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    The Sado Honma family has been extremely respectful since they surrendered. Honma Takanobu, the lord of Hamo Castle, Honma Taitaka, the lord of Zatai Castle, Hideji Honma, the lord of Ota Castle, Honma Yoshiro, 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 do anything if they don't obey. 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 purely wooden structures in Sado Port Town were also replaced with civil structures, and the straw wooden houses covered with Sango soil are 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 the Nagao family's military service and tax determination, and accept land inspection and agricultural reforms. The entire Sado land of 20,000 koku required 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 for 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 army is a fast-moving professional army.  Make sure you have a standing ashigaru ready to call on in any situation.  The generals of each standing corps will be appointed by members of the Nagao family tree.  The reserve generals are uniformly determined based on military service and national divisions. This military service system completely covers all levels of Echigo. There are professional standing corps, professional ashigaru, semi-professional Doshinzu, and reserve youths at all levels.  With enough troops, the main combat power is still the first two, and the latter two have little effect for the time being.  Kuki Shigetsu¡¯s youngest son Yuanfu is named Kuki Takamochi.  Although he is young, he has been working on the water for nearly ten years. He served as the leader of the naval force as soon as he became a member of the Yuanfu. As the representative of the Kira Navy, he is responsible for supervising the construction progress of ten Anzha ships under construction and eighty Kanbune ships.  Obviously his father didn't just want 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 has nothing to do with 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.  But the actual cultivated land area on Sado Island is 7,000 machibu.  Preliminary research shows that the actual farmland that can be cultivated is 11,000 machibu, which does not include high mountains.  Forests, beaches, and uncultivated land such as castles, such as the 1,500-machi-bu land near Sado Harbor, more than half of it are extremely deserted fields. Usually, the significance and value of this kind of land for farming are too low and are not counted as cultivated land.  and used.  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 the nearby farmland is of a auxiliary nature.  So what is the concept of eleven thousand steps?  The current cultivated land area of ??Echigo is less than 100,000 towns. Although this is greatly related to the agricultural development of Echigo, it is preliminary estimated that the cultivated land area of ????the entire Echigo is about 250,000 towns, of which 100,000 towns are located in Niigata.  The farming potential of Mando Town's farmland is huge.  The area of ??cultivated land on Sado Island is very large for a relatively small island. Seven thousand machibu 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 were only 20,000 koku of grain. Although there were marine climate factors that affected the farming season, the main reason was that Sado didn't know how to farm, or even didn't farm much at all.  Sado, as a place where criminals were exiled, has always been ignored. In the Kamakura period, the settlement was also under extensive management. 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, and only four can be called castles.?The other larger ones are considered to be the standard of Tulou cottages, while the smaller ones are not even as good as the cottages built by bandits, and can burn down small wooden villages with a single fire.  What use does he have for such a rag?  All demolition became inevitable, and only four castles remained on Sado Island. Kuchi Castle was eventually demolished because it was too small. Honma and Juro exchanged part of their territory for Kawarada Castle, and all the members of the Honma family moved into the new village.  Set up residence hall.  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 together, reducing the likelihood 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 production to reach the Echigo 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 such thing as a free lunch. 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 is, 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 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 has been revealed 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 interested in developing 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 Naoejin Port is working day and night to manufacture Anya ships and custom ships. They are also building whale ships of the Anya ship standard. The draft of this type of whale ship 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 anzha ships, Kansai ships, and various return ships, morning boats, 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 helping people dig wells, singing, laughing and selling meat, monkey musicians, porters working as coolies to resist packing, unknown small businessmen, gardeners and other professions.  Those who are relatively well-off include Zenami, the garden architect, 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, and doing unskilled muddy work that 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 the samurai who kill with knives spend all day slaughtering livestock, once or twice for food and drink. If they are allowed to specialize in slaughtering livestock in the long run, it will definitely not work. 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 happened to 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 troublesome  Yes, but for the sake of concealment and safety, there is nothing we can do about it. With the Kira Marines holding us back, we won¡¯t be afraid of the news leaking out.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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