Pillars of the Wu family

"Does the master care so much about cultivating successors? Numata Yuguang is also good..." Seeing his Miao characters, Kira Yoshimi frowned, and he thought of his cheerful father-in-law Numata Mitsukane. Every few months, he always went to Wakasa, and it was said that he went back to see his grandson and grandchildren, and said that he missed Yunyun very much after so many years.

I haven’t seen him so actively going to see his grandchildren in so many years, especially the relationship with the older sons and daughters is very bad. Tan Xiang told him that his father almost never mentioned the eldest sons who drove him away. Now It's funny to start caring about his older sons and daughters again.

When he was in Echizen, Wakasa's wanton activities fell into the eyes of Yoshitomo Kira. He hated this father-in-law who always liked to make his own way. He had pointed him a few times as if he wanted to, but he was always sold out by this old slicker every time. Foolishly fooled the past, since the battle of Kawanakajima last year, the Three Kingdoms fell into the hands, which made this person even more excited, always vowing to make great contributions to the Kamiso Ashikaga family.

Thinking of his jumping father-in-law, he felt very unhappy. He tacitly allowed him to jump out and make a voice that was very different from others, and ensured that there would always be disagreements in the group of genealogy retainers, but it was not for him to jump out and disgust himself. Thinking of his recent He couldn't help but sneered and said, "Is Dagong just to find a good-for-nothing Asakura family to be an ally for Yu? When did Dagong become so cheap? It's understandable to want to do things for Yu, but Yu doesn't need you for me." The Kamizuo Ashikaga family is looking for allies of cats and dogs, do my Ashikaga family need allies? It's ridiculous!"

He doesn't need an ally, and the Asakura family is not a valuable ally. The most valuable member of the Asakura family from top to bottom is the old military god Asakura Sodi.But this old military god had traveled westward on a crane a few years ago.Up to now, the use value of the Asakura family has been greatly reduced.The only function is probably to get entangled with Kaga Izumo, to prevent the group of crazy monks from disturbing other people.

At the end of September, a small Yuanfu ceremony was held in Kasugayama Castle’s other hall. Kira Yoshishi’s surname was from Kawada Iwatsurumaru, and Masuda Shinzaburo was here. After the Yuanfu, their names were Kawada Changkin and Masuda Changsheng. As soon as the two boys took one yuan clothes, he sent them to the group of followers.Start with the most basic adherents.

His father, Kawada Izumorumoto, also rushed to Echigo with his family last month. The Yoshiken Rokkaku, who is the dominant force in Kinai, was almost captured by a left-behind division of the Kira family, who threw away his helmet and abandoned his armor. It was the mediation of the shogunate that "purchased" a county in exchange for peace. As a personal participant, he naturally knew the speed of the decline of the Liujiao family's family business, so he quickly contacted Kawada, who served as Ueno's vice minister, and asked him to The younger brother acted as an intermediary, so that the Kawatian family completely joined the Kira family.

If it is said that the Kawata family is still a deliberate cultivating family, then Masuda Changsheng is purely a surprise. Kira Yoshishi did not realize that this clever and very clever little surname would be Masuda Changsheng, Yuanfu's name is reported It really made him happy for a while.This is a well-known practice, even more famous than Kawada's eldest relative.

The first heavy snow falls in Echigo in early October.Kira Yoshitoshi went to Sado Island by boat in the wind and snow to watch the construction of the local new town. Now Sado Port has become the fourth largest trading port after Naoetsu Port, Kashiwazaki Port and Niigata Port. Elimination, ensuring the safety of Echigo and even the entire Hokuriku Road, Sado Port has become more and more prosperous because of this. [

Nowadays, there are several pillar industries in Sado, the pillars of which are naturally the mining industry and the smelting industry, followed by the local meat processing industry. Live chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep brought in from the three major ports of Echigo are slaughtered here every day, and then The meat is transported back to various places for processing, and the remaining fur of chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep, discarded animal bones and internal organs will be collected and classified into leather, wool, marinated and used as basic raw materials for high-temperature composting.

In addition, the fishermen on Sado Island were organized to build a Sado Marine Museum and stationed there to implement it, so that most of the fishermen on Sado Island switched to sea transportation. The processed meat and related meat products are shipped back, so that the entire Sado will form a complete industrial chain from transportation, processing to shipment.

Now there are as many as 5000 permanent residents on Sado Island. Among them, in addition to exiled criminals from various places as miners, the garrison of the local native Honma clan served as guards. All Honma clan members went to work in the fields. The many small villages in the village were also demolished one by one, and the farmers gathered in large and small towns. Now all the land on Sado Island is handed over to these farmers for farming, and the Kira family only sent a few representatives to take charge of daily management and statistics.

In addition, some villagers from Echigo moved to various towns in Sado Island and worked as town workers. The towns were very busy every day. The men were busy slaughtering pigs and sheep, sorting and processing rough processing of fur materials, and women were also raped. Another women's workshop was recruited to be responsible for various fine processing. The lack of population in Echigo is an indisputable fact. Yoshitoki Kira advocated that women should be liberated from traditional housework to contribute to Echigo and their families.

The bold and bold women of Echigo country agree with the Lord’s proposal very much, and their families also agree to allow women to work more, contrary to the normal years of war and heavy military service, the women of Echigo are used to men going out and women farming at home , Raising children, supporting parents, collecting firewood and cooking, and even hunting in the mountains and fishing in the river.

The work they do may be more and heavier than the men in the Western countries. Perhaps it is because of this reason that they have created the tough and straightforward folk customs of the later generations. Love dare to hate, gritted his teeth and survived the difficult days when there was no man in the family, but now it is not a big deal to show his face and work in the town.

Since the people of Echigo confidently pulled all their women out to make money for Kira's housework, the rich and powerful landlords in Kira Yoshihime also had to protect their treatment from infringement, and stipulated that the daily working hours in the workshop should not exceed six hours ( 12 hours), every three months, a female doctor will do a regular physical examination for them, and the minimum salary standard per month should not be less than 150 Wen Yongle. To distribute a set of clothes produced in the town, an extra wage must be paid on the first day of the first month.

Hard work is a little bit so, but there is nothing dissatisfied with the high income and fast money. There is also a free meal at noon every day. A couple can earn 250 cash a month. If you save a little, you can save three dollars a year. Guan Yongle money, even the Koshihikari rice produced in Niigata can be eaten every now and then.

The elderly and children of the family set up some small shops selling food in the town, mainly for the miners, garrisons, farmers and boat people living in the town. There will be ape musicians on the island to perform here every month. In the form of a half-price discount, the townspeople are organized to take their families to watch during the rest. The living conditions here are beyond the imagination of the residents other than Echigo. Many residents who come to visit the island look at the peaceful farming of Sado Island Life is full of prosperous scenes of men farming and women weaving. It would never have occurred to them that this was still the most intense era of the Warring States Period in Japan.

There are many workshops in the three major ports of Echigo for deep processing of fur products, and Piwaya, which dominates Hokuriku and Ou, distributes them. The industry has brought a new trend. Seiko-made fur coats, fur hats, fur furs and even leather boots are very popular as soon as they are released, especially in areas with severe winters such as Kanto, Hokuriku, and Yuao.

The famous samurai families and nobles from Kyoto also love it very much. It is not a fake that Kira Yoshishi gave away hundreds of fur suits for free. From the emperor to the general to Sheguan, Tsinghua University, the minister’s house and the shogunate’s important ministers. In order to cater to the preferences of the princes in Kyoto, they also specially made fur hats similar to Liwu hats, bearskin capes, calfskin boots, fur clothes similar to court clothes, and so on.

At this time, the cold and humid sleet in Kyoto is very uncomfortable. Even the vegetarian emperor and the victorious general appear in this fur shirt dressed in court attire. This free advertisement brings the brand The effect soon had a huge impact in Kyoto. From the ministers of the Habayashi family to the wealthy merchants in Kyoto, they all wished to own a set of fur clothes, no matter whether they really needed it or just to show off, they had to buy one for themselves.

In just a few days, the thousands of sets of fur clothing transported from Echigo to Kinai were sold out. Not only that, the long line of pre-orders was also queued until the spring of the following year. After hearing the news, businessmen in Sakai Town contacted Piwaya hoping to get Part of the distribution, Pipa House took this opportunity to obtain the right to use some of the commercial routes from Kinai to Kyushu.

The profits brought by the textile industry quickly surpassed other trades of the Pipa House like a blowout, and became the most profitable business. Public expenses such as relocation, relocation, demolition and construction required by the Ueno and Shinano administrative orders are not small figures.

Yoshishi Kira soon discovered that the more he earns, the faster he spends. Somewhat incomprehensible, he approached Hosokawa Fujitaka to complain, but got a long list from him, designing the streets in Echigo to rest, Seeing the long series of figures for the funding gap of many major projects such as seawall construction, land improvement and drainage improvement, he almost didn't frighten him into a fool. (To be continued...)[