At the end of July of the sixth year of Kaei (early September 1853), the shogunate's envoy Oguri Tadashun quickly left the White Lord after the inspection, and the whole trip did not last more than seven days, but the impact was very far-reaching.

Poor Sawamura Sonojo, after the mission to Edo, he will continue to escort Oguri to Matsuzen with Shikujomaru, and then send him back to Edo - because of the "prohibition on the construction of large ships", the shogunate does not have large ships, and the speed of the Sengoku cargo ship is slow, and when Oguri left Edo, he requisitioned Kii Kuniya's four defense ships to go north, but he was like an arrow, so he didn't care about the four merchant ships that sailed slowly, and asked Naohide to send Hakushimaru to him.

Sawamura Sonojo is really reluctant to go to Edo again, not because he is afraid of being tired, but because Oguri and Naohide colluded to fabricate the "facts" of the many invasions of the Lucia in the past two years.

Although the white lord took precautions before, and wrote several times in the official documents over the years that the southern barbarian ships harassed him, but the result was a smooth expulsion, and his own damage was minimal, but this time it was different, the white lord officially laundered white, and made some Western weapons and utensils public, so it was not easy, so Sawamura must memorize the confession first and don't make trouble for Oguri - Oguri is the Mime Fu, and under normal circumstances, as an inspector, the shogunate has to recognize the facts, but if the shogunate does not admit it, it will say that the white lord's previous report is written lightly and conceals the facts. So Oguri's endorsement is also a risk.

What did Oguri do, Naohide cared but didn't worry - it was useless to worry, but in addition to the dozen or so smoothbore guns and a few sewing machines that he had handed in, he brought three thousand small judgments from the treasury and loaded them with the White Lord Pill, and he also wrote a letter to Kii Kuniya Toshihachi in Edo and borrowed another two thousand taels of gold, which were all consulting fees - considering that the white lord only showed a small part of his strength, five thousand taels of gold was a lot.

Gave away 5,000 taels of gold, so how much money does the white lord actually have?

Naohide and Okubo didn't tell the truth to Oguri, because the truth is very amazing, after three years of hard work, especially this year's expansion, although the population of the white lord is still short, but other aspects are developing very rapidly:

At the beginning of November 1850, Naohide arrived at the White Lord with a boat and sixteen companions. At the same time, the rice ship Nautilus was also in the captain's house. Brian's lead followed.

If it weren't for the ordnance sent by Mi Chuan, Naohide and his friends would have been wiped out under the surprise attack of the Ainu tribe. Moreover, Naohide also got 10,000 Takayo from the rice boat, and the 1,000 taels of gold given by the shogunate at that time were only 130 taels and more than 600 copper coins, without the support of these Takayo, the white lord had to go bankrupt on the spot in the summer of the next year.

In April 1851, Kinokuniya in Edo sent the first batch of immigrants and a large amount of supplies to the White Lord at the behest of Ryoma at the behest of Oguri Tadashun, the Wedding Ceremony Shigeya at the request of the Zaoya Group, and the Tosa Kochi Sakuya at the behest of Ryoma. When Genzaburo Inoue went to Matsumae in May to repair ships, he borrowed 200 taels of gold under the cynicism of the samurai of the Matsumae family.

This miserable situation lasted until July of that year, when nearly 20,000 seal skins were obtained during the Seal Island hunt that month, equivalent to more than 60,000 small awards, and the white lord's finances turned into a profit.

At the beginning of September 1851, Mifune visited again, and at that time more than a dozen whales were hunted on the Shiretoko Peninsula and more than 10,000 furs were harvested at Seal Island, which was equivalent to more than 40,000 small coins, of which about 30,000 were owned by the white lord.

But the most important thing is that the Fuso market is too small, and most of the furs can only be sold by Xianheng Foreign Company, so they can't get cash back then, and the white lord is still a paper rich.

But the 3,000 taels of gold were not left, and in May 1852, Chojiro of the Karakuya went to the Matsumae Domain to transport it to the house according to the "place please negative system", and the 3,000 taels were also swept away.

In the Fusang market, the white lord has always been slightly outperform, that is, he can't make any money, this is because of the white lord's fist production

The goods were furs and whale oil, which were not profitable because the market for Fuso was limited, and the government used them to offset the increasing imports of grain, pig iron, groceries, and daily necessities.

Moreover, in order to encourage several businessmen who have always supported the white lord, the profit concession is quite large, which is also one of the main reasons why the white lord cannot make money in Fuso.

When the white lord's warehouse really had money, it was after September 1852, when the ship of Xianheng Foreign Company appeared again, and after settling the past accounts and the money for this purchase, Xianheng Foreign Company should give the white owner 240,000 US dollars, that is, about 60,000 gold judgments, but where did the rice people go to engage in the Jin small judgment of Fuso, so according to the previous agreement, about 220,000 Yingyang, weighing about 5.9 tons.

The iron-making office that Oguri Tadashun saw was actually a mint in the past, and Naohide and others secretly melted Yingyang and minted it into the shogunate's Ding Yin, because the gold-silver ratio of Fuso was between 1:5 and 1:6, and the ratio overseas was 1:15. - This major difference in the gold-silver ratio was already reminded of the shogunate when Naohide returned in 1949, but for some reason the shogunate did not make any obvious moves.

However, because it has been done for less than a year, the white lord has not traded much with other places, and in order not to show his feet, he is still bartering in large transactions, so he has not absorbed much gold so far.

In September 1852, through whaling and seal hunting, the white lord reaped the equivalent of 70,000 gold judgments.

The two whaling ships earned about 90,000 US dollars, of which the white lord divided half of it, about 10,000 taels of gold.

At the same time, more than 20,000 furs were harvested, which was more than 60,000 small judgments, most of which fell into the pockets of the white lord - in the past, the white master ship had to rely on rice boats to hunt seals, but at this time, the white lord had 1 clipping boat, 2 warships, and 3 debate boats, so the rice people could only earn hard money for personal labor, of course, Xianheng Foreign Company purchased most of the furs, and sold them in the future to make huge profits.

At that time, the balance of more than 92,000 taels of gold in the white master's account - there was originally a balance of 130,000 taels, but the white lord raised a lot of people, for example, Okubo himself had to get 1,500 taels a year, and Naohide had more than him, plus various goods imported, so the cost was amazing, and the white lord bought two steam river warships, although the tonnage was small, but one was also 8,000 taels of gold.

As for other incomes, because of the small number of people, the fishing industry in North Ezo was sluggish after the withdrawal of the money house, and it was only after the painstaking management last year that it improved, but it did not make much money, and in 1852 it was barely a tie, and it was fishing gear, fishing boats, and upper houses that fell behind.

As for commercial transactions, the white lord has always been one out of ten, and in order to encourage imports, no taxes are charged on a single copper plate of goods shipped in, and no taxes are charged on goods that were exported before - fur and whale oil, which account for the majority, are all pursued, and they draw their own taxes? Haven't heard of it.

In agriculture, the white lord encouraged the reclamation of wasteland, not only exempted the rent of one out of ten, but also sometimes had to provide cheap seeds, free horses to cultivate the land, and had to send people to guide them, so they had to pay money every year.

It was only in this year, 1853, that the commerce of the White Lord flourished.

Okubo and Naohide have calculated the accounts:

The family house is transported to the house on the seaside in the East Ezo land and 4 inland houses, which will continue to be invested, especially the mining of coal, how can it be subsidized three or four thousand taels of gold to plug this hole, but this money has to be paid by the family house itself - the family house has no money to finance with the majority of shareholders, but don't expect to draw taxes, can draw one hundred and fifty taels? That's it.

The development of the North Ezo land is now dominated by the people of the commission, and only a little commercial tax can be drawn, and one out of ten can make 400 taels of gold - this also includes 100 taels of taxes for small coal mines.

As for agriculture, it is estimated that it will be self-sufficient in terms of output after the autumn harvest this year, which is a major achievement.

In the past, the white lord relied on salted dried fish, seal jerky and imported grain, and after the autumn harvest, the white lord at least had enough potatoes, wheat, corn, and millet could also be used as staple food, as for rice, if you want to eat, you have to rely on imports, but after all, you don't buy outside

Everyone can't starve to death, do they.

Achievements are achievements, and when it comes to taxation, it is sad - agriculture is the industry supported by the white lord, and not only can not be taxed, but also subsidized, and it is estimated that at least 1,000 taels of gold will be subsidized.

However, in the past, half of the merchant ships that came to Baizhu were transporting immigrants, half were transporting grain and groceries, and the rest were transporting coal and pig iron.

As for the main income, it has to rely on the hunting of seals and whales.

In the two years from 1851 to 1852, the white lord got more than 50,000 furs on Seal Island, and the number of seals was greatly reduced, and it is estimated that 10,000 more will have to be killed this year, but from Seal Island to the north, there are still many sea lions, fur seals, and seal habitats along the coast, it is just a matter of effort, and it is estimated that it will not be a problem to make another 10,000 - if there is no Naoxiu, the Lucian people will kill 100,000 seals on Seal Island alone in 1852-1855.

Although the proceeds went to Nakamura Gakujiro's new shop, the Himeya, he was able to collect a tax of 2,000 furs, which was exactly the amount handed over to the shogunate.

As for the whales, it seems that the Shiretoko Peninsula can last a few years, and this is a whaling ship with Xianheng Foreign Company, and it is also hung under the "Ximei House", and the white lord can take a tax of two thousand taels of gold.

To sum up, in 1853, the official income of the White Lord Worship Office was 8,450 taels of gold, which seems to be a lot, calculated according to the four dukes and six people, which is equivalent to the income of 20,000 stone territory, but what can be spent?

The total budget expenditure of the white lord this year is 78,585 small awards.

The gap between this one in and one out is nearly 70,000 taels of gold!

At the beginning of the year, at the meeting of the Communist Party of China, the heads of the various groups and heads who heard this expenditure figure were excited, and scolded Okubo Riji for being poor and unbridled - because the military cost accounted for 59.0%, and some people even proposed to raise the commercial tax on whaling and seal fur, but the whaling and seal fur business was transferred to the "Himeya" management at that time - the trading company established by Nakamura Gakujiro, and the heads of the group and the group leaders present all invested money and took shares in the trading company, so the proposal to raise the original 10% commercial tax quickly disappeared!

In the face of everyone's doubts, Okubo only smiled bitterly at that time, or Naohide himself came out to explain, he said that he had found a gold mine, and after deducting the mining costs, he could earn the equivalent of 140,000 tenpo small judgments a year, because the interests of this gold mine were still government-run, so the annual income of the white lord could reach 152,341 gold a year, but because it had not been officially mined, it could not be written into the budget.

In this regard, everyone complimented Zhixiu, "What can't be written about this, who dares to question what Mr. does." "It's as if it was a different group of people who were excited just now.

As a result, the budget (expenditure) was successfully passed, and each part of the budget (expenditure) was successfully passed, of which 8.7% was education, 3.6% was medical, 59.0% was military, 4.1% was paid to the public servants, 0.2% was spent on administrative expenses, 4.3% was paid for infrastructure construction, 9.5% was handed over to the shogunate, 1.3% was subsidized for agriculture, and 9.1% was reserved, totaling 78,585 small awards.

The budget (revenue) filed after that was 152,341 gold, commercial tax 5.8%, agricultural tax 0, special income (gold mine) 94.2%.

At that time, the balance of the white lord was 72,000 taels of gold, and even if Naoxiu's gold mine was lost, it would still be just enough to cover the difference of 70,000 taels - but when Naoxiu's prestige was shaken, it was difficult to say what the white lord would do in the future.

According to the budget at the beginning of 1853, not counting the private income, calculated according to the Tianbao small judgment, the annual income of the White Lord Worship Office was 152,341 gold, and the annual expenditure was 78,585 gold, and the people at the beginning of the year were more than 2,900 people - including 801 original Hezhen people, more than 1,100 original Hezhe people, about 1,000 original Ainu people, 180 standing army, more than 1,400 reserve troops (all adult men and women), and by the end of the year, the number of steam river warships will reach 4, so what Oguri Tadashun sees in the white lord is only the tip of the iceberg!

Moreover, the shogunate's estimate of the white lord is equivalent to 25,000 koku of stone height is even worse, and the development of the white lord is deformed, according to the population, it is only a territory of 3,000 koku, but according to economic calculations, the white lord is equivalent to 380,000 koku daimyo!