A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiaopingta, who was lying on the couch, recalled the "unintentional" smile of the old man Yamauchi Mochiyoshi, and his whole body felt like an electric shock, and he trembled. It feels like the old man’s eyes are wrong. Do people like to have sex with a matchmaker after they reach a certain age?

Fortunately, Hosokawa Harungong's daughter Aya is not very old yet, but after thinking about it, it seems that she is already twelve or thirteen, and it is barely possible to get married at this age. Koheta couldn't accept it anyway, and Naoe Keizuna didn't have any good excuses to refuse.

After a night of silence, Koheita still had to go to Hatamoto's headquarters to arrange daily patrols and security personnel. After making these arrangements, it is necessary to open new workshops, build houses, and install tools and water.

At this time, Yamauchi Fuchu Town had greatly expanded, from the original town of five to six thousand people to more than 10,000 people. Due to the increase in the standing force of Fuzhong City, soldiers and many family members gathered under the city. The development of new specialties has also concentrated the handicraft population and business population, making the already lively towns and cities even more prosperous.

Of course, due to the ever-expanding population, the town seems a bit messy, but it still cannot hide the benefits of development.

Since it is a town directly managed by the Yamauchi family, it is not a model where the townspeople handle the matter. So to paraphrase a sentence, we should concentrate our efforts to do big things, and there is no need for these townsfolk to vote and discuss any mess. As long as Yamauchi Yoshiji gives an order, the matter in the castle town will be settled.

In the past, the stone streets built by Xiaoping Tai with hundreds of thousands of dollars were basically laid on all the main streets. Other small roads were also paved with gravel after compacting the earth. Ditches connecting Lianchuan were also dug out one after another to ensure domestic water supply, fire prevention and sewage treatment in the town.

It seems that due to the military considerations of the rulers of this era, the area closest to Fuzhong City was completely vacated and designated as samurai residences, and some defensive walls were built. On the outer layer are mostly the small courtyards or longhouses of the powerful townspeople (who can be armed to serve as public servants) and the large and small ashigaru people in the city. Finally, there are the machiya of craftsmen and merchants.

There is still some basis for the plan. After all, the Yamauchi family's vision is not just a corner of the country, but the ambition of Shangluo's auxiliary general to rectify the world. Yamauchi Fuchu Town will definitely not only have a population of more than 10,000 people in the end. It is still necessary to plan the development direction in advance.

Of course Koheita was delighted with the development in the town. Although the workshops were all arranged outside the town, he was also happy to find a place beside the Ren River to set up a matchlock workshop. Being close to a river brings many conveniences. The first is the simplest convenience of using water, which can be accessed at any time. Secondly, boats can pass upstream and downstream, which saves you the trouble of carrying many things.

Then you can set up a water tanker to improve work efficiency. Different from the water-powered mill, Koheita uses water power to beat the fluff of collected mountain burdock, and then mixes them into straw ropes and hemp ropes. After all, they need to be rubbed together carefully to increase the continuous burning time of the match rope.

It stands to reason that when setting up a waterwheel, it is best to find one where the water flow is neither too large nor too small, flowing in all seasons, and running continuously. However, the winter in Shinano is also very cold, and the river freezes from time to time, so the water wheel installed will not be used for three or four months. People can't control things like weather, or they can't control it in this era.

Xiaopingta thought to himself that he might still need to buy a few more pedal-operated mallets. Although it was a handicraft workshop, it was still not easy to run a physical industry even in ancient times.

After wandering around like this, we finally visited the previous candle workshop. Since Yamauchi Yoshiharu held half of the shares, the other bosses shared the other half with Xiaopingta. In the end, Xiaopingta was too busy to take care of this stall. When everyone puts it together, come on, let’s just forget about the government-run handicraft industry.

Everyone picked here and there, and finally selected an old Tongxin, who was almost fifty years old and came from a rural family. He has been doing Tongxin for twenty-five years and has a reputation as an honest man. As a result, when he was about to retire, he was promoted by a group of big guys and promoted to join the Banner Group, where he served as a candle priest with an annual salary of fifty guan.

A wonderful thing like pie in the sky happened. Not only did he become a warrior, he also became a warrior. Because he could earn three thousand kanfu for Yamauchi Yoshiharu every year, even his son was recruited into the Ashigaru clan and became the captain.

Seeing the cheerful and energetic old man explaining the income, expenditure and output of the candle factory to Koheita, Heita thought that Yamauchi Yoshiharu and the others had finally chosen a good manager. Although there are no innovative inventions, they work hard and maintain the production and operation of the entire factory without any problems.

Outside the factory, people from the surrounding countryside came with burdens and baskets on their backs, and bamboo baskets and cloth bags on their shoulders, all coming to deliver fruits from various trees. It was very lively. There are specialized people carrying large scales with stones as weights, and weighing basket after basket for the people who come to deliver fruits.

The order of the scene was also very good, and some people were picked from Hida after two days of walking on the mountain road. Mrs. Xiaoping saw that the old man had placed two large water tanks in front of the factory, with several gourds and gourds in them, presumably for drinking water for the farmers who came to deliver materials. It can be considered a bit humane, which makes Xiao Pingtai very satisfied.

However, most of the people who come to deliver fruits are old and weak women and children. Don’t underestimate the rural women of this era. They can carry more than half a man. Many of them are women carrying the burdens, and the half-grown children in the family carry baskets. Then, if you sell a hundred catties of fruit, you can get dozens or even hundreds of dollars. A few feet of cotton cloth was enough to make new clothes for the children at home, and everyone had a smile on their face as they had made money.

The Yamauchi family is also a child, and a whole basket of money is brand new Yongle Tongbao made by Yamauchi, which is counted and delivered on the spot.

Only then did Xiao Pingtai realize that along the Lianchuan River, iron cannon smelting forges, coin casting workshops, and candle factories were lined up in rows. One handicraft workshop after another was built in a few years, producing countless wealth.

Xiao Pingtai contributed a lot here, and even Xiao Pingtai personally worked on it from scratch, and accumulated it brick by brick. Looking at the grand view now, Xiao Pingtai felt that this time travel was not in vain.

After inspecting the site of the new workshop, Heita Koheita told Heiroku, who was already working as a nanny in Yamauchi Fuchu Town, to start recruiting carpenters to build houses. At the same time, a large waterwheel was ordered and a water-powered mallet was built.

Then there is the manpower issue. Kurosawa Yoshiki has a high level of education and was asked by Koheta to be responsible for handling paperwork. Heiroku also makes preparations and is responsible for the match rope execution that actually operates the match rope. The last one was Kanai Meigoro. Koheita felt that this man was not only good at swordsmanship, but also very knowledgeable, so he also asked to be transferred to Yamauchi to serve as his staff.

The grass platform team has been set up and ready to start work.