Chapter 50: Territory
Yu Qiuping's outstanding talent for military training made Imagawa Yoshimoto have to re-examine this young man whom he already valued. After inquiring about Yu Qiuping's training methods, he found that it was impossible to popularize them throughout the army.
Because of such high-intensity, large-scale corporal punishment and strict supervision training, it is very likely to arouse serious dissatisfaction with the superiors of the subordinate, and mutiny or something may occur. In addition, there is no equality between Ashigaru, and new recruits are often bullied by veterans, and Ashigaruma will also form various small gangs because of region, age, and which family they come from. Trying to get them to train these queue skills at exactly the same pace is a fantasy.
Yu Qiuping's troops have a natural advantage. Yu Qiuping himself had great kindness to the family of these two hundred people, and later personally rushed to Zhili to live and die with them, saving everyone's lives. And lead them, the slaves, to be free and respected by others. Coupled with Yu Qiuping's abolition of kneeling and bowing, these acts of treating people equally and the personality charm brought by Yu Qiuping's own kindness, Yu Qiuping has a very high prestige in this team and is loved by all Ashigaru. And these ashigaru people were originally slaves at the bottom of society, and they were partners who lived and died together, and the team atmosphere was also very good. This enabled Yu Qiuping to successfully implement his training methods and train an extremely well-disciplined army.
Such a unit, with a little martial arts training, will become a strong force, which is hard to find.
Yu Qiuping was worried that he would have to go back to Yuanjiang with Sena Shijun after returning to Junfu. Fortunately, Sena Shitoshi was left behind in Suruga in order to assist Imagawa Yoshimoto in the management of internal affairs, and Yu Qiupei was able to stay in Sunfukan.
After Yu Qiuping returned to Junfu, he would go home to visit his family on vacation from the ashigaru who had been trained by his devil for more than ten days. Although the family members who have been thinking about it for a long time have long known that the Sanhe area has turned into a disaster, they are still worried about the lives of their children. When it was discovered that most of them had returned safely, the families were immediately in ecstasy. Every household has erected a monument to the immortality of Yuqiuping. Yu Qiuping asked the ashigaru to clean up a little, and then took his family to the 3,000 stone west of Ejiri, Yuakiping's newly acquired territory. For those families who unfortunately died in battle, Yu Qiuping personally went to the house to comfort them. As early as Okazaki Castle, Akihei collected all the autumn leaves of those soldiers who unfortunately died in battle, and wrote the names of the deceased on each piece. He intends to collect these autumn leaves forever. The families of these martyrs, Akihei Tamakihei, also moved to Ejiri.
Ejiri Port is about 23 miles away from Sunpu Castle, and Yuakihei's territory is halfway between Ejiri Port and Sunpu Castle, only 10 miles from Sunpu Castle. On a hill in the territory, you can see the castle town of Sunpu Castle in the distance. In Yuqiuping's 3,000-stone territory, there are a total of 4 villages, 2 are fishing villages close to the sea, and 2 are small villages a little inland, south of the official road. Both small villages have fertile paddy fields. The two villages near the sea make a living from fishing, and although life is a little harder, the income from fishing is more stable than farming in bad years.
Yu Qiuping came to the outside of the westernmost fishing village with a huge number of thousands of people, and found that some people had gathered at the entrance of the village to greet him. When I got closer, I found that the first person was Itami Kangqing.
"Momiji-kun, I'm looking forward to you!" Itan Kangqing rode forward and gave Yu Qiuping a hug on the horse.
"Now I'm also a fellow samurai, everyone knows each other so well, don't take a bite to the king, just call me Momiji." Yu Qiuping patted Itan Kangqing's back, and after a while, he became stronger.
"Then I'm not welcome, Momiji, you can also call me Kangqing." Itankang said with a smile. "First of all, congratulations to Momiji for establishing a miracle in Mikawa this time, and also receiving the territory of 3,000 stones. It is said that the palace of the governor also gave the horse seal! ”
"That's right, I'll show you another day." Yu Qiuping smiled, "Speaking of which, how could it be that you came to greet me?" Yu Qiuping and Itami Yasushi rode forward side by side, talking as they walked.
"This land has never been divided, and there is no lord," Itami explained, "Our Itami family's territory is around Ejiri Port, the closest to here, and it is usually guarded by our family and the acting officials. ”
"You're here, so you can be regarded as finding someone to take over haha," Itami Yasuqing smiled at Yu Qiuping, "My father has complained about this more than once. Taking care of the village requires people to contribute money and efforts, but Tian Fu is all handed over to the family governor's palace, and our efforts are thankless. ”
"Haha..."Yu Qiuping also smiled, "If you don't understand anything in the future, I'm afraid I'll trouble you." ”
"That's nature, and it's good to say Momiji. The deputy sent by the Governor's Hall will help you. While the two were talking and laughing, they had arrived at the entrance of the village. There were dozens of people kneeling at the entrance of the village, including four elderly grandfathers kneeling at the front.
"These are...," Yu Qiuping asked.
"These are the villagers who have come to greet the adults. These are the residents of West Village who don't have to work now. Itami said, "The four in front, from left to right, are the chiefs of the West Village, the East Village, the River Village, and the Jiang Village. ”
"Everyone, please get up quickly," Yu Qiuping hurriedly turned over and dismounted, "how embarrassed to let a few old people kneel while I stand." After the flattered old people were helped up by Yu Qiuping one by one, the ashigaru behind Yu Qiuping helped to lift up the kneeling villagers behind him.
"You don't have to be so formal, our family doesn't have any shelves, that's it!" Nakahide Gozenzaki said as he helped the villagers up.
"That's what you mean!" Yu Qiuping glared at him, "You kid can't speak!" ”
The dialogue between the two caused laughter around them, and the atmosphere suddenly became relaxed.
"Your Lord." Several village chiefs saluted respectfully, "The adults are famous, and the villains are like thunder!" ”
"Needless to say, tell me about your village." Yu Qiuping cut straight to the point. Several villages presented their situation at one time. Each of the two fishing villages has more than 100 people, while the two paddy field villages have a larger population, with more than 300 people in one village and nearly 400 people in the other.
"Then how much harvest can you get in your territory every year?" Yu Qiuping asked.
"If it is a good year, more than 3,000 stone of grain can be harvested during the autumn harvest. But if the year is not good, it may only look like two thousand, four or five hundred. The village chief in the West Village said.
"How much do you have to pay every year?" Yu Qiuping asked.
"If you go back to your lordship, 1,200 stones." The village chief said.
"Could it be too much?" Yu Qiuping muttered to himself. "After paying so much rent, are you all right?"
"If it's a good year, it's still better, and you can raise some livestock." "It's just that when the harvest fails, everyone in the village goes hungry." ”
"That's it...," Yu Qiuping sighed.
"Four public and six people, it is already a very good policy, and the land endowment cannot be lower." Seeing that Yu Qiuping seemed to have the urge to reduce the Tian Fu, Amano Keide said coldly, glaring at the village chief fiercely.
"Yes! The Imagawa family is very kind, and this rent is already very light. The village chief shuddered at Amano Jingde, "Even if the harvest fails, relying on the grain stored in previous years, no one will starve to death in the village." ”
"But whether it's a good year or a bad year, the rent is the same, will it be too rigid." Yu Qiuping asked.
"Generally, if it comes to a bad year, the lord will appropriately reduce it." The pro-soldier added.
"But every piece of land is good and bad, and it is not good for the residents to share the same rent." Yu Qiuping asked again.
"Don't you want to take a cut according to the output?" Amano Jingde shook his head, "Someone tried before, but it turned out that all the farmers were too lazy to work hard and were unwilling to work hard to plow the land. ”
Yu Qiuping thought about it for a while, and wanted to use his advantage as a traverser to come up with some solutions.
Pregnant!
"Otherwise, let's introduce, the personal income tax system." Yu Qiuping smiled proudly, the traverser was indeed a traverser. After seeing a few village chiefs, the subordinates around him looked incomprehensible, and Yu Qiuping explained.
"We divide the income of each household into different tiers to collect taxes." Yu Qiuping picked up a small wooden stick and spent a few horizontal strokes on the ground. "For example, if a piece of land is normal, it can produce 10,000 stone of grain. So, that's how we collect taxes. ”
Yu Qiuping first pointed to the bottom layer with a small stick, "There is no tax for this piece from zero to three thousand stones." 3,000 stone to 5,000 stone, tax 10%. 5,000 to 7,000 stone is taxed 20 percent, 7,000 stone to 9,000 stone is taxed 30%, 9,000 stone to 11,000 stone is taxed in four cities, and so on... That is, the better the year, the more taxes are collected, and when the year is bad, the less taxes are collected. ”
"Isn't that the more you produce and the more taxes you collect, then who is working hard to farm?" Yoshioka Katsumasa, who has a tendon, obviously didn't understand Yu Qiuping's model.
"Stupid! Are you full of muscles in your head? Mimasaki Nakahide smiled, "This is a rent according to the rung, how much do you end up with, and it doesn't affect the number of rents in the rungs in front of you?" Regardless of whether you harvest 10,000 stone or 15,000 stone, you will only pay 10% tax on the grain in the 3,000 and 5,000 stone period. ”
"Then if you don't plant 3,000 stones, won't you be taxed?" Yudong Ogawa took a sip of wine and asked. "Thanks to that."
"That's right, but it was already difficult at that time, and there was no food for brewing, so what taxes were charged." Yu Qiuping teased.
"In other words, this system is to ensure that the peasants will have a better life when the harvest is bad, and the lord will take more during the harvest, especially during the big harvest, the ladders with the highest yield will almost be taken away, right?" The pro-soldier studied for a while and asked, "And no matter how much the rent is, if you work a little more, you will always stay a little more after the tax is drawn, and you don't have to worry about everyone slacking off?" ”
"Haha, it's still the pro-soldier who knows me best." Yu Qiuping said with a smile, "Of course, these numbers are all casually said by me, and there is still specific research on how to operate." The statistics of fishing income also need to be improved. ”
"Well, don't worry about a bad year." Yu Qiuping looked at several village chiefs, only to find that two of them were already in tears.
"If you are so benevolent, all the gods and Buddhas will bless you." The village chief of the West Village knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Yu Qiuping. "The villain thanked the adults for the people of the village."
The new question is, how should these people be resettled in the village, who are now bringing nearly 1,000 people with their families? Yu Qiuping asked Itan Kangqing if he could open up more land. Itami Kangqing said that there should be no problem, their Itami family was given 10,000 stone of land, and he has slowly cultivated 15,000 stone. "As long as you don't encroach on other people's land."
So Yu Qiuping asked the pro-soldier guard to take full responsibility for the resettlement of the families of the 1,000 people, some of them went to Xicun, where there was a lot of wasteland around, and some of them were sent to two fishing villages to settle down. Building a house or something requires strong labor. Two hundred feet were taken on a three-day holiday by Yu Qiuping to help the family settle down. He and Amano Keitoku rushed back to Junfu first.