In March 1854, Hakodate was designated as a port of refuge and a supply port, and the shogunate subsequently designated it as a direct imperial domain.

According to Naohide's memory, in 1855 the shogunate took back most of the territory of Ezo.

The Matsumae family, the former lord, received a generous compensation of 30,000 koku for a new domain and 18,000 tenpo small awards per year, and the new territories were in Ryogawa in Mutsu Province and Higashi Nene in Dewa Province, and the former base camps of the Matsumae family, Fukuyama Castle and Matsumae Town, were also preserved.

The Matsumae family doesn't know if they suffer or not, anyway, they are a business that sits on the ground to collect money, and they can't lose anywhere, but if they really encounter this kind of thing, the white lord will lose a lot of money, and he may completely lose the strategic space for development to the south.

So, in the middle of March of the Western calendar, Hidetoshi Egawa, the "White Lord" went to Edo to do an event, hoping to free up some space.

This year is a warm winter, and in previous years, the port of the white lord was still frozen at this time, but this year it thawed half a month ahead of schedule, so Naoxiu joked with Yingmin:

"Good sign, I wish Brother Yingmin a successful start and a successful boat!"

"How can there be a bell that is now struck with bronze! This should have been laid out earlier. ”

Ying Min grinned angrily, he didn't accept this feeling, "There are people in the court who are good officials", but the white lord has no backers in Edo now, so it's not good to be an official.

Last year, Oguri Tadashun went to Nagasaki to work as a commissioner, and his father also resigned from the Kanken Ginmi service and went to Izu Shimoda Port, so Yingmin was very unhappy about the outcome of this mission.

While hoping that Naoxiu's speculation would be inaccurate, he embarked on a journey with an annual tribute of 4,000 furs, 3,000 taels of gold, and a large number of souvenirs.

In order to avoid the drift ice, the ships circled from the west to Matsumae Town, and then headed south by the Tokai Road, and by the time Hidetoshi arrived in Edo, it was already the beginning of the third month of the Japanese calendar.

As soon as Eitoshi arrived home, he received the news, "In the second month of the Japanese calendar, the shogunate designated the Ezo land north of Otobe Village and east of Kigunai Village, as well as the land in the southern and western part of the Toshima Peninsula, as imperial domains, and all of these places were under the management of Hakodate. ”

So he took a break and started his activities - Ezo is so big, don't tire yourself out of the Hakokan Commission, can the white lord share one or two.

Theoretically, the wood has been completed, but in fact, Yingmin is also a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

But the endless road actually made him find an opportunity:

This opening was opened by the new Hakodate Commissioner.

The original Hakodate was Takeuchi Hotoku, but this old brother was very unlucky, and he vomited and was tossed on the boat to the north, and he was finally healed in the white master, but after arriving at the Hakodate, he was not adapted, so he took the opportunity to report back to Edo at the end of last year, and Takeuchi said that he would not do anything.

He doesn't want to do it, but some people are still red-eyed!

Mimefu Hori Toshiki, who had failed to compete for the position of Hakodate commissioner before, personally visited Takeuchi Hotoku, and the two didn't know what they talked about in private, anyway, Takeuchi recommended Hori Toshiki to the shogunate to take over as Hakodate commissioner on the grounds of "physical discomfort".

In the past, it was the two of them who fought, but now that Takeuchi has picked a son, Mimefu Hori Toshiki has become popular, so he finally got his wish and was appointed as the new Hakodate commissioner, but because he raised various materials and manpower in Edo, he has not yet taken up his post from Edo.

Egawa Youngtoshi visited Hori Toshiki in private, and then pleaded bitterly, but Hori Toshiki was quite easy to speak, saying that "Hakodate and the white lord are in the same breath and rely on each other, and everything is easy to discuss."

However, although he was loud, in fact, he only agreed to assign the land of Zonggu to the white lord to manage.

Mosquitoes are small and meat, Yingmin is very grateful, yes

After that, he continued to be active - Hakodate Governor Hori Rishi agreed, but this was just a tacit understanding, could it really be that Hori Rixi himself was in the book, "I can't control it, Soya will assign it to the white master", this initiative to cut his own rights, a fool will not do it.

Youngmin's trip can be said to be a lucky star, and this time it was Oguri Tadashun's father Chunggao who helped.

It turned out that Chungko, the governor of Yuankoku, had returned to Edo early this year to report on his work and see a doctor because he was unwell, and Yingmin's subsequent actions were strongly supported by Chungko.

Chungtaka was an old bureaucrat with many friends and a wide range of roads, and under his operation, the white lord finally obtained the jurisdiction of Soya and firmly laid a nail in the northern end of Ezo.

In fact, this matter is also reasonable.

According to the shogunate's previous estimates, there were as many as 2 million koku in the total development – this was estimated by the famous traitor Tanuma Yoshiji (1719-1788).

Even if this is not allowed, but this time the Ezo land will be assigned to the imperial domain, and the compensation to the Matsumae family will be quite a lot, 30,000 stone territory and 18,000 gold per year, which adds up to nearly 50,000 stone.

They are all pursued by distant countries, there are 50,000 stones in the box hall, and the white lord is only nominally "5,000 stone high" specifications, and these two places are next to each other, this difference is too far away, can the white lord have no opinion.

So Egawa Youngmin wrote a letter asking for the white valley to be assigned to the white lord, "to provide the white lord with a port that is not very frozen in winter", which sounds pitiful, and the Hakodate commissioner privately said that he has no opinion on this, so the old middle school pushed the boat down the river, "Yes!" ”

Because Naohide and Youngmin's appetite is not big, they know that Ezo will not be able to reach out to the white lord, so the goal is to "get Soya, and you can trade freely with the white lord in Hakodate", so this goal of Soya is half completed.

As for "Hakodate and the White Lord Free Trade", this is "the prefectural official is not as good as the current management", as long as Hakodate agrees, everything is easy to say. In this regard, Hori Rishi was in favor of coming before, but it was better to do it, and he would not know the truth until Hori Rixi arrived at Hakodate, and now the verbal agreement is not counted.

Youngtoshi has done everything he can, and even if the mission ends here, the rest of the time is his own, so he plans to spend a happy time in Edo.

But before that, he had to go to Izu Province to visit his father, Mr. Tanan.

After experiencing the Far East Sea War last year, Yingmin has matured and stabilized a lot, so after meeting, Mr. Tanan was greatly satisfied, "This son has grown a lot in less than a year." ”

Mr. Tanan is also very proud, because last year he finally imitated the Napoleon cannon - of course, in Naohide's original world, the Napoleon cannon was designed by Napoleon III in the 50s of the 19th century, but Naohide took out the design in advance after entering the mess, and the name was not changed, Naohide said that it was designed by a certain Mi man armorer.

But the design was there, and from 1849 to 1854, it took five years for Nirayama Ironmaking to be successfully cast.

Although the Napoleon was a front-loading smoothbore gun made of bronze, it performed very well and could accurately project a standard 12-pounder shell at an angle of fire of 5 ° to a distance of 1480m, and a staggering 10 meters at an angle of 1911 °.

Moreover, the performance of this gun is very stable, the chamber is not easy to wear, and the chamber is rarely exploded.

At the current level of Fuso, it can be said that "Napoleon's cannon is unmatched"!

However, Mr. Tanan finished boasting and praising himself, and sighed without knowing what to remember.

Youngtoshi now knows the cold and the hot, and with his comfort, Mr. Tanan tells him a big thing, it turns out that after the Napoleonic cannon was successfully cast, the shogunate did something that Egawa thought was foolish.

On the twenty-seventh day of October last year, the small imperial court in Kyoto announced the change of the yuan, and the seventh year of Jiaei (1854) became the first year of Anzheng - the word "Anzheng" comes from the Chinese Tang book "Qunshu Zhiyao", "the common people are safe and the government is safe, and then the gentleman is in place." ”

Seeing Yingmin listening quietly, Mr. Tanan nodded slightly, "My son has indeed grown up, and he didn't ask questions impatiently, and he has a city government." ”

Originally, if you change the yuan, you will change the yuan, and it is also pleasing to change the name of the era with a beautiful meaning.

However, on November 27, the small imperial court sent two ministers, Sanjo Shiwan and Bojo Toshiaki, to Edo to inquire about the situation in coastal defense.

On the twenty-third day of December, the small imperial court announced that the public should decide: "The matter of the husband and the foreign court, the solid is deeply annoyed, and the situation can be shared with the Su Su. In the next year, Moyi came again and entered the Sagami Sea. State urgency, only in Haiphong. Because he wants to use the Buddhist bells of the temples of all countries to cast cannons and small guns, and place them in the pivotal places of the sea country, so as to be prepared. Quickly order the temples of all countries, each knowing the situation. Outside the temple, in addition to the ancient name ~ device, and the clock of the time, the other can be cast for cannons, for the imperial support of the instrument. And when the border sea is troublesome, it is advisable to sell weapons as whale clocks. There shall be no dissenters. All countries should be aware of it, and follow what it proclaims, and follow it. ”

This is outrageous!

When the Tokugawa shogunate was first established, it oppressed the small court and agreed to the "Forbidden and Public Laws", the first of which was "the matter of the Son of Heaven and the first imperial knowledge", and let the Fuso royal family agree to "commission the big government and the shogunate", which was the first time in more than 200 years that the small court interfered in the shogunate!

At that time, there were many discussions among the shogunates, and there were many indignant people, and many of the daimyo and banners thought that this was a chaotic fate, and asked the old and middle schools not to understand it.

Youngtoshi was shocked when he heard this, because the decree of "destroying the bell and casting the cannon" was promulgated in the past two days, and he thought that it was the shogunate's own decision, and he didn't know that there were other reasons behind it.

"Nirayama cast Napoleon's large cylinder, but it turned out to be the reason for the promulgation of this decree."

Mr. Tan'an sighed, it was nothing to destroy the bell and cast the cannon, but there were two reasons why he was very worried:

The first is that the small court began to interfere in the shogunate, and as a result, it interfered. As soon as this case is opened, there will be endless troubles - one body and two heads, and Jiang Chuan is very worried about the loss of the power of the shogunate.

This decree was followed by a murderous purpose.

At this time, Buddhism was prosperous and theology was weak, and this decree was "destroying the bell and casting the cannon" on the surface, but in fact it was "destroying the Buddha".

The temple was hit, so who was it that was proud?

Fuso Shinto, of course.

As soon as this decree was promulgated, the relationship between the shogunate, temples, and Buddhist believers was strained, and the power of Shinto prospered and the influence of the small court increased.

"Then the shogunate has a lot of discerning people, how did this decree pass?"

"Mito is rampant, and the old man is cowardly!" Mr. Tanan said hatefully.

It turned out that this decree was strongly supported by the Tokugawa Saisho lineage, the old lord of Mito, and the old junior high school led by Abe's attendants were promoting the "unanimity of raising Fuso", so although there were many people who opposed it, it was passed after a delay of three months.

"Lack of erection and conspiracy!"

Mr. Tan'an saw that his son was angry, but he was always open, "Yingmin, this is finally responsible!" ”

"Yingmin, what did you do in the White Lord?" Mr. Tanan was very pleased that his son had changed so much, and he became very interested in what he was doing in the White Lord.

But Egawa Yingmin was immediately asked, secret trade, studying at sea privately, and even participating in the sea battle of Zhuyi, what can I say?