On June 8, 1854, Naohide and his army set out from Hakuju, and on June 22, they conquered Miaotun, and the next day Nakahama Manjiro led four steam ships to defeat the supply fleet of the Lucian people on the Oolong River, and the victorious Hakushoban group returned to Hakujo on July 8.

As soon as Naohide got off the boat, he was caught, and the white lord was the deputy that Edo arranged for Naohide, and he grabbed Naohide's sleeve and complained loudly:

"Ungrateful people, incorruptible and shameless people, dare to turn back!"

This Naoxiu didn't dare to provoke, so he had to ask for mercy again and again, turned his head and signaled that Naoyoshi Ohbantou Hori was in charge of the scene, and then he walked away with him.

This white lord pursues and can't be provoked by Zhixiu, the father of the family is his mentor, and he has a solid foot, a noble birth, and he has a great favor to himself, so he can only coax - this person is Mr. Tanan's eldest son Kuninosuke Yingmin, the future head of the Egawa family, the hereditary acting official of Niriyama, and the former head of the Nirayama Iron Smelter.

Egawa Hidetoshi was the white lord who arrived on May 6 this year, and it was the white lord who brought back the white lord from Banzawa Village, so he finally obediently sent an envoy to Edo in mid-October last year, and as for his wife who roared in the east of the river, Okubo was allowed to accompany him, and the fire in the backyard was extinguished.

Why didn't Yingmin stay in the old nest of Jiushan Mountain, and had to run to the northland where "birds don't"?

Because he's in a big deal!

On November 23, the 6th year of Kaei (December 23, 1853 in the Western calendar), the new Gongfang Shoya was inaugurated as the general of the expedition, and when Edo and Wai were celebrating together, Egawa Hidetoshi added the first blockade to the family! -- It turned out that on November 20, an accident occurred in the small blast furnace in Jiushan, the tuyere burned through, a large amount of red coke was sprayed, and the scene suffered heavy casualties, and the blast furnace had to cease fire.

The news happened to reach Edo on the day that Ieding ascended to the throne, and no one dared to say anything at the time, but somehow, on the 25th, it still reached the ears of the public - Ieding was very calm, and he didn't say anything, but he couldn't stand the people around him thinking that this matter was very unlucky, and he had to give an explanation.

The head of the Nirayama Iron Works is Yingmin, and the person in charge of the next step is Kanding Ginmiku, Egawa Taro Saemon, so Mr. Tanan, father and son, didn't run away.

In fact, the cause of the accident is very complicated, and Jiang Chuan's father and son are also difficult to say:

A year ago, the shogunate implemented a new policy and planned to build two more ironworks, Yokohama and Yokosuka. To build a new iron-making institute naturally needs relevant talents, so the original Niriyama iron-making station head won the righteous state to take on this important task, and then he took the original old man of Niriyama to smoke seventy-seven eighty-eight, Yokohama iron-making office this year is open, but Niriyama is miserable.

Because of the loss of too many backbones, small accidents at the Jiushan Iron Works occurred from time to time, and finally caused a big disaster on November 20!

Moreover, this is also inseparable from the start of the operation of the Yokohama Ironworks - there was not enough iron ore in the first place, but now it is divided into two ironworks, which makes matters worse, and the small blast furnace starts and stops, which does not meet the requirements of Naohide at the time of design.

In addition, the important ministers of the shogunate are also inseparable from it - a few princes also wanted to open an iron smelting station before, and asked the old and middle ministers of the shogunate for help, although each family said that there were only one or two people, but the total number was quite a lot, all of them were drawn from Niriyama!

Egawa Hidetoshi was called to Edo by the shogunate for questioning, and he originally wanted to talk about the grievances here, but he was severely reprimanded by Mr. Tanan, "If the husband is too reluctant, how can he blame others." ”

So, this black pot was firmly buckled on the heads of Jiang Chuan's father and son.

This time, the old middle school is really fair, although there are many people who add fuel and vinegar and fan the flames, but the advice given to the public is only "Yingmin will go to work and live in seclusion for one year, and Egawa Taro Saemon will be fined for two years".

Who knew that after the report was issued, the documents sent down were even more magnanimous, Mr. Tanan did not need to be fined, "just be careful in the future", and Yingmin was also promoted to an official - to go to North Ezo to be the white lord and the deputy commissioner.

So, Jiang Chuan Yingmin was secretly sent to the white lord by Mingsheng and secretly descended.

Yingmin is the white lord who arrived on May 6 this year (April 12 of the calendar), and he was overjoyed when he arrived - although Naoxiu's letter to Mr. Tanan wrote that the white lord was good, but Yingmin didn't believe it, and he saw a lot of good news and bad news. When it came to the white master, Yingmin found that the environment was okay, the food and drink were quite rich, and there were a lot of activities, so there was nothing to catch a fish or hunt.

He is different from Oguri Tadashun - Oguri felt that something was wrong when he saw the white lord's short clothes and hair, but Youngmin had just received a major blow in his life, so he didn't have the heart to care about this, and he didn't even care about official business.

In fact, this is Youngmin who doesn't know how to get along with Nao-so:

The earliest time he knew about Zhixiu, Zhixiu was not a flag book, a second half in the mud, but more than ten years have passed, and Zhixiu has become a flag book of 600 stones and a distant country of 1,000 stones, and he has actually become someone's deputy, where is this reasonable.

So he had to travel around the mountains and rivers and try to meet Naoxiu as little as possible, and Naoxiu could understand-

Yingmin used to be a son-in-law, but when he grew up, he found that his father was angry everywhere, and he matured a lot, but soon Mr. Tan'an regained his strength, his career was proud, and the family business became more and more prosperous.

And at that time, Nao-su was busy preparing for the battle, and he didn't have time to elaborate on Young-min, since he was willing to play, it would be better to relax first.

Who knew that Youngmin was not happy for a few days, and on May 17th, the black boat of the rice people actually sailed to the northland, and at that time, both the Ezo land and the northern Ezo land were shaken.

Naohide had long known that Perry was coming to Fuso again, and this was what Yingmin told him - the Mi Admiral Perry did what he said, and on the 16th day of the first month of the Japanese calendar (February 13, 1854 in the Western calendar), he appeared outside the port of Uraga with seven black ships, and then had a dazzling operation with the shogunate, and on the 6th day of the third month of the calendar (March 31 in the Western calendar), the two sides signed the "Fuso Rice Country Peace Agreement" in Yokohama - "harmony" is harmony, and "pro" is goodwill, not marrying a princess.

But to Naoxiu's "surprise" and Youngmin's surprise, this Admiral Perry actually appeared in Hakokan in Ezo!

Youngmin couldn't sit still any longer, and discussed with Nao-su and said, "I've only seen the photos, but I haven't seen the real thing, can I go to the box house to see the black ship with my own eyes?" After Mr. Tanan took on the role of Kanto Ginmi and Haiphong, although he was also the acting official of Nirayama, he actually stayed mainly in Edo, and everything in Nirayama was entrusted to his eldest son, Yingmin, so Yingmin really never saw the black ship.

Originally, he still had a chance, but he lost the opportunity:

The first time the black ship came was from June 3 to June 12 of the 6th year of Kaei (July 8 - July 17, 1853 in the Western calendar), when Mr. Tanan was in Haiphong and needed to visit Uraga in person, and Yingmin was in Nirayama at that time - at that time he was still the head of Niriyama ironmaking, although Yingmin wanted to go to Uraga to have a look, but when he arranged affairs and ran to Uraga Port, the rice boat had already left.

At that time, Yingmin sighed, and was reprimanded by his father - if Mi Ren doesn't leave, do you still want to keep him for the New Year?

When the black ship came for the second time, Youngmin had some leisure, but because of the previous smear of the princess, Mr. Tanan strictly ordered his retainers to take good care of him - although the shogunate not only did not investigate Youngtoshi's fault but also promoted him, but his own family could not be blind, so Mr. Tanan gave Youngmin a cautious order, that is, he was not allowed to go anywhere before going to the white lord, and stayed at home honestly.

Although the shogunate asked Yingmin to go to the white lord to serve and merge, he couldn't leave immediately, and now it's still the ice period to go to the white lord, so he has to wait until spring - but spring hasn't come yet, and on the sixteenth day of the first month, the black ship of the rice people comes again.

After tossing each other with the rice people for almost two months, on the 27th day of the third month of the Heli calendar (April 21st of the Western calendar), Mr. Tanan came home and saw that his stupid son was still there, and he was about to go crazy, "Why haven't you left yet?" ”

"Didn't you tell me to be cautious—not to go out?" In fact, Yingmin just didn't want to go to the white master, and the black boat came to visit again, and he also wanted to see what the final result would be - in case the rice people came to Edo, he still had to protect the family to escape!

On the 24th day of the third month of the Japanese calendar (April 18th of the Western calendar), the Mi Admiral Perry had already taken the black ship to the port of Izu Shimoda, and Mr. Tanan had just rushed back from Yokohama - and then he was going to Shimoda, he told Yingmin to hurry up and then leave by himself, but Yingmin continued to rub in, this grounding order was lifted, and it was not in the bustling Edo for a few days, is it really stupid to leave directly.

In this way, Mr. Tanan never returned home, and Egawa Yingmin delayed until April 7 (May 1 in the Western calendar) before he set off with the white envoy Banzawa Village.

But because he was afraid that his father would be mad, he didn't dare to go to Shimoda, so although the rice man stayed in the black boat for a long time this time, Egawa Yingmin still didn't have a chance to see him.

But Feng turned around, and the black boat actually ran to the Northland Box Pavilion, and this time he couldn't miss anything, so he greeted Naoxiu, "Let me go and see?" ”

In fact, Naohide also wants to go, but the shogunate has ordered the government not to leave the territory without reason, although he has done a lot of bad things, it is not bad to say this, but he can't break the jar and break it, especially in front of Youngmin, pretending to be one more day is a day, so he can only watch Youngmin run to the dock like a wild horse - Youngmin is a merger, there are not so many rules, you can go to Hakodate with an excuse, "I can't go to help boost morale for the Matsumae family."

Mi Admiral Perry left the port with a boat on June 3 in the Western calendar, and then Youngmin made an excuse to play in Matsumae and Hakodate, and when he came back on June 18, Naohide had already led his troops northward - Youngmin didn't come back, but Sawasawa Tsunoshi had to run back to report the news, the black ship didn't leave, and Naohide didn't dare to leave!

After receiving the news, on June 8, 1854, Naohide and his brigade set off from the White Lord, and the steam ships joined on the way.

Jiang Chuan Yingmin came back to see that he was happy, and he was taking people to inspect the territory, so isn't his own dedication to being called the king without tigers and monkeys in the mountains, so he started to patrol in the white lord.

Looking at it carefully, his cold sweat flowed down, this place is obviously a place of transformation, what does it mean, that is, all kinds of performances are incompatible with the shogunate-

Although the shogunate's decrees were very crude, some of the requirements were relatively clear, such as the "Laws of the Samurai Family", which clearly stipulates that white "clothes should not be mixed; Monarchs and ministers are up and down, each with its own differences", but this white lord is plausible, how can it be seen that it is just a short coat and hair without a sword, but if you check carefully, this problem is big!

Let's just say that this "clothing grade, not mixed", the white lord's Fenggong people do have uniforms, but similar to Westerners, they usually wear them like this, and only when they go to Songqian do they change into Wu clothes, and everyone is not surprised.

I originally thought that these were all handymen, that is, temporary workers such as hugging seats-Youngmin is not a fool in the white lord, and has learned a lot of new words, so they don't care about what they wear again, but this town also wears this when the office of Okubo is like this, which is shocking-pity that he has been eating, drinking, and having fun since he arrived in the white lord, and he has never entered the town office before, and he thought that Okubo only usually wears civilian clothes!

Okay, you're a straight show, you're all shoulders and half-shirts in front of me, fooling you!

Let's say that "the monarch and the minister are different from each other":

In the past, when I traveled, the townspeople didn't bow down, and I was quite happy at the time, because when I knelt, it showed that people knew that I was the deputy of Naoxiu, and it was a shame.

But Naoxiu is gone, what does it mean not to kneel now? Do you look down on me?

As a result, Okubo explained that the white lord abandoned the kneeling ceremony because he "shared weal and woe, honor and disgrace", and everyone was a companion who pioneered the northern land together, so the white lord "did not kneel inside".

Jiang Chuan Yingmin has only been a little decadent recently, but it hasn't reached the point of becoming stupid, he was immediately alert, his father had told him before, to the white lord to "talk less and watch more", at that time he thought that his father was afraid that he would be arrogant and have a conflict with Zhixiu, but now it seems that it means something else.

He has seen the so-called "conspiring with private soldiers and plotting against him", Takashima Shiro Taifu, released from Musashi Kunibe in August last year, and now he is the hand of the Nirayama Acting Officer, this Takashima is just a gathering of hundreds of people, and the style of the old school - the new word is just Corporal Lixian, this "sharing weal and woe, honor and disgrace", Naohide treats the people so well, it must be "ambitious", respectable and terrifying!

Youngtoshi paid attention to the lives of the townspeople, and as a result, the two codes of the shogunate governing the townspeople and the common people (peasants) were not in the white lord's fart, and the laws used were all from the law assessment office, and the shogunate where the law assessment office was established was unheard of!

Next, Egawa Yingmin also discovered that wherever he went, he followed him, and it turned out that he was not scolding himself but supervising himself!

And when you go to some special workshops, there will be people who ask for a pass for yourself, that is, "hand shape", but you are the white master, and it stands to reason that Naoxiu is not my biggest, isn't this the opposite!

He went to the town to serve Okubo Riji, but Okubo explained that this was the rule of the commission, and it would be good to wait for Naohide to come back and give you permission - what a ghost, obviously this white lord is the private domain of the Hori family.

But Okubo said, "That's what you said" - the shogunate gave the Hori family 600 koku and asked Naohide to arbitrarily divide the land in the white lord as a private domain, and as a result, Naohide divided all the important factories into the Hori family's territory, anyway, he didn't say that the 600 koku territory must be connected together, so you bite me if I have a piece of east and a piece of west.

At this point, no matter how dull Yingmin is, he understands that the white master is Zhixiu's own, so all abnormalities can be explained:

In the Edo period, the family was bigger than the shogunate, and the family was bigger than the feudal country, which means that if the white lord and these people were all private ministers of the Hori family, of course, it was the maintenance of the Hori family first - as for the shogunate, the lord of the lord was not the lord, which means that these people don't have to pay attention to the shogunate, and the shogunate has something to do with Naohide, and it has nothing to do with the people below, and they haven't eaten your rice, can they control me!

Isn't this the case with the retainers of the princes, so it's not surprising that the retainers of the banner don't obey the shogunate - the retainers of the Egawa family dare to eat inside and out, and Youngmin can screw his head off, and the shogunate must say that it is screwed well! Of course, you still have to ask, as long as it does not involve rebellion or rebellion, at most it is a trivial matter of fining money and admitting mistakes.

Yingmin knows that it is said that he dislikes the shogunate's small number of people, and the white lord is the private minister of the Hori family from top to bottom, and the shogunate doesn't pay much attention to the white lord's lord's people - most of the immigrants are filthy and non-human, and the white lord was reprimanded for the first time on the roster, what are these untouchables doing! You can take care of it yourself. As for giving the status of full-fledged townspeople and ordinary people, it is a dream fart!

As for the Ainu and Hezhe, the shogunate still regarded them as savages, worse than untouchables - it's good to be feuding, as long as nothing happens, do what you love!

Therefore, since Egawa Yingmin returned to the white master on June 18, the more he pondered, the more wrong he became, if it weren't for his father being Naoxiu's mentor, Naoxiu also admitted that he was Mr. Tan'an's personal disciple, the pro-teacher of Heaven and Earth, Naoxiu couldn't harm anyone and himself, he would have run away a long time ago!

finally looked forward to the return of Naoxiu on July 8th, of course he wanted Naoxiu to give an explanation, "ungrateful, incorruptible and shameful", what do you want to do, don't make it clear that people are careful to jump with their livers.