j***y
发帖数: 2074 | 1 Beyond doubt there was a self-serving element in such
criticisms;
the rebel clans, and especially the radicals within them,
wanted a
share of power for themselves, and they saw foreign policy
as the
most obvious chink in the Tokugawa's armor. But the west had
brought not only a principal cause of friction between the
domains
and the Tokugawa, but also the means of resolving it. The
sophisticated
weaponry available in the mid-nineteenth century made a
nonsense of
military calculations based upon |
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