What business does Daimufu Izawa Masayoshi have with Naohide? Of course it is to cultivate the Ezo land.

It turns out that when the memorial was submitted a while ago, Soga Iemo was right - although the Ezo land was regarded as the hope for the resurgence of the shogunate and should not have been distributed to various families for cultivation, the problem was that this hope seemed a bit far away.

It would be better to cash out immediately.

With this big root (radish) hanging, I believe that all the families who want to benefit will be more honest; and now that the people are in dire straits, there are many people who have no food to eat and are making trouble everywhere. Isn't it a good idea to send them to Ezo?

Originally, the shogunate had been inherited for a long time, and everything was inevitably delayed, but because this was one of the three things that led to the new appointment of the elder Keinaga, and he was keeping an eye on it, things actually progressed very quickly.

But the problem is, whether it is soon or not, this action is a bit arbitrary. One old man, six old men, and three eldest brothers and their families are all included in the list of the first batch to go to the North by Qingyong.

In fact, although these people are a little tempted, they are still a little worried if they really want to colonize the Ezo land.

Take Keinaga's Fukui clan and Itakura Katsushige's Matsuyama clan as examples. Although people's livelihood is now in decline, these two families are famous for their wealth:

In recent years, under the influence of Yokoi Tokumi, the Fukui Domain has built a country based on commerce and vigorously promoted industry, especially sericulture. Nowadays, the sericulture industry in Europe is suffering from the epidemic, and it has really made a lot of money;

As for the Bitchu Matsuyama Domain, it was similar to the Fukui Domain. Yamada Yasugoro (1805-1877), the "Bitakura Sage" who was highly trusted by Itakura, also adopted the method of colonizing and developing industry and developed special products on a large scale. As a result, the domain's finances

The situation is excellent.

What is particularly worth mentioning is that Yamada used "hanzhao" very skillfully, and he was considered a rare expert in managing banknotes and public debt during the late Tokugawa period.

Although the other families are not as wealthy as Fukui and Matsuyama, they are not too bad - if their own territory is in a mess, why would the shogunate promote these people? Isn't it enough that they think they are a disaster?

Therefore, although everyone knows that cultivating Ezo land is profitable, when it comes to serious matters, it is inevitable to worry about the gains and losses:

Everyone knows that the cycle of reclamation is long, and a large sum of money is invested at the beginning. The risks involved cannot be said to be zero. Should we do it?

The three daimyo are even more troubled. Their territory only has a few thousand dan, and compared with the old middle-aged people who were born in the Daimyo family, they have less capital. Therefore, if they lose money, they may not be able to recover for several years.

But everyone knows that both the father-in-law and the elder Qingyong have good intentions. They did not see their rise, and they earned a vassal state for their son in twelve years. Therefore, being included in the list first is an honor and cannot be given to shame.

don't want.

This matter will be made public at the Edo Castle Grand Appraisal in July, so even if I don't meet Naohide today, Izawa will have to find a way to meet him. If he doesn't understand this, Izawa can't rest assured.

Naohide followed the Izawa family back to the mansion, but when they talked about it carefully, Naohide was dumbfounded:

It turned out that according to Izawa's idea, he would send out a few retainers, prepare a sum of money and materials, and then recruit some refugees. The rest would depend on the efforts of these settlers themselves.

"What a ghost!"

Izawa served as a military officer in Nagasaki, Uraga and Edo Minamachi, which can be considered as a people-friendly official, but the plan ended up being like this.

But when Naohide thought about it, he became happy. It turned out that Izawa was not stupid at all. He was relying on Hakodate to serve Hori Toshi and himself:

All the people, money and materials are left to you local snakes in the North, you can do whatever you want!

This works, and naturally everyone is in harmony; if we lose, don't blame me for being rude and causing trouble.

Okay, these old foxes are very good at calculating. It’s so troublesome to solve problems, but it’s much easier to solve people this way.

There are really good things in this world that are like beans falling from the sky!

Originally, Naohide promoted the reclamation of Hakodate for two reasons:

One is to allow the White Lord to establish a country through the exchange of interests, so that he can legitimately participate in political affairs;

The second one is also to increase the strength.

The Northland has been attracting immigrants like crazy over the years, but now it is a little bit incapable of attracting them. After all, Hakodate is just an administrative office, and dealing with each family is just like that. It depends on building relationships, giving benefits and being sneaky. When the number of immigrants reaches a certain scale, it will be difficult to do so.

enlarged.

And if the shogunate came forward to reclaim the Ezo land, they would still have laws and regulations even if they had no money. This was completely different from Hakodate's own foolish efforts.

But Naohide had never dreamed that Daifu Izawa would actually want to do a big all-inclusive commission. This was not like a beanbag falling from the sky.

Of course, Hakodate worships Horihi, who is now reaping the rewards of hard work, and Izawa and others are interested in Naohide, but it is just the foundation of his many years of business in the north, and it is estimated that they will inevitably borrow some money and food in the future.

But these people were worried about Naoxiu's money and things, and Naoxiu was also concerned about the immigrants sent by these people, so the two people, who had their own agendas, hit it off and chatted very happily.

Ever since the big head paid Izawa's request, it seemed as if some mechanism had been triggered. From then on, families interested in going to the north to colonize the land came to visit him one after another.

It wasn't until late July of the second year of Bunkyu (1862) that Okubo Rishi arrived in Edo as the governor of Hakodate Town, and Naohide didn't stop. After all, the magistrate was not as good as the current governor, so the reclaimed land and Ezo land still had to be governed by Hakodate.

It's the Lord.

However, after all, compared with the reclamation of Ezo land and the integration of public and military forces, it can only be regarded as a trivial matter. Therefore, in the past two months, as the situation in Edo has been turbulent, everyone's main concern has been this major event:

On June 7th, the imperial envoy Ohara Shigetori arrived in Edo. Within a few days, the minister went to Edo Castle to announce the decree. However, after the shogunate received the decree, the imperial envoy refused to leave and asked the shogunate to

Give an answer as soon as possible.

The edict roughly said three things:

1. Gongfang Yangjia Maoyi led the princes to the court to discuss internal and external affairs;

Second, it is advisable to select the five major feudal lords as the five major officials according to Toyotomi Taihe's story to consult on national affairs;

Third, it is appropriate to use Hitotsubashi Keiki as the assistant and Matsudaira Keinaga as the governor, so we should work together to command China and foreign countries.

But none of these three things are easy to solve:

The first is "the general enters the court".

This may seem like nothing. The General of the Conqueror is also an official of the imperial court, and it is his duty for ministers to meet the emperor. But in fact, since the third generation of general Iemitsu met with Empress Meisheng in the 11th year of Kanei (1634), Emperor Fuso and

The shogun was never seen again.

This tradition of the king not seeing the king is because the shogunate has been firmly suppressing the small imperial court in Kyoto. What is the purpose of meeting, adding fuel to the fire and ridiculing others? This is not looking for trouble, so simply don't see him.

But now that the world is in different places, the shogunate's entry into the imperial court means that the shogunate will bow its head and admit defeat. How can it be so easy to accept it?

Can you not go?

cannot.

Because two powerful daimyo entered Kyoto in April, the small imperial court became very powerful. Now it has been cut off from the Western Kingdom, and the Kinki area is also very troubled.

The culprits of these two families are Qibin, the head of the Satsuma Shimazu family, and Sadahiro, the eldest son of the Choshu Mori family.

Maori Dingguang said that Changzhou had been transformed back into a feudal lord and ended up turning into Kyoto on the way. It was difficult to clear his name. But Qi Bin was different. He hugged Qu with the shogunate:

"I am wronged. I came to Kyoto in April because the rogues were causing trouble at that time. I had no choice but to stabilize the situation. How can I compare it with the Maori family?"

Qi Bin dared to say this, and of course there was a basis for it:

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of this year, Nobuyuki Ando, ​​a veteran outside the Sakashita Gate, was assassinated. The rogues who resisted the barbarians among the people were stimulated by this incident and became more active. The Sakurada Gate Incident was still outside the moat of Edo Castle, but the Sakashita Gate

Well, in Yuqulun, an assassination occurred in this heavily guarded city. You can imagine the seriousness of the problem.

When Qi Bin was passing through Himeji in Harima Province to pay his respects, more than two hundred wanderers stopped him and asked Qi Bin to change his route to Kyoto.

Qi Bin was so shocked at the time that he had to ask everyone to trust the court and the shogunate, saying that I knew about this and would definitely give everyone an explanation in the future.

But Qi Bin continued to walk to Edo, and when he arrived at the Fushimi Shrine of the Shogunate, he was convinced that something was wrong, because there were so many rogues at that time that they actually succeeded in attacking the Fushimi Shrine and drove away the Fushimi Shrine of the shogunate.

Qi Bin set out from his hometown Kagoshima in March, but in April, he couldn't walk to Fushimi. At that time, there were tens of thousands of Kinki patriots, but all the Fushimi followers were beaten away. Qi Bin didn't believe it anymore

If so, how great is this feeling?

So he turned a corner and went straight to Kyoto. The reason was that if Emperor Fuso was kidnapped by the rebels, the world would be in chaos.

And when he arrived in Kyoto, he found that there were many rondos from Satsuma, and they were planning to cause trouble together with many people. They said they wanted to imitate the Fushimi Incident not long ago, and gathered a crowd to attack the residences of Kyoto Shoshidai and Kanshiro Kujo Naotada.

Therefore, Qi Bin took action decisively and met him in the southern suburbs of Kyoto.

Teradaya not only killed his own rogues, but also captured many people from other clans, and the situation in Kyoto became dire.

But what’s really annoying is that Sakai Tadayoshi, the governor of Kyoto, heard that the Satsuma clan was marching to Luoyang. He misunderstood the rumor and thought that the Shimadzu family was going to rebel, so he ran to Nijo Castle decisively.

But it's easy to run away, but it's hard to come back.

The prestige of the Kyoto office was thus wiped out, no one was afraid of him anymore, and the imperial court also sent people to reprimand Sakai, telling him that if he was embarrassed, he should not return to Kyoto and be embarrassed.

Qi Bin had no choice but to stay in Kyoto. It was not until May that the shogunate sent Tadashi Sakai of the Harimahime Domain to Luoki to temporarily take over as the acting chief of Kyoto. Then he continued his journey to Edo.

As for the imperial envoy Ohara wanting to follow him, I can't allow it - if Ohara alone dies on the road, the Shimazu family will not be able to explain it with their mouths full of words.

Well, Qi Bin said it perfectly, and it sounds like there really isn’t anything wrong with it.

As for the Shimazu family who brought a thousand ginseng to the pilgrimage, they are a famous family with 700,000 koku, so as usual, it is not an exaggeration to have a thousand people accompanying them. As for bringing ordnance, it is not safe on the road now. If you don't bring ordnance, you are not courting death, so

The shogunate really couldn't get into it.

The Shimazu family has passed the test, but what about the Mori family? This secret sneaking into Roko must be investigated.

In early June, the head of the Maori family, Qingqi Qing, was still in Edo, but Qing Qing had a lot to say when faced with the shogunate’s questioning:

"The long-distance navigation strategy was agreed upon by two veterans, Kuze and Ando, ​​and I, the Maori family, were ordered to work for it. I don't deserve credit for this, but there is always hard work.

Moreover, the little dog Dingguang was kidnapped and brought into Kyoto. I am very worried. If you ask me again, this is somewhat unjustifiable."

Well, one of them can speak better than the other, so the shogunate also took Shimazu, and the Mori family had nothing to do - there were not many daimyo willing to come to pay homage this year, and these two families came to Edo after all, so they couldn't be left in the cold.

It touches people's hearts.

Of course, this Shimazu Mori family has been a famous family for generations, and has been married to the Tokugawa family many times, so his status is not comparable to that of ordinary daimyo.

Moreover, if you don’t look at the monk’s face or the Buddha’s face, these two families are extremely powerful, and it’s difficult to act without full confidence.

Now that chaos has emerged, this joint has forced two powerful names to rebel against each other. Isn't it just causing trouble for himself for no reason?
To be continued...