Chapter 328 31. Studying abroad is expensive

  To say that there is a hostess in this family, it is really different. At least the bed that sleeps this night is warm, no longer only the corner with the soup woman at the feet is warm.

  At the end of autumn, reporting the group to keep warm is the best way to sleep when there is no heating and no air conditioning!

  In the past, Tadaoemon clothes and other clothes were mainly worn by himself, at most it was a belt or something, let Ajiu help to tie it. Now you can even wear half of your clothes under the covers, and you only need to put on a cotton robe when you go out. Okay, that's great.

  However, Chuemon will not abandon the public for private purposes, and we still have to work well for the shogunate. Assist the shogunate to open this broken ship for two years as long as possible to survive.

  Turning his head to the city, Mizuno Tadakuni simply congratulated the newlyweds. As the first veteran of the shogunate, he is really special. Naturally, he cannot attend the wedding, but he also sent a gift. The size is also considered to be Chungemon's graciousness, and it doesn't matter if there are more lice, and if there are more debts, Chungemon also owes a lot of favors outside, which is not bad.

  "Is the article about sending students to study abroad written in the previous discussion?" After discussing personal matters, it is natural to discuss business matters.

  Mizuno Tadakuni is a person who works for the Tokugawa family sincerely. As long as he is still in his position, he cannot relax. Seeing this, it was probably after the dedication to the Tokugawa family.

   "It's done, you look at it." This is a big deal, and Chuemon cannot relax.

  Furthermore, when the French attacked Naha Port, Chuemon took the initiative to raise this matter. Adding to the fact that Chuemon is now serving as the Queen’s foreign link, this matter is appropriate for us to raise.

   "Let me see..."

   Taking Tiao Chen, Mizuno Tadakuni looked at it carefully. Of course he knows very well what the Shogun’s current so-called Haban 80 thousand horses are stinky sweet potatoes and rotten bird eggs, and the shogun’s samurai system, to put it bluntly, is the world military system. The whole world has not had any one for thousands of years. The country can keep the world military system long-term.

  It’s really going to be a war. The shogunate needs 80,000 people to come out, and 80,000 people will definitely be able to pull it out. There is no doubt about this. In the past, when the Tokugawa family was hunting together, it was not uncommon for a hundred thousand troops to be encircled and hunted at once. But everyone should be able to understand the fineness of "Eighty Qi Wanqi".

  The old may not be able to walk, and the young may still be breastfeeding. How can you expect these people to send troops to fight? Not to mention those impoverished impoverished family members who were half-starved, had it not been for the shogunate’s frequent relief, and even helped them repay their debts. They were afraid that they would not even be able to line up, and they would fall down after standing for a while.

  So it is a must to edit the new army!

  To train the new army, there must be new officers. If there are no new officers and no good soldiers, the result will be the current Ou Jiegang team under the city. This group of old soldiers does not play any exercises at all. They get a salary for nothing, and they are very happy.

  But there is one thing to say that a large number of families of the royal family have indeed fallen to Mizuno Tadakuni, and become fans of the Mizuno regime. Tadakuni Mizuno has issued an order to recruit more than a hundred soldiers from his family every year. After ten years of service, he withdrew from the guns team. Now there are more than 500 people on the team, and the final size is less than two thousand.

  Supplying two thousand junior warriors with an annual salary of 12 taels, the annual expenditure is only tens of thousands taels. But he was able to win over thousands of imperial families, and Mizuno Tadakuni is really a master now, and the regime is firmly grasping it.

  We, Prime Minister Hamamatsu Hou, seems to have done it!

   "Is the number of thirty people less?" After taking a look at it, Mizuno put down Iochen and began to ask Chuemon's thoughts.

"There are already a lot of thirty people. If you go to the Netherlands, the expenses are probably not a few." Chungemon was mainly afraid of reporting an expense of tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands, which scared Mizuno Tadakuni and Tokugawa Ieki. , And then these two people will extend the bill indefinitely, or directly reject it.

  Now Japan’s gold parcel contains less than seven grams of gold, so one or two gold and one pound cannot be exchanged at the same price. It may take more than one or two to exchange for one pound. The purchasing power of the first pound this year is of course very strong, but no matter how strong it is, there is a limit.

  Send 30 publicly funded international students to Europe. Simply eating and dressing every month, it is estimated that it will cost dozens of pounds. If it is more generous, it will be a hundred pounds. Four years of studying abroad is 4,800 pounds, and there are tuition, transportation, equipment, accommodation, books, and so on. Thirty people going to study abroad will have to spend at least 15 thousand taels of gold and cash.

  If three hundred people were sent, the price would be 150,000 taels, which might scare Mizuno Tadakuni on the spot!

   "So expensive?" As soon as Mizuno heard the number fifteen thousand taels, he beat a drum in his heart.

  Pay the 2,000-person Oujiu team's wages, which is only 20,000 taels a year. Thirty international students in a mere trip to Europe will have to take fifteen thousand taels of gold on the road, which is not necessarily enough. The cost is simply terrifying.

Let’s make a little comparison. The school of the Saga Domain, that is, the financial expenditure of the Kodokan, which provided a large number of lower-level officials for Nabeshima Naomasa. At first, it was 170 shi meters a year. Now because of the Saga Domain The financial income of the country has become abundant, so it has increased to one thousand and one hundred shi.

  Hong Daoguan can teach hundreds of students for a year with 1,100 stones, and even less than 700 taels of gold. The same is to train people. The price of studying in China and studying abroad is really different.

"Fifteen thousand taels are still not enough. If you add half a year of language practice, I am afraid it will be twenty thousand taels." Chuemon glanced at Mizuno Tadakuni, and found that he was calm on the surface, but in fact the right eye The eyelids were trembling slightly.

  The best of the samurai children selected in Japan is to learn Dutch, and most people who have studied Dutch also learn dumb Dutch. Without this language environment in life, vocabulary and so on rely on rote memorization. Reading, writing and writing may be okay. If you really want to communicate with people, it is to catch the blind ~lightnovelpub.net~ and send them directly to the Dutch class. I am afraid that three-quarters of a class will be in the cloud. Here, there is still a quarter of the time to collapse ignorance.

  Even great orchid scholars like Sakuma Shoyama and Takashima Akho, Chuemon asked, although they can speak Dutch. But there are also great difficulties. Japanese pronunciation is problematic, and one with a Shinano accent and one with a Kyushu accent, speaking directly to the Dutch, the Dutch may not understand it.

  Even in the 21st century, the Japanese spoken by the old people in Satsuma, Kyushu, and the Japanese spoken by the people in Tokyo are quite different. Some people may even believe that he is two languages.

  A half-year language school preparatory course, that is already the best estimate. Chuemon suspected that it would take two months to correct their accents. If the process of language learning is slower, it is not uncommon to be stuck in a language school for a year.

"Well……"

  Good guy, Tadashiemon sees it out. A penny can really kill a hero. It was hesitation that Mizuno Tadakuni, who had made the shogunate a little more generous with his family, was hesitant in his eyes.

   "British rice and foreign barbarian people are coming in droves, and the momentum is fierce, like a wolf like a tiger. If you don't want to rise up, how about the Shogunate?

  (End of this chapter)