Pillars of the Wu family
Chapter 268 Inventory of the Harvest Season
"As for those people from China, Vietnam and Xiayue who strongly demanded to change the grain, I thought that I could use the oaths of these samurai families in exchange." Hosokawa Fujitaka smiled tiredly, and had lost a lot of weight compared to a few months ago. , not at all like the pampered and noble son in the past, he is dark and thin like a country samurai.
"There's no rush, isn't it too early for the spring sowing?" Yoshihiro Kira was in no hurry to deal with this matter, anyway, he had a winter to deal with it slowly.
The autumn harvest in the two counties of Omi is very good. The heavy wind and rain in Kamakura this summer and autumn has little impact on Omi. After two years of exploration, the high-temperature composting method is gradually on the right track. The total stone height of the two counties has exceeded 18 shi. The direct leader has broken through [-] shi, and still maintains nearly half of the land control, and the annual tribute has reached [-] shi.
Unlike the situation in Echigo, only a small amount of new grains are planted in Shiga County, and the planting direction is more research-oriented, including potato storage planting technology, corn pollination top dressing technology, and pumpkin rack top dressing technology Wait, how to fertilize alfalfa, grape planting techniques, sugar beet cultivation techniques and the best level of fertilization, etc. These are the main directions of research.
With the acquiescence of Yoshitoki Kira, Masaoyuki Matsui, the governor of the survey, and Harutada Odate, the governor of the inspection district, contacted Wang Dan of Hirado Port in Kyushu through the relationship in Sakai Town, and spent a thousand taels of silver to invite several agricultural experts from him. Among them was a scholar proficient in agriculture who fled to Kyushu because he came from a maritime merchant family and was implicated.
The Kira family promised to give them a salary ranging from 200 taels to 500 taels. They only need to study agricultural planting technology, and the employment period is initially set at five years.After five years, consider whether to hire according to the situation.At that time, they will also be allowed to bring seeds and planting technology back to Daming.With the temptation of such public and private interests, he finally persuaded this scholar named Li Ding to reluctantly agree to the agreement.
Yoshishi Kira consciously built the Omi Sakamoto and Takashima counties into a test base for new grain varieties. Several high-yielding crops were opened up [-] towns of test fields on the plains and mountains according to the conditions, and there were special farmers to take care of them. The cultivation methods of the reverse test fields are different, the fertilizers used and the fertilization methods are different, and the pollination process is also being explored.
In order to inspire the enthusiasm of farmers, the Procuratorate implements Daguan Qingzhong to give lectures in the village.Every time the maximum grain production is increased by [-]%, the farmer can get a reward of [-] Guanle coins. Farmers who have repeatedly performed well will be rewarded with land knowledge and action, promoted to old land servants and other measures, which will greatly stimulate farmers. enthusiasm.
In the past half a year, some achievements have been made one after another. For example, the planting density of corn in spring and summer has certain requirements. The slightly dense planting density requires manual pollination of weaker plants. The local farmers invented Collect the pollen on the stamens with a bamboo tube, and pollinate in sunny and windless weather.At the same time, there is a conscious effort to pollinate strong plants. At present, corn kernels are selected for breeding in the two seasons of corn.For the time being, there is not much gap that needs to be continuously tracked.
The development of agricultural technology is closely related to the foundation of human survival. It is also meaningful for Ji Liangyi to consciously let the agricultural and forestry experts of the Ming Dynasty intervene. On the other hand, he also wanted to allow these agricultural and forestry experts to bring these planting techniques and high-yield grain seeds back to the Ming Dynasty. This was the only thing he could do.
In addition to the smooth development of agriculture, Sakamoto, Otsu, Katada, and the castle towns near the Azumi River in Takashima County were connected together this year, forming a free trade zone combining handicraft industry and commercial trade. Mature, forming a new commercial center centered on Sakamoto Port.
In less than five years, Sakamoto Port has transformed from a trading hub port to the third largest economic center after Kyoto and Sakaicho, attracting more than 1 industrial and commercial practitioners in this year People, the construction of new towns has never stopped for a whole year. If it weren't for the red line drawn by the Kira family to prevent the arable land of 1 towns from being encroached on in the two counties, the development speed of the two counties would only be faster.
The development of the money house is very smooth. With the influence of defeating the Miyoshi family, the trade volume of the money house in Sakamoto, Sakaimachi, and Kyoto has gradually increased. , also used Miyoshi's ruling advantage to launch a currency sniper operation against Qianwu.
But their methods are too bad, no matter with silver or money, they can't shake the money house. The money house is like a bottomless pit. You can eat as much silver and money as you pour in. The more I earn, the more I earn. It seems that the inexhaustible Yongle money has gradually made Sanweiwu feel desperate. In the end, although it did not cause direct economic losses, it has propped up the reputation of Qianwu by accident. .
Who would have thought that the Kira family not only defeated the Miyoshi family on the battlefield, but also defeated the Miyoshi family's imperial merchant house that dominated the Shikoku trade and the Setouchi trade, and exchanged 30 Yongle coins in just half a month. The value of millions of pennies and silver, the throughput of this currency is simply astonishing, even a little abnormal.
Taking this opportunity, Qianya joined forces with the Yodogawa people and Kira's home ronin to jointly carry out businesses such as Kinai freight security and water transportation insurance in the Yodogawa area. As long as the merchant pays a certain premium, he can provide him with water transportation insurance, as long as he is armed Various businesses of preservation.
Even wealthy merchants in Kyoto and Sakai Town invested in the armed security business one after another. Soon this emerging force spread throughout Kinai, and armed groups with the banner of "Kira Concentric" were active in various countries in Kinai, which made the Miyoshi family feel very distressed.
As the copper house and the iron cannon house gradually moved to the east, Kuniyu Zenhei finally decided to take Kuniyu Village to migrate to Echigo collectively. The scumbag translator, but the two are proficient in technology and only need to draw sketches to cooperate with the scumbag translator to understand what the other party is talking about. At his age, the pursuit of fame and fortune is already very weak. It is his greatest wish to develop a new type of flintlock gun in his lifetime.
Even if one person has eight hands, Cronenberg is still very slow to make things without assistants. After receiving the support of a group of elite craftsmen in Guoyou Village, he made the first dog-lock flintlock gun in autumn. It is roughly in line with the idea Roughly the same as the other, this flintlock has a simple and beautiful shape.
Spain already had the most primitive flintlock guns in this era, but the gun mechanism of the dog-lock flintlock gun is completely different from that of Genji. The dog-lock gun mechanism uses a sear with a spring instead of a wedge wheel. A small hole is opened behind the hammer, and inside the small hole is a piece of sear with a sear spring that is linked with the trigger.
When the hammer is pulled up to the position of the sear brake and the hammer is held to be in the ready-to-shoot state, then the trigger is pulled and the sear is retracted to let go of the hammer. The hammer releases the kinetic energy of the main spring and strikes the fire curtain downward. The hot iron filings will cause the black powder in the priming pot to burn, and ignite the black powder in the firing port next to the priming pot to conduct the explosion and expand in the explosion chamber to shoot out the projectile.
The working principle of this musket is that the hammer is pulled up to the position of the sear brake and then the hammer is buckled. The scythe is pushed back to the firing position. The sear lets go of the hammer and moves downward to strike the fire curtain, and scrapes off the hot iron filings to ignite the black powder in the priming pot.
Finally, ignite the black gunpowder placed in the priming pot and ignite the propellant in the explosion chamber through the firing hole to shoot out the projectile. With the pot cover, it can continue to exert its due power under conditions that are not conducive to the use of matchlock guns such as rain and snow, and remove the fire rope. It is a dangerous and inefficient way to ignite the fire, and it is a great innovation to switch to the dog lock bolt.
The test firing effect of this musket was very good, including the tests of Kunitomo, Zaemon, Takikawa Masashige, Nomura Naotaka and other iron gun masters, and they got very satisfactory evaluations. The power of the new matchlock gun was fully maintained, and at the same time Taking into account the effect of rapid shooting, you only need to take out the cleaning rod to clean the barrel after the shooting, insert the lead bullets and press them, and finally load the gunpowder to continue shooting. Skilled iron cannon warriors can shoot four shots in one minute.
However, the mass production of this gun is still a problem. The dog lock mechanism is too complicated. At the same time, in order to improve the shooting efficiency, the smoothbore barrel also faces the problem of standardized production. In short, although this sample gun has been produced, it is still far from mass production. It is far away, and Kronenberg is still not satisfied with this sample gun, and believes that there is still more room for improvement. No one knows how to mass-produce the specific standard dog lock musket.
Echigo's vast land and large forests are completely different from the narrowness of the two counties of Omi. The copper house moved to Echigo and resumed work soon. The two were slightly injured, but it was still a reminder to the practitioners that the anti-tempering of the biogas valve is still being tested.
Biwaya surpassed the status of the money house in one fell swoop, and became a comprehensive commercial house of Kirajia. In addition to operating bulk purchases and retailing, it also sells iron guns, horses and armor, and small sewing clothes. It is located in the three houses of Sakamoto, Sakaimachi, and Kyoto. The Pipa House has been replaced with a three-story building in the style of the Ming Dynasty. This iconic building can be seen a few streets away, comparable to the standard of the flagship store of later generations.
The civil engineering business undertaken by Sanhewu has also developed greatly, including the reconstruction of Shenglong Temple City, Cizhao Temple, Luyuan Temple, and even the repair of the Ouchi Palace, which brought thousands of profits to the firm. The construction standards of the co-house craftsmen are highly praised.
More and more aristocrats began to choose Sanhewu to build new buildings, including the construction of facilities in Kyoto by the imperial court and the shogunate, and the construction of government buildings and samurai houses. (To be continued..)
ps: Let me explain here that there is a slight difference between Oku and Kita. Kita-Shinano is relatively broad, including the small prefecture and Saku Prefecture, which are counted in Kita-Shinano.Of course, they all have only the north, but one has a narrower sense and the other has a broader sense.
"There's no rush, isn't it too early for the spring sowing?" Yoshihiro Kira was in no hurry to deal with this matter, anyway, he had a winter to deal with it slowly.
The autumn harvest in the two counties of Omi is very good. The heavy wind and rain in Kamakura this summer and autumn has little impact on Omi. After two years of exploration, the high-temperature composting method is gradually on the right track. The total stone height of the two counties has exceeded 18 shi. The direct leader has broken through [-] shi, and still maintains nearly half of the land control, and the annual tribute has reached [-] shi.
Unlike the situation in Echigo, only a small amount of new grains are planted in Shiga County, and the planting direction is more research-oriented, including potato storage planting technology, corn pollination top dressing technology, and pumpkin rack top dressing technology Wait, how to fertilize alfalfa, grape planting techniques, sugar beet cultivation techniques and the best level of fertilization, etc. These are the main directions of research.
With the acquiescence of Yoshitoki Kira, Masaoyuki Matsui, the governor of the survey, and Harutada Odate, the governor of the inspection district, contacted Wang Dan of Hirado Port in Kyushu through the relationship in Sakai Town, and spent a thousand taels of silver to invite several agricultural experts from him. Among them was a scholar proficient in agriculture who fled to Kyushu because he came from a maritime merchant family and was implicated.
The Kira family promised to give them a salary ranging from 200 taels to 500 taels. They only need to study agricultural planting technology, and the employment period is initially set at five years.After five years, consider whether to hire according to the situation.At that time, they will also be allowed to bring seeds and planting technology back to Daming.With the temptation of such public and private interests, he finally persuaded this scholar named Li Ding to reluctantly agree to the agreement.
Yoshishi Kira consciously built the Omi Sakamoto and Takashima counties into a test base for new grain varieties. Several high-yielding crops were opened up [-] towns of test fields on the plains and mountains according to the conditions, and there were special farmers to take care of them. The cultivation methods of the reverse test fields are different, the fertilizers used and the fertilization methods are different, and the pollination process is also being explored.
In order to inspire the enthusiasm of farmers, the Procuratorate implements Daguan Qingzhong to give lectures in the village.Every time the maximum grain production is increased by [-]%, the farmer can get a reward of [-] Guanle coins. Farmers who have repeatedly performed well will be rewarded with land knowledge and action, promoted to old land servants and other measures, which will greatly stimulate farmers. enthusiasm.
In the past half a year, some achievements have been made one after another. For example, the planting density of corn in spring and summer has certain requirements. The slightly dense planting density requires manual pollination of weaker plants. The local farmers invented Collect the pollen on the stamens with a bamboo tube, and pollinate in sunny and windless weather.At the same time, there is a conscious effort to pollinate strong plants. At present, corn kernels are selected for breeding in the two seasons of corn.For the time being, there is not much gap that needs to be continuously tracked.
The development of agricultural technology is closely related to the foundation of human survival. It is also meaningful for Ji Liangyi to consciously let the agricultural and forestry experts of the Ming Dynasty intervene. On the other hand, he also wanted to allow these agricultural and forestry experts to bring these planting techniques and high-yield grain seeds back to the Ming Dynasty. This was the only thing he could do.
In addition to the smooth development of agriculture, Sakamoto, Otsu, Katada, and the castle towns near the Azumi River in Takashima County were connected together this year, forming a free trade zone combining handicraft industry and commercial trade. Mature, forming a new commercial center centered on Sakamoto Port.
In less than five years, Sakamoto Port has transformed from a trading hub port to the third largest economic center after Kyoto and Sakaicho, attracting more than 1 industrial and commercial practitioners in this year People, the construction of new towns has never stopped for a whole year. If it weren't for the red line drawn by the Kira family to prevent the arable land of 1 towns from being encroached on in the two counties, the development speed of the two counties would only be faster.
The development of the money house is very smooth. With the influence of defeating the Miyoshi family, the trade volume of the money house in Sakamoto, Sakaimachi, and Kyoto has gradually increased. , also used Miyoshi's ruling advantage to launch a currency sniper operation against Qianwu.
But their methods are too bad, no matter with silver or money, they can't shake the money house. The money house is like a bottomless pit. You can eat as much silver and money as you pour in. The more I earn, the more I earn. It seems that the inexhaustible Yongle money has gradually made Sanweiwu feel desperate. In the end, although it did not cause direct economic losses, it has propped up the reputation of Qianwu by accident. .
Who would have thought that the Kira family not only defeated the Miyoshi family on the battlefield, but also defeated the Miyoshi family's imperial merchant house that dominated the Shikoku trade and the Setouchi trade, and exchanged 30 Yongle coins in just half a month. The value of millions of pennies and silver, the throughput of this currency is simply astonishing, even a little abnormal.
Taking this opportunity, Qianya joined forces with the Yodogawa people and Kira's home ronin to jointly carry out businesses such as Kinai freight security and water transportation insurance in the Yodogawa area. As long as the merchant pays a certain premium, he can provide him with water transportation insurance, as long as he is armed Various businesses of preservation.
Even wealthy merchants in Kyoto and Sakai Town invested in the armed security business one after another. Soon this emerging force spread throughout Kinai, and armed groups with the banner of "Kira Concentric" were active in various countries in Kinai, which made the Miyoshi family feel very distressed.
As the copper house and the iron cannon house gradually moved to the east, Kuniyu Zenhei finally decided to take Kuniyu Village to migrate to Echigo collectively. The scumbag translator, but the two are proficient in technology and only need to draw sketches to cooperate with the scumbag translator to understand what the other party is talking about. At his age, the pursuit of fame and fortune is already very weak. It is his greatest wish to develop a new type of flintlock gun in his lifetime.
Even if one person has eight hands, Cronenberg is still very slow to make things without assistants. After receiving the support of a group of elite craftsmen in Guoyou Village, he made the first dog-lock flintlock gun in autumn. It is roughly in line with the idea Roughly the same as the other, this flintlock has a simple and beautiful shape.
Spain already had the most primitive flintlock guns in this era, but the gun mechanism of the dog-lock flintlock gun is completely different from that of Genji. The dog-lock gun mechanism uses a sear with a spring instead of a wedge wheel. A small hole is opened behind the hammer, and inside the small hole is a piece of sear with a sear spring that is linked with the trigger.
When the hammer is pulled up to the position of the sear brake and the hammer is held to be in the ready-to-shoot state, then the trigger is pulled and the sear is retracted to let go of the hammer. The hammer releases the kinetic energy of the main spring and strikes the fire curtain downward. The hot iron filings will cause the black powder in the priming pot to burn, and ignite the black powder in the firing port next to the priming pot to conduct the explosion and expand in the explosion chamber to shoot out the projectile.
The working principle of this musket is that the hammer is pulled up to the position of the sear brake and then the hammer is buckled. The scythe is pushed back to the firing position. The sear lets go of the hammer and moves downward to strike the fire curtain, and scrapes off the hot iron filings to ignite the black powder in the priming pot.
Finally, ignite the black gunpowder placed in the priming pot and ignite the propellant in the explosion chamber through the firing hole to shoot out the projectile. With the pot cover, it can continue to exert its due power under conditions that are not conducive to the use of matchlock guns such as rain and snow, and remove the fire rope. It is a dangerous and inefficient way to ignite the fire, and it is a great innovation to switch to the dog lock bolt.
The test firing effect of this musket was very good, including the tests of Kunitomo, Zaemon, Takikawa Masashige, Nomura Naotaka and other iron gun masters, and they got very satisfactory evaluations. The power of the new matchlock gun was fully maintained, and at the same time Taking into account the effect of rapid shooting, you only need to take out the cleaning rod to clean the barrel after the shooting, insert the lead bullets and press them, and finally load the gunpowder to continue shooting. Skilled iron cannon warriors can shoot four shots in one minute.
However, the mass production of this gun is still a problem. The dog lock mechanism is too complicated. At the same time, in order to improve the shooting efficiency, the smoothbore barrel also faces the problem of standardized production. In short, although this sample gun has been produced, it is still far from mass production. It is far away, and Kronenberg is still not satisfied with this sample gun, and believes that there is still more room for improvement. No one knows how to mass-produce the specific standard dog lock musket.
Echigo's vast land and large forests are completely different from the narrowness of the two counties of Omi. The copper house moved to Echigo and resumed work soon. The two were slightly injured, but it was still a reminder to the practitioners that the anti-tempering of the biogas valve is still being tested.
Biwaya surpassed the status of the money house in one fell swoop, and became a comprehensive commercial house of Kirajia. In addition to operating bulk purchases and retailing, it also sells iron guns, horses and armor, and small sewing clothes. It is located in the three houses of Sakamoto, Sakaimachi, and Kyoto. The Pipa House has been replaced with a three-story building in the style of the Ming Dynasty. This iconic building can be seen a few streets away, comparable to the standard of the flagship store of later generations.
The civil engineering business undertaken by Sanhewu has also developed greatly, including the reconstruction of Shenglong Temple City, Cizhao Temple, Luyuan Temple, and even the repair of the Ouchi Palace, which brought thousands of profits to the firm. The construction standards of the co-house craftsmen are highly praised.
More and more aristocrats began to choose Sanhewu to build new buildings, including the construction of facilities in Kyoto by the imperial court and the shogunate, and the construction of government buildings and samurai houses. (To be continued..)
ps: Let me explain here that there is a slight difference between Oku and Kita. Kita-Shinano is relatively broad, including the small prefecture and Saku Prefecture, which are counted in Kita-Shinano.Of course, they all have only the north, but one has a narrower sense and the other has a broader sense.
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