Chapter Twenty-Nine: Horse Farms and Population
When Kuroda saw that there were so many horses in the racecourse, he started the idea of forming a cavalry. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn the era of cold weapons, and even in the early days of hot weapons, cavalry was a force that could decide a victory or defeat on the battlefield. Especially in this troubled era of the Warring States, at least in the early Warring States period, iron artillery was not yet popular, and if the Kuroda family could form a cavalry of 1,000 people equipped with Jurchen horses, it would be a nightmare for almost all the daimyo in the entire Wa Kingdom.
If it was a later period, like when Oda Mashino was fighting, it would be equipped with so many iron cannons. Although with the long-range strength of the Kuroda Army, even if it is a head-on confrontation, there will be no loss, but let the cavalry go up, it is estimated that even if there are a thousand cavalry, it will not be good.
However, Kuroda Vocational High School's idea of forming a cavalry team was ruthlessly rejected by the three Ming horse breeders. The reason is that even if only 100 horses are drawn, it will affect the subsequent production of horses. After the number of thousands, the horse farm will be divided into three, and the horses will continue to recuperate, and after another year or two, it will be time to start forming cavalry.
After a brief calculation, Kuroda felt that it would take at least two years before he could start forming the Kuroda family's own cavalry unit. Kuroda Vocational High School has been in this world for more than ten years, and he can still afford to wait for the past two or three years.
It was not possible to form cavalry, but it was possible to equip individual samurai with horses.
For example, when Kodera and Miaoharu were newly married, Kuroda Vocational High School specially gave Kotera a horse called Huangsha. When Higashihata Sadataka (Inoko Hyosuke) returned home and succeeded him as the governor of the family, he gave him a war horse called the Black Dragon. In addition, the Kuroda family's generals, several high-ranking samurai, have been given war horses, and the others can only continue to wait.
The number of Ming people in the Kuroda family is still increasing, and the number has reached nearly 100,000. The land that the Kuroda family gave to the Ming people before was only 8,000 stones, and this also included the fiefs of Liming Xinyuan, Xu Weixue, and Li Sanbao. It can be said that Kuroda gave Kuroda some face at this point, but he was very stingy. After all, he is a foreigner, and Kuroda is still a little uneasy.
Although the Kuroda family did not increase the land for the Ming people, the Ming people have always been an excellent people who are hardworking and brave, and smart and willing to work. Since they are not able to get their own food through the land, or at least most of the people who come after them, they can only feed themselves beyond the existing land by various other means.
For example, some of the people of the Ming Kingdom, who were new to Harima, left the land and entered the Kuroda family's workshop area to engage in technical work. There are also some people of the Ming Kingdom, who entered the Kuroda family's various castle towns in Harima Province, and even the castle towns of China, doing various handicraft things, relying on making farm tools, striking iron, and making Ming food, to mix and eat.
Because the people of the Ming Kingdom were industrious and capable, and the things they made were indeed better quality, newer in style, and more practical than those produced by the local lords of the Kuroda family, so the castle town in the Kuroda family's territory quickly gained a certain market share and became an integral part that could not be ignored.
Because of the influx of Ming people, it will indeed cut off the financial route of some people in the original castle town, but you must know that the Kuroda family is very strict about the protection of commerce. So for the time being, there really hasn't happened, what kind of radical thing as the Iberians burning Wenzhou people's shoe city.
However, the influx of Ming people was not completely without benefits, at least to a certain extent, prompting the original owners of the Kuroda family who were engaged in handicrafts to constantly improve the quality of their products, or find ways to make new products. Only in this way can you ensure your original income when the market is divided. From this point of view, the existence of the Ming people is really a good thing.
It is precisely because of this that the Kuroda family has quietly appeared in the domain, and the signs of new inventions in the handicraft industry have been emphasized. Even Kuroda Vocational High School himself does not know about this. But no one knows what this phenomenon will cause in the end.
The number of Ming people in the Kuroda family's territory is increasing, and at the same time, the number of Japanese people in the territory is also increasing.
In the past two years, the Kuroda family has been in the collar for the past two years, and slowly began to promote it, and the (really shameless) simple hygiene and health manual jointly written by Kuroda Vocational High School and Enryakuji Honzong. Because of the Five Princes and Five People, the lives of the leaders of the Kuroda family have basically begun to improve, so the leaders have also begun to pay attention to their physical health under the explanations of the local governors, and they are naturally more interested in these little knowledge.
As a result, the natural birth rate in the Kuroda clan began to slowly rise, and with the guarantee of grain production, the number of Kuroda clan lords had reached nearly one million, and this number was increasing by 20,000 or 30,000 per year, even if the number of displaced people was not included. In the midst of the turmoil of the Warring States period, the natural growth rate of the population in the Kuroda family's domain was able to reach two percent, which was already a very remarkable number.
As for the displaced people, because and Western countries have been relatively peaceful recently, there are not many people who come to Kuroda's house, but the spies sent by various forces have been caught and killed by the Kuroda family.
If you have to talk about the large-scale population movement in the territory of the Kuroda family, it is estimated that it can only be said that those prisoners of war who were captured by the Kuroda family.
They were captured in the previous battles of the Kuroda family, and they were thrown into all kinds of heavy labor, and they made great contributions to the development of the Kuroda family's various basic undertakings. If they can survive through two years of labor, the Kuroda family has given them the status of a common person as promised, and of course there are also those who have entered the Kuroda family army and continued to serve in the army.
After they became commoners, the Kuroda family contacted their families in the original place of residence for them, and as long as they were willing to come, they would be taken to the Kuroda family and live together, so that the people who were brought to the Kuroda family were tens of thousands of people one after another. After all, the tax policy of the Kuroda family's five princes and five citizens is indeed much better than that of other daimyos, so these people are also willing to live in the Kuroda family.
Thanks to the hard work of the captives, the road system within the Kuroda family was initially established. I dare not say that every village has a connecting road, but at least the important cities of each country have been connected by wide roads.