How much to expand?

Chuemon directly asked Ii Naobi, who was rumored by Tokugawa Iamatsu. Everyone knows Ii Naobi's attitude. He persuaded me to wait until I had tens of thousands of soldiers and dozens of warships before turning my face.

Therefore, when the shogunate's finances were able to support it, Ii Naobi was very supportive of the army expansion. However, the number of military expansions this time is still very small because of financial constraints once again. Before the Tokugawa family took the throne, scattered coins everywhere, gave rewards to the people of Edo and Kyoto, gave alms to temples and shrines, held ceremonies, etc., and so on, the shogunate's finances were emptied again.

A thousand people!

One thousand more troops will be added to guard the periphery of Edo Castle. Any decisive battle beyond the national border, or deep and encirclement, is not something the shogunate should think about now. If you can defend Edo Castle, it will be long live.

Hearing this number, Chungemon did not dislike the lack of mosquitoes' legs. The shogunate’s financial resources are just that, and it’s a little bit of being able to pull a few people out. When you start a country in the future and borrow foreign funds, everything will be easy to talk about.

Songping Qixuan went to the northern Guandong Tianling counties, and then recruited courage. For example, Ueno Kuni, in the history of the Warring States period, it was a place where strong troops were sent. "Ushou Yellow Spot" Nagano Kogyo is leading a gang with more than tens of thousands of people. Takeda Shingen is ashamed, so that as long as there is Nagano Karma, it will be The sigh of not being able to enter Shangzhou all the time.

This team also accompanied Kenshin Uesugi out of the Kanto region for thirteen degrees, galloping vertically and horizontally, and repeatedly making military exploits. The densely covered hills, the geography of the mountains and rivers, and the difficult living environment have also enabled the local people to cultivate a persevering character. To put it bluntly, the poor and the bad waters come out of the people, capable of fighting, and good soldiers.

Speaking of Chuemon, who was given two thousand four hundred shi Zhixing back then, there are still one thousand four hundred shi in Ueno. Of course, it still belongs to Chuemon. After all, the family of one hundred thousand stone, if it does not produce any rice, it would be a joke if Chuemon had to buy rice after eating by himself.

When it comes to this, Chuemon had the heart to visit Ueno, but without permission from the shogunate, it would be difficult for Chuemon to leave Edo Castle. Tokugawa Ieki refused to let Chuemon run around, so he had to give up.

Come on, let Songping go.

Nishimaru's motion was supported by Keunaga Matsudaira, this staunch main fighter, the expansion of the army is what he would like to see. Anyway, he didn't need to pay for it. When the shogunate had no money, he went to scrape the common people. It was the common people of the general, not the common people of Fukui.

Matsudaira Keiyongichi agreed that the other four nodded their heads as they were indispensable. So people have not been recruited yet, and the preparations for military resources such as barracks, weapons, and quilts are almost half done. This can be regarded as the benefit of Matsudaira Keiyong's reign, as long as he is "busting the barbarian", he is still quite active.

How can I put it, at this time, it is really not a bad thing to elect such a prime minister who is not too pitiful to come to power. Politics really is like this. It is not determined by personal likes and dislikes, but by actual needs and the interests of everyone. Even if two people don't deal with each other, they can shake hands and make peace and make progress together because of the current conditions.

Of course, when Shiyi Shiyi is not needed in the future, when Matsudaira Keunaga is not needed, Chungemon only needs to push a little, and Matsudaira Keunaga's seemingly "powerful" provisional regime will quickly fall apart.

The autumn of the fifth year of the Kayaga year (1852) came to an end soon, and more than 1,200 recruits who were pulled back from Ueno, Shinano, and Shimodo by Matsudaira Qixuan finally rushed to Edo on foot.

Among them, a small team of 200 people looked particularly eye-catching, and the others followed the team in a scattered way. Only these 200 people were arranged neatly and arrived in order.

When asked, the miners of Ashio Copper Mountain!

It turns out that miners have always been a good source of troops. No matter where they are, miners who already have a basic organization and password are always ideal recruits.

But Ashio Copper Mountain is the Great Copper Mountain. Chuemon did not remember him because of his output, but because of his terrifying "mineral poison", that is, the serious heavy metal pollution of the land and water sources caused by mining. To this place. At that time, there were more than 300,000 victims. Some of the victims were extremely poisoned. When they died, their bodies were twisted, like withered vines, unable to eat, screaming and wailing all day long, and those who heard it wept.

However, because he produces 7,200 tons of copper per year, which is the most prosperous and affluent copper mine in Japan, the Japanese government has always refused to remediate the copper mine. Mitsumitsu Mutsu, who is in charge of mining affairs, even sent his son out and inherited the Ashio Copper Mountain, actually earning this extremely rich family business.

Wait, since Ashio Copper Mountain is so prosperous, why should miners come to recruit as soldiers?

"Tongwei Copper Mountain is exhausted!" Songping Qixuan spread his hands, the expression is that you don't even know this.

The current Ashio Copper Mountain produces no more than 30 tons of red copper per year. At this point, the output is not enough for the shogunate to set up the local coin-making seats. The shogunate's opening of cast iron coins also has a lot to do with the exhaustion of Ashio Copper Mountain. Compared with the three-generation general Tokugawa Ie Mitsuji, the annual output of 1,200 tons of red copper is completely different.

So now the shogunate is ready to close the Ashio Copper Mountain, or subcontract him to a private person, sell three melons and two dates, and get three to five hundred taels of gold, at least to get the resettlement fees for the people who are eliminated from the coin seat. .

"Is it exhausted?" Chuemon is not very clear about the current situation of Ashio Copper Mountain~lightnovelpub.net~ But in the next 100 years, Asho Copper Mountain will still be the largest copper mine in Japan.

"Can they come to the army without exhaustion?" Songping Qixuan smiled.

The mining affairs of the shogunate were actually led by specially dispatched officials, but the actual operation was left to professionals. If you have to make an adjective, it is "government supervising business affairs". Those miners who actually undertook mining, because of the active cooperation with the shogunate, most of them received rewards from the shogunate and were able to "miao character saber".

So the copper mine couldn't do it. Anyway, it’s just a mess, and the risk of being in the pit is less than the risk of being a soldier and taking a gun.

Li is indeed such a principle. If you compare it with a matchlock gun, the chance of being killed by a matchlock gun on the battlefield is less than the chance of dying in a mine disaster every year.

It's meaningless to mention this. Now even the miners are starting to find a way out of themselves, indicating that the Ashio Copper Mountain is really going to go bankrupt. Chuemon feels that he can't let him die like this. It's not that there is any purpose. It is purely that in East Asia now, the price of copper is pretty good, and Ashio Copper Mountain is well managed and absolutely profitable.