Naohide didn't know what was happening on the distant Kamchatka Peninsula, and at this time the white lord was still worried about the attack of Lucia's gunboats - the two sides fought each other in the air, and they didn't know which step was right, anyway, they could do a little more, and it was always good to accumulate it.

At this time, it was already the beginning of August, and because all the large ships that could move in the office were transferred to transport, the situation between the temporary base and Maoka was blackened.

Naoxiu led the troops to the north, which led to a large backlog of affairs in the office, and there are four most important things at hand:

First of all, there is the problem of transporting people evacuated from Miaotun, and it is necessary to quickly resettle people, otherwise it will snow in the north in November, and if there are not enough wooden houses to live in or lack of food, drink and clothing, then the fun will be great.

Secondly, Kondo Chojiro's family house is waiting to be fed, and I don't know how the business is doing with the few pieces of land that I finally got from the Matsumae family in May? It is estimated that it is a mess - lack of money and few people, what can be done.

Third, the construction of the interior of the white master.

Suddenly there are more than 1,000 immigrants, is there enough house? Definitely not enough. In addition, food, clothing, and other materials are also challenges. Adjustments to the original construction plan, such as farmland development and coal mining, have also been unsatisfactory.

In the end, in addition to sending supplies, the rice boat came to the north to shoulder the heavy responsibility of hunting, and the finances of the institute depended on hunting, and now it was the beginning of August, and what the regulations were needed to be decided as soon as possible.

But no matter what you do, you have to consider the threat of the Lucia gunboats first, in the end, you still can't come, you are procrastinating, it's really delaying!

And according to the previous plan, the town commissioner Okubo will not be able to return until the beginning of October, and now without this general, all the points of the commission will not be able to play - there are some people when you don't think he is important, and when you lose him, you will find that people are so bad.

In the face of so many problems, the institute urgently convened an evaluation meeting, quickly cut through the mess, and quickly came up with a resolution in response to the current situation.

Nakamura Gakujiro temporarily took over Okubo's job, and the temporary acting cho was commissioned, and the internal affairs were arrested first.

After that, all the rice boats went west, and people were the most important, and they were given priority to bring people back.

There is a risk, but Naoxiu thinks that the problem is not big, according to the calculation of time, the most likely thing to encounter now is the armed transport ship that supplies Miaotun, and the gunboat, although it may arrive even if it is calculated as a round-trip time, but the opponent should not know who attacked the outpost, it is not easy to encounter it in the vast sea, but it is more dangerous to have a fixed target of the white master.

Come and fight - the boat belongs to other people, you can still help them plan their actions, and you won't grow soybeans anymore when you hear the rabbit tell you.

As for the operation of the family house and the Tosa Katsura hamaya in Ezo, I had to resign myself to fate, since people didn't come back to ask for help, then you have to trust others, maybe Kondo Nagajiro suddenly added skill points, or broke out some talent or something like that - not to mention others, these words even Naohide himself didn't believe it, but things have priorities, and North Ezo is a mess, so things can only be slowed down first.

When Naohide arrived in Maoka, he found that the navy had done a really good job under the leadership of Nakahama Manjiro, and he actually transported most of the people back to Mooka and had already begun to ship supplies.

With six more rice boats, the speed of transportation was greatly accelerated.

The speed of the debate ship and the warship is too slow, so let's run to Maoka and the white master, and the other ships will bring back the rest of the people and supplies at one time—they will discard all the unnecessary supplies when they are in the temple, so the main ones left are the two groups of people who stayed in the temporary camp and more than fifty captured war horses.

The Fuso horses were too short, and the cost of long-distance shipping horses was too high, so the whole group regarded these horses as treasures and were reluctant to throw them away.

After everyone withdrew to Maoka, Naohide finally put his heart down, and now he is not afraid of Lucia's gunboats, after all, if he can't beat it, can he still run inland.

In the planning of the commission, Moka will be a military stronghold from now on, and the civil affairs usually fish at most, so this time most people have to withdraw, and the town of Shimatuan Uemon has only been done for a few months, and this time it was also withdrawn to the white lord - fortunately, Naohide told the group that Uemon had another reuse, but it didn't make any protests or anything out of the moth.

The distance from Moka to the White Lord was much closer, and on August 13, the entire retreat was basically completed, and the two-month northward operation was successfully completed.

During this period, one hundred and fifty regular soldiers were dispatched, two were killed in battle, and the friendly Hezhe tribe and the inhabitants of Miaotun lost more than twenty people, and the results were quite brilliant, the opponent Lusia lost half an infantry company and a cavalry company, only

Three Cossack cavalrymen and ten sailors escaped. What's more, the uprooting of the outposts and winter camps greatly delayed the Lucian invasion of the mouth of the Oolong River.

However, when later generations deduced this history, they generally did not have a high evaluation of the Battle of Miaotun in 1852, believing that it was a wave war, with high risks and small returns, and it was completely unnecessary.

This assessment was not overturned until the private diaries of Naohide Hori and Muravyov were made public.

Governor Muravyov wrote in his diary, "The loss of the Nikolaevsk post and the Perov winter camp proves that the further development of the Far East is not without risk, especially the loss of personnel, which gives other nobles a pretext to attack the Dogeship of Eastern Siberia. If this is not the case, even if the Alaskan Gold Rush occurs as scheduled, I am still confident that I can retain some of my strength for the further development of the Far East. But everything is God's will, and this small thing, which seems like a small thing now, was an important weight for the change of the situation at that time. ”

And Naohide Hori's diary also spoke highly of the Battle of Miaotun:

"Advantages come over time. It seems that the White Lord had more important things to do at that time, the coal mines, ironworks, factories and immigrants were all the top priorities at that time, but the reason why I insisted on the Battle of Miaotun was simple, no matter how difficult the cause was, the first step was needed, and although attacking the outpost would bring revenge from the Lucians, it would undoubtedly disrupt the rhythm of the opponent. ”

"Whoever fights, with the right combination, with the odd victory. We were not ready, but at the same time the enemy was not ready. Because of the spread of Slavophilism and Ruthia's usual greed, the Crimean War was bound to break out, and the attack on the enemy's tentacles before that would undoubtedly have a small return on investment—the decision of Governor Muravyov would be called into question by this defeat, and this doubt would be infinitely magnified in the preparation for war in Europa. At the same time, taking into account the strength of the Eastern Siberian Governor's Office and the fleet of the Okhotsk district at that time, the retaliation would only be limited to the Northlands, so it was completely possible.

"But this is a weak counterattack by the weak, and the fundamental meaning of victory lies not in this, but in its own great strength, careful strategy and flexible diplomacy. Those who play with adventure will definitely be played with by adventure in the end, and be cautious. ”

After the battle of the white lord to the north, other schedules were also put on the table.

At this time, the anxious Kondo Chojiro finally returned to the white master for help.

In May of this year, the family took a fishing ground on the four islands of Yunwu, a seaside house and four inland houses in the East Ezo Land from the Matsumae family at a high price, as well as eight places in the North Ezo land.

However, in addition to a few helpers who had been supported in advance, a group of sailors, and a small judgment of 2,000 coins, Chojiro even had to rub the boat against Tosa Katsura Hamaya, but fortunately, Tomitaro had received instructions from Lord Yoshida Kanbei before him, and he was able to respond to Chojiro's needs, so he barely managed to cope.

Chojiro recruited people in Matsumae Town, hired nearly 200 men and guards from the original money house, and then sent them to five places in the Higashi-Ezo land in batches to transport them to the house, and the fishing should be fishing, and the hunting should be hunting, but the trade still could not be done - because he had no ships and no goods.

When the former money house Kitachi ruler Hanbei returned to Kanazawa, he just hid the fishing boat, but the fishing gear and other tools were not moved, and the buried fishing boat was dug up, and the original money house guys and guards were familiar with the business, and in three months, Chojiro barely managed to transport these five places to the house and put them into operation.

He entrusted the fishing grounds of the four islands of Yunwu to Tosa Katsura Hamaya to manage, and he couldn't take care of the eight places in the northern Ezo land to transport the upper houses at all, so he could only cheapen the local Ainu tribe.

Because Chojiro knew that the rice ship would come to the White House in August, the port would be closed, so when he returned to the White Lord, although he borrowed the ship of Katsura Hamaya, the sailors were all his own people - this also aroused the suspicion of Tomitaro at the time, thinking that he was poor and crazy, and wanted to sneak attack other people's Upper House, which made Chojiro very embarrassed.

After Naohide came back, Xuejiro told Naohide about Chojiro's various complaints, Naohide laughed when he heard it, isn't this a helpless thing, and now the government can solve this matter - hurry up and send troops to Zonggu, and in the future, the rice boats will go to Zonggu to hide, and the white lord will be clean from now on, and he will no longer be afraid of being checked.

Chojiro was very ignorant when he heard about this, and he and Katsura Hamaya wanted to contract Soya on the other side of the white main slope, but the Matsumae family was very vigilant and didn't even give the opportunity to participate.

Zhixiu smiled, I know you can't get it, so I asked someone else for it.

It turned out that last year, Naohide asked people to send a letter to Kii Kuniya Rihachi for help, and the money house is about to fall, so you have to help me take down Soya no matter what. Later, Liba found a trust, and this time he paid a high price to get Soya in his hands, and waited for Naoxiu to take over.

"Isn't that going to hurt Kii Kuniya?" Chojiro felt that the government and the Matsumae family were not on the same page, and there was a lot of risk in the event of a fight.

"Don't worry, this guy is very clever." Naohide clearly told Rihachi that he believed that the goblin Rihachi would definitely be able to remove Ki Kuniya cleanly.

In addition to Soya, the office is also preparing to develop the plains in the northwest of the white lord - with the growth of the office, many private things are becoming more and more difficult to hide - in fact, it can't be hidden, but now there is no video recorder, although the camera is available, but no one in the north has this new thing, so as long as you don't catch the real hammer, there are lawsuits.

Most of the personnel have shrunk back to the White Lord, and the White Lord has two steam river warships, although they are not as sharp as in the river, but the shore artillery in the strait is also very sharp, so Naohide is now looking forward to the arrival of the Lucia gunboats - early and early, I still have something to do.

Most of the newly arrived Ainu began to move to "Toyohara", as they called the land of the Northwest Plains, and two whaling ships began to hunt near the Shiretoko Peninsula, and the whales returned to the north in August and back to the south in October.

As for Chojiro, he fulfilled the procedure again and became a retainer of the Hori family. Naohide and Kannei had already discussed, and Chojiro would return to the Hori house after the family was deceived by the Matsumae house, so as not to cause something bad to happen to Tosa.

The family is actually the property of Naohide and others, firstly, to deceive the Matsumae family, and secondly, to prevent Naohide's acting official position from being removed from office and everyone will be empty, so Chojiro is only the nominal owner of the shop. After Chojiro's official return this time, the government office added him two defense ships and a large number of manpower and money, and let him return to Higashizo to run well.

For the rest of August, the White Lord was looking forward to it, but Lucia's gunboats still did not appear.

Since the enemy is not coming, then wait any longer, and other plans must be carried out.

At the end of August, the former Moka-cho commissioner Shimadanemon went to Soya with the men of the former Moka Shipyard, and it can be seen that it will become a naval base for the commission, which can be seen as a year-round ice-free port.

And Nakahama Manjiro's sailor rushed to Seal Island with Mifune to continue this year's big hunt.

By the end of September, more than 20,000 furs and a large amount of dried meat had been harvested—and all the meat was preserved this time because more than 1,000 new people had been admitted.

By the end of September, when the rice boat left, everyone was happy - could they not be happy? More than 20,000 furs are more than 60,000 small fines, equivalent to about 240,000 US dollars.

At the same time, the earnings of the two whaling ships are also amazing.

In 1847, the average cost of each whaling ship was $25,000, but the average annual income was as high as $16,000.

And this time, the two whaling ships that went to the Northland gained even more:

First of all, the Shiretoko Peninsula is famous for its whale cluster, and there were no whalers here before, and in the absence of competitors, two ships went on a frenzy.

Secondly, other whaling ships still need to deal with the harvest, and these two whaling ships have to hand over the prey they have caught to other ships to transport back to the white master for processing, so that they can concentrate on hunting.

Moreover, this time the whaling ships are equipped with whaling cannons, and the whaling clotium with built-in explosives not only shoots farther but also does more damage, and the hook that bounces off can firmly grasp the prey, and the object of hunting is no longer limited to the object of slower swimming, which can be called a whaling artifact.

In the end, the ship's accountants estimated that the revenue from the two whaling vessels, although not as good as the fur income, reached a staggering amount of more than $90,000.

The four rice boats left the White Lord with a full load, and it was already the end of September at this time.

The white lord sailors who had their hands free began to visit the 8 houses that they got from Matsumae's house, don't count on fishing gear or anything, it is estimated that it has already been taken by the Ainu people, but considering the future, it is still necessary to establish contact with these Ainu tribes - the lack of people is very short, and those who come will not refuse.

At the beginning of October, the leaders and leaders of the Shogun believed that the chances of Lucia gunboats appearing were greatly reduced. In November, the northern part of the Whale Sea and the North Sea began to freeze, and considering the time taken by the voyage, it would be clear that by mid-October, the white lord would be completely safe.