different warring states of japan

Chapter 1315 Borrowing to Repair Water Conservancy

Yiyin used the student aid plan to push the fraternity to the front and hide the Samurai Giri Promotion Association behind his back.

It not only appeases the famous families, opens the way through the channel of the brotherhood, but also eliminates the doubts and resistance of the local Wutou servants.

Taking care of the heirs as an excuse to increase the Brotherhood's political influence can also better support Sipo's new idea of ​​​​stopping the war in the future.

This is a man with Jill who can play tricks. It's hard for a group of Ji warriors to break their heads and don't understand. What kind of situation is this? Can you still eat steamed buns?

Yi Yin cleared his throat and said.

"Let's leave the children's affairs to the men. They are delicate and suitable for doing this."

The locals nodded one after another. There is nothing to worry about when my husband takes care of his children.

Since it was organized by the Brotherhood, of course they felt relieved.There is a lack of food in disaster years, so it is better for children to go out to study in an organized way than to starve to death at home.

Seeing that they recognized the role of the Brotherhood, Yiyin nodded slightly and continued.

"I looked at the fields in various villages along the way, and the situation is very bad. Many villages are afraid that they will not survive next spring, and the summer harvest is even more hopeless.

How are you going to spend this winter? "

A group of locals looked bitter, and the two leaders looked at each other and bowed together.

"I implore Jinda-den to be merciful."

According to the rules of previous years, this time should be the rhythm of going out to grab food.Several villages banded together to grab food from other villages. If they won, they would live a few more lives, and if they lost, they would die tragically.

But the disasters in the past two years have been too tragic, and the surrounding villages have almost lost their harvest, so grab a p.What's the point of grabbing food if you go far away and don't have enough food for the road.

It happened that a big fool came to deliver food, no matter what the purpose was, at least the food was real, swallow it first and then consider other things.

Yaura lowered his head and pretended to be pitiful.

"The untouchables in the village kept fleeing famine and killed batch after batch, but they still couldn't scare these damn things.

The winter wheat has been planted, and the storehouses of the villages only have the seed grain for next spring. If this winter can survive, there will be a way to survive next year.

If you can't make it through. .Ugh. .I only hope for the mercy of Jin Duodian, don't let the children come back, please leave a blood for each family. "

Yiyin shook his head, these locals knew that he was here to help, so they pretended to be pitiful, it was really cunning.

He said.

"No, there is always a way.

The Samurai Giri Promotion Association prepared [-] shi of grain to help restore the water conservancy facilities that have been in disrepair for many years in the land of Guanbashu.

The middle and lower reaches of the Tone River are the hardest-hit areas of the great famine. I have ordered a new water conservancy project plan to send most of the food to your more than [-] hardest-hit villages to provide relief with work.

Use your work in exchange for food, and also repair the water conservancy for you, so as to alleviate the flooding of the Tone River next year.

Also, I gave an order to Naoetsu.

The Zhiejin Customs Office will gather merchants who are traveling in Guanbazhou, and ask them to organize a group of caravans to come here after the beginning of spring, and exchange grain for your local specialties.

Think about it for yourself, what each village can offer in exchange, medicinal materials, ores, salt, anything.Stock up in winter, and after the snow melts in the Echigo Mountains in spring, there will be caravans coming to trade.

This time, the Naoetsu Customs Office will lead the counterpart business, and will keep a close eye on the merchants' actions, and will not allow them to take advantage of the disaster to lower prices, so as to ensure that you can exchange a batch of grain at a suitable price until the summer harvest. "

The locals were trembling with excitement, is there such a good thing in the world?The high-ranking nobles did not try to squeeze them, but also helped them solve their problems.

Hearing that Yiyin was going to the countryside, most of the landowners thought it was a new way of high-level struggle, and a few people thought about taking refuge in Shiba's family in exchange for food, and then trying to ride the fence after the disaster year.

Fortunately, Yiyin really came to help them solve their difficulties. They didn't mention any conditions, but only gave them benefits, so they were a little confused.Samurai society doesn't have live thunder*, what is the Shiba family doing?
Yiyin doesn't care what they think.

He is not Hojo Shiyasu, Uesugi Terutora, his eyes are only on Kan Yashu.Not to mention Yuliang Chengfan, Ota Zizheng, those local famous families, only have their own one-acre three-point land in their minds.

There are mainly two things that Yiyin considers.

One is to maintain Terutora Uesugi's presence in Kanto and prevent system missions from failing.

Both, try to save as many cards as possible to deal with the threat of Oda Nobunaga in the future.

With the backing of the Hokuriku trade route, Yoshigin has enough tools in his pocket to support his strategic plan.What money can solve is no longer a problem for him.

He could shout proudly that the thing I regret most in my life is building the Hokuriku Road trade route.Isn't it just money, I have plenty.

What he needs most now is influence, to build soft power that belongs to Sipo's new thinking.

Yiyin didn't even think about taking advantage of these Ji warriors in front of him. These cunning people are nothing but grass. Don't look at them being grateful today, but tomorrow after passing this hurdle, they will change their faces again.

In the short term, using the Hokuriku Road trade route to alleviate local poverty and tying them up with economic interests is an effective way to really make them stand on their side and support themselves.

In the long run, Yiyin is waiting for their offspring to grow up.

The Shiba scholarship will help a group of samurai descendants from Yashu to go to Shiba to experience the new life movement of the Shiba family.

Those who have lived a prosperous life in Siba and are attracted by Shiba's new ideas are the future supporters Yoshiba can rely on.

The one-year student trip is not long, and a few years is enough to cycle through the entire Guanbazhou lower-class samurai descendants.I haven't been there, but I should have heard of that tall Shibo dream in the distance.

When these children become local young masters and local servants, they will fundamentally change the political ecology of the entire Guanbazhou.

Samurai big names such as Hojo, Satake, etc., and local famous families such as Ota, Nagao, etc., will be coerced by the public opinion at the bottom, and have to follow the rhythm of Yoshihiro.

Being a warrior lighthouse is actually very simple, you must be strong first, and then rich.Fame is always the icing on the cake, the difficulty lies in how to become prosperous and strong.

Yiyin relies on system plug-ins, and is already recognized as strong in the world.By chance and coincidence, the Hokuriku Road trade route was established, and he became rich by controlling this trust.

It is difficult for him to succeed.

At this time, the heads of more than [-] villages were first shocked by Yiyin's big hand, and then imagined his invincible image of victorious in all battles, and they were naturally convinced.

They were too excited to speak, and Yaura and Misato, who were the leaders, were also embarrassed.

Yiyin's work is inhumane, and he doesn't use the condition of being the head of the Wu family to set people up, which completely fools everyone.Apart from kowtowing to thank them, they didn't know how to deal with the situation.

The Wu family pays attention to rewards from the public and pays attention to reciprocal transactions.Gratitude stems from superiority, and there must always be an intention.There is no attempt, but the people below will not be able to play.

However, Yiyin swears to the sky regardless of these grassroots, and swears allegiance to the death, but those words are forgotten in a blink of an eye, so there is so much to listen to.

He continued.

"I have observed all the way, and the water conservancy in various places has been in disrepair for a long time, and it has become useless. The existing funds of the Samurai Giri Promotion Association are insufficient, and even if they intend to repair it, it will be a drop in the bucket.

I intend to let the Samurai Giri Promotion Association come forward to raise funds for a long-term continuous engineering plan to repair water conservancy facilities in various places. Are you interested in joining this plan? "

Yaura, the leader, smiled wryly.

"To tell you the truth, our villages have suffered from the flooding of the Tone River, and we have long intended to repair the water conservancy. However, the war continues and supplies are in short supply. We really can't spare manpower and material resources.

You also know that the land tax in all parts of Guanbazhou is six gongs and four people, and even the loosest Hojo collar requires four gongs and six people.

Every year, just to mobilize farmers and soldiers to transport supplies and go to battle to cheer, the village consumes [-] to [-] days of hard labor, which is really unsustainable. "

Yiyin nodded, these people were not trying to shirk, they were really overwhelmed.

The military food service in Kanto is generally higher than that in recent days.

It is already the norm to give Tian Fu six publics and four people, and some frenzied names are added to seven publics and three people, and the grassroots have long been squeezed to the brink of death.

As for the labor of the villagers, seventy or eighty days a year is already the limit.You know, labor is also a kind of tax, and peasant women have to bring their own dry food to serve the samurai family.

With the economic level of the village, seventy or eighty days is enough to squeeze out the villagers' food reserves, and it is impossible to go too far.

There are already enough rebellious villagers, no matter how excessive the pressure is, Tu Yikui will come and go one after another, and the Wu family will not be able to suppress it.

Therefore, if you want to prolong the labor, you have to take care of the food. The local samurai family is so poor that they can't even eat enough, so how can they provide food for the labor?

Yiyin is very aware of these situations, he has already had a clear policy and method along the way, so he said calmly.

"The Samurai Giri Promotion Association is not targeting you to raise funds, but borrowing money and food from Samurai families, temples, and commercial houses in Guan Yashu who have spare capacity.

Ina Chuji, a water conservancy expert from the Samurai Giri Promotion Association, will be in charge of planning the water conservancy project, and I will guarantee the loan. You are only responsible for mobilizing the local villagers to participate in the water conservancy construction.

With enough money and food, I believe you should be able to organize enough manpower, right? "

Yaura nodded slowly, a little confused.

With food, of course, enough manpower can be drawn to do things.There are hungry people everywhere in the village. As long as they take care of food, they will definitely be willing to actively participate in water conservancy projects.

But the problem is. .

"Jin Duodian is willing to guarantee for us, we are very grateful. But so much food, we really can't afford it."

If other people come forward to guarantee, these cunning locals may have already figured out a way to renege on their debts.But facing the prestige of Yoshihiko Shiba, they didn't dare to act recklessly.

Since he didn't dare to renege on his debts, the money and food had to be returned, and Yaura naturally wanted to ask clearly.

Yi Yin smiled and said.

"You deserve it.

Kanto has been fighting for so many years, and the lack of water conservancy repairs has caused a sharp drop in yield per mu.

Taking Gaosha Village here as an example, the annual harvest on the books is [-] shi, but the actual harvest is probably less than [-] shi, which is almost cut in half.

In the past two years, the Kanto region suffered from catastrophic disasters, and Gaosha Village was located in a depression, resulting in repeated droughts and floods, and almost no crops in the fields.

If the water conservancy can be repaired and the village's harvest can be restored to more than [-] shi, wouldn't that be an extra [-] shi?

I guarantee that the stock harvest in your village will not be moved, and only a part of the future income will be intercepted from the incremental harvest to borrow money and food.

You see, is it possible? "

The samurai family generally has a high level of education. Although the land servants who manage the village are vulgar, they are all literate and able to count.

After turning their heads, they understood what Yiyin meant, and it seemed that they could really do this.

Use part of the future incremental harvest to borrow funds for water conservancy construction.Then use the funds for water conservancy construction to increase the harvest per mu.

This is an effective positive cycle, but not everyone can do it.

First of all, it wasn't Yoshihiro who controlled the commercial routes of Hokuriku Road who came forward, the samurai family name, the monastery presider, the wealthy merchants were unwilling to borrow money.

The land servants in the countryside are notoriously poor, and it is easy to borrow money and food, but if you encounter Lao Lai, what should you do with the bad debt?
Secondly, small fights in one village and one family cannot increase the yield per mu too much.Water conservancy projects are systematic projects, where there are rules for dredging and dikes.

A tributary is at least tens of miles long, and the Tone River is so long that it can't see the end. If everyone is not organized, the repair effect will not be achieved at all.

Again, the land in the local villages belonged to the lord.When the yield per mu of the field recovers, the local lord does not recognize the agreement between the village and the borrower. What should we do if we need to collect grain according to the six publics and four peoples?
In short, there are countless problems waiting ahead, and it is thankless and tedious to do it.

This matter seems to be reasonable for all parties, and it belongs to win-win cooperation.But if there is no big boss who convinces all parties to come forward as a guarantee, there is no way to start work.

And Yoshihiro Shiba happened to be such a big boss who had to give face to all parties.

Yiyin needs the Samurai Giri Promotion Association to infiltrate the land of Guan Yashu. On the one hand, it uses the brotherhood to help the children of the students, and on the other hand, it uses the loan to help the village repair the water conservancy. This is a great thing with infinite merit.

Although the local famous family temporarily lost the land tax growth income brought about by water conservancy repairs.But in the long run, the income will always go to their pockets, and those water conservancy projects belong to the territory.

The project that can raise funds to build water conservancy, the borrower invests profit, the village and the lord get the water conservancy to increase the income per mu, and the Samurai Giri Promotion Association of Yiyin is integrated into the land of Guanbashu, everyone is the beneficiary.

Thinking of the beautiful scene in the future, these locals couldn't help but bow their heads to communicate, and the sound of humming echoed in the room.

On the side, Naomasa Ii frowned and coughed heavily.

A group of Ji warriors realized that they had lost their dignity in front of the imperial court, and they all bowed their heads and apologized.

Yaura, the leader, said respectfully.

"The kindness and virtue of Jinduodian, we dare not forget from generation to generation."

She didn't know what to say anymore, Yiyin threw one pie after another on the heads of these people, and they were all knocked out.

Yiyin has come all the way, and this scene has been replayed several times.More than [-] villages were smashed down, let alone the landowners, he was also numb.

He said solemnly.

"The land of Guanbazhou is the place where the samurai family originated, and Genji Hanoi is responsible for you.

As an elder of Genji, these are things I should consider, so please stop thanking me repeatedly. "

(End of this chapter)