Chapter 416
Completion of Okayama
Chapter 416 Completion of Okayama
Not long after the banquet at Juledi ended, even before the daimyos had dispersed, there was a gossip that came out from nowhere that Hideyoshi was very angry at the Hojo family's repeated failures.
There is even news that Guanbai Hideyoshi called the daimyos this time to plan the conquest of Kanto in the coming year.
Hideka, who is active at the top of Japan's political ecosystem and is the core member of Toyotomi's system, doesn't know that Hideyoshi plans to launch a military campaign against the Kanto region. Did these ordinary people get the news?
Naturally, the Xiu family would not believe that some commoner overheard the news through the relationship that the nephews and nieces of the three aunts and the eight aunts were working as maids in Juledi.
Although there are often rumors among the people that "Osaka and Kyoto have no secrets." But this is relative. If those in power really want to control the scope of secrets, there are ten thousand ways. You can see that Hideka cut off his finger in Osaka Castle. Hasn't it come out yet?
Therefore, it is very likely that this incident was deliberately spread by Hideyoshi, intending to use folk gossip to spread the information to Odawara, and has achieved the goal of defeating others without fighting.
In fact, Hideyoshi's performance was rather clumsy. Not long after the news spread, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had not returned to Junfu, ordered someone to send a letter of guarantee to the Hojo clan.
In the letter, he vouched for the Hojo family. The Hojo father and son only wanted to preserve the territory. If anyone said that they had the heart to defy Guan Bai, it must be slander.
And promised that he would reconcile it, and let the Hojo family send a brother-in-law to Shangluo, and personally explain the reason to Hideyoshi (in fact, they are hostages.)
He also promised that if the Hojo family refused to submit to the Toyotomi family, then Tokugawa Ieyasu would let Du Ji and the Hojo clan reconcile and separate, and dissolve the alliance with the Hojo clan.
Although this last one is said to threaten the Hojo family, it looks like the old tortoise is leaving a way for himself.
I spent a lot of space to guarantee the Hojo clan, but in the end, I changed the subject and tried my best to alienate the Hojo clan.
It's like saying "Hojo, I will help you Guanbai to try my best to say it, but if the Hojo clan is not on the road, I must oppose you. This has nothing to do with me, Tokugawa Ieyasu."
Not long after this letter arrived in Kyoto, news came from Junfu that the Hojo Clan decided to send his younger brother Hojo Clan to Shangluo to present his feelings to Kanbai Hideyoshi.
Toyotomi Hideji was also appreciated by everyone from Hideyoshi because of his ability to organize the Juraku banquet, and gave Toyotomi Hideji the rest of the Echizen Kingdom’s Tibetan territory, making Hideji the 40 koku daimyo of Echizen Kita Village. (25→40)
Hideka had long expected that Hideyoshi would leave 10 koku in Echizen when he awarded the reward. It is very likely that Hideyoshi temporarily kept it for him because of his meritless work. He would be rewarded to him one by one in the next few years. .
But the Xiu family did not expect that the reward would come so quickly. After only half a year, Toyotomi Hideji went from 23 koku daimyo to 40 koku lord.
As mentioned earlier, Hideyoshi originally planned to seal Horio Yoshiharu in Echizen, but because Toyotomi Hideji was dissatisfied with the reward of 6.6 koku in Chikugo, Hideyoshi withdrew the transfer right, and still had 1 koku in Hanoi.
And Horio Yoshiharu transferred from 6 koku in Echizen Fuchu to 6.6 koku after the feudal period. Therefore, Hideyoshi’s Echizen possession area expanded to 16 koku.
Of course, these are funeral affairs, and Xiujia returned to Okayama after a long absence after the Jule feast in April.
The Xiu family really couldn't afford it anymore. In March and April, Okayama sent letters one after another. Nan Ji and Fujihime successively left a male and a daughter for the Xiu family.
According to common sense, the Xiu family should have gone back to see their children, and condolences to the concubine who added children to the Toyotomi family, but now it has been delayed for another month because of the matter of Ju Le Di, and the child's name will not be obtained after the delay.
But the fact is just as Hideka had expected before, what might happen in Shangluo is really hard to predict. When I returned to Okayama, Ukita Tadaka's Seto family and others had already set off for Ezo, and Hideka didn't even have time to come back to send them off departure.
But fortunately, before they set off, the Xiu family had already arranged all the things to be arranged. With Ukita Tadashi's governor, Ezo, I believe that Ezo would be able to develop according to the Hide family's ideas.
When Xiujia returned to Bizen along Sanyo Avenue and passed Okayama, a huge castle tower on the top of Mount Cao had already stood there, and a small three-story tower on the side of Bizen on the east side of Okayama was basically completed. Facts have proved that Xiujia's request to rush to work before departure is correct.
Kikuhime was born in 1575 and has just turned 13 years old. Under the protection of her father Hidecho and uncle Hideyoshi, Kikuhime has never traveled far.
Of course, this is also the first time she has come to Bizen Okayama, and she didn't have the slightest understanding of this territory before.
It was only when he knew that he was going to marry an elder brother who was sealed in Bizen that he heard from the maids that his elder brother was a daimyo with outstanding ability and wealth.
When the sedan chair passed under the Okayama city, even the Xiu family was amazed by the abilities of ordinary people in this era, let alone Ju Ji who came from Kyoto.
Before that, he had only seen such a magnificent city in Osaka Castle, but he never expected to see a castle comparable to it in Bizen, the Western Country today.
Of course, due to the fact that Okayama Castle takes advantage of the mountain, it is taller than Osaka, which rises from the ground, looks more majestic, and actually has a better momentum.
From the appearance of the Xiu family, the main building of Okayama Castle has actually been basically completed, and may have reached the standard for occupancy, but such an important matter requires the owner of the Xiu family to make a decision, so at this moment, the head of the Yuxi family The castle is still Ishiyama Castle on the west bank of Asahikawa.
In stark contrast to the luxurious and majestic Okayama Castle is the chaotic castle town and the slightly dilapidated Ishiyama Castle on the other side of the Asahikawa River.
Under the operation of Osafune Sadakin, two wooden bridges and a stone bridge have been built on Asahikawa.
The fact is just like what the Hide family said when they asked Osafune Sadakin to be responsible for the construction. These bridges have greatly facilitated the merchants traveling from west to east, and have also made Okayama Town more vibrant.
In this era, most of the samurai masters only think about themselves, and it is their duty to pay taxes to the common people. How can there be a patriarch like the Xiangxiu family who wants to build a bridge for them to facilitate communication?
This is just a small move. In the past few years, the Xiu family has been repairing the Shanyang Avenue, as well as the roads connecting Meizuo, Hoki and other countries. Although it is only a cheap way of using rammed earth and sand and gravel, it still makes the common people It is more convenient to travel.
Although the above-mentioned things are just trivial things, they have accumulated little by little and left a good image in the hearts of the people of the Jibei countries. Everyone praises the virtues of the family.
Over time, Okayama Town has formed a siphon effect, attracting business travelers and handicraftsmen from surrounding countries and other countries, forming a huge town second only to Sakai Town.
However, the development of castle towns in this era was mostly developed from the gathering of local residents, and the lord played only a small role in it.
After the loss of unified planning and effective management, Okayama Castle Town has become more prosperous after several years of development, but it is like a shanty town in the old city, which not only affects the appearance but also poses great safety hazards.
The changes in Okayama Town were noticed by Hideka. He realized that it was time to re-plan Okayama Town. Motohara’s Okayama Town was unable to manage the now huge Okayama Town.
Hideka’s plan is to split the original Okayama-cho north and south magistrates into four people, namely, Okayama Nishi-cho magistrate in charge of the west bank of Asahikawa; Okayama Kita-machi magistrate in charge of Okayama Castle and on both sides of Sanyo Avenue; Okayama Minami in charge of Okayama Jonan and the Okayama Castle, next to the main gate of Okayama Castle, the original scope of Okayama Town, located on the east bank of Asahikawa in Okayama East Town.
Kitamachi will be a handicraft area, and most of the conventional handicraft workshops will be relocated here, while Uki's many arms and specialty workshops will still be located in Oku County.
Kitamachi relies on Sanyo Avenue, and there is an endless stream of merchants traveling from east to west, and taking into account the convenience of the Baijian River water conservancy, it is the best place to develop handicrafts, and the products sold here are mainly local products.
Nanmachi will rely on Okayama Port to develop Port Town, and all commodities from foreign trade will be sold here. Xiujia also plans to designate specific areas for Mingshang, Nanban, North Korea, and other Japanese products to facilitate the collection and trade of commodities. .
The east and west towns will become the main residences of the townspeople. The east town near Okayama town is the most expensive, and the west town will be located on both sides of Ishiyama Castle. After the Hide family moves to Okayama, it will become a settlement for common people.
Xiujia’s planning is very good, but there is too much movement. This job is not like ordinary city building. Just hire someone. The wood and stone materials that need to be spent are several times that of Okayama City Construction. With the current economic strength of Ushido, the construction of Okayama City City is completed. It was difficult to achieve before.
Therefore, as soon as Xiu's proposal was put forward at the joint meeting of the elders, Akashi Jingqin rejected it on the grounds that he had no money.
But Osafune Sadakin is still very talkative. He plans to develop a new urban area in Nanding first, on the grounds that Nanding is relatively barren and it is more convenient to build.
After the construction of each workshop in Nancho is completed, all the foreign merchants scattered in the east, west and north towns will be moved to Nancho, and then the east and west towns will be revised one by one.
Since there are already large-scale buildings in the East and West North Towns, the issue of demolition cannot be avoided if the city is to be built according to Xiujia's plan.
The issue of compensation is easy to say. In this era, all land is owned by the owner, and there is no so-called sacred and inviolable private property.
The owner of the name gave you a piece of land to let you build the house on the land of the lord. You only received a one-time extra money, and there was no tax other than that.
In other words, the ownership of this piece of land is always owned by the owner, and you spend money only to own the ownership of the buildings on the land. (Similar to my country's land system after the founding of the People's Republic of China.)
If the lord has needs such as expanding the city, he only needs to push you the original other building money to shovel your house. As for the original building expenses and the interior furniture expenses of the house, there is no compensation.
From this point of view, this unused money is more like the deposit you put on the lord when you built the house, or a deposit that can make the lord unilaterally break the contract.
The Biedong money system is also one of the reasons why Japan still has a lot of wooden houses when the Ming Dynasty and North Korea used rammed earth to build stone houses, because no one knows whether their houses will be shoveled by their lords that day. up.
Wooden houses are very easy to cause fires. Once a fire breaks out, a large area of houses will be burned instantly, making the common people even more impoverished. In order to seek benefits and avoid disadvantages, ordinary people are even more reluctant to spend high prices on building stone houses. The vicious circle remains.
With regard to the Biedong money system, the Xiu family has no ability and does not want to change it. After all, paying them indemnities is equivalent to acknowledging their ownership of the land where the house is located, which is not good for the Xiu family's rule.
But the human heart is fleshy after all, and a small-scale relocation is fine. For such a large-scale relocation, the lord needs to provide temporary housing outside, and this part of the money will be a huge expense.
Of course, you can also not provide this part, and let these evicted citizens find a way to find refuge on their own. This will not only affect the development of Okayama Town, but will also tarnish the reputation of the Hide family, yes Xiujia tried his best to avoid it.
In other words, only Nanding, which is relatively empty and undeveloped, can be developed at a very low cost. After all, as the owner of this land, Xiujia only needs to make a plan to delineate the size of the land on the plot, and let the merchants After paying a sum of money for the other building, the construction work is fully in charge of the owner himself, and the Xiu family does not need to invest additional funds to build the house for them.
Of course, the merchants gathered in Okayama Town have already had their own sphere of influence around Dongxibei Town, and they all have their own shops. Now if they are asked to spend an extra sum of money to build new shops in other places, it is inevitable that some people will not agree. Agree, this requires Akashi Jing's kindness and power.
And after they moved, their original land could be recovered by Xiu's family, and the buildings should be built according to the original plan.
The land of Nanmachi must be larger than the area of land they originally built in Dongxibeimachi, and at the beginning of the planning, Tianzifang and Tianzi plots were drawn according to the way of Kyoto streets, so as to avoid the occurrence of the original castle towns. street.
In order to encourage small and large merchants to relocate, Xiujia made a special case to allow them to relocate to a larger area of land without paying extra money for other buildings, and allowed them to build their own houses nearby.
At the same time, Xiujia encourages them to replace their wooden houses with three-soil plywood houses or stone houses. If they are willing to build houses in these two ways, Xiujia will give them a certain amount of financial subsidies.
This part of the subsidy is for them to purchase the mountain rocks and lime that Yuxijia collected from China and the United States. It can also be regarded as a disguised form to stimulate the economy in the mountains.
The re-planning of Okayama Town was an impromptu idea of the Xiu family on the way back. After assigning the task, they heard the elders report the backlog of things left in Okayama in the past half a year.
Other matters are easy to solve, only the matter of moving to Okayama needs to wait until Xiu's family comes back, this is a matter that the elders of the family will never dare to do on their behalf.
Xiujia first asked Changshu Zhengjia and Yingwa Jiuhu, who were in charge of building the city, how the construction progress was.
The two replied, "The main buildings on the upper and lower sides of Caoshan Castle have been basically completed, and only the land leveling and expansion of Sannomaru are still under construction.
The Higashimaru Honmaru above Okayama, including the small castle, has been completed, and His Royal Highness and all his wives can live in the castle. The leveling and building of the Nijimaru are in progress.
Regarding the stone bridge between Caoshan and Okayama, it is still under construction. In order to make it easier for His Royal Highness to travel, we temporarily pulled a suspension bridge between Caoshan Honmaru and Higashimaru Honmaru for walking.
If His Highness and the wives feel uncomfortable, they can temporarily go up to the city from the mountain, but they need to make a big circle.
The construction of Kasai Mountain Castle on the east side has been suspended, and it is expected to start around the end of this year after the construction of Caoshan and Okayama Castles is basically completed, as an important part of Okayama's defense.
In addition, the construction of the two north-south buildings between Higashimaru and Caoshan has not yet started, and the excavation of Mizubori outside the Sannomaru has not yet started.
Since His Royal Highness intends to reorganize Okayama Town, we can wait until the main building in Okayama is completed, then rectify the facts of Okayama Town, and then plan and excavate Okayama Castle Mizubori. "
After the two reports were completed, Osafune Sadaaki did not forget to help and said, "Generally speaking, the construction work of Okayama Castle is in line with expectations, and because of the large-scale general request a while ago, the construction period has been greatly accelerated.
Now that it's time for spring plowing, I dared to let Du Hui's family, who participated in the general invitation, go to implement the plowing, so the pace of city building has slowed down in the past two months, and please punish him. "
"Cultivation is the most important thing for the country, and Misaku Shou handled it very well, so what can I criticize?" The Xiu family comforted Chang Changchuan's Zhenqin.
Immediately confirm with Akashi Jingqin whether there is enough money to reward this winter general invitation, Akashi Jingqin replied to Xiujia, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the business that Mr. Seto brought from the North Country has been resold to Mingshang. The financial pressure has been greatly eased, and the relevant rewards have been paid out in full."
Since ancient times, what the lords have been most afraid of is civil uprisings. The Xiu family still summoned the civilians to build the city even though they had overdue their military service. The common people would inevitably complain.
This is also the reason why the Xiu family cares about this bounty. If a certain amount of money compensation is given to the people, it may alleviate their grievances, and it can be regarded as making up for the guilt of the Xiu family.
After confirming with them that everything has been handled properly, the Xiu family made a decision to officially move to Okayama Castle on the [-]rd of May, and asked Osafuna Sadakin and Ukita Kane to be responsible for the ceremony at that time.
You must know that Okayama Castle has not been completed in the strict sense of the matter, and the outer wall of the city has not even been completed, but Rome was not completed in a day. Osaka Castle was still building Sannomaru until the early stage of the Battle of Sekigahara, but Hideyoshi had already moved in. live.
It is also impossible to wait for the Okayama Castle of the Xiu family to move in after it is completed, because the scale of the current city construction is very different from the past, and it often takes all the power of the whole country to build a city, but the lords are naturally not so Wait slowly beforehand.
However, even though Okayama City has not been completed yet, the Xiu family still let the elders preside over the moving ceremony, and it is even more important to do it in a splendid manner, so that the whole world can see the strength of the family.
(End of this chapter)
Not long after the banquet at Juledi ended, even before the daimyos had dispersed, there was a gossip that came out from nowhere that Hideyoshi was very angry at the Hojo family's repeated failures.
There is even news that Guanbai Hideyoshi called the daimyos this time to plan the conquest of Kanto in the coming year.
Hideka, who is active at the top of Japan's political ecosystem and is the core member of Toyotomi's system, doesn't know that Hideyoshi plans to launch a military campaign against the Kanto region. Did these ordinary people get the news?
Naturally, the Xiu family would not believe that some commoner overheard the news through the relationship that the nephews and nieces of the three aunts and the eight aunts were working as maids in Juledi.
Although there are often rumors among the people that "Osaka and Kyoto have no secrets." But this is relative. If those in power really want to control the scope of secrets, there are ten thousand ways. You can see that Hideka cut off his finger in Osaka Castle. Hasn't it come out yet?
Therefore, it is very likely that this incident was deliberately spread by Hideyoshi, intending to use folk gossip to spread the information to Odawara, and has achieved the goal of defeating others without fighting.
In fact, Hideyoshi's performance was rather clumsy. Not long after the news spread, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had not returned to Junfu, ordered someone to send a letter of guarantee to the Hojo clan.
In the letter, he vouched for the Hojo family. The Hojo father and son only wanted to preserve the territory. If anyone said that they had the heart to defy Guan Bai, it must be slander.
And promised that he would reconcile it, and let the Hojo family send a brother-in-law to Shangluo, and personally explain the reason to Hideyoshi (in fact, they are hostages.)
He also promised that if the Hojo family refused to submit to the Toyotomi family, then Tokugawa Ieyasu would let Du Ji and the Hojo clan reconcile and separate, and dissolve the alliance with the Hojo clan.
Although this last one is said to threaten the Hojo family, it looks like the old tortoise is leaving a way for himself.
I spent a lot of space to guarantee the Hojo clan, but in the end, I changed the subject and tried my best to alienate the Hojo clan.
It's like saying "Hojo, I will help you Guanbai to try my best to say it, but if the Hojo clan is not on the road, I must oppose you. This has nothing to do with me, Tokugawa Ieyasu."
Not long after this letter arrived in Kyoto, news came from Junfu that the Hojo Clan decided to send his younger brother Hojo Clan to Shangluo to present his feelings to Kanbai Hideyoshi.
Toyotomi Hideji was also appreciated by everyone from Hideyoshi because of his ability to organize the Juraku banquet, and gave Toyotomi Hideji the rest of the Echizen Kingdom’s Tibetan territory, making Hideji the 40 koku daimyo of Echizen Kita Village. (25→40)
Hideka had long expected that Hideyoshi would leave 10 koku in Echizen when he awarded the reward. It is very likely that Hideyoshi temporarily kept it for him because of his meritless work. He would be rewarded to him one by one in the next few years. .
But the Xiu family did not expect that the reward would come so quickly. After only half a year, Toyotomi Hideji went from 23 koku daimyo to 40 koku lord.
As mentioned earlier, Hideyoshi originally planned to seal Horio Yoshiharu in Echizen, but because Toyotomi Hideji was dissatisfied with the reward of 6.6 koku in Chikugo, Hideyoshi withdrew the transfer right, and still had 1 koku in Hanoi.
And Horio Yoshiharu transferred from 6 koku in Echizen Fuchu to 6.6 koku after the feudal period. Therefore, Hideyoshi’s Echizen possession area expanded to 16 koku.
Of course, these are funeral affairs, and Xiujia returned to Okayama after a long absence after the Jule feast in April.
The Xiu family really couldn't afford it anymore. In March and April, Okayama sent letters one after another. Nan Ji and Fujihime successively left a male and a daughter for the Xiu family.
According to common sense, the Xiu family should have gone back to see their children, and condolences to the concubine who added children to the Toyotomi family, but now it has been delayed for another month because of the matter of Ju Le Di, and the child's name will not be obtained after the delay.
But the fact is just as Hideka had expected before, what might happen in Shangluo is really hard to predict. When I returned to Okayama, Ukita Tadaka's Seto family and others had already set off for Ezo, and Hideka didn't even have time to come back to send them off departure.
But fortunately, before they set off, the Xiu family had already arranged all the things to be arranged. With Ukita Tadashi's governor, Ezo, I believe that Ezo would be able to develop according to the Hide family's ideas.
When Xiujia returned to Bizen along Sanyo Avenue and passed Okayama, a huge castle tower on the top of Mount Cao had already stood there, and a small three-story tower on the side of Bizen on the east side of Okayama was basically completed. Facts have proved that Xiujia's request to rush to work before departure is correct.
Kikuhime was born in 1575 and has just turned 13 years old. Under the protection of her father Hidecho and uncle Hideyoshi, Kikuhime has never traveled far.
Of course, this is also the first time she has come to Bizen Okayama, and she didn't have the slightest understanding of this territory before.
It was only when he knew that he was going to marry an elder brother who was sealed in Bizen that he heard from the maids that his elder brother was a daimyo with outstanding ability and wealth.
When the sedan chair passed under the Okayama city, even the Xiu family was amazed by the abilities of ordinary people in this era, let alone Ju Ji who came from Kyoto.
Before that, he had only seen such a magnificent city in Osaka Castle, but he never expected to see a castle comparable to it in Bizen, the Western Country today.
Of course, due to the fact that Okayama Castle takes advantage of the mountain, it is taller than Osaka, which rises from the ground, looks more majestic, and actually has a better momentum.
From the appearance of the Xiu family, the main building of Okayama Castle has actually been basically completed, and may have reached the standard for occupancy, but such an important matter requires the owner of the Xiu family to make a decision, so at this moment, the head of the Yuxi family The castle is still Ishiyama Castle on the west bank of Asahikawa.
In stark contrast to the luxurious and majestic Okayama Castle is the chaotic castle town and the slightly dilapidated Ishiyama Castle on the other side of the Asahikawa River.
Under the operation of Osafune Sadakin, two wooden bridges and a stone bridge have been built on Asahikawa.
The fact is just like what the Hide family said when they asked Osafune Sadakin to be responsible for the construction. These bridges have greatly facilitated the merchants traveling from west to east, and have also made Okayama Town more vibrant.
In this era, most of the samurai masters only think about themselves, and it is their duty to pay taxes to the common people. How can there be a patriarch like the Xiangxiu family who wants to build a bridge for them to facilitate communication?
This is just a small move. In the past few years, the Xiu family has been repairing the Shanyang Avenue, as well as the roads connecting Meizuo, Hoki and other countries. Although it is only a cheap way of using rammed earth and sand and gravel, it still makes the common people It is more convenient to travel.
Although the above-mentioned things are just trivial things, they have accumulated little by little and left a good image in the hearts of the people of the Jibei countries. Everyone praises the virtues of the family.
Over time, Okayama Town has formed a siphon effect, attracting business travelers and handicraftsmen from surrounding countries and other countries, forming a huge town second only to Sakai Town.
However, the development of castle towns in this era was mostly developed from the gathering of local residents, and the lord played only a small role in it.
After the loss of unified planning and effective management, Okayama Castle Town has become more prosperous after several years of development, but it is like a shanty town in the old city, which not only affects the appearance but also poses great safety hazards.
The changes in Okayama Town were noticed by Hideka. He realized that it was time to re-plan Okayama Town. Motohara’s Okayama Town was unable to manage the now huge Okayama Town.
Hideka’s plan is to split the original Okayama-cho north and south magistrates into four people, namely, Okayama Nishi-cho magistrate in charge of the west bank of Asahikawa; Okayama Kita-machi magistrate in charge of Okayama Castle and on both sides of Sanyo Avenue; Okayama Minami in charge of Okayama Jonan and the Okayama Castle, next to the main gate of Okayama Castle, the original scope of Okayama Town, located on the east bank of Asahikawa in Okayama East Town.
Kitamachi will be a handicraft area, and most of the conventional handicraft workshops will be relocated here, while Uki's many arms and specialty workshops will still be located in Oku County.
Kitamachi relies on Sanyo Avenue, and there is an endless stream of merchants traveling from east to west, and taking into account the convenience of the Baijian River water conservancy, it is the best place to develop handicrafts, and the products sold here are mainly local products.
Nanmachi will rely on Okayama Port to develop Port Town, and all commodities from foreign trade will be sold here. Xiujia also plans to designate specific areas for Mingshang, Nanban, North Korea, and other Japanese products to facilitate the collection and trade of commodities. .
The east and west towns will become the main residences of the townspeople. The east town near Okayama town is the most expensive, and the west town will be located on both sides of Ishiyama Castle. After the Hide family moves to Okayama, it will become a settlement for common people.
Xiujia’s planning is very good, but there is too much movement. This job is not like ordinary city building. Just hire someone. The wood and stone materials that need to be spent are several times that of Okayama City Construction. With the current economic strength of Ushido, the construction of Okayama City City is completed. It was difficult to achieve before.
Therefore, as soon as Xiu's proposal was put forward at the joint meeting of the elders, Akashi Jingqin rejected it on the grounds that he had no money.
But Osafune Sadakin is still very talkative. He plans to develop a new urban area in Nanding first, on the grounds that Nanding is relatively barren and it is more convenient to build.
After the construction of each workshop in Nancho is completed, all the foreign merchants scattered in the east, west and north towns will be moved to Nancho, and then the east and west towns will be revised one by one.
Since there are already large-scale buildings in the East and West North Towns, the issue of demolition cannot be avoided if the city is to be built according to Xiujia's plan.
The issue of compensation is easy to say. In this era, all land is owned by the owner, and there is no so-called sacred and inviolable private property.
The owner of the name gave you a piece of land to let you build the house on the land of the lord. You only received a one-time extra money, and there was no tax other than that.
In other words, the ownership of this piece of land is always owned by the owner, and you spend money only to own the ownership of the buildings on the land. (Similar to my country's land system after the founding of the People's Republic of China.)
If the lord has needs such as expanding the city, he only needs to push you the original other building money to shovel your house. As for the original building expenses and the interior furniture expenses of the house, there is no compensation.
From this point of view, this unused money is more like the deposit you put on the lord when you built the house, or a deposit that can make the lord unilaterally break the contract.
The Biedong money system is also one of the reasons why Japan still has a lot of wooden houses when the Ming Dynasty and North Korea used rammed earth to build stone houses, because no one knows whether their houses will be shoveled by their lords that day. up.
Wooden houses are very easy to cause fires. Once a fire breaks out, a large area of houses will be burned instantly, making the common people even more impoverished. In order to seek benefits and avoid disadvantages, ordinary people are even more reluctant to spend high prices on building stone houses. The vicious circle remains.
With regard to the Biedong money system, the Xiu family has no ability and does not want to change it. After all, paying them indemnities is equivalent to acknowledging their ownership of the land where the house is located, which is not good for the Xiu family's rule.
But the human heart is fleshy after all, and a small-scale relocation is fine. For such a large-scale relocation, the lord needs to provide temporary housing outside, and this part of the money will be a huge expense.
Of course, you can also not provide this part, and let these evicted citizens find a way to find refuge on their own. This will not only affect the development of Okayama Town, but will also tarnish the reputation of the Hide family, yes Xiujia tried his best to avoid it.
In other words, only Nanding, which is relatively empty and undeveloped, can be developed at a very low cost. After all, as the owner of this land, Xiujia only needs to make a plan to delineate the size of the land on the plot, and let the merchants After paying a sum of money for the other building, the construction work is fully in charge of the owner himself, and the Xiu family does not need to invest additional funds to build the house for them.
Of course, the merchants gathered in Okayama Town have already had their own sphere of influence around Dongxibei Town, and they all have their own shops. Now if they are asked to spend an extra sum of money to build new shops in other places, it is inevitable that some people will not agree. Agree, this requires Akashi Jing's kindness and power.
And after they moved, their original land could be recovered by Xiu's family, and the buildings should be built according to the original plan.
The land of Nanmachi must be larger than the area of land they originally built in Dongxibeimachi, and at the beginning of the planning, Tianzifang and Tianzi plots were drawn according to the way of Kyoto streets, so as to avoid the occurrence of the original castle towns. street.
In order to encourage small and large merchants to relocate, Xiujia made a special case to allow them to relocate to a larger area of land without paying extra money for other buildings, and allowed them to build their own houses nearby.
At the same time, Xiujia encourages them to replace their wooden houses with three-soil plywood houses or stone houses. If they are willing to build houses in these two ways, Xiujia will give them a certain amount of financial subsidies.
This part of the subsidy is for them to purchase the mountain rocks and lime that Yuxijia collected from China and the United States. It can also be regarded as a disguised form to stimulate the economy in the mountains.
The re-planning of Okayama Town was an impromptu idea of the Xiu family on the way back. After assigning the task, they heard the elders report the backlog of things left in Okayama in the past half a year.
Other matters are easy to solve, only the matter of moving to Okayama needs to wait until Xiu's family comes back, this is a matter that the elders of the family will never dare to do on their behalf.
Xiujia first asked Changshu Zhengjia and Yingwa Jiuhu, who were in charge of building the city, how the construction progress was.
The two replied, "The main buildings on the upper and lower sides of Caoshan Castle have been basically completed, and only the land leveling and expansion of Sannomaru are still under construction.
The Higashimaru Honmaru above Okayama, including the small castle, has been completed, and His Royal Highness and all his wives can live in the castle. The leveling and building of the Nijimaru are in progress.
Regarding the stone bridge between Caoshan and Okayama, it is still under construction. In order to make it easier for His Royal Highness to travel, we temporarily pulled a suspension bridge between Caoshan Honmaru and Higashimaru Honmaru for walking.
If His Highness and the wives feel uncomfortable, they can temporarily go up to the city from the mountain, but they need to make a big circle.
The construction of Kasai Mountain Castle on the east side has been suspended, and it is expected to start around the end of this year after the construction of Caoshan and Okayama Castles is basically completed, as an important part of Okayama's defense.
In addition, the construction of the two north-south buildings between Higashimaru and Caoshan has not yet started, and the excavation of Mizubori outside the Sannomaru has not yet started.
Since His Royal Highness intends to reorganize Okayama Town, we can wait until the main building in Okayama is completed, then rectify the facts of Okayama Town, and then plan and excavate Okayama Castle Mizubori. "
After the two reports were completed, Osafune Sadaaki did not forget to help and said, "Generally speaking, the construction work of Okayama Castle is in line with expectations, and because of the large-scale general request a while ago, the construction period has been greatly accelerated.
Now that it's time for spring plowing, I dared to let Du Hui's family, who participated in the general invitation, go to implement the plowing, so the pace of city building has slowed down in the past two months, and please punish him. "
"Cultivation is the most important thing for the country, and Misaku Shou handled it very well, so what can I criticize?" The Xiu family comforted Chang Changchuan's Zhenqin.
Immediately confirm with Akashi Jingqin whether there is enough money to reward this winter general invitation, Akashi Jingqin replied to Xiujia, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the business that Mr. Seto brought from the North Country has been resold to Mingshang. The financial pressure has been greatly eased, and the relevant rewards have been paid out in full."
Since ancient times, what the lords have been most afraid of is civil uprisings. The Xiu family still summoned the civilians to build the city even though they had overdue their military service. The common people would inevitably complain.
This is also the reason why the Xiu family cares about this bounty. If a certain amount of money compensation is given to the people, it may alleviate their grievances, and it can be regarded as making up for the guilt of the Xiu family.
After confirming with them that everything has been handled properly, the Xiu family made a decision to officially move to Okayama Castle on the [-]rd of May, and asked Osafuna Sadakin and Ukita Kane to be responsible for the ceremony at that time.
You must know that Okayama Castle has not been completed in the strict sense of the matter, and the outer wall of the city has not even been completed, but Rome was not completed in a day. Osaka Castle was still building Sannomaru until the early stage of the Battle of Sekigahara, but Hideyoshi had already moved in. live.
It is also impossible to wait for the Okayama Castle of the Xiu family to move in after it is completed, because the scale of the current city construction is very different from the past, and it often takes all the power of the whole country to build a city, but the lords are naturally not so Wait slowly beforehand.
However, even though Okayama City has not been completed yet, the Xiu family still let the elders preside over the moving ceremony, and it is even more important to do it in a splendid manner, so that the whole world can see the strength of the family.
(End of this chapter)