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Chapter 1112 The daimyos doing farm work

Tokugawa Iemitsu and other shogunate officials whom they inadvertently mentioned in their chat were sent to a government-run large farm on the outskirts of the capital to work intensively in exchange for food for themselves and their families.Their family members who survived the Edo fire were also escorted here and became local farmers.

Tokugawa Iemitsu lived in the Tokugawa family, which is widely used in the world since he was a child. He had never raised a hoe, and he was forced to roll up his sleeves to weed, loosen the soil, and drain water in the farmland.

In addition to Tokugawa Iemitsu, there are more than a dozen daimyo who used to be in high positions, and they all became farmers in the farm at this time.There are also special local farmers who teach this group of former old men how to farm.

"Weeding is not done by hoeing the grass randomly like you do. Cut the grass without removing the roots, and the spring breeze will regenerate... And you, the young man named Yida, you stepped on the wheat seedlings!" An uncle farmer was in the field. Roaring at the daimyos of yesteryear.

"Damn old guy, how could I have done this kind of farm work before? If a farmer dared to point fingers at me like this before, I would have chopped him up with a knife!" Date Zhongzong was angry at the old farmer's pointing fingers.

"Be patient, the Kyushu Army will release us after we have worked here for ten or eight years. It's good that you are young, and you will definitely be able to wait until the day you return to your homeland, but I may not be able to go back in my life." Xun's Mizuno Katsunari's tone was full of bitterness.

Given his advanced age, there are nine out of ten chances that he will die of illness in a foreign land.

"When I return to Sendai, I don't know what they have made there. Will it still be my homeland?" Date Zhongzong was quite dissatisfied with the Kyushu Army because of his defeat in the battle of Osaka.

"Hey, it's time for dinner!" The cook from the official farm pushed several buckets of food over, shouted to the big names working in the fields, and beat the wooden bucket full of food with a wooden spoon.

"Dinner is ready." Everyone reminded each other, and the daimyos brought their families to gather near the rice bucket, and everyone received a wooden bowl for the rice.

"Patriarch, please." Mizuno Katsunari and the others made way for Tokugawa Iemitsu's family and asked him to cook in the front.

Tokugawa Iemitsu shook his head: "We don't need to be like this in the future, we are all farmers now."

"Line up one by one so as not to be crowded. Children and women line up in one line, and elders line up in another line." The cook said.

The wooden lid on the rice bucket was opened, and the smell of rice made the stomachs of these hungry samurai masters growl after working for a long time.

It has been a long time since they have tried the hardships of the lower classes.

The daimyo’s family members can give priority to cooking rice before them. The cook directly spoons the rice, and then pours some soup, wild vegetables and one or two slices of meat on it, which is considered a meal.

Except for the captives of the shogunate, the main part of this government-run large farm is to hire local villagers for planting.The villagers plant crops according to the government's instructions. The government's Ministry of Agriculture provides the schedule of rotation, farm tools, cattle, and fertilizers. The villagers provide labor and can get a share when they are harvested.This method is no longer the traditional tenant farming system, but a capitalist employment relationship.

"These people are said to be the original landlords of Dongying Province. They can't understand the dialect they speak, and few of them can do farm work. Thank God if they don't help. The farmers who are responsible for leading them to work are really miserable. This year If there are a few more people, the harvest will be reduced, and there will be less food in hand.”

"Landlords don't touch the spring water with ten fingers, and you still expect them to work?"

"When they are hungry, they will know that it is not easy to grow crops. If the time is delayed and the seedlings are damaged, there will be no harvest in autumn."

Villagers from the government-run large farms also came to cook with wooden bowls one by one.

In order to improve efficiency, the government cooks a large pot of rice as a welfare of the government-run farm.

However, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the villagers, Chu Yun, each villager has his own plot of land in the government-run large farm, and distributes them according to the harvest of their respective plots.Some farmers were arranged to teach these pampered daimyos how to weed and plant the land, and the harvest of these farmers was tied up with the daimyos, so that the old farmers made strict demands on the clumsy daimyos, which made Tokugawa Ieun , Date Tadamune and other young daimyo who are not familiar with farming soon got started.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, Date Tadamune, Mizuno Katsunari and others gathered together. They had lost their power and became farmers. They had given up sitting upright and sat cross-legged together like ordinary farmers.

"I don't know what the situation in Japan is like. Whether the warriors from all over the country will rise up to resist the outsiders, and whether they will succeed." Date Zhongzong still placed his hopes on the warriors of Japan, hoping that the warriors of Japan would successfully resist the new government.

"Their land is owned by the government. Farmers pay the agricultural tax directly to the government. The new government will confiscate all the daimyo and samurai's territory under our Dongying rule. Some people will definitely rise up. But it's one thing to dare to resist, can you? A successful resistance is another thing." Tokugawa Iemitsu sees it clearly, he, the biggest landlord, led a group of Eastern Kingdom daimyos to defeat them, and the samurai in other places can be compared to the Tokugawa family's ability to gather Is it the strength of the army?
"Date Zhongzong, Date Zhongzong is at this farm, right?" A messenger came over on a horse and found the farmland directly.

"They want to find you?" All the daimyo and their family members looked at Date Zhongzong in unison, wondering why the Kyushu Army was looking for him alone.

Date Zhongzong shook his head, he didn't know either.

"You are Date Tadamune, right? Your father Date Masamune helped us recruit the retainers in the Sendai area during our new government's battle against the samurai group, and he also contributed to the delivery of military rations to the front. His only request is Redeem you back, and let us exempt you from your sentence. The new government has agreed to his request, and now you are free, and we will send a ship to send you back to Sendai soon." Said the servant .

"My father joined your camp?!" Date Zhongzong was deeply shocked.

He did not expect that his father Date Masamune led the retainers in the Sendai area to surrender to the Kyushu Army, and seemed to help the Kyushu Army deal with the samurai group.The reward is the free body of his Date loyalist.

"Now the samurai group has basically been flattened, and the new government has fulfilled orders to all parts of Japan. Your Date family will have other arrangements, and may not be in Sendai anymore." Let Date Zhongzong have any delusions.

Sure enough, Date Zhongzong was struck by lightning when he heard the news, and his mood was extremely complicated.After he became Date Masamune, he wanted to make a career, but his reputation was extremely high, and his father, Tokugawa Ieyasu, had already surrendered to the Kyushu Army.

"What did they say to you?" Mizuno Katsunari and other daimyos asked.

"Because of my father, they exempted me from hard labor, and I am about to return to Japan." Date Zhongzong said awkwardly.

(End of this chapter)