Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 95 The food has arrived
The interview process was actually very fast, considering that most of the refugees were illiterate, so Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng just walked through the motions, and Katayama Kanbei was the one who guarded.

The main purpose of Zhao Xin sitting here is to let these refugees know who you are eating.

That is to say, there are not many people here in Beihai Town, so he has the leisure to do this; in the future, if there are tens of thousands of people, except for one or two departments that need to be checked by Zhao Xin personally, the rest will be delegated.

The fifty people recruited this time will be trained as a teaching team.The security police recruited later will be led by these 50 people, a large part of which will be assigned to Yubari, Sapporo and Otaru ports in Ezo.

Katayama Kanbei knew that this was the first time for him to show his ability in front of Zhao Xin, so he took out his many years of experience in working in the town and looking at people, worked hard and carefully selected.

Zhao Xin observed these people through micro-expressions according to the contents of some psychological analysis works he had read before.In fact, when he usually talks to people like Chen Qingsong, he also observes their micro-expressions.

For example, it is difficult for people to remember all the details of a time period.Often people repeatedly correct themselves and straighten their minds when recalling the details of that time period; then in the process, the speaker stutters a bit.

Liars are not at all like this. They have already imagined the hypothetical scenarios in their minds, and they will speak very neatly; and they often raise their voices and repeat their lies.

Another most obvious feature is that liars touch their noses unconsciously.

In addition, there are tone, smile, eyes and so on.

For example, when a person says something and blinks quickly, it means that he must be hiding something.

Fortunately, no one has studied these in this day and age.The ancients said that to see if a person has a problem, generally look at the eyes first.

Mencius said, "Those who exist in people are better than those in the eyes", which is the originator of modern micro-expression psychoanalysis.

Yajiro, who was in the first group of applicants, passed the first interview. After that, Katayama would go to the side of the camp to inquire about his family situation.

However, according to what Yajiro himself said, his eldest brother Yaichiro has been recruited to the security department for training, and Katayama thinks that this young man has no problem.

The interview with the security police took half a day.In the end, 300 people were selected from more than 50 adult males.These people will receive training from Wang Yuanfang and the others together with the previous fifty people in a few days.

After Zhao Xin was done with this matter, he was about to prepare to go south to Sendai Domain for the second time.At this time, the ten-day period that he and Katsuyama Densan agreed to have passed.

In the 49th year of Qianlong (1784), on March [-]th, after two days of preparation, the Thunder God set sail again.

The personnel on board this time include Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, Ding Guofeng, Wu Siyu, Deng Fei, Zhang Bo, Sheng Haizhou, Jiuzang, Pingtai, Lu Shoushan, 30 "old" sailors from the last trip, and 20 newly recruited sailors .

Zhang Bo, who went to sea for the first time, was very excited, and it turned out to be the most seasick; after the Thor was sailing at sea for an hour, he began to become seasick.

Liu Sheng found seasickness medicine for Zhang Bo to take, and asked him to rest in the cabin.The sea is still calm at the moment, but when it comes to the Tsugaru Strait, the turbulence will be even more severe.

In fact, Zhao Xin is also seasick, but every time Zhao Xin goes out to sea, he will take medicines such as Chengweining, and then he will find a place to close his eyes and rest.

On the 21st of March, the Thor arrived at the sea off Ishinomaki Port.

After the anxious Katsuyama Denzo, who had been waiting for a long time, received the news from his subordinates, the big stone in his heart finally fell.

Because the Thor arrived two days late, Katsuyama Chuan Sansheng was afraid that the [-] refugees he had gathered would fall into his hands.This matter, Sendai Domain will not come forward at all.

The first thing sent from Ishinomaki Port were two Senshi "Electrical Ships".

In the Edo period, the so-called thousand stone boats did not have any specific type. As long as they could carry a thousand stone meters, they could be called thousand stone boats.As a result, Qianshi Ship became synonymous with large boats.

As for the debate ship, it is the most popular mainstream merchant ship in this era.The total length of the ship is 20 meters. There is a mainsail at the midship and a small sail at the bow. The mainsail post can be brought down when berthing to keep the ship stable.

After the refugees transported on the ship boarded the Thor, the [-] tons of rice ordered by the owner of Katsuyama Densan and Murataya were hoisted onto the eloquent ship by the crane installed on the Thor.

Katsuyama Densan, who originally thought that it would take a day to ship rice, was speechless when he saw that the hoist on the Thor easily lifted dozens of tons of rice onto his boat.

"These people have too many weird things!" Katsuyama Densan and Murataya boss looked at each other, and both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

Especially when Katsuyama Chuansan inspected the goods, he was overjoyed to see that the rice provided by Zhao Xin was actually polished rice.

In the Edo period, regardless of whether rice in tatami or other packages, when it was circulated in the market, it was calculated as brown rice, that is, rice that has not been hulled.Who dares to say that rice bran is not food these days, the farmers are looking for him desperately.

Most of the islanders in this era ate brown rice every day, and only the wealthy merchants and shoguns could eat polished rice; so many nobles in Edo Castle suffered from beriberi.

Among the aristocrats who died of beriberi, the most famous was the later Tokugawa Iemo, the No. 14 general of the Tokugawa shogunate, who died of beriberi at the age of 21, leaving a mess.

The 500 tons of rice shipped by the Raytheon this time only amounted to more than 200 shi.This little rice flowed into the Sendai Domain with a stone height of [-] million, and it couldn't even splash a little.

Now in the second year of Tianming's famine, all daimyo territories in the Mutsu region have implemented a "thrift order", including reducing three meals a day, stopping recreational activities and all food-related commercial production such as sake making.Simply put, it is entering a very strict rationing period.

For Sendai Domain, at least [-] to [-] tao (two tao and one stone) of food are needed in the territory a year to meet the minimum ration, that is, the level of the subordinates who cannot starve to death.In addition, try to deliver food to Edo as much as possible.

As for those refugees in the territory, I am sorry, these people are not considered citizens.

After the implementation of the "thrift order", many shops engaged in dim sum making and brewing have closed their doors.As for Katsuyama Densan and the owner of Murataya...Unfortunately, one is brewing wine and the other is making wagashi.

If it weren't for the fact that there are still semicolons in Edo and Osaka, they would have closed their doors long ago.

In fact, the elders of the Sendai domain were also a little tempted after knowing that Katsuyama Densan had ordered a batch of rice, but out of prudence, the elders still planned to see the quality of the first batch of grain before making a decision.

As for why we are concerned about the mere [-] tons of rice, we still have to start with the purchase of grain.

For example, in the Echigo area, which is less covered by volcanic ash and relatively more profitable, the surplus food was bought by the relatives of the shogunate, and foreign names like the Date family could not buy much at all, and the price was expensive. to die.

The reason is very simple, the Tokugawa family can't wait to take advantage of your illness to kill you, it is better to let the Date family completely die.

However, even a shogunate-like feudal feudal lord like Shirakawa Domain only transferred 100 tao of grain from Echigo, and bought [-] tao at a high price from his own relative, Aizu Domain; increased to [-]%.

Under such circumstances, when the elders of Sendai Domain heard about Tang Yi (because they found out that Zhao Xin and the others called themselves Tang people, but they were not from the Qing state, they gave Zhao Xin and the others a strange name of "Tang Yi") and sold them. When a stone of rice is less than a tael of gold, it's strange that you don't move your mind.

As soon as the Pakucai ship entered the port and docked, Ishinomaki couldn't wait to order his men to board the ship to check the rice that was delivered.

After his subordinates checked the dozen or so bags of rice on the boat, they were extremely excited to tell Ishinomaki Fengxing that the quality of the rice was very good.

Ishinomaki was very surprised to hear that, now there are idiots who sell polished rice for less than a tael of gold!
He immediately ordered some samples to be taken, and sent Pegasus to report to the elders of Aoba City.

Looking at the small handful of polished rice in his hand, Ishinomaki was also tempted, and he also wanted to test the waters of this business.

So he asked the sailors on the boat to pass three messages to Shengshan, and buy two thousand stone of polished rice for himself; he planned to secretly smuggle the two thousand stone to Baihe Domain.

When Zhao Xin heard Katsuyama Densan's request, he shook his head again and again, saying that Ishijumaki's courage was too small.He told Katsuyama Denzo that the entire eastern part of the island country is short of food, and what you bought is not even the tip of your little finger.If you want to do it, it's better to make a big one, buy 3000 tons at a time, and the total is only more than [-] taels of gold.

"You have to know that the current rule in the Qing Dynasty is that grains are not allowed to go abroad. Except for me, only the Dutch people in Nagasaki can bring food from the south. But when the food reaches the Nagasaki port, it is not your turn. "

Katsuyama Chuansan thought for a while, and felt that it was the same.However, what Zhao Xin said next moved him even more.

"Your Excellency Katsuyama, do you need sugar here?"

"Oh? Master Zhao also has good things like sugar? How much can you provide?" Katsuyama Chuansan's eyes lit up.

Zhao Xin smiled slightly: "I have as much as you want. I think you are not bad, Shengshan-kun, then I will give you a way to make a fortune..."

Katsuyama Chuansan's throat was tight at this time, and he couldn't help swallowing a few saliva, waiting for Zhao Xin's words.

Zhao Xin stared into Katsuyama's eyes and said, "Do you want to be the largest sugar merchant in the island country?"

At this moment, Katsuyama Chuansan's whole body stood up, and he felt that a big golden brick was about to fall from the sky and hit him.He looked around and saw that the owner of Murataya was still watching the rice loading, so he hurriedly asked in a low voice, "Just provide me alone? Then he..."

Seeing that the other party turned his head and gestured with his chin to the boss of Murata House not far away, Zhao Xin smiled and said, "I still have a lot of silk."

This sentence, like a thunderbolt from the blue, made Katsuyama Densan stunned.

(End of this chapter)