The Anecdote of Aubani is just an episode, and it doesn't keep Soji Tsugawa worried.

On the contrary, Soharu Tsugawa is now worried about another matter, and that is the three-year covenant he made. The goal was set, and the corresponding deployment was arranged, but more than half a year has passed, but there is no effect.

Take, for example, the reclamation of new land!

In the past, the Tsugawa family's territory in the Hago and Mutsu regions has basically reached saturation after so many years of development. However, the newly incorporated areas such as Hazen and Nanmutsu are still in the integration stage for various reasons.

Not only is the task of reclamation of Xintian very difficult, but even the daily work of pacifying the people is also very difficult. During this time, a total of hundreds of documents came from all over the place, and they all boiled down to one thing - it is difficult to reclaim Xintian!

Initially, Soharu Tsugawa came up with a solution of requisitioning a large number of displaced people and buying people from other places to fill the problem of insufficient population in the Tsugawa family's domain, so as to use the new population to reclaim new land.

However, in the past two years, no large-scale joint wars have broken out in various places, Date and Ashina were also wiped out by the Tsugawa family, and the entire Dewa and Mutsu are the Tsugawa family alone, and the "homeless" are not equivalent to the resident population of the Tsugawa family.

Just like before, when the Tsukawa family was still developing in Dewa, Mutsu was not the territory of the Tsugawa family. The peasants of Mutsu fled to Dewa due to various reasons such as war, so the Tsugawa family could naturally gather these displaced people to develop and strengthen themselves.

But what about now?

Aren't the farmers of Mutsu still the population of the Tsugawa family going around now, or the farmers of Dewa running to Mutsu? So there is no population growth at all, let alone the cultivation of new fields.

As for buying from somewhere else. In the past, the Tsugawa family mainly bought from Echigo and Wakasa.

Echigo is a long-tail family, the quantity is large and cheap, and it can be described as good quality and low price. But how after all, it's just a country, and it's almost sold out after so many years. Moreover, Nagao Jinghu himself is also learning the development model of the Tsugawa family, and the Nagao family itself also needs a population, so the path of Echigo is basically broken.

On the side of the Wakasa Takeda family, it was mainly Takeda Nobuyo who helped Tsugawa Soji to collect the displaced people in the near regions, so as to earn the difference and make up for the Takeda family's overstretched finances.

However, now that Kinai has been controlled by Miyoshi Chokei, it has also stabilized. Moreover, Miyoshi Changqing is a person with vision and foresight, and soon after taking control of Jinai, he set out to develop Jinai and stabilize people's livelihood.

Although it has not yet reached abnormal stability, at least there are not so many displaced people!

For these reasons, the population growth of the Tsugawa family has been ineffective, which is particularly embarrassing.

Last month, Soharu Tsugawa also raised the matter in the assessment, but the suggestions made by the retainers were not very good. Some retainers are also brain-opening, such as Yoshiaki Ueyama, who has just been promoted to the rank of an important minister of the Tsugawa family, and actually proposed to do a wave of things in Ezo and catch some Ezo people to come back to reclaim.

Soji Tsugawa was so angry that he almost kicked Yoshiaki Kamiyama out, is MMP Ezo that place easy to mess with? The Tokugawa shogunate, which unified the whole country, fought for decades to almost get rid of Ezo, and that place was completely like chicken ribs, and if it didn't work, it would cause a commotion!

Soji Tsugawa's current focus is all on Kamiluo, and Ezo has no heart to care about the dispensable place.

.......

Seeing Tsugawa Soji walking in from the outside with a heavy heart, Yukihime, who was sewing clothes for Tsugawa Soji, hurriedly put down the front in her hand, walked to Tsugawa Soji's side, and asked with a concerned face, "What happened, why is Your Highness unhappy?" ”

"Why are you doing all this rough work again, isn't there a subordinate?" Seeing that Yukihime was busy with this and that again, Soji Tsugawa hurriedly asked.

Xue Ji smiled and pulled a strand of hair from her cheek to her ear, "The concubines can't be idle, and the wonderful pills are getting bigger, so they don't need to worry about it like before!" ”

"Although the family business is big, but you still have to be diligent and thrifty! As the head mother of the Tsugawa family, shouldn't the concubine also set some example for the family members of the retainers? Yukihime smiled.

Soji Tsugawa nodded with a sigh, and then continued, "Having said that, you don't have to do everything yourself, it's distressing to be tired of your family!" ”

"Got it! My verbose Highness! Yukihime glanced at Tsugawa Soji tenderly, and then asked, "Your Highness hasn't told the concubine why she is worried!" ”

"Although the concubine is not as well-informed and resourceful as His Highness's retainers, what if she can also say any suggestions to solve His Highness's urgent needs?" Yukihime asked with a smile while rubbing Soji Tsugawa's shoulder.

Soji Tsugawa nodded, so he hurriedly told Yukihime about the problems he had encountered recently.

After a long time, Soji Tsugawa finally finished speaking. Seeing Yukihime who was lost in thought, Soji Tsugawa did not make a sound to interrupt Yukihime, who was thinking.

Half an hour later, Xue Ji suddenly spoke, "Your Highness, if you want to solve such a thing, it is nothing more than to open up sources and reduce expenditure. ”

"Since you can't open source, let's throttle!"

Tsugawa Soji's eyes lit up, "Ah Xue, you really woke up the dreamer with a word!" Keep talking! ”

After receiving the affirmation of Tsugawa Soji, Yukihime also became bold, "Just imagine, how many people are in the family territory, except for the standing ashigaru and peasant soldiers who need to serve in the military, most of the rest of the people are also women, children and old people. ”

"Women, children, and the elderly naturally can't be counted on, so why not pay more attention to these young people in the family's territory?"

After listening to Yukihime's words, Tsugawa Soji shook his head with some disappointment, "Standing Ashigaru is a full-time army, and in addition to training, there is only the matter of fighting, and the family will not let Chang Ashigaru participate in farming, which will destroy the elite standing equipment that the family has worked so hard to build." ”

"As for the peasant soldiers, although they are involved in farming, most of their time is also spent on training. Although they are said to be peasant soldiers, these peasant soldiers are all standing reserves in the eyes of the family! ”

"After all, fighting a war depends on the standing army, and the previous system of peasant and soldier recruitment is completely useless!" Soji Tsugawa said firmly.

Xue Ji nodded lightly, "Your Highness, do you know how many people are in the family territory, how many young and strong are there, and how many are the standing ashigaru and peasant soldiers?" ”

"Wait!" Where did Tsugawa Soji remember this, turned around and rummaged through the shelves behind him where the documents were placed, then took out a document and opened it, looked at it, and replied, "This is the census report of the family sent by Saigo Kizo three months ago, which states that the total population of the family is 1.14 million, of which there are 120,000 young and strong people, and the standing ashigaru of the main family has 36,000 people, and there are more than 60,000 registered peasants and soldiers!" ”

"In other words, out of a population of more than 1 million people, only 120,000 people are counted as combatants?" Yukihime asked thoughtfully.

"Not bad!" Tsugawa Soji nodded, "Young and strong men are only used as combat troops, and within three years, the standing strength of the family will reach 50,000, so these young and strong men cannot be counted as ordinary farmers!" ”

After Soji Tsugawa finished speaking, Yukihime suddenly burst out laughing, and then ........