"People can't be idle, if they are idle, something will happen" - Naoxiu disagrees with this.

There is a famous little story: someone persuaded the fisherman to work hard to fish, and when the villa was built, he would bask in the sun leisurely, but the fisherman glared at him, "I am basking in the sun now." ”

Naoxiu's thoughts are similar, life is a lifetime, of course, you have to choose a life that suits you.

Naohide believes that "the right direction is before hard work", "sharpening knives do not mistakenly chop wood", "efficiency is more effective than grinding time", "interest is the best motivation", so after arranging the service, Naohide let everyone go their own way, no need to report small things, and do what they like to do at ordinary times.

In fact, Naoxiu is more anxious than everyone else in the white lord now, but it's useless to be anxious, pulling out seedlings to help grow, fighting chicken blood, it's easy to go crooked - there is no way to turn back, and it's too late to do anything.

Others don't know that the Lusia began to expand in the lower reaches of the Wulong River in a big way this year—according to later records, the Lusia established a post and post station in Miaotun in August of this year. In addition, in 1849, the military transport ship "Baikal" also reconnoitred the eastern and northern shores of the birch.

But what can be done? The only thing you can do is just watch – don't care about what you can't manage. The road has to be walked step by step, the meal has to be eaten in a mouthful, it is useless to call the sky and grab the land, only to do your own thing steadfastly, the dog that bites people does not bark, there is an account and is not afraid to calculate, and when the savings are enough, everyone will do a few real battles, which is better than anything.

Three days later, Naoxiu gathered everyone for an evaluation meeting, and they all talked about what new ideas they had in the past few days.

According to the rank of service, everyone began to take turns to vent bitterness.

Okubo spoke first and talked about the future plans of Shirojo. As a town councilor, his idea is very simple, to engage in money, people, and construction.

Okubo didn't know that the Ezo Fish Farm was the world's largest fishing ground, but he knew that there was a lot to be done in the area. I heard that Naohide said that the White Lord Sho and the Matsumae family had reached a tacit understanding, and whoever could get it would be counted, so he was ready to introduce merchants on a large scale.

But most of the things he was involved in Kagoshima before were the farming work of the county commission, so some of the plans were taken for granted, and Naohide didn't immediately spray it, after all, everyone has to have a maturity period.

As for Dingkou, Okubo agrees with Naohide's previous plan to attract filthy and inhuman people - after all, the white lord is remote, and normal people are not willing to come if their heads are not broken.

As for the white major to repair the road and the wharf, it depends on the situation of money and people, and he can't be in a hurry, but Okubo drew a sketch ambitiously, and Naohide took a closer look, isn't this the small Kagoshima.

Next, Toranosuke Takezen talked about his plan for 200 people.

When he set out from Edo, the shogunate gave him a few iron cannons and some swords, guns, bows and arrows, but these had already been put in the warehouse by Genzaburo Inoue, the head of the survey, to eat ashes.

In good conscience, the weapons given by the shogunate were actually not bad, the iron cannon was a front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol, and there was not a single old-fashioned arquebus, and the quality of the knives, guns, bows and arrows was not good, but the maintenance was okay, but I was afraid that the goods would be compared with the goods, and the ordnance left by the rice ships was much better than that issued by the shogunate.

When Naoxiu was in the United States, he relied on the face of the Vanderbilt family to set up a commercial house that did the armament business in the Far East. Speaking of which, now that the United States is quite friendly to immigrants, Naohide asked the Vanderbilt family to help, so that Yingzi, Toranosuke, and Gakujiro were all naturalized, and a series of riotous operations were all hung in the names of the three of them. As the leading shipping tycoons, the Vanderbilt family in New York has considerable energy, and Naohide and others are quite proud of their power - of course, Naohide also gave away major interests such as iron smelting and steam engines.

After returning from overseas, Naohide presented the shogunate with a batch of the latest ordnance, in addition to the front-loading smoothbore gun, there were also improved Hall M1819 rear-loading flintlock pistols, Springfield M1842 breech-loading rifles, especially the Sharps rifle with a fire cap or linen cartridge case, which had superior performance as a breech-loading rifle. But these treasures, the shogunate didn't even give Naohide a hair.

Fortunately, the cargo delivered by the rice ship this time included the latest ordnance, 300 breech rifles Sharps 1848, 60 Colt Patterson revolvers, and some military uniforms, leather boots, tents and other armaments. These were originally intended to be given to the shogunate to reform the military system in the form of barbarian treasures, but the plan did not change quickly, and suddenly Naohide became the deputy official of the white lord, so these military funds were still sent to the north.

After all, do you give priority to yourself?

According to history, it should be that Maurs, a native of the United States, invented the metal shell gun bullet in 1851, but this time it was Zhixiu who took the lead, and the wholly-owned Edison laboratory preemptively researched it and registered a patent.

Fusang's current conditions are too poor, Zhixiu can only use rice as an incubator, he doesn't dare to invest too much, important science and technology are planned to be only two or three years in advance, but after all, at this time, science and technology and industrial technology have begun to make explosive progress, Zhixiu only knows the general situation and has to organize people to "re-research and development", whether it can be preempted is not known - "success is also happy, defeat is also gratifying", in short, plagiarists copy even if they earn!

After Toranosuke got the weapons equipped with metal bullets, he was full of spirit and ambitiously formulated a two-group plan, modeled after the shogunate's standing army Daiban, each group had 1 "bantou", 1 "gumitou", 50 fanshi, and 30 ashigaru, and he himself was naturally promoted to Daibantou.

"Red Deer" *2, the town commissioner Okubo and the head of the survey, Inoue Genzaburo, both scolded in their hearts, Okubo said that by the end of next year, the white lord could have two hundred people Lao Tzu thanked God, Inoue Xin said that the finance of the institute eats jujube pills, and Lao Tzu should not secretly make some accounts, after all, people have to have a long-term plan.

There are many people and small houses, everyone is sitting crowded next to each other, Naohide can't help but smile when he hears Genzaburo muttering "I おれ", "Lao Tzu" is a slang word in the language of the world, and "" has the same effect.

Toranosuke didn't react when he saw Naohide, so he sat back by himself, he also knew that this was a lion's big mouth, but the price was all over the place to pay back, there was always a discussion, right? - Poor Naoxiu instills Sinology and Western studies in the people around him when he has nothing to do, but everyone doesn't learn much, and the things that are indiscriminate are sloppy.

"Ahem, everyone, listen to the next word", Inoue Genzaburo as the head of the survey, dare not let everyone speak freely anymore, as a retainer who defected to the Hori family for a short time, he was very weak after becoming the head of the survey, although the responsibilities of Naohide to the head of the survey are only similar to the cashier and storekeeper of later generations, but Genzaburo knows how to report and feels that he has an obligation to manage the money and property.

Inoue Genzaburo said a lot of things, the implication is that you don't wave, there is so much in the family, please watch the dishes and eat, if you look beautiful, you are ready to think about beauty, this will not work in the white master.

Rice, flour, grain and oil, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea, in short, Yuan Saburo complained over and over again that all the food and daily necessities in this place of the white lord had to be imported from other places, and the money would soon run out.

Everyone agreed and understood this, saying "it must be solved", but Naoxiu felt that something was wrong, why did they all look at me?

The shogunate gave 1,000 taels of gold, the package price, which can be spent within five years, and theoretically the shogunate will not give it again if it is spent out. But Zhixiu felt that if the official document was more beautiful, the attitude was more sad, and the rhetoric was more flattering, it was estimated that it would not be a problem to ask for another three or five hundred taels, but it would be the end if you added another five hundred taels according to the custom.

These first batch of people who followed Zhixiu, Zhixiu still had to give some preferential treatment, and those who were poor in the sea and bad water, although they had food and shelter, but how could a person give twenty to thirty taels of gold a year, plus he would give some money during the New Year's holidays, and send some rice, flour, grain and oil, and so on, as soon as Yongmin, Ryoma, and Otome came, one thousand taels of gold would only be enough for a year's retainers, and it was a bit bad to count.

"How much money do you have left?"

"There are more than 300 taels of gold left in the public account."

"Traitor"*2, Ritsu and Toranosuke speak in unison against Genzaburo.

But there is no fear of settling accounts, and as Genzaburo calculated with one stroke of a pen, everyone was silent.

First of all, the settling-in allowance, which outsiders regard as life money, must be paid before boarding. Naohide treated everyone equally, giving each person twenty taels of gold, Okubo was special, he wanted his family to follow, Naohide brushed the bristles and fed soybeans, gave fifty taels, and the sixteen retainers present, a total of three hundred and fifty taels.

The second is the cost of materials, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc., and then counting winter clothes and bedding, how much is more than 300 taels? Tosa Tsuru Naohide, the famous sake of ten gold and one jar alone, brought ten jars, which is really not much.

Counting the purchase of more than a dozen fierce dogs in Nirayama and Nagasaki, the consumption in various ports along the way, and the first month's Yulu after arriving at the white master, now Genzaburo

There are only one hundred and thirty-one small judgments and more than 600 copper coins in his hand.

After Genzaburo finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar, and everyone was talking, and Naoxiu listened to everyone's meaning as if he wanted to share the luggage, which was too much.

The Naohide protégés led by Toranosuke all kept calm, after all, they were more familiar with Naohide, and they knew that Naohide liked straight roads, and there must be hole cards.

"If there is a public treasury, there must be a private treasury, and how much money is the private treasury?" Okubo, as a town executive, paid the most attention to finances, and he felt that Naohide could not even do secret trade, so it was impossible to face this amount of money.

Kawagami Xuanming is a side employer, and he is Zhixiu's personal butler, he saw Zhixiu nodding, and he poked out Zhixiu's family background.

"The small judgment is 300 gold, and the eagle is 10,000".

After Kawagami finished speaking, everyone was silent—not because they were shocked by the numbers, but because everyone didn't know what Yingyang was.

"Yingyang is a Western silver coin, 10,000 pieces is equivalent to a small judgment of 1,200 to 1,400 pieces," Naohide had to explain.

The 300 small judgment is the private account that Oguri Tadashun gave him this time when the Nagasaki barbarians offered the treasure, after all, the barbarians can't afford to give the treasure, in addition to the gifts to the shogunate, Nagasaki Commission, Nagasaki Metsuke and Rice Bow John also partnered to sell private goods, Oguri saw that Naohide was going to the Northland, and paid him a sum of money in advance.

As for the 10,000 eagles, they were deducted by Naohide from the rice boat, which was part of the income from the Xiangjiang trade, Naohide was short of money, so he left it directly, and the bow John said that he was calm, and the boss Gakujiro instructed him in advance, and Naohide took it if he wanted to.

Hearing that there were nearly 2,000 small judgments in the public and private treasuries combined, everyone present said that they were in a stable mood, and then discussed how to make this money.

"It's a big deal!" You Rong, the head of the Taiwan Institute, waited for a long time and didn't have his turn, and in a fit of anger, he shouted.

After all, it's the one who is in charge of the kitchen, and when you shout, everyone really has to listen.

It turned out that Yuei was tired these days - although Toranosuke arranged for the six teenagers of the Zaoya Group to help cook, after all, the name was not right, and there were many people who fished, so Yuei was so tired that he stopped doing the rake.

Yuei said that either he would officially arrange for someone to give him, or he would not care about the food of everyone except Mr. Naohide.

Everyone burst into laughter, if it weren't for the fact that You Rong was also a protégé of the head of the family who had officially worshipped the teacher, You Rong would have to be beaten up on the spot.

But Naoxiu didn't laugh, the new official arrived with three fires, and he waited for a long time to get this opportunity, so he took the opportunity to announce that You Rong was right, if you didn't assign people to Yourong, then everyone really had to cook by themselves.

Naoxiu's students are better, after all, the teacher is a greedy mouth, and they all learned a few hands with Naoxiu, but the rest are samurai masters who can't just eat, and they are excited for a while.

After tossing for a long time, Naoxiu and everyone agreed on three chapters:

1. Those who do not work shall not eat. Everyone has to overcome the difficulties together, so they all have to learn to cook - as compensation, as long as there is something in the warehouse, you can eat whatever you like.

2. Everything is foreseen, and everything is not prepared. Each group must learn to make a budget, report next year's budget at the end of this month, adjust the budget at the end of each month, and include official affairs in addition to food and daily necessities.

3. Serve on time. In the morning, each group likes to do what they like, but in the afternoon, they will give lectures or discussions, and everyone will take turns to talk about the planning of each group, and everyone will talk about it, brainstorm ideas, and see what preparations everyone has to do this winter.

And Naoxiu also formulated a rest system for everyone. In addition to the New Year's holidays, the shogunate is a five-day break, and the first, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth days of the new year are cultivated, and the white lord is also a one-five rest, but it is the first, fifth, eleventh, fifteenth, twenty-first, and twenty-fifth days of the first month, and six days a month.

Everyone expressed strong support for this, after all, three more days off every month, good things come.

After the assessment meeting, everyone dispersed in a hurry, and the guards in charge of vigilance were notified by themselves, and only Mr. Miyama, the medical officer, asked everywhere, "What did you say at the meeting?" ”

Although Naoxiu released him from the small dark room, he still did not allow him to participate in internal activities such as the evaluation meeting. The old gentleman expressed strong dissatisfaction with his exclusion from Naoxiu, and was ready to make trouble in private.