On September 20, Echigo Naoetsu Port, the largest port in Echigo, has undergone earth-shaking changes for more than half a year, and thanks to the efforts of the Kira family, all the facilities of the port town wharf that have been expanded since the beginning of April have been completed, and at the same time, the construction of the Sekigawa embankment and the Sekigawa dredging project is also in full swing.

Merchants from Kinai and Hakuo were surprised to find that this famous port of Echigo had become a large construction site at some point, and there were countless large and small projects being built everywhere, and there were almost no idle townspeople in the town, and the old people gathered together to either rub hemp rope or weave bamboo baskets and straw mats, while women swung spinning wheels to spin strands of twine.

The children in the Joetsu neighborhood were organized by the samurai of the Kira family to receive basic education, which was a non-compulsory education, mainly simple literacy and moral training, so that they knew from an early age that it was the duty of the people to obey the edicts of the country, and at the same time, some group sports such as eagle catching chickens and wrestling that the children liked, as long as they were willing to receive these education, they could enjoy the special treatment of lunch and lunch.

To this day, no one in Echigo doubts the financial strength of the Kira family, starting from the beginning of the year when a large amount of grain was exchanged for soybeans and tea seeds, until the earthquake and floods, all of which showed strong economic strength, and the food of the Kira family is also famous for its deliciousness, every 100 children can share a large bucket of delicious fish soup, as well as a finger thick and three palms wide hot soup cakes to eat, the children who have been hungry all year round can no longer resist the temptation of food, and have thrown themselves into the arms of the Kira family.

In the entire Kasugayama, Sekigawa, and Naoetsu regions, there are more than 9,000 children under the age of 12, including refugees, and more than 3,000 minors between the ages of 12 and 15. In addition to a simple education for children under the age of 12. The teenagers, aged 12 to 15, will be trained in paramilitarization. Depending on the age, the Kira family spends three to six days a week in the military camp to receive various trainings such as platoon, gun handling, and stabbing, and provides three meals a day during the training.

Although the farmers and townspeople were reluctant to let their children do such dangerous things, they were unable to resist the children's urge to eat enough and eat well, so they had to let them go without pleasure. It's not new to be like a half-sized child eating Lao Tzu to death, when you are a teenager and should grow your body, you will be hungry all day long, let alone grow taller, even your body will not be good.

From Naoetsu to the south, there are new towns on both sides, and people living in the new towns no longer care about their original origins, no matter what country they come from, whether you are a former farmer or a craftsman, and the dredging of the river is an important task, requiring large boats to be manually loaded with iron rakes on winches to dredge the river through long iron rods.

The iron rake stirs in the river to bring up the silt and then wash it away by the river to ensure the effect of dredging. It is necessary to repeatedly drive boats back and forth between rivers, and this process can take more than a month. Compared with the limited labor used to dredge the river, the construction of the embankment requires the participation of the whole people, tens of thousands of people climb the embankment, and the excavation and cart soil have to be done in one step.

The silt at the bottom of the river is a very good fertilizer, under the vigorous propaganda of the public, many farmers also half-believe that they followed the digging of the river mud to make fertilizer, and it did not take long to find that the soil quality of the new field that caught up with the river mud became very soft and fertile, and the growth of the crops was also exceptionally good, and there were more and more farmers who rushed to dig the river mud, and even there were many old people who took a Zhuangzi to row a large piece of the river to book the river mud here, and stated that no one could rob it.

The river mud is not only found in the river, compared to the river center where the water is turbulent and not suitable for salvage, those ponds and lakes are more popular with farmers, especially the previously uninhabited river tidal flats have been dug up, and finally the people can not look past it, organize them to dig the river mud in an organized way.

If you want to dig the tidal flats near the river, you can also dig the big hole, but you must dig the soil and backfill the big pit that has been dug away, otherwise the people will order punishment, this measure still has a good effect, and the villagers who know the rules push flatbed trucks and sacks to dig up the soil on the slope and go to the river bank to exchange the mud for the river mud to achieve good results.

It is not enough to dig river mud as fertilizer, the promotion of high-temperature composting method is still deepening, fortunately, the Echigo coastline is very long and there are swampy wetlands suitable for migratory birds, and there are many migratory birds who come here to escape the heat in summer.

One of the core of the high-temperature composting method is to breed livestock, and a large feeding area should be established near each new field to raise cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock, the easiest way is to enclose a mountain forest in the nearby mountains and hills, and then erect a fence around it to prevent the livestock from escaping, followed by using sheepdogs to guard the livestock raised in the mountains.

As long as they are given manual money, these farmers can fence the entire mountain in half a month, and all kinds of livestock manure such as cow dung and sheep manure will be sent to the nearby fields as raw materials for high-temperature composting as soon as possible, with the guano soil that can be seen everywhere and the dead fish and shrimp caught in the dense ditches of Echigo, aquatic grass and river mud, so that there is not much shortage of fertilizer raw materials.

In addition, according to Hosokawa Fujitaka's plan, it is necessary to plant a large number of saplings under the dam before the rainy season after spring sowing next year, and rely on the root system of the trees to support the stability of the dam.

In a new town south of Naoetsu Town, near Kasugayama Castle Town, a young monk sits under a verandah in front of the ashrami and meditates, a quiet bamboo forest ashram, and the wind chimes under the verandah blown by the cool autumn breeze immediately bring on a faint smile.

"Tan Yue and live! When the poor monk saw Tan Yue's face, he couldn't help but say a few words, Tan Yue Heavenly Court was full, the earth pavilion was round, his eyebrows were handsome, and his bones were strange...... Tan Yue and look! This is the most clear script that the master of the Lingjiao sect has ever visited. The poor monk has a relationship with Tan Yue. As long as fifty runs...... Of course this is not possible. Twenty runs! As long as the twenty masters of the Lingjiao Sect can take it home, do you want to think about it? ”

"Huh! It turns out that Tan Yue doesn't have so much money to give! So be it! There is also a Buddhist treasure here for poor monks, Tan Yue and look! This is the wooden fish used by Kobo Master Kukai, and it has been used by Shingon masters for spirituality in the past generations, and it only takes ten ...... It only takes five runs to Tan Yue! ”

A reckless monk with five big and three thick is holding a bunch of things to stop passers-by from selling around, this person has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a high nose and a wide mouth. The appearance of the national character face is also extraordinary, but there is always a bit of a fierce look, especially the beard with a big beard, the big bald head with oil and shiny, which is quite a bit of a flower monk Lu Zhishen.

After selling a circle, the reckless monk carried a few strings of copper coins into the bamboo forest house, saw the young monk sitting under the corridor to meditate, so he threw a few copper coins on the corridor, walked into the fine house and walked out with two cups of tea, and said to the young monk: "Zen Master Zongyi has been sitting for a long time!" How to meditate with an empty stomach? And how about I get some tea and I'm going out for a walk? ”

This young monk is the high disciple of Kuaichuan Shaoxi, Hu Zai Zongyi. It has only been seven or eight days since he came to Echigo, and the reckless monk is the Asayama Hisakari who is swaggering and deceiving in Shiga Prefecture. This monk is commonly known as Chaoshan Saemon, Shanmao, and is the lord of the mountain in the country of Chuyun, and the son of the retainer of the Nizi family.

When he was young, he divorced his wife because of poverty, and later because of a dispute with his colleagues over his position, he killed someone in a fit of rage, and then absconded overnight for fear of being pursued by the Nizi family.

The Yamaguchikan, who once held a bunch of Ming Dynasty clothes in the Ouchi family, openly sold "Emperor's Imperial Clothes", and the sales were very good, and later swaggered around Sakai Town, causing dissatisfaction among the Sakai Town congregation, and sued the Miyoshi family that he was a spy for another family, so Matsunaga Shu arrested him by celebrities, chained him to a wooden pillar and locked it next to the traffic artery in Sakai Town.

The original intention of the Miyoshi family was to deter the young and at the same time to demonstrate the authority of the Miyoshi family over Sakai Town, in exchange for ordinary people who were bound to wooden pillars in chains, and let the merchants who came and went to Sakai Town visit I am afraid that they would not be able to stand it for a long time, but Asayama Hisakari is different from others, he is not afraid at all but the days are getting more and more moist, and he has nothing to do with the onlookers and argues with the pedestrians from all walks of life and becomes famous.

Slowly, more and more people stopped to watch, and many people would take out food and water to feed him, and he was locked up for 100 days, and the daimyo of Asayama Hisakari spread throughout the streets and alleys of Sakai Town, and Matsunaga Shu let him go as soon as he saw that he couldn't do it, and he apologized and sent him out of the country with a ceremonial gift, and the townspeople of Sakai Town were pardoned and gave him clothes, food, coils, and 8 volumes of the Lotus Sutra, and from then on this Asahyama Hisaka became a monk of the Nichiren Lotus sect.

"Well, where does the Japanese Master want to go?" Tora Soyi took out a bronze bowl and still retained the habit of begging while practicing outside the Rinzai sect in Japan, which was also a spiritual experience.

"Good! Then let's go to the nearby villages! Both of them are action-oriented, pick up the Zen staff and bowl and leave.

Shiwei September, the preface belongs to the three autumns, it is said that the late autumn is September, when the season is just after the harvest season, there are old and young women gathered in front of the village to dry the grain, they talk and laugh in a low voice, this year's grain production has increased a lot, these perennial croppers in the field to look at the golden ears of millet ears are full, but also show a cheerful smile, the whole month is like a festival, floating around the joy of harvest.

Chaoshan Richeng walked to a grain drying field curiously, and saw a group of old people breaking a strange crop, so he stepped forward and bowed and said, "This Tan Yue is polite!" I wonder what kind of crop this is? ”

"This master is asking Xiao Lao'er?" The old man had goosebumps, and looked like he was going to be seventy years old, so he quickly stood up and said helplessly: "This is the crop that the lord of the country asked us to plant, the name is corn, this is a good thing!" You may not believe it when you say it, but this corn can be precious and ruthless, and it can produce eight stones of corn in turn! ”

"It turns out that the ground is reversed and the eight stones of corn are ......" Asayama Hitomi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked: "Wait! Tan Yue said just now that it was the opposite? ”

"Yes! Little Lao'er will never dare to deceive the master! Don't believe me, don't you? The old man is afraid that these five big monks and three thick monks will not believe him, in case this Lu monk raises a fist with a sand bowl and knocks him, it will be more than worth the loss, fortunately, they are all from their own village, and there are several old people who immediately testify for this old man.

"Master! You may not believe it, but the corn dried in this threshing floor is only a mass production of the land of Gomachibu, and the land of 50 is 400 stone of grain, can you believe it? We couldn't believe it at first! ”

"At the beginning, the samurai lords from Kyoto personally went down to the fields to harvest the grain, these nobles who had never worked took the sickle to harvest a little bit, and the samurai of the lord's family also went down to the fields to harvest, and finally weighed out a reversal of the grain ten stones and five buckets, these samurai lords and we are the same as these countrymen are jumping and screaming, and everyone is crying!"

Chaoshan Richeng still didn't believe it, stared at the expressions of these old people, and asked word by word: "Can every anti-land produce eight stones of grain?" Or is it only one against the land? Or is it the grain production of several different places? ”

"Every land can produce more than eight stone of grain! And that's not all! According to the estimation of the old masters, the average grain production in our village is eight stones and five buckets, and there will be absolutely no mistake! The old man said with great certainty: "Please believe the little old man, at that time, a master from Kyoto took a strange thing and calculated it for a long time, and it was reported that this number was reported, and the little old man happened to hear it clearly in the side mountain!" (To be continued......)