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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 322 Conflict and Punishment

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    Echigo had another great harvest, and the brilliant achievement of 2.1 million koku once again proved that this was not a meteor streaking across the night sky, but a star that constantly emitted heat, reaching Uao in the east, Hokuriku in the west, and Hokuriku in the south.  A legend of Echigo is quietly circulating in the vast land of Kanto.  Legend has it that if you grow food on the land there, you will definitely have a good harvest. On the contrary, the land can grow seven or eight kilograms of food. The lords there are very kind and willing to accept farmers from other places. Many landless refugees due to disasters or other reasons are moved, no matter what they grow.  How much food is there, just being willing to accept farmers from outside is a great thing, enough to make them clap their hands happily.  In this era, many lords are very repulsive to outsiders, especially small wealthy families, local servants and local village groups. The total amount of land is limited. The more you give to outsiders, the less you will get, even if there is more land.  Even if you don¡¯t finish your crops, you can still give birth to sons to breed for future generations. It is unreasonable to give them to outsiders anyway.  It was a great event to be excited that the Kira family could break this precedent and attract refugees from other places to enter Echigo, so many refugees immediately rushed to tell each other, and soon they gathered in small groups and rushed to Echigo.  Echigo's bumper harvest has also spread to Kinai, including this year's impressive achievements in the two military operations of Kira and Nagao, which have become a hot topic in Kinai. However, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who lives in Nijo Imperial Palace in Kyoto, is very popular.  Annoyed and angry, His Royal Highness could only use bottles and bottles to vent his anger.  The promise that he initially regarded as perfunctory actually had a high chance of success. In just three years, Echigo's unfavorable situation has completely opened up. Who knows what it will be like in another three years. I think of that time a few years ago.  The impulse destroys the friendship between king and minister.  Ashikaga Yoshiki could only be angry at himself for being too impulsive.  He can only vent his anger by smashing things.  The Miyoshi family in Kinai finally stopped.  There were no new actions in the two years after the Harima expedition. Miyoshi Nagakei himself also focused on internal affairs. By learning and imitating the policies of the Kira family, he organized the castle towns in Kinai and even Shikoku Honto, and imitated the Sakamoto Rakushi Order to make a simplified version.  Utatsu Port quietly implemented it.  What is even more surprising is that the Miyoshi family has reorganized its military service system, perfected and fully implemented the foster care system, and began to quietly re-establish military service. In the past two years, Miyoshi Changqing and Miyoshi Yixian have been working hard  A national separation law is being prepared.  Actively strive to transform into a Sengoku Daimyo with full meaning.  It¡¯s not all smooth sailing in Kinai. An unpleasant incident occurred in the Otsu area of ??Shiga County this summer. The cause was that retainers of the Rokkaku family intercepted ships at the mouth of the river near Otsu and forcibly collected taxes. Before that, Lake Biwa led to the Uji River.  Export has always been in the hands of the Kira family, and Otsu's boss is responsible for tax collection.  This behavior that obviously crossed the line angered Nakajo Tokihide. In his view, this was a further intensified version of the repeated harassment by the Rokkaku family in recent years. If Rokkaku Yoshihide's expanding ambitions could not be curbed in time, both Otsu and even Omi counties would be affected.  will fall into his hands.  Therefore, after receiving complaints from merchants, Yodogawa Mitsunaga led the Kira Navy to mobilize in large numbers.  Immediately call for the tax officer of Liujiao's house and seize the tax collected.  The ship that caused the accident was confiscated and several boats of the Rokkaku family came to the rescue. Rokkaku Yoshihide was unwilling to suffer this loss, so he launched a military confrontation with the Kira family. As a result, during the confrontation, Nakajo Tokihide killed one  Wan Dajun pulled up to Ojin to prepare for the attack, but the Rokkaku family suddenly retreated and did not dare to take the lead.  Rokkaku Yoshihide, who was embarrassed and lost points, was not willing to let it go, so he took the matter to the shogunate and asked for a ruling. The shogunate only had the Shimizu Yamen without authority, and the status of Nakajo Tokihide and Rokkaku Yoshihide were not equal. Rokkaku Yoshihide  Xian thought that he would definitely take advantage of it later.  As a result, Ashikaga Yoshiki hit fifty points each with a stroke of his pen. The Rokkaku family was wrong to usurp Otsu's taxation rights. The Kira family was also wrong to sink the Rokkaku family's ship. The Rokkaku family was sentenced to be banned from taxing the Uji River export near Otsu in the future.  The Kira family compensated a few ships and settled the matter hastily.  After this incident, Nakajo Tokihide wrote to Kira Yoshitoshi, strongly requesting on behalf of the retainers group to increase the military service of Omi and the two counties. Since the two counties of Omi have a population of nearly 200,000, they only have 6,000 standing troops.  The Ronin Regiment only had 10,000 people and was unable to effectively protect the security of the two counties.  After some discussions between Kira Yoshitoki and Yamamoto Tokiyuki, they decided to agree to the request for increased military service. However, the requirements for increased military service were also very demanding. The number of additional military services was set by Kira Yoshitoki at 5,000. These five thousand people  They must be selected from the population of Omi, and then take a boat to Echigo to receive personal guidance and training from Yamamoto Tokiyuki.  The training period is tentatively set for one year, and I believe that the Rokkaku family will not find trouble again within a year. In addition to the confirmed increase in military service, the Tongxinzhong and the Ronin Regiment can expand from two thousand to three thousand each.  The recruitment power of this semi-military organization is handed over to Nakajo Tokihide, and Hattori Yasuch¨­ will be responsible for monitoring the entire process and will prepare a report and submit it to Echigo.  In this way, Omi¡¯sThe armed force will exceed 12,000 people. Including the 5,000 troops trained by Echigo, there will be 17,000 people. This number of armed forces is still very impressive. Considering the actual situation and food burden of the two counties of Omi,  It can only bear an armed force of more than 20,000 people. One soldier for ten people is already an extremely high military service, and any higher is too much.  There are no large-scale planting of new grains in the two counties of Omi. There are three reasons. Firstly, the land is scarce and raising cattle and horses requires less farming. Without so much fertilizer to support planting, the effect of planting will be very poor. Secondly, the climate temperature and precipitation are different from each other.  The differences in Echigo are large, and the results of planting will also be very different. The results are not as good as traditional rice planting. The third and most important point is that the Kinai people have many hybrids and new grains can be easily circulated, so they are not afraid of being  People secretly learn from others because they are afraid that they will not be able to do so and they will suffer misfortune.  For example, the Takeda family, the Hojo family, and the people from Etchu, Kanto, and Yu'o who were not willing to fail, obtained many new food seeds through various channels, and began to secretly plant them last year. As a result, they lost their seeds because they did not understand the high-temperature composting method.  Plants grown without fertilization and pollination will be short-growing, and the yield of new grains per unit area is simply astonishingly low.  If you want to grow potatoes, pumpkins, corn and even all crops with high yields, the most important thing is to have sufficient fertilizer support. If you don¡¯t know and don¡¯t know how to apply fertilizer, you can only rely on the original soil fertility of the land to support the growth of new crops.  As a result, the new grains planted will not yield much crops during the autumn harvest.  Moreover, the fruits are small and ugly.  It was much worse than that of Echigo, and what was even worse was that it exhausted the soil, and nothing could be grown on the barren land unless it was left fallow for two or three years.  This has deceived many Chinese people. Although they carefully tried to plant a small amount of land, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. After being deceived once, the Chinese people from all over the country who are not rich will no longer dare to think about new crops.  , powerful names such as Takeda, Hojo, Mogami, and Ashina generated greater interest.  He tirelessly probed and studied the agricultural development of Echigo.  A war delayed many things. The wedding of Saito Asanobu and Aju was postponed until October 20th. The wedding date was set as September 20th as early as last year.  Saito Asanobu was still busy in Ueno, so he had no time to prepare for the wedding. The wedding date could only be postponed to more than a month. Anyway, the wedding had been prepared for half a year. At most, the guests would be delayed by more than a month, which did not affect the quality of the wedding.  After the two parties finalized the wedding date more than a year ago, Kira Yoshitoki and Aju held a small adoption ceremony.  Atago Kikuhime, who was born in Murakami Genji's Kuga-ryu genre, became the step-sister of Kira Yoshitoki, who was born in Kawachi Genji's Ashikaga-ryu genre.  This move also pioneered the recognition of adopted relatives.  So Yoshitoki Kira came to watch the ceremony as a member of Aku's natal family and attended this noisy and festive disclosure banquet. Seeing the happy smile of his adopted sister who was nine years older than him when she married Saito Asanobu, Yoshitoki Kira finally gave up.  With a knot in my heart, I secretly prayed: "Mom, sister Aju has found her own love, and my child has also found his own love. You can enjoy happiness in heaven with peace of mind!" As Aju's natal family, Atago  Her brother was sent by her family to attend the ceremony. This noble prince came empty-handed, ate and drank freely in Kasugayama Castle for more than a month, and then participated in a lively wedding with laughter. His thick skin was indeed beyond the reach of the Echigo samurai.  .  Whether it is the samurai of Echigo or the people of Northern Shinano, the people of Ueno all send envoys to send a congratulatory gift. Whether it is a few guan of money or some swords, souvenirs and the like, it is always a friendship, and the gift is less important than the intention.  The principles are consistent in ancient and modern times.  Before leaving, the young master of the Atago family received two hundred gu Yongle money as a personal gift from his brother-in-law Saito Asanobu. In addition, Yoshitoki Kira also gave him another two hundred guan Yongle money, making Sanjuro think that he was still a tycoon.  The young man who was not a councilor smiled so hard that his face was almost deformed.   In the golden autumn of October, the gentle autumn wind blows a bit of coolness on the body. Compared with the scene of Uonuma County, which is already covered with ice and snow, the vast land of Shimogoshi still carries the autumn feeling that has not yet dissipated, and Echigo faces Japan.  The sea is baptized by the ocean. The lowest temperature in winter is minus 34 degrees Celsius, and the highest temperature is only 245 degrees Celsius. There are few clouds and little rain in April and May every year, and it is the season of abundant rain and snow from June and July to February of the next year.  Taking into account weather factors, the progress of projects in the Shimotsu Niigata area has always been slow. The progress will slow down when there is more rain and snow. The excavation of the Shinhorikawa has been delayed for nearly two years. After hundreds of days of wind and rain,  Day and night, the rough river channel was finally dug out, using 300,000 laborers during the period. With the supervision and incentives of the followers, the construction period was shortened by nearly a year. It will be possible to blast the entire river early next year and connect it.  river course.  This new Horikawa River, which is twelve meters deep at its deepest point, will be responsible for the connection between the Shinano River and the Agano River. There are also several other tributaries of the Horikawa River that are still under construction. It is expected that it will take another two years to initially complete the vast Niigata area.  water network, this place will become the agricultural center of Echigo and its future prospects.??Can be limited.  Compared with the rapid excavation of rivers, the speed of polder is much slower. The speed of projects under Li Ding's control cannot be increased. In addition, rain and snow often come, which slows down the speed a lot. Li Ding once said that the key point of polder is  Regarding the quality of water gates and polder dams, a polder is considered qualified if it can withstand a major flood that occurs once in thirty years. Many polders in their hometown have been stable for hundreds of years. They would rather sacrifice speed to ensure the safety and stability of the polder.  .  As the executive officer of the polder project, Mitsui Toraka comes to Niigata for almost half a month every day, holding several documents and quickly reading and reviewing them. One of the important tasks he has to supervise is the review of each payment.  For approval, purchase reports of more than 50 pieces must be forwarded to the Procurement Commission for review. Hosokawa Fujitaka will come to check the accounts once a month, and Matsui Yuxian will also come to check the accounts from time to time to verify the plans and funding sources of all projects.  The paper door was gently pushed open, and a little head poked his head in to look at what was going on in the room curiously. The little boy was about twelve or thirteen years old. He had a handsome smile with two small dimples. He saw Mitsui Toraoka still immersed in his approval.  , and then quietly sneaked in close to the tall desk and looked at his vigorous writing.  "Gensuke! Gensukewhere have you gone?" The faint shouting in the distance made the little boy tremble in fright.  "Are you scared?" The rich man's voice reached his ears. Xiao Gensuke nodded subconsciously, and then suddenly turned his head in surprise to see Mitsui Torako looking at him with a smile.  "Father! I was wrong!" The little boy realized that he had done something wrong, and he lowered his head and did not dare to say a word.  Mitsui Torakaka liked this legitimate son very much. He was smart, cute and clever, just like when he was a child. He patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't be afraid, come and sit! Tell me what you have been studying recently?" "Yes! Mr. taught us recently.  Let me recite the "Thousand Character Classic" to my father!  Speaking Chinese with a Jiangnan accent and slowly reading enlightenment books was a great pleasure for the scholar Li Ding to pass the time by teaching a few children when he had nothing to do.  A young man quietly pushed open the paper door. Seeing the happy scene of the father and son, he leaned down in a panic and said: "My lord, Mr. Li and Matsui-don are here." "Please come in quickly." Mitsui Tora kneaded Gensuke's penis.  The little boy warned softly: "You are already a big child. Remember not to be too naughty and make your mother sad. Go back and see your brother as soon as possible!" "Yeah!" The little boy nodded obediently, as if he was remembering something again.  He asked curiously: "Father! Can brother Yukichi become a samurai in the future? Will he be my retainer?" Mitsui Tora heard this with a stern look on his face and said: "Why do you ask that?" "Because I  I heard that my younger brother will be my elder brother's retainer in the future. He is my mother's child. It must be very pitiful to be my retainer at such a young age! " "Don't listen to their nonsense. Our Mitsui family is the direct retainer of the Zhenfu Palace.  You must also be direct ministers of the Zhenfu Palace. You brothers will be ministers of the same palace in the future, so you must love each other and not be alienated by others. You must keep in mind the four words "not close to each other", do you remember it?  "Remember!" The little boy nodded in understanding, then stood up and walked to the door and smiled at Mitsui Tora: "Father, please don't worry, I will definitely take good care of my brother." (To be continued!  Search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster! ps: Today is Christmas Eve, Wu Mei is here to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
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