A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Koheita was promoted from the 30-kanbun chief deputy to the 120-kanbun Uchida County chief acting officer. Although he was still nominally lower than the chief minister in the family, Kitahata University, in fact it was only one step away.

Then go ahead and take office. There is no such thing as a "three-pointer" for a new official to take office. In the entire Edo shogunate for more than 200 years, only a few dozen acting officials were punished for corruption. Maybe it really is because of historical inheritance and social atmosphere. Almost all acting officials are honest and upright, and have a clean mind.

This is honesty and integrity. Integrity is real. It depends on how you look at it. They only treat people who are honest and above the human level, and those below the human level. Without explanation, the ruling class is all the same.

This two-sleeve breeze is really a breeze. By the middle of the Edo shogunate, the income of samurai could not keep up with the economic development and rising prices. Many officials were poor and had to eat roasted sweet potatoes every meal. However, they still had to maintain the dignity of local officials. The salary is used to hire ceremonial guards, and expensive Wu clothes are used as official uniforms for office work. It is really superficial.

But even so, these people still maintained a very high professional ethics, neither greedy nor taking advantage of their power for personal gain. Even acting officials from relatively well-off families spent their own money to subsidize the poor lives of their colleagues in the public sector.

The Tokugawa sect, which claims to have a heavenly territory of four million and a banner of 80,000, actually has more than 5,000 banners. Many of them were sent to various parts of Japan to serve as acting officials. In the two hundred years of history, they were punished for corruption and perverting the law, preying on the common people. The number of family members was reduced to no more than the number of fingers on both hands and feet.

Xiao Pingtai couldn't tell whether it was better for hereditary aristocrats to inherit poetry, books, morals, and people with a sense of honor to be officials, or whether it was better to take the imperial examination and select people who had traveled thousands of miles to become officials just for money.

Anyway, based on what Koheita has learned at the Yamauchi family in the past few years, the atmosphere of the entire samurai bureaucracy is very good, which is completely different from the plot of punishing evil officials in the TV series "Mito Yellow Gate". Most people are ruthless enough to kill without blinking an eye, but they also have the virtue of loving the people (military members with an annual income of more than five guan) like their children, and being thrifty and thrifty.

Most of the public servants and samurai are loyal to the public and loyal to their duties as in "The Samurai's Family Account Book". This war-torn era is actually a vigorous and energetic era.

It's really the best of times and the worst of times.

And Xiaopingtai doesn't have time to be busy with other things now. The biggest event at this time is harvesting rice. There have been no disasters in the surrounding areas this year, so there is no need to be prepared for enemy troops to come to snatch the harvest. You can arrange the people's autumn harvest normally.

It doesn't matter how busy you are with this matter. Logically speaking, you have to pretend to go to the fields to supervise the people. But firstly, Xiaoping is too lazy, and secondly, he is not willing to pretend to do these vain things.

What's more, this is rice, extremely precious rice, rice that can be used as general equivalent! There is no need to urge, any of the residents will be very serious about harvesting. After all, the Yamauchi family's policy of five public servants and five citizens can still leave some for the farmers, and there is still some enthusiasm for production.

As for his subordinates in the agency, most of them are clerks who can read and write. I didn't see anyone with a famous family name. Most of them were the second son of a local rich peasant family or the youngest son of a samurai family. There is no such thing as a talent with abacus skills and a talent for construction. As for casually telling me that I discovered the plot of a novel like Murai Sadakatsu, don’t joke with me, brother.

There are also official duties, mainly dealing with household registration and litigation. Some people may think that the people in the territory are all slaves of the lord. Although the lord does have the power of life and death, after a long period of rebellion between Tu Yikui and the people in the territory. Everyone learned the good habit of sitting down and talking, and it was basically confirmed that the subjects were free peasants, and that the legally occupied land could be traded normally. (In the mid-Edo period, due to the decrease in samurai income and the increase in expenses, farmers began to be brutally oppressed. The number of homesteaders who went bankrupt and fled increased day by day. Finally, an order was issued to prohibit land transactions for a certain period of time, forcing farmers to be tied to the land and bear heavy burdens. taxes and corvee)

The lord only had economic advantages and feudal military obligations in the territory. Although the deprivation and personal dependence of the territorial people were very strong, they were still yeoman farmers, not slaves.

This is a relatively mature feudal agricultural society, and there are basically very few situations where people get what they want. Most lords have channels for direct dialogue with their subjects. There are often anecdotal records of Asai Nagamasa personally handling disputes over the subjects' water wells, and Mourimoto guiding the subjects to grow melons.

Xiao Pingtai only needs to ensure that the household registration of the military service members, that is, the self-cultivated farmers with an annual income of more than 5 Guan Wen, is correct, to ensure that the total number of more than 2,000 military service members in the county, and to ensure that each piece of land and real estate can have one when recruiting. Just go out and fight with a fully clothed Ashigaru.

Therefore, it was necessary to give birth to a boy in ancient times. If your man died in the war and you had a ten- or eight-year-old son at home, no one could take away this land. An upright agent like Xiaopingtai will come to your house to measure how much land your family has, whether the annual output value is greater than five guan, and whether you really have a son. As long as he really has a son, Xiao Pingtai will register this little kid as a soldier according to the solid feudal military obligation system. Anyone who infringes on his personal safety and property will be brutally punished by Xiao Pingtai. And this little boy has to pay the military service fee every year before he is fifteen years old. When he is fifteen years old, he will wear his father's clothes and join the Yamauchi clan's military service. Unless the man in your family is dead, there are country-specific laws to strictly protect every military real estate class.

Feudal society is not useless. If you are of use to the ruling class, your life and property will be protected by the law and officials. A little serious and a little sad.

The only thing left is to deal with the dispute over water sources, and litigation such as inheritance division is basically enough. An incident in which a brutal gangster wiped out a family and killed six members of his family in one night. Such a brutal murder would have made it to the top of the national news list. It's a joke to keep the door open at night without picking up leftovers, but such a serious murder requires careful investigation and logical reasoning. It's rare to see such a case in ten or eight years.

Don't think it's too difficult to be a Christian. The country is small and things are simple. What's more, under the stubborn feudal hierarchy, many things were indeed digested by themselves and were often not put into official litigation.

The previous county magistrate had already counted the 2,000 mobilizable military personnel in the county. Xiao Pingtai actually found a perfect day to take over, with simple policies and light punishments, and great governance without doing anything.

When the autumn harvest is over, there will be no blind bullies or powerful landlords to jump out and slap Xiao Pingtai in the face, and there will be no high-speed secret room murder cases (dense fog) to show off their skills.

Before the middle of winter, the documents for the general call for military service were issued. The subjects of Yuanzhou who had not gone out together before had to prepare a few days of dry food, gather together to renovate the city and streets, and complete their feudal obligations.

The residents were also more conscious and knew they couldn't run away. When the day came, they basically gathered in Fuzhong City.

I don’t know what this year’s general recruitment is for.

A new volume, a new beginning, thanks for the recommendation, brother.