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After the black ship incident, the Edo shogunate concluded the Kanagawa Treaty with the United States, and was forced to open two trading ports in Shimoda and Hakodate. When it was five years after the Emperor Xiaozheng of Filial Piety, the two parties signed the "Japan-U.S." The Treaty of Friendship and Trade increased the number of ports in Kanagawa, Nagasaki, Niigata, and Hyogo. At the same time, Edo and Osaka areas also allowed foreigners to stay in business.

Although Kyoto is not among them, but it is very close to Osaka, only one day away. Now compared with the "Japan-US Treaty of Friendship and Commerce", nearly ten years have passed. Now I only mention respect for the king, set the goal to be the downside, no longer mention the Yiyi thing, and began to actively cooperate with the West, so the scope of the Westerners' activities is also larger.

Yodogawa, as the most important river in the Kansai region, originates from Lake Biwa, connecting the Kyoto Basin and the Osaka Plain. It was an important transportation channel in Kyoto during the Edo period. Most of the foreign merchants in Osaka also came to Kyoto along this river. Heng asked the passers-by in the surrounding area to inquire about the nearest pier, and rushed there before sunset.

The liveliness here is not less than that of Fang City. There are townhouses on both sides of the river. The tiles are neatly arranged on the roof. Signboards and warm curtains move with the wind. The first floor is thin and convex, and the second floor is worm cage windows. This is a building with a very traditional Japanese style. It uses a wooden structure, with a narrow entrance but a long depth. Generally, the part facing the street is used as a shop, and the back rooms are used for living. The advantage is that the shops are more dense. One by one.

There are boatmen unloading goods at the dock, and ladies and ladies who are going to take a boat trip to the river. There is also a shrine not far away, and many believers gather outside the gate to pray or ask for guard.

It didn't take long for Zhang Heng to find a Western businessman who was interested in hiring a translator. The latter was Gabriel. He was a Frenchman who came to Kyoto with the business group and talked with local merchants about cotton yarn sales. However, he is obviously not dissatisfied with the cotton yarn business. It seems that he has some other plans, but what he wants to do is not convenient for telling other people in the business group, so he cannot use the business group's translation.

I was worried about where to go to find a Japanese who could understand French. Zhang Heng came to the door. Gabriel was overjoyed and waved his hand. He directly opened a small salary every day. The so-called small sentence was common in the Edo period. A kind of gold coin, a small sentence is about one or two gold, and one or two gold is about sixty yuan or four yuan of silver, and a craftsman in Kyoto at this time earns about seventy essays a day, in other words, Zhang Heng's income in one day can almost catch up with the craftsman for two months.

Zhang Heng is not ignorant of the translation market. He consulted the people in the dock before coming. Now there is a huge gap in the professional translation talents in Japan, but people who can communicate with foreign businessmen are no longer like before the Black Ship incident. So few. In fact, even when the shogunate was closed, several lords such as Satsuma and Changzhou had sneaked into doing business with other countries.

The Japanese iron cannon (actually a rapier) originated from the Satsuma clan. At that time, a Portuguese merchant ship was blown to Tanegashima south of Satsuma by a typhoon. Therefore, the Japanese iron cannon was also called Tanegashima iron cannon.

Now, the shogunate has been open to business for more than ten years. There are many Japanese who have traveled to Europe to study and translation is not so valuable.

Gabriel's price has more than doubled the market price, which is still not very familiar to the two sides, and Zhang Heng also requested an advance advancement of a small sentence, but even so, Gabriel did not hesitate How long it took to agree, so Zhang Heng also knew that what French businessmen were going to do in Kyoto would not be easy.

However, with Zhang Heng lv3's knife method and the experience accumulated in previous copies, he is not too worried about what dangers he will encounter, not to mention that now that the sun has set, he may not be able to find the next employer, so in the end the two sides will still An employment agreement was reached.

After Gabriel paid Zhang Heng a small sentence, he asked the latter to meet him at the tea house next to the dock tomorrow morning, and when Zhang Heng left the dock, the sky was completely dark.

Zhang Heng was not very hungry because he added a meal before the copy, but now he must find a place to stay.

In order to control the lords in various places in the Edo period, the shogunate set up a special duty account system, requiring that the lords of the lords run Edo to perform government affairs for the shogun at regular intervals. Of course, this is a reason, mainly to facilitate the shogunate The big names are playing for fun, reducing their time in the territory, and at the same time making them afraid to mess around when they are on the territory, or they may be directly taken down the next time they attend a job ~ www.readwn.com ~ But Tokugawa was quite kind, and many places along the way were also repaired. Later, a cage house was developed, which is similar to a hotel in later generations. Not only does it have one night and two meals, but many cage houses also have dedicated maids to take care of tourists. However, as the number of people who traveled to the end of the scene increased, the travel cages began to become mixed. Not only did the rogues provide gambling equipment and help tricks, but the travel cages simply let the maids sell colors directly.

Afterwards, the merchants in Osaka organized the first wave talk, which was probably equivalent to a hotel chain. They unified the service standards, so travelers can rest assured that they have a guild sign outside the gate.

However, whether it ’s a travel cage house or a spray lecture, it ’s just an excessive choice for Zhang Heng. Considering that the time for this copy is not short, Zhang Heng is more inclined to rent his own house. Seeing that there is still time, he also I didn't rush to the hostel, but found a toothman nearby and let the latter show him the house.

Yaren is a 14-year-old boy who looks very smart, and he is also a native of this area. He is well-informed and knows everything from households to households. Zhang Heng paid him 100 yuan and promised Give him a hundred more texts after the incident, he immediately came to the spirit, and did not care about not having dinner, immediately took Zhang Heng to the streets.

However, in several prime locations of the houses he highly recommended, the ronin patrons around him did not seem very satisfied. The two went farther and farther and had to set up a lantern. Zhang Heng had originally planned to give up. See it tomorrow, but this place where the two finally came was to make Zhang Heng's eyes shine.

The entrance is a small courtyard. There is a cherry tree in the center of the courtyard. It is open and self-contained. The water well under the tree is clear and sweet. The whole courtyard is square, simple and beautiful. At the same time, the furniture is also very complete, in the words of future generations, it belongs to the standard of baggage.