627 The first imperial surname
However, Gui Xianning is not a professional in this area after all, he racked his brains and could only think of some Japanese surnames, and in the end, although the surname is also two words, but obviously began to be opportunistic, for example, the surname Ito was awarded to a guy named Taro, and then the word Bowen was also given as a surname to a guy named Jiro, followed by Togo Twenty-one Lang, followed by Heihachi Black Fish, Tojo Chicken, British Pork Head Meat, Ishihara Black Egg, Wan'er Salted Fish, Okuya Half Bag Salt, Saigo Rice Basket, Longsheng water's edge and so on.
Although Gui Xianning thought of Miao characters and came up with a fine sweat, every time he came up with a Chinese character surname, Hu Sheng, who was holding the pen next to him, secretly said ashamed in his heart, saying that although he was familiar with the Five Classics, he couldn't imagine that this was a good surname for a young master to put a few Chinese characters in a group, alas...... Shame on yourself...... I am ashamed......
As a result, this group of Japanese people suddenly had a "Chinese character correct name"!
This incident immediately caused an uproar among the guards of the garrison, saying that how can the correct name of Chinese characters be taken casually! That's what only Chinese people can use! And those twenty weak chickens are still eliminated from our basket! How can there be such a noble surname as the kanji name?
So this group of people was envious, and they also ran to "Teacher Gui" in front of them in private, respectfully asking for a "surname", and even made a big salute saying that they wanted to bow to their subordinates.
Gui Xianning was immediately a little blind, thinking that this matter obviously can't be favoritism, what should I do? At this time, Wei # Hong also had to be mixed in after hearing the news, and there was no way to stabilize the morale of the army, so let everyone "give a gift".
But apparently, the two brothers didn't seem to have much ink in their stomachs, so the two of them found Xiao Pingguo and asked the artist to think of a few surnames for the brothers.
Xiao Pingguo smiled after hearing the reason, and said that these more than 200 Japanese ronin, although it is a bit brain-consuming to have a surname for one person, but if we open our minds a little, it is actually not difficult, in short, what you think of is what it is, you can even use the names of Ito Hirobumi and Saigo Takamori, so what else can't be used?
So Wei # Hong had a flash of inspiration in his head, patted his thigh, and this group of Japanese people immediately had a morning tide, Muzuki, Hakuro, Hatsuki, King Kong, Kirishima, Hiei, Haruna, Nagato, Ise, Mutsu, Fuso twelve surnames, but these are obviously not enough, so Xiao Pingguo said tentatively: Otherwise, how about the surname Hata?
When Gui Xianning heard this, he immediately blurted out next to him, then add another wild knot...... Clothing?
Let's take off the clothes...... Wei # Hong subconsciously responded, Gui Xianning listened to the puff and sneered, saying that if the clothes were removed, it would be naked, not good...... As a result, Wei # Hong frowned and responded, Brother Gui, let's get down to business, can we stop joking?
This time, the initiator Xiao Da musician's eyes immediately lit up and said, It's not a joke! Sounds good!
Can it really work?
Yes!
But it's still time to take off your clothes! Oh no...... It's to remove the word clothes!
Well, since this precedent has been set, the brothers are welcome, so it only took a moment for the surnames of the two hundred Japanese people to be collected by these three single dogs, among these surnames, including but not limited to Aoi, Muto, Ozawa, Sakai, Mary, Sakurai, Noriko, Leah, Kanzuki, Mai, Shinheng, Hinino, Yui, Kayo, Harasa, Satomi, Yangli, Yoshizawa, Hamasaki, Mingbu, Misaka, Mikoto...... And so on and so forth......
Because of the rush of time, these seedlings are varied, and some of them are male and female, but they work surprisingly well on these ronins.
In any case, this incident, which was later called "Australian Miao Zi Must Be Called Order" by overseas Japanese people, was recorded in the family tree of the Japanese people, and it was obviously a big deal for these Japanese people who were adrift overseas.
Moreover, the group of Chinese entourage also spoke highly of these "surnames" given by Master Gui, thinking that these were very "elegant" surnames, which were deeply rooted in the customs of Dongying, and had the style of Japanese Chinese ----, that is, aristocratic surnames.
You must know that in this era, the Japanese still revere Chinese culture very much, and worshipping kanji is also one of their traditions, in Japan, if a thing only has a katakana name and no formal kanji name, it means informal, unorthodox, or even humble.
Obviously, the same is true of the names of a family and an individual. Because in this era, only nobles and high-ranking samurai could use "kanji Miao characters" in Toei, such as the Taira, Genji, Fujiwara, and Tachibana clans of the Emperor lineage, the Konoe clan of the Seki family, the Kuga clan of the Tsei family, and the Saionji clan.
However, for ordinary people, including those wealthy ordinary businessmen, the surname is a very distant and unattainable thing for them, because they are not qualified to use surnames, let alone Chinese character surnames.
Therefore, Gui Xianning's practice is very shocking among the Japanese people, and in the eyes of this group of Japanese people, this is a major event related to future generations, which invisibly improves their social status and gives them dignity to a certain extent.
Although Gui Xianning can only be regarded as crooked.
Although many immigrants from Dongying later came to Australia and also obtained their own surnames, the first 200 surnames were called "the first immigrant surnames" by the Japanese people, and the first 20 surnames were named "the first generation of imperial surnames", which was given the name of "the first imperial surname", which has the feeling of overseas Chinese.
As a result, a large number of pro-Australian overseas Japanese immigrant families were formed a few years later.
Of course, that's another story.
In early May, after the successful trial production of the sugar factory, Gui Xianning decided to make full use of the wild sugarcane resources in the jungle to maintain the daily production of the sugar factory until the sugarcane harvest season arrived on Dili Island.
So Hou Xianglin, as the governor, reached a verbal agreement with the Luoka tribe: at the price of two taels of silver and one ton, he would buy the wild sugarcane collected by the men, women and children of the Luoka tribe.
Of course, the sugar content of this wild sugarcane is very low, estimated at about four percent, and according to the existing technological conditions and process level, the sugar yield is only three to two percent, that is, one ton of wild sugarcane can only produce one load of sugar on average.
Obviously, this is far worse than the sugarcane at home, but even so, if you include the cost of coal, labor and other costs, according to the collection and purchase of half a ton of wild sugarcane a day and the local sugar market price on Timor Island, the sugar factory actually has a net profit of about five to eight taels every day, and as soon as these white sugar are produced, they are purchased by the Diao company. So it's just a small business.
However, Gui Xianning said that in the second half of the year, the sugarcane plantations of the Duchess and Pimont, Degus and other bigwigs were harvested, and the sugar factory became a big business, because just the sugarcane planting area of these three companies this year has reached more than 1,000 acres, although the quality of sugarcane here is not as good as that of the old king at home, but it is said that the sugar content is also more than 6 percent, in this era, the yield of sugarcane per mu is almost more than 2,000 catties, so it is calculated like this, A turnover of three to fifty thousand taels of silver is already an extremely conservative estimate.
Moreover, with the demonstration effect of these three plantations, it can be expected that a large number of sugar cane plantations will appear around Dili, and only the semi-mechanized sugar mill in Sinanseong will be able to purchase these sugarcane on a large scale and maintain a reasonable and competitive purchase price.
Therefore, the production activities of the sugar factory are of great significance, in addition to training employees and earning a little money by the way, there is also the role of running in equipment, improving the process, and preparing for the production at the end of the year.