Time flies, in the blink of an eye, it is the middle of September, and the huge income of the autumn harvest is then counted, because of the first use of fertilizer planting, plus the Kira family's lease of ploughing oxen to improve production efficiency, the annual tribute of the Kira family reached 45,000 koku, and the direct leader Shigao broke through the 70,000 koku mark for the first time, reaching 75,000 koku, an increase of 20,000 koku compared to the original 55,000 koku, which has to be said to be a miracle.

The peasants of Shiga and Takashima counties are also singing and dancing to celebrate this, and no one doubts what Kira Yoshitoki has said, and whoever dares to say a "no" to the Kira family in the two counties will probably not be able to get out of the two counties safely.

The bumper harvest of the Kira family also heralded a bumper harvest in Shiga and Takashima counties, because Omi joined the army and made Takashima Shichizu officially enter the Kira family, and Takashima County also tried to implement the Kira family's new agricultural law, but the local people were still somewhat hesitant at the level of the countrymen, so the total income from the deviation in the implementation of the decree was not as high as imagined.

However, even so, the overall grain income of Takashima Prefecture increased by nearly 20%, which made the wealthy families who did not cooperate with the decrees of the Kira family regret it, and many farmers complained that the lord did not obey the orders of the lord, so there were also some disputes and civil lawsuits, and the Kira family took the opportunity to further consolidate their influence in Takashima County.

The towns of Shiga Prefecture that were not directly under the Kira clan were very profitable because they followed in the footsteps of Kira Yoshitoki, and on average, the number of ishigaka increased by about 30%, and some areas that were originally barren grew even more, or even more than doubled, and the news of the great harvest of the Kira family's domain also went viral, and the staggering growth rate of grain also made Kira Yoshitoki an excellent civil servant.

Although he was very proud, he was not satisfied. Because the peasants of this era still used the simplest farming mode. It is very unfamiliar with intensive farming. The land is about 991 square meters, and the average grain output is about one stone, and one stone of grain is equal to more than 300 catties, which is really low and pitiful.

This is his first year of agricultural reform, first in the fertilizer and farming technology of the initial reform, in the future will gradually and in-depth promotion of agricultural planting technology, the grain output from an average of a little more than 300 catties to 330 catties of what kind of growth? It's not enough to see at all, don't forget that the grain yield per mu of the Ming Dynasty in the same period has long exceeded the level of 300 catties. One reversal of the land is more than half of an acre of land, and the result is that the grain output is not as much as one acre.

What's more, the Lake Biwa area is also one of the main grain producing areas and abundant production areas, and the grain production here is still like this, not to mention those small places, a Tosa country is only 90,000 koku and it is simply laughing off the big teeth, there are no mines at all in that place, and there are no large-scale castle towns, and there are so many mass productions In addition to the fact that there are lords who conceal Ishitaka's evasion of military service, it is also related to the poor farming technology of farmers who do not know how to farm.

There is also good news. The crops planted in the trial were all amazingly bumper, and the two crops of potatoes and pumpkins reached or exceeded the harvest of more than 8 stones of the land. Although the corn is slightly lower, it is not bad, more than 7 stones, which is quite high, although it did not meet his prediction, but it is not bad, and what surprised him even more is that the beet actually reached 12 stones, the pepper 8 stones, and even the alfalfa has a yield of 10 stones, and the grapes have just begun to bear fruit and the yield is less excluded.

This astonishing news was immediately blocked, all the grain was harvested and kept as seeds, and the grapes and peppers were directly given to the samurai of the Kira family to share, and finally they were asked to keep the grains and recycle them all, although the samurai were curious about what tricks the priests were playing, but it did not affect the popularity of this sweet and sour fruit, and the peppers were not used much for cooking, because they did not know how to make this kind of dish.

At present, the lack of sugar can not make wine, can only be grown as a seasonal fruit, and the chili pepper was left out in the cold is unexpected, since others do not like to eat, he kept it for himself to eat, fortunately, this kind of chili pepper is not too pulled, after drying, it can completely replace mustard as an ingredient in cooking.

In order to promote the new planting technology, the shogunate invited Kira Yoshitoki to Kyoto to give a lecture, but Kira Yoshitoki felt that the effect of the lecture was not necessarily good, and the proverb was false, and seeing is believing, so he in turn invited the shogun and the ministers of the imperial court to visit Sakamoto Castle, and Konoe Harusu and Ashikaga Yoshito saw that the rice fields were being harvested and the straw was being distributed and cleared, so the shogunate's public Ishitani Mitsumasa was asking what they were doing.

Kira Yoshitoki told them that this is harvesting straw, straw can be used as a raw material for fertilizer, green manure is to use all kinds of straw, branches, and leaves as raw materials to ferment fertilizer for the fertilizer needed in the soil, of course, as a raw material for fertilizer is only one, can also be used as a fuel for farmers, has always been very popular.

After visiting the rice field, I went to Sakamoto's granary, and saw a large area of extra-large barns piled up, which was moved by Sekihaku Konoe Harusu and Gongfang Ashikaga Yoshito, which knew at least tens of thousands of catties of grain at a glance, converted into a stone height is 500 stone a barn, this kind of barn Kira family has built a total of more than 100, that is to say, there are at least 50,000 stone or more grain, which is really better than a hundred to see.

In the evening in the newly built Katata Imperial Palace, during the banquet ape music performance, calligraphy performance, Kira Yoshishi was also pulled to accompany them, it turned out that they were holding a song water poetry meeting, first of all, Konoe Haruhi composed a song: "The new wild goose into a line of words and words, the autumn seal thousands of miles of sunset, Lu Han shadow hibiscus brocade, just like the same poem." ”

"Wonderful! I'm here too! For a long time, I stroked my palms and exclaimed: "The leaves are gradually yellowing and the autumn trees are shaded, stopping and leaving the horses unbearable, the dawn is like frost, and the sunset outside the crows is full of red forests!" ”

"Then it's time for more!" Ashikaga Yoshito thought for a while, and then said: "The sages gather to feast at the head of the river, the meandering water flows to pick chrysanthemums, and Huazuo Zhuang Zhou Dachun goes, and a branch is placed on eight thousand autumns!" ”

Then one poem after another, everyone's eyes also turned to him, Kira Yoshitoki was thinking from the moment he entered, and when he heard Hosokawa Fujitaka's whispered urging, he sang helplessly: "Who thinks about thousands of miles, Peng Yao and the rain salute, the sound of the drop awakens the dream of the passenger ship, what a cold mountain midnight bell!" ”

"Good poet!" The ministers praised Ji Liangyi's both civil and military skills, and he couldn't avoid his youth and gold, and the envy in his words was very clear. Obviously, he fell in love with the net worth and fame of this little master.

It's getting late. Hosokawa Fujitaka said, "Then let's make a poem at the end of the poem...... The sound of the white crane was heard for nine days. Yao Ling just wishes safety, ten states and three islands into the hands of the king, and the Chitose fairy bird is in front of the emperor! ”

There are also singing and dancing performances invited from the imperial court, and of course, there are even more anecdotes during the interspersed period, and the ministers are a group of very knowledgeable people, and it is very appropriate to do praise, and a dinner party does not disperse until ten midnight.

Ashikaga Yoshito dragged Kira Yoshitoki to the Imperial Palace and sat down with Kirithima and invited him to sleep with him. Although he knew that this was a means to show that the two were close, he still felt goosebumps coming out, and he had to accept the grand fist of the public side, but fortunately he was not a, so he spent the night so uneasily.

The next day, Kira Yoshitoki, who had dark circles under his eyes, had to face Ashikaga Yoshito's inquiries, such as whether the shogunate's imperial materials could be executed, how to implement them, how to manage them, and how to appease the local countrymen and peasants. It's a pity that both the public and the Gao family have their own territories. The imperial material office below only collects grain supplies, and the rest can't be enjoyed, so he can only look at the more than 100 barns in Kira Yoshishi and drool.

In the busyness, I heard the news that Nagao Jinghu's Shangluo team arrived at Wakasa Bay, and the last contact was more than half a year ago, when Nagao Jinghu wrote to tell him that he planned to go to Luo, and he didn't care much, because the first time he went to Luo in history seemed to be next year, how could he go to Luo if he didn't finish the first Kawanaka Island?

But he really finished fighting Kawanakajima for the first time this year, but at that time he was busy fighting the Katsura River with the Miyoshi family, and he didn't have the time to care about a not fierce battle in Shinano Province, and then he was busy until now, and he didn't have a free time, compared to Yamamoto Kansuke, who was busy all day long, just to deal with the pensions of those soldiers who died in battle, as well as recuperation from injuries and re-recruitment.

However, where is it so easy to find soldiers, the total population of the entire Omi Province is only more than 500,000, and the two counties of Shiga and Takashima are relatively densely populated because they are adjacent to Gyeonggi, and the combined population is only 70,000 or 80,000.

The number of newborns has grown rapidly in the past two years, with hundreds of newborns being born almost every month, especially in the first half of this year because the widows who died in the Omi Ashigaru War gave birth to many children, and the number of new births in the two counties increased by more than 5,000 in the first half of the year, but this is far from enough.

In this era, only men between the ages of fifteen and forty-five are eligible to join the army, and the military service requirements of the Kira family are stricter, and those who are over forty years old are not required to do military service for any reason, those who are disabled are no longer required to bear military service, and those who have no brothers and no wives and children are not allowed to bear military service.

In addition, the number of men of school age who died in these joint battles is already very small, and with the reform of agricultural technology, the demand for population in the countryside is also increasing gradually, so although the Kira family has given good treatment, there is still a gap in local recruitment.

Although the loss of Mikawa is not large, it is also more difficult to replenish, because the population of Mikawa Province is smaller, and it is more difficult to replenish, but fortunately, the Kira family and the Imagawa family reached a marriage alliance offer, and the Kira family's recruitment of Mikawa Province was also opened to the Imagawa family, and the people of Mikawa Province went to Kyoto to serve the government, and the resistance of Mikawa itself was weaker, so Imagawa Yoshimoto was happy for him to recruit troops.

Fortunately, the Kira family did not only recruit troops from the two counties, including Asai County and Ika County in North Omi, Kurita County and Noshu County in South Omi, and these four counties were very satisfied with the treatment offered by the Kira family, and they also admired the prestige of the Kira family very much, so the gap in Omi Shibei was quickly filled, but the quality of these recruits was worrying, and it was difficult to form effective combat power in a short period of time.

Most of these new recruits were bankrupt or landless vagrants, and some criminals or wandering samurai who had made mistakes in the master's house, and the quality of the soldiers was even worse, so according to Yamamoto Tokiyuki's suggestion, they should simply be thrown into the Tongxin people to train and maintain law and order and garrison the city.

His wanton recruitment naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the Rokkaku clan and the Asai clan, but they couldn't stop them, and the Kira family offered such a good treatment, that is, the low-level samurai under these two families were already a little tempted, and these two families could only condemn the actions of the Kira family while busy extinguishing the little sparks in the family.

Of course, Kira Yoshitoki will not care about their condemnation, he has just won a great victory for the shogunate, and now his will represents the shogunate to a certain extent, as long as he does not do perverse things, no one will say about him, and besides, the Kira family did not go to their prefecture and county to pull people, it was these people who took the initiative to join the Kira family, and this lawsuit to the shogunate cannot be said to be at fault with the Kira family. (To be continued......)