After the Black Ship Incident, the Edo shogunate concluded the Treaty of Kanagawa with the United States, and was forced to open the two treaty ports of Shimoda and Hakodate, and in the fifth year of Emperor Komei's reign, the two sides signed the "Japan-US Treaty of Friendship and Commerce" on the "Powhatan", adding ports such as Kanagawa, Nagasaki, Niigata, and Hyogo, and at the same time, foreigners were allowed to stay and do business in Edo and Osaka.

Although Kyoto is not one of them, it is very close to Osaka, only a day's journey away, and now it has been nearly ten years since the "Japan-US Treaty of Friendship and Commerce".

As the most important river in the Kansai region, the Yodo River originates from Lake Biwa, connects the Kyoto Basin and the Osaka Plain, and was an important transportation channel in Kyoto during the Edo period.

The liveliness here is no less than that of the city, and there are machiya houses on both sides of the river, with one-character tiles neatly arranged on the roof, signboards and warm curtains moving with the wind, a thin convex lattice on the first floor, and a worm cage window on the second floor, which is a very traditional Japanese style building, with a wooden structure, a narrow but deep entrance, and the part facing the street is generally used as a store, and the back rooms are used for living, and the advantage is that the shops are more dense, one next to the other.

There are boatmen unloading their goods on the wharf, there are also ladies and ladies who are preparing to take a boat ride on the river, and there is a shrine not far away, and many worshippers gather outside the door to pray for blessings or ask for the guard.

Zhang Heng didn't spend much time to find a Western businessman who was interested in hiring a translator, the latter was named Gabriel, a Frenchman, who came to Kyoto with the merchant group to talk to the local merchants about the sale of a batch of cotton yarn, but he himself was obviously not dissatisfied with the cotton yarn business, and seemed to have some other plans, but what he wanted to do was inconvenient to tell the rest of the merchant group, so he couldn't use the merchant group's translator.

was worried about where to find a Japanese who could understand French, Zhang Heng sent it to the door, Gabriel was overjoyed, waved his hand, and directly offered a small salary per day, the so-called small judgment is a kind of gold coin commonly used in the Edo period, a small judgment is about one or two gold, and one or two gold is about equal to sixty silver or four money, and at this time, the daily income of a craftsman in Kyoto is about seventy Wen, in other words, Zhang Heng's income a day can almost catch up with the craftsman for two months.

Zhang Heng is not ignorant of the translation market, he consulted the people at the dock before he came, and now there is a big shortage of professional translators in Japan, but there are not as few people who can communicate with foreign merchants as before the Black Ship Incident, in fact, even when the shogunate closed the country, Satsuma, Changzhou and other feudal clans have also secretly done some business with other countries.

The Japanese iron cannon (actually the arquebus) originated in the Satsuma Domain, when a Portuguese merchant ship was blown to Tanegashima south of Satsuma by a typhoon, so the Japanese iron cannon is also called Tanegashima iron cannon.

Now that the shogunate has been open to trade for more than a decade, there are many Japanese who travel and study in Europe, and translation is not so valuable.

Gabriel's price has exceeded double the market price, which is still in the case that the two sides are not very familiar, and Zhang Heng also asked for an additional advance of a small judgment, but even so, Gabriel did not hesitate for long before agreeing, so Zhang Heng also knew that what the French businessman was going to do in Kyoto might not be simple.

However, with Zhang Henglv3's knife technique and the experience accumulated from the previous few copies, he was not too worried about any danger, not to mention that now that the sun had set, he might not be able to find the next employer, so in the end, the two parties reached an employment agreement.

Gabriel asked Zhang Heng to meet him at the teahouse next to the dock tomorrow morning, and by the time Zhang Heng left the dock, it was already completely dark.

Zhang Heng was not very hungry because he had added a meal before the dungeon, but now he had to find a place to stay quickly.

In the Edo period, the shogunate set up a special attendance account system in order to control the daimyo lords in various places, requiring the lords of each domain to go to Edo every once in a while to perform government affairs for the shogun, of course, this is a reason, mainly to facilitate the shogunate to walk the daimyo to play, reduce their time in the territory, and at the same time let them dare not fool around when they are in the territory, otherwise they may be taken down directly when they are on duty next time.

However, Tokugawa is still kind, and a lot of lodging along the way has been built, and later it also developed a travel cage house, which is a bit similar to the inns of later generations, not only managing one night and two meals, but also many travel cage houses also have special maids to take care of the daily life of travelers, but at the end of the Bakugawa more people traveled, and the travel cage house began to become a mixture, not only did the scoundrels provide gambling equipment and help recruit tricks, but also the travel cage house simply let the maids sell directly.

Later, Osaka's merchants were the first to organize the Langhua Talk, which was roughly equivalent to a chain hotel, and unified the service standards, so that travelers could stay at hotels with guild signs hanging outside the door.

However, whether it is the cage house or the waves, it is just an excessive choice for Zhang Heng, considering that the time of this copy is not short, Zhang Heng is still more inclined to rent his own house, seeing that there is still some time, he is not in a hurry to go to the hostel, but just found a tooth man nearby and asked the latter to take him to see the house.

The tooth man is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, he looks very smart, and he himself is also a townsman in this area, well-informed, and he is very clear about the affairs of each family, Zhang Heng paid him one hundred wen first, and promised to give him another hundred wen after the matter is completed, he immediately came to the spirit, and he didn't care about not having dinner, and immediately took Zhang Heng to walk the streets and alleys.

However, he highly recommended several houses in prime locations, and the ronin patron next to him didn't look very satisfied, and the two of them went farther and farther all the way, and had to light the lantern, Zhang Heng had already planned to give up, and wanted to wait for tomorrow to continue looking, but the place where the two came last made Zhang Heng's eyes shine.

Entering the door is a small courtyard, there is a cherry blossom tree in the center of the courtyard, open a vulture, a well under the tree is clear and sweet, the whole small courtyard pattern is square, simple and beautiful, open the shoji door seat is also very spacious, there is a tea room, and the furniture is also very complete, in the words of later generations, it belongs to the standard of carrying bags to move in.