Edo Traveler

Vol 10 Chapter 46: Yokohama's prosperity is different

As the country's largest open port and a window for foreign relations, Yokohama's development is definitely changing with each passing day. Since the signing of the "Treaty of Anjoy and the Nations", various restrictions imposed by the shogunate on foreign powers in Japan have been greatly reduced, and investments from countries such as Britain and France have continued to flow in.

In addition, nominally the initial station of Japan Railway is Nihonbashi Terminal in Edo, but the actual dispatching terminal is in Yokohama. The completed railway line extends from the 30-kilometer Edo-Yokohama Line to Yokohama. Sunfu Line. The raw silk and silkworm cocoons harvested from Kai and Shinano have now been transported to Sunpu, where they are loaded on vehicles, and they can be delivered to Yokohama for export within two to three hours.

   Now British engineers and the Shogunate are training foreign students, and they are working hard to overcome the problems in the construction of the Oigawa Railway Bridge. As long as the construction of the Oigawa Railway Bridge is completed, the railway can be quickly laid to the Yuanjiang Tianlongchuan.

   When Tadaoemon first met Akio Takashima in Oigawa, he still remembered the local "power". To ensure that the troops from the Kansai attack could not cross the river smoothly, Ieyasu Tokugawa demolished all bridges on the Oi River, and at the same time prohibited ferrying on the river.

   Now that the railway bridge is installed, it is against the ancestral system.

   嗐, the shogunate is going to be gone, it doesn't matter what ancestral system is. At the beginning, Junfu Pursuance also mentioned this matter, but when the news reported to the Mu Pavilion, the stone fell to the sea, and no one cared about it at all.

   "We have to take a look at Sunfu when we have time." Tadaemon sat in the ordinary carriage and whispered to Kurofune Keitoku.

   "Take out all the tickets, check the tickets!" As he said, a ticket inspector walked into the car.

   The family was born as a hereditary imperial family, and this attitude is just like that. Chuemon glanced at it, but just pulled out a second-class ticket. The inspector of the royal family looked at the plain kapok clothes of Chuemon, but he had a handsome sword, grumbled, and left.

   It is said that for a certain period of time in later generations, in a state-owned hotel in a certain country, the waiters were all serious state-owned enterprise employees, formal workers, and the bosses of temper. In order for them to get along well with the people, the slogan "Never beat customers for no reason!" must be posted on the wall of the hotel, hahahahahaha...

   "Why don't you take the first-class carriage?" Kurokawa Yoshitoku watched the ticket inspector pass by.

   "It's a matter of course, everyone who doesn't have to do it this time is known to everyone." Chungemon also stopped by to see the situation of the settled imperial family.

   Social conflicts have become increasingly fierce, and the two factions of founding the country and fighting against the barbarian are like water and fire. However, a constitutional monarchy suddenly emerged in the country to compete in the upper levels of the central power. The upper and lower floors of the entire country are like a chaotic furnace, with sparks constantly emitting outwards.

   The time has come to solve the job placement problem of 600,000 samurai across the country. At this time, even if the Anglo-Japanese joint venture and the French-Japanese joint venture were poisonous, the shogunate had to swallow it down. Only in this way can it be possible to solve the poverty problem of middle and lower samurai on a large scale without pushing them down.

   It stands to reason that Chuemon had to stop the ticket inspector just now. Ask him how he did the job of the ticket inspector, whether his salary is more than before, his life is better than before, his wife and children have clothes and food.

   Ask you to carry the knife before going down the curtain, would you still be happy?

   I must be unhappy when I think about it. Whoever is full and has nothing to do, go and kill the owner who pays himself or is hereditary. If you kill this iron rice bowl, it will be gone. A fool can do it.

   When I got off the train, the station was bustling with hustle and bustle. The British textiles disembarking from Yokohama were being transported by rail to the huge consumer market of Edo. The raw silk sent from Sunfu was unloaded continuously, and Japanese laborers hired by the British moved the bundles of raw silk to the port under scolding.

   Foreigners who are rare in other places are already commonplace in Yokohama. Foreigners with different clothes and different costumes have regarded the Yokohama Residential Area as their own country. A lot of Japanese patrols appeared beside the original British military police on the street. These are all Japanese arresters newly recruited by the British military residence area authorities to maintain law and order on the ground.

   A military police officer often directs a dozen or even dozens of Japanese patrols, screaming and drinking at the sound of a whistle. Some people check the pass at the intersection. Tens of thousands of victims were resettled in Yokohama. In order to facilitate the management, the British consul ordered the pass to these people to identify their identity.

   Tademon does not have a pass, but it is not a big deal whether it is there or not. Even if it is caught by the British military police, it can be done with two money. People come here to be a military police officer, can't they make some extra money?

  Go straight to the Yokohama Acting Office, and Shengmo, Jodaigawa Road is not there, so he went to Hama Customs to deal with customs accounts. In the past, Britain and France exempted the shogunate’s five million loan and all the incidental interest. Hama Customs’ accounts had to re-determine the annual repayment amount and the balance of tariffs handed over to the shogunate.

   This is a major event, so Shengmo Chuanlu is not serious.

  Since he is not here, Tadaoemon will be fine, and go directly to the French Minister Roche. UU reading www.uukanshu.com Roche recognizes us, and this person can speak English, no translation is needed, so it’s not troublesome.

   The French Embassy is not far from Binhai Customs, and several embassies are all in one place. Just like the future Dongjiaomin Alley next door, it forms a Chinese embassy district. This place is not a question of pass, idlers simply cannot enter.

   When the guarded British officer saw Chuemon approaching, he came up to greet him enthusiastically, saying that he knew Chuemon. It saved the trouble and was led all the way to the French Embassy. Of course, the British Consul General of Yokohama Macdonald also knew the news of Tademon's arrival.

   "Why didn't Your Excellency Tokugawa inform me in advance so that I could send a car to the station to pick you up." Roche smiled and walked to the door to pick up Chuemon.

  Compared with other shogunate bureaucrats who are not easy to talk about, Chuemon is a very liberal group of people in the shogunate. The foreigners mainly negotiated with Chuemon in the past.

   "It's just a matter of personal matters, so I don't dare to move the crowd." Chuyouemon stepped forward and shook hands with Roche.

  Roche has a special carriage, which he usually uses on his own travels. I ordered a French-style luxury carriage from Annan.

   "Please come in, please come in." Roche doesn't care what happens to Tademon, as long as there is something to ask him, it's good.

   The two settled down, and the servants of the embassy brought tea fruit snacks and of course wine. The French who can have a drink even if nothing happens are quite enthusiastic about wine.

   "I want to know about the conditions and prices of sugar making equipment." Chuemon looked at the small sugar cube next to the black tea.

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