Jaga was born in the "Koga-ryu" in the south of Omi. His original surname was Wada, and he was a lower-level samurai of the Taki family in the "Koga Twenty-one Family". The most famous figure of their clan is the Nakamura Kazushi, one of the three Toyotomi elders in the Momoyama period.
Unlike those comics and rumors of later generations, although Koga and Iga were sometimes hostile during the Warring States Period, they actually had a good relationship. These two areas have been known as the "Koi One Country" since ancient times. There are close ties between the two factions, and there are many intermarriages.
Koga's father died early, and when he was fifteen years old, he needed to establish a family. Because his mother was from the Nishimura clan of the Kishu Domain, he was adopted by his uncle as an adopted son. He was fortunate enough to enter Edo and became an "Otei Banshou".
The so-called "Oteiban" is an intelligence agency directly under the shogun's inner court established by the eighth generation shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune. Its headquarters is located in the garden of Edo Castle Honmaru. Sound familiar? The headquarters of the Qing court's "Shangyu Reserve" was also located in the Imperial Garden of the Qing Palace. It feels like there are flowers and trees, and it seems that you can listen to your subordinates' reports on the situation in a very discreet way, haha.
Because Yoshimune was born in the Kishu Domain, the earliest 17 people in the Oniteban clan were all from the Iga clan. Although there were 9 more families later, they were all from branch families of the above 17 families, so they were also called "Igamoto Hiroshiki" ".
It is said that since Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Edo period, both Iga and Koga have long lost their ninja functions. In addition, many of the "Omamisuke" who served as official inspectors of the shogunate gradually became ceremonial officers whose main job was to serve as envoys, and their inspection capabilities directly under the shogunate were merely a formality.
On the surface, the Oniwa Banshou is responsible for guarding and cleaning the Honmaru's courtyard, but in fact, they are agents directly under the Shogun who collect intelligence and monitor the feudal lords throughout the island country. When these people perform tasks, they disguise themselves in various ways, such as farmers, businessmen, ordinary citizens, etc. The only thing they don't pretend to be is the "ninja" appearance of future generations!
However, despite the fact that "Yu Ting Fan" can often see generals, they are not even the lowest-level samurai; if someone is promoted to a samurai, he has to leave this institution.
At that time, Jia He, under the orders of the shogunate, disguised his identity and tried to sneak into the group of refugees heading to Beihai Town. Unexpectedly, Beihai Town did not accept singles, so he had to go back and take his son Shinnosuke with him and board the ship to Beihai Town. His wife had passed away long ago, and his father-in-law's family was not wealthy, so the father and son had always been dependent on each other.
Later, Jiahe was assigned to Fuldan City. After experiencing the battle with the Qing army, the strength of Beihai Town really shocked him and opened his eyes. But unfortunately, the information he worked so hard to collect could not be sent out at all.
Speaking of which, Jiahe and his son are also the "matchmakers" for Liu Sheng and Wu Xiha. In the winter seven years ago, a hungry tiger somehow broke into Jiahe's yard. You should know that there are no tigers in the island country. Shinnosuke, who had never seen a tiger before, was completely unafraid and tried to drive it away loudly. If the nearby neighbors had not heard the news and came to help, the father and son almost became the tiger's dinner. After that, Liu Sheng led people into the mountains to hunt tigers, and met Wu Xiha by chance, creating a story that is still talked about in Beihai Town.
Jiahe, who was seriously injured, originally thought that the father and son must die in a foreign land. Unexpectedly, after careful treatment by Hong Tao and his wife, as well as precious tetanus serum and large doses of antibiotics, the disfigured Jiahe survived. He survived and spent half a year in the hospital recovering.
Feeling grateful for the life-saving grace, Jiahe entrusted his son Shinnosuke to a neighbor, then went to the Public Security Police Station to surrender and revealed his identity as a shogunate spy. As a result, since Jia He did not do anything to harm Beihai Town, and the information was not sent out, it was quickly released.
Two years later, Jiahe, who had already 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, the Jiahe family has left Fuldan City, and no one around the neighbors knows where they have gone.
In fact, Jiahe and about two dozen other people moved to the east bank of the Xila River and lived in several newly built small courtyards at the Northern Navy training base. Later, that area was assigned to the Northern Naval Intelligence Bureau. From then on, Jiahe began a hellishly long training. The direct reporting target of these people was Zhao Xin, and Li Ji was just a sounding board.
After two years of secret training, Jiahe was regularly sent back to the island country, traveling between Edo and Osaka, for as long as six months and as short as two or three months. His main job was to collect market intelligence. His disguised identity is that of a traveling drug dealer. You must know that in addition to being good at spying on intelligence, Koga-ryu ninjas also have an ancestral craft, which is selling medicine. In addition, he speaks with an Omi accent, so neither the Hatago boss nor the clerk will suspect it.
According to the records of "Wanchuan Jihai", the prescriptions handed down by the Koga family include "Hongke Pills", "Zhubu Drunk Medicine" and "Wind-Cold Medicine". The formula of the former is slightly modified, and it becomes a throat medicine that clears and soothes the throat; the latter two are simply seasickness medicine and cold medicine. The later "Nisshin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." located in Omi was the property of the descendants of Kokazo.
After being separated from Minoya with his companions, Jiahe returned to a habago called "Takahashiya". After getting up in the morning, while having breakfast, Jia He listened to someone in the corridor vividly describing the murder case in Meinong House last night. Like other residents around him, he exclaimed from time to time. He couldn't see any difference from the others. .
Later that day, as 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 led two guards to Li Ji's office at the Logistics Department of the North Navy.
When the boss came in person, Li Ji thought he was here to inspect the work, but he thought to himself that Xu Funan didn't say hello in advance, leaving him unprepared at all. But Zhao Xin sat in Li Ji's office for a long time without saying a word with a dark face.
Li Ji knew something was going on, but looked at the other party's face and didn't dare to ask. Just when Zhao Xin stood up and left, and was about to step out of the door, he said to Li Ji who opened the door for him: "Go and visit Pingtai's wife and children for me in a few days."
When Li Ji heard this, his heart was beating wildly, and his face suddenly turned pale. Only then did he understand why Zhao Xin came. After hesitating for a moment, Li Ji suddenly felt a chill running down his spine, and then subconsciously said: "Lord, I, I want to resign from my position here."
Zhao Xin frowned and looked at him and said, "Resign? What are you going to do?"
"I'll show you the house."
Zhao Xin sighed, patted Li Ji on the shoulder, and said: "You are also looking after my house now, don't think nonsense!"
In fact, if Heita had not gone to Minami Kyushu to spy on Hisikari Kaneyama, and even implicated Wan Zao, Zhao Xin would not have killed him; at most, he would have recalled Heita to Sendai Clan, and then escorted him back to Beihai Town and put him under house arrest.
However, Linggao is so important to the development of Beihai Town. In recent years, almost 50% of the gold has come from Linggao Jinshan. Once the Tokugawa shogunate knows the inside story, it will definitely cause an uproar, and maybe it will be a bloody storm.
You must know that Zhao Xin united with the Sendai Clan to destroy the entire Shimazu family for this mine, and even had a fight with the shogunate. Too many people died!
One day later, Cao Peng, who was having a meeting with Liu Taigong and others in the office, suddenly received a telegram signed by the Northern Navy Command. The content asked him to complete the work handover with Liu Taigong within three days and rush back to Beihai Town to report on his work. , otherwise appointed.
Cao Peng knew at a glance that it was from Zhao Xin, because the famous "Northern Navy Command" is Zhao Xin's external voice agency, and everyone in the world knows it.
Fortunately, the work of collecting and purchasing grain after the autumn harvest in Ningguta this year was coming to an end. There was nothing major going on at the moment, so he and the confused Liu Taigong and others began to handle the handover.
During the three years that Cao Peng was in Ningguta, he did not have to worry about most military matters. Although he also served as the "political commissar" of the Ningguta garrison, he mainly played a role of supervision and checks and balances. Military deployment was mainly The Northern Naval Staff is in charge. Therefore, he spent most of his energy on vigorously developing agriculture, promoting urban economy, and institutionalizing urban business management.
The land development in the Ningguta area started when the Eight Banners were stationed there. The early Eight Banners were formed in the 33rd year of Kangxi's reign. The flag land was state-owned land in the Qing Dynasty, and officers and soldiers were not allowed to buy or sell it privately. The able-bodied men under the banner farmed the flag land, and the grain they received, in addition to the rice from the warehouse, was used for the expenses of the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners. As a large number of people from the Shun, Kang and Yong generations were exiled here and became slaves of the armored men, forcing them to cultivate additional wasteland, the number of flag lands increased day by day.
According to statistics from the captured Manchu archives, when Beihai Town occupied Ningguta, the total number of Eight Banner fields was 442,434 acres; in addition, the number of private lands in the Ningguta area was 51,922 acres. Adding the above two, the total Nearly 495,000 acres.
The reason why there is such a high area of cultivated land has a lot to do with the farming methods of these years. Because the land is vast and sparsely populated, coupled with the cold climate, the relatively primitive "Fire Field Method" farming method was adopted in the early days. That is, it was impossible to sow seeds after clearing the land in the first year, and only then could it be sown again in the second year. In this way, the more the land was planted, the better it became. If the land is ripe, it can be considered fertile in the fifth year. However, in the sixth or seventh year, the land's fertility is exhausted, and then new fields are cultivated. As a result, more and more cultivated land was opened up.
Although the immigrants from the pass have brought improvements to Ningguta's agricultural production, they are relatively limited. With such a large area of arable land, simple intensive farming cannot take care of it, and it can only be practiced on some plots of land.
In addition, there are Nanma Factory, Xima Factory and Cattle Factory in the Ningguta area. In addition to providing horses for garrisoning the Eight Banners, they also have to provide cattle for the official village. Before the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the standard was to have one cow per 120 acres of land, so the farming efficiency can be imagined.
After Cao Peng took office, the first thing he did was to confiscate all the flag fields, and take back all the private fields through negotiation and coercion. The purpose was to carry out mechanized agricultural production through "agricultural cooperation" and get rid of dependence on nature and randomness. The smallholder farming model of burning wasteland.
The refugees were originally slaves and had no farmland of their own. Now that they have the right to use fifty acres of land, and they only pay 10% of the rent in taxes, they are naturally happy. Those Manchus and civilian households who owned private fields were very dissatisfied with the standards of land allocation in Beihai Town. However, due to the threat of force after the Beihai Navy's victory over the Qing army, they did not dare to resist. Some simply fled with their families to Jilin or Beihai. Duna.
However, with the Civil Affairs Bureau, more than 2,000 households of old residents were relocated from Fuldan City and Whale Town, and more than 1,000 households of immigrants from Huguang were relocated after negotiations with the Qing government in Dagukou. In this way, in addition to the original more than 1,800 households, The total number of households in Ningguta area reaches 5,000, and the population exceeds 20,000. Even if each of the five thousand households were allocated fifty acres, the total would only be 250,000 acres, which only accounts for more than half of the cultivated land area.
The civil affairs side sent a special team to Ningguta, Sanxing, Hunchun and other places to teach farmers step by step and lead farmers to build water diversion canals, use large tractors to plow deeply, apply fertilizers rationally, and add agricultural products from The high-yielding wheat seeds from another time and space achieved a yield of 400 kilograms per mu in the second year, which shocked everyone.
Later, even the Jilin and Bertuna areas under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty spread the news. Fukang'an even sent people to try to purchase wheat seeds from farmers. However, because Beihai Town engages in a "large-scale operation and large-scale facility-based agricultural production model," it has very strict control over the seed saving process. Even if those Banner families secretly save seeds, they don't know the key. They are often mostly hybrids, which are very easy to degrade.
Furthermore, wheat needs to be sprayed with phosphorus and potassium fertilizers from jointing to grain-filling stage. This thing is impossible to obtain in Manqing. Even if it is found out, what is "potassium dihydrogen phosphate"?
In addition to vigorously focusing on agriculture, Cao Peng also established a medium-sized salt farm in Hunchun in recent years, getting rid of the situation of exchanging salt from Li Dynasty since ancient times. In addition, he also established a weaving factory in Ningguta, which was jointly funded by Beihai Trading Company and Wu Zhenzhou, the owner of "Hengfeng Pawnshop".
In short, under Cao Peng's management, Ningguta has developed into the fourth largest economic town in Beihai Town in the past two years. There are more than 100 large and small merchants in the city, covering more than a dozen industries, most of which are closely related to daily life. The most common ones are pot shops and cloth shops. Some of them were founded by immigrants from other places raising funds, and there were also a few that were jointly opened by local Manchus and Manchu immigrants who invested in shares. There were two types of shares: silver shares and body shares.
Although Liu Taigong had been in Ninggu Pagoda for more than a year and was familiar with relevant government affairs, the handover between the two was not completed until the fifth day.
After learning that "Master Xiao Cao" was leaving, there was actually a crowd of thousands of people in Ningguta City to see each other off, and they even rushed to make an umbrella of thousands of people signed by the owners of various merchants overnight, which made Cao Peng both touched and dumbfounded.
A few days later, when he rushed back to Beihai Town in a hurry, Zhao Xin's first words after greeting him were: "Xiao Cao, I am going to send you to replace Liu Zheng and go to Sendai Domain for a while."
Before Cao Peng could react, Zhao Xin's other words shocked him.
"I see that you haven't solved your personal problems. Who do you like? I asked Wan Zao's wife to be a matchmaker for you. In other words, you want to be like Liu Zheng and ask the Sendai clan to give you two..."
