Edo Traveler

Two British soldiers and two employees of the shogunate were left. The rest of them listened to the Ainu and ran south in September, all the way back to Hakodate Port.

When the next spring came in April, when the anti-British people's national uprising occurred in India, Naobi Ii sent a group of captured beggars and exiles, about six to seven hundred people, together with the British who stayed at the consulate in Hakodate, and The shogunate officials returned to Beihua Tailanggritun again.

　　 The four people who stayed in the area saw a boat coming over, and their joy was as if they had met Diao Chan for three years as a soldier. The Ainu were very trustworthy and gave up the slopes of Langerton to the British. The British flag on the **** was still floating there, and they moved to a small dirt bag a little further away.

　　 Seeing the British and shogunate officials coming, the Ainu heads rushed over happily and asked if there were any more wooden houses to be built? If they want, they don't need rice grains this time, just give them a knife and a bow and arrow.

　　 Good fellow, don't say anything civilized and barbaric, this is as fast as you can learn.

　　 Yes, let's build the city. When the British colonized the world, they used to build fortresses. The soil slopes of Langgritun may have been piled up by the Ming court in those days. The area is not large, otherwise hundreds of Ainu will not be inhabited.

　　 Rattan woven large baskets, filled with soil, within a few days, a civil fortress will take shape. After that, trees were cut down to build fort walls, protruding artillery positions were set up, and barracks were built.

　　 The British only sent fifty soldiers to Langleyton, and the main task of garrison was to hand over the 500 soldiers who had been sent to the mission team. Taking advantage of the beginning of spring, and the mobilization of many people, it is not difficult to build wooden houses, and a new small town will soon be completed.

　　 Langgritun is next to a river. The land along the river is very flat and suitable for farming. The Ainu didn't grow it because they didn't have any suitable plants to cultivate. The exile sent by the shogunate had potatoes in their hands. The shogunate officials with development experience in Ezo asked the exiled prisoners to quickly reclaim the land along the river and plant a season of potatoes.

　　 I have been relying on Hakokan to replenish food, which is absolutely impossible. It’s convenient to eat fish and meat here in Langgritun, but salt and grain have to be transferred here. If you keep doing this, someday someone will propose to abandon it.

　　Only when the local area can be self-sufficient can this place continue to develop. To put it ugly, Huatai Island was later given to Tsarist Russia, and he didn't even think about developing this place. It's not as good as the small days in history who worked too hard in Nanhua, they at least developed Nanhua too.

　　 After two months of busy work, the Langley Concession was basically formed. The British also sent a small team of engineers over to build the port and three north and south forts. As a military structure threatening the estuary of the Amur River by Tsarist Russia, this place is already qualified. After all, the former Nikolayevsk is not much better.

　　 The news was reported back to Edo, and the British demanded that they continue to send personnel to the Langley Concession to reclaim a large area of ​​land and grow potatoes. Then it is to investigate the local mineral resources and fishery resources.

　　 It is precisely because of the questions from the British and the circumstances of Edo that Ii Naobi has the previous question.

　　 The news of the construction of Langley's castle also reached Chuemon's ears. After learning that Langley was surrounded by large plains, the terrain was flat and open, and the ground was very fertile black land, Chuemon had plans.

　　 The British knew that there had to be food supplies in the local area to be able to occupy it for a long time. And Chuemon knew that the local area had to have abundant production to ensure development and population growth.

　　Since the local agricultural conditions are very good, and it is a land of no ownership in a sense, in addition to the development of potato planting, there is also a crop that is very suitable for the situation in Beihua too.

　　 beet!

　　 If beet can be grown on a large scale in the local area and a modern steam sugar factory can be established, then it won’t be long before the people who ask for their livelihoods will migrate to Beihuatai by themselves.

　　 The potato is a food crop at best, but as long as the sugar beet is well developed, it can become a decisive economic crop. Historically, Japan’s sugar beet cultivation in Nanhuatai was a huge industry worth tens of millions of dollars. He even wrote ballads to praise the local fertility and the prosperity of the sugar industry.

　　 Besides, the beet sugar industry has already taken shape in France, Germany and Tsarist Russia. Especially in Tsarist Russia and today's Prussia (now Prussia has a lot of land on the coast of the Baltic Sea, the climate is not warm), in order to reduce dependence on foreign sugar, beet sugar industry is vigorously developed.

　　 By the way, Russia has a beet soup, that stuff is made from beetroot. As for whether it is delicious or not, so different people have different opinions, and everyone evaluates it for themselves.

　　In Germany and Russia, about 50% of sugar is provided by sugar beets. With this thing, the two countries' dependence on imported sugar has been greatly reduced.

　　 As far as the world is concerned, the sugar industry today is still a profitable industry. If Beihuatai's sugar industry can develop, it will be no problem to prosper for fifty years and one hundred years.

　　 After that? After that, the oil industry will be developed. Beihuatai has extremely rich oil reserves. As long as it can be developed, the benefits are absolutely large enough that this place can always maintain prosperity and development.

　　 is a good beet. The beet suitable for growing in Beihuatai is probably a Russian beet variety. With the current relationship between the shogunate and Russia, it is obviously impossible for Russia to send it happily. With a fairly good relationship with Prussia, they bought high-quality beets from the Baltic Sea and then introduced them to the Langley Concession area.

　　The equipment of the sugar factory, this would be the best for the French, just buy it directly from the French. Not all French people are willing to send it for free, as long as they can expand their investment in Japan and increase their impact in Japan.

　　 "Shinhachiro!" Tademon thought for a while, and then passed Kurokawa Keitoku.

　　 "Your Highness." Kurokawa Keitoku who heard the call hurried in and asked Chuemon what happened.

　　 "Let's go to Yokohama quietly."

　　 The business representatives of the German Customs Union and the French ministers were all in Yokohama, and they negotiated with them all at once. Chuemon was not going to do this under the name of the shogunate, so he had to do it under the name of Tokugawa Kogyo Co., Ltd.

　　 We are in business, anyway, as long as the industry can make money, we can gather it in the Industrial Association. By then, exporting several million taels of sugar a year will be a good income.