Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 84 The Stone Scroll Secret Covenant
All of Endo's concerns about how to negotiate disappeared after the artillery demonstration.

Don't think about those who are missing, go back to the back of the shop in Murataya, and Endo Shunxin instructs Ishinomaki, who will come later, to negotiate immediately!
The owner of Katsuyama Brewery, Katsuyama Denzo, was appointed as the negotiating emissary, responsible for the contact with the Thor on the bright side, and Endo Shunobu secretly carried out the remote control.

The person who sent the letter to Aoba Castle was dispatched in the evening. In addition to explaining the shelling scene of the Thor in detail in the letter, Endo also asked Aoba Castle to send the detained Katayama Kanbei to Ishigami overnight. Volume Port.

After a thorough discussion with Ishinomaki Port, it was finally decided that Murataya and Katsuyama Shuzo would jointly advance the compensation requested by the Thor, and then make compensation privately by the domain.

The two business owners who lost blood mold agreed with a sad face.It is said that lending money to the big name this year basically belongs to the list of meat buns beating dogs.In the end, the big name could not pay back the money, and there were many people who defaulted on their debts.

The most arrogant (shameless) is to finally reward the creditor with the position of a retainer, and it should be repaid.

Because the Tokugawa family engaged in the account of the attendance, the finances of the island countries were very tight, and more than 70% of their annual income was spent on the account of the attendance.Although Sendai Domain is only eight or nine days away from Edo, the cost should not be high, but it can't stand to show it every time.

So early the next morning, after receiving clear instructions from Endo Shushin, Katsuyama Denzo brought the sake brewed by himself; the owner of Murataya took his own seafood and boarded a five-hundred-shik cargo ship. Thor.

After the two expressed their intentions and saw Zhao Xin, they first presented a gift list; then they conveyed the conditions of Endo's trustworthiness:
The compensation of 5000 taels of gold was delivered within three days; Katayama Kanbingwei was already on the way to deliver; the matter of exchanging food for refugees was handled by the two business owners, and the officials of the Sendai feudal clan were not allowed to come forward during the whole process. Invisible) way, Katsuyama and Murata House sent boats to transport refugees to the open sea to board the boat and exchange them for rice or wheat.

However, Endo Morinobu pointed out that it was too little for every [-] refugees to exchange three stones of rice, and hoped to exchange ten stones of rice or wheat.

After Zhao Xin heard it, he made an estimate in his heart.When Thor completed the formalities before going to sea, he purchased [-] tons of rice as the goods for customs clearance.

According to the measurement conversion of this era, 130 tons is 38 stones (one stone equals [-] kilograms).Calculated in this way, he can actually get a population of [-]!

This is a bit scary. In the absence of the Sendai Fan, do the two business owners in front of them have this ability?Of course, there is no 38, and 10 people can be sent.

Based on the current average of three or four people per family, 10 people are [-] households, which are properly arranged from the mouth of the Sila River to the Twin Castles.

It is said that the island country is doing [-] peasants to farm land, and next year, it will go to [-] Shandong Dahan to cultivate land and train troops. It is very beautiful to think about it~~
Facing the question raised by Zhao Xin, Katsuyama Densan and the boss of Murataya agreed that the number of refugees in Sendai Domain alone would be no less than [-].Now many homeless people go to the seaside of Mutsu to fish for seaweed, not to mention that now the weather is getting warmer, more people are going to the sea.

(In real history, the Sendai clan starved to death between 15 and [-] people during the Tianming famine, and these are only official statistics, and the actual death toll far exceeds.)
Zhao Xin thought for a while and decided to agree to the other party's conditions.After all, farming time waits for no one. No matter what this year, we will reclaim [-] mu of land in the northern part of Beihai Town.

When he thought of the tall and dense virgin forests on both sides of the Sila River, Zhao Xin felt more and more pressed for time.

Well, so Zhao Xin proposed that he would come to Ishinomaki Port once every ten days to pick up at least [-] refugees on board.He also made a request to the two, that is, singles do not want to accept, only refugees with family and children are accepted.

Katsuyama Chuansan's heart moved after hearing that Zhao Xin agreed to the conditions of Shishi Dashi's replacement.

Now the wine making business is also difficult, the most important thing is that the price of rice is skyrocketing.When it comes to brewing sake, with five kilograms of rice, one kilogram of koji rice, four kilograms of cooked rice, and the right amount of water, you can finally produce about nine kilograms of sake.

So Katsuyama Chuansan tentatively asked himself if he could buy some rice from Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin opened his mouth and asked, "How many tons do you want?"

Katsuyama Densan asked curiously, "Excuse me, sir, what does this ton mean?"

Only then did Zhao Xin react and said, "This is our weight specification. One ton is about 7.7 stone."

The two bosses rolled their eyes, calculated secretly, and asked hesitantly, "Excuse me, how much is a ton?"

During the normal period of the Edo period, one or two yuan worth of money could buy rice for one stone and two buckets of rice in Edo City.

Zhao Xin thought for a while, and then understood the meaning of the two in front of him.So he smiled and said, "Five taels of gold."

Just kidding, only 1400 ton of American rice is shipped to China; even if the five or two small sentences are all converted into purified gold, there are still as much as 34 grams.According to the purchase price of gold in another time and space, that is ten times the profit.A fool doesn't do it.

"Hey~~" Katsuyama Chuansan sucked in a breath and asked quickly, "How is the quality of the rice?"

"Last year's new rice."

The two business owners almost fainted with joy when they heard the price.Even if you don't eat it yourself and sell it all, it will be nearly double the profit after you count the purchases everywhere.

The two immediately ordered a total of 1000 tons of rice in private with Zhao Xin.It's really not much, only [-] taels of gold in total, just a drizzle.

Afterwards, Zhao Xin ordered Sheng Haizhou to formally transcribe the agreement drawn up by the two parties, in duplicate, to be signed by the officials sent by the two merchants to Sendai City and Ishinomaki Port.

Looking at Shengshan Chuan Sanyi's embarrassed look, Zhao Xin smiled and assured that this agreement is a secret contract and neither party should disclose it to a third party.Otherwise, the Sendai clan has the right to go back on it.

However, if you don't sign, Zhao Xin immediately changed his face and said with a sneer, "You can decide."

So, after Endo Trustworthy got the agreement, after thinking hard for a long time, he finally sighed and signed his name on the agreement.

If you don't agree with this and provoke the other party to bombard Sendai City, the family will be finished.Anyway, I won't live for a few more years, so let me bear all the guilt.

On the afternoon of the same day, Katsuyama Denzo brought the secret agreement signed by Endo Shunbu, Ishinomaki Minato, himself and Murataya boss to Zhao Xin.

At the same time, he also sent Katayama Kanbei who was tortured.

After Zhao Xin looked at it, he immediately signed his name.

This agreement is called the "Stone Harbor Secret Pact" in the later generations of this time and space.As the first secret treaty signed by a local daimyo in the Edo period with a foreign country, it had a significant historical impact on the subsequent shogunate rule.

For Beihai Town, headed by Zhao Xin, the "Shigang Secret Treaty" determined the result of Beihai Town's military invasion of the island country, and at the same time gradually tied the Sendai Domain to Beihai Town's chariot.

With the signing of the secret agreement, starting with the rice transaction, in the following ten years, Beihai Town further expanded the export of goods and capital to the island country.On the other hand, the island country sent the vast wealth accumulated by the implementation of mercantilism in the Tanuma period into the pockets of Beihai Town.

And all of this laid a solid foundation for Beihai Town to fight against the Manchu attack in the next few years.

(The book is not finished.)
A few days later, Date Shigemura, the head of the Date Patriarch who was far away in Edo, just received the first news from the messenger in the domain, but before he and his elders could discuss the result, the second messenger arrived. .

Date Shigemura was stunned after reading the contents of the secret letter, and the other important officials were also stunned after reading it.

Is this the end?Three hundred samurai died in this domain, and finally the two sides cooperated and exchanged refugees for food?If you say that, do you still make money?

Look at what you said, you would have known what else to do.

Date Shigemura and several important officials secretly discussed for a long time, and finally decided to report the incident to the shogunate.However, he said nothing about the agreement, only saying that the extortion of foreigners in the end was fruitless, and he left sadly.

In the end, Date Shigemura wrote in a secret letter to the elders of the Sendai clan that anyone who dared to disclose the matter to the outside world would give his entire family to the barbarians for rice.

At the same time, Zhao Xin finally raised anchor and set sail with the 1000 refugees transported by Katsuyama Densan and the owner of Murata House, together with the more than [-] refugees he had received in Matsushima Town.

This time, Liu Sheng did not sound the whistle again.Thor slowly disappeared into the sea.

"Ten days, they will come in ten days." Ishinomaki Port said, standing on the pier.Endo Shunxin-sama has returned to Aoba Castle, and this place is finally back in his hands, and he can happily make money.

"My lord, don't worry, there are at least 10,000+ refugees gathered in this feudal clan. Even if the local feudal clan doesn't have enough, there are still many in the Shirakawa clan. Our business is really easy." Denzo Katsuyama comforted him.

Yes, there is rice and grain, so don't panic.Master Feng Xing finally felt at ease: "Let's go, go back to drink."

Two days later, Beihai Town.

The homeless people who were salvaging seaweed by the pier saw the slowly approaching big boat on the sea in the distance. They threw the bag in their hands excitedly, and ignored the seaweed, and trotted all the way back to the camp.

"It's back! The lord is back!"

Hong Tao couldn't understand the broken Mandarin. He was about to ask again when he heard the whistle from the sea.

This time, the entire camp suddenly boiled, and everyone began to get busy.

In the big kitchen, Li Ji's wife Shino and Wan Zuo's wife greeted a group of women and began to wash rice and prepare porridge.

Chen Qingsong took Wan Zuo, Maozhu and others to check again whether the passage in the isolation camp was firm.

Wu Siyu and Ding Guofeng took Pan Xiucheng and others to bring back a dozen Qing army prisoners who were about to go out for logging back to the tent, and they were taken care of by Seldan and others.

After that, Wu Siyu took dozens of people including Pingtai, Jiuzang, and Elu to the pier, preparing to maintain order when the refugees disembarked.

"Quick! All preparations, Zhao Xin is back!" Hong Tao was about to ask Liu Siting and others to prepare when he saw Liu Siting and a dozen women from the island country came out of the tent.

The women either called for help or went back to their tents to change their clothes.Hong Tao and Liu Siting also found a coat made of coarse white cloth and put them on.

For this kind of white cloth coat that looks like a sack and has a belt around the waist, Director Liu has always called it "mourning clothes" with great disgust.Say this is what the doctor wears!

Hong Tao comforted her to make do with it for a while.It's not easy to buy a doctor's uniform. When Zhao Xin comes back, let him buy [-] of them. Let's wear one and play with the other.

Soon, more than 30 women stood in line wearing simple white coats, and A Miao also stood in the front wearing one.It's just that the gown was worn on A Miao's body, dangling like a sack.

Liu Siting immediately said loudly: "According to what we have been practicing these days, we will start preparing immediately. We will disembark and land in an hour!"

After Ah Miao listened, she repeated it loudly in the island dialect.

After the women heard it, they shouted "yes" in unison.Then, holding the scissors, brushes, and the ID number plate in the bucket, they hurried to their respective locations to prepare.

At this time, except for the elderly and children, everyone in the camp began to take their places, ready to welcome the arrival of the new residents.

(End of this chapter)