The Honma family of Sado has been extremely respectful since they surrendered. Takanobu Honma, the lord of Hamo Castle, Yasutaka Honma, the lord of Zatai Castle, Hideji Honma, the lord of Ota Castle, Honma Yojuro, the lord of Kuchi Castle, and other members of the Honma clan
He stayed in Kasugayama Castle for one season and adopted a very respectful attitude.
In fact, they can't help but be submissive. Sado Port is in the hands of the Kira Navy. Kuuki Shigetaka is stationed at Sado Port for at least five months of the year. With the Kira family's vigorous construction, Sado Port has more than doubled its size before.
, the pure wooden structure in Sado Port Town has also been replaced by a civil structure, and the straw wooden house covered with Sango soil is stronger and warmer than before.
The main force of the Kira Navy was stationed in the new Sado Port. The Honma family and the people of Sado were overwhelmed. The important port to the sea was pinched. The main force of the Sado Navy was wiped out and the remaining troops were collected. The Honma family and Sado were
The Chinese people are no longer able to resist. As long as Kira Yoshito is willing, he can wipe them all out.
The pressure of survival forced the entire Honma family to surrender to Kasugayama Castle, accept military service and taxation from the Nagao family, and accept land inspection and agricultural reforms. The entire Sado land of 20,000 koku needed to bear 1,500 military services, including 500 people.
Standing was arranged to receive training in the Shimogotsu National Standing Corps in Niigata Town.
According to the requirements of the Kira family's standing laws in the second year of Koji, the entire Echigo military service account will undergo a new round of reforms. The proposal of a standing army was also brewed half a year ago, with one-third of the military service account being the standing army.
After receiving long-term professional training, standing ashigaru is not hereditary, but rotates in the military service account on a two-year basis. During the period of standing military service, the food and lodging are paid by each lord daimyo. The specific expenses are determined in each year's fiscal year.
Listed separately in the budget.
The main meaning of this standing corps is a fast-moving professional corps. It ensures that a standing ashigaru can be called upon at any time under any circumstances. The generals of each standing corps will be appointed by the Nagao family tree. The generals of the standing corps are divided according to military service and the number of people in the country.
The military situation has been uniformly determined. This military service system completely covers all levels of Echigo. Professional standing corps, professional ashigaru, semi-professional corps, and reserve youths all have sufficient sources of troops at each level. Its main combat strength is the frontline
Of the two, the latter two have little effect for the time being.
Kuki Shigetaka's youngest son Genfu is named Kuki Takamochi. Although he is young, he has been on the water for nearly ten years. As soon as Genfu became the leader of the navy, he was responsible for supervising the ten ships under construction as the representative of the Kira Navy.
With the Anzha ship and the construction progress of the eighty Kanbune ships, it was obvious that his father not only wanted him to be a navy general.
The gold mining on Sado Island is of little significance to the people of Sado. The amount of gold mining is related to the fact that they do not have a penny. In comparison, the agricultural reform is more exciting. Sado Island is affected by the maritime climate of the Sea of Japan in the north. Agriculture
Development has always lacked achievements. An island in Nuoda is only 20,000 stones high.
However, the actual cultivated land area on Sado Island is 7,000 machibu. Preliminary research shows that the actual arable farmland is 11,000 machibu, which does not include mountains, forests, beaches, and uncultivated land such as castles, such as near Sado Harbor.
More than half of the 1,500 towns of land are extremely deserted fields with severe desertification. Usually, this kind of land has such low farming significance and value that it is not calculated and used as cultivated land.
In addition, less than half of the land is still sandy soil, and the lower field is still half, and a little more than half is the middle field. The upper field is only a little over 100 machibu in total, so in fact, more than half of the land given to the Kira family is not considered cultivated land, only about 700 machibu. It is farmland in the true sense, but what the Kira family needs is Sado Port and the reconstructed port town. It does not matter that these nearby farmlands are auxiliary.
So what is the concept of 11,000 machibu? The current cultivated land area of Echigo is less than 100,000 machibu. Although this is greatly related to the agricultural development of Echigo, it is initially estimated that the entire arable land area of Echigo is about 20,000 machibu. There are 150,000 towns of arable land, of which Niigata has more than 100,000 towns of arable land. Its farming potential is huge.
The cultivated land area on Sado Island is very large for a relatively small island. Seven thousand towns means 70,000 cultivated land. A few years ago, Echigo could produce 70,000 to 80,000 koku of grain, but on Sado Island There was only 20,000 koku of grain. Although there were marine climate factors that affected the farming season, the more important reason was that Sado did not know how to farm, or even did not farm at all.
Sado, as a place where criminals were exiled, has always been ignored. In the Kamakura period, the settlement was also managed in an extensive manner. Even now, for thousands of years, Sado Island still remains at the level of slash-and-burn farming. Some people just sow rice seeds and ignore them. In the autumn, we can harvest as much as we can. On the contrary, it is common for the land to receive only four or five measures of food during the autumn harvest. Some lazy lords have more weeds than rice, and they don’t know what kind of fields they are planting. Where.
The Kira family's agricultural reforms were very thorough after entering Sado. They evacuated new villages and demolished branch towns. There are sixty or seventy densely packed castles on a small Sado Island. There are only four that can be called castles, and the others are larger. It is considered to be the standard of Tulou cottage, and even the smaller cottage is not as good as that of bandit Ye Fu, who can burn down a small wooden village with a fire.
What use would he have for such a shabby thing? It became inevitable to demolish them all. Only four castles were left on the entire Sado Island. Kuchi Castle was eventually demolished because it was too small. Honma and Juro exchanged part of their territory for Kawarada Castle. All the Chinese people in the Jian family moved into the new village and set up residence halls.
With the implementation of the annexation of the new village, the Chiyuki land in Sado Island was further transferred and adjusted. The land obtained from the Kawarada Castle was piecemeal and unsuitable for management. This time the transfer divided the respective land areas, and the cultivated land of the various lords All are brought together to reduce the possibility of land disputes and conflicts.
The executive officer sent by Kira Yoshitoki reached an agreement with the Sado people. The Kira family will be responsible for reforming the agriculture of all the people lords in Sado Island and increasing the grain output to reach Echigo's standard level. At the same time, the price to be paid is the development of Sado Island. Nitta will be fully owned by the Kira family.
There is no free lunch in the world. The Kira family exchanged agricultural reforms for four thousand steps of cultivated land. It was a willing transaction between you and me. Even if the Sado people refused, they were unable to develop those wastelands. Their own cultivated land was in a state of ruin. There was no point in developing the wastelands at all. No.
The initial promise to be fulfilled is to increase Sado Island's grain production to 70,000 koku within two years, and within five years, the total stone height of the entire island will exceed 150,000 koku. This difficulty is actually not high. It does not specify whose land, but the entire Sado Island has a total grain production, and there are no dry floods in Sado. A small amount of swamps can be easily solved by directly building polders. At most, we can plan a river network for river irrigation, which is actually very easy to develop.
There is no problem in developing the entire island's 11,000 machibu farmland within five years. According to the standard output of one stone, the output of 11,000 machibu is 110,000 stone. It is very easy to develop. It is reported that the yield of grain is three stone. , or it is very difficult to rotate rice and wheat to produce five or six tons of grain. It may take more than ten or even twenty years to study the local climate carefully to achieve it.
The real major asset of Sado Island is not farmland but fishery. The fishermen of Sado are quite famous in Hokuriku. Fishermen with rich experience can even catch whales. Kira Yoshitoki is determined to develop the fishing industry, so he orders people to post recruitment notices. Fishermen form several fleets and fish at sea all year round.
Not to mention ordinary fishing boats, the shipyard in Naoetsu Port is working day and night to build Anya boats. In addition to shutting down the ships, there are also whalers built to the standard of Anya boats. The draft of this type of whale ships is about 150 tons. Between 180 and 180 tons, there is no problem in catching ordinary whales.
In addition, the Kira family is building a shipyard in Sado, which is expected to be completed next year. By then, it will be possible to build house ships, custom ships, and various return ships, small morning ships, and fishing boats in Sado. The support for Sado is also visible.
Another plan that is conducive to the development of Sado is the slaughtering and meat processing industry. This is a relatively secretive industry. The slaughtering industry is something that is done by ethnic groups in Japan who are not included in the household registration and whose population is not counted. In ancient Japan, livestock was slaughtered to make leather. It is a dirty profession, they are called Kawara people, also known as untouchables.
The Kawara people are a very miserable ethnic group. They are not a certain race or a certain surname, but a group of untouchable ethnic groups that have existed since ancient times. They were driven out of cities and villages and lived in limbo all day long, so they begged for food, collected corpses, and slaughtered livestock to make leather. Occupations include those who help people dig wells, those who sing, laugh and sell meat, the monkey musicians, the porters who work as coolies to resist packing, the unknown small businessmen, the gardeners and other professions.
Those who are relatively well-off include the gardener Zenami, who was the gardener of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth shogunate of the Muromachi shogunate. He designed and built the garden of Ginkakuji Temple. There is also Zeami, the ancestor of the Kan family, who was also from Kawara. Someone once confronted her Saying that he is a pariah basically means that the family that Sarugaku came from are all Kawara people.
They are also the best among the Kawara people. The ones who are worse at it are collecting corpses, begging for food, slaughtering cattle and horses, dismembering dead animals to make skins, doing unskilled mud and water work, and lending their strength, which no one wants to do. Work.
Kira Yoshitoki quietly gathered the Kawara people from Kanto and Hokuriku who were good at slaughtering through the Kira ninjas, and slaughtered and processed meat in a relatively remote and hidden place on Sado Island. This was also a helpless expedient and could not be allowed to happen. It is understandable that samurai who kill with knives spend all day slaughtering livestock, once or twice for the sake of food and drink. It will definitely not work if they are allowed to specialize in slaughtering livestock in the long run. This will be regarded as an insult and punishment.
This era is vegetarian, and there is absolutely no problem in eating meat secretly, but only if you do it yourself. Eagle hunting is a cover for all samurai to eat meat. It is high-sounding to say that Eagle hunting is a way to train bows and horses, such as being frugal and stingy. Tokugawa Ieyasu loved falconry and hunted thousands of times in his life. Everyone can understand what exactly he did with the prey he brought.
The cattle, pigs and other animals in Echigo Ranch will be transported to Sado Island for slaughter. The required meat and ribs are cut out and then sealed and transported back to various houses in Echigo for processing and sales. Although the procedure is a bit troublesome, But for the sake of concealment and safety, there is still nothing we can do. With the Kira Marines behind us, we are not afraid of leaks. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!