Edo Traveler

v9 Chapter 45: Yokohama is built differently

Although after Naobi Ii, there are still many people who explicitly or secretly told Chuemon that there were beauties, but they were not Naobi Ii and couldn't force Chuemon to accept them. Naturally, these people were taken by Chuemon. It was pushed away.

Then Chungemon hurriedly devoted himself to official duties, and the good things that had taken a half-day rest for the first half of the day were temporarily gone. It wasn't that Chuemon suddenly became diligent, it was mainly to avoid going home to face Alan and Shinna's side room.

Fortunately, it is not called Yoshida Ayumi!

After really marrying home, Chungemon asked carefully what was the girl's name. It's not Ayumi, but it also carries the beautiful word, Yoshida Mi, nothing more. Will it be called Amei from now on? It seems almost the same.

Returning to official duties, Hachiro Amano, who attacked Kamchatka last year, was finally replaced by another officer from the training team with five hundred men and horses. After being stationed on the Kamchatka Peninsula for almost a year, the soldiers had nothing to do, and none of them died of typhoid fever. They were very lucky.

It is mainly thanks to the blessings that the Russians have invested and built in the local area for hundreds of years. There are various complete buildings in the local area, and there are sufficient preparations before. Whether it is warmth, food, and medicine, all are in place. Then I heard that two of the British suffered from chills and died in Kamchatka in the end.

According to Hachiro Amano, potatoes have already been planted there, and the Russian immigrants and indigenous people in the local area did not have much resistance to being occupied by the British and shogunate forces. As long as the potatoes can be harvested normally this year, and fishing is added, there is no need to transport grain from the shogunate, and they can be self-sufficient.

But after all, most of the local residents are Russians, or descendants of Russians and natives, language barriers, and inconvenient rule. If the shogunate intends to expand its influence locally, it is best to emigrate as soon as possible.

The more than one hundred labors recruited last year, after dividing the land and planting potatoes, can be considered basically relieved, but if there is no wife for a long time, problems will still occur.

It is best for the shogunate to quickly recruit landless farmers from Kanto, Echigo, Ou and other places. As long as they are willing to immigrate to Kamchatka, the house and the land are also free. If it is the kind with three or four daughters in the family, it is best.

As the official of the shogunate who knew the details of Kamchatka best, Hachiro Amano's opinions were also taken seriously. The shogunate didn’t really care whether the land of Kamchatka was good or bad. It just needed that the land existed and the Japanese lived on it. This shows that under the wise leadership of the conqueror general Tokugawa Isaiah, the shogunate won the military. Victory, it is done.

In order to ensure that this veil of political achievements would not be exposed or broken or something, Ii Naobi agreed to the immigration request. According to Hachiro Amano, there were 50,000 immigrants in that place, all of whom were fully supported. Of course, it is impossible for the shogunate to move so many people in the past. There can be two to three thousand people, and at most four to five thousand people will be great.

The Ezo region is not fully enriched, how can it be possible to enrich the Kamchatka Peninsula first.

If someone goes there, Hachiro Amano wrote a letter to the shogunate with his own knowledge and suggestions. At the same time, he copied a copy to the officer who succeeded him, fulfilling his obligations.

The British did not exchange their two hundred men and horses back, but simply sent a large amount of supplies, and it was over. Anyway, the British Army is not the Royal Army. The British Army in the Crimea Peninsula is even worse than their mixed counterparts. Many troops do not have enough food rations.

By the way, Earl Ergin, who actually presided over the battle against Kamchatka, spent most of the half a year mainly in the construction of the busy Yokohama settlement area and the construction of the riverside railway.

The planning and construction of Yokohama lasted for two years, and it has achieved great results. The building of the Customs and Taxation Department has finally been completed, and most of the public embassies of various countries have also been completed. As for foreign banks, foreign banks, warehouses, docks, hotels, hotels, clubs and other buildings, they were also completed one after the other.

Basically, everything that a European and American town should have is basically there. Even the military and police in the residence area have arranged for more than 200 British troops to be appointed, and they have begun to maintain the corresponding order.

The British businessmen who took away 70 tons of raw silk from Yokohama last year came again this year. Not only did they come by themselves, they also brought many British businessmen who already had business or companies in Shanghai. After all, Japanese silk is really cheap and good quality, but doesn't it have to come over and buy it on a large scale.

In addition to the silk reeling factory in Yokohama, Shigeru Nara built a new silk reeling factory in Kaifu. Taking advantage of the British merchant's Miji, he exported more than 400 tons of raw silk at once, and received more than 220,000 pounds. Huge foreign exchange.

I never imagined that my two factories with no more than a few hundred people could exchange more than two hundred thousand taels of gold in a year. Shigeru Nara's investment enthusiasm was even higher.

In addition to raw silk, the British also buy Japanese porcelain, wax, lacquer, wood and other items. Because of the long-term domestic deflation in Japan, the prices of all kinds of goods are actually much cheaper than those next door.

This is the disadvantage of purely using precious metal currency. On the one hand, there is an outflow of gold and silver, on the other hand, the output of gold and silver mines is declining, but the market is getting bigger and more commodities, and the demand for money by merchants and citizens has increased repeatedly. Even if the fineness of gold and silver coins is reduced, the money supply in the market is still insufficient.

There is no doubt that prices naturally also reflect this problem. There is indeed a certain gap between the prices of various commodities in Japan and the Qing Dynasty at this time.

The first British people have keenly discovered this ~ lightnovelpub.net~ As long as Japanese products have been seen and the quality is about the same, they should try hard to buy Japanese products.

Please take pleasure in the samurai who came from Kagoshima, Saga, Hagi, Fukui and other domains to sell goods. In addition to smuggling, they can export them in a fair manner. In the past, one ship was smuggled, and now ten ships can be sold publicly. The individual profits have indeed fallen, but the overall profits have increased.

Of course, the vassals are also facing competition, and the British only buy products of quality that can pass the barrier. The old-fashioned capitalist empire is gone, and the international trade is clear.

Americans, Germans, and French also rushed to Yokohama one after another. Although the number is far less than that of the United Kingdom, it is at least a good start.

And the six thousand Dreiser firing pin firing rifles previously ordered from the Prussian have finally arrived. When the British military training group saw the shogunate's large-scale procurement of Prussian weapons, they shouted bad luck and scolded the British businessmen for not winking, and actually gave such a good buyer to the Prussians.

As the Jiangbin Railway started its test run, Erjin came to Edo to have a good talk with Chuyouemon. Our UK is not only good at shipbuilding, but also good weapons.