Returning to Edo, Chuemon originally wanted to say that Yuhou Wudai was sent back to the dormitory of Edo University. Unexpectedly, this young man was very diligent in his work, and he was not ready to take a break for a moment, so he had to report the affairs of the sugar factory to Shimazu Tadashi.

　　 Surely he couldn't stop him and say no, so Chuemon hired two people to carry him and asked him to trot all the way. By the way, he can also organize his thoughts on the road.

　　 Not to mention gossip, in fact Ezo can also grow sugar beet, but the coal, gold mines, and seafood of Ezo are really abundant right now. These three items alone are enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people. With limited national power, these industries that can quickly reap returns without requiring such a huge upfront investment will naturally develop first. After saving funds, consider the matter of industrial transformation.

　　To Huatai Island, apart from coal mines, there are mainly two industries that are relatively easy to realize, one is sugar and the other is paper. We've talked about sugar, so I won't mention it here. Papermaking is very simple. The mountains and plains are full of forests, and they have hardly been disturbed by humans. It can be used as a raw material for paper making and develop vigorously.

　　 Maybe someone would say that such good wood is wasted directly by beating the pulp. To put it bluntly, there are millions of square kilometers of such good wood in Siberia and the northeast. If you die, he may not be able to finish it.

　　If the paper industry is developed, all the plains will be cut down and planned to become a large-scale plain farm. The soil quality of Huatai Island is better than that of Nagada in the northeast. It is all black soil, so it is absolutely reliable to grow sugar beets. As for potatoes and rye, they are also grown together.

　　 When it comes to sugar and paper, the problem is mainly focused on manpower!

　　 How to convince the people to go to Ezo and Huata, the key to the problem has always been this matter. With people, the following things can be carried out quickly.

　　 When we discussed solving the problem of samurai demobilization, we talked about this. The Meiji government placed tens of thousands of old nobles as soldiers and stationed in Ezo. This line of thinking is not wrong, and many old gentry have also accepted this arrangement in history.

　　 After all, at that time, the soldiers in the field were assigned fields according to Ding, and they were given 25 to 100 acres of land, which was naturally Yongye land. This is still very attractive to the old gentry who had no means of production in the southern inland and at the same time their old salary was basically deprived of by the Meiji government.

　　 At present, Chungemon has not yet started the overall transfer of 600,000 samurai across the country, so it is naturally impossible to let the samurai become the Tuntian soldier. The way is to think from the people, try to move the landless poor peasants or tenant farmers in the hinterland to Ezo and Huatai, in order to quickly enrich the north.

　　 What's more, the British have been urging them recently. They have to let the Langley Concession quickly become self-sufficient.

　　 I told the people directly that if I went to Ezo or Huatai, each Dingzhuang divided 25 acres of land, and the effect might not be good. After all, that place is a completely unknown barren land for the people who will never leave the village. Although giving land is very attractive, the idea of ​​relocating the land also entangles the people of the time.

　　The point is that as long as they have a bite of food in their hometown, most people are unwilling to run around. This is the same in later generations. If you ask people who work in the small county, if they have a stable job of four or five thousand a month, most people will definitely not want to be social animals outside and get blinded.

　　 It's not because there are no job opportunities in my hometown. In other words, now I have a bite of food in my hometown. You see if the people are willing to go to Ezo and Huatai to farm.

　　 There is no way, I can only use some coercive means! Valley

　　Cadaemon is no longer a foreign country or navy, but he still sits firmly in his position as the chief executive officer of Tokugawa Kogyo Co., Ltd. This is a large enterprise monopolized by the shogunate and has nothing to do with the official position of the shogunate.

　　 Actually, Shigeru Nara, who is in charge of the raw silk industry, and Keisuke Otori, who is in charge of mining, are the two pillar industries of the entire club. As for the shipbuilding, iron and steel, machinery and other industrial sectors mentioned before, they are all government-run enterprises of the shogunate and are under the care of foreign countries. Chuemon temporarily cannot control them.

　　 By the way, the new foreign policy is Yasaka Wakisaka, and the foreign policy is Sukeruku. It doesn't make much difference.

　　 Keisuke Otori, who manages Ashio Copper Mountain and Konobu Jinshan, does not mention for the time being, Shigeru Nara who manages the raw silk industry is not easy. As a big businessman, he also ran Niangongmi's package purchase and Zazacha. Zha is the rice ticket issued by the shogunate to the samurai. It is impossible for the shogunate to let tens of thousands of samurai come to Edo Castle to carry the rice by the end of the year.

　　 The samurai took the rice ticket. Except for the rice that the family wanted to eat, all the rice tickets were given to Zacha, which was exchanged for cash to buy various daily necessities. In the process of exchanging cash, Zhacha charges a certain handling fee, such as 23%, and fluctuates from time to time.

　　 It seems that a person is not making money. If you count the 80,000 rides of the flag, you will make a lot of money~lightnovelpub.net~ And because of the impoverishment of the samurai, these debts began to lend money to the samurai. Anyway, he has account records in his hand, knowing how many meters the samurai has throughout the year, and the hereditary salary, I am not afraid that you will not be paid.

　　 Besides, do you think that the money your kid paid back was given to me by a small zacha? Most of them have to be given to the generals and the old and middle-aged people, joking.

　　The wealthy merchants with the umbrella of top-level power, naturally, are not just lending money to the samurai. Around Edo, the farmers on the entire Kanto Plain are also their targets of lending money.

　　In various literature and art works of the Meiji era, there is no shortage of debts in the family, and finally the daughter is sent to the house of a rich man or landlord in Tokyo to be a maid. There is even this description in the cartoon "Chibi Maruko". The Hualun family was a rich man at that time, and there were many maids who paid for debts.

　　 Slavery was abolished, and she became a long-term maid for ten, twenty, and thirty years.

　　 Seeing this, everyone should understand, Chuemon is going to be a "wicked man". Buy out the debts in the hands of the wealthy merchants, and then use the debts to force the poor people who are in debt to "voluntarily" move to Ezo and Kata.

　　 It doesn’t need much for the time being. First, set up an immigration point in Ezo and Nanhuatai. The number of people on both sides is counted as one thousand households. After these thousand households take root and develop land so that they no longer need external food supplements, they will continue to recruit poor farmers on a “voluntary” basis and go to the north.

　　 Just let Shigeru Nara come forward to greet the magnate merchants. His Royal Highness Edogawa has something to discuss with you.