Chapter 592 Cao Pengs new place
Jiahe was born in the "Kogaru" in the southern part of Omi. His original surname was Wata and came from the Ridaki family of "Koga Twenty Family". The most famous figure in their clan was the Ichiki Nakamura, one of the three senior Toyotomi in the Momoyama era.
Unlike the comics and rumors in later generations, although Koga and Iga in the Warring States Period were sometimes hostile, they actually had a good relationship. These two regions have been called "Koi Country" since ancient times, and there are close ties between the two factions, and there are many intermarriages.
Jia He's father died early, with two younger brothers and sisters under him, and a mother above him, so he had to establish a family at the age of fifteen to earn money to support his family. Because his mother was one of the Iga clans of the Nishimura clan from the Kishu clan, so she was sent to the shogunate by her uncle and became a "Imperial Court Fen".
The so-called "Imperial Sect" is an intelligence agency directly under the Supreme Court established by the eighth-generation general Tokugawa Yoshizo during the reign of the reign of the eighth-generation general Tokugawa Yoshizo. The base camp is located in the garden of Honmaru Edo Castle.
Because Tokugawa Yoshizo is from the Kishu clan of the three Ou family, the earliest 17 people in the Ou Tingban came from Iga. Although there were 9 more afterwards, they all came from the branches of the above 17 families, so they were also called "Igamoto Hirokiki".
Speaking of which, since Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Edo period, both Iga and Koga had long lost their ninja functions. In addition, many of the people in "Mimaisuke" who served as formal inspectors of the shogunate gradually became officials with the main job of serving as envoys, and the inspection ability directly belonged to the shogunate was only formal.
The Imping Fans are on the surface responsible for guarding and cleaning the courtyard of Honmaru, but in fact they are collecting intelligence and surveillance of the generals in various parts of the island country. When these people perform their missions, they have various identities, such as farmers, merchants, petty citizens, etc. The only thing they don’t pretend to be is the “ninja” of later generations!
However, although the "Yu Ting Fans" often see generals, they are not even the lowest-level samurai; once someone is promoted to a samurai, they have to leave this institution.
At that time, Jia He was ordered by the shogunate to disguise himself as a member of the refugee team who went to Beihai Town. However, Beihai Town did not collect bachelors, so he had to turn back and take his son Shinnosuke with him and board the boat to Beihai Town. His wife had long passed away and his father-in-law was not rich, so the father and son depended on each other for their own lives.
Later, Jia He was divided into Furdan City. After experiencing the battle with the Qing army, the strength of Beihai Town really shocked him and opened his eyes. Unfortunately, the information he had worked hard to collect could not be sent out at all.
Speaking of which, Jia He and his son were also "matchmakers" between Liu Sheng and Wu Xiha. In the winter seven years ago, a hungry tiger broke into the yard of Jia He's family. You must know that there is no tiger in the island country. Shinnosuke, who had never seen a tiger, was completely afraid and approached without knowing how to avoid death. In order to save his son, Jia He was bitten by the tiger that rushed over and was seriously injured. Then Liu Sheng brought people into the mountain to fight the tiger and met Wu Xiha by chance, which created a story that Beihai Town is still talking about today.
Jia He, who was seriously injured, thought he would definitely die in a foreign land. Unexpectedly, after careful treatment by Hong Tao and his wife, he took out precious tetanus serum and a large dose of antibiotics. Jia He, who was destroyed, survived and kept in the hospital for half a year before he recovered.
Feeling grateful for saving his life, Jia He entrusted his son Shinnosuke to a neighbor, and then went to the Public Security Police Station to surrender himself and confessed his identity as a shogunate spy. As a result, Jia He did not do anything to harm Beihai Town, and the information was not sent out, so he was released soon.
Two years later, Jia He, who had married a wife and had a daughter, was suddenly secretly summoned by Li Ji late one night. The other party told him that it was time to repay the kindness of King Zhao and Beihai Town. Since then, Jia He's family left Furdan City, and no neighbors around knew where they went.
In fact, Jia He and more than 20 other people moved to the east bank of the Falin River and moved into several newly built courtyards of the North Navy Training Base. Later, the area was assigned to the North Navy Intelligence Bureau. Since then, Jia He has started a long hellish training. The direct reporting target of these people is Zhao Xin, and Li Ji is just a melodraft.
After a year of secret training, Jiahe was regularly sent back to the island country and wandered between Edo and Osaka, each time ranging from half a year to two or three months. His main job was to collect market intelligence. His disguised identity was a drug dealer wandering around the world. You should know that in addition to being good at spying on intelligence, Koga Ruo Ninja also had an ancestral craft, which was selling medicine.
According to the records of "Wanchuan Jihai", the prescriptions passed down by Koga family include "Hungry and Thirst Pills", "Waterless Drugs" and "Wind and Cold Medicine". The formula of the former is slightly changed and becomes a throat-clearing medicine that can clear the throat and clear the throat; the latter two are simply seasickness medicines and cold medicines. "Nishin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." located in Ome in later generations is the industry of descendants of Koga.
After parting with his companions from Mino House, Jia He returned to a hiking cage called "Takahashiya". After getting up in the morning, while having breakfast, Jia He listened to someone telling the bloody incident of Mino House in the corridor, and was amazed from time to time like other residents around him, and he could not tell at all that he was different from others.
Later that day, with a radio wave from Osaka arrived in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin quickly learned about the murder in Kyoto last night. After reading the telegram, Zhao Xin was silent for a moment, and then brought two guards to Liji's office of the Beihai Logistics Department.
The boss came in person, and Li Ji thought he was here to inspect the work, and thought that Xu Funan didn't say hello in advance, making him unprepared. However, Zhao Xin sat in Li Ji's office for a long time, and said a word with a dark face.
Liji knew something had happened, but the troops didn't dare to ask, looking at the other party's face. Just as Zhao Xin got up and left, he was about to step out of the door, he said to Liji: "If you have time to go and see Heita's wife and children when you have time in the evening. If you have more care in his family, please tell me what you need."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Li Ji's face turned pale, and he knew he would never see Pingtai again. Thinking of Zhao Xin and he took a boat to cross the sea together, and following Zhao Xin to circle every morning on Bear Island. Everything was vivid in my mind, as if it was yesterday.
"Why are you so confused? What a bastard!" After seeing Zhao Xin off, Li Ji sat back on the chair in frustration, and finally couldn't help but curse.
In fact, if Heita didn't go to Mian Kyushu to spy on the information about Rikikari Kaneshima, Zhao Xin would not have killed him. At most, he would recall Heita back to the Sendai basin, find a place to put his wife and children in house arrest, and then send his wife and children there. Freedom is no longer necessary, but with the love he had at the beginning, the family would definitely not have to worry about life.
A day later, Cao Peng, who was in the office, was having a meeting with Liu Taigong and others, suddenly received a telegram from Zhao Xin, asking him to complete the work handover with Liu Taigong within three days, rush back to Whale Town to report his work, and make another appointment.
Cao Peng received the telegram and thought that something might have happened, right? He just gave himself three days, which was too urgent. He thought about the news from Whale Town recently, and nothing unusual was.
"Go and invite Mr. Duan Lin to come. Forget it, I'll go by myself."
When he saw Liu Taigong, Cao Peng showed the telegram to the other party, and Liu Taigong was also very surprised. Cao Peng has a good personality and the two of them have cooperated well during this period. Suddenly letting him take over is inevitable. However, since Zhao Xin has ordered, he can only do it. Fortunately, the grain collection and purchase work of collecting and purchasing grains in various places in Ningguta this year is coming to an end, and there is no need to do anything in a hurry. The two then called a few subordinates and started the handover.
During the three years of Cao Peng's military affairs in Ningguta, he didn't have to worry about most of the military affairs. Although he also served as the "Political Commissar" of the Ningguta garrison, he mainly played a role in supervision and checks and balances. All matters were mainly responsible for the General Staff of the North Navy, so he devoted his main energy to vigorously develop agriculture, promote urban economy, and realize the institutionalization of urban commercial management.
The land development in Ningguta area began with the Eight Banners garrison. The early Eight Banners were officially formed in the 33rd year of the Kangxi reign. The banner land belonged to the state-owned land of the Qing Dynasty, and officers and soldiers were not allowed to buy and sell it privately. The village under its jurisdiction cultivated the banner land. In addition to the Yicang rice, the grain obtained was forfeited to the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners. As a large number of people from the Shun Kangxi and Yong Dynasty were exiled to this place, they became slaves of the armored people, forcing them to reclaim additional land, so the number of banner land increased day by day.
According to the statistics of the seized Manchu file account book, when Beihai Town occupied Ningguta, the total number of Eight Banners Banners was 442,434 mu; in addition, the number of private land in Ningguta area was 51,922 mu. Adding the above two together, the total number was nearly 495,000 mu.
The reason why there is such a high arable land area is mainly related to the farming method of this year. Because the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the climate is cold, the relatively primitive "fire field method" farming method was adopted in the early stage, that is, it was impossible to sow after the first year of reclamation, and then reclaim the seeds in the second year of reclamation. In this way, the land becomes more and more mature, and it can be considered fertile land in the fifth year. However, in the sixth and seventh year, the land is exhausted, and then the new fields are reclaimed. As a result, more and more arable land is blooming.
Although the wandering people from the pass brought improvements to Ningguta's agricultural production, they were relatively limited. You should know that such a large arable land area cannot handle the intensive farming like the pass, so they can only be implemented on some plots.
In addition, there are Nanma Factory, Xima Factory and Cattle Factory in Ningguta area. In addition to providing horses for the Eight Banners, they also have to provide plowing oxen for the Guanzhuang. The standard before the Qing Dynasty was to get one cow for every 120 acres of land, and the farming efficiency can be imagined.
After Cao Peng took office, he first confiscated all the flag fields, and then formulated different redemption prices based on the degree of private fields. It took him half a year to recover them all through negotiation and threats. The purpose of this is to carry out mechanized large-scale agricultural production through "agricultural cooperation" to get rid of the small-scale farming model that relies on the weather and burn the wasteland at will.
Whether it is a wanderer or a farmer, they are all slaves and have no own arable land. They now have the right to use fifty acres of land, and with only 10% of the rent, they are naturally excited. The Manchus and the people who own private land are very dissatisfied with the policies of Beihai Town, but they are forced to threaten the military force after the Beihai Army defeated the Qing army, and some simply fled to Jilin or Boduna.
In terms of population, the Immigration Department moved more than 2,000 old households from Furdan City and Whale Town, and then moved more than 1,000 immigrants from Huguang after negotiations with the Qing court in Dagukou. In this way, with the original 1,800 households, the total number of households in Ningguta area reached 5,000 households, with a population of more than 20,000. Even if each household is divided into 50 acres, it is only 250,000 acres, accounting for more than half of the arable land area.
The civil affairs department sent a special team to Ningguta, Sanxingcheng and Hunchun to teach the technology step by step, and led farmers to build water diversion channels, transfer large tractors to work in depth and apply fertilization reasonably. In addition, high-yield wheat seeds from another time and space, the yield per mu exceeded 300 kilograms in the second year.
There is a secret method for farming in Beihai Town. In recent years, with the movement of people, even the Jilin and Boduna areas under the Qing Dynasty have gone crazy. Fukang'an even sent people to secretly purchase wheat seeds from farmers. The problem is that Beihai Town is engaged in an agricultural production model of "large-scale operation and large-scale facilities", which has strict control over the seed retention process. Even if some Manchu families secretly keep seeds, they do not know the key point, and they are often hybrids, which are very easy to degenerate.
Furthermore, the wheat needs to be sprayed with phosphorus and potassium fertilizers from the jointing to the grouting period, because they are all stored in a unified manner, and this thing has been worked hard and has not been able to get it. However, they also found out that the name "potassium dihydrogen phosphate" made everyone confused and had no idea what it was.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! In addition to making great efforts to focus on agriculture, Cao Peng also has some ideas about the development of business. Speaking of which, if a town wants to prosper, it mainly starts from four aspects: the number of merchants and transaction scale, the institutionalization of business management, the rise of the financial industry, and transportation conditions. The last two items of Beihai Town have unified planning and deployment, and the first two items need to be done by the local government.
After Cao Peng took office, he first abolished eight miscellaneous taxes under the Qing Dynasty; namely, cattle and horse tax, pig tax, cow leather tax, shop tax, pawn shop tax, official scale tax, official fighting tax, and grinding tax. The changed tax system was uniformly collected at 5% of the commodity transaction volume, and the receipt was obtained after tax payment as proof.
Regarding the practice of taxation adopted by the Qing government by the bank's economic personnel, Cao Peng decided to temporarily retain it after discussing with Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin. The economic personnel will be issued by the Administration for Management and the photos and stamps on it, which is considered a transition period before the establishment of the tax department.
In the past, in order to control the grain market and collect grain transaction tax, the Deputy Chief Office of Ningguta had 24 official Dou Dou and 24 Dou Dou people. During the transaction, the government collected taxes and Dou Dou received commissions. Dou Dou was appointed by the government and obtained the guarantee of the grain bank. Only after receiving the tax stamp can the task be carried out.
After Beihai Town arrived, it implemented unified purchase and sales of grain transactions, and all of them were taken back to Beihai Trading Company for management. After being identified by the Public Security Police Station, most of the original 24 "doutou" entered the grain and oil companies under Beihai Trading Company. In addition to receiving fixed salaries, these people will also pay bonuses based on the completion of annual grain purchases.
Unlike Beihai Town, Furdan City and Boli where construction started from nothing, Ningguta, Hunchun and Sanxing had already had a considerable degree of private business before Beihai Town arrived. Before Ningguta was built, there were already many shops in the city with a complete range of categories, including 13 cloth shops, 11 restaurant shops, 10 grocery shops, 28 iron shops, 2 oil shops, 3 grill shops, 10 pawn shops, etc. Some of these shops were opened by foreign refugees, and there were also a few local people and miscellaneous people who invested in and opened in a joint venture. The shares were silver stocks and body stocks.
In addition, the "Yixing Bake Pot" located in Kaluntun, north of the city has been open for 20 years and is also an important local shop. The reason why the pot shop is important in the Ningguta area is that because of the weather, both men and women must drink and keep warm; the other hand is that the "god dance" sacrifices of the Manchu people in spring and autumn require a lot of distilled liquor.
Although the urban economy has begun to take shape, it is still far from meeting the daily needs of the people.
For example, before Beihai Town came, local people did not have candles in their daily lives, but instead lit homemade "chaff lamps". This is a kind of stew-based stems, which are mixed with suzi oil residue and millet bran, and stick them on the stems. After drying, it is about one meter long. When used, it is inserted horizontally on a wooden stand and will not be extinguished by the wind.
Another thing is that there is no salt farm in Ningguta area. Since the Ming Dynasty, eating salt in Ningguta area has been exchanged for trading with the Li Dynasty. Every October, the Li Dynasty's Dazong Bo would send people to Ningguta to sell salt through official sales, while the Qing Dynasty exchanged horses.
Cao Peng built a medium-sized salt farm in Hunchun. Although he only had seven months of production every year, it still allowed the entire Ningguta area to get rid of the situation where he had been eating salt for hundreds of years. In addition, he also opened a weaving factory and a candle factory, both of which were invested by Wu Zhenzhou, the owner of Beihai Trading Company and "Hengfeng Pawnshop".
In order to prevent the blacksmith shop from creating weapons and bows and arrows privately, he moved the blacksmiths and his men from the five blacksmith shops to the steel factory in Boli Town and set up only one agricultural tool repair site in the city. Although it has changed from five to one, due to the use of electric furnaces and new machining equipment, the work efficiency has been greatly improved, and the quality of production and maintenance of agricultural tools has also been much better than that of the blacksmith shop.
Liu Tai has been to Ningguta for more than a year, but his main energy is on culture and education, and he only has some understanding of other matters. In this way, the handover between him and Cao Peng took five days to complete.
At this time, the news of the transfer of "Mr. Xiao Cao" had spread wildly in the city. The owners of various businesses in Ningguta City were grateful for their "kindness" and even made a Wanmin umbrella signed by the bosses of each family overnight. Cao Peng was moved and laughed and sighed that his hard work over the past two years was worth it.
After waving goodbye to the crowd of people who were seeing off outside Xunfeng Gate, Cao Peng's carriage did not drive on the main road to Furdan City, but headed towards Hunchun.
Chapter completed!