"Damn it! If our original plan could be carried out smoothly, we wouldn't be in such a passive situation now!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone present immediately responded with fierce agreement.

The "original plan" mentioned by Ikeda... simply put, was to "use the shogunate's manpower and material resources to build an army that serves the imperial court."

This all starts with Tokugawa Iemo’s “decision to go to Beijing”——

In order to promote the integration of the public and military forces and discuss matters against the foreigners, Tokugawa Iemo planned to go to Kyoto in person to meet with Emperor Tōhito.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kiyokawa Hachiro, on the grounds of "preparing for unexpected situations that may occur after the shogun enters the capital", presented to the shogunate through the swordsmanship professor Matsudaira Shusuke of the Kyodo Institute "openly recruiting ronin from Edo to form a force for the purpose of protecting the shogun".

The new army went to Beijing together" strategy.

At the same time, the chief tax officer Songping was asked to report the pardon of Qinghe Hachiro, and stated that "Qinghe Hachiro is the leader of the rogues, and only by relying on this person can the recruitment of the new army be completed."

In other words, Qinghe Hachilang was appointed as the general of the new army.

Matsudaira Shosuke was a rare outstanding swordsman in the Tokugawa family. He had considerable say in the shogunate and had a deep friendship with Qiyikawa Hachiro.

After Qinghe Hachiro became the general of the new army and successfully led the army to Kyoto, he showed off to the entire army: Although we were recruited by the shogunate and came to Kyoto to protect the general of Shangluo, we are ronin after all and cannot

Eating the salary of the shogunate. We must become a team that can move independently and freely in the name of the emperor, and be the vanguard of respecting the king and resisting the foreigners.

Deceive the shogunate, use the shogunate's money and food to recruit soldiers, form a new army, wait for the new army to come to Kyoto, far away from the shogunate's ruling center (Kwantung), and then take this new army into your own private tribe - the above is enough.

It was the "original plan" of Qinghe Hachiro and others.

It must be said that their plan was extremely bold.

As early as the spring of the first year of Bunkyu (1861), Qinghe Hachiro established an organization with the guiding ideology of "respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians" and the goal of overthrowing the shogunate: the Huwei Society (also known as the Hero Society).

After the shogunate found out about his intentions, he immediately issued a search order. Qinghe Hachiro managed to escape by beheading the officers who came to arrest him.

Not long after, he planned unrest in Kyoto, but failed again, and the bounty on his back became even larger.

Such a "terrorist" with a long criminal record and his name on the wanted order dared to blatantly propose to the shogunate the idea of ​​"building a new army" and also asked the shogunate to pardon him and appoint him as the general of the new army...

I really don’t know where Qinghe Hachiro and others got the courage.

However... with such an outrageous plan, they were actually half successful!

After a series of suggestions were presented to the shogunate through the Matsudaira Chief Tax Agency, including "recruiting robbers", "pardoning Hachiro Seikawa", and "letting Hachiro Seikawa lead the new army", the shogunate quickly responded.

The person who made the final decision on this matter was Tokugawa Iemo.

He readily adopted most of Qinghe Hachiro's suggestions.

It not only fully supports the "building of a new army", but also restores Qinghe Hachiro's innocence - up to this point, Qinghe Hachiro and others' plans have been carried out smoothly.

However... what happened next was not as they expected.

Tokugawa Iemo did not hand over the position of General-in-Chief of the New Army to Hachiro Seikawa. Instead, he named Aoshito the "Gyeonggi Town Governor" and placed the command of the New Army under his name.

As for the subsequent story, there is no need to elaborate.

Seito named this new army the "Shinsengumi".

Kiyokawa Hachiro was the initiator of the new army. In addition, he himself did have a lot of fame among the rogues in Edo.

Ever since, in order to take care of the mood of the "Qinghe Faction", Seito promoted him to the staff of the Shinsengumi.

After Ikeda, Ishizaka joined the ranks of complaints:

"That Tachibana Qingden is really looking down on people! He actually made Lord Qinghe a staff officer... The more I think about it, the angrier I get! What a bullshit advisor! Isn't this an obvious attempt to make Lord Qinghe his adviser?"

The deputy chief is in charge of military affairs, the chief is in charge of discipline, the chief is in charge of internal affairs, and the chief is in charge of finance - the "four chiefs" of the Shinsengumi are all important positions with real power.

Looking back at the staff...

In terms of status, the status of the staff officer is equivalent to that of the "four chiefs".

However, the staff officer is not responsible for a specific aspect of affairs like the "four chiefs".

Its only mission is to provide advice to Qingdeng - and this provides considerable room for maneuver.

If Qingdeng reuses the staff, then the status of the staff will rise sharply and gain huge power over the "four leaders", just like the eunuchs in ancient China.

On the other hand, if Qingdeng squeezes out the staff, then the staff will be reduced to a false position with no say and no sound.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Qingdeng created the position entirely based on people - he simply set up the position of "staff officer" just to sideline Qinghe Hachiro and promote Qinghe Hachiro as a mascot!

Nominally, it is an important position responsible for assisting Qingdeng.

But in fact, whenever there was a major event, Qingdeng would either completely ignore Qinghe Hachiro's opinions, or directly exclude Qinghe Hachiro from the meeting and not allow him to participate in the meeting.

They were given a great title and were given adequate treatment, but no real power was given at all.

Qingdeng's behavior has long made everyone in the "Qinghe Sect" extremely angry.

Facing his indignant subordinates, Qinghe Balang smiled slightly.

"Okay, everyone, calm down."

"These actions taken by Tachibana Aoden are all within my expectations."

Speaking of this, he sneered.

As he continued, he changed to a sarcastic tone.

"In my opinion, with his way of spending money randomly, it won't be long before the Shinsengumi is in my possession! So for now, I'll just let him have his way!"

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PS: According to historical facts, Qinghe Hachiro's plan was basically successful. The shogunate really made him the general of the new army, and he really took most of the new army into his own private army... This world is indeed

It's a huge grassroots team, and the plot of my novel is actually more logical than reality...
Chapter completed!