"As for the strong demands of those Chinese people in Central Vietnam and Xiayue to exchange for grain seeds, His Majesty thought that he could exchange the oaths of these warriors." Hosokawa Fujitaka smiled a little tired, he had lost a lot of weight compared to a few months ago, and he didn't look like a pampered and noble son in the past, he was black and thin, like a country samurai.

"This is not in a hurry, isn't it still early for spring sowing?" Kira Yoshishi is not in a hurry to deal with this matter, anyway, there is a winter to deal with it slowly.

After two years of exploration of the high-temperature composting method, the total stone height of the two counties exceeded 180,000 koku, of which the direct leader of the Kira family exceeded 90,000 koku, and still maintained nearly half of the land control, and the annual tribute also reached 55,000 koku.

Unlike the situation in Echigo, only a small number of new grain varieties are planted in Shiga Prefecture, and the planting direction is more research-oriented, including potato storage and planting technology, corn pollination and topdressing technology, pumpkin hanging rack topdressing technology, how to fertilize alfalfa grass, grape planting technology, sugar beet cultivation technology, and what is the best degree of fertilization.

With the acquiescence of Yoshitoki Kira, Masayuki Matsui and Haritada Odate, the commissioner of the inspection area, contacted Wang Dan of Hirado Port in Upper Kyushu through his connections in Sakai Town, and invited several agricultural experts from him for a thousand taels of silver, including a Hidecai who was proficient in agriculture, and fled to Kyushu because he was implicated in the maritime merchant family.

The Kira family promised to give each of them a salary ranging from 200 taels to 500 taels, and they only needed to study agricultural planting techniques, and the employment period was initially set at five years. After five years, it will be considered for employment according to the situation. They were also allowed to return to Daming with seeds and planting techniques. With the temptation of such public and private interests, he finally persuaded this Xiucai named Li Ding to reluctantly agree to this agreement.

Kira Yoshishi consciously turned the two counties of Sakamoto and Takashima into an experimental base for new grain varieties, and several high-yield crops were opened up in the plains and mountains according to the conditions, and there were special farmers to take care of them.

In order to inspire the enthusiasm of the peasants, the land inspection commissioner Daguan Qingzhong often stayed in the village to give explanations. For every 1 percent increase in the maximum grain yield, the peasants can be rewarded with 20 yuan of Yongle money, and the peasants who have repeatedly performed well will be rewarded with land knowledge and deeds, and promoted to the position of a resident and a landlord, which has greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the peasants.

For example, there are certain requirements for the planting density of corn in spring and summer a year, and the slightly dense planting density requires manual pollination of weaker plants, and the local farmers invented the pollen on the stamens with a bamboo tube to pollinate in sunny and windless weather. At the same time, there is a conscious need to pollinate between strong plants, and corn kernels are currently selected for breeding in two crops. For the time being, I don't see much of a gap that needs to be tracked continuously.

On the one hand, borrowing the Ming Dynasty thousands of years to develop the excellent knowledge accumulation of intensive farming, can find out more scientific planting methods faster, on the other hand, there is also the intention to let these agricultural and forestry experts can bring these planting techniques and high-yield grain back to the Ming Kingdom, which is the only thing he can do.

In addition to the smooth development of agriculture, Sakamoto, Otsu, Katada, and the castle town near the Azumigawa River in Takashima-gun were joined together in this year, forming a free trade zone that combined handicrafts and commercial trade, and with the Kiraya family's system of emphasizing industrial and commercial development, it gradually matured, and Sakamoto Port became a new commercial center.

In less than five years, Sakamoto Port has transformed from a trading hub port into the third largest economic center after Kyoto and Sakai Town, attracting more than 12,000 industrial and commercial workers in this year, and the construction of new towns has not stopped for a whole year.

The development of the money house is very smooth, with the influence of defeating the Miyoshi family continues to ferment, Sakamoto, Sakai Town, Kyoto three places of money house trade volume increased step by step, in this year the Miyoshi family with the three substitute houses will also tentacles deep into Sakai Town, and also used the Miyoshi family's ruling advantage to launch a currency sniper operation against the money house.

However, their methods are too poor, whether it is silver, iron money can not shake the money house, the money house is like a bottomless pit, how much silver and iron money you pour in are not mistaken, the more you redeem, the more I earn, as if the inexhaustible Yongle money gradually made the three houses feel desperate, and finally although they did not cause direct economic losses, but by mistake the credibility of the money house was propped up.

Who would have thought that the Kira family would not only defeat the Miyoshi family on the battlefield, but also defeat the Miyoshi family's royal merchant house that dominated the trade of the four countries and the Setouchi trade, and exchanged 300,000 yuan of Yongle money in just half a month, and ate millions of yuan worth of iron money and silver, this currency throughput is simply amazing, and even a little perverted.

Taking this opportunity, Qianya also cooperated with the Yodogawa people and the Kira family ronin to jointly implement the business of Kinai freight preservation and water transportation insurance in the Yodogawa field, as long as the merchant paid a certain premium, he could provide him with various services ranging from water transportation insurance to armed security.

Even wealthy merchants in Kyoto and Sakai towns invested in the armed security business, and soon this new force spread throughout Kinai, and armed groups under the banner of "Kira Tongxin" were active in various countries in Kinai, which made the Miyoshi family feel very distressed.

With the gradual eastward movement of the copper house and the iron cannon house, the national friendship guard finally decided to take the national friendship village to move to the queen, the reason is a conversation with the clockmaker Kronberg, although there are two scum translators who do not understand technology, but the two are proficient in technology and only need to draw sketches with the scum translator to understand what the other party is talking about, and the pursuit of many profits at his age has been very light, only technological innovation can not let go, and it is his greatest wish to develop a new type of flintlock pistol in his lifetime.

Kronberg was slow to make things without an assistant, even though he had eight hands, and with the support of a group of elite craftsmen in the village of Kunitomo, he made the first dog-lock flintlock musket in the fall, roughly as he had envisioned, and this flintlock musket had a simple and beautiful shape.

In this era, Spain already had the most primitive flintlock pistol, but the mechanism of the dog-lock flintlock pistol was completely different from the Genji flintlock pistol, and the dog-lock bolt used a spring-loaded stopper instead of a wedge wheel, and a small hole was cut in the back of the hammer, and inside the small hole was a stopper with a stopper spring linked to the trigger.

When the hammer is pulled up to the position of the iron blocking brake, the hammer is buckled and becomes a state to be fired, and then the trigger is pulled down, and the linkage blocking iron is retracted to release the hammer, and the hammer releases the kinetic energy of the main spring, and hammers down the fire curtain to produce hot iron filings, which triggers the black powder in the primer pot to burn, and ignites the black powder in the ignition port next to the primer pot and conducts it to the explosion chamber to explode and expand and shoot out the projectile.

The working principle of this musket is that the hammer is pulled up to the position of the iron brake and then the hammer is held, and the fire sickle is lifted back to the firing position, and at the same time, the fire sickle is automatically locked and fastened, and the trigger is pulled and the iron is released, and the hammer moves downwards to strike the fire curtain, and scrapes off the hot iron filings to ignite the black powder in the primer pot.

Finally, the black powder placed in the primer pot is ignited through the ignition hole to shoot out the projectile in the propellant in the explosion chamber, and the lid of the pot can continue to exert its due power under the conditions that are not conducive to the use of the arquebus, such as rain and snow, and the removal of the fire rope is both dangerous and inefficient.

The effect of this musket test firing is very good, including the test of Kunitomo and Saemon, Takigawa Mashige, Nomura Naotaka and several other iron cannon masters, and came to a very satisfactory evaluation, the power of the new arquebus has been completely maintained, and at the same time taking into account the effect of rapid fire, only need to take out the whole strip to clean the chamber after the shooting, stuff the lead bullet and press it and finally load it with gunpowder to continue shooting, and the skilled iron gun samurai can shoot four shots in one minute.

However, the mass production of this gun is still a problem, the dog lock bolt is too complicated, and at the same time, in order to improve the shooting efficiency, the smoothbore barrel also has to face the problem of standardized production, in short, although this sample gun is produced, but it is still far from mass production, and Kronberg is still not very satisfied with this sample gun, thinking that there is still more room for improvement, and no one knows how to mass produce the specific standard dog lock musket.

The vast land and large forests of Echigo are very different from the narrow forests of Omi, and the relocation of the copper house to Echigo was soon resumed, and the application of biogas was originally ready for full-scale use, but later due to an explosion caused by a biogas leak, although only two people were slightly injured, it still reminded the people of the government, and the anti-backfire of the biogas valve is still being tested.

In addition to large-scale purchasing and retailing, the three Biwa houses in Sakamoto, Sakaimachi, and Kyoto were all replaced with three-story buildings in the style of the Ming Dynasty, and this landmark building can be seen across several streets, which is comparable to the level of flagship stores in later generations.

The civil construction business undertaken by the Sanheya has also developed greatly, including the reconstruction of the castle of Katryuji, Jishoji Temple, Rokuenji Temple, and even the renovation of the Ouchiri Palace, which has brought thousands of profits to the firm, and both the imperial court and the shogunate have highly praised the construction standards of the craftsmen of the Sanheya.

More and more aristocrats began to choose Sanheya to undertake new construction, including the construction of facilities in Kyoto Castle by the imperial court and the shogunate, and the construction of the samurai pavilion of the minister. (To be continued......)

PS: Here is an explanation of Okuku and North, there is still a slight difference, Kita-Shinano is relatively broad, including Kojima and Saku counties are counted in Kita-Shinano, and Oku-Shinano refers to the Kawanaka Island region and the northern counties. Of course, they are all only from the north, but one is narrower, the other is broader.