As for why the family music house and Katsura Hamaya were allowed to participate in the place of responsibility, Matsumae Hirotashi said a reason, and even the head of the family, Chongguang, was persuaded and praised him for "being old and seeking the country".

So what did Guangzhong say?

"There is much help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust. If I am invisible and formless, then I am exclusive and enemy. And those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are clear. If you enter my hand, success or failure is in my hands. ”

"There is a lot of help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust", which means that if these two businessmen have interests in the Matsumae family, I am afraid that they will not go all out to help the white lord develop the North Ezo land, isn't it a good thing?

"If I am formless and invisible, then I am exclusive and enemy", this is a quote from "Sun Tzu? What do the words in the "Fiction and Reality" mean? Just don't stick to the form, find a way to disperse the opponent's power. This is basically the same as the meaning of the previous sentence.

As for the last two sentences, it means that our Matsumae family doesn't know anything about the white lord now, and when the money house was in the past, it was not clear that the money house was strong, and behind it was the Maeda family who was on an equal footing with the three royal families, but the two new businessmen are not at our disposal, the Tosa Yamauchi family, the outer daimyo, our Matsumae family is the daimyo of the flag motoge, and it can be counted as a spectrum generation, and we can't afford to mess with the Maeda family, but you can't afford to mess with a turtle from Shikoku?

If you can find some handles of the Hori family, then you will wake up with a smile in your dreams - the white lord is now relying on how to be the acting official of the shogunate and the Matsumae family, but the acting official can be replaced, if he has the handle of Naohide Hori, it is not that he is round, and he is flat.

After making up a lot of stories in the minds of the Matsumae retainers, they all felt that it was a mistake to reject the family house and the Katsura hamaya before, and they were completely influenced by other fools, which not only could not be refused, but they should even be given a large share.

The original territory of Qianwu, including three in East Ezo, nine in North Ezo, and seven fishing grounds in the north of the four islands of Yunwu, together there were about 3,500 taels of gold to be transported and paid in a year—various commercial taxes were not included.

But these can't all be given to the Kalokuya and Katsurahamaya, the merchant is much more well-informed, the money house has fallen, in addition to the original merchants such as the Ryohama Group eyeing the tiger, there are also a few new merchants who also came to Matsumae to join in the fun, so in the end, Katsurahamaya only took a seaside house and a fishing ground in the East Ezo land, and Chojiro's Carrakuya was exchanged with other merchants and took a seaside house and four inland houses in the East Ezo land, but he has not participated in the competition for the treasure fishing ground.

From beginning to end, the Matsumae family was wary of these two merchants, who were not clear with the white lord, and in this major adjustment of the contracted land, they did not give any of the land close to the northern Ezo land, except for a fishing ground, and the northern part of the country, including Soya.

But the matter of the pit father still happened, the money house turned out to be in nine places in the North Ezo land, and no one wanted it at all, because the location was not good, not to mention that it was also facing dual jurisdiction, and if it was not good, the money had to be handed over in two copies, one for the Matsumae family, and one for the shogunate's white lord office, so whoever wanted it would take it away, and I didn't want it.

The Matsumae family encouraged the merchants to go north, but none of them agreed, these merchants were all the masters of the branches of wealthy merchants in the north, and the Matsumae family was not too oppressive, so they had to mobilize their own retainers to go north.

But all the important ministers made excuses to ignore them, what parents are not traveling far and the like, pretending to be sick, and even some retainers asked the main family to post money to them, and after the head of the family Chongguang agreed to post the money, these people said that they could only go to the younger son and nephew and the like, and Chongguang was half angry - these people are all separated from each family, and some are not even divided into families, many people are not even formal samurai, where is the preparation so good, but Matsumae Hon's family is not willing to suffer in the north, and the younger brother is not strong, It's not easy to take the lead brother's job.

Before, the family and Katsura Hamaya were also not interested in these places: because if the white lord was strong, then these places would not have to talk to the Matsumae family, and if the white lord was not strong, then the Matsumae family would not give them to these places, so he broke off his thoughts early.

In the end, it was the old Guangzhong of the Matsumae family who came out

The oppression of the two merchants must be contracted nine places, otherwise the other transport to the house will not be wanted.

Don't look at the usual saying that the merchant is unrighteous, but it's really shameless, and I have to say that the samurai is powerful, and in the end, the family house undertook eight places at half price, and asked for one more fishing ground in exchange.

As for the white lord of the money house, Chojiro resolutely refused to pay the money, and if this place wants to pay back to the Matsumae family, a fool won't do it.

The deal was reached, and Guangzhong secretly planned how to toss the two newcomers, but the face was still relatively kind, and asked the two families to hurry up and pay the reservation fee and rush to the various houses as soon as possible to start construction, so as not to affect the livelihood of the "people" - at this time, the Ainu people are not natives, but have become the law-abiding people of the Matsumae family.

Although he didn't get Soya, Chojiro was not in a hurry, he recruited people in Matsumae Town, and hired nearly 200 people from the original money house, and then he and Tomitaro of Katsura Hamaya began to discuss how to develop the Yunueya in his hand.

While Chojiro was doing business in Matsumae, the white lord was immersed in joy - it turned out that the white lord, no, the Hori family had received 42 more retainers.

Before, there were few white masters, and as long as the displaced people came to express their obedience to the rule, the place was apprenticeship, and after three months of training, as long as they were literate and diligent, and they were not lazy in their work, they went to apprenticeship and officially became a samurai master.

But there has been no such good thing since October last year, when the more than 100 new immigrants were in the prime of life, all of whom worked as civilians. Although the benefits are almost the same, and the white lord does not have any rules for civilians to bow down to the samurai, the concept that the samurai is the master is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and these people are looking forward to becoming samurai day and night.

In November last year, Zhixiu took the opportunity of letting everyone do business, invited some people from the group, selected some new immigrants to join the team, and updated the personnel of the grassroots group. The new immigrants who made up for the group,As long as you can survive the training, you will naturally become Ashigaru.,But other new immigrants are indignant.,Usually they also participate in military training.,It's also a preparation for Ashigaru.,And there's a lot of work to do in normal times.,Why does Ashigaru have him and not me?

And there are thirty-six people in the first batch of Qian Wu who defected to Zhixiu, all of whom are skilled shipwrights, shopkeepers and guards, and now they are all domestic servants of the Hori family, and these people usually mention to Zhixiu, "Master, if you want to be promoted, you must first promote your own people, even if you don't care about relatives, we people can bring wealth to the master, right?" ”

According to the original idea of Naoxiu, everyone will get a samurai identity, and then the foot will be flying all over the sky, and everyone will be Miao with a knife, isn't it good? However, Ashigaru, including the heads of the various groups and the previous promotion, expressed their opposition, "You can't be promoted to a samurai without merit, and unfair rewards and punishments are the way to bring disaster." ”

Take a dogleg, but Naohide also knows the power of traditional concepts, and he is still an honest man before his fledgling, but everyone agrees with the lack of people in the white master, so after discussion, it was decided that as long as the following conditions are met, he can be promoted to Ashigaru:

First of all, you need to be literate, you don't need to be able to recite poems, you can know and write common words.

Chinese is known as the most complex language in the world, there are only 2,500 commonly used Chinese characters, and if Fusang can know more than 2,000 words, basically there will be no obstacles to communication.

As a result, all kinds of literacy classes held by the township school are full, and there are also literacy classes among the people, which is a precedent for cram schools in later generations, and at the same time, the picture books that look at pictures and talk are flying all over the sky, because the children's learning ability is better, and the white master is free for five years of early childhood education, so adults abound to find their own children to make up classes, and this is the case all in winter.

Yingzi also came out to join in the fun, forcing Naohide and the heads of each group to pass the selection conditions of Ji Samurai, and as a result, the majority of women were also eager.

The second condition for being able to do a light job is military skills, and the third condition is contribution, as long as those who work hard are considered to have contributed to the office, even as long as they are engaged in street work, as long as they provide a formal means of livelihood and have no record of being a traitor.

Considering that all the people are soldiers, adult men and women who do not participate in the fan group must receive military training, plus the regulations of Ji Samurai, that is, anyone has the opportunity to do a light shot, it seems to be similar to the original idea of Naoxiu all the people are samurai - in fact, there is still a gap, before the comprehensive benefits of other professions exceed the treatment of samurai, it is really unrealistic to talk about the whole people Miao Zi with a sword, otherwise it is easy to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Fan group, this is the characteristic of the period of poor soldiers, and it is necessary to rely on more privileges to maintain combat effectiveness.

Being able to be a samurai spur the efforts of immigrants, including the people who used to be the servants of the Horiya family, and finally it was agreed that forty-two people could become ashigaru - these people did not have to participate in the fan group, and they could enjoy the status of ashigaru as a merchant or otherwise.

The ashigaru of the shosho did not have the right to give up the imperial exemption and ask the commoners to bow down, but there were still many privileges, such as dividends twice in April and October, as well as the right to give priority to the distribution of houses and reduce fees, and the right to increase the share of borrowing from the Hori, etc., so these forty-two new samurai wept with joy in public—the era in which the family was promoted was an important goal and a major achievement.

If others can, so can I! The rest of the civilian immigrants are secretly determined that even if they can't do it, there is hope for their wives and children, especially since the assessment requirements for women and children are relatively low, and there are many people who are interested in this regard.

Next, Naohide and Yingzi presided over the wedding of more than a dozen couples - last November, Hori Naoyoshi and the big head led a team to the north to trade with the tribe, bringing back more than 30 girls, who were accepted by Yingzi as a medical student at that time, although they have not yet been discharged, but the white master has more men and fewer women, and the licking dogs are extraordinary, and there are still many girls who fall in love.

The newlyweds held a wedding together, Xiunian's apprentices gave blessings on behalf of the gods and Buddhas, and Naohide and Eiko expressed their support on behalf of the world, although the conditions were simple, but the newlyweds and all the people were very happy—the new family was not only a haven of personal happiness, but also a hope for the continuation of the group.

Big head, no, Hori Shiyuan - he was promoted to samurai after he came back last time, Naohide gave the name Shiyuan, and Hori Shiyuan sneakily found Naohide after the wedding, saying that there was something important to report.

"There are also Ainu people in the neighborhood who want to be a leader, please consider it, at least there are a lot of women of appropriate age."

I'm afraid to think about everything.,After Zhiyuan became a retainer of the Hori family.,Try to think about what Naohide thinks.,Think about what Naohide thinks.,He thinks that since Naohide treats Ainu and people equally.,It must be trying to recover these people.,In addition, Naohide is willing to take in tribal women.,That must be worried about more men and fewer women.,So he has long wanted to be anxious about what the head of the family is anxious about.。

But because the Matsumae family used to prohibit intermarriage with the Ainu people, he was afraid that the horse's fart would be slapped on the horse's feet, in case these tribal women were kept by the master, wouldn't that be looking for death? Therefore, it is not until today that he sees a tribal woman marrying as a wife, and he proposes to be faithful.

In fact, it was not that no one mentioned it before the big head, Yingzi, Okubo, Shiratori Yuei and others have mentioned it, but Naohide has been pressing and not acting, one is that the number of people at that time is too small, and there is a danger of anti-customer, and the other is that the reputation is not established, and it is half the result to do it.

Since the big head has become a samurai in the front, and today the tribal girl is the main wife, then this matter can be done. However, before doing this, Naohide has to inform all the Ainu who want to be a leader that the white lord has been fighting a war recently, fighting a big battle, and men who want to be a leader or even a samurai must travel with the army - there is no reward if you don't pay, these first batch of Ainu Naohide will be of great use in the future, so you must identify the quality in advance.

The big head had no objection to this, and even proposed to hone a few more times, but was scolded away by Naoxiu, "Hurry up and get down to business, you are limited to three days to finish this!" ”

When the big head left, Naoxiu carefully pondered again, is it feasible to attack the Perov Dong camp and Miaotun with one hundred and fifty regular soldiers? Win or not? At what cost? How do you find this excuse? In case the shogunate is held accountable, how to explain the unauthorized provocation? What if the Lucians were angry and the ships hit the White Lord?