Before the White Lord sent to Edo, there was an in-depth conversation, when Egawa Hidetoshi and Naohide carefully discussed the future of the White Lord, arguing that "the White Lord is remote, the current land is vast and sparsely populated, and it takes ten years to live, and this place is the frontier of the fight against Lucia, and the outcome is unpredictable, so the revitalization of Fuso is really in Edo."

What does this mean?

In fact, it was a temporary confession, both of them felt that the white lord's strength was poor, and it was still insignificant, and because Northern Ezo was the forefront of resistance to Lucia, the future was uncertain, and the future trend depended on the development of the shogunate.

So when Youngmin asked, "Is it okay to be open and honest with my father, Mr. Tanan", Nao-su calmly said, "Yes".

As for the reason?

It's very simple, neither public nor private should deceive Mr. Tan'an:

Yu Gong, after industrialization and the popularization of education, if you want to be a saint and control everything, it is all a problem with your brain, and now Fusang is like a bird, closed and backward hysteria, if the white lord wants to make a car behind closed doors, it is really too much, and only by seeking allies as much as possible is the right way.

And Mr. Tanan is a giant of Lanxue, an important minister of the shogunate, and a natural ally on the road of the white lord's innovation, so it is very necessary to report the information.

Yu private, Mr. Tan'an is Naoxiu's mentor, he takes care of him a lot, and he is Yingmin's father, which belongs to the kind of intimacy of "breaking bones and connecting tendons", which is not appropriate to conceal all the time.

Besides, since Youngmin refused to resign and return to Edo on the grounds of "being unwell", Naohide knew that he had found another fellow traveler, and in this case, the consequences of deceiving Mr. Tanan would be serious and might cause Youngmin's suspicions.

So, when Youngmin asked if he was open and honest with Mr. Tanan, Nao-su said "yes" calmly.

Some people may think that "governance needs to rely on the system, and doing big things requires strategy", so "if the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, and if he is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will become harmful", but Naohide feels that he should not pursue power and strategy too much, and he doesn't understand much about "law, art, and potential", but he is a petty family in the tide of the times, and it is not the old man who hangs himself - is he looking for death.

Sure enough, after hearing about "secret trade", "studying at sea without permission", and "participating in the sea battle between Zhuyi", Mr. Tanan was very moved - these are all prohibited felonies that raid the house and destroy the door, and Naoxiu can let Youngmin participate in it, and dare to let Youngmin be an envoy to return to Edo, what a trust!

Of course, the premise of being moved is that "Naohide once let Youngmin get out early under the pretext of an excuse", otherwise Egawa Taro Saemon would have been furious, Now, the suspicion of "Naohide deliberately dragged Egawa's family into the water" has been ruled out, and all that remains is a fist.

"Zhixiu is too bold, God knows, the earth knows, you know and I know, don't publicize it."

Youngmin knew the severity and nodded heavily at his father's instructions, but he also had a question:

"Oguri Toyo Mamoru treats him the same way?"

Bungo Mamoru was Oguri's new official position, and it was a benefit he received after serving this important post in Nagasaki.

It stands to reason that the Oguri family is a close ally of the Egawa family, and the two sides advance and retreat together in the court, and they also support each other in business, and Oguri Tadashun is a good friend of Naohide, and he has a lot of favors to the Hori family, so no one should hide it from him.

"Alas", Mr. Tan'an sighed when he heard this, although this stupid son has grown up, he has obviously not made enough progress! But to say a thousand ways and ten thousand, this is his own son, since it seems that he can become a talent, then he naturally still has to cultivate drops.

Youngmin saw his father sigh and immediately understood that he had asked the wrong thing again, but he really held back for a long time - he also asked Nao-su about this question, and Nao-su said "the time has not come", and when he asked again, he laughed and did not answer.

This is the most hateful behavior to say that half and half are left, so Youngmin has no choice but to ask his father.

For the sake of his son, Mr. Tanan is not afraid to be a villain.

He first asked Youngmin, "What did Nao-so say?" ”

Hearing Youngmin say that Nao-su smiled at this stupid question and didn't answer it, Mr. Tanan was also happy.

But over the years, he has also summed up a little experience in teaching his children, that is, "other people's children don't work"! Therefore, he did not ridicule Yingmin, but began to explain bitterly:

"I can't say this reason, because it's too hurtful! - Although Oguri Tadashun is a friend of Naohide, this kind of life-and-death handle, how dare Naohide offer it with both hands.

Besides, what are the benefits of telling Oguri Tadashun, not only may it affect his friends, but Naohide is not alone now, there are thousands of people under him, how dare he be so willful.

As for frankly telling me, that's also the situation.

You've obviously started to participate in the White Master's secrets, and you've been in the White Master for a winter, and even if you come out now, it's hard to pick it up.

Besides, what's the benefit of denunciation? According to what you said, Naoxiu is trying to find a way to wash his name, that kid is weird, it is estimated that he will be able to wash it up this year, and the Jiang Chuan family is completely unable to be this villain. ”

In fact, Jiang Chuan Yingmin had an answer to this question in his heart, but he just couldn't believe it, and when he heard his father say this, now he understands it thoroughly, but he is still quite uncomfortable in his heart:

"It's not easy to speak up about dangerous deeds! Do things well, how can there be so many scruples! ”

That night, Jiang Chuan's father and son got drunk, and then Youngmin seemed to have completely matured overnight.

He can't be immature, because Youngmin is about to set up his own door, and now he is the head of the family, and he has to be careful in everything - last night, Mr. Tanan finally agreed to Youngmin's decision to split the family, and the son of the Jirayama Gangchuan family became Yingmin's younger brother Yingwu, and Yingmin became the head of the white lord Jiangchuan family.

Of course, the Egawa family was a famous family among the shogunates, and the division of the family had to be reported to the shogunate for approval.

However, since the transfer of most of Ezo to the Imperial Domain in February, the shogunate has been vigorously encouraging the bannermen to migrate to the northern land, but who wants to leave the prosperous area of Edo and go to the barren land, so there are few responders. Therefore, the Egawa family was the first to respond to the establishment of a division in North Ezo, and it was too late for the shogunate to encourage, so it was definitely not a hindrance, and approval was a sure thing.

Sure enough, after the application for the separation of the family was played in Edo, the shogunate greatly praised the father and son of Egawa Taro Saemon and his son, thinking that "the Egawa family is worthy of being the minister of the stock hiro, and the high wind is bright", and the reply was very fast, and in late March, it specially rewarded Eitoshi with a flag of 400 koku, and did not divide the original stone height of the Egawa family - but the new 400 koku was provided by the white lord, and the shogunate did it without pulling out a dime.

Yingwu, the new son of the Jiushan Jiangchuan family, was very moved - he didn't do anything, the roof fell off the bean bag, and he inexplicably became the next head of the Jiangchuan family, who became the hereditary acting official of Jiushan, and his brother Yingmin was really high-spirited!

Therefore, he had no opinion at all about his father's more than 200 people to give his brother, and said that if there were not enough people, he could add more, and if he didn't have enough money, he could give more. Brothers, friends, and brothers, but they diluted a lot of the sadness caused by the separation.

In fact, in addition to the reluctance to his family, Yingmin really does not have the sense of loss caused by "being assigned" as outsiders say, and he is only willing to stay with the white lord for a long time, because although the white lord has betrayed the scriptures and apostasy from the upper and lower levels, it is very different from the twilight of Edo, and a high-spirited upward momentum is intoxicating.

Moreover, it is obvious that Naoxiu does not have different intentions to rebel, because how can there be a rebel who does not have the power to monopolize - the power of the white lord is scattered, and this can't be pretended!

As long as he doesn't rebel, then Yingmin has nothing to worry about, the life of the white lord is not comparable to Edo, and the prosperity is far inferior, but Jiangchuan Yingmin is not going for pleasure.

In fact, Youngmin vaguely felt, "

After the visit of the black ship, Fuso was shaken up and down, and the shogunate's innovation seemed to be struggling, just take his father as an example, Mr. Tanan, a giant of orchid studies, as an important minister of the shogunate, has also been effective in promoting the orchid industry, but there are countless elbows, only in the white master, he feels that everything is going well, anyway, there is always a way to show anyway! ”

In fact, after the visit of the black ship, Fuso began to lose confidence in himself, and Yingmin personally experienced the naval battle in the Far East, and saw Naohide show his might, using the hands of the Anglo-Franco-Coalition to sweep away Lucia's stronghold in the Far East, so he felt quite proud.

On one side is the shogunate's compromise, and on the other side is the white lord's victory over the enemy, Youngmin actually doesn't know that he is already a little fan of Naoxiu.

It stands to reason that this year, the white lord's two thousand sealskin annual tributes have also been handed over, and the Zonggu land has also been obtained, and the separation has been completed, and the little fan brother Egawa Yingmin should return to the white lord as soon as possible, but he can't leave yet, because there is still one last task that has not been completed - receiving ordnance.

In the 7th year of Kaei (1853), Mimefu Oguri Tadashun was sent as an envoy to Kitachi, and the shogunate appointed Naohide as the white lord of the office, and at that time, Naohide made three requests to the shogunate with the idea that "crying children have milk to eat", "immigration, construction of large ships, and distribution of imported ordnance".

The immigrants asked the shogunate to come forward to emigrate to the white lord - at the beginning of the establishment of the white lord in 1850, the shogunate allowed the white lord to organize his own immigrants, and this time he asked the shogunate for assistance;

The construction of the big ship was a request to expand the White Lord Naval Army, because in 1853 the shogunate only allowed "no more than four warships under the White Lord 500 koku", and Naohide thought that the naval army was too weak to protect the territory;

As for the distribution of imported ordnance, it was because although the shogunate agreed that the white lord would forge the ordnance on his own, but the white lord had too poor a foundation and could not make any advanced ordnance, so he could only rely on the shogunate to distribute it.

As a result, Naohide's book sank into the sea as soon as it arrived in Edo, and it wasn't until last year's "Fuso Rice Country and Relatives Agreement" that there was a result:

It was impossible for the shogunate to come forward to organize the immigration, and the shogunate was too busy with affairs to have the energy, so it was put on hold;

To build a big ship, the shogunate agreed, but asked "the white lord shipbuilding to be sent to Edo first, and the rest can be retained by himself", that is, "the warship still cannot exceed four", and first build four warships for the shogunate, and then the white lord can build his own warship, and the manpower and cost of the shogunate do not care, and the white lord has to take care of it himself - in fact, this is to tease Naohide, because the shogunate will not allow a strong naval army not to be in control, so he didn't take Naohide to heart at all;

As for the "distribution of imported ordnance", because the white lord was on the front line of resistance to Lucia, so this shogunate did not deliberately make it difficult, considering that the self-made ordnance was really not good, and specially approved five hundred taels of gold to the white lord office, so that the white lord could find Nagasaki to purchase it by himself - the number of Western ordnance purchased by the shogunate was insufficient, where can you take care of the white lord, give money and buy it yourself.

In fact, this is still full of malice, because it is not good to give it, but five hundred taels of gold looks like a lot, but in fact it can't buy anything good - if it can be bought, why does the shogunate let the white lord buy it himself, wouldn't it be better to buy it directly!

However, the new Nagasaki commissioner was Oguri Tadashun, so as long as the shogunate opened the mouth, everything was negotiable, and the envoy at that time, Fanzawa Mura Sonojo asked Hiroshihachi to bring the official document and the golden ticket of Kii Kuniya to Nagasaki, and asked Oguri-sama to help - of course, five hundred taels of gold was not enough, and the white lord himself added another thousand taels.

It stands to reason that the order placed last year should not be received until this fall, but Oguri asked people to carry a letter, "It will be delivered in Shimoda in April." ”

So Yingmin had no choice but to wait at Shimoda Port, but he wondered, "There are a number of weapons purchases, how did Oguri Tadashun conjure up this batch of goods?" It was none other than deducting the shogunate's share of procurement. If that's the case, it's a big problem, and you can't ask for this batch of goods! ”