The little princess mentioned by Yingzi is the youngest daughter of the old Vanderbilt couple, who is the same age as Gakujiro, and had a very close relationship with Gakujiro back then - Naohide and Yingzi were her family's family doctors when they were in the United States, and often took Gakujiro in and out, and as a mysterious Oriental, Gakujiro was very popular with girls at that time.

"Qi Da is not a coincidence."

Listening to the answers, you know that the relationship is not going well.

Gakujiro explained a few words in a strong spirit, and Naohide and Eiko didn't want to ask much about this, anyway, it probably meant that people couldn't look down on Gakujiro.

The Vanderbilt family is a giant in the American shipbuilding and shipping industry, and his little princess has developed an arrogant and arrogant personality since she was a child. She got along fairly well with Gakujiro at first, but as she grew older, the Vanderbilt family's wealth grew, resulting in her higher status in New York social circles and her temper growing, while Gakujiro was busy with business and studies all day, and everyone spent less and less time together, and finally the two had to part ways.

"Then you haven't found the right girl in the past two years?" Eiko continues to care for her younger brother.

Zhixiu thinks that his wife's nagging is completely unnecessary, you see this kid looks like a dog, young and rich and has no elders around to restrain him, the ghost knows how much debt this guy owes in the United States!

Actually, Gakujiro is really not what Naohide imagined - he is busy to death every day, how can Gakujiro have time to fool around often.

Yingzi chattered all night, but Naoxiu reminded her that she let her poor brother rest.

"Why does a big husband have no wife", Naoxiu comforted Xuejiro when he sent him out, Xuejiro rolled his eyes when he heard it, this brother-in-law is also unreliable, you yourself are in the hands of my sister, what kind of face do you brag about here.

Gakujiro wanted to stop talking after watching Naohide, he has not been in vain for so many years, knowing what Naohide is worried about, he must be afraid that his emotional twists and turns will affect the cooperative relationship with the Vanderbilt family.

"Don't worry, the captain scolded her when he found out, and the cooperation with us was not affected in any way."

It turned out that the old Vanderbilt, commonly known as the "captain", really didn't care too much about this matter - he was an old-school style, firmly believing that "business is business and favor is favor", and in the past few years, the group of people who have made great contributions to the Vanderbilt family have even said that if it were not for background reasons, the family may not be able to closely draw this group of fledgling Orientals to their side as they are now, so the old Vanderbilt is actually more disappointed in his youngest daughter and thinks that he has lost an opportunity to deepen the relationship.

The elder Vanderbilt was shrewd and far-sighted, but of his large number of children, only his son William inherited his talents, and the others were obsessed with fashion and fun, so this failed romance was seen as another wayward of the salted egg's young daughter.

Vanderbilt was tough and stubborn, but he was recognized as "always a man who cherished his reputation and counted his word," and "did what he said, with promises, intimidation, and threats." ”

Therefore, since the "captain" said to Gakujiro that he didn't need to care, Naohide was also relieved.

But when the brother-in-law and student fell out of love, it was really embarrassing to consider whether the loss of love would affect the business, so Naoxiu searched his stomach and thought about how to cover up the past, Ou ~ By the way, there was really a big thing I forgot to ask Gakujiro.

"Don't worry, the thing you said started to be publicized last year, and it has caused a sensation this year, and it will definitely make the Lucian people suffer a big loss." Gakujiro replied proudly - he was able to successfully manipulate the public opinion of North America, and as the black hand behind the scenes, he was very proud of it.

"Stupid, short-sighted, and as visionless as inferior!" As if he had a heart, the Governor of Eastern Siberia in Lucia, Muravyov, was furious about the matter at the Governor's Palace.

At today's meeting, Muravyov was met with resistance from all sides, and his former close allies either opposed him or remained silent, a crisis not seen since he became governor in September 1847.**

In fact, in addition to the governor of Eastern Siberia, Muravyov also managed Irku in Rusya

Tssk province.

The two Primorsky Governors of Okhotsk and Kamchatka were in the northeast of the lower Ulong River basin, and the Irkutsk province was in the upper reaches of the Ulong River, so Muravyov wanted to connect the two territories by river and find an eastern outlet to the sea for the empire.

This is an unwavering achievement, and if it can be accomplished, he will become a great man alongside his ancestors, and he will be able to become a sought-after minister in Lucia.

Originally, according to the conclusion of the exploration of the Oolong estuary by the cruiser "Constantine" in 1846, "the estuary is not only impassable by ships, but also impassable by small boats with shallow draft", this dream has been shattered, but in 1849 the brave Captain Nevelskoy rekindled hope - the results of the survey of the transport ship "Baikal" overturned the previous conclusions and clearly confirmed that there was a deep-water channel at the mouth of the Oolong River that could pass large ships!

The ensuing series of developments was as exciting as a dream, and the emperor approved his proposal and, despite the opposition of his ministers, privately authorized himself and Captain Nevelskoy to carry out a survey of the valley of the Oolong River.

In 1850, the Governor's Office of Eastern Siberia established the Nikolaevsk outpost and the Perov Winter camp at the mouth of the Oolong River.

In 1851, Captain Nevelskoy completed preliminary explorations near the mouth of the Oolong River, in the northern part of Sakhalin and in the Tatar Strait.

Originally, this year he could have sent Cossacks to land on the western shore of Sakhalin, and at the same time Captain Nevelskoy would have completed the exploration of the entire island. In 1853, he would seize the entire island for the emperor, and at the same time, he would definitely be able to open up the entire Wulong River waterway, and closely link the empire's territory in Siberia with the river as a channel, and from then on Lucia would gain access to the sea in the Pacific Ocean, a great achievement!

But today, the original intimate alliance has officially fallen apart, and the dream seems out of reach.

"I won't allow it! The emperor does not allow it! The great future of the empire will not allow either! ”

It's a pity that his impassioned speech can only harvest sarcasm and opposition, what a big defeat this is, and it still hurts to think about it now.

There are three major and one small force in Eastern Siberia, the Governor's Palace, the Rumi Company, the civil forces, and the fleet of the Okhotsk district.

The Rumi Company was a colonial company chartered by Emperor Paul I in 1799 and had jurisdiction over what is now Eastern Siberia and Alaska in the north. However, with the deepening of its control over Siberia, the empire established the Viceroyalty of Western Siberia and the Viceroyalty of Eastern Siberia in the 20s, and the direct jurisdiction of the Rumi Company was reduced to the Northern Rice Region.

As a company invested by the emperor and many nobles, after many years of operation, the Rumi company still has a huge influence in Eastern Siberia.

As for the civil forces, because the territory of the Governor's Palace is under military control, there are only large and small businessmen in the civil forces who are not under their control, but behind these merchants stand countless nobles, and the potential power should not be underestimated.

These businessmen have been working with Rumi for many years, and they only care about sucking blood on the Empire, and they have no vision at all.

The smaller of the three major forces, one small and four forces is the Okhotsk District Fleet, which was supposed to fully cooperate with the work of its own governor-general, but as a technical branch, the naval force is very independent. Although he pinched the port, shipyard and supplies, he really wanted to make these stinky sailors obedient, but because he had to take into account the emperor's thoughts, the feudal officials could not control the military too deeply, so he still indulged the fleet to make it have a certain degree of autonomy.

But I never expected that today these people would actually unite against themselves, what a hell.

Originally, it was in the interests of these people to seize the Wulong River valley and Sakhalin Island by themselves.

Since the twenties, Rumi's business has been in decline.

From 1797 to 1821, the Rumi Company shipped an average of more than 50,000 furs from the northern rice region every year, but since the forties, it has dropped to 17,000 skins per year, only one-third of the original.

And the price has also fallen a lot, the number of northern rice bison hides is too much, since the victory of the Mi-Mo War, the rice country has expanded its territory to the Pacific Ocean, and the business of Rumi Company has become more and more difficult.

Therefore, he actively expanded his territory in the Far East, and the merchants, led by the Rumi Company, were originally very supportive, hoping to find gold mines or new fur sources.

At the same time, the search for an outlet to the sea in the east is self-evident in the importance of enhancing the status of the naval forces, and the fleet of the Okhotsk district welcomes this.

But two recent events have smashed this already strong alliance to pieces.

First of all, the outpost at the mouth of the Oolong River and the Perov winter camp were burned to the ground.

After the June thaw in the Sea of Okhotsk, two supply ships and the transport ship "Baikal" of Captain Nevelskoy departed on time and arrived at the mouth of the Oolong River on July 15.

Thinking of this, the Governor of Eastern Siberia, Muravyov, scolded, "Drunken obscene embryo!" Brainless barbarians who don't listen to commands! ”

He scolded the Cossack cavalry, originally according to Muravyov's orders, the area around the mouth of the Oolong River should be mainly pacified for the indigenous people, for a simple reason - Eastern Siberia cannot be self-sufficient in food! So grain had to be traded from the indigenous people and even from the Tang people.

But this group of livestock, the military discipline is sloppy, they rob openly at every turn, they kill people and set fire when they are happy, they still kill people and set fire when they are unhappy, mercenaries are a bunch of bastards!

But the others are no better.

Ministers bastards! Stubborn aristocratic bastards!

He repeatedly asked the emperor and ministers to emigrate, but according to the damned serfdom, the government required that the immigrants must have a migration certificate, but how could the noble lord agree to the loss of serfs under his hands, and at the same time, the empire's finances were not good, and it was impossible to provide subsidies to the poor, so the number of immigrants in Eastern Siberia has not been able to rise, and the consequence is that the arable land is not enough and the food is not self-sufficient.

The salaries of the Cossack mercenaries have not been paid on time, but do you know that if we keep relying on killing people and setting fires, we will not be able to gain a foothold in the lower reaches of the Wulong River for 10,000 years!

Muravyov took another big sip of vodka and let his thoughts wander.

The supply ships first found that the winter camp had been burned, and when they arrived at the outpost, they found that the area had also been burned to the ground. There was a total of half an infantry company, a Cossack cavalry company, plus ten sailors, a regular army of two hundred people, which was actually missing from the outpost and the winter camp - all the corpses were buried for the sake of epidemic prevention; The three cavalrymen and ten sailors who escaped were still on their way north at this time.

At this time, the main opponents of the fleet of the Okhotsk district were whaling ships and pirates - pirates did not look down on the poor Far East, but preferred to rob whaling ships. Originally, there were no risks in mind on this voyage, so there were only armed transport ships in the supply fleet.

What's next? A heated argument broke out between the three captains.

Captain Nevelskoy insisted on going ashore to reconnoiter while dividing his forces to search upstream and at sea. But his proposal was met with clear opposition.

Nevelskoy was not welcomed as a foreigner, and he also overturned the original results of the investigation of the Okhottsk district fleet on the mouth of the Oolong River, and greatly swept the face of the fleet, although he had the highest rank, but the other two captains thought that the most important thing now was to report back to Petropavlovsk - their reasons were also very strong, the transport ship should do the work of the transport ship, and timely reporting of information was due diligence, and only the commander should grasp the overall situation.

After a brief reconnaissance of the scene, the two ships set sail back to Kamchatka, and after taking the "Baikal" upstream to investigate and find nothing, Nevelskoy also quickly turned around and chased the ship in front of him - he had a history of disobeying orders, and if he returned late, he would be hacked by his colleagues, and it would be too late to regret it.

After the three ships returned to Petropavlovsk, due to the lack of secrecy, the news of the fall of the outpost and the winter camp spread, causing a great riot up and down.

The Governor of Eastern Siberia, Muravyov, sent troops to arrest the "rumor-mongers" and convened a meeting of relevant people to deal with the crisis.