A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Did Xiaopingtai come to the beach for nothing?

of course not!

Of course there is a purpose!

Of course there is a reason!

It’s not easy to go from a nineteen-year-old teenager to a twenty-four-year-old bald middle-aged man. After so many years of loyal and courageous service to the public, he was entrusted with an important task. He will definitely make some convincing achievements. Yuanjiang Country With a unique geographical location surrounded by mountains and sea, there is a lot of future for development. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely get more rewards.

Propagating property and developing industry, farming is the foundation.

Come from the land, go to the land!

The coastal beaches of Enshu Beach are all salty fields that have been continuously eroded by the Pacific Ocean and cannot be cultivated. Except for some salt fields, which are used for frying and boiling salt. Due to the inability to grow any crops (there seems to be a kind of crispy radish that can only be grown in this kind of salty water field in Tianjin, my country. The writer has only heard about it, but I don’t know if it is true.), large-scale landfills have been abandoned, and some places are bare. A patch, with sparse weeds growing in some places. No matter how you look at it, it is a mudflat that cannot be used and can only be wasted.

Secondly, Enshu Beach is rich in various seafood shellfish. Even in later generations of Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture, which belongs to Enshu Country, was also a famous fishing base. Shimizu Port in Shizuoka Prefecture, the setting for the Chibi Maruko-chan anime, remains one of Japan’s seven seaports. In Ejiri Port alone, tons of shellfish are harvested every day. Common shellfish reproduce very quickly, and current fishing methods and offshore vessels are not very advanced. It can be said that the shellfish resources seem to be inexhaustible.

In the past half month, Koheita traveled all over Ejiri on a pair of iron legs, witnessing the people who were poor, hungry, cold and deprived of food and clothing due to the successive flooding of the Tenryu River, and the fishermen who had no land to cultivate due to the intrusion of the Pacific Ocean and were forced to go to the sea. , witnessed the military service members who went bankrupt and lost their families and their fathers and sons died due to successive years of military expansion.

The life of the people in the territory was already very difficult, but no official who was good at managing the people had yet come to govern. The samurai who were incompetent in governing could only sit back and watch as Ejiri became increasingly poor due to natural and man-made disasters. When the critical point is reached, the subjects will begin to flee, and their offspring will drown. In the end, the country will be poor, the people will be poor, and all industries will wither.

The most typical example is the Uesugi Yonezawa Domain in the Edo period. The salary of the six thousand samurai handed down from the Uesugi Kenshin era and the various expenses borne by outside the shogunate completely overwhelmed Yonezawa's finances. However, several generations of feudal lords were not experts at managing the people and governing the country. When Uesugi Takayama finally came to power, the entire feudal kingdom was impoverished, with a population of less than 100,000. The countryside was unprecedentedly poor, people fled en masse, and the birth rate even went into negative territory.

This is the final result of blindly exploiting and forcing ordinary farmers to make money without any reason. If the mountain leader becomes like this one day, then the disaster of national destruction and family destruction is almost imminent.

Koheita will definitely not sit back and watch this horrible situation happen. He wants to change the poverty of Yuanjiang and make it the richest and most prosperous place on the East China Sea Road.

Of course, this cannot be accomplished overnight and requires a comprehensive and detailed package plan. Xiaopingtai's original intention at the beginning was just to make some small things, but now seeing this situation, after examining various resources, he made up his mind to make a big one.

After all, Koheita already had a clear understanding of the situation under Ejiri's leadership, including the land, population, cities, towns, villages, and rice and wheat products. I already have an economic account of Ejiri in my heart, and I can use my own golden abacus to come up with a beautiful figure.

Koheita immediately sent Murakami Yoshimitsu back to the mountain on Pegasus with his own handwritten petition, which contained only five words.

"Three thousand guan, sit down and wait." (I, Xiao Pingtai, pay the money!)

Then Koheita immediately returned to Ejiri Castle to prepare tools, food and necessary start-up funds. After all the spring plowing was completed, as Ejiri Castle Dai, he recruited 2,000 young men in the territory for general service. He first spent some of his own money to start building more dams along the Tenryu River.

The construction of the dam has received strong support from the local people in Jiangjiri. As the most important river in the Yuanjiang River, years of large-scale flooding have brought huge trouble and losses to these local lords. Much of the land along both sides of the river has turned into low-lying swamps that cannot be cultivated due to the frequent bursts and flooding of the Tianlong River.

Xiaoping Tai's prestige is not enough. After all, given his age, he is not a stern person. I had no choice but to ask Matsushita Ao, the chief general of the Ejiri Front who was relatively familiar with them, to summon the local lords of the country to confirm the ownership of these swamps.

Although these Chinese people occupied the swamps along the coast, it was of no use. In fact, these swamps can theoretically be developed into high-quality paddy fields, but the Tianlong River floods year after year, and even the best paddy fields cannot be cultivated. Some plots of land are even flooded twice a year, making them truly unsavory plots.

After confirming the ownership, Koheita placed all these swamps that had been created over the years under the direct jurisdiction of Yamauchi Yoshiharu. Then, the small pieces of information confiscated by Yamauchi Yoshiharu from the original Shirakawa clan warriors were transferred to the names of their national masters. Originally, these small businesses with an annual output of 30 and 50 dan Zhixing were fragmented and had very high management costs. Now that they are handed over to the people of the country, they can still get a wave of their loyalty without any expense.

Later, Xiao Pingtai took advantage of the time of embankment renovation to set up flood discharge outlets and water diversion weirs on the dam embankments in the river sections near these swamps, effectively turning these swamps into flood discharge areas. When the Chinese lords saw how "kind" Xiao Pingtai was, they were all grateful. Not only did they not occupy their fertile land, they also exchanged their own good land for these worthless swamps and set up water conservancy projects to benefit them.

The maintenance of water conservancy projects does not require the supervision of Xiao Pingtai. It is beneficial to them, the Chinese people, and also beneficial to the farmers. Everyone is highly motivated from top to bottom. Koheita also advanced 500 kan in advance for this year's extra town fees for Ejiri, who was to be deported back to Yamauchi this year, and was sure that Yamauchi Yoshiharu would trust him to send the money.

Sure enough, seven or eight days later, dozens of Hatamoto Ashigaru arrived at Ejiri surrounded by a large cart carrying their hands and shoulders.

What's even more frightening is that Xiaoping Tai's ordinary letter asking for money actually exploded into a big fish. Yamauchi Yoshiharu and Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and his son actually rushed to Ejiri in person. When they saw Xiaoheita coming to greet him, they did not immediately ask Xiaoheita what he wanted to do. They just asked people to give him two thousand taels of gold and Yongle money. The thousand strings were handed over to Xiao Ping Tai.

Xiaopingtai welcomed the father and son into the city residence hall.

"Xiaoheita, please tell me your plan." Yamauchi Yoshiharu changed into his hunting clothes under the service of his attendants.