Mime Fubori Toshiki hurriedly inspected the white lord, and after Naohide took a boat to accompany him to see the two nearby fishing villages, he took the people back to Hakokan in Ezo, after all, it was the place where he would have to work hard in the future.

Although Hori Toshiki only stayed in the white lord for four days from beginning to end, he tossed Naohide enough:

Unlike Egawa Hidetoshi, this shogunate inspector who has no friendship with Naohide and is a serious shogunate, if he really finds something wrong, then the matter is big.

Speaking of which, there are many things that the white lord prohibits, in general, secret trade is one, and the private possession of Western weapons is another, and it is a dead end to be found to be found without permission, as for what Jiang Chuan Yingmin said, "The grade of clothing should not be mixed; The monarchs and ministers are different from each other", which is not a matter compared to these - after all, Naohide has never publicly criticized or opposed the shogunate.

The origin of the white lord's personnel is complicated, and it stands to reason that he can't keep any secrets at all, but the forces in the rapid rise period can always do some jaw-dropping things, and there has been no major leak storm until now, even Naoxiu himself feels incredible.

Actually, the subordinate Okubo and others think it's quite normal, after all, it's the era of the world, and the white lord has also taken great pains to keep it secret:

In the third year of Kaei (1850), the first sixteen people to follow Naohide to the white master were Takemae Toranosuke, Hori Naotsu, Hori Naoyoshi, Hori Yuei, Iwasaki Yataro, Okada Nobujin, Inoue Genzaburo, Kawagami Genaki, Okubo Toshiyo and the pseudonym Mr. Miyama Takano Nagaei and Zaoya Group six teenagers, in addition to Okubo, Mr. Miyama, and Inoue Genzaburo are all Naohide's disciples and relatives and friends, and Mr. Miyama is the shogunate's arrest of important criminals, Okubo is Naohide's right-hand man who personally invited the mountain, Genzaburo Inoue is a down-and-out ronin, so as long as Naohide doesn't treat them badly, it's easy to say.

Has Naoxiu treated them badly over the years?

It's completely favorable, since the second year of the Great Hunt on Seal Island, these people have begun to have a generous hand as a gold dividend - although it was a bookkeeping back then, but later they were all cashed out, and in recent years, with the expansion of the white lord's power, all of them have taken up important positions in the commission.

As for the children of the Zaoya group, the Tosa Kochi boy, the Saga windmill group students, and the disciples of Mr. Tanan's rope martial arts hall, Naohide also stayed after selection - I really thought that Naohide would dare to accept anyone.

As for the selection method, it is very simple, not to mention that you first go to the dock to fish or go to the construction site to build a wooden house, and only those who are not lazy after ten days of hardship can stay-Naohide and Okubo both work by themselves, and the samurai of the white lord are very different from other places.

As for the selection of the people, it is much simpler:

In the early immigrants, in addition to filthy and non-human, they were homeless people who entered the field, and they were screened before they were sent, and they were not honest and resolutely did not want to, and there were no lazy and slippery ones after they arrived - the early days of the white lord were extremely difficult, and they were hungry if they dared to be lazy and slippery, and they were honest after a few hungry meals, and there was nowhere to run.

As for the Ainu and Hezhe, it was not so troublesome, these people used to live a hard life, and those who were too slippery had long since been driven out by the tribe to fend for themselves.

But the main reason why no one ran to the shogunate for more than three years to report was that in addition to the simplicity of the people at this time, it was mainly due to the following points:

First, the concept of the world is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

At this time, the form of governance in Fuso was more similar to the feudal system, whether it was a daimyo or a large banner, as long as it was a private leader, the people would only recognize the head of the family and not the shogunate - this was related to the economic level, legal system and technical means at that time, and in-depth and careful governance was completely unrealistic, and could neither support nor achieve.

Although the white lord is the imperial lord, all the samurai are the retainers of the Hori family, and the lords are also the lords of the Hori family - the filthy, inhuman, and wanderers who enter the Shogunate are all registered untouchables in the shogunate, and only the white lord is the legitimate townspeople and common people, not to mention the Ainu and the Hezhe, they are "savages", and there is no serious punishment for killing them outside of the white lord.

Therefore, although the white lord is the imperial domain, it is actually no different from Naoxiu's private territory, since it is a private territory, then the object of natural allegiance is the private lord, and the whistleblower is a blatant rebellion, which is a serious violation of the values at this time.

The second is that the shogunate is not kind to the white lord.

For the white lord, the shogunate basically did not invest manpower and material resources - the first to give a small sentence of 1,000 coins, a ship and a small amount of supplies, but that

The ship was brought back from overseas by Zhixiu himself, which can be said to be a drop in the bucket for the development of the white master, which can be completely ignored; There are some supplies in the back, but they were obtained by Naohide through his teacher, Mr. Tan'an, and they are far from enough.

Eating is a big deal.

Since Zhixiu can feed everyone and live a good life, then naturally the people want it, and no one will tell you if there is no major reason.

But Naoxiu has always shared weal and woe with the people, and he doesn't rush to the front when he fights, but he has always been on the front line, and rewards and punishments and governance are also public discussions and joint discussions.

Thirdly, thanks to the traffic conditions and laws at this time.

The white lord is in the North Ezo land, the North Ezo land is a large and desolate island, and even the nearest Ezo Matsumae Town has to take a few days by boat, as for going to Edo to tell the truth, then you must first have a big ship.

Those who can trade in Edo are all hardcore henchmen of Naohide and others, and ordinary people don't even think about it.

Besides, even samurai can't move freely now, so you have to have a "hand shape", which is the document of the White Lord's office, and the security of the journey is not good, so if you go to Edo to report it, what a big hatred and a big resentment.

The last point, in fact, ordinary people don't know whether Naohide's actions are under the secret orders of the shogunate or even the public, if Naohide is really acting on orders, then wouldn't it be embarrassing - after going to the shogunate to tell the whistle, I found that Naohide was a minister with a secret mission, and yes, the whistleblower was not clicked casually.

Don't say it, what Naohide did really looked like - going to work alone, and then attacking the Lucians several times regardless of life and death, and at the same time, the service position is getting bigger and bigger, and the acting office has become a commission office, what do you say Naoxiu wants, why, if there is no insider, it can't be said at all.

Not only do some people think so within the White Lord Worship Office, but in fact, there are many people in Edo who think this way now, although they don't know that Naohide has done a lot of forbidden things, but many of the courtiers think that Naohide is an important layout of the chief old middle Abe attendant in the north in advance, otherwise why would he be promoted so quickly! Doesn't it make sense at all?

Even the old middle Abe is sometimes suspicious:

Others don't know, but he knows that Lord Bai's change from an acting official to a commission is the instruction of the late Imperial House Jiaqing, and that Naoxiu was the first to secretly go to sea, could it be that he didn't promote it?

After all, Oguri Tadashun has been a public servant, and he is quite favored, so it is reasonable to be ordered to engage in some secret activities in private.

In short, because Naohide has always been very respectful to the shogunate, even outsiders have been deceived, let alone the people of the white master, who think about it so much that their brains hurt and they can't figure out the depths.

In addition, Naohide and others have been sparing no effort to block news and cover up, plus no one cares about the privacy of the white lord - the only thing to pay attention to is Mr. Tanan and Oguri Tadashun, but these two still cover their ears and pretend not to know, so the white lord has not capsized so far.

However, if you often walk by the river without getting your shoes wet, any secrets will have to be revealed for a long time, so Naoxiu has also made two preparations for this:

If it really doesn't work, he will take people to flee overseas, what can he do if he has money;

There is also a way out that the white master's strength will expand a little more, and when the time comes, the tail will not be lost, and he will not blatantly dig into the corner of the shogunate, and it is estimated that the shogunate will turn a blind eye, but there must still be a tail of the hand, and it will be a headache when I think about it.

Whitewashing should be grasped from an early age, not as early as possible.

According to Naoxiu's plan, whitewashing began as early as last year:

This year's acceptance of Egawa Hidetoshi as the White Lord is the second step, which represents the official intervention of the shogunate in the governance of the White Lord;

And the first step is how to deal with secret trade?

Last year, the office opened a branch, and the trade with the Xianheng foreign company has begun to stop taking place in the white lord.

This year will do the same.

When the Hakodate opens next year, it will be even better, even if someone says that the transaction between the government and the rice people is not considered a secret trade, I will say that you can take me if you provide a supplement?

Isn't it a hurricane that can't stop outside Shimoda and Hakodate, but this hurricane doesn't come and go without a trace and can't speak, it won't come out to testify, and besides, it's a pretext for the ship to hit the reef during the voyage - the Soya Strait Field is foggy all year round, and this reef is not a normal thing.

As for the white master's current Western ordnance, steam warships and machine tools, that

It's better to deal with:

In fact, since last year, Naohide has secretly sealed these weapons, and only take them out and use them in an emergency, even if the necessary training is carried out in the remote sub-leader Toyohara.

As for the substitutes, the flintlock smoothbore and flintlock shortshots, although most of them were imported from the secret trade, but nominally they were all produced by the white lord - relying on a few machine tools and steam engines bought from Nirayama Ironworks, plus pig iron bought from the Saga Nabeshima family, the white lord could really make them, but the production was not high and the quality was poor.

Also, the steam warships of the office have long ceased to appear near the White Lord, and they are usually stationed in Moka, to the west, which is very remote and has no merchant ships to visit at all.

As for the machine tools, under the guise of a few machine tools and steam engines that were bought from Nirayama Iron Smelting before, ordinary people can't figure out the doorway here - as long as you don't waste yourself, it's okay for people to visit or try their hands carefully.

As for sewing machines and other machinery, this Xianheng foreign company has long been sold in Nagasaki, which is different from machine tools, machine tools can make guns, so the shogunate is strictly managed, although the shogunate has designated a monopoly dealer for these civilian goods, but does not restrict the purchase, he has long asked Kii Kuniya to help purchase dozens of units as a cover, and he is not afraid of checking at all.

In fact, there are a lot of foreign things in the white master, such as foreign cloth, leather shoes, etc., but they all have a "legitimate" origin, the leather shoes are produced by themselves, and the foreign cloth is bought with the help of Kii Kuniya - although it is a bit nonsense to buy a few hundred horses to change the clothes of everyone in the white master, but this is not impossible to check, although there are not many merchants in the white master, there are more than a dozen, who has time to care about this.

Of course, it is impossible to completely whitewash, unless everything can be produced by the white owner, and according to the current situation, this year is 1854, and it would be nice if the compound of the bullet fire cap and the steam battleship could be made in 1858 by self-reliance - if the shogunate allowed it.

Moreover, even if it can be self-produced, it will only cover up the original traces, and the previous secret trade and the northward attack on the Lucia people are enough to raid the house and cut off the head, so the white lord must continue to expand, not only to give enough upward path and security to the internal personnel, but also to let the shogunate cast a rat trap in the end to be safe and sound.

However, expansion requires modernization, and the educational innovation, organizational and legal evolution, and changes in people's concepts and living habits caused by modernization are incompatible with the current laws, systems, and customs of the shogunate, and even incompatible.

In addition to Naohide and Gakujiro, Okubo Toshiji, who is in charge of the government, has already been aware of this, but there is one person who has long been aware of it before him - Takano Nagaei, who is known as Mr. Miyama, has long been aware of it out of the acumen of a rebel, otherwise he would not have been so fanatical at the head of the Gogaku University.

In addition to these two people, there should be many people who are aware of this, especially after the signing of the "Fusang Mi Country and Relatives Agreement" this year, many people privately asked Naoxiu to show their loyalty - they all said that Naoxiu's attack on the Lusians in advance was far-sighted, otherwise the white lord would have fallen a long time ago.

It's good to be enlightened, but it's a fool to think about it.

Naohide felt that many of these people thought that they were the secret sons sent to the Northland by the shogunate, at least the generals of a certain department in the shogunate, and implied that they were loyal and that they should not hide them, but Naohide knew that there was no one above him! - Oguri Tadashun and Mr. Tanan were a little disappointed in the shogunate before secretly helping themselves, and if they really did something apostasy, these two would immediately cut off with themselves, and if they didn't ask for an order to personally lead troops to attack, they would be considered scruples.

Hey, I think too much and have a headache, this white lord is like a mad cow, the faster he grows, the more difficult it is for him to grasp the direction, I really don't know what his final result will be - originally Naoxiu was ready to stop the Lucians in the Far East during the Crimean War, and even if he didn't come to this world in vain, he could leave overseas with him if he was willing to leave, but he didn't think that there were more and more people under him, and now it seems unrealistic to run away.

After all, there are now more than 3,500 people in the White Lord's office, and all of them are counting on themselves to bring a better future, which is really inseparable.

I thought it was a straw rope that I picked up, but who knew that behind the rope was a cow!

This is Naoxiu's mood now, things are big, I can only go hard, I hope I don't change too much, I hope everyone can have a result - a good result is not extravagant, most people can live in peace.