Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 661 Tianyi Qianzhen, only from Fuchang.

If it is said that when the Xiu family is no longer in Fengchun City, who is the most uncomfortable, it must be Ashikaga Jihime as a flat wife.

She knew that she had given birth to a son, but because of the rumors, she was sent by Xiu's family to the north courtyard of Wuliangshou Temple under Heyue City and handed over to Tianhai for education.

But she didn't know where her son was sent to. Although the Xiu family brought him a daughter from the retainers below, her mental state was not very good.The medical standard of later generations is depression.

As the source of legitimacy for the Hide family to rule Kanto, the Hide family always felt that they owed Ashikaga Jihime.

It was also for this reason that the Xiu family wanted to give him some compensation for his rights. Previously, she had never taken her to the capital with the excuse that she had just given birth.I just want her to not be restrained by Ju Ji in Fengchun City.

But it's a pity that, perhaps because of her personality, Shiji doesn't seem to want to be a director, and the affairs of Toyochun Castle are left to Kaiji and Jianxingyuan to decide.

This time Xiujia came back with great difficulty, Shiji, as the No. 2 person in Fengchun City except Juji, did not wait in Honmaru to welcome Xiujia, which made Xiujia feel strange.

Fortunately, Ju Ji is not a jealous woman. Seeing Xiu's searching eyes, she took the initiative to explain to Shi Ji, "Shi Ji is not in good health. I asked her to rest in the city."

Xiujia silently nodded her head to express her understanding, while Ju Ji continued, "I want to discuss something with Your Highness, Shi Ji didn't discipline her daughter A Ruo very well, and didn't care too much about her daughter.

In just over a month since I arrived in Fengchun City, I saw Ah Ruo crying alone several times.Well I think"

Before Ju Ji finished speaking, the Xiu family interrupted her and said, "Ah Ruo, let Shi Ji raise her by herself, don't mention this matter again. She has guarded the huge Kanto for the past two years. When I'm not around, you Help me care about her a little bit."

The Xiu family had already taken Shiji's son away, and if they took her away as a dependent daughter at this time, the Xiu family was very afraid that Shiji would do something drastic.

In fact, when Xiujia saw Shi Ji, his heart ached.

I saw a young woman in her 20s with an unusually haggard face, the flesh on her face was slightly sunken, she didn't look like the charm that a famous wife should have at all.

Shi Ji was wrapped under a gray turban, like a monk or nun who had become a monk and had no desires, and only after seeing the Xiu family coming, did she bow slightly to the Xiu family as a signal.

Xiujia sat directly beside Shiji, took her hand to comfort her, and said, "I heard that you are not feeling well, so I planned to come and see you as soon as I came back."

Xiujia was keenly aware that Shiji keenly wanted to pull her hand away the moment Xiujia held her hand, and it could be seen that Shiji instinctively resisted her.

You must know that when the two first got married, the Xiu family was the grand name of the world's largest feudal clan in the Kanto region. Among many Wu family girls, they were idols and ideal marriage partners, even Shi Ji.

But I didn't expect that after about 5 years, Shiji's attitude towards herself has changed so much.

At this moment, the Hideka naturally knew about Jihime's grievances, but before Hideyoshi died, the Hideka couldn't disclose the whereabouts of Matsuchiyo Omaru to him.

The two were talking, Ruo Ji came to Xiu's house under the leadership of the maid, and Xiu's family saw that A Ruo opened her arms to hug her.

However, the girl seemed a little strange and afraid of a man who suddenly appeared. Finally, after being introduced and comforted by the maids, she took the initiative to fall into the arms of the Xiu family and called her father.

The Xiu family hugged Ruoji dotingly, even though this was not her own child, she was indeed a quirky child, very attractive.

Xiujia tried to take the initiative to draw in the relationship between Ruo Ji and Shi Ji, but Shi Ji seemed to be somewhat resistant to this.Seeing Ujihime like this, Xiujia already understood in his heart that if he could not see Matsuchiyo Wangmaru, Ujihime's attitude towards him would probably not change.

After thinking for a while, the Xiu family still said to Shiji, "Clean up in two days, and guests will come by then."

After examining Ujihime's mental state, Hideka still felt that he should take the risk of letting Ujihime and Matsuchiyo Omaru meet, otherwise Hideka was really afraid that she would die before he replaced the Toyotomi clan.

But how to meet this face is a question that needs careful consideration.

The best opportunity right now is for the sons of the Xiu family to gradually become enlightened. The Xiu family plans to call Tianhai and Yixin Chongchuan to Fengchun City to open a school, and entrust both men and women to them for education.

At this time, Matsuchiyo Omaru can attend the class as an accompanying student, and then he will be able to let Ujihime see his son every day.

Coming out of Shi Ji's place, Xiujia sent her to see Jia Fei Ji again, praised her for her outstanding performance during the period when she was no longer there, and even slept directly in front of Jia Fei Ji that night.

After the Xiu family rested in Fengchun City for two days, they bid farewell to Xiuzhen, and he still had to go north and return to Junshan to mobilize the army.When parting, Xiujia made eye contact with him, and Xiuzhen naturally understood everything she wanted to delay as much as possible.

After seeing off Xiuzhen, the Xiu family returned to the city, and began to listen to reports from the elders headed by Fujido Takahu about the current situation of Fengchun's family.

First of all, Li Yuan Jiugang reported the situation of the fields, money and food in the territory.

In fact, the Fengchun family is currently in charge of Tianmu and Minli, but he has been on an expedition to North Korea with Huafang Zhengxing for the past two years. In fact, he does not manage the affairs of the territory. Acted by Jiu Gang.

When Li Yuan Jiugang submitted this report card, he was still quite confident. He first presented two account books to the Xiu family, one was the general account recording the fields, and the other was the account recording the population of the Fengchun family.

After seeing that the Xiu family opened up the number of acres first, he calmly reported back to the Xiu family, "Since Tianzheng's 19th year when the main family was transferred to Kanto, with the support of the adults and the people of the Kanto, the main family has developed water conservancy and built water conservancy. The river was flooded, and canals were built to drain the accumulated water in the swamp as much as possible. The specific situation in this regard will be introduced by Kagawaden later.

Due to the proper construction of water conservancy, the number of acres of fields in the Kanto region of the family has increased from 19 million shi in Tianzheng 171 years to 247.2 million shi.

其中武藏、琦玉两领的知行增长最多，琦玉领的知行从32万石增长至48万石，武藏知行从22.5万石增长至37.8万石，两领合计的旧武藏国领知行从原来的55万石增长至86万石。

Shimono Kingdom was divided between the main family and the Sanada family. The initial knowledge and behavior shared by the main family was 37 koku, which increased to 43.8 koku. Stones, increased to 17 stones. At the beginning of Chang Lu's understanding, the behavior was 22 stones, and now it has increased to 22 stones.The rapid growth of knowledge and practice in these territories is mainly due to the effective governance of the Tone River Basin.

The Zhixing land of the Shangzong was originally awarded 13 shi, and now it has been developed to 28 shi. This is mainly because the dry land in the coastal plain in the east of the Shangzong has been gradually replanted with potatoes, which has greatly increased production.Excluding the output of potatoes, the output of grain and rice is 16 shi.

Sagami Bangoku Zhixing first awarded 8 shi, and now Zhixing has 10.2 shi after inspection, which is the smallest growth rate among several leading countries. "

Looking at the data in his hands, Xiujia couldn't help but exclaimed, "I didn't expect that in just 6 years, the knowledge and practice in the eight states of Kanto increased so much? I have nearly 250 million shi of knowledge and practice."

"Iyo hasn't been counted, my lord." Hisakuna Tachihara said, "Iyo's knowledge has increased from the initial 17.3 shi to 21 shi. At present, the total number of knowledge and practice in the family is 268.2 million."

Kanto has developed rapidly in recent years. Many of the retainers here know this, but they don't know the specific data.

It was actually the first time that the data of 268 million stone was shared with these people, so when the data was announced, everyone was amazed.

After hearing this, Xiujia nodded in satisfaction, but immediately asked him, "I remember that the data of the Kanto inspection district last year was 201 million shi, and it was only 220 million including Yiyo. In the past two years, you can make a small 50 shi The growth of Wanshi is really a great achievement."

Since the Hideo clan was transferred to Kanto, they have been instructing the people below to cooperate with the people sent by Hideyoshi to inspect the land. There is no need for him to hide his strength from Hideyoshi. After all, the greater his strength, the more he will be afraid of Hideyoshi. .

However, when seeing the data that had increased by nearly 20% in the past two years, Xiujia still showed great shock, but soon became clear.

The governance of the Tone River and the Arakawa River Basin has always been the top priority of Hideka since it was transferred to Kanto. With the completion of the Tatebayashi-Tori Line line of the Tone River the year before last, the Ueno, Shimono, Shimoso, and The area on the Hitachi border has been consolidated.

With the relief of the flood, it is inevitable that Shimoso and Hitachi Zhixing, who have been affected by the flooding of the river all year round, will usher in growth. Even Yuki and Tagatani, who have been entrusted again, have also received the favor of the Hide family.

In fact, Xiujia already had psychological expectations for the growth of Zhixing after hearing about Tonegawa's effective rectification, but the increase of 40 shi in two years was still beyond Xiujia's expectations.

Sure enough, water conservancy construction is an important factor for economic growth in the era of agricultural civilization.

After reporting the situation of the fields, it is natural to talk about the population. I only heard Hisakuna Tachihara say, "When the main family, Tenzheng, was transferred to the seal in 19 years, the total population of Kanto and Iyo was about 71.

后来经历了吉备8国大转封，招抚因税赋、战争而逃难民众、优待鼓励他国民众迁徙安顿、以及殿下从朝鲜等地运输来的农业人口，现丰春家内有在册有125万2358人。其他流民、行商等非户人口26万4458人。”

"Has it increased so much?" Hearing this statistic, even Xiujia himself couldn't believe it, and asked Tachihara Hisakuna.

"Yes," Tachihara Hisakuna replied, "We originally calculated the population based on the Hojo family's field records, and found that many people in Kanto fled due to the war, and many people were not on the list, so we deleted them.

There are still many people who are not on the list. When the Hojo family was in charge of counting these populations, the samurai below were in charge. Each of them had to pay a dime like the Hojo family. After concealing these people, the samurai below only charged half of them.

Due to successive years of wars, the Hojo family implemented the Kangao system. As long as the samurai below provided him with enough soldiers, the Hojo family would turn a blind eye.

After the main family took over the Kanto, the Jibei policy was implemented, and the checks were very strict in this regard.In addition to strictly requiring everyone to be registered, every year there will be officials from the county, the state government, and the executive office to conduct a review. Naturally, many black households who have hidden their household registrations have been found out.

Coupled with the good weather and good weather in the past few years, the people themselves are actively multiplying. His Highness transferred the old people from Jibei, recruited the people scattered around to come back to farm, and transferred more than 6 people from North Korea to the Kanto. The population of the family is natural. Just improved. "

The Xiu family was naturally very happy about the increase in population, but immediately raised their concerns, "Counting the refugees, the population is 150 million, but the output of Zhixing land is only 260 million shi, and there may not be enough food."

"Your Highness does not need to have such worries, at least not now."

"Why? An adult man's annual Lumi is 1.7 shi. If it is lower than this, it will be difficult to be full. Even if the elderly and children are counted, the amount of grain and rice in the family is not enough."

"It's because of potatoes." Hisakuna Tachihara replied, "Except for the dry land in the Kanto area of ​​my family, it has not been implemented on a large scale. However, in the past two years, my family has imported potatoes from Ezo, plus the fish obtained from fishing at sea. It has effectively alleviated the shortage of grain and rice.”

"Ezo." Hearing that Ezo is ready to export potatoes, Hideka is eager to know the current situation of Ezo.

After all, before the Xiu family left, Ezo was still a colony that needed blood transfusions to solve the food problem.

But looking at the family elders sitting below, some people don't know the real situation in Ezo, and the Xiu family doesn't intend to let more people know, so they take it back as soon as they say it.

"About this part of the question, you can stay with Sado later, and report the key points to me."

Tachihara Hisakuna naturally understood what Xiujia said, and responded yes to Xiujia.

The above is the growth of the fields and population of the Toyoharu family in the past 6 years, but the report of Tachihara Hisakuna is not over yet.

Because the above is actually Okanotoshi's job, and because he is not around, Tachihara Hisakuna is doing it concurrently.

After Tachihara Hisakuna finished explaining the above, he handed over the topic to Doi Qingliang, who was in charge of trade and taxation, and only heard him report to Xiujiahui: "I am ashamed to say that the financial situation of my family has been tight, thanks to His Royal Highness the year before last. The bequest of the family has effectively alleviated the financial situation of the family.

At present, the tax collection of the family is 136.68 shi for grain and rice collected by Zhixing a year, mainly for the Zhixing received by the family’s Zhixing, of which 17.8 shi is for Zhixing who is under 3000 shi after Zhixing entrusted him with the public; 13.38 shi is for Xiang’s retainers The annual tribute they receive.

Thanks to the growth of the population and the collection of retainers after the abandoned city, the castle towns of many cities have developed greatly, and the annual income of the main house is about 4.8 guan.

The annual population tax is about 10 guanwen, of which 100 ren per year for men, 60 ren for women, 10 ren for children over 10 years old, and tax exemption for seniors over 60 years old.

The annual income from commercial taxes in the cities and important port towns under the direct control of the head family is about 15.8 kanbu, mainly from the castle towns of the four cities of Edo, Chiba, Toyoharu, and Matsumae (Iyo).

In addition, Besshi Copper Mountain earns about 12 kanbu per year from profit distribution, and about 6 kanbu from customs clearance duties at important passes, and port berthing fees at the four ports of Edo, Chiba, Matsumae, and Yokohama.

The annual income of salt, iron, armament, gunpowder, porcelain, red house (Yoshihara) and spinach house exclusively operated by the family is about 35 guanwen.

To sum up, the annual income this year is about 83.6 guanwen, and the total amount of grain, rice and silver is about 111 million guan! "

(End of this chapter)