Kaga was born in the "Koga-ryu" in the south of Omi. His original surname was Wada, and he came from the Taki family of the "Twenty-One Koga Family". The most famous figure in their family was one of the three elders of Toyotomi in the Momoyama period.
Ichi Nakamura.
Unlike the comics and rumors of later generations, although Koga and Iga were sometimes hostile during the Warring States Period, they actually had a good relationship. These two regions have been known as the "Koi One Country" since ancient times, and the two factions
There is a close relationship between them, and there are many intermarriages.
Jiahe's father died early, and he still has two younger brothers and sisters, and a mother above him, so he had to start a family at the age of fifteen and earn money to support the family. Because his mother was the Nishimura clan from Kishu Domain, one of the Iga clan, so
He was sent to the shogunate through his uncle's connections and became an "imperial court fan".
The so-called "Otaiban" is an intelligence agency directly under the shogun's inner court established by the eighth generation shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune. Its headquarters is located in the garden of Edo Castle Honmaru.
Because Tokugawa Yoshimune is from the Kishu Domain of the Gosan Family, the earliest 17 people of the Gowaban were all from the Iga clan. Although there were 9 more families after that, they were all from branch families of the above 17 families, so they were also called
It is "Igamoto Hiroshiki".
It is said that since Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Edo period, both Iga and Koga have long lost their function as ninjas. In addition, many of the "Omamisuke" who served as official inspectors of the shogunate gradually became envoys.
The main job of the ceremonial officer was that the inspection ability directly under the shogunate was just a formality.
On the surface, the Oteibanshou are responsible for guarding and cleaning the courtyard of Honmaru, but in fact they are agents directly under the general who collect intelligence and monitor the feudal lords throughout the island country. When these people perform their tasks, they disguise their identities in various ways, ranging from farmers to farmers.
Businessmen, ordinary citizens, etc., the only thing they don't pretend to be is the "ninja" appearance of future generations!
However, despite the fact that "Yu Ting Fan" can often see generals, they are not even the lowest-level samurai; once someone is promoted to a samurai, he has to leave this organization.
At that time, Jia He, under the orders of the shogunate, disguised himself and tried to sneak into the group of refugees heading to Beihai Town. Unexpectedly, Beihai Town did not accept singles, so he had to go back and take his son Shinnosuke with him and board the ship to Beihai Town. His wife had already
After his death, my father-in-law's family was not wealthy, so the father and son had to depend on each other.
Later, Jiahe was assigned to Fuldan City. After experiencing the battle with the Qing army, he was really shocked and eye-opened by the strength of Beihai Town. But it was a pity that the information he had collected so hard could not be sent out at all.
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Speaking of which, Jiahe and his son were also the "matchmakers" for Liu Sheng and Wu Xiha. In the winter seven years ago, a hungry tiger somehow broke into the Jiahe family's yard. You must know that there are no tigers in the island country.
Shinnosuke, who had never seen a tiger before, had no idea of fear and didn't know how to get close. In order to save his son, Jiahe was bitten and seriously injured by the tiger that rushed towards him. After that, Liu Sheng led people into the mountains to hunt tigers and met Ushiha by chance.
It created a story that is still talked about in Beihai Town.
Jia He, who was seriously injured, originally thought that he was going to die in a foreign land. Unexpectedly, after careful treatment by Hong Tao and his wife, as well as precious tetanus serum and large doses of antibiotics, the disfigured Jia He actually survived.
, it took him half a year to recover in the hospital.
Feeling the grace of saving his life, Jiahe entrusted his son Shinnosuke to a neighbor, then went to the Public Security Police Station to surrender and revealed his identity as a shogunate spy. As a result, Jiahe did not do anything to harm Beihai Town.
thing, and the information was not sent out, so it was quickly released.
Two years later, Jiahe, who had already married a wife and had a daughter, was suddenly secretly summoned by Li Ji late one night. The other party told him that the time had come to repay the kindness of King Zhao and Beihai Town. From then on, Jiahe
The family left the city of Fuldan, and no one around the neighbors knew where they went.
In fact, Jiahe and more than 20 other people moved to the east bank of the Xila River and lived in several newly built small courtyards at the Northern Navy training base. Later, that area was assigned to the Northern Naval Intelligence Bureau. From then on
From then on, Jia He began a long and hellish training. The people like them reported directly to Zhao Xin, and Li Ji was just a sounding board.
After a year of secret training, Jiahe was regularly sent back to the island country, traveling between Edo and Osaka, for as long as six months and as short as two or three months. His main job was to collect market intelligence. His disguised identity was a
Drug dealers who travel around the world. You must know that in addition to being good at spying on intelligence, Koga-ryu ninjas also have an ancestral craft, which is selling medicine.
According to the records of "Wanchuan Jihai", the prescriptions handed down by the Koga family include "Hongke Pills", "Zhuanbuzu Medicine" and "Wind-Cold Medicine". The formula of the former was slightly modified to clear the throat and soothe the throat.
throat medicine; the latter two are simply seasickness medicine and cold medicine. The later "Nisshin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." located in Omi was the industry of the descendants of Koga.
After leaving Mino House with his companions, Jiahe returned to a ryokan called "Takahashi House". After getting up in the morning, while having breakfast, Jiahe listened to someone's vivid description of the beautiful night last night on the porch.
The murderer in Nongwu, like other residents around him, exclaimed from time to time, and there was no difference at all from the others.
Later that day, as a radio wave from Osaka arrived in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin quickly learned about the murder in Kyoto last night. After reading the telegram, Zhao Xin was silent for a moment, and then came to Beihai Town with two guards.
Naval Logistics Department Lidge's Office.
When the boss came in person, Li Ji thought he was here to inspect the work, and thought to himself that Xu Funan didn't say hello in advance, leaving him unprepared. But Zhao Xin sat in Li Ji's office for a long time, saying nothing with a stern face.
Didn't say.
Liji knew something was going on, but he didn't dare to ask after seeing the other party's face. Just when Zhao Xin stood up and left, and was about to step out of the door, he said to Liji: "If you have time tonight, go with Shino to see Pingtai's wife and children."
.In the future, please help take care of his family more, and if you need anything, just tell me."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Liji's face turned pale in a flash, and he knew that he would never see Pingtai again. Thinking of the time when Zhao Xin and he pulled Pingtai out of the pile of dead people, and together they
Crossing the sea by boat, running laps with Zhao Xin every morning on Bear Island, everything is vivid in my mind, as if it was yesterday.
"Why are you so confused! What a bastard!" After seeing Zhao Xin off, Li Ji sat back in his chair in frustration and finally couldn't help but curse.
In fact, if Heita had not gone to Minami Kyushu to spy on Hisikari Kaneyama, Zhao Xin would not have killed him. At most, he would have recalled Heita to the Sendai Clan, found a place to place him under house arrest, and then sent his wife and children there. Freedom was not necessary.
I thought about it, but with the original love, the family will definitely not have to worry about life.
One day later, Cao Peng, who was having a meeting with Liu Taigong and others in the office, suddenly received a telegram from Zhao Xin, asking him to complete the handover of work with Liu Taigong within three days and rush back to Whale Town to report on his duties and make another appointment.
When Cao Peng received the telegram, he thought that something had happened, right? He only gave himself three days, which was too urgent. After thinking about the recent news from Whale Town, there was nothing unusual.
"Go and ask Mr. Duan Lin to come over. Forget it, I'll go by myself."
When he saw Liu Taigong, Cao Peng showed him the telegram. Liu Taigong was also surprised. Cao Peng had a good personality, and the two of them had cooperated well during this period. If he was suddenly asked to take over, it would inevitably lead to thousands of deaths.
Wan Xu. But since Zhao Xin had the order, he could only follow it. Fortunately, this year's grain collection and purchase work after the summer grain harvest in various parts of Ningguta was coming to an end, and there was nothing urgent to do at the moment. The two then went to work.
I called some of my subordinates and started the handover.
During the three years that Cao Peng was in Ningguta, he did not have to worry about most military matters. Although he also served as the "political commissar" of the Ningguta garrison, he mainly played a role of supervision and checks and balances. All matters were mainly
The Northern Navy Staff was in charge, so his main energy was spent on vigorously developing agriculture and promoting the urban economy, and institutionalizing urban commercial management.
The land development in the Ningguta area started with the Eight Banners garrison. The early Eight Banners land was formally formed in the 33rd year of Kangxi. The flag land was state-owned land in the Qing Dynasty. Officers and soldiers were not allowed to buy or sell it privately. The villagers under the banner farmed the flag land.
, the grains obtained were used for the expenses of the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, in addition to the grain rice. As the three generations of Shun, Kang and Yong were exiled, a large number of people were exiled here and became slaves of the armored men, forcing them to cultivate additional wasteland. Therefore, the number of banner lands increased day by day.
According to statistics from the captured Manchu archives, when Beihai Town occupied Ningguta, the total number of Eight Banner fields was 442,434 acres; in addition, the number of private lands in the Ningguta area was 51,922 acres. Adding the above two, the total amount was nearly 495,000 acres.
The reason why there is such a high area of cultivated land has a lot to do with the farming methods of this era. Because of the vast land and sparse population, coupled with the cold climate, the relatively primitive "fire field method" farming method was adopted in the early days.
, that is, you cannot sow seeds after you cultivate them in the first year, and you can sow them only after you cultivate them again in the second year. In this way, the more you plant, the more mature the land becomes. By the fifth year, it can be regarded as fertile land. However, by the sixth or seventh year, the soil fertility is exhausted.
, and then go to cultivate new fields. In this way, more and more cultivated land will be opened.
Although the immigrants from Guannai have brought improvements to Ningguta's agricultural production, they have been relatively limited. You must know that such a large area of cultivated land cannot be taken care of by intensive farming like that in Guannai, so it can only be implemented on some plots of land.
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In addition, there are Nanma Factory, Xima Factory and Cattle Factory in the Ningguta area. In addition to providing horses for garrisoning the Eight Banners, they also have to provide cattle for official villages. The standard before the Manchu and Qing Dynasties was that one cow should be allocated to every 120 acres of land for farming.
The efficiency can be imagined.
After Cao Peng took office, he first confiscated all the flag fields, and then set different redemption prices based on the degree of reclamation of the private fields. It took half a year to recover them all through negotiation and coercion. The purpose of this was
It is necessary to carry out mechanized large-scale agricultural production through "agricultural cooperation" and get rid of the small-scale farming model of relying on the sky and burning wasteland at will.
Whether they are exiles or villagers, they are all slaves and do not have their own farmland. Now that they have the right to use fifty acres of land, and they only pay 10% of the rent in taxes, they are naturally happy.
Those Manchus and civilian households who owned private land were very dissatisfied with the policies of Beihai Town, but due to the threat of force after the Beihai Navy's victory over the Qing army, they did not dare to resist. Some simply fled with their families to Jilin or Boduna.
In terms of population, the Immigration Department has successively moved more than 2,000 households of old residents from Fuldan City and Whale Town, and after negotiating with the Qing government in Dagukou, more than 1,000 households of immigrants from Huguang have been relocated. In addition to the original
Some have more than 1,800 households. The total number of households in Ningguta area has reached 5,000, with a population of more than 20,000. Even if each of the 5,000 households is allocated 50 acres, the total is only 250,000 acres, which only accounts for
It is only more than half of the cultivated land area.
The civil affairs department dispatched a specialized team to Ningguta, Sanxingcheng, Hunchun and other places to teach the technology step by step, lead the farmers to build water diversion canals, bring in large tractors for deep plowing, and rational fertilization, plus the help of farmers from other places.
The high-yield wheat seeds were available for a while, and the yield per mu exceeded 300 kilograms the next year.
There is a secret method for farming in Beihai Town. With the movement of people in recent years, it has spread even to Jilin and Boduna areas under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Fukang'an even sent people to secretly purchase wheat seeds from farmers.
The problem is that Beihai Town engages in an agricultural production model of "large-scale operation and large-scale facilities", and the seed saving process is very strictly controlled. Even if individual Manchu families secretly save seeds, they do not know the key points, and often
They are mostly hybrids and are very prone to degradation.
Furthermore, wheat needs to be sprayed with phosphorus and potassium fertilizers during the jointing to grain-filling stages. Because they are all kept in a unified manner, this thing was not solved despite all the efforts of the Qing Dynasty. However, they also found out, but the name "potassium dihydrogen phosphate" was used.
Everyone was confused and had no idea what it was.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In addition to focusing on agriculture, Cao Peng also put a lot of thought into the development of business. It is said that if a town wants to prosper economically, it mainly focuses on four aspects.
Things to start with: the number of merchants and transaction scale, the institutionalization of business management, the rise of the financial industry, and transportation conditions. Beihai Town has unified planning and deployment for the last two items, and what the local government needs to do is the first two items.
After Cao Peng took office, he first canceled the eight miscellaneous taxes under the Manchu Qing Dynasty; that is, the cattle and horse tax, the pig tax, the cowhide tax, the shop tax, the pawnshop tax, the official weighing tax, the official fighting tax, and the grinding tax. After the changes,
The tax system is uniformly levied at 5% of the commodity transaction volume, and receipts will be issued as proof after payment of the tax.
Cao Peng, after discussing with Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin, decided to temporarily retain the practice adopted by the Manchu and Qing Dynasty officials of having their own brokers collect taxes on their behalf. The brokers would be issued a "taxation qualification certificate" by the administrative office, which would have a photo and a stamp on it.
, which can be regarded as a transitional period before the establishment of the tax department.
In the past, in order to control the grain market and collect grain transaction taxes, the Ningguta Deputy Government Office had twenty-four officials and twenty-four officials. In the transaction, the government collected taxes and the officials received commissions.
Only after being appointed by the government, obtaining the guarantee from the grain bank, and receiving the tax stamp can they carry out the task of fighting.
After the arrival of Beihai Town, the grain trade was under unified purchasing and marketing, and all were taken back to the management of Beihai Trading Company. After being screened by the Public Security Police Department, most of the original 24 "Doutou" entered the grain and oil companies affiliated to Beihai Trading Company.
In addition to receiving fixed salaries, these people will also receive bonuses based on the completion of annual grain purchases.
Unlike Beihai Town, Fuldan City and Khabarovsk, which were built from scratch, Ninggu Pagoda, Hunchun and Sanxing already had a considerable degree of private business before the arrival of Beihai Town. Before Ninggu Pagoda was built, the city had already
There are many shops in the city, with a wide range of categories, including 13 cloth shops, 11 restaurant shops, 10 grocery shops, 28 noodle shops, 5 iron shops, 2 oil shops, 3 mill shops, 10 pawnshops and nearly a hundred other shops.
Some of these shops were founded by immigrants from other places raising funds, and a few local Manchus and immigrants invested in them and opened them together. The shares include bank shares and body shares.
In addition, the "Yixing Shaoguo" located in Kaluntun in the north of the city has been open for 20 years and is also an important local shop. The reason why the Shaoguo shop is important in the Ningguta area is that due to the weather, both men and women drink to keep warm.
;Then there is the Manchu people's "Tiao Shen" sacrifice in spring and autumn, which requires the use of a large amount of distilled liquor.
Although the urban economy is beginning to take shape, it is still far from meeting the daily needs of the people.
For example, before coming to Beihai Town, local people did not have candles in their daily life, but instead lit homemade "bran lamps". This is a kind of sesame stalk-based method, which is mixed with perilla oil residue and millet bran and stuck on the sesame stalks.
, after drying, it is about one meter long. When in use, it is inserted horizontally on a wooden frame so that it cannot be extinguished by the wind.
Furthermore, there is no salt field in the Ningguta area. Since the Ming Dynasty, the salt consumed in the Ningguta area has been exchanged with the Li Dynasty. Every October, the great uncle of the Li Dynasty would send people to Ningguta to sell salt through the official.
On the Manchu and Qing side, horses were exchanged.
Cao Peng built a medium-sized salt farm in Hunchun. Although the production time was only seven months a year, it still helped the entire Ningguta area get rid of the situation of having to exchange salt for hundreds of years. In addition, he also opened a weaving factory.
A candle factory was jointly funded by Beihai Trading Company and Wu Zhenzhou, the owner of "Hengfeng Pawnshop".
In order to prevent the blacksmith shops from making weapons and bows and arrows privately, he moved the blacksmiths and clerks from the five blacksmith shops to the steel factory in Khabarovsk, and only set up one agricultural tool repair shop in the city. Although there were five blacksmith shops instead of one,
However, due to the use of electric furnaces and new machining equipment, work efficiency has been greatly improved, and the quality of agricultural tools produced and repaired has also been much improved compared to the blacksmith shop.
It has been more than a year since Liu Taigong came to Ninggu Pagoda, but his main focus was on culture and education, and he only had some understanding of other affairs. As a result, the handover work between him and Cao Peng took five full years.
Genius completed.
At this time, the news of "Master Xiao Cao"'s transfer had spread like wildfire in the city. The business owners in Ningguta City were grateful for his "kindness" and actually rushed to make a Wanmin umbrella signed by each business owner overnight.
Cao Peng was moved and dumbfounded, and lamented that his hard work over the past two years was worth it.
After waving goodbye to the crowd of farewell people outside Xunfeng Gate, Cao Peng's carriage did not drive onto the road to Fuldan City, but headed in the direction of Hunchun.
He had already sent a telegram to Zhao Xin, informing him that he would take a boat from the dock in Mokuowei and return directly to Beihai Town. The reason for doing this was not only faster than taking the land route, but also because there was another person in Hunchun City that he could not forget.