At the end of October 1854, Naohide returned to the White Lord and found that double happiness was coming - it turned out that in mid-September, Mrs. Yingzi gave birth to a second child, because the White Lord had just assisted the Anglo-Buddhist joint war fleet to win a great victory, destroying all the ports of Lucia in the Far East, so Naohide and Yingzi named the boy "Taiheilang", hoping that the northern land would always be peaceful and happy.

But it's a matter of the future, anyway, Naoxiu can't be happy now - he hasn't been there for nearly three months, and he has accumulated a lot of government affairs.

It stands to reason that after four years of running-in, the governance structure of the white lord should have been stabilized, and there should not be too many affairs that need to be made directly, but this time the situation is special, because the backbone has left a large number of people - not to escape, nor to visit relatives, but to study abroad according to the previous plan.

There are those who come and go, and those who come back naturally go out.

As of today, there are as many as ten people who have been overseas in the White Lord, including Naohide, Eiko, Manjiro Nakahama, Nakamura Gakujiro, Murata Agatoshi, Ninomiya Ina, Katsugoro Hori, Hideno Daishang, Ryoma and his sister Otome; There are also two who stayed in the United States, Toranosuke Takemae and Yataro Iwasaki.

This time, there were more people who went out on the merchant ship of Hamehiro Yoshiko, led by Okubo Riji, including Hayato Hori Naoyoshi, Kawagami Genaki, Hori Yuei, Okada Nobujin, Takano Nagaei under the pseudonym Yoshida Yuetoku, Inoue Genzaburo, five students from the Rope Martial Museum, seven members of the Saga windmill group led by Shimatuan Uemon, five Tosa samurai led by Sawamura Sonose, plus eleven family members, and there were as many as thirty-five people in the total Linlin - the more special one here is Genaki Kawagami, the previous people left in early September, And he went to Xiangjiang with Little John on October 27.

Fortunately, Xianheng Foreign Bank was opened by his own family, otherwise it would be impossible for so many people to go at one time.

But because Naohide and Okubo are gone before and after, and the lord's wife Yingzi is in a special period, and so many backbones are gone at the same time, so the white lord will inevitably have some chaos, so Naohide was in a hurry for a while after he came back.

After some adjustments, the current governance organization of the White Lord is as follows:

The white lord pursued Naohide Hori, and pursued it for Egawa Hidetoshi - Naohide persuaded Hidetoshi to resign and return to Edo on the grounds of "unsuitable for water and soil", and don't wade into the muddy waters of the white lord again, but since Yingmin participated in the sea battle, he didn't know what the hell he had realized, and actually said that he was ready to give the son to his younger brother Yingwu, and from then on he would follow Naohide to show his ambitions", Naohide couldn't persuade him, so he had to toss it.

The Hakujo Town is concurrently served by Hidetoshi Egawa, and the tax officer is Shitoto Hori, the talented Ainu man has finally come out;

Kanjo is Naoin Sakamoto - 19-year-old Ryoma finally officially appeared on the big stage at the end of the Bakuma;

The law assessment office is still in charge of the lord's wife Yingzi, and Otome doesn't know what she learned in the United States, and was appointed as a deputy by Yingzi.

The head of the university in the township is concurrently served by Naoxiu himself;

The director of the medical hall is Murata Eitoshi's wife, Ninomiya Ina-Kusahara Saburo followed the Hakodate to open a medical hall in Ezo with Takeuchi Hotoku, and the position of the curator flew like this, but it was not satisfactory to get a deputy curator;

The land head is held by Murata Eitoshi, who has served as the head of the Hori family for a long time, and is highly respected, plus the original big head Hayato Hori Naoyoshi strongly recommended, so it did not cause a big backlash;

The head of the navy is still Nakahama Manjiro - since he took office in 1851, Manjiro has been invincible, plus he has a bold personality and careful thinking, and the navy army has been obedient to him;

Katsugoro is in charge of Naotsushi Hori - going around and around, Naohide's original world Isamu Kondo still does his old job;

In addition to the white lord, there are also twelve sub-domains including Soya, of which Moka, Toyohara, and Soya are the most important.

The other sub-leaders have their own talents to serve as the town commissioner, but Mooka is the secret base of the navy, and the town commission is concurrently served by Nakahama Manjiro; Toyohara was the foundation of the future commission, and the town commission was concurrently served by Eiko's younger brother Nakamura Gakujiro; Soya is at the northern end of Ezo Land, and the town was originally the island group Uemon, but the group Uemon went to study at sea, and was succeeded by Hori Yoshiaki - Void Tuntou Zarasi as Hezhe

The representative of the people, after several wars, officially transferred from the head of the group to the management of the white master.

As for the temple shrine commission, Edo appointed the "White Lord Priest" and Egawa Hidetoshi as the concurrently - the temple shrine must be appointed by Edo, but no one wanted to come to the "shabby place" of the White Lord.

However, because there is only a family of monks in Xiunian, Yingmin simply entrusts the affairs to Xiunian.

In addition, the office has transferred its main business, including sealing, to three private trading companies, namely:

The family house headed by Kondo Nagajiro is mainly responsible for the commercial operation of Ezo land;

Himeya, headed by Nakamura Gakujiro, is mainly responsible for the commercial operation of the North Ezo land;

In addition, there is Shikiya, headed by Horigoro, which is mainly responsible for building the trade route of all Fuso.

The above is the latest governance structure of the white lord - since the white lord changed from the acting official to the executive office last year, although the original public discussion and joint discussion system has not been abolished, but the authority of the white lord has increased greatly, and I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Among the various important candidates for the white lord's office, there is one person who is very special, he is Horigoro of the Four Seasons House:

In fact, Hori Goro is a change name from the money house's remnant Hanbei, and he was originally the ruler of the money house in the northland.

At the beginning of November 1851, Hanbei and Naohide made a deal, and after offering a part of the benefits to the white lord in exchange for a way out, he resolutely returned to Kanazawa Town, Kaga Province, to rescue Gobei, the head of the money house.

At its peak, he had 34 branches in various places, covering most of Fuso's trade routes, and was also the largest secret trade operator, and it is said that he had colluded with England, Lucia, Tangren, and Goryeo.

Kanya was the royal merchant of the million-stone Maeda family, but the biggest backer, Okumura Esumi, was hung up in 1843, after which Gobei lost his reliable support in the Maeda family - Okumura Esumi was born in the Okumura family, one of the eight leaders of the Maeda family, and was the elder of the ruling family before his death.

Later, it was revealed that the money house and the Satsuma clan had jointly organized a secret trade, and it was thoroughly investigated by the shogunate.

Although Satsuma's Shimazu family's secret trade leader committed suicide at the end of 1849, the shogunate still did not spare the money.

In the fourth year of Jiayong (1851), Gobei was imprisoned by the Maeda family for the poisoning incident in the "River ~ Bei Epsom New Project" - the content of this project was to fill in the swamp to make fields, and the money house threw medicine to kill the fish, hoping to drive away the fishermen who were actually near the swamp, but someone ate the dead fish and died.

In November of the fifth year of Jiayong (1852), the eighty-year-old Wubing died of illness in prison.

In the summer and April of the sixth year of Kaei (1853), the shogunate completely severed the name of the money house on the grounds of secret trade and other reasons, and the three sons of Gobei were executed, and the shogunate and the Maeda family divided the money house's belongings, and in Naohide's original world, "collected more than 85,000 stone from the field, 35 sea ships, and other goods."

However, because of Naoxiu's incursion, the half-guards had a way back in the white master, so a considerable number of people in the money house escaped the disaster, and more than 130 people fled to the north one after another in the past two years, and brought two defense ships and some belongings.

Hanbei, the remaining leader of the money house, disfigured himself, changed his name to Hori Goro, and officially became a retainer of the Hori family.

At the behest of Naohide, he established Shikiya this year, mainly responsible for building the trade routes of the whole Fusang - of course, the remnants of the money house can no longer come forward, but they have some knowledge of the trade routes in various places, and the original rich experience is still very helpful to the white master.

By the time the political structure had stabilized, the incident had come to mid-November 1854, when it had snowed several times and the port was frozen, so Naohide had to come forward to meet with the famous troublemaker, Yoshida Jukata, who claimed to be a twenty-first warrior.

Since Naoxiu's career, he has coaxed the public and the old and middle, and guided the people downward, and he really hasn't been afraid of anyone, but he has a headache when he sees Yoshida Injiro, which can be described as "brine and tofu and one thing".

Why?

Because Yoshida is a stubborn donkey - at this time, there are no donkeys among the people of Fuso, so it is good to be considered a stubborn horse.

Everyone else has what they want, and Naohide can naturally take advantage of the situation, but Yoshida is different, he is open-minded, and now he can't even figure out what he wants, so Naohide has no problem with him.

So how did Yoshida get to the White Lord?

It turned out that he was sent by a merchant ship from Kinokuniya entrusted by Mr. Tanan, and there is a story in it:

In the third month of this year's Japanese calendar, Yoshida took his disciple Kaneko Shigenosuke to Shimoda Port in Izu Province, preparing to sneak to the black ship to study at sea.

Yoshida's teacher was Mr. Zoyama Sakuma, and Sakuma's teacher was Egawa Taro Saemon, and Mr. Tanan was Shimoda at this time, so he turned a blind eye and let Yoshida and the two get a small boat.

After night fell, Yoshida and his disciples rowed a small boat to the side of the black boat, but the rice people did not pay attention to them at all, and the two of them had to return to the shore in desperation.

Then, Mr. Tan'an, who had been prepared for a long time, caught these two daring guys.

In fact, Mr. Tanan has ulterior motives, he uses Yoshida to test the attitude of the rice people to see if they have ulterior intentions - if the two Yoshida are really taken in by the rice people, then the matter will be a big deal, because this is obviously a violation of the agreement between the two parties! It shows that the Minian side has more appetite for Fuso than what was said during the negotiations.

But Yoshida was neither killed by the Mi people as an enemy in the night attack, nor did he take him in, and Mr. Tanan's temptation ended there.

But what to do with Yoshida?

If someone else is, of course, sent to prison, then seriously investigate who instigated it.

Mr. Tanan knew the ins and outs of this matter well, and he knew who the person who instructed him was - the letter that his disciple Sakuma Zoyama persuaded him to secretly provide convenience to Yoshida was still in his arms!

Don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, Mr. Tan'an is still quite satisfied with the disciple of Sakuma Xiangshan, and besides, Yoshida also helped him, so Jiang Chuan thought in his heart, and this matter was left to be settled, but he detained these two people in Shimoda, hoping to discipline one or two for his disciple Sakuma.

But after a long time, Mr. Tanan couldn't stand it anymore - at first, Yoshida Injiro knew that he was scared and was honest for a while, but soon he reverted to his old ways and asked Mr. Tanan to negotiate with Perry in person to let him get on the ship and go to the United States.

"This is talking about the business of the two countries, can you not make trouble!"

In a fit of rage, Mr. Tanan put Yoshida under house arrest and gave him a lot of orchid books to help him improve.

However, Mr. Tanan forgot one thing, he forgot to interrogate Yoshida's homework level - Egawa thought that Yoshida was a disciple of Sakuma Xiangshan, and Lanxue should have a little foundation, but it was not the case at all, in fact, Yoshida was half a bucket of water to Lanxue, and the part he was proficient in was iron cannon drills and Western military formations, and Mr. Tanan threw Yoshida mathematics, physics and chemistry, and he couldn't see it at all!

Finally, when the black ships were gone, Mr. Tanan took the time to teach Yoshida's homework, and couldn't help but get angry, "Hasn't this grown at all?" - teach one and know two, Naoxiu raised Mr. Tan'an's vision too high, and Mr. Tan'an now looks at everyone like a fool.

When Yoshida was 12 years old, Yoshida taught the art of war to the feudal lords, and was a genius art of war of the Mori family in Choshu, and he was known for his fame.

The Fuso tradition attaches great importance to genius, and Mr. Tanan is not exempt from vulgarity, so he persevered patiently for a few months, but with little effect.

In fact, in the early days of the Egawa Orchid School, the iron cannon drill, the construction of Western military formations and forts were the mainstay, and it was not until Naohide came to apprentice that Mr. Tanan turned to practical Orchid Studies related to people's livelihood, so he felt that it might be because the previous focus delayed Yoshida, so he felt guilty, so he taught Yoshida more.

However, it was obvious that Yoshida had not made much progress, and in the end, Mr. Tanan was ruthless, "Come on, send you two far away and throw them into the territory of Naoxiu's monkey cub!" He has a lot of methods, I can't teach you anymore! ”

So, Yoshida Injiro and his disciple Kaneko Shigenosuke were sent to the cargo ship bound for Kitachi.