For example, Yamamoto River, an officer who had studied at the Shobudo Hall in Guangzhou, China, occupied the northern part of the prefecture and became a powerful local warlord.

Edo Castle was occupied by the former head of Hosokawa Shobang, the former army chief of Hosokawa Shotomo, who was formerly known as Hosokawa Masaxe, and after Yamayama Aritomo recovered Edo last year, he assumed the post of the country's general commander, but it was not recognized by the local warlords, and even if the warlords and warlords declared their attachment to the central government, they were in a state of autonomy and recruited troops from each other, and there were constant conflicts.

However, although Edo has changed hands several times, it has not experienced the disaster of war, especially in the concession area, which is full of shops and extremely prosperous, because the concession is safe and worry-free, and the tax system is transparent and not like the warlords in the country, it is a large number of merchants flocking in, and the population of the concession area has surged, but it is the cleanest urban area in Edo Castle, which is very different from the crowded and dirty environment of Edo Castle.

There is a special public works division in the concession, which consists of 8 departments, including administration, land surveying, structural engineering, building surveying, ditches, road works, workshops, parks and open spaces, which are responsible for the design of roads, bridges and ditches, the removal and transportation of urban garbage, the maintenance of vehicles, machinery and equipment of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and the management of park vacant land and street trees of the Ministry of Industry Bureau.

The Public Works Division was subordinate to the Chinese Concession Management Committee, which was elected by Chinese businessmen and had no legal affiliation with the Imperial Governor's Axe, but two years ago, due to security tensions in the Concession, the Management Committee negotiated with Kanno Masaaxe, who had usurped power in Edo by taking advantage of Hosokawa's assassination, and obtained the concession's autonomous law and order.

From then on, there was a patrol house in the subordinate organization of the Concession Management Committee, and the patrol was self-employed by the Concession Management Committee, and a retired imperial officer was hired as the chief inspector. According to the establishment voted by the management committee, there are a total of eight patrol houses in the concession, including a chief inspector, a deputy chief inspector, and 16 inspectors and assistant inspectors, and the number of patrols is determined as appropriate.

In fact, there are more than 260 patrols in the eight patrol houses in the Edo Concession today, of which no more than 30 are Chinese, and most of the rest are Luzon, because the Luzon people are dark and short, and they do not look like good people in the black patrol uniforms of the concession, and they are even more famous for deceiving good and fearing evil; when they see the Chinese, they wagging their tails, and when they see Yue, they immediately become fierce and evil, and the Edo people privately call the Luzon patrols "black dogs."

The Concession Management Committee hired the Luzon patrol because of the low salary, and if it was just to take care of the family, the Luzon patrol was more docile and obedient, not like the imperial hired laborers, and the labor rights and interests had to be talked about everywhere.

And the Luzon patrol, can help some members of the board of directors of the management committee to do some shady things, if it is from the country, it is likely to encounter dead brains, everywhere talk about the laws of the empire, so in the book of action is inevitably restrained, such as want to secretly kill a monkey, if it is a Chinese patrol, smooth and good to say, meet the upright excessive master, maybe report you to the committee, so it will definitely provoke a scratch, if you want to kill the mouth of this Chinese, intimidated by the real strength of detectives and judges under the laws of the empire, That's a lot of thinking about it. And with Luzon patrol, there are not so many scruples.

Of course, there are only a few directors with such a small ninety-nine, and the use of Luzon mysteries is not enough for outsiders.

In any case, the prosperity of the Edo Concession is an indisputable fact, and the electric lights are turned on, and at night the street lights are lit up, which is in stark contrast to the darkness of the Edo Castle.

Sakai Naotaka is one of the businessmen who desperately hope to obtain the right of abode in the Chinese Concession, and it is not very difficult to enter the concession to buy a house, but the difficult thing is that after many examinations, he has been approved by the Chinese Concession Management Committee and officially becomes a registered businessman of the Chinese Concession Committee, so that he has the same rights as the Chinese businessmen, and he is also protected by the Concession Committee, and he no longer has to worry about the troubles of the corrupt officials and evil officials of all sizes who are warlords and political axes.

Today, Naotaka Sakai is about to negotiate a deal with a Chinese businessman from Taihe Bank, the largest bank in the East, who is ready to buy a small patent for his electric fan design, which makes Naotaka Sakai admire. In fact, it is just a small change in the design of the fan blade, and he has seen the product, and he can directly learn from his ideas, but he does not want the Chinese to talk about "patent rights" with him solemnly, which cannot help but make him feel why the Chinese have been holding the bull of the East for thousands of years, and when the empire showed its declining appearance, it only took 30 years to adjust its policies, and soon stood on the top of the world, and the empire was called the hegemon of the world.

As for the founding emperor in the Forbidden City, I am afraid that he can only be described as "an emperor through the ages", perhaps thousands of years later, he will be a saint with the same name as Confucius, Jesus and so on.

Sakai Naotaka thought wildly, got off the rickshaw in front of the small garden building at No. 12 Jingzhong Road, and gave the rickshaw driver five jiao Chinese banknotes, because the local political axes, including the central political axes, were crazy about printing paper money to supplement military expenses, and said that the depreciation of this currency, including the "Mitsui Bills" issued by the central political axe, was extremely serious, and it was because in the concession area, it was hard labor, and only recognized Chinese currency, which was hard currency.

After receiving the banknote, the rickshaw driver smiled and thanked him, then threw off his arms and ran along the stone road.

Sakai Naotaka looked at the courtyard of the western-style building in front of him suspiciously, the high wall, the green trees, the lawn and flower beds can be seen from the black fence iron gate, the small western-style western-style building, the stained glass windows, the towering spire, like a church, very delicate and eye-catching.

Sakai Naokaka looked at the black door number inlaid on the blue wall again, yes, No. 12 Jingzhong Road, it's just that it seems to be a residence, could it be that Mr. Wen invited him to come to the house to talk about business? But the patent for this small design of his own is no more than 1,000 silver dollars at most, what kind of institution is Taihe Bank? It was the world's largest bank that went to major European cities, and it was rumored that the Chinese emperor owned a stake in it, and the total assets of the bank exceeded 200 million pounds.

The shopkeeper bullied customers, it was just a small business of a few hundred silver dollars, didn't the other party send ordinary staff to talk to him? Ordinary staff, how can there be such a mansion?

Sakai Naotaka was hesitating, and there were a few grunting reprimands from the side, but it was the swarthy Luzon guard, holding a baton and rushing out of the guardhouse next to the iron gate, pointing at Sakai Naokaka and shouting, and finally shouting in stiff Chinese: "Yours, go away!" ”

Who called Sakai Naotaka to have a mustache under his nose, and when he saw it, he knew that it was him?

(To be continued)