The flying clipper boat, also known as the flying scissor sailboat, is a high-speed sailing ship that originated in the United States. In January 1845, by the ship designer John ? Griffiths-designed Rainbow, with the hollow bow of the clipper's logo, was launched, and was recognized as the world's first true clipper sailboat.

The average time it takes to travel from Edo to Osaka is twelve days, and the fastest record is six days, but even though Naohide resupplies at the port of Shimoda in Izu, the clippers still arrived in Osaka the next afternoon.

It stands to reason that Naohide should have sailed directly to Nagasaki, but there was a reason why he had to stop in Osaka.

Naoxiu's heels are too shallow, and he will need to rely on Shishi Saijuku to send him Rangaku students in the future, and Mr. Ogata Hongan treats him well, so he should visit him before going out.

Except for the subordinates who left behind to supervise the pseudonym Mr. Miyama, Naohide pulled the rest out to see the world.

The school was much more spacious than it had been in Washimachi, with hundreds of students, but Mr. Koan was not there, and last year he opened a "pox removal hall" in Furutemachi, where he usually promotes the cowpox method introduced to Fuso by the Rankoku Shokan.

The reception of Naohide is the head of the juku, Hashimoto Tsunaki - Hashimoto is the son of a medical officer of the Echizen domain, and last year he came to Shishisai Juku to study orchidism, and because of his talent, he was elected as the head of the juku.

Seventeen-year-old Hashimoto, looks weak, but very talkative, to the two hundred stone shogunate acting officials do not fall behind, by the time Mr. Hongan heard the news, Naohide and Hashimoto already looked like they hated to see each other late - of course, Naohide is pretending, he knows that Hashimoto admires the Chinese Yue Wumu very much, so he made a gimmick like "Wumu's Testament", and as a result, Hashimoto successfully entered Mr. Cha's pit.

Mr. Hongan and Naohide hadn't seen each other for nearly four years, and after they met, they were so excited that under the shogunate's ban, Naohide had to vaguely introduce the past. During the conversation, Mr. Hong An was very worried about the eunuch journey of the white lord of Naoxiu, and Naoxiu had to say good words of relief, and Mr. Hong An said that he would send students to the white lord to help the next year, and finally the guests and hosts broke up happily.

Naohide didn't have a good heart, and he deliberately stopped at Shimonoseki on the way to Nagasaki, and asked Shiraishi Shoichiro to pass on the invitation letter to Yoshida Jufang - it is estimated that Yoshida has already started a study tour, and it would be a pity that the white lord at the end of the world did not come to see it. As for how the talents in Choshu doubted the relationship between Yoshida and the shogunate, Naohide said that he was not afraid of big things when he watched the excitement.

There are people in Nagasaki who are looking forward to Naohide looking forward to piercing, this person is not Oguri Tadashun, but the Rice Bow John sent by Gakujiro, he has been in Nagasaki for almost 20 days, Nagasaki Governor Oya Ming Jing sent someone to urge him to leave quickly, he and Oguri have not been able to wait for Naohide to send someone to come, and they have begun to prepare to play the trick of the barbarian offering treasure again.

After a few years of mixing in the position of Mefuke Shisuke, Oguri was finally promoted to Nagasaki Mesuke this year - because Naohide returned, the hidden danger was finally resolved, and his father Tadaka also reconciled with his son as before, and launched a relationship, plus Oguri's diligence in giving gifts to Edo in recent years, so Oguri was promoted to Nagasaki Mesuke by exception, and at the age of twenty-four, he entered the quasi-high-level of the shogunate, which was quite eye-catching for a while.

Nagasaki is in a mess now, the rice country ship is not leaving, and there is a lot of pressure on Oya Mingkei, and he has not received a reply after reporting to Edo Castle, although he suspects that this matter has something to do with Oguri, but after all, he can't grasp the handle. The Kopitan of the Lan Country Merchant House harasses every day, thinking that the shogunate is bypassing the Lan country and the rice country to collude, and he will protest to the public side of Edo Castle about this, and the Nagasaki Imperial Fan on duty this year is the Saga Domain, and several fans also said that it is not a good sign that the rice country ship is fine and black smoke is not a good sign, and it may be preparing some big spells, or it is better to drive away the rice boat as soon as possible.

After Naohide entered the port, he first connected with Oguri, and after communicating the news, the two went their separate ways.

Naohide met with Nagasaki Ryo Oya and said that he needed to stay in Nagasaki for a period of time to train as a sailor before going to Kita-Ezo to take up his post. Oya has always thought that Naohide is Abe Isemori's dogleg, and seeing Naohide, who only came back last year, become an acting official, he affirmed this matter, so he said I understand, implying that Naohide can stay in Nagasaki for a while longer, and after a while, in winter, in the name of ship damage, there is no need to go to the ghost place in North Ezo.

Oya has already gone through the relationship, and after the New Year, he will be transferred to other servants, and as long as his wife is peaceful this year, no more bird accidents in Nagasaki will be on him.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhixiu left, John the head of the rice country reported through the force of the executive and said

The ship's steam tank is broken and needs to be repaired, and it will have to stay for a while, and it is embarrassing to disturb the place, and I am willing to pay some gifts.

Oya had expected this. When the rice ship first entered the port, he made people test - the shogunate had been able to distinguish the flags of the Southern Barbarian countries after Naohide's return. As expected, the bow of the Mi country agreed to carry out the inspection of the ship, although it was still not allowed to be inspected in detail, but it was much more polite than the Nanban ships that knocked on the port in the past, and also took the initiative to give some valuable gifts, and did not mention any trade requirements at all, he concluded that this was another barbarian treasure routine.

Before leaving, I can get another handful of oil, water and merit, and I am very pleased with this, and immediately invite Xiao Li, this time I can be regarded as being able to take the big head, so I naturally need to plan well, as for the Jiabidan of the Languo Commercial Hall, the good words and comfort are that the so-called knife cutting tofu is both sides of the light.

Before returning, Naohide agreed with Gakujiro that every autumn, there would be a ship "to Nagasaki for refuge in a storm", taking this opportunity to collude inside and outside.

He's also quite worried that Gakujiro is overseas alone, although in the United States, the Vanderbilt family eats meat, Naohide drinks soup, and the fox is fake and the tiger is mighty, but what if the tiger wants to eat and wipe clean?

Oguri, as the leader of the Metoke Office, arranged for John and Naohide to meet in private, from John's mouth, Naohide learned that everything is going well in the United States, Vanderbilt, as the largest ship in the United States, opened the East Coast to California route last year, and made a fortune by taking advantage of the California gold rush, and Naohide as a minority shareholder of the new steam shipyard and ironworks are also thriving, and the research and development of the two-stage expansion steam engine is also going well.

At the beginning, the Vanderbilt family did not look down on it, and only bought a part of the small business of shares, sanitary napkins, bras, and tea bags were about to sell like crazy, and the prospects of foot-operated sewing machines were also widely optimistic after they were listed.

In this regard, Naohide wrote a letter to Gakujiro, because everything in the United States depends on the Vanderbilt family, so you can consider transferring most of the shares, as long as the cash flow is guaranteed and a certain influence is maintained, and the later business focus is the Far East Trading Company set up by Mizi in Xiangjiang, and the small fleet of wholly-owned ships should also be separated, and the ocean shipping company should be registered separately in the United States.

Naohide is in charge of the overall control of the small team, and the rest of the people, including Toranosuke, are all driven by Naohide to work as sailors on the flying clipper ship - after all, the sea route behind will have to go by itself.

During this period, in the name of drills, Naohide took a boat trip to Kumamoto and Kagoshima. Nagasaki is responsible for keeping an eye on Kyushu Island, so accompanied by the new master Matsumatamaetaro, Naohide basically accomplishes what he wants to do.

Mr. Xiao Nan's doctrine became more and more mellow and mature, and he paid equal attention to Confucianism, agriculture and commerce, and orchidology, and made a lot of contributions to the improvement of people's livelihood and economy in the domain.

As for Hikojiro Kawagami, who Naohide is concerned about, although Naohide's second study tour in the second year of Honghua (1845) and Koguri Tadashun's study tour in Honghua's third year failed to abduct this cute little Shota, it seems that the effect of learning with Mr. Konan is not bad.

Naohide sent money to Hikojiro three times before, and later the Kawagami family made a small fortune with Mr. Konan to apply what he had learned, so Hikojiro has never been out of office, and the head of the Kawagami family, Genbei Kawagami, also happily continued to be his ashigaru.

Naohide came to the door and sincerely asked Hikojiro to go out of the house, and Mr. Konan also persuaded in the name of the teacher, and Kawagami Genmei, who had already served Yuanfu, agreed to transfer to the family after agreeing to the head of the family, Genbei Kawakami. As for the procedures for the transfer, it is not worth mentioning with the interrogation of Taro Matsumae and the assistance of Mr. Konan.

But in Kagoshima, when Naohide pleaded with Okubo and Saigo to transfer to him, he ran into difficulties.

The Satsuma Shimazu family has been in turmoil for the past two years.

With the aging of Shimazu, the tenth lord of the Satsuma Domain, a bloody battle began within the Shimazu family around the position of the prince.

Although Shimazu Qibin is a prince, Qi Bin, who grew up with his grandfather Shimazu Shigehao, has never been trusted by his father Qi Xing. Although Qi Bin was "smart and heroic, and very decisive", and had a great reputation in Edo as "unsurpassed by three hundred sons", because he was very similar to Shimazu Shigeo, both loved Rangaku and were brave, and the older retainers were worried that after Qi Bin became the head of the family, the Satsuma Domain would repeat the embarrassment of the Shigehao era of making ends meet.

Compared with Qi Bin, Qi Xing, the head of the family, prefers Zhongjiao, the son born to the concubine by Luo. Although Zhongjiao succeeded as the adopted son of the old Zhonggong of the Shimazu family, Zhongjiao, who was familiar with Confucianism and Fusang Chinese Studies, undoubtedly met the expectations of Qi Xing, the head of the family who hated Lanxue.

With home

With the death of Guangxiang of the old investigation center, the contradictions between the retainers who supported Qi Bin and the Qi Xing family, who supported the loyal family, began to intensify.

As a family veteran who turned the tide, Saemon enjoyed great prestige among the upper samurai because he saved the finances of the feudal domain, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and of course, because of his strict administration, there were many complaints from the middle and lower samurai.

In the wax month of the first year of Kaei (1859), because of secret trade and private coinage, the shogunate interrogated the head of the Shimazu family, Qixing, and the old family in Edo, and the shogunate had a complete set of information, among which the evidence of the private trade between the Shimazu family and the Tang people was conclusive, so he committed suicide and apologized.

After the news was returned to Kagoshima, many people thought that the shogunate had so much and such detailed evidence that there must be an internal ghost, so it was rumored that Qi Bin and his family had betrayed Hirogo.

At this time, Shimazu Saibin's fourth son, Atsunosuke, fell ill and died. Folk rumors are that it was caused by the use of spells by Mrs. Luo and her son Zhongjiao. After Atsunosuke's death, all of Qi Bin's sons died, and the samurai of Qi Bin's family were in turmoil.

Then, it was reported that three mid-level feudal lords of the Saibin family, Ryuzaemon Kondo, Kiyoyasu Yamada, and Goro Takasaki, were planning to assassinate Mrs. Yura and the old Shimazu Kutoku of the Hisamitsu family.

Using this as an excuse, the head of the family, Qi Xing, began to purge the samurai of Qi Bin's family, and the three people who were reported and three others were ordered to be seppuku, and more than 50 people were ordered to be exiled or imprisoned. The incident was widespread, and many samurai fled from the domain, including the Saigo family and the Okubo family.

The head of the Okubo family, Okubo Rishiyo, was ordered into exile because of his close relationship with the samurai of the Saibin family, and his son Okubo Ritsu was also dismissed and returned home.

The "Seitaka Group", headed by the Saigo family and the Okubo family, held the business of the thirteen-flavor Tang Xinzi and the five-flavor Tang Xinzi, and was always hot, so the feudal office took it into a franchise and oppressed it to the extreme, and in desperation, the Seitdashi group transferred the business to the merchants appointed by the feudal office.

When Naohide arrived in Kagoshima, he was just in time for the aftermath of the incident, and he took the opportunity to persuade Saigo Takanaga, Okubo Toshitsu, and others to transfer to the shogunate, promising to recommend them to the shogunate if he had the chance.

"In today's world, not only the king chooses the minister, but the minister also chooses the king!" Naohide used the words of General Fubo and Emperor Guangwu to persuade him, but the effect was completely different for the two.

The Saigo family only lost their business and had no other losses, and Takanaga was still serving in the county, so he thought that the monthly loss would be profitable, and things would turn around, and as a samurai, he should uphold loyalty, and not only refused Naohide's invitation, but also persuaded others to be patient.

This is not the case with Okubo, after his father was exiled, he lost his errand, and the internal job of Tang Xinzi's business was gone, and the whole family suddenly fell into a dilemma. Moreover, because his former name "Riji" was the same as that of the county commissioner, he was forced to change his name to "Ritsu", and the young Okubo was very angry about this. After experiencing this, the twenty-one-year-old Okubo had an irreversible ambition for power, and despite Takanaga's resistance, he agreed to transfer to the Shibori family, but made a condition: he would bring his frail father back from the island of exile, and leave with his mother and three younger sisters as a family.

Don't miss the opportunity, after Qi Bin's Jedi turns around next year, it will be difficult for Naohide to lure them away, although there is no hope for Saigo and others to leave their homeland, but Okubo is an unborn talent, and this alone can say that this trip is worthwhile!

Okubo Riyo was just an ordinary low-ranking samurai in the Ryukyu Hall in the domain, and the apprentice of Nagasaki Mefusho Fumatsumae Taro went to the Satsuma Domain Office to find an excuse casually, and the Satsuma Domain Office issued a document of exoneration and consent to transfer - after all, the butt of the secret trade of the Satsuma Domain has not been wiped clean, and it is completely unnecessary to offend the Nagasaki Metsukoku and the deputy official of the 200 stone for a small person.

Because there was no time, after obtaining the consent of Mrs. Okubo and Ritsu, Naohide took the family back to Nagasaki first, Ritsu and Naohide went north to Ezo, and Mrs. Okubo and her three younger sisters returned to Edo's house with Oguri Tadashun next year. And after returning from exile on the island, the head of the family, Okubo Riyo, can go to Nagasaki Metsusho to find Matsumae Taro to go to Edo.

When the matter was over, Naohide sailed back to Nagasaki, and Oguri used both soft and hard measures, forcing the bow of the ship and a small number of sailors to accompany him, and he was afraid that something would go wrong and found a guide who was familiar with the Hokkairoute route. It was not until everything was ready that he set sail on the 16th day of the long month of the third year of Jiayong (1850). Not long after Naohide went to sea, John the Captain of the United States also pulled anchor and left Nagasaki.

Under the watchful eye of the clouds, one with white sails like clouds, the other with black smoke billowing out, the two ships sailed one after the other towards the Ezo land in the northeast.