A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Because the Yamauchi family fought a big battle this year, most of the military service members and some of the warriors were exempted from general service. According to Xiao Pingtai's estimate, there could have been more than 10,000 people here, but now the number is more than half. It is unrealistic to carry out large-scale water conservancy renovations or build new cities, and it may be a bit constrained.

After entering the city and reporting to Yamauchi Yoshiharu, I had a rough understanding of the intensity and implementation scale of the general petitions in previous years. Xiaopingtai knew it well and calculated that the river embankments would not need to be widened or reinforced this year. There is nothing that needs expansion in Fuzhong City. This year's general petition is relatively easy, and there is no urgent need to start construction.

I thought that not long after I took over as county deputy, good things would happen every time. The former county magistrate Oishi Saburo Haruhide did a good job in sorting out the household registration. Kitahata University also took care of all the water conservancy work. Nowadays, there are only some odd jobs left, and I have been hanging around for another year.

After leaving the city, Xiaoheita, who was rubbing his hands to breathe, looked at the three to four thousand people in the county wearing not too thick hemp clothes or kapok clothes, huddled together outdoors to keep warm in the almost winter weather. I felt sorry for them silently, and then I was glad for them that they didn't have to work hard for a long time this year.

Before Xiaopingtai came, he thought that these people would not be able to do any big work, let alone a few days of general recruitment. When the water was dry, he would dig out the river mud to fertilize the fields, and then pick some soil and try to make two terraces to test it. , let Xiao Pingtai use the agricultural production technology in his mind and it’s over.

However, after asking Yamauchi Yoshiharu's thoughts, everything was based on the leadership's orders and could only be changed to street maintenance. After all, the army walked again this year, and the road conditions were already very bad.

Generally, the streets at this time are as narrow as one and a half rooms (about 2.5 meters) and more than three rooms wide (about 5 meters). The streets of serious countries are lined with pine and willow trees and ditches are dug. Then the roadbed should be laid down and the upper layer should be rammed earth. But the reality is, haha!

Most of the roads in the Yamauchi family territory are ordinary mud fields. Every year, some soil or pebbles are used to smooth the roads. The mud puddles on the roads are filled in, and the collapses on both sides of the roads are repaired and then they are pulled down.

After the second year of walking, you can see that the deepest ditch of the wheel can be half a meter. On a sunny day, you are covered in gray, on a rainy day, you are covered in mud. It's probably better than the trails made by animals in the mountains and forests.

You can't have any expectations at all on this kind of road. When there is abundant rain in spring and summer, it is not surprising that you accidentally step on a mud puddle while walking and drown yourself in the one or two meters deep puddle.

Therefore, during this period, Japan's regular army set off, and the vanguard troops had to bring a large number of shovels, shovels, and a lot of wooden boards. This is to ensure that people can safely cross the mud road that has experienced spring rain. Otherwise, it is very possible to walk and take a look, eh? How did ten soldiers become nine? Another one drowned in the mud and water on the road.

However, this is not the case for Yamauchi alone. Basically, the street conditions in all Japanese territories are like this. In addition to the fact that the daimyo's thoughts were not fully spent on this, the main reason was that he was poor and did not have the financial resources to prepare high-quality roads.

So generations of acting officials have been fooling around for decades. They just do it casually and finish it quickly. As long as it is no worse than before, can they still expect to be successful? Isn't the word "muddle along" specifically used to describe this situation?

Of course, according to the plot of the time-travel novel, the mentally retarded writer should make a big move, call for invitations in batches, build the project in sections, and set up rewards. There is no need to consider the number of tools, material consumption, early planning, or later construction. Anyway, after ten days and eight days, he built a wide and wide road to the sky. When Oda Nobunaga saw that the protagonist was really a good guy, he directly gave you a hundred and eighty thousand shi and betrothed Ashi to you. Niwa Nagahide wants to become your disciple, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to recognize you as your father. Hahaha!

Until the Edo shogunate period, roads, water conservancy, temples, and general invitations to towns and cities were the second means used by the shogunate to consume foreign food (the first was attendance and reporting), in addition to self-prepared food. The money, tools, and materials consumed are all borne by the person who undertakes the general service.

Because the Shimadzu family was ordered by the shogunate to repair a river in Shinano (the construction schedule was tight, the Shimadzu family paid for all labor and material costs), they were finally forced to commit suicide directly on the construction site. The shogunate feudal lords and gendai who came to supervise couldn't stand it any longer. They cried and told General Tokugawa that this was really not human affairs. Spare their lives.

Xiaoping didn't dare to expect that these ordinary citizens, who were suffocated by heavy taxes and frequent military service, were poor and sad, could prepare many tools for themselves, and how much money they could spend for free. Come support the cause of the Daimyo.

Xiaopingtai could only say that he would try his best to arrange for these seemingly poor citizens to finish their work and go home quickly in the past few days, so as not to let them suffer any more.

In addition, he deceived Yamauchi Yoshiharu, saying that the road was too bad, and he was allowed to use some reserve funds and collected stones to strengthen the roadbed. This little thing will definitely not be able to repair the entire street from Yamauchi to Ejiri. It will mainly be a surface project in Yamauchi Town.

The comrades who were dispatched took the conscripted citizens along the road to repair and rest for a while, leaving only a few hundred who had experience in building cities.

These selected people cooperated with Koheita's plan to prepare the main street of Yamauchi Fuchu Town. I dare not even think about sifting boiled loess through a fine sieve, the vertebrae of iron that are not broken, or the rammed earth that is more than ten feet long.

The only way is to roll the dirt road back and forth with long pebble strips for a day and fill in the potholes. The foundation was roughly stabilized, and then the main street in the town was paved with stone slabs to create a trunk road four kan wide (about 6.5 meters) and 130 kan long (200 meters) to replace the previous mud road.

What can I say, it's still pretty good. I used to walk on mud to the city, but now it's much better to walk on stone roads. At least we won't encounter the embarrassing situation of wearing straw sandals walking on the muddy ground. As we walk, someone steps out and the straw sandals are still left in the mud puddle behind.

Thinking that a good man will do his best to send Buddha to the West, he also dug open channels on both sides of the road. After connecting to the Lianchuan River, it can not only store water and prevent fires, but also facilitate the domestic sewage of thousands of people in the town. The handling of the matter suddenly made the town look completely new.

As for the roads outside Fuchu Town, I can only apologize for the remaining roads in the four fields. I have no money or ability to deal with you.

Some people say that they should at least set up a big pot along the road to boil ginger tea and boil water for the people to warm themselves (traveling through the classic plot of mentally retarded people in the novel), but I can only say that they are thinking too much. Ginger is extremely expensive, the cast iron pot is not big enough to be shared by hundreds of people, and firewood also costs money.

Japan was so ruthless and poor during the Warring States Period.

No more words to say, it’s the weekend, there are only two days left. One thousand this week, eight updates next Tuesday! Eight updates!