Note: The error in the previous chapter should be that you can only calculate latitude, but not longitude.

Calculate longitude is a gift from Li Mingxun to this world. Without him, humans would have to wait for nearly a century to create a navigation clock that can calculate longitude, which is only 1735.

You should know that this was something that skilled craftsmen had done for nearly thirty years with a captain's salary of 200 years. In order to prevent the tragedy of 1707 from happening again. In history, a British fleet defeated the French fleet in the Mediterranean. When they returned, they encountered heavy fog for twelve consecutive days and accidentally entered the reef group, resulting in the death of 1,600 people.

Therefore, Japan does not recognize that the Ogasawara Islands belong to the empire.

But the Empire once sent warships and coast guard ships to the Ogasawara Islands to carry out actual occupation and expel Western colonists. However, before that, Japan had already taken action.

Egawa Ryohide got news at the Edo Machinery and Machinery Institute. He was young and energetic and immediately took more than 40 like-minded friends, stole a steam-assisted sailboat that the Japanese navy repaired at the Machinery Institute, and set out for the Ogasawara Islands.

As it turned out, this was extremely bold. This unprofessional sailing team received the favor of God. They did not encounter storms or bad weather all the way. They arrived at Yoshihide Ekawa, who had arrived at the Ogasawara Islands, used a sneak attack to control the Dutch expedition ship, and then went ashore to capture all the Western sailors.

Then these Western sailors were forced to build houses, cultivate farmland, and enslave them for a year before they left on a boat.

After Western sailors left on a boat, they immediately protested to the Japanese side through the British-Dutch embassy in Shinkyung, demanded compensation, and even issued a threat of force. After all, the Netherlands could be regarded as the second largest navy in the world at that time.

At that time, the Tokugawa shogunate was under the control of the sixth generation generals. He was very weak and did not know much about the outside world. After receiving protests from the British and Dutch Republic, he once announced that Egawa Ryohide was rebellious and wanted to provide compensation. It was the Imperial House that saved Egawa Ryohide.

Before the Tokugawa shogunate had made a decision to deal with it, the Imperial House reported the deeds of Egawa Ryohide, portraying Egawa Ryohide as a hero who protected Japanese territory and fought bloody battles with the British and Dutch ghosts to the end. In fact, when the Imperial House reported, he only got some half-true and half-false news from a Dutch sailor. Egawa Ryohide was limited by technical and human resources and could not contact the country.

Because his fellow practitioners, after fighting and reclamation, were injured and affected by the climate, only a dozen people were left, and they could not control the ship to return to China. The release of the Dutch was also because there was not enough food to eat.

Under the packaging and publicity of "Imperial Kingdom", Egawa Ryohide has become a national hero. The Tokugawa shogunate has begun to maintain the sovereignty of the Ogasawara Archipelago. "Imperial Kingdom" even raised two ships and more than 200 volunteers to go directly to the Ogasawara Archipelago to support it. At this point, Japan gained control of the Ogasawara Archipelago.

Since then, Japan negotiated with the Empire on sovereignty issues. This negotiation lasted for four years and had no results. The Empire insisted that the Ogasawara Islands were first discovered by Spain, while the Empire became the owner of the island due to the transfer of Spain.

But Japan does not recognize that because the relationship is very chaotic, Japan did not sign the Ocean Convention, and the Panama Treaty signed before the Ocean Convention. The Ocean Convention only stipulates that newly discovered islands or continents belong to the new discoverers, and does not explain the effectiveness of the previous exploration and discoveries.

So both sides talked about their own words, but Japan achieved actual control over the Ogasawara Islands.

Egawa Ryohide himself stayed in the Ogasawara Islands for five years, and he became a hero in Japan early. What made the shogunate very satisfied was that Egawa Ryohide was not only a patriot, but also inherited the qualities of loyalty from his father. Egawa Ryohide had infinite loyalty to the shogun.

So much so when interviewing him in newspapers such as The Imperial House, he attributed the credit of the Ogasawara Islands to the foresight and wise leadership of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and he only did the duty of a warrior. These words were extremely important to maintaining the image of the Shogunate, because after Egawa Ryohide returned, he immediately inherited his father's Izu's position, and the Ogasawara Islands were assigned to the jurisdiction of Izu.

Tokugawa Yoshizo also attaches great importance to Egawa Ryohide, greatly improving his title.

After the reform of the fifth and sixth generation of Japanese generals, feudal lords lost their hereditary territory, while samurai remained as a privileged class. Its status was infinitely close to that of the gentry in the Ming Dynasty. Samurai monopolized all official positions in the Tokugawa Shogunate and owned a large amount of land. Some samurai who made great contributions to the Tokugawa Shogunate also had extraordinary status.

This status is not determined by titles like Duke, Marquis, Bozinan, but by grade. The so-called grade is equivalent to many stone daimyos, which is mainly comparable to western daimyos. For example, Egawa Ryohide, who appeared in Kyoto this time, his ceremonial guard was made according to the 300,000 stone daimyos. 300,000 stones can also rank in the top ten in the Western Daimyo Alliance.

Egawa Ryohide was welcomed by everyone on the way from Sakai Port to Kyoto. This was the first time this national hero appeared in Kyoto. Therefore, many people came here to see him. People from all walks of life wanted to admire his heroic posture. However, the two foreigners, John and Adrian, don’t know who Egawa Ryohide is.

"Hey, it's a nobleman, Mr. Adrian, look, the Japanese nobleman is so short." John got out of the window and shouted loudly at Adrian and his wife. He knew that no one could understand his words, so he was extremely arrogant.

But Adrian found something wrong. This huge guard of honor kept approaching him, and the people on both sides, both men and women, knelt down. The pedestrians on the road automatically knelt on both sides, and the cars and horses also avoided them.

"Karu, let's avoid it too." Adrian was a cautious man. Although he did not think that Japanese nobles were of great significance, he still knew the reason why strong dragons did not suppress local snakes. Under his command, the black servant drove towards the alley on the side of the road.

Wow wool wool.

A yellow dog in the alley blocked Adrian's carriage. Karu beat the horse and the Japanese pony did not dare to move forward because of the yellow dog's roar. This was delayed, resulting in most of Adrian's carriage being exposed outside, which was actually larger than the area that was blocked without avoiding it.

"Hey, why don't you avoid it? Why don't the people inside get out of the car and kneel down?" Two men holding wooden sticks came over and knocked on the carriage. These were the people who maintained order.

"Why do we get off the car? I have been in Shin Kyung for so many years. Even if I meet the Chinese royal family, I just need to take off my hat and greet me. Why do I get off the car and bow down to you, the savages?" John was different from Adrian. He didn't care about anything and said immediately.

The translator said his words, Adrian was shocked and quickly covered the translator's mouth, but the Japanese still knew what John was yelling from the words.

"Get out!" the Japanese soldier said angrily, reaching out to grab people directly from the carriage door, and with a woman's scream, he actually pulled Adrian's wife out.

No matter how good Adrian has a good temper and doesn't want to cause trouble, he can't control his wife when she saw that she was beaten, so he picked up the Japanese soldier and fell to the ground.

At this time, the guards also discovered the blocked road and saw foreigners fighting with their own soldiers, and they all came to help. Adrian was tall and looked like an iron tower in front of the Japanese. John had even had experience in joining the army, while Adrian's black servant Karu was a samurai from a tribe in West Africa, and the four guards of honor who came were also knocked to the ground.

When Egawa Ryohide in the guard of honor saw the chaos ahead, he immediately got off the carriage. He came to see the emperor on the order of Tokugawa Yoshizo. The so-called "treatment" was actually to show off. He didn't want anything to happen in Kyoto, so he rushed to the scene and saw a group of foreigners surrounded, Egawa Ryohide immediately stopped.

"Foreigners are British and Dutch ghost animals!"

"Bow them to death."

"Dare to make trouble in Kyoto and beat them." The onlookers roared.

"Don't do this. Should His Majesty the Emperor bully the less? My Yamato nation is the most tolerant and kind. I, Ryohide Egawa, advocates fairness and justice. If these foreigners do illegal things, I should punish them. If not, I should also protect foreign businessmen. Let me distinguish right from wrong." Ryohide Egawa said loudly, everyone was silent, and he already had such prestige.

After quiet, Ekawa Ryoshe walked up to Adrian and asked, "Do you speak Japanese?"

"Sir, the villain is the translator." The translator covered his head, came out from under the carriage, and said cowardly.

"Very good, why did they fight with the officials?" asked Ryohide Ekawa.

"This is a misunderstanding." The translator said in Japanese.

When the guards don't give him such a chance, he said, "Mr. Jiangchuan, these ghosts and animals refuse to give way to your ceremonial guards and don't get out of the car to worship, which is a great insult to our country's etiquette and law."

"This is not Edo, don't talk nonsense." Ekawa Ryohide said.

In Japan, when facing the Daming ceremonial war, all civilians have to kneel down and avoid it. But the times have changed. In cities and ports in the west, there is no such thing anymore, because there are too many foreigners coming and going, especially Chinese people, and they don’t need to kneel down to their own nobles in China, so naturally they will not kneel down to a Japanese native.

As Japan asked countries to set embassies in Kyoto, Kyoto also changed the rules and allowed foreigners not to kneel down.

"You are foreigners, so you don't have to kneel down. But why are you blocking the road?" Ekawa Ryohide asked John and others.

At this time, John was beaten with blood, covering his head and was angry, while Adrian was even more miserable. He leaned against his wife's arms, without any movement. He was knocked on the back of his head with a wooden stick just now, and he was already fainted. Therefore, the translator could only tell John. After hearing this, John said angrily: "You said why we blocked the road, because our carriage was blocked by a vicious dog."

The translator said it, and Ekawa Ryoshui's face suddenly changed. Obviously, he didn't know that the carriage had been blocked by a yellow dog. After a fight just now, the yellow dog had been scared away by the soldiers holding the stick.

It is obvious that Ekawa Ryohide took himself into the role of a vicious dog. He held the hilt of the knife in his hand and said in an angry tone: "Say it again."

The translator can only ask again and repeat it truthfully.

"What a vicious dog!"

"A Japanese evil dog, yellow dog!" John answered openly.

After hearing this, Yoshihide Eikawa yelled: "Damn it!"

Before he finished speaking, the samurai sword was unsheathed and directly chopped John's head away, then killed Karu and his two entourages on the spot.

"Good kill!" Nowadays, the Japanese heard the translator's words, and saw the arrogant white ghost beast being cut to death, everyone cheered.

Later, the killing incident caused by a misunderstanding was called the Kyoto incident. In this incident, only Adrian and his wife and translator survived. Adrian was knocked out earlier. The Japanese thought he was beaten to death early in the morning, while Adrian's wife escaped the disaster because she was a woman.

After Egawa Ryohide killed the people, he continued to go to see the emperor, while the bodies of John and several followers were carried by the Japanese and their carriages were burned by fire. However, this matter was not over. A diplomatic storm was ignited in the next three months, which triggered the third Japanese civil war, but lasted for a longer period of time.

Shin Jing.

Bai Le, who was still sleeping, was urgently summoned to the palace. Along the way, he was very nervous, not sure why it was for him. It was Bai Le who had never had any experience before when he was preparing in advance. The only thing that made him glad that during this period, he had convinced Princess Ying to no longer insist on leaving the royal family, but based on the children's will, he would definitely accept the title.

The biggest concession was that the two young men from the King of Ying stayed in Shenjing to study, and no longer studied outside with the King of Ying and his wife. Under the influence of the two children, these two children were more likely to become interested in politics.

"Bai Le, have you eaten?" Before he arrived at the imperial study, he met King Yu, and Bai Le let out a long sigh.

King Ying has always had a good relationship with King Yu. When Bai Leneng jumped from Ambassador to Guangnan to Ambassador to Japan, it was also the promotion of King Yu. When Bai Le met Li Junwei, he could vent his anger in advance.

"No."

"That happens to be right. Let's have some together. The emperor will get up at six o'clock. We have enough time." Li Junwei glanced at the pocket watch, and it was only a little over four o'clock.
Chapter completed!