When Tadaoemon heard that Oguri had returned to Edo, he put aside his work and asked him to come for a meeting. This is our Edo University preparatory course, the first big brother, Tademon, as the principal, how can he not pay attention to it.

　　 Oguri Tadasun also has no home. His home was destroyed by the earthquake. Now his family has moved to Ueno's territory. He found a temple on the outskirts of the city, and as soon as he settled down, he received an order from Chungemon to see him.

　　 It’s not that Chuemon did not let him rest. It was really exciting. It was so easy for the shogunate to have such a modern industrial unit manager and constructor who had both academic knowledge and practical experience. It was you and you who were also worried.

　　 "Gotaro!" Tadaoemon had been standing at the door waiting for Oguri Tadashi. Seeing a figure from a distance, he hurriedly stepped forward and called.

　　 "Your Highness." Oguri Tadashi also saw Tademon Tademon, walked a few steps quickly, and saluted respectfully.

　　 "Walk, let's say inside, this is a good way to come back." Tadaoemon took Oguri Tadashi's hand. This is called arm-yanhuan, and the two walked in together.

　　 "There are steamships these days, which is so convenient, fast and fast."

"sit!"

"By the way, there was also the Russian envoy Putinya who was in the boat with the next official. It is said that he came to demarcate the boundary for Kamchatka. I don't know whether to inform the shogunate?" Oguri sat down and remembered what he heard on the way back. The news came out.

　　 "It turned out to be him, it's not surprising." Chuemon really didn't know this, and he sat down slowly.

　　 But since the Russians haven't contacted the shogunate yet, they want to have their own considerations. The Tokugawa shogunate is now a victorious country, although it only earned the victorious country by following the **** of the Anglo-French coalition forces and hitting hands. A victorious country is a victorious country, and Russia will never dare to challenge all the victorious countries for the time being.

　　 That's why Chuemon doesn't care when he comes. The "Paris Peace Treaty" is in hand. The Russians are anxious, not the shogunate.

　　 The two of them put aside this matter and went back to the main business. The Yokohama Steel Works had already begun preparations. With the convenience of shipping and the financial support of the shogunate, it is expected that Tadashi Oguri can be established quickly.

　　 No matter if it's asking for money or someone, Chuemon doesn't refuse to agree. The short-term goal is to be able to quickly manufacture the steel needed for the rails, and the output must fully keep up. The Tokaido Railway, that is, the Edo-Osaka railway, has already decided to use rails imported from the United Kingdom. However, the main line from Edo to Echigo and Ou, the shogunate must strive to use their own railroad tracks.

　　 is not only to support the country’s heavy industry, but also to avoid various restrictions from foreign countries during the railway construction process. As long as the design and construction were all done by the shogunate itself, and even the source of funds was raised by the shogunate itself, even if the powers had ideas, they had no reason to intervene.

　　 For this request, Oguri Tadashi still has the confidence to do it. He already has the experience of founding the Nagasaki Steel Works, and now he only needs to adjust slightly to avoid detours, and it will not take long for a steel plant to rise from the ground.

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　　 A few days later, the Russian envoy Putinya finally came to Edo and submitted a note to the shogunate, who will negotiate with the shogunate on the actual ownership of the territories north of Ezo.

　　 Attention, it is a negotiation, not a direct demarcation!

　　Tadaemon was delighted to see the note. What happened to this Russian is clearly written in the "Paris Peace Treaty". The Kamchatka Peninsula belongs to the Shogunate, and he negotiated a hammer to demarcate the boundary directly. At most, the two sides would be arguing about the specific location of the border, and fighting over a bit of frozen ground that is not usable at all.

　　What are you talking about?

　　 Tadaoemon soon learned Russian thoughts from Putinya's mouth. The Kamchatka Peninsula was confirmed to be ceded to Japan. Tsarist Russia recognized this point. I won't say more about it. It is already a fait accompli. However, the Kuril Islands between Ezo and Kamchatka Peninsula did not clearly belong to this area in the Paris Peace Treaty.

　　 And this area is actually one of the areas that the Shogunate has been fighting for with Tsarist Russia since a hundred years ago. In the northern part of the Kuril Islands, there are some small-scale Russian settlements, but the total population is very small, adding up to only a few hundred people.

　　 The southern part of the Kuril Islands is completely owned by the Japanese. Similar to Kunashir Island, the number of Japanese residents on the island has exceeded 1,000. A post guarded by soldiers sent by the Tsugaru Clan was also set up on Sedan Island. There are about 50 permanent soldiers and more than 320 residents.

　　 As for Defu Island, it is even more powerful. There is still a boundary monument of the shogunate on it, with the words "Eternally Large Japanese Islands" written on it, and the local fishing ground has been opened up and a clubhouse has been established.

　　 So in fact, the Kuril Islands belong to the state of the division of the north and the south, but the islands occupied by the Japanese to the south have been developed and constructed, and thousands of people have begun to live in settlements. The islands occupied by Russia to the north are still barren.

　　 There is no factual possession!

　　Ke Putinya didn't think so. He said that according to international practice, the country that first discovered landless land would own the ownership of these lands. U U reading www.uukanshu. com then took out the document that Russian Kozlevsky and others surveyed the Kuril Islands in 1713, and said that it was the Russians who first discovered the Kuril Islands.

　　 Since the Russians first discovered it, the Kuril Islands naturally belong to Russia. Even if the shogunate occupies the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands between the entire peninsula and the Ezo region are still Russian, and they will disgust you there, let you be like a throat, and see what your shogunate can do with me.

　　 Oh, since I want to tell the evidence, that's a coincidence.

　　 In the thirteenth year of Genroku, that is, in 1700, the shogunate ordered the Matsumae clan to draw a complete map of Ezo, and then the Matsumae clan painted all the Ezo Island, Kuril Islands, and Huatai Island on the map and reported it to the shogunate. This incident is not only on record, but the original still exists.

　　 Would you like to watch it, kid?

　　Good fellow, really good fellow, Putinya was furious and said on the spot that the shogunate's documents might be forged. How can there be such a coincidence, the shogunate deliberately drew the entire map of the Kuril Islands several years in advance of Russia.

　　 Chungemon looked at him and wanted to sneer. You have a face when it is good for you. When it is not good for you, you immediately change another face. You are really a face-changing king.

　　 "Then your envoy, what method do you think is more reasonable and fair to divide the northern islands? As long as you approve, we can invite Britain, France, the United States and the Netherlands, ambassadors from various countries, to witness and re-delimit the boundary."

　　 "Then divide it according to the nationality of the residents of the island!" Putingya saw that it might not be enough to take all the Kuril Islands. It is also possible to take the northern half.