A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The outcome of this brief confrontation with Nobunaga is unclear for the time being, but Kai's annual tribute is about to be collected!

Not only Jia Fei, but also the entire mountain territory must collect annual tribute, but Jia Fei is the most important. As long as several rounds of annual tribute and miscellaneous taxes can be collected smoothly, the Yamauchi clan's rule in Kai will be established.

Therefore, even though Kai was experiencing war this year, the Yamauchi family did not announce an exemption from the annual tribute, but instead halved the annual tribute.

We must let the people of Kai know clearly that despite the change of dynasty, there is still Takeda Katsunobu, but Kai already has the surname Yamauchi. Even the Takeda family's Kai guardian position, which had been held by the Takeda family for more than 20 generations, has also been replaced. The current Kai guardian is Shimomataro.

Nobunaga's matter will be discussed later. Koheita left Fuchu Castle and went to Kai himself.

Konishiharazaemon's Kaifu Naka Castle has not been completely repaired. There is only a hastily restored water bank and earth bank, and even the fireproof shell mortar has not been painted on. There are not enough arrow oars and watchtowers in the city, and the imperial palace is only half-built.

The defensive power of such a city is very questionable, and it is much worse than the previous Uzaki Hall. Takeda Shingen's Ugasakikan, which is known as "people are a city and people are a wall", originally existed as the national palace of Kai, not a military castle.

If the winter snow falls and the mountain road is blocked, and something bad happens to Kai, Yamauchi will be unable to save him even if he wants to, so he can only stare and watch.

"Why is the progress of repairs and maintenance in Jiafu so slow and so far behind?"

"The situation in the countryside is not peaceful. Many people have fled, and there are not enough manpower in the city." When it came time to collect the annual tribute, Konishiharazaemon also had a big head, and Anayama Meiyuki provided a lot of materials, including planks and stones. We have them all, but we are short of manpower.

Kai was originally a gunpowder pot, and he did not dare to recruit civilian power on a large scale at this time. He could only let the recruited Ashigaru work half-soldiers and half-workers. Others hired ordinary people who were willing to contribute, and the number of workers was always insufficient.

Especially projects like rammed earth require a lot of manpower. If you mess around, the earth will collapse after a few rains. Nowadays, it is not easy to build a circle of earthen walls outside the main castle.

"If it really doesn't work, we can build a fence outside the city, with three or five layers of trees. We don't need any deep trenches, just a shallow moat half a room deep."

"That's fine. I'll do it when the annual tribute collection comes up!"

"One more thing. In the past, we could waive the arrears of annual tribute, but this year's arrears have been halved. No landowner or petty name is allowed to default on arrears. We must pay every penny and prove everything."

"On one point, the annual tribute received by the Takeda clan (actually the Anayama clan) seems to be six public servants and four citizens. It does not match the family." Looking to the southwest, that is the direction of Kai's descent from the mountain castle.

"As long as there is no chaos, if there is chaos, under controllable circumstances, we might as well let him make a big fuss and hurt his muscles and bones."

"I hope everything goes well, Kai can't cause trouble!"

The two people walked and talked, and looked around the garden outside the palace. Xiao Pingtai pounded the wall from time to time to confirm that the entire soil was well compacted and there were no problems.

As long as it is properly painted with mortar, it will not only prevent fire but also prevent heavy rain erosion. Kai is obviously blocked by the Fuji Mountains, but in the history of the Warring States Period, it has been hit by typhoons several times, and even experienced extremely severe weather such as tornadoes.

In addition to being brave and good at fighting, the people of Kai were essentially farmers. The philistine, cunning, and shrewd farmers of the Warring States Period were no different from farmers elsewhere.

Because in the past when Takeda Shingen was still alive, a separate taxation system for large and small areas was implemented in Kai. It was not purely about collecting rice, but what was actually produced by the land was collected to complete the annual tribute.

The Takeda retainers who were accustomed to collecting taxes were all killed by Koheta's order a few months ago, but it was a pain for the Yamauchi Doshinzu who were reassigned.

Originally, some people paid for buckwheat, some for soybeans, and some for wheat. This is annoying enough. However, when the Yamauchi family inspects the land, they directly calculate how much rice it can produce by visual inspection.

For example, a certain piece of land actually produces one stone of soybeans. At that time, Tongxin, who inspected the land, estimated that rice could be produced for one stone and two bushels, so he wrote that the crop value per mu was three hundred yen. In the mountains where Shinano miso can be produced, soybeans were a little more expensive than rice.

Then according to the Yamauchi family's policy of five public servants and five citizens, the annual tribute was one hundred and fifty Yongle coins (halved to seventy-five coins), but what they brought over was not the rice estimated when picking up the land, but soybeans!

Okay, let’s debate whether to convert soybeans according to Shinano’s prices or Kai’s prices.

Moreover, since the Yamauchi clan generally allowed subjects to pay half of their money and rice as annual tribute, the Takeda clan allowed all payment in kind. The Yamauchi family was caught off guard and did not have enough storage to store these physical annual tributes.

The place under Kofu Castle is really noisier than the vegetable market!

Households in Yamauchi have to spend money every penny they have, and so do the farmers in Kaifei!

People can argue for an hour under the castle because the Shoto used by the Yamauchi family is slightly different from the one originally used by the Kai Takeda clan.

The Yamauchi samurai was really unhappy, so he knelt on the ground and held his neck.

You cut it! Surrounded by Kai's property-owning farmers, or rather the Kai's ashigaru that was once famous in the Eastern Kingdom. If you kill one of him, you will be sure that thousands of Kafi Ashigaru will be armed and collect the corpse an hour later.

compromise! Compromise again!

Everything is aimed at completing the apparent annual tribute collection!

The people's customs are fierce, the soldiers and the people fight fiercely and bravely, and everyone has experienced hundreds of battles. When paying tribute, he was so cunning and calculated even more shrewdly than the merchants in Luoyang.

Takeda Shingen's ability to subdue these people is really impressive!

However, noisy and noisy, the mountain flags lined up in the forest under the city, with a thousand people standing there, are still very intimidating. The strung long bow and the brightly polished gun barrel all declare the power of the Yamauchi clan.

And Anayama Meyuki, whose son was taken to Fuchu City as a hostage, also knew that this was an opportunity to gain the trust of the Yamauchi family, and took the initiative to help the Yamauchi family collect the annual tribute, and appease the land and military personnel in various parts of Kai, so that these wealthy people Farmers pay their taxes well.

After more than ten days of turmoil, all the annual tributes from the four counties of Jumo, Yashiro, Toriu and Yamanashi were collected.

As for miscellaneous tax money, that is, land money, building fare money, section money, etc., because Takeda Yoshinobu burned all the books in one go, it was completely a mess. All property owners declare it themselves. They say how much tax they have, and they don’t know how much tax has been evaded.

In short, the Yamauchi clan's first annual tribute collection in Kai was completed, and Yamauchi's rule over Kai was established.