The Hanbei Guard, the ruler of the money house north, once boasted to Naohide that the ship yard in Mooka could build a thousand-stone ship, but Naohide found that this was not the case at all.

It is true that the Sengoku Ship Yard in Moka used to build a thousand stone boats, but that was a few years ago, and since the Satsuma Domain Incident, the money house has also shrunk the scale of the secret trade, and in recent years, many people and materials have been drained, and the Dock can now only build fishing boats.

Although it was expected, Naohide and Nakahama Manjiro were still very disappointed, and it seemed that they could only re-accumulate and build the shipyard according to what the two masters who had taken refuge said, but fortunately, the dock, tools, and timber built before the money house were all there, and it was not a waste of time.

Naohide brought three ships to Moka this time, and the wooden boats were more or less damaged during the ice period, and they could only go to Matsuzen to repair them before, which was much more convenient with their own shipyard.

Moka was known as an ice-free port in later generations, but in fact, there is a freeze from January to mid-March every year, and icebreakers are required to navigate - this is good in North Ezo, and further north the Whale Sea, the sea between the mainland and the island of Katai can be frozen for people to pass, and there is a six-month ice period from early November to late May of the following year, you can believe it.

According to the trajectory of development, the world's first icebreaker was the "Yermak", designed by the Lucians and built by the British, until 1899.

The icebreaker can't quench the thirst of the near water, and Bai is a better navigable port, so he can only try to have a 10,000-ton berth in the future - this is Naoxiu's own pot, he really thought that there was a completely ice-free port in North Ezo, but when he arrived in North Land, he found that he remembered wrongly, Oolong was a thief, and he knew that he would fight for his fate in Edo to be a contemporary official of the クスリ place (future Kushiro).

It's hard to buy regret medicine, and now I can only try my best to remedy it.

Naohide stayed in Mooka until early May before returning to the White Lord, during which he not only repaired the two warships and three defense ships of the Hakujo Maru and the White Lord Maru, but also assisted the newly appointed Maoka Town Charter, Shima Dan Uemon, to sort out the government affairs preliminarily: Mooka was like the previous White Lord, it was completely a military station, and one group of sailors was left, two groups of land groups were left, and one warship was left.

The new sub-leader of the town, the Shima Regimental Uemon, is a member of the Saga windmill group, and his appointment is barely "expected".

Today Chinese New Year's Eve one-year-old Shima Danemon's ability is no problem.,Resourceful and decisive.,And proficient in Ranxue.,His background and prestige are also enough.,But it's not without opposition to the appointment of the regiment Uemon within the office.。

The backbone of the White Lord Shrine is all Naohide's protégés - there are very few protégés in the past, and the protégés come from three parts, the Zaoya Group, the Tosa Private School, and the Saga Windmill Group.

Among them, the teenagers of the Zaowu group are the closest to Zhixiu, but they have the worst academic background, although they have the most group leaders, they have not found any particularly outstanding talents; The students of Tosa Private School have a good level of orchidism, but the average age is young, and they lack assertiveness and experience, among which the outstanding performance is Kondo Chojiro, who is only fifteen years old this year; Compared to the first two, although the Saga Orchid Group has a distant relationship with Naohide, it has a lot of advantages [00ks] because of its age, and these people have all participated in the practice of Saga's orchid industry, so although they came late, the samurai from the windmill group rose quickly in the office.

The windmill group was a student taught by Naohide when he was in Saga Rangakury, and after Naohide's "Hachiman Koji no Talk", it was formed because of his love for Rangaku, and there were 17 people at the beginning, led by Sano Eitoshi, Shimatuan Uemon and Fukushimajiro.

These people acted very radically in Saga, and were very dissatisfied with the Confucian education of the feudal school, and often made shocking remarks in private, so they were kicked to the north by the Saga clan - you have cleaned up the sins you have done.

Shima Regimental Uemon was the most radical of them all:18

In 44, the twenty-three-year-old Danyouemon succeeded as the family governor, and he used to be the foreign surname of the head of the family, Nabeshima Saimasa, but because of his "disrespectful remarks" to the head of Kodokan University in public, the two sides beat each other at the evaluation meeting, and then he was ordered to live in seclusion by Qi Zheng.

Last year, Danemon was sent to Naohide's side to help along with six other members of the windmill group, and after Saga and Hakulord reached an agreement, he also became a retainer of the Hori family along with the others.

But in Saga's shocking remarks,It's not a matter at all in the white lord.,Shimatuan Uemon is like a fish in water in the commission.,Because the strength is enough to gradually gain recognition from the top and bottom.,This time it's an important position--branch town administration.。

The island group Uemon is both civil and military, and he is full of personality charm, so Naohide is relieved to hand over Maoka to him.

The matter of Moka is over, but how to deal with the shogunate and the Matsumae family has become a new dilemma.

Last year, it was the case that Naoyoshi Hori went to the Edo Sohobo Office, but this year Naoyoshi Hori is already the head of the land group, and as a result, the selection of a new envoy has been delayed.

In view of the future development of the Higashi-Ezo and the White Lord, which were under the control of the Matsumae family, it was not possible to befriend the lords of the Shogunate in Edo, so the Shogunate was going to present a heavy gift to the Shogunate this year, including 1,000 seal skins and 30 precious otter skins from the Northern Ezo region, so that the shogunate could feel the devotion of the shogunate.

Of course, such an important mission requires capable candidates, but Murata Eitoshi, Toranosuke, Katsugoro, Iwasaki Yataro, and Ryoma went overseas last year, and the remaining right-hand man is now a big root and a pit in the white master, and he can't find a suitable candidate until now.

Originally, Okubo had been booked, but because the merchant ships sent by Kinokuniya, Seiya, Tosa Yoshida Toyo had arrived, Okubo was unable to get out for a while.

This made Naohide angry, and as soon as he returned to the white master, he immediately talked to Okubo.

"How is Zhuge Wuhou governed?" Things can't be delayed any longer, and I didn't say a word straight and got to the point.

"Wuhou has been cautious all his life, and Liji is far beyond his reach. However, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, so what can I do? Okubo knew that Naohide was dissatisfied with him, but he couldn't help it - Naohide was pointing fingers everywhere before, and Okubo was annoying, but after it was his turn to monopolize power, Okubo found that he had to do the same, and he couldn't do it much.

There are not many experienced administrative talents at all levels of the institute, and in addition to the relaxed atmosphere, any decision has to be quarreled for a long time, and a person with authority often needs to come out and make decisions on major and minor matters. Okubo, as the chief civil officer, is also so aggrieved that he can't do it, it's not what I want to do, the conditions don't allow it, everyone comes to me to make a decision, what can I do?

"You're having fun, aren't you?" Zhixiu used the power of the wilderness to suppress this spit.

In the end, Naohide and Okubo reluctantly agreed, and pursued the continued delegation of power, anyway, there is a budget and a plan, and the head of each group will decide for himself, even if there is a mistake, he will admit it - the white master will have to train talents sooner or later on this condition, so it's good from now on.

Lawrence, the English man, once said that work has a filling property in time. What does it mean, that is, as long as you want to do it, you can always find the imperfections in the work, and no amount of time is enough! I didn't think it was straight before, but after I got to the white master, I deeply realized that grasping the big and letting go of the small, lifting the light as heavy, this is all forced out, there is no if in the world, and the perfect plan and preparation are difficult to achieve, so the work is not finished, and it can only be "planned in people, and things are achieved in the sky".

After the communication, Okubo immediately set off for Matsumae and Edo, going to Matsumae to clarify the relationship between the two families, and going to Edo to improve the status of the shogunate where the white lord was located - Naohide could not leave the territory without permission, and Okubo was the most suitable person.

Accompanying Okubo to Matsumae were Kondo Nagajiro and Tosa merchant Tomitaro.

Previously, Kondo Nagajiro got the identity of a Tosa merchant through Yoshida Toyo, and this time he went to Matsumae to contract land and fishing grounds as the owner of the family house.

And Tomitaro was the royal merchant of the Tosa Domain, and was the boss of the newly established Tosa Katsura Hamaya.

In recent years, Tosa's business has developed rapidly, especially the sake and taro yaki of Saiya have monopolized the Shikoku market, and they have also begun to become famous in various parts of Fuso.

Originally, there were three local tyrants in Kochi, and in addition to the Shoyaya, there were also cabinet houses and Harima houses. Seeing that Caiya had made a fortune, these two wealthy businessmen also moved their minds, and by agitating the sergeant family who supported them behind them, they funded the establishment of the Tosa Domain's government-run chamber of commerce "Katsura Hamaya" in order to compete with the increasingly powerful Saiyaya.

Last year, in 1851, the shogunate ordered the restoration of the original merchant guild organization "Shuzhongma", which opened the restrictions on the commercial circulation of each domain.

Zhuzhongma is a guild formed by different wholesalers of goods, and various types of Zhuzhongma monopolize the circulation rights of various goods. In the past, the shogunate granted this privilege to merchants from large cities within the imperial domain to control the flow of goods in Fuso, and the Osaka 24 Gumiya was one of the best of them.

According to the Zhuzhongma system, transactions between feudal domains could only be carried out through Zhuzhong, and direct transactions between them were often subject to various restrictions and crackdowns from the shogunate.

However, during the period of the Tenpo Shogun (1833-1839), the agricultural harvest that swept through the country caused prices to skyrocket, and it was widely believed that the merchants of Zhuzhongma were the ones who contributed to the trouble, and the feudal clans began to trade on their own in disregard of the shogunate's laws and regulations in order to save themselves, resulting in the existence of the Zhuzhongma system in name only.

Under the pressure of public opinion, Mizuno Shikibu, the chief of the old middle school who presided over the reform of the Tenpo, ordered the dissolution of the plant, stipulating that after the goods from each region were shipped to Edo, Osaka and other cities, there was no longer a need to trade through the plant-middle, and that the sanyas and haonong were allowed to engage in local commerce. After the decree was issued, the feudal domains followed suit, and commercial activities increased rapidly.

More than 10 years have passed since the Tenpo murder, and the economy of the shogunate and the feudal domains has greatly improved, and in order to control commerce, the shogunate reinstated the Zhuchuma system last year. However, it was not easy to fully restore the system that had been liberalized, and now that the merchants from various feudal backgrounds had greatly increased, many new faces had been added to the members of the clan, and the voice of the shogunate was no longer the only one that was spoken.

Katsura Hamaya is a chamber of commerce established by the Tosa Yamanuchi family to cope with the Zhunakama system.

In order to rebuild the monopoly situation of big merchants, all kinds of Zhu Zhongma had to accept these new members with the background of the feudal state, because it was not okay not to accept them, these imperial chambers of commerce were basically the shadows of the feudal clans, if you didn't accept them, they would trade directly with each other as before, and if they were strongly suppressed, and because the other party was numerous, they couldn't be suppressed at all without tearing their faces - at this time, the shogunate elders led by Abe's attendants had already felt the pressure of the Western countries and the internal dark tide, and they didn't consider tearing their faces with all the princes at all.

It is no wonder that later generations believed that the newly established Zhuchuma in 1851 did not re-establish the shogunate-centered economic order as the shogunate had intended, but instead gave the feudal domains the opportunity to participate in the Fuso economy, and the shogunate's decline began.

Against this backdrop, Tosa Katsura Hamaya, as a tentacle of the Tosa Domain, went to Hokkaichi this time to see if he could find new business opportunities.

As for why Katsura Hawaya and Karakuya didn't go to Matsumae alone but went with Okubo, this was Okubo's idea, and the two families had nothing to do with the Matsumae family, and the cold face and hot ass were just like that, and according to Okubo's desperate plan, the two families and the White Lord Office might have unexpected benefits when they went to Matsumae together.