The Sado Honma family has been particularly deferential since their return to Shun, and the Honma clan, the lord of Hamo Castle, Honma Takanobu, the lord of Ota Castle, Honma Hideji, the lord of Kuchi Castle, and Honma and Juro, each of the Honma clan rotated for a season and stayed at Kasuga Mountain Castle for a long time, making a very deferential attitude.

In fact, they were not obedient and could not do it, Sado Port was in the hands of the Kira Naval Army, and the Kuki Shigetaka was stationed at Sado Port for at least five months a year, and under the vigorous construction of the Kira family, the Sado Port was more than twice as large as before, and the pure wooden structure in the town of Sado Port was replaced with an earth-style structure, and the grass wooden houses covered with Sanhe soil were stronger and warmer than the original.

The main force of the Kira Navy is stationed in the new Sado Port, and the Honma family and the people of Sado are overwhelmed, the important port to the sea is pinched, the main force of the Sado Navy is exterminated, and the remnants are absorbed, and the Honma family and the people of Sado are no longer able to resist, as long as Kira Yoshitoki is willing, they can be completely wiped out.

The pressure of survival forced the entire Honma family to submit to Kasuga Yamajo, accept the military service and tax determination of the Nagao family, and accept land acquisition and agricultural reform, and the entire 20,000-stone land in Sado was required to bear 1,500 military service, of which 500 standing soldiers were arranged to be trained in the Shimoetsu National Standing Army in Niigata Town.

According to the requirements of the standing law of the Kira family in the second year of Koji, the entire Echigo military service account will be reformed in a new round, and the proposal of the standing army was also conceived half a year ago, with one-third of the military service account as the standing army, receiving long-term professional training, the standing ashigaru is not hereditary, but rotated in the military service account on a two-year basis, and the food and lodging during the period of standing military service are uniformly paid by the lords of each family, and the specific expenses are listed separately in the financial budget of each year.

The main meaning of this standing legion is a fast-moving professional legion. Make sure you have a standing ashigaru ready to call on you in any situation. The general of each standing legion is the representative of the long-tail family tree. According to the situation of the military service and the national people's branches, the reserve army will be determined in a unified manner, and this military service system will completely include the entire Echigo and all strata, and the professional standing corps, the professional ashiba, and the semi-professional concentric people, and the reserve juveniles will have sufficient troops at all levels, and their main combat strength is still the first two, and the latter two will play little role for the time being.

The youngest son of the Nine Ghosts Chonglong is named Nine Ghosts Takashi. Although he was young but had been in the army for nearly ten years, he served as the head of the naval army, and as the representative of the Kira naval army, he was responsible for supervising the construction progress of the ten Ataku ships under construction and the eighty closed ships, and it was clear that his father did not only want him to be a naval general.

The mining of gold in Sado Island is of little significance to the people of Sado Province, and the amount of gold mining has nothing to do with them, compared to the agricultural reform is more exciting, Sado Island is affected by the oceanic climate of the Sea of Japan in the north, and agricultural development has been lacking in achievements, and the height of one island in Nuoda is only 20,000 stone.

However, the actual cultivated area on Sado Island is 7,000 steps. The preliminary survey of the actual arable land was 11,000 steps, which did not include the high mountains. More than half of the land that cannot be cultivated such as forests, beaches, and castles, such as the 1,500 machibu land near Sado Port, is a land with severe desertification, and the significance and value of such land are usually too low to be counted and used as cultivated land.

In addition, less than half of the land is still half of the sandy field, a small half is Nakata, and the Ueda is only a total of more than 100 towns, so in fact, more than half of the land given to the Kira family is not cultivated land, and only about 700 towns are cultivated land in the real sense, but what the Kira family needs is Sado Port and the reconstruction of the port town, and it doesn't matter if the nearby farmland is of an incidental nature.

So what is the concept of 11,000 steps? Although the cultivated area of Echigo today is less than 100,000 towns, which is a huge part of Echigo's agricultural development, it is initially estimated that the entire Echigo area is about 250,000 towns, of which more than 100,000 towns are cultivated in Niigata, and its cultivation potential is huge.

The arable land area on Sado Island is very large compared to the small islands, and the 70000 machibu is 70,000 anti-arable land, and how can Echigo a few years ago produce 70,000 or 80,000 koku of grain, but on Sado Island there are only 20,000 koku of grain, although there are factors of marine climate that affect the agricultural time, but the main reason is that Sado does not know how to farm, or even does not farm at all.

Sado, as a place of exile for criminal prisoners, has always been not taken seriously, and the Kamakura period was also extensively managed, until now, Sado Island is still stuck at the level of slash-and-burn farming, some people scatter rice seeds and don't care, and harvest as much as they need in the autumn, and it is common to receive four or five buckets of grain in the autumn harvest of the land, and some lazy lords have more wild grass than rice, and they don't know what fields they planted and what they cultivated.

After the agricultural reform of the Kira family entered Sado, it was very thorough, withdrawing and merging the new village, demolishing the branch city, there are sixty or seventy dense castles on a small Sado Island, and there are only four castles that can be called castles, and the other larger ones are the standard of tulou cottages, and the smaller ones are not as good as the cottages of robbers, and a fire can burn down the small wooden villages.

What is the use of this thing to him? The total demolition became inevitable, and only four castles were left in the entire Sado Island, and Kuchi Castle was eventually demolished because it was too small, and Honma and Juro exchanged part of their territory for Kawarada Castle, and all the people of the Honma family moved into the new village to set up a residence.

With the implementation of the new village annexed this time, the Zhixing land in Sado Island was further re-enclosed, and the land obtained by the Kawara Tajo Castle was not suitable for management, and this time the land was divided into their respective land areas, and the cultivated land of the people and lords of each country was concentrated together, reducing the possibility of land disputes and conflicts.

The governor sent by Kira Yoshitoki made an agreement with the Sado clan that the Kira clan would be responsible for reforming the agriculture of all the kokujin lords on Sado Island and increasing grain production to the standard level of Echigo, at the cost of which the new fields developed on Sado Island would be fully vested in the Kira family.

There is no free lunch in the world, and the Kira family's agricultural reform in exchange for 4,000 steps of arable land is a willing deal, even if the people of Sado have the heart to refuse, they are not able to develop those wastelands, and their own cultivated land is wasted, and there is no point in developing wasteland.

The initial promise to be fulfilled will increase the grain output of Sado Island to 70,000 koku within two years, and within five years, the total stone height of the entire island will exceed 150,000 koku.

There is no problem in developing 11,000 pieces of cultivated land on the entire island within five years, and the output of 11,000 steps is 110,000 stones according to the standard of one stone, and the development is very good, but it is very difficult to produce three stones of grain in one reversal, or five or six stones of grain in two rotations of rice and wheat, and it may take more than ten or even twenty years to carefully study the local climate.

The real boss of Sado Island is not the arable land but the fishing industry, and the fishermen of Sado are still somewhat famous in Hokuriku, and experienced fishermen can even catch whales.

In addition to ordinary fishing boats, the shipyards in Naoetsu Port are working day and night to build and close the ship, and there are also whaling ships that build the standard of Ataka boats, and the draught of this type of whaling ship is about 150 to 180 tons, so it is no problem to catch ordinary whales.

In addition, the Kira family is building a shipyard in Sado, which is expected to be completed next year, and by that time, it will be possible to build an ataka ship, a seki ship, and a variety of roundabout boats, kozao, and fishing boats in Sado, and the strength of support for Sado is also visible.

Another plan that is conducive to the development of Sado is the slaughtering and meat processing industry, which is a relatively secret industry, the slaughtering industry is a kind of ethnic group in Japan that is not counted in the household registration, and the population is not counted.

They are not a certain race or a certain surname, but a group of untouchable people who have been untouched since ancient times, they have been driven out of the cities and villages, and live all day long, so they beg for food, collect corpses, slaughter livestock to make leather, help people dig wells, sing and laugh and sell meat, ape musicians, coolies to resist packing, small businessmen, gardeners and other occupations.

The better mixed ones are Zen Ami, the gardener, who is the court master of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, and the garden of Ginkakuji Temple was designed and manufactured by him, and the ancestor of the family is also a Kawahara person, and someone once said that he was a pariah to his face, and basically the family from which the ape musician was born was a Kawahara person.

They are also the best among the Heyuan people, and the worse ones are collecting corpses, begging, slaughtering cattle and horses, dismembering dead animals to make skins, doing unskilled muddy work, and exerting strength and other jobs that no one wants to do.

Kira Yoshitoki used the Kira ninja to quietly gather the Kawara people who were good at slaughtering in the Kanto and Hokuriku regions, and slaughtered and processed meat in the relatively remote and hidden place of Sado Island, which was also a helpless expedient measure, and it was not possible to let the samurai who killed people with knives go to slaughter livestock all day long, once or twice for the sake of appetite It is understandable, if they are allowed to do the slaughter of livestock in the long run, it will definitely not work, this will be regarded as an insult and punishment.

This era is vegetarian, secretly eating meat is absolutely no problem, but the premise is that you do it yourself, Eagle Hunting is to give all samurai a cover to eat meat, what Eagle Hunting exercises the way of bow horses are high-sounding, such as saving stingy Tokugawa Ieyasu loves Eagle Hunting, Eagle Hunting thousands of times in his life, and everyone can understand what the prey is doing.

Cattle and pigs and other animals in the Echigo Ranch are transported to Sado Island for slaughter, and the meat ribs that are needed are divided and then sealed and transported back to the various houses in Echigo for processing and sale. (To be continued......)