Before buying a new ship, there was only one ship in the office, and the Hakujomaru was still a little leaky after a winter of torture.

"Hurry up—" Naohide sent Genzaburo Inoue to take people to the Matsumae Shipyard for repairs, and by the way to purchase some oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc., while he himself went to the countryside to teach.

East Asian civilizations have always attached great importance to children's education, and the new immigrants are very happy that their children can go to school, and the Ainu who help them also feel that this is a great virtue - no one doubts Naoxiu's intentions at all.

But,Compared to children,Adults are a little insensitive to reading.,Anyway, the men of the new immigrants would rather be trained to death by Toranosuke than want to come to the school.,On the contrary, the women like to come.,But it's okay to use the excuse to find Naoxiu to pull and pull.,It seems that the mind is not on studying.。

There is a good saying, "Why don't you study hard if you endure hardships?" Because the hardship of learning requires your own efforts, and the hardship of life you don't have to work hard, it will come to the door by itself. "It's full of malice.

In the end, Naohide had no choice but to use the method of the Saga Domain, and if he didn't learn well, he would be punished and punished, and he would be demoted after repeated teachings - ashigaru, don't do it. When it comes to the identity of the samurai, everyone pays attention to it.

As for the women, Mr. Miyama has a way, he suggests that those who learn well can be promoted to stewardship, and he asks Naohide to take out all the legends and picture books used to relieve boredom. In the Edo period, the townspeople were very entertained, and there were many ukiyo-e drawings and "ukiyo-e grass", especially ukiyo-e, which was popular literature at the time, and was very popular with the citizens, such as "The Lustful Generation of Men", "The Lustful Five Women", "Fuso Eidaizo", "The World's Chest Calculation", and so on.

Unexpectedly, when the legend and picture book were taken out, the enthusiasm of immigrants for learning was extremely high, which is similar to learning foreign languages through movies in later generations.

The reason why Zhixiu attaches so much importance to reading is not only because of quality training, but also because immigrants are filthy and inhuman.

Most of them are people who perform "unclean" labor, such as slaughtering, tanning, execution, scavenging, funeral, etc., while non-humans are mostly beggars, fortune tellers, street vendors, and low-class servants. Because of their social exclusion, these immigrants have a somewhat distorted mindset and perspective.

If nothing else, many of the immigrants who followed the practice are this kind of people, and Naoxiu doesn't want to sit on the powder keg in the future, so he must read more!

The busy May passed quickly, and Genzaburo Inoue returned angrily with the repaired ship. As soon as he came back, Genzaburo Inoue complained to Naohide. It turned out that he was not less angry with the Matsumae family and businessmen in Matsumae.

The root cause of being wronged is lack of money.

There has been no small penalty in the warehouse of the commission office for a long time, and Ying Yang can't blatantly spend in Matsumae anyway. Genzaburo only brought furs from Matsumae to Matsumae, but in the north, no one still had stinking skins, so the price was extremely low, and even the money for repairing the ship was not enough.

Seeing this, Genzaburo had no choice but to take out Naoxiu's handwritten book and borrow money from Matsumae's family. Matsumae's family is not not borrowing, a total of two hundred taels of gold, the amount is not large, but it is inevitable to sneer at Genzaburo, the implication is that the shogunate lord should go back to the warm and prosperous Edo, this northern land is bitter cold, only the athletes of the Matsumae family can survive the wind and snow.

Genzaburo is a good-natured person, the hand that borrows the money is below, and the hand that gives the money is on the top, and this anger is not unbearable. But then the waterman and his entourage suffered a big loss in the battle in the market, and their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen.

Like Takyo, the breech rifle and revolver of the commission office cannot appear in Matsumae at the moment, so Genzaburo and his party are carrying swords and knives. As a result, Yuan Saburo and his entourage were provoked by someone on Younu Street, and after they started to do it, they were beaten because of negligence in training

Escaped, because of the shame of this matter, he couldn't sue the Matsumae family, so he could only hold his stomach and come back.

Genzaburo avoided the light and gave the Matsumae family a meal of eye medicine, and Naohide listened to it haha University, "The children are playing, Inoue-kun doesn't need to worry." Genzaburo didn't dare to say that he himself was also beaten in Younu Street, so he had to say goodbye.

The ship was repaired, and Naohide hurriedly led the team to survey the surrounding seas.

The northern Ezo is the confluence of the Kuroshio warm current in the north and the cold current in the south, and the monsoon is also very distinctive, the winter monsoon period from November to March of the following year in the Western calendar, the northwest wind is common, and the summer monsoon period from June to September is the southwest wind prevailing, as for the rest of the time, the wind blows at will, and there are any wind directions.

It is now the end of May, and the ice surface of the Whale Sea in the northwest of Baizhu has thawed, and Zhixiu and his party have been inspecting everywhere, stopping and stopping, until the beginning of June, they arrived at Miaotun at the mouth of the Wulong River.

The geographical location of Miaotun is very important, but the scale is not large, and Zhixiu estimates that there are only more than 100 wooden houses, and the number of people is not known - because Zhixiu did not go ashore at all.

The most important thing when you first arrive at the new pier is the hydrological situation, and if there is no guide boat, you generally need to send a small boat to measure. While Naohide and the others were still measuring, gunshots rang out on the shore - I don't know where a group of Lucians appeared and kept firing their guns at Shirajomaru.

Surveying the hydrology without permission is generally a sign of hostility, and normal trade practice is to first let small boats go ashore and then find someone to guide the larger ships into port.

The bad-hearted Naoxiu asked the sailor to hang the star-striped flag of the United States, but the Lucian people didn't care about it, and they began to warn them when they saw that someone was privately testing the hydrology.

After the boat fled in disarray, Naohide commanded the boat to approach the shore and shoot at the Lucians.

The group used breech rifles, which were accurate and far, and the firing speed was fast, and they were condescending on the ship, and the enemy with the front-loading smoothbore gun screamed, but the good times did not last long, and the Lucians launched a small cannon, and seeing this, Naoxiu had to flee downstream.

After fleeing far away, everyone laughed and was very happy.

This time it was a small victory, neither the big ship nor the small boat was hit, and no one was injured, but the visual defeat of seven or eight Lucians was considered to be an advantage. As for the provocation without permission, there is a straight show in charge, no one thought of this, anyway, just run after the fight.

As for why there are Lusia people here, no one on the ship cares at all - except for Naohide and Kumitou Katsugoro, everyone doesn't understand, they still think this is Lu territory.

On June 7, Naohide returned to the White Lord with a boat, and after giving a reward, he asked everyone to keep it secret, saying that it was a big deal to report this matter to the shogunate, and maybe it would lead to some turmoil, but let's not say or admit it, and the big thing turned into a small thing, and it was a small thing, and that was it.

Where do you care so much about the group of Ashigaru and the water man.,I used to say how powerful the people of Lucia were.,Indigo face and red eyebrows.,Too tall.,Like a monster.,This time it seems to be an exaggeration.,As for secrecy.,No matter what, you can't keep it secret.,One is that there is no awareness of this.,The other is that the water husbands are recruited.,Two years later, I'll go back to Edo.,Why keep it secret for you.。

In less than three days, the whole department knew about this matter, and unlike the people who liked gossip, the leaders of each group had a sad face, a total of more than 80 people and more than 40 warriors, if the Lusians were summoned, it would not be a severe beating, and if they didn't get it right, they would all become Buddhas.

Zhixiu refuted the rumors, saying that he just had a little misunderstanding with the natives, the Feiyaka people, and explained to the leaders of each group that I was hanging the flag of the United States, and I would not find the white master in a while and a half.

The leaders of each group had no choice but to practice military affairs fiercely while looking forward to the arrival of new immigrants.

Naoxiu Xiu

I rested for two days, and then I took the boat out to surf, and the west side was finished, and the east side was not gone.

Okubo couldn't persuade him, so he had to let Toranosuke accompany him, and secretly instructed him, "Now that the foundation is not stable, don't use the sword lightly." ”

"Iron cannons are not sword soldiers", Toranosuke agreed, but he couldn't wait to meet the enemy and fight again - compared to Okubo, he believed in Naohide's judgment more, the current focus of the Lusia people is on the continent of Europa, and they can't take care of this side for the time being, and the Lu people only have a total of 1,000 standing troops in the north, and they sent three or four hundred people to the white master, and he really didn't pay attention to it when he went ashore - Toranosuke now completely understands the gap between the smoothbore gun and the breech rifle, and he thinks that one enemy is not an exaggeration.

As for the big barrel on the warship, he was quite worried, but calculating the time, Gakujiro should have sent a ship to set off, and in two months, the white master will also have a big barrel, and the shore defense artillery will definitely have the upper hand against the ship artillery.

The second trip to sea didn't worry the group leaders for long. Within a few days, Naohide returned, not only did he not meet foreign enemies, but also brought back a lot of seal skins.

It turned out that this time Naoxiu went west around the headland and continued north, and finally discovered Seal Island. Although it has not officially entered summer in North Ezo at this time, there are still many seals on Seal Island - in fact, they are fur seals, but except for Naohide, everyone can't tell the difference between fur seals and seals, and Naohide doesn't bother to correct them.

"I'm afraid there are no less than 100,000! The seals were crowded so densely packed that when they saw someone coming, these fools didn't know how to run. Toranosuke bragged to everyone.

Zhi Xiuxin said, how big is Seal Island, the island is 1.6 kilometers long and 850 meters wide, if there are 100,000 of them, let alone standing or not, what do so many fur seals eat to survive, soil?

In fact, this is a misjudgment of Naoxiu, and in later generations, Seal Island is one of the largest habitats of seals in the North Pacific, with more than 80,000 seals at the peak of summer, and there are really 100,000 at the peak at this time.

Okubo and Inoue Genzaburo are worried about money, who can stand this if they can't get in and out. I heard that there are 100,000 seals, so make a half fold, 20,000 always have it, although in recent years, with the increase in the supply of Ezo, the price of fur has dropped, but it is deerskin, seal fur is still a hot commodity, I don't know if 20,000 seal skins are sold, or sell them to the Languo Commercial Hall?

Everyone finally saw the way to make money, and unanimously asked Naohide to take the boat to catch seals again, but Naohide said that he would wait, now there is only one boat, and the efficiency is too poor.

It turned out that there were a lot of problems with catching seals this time, the main problem was that although the large ice cubes in the North Sea had decreased, there were still them, and the hunting was too wasteful, and the meat could not be preserved in hot weather, and the little salt brought by Naoxiu was used up in two days, and finally someone proposed to keep only the skin and no meat. In this regard, Naohide was disgusted and resolutely vetoed, so he came back early.

Hearing Naohide say this, the leaders of each group were a little unimpressed, but it was really not good to throw away the meat, so everyone summed it up, the first reason for hindering the hunt was the drift ice, the second was the preservation of the meat, and the third was the lack of manpower.

In this regard, everyone quickly came up with a solution, the drift ice is the best solution, and then wait for a while when the weather is hotter and the drift ice will be gone, as for the preservation of meat, if the salt is not enough, you can smoke and roast it, and immediately send people to the nearby coast to establish a settlement, see if there is an Ainu tribe nearby, don't give the meat for free, this is always okay.

As for the lack of manpower, there is really no way to do this, and you can't bring the fishing boat of the money house - if you take the money house's boat once, the half guard will definitely do it secretly by himself in the future, and you can't do it.

Speaking of which, it's been about two months since Naoyoshi Hori (Hayato) left with the merchant ship, so when will he be able to bring the newcomer back?