Edo Traveler

Remember [New] for a second,! Sukeroku also brought Matsudaira Qixuan's instructions back to Edo, which meant nothing more than Ii Naobi, that is, to ask Chungemon to borrow one or two from the middle, and if the British did not give the money within a month or two, they would always keep the army there. Yokohama is also not appropriate.

First, send two to the families of the deceased and tell them that the shogunate will pay in installments. Anyway, instalment payment in the Edo period has become a practice in many industries, and now at most people can pay in installments even when they die.

So that family members and soldiers can see the cash!

Chuemon can only express that he knows, the shogunate's expenses are becoming more and more complicated, and the more and more, the more and more, they stretch out their hands everywhere. You are a golden mountain, and it is not enough for them to make it.

Earlier I heard that Chuemon and Shimadzu Chugyo negotiated to replace gold with raw silk, then minted coins and put them into the rural market. Jingyi Zhibi also secretly poked over, saying that he would take 10,000 or 20,000 yuan for nothing, but the money he would give to the temple every year as a general on the Shangsi Festival.

It's all a waste of money, but the more he got to the later stage of the feudal dynasty, the more he cared about this kind of bullshit. You have to look like a very broad bird, so that the princes feel that the shogunate is really rich.

How to do? Not secretly.

We know this is not the way, but what can we do? It doesn't matter if others don't try their best to save our own family business, we have to save it ourselves.

Even if the city was opened without blood because of obedience and submission in history, Tokugawa Keiki and Tokugawa Jiada both won the Grand Duke. But until that step, Chuemon was reluctant to be a grand duke who played with cameras and flowers and birds in Shizuoka every day.

Come on, Chuemon has to go find Yataro Iwasaki, carefully check the accounts of the pair of industrial clubs, and see if there is a way to temporarily transfer a sum of money to plug the hole for the training team's pension.

As a result, before Chuemon went out, he heard a report from his subordinates, saying that it was Keisuke Otorori of Ashio Copper Mountain who asked to see him. This kid is not working hard at the copper mine for the shogunate's annual output of 8,000 tons of red copper, why did he come to Edo? But since the people are here, Chuemon will definitely want to see them.

Who called Ashio Copper Mountain is very profitable and is one of the pillar industries of Kogyo Corporation.

"Meet Your Highness." Otori Keisuke often stopped at Otsukoyama. After graduating from a British university, he rarely came to Edo.

"How's the situation in Tongshan recently?" Chuemon didn't go around in circles with him, and said falsely.

"Everything is fine, this time it's time to deliver refined copper to Yokohama and pass through Edo." Otorori Keisuke didn't say anything fancy.

I just sent the red copper ordered by the British to Yokohama for delivery. I stopped by Edo and thought that the old chief was in Edo. I was idle, and the copper was not allowed to be loaded, so I came to see you.

"Is there something else going on here?" Chuemon looked sideways at Keisuke Otorori.

"There are really no other matters, but the accompanying gold and silver, and they are all handed over to the government."

Hearing this, Chuemon was overjoyed. The copper mines in Japan are often accompanied by gold and silver. Therefore, it was always said that Japanese copper was imported during the Ming Dynasty in China because there was silver in it, and the Ming Dynasty had the technology to refine it, but Japan did not have this technology. If you buy Japanese copper, you can also get silver. The price of copper is not expensive, so it is a good business.

The Ming Dynasty can pay the copper price with copper coins, and can scrape a profit from it. The Japanese return to China happily with the Yongle money, and the Ming Dynasty recasts the money and continues to sell them to the Japanese.

Everyone is happy!

The same is true of Ashio Copper Mountain, which now produces thousands of tons of red copper annually, and the accompanying silver and gold were also separated because of the advanced smelting technology from the British.

In the early years, every year it was only one or two tons of silver, plus a dozen or 20 to 30 catties of gold. Now with the construction and operation of refined copper plants, as well as the improvement of technical strength and mining scale, this output is even more abundant.

So much so that there was an Edo merchant who hinted to Chuemon about whether a new silver mine had been discovered. If they could, they were willing to pay the shogunate to buy mines.

"How much?" Chuemon is worried that he has no money to use, and this is not the right time to come.

"Three thousand pieces of silver!" Otorori Keisuke scored a little with two points.

"Excellent!" Chuemon clapped his hands, your kid has done a great job.

The silver he has here is pure silver with a silver content of more than 95%. In this year, this is pure silver. However, when the shogunate cast silver goods, the silver content would not be so high, and metals such as lead and copper were often added. It can roughly make the silver content of more than 80% silver, and it can pass.

It's the same as the next door. Official silver from all over the world is handed over to the Ministry of Housing in the capital, and the Ministry of Housing will recast all the silver into "Jingyin", and the fineness is 90% (sometimes even less than) silver. The silver obtained from other places contains 95% of the silver, and the advantage in the middle is that the upper and lower parts of the household are divided into profits.

A simple calculation now shows that at least it can be exchanged for more than 50,000 taels of gold. Although it is not a big supplement, it can also save an emergency.

"I will write a letter to protect you!" Chuemon guard patted Otorori Keisuke on the shoulder, motioning him to do well.

Don't worry, boy, as long as you can continue to make money for the shogunate, this guarantee will definitely be honored. Let's be loyal to the name of Eemon, and we will spit a spit and a nail, not to mention that you will be promoted and rich, at least you will be mentioned about your grade, right?

Lao Zhongge, Ruonian Zhige or something, that's too high, but it's not a word to mention you as Yu Xiaoge. If you work hard for another two years, you will be promoted to the top spot.

"His Royal Highness's kindness is unforgettable." Otori Keisuke waited for these words.

You have made meritorious deeds this year, and someone has to help you report it. If you don't have someone to speak to you, you may be taken away if you have made meritorious deeds. The feudal court, or else say there are people in the court who are good to be officials, that's what it means.

Unlike Chuemon in Edo who won 50,000 taels, Qixuan Matsudaira in Yokohama is now rushing around in circles. It has been the agreed week, and the British Embassy is like dead, not even breathing.

I agreed to give another 100,000 yuan. Noon has passed, and the 100,000 yuan has not been solved yet.

Matsudaira Qixuan, who couldn't wait, immediately sent Hijikata Suizan to the embassy to ask Alcock if there was something wrong. He had already promised the armies that he would send another 100,000 today. If it can't go on, where will his old face go?

Hijikata went to the British embassy at the age of three, but when he went there, he told him that Mr. Minister was out, or you should wait. As for where it went, I, a humble little clerk, don't know.

Good guy, Hijikata Toshisan is also anxious. Just when he was overwhelmed, Alcock returned. Alcock didn't say much when he saw Hijikata Toshii San.

I'll give you 30,000, is there more!