Edo Traveler

The military band soon played "General General's Horse", and a thousand veterans of the training team formed a long team to be inspected by the French minister, Count Roche, and Lieutenant-Colonel Chanoy of the French Officers' Teaching Corps.

The previous shogunate collected the uniform design of the new army training team from all over the world, and the design of an orchid student from the Nagaoka domain was loved by the then infantry soldier Matsudaira Qixuan.

Because Songping Qixuan rides horses every day and practices with the sergeants of the training team, he knows that the old-fashioned long hakama with wide sleeves or inconvenient leggings is completely behind the times.

After seeing the military uniform designed by the Lan student, Matsudaira Qixuan immediately expressed his approval. This matter belongs to the responsibility of Matsudaira Qixuan, and even Ii Naobi didn't bother to ask too much, and the design of the new military uniform was approved.

Military uniforms are divided into summer dress and winter dress, summer dress is white, winter dress is navy blue. Pure Western-style uniforms, single-row copper buttons, inlaid with gold trim, tops and bottoms, very convenient to wear, and the inner shirts are also distributed together.

Ordinary soldiers were issued with short boots, while officers were issued with long boots, and the officer's cuffs were decorated with lace. The corporal has one vertical triangle, the sergeant has two, and the sergeant has three. It is easy to understand and distinguish.

As for the backpacks, gear, bayonets, cloaks, etc. that soldiers should have, they were either made by the shogunate themselves or purchased from Dutch merchants. They were completely Westernized, and there was no shadow of the old shogunate army. If he was looking for the shadow of the old shogunate army, it was probably only the kasa that resembled the pan helmet on the soldier's head.

In order to supply tens of thousands of troops with quilts, the shogunate established a textile factory and a quilt factory in Yokohama at the request of Chuemon. It's not that the cotton cloth imported from the UK is not good, it's just that the army logistics can't be strangled.

Ordinary people don't have cotton cloth ambassadors, so they can only complain a few words. But if the army can't get the quilt, hehe, the person with a fire-breathing stick complains, but it's more powerful than the asshole, and the master has to sit down with you and have a good talk.

Originally, I thought that this matter would be handed over to Shigeru Nara and then assigned to Tokugawa Kogyo, but Shigeru Nara was really busy and couldn't get away. His main business has gradually shifted from shipping and silk reeling to shipping and silk reeling.

The new business that is constantly being spread out can definitely be called the gold of the day, and its profit is more than the annual tribute. In a word, the capital system of Naraya has gradually changed from the backwardness of the feudal era to the modern industrial and commercial capital. Give him more than ten or twenty years of development, and it will be a standard modern large capital group.

So Shigeru Nara politely declined the matter. It just so happened that another famous white glove in the shogunate, the deer who swore to Yueer, even if he suffered all kinds of hardships, he would make the Nizi family revive the son of Yamanaka Shikinosuke Yukiji. , Hongchi House, founded by Hongchi New Six, found the shogunate.

Their family was originally engaged in the underwriting of Nian Gong rice, the wine industry, the two-for-one (coin exchange) industry and the shipping industry in Osaka. Other industries have not been affected much, but the shipping industry has been crowded out by Shigeru Nara. Therefore, the contemporary Konike Zenemon (Yukitomi) came to Edo and requested to participate in the management of the Tokugawa Yusen.

Chuemon and Nara Shigeru are old friends, so naturally it is impossible to take Nara Shigeru's property and let Hongchi Zen run it together. However, Hong Chi Shan also has some connections in the shogunate. As the shogunate's largest white glove in Osaka, the shogunate, the number of people who took his money up and down the shogunate is unclear.

Even the Tokugawa family will receive the honor of the Honchi family on a daily basis, and is willing to be a lobbyist for the Honchi family. After all, the tens of thousands of taels of gold that Hong Chi Shan just sent is really fragrant, and the Tokugawa family must not be exempt.

Come on, there was just such a thing to do, so Chuemon came to Hong Chi Shan and asked him if he was willing to undertake the textile factory and quilt factory of Tokugawa Xingye.

The shogunate directly placed orders with him, and at the same time, advanced textile equipment from France or the Netherlands could be introduced on his behalf. Besides, there is a modern textile factory like Hongikeya in the whole of Japan, and the military uniforms needed by the shogunate training team every year must be ordered from him.

After losing the mulberry eucalyptus that was harvested in the east, Hong Chi Shan hesitated a little, and then decided to accept the proposal of Zhongyouemon. Not only did it take the initiative to take out 100,000 taels for the cost of ordering advanced machinery and building factories. It is also proposed that in addition to the establishment of Yokohama Textile Plant in Yokohama, Osaka Textile Plant should also be established in Osaka.

Coincidentally, he has secretly learned that the shogunate will establish the second Osaka division in the kiln. With these two fixed, and will continue to expand the source of customers, this business is definitely done.

Chuemon was naturally happy to see him being so good. Not only took the initiative to assist Hongchishan, helping them hire French engineers and technicians, but also arranged manpower to plan and build a new factory for Hongchishan.

Hongchi Shan is not clear, because of his move, the Hongchi chaebol, which has been hit hard in history, has ushered in a historic development in just a few years. His power jumped to the point where he was on a par with Shigeru Nara and enjoyed great international fame.

Anyway, Hong Chi Shan is already busy ordering cotton from foreign countries. Not surprisingly, his main ordering place is

, of course the Qing Dynasty. However, due to the continuous war in the Qing Dynasty, the production areas of grain and cotton in the eastern coastal areas have been greatly reduced. In the end, Hong Chi Shan simply changed his policy.

He found that the price of buying foreign rice from the British was actually cheaper than the price of domestically produced rice in Japan.

Rest assured, Indian rice, even if millions of people starve to death in India, will still be exported and will never be out of stock!

And Hong Chi Shan, who is a big landlord in the country, began to promote the cultivation of cotton on the land he owned. And according to Chuemon's instructions, since you are under the banner of Tokugawa Industrial Development and you are doing things in a proper manner, you will directly exchange Indian rice and tenant farmers for cotton in the future.

And can advance one year of Indian rice, so that tenant farmers feel at ease.

Hong Chi Shan, who was ready to do a great job, agreed to this request, and immediately started the overall business layout. The chaebols like them are still quite powerful, at least in Chuemon's view, they are stronger than the old and bloated shogunate.

Soon modern steam textile factories and quilt factories were established, and by the way, the employment problem of thousands of workers was solved. And now the new military uniform worn by the Shogunate training team is produced by Osaka Textile in Hongikeya.

"Your country's army is quite different from what I imagined before I set off!" Shanovanu said to Chuemon.