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v9 Chapter 74: Set up Kamchatka to pursue

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Katsukaishu finished talking with Chuemon, and passed on the matter of using MacDonald as the temporary envoy from the British side to several old Chinese. After all the explanations were clear, he continued to return to Yokohama to preside over the Yokohama Shipyard and Merchant Marine School.

After a fierce argument with the princes, Chungemon finally distributed the 1,250,000 taels of relief funds. The rest is the reconstruction of Edo Castle and the demarcation of the Kamchatka Peninsula with Russia.

For the time being, the demarcation matter will be put aside. Zavojko and the shogunate said that this matter is not counted. Russia will definitely abide by the "Paris Peace Treaty." Fuck him. Not to protect the interests of the Tokugawa shogunate, but purely to beat Tsarist Russia.

So don't worry about this matter on the shogunate's side. When St. Petersburg sends a special envoy, the shogunate will send someone to go there to demarcate the boundary.

No one on the shogunate took Kamchatka Peninsula at heart. They all regarded it as a small piece of land in the northern snow country farther than Ezo. One day early and one day late, whatever you want.

It was the kind that made the Ezo place a sensation and a complete sensation by sending more than 600 Dao's maids to the past. It is normal that most of the criminals exiled over the years are bachelors. Ezo's de facto supreme officer, Hakodate, who practices Hori Toshihime, saw this situation, and aside from anything else, he intercepted a boat of 300 people.

It is said that because of the splitting of wives, Hori Rishiket is now practicing in Hakodate and is loved by everyone in Hakodate. Everyone encouraged Hori Toshi, and quickly asked Edo if there were any female prisoners in exile.

It's bitter cold in Ezo. The population is small, and there are fewer women. How many people play bachelors for a lifetime, and only see a woman once a year. This person was almost neurotic, and he didn't expect that the shogunate would "assign" his wife.

In all Japan, the people who are most loyal to the shogunate are the people of Hakodate Town.

The remaining three hundred women were sent to Kamchatka, making the laborers recruited to Kamchatka ecstatic. The house was originally Russian, and the shogunate gave it to him. The land was originally Russian, and the shogunate assigned it to him. Now even the wife has the points, and those who are happy, patted their chests one by one and said that they would work for the Shogunate Yongzhen Kamchatka.

Inheriting all the foundations of the Russian Okhotsk Fleet Station, the shogunate's development in Kamchatka is also considered rapid. The local Russian immigrants learned of Russia's defeat and Kamchatka had been ceded to Japan. A small group of people gave up their local housing and property and went to Nikolayevsk by boat. The remaining thousands of Russians expressed their willingness to continue living there.

In addition, there are two or three thousand people of Kamchatka and Tsarist and Kamchatka. Obviously, they have a more favorable impression of the shogunate, which does not levy taxes at all, than the tsar. After all, soldiers sent by the shogunate would not directly rob their houses, then occupy their wives and daughters, and finally kill them deliberately.

In this way, the rule of the Shogunate in Kamchatka was basically established. In the end, the British army only left a mere fifty soldiers and a civilian in the area, responsible for assisting the British ships that might catch whales in the North Pacific and then dock there. . After all, the whale resources in the Atlantic have already been depleted due to their excessive fishing.

Now whether they are British, Swedes, Danes, Russians or Americans, they have already started whaling operations in this part of the North Pacific. It is great to have a port where you can call.

The local army of the mission team has also been reduced to one hundred and fifty people. The war is over, and there is no need to maintain that many troops in this place where the birds do not shit. Horikita Horikita did not know how old Petropavlovsk was, so he simply assigned two concentrics to the local club to hold concentric positions.

To put it bluntly, the organization that buys various special products from the local people at low prices and sells them to Edo is not a formal administrative organization. It wasn't until the two hapless guys came to the city that they suddenly knew that they were sent to manage a large town with a population of five or six thousand.

Almost beautiful!

The number of Japanese immigrants in the local area has also increased to more than a thousand people. Most of the wives' affairs have been solved. They are all honest farmers, and they have hot pits and wives. It is very easy to manage.

The two concentrics who had exerted their subjective initiative immediately began to understand what local products could be delivered to Edo. Those who have been in Northland all the year round know very well that there is basically no money to scrape off the land. Even in the Ezo region, without the development of modern agriculture in the future, it is basically impossible to grow much land. It would be nice to be able to grow some potatoes.

As a result, before the investigation started, they saw several whaling ships from various countries. In accordance with past practices, they went to the local to replenish and repair ships. Of course, UU reading www.uukanshu.com also goes to Alaska, but the population of that place is too small and too small, and the largest town is actually only a few hundred people, and many things are difficult to do.

When in Hakodate, the two of them also saw many American whaling ships docking, but at that time they were not responsible for this. They collected dried seafood from Ezo and sent them to Edo. So I know about whaling ships, but I don't know about them.

It is only now that we understand that whale oil is a top-notch product in Europe and the United States. Not only can be used for lighting, but also play an important role in a large number of industrial links.

The large-scale human activities in the North Pacific, which started in the last few decades, have abundant whale resources. If the shogunate can take advantage of the port and vigorously develop the whaling industry in the local area, it will definitely make a profit.

So the two concentrics wrote to the shogunate on the one hand, explaining the opportunities and profits of the whaling industry in Kamchatka. On the other hand, it also recruited sailors from the local indigenous and Russians to develop offshore fishing.

Petropavlovsk itself has slipway and shipbuilding craftsmen, and this society is just reused. A sample of whale oil was sent to Edo in a short time, and it was made clear that this thing must be needed in Europe and the United States.

More than a month has passed since the report and dozens of barrels of whale oil were delivered to Edo and even in front of Chuemon. But this did not prevent Chuemon from agreeing with this. After commending the two concentrics, Chuemon immediately played to the shogunate.

Set up Kamchatka to pursue, establish a de facto administrative rule, maintain the garrison, and develop potato planting and whaling. Not only has the garrison's expenditure been settled, the shogunate can also have one more export product.

Can come back for golden gold!

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