On the first day of the first month of the sixth year of Jiayong (1853), the princes made a pilgrimage to the Tokugawa family and offered the ceremony of Taishou.

As the Daimyo Ezo Shimanishi, of course, Chuemon must also offer his elder sword a sword. This is the obligation of all the daimyo in the world. It's just that the one hundred taels discounted by the knife has already been handed in in advance, this will be a process.

"Edogawa (Tokugawa) attendant Hyuga Mamoru Tadomasa!" Naobi Ii, holding a folding fan, sat beside Tokugawa Kasada, shouting out Chuemon's name, and instructing Chuemon to come and salute.

"Congratulations on the New Year!" Tadaoemon made small steps, slowly walking to the front of the stairs, and saluting the Tokugawa family.

"Tongxi!" According to the example, this sentence should be said by the Tokugawa family, but...

A curtain was hung in front of the general. Because of brain damage, Tokugawa's head might suddenly fall back and his head tilted when sitting normally. It might be that there was a problem with General Kan's manners, so the curtain fell down today, and even the answer was not the Tokugawa family's decision, but the endorsement of Ooka Tadasho.

Our general Jian is just sitting behind the curtain, just like that.

"Major-General Akashi (Matsuhira) Echigo guards Qimin!" After Chuyouemon finished his salute, Ii Naobi continued to roll his name, and Matsudaira Qimin, whom he had seen before, stepped forward respectfully.

Originally, Keunaga Matsudaira should be behind Chuemon Gate, but now Keunaga Matsudaira is now the first seat of the old man, sitting at the Tokugawa family's head, it is natural to skip him.

After more than two hours of busy work, the New Year's greetings are over. Chuemon was actually very impatient with this kind of thing, but he couldn't avoid it, and it ended easily, so he almost joked and left.

Bah, wearing this torn clothes, you can't run at all!

"Cadaemon, Chuemon..." Matsudaira Qixuan hurried two steps from behind and chased him up.

"What's wrong?" Chuemon immediately stopped and waited for Matsudaira.

"There is nothing wrong with the rotation of the transfer team, right?"

Songping Qixuan has been helping to prepare for the New Year's ceremonies in the past two days, and has no time to manage the transfer team. In accordance with past practice, the transfer team will take 20 days off during the New Year, allowing all of them to go home. After all, they usually only rest for two or three days a month, and there is no way to go home on other days.

But now the shogunate is facing external challenges, and it is impossible to put all the five or six thousand training teams on vacation at once. Although the soldiers' hometowns are all near Edo, they can reach Edo by running for at most two or three days, so the assembly will not be very slow. But the whole camp is not always the same thing.

Therefore, the leaders of the transfer team finally negotiated and divided the whole camp into two allocations. This year, the New Year holiday will start to implement the rotation system. During the New Year holiday this year, only half of the people can go home for the New Year, and the other half can only go home for the long holiday next summer. Rotating back and forth is equivalent to returning home year after year for the New Year, now it is one year back to celebrate the New Year, and one year back to spend the summer vacation.

It is guaranteed that the camps and forts of Edo will be guarded 24 hours a day, and there are more than 1,000 infantrymen guarding the city at any time under the Edo Castle.

Because it was the first time that such a rotation system was implemented, Matsudaira Qixuan was worried that the remaining soldiers would be dissatisfied, so he hurried to inquire when he saw Chungemon.

"No, no, after the rewards are distributed, all the army has expressed great favor."

Chuemon reassured him that the more than 1,000 people recruited before the end of the year did not expect to go home for the New Year at all. In addition, Matsudaira Keunaga also paid 10,000 taels from the bottom of the shogunate’s treasury to give out rewards. If you eat, drink and reward money, the soldiers will naturally not make a fuss.

"That's good." When he heard that there was nothing wrong, Qixuan Songping felt relieved.

As long as there is nothing wrong with the passing team, everything else is trivial. The two chatted about other things and walked down to the city together. Today there is no other way but to sit in a sedan chair. It was stuffed into the sedan cage like a mass of meat. He almost hugged his legs and became a ball.

The streets are full of ranks of princes who have retired from the city. At this time of year, many people who are resting at home during the Chinese New Year stand on the street to watch the ranks of princes, and then comment on one or two. This also caused many princes to arrange relatively luxurious and gorgeous feathers and decorations for their retainers in the palace, which further emptied their families.

Fortunately, the so-called retainer group of Chuemon is the shogun’s own appointment of a hundred from Kibmoto and the Yu family. In theory, the wages of these people should be from the so-called one hundred thousand stones of Chuemon, but Tokugawa There are not many real fiefs in Jiaqing Poor Chuemon, so the hundred people are still supported by the shogunate.

In addition, Chuemon is not a person who likes luxury, and he has no thought of comparing, so he just let these samurai be the honor guard. Today is the New Year, and you can reward two or two golds each, nothing to worry about.

After they got home, the group was called dismissal, and each went back to each house. It was hard enough to be called out to be a human background board if it was not the first day of the New Year's Day.

The banquet at home is preparing for a banquet. Alan took Shimaru to the castle to visit the Tokugawa family celebration. He has not yet returned home. Kurokawa Keito did not return home this year because he has become the retainer of the Edogawa Tokugawa family. Two hundred stones, became a standard samurai. What is he doing at home? It can't be to inherit the fishing boat yard of the family.

Now he even moved his family to Edo, and Chuemon’s retainers are listed in the shogunate's flag-bond status, and the shogunate can split the room. And after the 200-stone hurdle, there will be a single-family courtyard, which is no longer the long house where the royal family lives~lightnovelpub.net~ But before, he and Nakahama Manjiro, also known as John Manjiro, lived in Yokohama plans to build a shipyard for the Shogunate. Nakahama Manjiro was also transferred to his retainer by Chuemon, and he was still a member of the shogunate in name.

After Shigeru Nara bought off the land along the coast of Yokohama, Nakahama Manjiro and Kurokawa Keitoku had already delineated the approximate scope of the shipyard. If it were not for the New Year, it would have been half of the construction.

Manjiro Nakahama has seen a serious dry dock in the United States, and even participated in the construction and design of ships. Now it is not difficult to copy these things to Yokohama as they are. And what he is most familiar with is whaling ships. This type of ship is very similar to a merchant ship, and it can be made into a merchant ship if you change it.

After all, today's whaling ships are not actually for the purpose of hunting whales to eat whale meat, but mainly for whale oil. Therefore, the ship will leave a huge space to store the entire barrel of whale oil.

It was the order of Chuemon to try to install a steam engine. If the propeller fails, use a paddle wheel. Anyway, you have to learn to build a steam ship, which makes Nakahama Manjiro a bit difficult. Right now, he should be at his home in Edo, working hard to design the shogunate's own steamboat.