After Tsugawa Soji finished speaking, Yukihime suddenly burst out laughing, and then looked at Tsugawa Soji with a playful face, "I didn't expect His Highness to be smart, but today he was confused for a while." ”

"The concubine has a question, what is a young and strong man in this family?"

Soharu Tsugawa replied without thinking: "All men between the ages of 16 and 40 are young and strong!" ”

"In that case, how many men are 12-16 years old, 40-60 years old?" Xue Ji said with a smile on her face, "Since only young and strong men are needed to fight wars, can these lords who do not meet the military service needs of young and strong men be used to cultivate new fields?" ”

"In this way, not only will it not affect the standing strength of the family, but it will also solve the problem that His Royal Highness has no manpower to reclaim Xintian, what the concubine is right?" As he spoke, Yukihime looked at Tsugawa Soji with a look of invitation, with a smug expression.

Soji Tsugawa was also stunned!

After listening to Yukihime's words, Soji Tsugawa suddenly reacted, he was running to drill the horns! Because he cares too much about these young and strong laborers, and ignores these although they do not meet the definition of young and strong, they are indeed the main components of the Tsukawa family.

The Tsukawa family has a population of more than one million, how many young and strong can there be? It's only about 100,000 people!

But how many men are there? There must be five or six hundred thousand, and after these 100,000 or so people, there are about 400,000 men.

Excluding young children and the elderly, the remaining 12-16-year-old and 40-60-year-old men should not be less than 150,000. Although these men are not young and strong, this is not for them to go to war, but simply to reclaim new fields, so why not?

Even if there are only 150,000 people, and one person only cultivates one stone of new fields a year, three years is the result of nearly 500,000 stone of new fields being cultivated. Although in the end, it may not be possible to achieve such an effect due to various factors, but as long as 300,000 Ishizugawa Soji is already satisfied!

Just do it, and with an idea, Soji Tsugawa immediately went to the agricultural dormitory in Ueno Castle to find Saigo Kizo, and then called a dozen agricultural dormitory and began to discuss around Yukihime's proposal.

In less than an hour, a preliminary plan was formed.

This Xintian reclamation plan is actually a bit of a reference to the Tuntian system of the Celestial Empire. Roughly speaking, the men between the ages of 12 and 16 and between the ages of 40 and 60 in the Tsugawa family who are not required to serve in the military are counted and grouped according to every 10,000 people. The Tsugawa family provided these people with wasteland, and they were given mandatory reclamation tasks based on the principle of nearby distribution.

During the reclamation period, although there was no salary, he was in charge of food. And the reclaimed new land is preferentially leased to the farmers who participated in the reclamation in the proportion of five public and five farmers, and it is not too time!

For these hard-working peasants, although the farming work is more onerous than before, they can obtain valuable land resources, and the agricultural tax is still the conscience of the industry such as five public and five farmers, which can fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the farmers.

For the Tsugawa family, it not only solves the problem of lack of manpower for reclamation, but also consolidates the newly occupied area. Bringing the peasants of these areas together to do the same thing, over time, naturally digested the hostility towards the Tsugawa family, and invisibly consolidated the control of the territory, which was simply the best of both worlds.

As soon as the policy was issued, it was initially incompelled by the people. This is because the cultivation of new fields is generally the work of displaced people, and for these peasants who have a place to live and land, as long as they are not unable to survive, they generally do not reclaim new fields.

However, when the farmers of Dewa began to rush to the country in droves to carry out the work of clearing the wasteland, the farmers of Mutsu also began to panic! This is so special.,Even if you don't want the land of your own Mutsu country.,You can't cheapen the people of Dewa for nothing!

Soon, the farmers of Mutsu Province joined in with the encouragement of the local lord of the Tsugawa family, the joshiro of the city, and various villages.

It took nearly two months for Saigo Wood to make a number of statistics, and it's okay not to count, but I'm shocked by the statistics! Statistics show that the number of men in the Tsukawa family who have reclaimed Nitta is actually 240,000!

Even some farmers who falsely reported their age had to come to participate, and they were all enthusiastic! Saigo Kizo hurriedly reported the matter to Soji Tsugawa, and Soji Tsugawa laughed out loud when he found out!

The problem that gave Tsugawa Soji a headache for half a year was finally solved, and the whole person was much easier. The big things in the family are basically dealt with, and Soji Tsugawa is happy and decides to take Yukihime and other women out to play.

I wasn't going to go far, so I went to Echigo next door to Dewa to take a look, and casually took a look at the recent situation of my cheap son-in-law. When waiting for the Tsukawa family to go to Luo in the past two years, Tsugawa Soji was still ready to pull Nagawei Jinghu to do it together!

.........

Echigo, Kasuga Mountain Castle.

Nagao Jinghu sat in the main hall of the castle tower a little nervously, and several retainers accompanying him on both sides were also very restrained, and even looked at a middle-aged samurai sitting opposite Nagao Jinghu with some awe!

Soharu Tsugawa was born in the first year of Oei, that is, in 1521 AD, and now it is 1552 AD, which is already the year of its establishment. The current strength of the Tsugawa family, as well as the prestige and influence of Tsugawa Soji at this time, made Tsugawa Soji unconsciously have a kind of majesty and pressure.

Even Nagao Keitora, who controlled the Echigo country, was more or less uncomfortable when he saw Tsugawa Soji, let alone the retainers of the Nagao family.

Soji Tsugawa didn't speak, and Nagao Jinghu finally couldn't help but take the lead in breaking the silence, "Father-in-law, a few days ago, Tsubaki was still following me and said that there would be an envoy from the Tsugawa family coming in the near future, but I didn't expect that it would be my father-in-law who came in person, but I was flattered!" ”

"It's me who came uninvited, and there is a lot of trouble!" Tsugawa Soji was tired after pretending to be B for so long, so he also got up casually, "On the way to Kasuga Mountain Castle, I saw that troops were being mobilized everywhere, could it be that where the Nagao family is going to go today?" ”

"Don't hide it from my father-in-law, but my family has plans to send troops." Seeing Tsugawa Soji mention this, Nagao Keitora had no choice but to explain slowly, "A few months ago, the Kanto Governor Uesugi Commander Shosuke Hall fled from Ueno and came to the territory of the family, asking the family to send troops to support him in retaking Ueno, and the family has decided to send troops after consulting with the retainers!" ”

"When will the troops be dispatched?"

"Three days later!"

Hearing this, Soji Tsugawa was a little speechless!

Historically, the Nagao family did send troops to Ueno, but it seems that Nagao Keitora himself did not participate in the war, but sent Honjo Shiranaga and Hehe's son Saburo and others to fight. But even so, the newcomer Nagao family abandoned Ueno from the Hojo family's Hojo Phantom An, and fled all the way to Matsuyama Castle in Musashi. As a result, the Nagao family recaptured Hirai Castle and other territories, infiltrating the Ueno area.

The reason why Nagao Keitora did not participate in the battle was because he came to prepare for the battle between Shinano and the Takeda family in the following year (1553). And now Nagao Jinghu is letting Takeda Harunobu this CP not fall in love and kill each other, what kind of Hojo is going to fight!

Soji Tsugawa is completely blinded!