On the evening after the lecture, Mr. Xiao Nan held a banquet at home to thank Zhixiu. The Fuso dinner is always simple, and it is rare that there is a grilled fish in winter, in addition to two pickled side dishes, a bowl of miso soup, rice, and sake.

Sake is fermented with rice, not distilled liquor, so the degree is not high, only 14-16 degrees, but the atmosphere during the banquet is very good, because of the historical impression, Naohide regards Mr. Xiao Nan as a big thing, but Mr. Xiao Nan is kind and enthusiastic to Naoxiu, the wine is not drunk and everyone is drunk, and Naohide is still a little drunk when he returns to the door of the cage.

took off the clogs and entered the house, and the proprietress rushed up, "Expensive, there are two guests waiting for you for a long time." ”

It turned out that Genbei Kawagami led Hikojiro to guard the hall, and Naohide hurriedly invited them to his residence (bedroom) and told the proprietress to serve tea quickly.

Genbei Kawakami wore small sleeves, and the half-hefeather (short coat) was draped over Hikojiro, who was wearing a tortoiseshell for a long time (similar to a cotton vest), and it could be seen that the two of them had waited for a long time, and their faces were a little blue.

Naohide hurriedly asked Murata Yongmin to beckon the proprietress to light the brazier - Naohide is now a group of four people, and one room is a little unbearable, so this time I asked for two residences, this goods in order to envelop Omura, deliberately divided himself and Omura into a room, Omura doesn't care about this at all, a typical image of an uncle who eats and drinks Sun and does not thank Sun.

Genbei Kawagami warmed up for a while, glanced at Omura in embarrassment, and then respectfully presented a gift box, "Naohide Hall, it's too precious, please forgive me for not accepting it."

It turned out that Naohide gave Hikojiro a gift box separately after the lecture, and then told him to "study hard in the future, and come to see Brother Naohide when you have time." Hikojiro didn't dare to accept it, so Naohide forced it on him.

Mr. Xiao Nan's dinner party did not have a father and son on the river, because their samurai family was relatively low, and they were not Mr. Xiao Nan's close disciples.

According to Fuso's etiquette, it is very rude for Naohide to give Hikojiro directly, Fuso thinks "don't take out a gift unexpectedly", and Hikojiro is a child, Naohide should give it to Genbei Kawagami first, "Haha——, I want to see it is fate, I have prepared a small gift below, please leave it as a souvenir", it is normal to do so.

At the same time, the person receiving the gift should resign, three let three thanks, etc., of course, if it is a person with a high status to a person with a low status, it is okay for a person with a low status to resign, so as not to anger the noble. And you can't open the gift in person, so as not to embarrass both parties, "What are you giving?" Look down on me", or it is too expensive and makes the recipient embarrassed how to express gratitude.

Genbei knew that Naohide liked Yan Jiro very much, and Naohide's knowledge also made him awe-inspired, so he didn't care about it at first. But when I got home and opened it, there were ten gold judgments and a letter in the gift box, in which Naoxiu apologized, "The administration is too hasty to visit." I am very optimistic about Hikojiro, hoping that he can study more and grow up on the lintel of the glorious river. ”

Compared to the samurai's fortune, ten small judgments seem inconspicuous, but at this time it is indeed a lot of money.

The average annual income of the lower-ranking samurai of the shogunate was about twenty-four, which included rations, and of course there were lower, with the lowest being four taels and one person - support was rations, also known as support rice. And the samurai of the lower ranks of each domain must have fewer years of age than the shogunates.

In the early days of Fuso, Zhixing represented the samurai's right to dominate the given territory, because Fuso calculated the productivity of the territory based on the yield of rice, and the unit of calculation of rice was the capacity unit "stone", and "stone height" was the yield of the land samurai, so it is generally said that a samurai knew how many stones he had. For example, it can be said that the Choshu Maori family knows that the stone is 370,000 stone high.

Of course, the output of the territory could not be taken away by the samurai, and half of the shogunate was made up of five dukes and five people or four dukes and six people, and the princes depended on their conscience, for example, the Kamisaki domain once frantically did the things of eight dukes and two people.

Zhixing and the samurai's income are directly proportional, and everyone usually doesn't compare how much stone rice they collect, because the samurai who lacks virtue will be more embarrassed, so Zhixing is called the samurai's annual income.

During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Oda Nobunaga implemented the "separation of peasants and soldiers", separating ordinary professional soldiers from the peasants, and only giving Romi without land, and the samurai's income methods coexisted with the "Chixing system" and the "Yuroku system". The samurai whose income was based on the Yuroku system had only the amount of knowledge and the amount of knowledge and the specific place of knowledge, and the Yuroku issued by the daimyo to the samurai was called "Kuramatori", which was not necessarily all rice, but usually rice plus a small amount of gold and silver currency.

Because the samurai who earned the Yuroku system did not have direct control over the land and the peasants on the land, these samurai were more controllable than the samurai who earned the Zhixing system, and the daimyo increased their dominance over the territory through the Yuroku system.

From the middle of the Edo period, both the shogunate and the feudal domains changed the income of most samurai from the chiyuki system to the yuroku system, which was generally based on 500 koku, which meant that if the samurai held the 500 koku domain, the shogunate and the feudal clans basically acquiesced in the fact that he continued to control the domain directly, and at most sent officials from the shogunate to collect taxes, but did not directly interfere in the day-to-day management of the domain. However, if the samurai's knowledge and deeds were less than 500 koku, then the shogunate and the feudal domains would take over the day-to-day management and taxation of the former samurai domains, and "you can just get the money directly, so why bother with that idleness", so the income of the high-ranking samurai who owned a large amount of land was the "Zhixing system", and the income of the middle and lower samurai was the "Yuroku system", which was called "Kurumatori".

However, for the sake of identity differences, the income of the mid-level samurai was still called "Kura Rice Tori", and the income of the lower-level samurai was given a new name "Fukumi".

The shogunate and daimyo paid samurai salaries based on rice and a small amount of cash, which was called "gaijin". In the late Edo period, the amount of heavy metals such as gold, silver, and copper in Fuso declined, so money could still be found in the "Kura-mitori" of middle-level samurai, and "support rice" for low-ranking samurai was basically distributed in the form of rice.

"Support rice is generally distributed in February, in February, in May, in October, in a quarter, this way of distribution in installments is called "cut rice".

During this period, the number of Zhiyuki and the nominal fiefdom of Ishitaka were like, so some people also used "Ishitaka" to refer to the income of the samurai.

But in the eighth year of the reign of the Emperor (1723 AD), "Ashitaka" appeared.

In order to save money and recruit people in an exceptional way, the shogunate began to pay samurai "ashitaka" (post allowance) in addition to "ishigaka", stipulating that when low-ranking people took up high-ranking official positions, they would be paid "ashida" in addition to the original "ishigaka", and the ashidaka (post allowance) would be abolished after leaving the office. In this way, talents are selected and salary inflation is avoided.

Clever officials gradually promoted "Ashitaka" to the lower-level samurai, and the seniority of the lower-level samurai was decomposed from the original "support rice" into "ashitaka" and "support rice", of course, everyone is still used to combine the "ashitaka" and "support rice" of the lower-level samurai to call it support rice. However, after the retirement of the lower-ranking samurai, the "ashitaka" of the rank was not paid for a long time, and the shogunate reduced the salary expenditure. For example, Naoxiu belongs to the second half of the "Royal Family", if his retired son takes over, then Naoxiu's son gets full salary, and Naoxiu can only get his retirement salary - the original part of "supporting rice".

As for the lowest hug seat in the royal family, his son can't take over after retirement, and he doesn't have a retirement salary.

At this point, the shogunate samurai's annual income was stabilized, including three types: family roku, job roku, and support rice. Jialu is the part that is deducted from Zhixing or Shigao and handed over to the shogunate, Zhilu is the post allowance "Zugao", and supporting rice is the basic salary.

Sometimes the shogunate would also give out bonuses, usually money, which was called "lower money", but the financial difficulties of the shogunate were basically uncommon in the later period.

The average annual salary of the shogunate's lower-ranking samurai was about 24 achigao alloy folds, and there were a few people's rations of "support rice", so how much money could be left in a year?

Because it was necessary to maintain the dignity of the samurai, it was necessary to hire servants and buy clothes, plus entertainment and other expenses, and if there was no serious illness and careful budgeting, he could save four taels of gold a year.

The newly hired ashigaru, as a low-level samurai, is generally a full-height alloy of about four, and the ration of one person's flour is "support rice". In other words, it is possible to be rich in supporting oneself, but it is not possible to support one's family.

Therefore, for Kawagami Genbei, ten small pieces of gold were about ten taels of gold, which was a lot of money for him, and he didn't dare to accept it rashly.

If Genbei accepts it directly, Naohide is very happy, and if he doesn't accept it directly, Naohide has a way.

"The gift is for Hikojiro to study, the Kawakami family has been innocent for generations, and I hope that Hikojiro can inherit the family style of the Kawakami family and excel in the future." Naohide waved his hand and motioned for Genbei to wait for him to finish, "If you don't think it's presumptuous, can you bow Hikojiro under my door?" Although the servant is not talented, he still has some understanding in Lanxue, and I hope to help Hikojiro."

The money is not so easy to collect, if it is something else, Genbei must still refuse politely, but Hikojiro is smart and cute, Genbei really doesn't want Hikojiro to continue to do the unpromising profession of Ashigaru.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate", he pressed Hikojiro and gave Naohide a bow of apprenticeship.

Naohide laughed and finally broke Hikojiro back, Naohide was confident that he would not let Hikojiro take that bloody and tearful life path again.

The name has been decided, Naohide can speak more bluntly, he advised Genbei to take care of his body and hold on for another seven or eight years, leaving more time for Hikojiro to study, as for the future arrangement, Naohide has already got a letter of introduction from Yokoi Konan to the Satsuma Yomei scholar Ito Shigeemon, this year please Hikojiro to recuperate at home, the following spring, Naohide will go to Kumamoto, then whether it is to arrange Hikojiro to study or to study with Naohide's private school. Yes, Naohide is already planning to open a private school next year, but the location has not yet been decided.

Naoxiu has a generous hand and an extraordinary bearing - people in the future will be extraordinary when they return to ancient times, because there is no such a big concept of hierarchy, so they are more confident, since Yuan Bingwei has made a decision, he doesn't think about it anymore, and he leaves after drinking tea for a while. Only Hikojiro is very ignorant, what happened? Why do I have an extra teacher? Naoxiu rubbed his head, satisfied, and made the future a little better.

After sending the father and son out of the house, Naoxiu went to find Murata Yongmin happily, this thing was like a transparent person in the room, without saying a word and expressionless throughout the whole process, it was not that Naohide had already made a play, and the root of Naohide's hatred was itchy.

Naohide called Toranosuke and Gakujiro over and asked Murata to take account. In the past, the accounts were all managed by Zhixiu himself, mainly a large amount of expenses were used to buy books in the Languo Commercial Hall, which was not suitable for two students to know. Now that there is Murata, Naohide also wants Murata to be popular, otherwise how will he please his wife in the future - in fact, Naohide doesn't have to worry, eight years later, Omura married Kotoko, a girl from the same village, and she has her own red whisk girl who knows heroes.

Naohide concealed one hundred and forty taels of gold from Dr. De Vries and asked Murata to settle the accounts. Murata is a pig in the face of the heart of the bright, after a while to finish the inventory, Naohide only said that from Edo came out with four 100 taels of Mitsui gold tickets, Tenpo small gold 60 pieces, copper coins 6 pieces, to today by boat cost a total of 44 small sentences, in Saga in order to highlight Lan Xue, the loser 19 pieces, gifts, accommodation, meals cost nearly 30 pieces, to the Okuhei Domain Nakatsu Fukuzawa family 20,

Today, I gave ten more to the Heshang family, counting the bits and pieces, so far one hundred and thirty small coins have been spent, and there are three gold tickets of one hundred taels, thirty small coins, and more than two copper coins.

After calculating it, Toranosuke was dumbfounded, Gakujiro was dumbfounded, and Murata Yongtoshi also had an earthy face, I can't scare you to death, I still want to study if I don't have money? Money can make ghosts grind, and money can channel spirits.

Naohide was proud, fortunately, when he visited Fukuzawa's house in Nakatsu, Okuhei Domain, he didn't say what gifts he gave, otherwise these people on the scene would have to show their original form, and it would be bad to frighten the children then.