There is a popular saying among the people of Fuso: "一頭鱼れば七浦賑わう", which means that when a whale is caught, the seven fishing villages will be lively.

Fuso has a long history of whaling, and in the Edo period, under the name of "whale gumi", merchants from all over the world formed fishing organizations that specialized in whaling, and they were independent of each other, and they mainly caught black right whales and sperm whales based on the traditional "net method".

Whaling was common everywhere, but it was not large due to the conditions at this time, and there were no whale formations in Ezo and North Ezo – probably because of the abundance of fisheries and the need to take risks for whaling.

Mr. Miyama was well versed in whales and whaling – when he was a student at Seebold Naruyujuku, the title of his "doctoral thesis" was "Whales and Whaling."

Whale meat is edible, whale bones and whale baleen are the raw materials of handmade products, whale blood can be used as medicine, whale fat boiled oil can be used as lamp oil, and whale oil is used in some places to remove insects in the field.

Even, it is possible to find priceless ambergris in the body of sperm whales.

At present, there are too few people in the White Lord's office, so Naoxiu can only consider some high-risk and high-return businesses. Starting with how whales are classified and caught, Naohide and Mr. Miyama talk about how the meat is stored, how the oil is refined, how it is sold afterwards, and even whether ambergris is sold in whole or in pieces.

The soup has long been drunk, but Naohide's conversation is strong, and now among the people of the white lord, except for Toranosuke, only Mr. Miyama is well-informed and can keep up with Naohide's whimsical ideas.

But the rest of the conversation was a bit unbearable.

When it comes to whaling, we can't help but talk about geography, and when it comes to the geography of North Ezo, we can't avoid one person - the palace forest.

He was the first person in Fuso to fully survey the land of Northern Ezo, and the two books "The Journey of the Eastern Tartars" and "The Words of the Demarcation of the Northern Territory" written by Hehe describe the geography and customs of this place in detail.

And the palace was the trigger for the Siebold incident. Before Siebold returned to Lan, Takahashi Keiho gave Mamiya Linzo a package containing gifts and a letter, and Mamiya Linzo handed over the package to the shogunate, which aroused the shogunate's vigilance, and then triggered the Siebold incident.

Unlike many Lan scholars, he lived his entire life on the Westerners as he lived in the 1806 incident at the Sana Club on the island of Seto, when he was severely wounded by the invading Lucians.

But Takano Nagaei has never suffered a foreign loss in his life, and he strongly advocates the founding of the country, so he looks at the palace as a "whistleblower", and his words are full of resentment.

Naohide is also inconvenient to comment on the grievances of the earlier generation, after all, he still has Siebald's daughter Daozi hidden in his family.

"Please join Naoxiu's lecture in the afternoon, and the topic is "How Western Countries Treat Fuso."

Takano was not allowed to participate in the previous assessment meeting and the lectures and discussions in the afternoon. Being able to participate in the lecture this time was also a great progress, and Takano's spirit was lifted.

It is now a cold winter, and everyone has nothing to do except plan the work of each group next year in the morning and participate in the lectures and discussions organized by Naoxiu in the afternoon, because there are many people in the lectures and discussions, so everyone's interest is high.

In the afternoon, lectures and discussions are similar to the operation of private schools, except for Naohide's occasional lectures, everyone usually organizes their own work, mainly to discuss work and study Western books together, and occasionally there are people who want to try to give lectures, and Naohide supports them.

After receiving the notice of Naoxiu's lecture at lunch, everyone arrived early at two o'clock in the afternoon - speaking of which it is convenient to have a pocket watch, the previous appointment time was in the afternoon as the time unit, but now with the pocket watch, the time is much more accurate, and there will never be a bad situation of constantly entering the venue for a while.

With a lot of Confucianism, it is easy to form a view of the world, and everyone is a barbarian. In the Edo period, Fuso itself was not a truly unified dynasty, but it was greatly influenced by the so-called national culture, and the Westerners were called barbarians, that is, the Lan people who traded were treated a little preferentially, and the others were all barbarians.

In total, the shogunate only established diplomatic relations with two and a half countries, Goryeo, Ran, and Ryukyu, and I don't know where the ambition came from. Atsuyin Hirata (3 years) emphasized in "Fuso Shoki" that Fuso is the kingdom of God, Fuso is the most superior, and the royal family is incomparable.

Under the manipulation of Oguri Tadashun, the volume version of the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" avoided the censorship of the Nagasaki government's writings, and it quickly spread in Fuso because it was "unspoken, unspoken."

And the "Kunyu Illustrated Knowledge" and "Kunyu Illustrated Supplement" written by Keisaku Shengwu and Keisaku Ruan Fu in the year, for some reason, were also privately collected by the shogunate and spread to the people.

Through these books, many samurai and scholars have gained a preliminary understanding of overseas, and various ideas inevitably arise under the impact of thinking.

Naohide got a set from Oguri.,Put it together with the books that Gakujiro brought this time.,Usually let everyone study.。 Naohide openly taught Lanese, English, and France at his private school in Tosa, and then Murata Eitoshi became known in Zaoya, and everyone except Okubo and Miyama could read Western books, mainly in English

, but after all, it is difficult to read, and it is not as easy to understand as books such as "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom".

The lecture started on time in the afternoon, and Naoxiu first asked everyone to give a speech on their views on the countries.

The white lord is located in the northern Ezo land, and sooner or later he will have to deal with the Lucian people, so Naohide usually instills the knowledge of Western countries in everyone, but after all, the time is still shallow, and everyone's opinions are strange.

Led by Okubo, the six teenagers of Genaki Kawagami and Zaoya Gumi, who believed that "if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different", and it is okay to deal with them, and they should also learn Western skills, but they should be deeply vigilant. These people didn't think of the founding of the country so far, they just supported doing trade, but they were very defensive.

The other faction is Naoxiu's brain-dead fans, led by Toranosuke, Inoue Genzaburo and several of Naohide's protégés, saying what the head of the family said - Inoue Genzaburo is the surveyor, and he handed over the property to the rice boat, and he is a candidate for the natural black pot, and he also expressed his fate.

Only Yataro Iwasaki is in his own right, he advocates that there must be similarities between the principles of heaven and the hearts of people, and that there is nothing wrong with everyone communicating with each other, but he believes that the shogunate now prohibits foreign relations, and everything should be careful. The implication is that Yataro is a supporter of trade, and even has the idea of doing business overseas.

Mr. Miyama is an auditor and has no right to speak, but when Yataro speaks, he bows his head from time to time, and his position is very obvious.

Naohide took over the topic, first talking about the Silk Road in ancient China and the overseas trade in the Song and Song dynasties, and even the Northeast Silk Road that continued to this time, and then briefly described the overseas trade before and after the Great Voyage of the Europa continent and the shogunate.

Everyone was very excited when they heard it, especially when they heard that the Fusang merchants were all over Southeast Asia before, they were even more surprised, they hadn't heard of it, and there was such a thing?

Then, Naoxiu told the famous story of cowhide, the Frankies deceived the oyster mirror with a cowhide, the Languo people used a cowhide to base themselves on Yizhou, and the Europa people began to colonize rice island with a cowhide. Some people laughed, and many more thought about it.

Then the topic became heavy, and Naohide talked about the black slave trade, the dumping of the medicine of fortune and longevity by the English, and the tragic results caused by the hospitality of the Indians, especially the road of bones in the Tianzhu Plain, the story of the fooling of Amikant in Bengal, the massacre in the west of the United States, and the atrocities of the French in Algeria, which caused a general sigh from everyone.

Naohide also talked about the expansion of England and France in Asia in recent years, and the destruction of countless countries in Tianzhu and Southeast Asia, and the remaining countries are all trembling and prostrate.

"Without exception?" Mr. Miyama couldn't hold back any longer.

"No exceptions."

Having been greatly impacted, Mr. Miyama was a little depressed.

"Comparable to

and people and Ainu. "Naoxiu is a little unbearable, but people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, it's so miserable, I don't believe the Ainu people in Ezo Land, it's not that we tossed don't want it.

Since everyone knew that they were going to the white master, they made up the information of the natives-Ainu people, although everyone said what nonsense about benevolence and righteousness, but when they arrived in Matsumae, they listened to the conversation between the market, and then went to the white master, and looked at the appearance of the natives' servants, and they knew that these were all lies.

If you say what Naohide said before, everyone is still skeptical about it, but even Mr. Miyama is convinced.

"Why is there such a big difference between ancient and modern?" Okubo didn't know anything, he had a vague answer in his heart, but he couldn't believe it.

"There is a saying in the rice country, if the fence is well, there are good neighbors around."

Everyone thinks that the whole world is the law of the jungle.

"Languo Commercial Hall has always been friendly and friendly, so it can be seen that they may not all be so brutal." Mr. Miyama still doesn't give up.

Good question! Naoxiu is really afraid that a group of force-oriented thugs will be created under fear. He began to talk about the Renaissance, the Reformation, scientific progress, public international law, the Enlightenment, and abolitionism, and recommended everyone to read "On the Spirit of Law", "Principles of International Law", "On the Monarch", "On the Tolerance of Religion" and "On Government", "Philosophical Correspondence", "On the Social Contract", and "Confessions".

Naohide said that since the abdication of Emperor Napoleon, there have been more and more people-to-people exchanges in Europa, and public opinion is not easy to manipulate, so the war has subsided, which shows that in exchanges with foreign countries, first, one's fist must be strong enough to protect oneself, second, it is necessary to strengthen people-to-people exchanges to avoid being stigmatized, and third, it is necessary to pay attention to international law and not to be besieged by others.

Talking too much will cause cognitive impairment, this is how the human brain works, what is the morning and evening death, it is lyrical art, hearing too many new things, it is a person who will be sleepy, this is the operating mechanism of the human brain, no one can avoid it.

Everyone was a little dazed when they listened, and Naohide had to end it hastily, but in the end, he still briefly mentioned the recent situation of Dr. Siebold - Siebold came to Fuso early, was good at learning and trained a large number of students, and the Siebold incident was very controversial, so he was a symbol of Fuso's Westernization.

Naohide said that Dr. Siebold had already published his trilogy, Fuso, Fuso Zoology, and Fuso Flora—in fact, his magnum opus, Fuso, was compiled in 1832, but the other two books were published in the form of essays, and continued until 1850 this year.

In addition, Naohide said that the museum founded by Dr. Siebold was very popular in Europa, and Siebold refuted the audience who thought Fuso was barbaric.

"And what kind of people like to read this book?" After hearing this, Mr. Miyama returned a little blood and was more energetic.

Naohide looked at him sympathetically and told him that the people were curious, and that among those who were really interested, apart from naturalists, were diplomats, soldiers, and merchants. In recent years, many of the ships that have come to the port of the Western countries have been influenced by the books of Siebald, and because the shogunate has closed off the country, various countries have begun to prepare to pry open the gates of Fuso with strong ships and cannons—especially the Lucians, who may already be on their way.

In the past, Mr. Miyama was naïve when he didn't know the situation, but after Naohide's introduction to the Western countries, he deeply doubted whether the founding of Fuso would end well, and he was depressed after hearing it.

Naohide comforted him that the shogunate had been prepared for this, and he did his best to do things in the white master. As for Dr. Siebald, it doesn't matter if what he does is good or bad, without him, there may be East Boulder, South Boulder, in short, weakness is the original sin, look at the point.

After Naohide's lecture, it was a great stimulus to everyone, and Toranosuke proposed that all the soldiers be trained, and everyone agreed, which was the beginning of the White Lord's unanimous resistance to Lucia.