After more than ten days of negotiations, everyone expressed their opinions and reached a final consensus on the defense of the shogunate in Edo Bay and other places and the construction of the future navy, and a certain plan was made.

From scratch, the road is long and hindered!

How to do it? This is not the case for the country, but it is the result of hundreds of years of shutting down the country. Now Yingmi's ghosts and animals are coming in droves, and they can only catch up with them.

Chuemon's main task now is to raise funds. We, the president of Tokugawa Kogyo Co., Ltd. (professed), right? Since we want to develop business for the Tokugawa family, we have to pay. In the past, Hongzhiwu Jinshan mined for a year and a half and sent back more than 90,000 taels of gold and silver. This year, the spring has begun, and the Ezo ice sea has thawed, and the ships carrying gold and silver are approaching Edo.

The first gave Oguri Tadajun 30,000 and asked him to go to Nagasaki to establish the Nagasaki Steel Works. This is still the down payment, and a certain amount of investment is needed later. Here the Merchant Marine School and Yokohama Shipyard have also started to handle it, so there is a shortage of money.

Waiting left and right, the Ezo boat finally arrived in Edo. Chuemon just ran out to greet him without wearing shoes. At last, Jinshan brought back 120,000 taels worth of gold and silver from the top of the mountain, and said that as long as the exiled prisoners can be more, he will be allowed to recruit Mutsu. For the poor, this output should be able to increase.

accepted! How can this not be agreed, as long as there is money, it is better than anything. Chuemon immediately sent the gold and silver to Ginza, and handed it to the Goto family, who specializes in currency minting by the shogunate, to recast it into Koban and Douyin.

With this money, many things became much easier, but Chuemon did not dare to slacken off. Regardless of one hundred and twenty thousand is a big sum of money, but it is very fast to spend, if you want to make money quickly, you still have to see the Ashio Copper Mountain.

It happened that the shogunate sent five foreign students from mines to Ashio Copper Mountain for internships. Chuemon was their principal and their boss. Of course, they also needed to evaluate their learning achievements. The reason was very valid.

Following spring, Chuemon rushed to Ashio Copper Mountain. Five foreign students who had been prospecting in the area for a month came to greet him immediately, and the local staff of the Shigeru Nara faction also arranged for a reception.

All receptions are trivial matters. You have been exploring for more than a month. Are there any signs of it?

When asked about this, Keisuke Otori stood up and said that the scale of the Ashio Copper Mountain is very large. They have barely finished shopping until now. The specimens and other things have not been carefully analyzed, so they dare not boast about what they have found.

After hearing his words, Chuemon knew that he was in a hurry, but now there is no industry that can make money faster than direct mining. The market is eager for a large amount of currency, which is the development of business, but also the common effect of using precious metals as currency. No matter how much money you put into the market, it will not be enough for the market.

Come on, let's take a look at the collected specimens. Chuemon followed a few foreign students to the mine's office. Ashio Copper Mountain was extremely prosperous, and tens of thousands of people worked here. Now the whole town is completely run-down, and there are not a few people in sight. With an annual output of 30 tons of copper, how can it feed anyone?

There are a lot of ore specimens collected. The local area is the future of Ashio Town, Kamitoga County, Tochigi Prefecture (Today Hikari City Ashio District). There is no doubt that it is in an active area of ​​plate collision. Naturally, volcanoes also exist. It’s just that there is no record of an eruption recently, and Chuemon cannot be sure whether it is an active or extinct volcano.

According to Chuemon’s memory, this place is definitely the place where the earth slammed again and then it was pulled. The taste of the copper mine is very high. Otherwise, even if it uses advanced machinery and technology, it will not be possible to change it in a short period of time. The annual output of ten tons has skyrocketed to an annual output of 7,200 tons.

However, unlike the time when it was in Ryukari Kinzan, Ryukari Kinzan is so famous that it is so famous that Chuemon has an impression. But the Ashio Copper Mountain is not good, Chuemon Hikaru knows that there is copper here, but he doesn't know where it is. So it is impossible to directly pull Otorori Keisuke, point to a hill and say to dig down.

According to the general principles of geological exploration, when the earth's volcanic eruption is pulled out, it is generally not a rainy pull, but a stroke, which violently erupts at a certain point. Normally, if this is the cause, then the new vein must be near the old vein.

The previous Lingkari Jinshan was an earthquake. Two plates directly collided violently, and one plate rose up hundreds of meters, bringing out the underground veins. In this case, it is not the vicinity of a point, but the line where the entire plate rises to find the veins.

Obviously the Ashio Copper Mountain was formed by a volcanic eruption, so the scope of exploration is naturally around the original vein, and then draw a circle with this as the center. If no accident, the new vein is near the old vein.

They all know the truth, and they also follow this line of thinking. Most of the nearby mountains and forests have been inspected by them. Now it is time to further study the specimens, to exclude and screen.

A group of people gathered together, discussing several suspicious points they found. Local miners and miners also have their own exploration methods. One thing is that the Japanese are capable of mining. There are many places that coincide with Keisuke Otorori.

So Chuemon ordered them to further excavate the suspicious points that they had delineated, and search for mineral veins.

"His Royal Highness can be here, and His Highness can be here?"

Standing on the yard full of ore to discriminate and discuss, a warrior with an anxious face suddenly rushed in and kept asking about lightnovelpub.net~ What are you looking for? "Tadaemon took a look, but didn't answer, and asked Kurokawa Keito to ask.

Now that the identity is different, it is not possible for anyone to come up to meet him in a cordial manner. There are too many things to be busy. If you don’t sleep for 24 hours, you won’t be able to see it. So Kurokawa Kyoto asked first, and if something happened, he brought back a reply and sent him away if nothing happened.

Chuemon did not look up, and continued to discuss with a few foreign students and local miners. Before I came to Chuemon, I saw Tokugawa Ikei, and he was dragging it all the way, and maybe it could drag the first half of the year for a year. As long as there are no major fluctuations, the situation has stabilized. It is probably the so-called "old age". Exhausted until the oil ran out and the lamp died.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness..." After asking a few words with the samurai, Kurokawa's complexion also changed drastically, full of panic.

"What's the matter?" Tadaoemon still had an ore specimen in his hand, and he didn't react for a while.

"The United Kingdom and the United States and the United States and the United States have led more than a hundred soldiers and ships, and the forces are 20,000 (misunderstanding). Knocking on Sekiura, Edo is in a hurry! Please return to Edo as soon as possible, and the general is urgently summoned!"