The next day, Naohide led people to wait outside the Wufu Bridge in the morning, and after Edo opened the castle, he hurried in after checking the shape of his hands.

Counting up, to treat Nishimaru-like diseases, promote Qimoto, visit the city on the New Year, and increase the number of families, plus this time, it is the fifth time that Naohide has entered Edo Castle, but the accompanying Murata Eitoshi and Takemae Toranosuke are the first time to enter this place of world attention, Takemae Toranosuke trembled vigorously, causing Naohide to keep explaining to the guards and patrols, "This is not an epidemic, and it is inevitable to tremble when you enter the city for the first time", and Murata Nagashimu is much better, he usually has a expressionless face, and now he does not move.

The crowd of people coming and going on the road all smiled at Naohide and his party, and Naohide also bowed slightly, but there were many people who met smiling greetings from the cherry gate to the big gate, considering that Naohide was still in an obscure state, this was a little wrong.

After turning back a few times, Naohide finally found that Toranosuke had stopped trembling for a long time, but at some point, Yongmin walked with him on crutches, and he didn't know who learned whom, and his face was too big, and the angry Naohide knocked the heads of the two of them with a fan a few times, and then he turned around.

In fact, only after entering the Great Shousan Gate, can you officially enter Edo Castle, and the previous ones are all inside the Gokurin, that is, inside the moat, which is considered the outer castle of Edo Castle.

After crossing the dismount bridge in front of the gate of the Great Mori San, the guard was obviously tightened, and the number and bearing of the guards were obviously different from those of the outer city, and Yongmin and Toranosuke were also blocked from entering the city - in fact, the daimyo and important shoguns could bring their retinues into the inner city, but the guards bullied Naohide and were only two hundred stone acting officials, giving him a small dismount.

The guard looked at Naoxiu's face, and after checking the official documents, he sent someone to guide the way, Naohide breathed a sigh of relief, he really didn't know where the survey office was, which helped a lot.

Edo Castle is divided into Honmaru, Ninomaru, and Sannomaru, each with "Omo", "Chuoku", and "Oku" - "Omo" is the office of the shogunate, Nakaku is the official residence of the public office, and Oku is the private residence of the public office, as for Nishinomaru, it belongs to the territory of the prince "Nishimaru-like" and the retired shogun "Daigosho", and as for the famous mysterious place "Oku" is the honorific title of Honmaru "Oku".

Ninomaru is a vice-city, Sannomaru is a vice-city of the vice-city, the area is very small, equivalent to auxiliary facilities, if the main pill is too busy, it will be arranged to Ninomaru, Sannomaru to go, for example, the last New Year's visit to the city, will be Naohide and other small Pu group unlucky eggs were arranged in Sannomaru to pay homage.

As an important institution, the Kandai Office and the Imperial Department House of the Laozhong and Wakanian offices are all in the surface area of the Honmaru, but there are too many people in the Kandai Office, so there are offices in the inner city and the outer city, but the four Kandai Governors and the six Kanada Ginmi Servants work in the inner city on a daily basis.

The first twelve people of the survey team under the survey commission, as well as the ninety people who control the commission and the two hundred and fifty people who survey the commission, so many people, Naoxiu didn't know who to look for, but fortunately he didn't wait long in the small room before someone came to greet him.

Naoxiu, the deputy official of the white lord, has a strange origin, so neither the Kanding Commission nor the Kanding Yinwei Servant are willing to be contaminated after receiving the rumors, and Mr. Tanan wants to avoid suspicion, so he arranges for an unlucky Kanding team leader to be in charge of the meeting.

The head of the group didn't have a bad voice, and he knocked Naohide a few words with an expressionless face, nothing more than to do things carefully after the "caution" was lifted, and then stuffed a few official documents to Naohide and walked away, holding Naoxiu's words in his mouth, fortunately, Mr. Tanan sent a survey to help explain, and Naohide figured out where to get money and equipment, and what to do when he got to Ezo in the future.

Naoxiu hurried over with interest, thinking that there would be a big boss to encourage a few words, at least someone would tell one or two, what to keep an eye on the Matsumae family, pay attention to the movements of the Lucian people, etc., but the result was a big disappointment, the survey office didn't take the white lord acting officer to heart at all, and was blind to the plans of the old and middle schools.

Naoxiu walked out of the gate of Omori San, crossed the bridge, and saw that Yongmin and Toranosuke, two unlucky guys, were still making mud fetal wooden statues on the side of the road, waving their hands to signal the two to go home, everyone was silent along the way, and the excitement when they came was completely different.

Naohide has also been pressed by society to rub it repeatedly, but in his bones he has no respect for the shogunate, he has two shoulders against one head, and I eat by myself, and no one owes anyone.

He also thought about secretly returning to China many times, especially when he was in the United States, but looking at Yingzi and thinking about the children in Edo, he slowly dispelled this year, after all, his relatives and friends in this life are in Fuso, and after so many years, he is also used to the identity of Naohide Hori.

Especially as long as the thought of returning to China, he

I feel a great danger inexplicably - completely unexplained.

Naohide is not interested in the Crystal Palace, and the ideal of life is to be happy, eat and drink enough to do some research, but the end of the shogunate is really terrible, it is said that after the opening of the port, half of the people in Edo got foreign diseases, and the people have not lived for decades, and the Hori family is a samurai family of the shogunate, and the end can be imagined.

At first, Naoxiu's plan was to curry favor with both sides, and first mix through the storm at the end of the curtain, but the living conditions at that time were too poor, and he was afraid that the bloody plot of bullying men and women would fall on his head, so he moved - but he didn't expect that behind the straw rope was a cow, and there were more and more entanglements of all kinds, and he took the first step, and then he couldn't stop, and the teachers, students, relatives and friends together, forced him to continue walking.

In addition, Naoxiu doesn't want to deceive himself, he is a human being in two lives, and the ambition in his heart can no longer be suppressed, and in his spare time, all kinds of thoughts are surging all the time, like wildfire. But he is also numerath-wise, no one can say what the future will be, with the current medical conditions, if he doesn't get a cold, he will go to another world, and it's all in vain to think too much.

On this trip to the survey institute, he didn't have much hope, after all, he was sent to North Ezo, and he still counted on ox carts. But there should still be emotions, and after being snubbed, Naohide really wants to look up to the sky and sell well, "This shogunate eats jujube pills!" ”

Back at the Hori house, Naohide hurriedly assigned the task: the commission gave him a thousand taels of Mitsui Za gold ticket, also approved a few iron cannons, bows and knives, and returned him a flying clipping boat, which had to be brought out quickly, and before departure, he had to purchase materials and hire people, so he had to hurry up and do things.

In addition, relatives and friends should also visit those who should be visited, and those who can't visit should also be given gifts to make amends—after all, they have not been in Edo for five years.

Fortunately, the Hori family now has eight retainers alone, and the Zaoya group is also enthusiastic to help, although there are many things, but they will not be in a hurry after they are divided.

Naohide first went to visit Mr. Ito Xuanpu, Mr. is fifty-one years old, even if he is long-lived at this time, Mr. Xuanpu is full of tears after seeing Naohide, like three thousand disciples of Xianyijuku, there are many students who can inherit his mantle, but there is such a teacher and friend!

The scene was very embarrassing, and in the end, Mr. Hyun Pu recovered his emotions first and asked about Nao-so's past experience. Zhixiu had something to do, so he had to make a long story short and roughly tell the story of his experience in the past few years. Mr. Hyun Pu has learned a little from Mr. Tan'an, but this time he just wants to listen to Nao-su talk about the details and spend more time with each other.

At the end of the conversation, Naoxiu told the white lord about the acting official, and implored the teacher to send a disciple to accompany him - it is not okay to go on a long trip without a doctor.

Mr. Hyun Pu pondered for a moment and proposed a candidate, which scared Nao-su a lot at that time.

Mr. Genpo recommended Takano Nagaei - the chief servant of the "Barbarian Society's Prison", originally he was arrested by the shogunate, but a few years ago he ran away while the fire was in place, and last year he sneaked back to Edo, because Takano and Mr. Genpo are both disciples of Dr. Siebold of Lan Guo, so the two have a lot of contacts in private.

Naohide was afraid that someone would recognize Takano Nagayoung, but Mr. Hyun Pu said that Takano was disfigured, and it shouldn't be a big problem, and Takano's behavior was relatively high-profile, and Mr. Hyun Pu was very worried about this, and insisted that Naohide take him away, and Naohide had to agree. For the sake of safety, the two agreed that Takano would only appear when he boarded the ship, and as for how Mr. Hyun Pu persuaded Takano, Naohide didn't care - it didn't matter, before Takano was arrested, he acted in a high-profile manner, and Naohide felt that Takano was either bookish or didn't know the seriousness, and he didn't really want to see him in his heart.

Aside from Mr. Hyun Pu, Nao-su really doesn't have time to visit others - there are too many things to do when time is pressing.

Leaving the Zosen Yoshijuku, Naohide hurriedly ran to the ship accepted by the Uraga Commission, but the person who handed over it was an acquaintance Nakajima Saburosuke.

It turned out that the shogunate ordered the imitation of the flying clipper ship and sent this task to the Uraga office, because Nakajima was familiar with the ship, so he sent the task to Nakajima, and Nakajima lived up to expectations and succeeded in copying it in one fell swoop.

The relationship between Nakajima and Naohide is actually very general - although Naohide has treated Nakajima for asthma, but every time Naohide takes the initiative to visit, it basically belongs to Naohide hard licking, Nakajima Kuroo of the Zaoya Group has a younger brother Kijiro who opened a restaurant in Uraga, and he also relies on Nakajima Saburo to take care of him on weekdays, as for other interactions, there are very few other interactions.

But this time, Saburosuke Nakajima was obviously a lot more enthusiastic, and Naohide didn't know if it was because he hadn't seen him for a long time or if his identity as a flag of two hundred stones had played a role, anyway

Finally warmed up the stone of Nakajima.

Nakajima Saburosuke was amazed by the clippers, and Naohide saw that he was indeed interested in Western ships, and instructed him to go to the Fan Book and the Imperial Bureau, where a large number of Western books brought back by Naohide were sent by the shogunate.

Nakajima Saburosuke is a generation of the royal family of 200 people, and he is far from the upper echelons, and he does not know that the boat was brought back by Naohide, and he praised Naohide for the exquisite design and speed of the clipper, and the sails are divided into two layouts, which can be collected directly from the deck, which greatly reduces the number of manpower.

But when it comes to manpower, Nakajima Saburosuke has a bitter face, it turns out that when he heard that he was going to North Ezo, the sailors on the ship all complained, talking that it was a death sentence, so they were collectively sick, so Naohide could only accept an empty boat without a sailor.

Because it was an order from the shogunate, the sailors didn't dare to go too far, and the final result of the negotiations between Naohide and Nakajima was that the sailors agreed to send Naohide to Nagasaki and disembark, and they could train new sailors for Naohide, but the white lord would not go anyway. This group of sailors belongs to the water army of the Uraga Commission, and the interior is intertwined, and Naohide is not easy to offend, so he has to pinch his nose and admit it.

Because the clipper ship belonged to the Nanban ship, it was not allowed to dock at Edo Port in order to avoid civil disturbances, so Naohide had to hire a ship to transport the prepared goods to Uraga for loading.

The few iron cannons and bow knives given by the pursuer, Naohide really didn't like it, but he couldn't leave it with him, which belonged to the "fixed assets" of later generations, and it was quite troublesome to lose it, so he loaded it on the clipper ship with cotton clothes and other goods.

During this period, relatives and friends came to visit and gave some help in their best ability.

The neighbors of the Zaowu group saw that Zhixiu was developed, and they came to recommend candidates to Zhixiu as subordinates, but Zhixiu said that only the school-age children of the Zaowu group were accepted, and promised to establish the White Lord Acting Officer, and promote good talents to be the force, and the neighbors rushed to tell each other, after all, the White Lord Acting Officer is a heavenly leader, and Zhixiu cannot serve as an acting official forever. made up and made up, and there were many bear children who were not afraid of death, so they sent six directly.

Sakuma Zoyama and Katsu Yoshibang also came to visit together, and Katsu Yoshibang also said that he wanted to set off with Naohide, but considering that his private school had just opened this year and had not been married for a few years, Naohide still politely refused.

Xiu Nian of Kuanyong Temple also said that he wanted to go with Zhixiu - it turned out that the old abbot of Kuanyong Temple went to the West Heaven to worship the Buddha, Xiu Nian was quite excluded as a disciple of the old host, and Zhixiu had to promise him that the journey was too dangerous this year, and if he still wanted to come the next year, then come.

Kino Kuniya Rihachi and Shigeya Kanta were very attentive and took the initiative to help Naohide purchase goods, and proposed to send a ship to Hakujo the following year, and the willingness to develop new business was very strong, which Naohide welcomed.

The old man of the trial guard hall, Kondo Shusuke, also came to greet him, and also recommended his disciple Inoue Genzaburo to accompany him, this time Naoxiu agreed, after all, the informant group Inoue Geniczaburo is well-known for his generosity, so start with a blue character card.

Kijiro of Uraga Ryotei not only visited the door, but also helped in the local area of Uraga, and Naohide expressed his acknowledgement, and the white lord's future fishing products were also counted as his share.

Filthy multi-headed bullet Zuoemon, non-human head Che Zenchi, and Matsuemon also came to the door with a twist - Naohide is now a flag book of two hundred stones, and sending students to give them gifts is a big face, and a few people dare not come. The three of them also prepared a heavy gift in return, which Zhixiu confiscated, and left a sum of money for a few people, asking them to organize some filthy and inhuman, and prepare to immigrate to the white lord of the north the following year.

Before Naoxiu went to sea, he had asked them to take care of Takashima Shunchen Maodun, and the two sides had a relationship, which was considered a poor friend of Naoxiu, and Naohide promised to give them three taels of gold for every immigrant, and the accompanying family members also counted the money, regardless of men, women, old and young, and paid by half. Because Naoxiu promised to give the immigrants the identity of "ordinary people", the three of them felt that there should be a lot of filth and inhuman temptation, so they agreed to help.

This time, Eiko had to stay in Edo to take care of her son, so Naohide had to leave Murata Nagatoshi, Ninomiya Ina, Sakamoto Naoin, and Otome behind to help.

At the end of the third year of Kaei (September 1850), Naohide officially set off from Uraga by boat, accompanied by Takemae Toranosuke, Hori Naotsu, Hori Naoyoshi, Hori Yuei, Iwasaki Yataro, Okada Nobujin, Inoue Genzaburo and the pseudonym Miyamaro Takano Nagaei and Zaoya Group Six teenagers, with a few iron cannons and bows, rushed to the unknown northland, which triggered a big chapter in the development of the shogunate northland!