After breakfast the next day, everyone gathered in advance to discuss how to allocate the new manpower.

Although they didn't have much experience, the leaders of each group knew that the more men they had, the better, and after Okubo officially proposed the idea of hiding soldiers among the people, the scene was chaotic.

Of course, the fan group headed by Tiger Nosuke disagrees.,The previous good thing is to expand the fan group first.,Now you have to regret it.,How can there be such a cheap thing.。 However, in the face of the current financial difficulties of the institute, the fan group could not come up with a good solution.

In the end, it was still Naoxiu and the mud, and everyone barely reached an agreement.

The fan group should still be expanded first. Among the immigrants were twenty-four men in the prime of life, all of whom were organized into the fan group, and together with the seven young samurai from Tosa, the group made a total of forty people, which could be divided into four groups.

Okada Nobujin performed well in the last raid, and this time he changed from the head of the group with the surname group to the head of the group of the Fan group, and led a group with Toranosuke, Katsugoro, and Hayato.

However, the Fan Group had to send a group to Okubo every month to follow Okubo's command, and Okubo would do whatever he wanted, and the remaining three groups would cooperate with each group to participate in various constructions in addition to military affairs.

Xuan Zhen's small surname group is the head of the group, and he is transferred to the side of the person Heshang Xuanming.

As for logistics, this time it was all transferred to Genzaburo Inoue and Yuei, the kitchen manager, and the seventeen women and Sutaro's family were all under him, and they were in charge of finance, warehouses, large cafeterias, kindergartens, and so on.

The other groups remained the same—in fact, only the medical officer, Mr. Miyama, was left with nothing.

This time, Okubo took agriculture under his own name, and became the first person in the service of the town, and he was nominally able to manage a group of people in the group, and after taking advantage of it, he was satisfied, and he died down.

The other groups also had gains, but Toranosuke was not very satisfied, and he felt that the water army should also be managed by the Fan group.

The happy event Shigeya sent twelve sailors this time, and several of them were the original backbone of the Uraga Navy - these people had to retire from the Navy to make room for their children because their sons were older, and after seclusion, they could not do business as samurai and were at home, so they were attracted by the people of the Zaoya Group with a lot of money.

These sailors have been practicing clippers recently, and Toranosuke is very greedy to see them.

"You think too much", Naohide said that this is the merchant ship of the institute, which is under his direct command, and as for the navy, let's wait until there are warships.

At the end of the meeting, Naoxiu announced that the township school of the White Lord was officially established, and he was the head of the school by himself, and each group usually had to draw people to come over to give lectures, and the students, not only the children, but everyone had to participate and make progress together.

After the meeting, Naohide personally preached to the people.

This time the immigrants are all the original filthy and non-human, and the status before coming to the white lord is not even as good as that of civilians, and they are usually discriminated against, but this time because there are people in every family who become ashigaru and become samurai, and there is a burst of joy, as for Naohide's worry that women come out to work and the conditions are not satisfied, no one cares at all - these immigrants are selected, and they come to the white lord not to beg for food, but to speculate in order to turn over.

Soon at the beginning of May in the Western calendar, the night temperature of the white lord finally stabilized above zero degrees Celsius, in addition to continuing to build wooden houses, Iwasaki Yataro also led everyone to open up a few wastelands, in addition to potatoes, soybeans and wheat and other grains, but also planted a lot of vegetables - although dried vegetables are good, everyone wants to eat green vegetables other than wild vegetables are crazy.

The half-guards of the money house also returned, not only brought back 200 stone of grain, but also brought three fishing boats and more than 20 people, and continued to fish and trade in the white lord, but they encountered difficulties in recruiting Ainu helpers - because Naohide and Okubo were also crazy recruiting people to fish and do all kinds of construction, and the treatment they gave was good, and the whole family of one helper arranged it properly for you, and the shacks had long been abandoned, and the wooden houses were uniformly issued, and women could also arrange to work, and children could still go to school.

Fortunately, the number of places on the side of the government office is limited, and the half-guards of the money house gritted their teeth and raised the price.

But the original profiteering transaction of the money house could not be done

Yes, Yuzaburo of Kii Kuniya did not agree to the joint pricing of the two sides, and Yuzaburo got Okubo's consent to start selling knives, with good quality and low price, and the four nearby Ainu tribes did not come to the money house to do business again.

Just when the half-guard was about to leave in frustration, the town commissioner Okubo asked him to come over and talk.

During the conversation, the half-soldier guard complained, although the tax rate of this business tax is low, but the business is not good, if you fish, where you can't do it, you have to go to the white master.

The business of the money house in the north is very large - the two hama groups of Omi merchants basically monopolize the trade of the Ezo land, and the north Ezo land is the territory of the money house, as for the Kuril Islands, there is a big fishing ground, and the Matsumae family is not stupid, the two families are basically divided equally, and no one can gain the upper hand for a long time.

Naohide had told Okubo before that the money house was very powerful in the Northland, and he also colluded with the Lucia people in private, so the big kubo didn't dare to beat the half-guards - after all, the white lord was only a stronghold of the money house, and most of his strength was still hidden underwater.

"Is the shipbuilding business money house doing?" Okubo was straightforward in his request.

The half-guards hesitated a little after hearing this.

In order to avoid the shogunate's investigation, Kanya secretly built private shipyards in various places, and many ships were not on the list of the Kaga Maeda family.

Fuso is so big, it is very easy to forge documents, and it is okay to sell a few boats to the White Lord Office, but Hanbei is well-informed, and it is said that the acting official has made IOUs to the merchants he is familiar with, and the strength of this office is not good, what should I do if I can't collect money after selling the ship?

Okubo is such a keen person, he sees that Hanbei hesitates, this is because he has a ship in his hand but has other scruples. After a little probing, he found that the half-guard was worried that he would not have the money to pay the bill, so he quickly asked Yataro Iwasaki to take out the money.

The institute is really rich, the small judgment is gone, and Yingyang still has 10,000 pieces. The coinage was in the hands of the shogunate, and it was not easy to bring these silver coins back to Edo and Shikoku for circulation, but it was still not a problem to spend them in Northland.

Financial embarrassment, Naohide and a few group leaders held a small meeting in private, he reassured everyone that as long as the White Lord was not destroyed by the Lucia, secret trade and silver coin circulation were not a matter at all, as long as they were not caught by the shogunate, these could be relied upon, robbing the Lucians, and the shipwrecked barbarian ships, as long as they didn't say that they fell from the sky, they were fine-in fact, the money house was also the object of the black cauldron.

Of course, at the meeting, the heads of the groups nodded on the surface but didn't believe it in their hearts, and everyone looked at Inoue Genzaburo with sympathetic eyes, after all, he was the first to throw it out at a critical moment.

As a last resort, Naoxiu said it thoroughly.

"Everyone has to see the big picture." What was the reason for the shogunate's seizure of trade? The first is to prevent the revival of the Chechi Dan religion, and the second is to prevent internal and external collusion to be detrimental to the shogunate. We are our own people, and your head of the family and the overseas lotus root are not even known to this high-level person, there is no need to avoid suspicion, it is useless at all, no matter how you wash your body, it will be black.

Now the shogunate has appointed Naohide as the deputy official of the white lord, and it is far away to save the worry of looking at it, but why don't you just do it in Edo? At that time, it was said that there were nearly 100 Lan scholars, nearly 300 disciples of Takashima Qiufan, and Western firearms and large cylinders in their hands.

We also have heels. The chief of the old middle school, Abe Isemoru, no, Lord Abe has been promoted to be an attendant from the fourth rank, it is Lord Abe, and his old man is our general backer.

The leaders of each group weakly expressed their opposition with the whites of their eyes, why don't you say that the public is optimistic about you? Anyway, it's all blowing, and it's good to do it in one step.

There are many reasons why everyone first went to the thief ship of Naoxiu, in addition to the relationship between teachers and students, they are more optimistic about the identity of Naoxiu's two hundred stone flags, of course, Naoxiu's usual reputation is also good, and the relationship with the big body flag book Oguri's family and Jiangchuan's family is also quite close.

But since arriving at the White Lord, the merchant ships of this rice country have also come, and foreign guns and dresses have also been used, and it is a lie to say that I am not worried - it's just that the White Lord is remote and thinks too much

It's useless, you can't sneak a winter swim back by yourself, then it's just, the crime is to die later, and the sneak away is now freezing to death, and everyone will choose, and besides, isn't the Shimazu family also dead and the old family fooled the secret trade.

Naoxiu saw that everyone still didn't believe it, so he had to give the truth half-truth.

"I came back from a shipwreck, everyone knows this."

Can you not know about the head of the family, everyone nodded.

"In the past year, there have been a lot of foreign gadgets in Edo, and the shogunate has also come up with a lot of new orchids, right?"

Except for Okubo and Genaki Kawagami, everyone nodded again - now Edo is embarrassed to call himself a suave person if you don't have a pocket watch or a Western snuffbox on you. In addition, the shogunate pondered imitation foreign guns and large barrels every day, and Musashi Kunitomaruhara practiced after a while, and Edo idlers went to see a lot of excitement.

"Let's count the time."

Everyone understands when they think about it, these foreign things are related to Naoxiu - if you can't think of it, the short gun in your waist is also panicked.

"I was cautious because of the shipwreck, why did I get rid of my guilt after a year and become the acting officer of the White Lord."

Isn't it based on the merits of iron-making in Nirley Mountain? Everyone usually thinks about this, and the origin of Naoxiu's acting official is really strange - ironmaking depends on craftsmen, but no matter how good the master is, I haven't heard of what it can do, Ninomiya Zunde is known as the agricultural saint, and the shogunate only gave a "Yupu Qing Servant Grid", that is, he enjoyed the treatment of a high-level samurai, but he didn't get a flag or anything.

Besides, the host of Nirayama Ironmaking is Kanji Egawa Taro Saemon, and if you think about it this way, the appointment of Naohide's white lord acting official is really a bit weird.

It's sinful to talk too much. At this point, considering that Nagasaki Metoke Oguri Tadashun and Naohide have a close relationship, everyone finally believes that Naohide has something to do with the chief Abe attendant of the old middle school.

But in fact, these are all appearances, and what really makes Naohide safe and sound is the form and merit - the time he returned, Naohide gave 100,000 taels of goods on his face, and foreign guns, machine tools, and books were not available to the shogunate with money.

If it had been a few decades earlier, Naohide might still have been unable to escape death or exile on a desert island, but in recent years, Western ships have lined up to knock on the port, the number is getting higher and higher, the time interval is getting shorter and shorter, and the size of the ships is getting larger and larger.

Now Naohide has become a symbol, and many people in the shogunate look at him unpleasantly, but the old middle and high-level really can't let Naohide fall easily, if Naohide falls, what if the future decree will be turned? Naoxiu is a medicine primer, and if there is really any action in the future, he will come out and talk about things - you see, we have premeditated, I don't believe it, how we arranged Naoxiu back then.

Originally, this medicine primer was Egawa Taro Saemon, so the old man Tanan used to toss all his life, and he didn't want to pit the Lan scholars who followed him, but the old man didn't have anything to do, at most he was idle.

After a small meeting, everyone unanimously decided to let go of the big deal, and Yingyang would spend what should be spent - in fact, it would not work if it was not spent, there were only Western silver coins in the warehouse, and if it was not spent, the Yingyang Pursuit Office would have to be closed.

Yataro Iwasaki led someone to take out a box of Yingyang, and the half-guards of the money house were relieved - others had no place to spend on Yingyang, and the money house was doing secret trade, and Yingyang had seen a lot, so it was really not good to change things for the barbarians.

Hanbei asked what kind of ship Okubo wanted, and after receiving the deposit, he left to prepare. But halfway through, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, how did Okubo come to Eagle Ocean? Could it be that there are other merchants who do secret trade who have lost their wind, but how did this Western silver coin get to the white master, I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out, it's better to report this matter to the store as soon as possible.

As for denouncing the White Lord's Office, he didn't dare to think about it, the money house himself saved more Yingyang, and his butt was not clean, so it was more important to find out the details of the Inn, and he would find out if he could take care of one or two, at least open a secret trade base in the White Lord, and now it was too aggrieved to secretly do secret trade.