very properly. Earl Erkin said that he would pay the shogunate pensions and military pay according to the amount agreed by Earl Canning that year.

Of course, it was already a confusing military pay. Both sides added 500,000 pounds to settle the case. Tadaoemon waved his hand and only gave 400,000 pounds, and 100,000 pounds to Elkin as a gift.

The price is that Erkin guarantees to collect a certain amount of rice in India every year and resell it to Japan to ensure that there is no famine in Japan. You can plant cotton boldly, and I will definitely have enough rice here.

Even if India has natural disasters and floods and continuous floods, I can guarantee that enough rice will be resold from India to Japan, which is that simple.

Erkin even instructed Bashali to replace Japanese cotton with Indian food. It would be fine if the cotton was a little expensive. Anyway, India's rice was cheap, so it would not be a loss to bring the British Empire.

Besides, if Japan grows cotton nationwide, rice will rely on India to import. Then is Japan being strangled by the UK? For the British, it is a business that is beneficial but not harmful, so both Erkin and Bashali think that this should be done.

It’s best that Japan relies entirely on imported rice!

There is another major event. The "National Identity" that Tokugawa Idai asked the countries to recognize has not been approved by the United Kingdom. Later, Tadaemon sent Tanabe Tachiyō to serve as a consul, continuing to promote the British side, and agreed to the shogunate to force Hawaii to become a protector and to seize New Guinea and Palau.

With Erkin helping, Tanabe Tachiyama lobbying with coins, the UK has basically agreed to this matter. However, there is an accompanying requirement that the shogunate lend a million pounds to the UK to purchase ironclad ships made in Britain.

Two!

Death is expensive!

For Hawaii and New Guinea, Chuanyoumon also pinched his nose and accepted it. As usual, he used the Pincus as a guarantee, and the time for the British to control the Pincus would be extended.

But there is no way to do this. Although Britain is willing to spend two money on my younger brother, I have to feed him some of them so many mouths. Even if Lord Bamaitun and Earl Erkin are willing to support Japan, my younger brothers have to make two more money to support their families.

The only thing that satisfies Tadaoemon in the loan entry was that the British said that the shogunate could send people to the UK directly, and learn from the British throughout the process, from design to manufacturing, which was considered to be a master of the manufacturing technology of large ships of more than 3,000 tons.
Chapter completed!