On the morning of the 15th day of the month of Kannatsu (October), Naohide and his party came to Mr. Ninomiya to say goodbye. Although it is a goodbye, it can't be a direct "I'm leaving, thank you for taking care" This kind of words, it is inevitable to talk about some local scenery that you have seen during the tour.

Because Date Toe Morunejo, the lord of the Uwajima Domain, was one of the future "Four Virtuous Marquis" and had a great influence at the end of the Edo period, Naohide also welcomed Mr. Ninomiya, who was a close minister of the domain lord in the future, and turned the conversation to the local famous Iyokan and "Shinju" (pearl).

During the reign of the reclusive head of the family, Date Muneki, he implemented a plan to promote the development of the industry, and after the new head of the family, Sojo strengthened economic reforms, and in the future, Sojo took back the monopoly of wood wax, implemented the development of coal (coal), and encouraged the development of agriculture and fishing, which greatly improved the finances of the domain, and at the same time promoted the Ranxue and Western military systems, and increased the power of the Uwajima domain.

In the future, Murata Nagatoshi was recommended by Mr. Ogata Hongan in 1853 to become a samurai of the Uwajima Domain, where he was responsible for translating Western military books, teaching Western art of war, and guiding the design and construction of forts and warships, and thus he entered the political arena at the end of the Edo period.

After the establishment of the Restoration government, Date Munejo served as the Minister of Civil Affairs and Secretary of the Treasury in the 2nd year of the Meiji era (1869), and in the 4th year of the Meiji era (1871) as a diplomatic ambassador, he signed the "Fuso Daqing Harmony Treaty" with the Qing Dynasty, which was a relatively fair and equal diplomacy-contract.

Generally speaking, Zongcheng is a clear and honest feudal lord, and he is also relatively upright and has a gentle personality, which is quite popular with Naoxiu. Although the stone height of the Uwajima domain was only 100,000 koku, Naohide did not hesitate to support the dust of the mountain, and he thought about it for several days, and felt that in addition to agriculture and fishing, Iyokan and "real pearl" (pearl) had the greatest potential.

At this time, there was already a relatively mature fruit tree grafting technology in Fuso, and Naohide's teacher, Mr. Egawa Tanan, was an expert. Naohide boasted about the benefits of grafting, but Mr. Ninomiya was clearly more interested in the artificial cultivation of real pearls.

The pearl is round and jade, and the pearl is a kind of treasure since ancient times because of its soft luster and round shape. There is a legend in China that the merman shed tears into pearls, if it is not valuable, who cares if it sheds tears or not, the water droplets shed on the body of the goddess Venus in the famous painting "The Birth of Venus" in Europa become white pearls, and the pearls are worthless and can be painted in mythological paintings?

The history of Chinese artificially cultured pearls is very long, it began in the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty "Wenchang Miscellaneous Records" recorded: "There is a pearl cultivation method, take a slightly larger clam ,......, become a pearl in autumn!". In the Ming Dynasty, China successfully cultivated the world-famous "Buddha Pearl".

Cultured pearls on Europa came from Linnaeus, a biologist from the Kingdom of Reading, who invented the technique of cultivating pearls with stems in 1761.

Fuso cultured pearls began with noodle merchant Mikimoto Kokichichi, and "Mikimoto" eventually developed into the world's top ten luxury jewelry brands with artificial pearls - this MOTO is as powerful as Motorola, and later Mikimoto has 12 million oysters, accounting for 75% of the world's cultured pearl share.

In the following year, in 1893, Kokichi Mikimoto succeeded in cultivating the first semi-circular pearl. Later, he used the Chinese Hepu pearl oyster to cultivate saltwater pearls, and finally succeeded in cultivating the world's first round pearl in 1905, which caused a sensation in the world at that time, and Mikimoto became the world's "pearl king". In 1916, Kokichi summed up a method for cultivating commercially valuable pearls in batches. In 1932, Time magazine reported that in Fuso Kobe, 75-year-old Kokichi Mikimoto burned 720,000 cultured pearls at one time because of poor quality, which caused a sensation.

At that time, the production and quality of cultured pearls in the whole world were not high, and it was not until 1940 that Fuso farmers abandoned the method of using chopped pearl mussels as cores and switched to mantle membranes for cores, and the pearl farming industry developed rapidly.

Naohide carefully considered the question of what to do with the economy after the founding of Fuso.

According to the original history, raw silk and rice became the main export force, and raw silk was just enough, and the poor could not afford to wear silk, but mulberry orchards encroached on a large amount of agricultural land; At the same time, the large amount of rice exports and the decline in grain production brought about huge social problems, and it is said that the price of rice at that time had increased by seven or eight times, and some said that it had increased more than ten times, and the people in Fuso were living in misery.

Naohide felt that in the case that industrialization could not be achieved overnight, it was a better choice to replace the export of raw silk and rice with the export of cosmetics, luxury goods and medicines, after all, the added value was too high.

It's 1844, Naohide took out the breeding technology a hundred years later, and at that time Mr. Ninomiya fooled him not to want it, Mr. Ninomiya pulled Naohide to ask the technical points to the bottom, and then went to the beach to find fishermen to buy a female mussel for practical testing, and found that the mantle membrane is really easy to use as a nucleus, and the female mussel didn't spit it out after two days.

In addition, Murata Yongmin also made a lot of contributions, Murata silently recorded Naohide's statement, and then raised a lot of questions that Naohide ignored, I don't know if it was the harmony of nature or what the reason, and then it was Mr. Ninomiya and Murata who discussed, Naohide was only responsible for answering questions on the side, anyway, the result was good, and it was nothing to be ignored.

Mr. Ninomiya felt that it was almost clear, after all, Naohide said that this was the secret recipe of the Song and Ming dynasties in China, and the name "Wenchang Miscellaneous Records" sounded inexplicably high, and the technical description was also clear, he turned out the agricultural book given by Naohide before, wrote an article on economic development, and went directly to see the head of the family.

In the evening, Mr. Ninomiya came back happily, after all, it was the internal affairs of the Uwajima Domain, and he didn't elaborate on the instructions of the feudal lord, but just issued a letter of appointment from the "professor" of the Minglun Pavilion of the Domain, Naohide said that you don't use bean bags as steamed buns, it's okay, after all, it takes one or two years for artificially cultured pearls to be seedless, and it takes four or five years to have a core, which is not to see a rabbit and not to scatter an eagle, and the letter of appointment that Saga began to give is a "lecture", and the "professor" of Uwajima is not a higher level after all, so Naohide happily accepted it.

This "lecture" is also fooling, no need to lecture, it's an identity, I hope that Naohide will come to Uwajima to guide pearl farming, which is good for Naohide to enhance his reputation, and there are not many other benefits. Mr. Ninomiya was also a little apologetic, and he asked Naohide if he had any special requests.

"Zhixiu Gong is a disciple of Mr. Hong'an, and he has something to ask for", he tossed for several days, and now is the time to see the poor dagger.

"Please."

"Mr. Siebold left behind a daughter named Ine in Fuso, and I heard that she was taken in by Mr. Siebard, and Mr. Siebold was kind. Naoxiu asked Mr. to give Ine Miao the word. ”

Mr. Ninomiya's face was undecided.

After Siebold was deported, he left Fuso's wife and daughter in Nagasaki because of the Languo's rule that mixed-race children from the colonies could not be brought back to the country. - This is not only the rule in the land country, but also in the countries of Europa at that time, ironically, the natives can be brought back to the country as slaves, but the children of mixed race are not allowed to set foot in the country.

The Tokugawa shogunate stipulated that half-breeds would be executed on the spot when they were discovered, but because Languo, Chugo, and Goryeo were the shogunate's overseas trading parties, they were open to mixed-race children from these three countries. The folk associate evil, disaster, and disease with mixed-race children, resulting in a general bad end for mixed-race children.

In the thirteenth year of Bunsei (1830), as a student of Siebald, Ninomiya Keisaku adopted Ine, who was four years old at the time, and he took a great risk at the time when Siebold was deported. Naohide admires this very much, which is one of the reasons why he came to visit Ninomiya - at least morally good and worth befriending.

Mr. Ninomiya's face was red and white, and the reason for learning the face-changing stunt was surprise and shame. What was surprising was that he secretly adopted Ine and took a big political risk, and the shogunate could punish him for this, but he didn't expect this big secret to be revealed by Naohide in front of Murata and Naohide's two students; I'm ashamed because he was mixed up before the Uwajima Domain, and before Date Munejo took over as the head of the family, he didn't officially adopt Ine as his adopted daughter in order to avoid risks, what does it mean? It was he who took in Ine, but did not give her his Miao character "Ninomiya", Ine is currently using her mother's Miao character "Nanben", and Ine is not a member of the Nanben family at all, and the Miao character is illegal, so she actually has no official identity as a samurai girl, and Ninomiya feels ashamed of her teacher.

According to the historical trajectory, next year he will send Fuso's name "Kusumoto Rice" Ine to another student of Siebold Soken Ishii to learn gynecological medicine, seven years later Ine and Ishii Soken had a daughter out of wedlock, at that time the social atmosphere was conservative, Ine took her daughter back to Nagasaki to practice medicine, and then life was miserable, it was the current Murata Eitoshi future Omura Masajiro who was asked by Mr. Ninomiya to bring Ine back to Uwashima, Mr. Ninomiya taught him medical skills under guilt, and Ine became a famous gynecological saint at that time, In the end, he also became the imperial physician of the Fuso royal family.

It was a story that was widely circulated at the time, but there were some sad things that few people knew. Ine was never married, and the name she gave her daughter was "Tada", which means free in Fuso, and Ine was never married, so some people deduced that Ishii Muneken used immoral means to get Ine.

Even more tragic is Ine's daughter, because the meaning of "Tada" is too poignant, and later changed her name to "Takako", because there is no official father, she also inherited her grandmother's surname "Kusumoto", because of her beauty, she was called "the first beauty at the end of the shogunate" by good deeds.

Takako was raised by her grandmother until she was thirteen years old, married Mise Moshibuchi at the age of fourteen, and her husband died the following year. After that, poor Takako was humiliated by the doctor Katagiri Shigeaki, and later gave birth to a son, named Nan This Wednesday. Takako was also studying medicine, but after this incident, she interrupted her studies, but fortunately, she later married the doctor Yawaki Taisuke and had three daughters.

Originally, Ine handed over her daughter to her mother to raise because her mixed-race status would drag her daughter down, but she didn't expect her daughter to be as ill-fated as herself, and Ine spent the rest of her life at her daughter's house in her old age.

It is said that Confucianism has high morality, Naohide thinks it's, Ine is a mixed-race child, and the twists and turns of his life have also affected his daughter, and the policy of discriminating against mixed-race children is set by the shogunate, and the shogunate respects Confucianism, so don't want such Confucianism. Or some people say that the Europa continent also discriminated against mixed race at this time, so the religious culture at that time was as uncivilized as Confucianism, but it can only show that it is the same as the three indiscriminate.

Mr. Ninomiya greeted the daughter who had been wrapping her head with a handkerchief from the back room, "I don't care about it, and I don't do it." From now on, your name will be Ninomiya Rice. Zhixiujun is a witness, please also take care of it". After speaking, the father and daughter hugged their heads and cried.