Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 315

In fact, Hideka still had a bad idea. Even though the main wood for building ships is in the south, Japan does not produce these woods, but there are oak (zuo) wood and Mizura (you) wood in the Ezo land in northern Japan.

These two kinds of wood are fire-resistant and moisture-proof, and are the best choice for making hulls. Among them, Mizunara, also known as Mongolian Oak, is a tree species only found in Northeast Asia.

Hideka didn't know about these things, and combined with Japanese shipbuilders and Nanman craftsmen's mouths that Japan did not have timber for building large ships, they chose to build another ship base in the southern border of the Ming Dynasty.

And this problem was not until the Korean War broke out tomorrow, and the shipyard in Mingnan was forced to close down, and Hideka started a new shipbuilding business in Ezo.

The Osafune Sadauki who was involved in this matter received too much stimulation in one day, hurriedly wrote down the request of the Hide family, and then asked for instructions to leave. After he left, the Seto family who had been waiting outside the house for a long time was being summoned to enter.

In fact, the Seto family didn't know anything about the Konomai Mine, it was a top secret, and the entire Ezo was paid by Xuanzhu and disposed of directly under its jurisdiction.

Last year, after the Yuki family built a development site in Kitami, Master Xuanzhu wrote a secret letter and handed it back to the Seto family. When it was handed over to the Xiu family, the beeswax was intact.

Hideka asked Seto's house just at the entrance, "When you returned to Okayama last year, Master Xuanzhu gave you a sealed bamboo tube. Didn't he give it to you this year?"

The Seto family was saluting to the Xiu family and said, "Master Xuanzhu didn't give me any scrolls and bamboo tubes this time, but told me that if His Highness asks about this, he will bring a word to His Highness."

Xiujia frowned, and asked a little strangely, "What did Master Xuanzhu ask you to bring?"

The Seto family kowtowed even deeper, obviously what Xuanzhu asked him to bring was not a good word, "Master Xuanzhu said: See Blizzard in the north, no human or animal will be returned."

The meaning of Xuanzhu's words is already very clear. The pioneering team that opened up Kitami the year before last brought back news of establishing a stronghold in Kitami last year, but this year the pioneering team was completely wiped out due to heavy snow.

Now the earth is beginning to experience the Little Ice Age, and the north is gradually becoming extremely cold. Kitami is located in the northernmost part of Ezo, and Hideka has long expected the difficulty of developing here.

Even before Xiujia let Xuanzhu develop Kitami, they prepared a lot of straw and fur goods in advance to keep out the cold.

Hideka had expected Kitami's difficulty in opening up land, and even made preparations for Kitami not to open up wasteland, to supply food from the south, and to mine gold.Who would have thought that opening up Kitami for the first time would end in failure.

Although Xuanzhu did not give a clear number of casualties, but a pioneering point will not be less than 500 people, the defeat of Kitami will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Despite the difficult future, Master Xuanzhu still did not ask the Xiu family to withdraw the order to develop Beijian.

From this point of view, the second team has been sent to continue to develop Kitami, and no matter how difficult it is, the Hongzhiwu Mine will be mined to support the ability.

Whether it is Xuanzhu or the people of the Pioneering Group, no matter what reason they go to Kitami, their spirit is worthy of Xiujia's empathy.

But the Xiu family wanted to come, but there was very little support they could give to the residents of Kitami. In the end, the Xiu family could only speak to the Seto family and said, "When you go back this time, bring some more gunpowder to Master Xuanzhu, just Said that Kitami is pioneering and practical."

The gunpowder is naturally used for the convenience of opening mountains and blasting rocks, but the Seto family is not aware of these functions. Although he was a little curious about the reason why the Hide family transported explosives to the north, he did not choose to ask, and directly responded to the matter.

"When you go back, bring back some more tea and porcelain cloth to trade furs with the Ainu people. You don't need to bring back these furs in the next year. All of them will be handed over to Xuanzhu to stay in Kitami for the Kitami development team to keep warm. .”

"Your Highness is benevolent, and I will definitely convey it on your behalf." The Seto family promised to the Hide family.

With the departure of the Seto family, everything about Hideo's return to Okayama is temporarily over.

After staying for another two days to wait for Nasafuna Sadachi to adapt to the work of the elder of the writing family, he handed over the family affairs to the Ukita family, Nasafune Sadaan, and Akashi Keiko. With Kyoko on her way back to Osaka.

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Due to changes at home, Hideka had to stay in Okayama for a few more days, so that it was already the first month of the 14th year of Tensho when they returned to Osaka.

"I don't know why my brother is so anxious. There are two days before the new year, but he still rushes to Osaka with so much haste, and finally passed the new year in Harima." Kyoko who just stayed at the Okayama Mansion in Osaka He couldn't help complaining to his maid Fa.

The Xiu family was not in a hurry, the Xiu family's request was to return before the first month, and then go to Meinong to deal with disaster relief matters. Now that the Xiu family has missed the time, how dare they stay for a few more days and wait until the first month before leaving.

While Kyoko was complaining, Hideo was kneeling on the cold walled corridor waiting for Hideyoshi to be received.

Hideyoshi didn't deliberately give the Xiu family a bad start, but the Osaka City was extremely lively these past few days. His Highness Guan Bai's beloved wife Dian Ji gave birth to a son for His Highness Guan Bai, named Hesong.

Hideyoshi was naturally very excited when he got old, and all his experiences were put on Hesong and Chacha, and he didn't care about government affairs. It just so happened that it was the first month, and it was a day for rest, so Hideyoshi didn't summon Hideyoshi.

But Hideyoshi's attitude caused Hideo to misunderstand, thinking that it was because Maeda Genichi went to Osaka to file a complaint, and Hideyoshi hated Hideo.

Finally, after kneeling for a whole day, Hideyoshi thought of his son, and sent Ishida Mitsunari out to spread the word, "Major General Hashiba still has something to do, and the people of Mino are still waiting for His Highness to come to help, how can you waste your time in Osaka?" Your Highness should go to Meinong to handle government affairs first, and Princess Kyoko will be taken care of by the Beizheng Office."

Hideyoshi's Hideo family had no choice but to tell Kyoko a few words and send her to Ning Ning's care in Osaka City, while he went to Mino that night.

When Hideyoshi left, Hideyoshi handed over Nagatsu Masakaya, who had been transferred from the Niwa family, to Hideka, and was especially responsible for assisting Hideka with disaster relief.

Many people wondered why the Xiu family was nervous because it was just an earthquake, and only a few buildings were destroyed, and it would not affect the harvest of previous years like floods and locust plagues.

In fact, the natural impact of ordinary earthquakes is not great, and all localities can do their own disaster relief and repair buildings. However, this is a major earthquake that has not been seen in hundreds of years, and Japan's water conservancy facilities are extremely simple. An earthquake directly wiped out Mino, Owari, More dams and embankments in the near river collapsed.

The Nong, Wei, and Jiang countries were originally places with dense water networks, and the collapse of the promotion directly washed away the fields on the banks. Fortunately, the autumn harvest was already underway at that time, and the weather had already entered winter, otherwise the earthquake would have turned into a flood.

Owari is not bad. There are reports of landslides in Mino and Omi Mountains that have blocked the river and reduced the flow of water downstream.

The Xiu family knows that this is the barrier lake that will be disliked by future generations. If it is not dredged in time, when the water level of the barrier lake soars and the earth dam can no longer hold it back, a huge amount of water will rush down like a white dragon. , causing the downstream to suffer again.

One month has passed since the earthquake, and the pressure on the barrier lake has become extremely high. It is said that the dam blocked in the upper reaches of the Mino Ibi River has collapsed. Within Ze country.

The polluted river water rushed into the plains and destroyed the houses in the fields. It was only an earthquake, and there were still houses in the people's homes, but now they are all washed into the muddy river water, and the damage is gradually expanding.

The first thing Hideka felt about Omi was to go to the upper reaches of the Sister River to deal with the problem of this barrier lake.

The Siechuan here is the place where Siechuan joined the battle in the Chinese translation, but the Japanese text is written as Siechuan, so I use Siechuan to describe it.

Siechuan is just a small stream, and the water flow is not large. When Siechuan was in battle, the stream was just above its knees.

But even such a small stream supports tens of thousands of people in Omi Sakata County, more than 6 Shi Zhixing.

But this small stream also has the same problem, that is, during the spring plowing period, the water flow does not care about supporting the tens of thousands of acres of fields below, and there are countless deadly fights every year because of the robbing of water sources.

Xiujia felt that the upper reaches of the Sister River, and after observing the situation of the barrier lake, decided to use this barrier lake to transform the dam, retaining water in winter for storage, and releasing water in spring for downstream farming.

Don't underestimate the command of the ancients. In the past without reinforced concrete, even though the ancients could not build a dam with a height of tens of meters, they could still build small dams step by step according to the drop.

This kind of dam is not a dam body that blocks water flow in the strict sense, but stones are stuffed into straw bags containing grain, and then these stone bags are filled into the water to build a dam body.

Since there are gaps between the stones, after the dam body is built, wooden boards specially used for water blocking are installed inside it to achieve the function of water storage.

The water storage capacity of each dam body is not too large, excavate the drain channel on the side of the dam, and block the water in the dam body with wooden doors in winter when the water bursts. , and the wooden planks inserted in the inner side of the stone dam to block the water can also be pulled up to allow the excess flood to drain quickly.

Because the dam body is not high, even if the stored water floods the dam body, it will not be able to wash away the dam body.

This can be regarded as the wisdom of the ancients, and it was widely used in the Edo period.

In addition, the width of the lower channel is excavated, which can be used to increase the water storage capacity during normal water storage, and can be used for flood discharge during the flood season.

These are all summed up by the Xiu family based on the experience of later generations. After the task is dispatched, the local government will naturally organize manpower to carry out the construction.

Jiangzhou and Nongzhou are separated by a mountain, and the people in Jinjiang naturally know about the disaster situation in Meinong. They have money to contribute money, and they are able to contribute. They don't need the Xiu family's rescue to take the initiative to enter the Siechuan reform.

Even Changshu Zhengjia, who accompanied Xiujia here, was amazed when he saw the design. He said bluntly that if water control is effective, it will be promoted nationwide.

In fact, the problem of insufficient water flow in streams throughout Japan is not limited to Omi. It is due to the instantaneous lack of water flow during spring plowing, and a large amount of water waste in autumn and winter.

Most of these streams are as scarce as Siechuan, and the water depth is too shallow, and fish cannot be raised in them, so they are completely wasted for no reason.

The nearby river is still relatively good. After all, Lake Biwa, the largest freshwater lake in Japan, provides water nearby. Other neighboring countries can only watch the water wasted.

And Changshu Zhengjia also saw the advantages of Xiujia's strategy, which really helps to solve the problems of wasting water in autumn and winter and insufficient water in spring plowing in various places. Besides, the depth of the dam body for water storage increases, who can't use it for fish farming? economic benefits.

After entrusting the affairs of Anegawa to the local people, Xiujia and others climbed over the mountains and came to the famous place of Guanyuan in later generations.

Sekigahara is not the exclusive name of this place. The original meaning refers to the beginning of the plain between the two mountains. There are many places in Japan with such "Guanyuan". It is known that after the historical war, the name "Guanyuan" It has become a specific reference to this area in the west of Mino.

I don't know whether this place made Guan Yuan or Guan Yuan made this place.

Standing on the hilltop of Nangong Mountain, where Maori Xiuyuan was based in history, the entire Meinong Plain in the east as far as the Xiu family could see was plunged into mud. Find what you have left.

Seeing this situation, Xiujia knew in his heart that a plague would be necessary after the flood, and the Japanese's current understanding of the plague is really hard to compliment.

If there is an epidemic in Meinong, Xiujia, the nominal disaster relief ambassador, will definitely eat well.

However, it is said that the Kiso River and the upper reaches of the Nagara River are also blocked by rocks and rocks. If nothing is done to deal with it, the area affected by the disaster in Nobi may double.

After much deliberation, the Xiu family decided to divide their troops into two groups.He said to Chang Shuzheng's family, "Now the flood in West Merion has affected three counties, and tens of thousands of people have been affected. If the people are not treated, it is difficult for the people to save themselves.

However, it is said that the upper reaches of the Kiso River and the Nagara River have been blocked by rocks and rocks. If nothing is done to deal with it, the same situation as here may happen. What do you think should be done? "

Changshu Zhengjia asked Xiujia back, "Is Your Highness planning to divide the troops into multiple groups? But you and I are only two people, how can we deal with the three problems?"

Xiujia looked at Nobuya Shimizu behind him, he had been studying with him for some years, even if he couldn't deal with the matter of the barrier lake, he still had some experience in disaster relief.

So Xiujia said to Changshu Zhengjia, "You and I went to Kiso River and Nagara River respectively to deal with the barrier lake. How about handing over this place to my retainers for disaster relief?"

Changshu Zhengjia looked at Nobuya Shimizu behind the Xiu family, and found that he was just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, and said suspiciously, "Him? Is it okay? If the disaster is corrupt, His Highness and I will probably be accused by His Highness Guan Bai." what."

Xiujia nodded, let him relax, and promised that if something happened, he would be responsible for it, then Changshu Zhengjia agreed, and left some of his strength to assist Shimizu Shinya.

After Chang Shuzheng's family left, Xiu's family also said to Qing Shuixin, "You have followed me for a long time, and today is an experience for you. Let me ask you, what is the most important thing about disaster prevention?"

Qing Shuixin was a little nervous about being put down by the Xiu family for such a big task, but now that the Xiu family asked him, it gave him confidence.He replied confidently, "The first thing to prevent disasters is to prevent epidemics, and the first thing to prevent epidemics is to use water."

Hideka was very satisfied with Shimizu Nobuya's answer, and explained to him, "Because of the earthquake, the surrounding rivers have been polluted to some extent, and they must be left for 2 days before being quoted, and the river water must be boiled before drinking. If not, go to Lake Biwa to get water, and the trip is only half a day away.

In addition, even if the food of the victims is soaked in the mud, it is no longer edible. If any victims are found to eat the food, they must be isolated from contact with others.

They set up a headquarters on Nangong Mountain, allowing the surrounding disaster victims to temporarily live here to receive treatment, and all food and drink are provided by the family.We are short of food, and porridge is mixed with bran and rice 2 to 1 to last the next year. "

Qing Shuixin also wrote down the Xiu family's suggestions one by one, and promised to deal with the disaster relief, but just when he thought that the Xiu family was about to leave, the Xiu family quietly issued an order to him.

"Usually, in spare time, I spend a lot of time walking around, including Mount Sasao, Mount Matsuo, and Mount Yucheng. I will write down all the topography and geographical advantages of this piece of Guanyuan. When I return, I will present it to me. I have others. use.

Okubei is handed over to you for dispatch, and you can also suppress it if there is a disturbance by the victims. "

(End of this chapter)