Prime Minister Bizen

Right now, the entire Peony Room is full of core members of the Toyoharu family, so there is no need to hide the secrets about Ezo.

The only new member, Yuwa Jiuhu, has just been appointed by the Xiu family to be the governor of Ezo. Naturally, he also needs to know the latest situation in Ezo.

Hearing Hideya's inquiry, Todo Takatora, who just came back from Ezo last year and just became the writer's boss this year, is the one who has the most say.

I just heard him say to the Hide family, "There are only a few thousand Oshu criminals who moved to the Matsumae-Hakodate area. At the beginning, according to His Highness, they were moved to Gotenyama to build the city and guard the port.

The Onodera family is responsible for the restraint management here. After all, among the samurai families who moved at the beginning, the Dewa Onodera family had the highest status, and they moved as daimyos.

It's just that the population over there is still too small, and they only control a small plain at the foot of the mountain.Even the tribes with many Ainu people are not enough to protect themselves.The subordinates feel that you may not be able to count on their support.

The situation is the same as that of the Oysterzaki family. Although they have 300-500 troops to mobilize, they need to take into account the situation of the Qingbu and Chinai mines, and their subordinates have never mobilized their troops for so many years.

Bravery, the Date family is very fast. When the Date family reduced the title of Deyu, some of the Date family would not be easy to deal with, and all of them were transferred to Ezo. There are now more than 2 people there. , The number of military service certificates is 600 people.

Before the subordinates left, Ezo had already opened up to the Ishikari River. After defeating the Kotoshi tribe, the largest tribe in Ishikari, most of the small and medium tribes around Ishikari had surrendered to us.

I have been taming them according to His Highness's wishes, and asked the local tribes to change their clothes and names to show their loyalty.

The subordinates also took their own initiative to select strong men from various tribes to form the Yezo Corps, which belongs only to the Governor's Mansion. The current number is about 3200, and the White Armor Army is composed of the elite.

The subordinates once asked the Ainu people to change their hair buns and cut off their beards, but it seems that Ainu people have a special worship for beards. It seems that people with longer beards have higher prestige. The subordinates were afraid of stirring up civil uprisings, so they terminated this order . "

Hideka's attitude towards the Ezo people is very gentle. Throughout the Tokugawa shogunate period, the Tokugawa family first issued black seals to the Matsumae clan, giving them exclusive rights to trade and develop Ezo.

Later, he personally intervened in the chaos among the Ainu tribes many times, provoked the conflicts between the Ainu tribes, and launched more than a dozen wars successively, the largest two being the battle of Shamosheyun in 1669. and the Battle of Kunasili Menasi in 1789.

The victory of the two wars formally established the ruling authority of Japan and Japan over Ezo, and the Ainu people in Ezo, so that the Ainu no longer dared to set off rebellion.

After that, the Tokugawa government directly sent people to occupy the fishing grounds and forests of the Ainu people, depriving the Ainu people of food sources, and forcing the Ainu people to change from a fishing and hunting nation to a worker nation.

The reason why the "workers' nation" is called "workers' nation" is because the Ainu at that time could only obtain the resources for survival by working hard for the Tokugawa government to cut down forest timber and mine.

At the same time, a strong assimilation policy was implemented to force the Ainu to change their customs and habits, shave off their beards, clean their hair, wear kimonos, and change their names and surnames according to the Japanese style. Han Chinese were also slaughtered.

In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate also forced Ainu families with 1 daughter to marry Kazuto, 2 daughters must marry 1 Kazuto, and 3 daughters must marry Kazuto In this way, the Ainu population of the next generation will be reduced.

The strange thing is that the ratio of male to female in the Ainu at that time could still maintain a strange balance. This is due to the fact that the Ainu had more women, and a large number of Ainu men were forced to engage in high-risk and heavy physical labor such as mining. Because of the low death rate.

Historically, due to the massacre of the Japanese (and people) and the spread of various infectious diseases brought about by them, the population of the Ainu people in Ezo has been greatly reduced within 200 years. The population decreased to 1869 in 2 (Meiji 58467).

Hideka’s attitude towards the Ainu people is softer, because the Tokugawa government can use all the population to go to Ezo than in history, and the development of its own territory is also facing the shortage of population. Therefore, for the local Ainu The population is also highly dependent.

However, Hideka also knew that there was a huge gap between the Ainu and Japanese populations, and there had to be a balance, which was why Hideka transferred the population of other ethnic groups from North Korea and Jurchen to Ezo.

It is to transfer the contradictions between the two ethnic groups into the contradictions of multiple ethnic groups, and finally mediate by the superiors, not to mention the conflicts among the Ainu tribes themselves.

In fact, this is also the reason why the Xiu family is entangled. No matter how the Xiu family balances ethnic conflicts, the contradictions themselves will continue to arise. The problem of using the Huairou policy is so obvious.

However, today's Ainu people are no longer the wild people who wore animal skins and held bows and arrows after they came into contact with the civilization brought by the Xiu family. If one day in the future they have the idea of ​​rebellion in their hearts, will they Is it as easy to suppress as it has been in history?

While Hideka was thinking, Fujido Takatora still introduced below, "Ezo Governor's Mansion is directly under the jurisdiction of the four countries including Hidaka, Ishikari, Ishikari, and Kitami, with a total of 4 Kazuto households and 54768 people in Dingkou.

There are 37425 Korean households and 100232 Hedingkou households; 4747 Jurchen households and 22244 Hedingkou households; and 4232 Ming households and 25450 Hedingkou households.

It has 13025 households of Xinhe people, and a population of 82504 people, and 34302 households of the subordinate Ainu people, and 224202 people of Dingkou.

The population of the other subordinate tribes, the Ainu tribe, cannot be counted. At present, there are 112 tribes and clans, and there are no less than 20 people.The above is last year's data. "

The other ethnic names, Xiujia, are easy to understand, but Xiujia doesn't quite understand what that Xinheren means. It seems that this is not the caliber that he wants to divide the population there, so he asks Fujido Takahu.

Fujido Takahu explained, "This is the meaning of the ministers. For those who do not belong to the tribes, or who are unwilling to submit to us as a unit of tribes, and are willing to change their hair buns, shave their beards, change their clothes, and learn Japanese, there are also people in the family. The Ainu who intermarry and accept almost complete assimilation are listed as a separate category.

When everyone in their family can speak Japanese fluently, their next generation will be granted official Japanese status.

Correspondingly, there are the Ainu people who surrendered to us. They are more or less still under the leadership of the old chiefs. Although most of them have taken Japanese names, many people still have hair buns, beards and clothes. The tradition is preserved, but has begun to gradually learn Japanese.

The biggest difference between this group of people and the subordinate tribes is that their clans have been somewhat reorganized and completely obey the orders of the Ezo Governor's Mansion. The tribe has changed from fishing and hunting to half fishing and half farming. Granted the status of a samurai.

It is a bit similar to our internal national armed forces. There is a clear difference between them and the completely Ainuized subordinate tribes, and the completely reconciled Xinhe people, and their population is not large, so I also listed them separately. "

After listening to his explanation, Xiujia nodded silently, expressing that she already understood.But soon when he was reviewing the data he said, he suddenly stared at him with wide eyes in surprise and asked, "Is the data wrong? When did Kazuto in Ezo have 30 people?"

Hideka still remembers the last time he heard the data of Ezo when he set off on the expedition 5 years ago, the population of Kazuto over there was clearly less than 10, how could it have doubled by 3 to 4 times in an instant, this data Also too fast.

"Actually, there have been only a few Wato people in Japan in the past, about 5 to 6 people, and the rest are Ainu people who have combined with Wato people and their offspring. Less than [-] people are authorized newcomers. The tribal chiefs and their families who carry the grid.

As for why the population has doubled so many times in the past few years, it is mainly due to the large-scale planting of His Highness’s potatoes in Ezo, including the reason why there are so many local people who are inclined to be peaceful, thanks to this small potato .

In the past, no matter how much winter wheat was planted, the grain output in Ezo was so small that it was not enough to fill the stomachs of the people below. In the past few years, grain had to be purchased from the Northeast, Kanto, and North Korea.

The local people can't get enough to eat. No matter how high their status is, they are just oppressed by their inability to force the local people to submit to them through trade.

As for the local Kazuto, even if they have children with the local Ainu women, they will not be able to increase the population due to living conditions, medical conditions, subjective thoughts, and unwillingness to have children.

After the expansion of the potato area in the past two years, the food problem in Ezo has been solved and there is prosperity. Coupled with the development of 4 gold mountains and 2 iron mountains in Ezo, the living standards of the local people in Ezo have been greatly improved.

It not only promoted the population growth of local Japanese families, but also promoted the process of national integration in Ezo. "

Hearing Fujido Takatora's explanation, Hideka understood the situation there.

In fact, grading the population of Ezo is the meaning of Xiujia. For thousands of years, the social and economic rules of the world have not changed.

If people are simply divided into three classes, then the upper class must be very united.

They will deliberately promote some lower-class people to become middle-class people, allowing them to live a life far superior to that of the lower-class people. It is obviously a gift or charity, but it is wrapped in a coat that they have worked hard to make the middle-class people feel proud.

But they will accurately count the number of people in my middle class, so that the lower class people have goals and work hard to become middle class people. If they fail to achieve it, they will become food for the middle class and the upper class, and will be continuously sucked blood.

In order to keep this hard-won comfort, the middle-level people will take the initiative to settle everything for the upper-level people, including those threats from the lower-level people.

If all this is reflected in the small society of Ezo, Kazuto is undoubtedly the upper class. They have the largest resources in Ezo and the strongest military force in Ezo.

Every Kazuto man who migrated there, no matter how poor his life was in the main island of Japan in the past, could marry 2-3 Ainu and Korean women as wives and live a relatively affluent life.

Although the environment over there is indeed very harsh, and the main food is potatoes, they can live in Ezo with a social status far higher than that in Japan's main island.

And if you want to become a Kazuto, you must fully accept the requirements of the Ezo Governor’s Mansion for comprehensive harmony. The next generation of Shinwaren who were transformed from Ainu, Koreans, Jurchens, and Ming people can achieve this class leap. The opportunity to use Youheren's account.

Or even simpler, as long as you marry a Kazuto, even as a concubine, as long as the woman is registered and confirmed in the Governor's Mansion, you can directly obtain the identity of Kazuto, and the culture, habits, and language can be slowly learned and changed in the future .

Correspondingly, it is the middle-level Xinheren.

After they moved closer to the Ezo Governor's Mansion, they really tasted the sweetness, including many chiefs and fighters from the tribe.

In the past, no matter how high their social status was in the tribe, they lived a life of bare hair and drinking blood.As the saying goes: The elders in the slums are also poor. Only after they become Xinhe people, they are allowed to pass on silk and cotton clothes, use porcelain and ironware, and can buy food and salt at relatively low prices. The warrior class is allowed to have the right to wear swords. , family members can get the same preferential treatment as ordinary people.

The most important thing is that when trading with Heren, the price of Xinhe people is much more affordable than those who do not accept Hehua. The price of fur and meat purchased from local people is also lower than what Xinhe people get. There are more people who accept and harmonize.

Under all kinds of stimuli, some people will take the initiative to embrace Ezo and Ren, but the people headed by these old tribal chiefs are quite special.

They want to support and get close to others in exchange for benefits, but they don't want to lose their detached status in the tribe. Therefore, chiefs and some warriors appeared, but the tribesmen still maintain the subordinate tribe of Ainu culture.

Ordinary Ainu people, Koreans, Jurchens, and Ming people who are unwilling to abandon the old culture are the bottom of the pyramid of Einu human society.

Their food was rationed, and their travel was restricted to prevent them from escaping, and those Xinhe people managed them.

"At present, Hongzhiwu Jinshan is the most mature in development, with an annual output of about 2 taels of gold sand and gold grains, 2.5 taels of associated silver, 6000 catties of copper ingots, and about 40 taels of money.

According to the agreement, half of the mined minerals need to be handed over to the family as taxes, and the rest will be obtained by the local miners themselves. The family can get more than 20 yuan in income.

However, they are all directly traded directly with raw ore ingots, and there will be a lot of errors in the middle.

Qingbu Jinshan and Zhinei Jinshan are relatively small, with an annual output of 5000 to 7000 taels of gold, associated silver, copper and other minerals at about 2500 jin.

However, this part of the output of the main family needs to be divided equally with the local Oysterzaki family, and the income of the main family is about 8 kan per year.

The Chitose Mine has just been developed, and currently it can only produce 1800 taels of gold, 2600 taels of associated silver, and about 1500 catties of copper ore and others, equivalent to an income of about 3 to 4 taels.

There is a mint in the local area, which is responsible for directly minting copper coins in the local area, and minting copper coins with reference to the skills as the current currency.However, the local value of gold and silver is very low, so most of them are transported to Kanto for casting. "

The Ainu people only use gold utensils when offering sacrifices, and the local ordinary people live in relative poverty, so naturally they don’t need such precious metals, which also enables the Xiu family to obtain a stable source of income.

Xiujia nodded in satisfaction, silently calculating in his heart that there were about 30 yuan in income, turned his head to Tachihara Hisakuna and said, "This money used to go directly into internal funds.

Now I have decided to leave 5 yuan in the internal funds for the living expenses of Oni, and leave all the rest to you for the work of expanding production. It is necessary to complete the established production goals within 3 years. "

In fact, for the Xiu family's request to expand the request, Tachihara Hisakuna still felt a lot of pressure after knowing it, but he still agreed before.

Now that we have the support of Xiujia, we naturally have more confidence to expand production.

Hearing Fujido Takatora's description, everyone was moved by the current development of Ezo. Hideka looked at Ezo Hisutora and said, "After you go to Ezo, temporarily suspend the offensive and infiltration of Kamikawa and Tokachi. During this time, pay attention Turn your power back to the suppression of the currently occupied territories.

After you go to Ezo, count the military power directly under the Ezo Governor's Mansion, and issue military service accounts to Heren, Xinheren, subordinate Ainu, Koreans, Jurchens, and Mingren, according to every 5 The standard of 1 Ding per household requires training.

In addition to re-screening and replenishing the White Armor Army, the Koreans, Jurchen, Ming people, and subordinate Ainu each train a reserve team, but it should be noted that their warrior officers at all levels must be Xinhe people and He Soldiers served. "

Hideka did some mental calculations. According to the information brought by Sado, it is estimated that an army of 2.1 people can be prepared by then. Such an army actually has the mobilization ability of a million stone daimyo. Count the subordinate tribal soldiers.

"The preparation of the reserve team refers to the military system of the past Jibei period. All the reserve teams organized by Heren and Xinheren are called A-type reserve teams. Everyone wears armor and fights with long guns and long bows. Among them Iron Cannons must be held by Kazuto.

The other legions are prepared as a type-B reserve team, which is organized according to the old military system, that is, every 300 people are a team, and there are ashigaru generals, and every 15 people are set up as a group leader for management.

Except for the head of the group, the ashigaru general and the group directly under the general, the others are not equipped with armor, and they only wear array hats and leather clothes.

Out of every 300 people, 60 people belong to the Kamashigaru team, 60 people belong to the Xinzhong team, 30 people belong to the group of flag bearers and ashigaru generals, 30 people belong to Xiao Hebei, and the remaining 120 people belong to the gun footgaru team.Gun ashigaru is only equipped with 2 and a half long spears, which is half a length shorter than that of the Class A reserve team.

You are waiting for my news there at any time, and when I need it, bring these troops back to the island to listen to my arrangements. "

The so-called Xinzhong team is a very special existence in the Japanese military system. In fact, they can also be directly incorporated into the gun ashigaru, box-carrying crowd, and Xiaohe pack, because they are essentially auxiliary arms.

The difference is that the weapons in their hands are fist-sized polished stones, and when they engage in battle, they will put them in a simple catapult [-] meters long with a net bag at one end and throw it at the enemy.

Don't think that this arm is very low-level. In the famous Sankahara battle, the performance of the "Xinzhong Team" under the Takeda Army Nobumo Oyamada was quite eye-catching.

Each of them carried a bag of fist-sized stones, and at the beginning of the battle, they approached the enemy's line and threw stones at each other.Japan's bows had poor short-range accuracy, and the iron cannons at that time were not much better, and the Sanhe soldiers didn't have many in their hands.

These rock-throwing soldiers actually dealt an unexpected blow to Ishikawa Shushobu.At that time, the combat mission of Shingen's slingers should have been to disrupt the formation of the Tokugawa army, and lure the impetuous Tokugawa army to take the initiative to attack to give their troops an opportunity to attack.

In order to prevent their formation from being disrupted, Ishikawa Sushobe had no choice but to charge forward, which opened the prelude to the Tokugawa family's Mikatahara tragedy.

Judging from the series of actions of the Xiu family, it was obvious that they were preparing for war.In fact, Fujido Takatora, Yanwa Jiuhu and others don't know who the other party is, but as the ruling class, they can already clearly feel the treachery of the upper class.