Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 36 Yuxi Family's Cornucopia (12)

In Japan at this time, after a hundred years of war, the Japanese army is undergoing changes. The earliest army, as mentioned above, is a vertical management model from the lord to the field to the farmers and soldiers. The lord only needs to manage the field and the lower-level samurai. , but for farmers and soldiers, they often delegate power to deal with them.

Until the Edo period, the Tokugawa family's "Samurai Laws" that absorbed the "Imagawa Kana Catalog" and "Armor Code Orders" also mostly restrained samurai who were registered in the flag book, and the peasants and soldiers at the bottom of society were still military. There is no way to rely on it.

In the final analysis, until the late Meiji period, the people living at the bottom of society still did not live as adults.I really like Udo's take on ordinary Japanese people, who are not even human beings to the ruling class samurai.

For this reason, until the Edo period, there were still incidents of trialing knives with local people.

But today the Xiu family wants to break this idea. Of course, it is not to promote the equality of all beings to the people. A common people appreciate.

What Hideka has to do is to lower the military law to the Ashgaru class, so that they are no longer tools and accessories on the battlefield, but become real members of the Ukita Army.

Xiujia also created the "Ukita Military Law Catalog" with reference to the "Seventeen Military Laws" in ancient China.

One: If you don't enter after hearing the whistle, don't stop hearing the whistle, can't raise the flag, and don't hold the flag down, this is called disobedience to the army, and the offender will be killed.

Second: Responding to the name, not arriving on time, failing to meet the deadline, changing the teacher's law, this is called slowing down the army, and the offender will be executed.

The third: Nightly transmission of trickery, slackness and no report, even more slowness in violating, the voice is unknown, this is called slack in the army, and the offender will be beheaded.

Fourth: complaining a lot, angering the chief general, not listening to restraint, making it even more difficult to teach, this is called building an army, and offenders will beheaded.

Fifth: Raise your voice and laugh, flout the prohibition agreement, and rush through the gate of the army. This is called light army, and the offender will be beheaded.

Sixth: The weapons used, the bows and crossbows are absolutely stringless, the arrows have no feathers, the swords and halberds are not good, and the flags are withered.

Seventh: Rumors and deceitful words, fabricating ghosts and gods, pretending to be asleep, talking heresy, and bewitching soldiers.

Eighth: Having a good tongue and sharp teeth, arguing about right and wrong, mobilizing soldiers to make them discord, this is called slandering the army, and the offender will be beheaded.

Nine: Wherever you go, you will abuse the people. If you rape women and rob money, this is called a treacherous army, and the offenders will beheaded.

Tenth: Stealing other people's property for self-interest, taking someone's head for one's own merit, this is called stealing the army, and the offender will beheaded.

The eleventh: The army and the people gather together to discuss matters, enter the tent privately, and listen to military aircraft. This is called spying on the army, and the offender will be executed.

Twelve: If you hear the plan, or hear the order, leak it to the outside, so that the enemy can know it.

The thirteenth: When invoking, be tongue-tied, lower your eyebrows and bow your head, with a look of embarrassment on your face. This is called a ruthless army, and the offender will beheaded.

The fourteenth: Going out to march in the army, helping the front and the rear, talking loudly, and not obeying the forbidden instructions, this is called a disorderly army, and the offenders will be killed.

Part [-]: Suspicion of wounds to cause illness to avoid conquest, pinching wounds and feigning death so as to escape.

The specific difference is that Japan really does not have the tradition of war drums and Mingjin, and Hideka's future tactics will be handed down to the hands of the generals of each battalion. The sounds of war drums and Mingjin are easy to cross each other, so Hideka thought of using conch numbers with different rhythms. Representing different offensive actions, using ceramic whistle as a signal to stop the march.

Hideka originally wanted to refer to the whistle of later generations to make a wooden whistle, but found that Japan already had a ceramic handicraft that could make sounds, so they simply used it instead of the whistle to issue orders.

In addition, in order to effectively enforce the military law, the Xiu family issued a joint order. If one person in the group violated the law, the whole group would be whipped and punished. If two people violated the law, the group leader would also be executed.

In wartime, if the main group breaks up, the squad leader will be killed, and the squadron will be cut off by the squadron leader, and so on. After reaching the brigade, there are usually squads, squadrons, brigades and even companies directly under them. These serve as the front line of Yuxiduo The law enforcement team is responsible for overseeing the lower-level teams.

In order to distinguish easily, the flags of ordinary ashigaru and samurai are black characters on a white background. After the brigade level has a direct squad, the flag of the team directly under the captain is changed to a blue background with black characters. Can be more conspicuous.

And when it comes to the more senior 500 people, when the battalion will have a directly-administered brigade, the flags directly under the brigade will be changed to a red background with white characters to achieve real authority.

As for the banner team directly under the Xiu family, all of them are distinguished by flags with black swords and stern patterns on a blue background.

For ordinary farmers and soldiers, if you tell them about the stripes written on them, they will not understand. Xiujia also used sticks of 30 when educating the first batch of "Qiben Military Academy" students, 50 for the second time, and [-] for the third. The three-step strategy of the first beheading, personally let these future instructors understand how to teach the reserve team.

Of course, the military law also made quantitative standards for meritorious service promotion.In Japan in the past, what kind of credit you made, how much property and territory you were rewarded all depended on the lord's preferences.

Monkey often has a battle to seal Wanshi's name, such as Kamei Tomoki in history, after offering a strategy to capture Luye, he was directly named the owner of Luye's 1.2 stone.

And Xiujia strictly stipulated the rewards of each level in "Ukita Art of War Names".

such as:

Regardless of whether the samurai/peasant is a first-level battle, the reward is 1 round, and the second-level battle is rewarded with 2 rounds of rewards.Of course, unknown warriors are no longer required to rely on the head as a token, but to use the right ear as proof of merit. Warriors with surnames still need to cut off their heads to test their merits.

If a peasant soldier beheaded 5 people or the head of a famous samurai in World War I, he could be directly promoted to samurai.

The first three warriors who entered the battle were rewarded with 100 stones, 50 stones, and 20 stones in turn. This is all hereditary and unreplaceable land!The samurai's beheading can be accumulated, 1 point for beheading one person, and in the post-war evaluation, except for the bounty of the beheading level, every 1 points can be exchanged for 10 Zhixing.

The assessment of the generals who lead the brigade, company, battalion, and reserve team is also different, and there will be corresponding rewards referring to the point system.

Of course, for the samurai and generals who made mistakes, points can also be deducted to offset the punishment.

The Xiu family further stimulated the war enthusiasm of the soldiers at the bottom through such an alternative method of military attack and field law.For them, military achievements are no longer the illusory things of the past. Even the ordinary reserve team Ashgaru can get real rewards by beheading their heads.

At the end of February in the ninth year of Tianzheng, after more than a month of preparations, Xuanzhu, Hatoyama Shigeie, Seto Kichizaemon, Endo Shuntong and others finally completed their preparations. With 15 closed ships, 30 Kozayas, and 20 Many merchant ships embarked on an ocean voyage carrying more than 1000 people.

The Xiu family met them in the Shishan Imperial Palace, told them to strictly obey the orders of Eizo and Xuanzhu, and gave them the last departure gift-a bucket of beets.

Anyone who has studied biology in high school knows that the accumulation of sugar in plants depends on the difference between photosynthesis and respiration, and the most important external factor to stimulate these two functions is temperature. The greater the temperature difference, the more sugar will accumulate.This is why the melons in Xinjiang are so sweet.

Ezo is located in the same dimension of Xinjiang, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is very large, which is very conducive to the accumulation of sugar in beets. These high-sweet beets can be used to squeeze sugar, and the residue can be pickled to become food for local people, and production The produced candies can become another major source of income for Yuxijia.

We must know that China did not start to popularize edible sugar until the large-scale introduction of sugarcane to China in the 18th century. For Japan, which is not suitable for the growth of sugarcane, the taste of sweetness is even more luxurious.

A piece of extremely low-end brown sugar brought by Dutch merchants in the 17th century can still be sold for a sky-high price of 50 sticks, which is really worth more than gold.

After listening to the last instruction of Hideka in the Palace, they went down to Okayama Town, and boarded a ship at the mouth of Asahikawa.It's just that I don't know how many people can return alive this time.

After the Xiu family bid farewell to Xuanzhu and his party, they continued to prepare for the maintenance tasks in the territory, and after building a large number of public snow hidden (toilets), many citizens felt that it was very troublesome to run for a certain distance every time. But instead of going to Xueyin to solve the problem, he would be fined 500 Wen if he chose to defecate anywhere as before.

What?you have no moneyOn the other side of the Asahikawa River, Pingjingshan Xiucheng is short of people. You go to work for half a month and say that you can eat and drink without worry.

The keen Xiujia found another business opportunity, and ordered the cooper to thicken the wall of the barrel, expand the barrel ring, add a tight-fitting lid, and put an iron pull ring on the outside. The wooden toilet barrel was invented!
Xiujia sells it to the local people at the price of 1 barrel for ordinary barrels and 1~5 barrels for exquisite carvings. No money?You can make up for it by harvesting the autumn grain first!

Of course, with wooden barrels, it is necessary to increase the frequency of excrement collectors in the morning and evening. In today's society, most of the people who pull the excrement trucks weighing a few kilograms are elderly people and children, and they can get 30 yuan a day.

There are two cars in one trip, the front car is responsible for collecting the excrement, and the rear car is responsible for collecting the water for the residents to wash the barrels before collecting. The purpose is to prevent the upstream people from directly washing the toilet barrels at the water source to pollute the lower water source.

The collected excrement water can be used as fertilizer after the nitrate is extracted by the soil method, and then sold to the local residents to increase production. It is obviously inappropriate to call it manure. The Xiu family chose a name of "soil fertilizer" to make it easier for people to accept. So much so that later artisans who specialized in making soil and fertilizer chose to use this as their surname.

Applying soil and fertilizer to the food that people eat, even the loyal family who has always supported the Xiu family refused to accept it at the beginning. The Xiu family immediately decided to take 500 shi of the field as a sample field for fertilization. If the output increases after the autumn harvest, it will be promoted. The aborigines who have never seen the world are willing to accept the science of the new era only if their mother sees is believing.

The Xiu family has already thought about it. At the beginning, it will be provided to farmers for free to increase production. According to the statistics of future generations, the average increase in soil and fertilizer production is about 2-3%. as soil fertilizer tax.

What is it called?This is called capital closed loop!What is really taken from the people and used for the people!The donkeys in the production team are not so squeezed!

Hideka couldn't help laughing out loud at the thought of Yongle, who had been rolling into Ukita's treasury since the second year, and even made Kenjiro, a Hideka, crazy for a time.

In March of the ninth year of Tianzheng, the Maoli family’s half-year indemnity was finally sent to Shishan. With the arrival of the Maoli family’s money and food, the Xiu family’s leverage to leverage capital was more sufficient, and they had more property. It can be invested in the output of salt fields, rushes, and mountain burdock to refine saltpeter.

What?Has Oda Nobutada's 7500 kan money been owed for half a year?Capital is the process of constantly moving around with swords and swords. If it can be delayed for a year, it is one year, and one year after another year, and after two years, maybe there is no need to pay it back, don’t you think?

It just so happens that Bizen will be hit by a big flood this year, and even Ishiyama Castle will be washed away and abandoned, and the grain harvest must be in short supply. It just so happens that there are legitimate interests asking for a delay in repayment.Hideka was even thinking about borrowing another disaster relief fund from the Oda family by virtue of this natural disaster.

Ouch, I'm such a clever little ghost.

The time came to May in the ninth year of Tianzheng (1581). The first batch of students from Yuxiduo's "Banner Military Academy" had passed the assessment and were sent to various county divisions to serve as squadron leaders and captains. Yuxiduo's "One-lead bow system" was finally put aside. The half-bathed instructors ushered in the ongoing training.

The Hideiyama Castle on the opposite side of Asahikawa has begun to take shape. In order to avoid being trapped in the water when there is a flood, Hideka also moved the main base of the castle to Mt. Hidei that month and renamed it Okayama Castle.

Under the guidance of Hideya, the Bizen ware master left by Seto Kichizaemon fired the qualified celadon of the first kiln, and began to gradually erode the market for imported Goryeo porcelain.

In Sakaimachi, a Goryeo porcelain bowl can be sold for 20 guan, while Bizen porcelain can be bought at half the price. It became popular in Kinaki and only the first kiln paid back 2000 guan.

And the mountain burdock rope collected in early spring has also been sold by Konishiya, Naya, Tennojiya, etc., which has also brought a large amount of income to the Uki family.As the largest purchaser, the Oda family immediately purchased 5000 pieces of Bizen matchlocks to replace the expensive imported matchlocks.

The same as the match is Bizen gunpowder, you read that right, it is gunpowder, not saltpeter.

At this time, although Japan, such as Shimadzu, had begun to purchase saltpeter and produce gunpowder with domestic sulfur charcoal, for the Oda family who were rich and lacked sulfur saltpeter, they were still used to buying gunpowder from merchants and foreigners as a whole.

Even due to the high price of saltpeter, the price of Shimadzu's self-produced gunpowder is not much cheaper than that of purchased gunpowder, but these are almost profitable for Yukita, who has almost zero cost of saltpeter.

Although in order to stabilize the relationship between Hashiba and the Oda family, Ukido will regularly provide a part of gunpowder, but the gunpowder that flowed out still brought Ukido more than 6000 guns in income in just half a year.

After half a year of preparation and drying salt, Ukita fine salt also began to appear on the market. With almost no cost, the price is 1/3 cheaper than ordinary boiled salt, but the profit is dozens of times that of boiled salt.And it has a lot of advantages.

The advantage of Bizen salt is that it is cheap. Even if you are a farmer, which one would you choose when faced with similarly priced snow salt and dark well salt?The emergence of Bizen salt immediately occupied the markets of many countries in the Seto Inland Sea, and demand for it was short of demand.

If it weren't for the rainy season, Xiujia could have become the largest salt merchant in the West Country due to the reduced salt production.Even so, the above-mentioned policies have already brought nearly 2 yuan in income to Yuxijia.

年入2万贯的收入是什么概念，8万石领地，按照5公5民来征收农税一年就是2万贯的收入忠家看着这短短半年就获得的2万贯收入，几乎相当于为宇喜多家拓展了16万石一个因幡国领地年入。

Moreover, Xiujia believes that with the subsequent expansion of production and the harvesting of rushes, Yuxijia's annual commercial income will not be less than 6 guan.It doesn't matter if you Maori Takeda knows how to mine.My Yuxi family has so many gold and silver mountains, which is the real cornucopia.

(End of this chapter)