At the beginning of October, the rice boat pulled anchor and set sail, and Naohide breathed a sigh of relief - the pressure was too great, and the merchants in the office were easy to dismiss, but since May, the Matsumae family often sent ships to visit the white lord on an excuse, and Naohide was very worried about the bad things of the Matsumae family.

At the beginning of May, Genzaburo Inoue took people to Matsumae to repair the ship, and he also borrowed 200 taels of gold from Matsumae's family,—— which was not repaid with seal skins until early August.

Before that, the samurai of the Matsumae family came to the white lord very proudly, and the white lord had a lot of private affairs, and every time the Matsumae family visited, the office was a scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping - the dogs were brought by Naohide when he came, and the chickens were brought by the merchant ships of three trading companies including Kinokuniya in mid-April.

The first time the Matsumae family came, Okubo instructed everyone to put away the ordnance and change their usual Western clothes into Wu clothes, and everyone went out to move around less, and then Okubo found an excuse and the Matsumae family immediately tore their faces.

Didn't Genzaburo and his gang be beaten up last time they went to Matsumae? Okubo grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, what do you see, what do you see, let Genzaburo lead someone to beat the people from the Matsumae family, and then he came forward to comfort the Matsumae family samurai, so the Matsumae family samurai had to leave with hatred.

After that, the Matsumae family did not give up and visited the white lord many times, but each time a conflict broke out as soon as they arrived, and then Okubo quickly drove them away on the grounds of safety.

The consequences were serious, and the samurai of the Matsumae family were reluctant to come, but the people of the White Lord Office did not dare to go to Matsumae casually - they would have to be beaten when they got to Matsumae.

Anyway, since Genzaburo Inoue went to Matsumae to repay the money with seal skin in early August, the two families have been quite inseparable.

But after all, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, and you can't say when, Matsumae's family will have another ship to visit, so Naohide is very worried about the discovery of the rice boat - although it can be denied, but after all, the strength is still small now, and it is still a headache to be caught, so Naohide is more and more resentful of the shogunate's policy of locking the country.

The three rice boats are all gone-Naoxiu originally wanted to leave the whaling ship but after thinking about it, he still didn't dare, and the white lord was relieved, although he knew that paper couldn't hold the fire, and this matter would have to be exposed sooner or later, but the wind would blow tomorrow, and the future would happen before it happened.

Sometimes Naohide is also quite funny, and the feudal system or family system that Naohide looks down on has helped Naohide a lot - the reason why his subordinates are united is that all the people in the office are now basically retainers of the Hori family.

According to the laws of the shogunate, the number of offices of the imperial lords in each region was limited, and the white lord office was based on a minimum standard, and the white lord was allowed to have about 30 regular servants.

At that time, when he was in Edo, Naohide argued with reason, saying that 30 people would be okay, not to mention the barbarian invasion, the natives would be able to clean themselves up, but the survey office didn't care about him at all, and in the end it was the teacher Mr. Tanan who helped, especially in the document It was noted that Naohide could recruit a number of people to defend themselves in the north, and some did not specify the specific number, but no matter how many, the shogunate of this part of the staff did not care, that is, it could not occupy the official establishment, in short, the attitude of the survey office was: I will give you a total of 1,000 taels, 30 establishments, You can toss the rest at will in the white lord by yourself.

It stands to reason that Naoxiu is a banner of 200 stones, and some retainers can be recruited, but in fact, there is also a limit on the number of retainers, otherwise the flag book can be canonized casually, and the samurai are not flying all over the sky.

The opening left in the document of the survey is actually very rigorous, according to Zhixiu's family style, twenty retainers, plus thirty places in the institute, and some peasant soldiers are recruited, if there are ten in the belt, Zhixiu can almost pull up a team of 500 people in the white master, which is quite okay, and the general skirmishes can be dealt with - the survey office defaults to five years that the white lord can have 500 strong men in the sky.

But what the Kansejo didn't expect was that the sky was high and Edodo was far away, Naohide didn't say anything, and no one in the institute understood this unspoken rule, and the samurai read that there were words in the document that "recruit a number of people to defend themselves", and thought that the shogunate had given Naohide special approval, and the homeless people didn't understand anything, and what was what the shogunate said.

As a result, Naohide covered the sky with the white lord, and he turned all the adult males into his retainers - really counted, the common people of the white lord were only the Daitou Suketaro family, who was born in the Ainu people, except for merchants and individual sailors.

Speech is very important.

Naohide told everyone that the 30 samurai quotas in the office were all "hugging Xige" of the imperial family, which was true, and the shogunate in order to prevent Naohide from fooling around, the samurai quota granted to the office was really "hugging Xige".

The samurai directly under the shogunate are divided into two categories, which can be divided into two kinds, the flag and the royal family, the noble flag lord is the direct subordinate of the public style, and the royal family is the middle and lower level samurai who serve the shogunate, and it is divided into the royal family genealogy, two halves, and the hugging seat, the treatment of the imperial family genealogy and the flag is almost the same, the difference in identity is the difference, the second half is considered a contract worker, but the son can inherit the father's business, and it is also guaranteed, and although the hugging seat is a samurai, it is equivalent to a temporary worker, and the family character of Ashigaru is the hugging seat, Although it is generally possible to inherit the father's business by spending some money to go to the relationship and hugging the seat, this is a tacit consent and there is no legal guarantee.

Of course, the samurai who followed Naohide were reluctant to do temporary work, especially if they came from the domain, and felt that there was a difference between being a temporary worker in the shogunate and their original status? It's better to be a retainer and share the joys and sorrows with Naoxiu.,Anyway, Naoxiu also promised everyone.,If you have the opportunity, you will recommend everyone to go out of the shogunate..asxs.The minimum is also two halves.,If not,,You can also find another way.,As long as you can reach more than fifty stone a year.,Naoxiu can be released-In fact, this is a guarantee given by Naoxiu.,He will give each person at least thirty taels of gold per year.。

In this regard, Zhixiu thinks very clearly, the person who really wants to leave can't stay, instead of falling out, it's better to get together and disperse, of course, there is a lot of risk in this, Naoxiu has a lot of privacy in the white main trunk, but Naoxiu has his own means to make these people willingly keep secrets.

The Hagadai drill of the Chōshū Mori family, the secret trade between Saga and the Rankoku Merchant House, and the secret trade between Satsuma in Naha are well known within the various domains, and there have been no whistleblowing, and it is not due to strength - in fact, the Satsuma Domain capsized, but it was not a secret told by insiders, and no one dared to stand up and admit this.

And the new immigrants are even better, they used to be homeless, filthy, and inhuman, and Naohide didn't let them choose, so they were directly assigned to the retainers of the Hori family, and they all became samurai, and it was too late to be happy, who would want so much.

In addition, the current officials are not in charge, and individual immigrants dare not speak out even if they have ideas.

The most difficult thing to do here is the specially hired sailor - in April this year, the happy event house sent twelve sailors this time, and several of them are the backbone of the former Uraga sailor who lived in seclusion.

When the other sailors heard that they could become samurai, they all happily became Naohide's retainers, but these former Uraga sailors became trouble.

At Okubo's suggestion, Naohide envied at the same time, promising that these people would be considered a technical shareholder and that they would be able to obtain certain benefits in the trade of the office, and forced these people to write an oath and promise to keep Naohide secret.

At first, these people still had some rebounds, but one is that they can't run away from what they see, and the other is that after July, they will be successful in hunting, Okubo promises that each person will have at least one hundred taels of gold per year, and these people can come to the Northland is also selected, and they are all retired Hug Xige - no matter how high the family is, no one will come to the Northland to suffer, and the money is moving, so now these people are also half-pushed, and many people also said that their youngest son can come to the Northland to mix a samurai identity, and Naoxiu also agreed.

The hoe swings well, and it can't be dug down.

The two hunts of the white lord were successful, the situation was completely opened, and everyone was full of confidence in the future - Naoxiu promised to give a hand-to-hand gold subsidy at the end of October, which was quite large, so the morale was so high.

Naoxiu seized the opportunity and convened the heads of each group to hold an evaluation meeting, seeing that it was snowing in November, many things had to be prepared in advance.

There was a big difference in the people who attended the meeting this time - because a considerable number of people left on the rice boats, and the various positions were greatly adjusted.

It's been two years since Naohide returned from overseas.,Manjiro is also back this time.,There's only one person left in the United States.,It's weak.,It's not okay not to send someone - in addition, Naohide doesn't dare to study abroad only Jiro alone in rice.,Ambitions are indulged.,Gakujiro has been alone for a long time.,If you want to open it one day.,Make a big move.,Naohide has no place to cry.。

Moreover, Gakujiro has a deep understanding of the industry, and Hakujiro is an indispensable candidate to go one step further. Also, Gakujiro has been away from home for five years, no matter what, he should come back to take a look, otherwise Yingzi will be mad, and Naohide can't bear it - the sofa doesn't have a sofa, but fortunately, the keyboard doesn't have either, God willing!

And if you want to replace Gakujiro, Toranosuke is the natural first choice. Although the big war is imminent, Toranosuke is reluctant to leave, but Naohide makes the reason clear, you have to do it, and Toranosuke also agreed-Speaking of which, New York is much stronger than the white master, and now the white lord has more men and fewer women, and there are many bullshit things that usually happen.

Originally a substitute for Tiger no Suke

The best candidate for the head is Murata Yongmin, but Murata, who is usually "obedient", is determined to go to the United States, and he is confused.

It was Yingzi who understood the inside story and explained to Naohide that it turned out that Ninomiya Rice and Murata Yongmin were getting better.

Ninomiya Rice is a handkerchief handed over by Yingzi, and he is the person who entrusted the orphan when the Naoxiu couple went to sea, and he has a high status in the Hori family. I heard that the rice boat was leaving, and Ninomiya Rice proposed to go to sea to find his father, but this Naoxiu was really hard to refuse, so he could only agree.

Siebold left Fuso around 1829, when Daozi was only three years old, and she suffered a lot of difficulties when she was a child, but her fantasies about her father were very beautiful, and she has not been married until she is twenty-five years old. So this time, Ninomiya Dao proposed to go to the rice country, and the Naoxiu couple could only wish her all her wishes come true.

But I didn't expect it to be a buy-one-get-one-free business, Murata Yongmin heard that the rice was leaving, and he didn't want to go to the head of the inner set, so he came to beg Naoxiu, saying that he would give the rice a ride anyway.

I didn't get to you who was sparse and thin-eyed, but you also rebelled, you did this, Xiaofang in the village, no, does Qinzi know?

Murata Yongmin did not return to his hometown in 1850 to inherit his father's medical clinic because he became acquainted with Naohide, and naturally he did not marry his childhood sweetheart, Kotoko. And after Naohide and others went to sea, the Hori family was the master of Murata and the rice master, relying on each other, and the two unconsciously had feelings for each other.

Murata doesn't care about Inako's identity and appearance, of course he doesn't care, now Inako is the daughter of the samurai of the Ninomiya family, and if you don't talk about aesthetic habits, Inako looks very beautiful, and Inako also likes Murata to live calmly and reliably, if Naohide doesn't come back, it is estimated that the two may become a family.

Naoxiu pondered for a while, he would rather demolish ten temples than destroy a marriage, Murata is a future general, it is not okay to leave a knot, and it is good to go out and see, so Murata also got on the rice boat.

So who's going to be the head? Naohide knew that he was a few pounds and a few taels, and the result of his own head might not be very good, so he transferred Hayato Hori Naoyoshi from the Navy back to the land group, after all, Hijikata Suizo has been verified by history, and he is a reliable candidate.

Manjiro officially became the head of the navy, not surprisingly, he changed his name to Nakahama Manjiro, and became an official samurai before returning to Tosa to visit relatives - Naohide made up a resume for Manjiro was shipwrecked and rescued to Northland, and finally joined Naohide's command, as for other details, why didn't he write a letter to his family for many years, let Manjiro have a headache himself.

The town commissioner is still Okubo - now that the white lord has just been on track, Naohide still doesn't dare to let Okubo go to sea to the waves. But Naohide sent Yataro Iwasaki out, the richest man in the future, the business quality is first-class, the white master is just such a thing, Okubo and Iwasaki's luxury configuration is suspected of being wasted, he still went to the United States to help the tiger nosuke, learn something casually, expand his horizons.

It was also a waste to use the side of the person Kawagami Gen to follow Naoxiu tomorrow, and this time he was transferred to the water army to help Manjiro play the stabbing head. As for the side employment system, it was completely abolished by Zhixiu, saving intrigue in the future.

Yuei doesn't have to deal with the kitchen every day, after all, he is his own student, and he has to find a future for him, and he will be transferred to Okubo's subordinate to do a good job - Yuei is cool and simple, probably because of his similar personality, he enjoys a high prestige among the Ainu, and it is just right to help manage the Ainu.

The remaining positions remain unchanged, the head of the survey is still Inoue Genzaburo, Mr. Miyama has two positions, and the head of the Xiangxue University is also the head of the medical center.

There are more people in the white lord now, and there are some group leaders, such as kindergartens or something, which are arranged by Naohide to negotiate between Okubo and Inoue Genzaburo, which can be regarded as a kind of internal balance.

In addition to Toranosuke, Murata, Inako, and Yataro, Naohide also asked Ryoma and his sister Otome to go to the United Kingdom, and Naohide had high hopes for Ryoma, so he wanted to train it as soon as possible.

In addition, because Hayato Hori Naoyoshi has become the head of the land, Naohide also has to send Katsugoro Horitoyoshi out to the sea, after all, the two have the same qualifications, and Katsugoro has some thoughts about Hayato, and it will not be good if he intentionally makes trouble or violates Yin and Yang.

There is also the great monk Xiunian, who is a little tired of being treated by the white master, and under the seduction of Zhixiu, he also visits rice with the ship - what scriptures this foreign monk recites, it is good to go and see it.

Although there were some changes in the heads of each group due to the visit of some people, the top people were also old people who followed Zhixiu, so the evaluation meeting quickly reached a consensus, and everyone agreed to concentrate on a few major things before the snow fell in November.