Edo Traveler

v10 Chapter 52: Kengmeng kidnapped to Edo

In Takushixintian Village, Katsushika Prefecture, Buzhou, all the villagers, large and small, were gathered together. All of them were in a state of anxiety, because the master of Edo Castle was coming to collect the money while the summer grain came down. In this sense.

  Inner Craftsman Xintian Village, hearing this name, you will know that it is a village commonly known as inner craftsman or official position, who led the local people to cultivate Xintian, and then gathered people and developed a village.

  In the Kanto region of the Edo period, most of the new fields in the Kanto area were developed by the shogunate who convened wealthy merchants and farmers to develop in the marshes and tidal flats or along the banks of rivers. The technology of reclaiming farmland from lakes has been very mature these years. Many swamps in the Kanto region completely disappeared during this period.

   These newly developed new fields are naturally owned by wealthy farmers and tycoons, but the Shogunate gives preferential treatment to the annual tribute collection and policy assistance. Both parties can benefit. When Xintian is cultivated and cultivated, the shogunate will be able to obtain a sum of annual tribute rice. The wealthy farmers and businessmen expanded their family business and increased their income.

   Anyway, it's the pit peasants who got together, that's one thing.

   In this village in front of me, all the land belongs to the wealthy merchants in Edo Castle. And that rich merchant had already agreed to Chuemon in front of him. If you want to transfer all the creditor rights of the farmer households with wives and children to Chungemon, the poorest ones can't live happily in the local area, but are of childbearing age.

   Then they will use debt threats to force these farmers, and the whole family will move to Ezo or Kata. Of course, if they are willing to go to Kamchatka. It's just that Kamchatka has been experiencing spontaneous seasonal migration due to the gradual prosperity of the whaling industry.

   How is a migration method? Of course, after the beginning of spring every year, fishermen and wealthy merchants in the East Japan region organized their ships to go north. Whales are hunted in the North Pacific. Because humans have just started whaling in the North Pacific, whales are abundant and can be caught without diving into the deep sea.

   Besides the world’s top fishing grounds, Hokkaido’s fishing grounds are located in this area. There are a large number of fishing grounds along the Kuril Islands. When there are fish and shrimps, there are naturally whales that eat fish and shrimps. Taking advantage of the port of Kamchatka, foreigners are in great need of whale oil.

   can make money, and it is fast to make money, that does not need government guidance, there will be countless people to do this business!

   Anyway, many fishermen and boat owners in Ozhou, Yuzhou, and Kanto have rushed to the Kuril Islands to catch whales. They haunt outside Kamchatka in spring, summer and autumn, and return to their hometown in winter.

   In order to serve these uncles who directly earn pounds, francs and dollars, Kamchatka has already appeared in small-scale commercial clusters and supporting special industry service industries. Coupled with the fact that the shogunate migrated civilian households to plant potatoes, the local area no longer needs a large amount of supplementary food from the outside world. This development speed, can you say he can't be fast.

   As for what happens when the whale is gone?

  Tadaemon was kicking his legs a long time ago, so ask someone else.

   Regardless of Kamchatka, Kata and Ezo. Chungemon intends to send a thousand households to the islands to settle down this summer, but this is only a goal, depending on how many farmers can actually be threatened.

   It is best to have five or six children, or even seven or eight children in the family. Chuemon likes it the most. If this kind of family is sent to the north, within 30 years, it will be able to spread its branches and become a large group. When the time comes, there will be people in agriculture, mining, and industry. How wonderful.

  In front of the inner craftsman Xintian Village, there are two tenant farmers in such a scene. They owed a lot of debts because of the large population in the family and the bad harvest. This tenancy right has also been divided among other farmers. Now it is the men who work part-time jobs for others, and the women help others raise silkworms, barely mixing a bite of porridge.

   Whenever there is a bit of trouble, that is the end of starvation to death!

   "You're lucky, our boss wants to forgive your family's debt..." A man holding the account book walked to a house.

When    said this, there were incredible eyes on the left and right. When did the masters have such a great kindness to forgive their old peasants from their debts? Looking at the five children in their family, two boys and three girls, the eldest boy is only ten years old. He looks crooked and is definitely not suitable for selling to special places to engage in special trades.

   As for the three girls, the oldest is only seven years old. There is no girl of this size in a building. He must be at least ten years old, and his face is almost in shape. They were only willing to buy it and pick up customers after two years of upbringing.

   So why forgive debts?

   "Follow me." The guy didn't say the reason, only let the family follow.

   "Master, master, the youngest family, what are you going to do in Edo?" The man who fell on his knees boldly asked the collector.

   "What do you do? Is it possible to be a master, of course to be a slave." The guy knelt down and looked at the man who was kneeling on the ground with a kind of "compassion" eyes.

   The farmer doesn't know it, but this guy does. First, deceive people to Edo, then threaten to persecute them, and finally drive them all to Katai Island. They will die afterwards and will not be able to come back. If in this village, it was said that people were sent to Ezo or Huata, it caused an uproar, and then it was instigated by someone with a heart, and what should I do?

   is still honest, safe and stable, first fool people to Edo. When you arrive in Edo, it's impossible for you to make trouble anymore. Moreover, people are far from home, and they don't know others at all on the left and right. It is impossible to ask for help. More importantly, Chungemon had a way to use soldiers to suppress it.

   Finally, I sent two people to talk to them about the beautiful vision of a family with 25 acres of land. Basically, these people will also submit to it~lightnovelpub.net~ They are not subservient, and the rope is tied up.

   "Go to be a slave at the master's house?" I heard it naturally.

   "Huh..." When they heard that they were going to be slaves, the farmers not only didn't feel embarrassed, but felt that this size was a way out.

   became the master’s slave and became the master’s private property. Although he had to serve others day and night, he did not suffer from hunger and cold. The leftovers (swill) thrown away from the master's house every day are all delicacies in the eyes of this group of people. No one in front of this group of people had eaten enough, so they went to Edo to work as slaves, and they were able to eat the leftovers as long as they could.

   Personal freedom or something, haha, for farmers like them, what personal freedom is there? From the generation of tenants, they have completely lost their personal freedom. They cultivated land and farmed, and they never made their heads.

   "The same goes for your family, yes, it's you!" The guy got up, swept around, and pointed at a farmer.

  The situation of the farmer is similar. The whole family is crowded in the shed, and all the hungry hairs are withered. They have not starved to death so far. They are really tenacious.

   "The debts of the small family are also forgiven?" The farmer knelt and walked in front of the man and asked boldly.

   "Forgive it, forgive it, forgive it all. The whole family is big and small, no debts."

   Good fellow, the farmers on the left and right even showed envy. These two poor families have nothing, except for a bad life, now they are really lucky. Not only the debt is gone, but you can also go to see Edo. In the future, he will be able to live in the big house of the master in the city, and it will be better than starving to death at home.