With the end of the riots in Shiga, the speed of the Kira family's land inspection suddenly increased to a new level. Even the people of Takashima County immediately calmed down. Anyone who did not have the foresight to mention the county magistrate would be seeking death. These people saw it very clearly.
It is clear that the ancestor of the Rokkaku family is Lao Yamaoka Kageyuki. This man is a veteran who followed the Rokkaku clan Tsuna, Rokkaku Sadayori, and Rokkaku Yoshihide for three generations.
In Shiga, Ritai had a large number of powerful samurai under his direct command, but they were deprived of all the territory of Shiga County in the blink of an eye. Can their small stature in Takashima County withstand the ferocious Kira Yoshiki? The answer is no, so this
The people of the country are as soft as noodles. Let alone checking the place of residence, I will let you check the household registration. It only takes less than a month, and it will all be over quickly.
When the results came out, Kira Yoshi was shocked. The total stone height of the two counties actually reached 128,500 stone. Such a high stone height was completely beyond his expectation. In other words, the hidden wealth of the people of the two counties in recent years
The fields have all been dug out, and now their family fortune has been completely exposed under the eyes of Kira Yoshitoki.
Another set of data is a survey of land fertility. Among them, lower fields account for 20%, middle fields account for 50%, and upper fields account for 30%. This is better than he expected. This shows that the land in Omi is fertile for planting. This is a good thing, and of course it can be done.
What is better is farm fertilizer.
Japan's agriculture is really quite backward. It is poor and has no decent products. In addition to silver and pure copper, the only items in the joint trade with the Ming Dynasty are sulfur, samurai swords, and folding fans. Other things are either not included in the Ming Dynasty at all.
Or they simply don’t have the eye for it. For example, Japan can only make pottery in this era, and it will take decades to truly learn how to make porcelain.
Just like Japan's horse administration is a mess, Japan's agriculture is also bad enough. They sprinkle good seeds on the crops, water them when the fields are dry, dig ditches to drain some water when there is too much rain, and remove the grass when there is too much grass in the fields, so that birds come to peck at it.
The rice ears were driven away with bamboo poles, and the rest was to drink some grain and eat miscellaneous grains to endure hunger until the autumn harvest.
They neither understand crop rotation nor fertilization. Even if Japan has long introduced agricultural books such as "Essentials for Elevating the People", they are only used as academic research by educated people. As for how to apply knowledge into practice... this is completely
Just kidding, intellectuals are all aristocrats who have nothing to do with the world. Who cares about the life and death of mud-legged people?
So Kiragi thought about fertilizers. As far as he knew, there were manure, green manure, and the best high-temperature composting method. These fertilizers can be accumulated from now until the autumn when planting winter crops. Now it is too late.
, but in the spring of next year, apply a base fertilizer before sowing, a jointing fertilizer after sowing, and an earing fertilizer again when the ears are formed.
It can be of great help in improving soil fertility. Combined with the Sakamoto Raku City Ordinance that promotes the breeding of cattle and horses and centralized sales in the town, you can rely on a large amount of cattle and horse dung as fertilizer, and there is no need to worry about the lack of fertilizer.
According to the survey, the large mountainous hills in Sakamoto and Katanda are areas where field concentration is concentrated. The so-called fielding means that the grain output is small, and it is inconvenient to establish paddy fields and cannot grow rice. Kira Yoshito promptly adjusted the planting methods in these townships, and all the dry fields in the mountainous hills were converted to wheat.
, soybean two-crop crop.
At the same time, it was discovered that Omi's specialty teas were also concentrated in the mountains and hills with higher altitudes. Every year, Omi's tea would attract many tea merchants to purchase, so Kira Yoshitomo asked followers to go to various villages to listen to the local underground people.
According to the opinions of the elders, the mountainous land suitable for growing tea should be leveled and encouraged to start planting tea seedlings in spring.
Kiragi also proposed a tax reform order at the time. All non-grain-producing farmers were taxed based on the quality of the products and converted into market prices. In other words, the monks would go to the countryside with the merchants when collecting taxes, and the products collected would be collected by the monks.
The public negotiates the price with the local underground elders and merchants, and the merchants purchase it immediately. The farmers can also send representatives to supervise the purchase.
At the same time, after the taxation of the tea farmers, it was decided that tea would be used as the annual supply. At the same time, he also required the tea farmers to provide tea seeds. The Kira family would pay the tea seeds provided according to the price of ordinary rapeseed. The tea farmers did not understand the principle of this.
Tea seeds are not valuable anyway, and the tea seeds produced every year are thrown away, so it would be nice to exchange them for a little money.
In fact, tea seeds can be squeezed for oil. Of course, this cannot be compared with camellia that is specially squeezed for oil. Both the taste and economic value are inferior to camellia oil. The squeezed tea seed oil is very unpalatable, because tea seed oil is produced according to different requirements.
The taste of tea types is different, some are greasy and some are astringent, but this does not mean that this tea seed oil is not good. On the contrary, the nutritional content of tea seed oil is even slightly better than camellia oil.
First of all, tea seed oil is a very high-end supplement. For people with deficient qi and blood, tea seed oil can be added to soups to enhance immunity, improve disease resistance, regulate the body, and replenish qi and blood. It may be more effective than
The effect of donkey-hide gelatin is slightly insufficient, but it is a warm tonic without side effects, and is most suitable for pregnant and postpartum women to use as a dietary supplement.
In addition, tea seed oil is also a very good natural cosmetic, anti-wrinkle and anti-aging, making the skin smooth and shiny. It also has a good effect on dry climate and dry lips. It can be applied externally or taken internally to quickly eliminate internal heat.
Fire, of course, resists arteriosclerosis, prevents cardiovascular diseases, and prevents age-related diseases such as osteoporosis. No one in this era understands it.
He plans to collect tea seeds and squeeze them into tea seed oil, and then add the fragrant dew made from various flower petals to make high-grade essential oil. Whether it is sold to wealthy merchants in Sakai Town and Kyoto, or to the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, he must
Both can make huge profits. With this business as the foundation, there will be no need for Nanman merchants to pursue him for trade.
Another most important point is that a large amount of tea seed cake can be produced during the tea seed pressing process, which is the tea residue in the oil pressing process. Because tea is a perennial and long-lived tree, whether it is tea seed oil or pressed tea,
Seed cakes are the best thing, and there is nothing better than tea seed cake in cake fertilizer.
Because tea trees like to grow on mountains with high altitudes, this coincides with the fact that the fields on the mountains lack running water and cannot grow rice. The water and soil in Omi Country are very good and adjacent to Lake Biwa are basically middle- and upper-class fields. Those lower fields are just suitable for growing tea trees.
Unfortunately, it would take at least five or six years for newly planted tea trees to produce economic benefits, so he could only take precautions to find an industry for local farmers.
Time flies to the end of May. Ashikaga Yoshitō issued a royal letter to Nagahara Echizen, a native of the Koga country, and issued an order for the peace and security of Omi Kuni-Yosu County. Then in early June, he issued an order to the Uchizozuyama Division to continue in Yamashiro Kuniyama Division Township.
He took charge of the imperial palace and issued an order to secure the imperial palace, which could only be used by the emperor and the emperor. This marked the full revival of the power of the Ashikaga shogunate, and the imperial ministers gradually favored the shogunate.
