Chapter 408
The First Batch of Gold from Ezo
Chapter 408 The first gold from Ezo
Regarding the arrangement of Akashi Quanto, Hideka actually understands very well. Ezo land is far away from Emperor Shan Gao, and it takes 3 months to go back and forth. It is impossible for Hideka to command remotely, so he gave the previous Ezo a great deal of autonomy. right.
As long as Akashi Quandeng can properly handle the relationship between the powerful clans and tribes in Ezo, and expand outwards steadily while maintaining stability, as long as the Xiu family thinks that too many hidden dangers will be left behind, some appropriate measures will be taken. Xiujia is willing to accept the reform.
Therefore, unlike Akashi Jingqin who still asked for instructions to recall Akashi Quandeng, the Xiu family has been slightly relieved of Akashi Quandeng's approach.
But looking at Quandeng's anxious father at the side, the Xiu family still said with a straight face, "Although the sweeping of the book handled the matter properly and did not cause too much trouble, the handling of the knowledge and actions of the retainers should be reported to the governor, that is, I. To make such an arrangement without asking for instructions, in fact, it is already presumptuous."
After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Osafuna Sadakin and continued, "Misaku Mamoru took the time to write a letter of refutation and handed it to Seto Jiazheng, so that he could bring it back to Akashi Quanto, so that he could wake up and recognize the relationship between the monarch and his ministers.
He only supervises the development of Ezo on my behalf, and has the right to coordinate the government affairs and diplomacy of Ezo, but he does not have the jurisprudence of superiors and subordinates to the powerful warriors in Ezo.
This point must be emphatically stated, and his next job arrangement will be communicated with the letter after I have thought about it thoroughly, and the official arrangement of the Unicom Eizo Enforcement Office after the restructuring. "
After receiving the Hideka's order, Osafune Sadakin, the old writer of the family, and Seto Jiazheng saluted the Hideka together, expressing their obedience to the Hideka's order.
Akashi Jingqin heard that the Xiu family planned to dispose of Akashi Quandeng, and temporarily stopped the drums, and no longer begged the Xiu family to recall Akashi Quandeng, so that Tachihara Kuzuna could speak again about the situation in Ezo.
Generally speaking, throughout last year, the Ezo land was affected by sectarian conflicts, and assimilated tribes blocked the disadvantages of continuing to build settlements. The development of knowledge and practice stagnated, and only 7 to 8000 stone territories were developed throughout the year. Counting the subordinate tribal lands, the total Zhixing reached 14.2 shi.
It can also be seen from this that due to the influence of religious disputes in Ezo, the progress of pioneering has been greatly slowed down.
Last year, due to the decrease in the number of imported North Korean population, the progress of territory development was affected.The Xiu family originally wanted to replenish the population after resuming the introduction this year, but there was a religious struggle again.
From this point of view, when Qiezhidan's power is not too big now, it is urgent to contain Qiezhidan.
After talking about the basic situation, Tachihara Hisakuna was silent for a moment, looked at Xiujia and asked as if asking: "After talking about the matter of the Ezo Monastery, regarding the announcement from His Highness Kitami Kunu Kita Hidei, do you want to discuss it with His Highness later? How about you communicate alone?"
"Anything about Kita?"
Kitami country, a land covered with ice and snow for more than half of the year, can have any important things, only the Konomai gold mine.
So the Xiu family understood as soon as they heard it, Tachihara Hisakuna felt that the matter involved confidentiality, and there were too many people here.
Immediately he said to Nobushige Sanada and Nobutada Anayama who were behind him, "Take your attendants and leave, and wait outside. I have to discuss with you adults about the extremely confidential matter of Ezo, and no outsiders can come close."
In the past, the Xiu family also listened directly with Shimizu letter. After all, Hanbei had been with him for a long time and became his ironclad. The Xiu family absolutely trusted him.
But looking at the two attendants around me now, although they are very capable in handling their own affairs, one is a descendant of the Shinano Sanada family, and the other is a descendant of the Kai Takeda family, neither of which is a hard-core Hide family.
Even these two people are likely to become Hideo's important pawns in controlling Shinano and Kai in the future, and it is unnecessary and even dangerous to let them know about Kono Mai.
Therefore, the Xiu family ignored the stunned expressions of the two, and even the two closest friends were sent out by the Xiu family.
Even Akashi Jingqin originally planned to resign on his own under the signal of Osafune Sadain, because he didn't know about Konomoi before, and Osafune Sadain habitually believed that the scope of knowing the matter should be limited.
But Jingqin Akashi was finally retained by the Xiu family on his own initiative, after all he is the "God of Wealth" of Yuxi's family.The discovery and mining of the Kitami Gold Mine is related to Ukido's financial affairs, and he must participate.
After all the irrelevant people in the venue left, Tachihara Hisakuna shook his head and complained, "Your Highness, you told us to go to the upper reaches of the Yubetsu River to find gold mines, but you gave us a wrong message."
Xiujia asked with a puzzled look, "Ah? What?"
Hisakuna Tachihara said with a smile: "The Konomai Gold Mountain you mentioned is no longer in the upper reaches of the Yubetsu River, but in the upper reaches of the Nagisa River further north. As a result, His Royal Highness Ukita Hidei found a place to wash sand in the Yubetsu River." He didn't find any gold sand in the year, but it made him suffer a lot."
Xiujia scratched his head in embarrassment. After all, he was a time traveler, and he already had some thoughts about time travel. It is understandable that there are some deviations in the memory of the previous life.
But when Xiujia didn't give a clear address, Xiujia was really curious about how Xiuyi found the gold mine, so he asked Tachihara Hisakuna the question in his heart.
Hisakuna Tachihara replied, "Speaking of which, Lord Ukita was lucky. At the beginning, we transported it to him for the convenience of his gold panning, and put more than 1000 people at his disposal, most of whom were from Yamato.
Kitami was too far away from Tomakomai, so they established a settlement on the upper reaches of the Yubetsu River, relying on the valley to block the cold wind from the North Sea. "
After that, he pointed to the Engaru area upstream of Yubetsu, "Master Ukita thought that the reason for the collapse of the settlement of Yubetsu due to the cold wave was the north wind in winter, so he chose to build a settlement here.
The land here is relatively fertile, with 500~600 people as a settlement, 2 settlements were established, and the Yuanjia City was built in the middle (at the point of looking at the rock on the map).
Coincidentally, when building the city and opening up new settlements in the mountain valleys, some gold sand was found in the rivers and rivers of the Northwest Defense Line, but the amount was very scarce.
So His Royal Highness Ukita Hidei sent people to continue exploring northward along the valley, and found gold sand in another creek on the other side of the valley far beyond that far away.
Then, using this stream as a clue, we continued to explore the tribes near the Nagisa River to the north. Guess what, the weapons in their hands are much more advanced than the tribes in Tomakomai and Ishikari. They use metal spears, and the spearheads are gold. .
According to them, this metal is mined from the river, and the entire bottom of the river is full of this gold!In fact, as they said, those of us who went to explore reported that under the reflection of the sun, the entire Nagisa River was dyed golden yellow! "
Hearing Tachihara Hisakuna's description, Osafune Sadakin and Akashi Keiko expressed their amazement, "Is there such a rich country in the world?"
"Fufu?" Hearing the exclamation of the two, Tachihara Hisakuna shook his head and responded, "The local area is affected by the cold wind from the North Sea, and there is no food to grow in the ground.
The local people mostly live by fishing and hunting, or picking some pine nuts in the mountains and forests to feed their hunger. The Zhuhua tribe has survived in Beijian for hundreds of years, with a population of only a few hundred.
It is said that they exile the infirm and the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves before winter every year, so as to reduce the consumption of food in winter. "
"It's really a cruel way of survival." Hearing the customs of the Zhuhua tribe, Xiujia sighed with emotion, and then continued to ask Tachihara Hisakuna
"Since their life is difficult, how can they master the craft of practicing metal? You must know that many tribes in the southern and central areas of Ezo still use stone tools."
Hisakuna Tachihara shook his head, expressing that he was not clear about this point, "Ezodi is really a strange place. The central part has such a large area of plains, but the northern part is surrounded by high mountains. The cold wind from the North Sea is completely blocked by the influence of the high mountains. Outside, it also led to the unique climate of Kitami country.
Ukita Hidei-sama wants to farm in Kitami, but it is difficult because of the cold wave. Even after opening up settlements, she still has to transfer food from Xuanzhu City every month. This is deeply touched by Setoya Masa-sama.
Although we don't know how the Zhuhua tribe survived, and how they mastered the copper and gold technique, we quickly won their goodwill by using the food and cloth in our hands, allowing us to establish settlements in Zhuhuachuan and start gold mining . "
After all, he asked the Seto family to present a lacquered wooden square box about 20cm long and 10cm wide. After opening it, affected by the sunlight outside, the dazzling golden light reflected in the hall, which turned out to be a box of gold sand.
Seto Jiazheng: "Returning to Okayama today, the top and bottom of the Ezo Monastery and Kitami pioneer Ukita Hideto presented a box of gold sand washed in the first year of Nagisa River. I heard that His Highness is about to get married, so I just use this as a gift for the people of Ezo. A congratulatory gift for Your Highness."
Hideie came down from the imperial steps, sat in front of Seto's house, put his hand into the lacquered wooden box, grabbed a handful of gold sand and held it in his hand to feel it.
The dazzling golden light really fascinated people, causing Xiujia to show a greedy expression, even Akashi Jingqin who was behind Xiujia poked his head out in surprise.
Looking at the gold in his hand, Xiujia asked infatuatedly: "Is this box of pure gold sand? Is there 500 taels?"
The Seto family said proudly, "It is unsmelted gold sand that was washed out from the river bed, but the purity is still not low. The net weight of the gold sand in the box is 800 taels!"
"800 taels!" Xiujia said in surprise
Many people don't know the approximate amount of 800 taels. The current 500 taels is about 40kg, which is the weight of 2.5 standard reserve gold bars.
At that time, Japanese weights and measures did not agree. The unit of measurement for weight in southern Japan was two, while in the north it was "匁", a unique unit of measurement in Japan.
At that time, 1 catty was roughly equivalent to 230g now, and 800 taels converted to about 20kg of gold now.
(A standard gold brick weighs 12.5 kilograms and is about the size of an unopened Iphone plus box)
To be honest, Xiu's parents had never seen how big 20kg of gold was in their previous lives, and now that this box of gold sand was piled up in front of them, it was indeed rather shocking.
The Xiu family did not hand over the income to Akashi Jingqin, but carefully put away the lacquered wooden box, intending to put it into their own money.
Of course, after returning to his actions, Xiujia continued to ask Tachihara Hisakuna, "Is it just panning for gold in the river? Did you follow the water source defense line and search for mineral veins in the mountain?"
"The gold rush in Kitami has detonated Ezo, Ishikari, Ishikari, Hidaka and other places, there are continuous immigration applications to go to Kitami to pan for gold. Before the minister went south, there were nearly 2000 registered citizens of Kitami.
Later, Lord Ukita discovered the Liniu tribe in the upper reaches of the Nagisa River, and gold sand was also found in the upstream stream. Here, Lord Ukita built Nakajima Castle relying on the mountains and built settlements under the city.
It was only now that I discovered that the area of this golden vein is so large that the entire south of Zhuhuachuan and the north of Yongbiechuan are covered with golden veins.
It's just that the gold sand in the river has not been panned out yet, and the population of Kitami is also insufficient, so there is no spare energy to find and mine the main vein in the mountain. "
Akashi Jingqin, who heard Tachihara Hisakuna's explanation, resigned. Once such a large area of gold mines is mined, it will greatly ease the financial situation of the Yuki family, and even make the Yuki family rich from now on.
So he said, "What's the problem? If you need someone, I will transfer you from Bizen, Misaku, Bichu, etc. In short, we must speed up the progress of mining and let the Konoshimai Gold Mine start mining as soon as possible."
After that, he said in a somewhat reproachful tone, "How can you give up the golden veins that are so rich even when you wash the sand in the river bed?"
This is the first time Akashi Jingqin has lost his composure since the whole meeting. Obviously, in his eyes, the whole of Ezo is not as important as Konoshimai Gold Mine.
But Tachihara Hisakuna retorted, "I can understand Iyomori's eagerness to mine Konobu, but before enough fields have been developed in Ezo, it is meaningless for you to transfer more people.
Because of the bitter cold in Ezo, it is not enough to feed such a large population. Now Ezo has 14.2 shi of land, but there are more than 8 people in Ezo, and this is not counting the tribes that belong to us.
It is still cold in the north, and people need more food to supplement their energy. Even if they can hunt and eat meat, an adult needs 1 stone wheat noodles a year, and the more than 2.3 stone fields for planting sugar beets are planted with beets instead. It is not wheat, and from this we can see how much the food gap is.
As for Kitami, it's not suitable for farming at all.After two years of development, the reclaimed area of Tianmu is not small, Zhixing only has more than a thousand stones, and the yield per turn is less than one stone.If there is a golden vein over there, I plan to give up Kitami and retreat to the pioneering land. "
On the contrary, it is a unit of measurement square unique to Japan, and the measurement size is not consistent in various countries. Here we take the data from the time of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The length unit in Japan is very complicated. It is called a step on the ground, and the length of a person's step, which is comparable to the arm length of ancient Egypt.
The square of 1 "ping", also known as 1 "step", is about 3.30532 square meters, and 1 "anti" is about 300 pings, about 9.917 mu.On top of "fan", there is the most "cho", 1 town is equal to 10 pan, which is approximately equal to 0.99174 hectares.
Do you think it is easy to know the yield per mu after calculating the area of the land?
Don't be funny, don't you forget that I mentioned in the previous chapter that the size of the grain hoppers for weighing fields varies in different countries?
This led to huge differences in the weight of stones in various countries, which caused great difficulties in calculating the grain yield per mu during the Warring States Period in Japan.
总体来说，日本当时旱田亩产大致是1反产量0.8~1.4石，水田亩产是1.3~2.2石。
There are several reasons why the gap in paddy fields is so large. One is that most of the places where large-scale paddy fields are planted in Japan are plains, and the Chikuzen, Chikugo, Higo, Nobi, Kanto and Tohoku regions.
The paddy fields in Kyushu can be cropped twice a year due to the climate, and the paddy fields in Nobi can also be planted intermittently in paddy fields and dry fields due to climate reasons. In the Northeast, due to the cold weather, the output of paddy fields is very low, which is not much better than that of dry fields.
But in general, the yield per mu of paddy fields in Japan is definitely higher than 1, and because the areas developed in Ezo are all plains and the water source is very abundant, most of the paddy fields are developed, so it should be the same as that of Japan. paddy fields for comparison.
If so, the output of 1 inverse 1 stone is really a bit low.
(End of this chapter)
Regarding the arrangement of Akashi Quanto, Hideka actually understands very well. Ezo land is far away from Emperor Shan Gao, and it takes 3 months to go back and forth. It is impossible for Hideka to command remotely, so he gave the previous Ezo a great deal of autonomy. right.
As long as Akashi Quandeng can properly handle the relationship between the powerful clans and tribes in Ezo, and expand outwards steadily while maintaining stability, as long as the Xiu family thinks that too many hidden dangers will be left behind, some appropriate measures will be taken. Xiujia is willing to accept the reform.
Therefore, unlike Akashi Jingqin who still asked for instructions to recall Akashi Quandeng, the Xiu family has been slightly relieved of Akashi Quandeng's approach.
But looking at Quandeng's anxious father at the side, the Xiu family still said with a straight face, "Although the sweeping of the book handled the matter properly and did not cause too much trouble, the handling of the knowledge and actions of the retainers should be reported to the governor, that is, I. To make such an arrangement without asking for instructions, in fact, it is already presumptuous."
After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Osafuna Sadakin and continued, "Misaku Mamoru took the time to write a letter of refutation and handed it to Seto Jiazheng, so that he could bring it back to Akashi Quanto, so that he could wake up and recognize the relationship between the monarch and his ministers.
He only supervises the development of Ezo on my behalf, and has the right to coordinate the government affairs and diplomacy of Ezo, but he does not have the jurisprudence of superiors and subordinates to the powerful warriors in Ezo.
This point must be emphatically stated, and his next job arrangement will be communicated with the letter after I have thought about it thoroughly, and the official arrangement of the Unicom Eizo Enforcement Office after the restructuring. "
After receiving the Hideka's order, Osafune Sadakin, the old writer of the family, and Seto Jiazheng saluted the Hideka together, expressing their obedience to the Hideka's order.
Akashi Jingqin heard that the Xiu family planned to dispose of Akashi Quandeng, and temporarily stopped the drums, and no longer begged the Xiu family to recall Akashi Quandeng, so that Tachihara Kuzuna could speak again about the situation in Ezo.
Generally speaking, throughout last year, the Ezo land was affected by sectarian conflicts, and assimilated tribes blocked the disadvantages of continuing to build settlements. The development of knowledge and practice stagnated, and only 7 to 8000 stone territories were developed throughout the year. Counting the subordinate tribal lands, the total Zhixing reached 14.2 shi.
It can also be seen from this that due to the influence of religious disputes in Ezo, the progress of pioneering has been greatly slowed down.
Last year, due to the decrease in the number of imported North Korean population, the progress of territory development was affected.The Xiu family originally wanted to replenish the population after resuming the introduction this year, but there was a religious struggle again.
From this point of view, when Qiezhidan's power is not too big now, it is urgent to contain Qiezhidan.
After talking about the basic situation, Tachihara Hisakuna was silent for a moment, looked at Xiujia and asked as if asking: "After talking about the matter of the Ezo Monastery, regarding the announcement from His Highness Kitami Kunu Kita Hidei, do you want to discuss it with His Highness later? How about you communicate alone?"
"Anything about Kita?"
Kitami country, a land covered with ice and snow for more than half of the year, can have any important things, only the Konomai gold mine.
So the Xiu family understood as soon as they heard it, Tachihara Hisakuna felt that the matter involved confidentiality, and there were too many people here.
Immediately he said to Nobushige Sanada and Nobutada Anayama who were behind him, "Take your attendants and leave, and wait outside. I have to discuss with you adults about the extremely confidential matter of Ezo, and no outsiders can come close."
In the past, the Xiu family also listened directly with Shimizu letter. After all, Hanbei had been with him for a long time and became his ironclad. The Xiu family absolutely trusted him.
But looking at the two attendants around me now, although they are very capable in handling their own affairs, one is a descendant of the Shinano Sanada family, and the other is a descendant of the Kai Takeda family, neither of which is a hard-core Hide family.
Even these two people are likely to become Hideo's important pawns in controlling Shinano and Kai in the future, and it is unnecessary and even dangerous to let them know about Kono Mai.
Therefore, the Xiu family ignored the stunned expressions of the two, and even the two closest friends were sent out by the Xiu family.
Even Akashi Jingqin originally planned to resign on his own under the signal of Osafune Sadain, because he didn't know about Konomoi before, and Osafune Sadain habitually believed that the scope of knowing the matter should be limited.
But Jingqin Akashi was finally retained by the Xiu family on his own initiative, after all he is the "God of Wealth" of Yuxi's family.The discovery and mining of the Kitami Gold Mine is related to Ukido's financial affairs, and he must participate.
After all the irrelevant people in the venue left, Tachihara Hisakuna shook his head and complained, "Your Highness, you told us to go to the upper reaches of the Yubetsu River to find gold mines, but you gave us a wrong message."
Xiujia asked with a puzzled look, "Ah? What?"
Hisakuna Tachihara said with a smile: "The Konomai Gold Mountain you mentioned is no longer in the upper reaches of the Yubetsu River, but in the upper reaches of the Nagisa River further north. As a result, His Royal Highness Ukita Hidei found a place to wash sand in the Yubetsu River." He didn't find any gold sand in the year, but it made him suffer a lot."
Xiujia scratched his head in embarrassment. After all, he was a time traveler, and he already had some thoughts about time travel. It is understandable that there are some deviations in the memory of the previous life.
But when Xiujia didn't give a clear address, Xiujia was really curious about how Xiuyi found the gold mine, so he asked Tachihara Hisakuna the question in his heart.
Hisakuna Tachihara replied, "Speaking of which, Lord Ukita was lucky. At the beginning, we transported it to him for the convenience of his gold panning, and put more than 1000 people at his disposal, most of whom were from Yamato.
Kitami was too far away from Tomakomai, so they established a settlement on the upper reaches of the Yubetsu River, relying on the valley to block the cold wind from the North Sea. "
After that, he pointed to the Engaru area upstream of Yubetsu, "Master Ukita thought that the reason for the collapse of the settlement of Yubetsu due to the cold wave was the north wind in winter, so he chose to build a settlement here.
The land here is relatively fertile, with 500~600 people as a settlement, 2 settlements were established, and the Yuanjia City was built in the middle (at the point of looking at the rock on the map).
Coincidentally, when building the city and opening up new settlements in the mountain valleys, some gold sand was found in the rivers and rivers of the Northwest Defense Line, but the amount was very scarce.
So His Royal Highness Ukita Hidei sent people to continue exploring northward along the valley, and found gold sand in another creek on the other side of the valley far beyond that far away.
Then, using this stream as a clue, we continued to explore the tribes near the Nagisa River to the north. Guess what, the weapons in their hands are much more advanced than the tribes in Tomakomai and Ishikari. They use metal spears, and the spearheads are gold. .
According to them, this metal is mined from the river, and the entire bottom of the river is full of this gold!In fact, as they said, those of us who went to explore reported that under the reflection of the sun, the entire Nagisa River was dyed golden yellow! "
Hearing Tachihara Hisakuna's description, Osafune Sadakin and Akashi Keiko expressed their amazement, "Is there such a rich country in the world?"
"Fufu?" Hearing the exclamation of the two, Tachihara Hisakuna shook his head and responded, "The local area is affected by the cold wind from the North Sea, and there is no food to grow in the ground.
The local people mostly live by fishing and hunting, or picking some pine nuts in the mountains and forests to feed their hunger. The Zhuhua tribe has survived in Beijian for hundreds of years, with a population of only a few hundred.
It is said that they exile the infirm and the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves before winter every year, so as to reduce the consumption of food in winter. "
"It's really a cruel way of survival." Hearing the customs of the Zhuhua tribe, Xiujia sighed with emotion, and then continued to ask Tachihara Hisakuna
"Since their life is difficult, how can they master the craft of practicing metal? You must know that many tribes in the southern and central areas of Ezo still use stone tools."
Hisakuna Tachihara shook his head, expressing that he was not clear about this point, "Ezodi is really a strange place. The central part has such a large area of plains, but the northern part is surrounded by high mountains. The cold wind from the North Sea is completely blocked by the influence of the high mountains. Outside, it also led to the unique climate of Kitami country.
Ukita Hidei-sama wants to farm in Kitami, but it is difficult because of the cold wave. Even after opening up settlements, she still has to transfer food from Xuanzhu City every month. This is deeply touched by Setoya Masa-sama.
Although we don't know how the Zhuhua tribe survived, and how they mastered the copper and gold technique, we quickly won their goodwill by using the food and cloth in our hands, allowing us to establish settlements in Zhuhuachuan and start gold mining . "
After all, he asked the Seto family to present a lacquered wooden square box about 20cm long and 10cm wide. After opening it, affected by the sunlight outside, the dazzling golden light reflected in the hall, which turned out to be a box of gold sand.
Seto Jiazheng: "Returning to Okayama today, the top and bottom of the Ezo Monastery and Kitami pioneer Ukita Hideto presented a box of gold sand washed in the first year of Nagisa River. I heard that His Highness is about to get married, so I just use this as a gift for the people of Ezo. A congratulatory gift for Your Highness."
Hideie came down from the imperial steps, sat in front of Seto's house, put his hand into the lacquered wooden box, grabbed a handful of gold sand and held it in his hand to feel it.
The dazzling golden light really fascinated people, causing Xiujia to show a greedy expression, even Akashi Jingqin who was behind Xiujia poked his head out in surprise.
Looking at the gold in his hand, Xiujia asked infatuatedly: "Is this box of pure gold sand? Is there 500 taels?"
The Seto family said proudly, "It is unsmelted gold sand that was washed out from the river bed, but the purity is still not low. The net weight of the gold sand in the box is 800 taels!"
"800 taels!" Xiujia said in surprise
Many people don't know the approximate amount of 800 taels. The current 500 taels is about 40kg, which is the weight of 2.5 standard reserve gold bars.
At that time, Japanese weights and measures did not agree. The unit of measurement for weight in southern Japan was two, while in the north it was "匁", a unique unit of measurement in Japan.
At that time, 1 catty was roughly equivalent to 230g now, and 800 taels converted to about 20kg of gold now.
(A standard gold brick weighs 12.5 kilograms and is about the size of an unopened Iphone plus box)
To be honest, Xiu's parents had never seen how big 20kg of gold was in their previous lives, and now that this box of gold sand was piled up in front of them, it was indeed rather shocking.
The Xiu family did not hand over the income to Akashi Jingqin, but carefully put away the lacquered wooden box, intending to put it into their own money.
Of course, after returning to his actions, Xiujia continued to ask Tachihara Hisakuna, "Is it just panning for gold in the river? Did you follow the water source defense line and search for mineral veins in the mountain?"
"The gold rush in Kitami has detonated Ezo, Ishikari, Ishikari, Hidaka and other places, there are continuous immigration applications to go to Kitami to pan for gold. Before the minister went south, there were nearly 2000 registered citizens of Kitami.
Later, Lord Ukita discovered the Liniu tribe in the upper reaches of the Nagisa River, and gold sand was also found in the upstream stream. Here, Lord Ukita built Nakajima Castle relying on the mountains and built settlements under the city.
It was only now that I discovered that the area of this golden vein is so large that the entire south of Zhuhuachuan and the north of Yongbiechuan are covered with golden veins.
It's just that the gold sand in the river has not been panned out yet, and the population of Kitami is also insufficient, so there is no spare energy to find and mine the main vein in the mountain. "
Akashi Jingqin, who heard Tachihara Hisakuna's explanation, resigned. Once such a large area of gold mines is mined, it will greatly ease the financial situation of the Yuki family, and even make the Yuki family rich from now on.
So he said, "What's the problem? If you need someone, I will transfer you from Bizen, Misaku, Bichu, etc. In short, we must speed up the progress of mining and let the Konoshimai Gold Mine start mining as soon as possible."
After that, he said in a somewhat reproachful tone, "How can you give up the golden veins that are so rich even when you wash the sand in the river bed?"
This is the first time Akashi Jingqin has lost his composure since the whole meeting. Obviously, in his eyes, the whole of Ezo is not as important as Konoshimai Gold Mine.
But Tachihara Hisakuna retorted, "I can understand Iyomori's eagerness to mine Konobu, but before enough fields have been developed in Ezo, it is meaningless for you to transfer more people.
Because of the bitter cold in Ezo, it is not enough to feed such a large population. Now Ezo has 14.2 shi of land, but there are more than 8 people in Ezo, and this is not counting the tribes that belong to us.
It is still cold in the north, and people need more food to supplement their energy. Even if they can hunt and eat meat, an adult needs 1 stone wheat noodles a year, and the more than 2.3 stone fields for planting sugar beets are planted with beets instead. It is not wheat, and from this we can see how much the food gap is.
As for Kitami, it's not suitable for farming at all.After two years of development, the reclaimed area of Tianmu is not small, Zhixing only has more than a thousand stones, and the yield per turn is less than one stone.If there is a golden vein over there, I plan to give up Kitami and retreat to the pioneering land. "
On the contrary, it is a unit of measurement square unique to Japan, and the measurement size is not consistent in various countries. Here we take the data from the time of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The length unit in Japan is very complicated. It is called a step on the ground, and the length of a person's step, which is comparable to the arm length of ancient Egypt.
The square of 1 "ping", also known as 1 "step", is about 3.30532 square meters, and 1 "anti" is about 300 pings, about 9.917 mu.On top of "fan", there is the most "cho", 1 town is equal to 10 pan, which is approximately equal to 0.99174 hectares.
Do you think it is easy to know the yield per mu after calculating the area of the land?
Don't be funny, don't you forget that I mentioned in the previous chapter that the size of the grain hoppers for weighing fields varies in different countries?
This led to huge differences in the weight of stones in various countries, which caused great difficulties in calculating the grain yield per mu during the Warring States Period in Japan.
总体来说，日本当时旱田亩产大致是1反产量0.8~1.4石，水田亩产是1.3~2.2石。
There are several reasons why the gap in paddy fields is so large. One is that most of the places where large-scale paddy fields are planted in Japan are plains, and the Chikuzen, Chikugo, Higo, Nobi, Kanto and Tohoku regions.
The paddy fields in Kyushu can be cropped twice a year due to the climate, and the paddy fields in Nobi can also be planted intermittently in paddy fields and dry fields due to climate reasons. In the Northeast, due to the cold weather, the output of paddy fields is very low, which is not much better than that of dry fields.
But in general, the yield per mu of paddy fields in Japan is definitely higher than 1, and because the areas developed in Ezo are all plains and the water source is very abundant, most of the paddy fields are developed, so it should be the same as that of Japan. paddy fields for comparison.
If so, the output of 1 inverse 1 stone is really a bit low.
(End of this chapter)