Chapter 95 The food is here

The interview process is actually very fast. Considering that most refugees are illiterate, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng are just going through the motions, and the person who is checking is still Katayama's Investigation Guard.

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

That is, there are not many people in Beihai Town now, so he has the leisure to do this. If there are tens of thousands of people in the future, except for one or two departments that require Zhao Xin to personally check, everything else must be delegated.

The fifty people recruited this time will be trained as a teaching team. The security police recruited in the later stage will be led by these fifty people, a large part of which will be allocated to Yuzaka, Sapporo and Otaru Port in the Hokkien land.

Tachiyama Kanbuki knew that this was the first time he had shown his abilities in front of Zhao Xin, so he took out his years of experience in doing business in the town, and he was very energetic 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 actually difficult for people to remember all the details in a time period. Usually, people will repeatedly correct themselves and straighten their thoughts when recalling the details of that time period; then in this process, the speaker will be a little stuttering.

But liars don't do this at all. They have already imagined all the supposed situations in their minds, and they will speak very quickly; and they will often raise their tone and repeat their lies.

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

In addition, there are tones, smiles, eyes, etc.

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

Fortunately, no one has studied these in this era. The ancients said that to see if a person has problems, they usually look at the eyes first.

The "Mencius" says that "there is nothing better than the eyes" is the originator of modern micro-expression psychoanalysis.

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

However, according to what Yajiro himself said, his elder brother Yairo has been recruited to the Security Department for training, and Katayama feels that this young man is not a big problem.

This time, it took half a day to interview the security police. Finally, fifty people were selected from more than 300 adult men. These people will be trained by Wang Yuanfang and others in a few days.

After Zhao Xin finished this matter, he was about to prepare for his second trip to the Xiantai Vajra. At this time, the ten-day period he agreed with Shengshan Chuan San had passed.

On the 19th day of the leap month of the 49th year of Qianlong (1784), the Thunder God set sail again after two days of preparation.

The personnel on the ship this time included Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, Ding Guofeng, Wu Siyu, Deng Fei, Zhang Bo, Sheng Haizhou, Jiuzang, Pingtai, and Lu Shoushan. There were 30 "old" sailors who went on the last trip and 20 newly recruited sailors.

Zhang Bo was very excited when he went out to sea for the first time, and he was also the most seasick one; after the Thor sailed on the sea for an hour, he began to get seasick.

Liu Sheng found seasickness medicine and gave Zhang Bo to take it and asked him to rest in the cabin. The sea surface was still calm at this moment, and when he arrived at the Jinqing Strait, the bumps would be even more severe.

In fact, Zhao Xin is also seasick, but every time Zhao Xin goes to sea, he will bring medicines like Ning and other things, and then find a place to close his eyes and rest.

On the 21st of the leap month, Thor arrived at the sea outside Shijue Port.

After receiving the news from his subordinates, the big stone in his heart finally landed on the ground.

Because Thunder God was two days late, Shengshan Chuan Sansheng was afraid that the four thousand refugees who had already gathered had been smashed into his hands. The Sintai Vang will not come forward at all.

The first thing that was sent out from Ishizuo Port was two thousand-stone "eloquent ships".

In the Edo period, the so-called Thousand Stone Ship did not have any specific ship type. As long as it could carry one thousand stone meters, it could be called Thousand Stone Ship. So Thousand Stone Ship became synonymous with large rebirths.

As for the Biancai ship, it is the most popular mainstream merchant ship in this era. The total length of the ship is twenty meters. There is a main sail on the ship and a small sail on the bow. The main mast column can be folded down when mooring to maintain the stability of the ship.

After the refugees transported on the ship boarded the Thor, the 200 tons of rice that the boss of Katsuyama, Mitsuhiro Murataya ordered before was hoisted onto the Biancai ship through the crane installed on the Thor.

Originally, Chuan San, who thought it would take a day to ship rice, saw the Thunder hoisting machine easily lifting dozens of tons of rice onto his ship at one time, and was so surprised that he couldn't speak.

"There are so many strange things that these people have!" Katsuyama True Mitsu and Murataya boss looked at each other, and both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

Especially when Shinsan Shengshan was inspecting the goods, he was overjoyed to see that the rice provided by Zhao Xin was actually all the fine rice.

In the Edo period, whether it is packed rice or other packaging rice, it was calculated based on the rice that was not unshelled when it was circulated on the market. In this year, no one dared to say that rice bran was not food, farmers would fight to him.

Most of the islanders in this era ate brown rice every day, and only the wealthy businessmen and generals could eat fine rice; therefore, many nobles in Edo Castle suffered from beriberi disease.

Among the nobles who died of beriberi, the most famous one was the later Tokugawa Ishishiro, the 14th-generation general of the Tokugawa Shogunate. He died of beriberi at the age of 21, leaving behind a lot of messes.

The 200 tons of rice shipped by the Thunder God this time was only more than 1,500 stones. This rice flowed into the Sendai Basilica, which was two million stones high, and could not even make a splash of water.

Now it is the second year of famine in the morning, and all the famous territories in the Muao area have implemented "frugality orders", including reducing three meals, stopping entertainment activities and all food-related commercial production such as sake manufacturing. Simply put, it has entered a very strict ration system period.

For the Sendai Basilica, at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan (two ounces and one stone) of grain per year is required in the territory to meet the minimum allocation, that is, the level of the subordinates who cannot starve to death. In addition, try to transport grain to Edo as much as possible.

As for those refugees in the territory, I’m sorry, these people are not considered to be subordinates.

After the implementation of the "Frugality Order", many shops engaged in dim sum making and brewing closed down. And the two owners of Katsuyama, Mitsumi and Murataya, were... Unfortunately, one was brewing and the other was making and making and making.

If the two of them had not had semicolons in Edo and Osaka, they would have closed their doors long ago.

In fact, the elders of the Sendai Fan family were a little moved since they learned that Shengshan Chuansan ordered a batch of rice. However, out of caution, the elders of the family still planned to see the quality of the first batch of grain first before making a decision.

As for why we pay attention to this mere 200 tons of rice, we still need to start with the issue of purchasing grain.

For example, in the Echigo region, which is covered with less ash and has relatively more grain income, the excess grain was bought by the shogunate relatives. Extraordinary daimyos like the Ida family could not buy much, and the price was so expensive.

The reason is very simple. The Tokugawa family wants to take your life while you are sick. It is best to let the Ida family completely doom.

But even shogunate relatives like Shirakawa's family transferred only 4,000 pieces of grain from Echigo's side and bought 6,000 pieces of grain from their relatives Aizu's family at a high price; at the same time, the annual tribute tax rate in the territory had to be increased to 100%.

Under such circumstances, when the elders of the Xiantai family heard about Tang Yi (because they found that Zhao Xin and others called themselves Tang people, but they did not come from the Qing Dynasty, they gave Zhao Xin and others a strange name, "Tang Yi") they sold less than one tael of gold, and it would be strange if they were not moved.

As soon as the Biancai ship arrived in the port, Ishimatsu couldn't wait to order his men to get on the ship to check the rice they were transported.

After his subordinates randomly checked more than a dozen bags of rice on the boat, they told Shi Juan Fengxing excitedly that the quality of these rice was very good. Not to mention Chen Mi, they were all fine rice that had been peeled off.

Shi Juan Fengxing was very surprised when he heard this. Now there is a stupid egg selling less than one or two gold rice!

He immediately ordered someone to take some samples and sent someone to report to the elders of Aoye City.

Looking at the small handful of rice in his hand, Shi Juan Fengxing was also moved, and he wanted to try this business.

So he asked the sailors on the boat to pass the three messages to Shengshan and helped him buy two thousand stones of fine rice; he was going to secretly smuggle the two thousand stones of rice to the Baihe Fan.

When Zhao Xin heard the request of Shizuan Shinzo, he shook his head repeatedly and said that Shizuan Shinzo's courage to follow was too small. He told Shizuan Shinzo that the entire eastern part of the island country is short of food, and the amount you bought is not even worthy of the tip of your little finger. It is better to do it than to do it. Buy five thousand tons at a time, and the total is only more than three thousand taels of gold.

"You have to know that the Qing Dynasty now implements grains that are not allowed to go abroad. Apart from me, only the Dutch people in Nagasaki will transport grain from the south. But when the grain arrives at Nagasaki Port, it is not your turn."

Chuan San Shengshan thought about it and felt that this was the same. However, Zhao Xin's next words made him even more moved.

"Master Shengshan, do you need sugar here?"

"Oh? Lord Zhao also has good things like sugar? How many can you provide?" Shengshan Chuan's eyes lit up.

Zhao Xin smiled slightly: "I have as much as you want. I think Shengshanjun, you are not bad, so I will give you a way to make money..."

Chuan San of Shengshan's throat was tight at this time, and he couldn't help swallowing a few saliva, waiting for Zhao Xin's later words.

Zhao Xin stared into Chuan San of Katsuyama and said, "Do you want to be the largest sugar merchant in the island country?"

At this moment, Shinzo Katsuyama's hair was standing up all over his body, and he felt a big gold brick falling from the sky and hitting him. He looked around and saw that the boss of Murataya was still watching the rice loading ships, so he quickly asked in a low voice: "Just provide me alone? Then he..."

Seeing that the other party turned his head and gestured to the owner of Murataya not far away with his chin, Zhao Xin smiled and said, "I still have a large amount of silk."

This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, which made Chuan San of Katsuyama stunned.
Chapter completed!