The next day, Naohide and Oguri and others talked about the events of last night, and everyone was noncommittal about it, and Naohide apologized to Yamauchi and Yoshida, and only took Eiko and Oguri Tadashun and Murata Eitoshi to visit Yataro's house.

"The kindness of a woman is difficult to achieve a big thing", on the way Oguri couldn't help but teach Naohide a lesson, Naohide knew that Oguri was kind, but he couldn't explain it, could it be that he told him that Yataro Iwasaki would be the head of the first chaebol in Fuso in the future? I can't say. Only Eiko secretly smiled at Naoxiu as a sign of support and encouragement.

"Is Yajiro at home?" The village house leading the way shouted loudly outside the courtyard.

Yajiro's house is a dilapidated wooden house with a straw roof and a tattered fence, but the yard is fairly level, and the ground and outside the door are clean.

Yajiro saw that there were samurai accompanying him outside, and quickly ran out in a panic. Zhuang Wu ignored him and respectfully invited Naohide and his party to enter.

Mihara and Yataro also came out when they heard the movement, and Naohide and Eiko hurriedly stepped forward to prevent these two from kneeling on the mud floor - it is not a good habit to be a guest at someone else's house and be a cheap host.

I often hear people describe the four walls of the house, this time Oguri can see that there is no furniture, the washi paper on the shoji is in tatters, and there are a few new straw mats on the wooden floor, but when I sit down, my butt sinks, and it is estimated that the floor below is rotten.

Meilun poured a few bowls of tea and came out, not to mention Xiao Li, the two dog-legged Zangba and Quan Liu looked at the wooden bowl with lost paint and showed a look of disgust.

"Ling Lang is smart and clever, can he cut his love to Kochi himself's private school to help?" Naohide thinks Yataro's family is too poor, and is ready to give Yataro some subsidies in the name of helping.

"Okay, great." Yajiro on the side heard that there was such a good thing, and he agreed for his son without asking about the situation - he knew at a glance that the child Yataro didn't tell the truth to this drunkard at all after he came home last night.

"Well, I also want to listen to the opinion of the child's mother", since he wants to befriend Yataro, then his drunken father is also inconvenient to offend, and Naohide has to deal with it in vain - it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, Yataro does not want to see his father but does not necessarily like others to disrespect him, so it is better to be careful.

"The adults are pitiful, and the villain's family is grateful, but I don't know what Xiao Mitai can do when she goes to the private school." Meilun ignored her husband's constant glances, she still wanted to determine the future of her children, not to be a servant, it would be bad.

"This lady, of course Yataro came to the private school to study, Lan Xue, and usually helps Mr. take care of the students. If you don't feel at ease, you can come to the private school and cook with me. Yingzi looked at Mirin's conversation as if she was literate, and invited Miren to go to Kochi with her - Eiko doesn't know what's wrong with her recently, and it's different from the bright in the past, and she's becoming more and more sentimental.

"Okay, okay, the whole family." As soon as Yajiro heard that there was such a good thing, he wanted to climb up the pole.

"Thank you lord and lady for taking in our mother and son", Meilun's whole body trembled, she had been wronged for more than ten years, and her husband had no choice but to take this nest, but for the sake of her son, she was also angry this time, and she couldn't take her husband to let him destroy his son's good deeds no matter what.

Naoxiu motioned to Yingzi to wait, he looked at Xiao Yata with a smile, the favor is going to be sent to the main master, and pragmatists are so realistic.

Yataro is only twelve years old, although he was born smart, after all, he has not experienced much, and he suddenly fell into hesitation, it stands to reason that he should throw his father at home, but this waste is usually drunk, and he is really not at ease to be left alone, this hesitation was seen by Naohide, and he couldn't imagine that the ruthless chaebol founder was as heavy as ordinary people when he was a teenager.

"Okay, it's okay if you want to go together, Madame will be in charge of the chores of the private school in the future, and you will listen to Mrs. Zun's arrangement in the future." The child was close to his mother when he was a teenager, and Naoxiu's arrangement was very much in line with Xiao Yata's thoughts, and he smiled when he heard it.

Naohide asked Yajiro and his wife to arrange housework, and then went directly to Kochi to find Gakujiro, and he took Koyatsu with him to continue to play with everyone.

Aki-gun is rich in the north and poor in the south, the north is closer to Kochi, and there is a little more arable land, but the south is completely remote mountainous and poor countryside, not to mention Oguri and Naohide, and even Yamauchi Toyonobu was taken aback by the local situation.

The Yamauchi family's transfer to Tosa was to rob the fiefdom of the Nagamune clan, and drove the original samurai of the Nagamune clan to the countryside to be village warriors, so the control over the countryside is not strong, and as long as the rent can be collected and the people are not troubled, they don't pay much attention to it, and no one cares about what a group of mud legs think - Tosa has been very divided up and down for more than 200 years.

After the loss of the tiger fish group, only Yoshida Toyo kept shouting in the domain hall What is the livelihood of Tosa withering, and the people are in dire straits, but everyone, including Toyonobu, disagrees, Fuso has a lot of natural disasters, and the samurai who are fierce in Tianbao are not having a good time, and the lord of the domain takes the lead in three dishes and one soup, what's wrong with this farmer's bad life? The samurai lords all set an example to live frugally, and it was good to eat some mud legs.

But the further south he went, the more shocking the folk scene became, and Toyonobu instructed Yoshida Toyo several times to stop it and turn around and go home, but Yoshida didn't know what he had discussed with Naohide, so he continued to hurry with his head down, and the increasingly serious Oguri Tadashun also supported to continue walking, Toyonobu couldn't stop it, he could only write a black account to Yoshida in his heart.

Naohide took Oguri to the countryside just to let him see the real situation in the countryside, even if Yoshida blocked it, Naohide would find another way.

In the Edo period, there were many types of farmers, such as "village priests", "famous lords", and "shoyas", as well as "common people" such as "kusan" (those who cultivated wasteland) and "nebo" (natives), as well as "sub-annexes" such as "mizutomi", "komae", and "jiahu-min" (house slaves).

The southern part of Anyi County is very poor, and most of the people and their subordinates live in mud huts that do not see sunlight all year round, and bare-chested and barefoot children are everywhere, both male and female. Naoxiu went to visit a few houses, because of the lack of clothes, the adults who didn't go to the field had to wrap themselves in tattered quilts and come out to answer, and Yingzi couldn't stop crying, and the change on her body was sent away halfway.

The shogunate once warned the peasants: "It is too wasteful to throw away radish leaves, cowpea leaves, soybean leaves, etc., which are mixed with some grains and boiled and eaten, and they taste very delicious." In fact, the shogunate thought too much, and with the income of the poor peasants, they could only eat bibimbap or porridge with wheat, chestnut rice, and weeds plus leaves, rice bran, radishes, and other vegetables, and even so, they had to eat twice a day—they had to eat in the morning and at noon, because they had to work, and dinner was generally saved.

After Xiao Li tasted the farmer's vegetable balls, he was coarse and hard to swallow, and he could barely taste the salt, he was very surprised, and asked Naohide Tianbao's murderous work has basically subsided, why is this place still so poor, is it the village chief "Zhuangwu" here who is rampant? Yoshida waved his hand to "Zhuangya" and asked him to show Oguri his palm, only to see that it was rough and there were many cracks, and in addition, Zhuangya's face was dark and his clothes were simple, so this was not Zhuangya's problem at all.

Zhixiu shook his head slightly, this question is too wide-ranging, and he is not easy to answer.

In 1816, the Wuyang hermit said in his "Records of World Affairs" that "the inequality between the rich and the poor is so great that there are twenty or thirty poor peasants around the rich one." Fuso's poverty at this time was a common problem, and it was better for the imperial lord to rely on the abundance of land and suck blood from the princes.

The other princes' territories are even more unbearable - after all, Aki-gun can still fish and catch the sea by the sea, and some of the inland feudal clans of Honshu Island are said to have not even had enough food for low-ranking samurai, let alone farmers!

Yamauchi Toyonobu still has some conscience in the end, and Yoshida promised to truthfully feedback to the feudal lord that it is unrealistic to waive all the land rents, but it is still possible to exempt some of them, but I don't know if the exempted land rents can fall into the hands of these landless or landless farmers.

With Oguri's acquiescence, Naohide also proposed methods for artificially incubating chickens and ducks and artificially inseminating cattle, and promised to arrange for Edo merchants to come to Aki-gun to buy souvenirs—of course, involving the issue of Tosa's franchise, to which Yamauchi and Yoshida promised to cover them.

After the inspection of Anyi County, Xiao Li had an extra layer of calm on his body, and he no longer stood by when Naoxiu chose the salt pond, and because the food was too exquisite, he scolded the two dogs. Naoxiu said that this trip was not in vain, and it was worth it just with Oguri's changes.

Yoshida Toyo was a doer, and he borrowed a large sum of money from Saiya Ya, bought slag from Iyo Kunibesko Copper Mountain, and bought charcoal from Uwajima, mobilized the people, and finally saved up a sufficient amount of cement in Suino Moon (June) and began to build a salt pond.

Yoshida was a ship commissioner in Tosa before he became a county commissioner, and he was very familiar with the Tosa sailors, and through Yamauchi Toyonobu, he requisitioned the large ships and manpower of the Tosa sailors, and the Hachiro Guard of Seiyaya had already hired carpenters from Edo Toshihachi to build waterwheels, and the first batch of coarse salt finally came out of the salt pond in Aki-gun at the end of Fumitsuki (July), and the scene was full of cheers.

Xiao Li was busy with Naohide from beginning to end in the construction of the salt pond, and he felt a sense of accomplishment, and he touched the mustache that had just grown, and he was proud.

During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate did not like the legacy of the Warring States, so it was stipulated that daimyos, flags, and samurai could not grow beards. Tokugawa Ietsuna, the fourth shogun, even issued a "ban on beards" in 1670.

Everyone is busy, and Oguri doesn't have time to shave, he touches his beard stubble and squints at Naohide, Naohide understands, this guy wants to go back to Kochi, anyway, the matter in Aki-gun has come to an end, and it's time to go back to Kochi.

Naohide and Eiko spent the Begging Festival and Obon Festival in Aki-gun, and when they returned to Kochi, they found that Mizuki's private school had changed a lot - the house had not changed, but there were a lot more students, and there was a scene of chaos.

It turned out that after returning from Edo, Hachiro Bei and Naozu Sakamoto of Caiya Yaya probably found out something from Rihachi and Kanta, and became more enthusiastic about private schools, and introduced many children of relatives and friends to study, including the Shingu family, the Sawamura family, the Sawabe family, the Fukushi family, the Hirai family, the Nishiyama family, the Yoshimura family, and many other school-age children, as well as Chojiro of the Manju shop and the seventeen-year-old Takeshi Xiaoyu, a distant relative.

When Naohide left, he ordered Gakujiro to come to study and accept the children, and Gakujiro did what he was told, but he didn't expect that there would be Fukuoka Tojiro, Ita~Gaki Inosuke, Goto Hoyasuke, Daiichiro Hijikata, Hosokawa Junjiro and others introduced by the old Fukuoka and Yoshida Toyo, if it weren't for Yajiro and Mirina and his wife who came from Iguchi Village to defect, Gakujiro and the two watermen couldn't be busy at all.

"These are my two new students, Yataro and Nakaoka Fukutaro, including food and accommodation, and Xuejiro you will arrange it", when they met Naohide, they stuffed two more children in, but Xuejiro didn't care anymore, and the teacher would be liberated when he came back, and he and Toranosuke took the children away with a grin.

Naohide calculated, he collected most of Tosa's future celebrities, only Sasaki Mannosuke and Tani Shintaro slipped through the net, forget it, Yingzi is not used to living in Aki-gun, and she has been in poor health recently, so she should take care of her wife first.