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Mikawa Butterfly Chapter 266 The Monk in Kyoto

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    On September 20th, Echigo Naoetsu Port, the largest port in Echigo, has undergone earth-shaking changes in more than half a year. Thanks to the efforts of the Kira family, the port facilities that have been gradually expanded since early April have been completed.  At the same time, the Sekikawa dam reinforcement project and the Sekikawa dredging project are also under construction in full swing.  Merchants passing by from Kinai and Uyo were surprised to find that this famous Echigo port had turned into a large construction site at some point. There were countless large and small projects being built everywhere. There were almost no idle townspeople in the town. The old people gathered together.  To twist hemp rope is to weave bamboo baskets and straw mats, while women spin spinning wheels to spin out strands of hemp thread.  Children near Joetsu were organized by the Kira family samurai to receive basic education. This was non-compulsory education, mainly simple literacy and moral cultivation, so that they knew from an early age that it was the obligation of the people to abide by the decrees of the king, and at the same time, they also  There will be some group sports, such as eagle catching chickens, wrestling and other sports that children like. Children who are willing to accept these educations can enjoy the special treatment of extra lunch.  To this day, no one in Echigo doubts the financial strength of the Kira family. From the beginning of the year when a large amount of grain was exchanged for soybeans and tea seeds, until earthquakes and floods, they have shown extremely strong economic strength, and the Kira family is also famous for its food.  It is so delicious that every one hundred children can share a large bucket of delicious fish soup and hot soup cakes one finger thick and three palms wide. The children who have been hungry all year round can no longer resist the temptation of food.  , one after another fell into the arms of the Kira family.  In the entire Kasugayama, Sekikawa, and Naoetsu areas, there are more than 9,000 children under 12 years old, including refugees, and more than 3,000 minors between 12 and 15 years old. In addition to children under 12 years old, they receive simple education.  In addition, these teenagers aged 12 to 15 will receive paramilitary training. Depending on their age, they will receive various trainings such as lining up, holding guns, and thrusting in the Kira family's military camp three to six days a week. During the training period, they will be provided with daily  Three meals.  Although farmers and town residents are reluctant to let their children do such dangerous things, they cannot resist the children's urge to eat well and have a good meal, so they can only let them go unhappily. The life of farmers' families in this era is very difficult.  , it is also very difficult to raise children. Things like half-grown children eating me to death are not new. In the teenage years, when the body is about to grow, starving all day long will not let alone grow taller, even the body will not be good.  Along the river from Naoetsu to the south are new-style towns that stand on both sides. People living in the new towns no longer care about their original origins. No matter which country in Kanto you come from, whether you were a farmer or a craftsman before, you will be hired without discrimination.  , river dredging is an important job, which requires large ships to manually use iron rakes mounted on winches to penetrate into the river water with long iron rods to dredge the river.  The iron rake stirs in the river water to lift up the silt and then wash it away. In order to ensure the dredging effect, it is necessary to repeatedly dredge back and forth between the river channels. This process may take more than a month. Compared with the manual dredging of the river channels,  The construction of the embankment is limited, so the whole people must participate in the construction of the embankment. Tens of thousands of people board the embankment, and the excavation and carting of soil must be carried out in one step.  The mud at the bottom of the river is a very good fertilizer. Under the vigorous publicity of the followers, many farmers followed suit and dug river mud to make fertilizer. It didn't take long to realize that the soil in the new fields that had caught up with the river mud became very soft and fertile.  The crops are growing particularly well, and more and more farmers are rushing to dig out the river mud. There are even many local servants who lead a villager to draw a large piece of the river to reserve the river mud here, and declare that no one can grab it.  River mud is not only found in rivers. Compared with the center of the river where the current is fast and unsuitable for salvage, those ponds and lakes are more popular with farmers. Especially the previously uninhabited river mudflats have been dug out. In the end, the organization still adheres to the principle that the public cannot see it.  They dug river mud in an organized manner.  If you want to dig the tidal flats near the river, you can, but the big holes must be excavated and backfilled. Otherwise, the followers will order punishment. This measure still has a good effect. Villagers who know the rules push flatbed trucks and sacks to the slopes.  Digging dirt from the river bank and exchanging it for river mud has achieved good results.  Just digging river mud to use as fertilizer is not enough. The promotion of high-temperature composting methods is still in progress. Fortunately, the Echigo coastline is very long and has marsh wetlands suitable for migratory birds. There are also many migratory birds who come here to escape the summer heat. I don¡¯t know how many fish have accumulated over the years.  There are many guano soils accumulated from bones and guano, and they are widely distributed from Haetsu to Haetsu, especially Haetsu, Central Etsu and Sado Island have the largest reserves. They are all very high-quality fertilizers.  One of the core of the high-temperature composting method is to raise livestock. A large breeding area must be established near each new field to raise cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock. The simplest way is to encircle a forest in the nearby mountains and hills, and then erect the surrounding areas.  Fences and protective nets were built to prevent livestock from escaping, followed by using sheepdogs to guard the livestock grazing in the mountains.  The first type of investment is relatively large, fortunately Ji Liang?There is no shortage of money, and there is no shortage of labor force and rural women who are idle at home in Echigo. As long as they are given labor money, these farmers can fence the entire mountain in half a month, and collect all kinds of livestock dung such as cow dung and sheep dung.  The raw materials for high-temperature composting will be sent to nearby fields as soon as possible, and combined with the ubiquitous guano soil, dead fish, dead shrimps, aquatic plants and river mud caught in the dense rivers of Echigo, there will be no shortage of fertilizer raw materials.  .  In addition, according to the plan set by Hosokawa Fujitaka, a large number of saplings need to be planted under the dam after spring sowing next year before the rainy season begins, relying on the roots of the trees to support the stability of the dam. Although this approach is slow to achieve results, it is better than doing nothing.  Many people can only hope that solid improvements will be able to withstand the flooding in a few years.  In a new town south of Naoetsu Town, close to Kasugayama Castle Town, a young monk sat on the porch in front of his monastery to meditate. This was a quiet bamboo grove monastery, and the cool autumn wind made the wind chimes on the porch jingle.  There was a sound, and the young monk who was meditating with his eyes closed immediately smiled faintly.  "Tan Yue, stay here! When the poor monk saw Tan Yue's face, he couldn't help but say a few words. Tan Yue's heavenly palace is full, the ground pavilion is round, his eyebrows are handsome, and his bones are so strange that the poor monk was shocked at the first sight Tan Yue, look!  This is the copybook written by Master Dianjiao. The poor monk has a fate with Tan Yue. He only needs fifty strings Of course this is impossible, twenty strings! As long as twenty strings are used, Master Zengcheng's copybook can be taken home. Do you want to consider it?  "Hey! It turns out that Tan Yue doesn't have that much money to offer! How about this! I have a Buddhist treasure here, Tan Yue! This is the wooden fish used by the great master of the Shingon Sect.  Spirituality, as long as ten only five guans are needed, it belongs to Tan Yue!" A tall and thick-mannered monk was stopping passers-by with a bunch of things to sell them. He had thick eyebrows, big eyes, a tall nose and a wide mouth, and a Chinese-character face!  He does have an extraordinary aura, but he always looks a bit fierce despite his gangster aura, especially with his beard, tall man, and shiny bald head, which makes him look a bit like monk Lu Zhishen.  After selling a round, the rude monk walked into the Bamboo Forest Abode with a few strings of copper coins in his hands. Seeing the young monk sitting on the corridor meditating, he threw a few strings of copper coins on the corridor and walked into the monastery for a while.  He walked out with two cups of tea and said to the young monk: "Master Zongyi has been meditating for half a day! How can you meditate with an empty stomach? How about drinking some tea while I go out for a walk?" This young monk is Kuai Chuan Shao.  I am delighted that my disciple Toriya Souji has only been here for seven or eight days, and that rude monk is Asayama Hichijo who is swindling and deceiving people in Shiga County. This monk's common name is Asayama Zaemon and Tazenge  The lord of Izumo Kingdom, Asayama Yoshi, and the son of Nizi's retainer, Asayama Keizuna.  When he was young, he divorced his wife because of poverty. Later, he had a dispute with his colleagues over his position. He killed someone in anger. Afterwards, he fled overnight because he was afraid of being pursued by Nizi's family. For this reason, he shaved his head, changed his clothes, changed his living habits, and wore sheepskin.  He traveled around various countries disguised as a Yamabushi monk, and at some point he wandered to Kinai Hiei Mountain to practice medicine.  Once at the Ouchi family's Yamaguchikan, he openly sold a bunch of Ming Dynasty clothes as "clothing for the emperor", and the sales were very good. Later, he went around Sakai Town and swindled, causing dissatisfaction among the Sakai Town congregation, and they complained to Miyoshi's family.  He was a spy from another family, so Matsunaga Hide arrested him, chained him to a wooden pillar, and locked him up next to the traffic thoroughfare in Sakai Town.  The original intention of the Miyoshi family was to intimidate Xiao Xiao, and at the same time demonstrate the authority of the Miyoshi family over Sakai Town. If it were ordinary people who were tied to wooden pillars with chains and allowed to be visited by merchants coming and going from Sakai Town, they would probably not be able to bear it long ago, but Asayama  Richeng was different from others. He was not afraid at all. Instead, he became more and more prosperous as time went by. He became famous by arguing with passers-by who were watching from all walks of life.  Slowly, more and more people stopped to watch, and many people would feed him food and water. After being locked up for a hundred days, the name of Asayama Nichijo spread throughout the streets and alleys of Sakai Town. Matsunaga showed up.  If that didn't work, they let him go, and apologized and sent him a letter of ceremonial gift before sending him out of the country. The people of Sakai Town heard that the master was pardoned and gave him clothes, food, transportation and 8 volumes of the Lotus Sutra.  Became a monk of the Nichiren Hokase sect.  "Okay, where are you going, Master Nichiyana?" Torazai Sect Yi took out a copper alms bowl. The Rinzai Sect in Japan still retains the habit of begging when practicing outside. This is also a kind of practice experience.  "Okay! Then let's go to the nearby villages!" Both of them were action people, so they picked up the Zen staff and bowl and left.  It is September in the Wei Dynasty, and it belongs to the third autumn, which means late autumn in September. It is just after the harvest season. In front of villages, women, old and young, gather to dry grain. They talk and laugh in a low voice. This year's grain production has increased again.  Many of these farmers who have been cutting crops in the fields all year round looked at the plump golden ears of millet, and they also showed cheerful smiles. The whole month was like a festival, floating around.With the joy of harvest.  Chaoshan Richeng curiously walked to a grain drying field and saw a group of old people breaking off a strange crop. He stepped forward and bowed and said, "This Tan Yue is so polite! I wonder what kind of crop this is?" "This master  Are you asking the little old man?" The old man looked like he was about seventy years old. He stood up quickly and said at a loss: "This is the crop that the Lord asked us to grow. It's called corn. It's good.  What a thing! You may not believe it, but this corn is so precious. It can produce eight stones of corn!¡±  "Wait! What did Tan Yue say just now?" "Yes! This little old man would never dare to deceive the master! If you don't believe me, why don't you ask everyone if that's true?" The old man was afraid that this big and powerful monk wouldn't believe him.  Monk Lu raised his fist as big as a sand bowl and hit him, but it would be more than worth the loss. Fortunately, they were all from his own village, and several old people immediately testified for the old man.  "Master! You may not believe it. The corn dried in this threshing floor is only the mass production of five towns of land. The land of fifty feet produces four hundred stones of grain. Can you believe it? We couldn't believe it at the beginning!" "At the beginning!  The samurai gentlemen from Kyoto went to the fields to harvest grain in person. These noble gentlemen who had never worked had harvested bit by bit with sickles. The samurai from the lord's family also went to the fields to harvest. Finally, they weighed out ten stones and five measures of grain. These samurai  The old men were jumping and shouting just like us countrymen, and everyone was crying!" Chaoshan Richeng still didn't believe it. He stared at the expressions of these old people and asked them word for word: "Every time you turn around, you can do it!  Eight shi of grain? Or only one kilo of grain?" "Each kilo of grain can produce more than that! The highest yield is nine shi.  According to the estimate of Mr. Fengxing, the average grain output in our village is about eight stones and five dou, which is absolutely correct!" The old man said with great certainty: "Please believe me, little old man, at that time a Mr. Fengxing from Kyoto held it.  The strange thing has been calculating for a long time, and it is this number that the little old man heard clearly from Bianshan!" (To be continued.)
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