Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 6

Remember for a second【】

It is estimated that it is still a little early to copy the bottoms. It is a good opportunity to copy after 1866. As a huge project costing 18.6 million pounds, the profits here are huge.

Especially after the opening of the Suez Canal, it quickly began to make a profit, and it didn’t take many years to make all the previous investment back. By then, the stock of the Canal Company would be a godsend.

But that’s all for later.

Count Roche also wanted to come with good intentions, and asked Chuemon if he was interested in buying Suez Canal stocks. After all, the absolute return of the canal is huge. Judging from the current situation, the possibility of success is not small.

Speaking of which, the cost of this canal is also huge, and the budget planned in the early stage, calculated back and forth, did not exceed 8 million pounds. As a result, the actual round of construction, eight million pounds is not enough for his fraction, you say how big this is.

Either or not it will be necessary to raise funds several times and sell shares in the financial markets of Paris. The owner of the Canal Company, Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps, is also a poor man. Whether he can turn over depends on the battle of the Suez Canal.

Did you write back to Earl Roche and let him buy stocks boldly? But be sure to stick to your heart and don’t follow others. As long as it doesn’t sell, the money can at least eat into his grandson’s generation, and there may even be a surplus.

“As usual, that kid Roche is also a shrewd person.”

After Chuemon said a word, he wrote a reply in person, and ordered two words from Count Roche. As for whether he can hold on to the 150,000 pounds of stock, that’s not something Chuemon can manage.

We only need to raise a few million pounds by 1865, and then go to Paris to hunt for the bottom. In the future, even if the old Tokugawa family is finished, they will be able to eat the dividends of two generations.

“Shinhachiro, Shinhachiro.” Chuemon called out, and Kurokawa Ketoku walked in.

Just send the reply to the Count of Roche to the French embassy, ​​and they will naturally have channels to send it back. I heard that the Count of Roche also wrote a letter to Madame Atsuhi, and it is estimated that the content may be similar.

After the letter was sent away, Chuemon sat down again, if the Suez Canal opened. In fact, the ability of the Russians to project troops to the Far East has also been strengthened to a certain extent. Of course, this is the same for countries such as Britain and France.

The canal is open to both civilian and military ships from various countries, as long as you pay the toll. During the Russo-Japanese War in history, the Russians had a part of the fleet, which was rushed to Japan through the Suez Canal, saving a lot of time.

Now, although the main energy of the Russians has been transferred to Central Asia, the mind of developing the Far East seems to…

No, he seems to be starting to sell Alaska!

In the past ten years or so, he may really have no energy to take care of East Asia. The Trans-Siberian Railway, it was not until the 1980s that it was planned and then built, which is twenty years away from now.

Alaska is a place where food is tasteless, and it is a pity to abandon it. Let’s go back and clarify the internal affairs. Let’s fill up the places in our hands first.

Just thinking about it, Songping Qi Xuan walked in from the outside with big strides. With an official document in his hand, he sat opposite Chuemon and handed it directly to Chuemon.

Open it and see, it is a summary table of national population data.

Beginning with Tokugawa Yoshizong, the general of the eighth generation, the shogunate began to conduct a census of the whole country to a certain extent. But at that time, he didn’t investigate the samurai and the samurai’s family and servants.

To put it bluntly, it is to maintain the mystery of the ruling class, everyone should be able to understand it.

According to the regulations of Tokugawa Yoshizong, the shogunate should conduct a census every ten years. Therefore, the population data information of the Edo period in Japan has been circulated on the Internet in later generations, but it does not include samurai.

This time the “big review” of the population is the first review after Chuemon’s succession to the throne. Although it is not a crucial event, it is also related to Chuemon’s strategy of colonizing the Quartet.

Taking a closer look, Chuemon was very happy when he saw the summary of the junior samurai families, because the final number had exceeded Chuemon’s expectations.

42 million is amazing!

The shogunate began to modernize for so many years and developed the economy, but it was still effective in the end. Even if there were natural disasters during this period, the population loss was relatively small due to the gradual improvement of the shogunate’s finances.

In fact, this population statistics is still very rough, because the shogunate itself does not control the national hukou. And the shogunate’s tax is basically on the land, not on the people.

The household registration of the whole country, except for the samurai, is in the hands of the monks of the monastery. The household registration of the samurai is in the hands of the shogunate and the lords, and there is generally not much difference.

Some princes have a lot of extortionate and miscellaneous taxes in their territory, which will lead to the situation of population hiding. However, because ordinary Japanese people are more devout to Buddhism, they will leave a name on the monk’s side, which is generally not much different.

All you need to do is order all the monasteries in the world to report the number of people you control up to the next level, and in the end, the shogunate will summarize it. Because of the feudal lords involved, I was busy all the way from the beginning of the spring to the summer, and finally finished the statistics.

A large population is a good thing, but it is also stressful.

Don’t you see the Egypt we mentioned earlier, the population has swelled to what extent, all rely on the toll of the Suez Canal to support the country’s hard-bought cheap pie. Looking at that, I’m afraid the population will have to increase, and I don’t know what the future will look like.

We are well now, the island has a large population, so we can

^0^ One second to remember【】

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“There are so many people, it’s a good thing now.” Chungemon closed the official document happily.

“Just to enrich Ezo and Kata!” Matsudaira Qixuan nodded.

Why only Ezo and Kata, that’s because these two places have already started to pay off, you know. Feudal officials could not see the king’s expansion of territory, especially the land that did not return. But if a place is rewarded, it can place officials and expand its establishment, then they will welcome it.

Ezo is not only rich in minerals, fisheries, and forestry resources, but now it is also beginning to grow sugar beets and potatoes. Potatoes are directly used as food rations.

Huatai was the British who discovered the gold mine, which is now being developed by the hustling people who are in full swing. On the other hand, Tokugawa Industrial Co., Ltd. opened paper mills and sugar mills, and made wood pulp and paper, and the raw materials were almost inexhaustible.

“Go on, Yokohama reported that there was an envoy from the Brazilian emperor.” Kurokawa Keto knocked on the door.

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