Chapter 30 33. The Merits and Power of Water Control

The river bank was not a place to talk, so everyone rode back to the city. The panic caused by the collapse of the boulder had subsided. All of Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's trusted ministers and prominent figures had entered the city to investigate his situation, so they were left in the city with Yamanouchi Yoshiharu.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the number of people who arrived was much more complete than usual. After all, the samurai were busy serving their duties and might not have time to enter the city for the assessment. This time, you think it was a big earthquake, right? If Yamanouchi Yoshiharu had any problems, then we must quickly make a plan to support him to prevent civil strife at home.

For example, some retired old ministers, the great priest of the shrine, the abbot of the temple, the wife of the previous lord who became a nun, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's uncle who became a nun, and the outsiders whose status was somewhat awkward. These people usually don't appear in the assessment, but now they all rushed over. Anyway, no matter what the purpose is, there are a lot of people.

Everyone arranged their seats. After all, some people of high status came, and everyone needed some adjustments. Kobayata was still kneeling at the end of the seat, which was probably a little better than being pushed out of the door.

After all the big guys sat down, Kitabatake University spoke first: "I congratulate the lord for getting another 10,000-stone high-quality rice field. I am very happy."

Yamauchi Yoshiharu asked him to explain the reason quickly: "University, please tell everyone the whole story in detail, especially the cause of the earthquake."

And Kitabatake University said: "This matter is planned and implemented by Kobayata alone. He is most familiar with it. It is best for Kobayata to talk." He waved to Kobayata and asked him to come up from the corner of the door to Yoshiharu Yamanouchi.

Kobayata hurriedly bowed his head to greet him, and then hurriedly walked from the door of the evaluation room quickly and in small steps (in order not to make a loud noise) to Yoshiharu Yamanouchi, then saluted him and sat down. After getting permission, he was full of energy and talked freely.

First, we conducted an environmental and hydrological survey to understand the existence of the boulder, the previous treatment methods, and estimate the weight of the boulder. We ruled out other methods such as hitting and smashing with iron spikes on ships or alternating between hot and cold, and artificial splitting of the stone. Finally, we decided on the tunnel deep digging and collapse method.

From mobilizing the gold diggers to conduct construction environment assessment, then on-site construction, to finally burning the tunnel to successfully sink the boulder, he told the story in a leisurely manner without any procrastination.

The important ministers and Yamauchi Yoshiharu in the hall were stunned by what they heard, but fortunately, Xiao Pingtai was not pretentious, and everyone basically understood.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu once again said: "Xiao Pingtai, you are very good, very good." Xiao Pingtai was very calm. In fact, this method is just like that, but you can't think it through. The gold diggers dug so many tunnels and water veins, but I didn't see you think divergently.

There is often a pattern in many novels, that is, the knowledge and vision of ancient people are definitely not as high as those of modern people who traveled through time. Xiao Pingtai doesn't think so. He thinks that a person's knowledge and vision are determined by the amount and authenticity of the information he obtains. If an ancient person of high enough status can access and analyze a large amount of information, he can still crush a modern time travel writer with a mentally retarded mind. It doesn't mean that people in the 21st century must have more knowledge than the ancients. The plot of urban time travel pretending to be a face-slapping cool article was actually written by someone in the Qing Dynasty. Most of them are things left over by the ancients. Some people are complacent and think that their pretending to be a face-slapping cool article is really awesome. (Qing Dynasty "Yesou Baoyan", the founder of urban pretending to be a face-slapping brainless harem stallion gold finger cool article, is much better than some of the great writers now)

Let's not talk about gossip. Although it is just a simple cave collapse and damage, it is indeed a great achievement. For a 160,000 stone daimyo, it is not difficult to increase the territory by 10,000 stones, but it requires fighting hard on the battlefield. Kobayata spent almost no money (why would straw cost? The wood was cut from the mountain, and it was all from the forest owned by Yamanouchi Yoshiharu. Who dared to collect the money? The gold diggers and water stock holders just provided meals) and did not initiate large-scale general employment, but he easily enabled the family to develop 10,000 koku of paddy fields. Kobayata deserves the title of a contemporary magistrate.

With this merit, Kobayata was promoted to the yoroki of Kitabatake University (theoretically, this position was fixed as a samurai service in the Edo period, below the team leader and above the conscientious, but I don't want to learn from the brainless and mentally retarded novels of Xiaobai, where today he is the general of the foot and tomorrow he is the general of the samurai, and Kobayata is still just an ordinary samurai), and his salary was promoted to 30 kanwen plus four people's support rice, and he was rewarded with 30 kanwen and 5 taels of silk and cloth.

As for the actual division of paddy fields, the establishment of new villages, the setting of canal gates, whether to plant beans or wheat first this year, etc., it was up to Kitabatake University to handle it.

Although Kobayata is not the kind of person who can't tell the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks, no matter how good the theoretical knowledge is, it must be combined with practice. It is better not to interrupt such specific farm work.

Yamanouchi Yoshiharu and a group of important officials were obviously in a good mood and ended the meeting with laughter. Kobayata met with his uncle Tsunayoshi and asked him to take leave and go to the warehouse in the city with him to receive the reward. After all, Kobayata could not move 120 kilograms of copper coins by himself. He also brought Aji into the city and asked him to carry the silk cloth.

After returning home, the three aunts were surprised and happy. It was only five months this year, and he was rewarded for counterfeiting coins. Tsunayoshi contacted Kyoto and got another reward. Kobayata was promoted and rewarded for flood control today. The Zixiaoji family almost never received rewards every month, which was second to none among the nearby samurai families.

As for the money, Kobayata didn't keep it, but spent it at home. The three aunts also said that they would definitely help him find a good match from the samurai family nearby, after all, there were not many samurai who could make so much money.

As for the silk cloth, the whole family made new clothes, which made the aunts even happier. But they couldn't make new clothes during the festival, so wouldn't they be happy?

When dinner was over, Tsunayoshi sat in the house. The women knew that they had to discuss matters with Kobayata. So they all left consciously, and they also needed to consider the styles of their new clothes.

And Tsunayoshi told Kobayata that after the summer harvest, it was very likely that they would have to face the invasion of the Imagawa clan of Suruga Province. That was a powerful daimyo with a territory of more than 400,000 stones. Yamanouchi Yoshiharu had already sent people to the capital to seek mediation from the shogun.

But the hope was slim, so they had to be ready to go into battle at any time.

To be continued. (Warring States period wars are the mainstream, but I generally don’t write a lot of positive descriptions of wars here. Firstly, my level is very low, and secondly, I think a person who can’t even be a modern squad leader can’t be a general even if he travels through time.)

It’s confirmed that I will update on Tuesday or Friday next week. I will do what I say. I have more than 130,000 manuscripts in stock, which is very stable.