Naohide Hori plans to travel by sea to Kansai, Kyushu and Shikoku.

At this time, there was a famous nationwide transportation network from Edo to various places - Gojo Street and Shikai Road.

The "Five Streets" are the Tokaido (Edo-Kyoto, Nakasendo (Edo-Kusatsu in Shiga, meeting with Tokaido), Moonlight Avenue (Edo-Nikko), Oshu Avenue (Edo-Shirakawa in Fukushima), and Koshu Avenue (Shimo-Nagano in Edo-Nagano). There are also branch roads connected to it, such as Mito Road, Hokuriku Road, Chugoku Road, etc.

Among the "Shikai Routes", the route from Edo to Osaka is the Nankai Road, the route from Osaka to Nagasaki is the Saikai Road, the Hokkaido route from Shimonoseki to Matsumae (Hokkaido) via the Fuso Sea, and the Tokai route from Oshu to Edo. At this time, shipping was mainly long-distance freight and short-distance passenger transport, such as Osaka, the first stop from Edo to Naohide, although there were regular Ryogaki barges for carrying rice and goods, and bottle (barrel) barges for carrying sake, but passenger transportation from Edo to Osaka did not develop.

In modern times, it has been theorized that the reason for the lack of development of passenger ships at this time was the lack of demand due to the restrictions on the movement of people under the shogunate's daimyo system, and the high cost of passenger transportation due to the shogunate's ban on the construction of large ships.

Modern Fuso consists of the Ryukyu Islands, Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, Hokkaido, and surrounding islands from west to east. At this time, Fuso could not be regarded as a unified and centralized country in the true sense, and people did not have a universal concept of state, because the policy of locking down the country did not form a clear international national consciousness.

At this time, the territories under the Shogunate and the Daimyo Regime consisted of the Tenryo Domain (part of the central and southeastern parts of Honshu Island, eastern Hokkaido, and southern Sakhalin Island), the Daimyo Domain (Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, the western part of Honshu Island and part of the central part of Honshu Island, and the western part of Hokkaido), the Imperial Prince's Domain near Kyoto, and the scattered temples and shrines.

In short, at this time, due to the different territorial rights in various parts of Fuso, there were many checkpoints for checking entry and exit, and it was very inconvenient to travel.

Although it costs more to take the sea route, Naoxiu still feels that it is better than taking the land route, because the land route relies on the legs and there are many passes, while the sea route relies on the boat, and the sea route is obviously faster and more convenient. Naohide's plan was to travel from Nankai Road to Osaka, from Saikai Road to Kansai and Kyushu, and then take a boat from Satsuma in southern Kyushu to Shikoku.

The last thing I did before setting off was to give my two companions, Toranosuke and Ichimatsu Motofuki. Toranosuke was sixteen years old in the fourteenth year of Tenbo, he was the second son of Naohide's uncle Taro Takemae, and fifteen-year-old Ichimatsu was the second son of his neighbor Nakamura Shoichi. For seventeen-year-old Naoxiu, these two children are like younger brothers. If the children of the lower samurai are not the eldest son, the future is uncertain: the two families are equivalent to the second half of the quasi-banner, the eldest son can inherit the position of the father, but the second son will have to fight for a new samurai status, if he does not get a new shogunate position, then the samurai status can only be retained for one generation, and the child will become a commoner.

The Great Agricultural Famine from the 4th to the 10th year of Tenpo caused great damage to Fuso at this time, and the severe nationwide famine caused by successive years of poor harvests, during which the price of rice and various prices skyrocketed, the countryside was deserted, and the peasants and the wives of the lower class towns were scattered and extremely poor. Moreover, the agricultural year lasted until the fourteenth year of Tianbao. In order to save the social economy of the time, the shogunate carried out the famous tenpo reform under the auspices of the chief elder Nakamino Tadakuni. The Tenpo Reform was the last of the three major reforms of the early and mid-Tokugawa periods (there were three other reforms in the late Shogunate period: the Ansei Reform in the Tokugawa Iesei period, the Bunkyu Reform in the Tokugawa Ieshige period, and the Keio Reform in the Tokugawa Keiki period).

Although the shogunate's financial situation is now improving, it is still difficult for the second son of a low-ranking samurai to find a new samurai position, and without the appearance of Zaoya, Toranosuke and Ichimatsu were originally scheduled to be sent to study to become doctors.

Money can't buy happiness, but happiness is hard to come by without money. The latter two families still hope to make their children become the new samurai family, and Naohide's rapid development in the last two years has caused the two families to pin their hopes on Naohide - taking a step back, they can also become wealthy businessmen or skilled doctors by studying with Naohide.

At the behest of the two parents, Naoxiu became the teacher and witness of the two children.

The samurai yuan costume is generally held between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, and began in ancient China with the "crown ceremony" (male) and "lu ceremony" (female), and the name is taken from the first greeting of the "Shiguan Ceremony" in the "Rites". As an adult, you need to be self-reliant.

Toranosuke and Ichimatsuke's Yuanfu are a little late, also because the two families before Naohide developed have not been able to have good arrangements for the two children.

Toranosuke's title has not changed after Motofu, Toranosuke Takemae also sounds more imposing, and Ichimatsu's name was originally going to be called Nakamura Jiro but at Naohide's suggestion it was changed to Nakamura Gakujiro, hoping that he would be diligent and studious.

Toranosuke, Ichimatsu Motofuki and Naohide study together, and Naohide's two little servants, nine-year-old Katsugoro and eight-year-old Hayato, were arranged by Naohide at his uncle Takemae Taro's house, Katsugoro is silent and steady, Hayato is smart and handsome, Naohide and his uncle explain that these two are cultivated as retainers in the future, so they are also quite favored.

The second half is equivalent to the quasi-flag of the family character.,It's a low-level samurai.,Can't be included in the list of small general invitations.,It stands to reason that Naohide and Toranosuke、Ichimatsu is difficult to get the study tour qualification.,But through the help of Koguri Tadashun, who joined the army in the thirteenth year of Tianbao's 13th year.,The three of them still got the approval.。

On the sixth day of September in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, two days before the Chrysanthemum Festival, the three of them officially traveled.

To get from Naohide's house to Edominato, you need to start from Shinjuku, follow Koshu Street to Fuso Bridge, and then go to Edominato in the southeast.

Shinjuku belongs to the "Mountain Hands" and is a place of residence belonging to lower-ranking samurai. At that time, many middle- and lower-class samurai lived in the northwestern part of Edo, and the area was called "Yaman-no-Tam" because of its lush greenery and beautiful environment, and the scope of "Yaman-no-Yama" basically coincided with the scope of the modern subway line Yamanote Line.

On the other hand, the shogun-kokata and most of the Daiken Banners lived in Edo Castle in the center of Edo, while the kin-clan, the Pedigre, and the Daimyo Daimyo of the Waiban, the Takake Banner, and some of the Banners lived in the Daimyo Koji area near Edo Castle (the main area was the present-day Chiyoda area). In short, the higher the status of the samurai, the closer the residence to the public form. The more special ones are the ashigaru - ordinary soldiers, who are scattered in various towns.

Civilians live in the low-lying southeastern part of Shitamachi, a low-lying area that is prone to flooding, but land is inexpensive, and because of its proximity to rivers and easy access to business, it is home to a large number of small traders and craftsmen who are mainly engaged in water transportation on the Sumida River, the distribution of goods from Edominato, and various commercial activities.

It is called a port on the Fuso Sea, and a land facility is called Minato.

At this time, there were three major Minato-minato-Minato: Edo-Minato, Shinagawa-Minato, and Kanagawa Minato. Edominato was the main cargo port for shipping at this time, Shinagawa Minato was a port commercial port for seafood fishing and seaweed harvesting, which were part of the modern Port of Tokyo, and Kanagawa Minato was located in Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama City, in modern Yokohama.

As for the port of Yokohama, which would become famous in the future, it was still a small fishing village with less than 100 households, and there was not a trace of the prosperity of the port in 1859 after the visit of black ships.

In modern Tokyo Bay, there are six major ports: in addition to the Port of Tokyo and the Port of Yokohama, Tokyo Bay also has four ports: Chiba Port, Kawasaki Port, Yokosuka Port, and Kisarazu Port. Chiba Port was developed in Naohide's original world after the Second World War; Kawasaki Port did not begin to develop until after the Meiji government was formed; The port of Yokosuka is now very small, and now only the aforementioned Kanagawa Minato; The port of Kisarazu is now a port on the Boso Peninsula in the west, which is close to Edo, and is connected to Edo, and is now very small.

Naohide and two students, Toranosuke Takemae and Nakamura Gakujiro, found a Hinogaki in Edominato, returned to the ship, and took out the shogunate's approval for a study tour to the bow of the ship, because they had already greeted the samurai and the bow of the ship through the Uraga Commission, so they boarded the ship smoothly.

From the end of the day, a small but fresh wind began to blow in this different world, taking off from this closed and backward island nation, blowing across the Pacific Ocean after converging countless storms and clouds, becoming a part of this vast century.