Sanqi obeyed Abe Tadashi, and after inspection, he told the Okura family that they wanted to mobilize the people in the ridge to carry out large-scale production.

Now the shogunate calls for the development of handicraft industry. The Sanki vassal must not only do a good job in agriculture, but also build handicraft industry. It cannot lag behind others and affect its political future.

Tadashi Abe is the adopted son of the shogunate leader Tadaki Abe. The Okura family naturally wanted to curry favor with him, so they hurriedly promised to be the first in the four countries.

After Tadaoma Abe left, a group of Chinese people surrounded Katsuo Okura, "Sir, we don't know how to do this handicraft industry! Besides, even if weaving it and making it, the quality is not good, can we sell it?"

Katsuo Okura said: "You can't weave, but your mother can't do it yet? I don't think the handicraft industry is nothing. You can make paper if you can't weave cloth, and you can practice iron if you can't make paper. Don't worry about the quality first, you're talking about it when you make it!"

At present, the people of the Sanki vassal began to mobilize farmers in their corps to cut down trees, buy raw materials, weave cloth, make paper, practice iron, and produce.

The people in Japan were already burdened with heavy burdens and were asked by the lords to carry out manual production, which was very painful for a while.

These farmers have no production experience, and most of the products they produce are of poor quality, and some are even purely waste.

At this time, news from various places was summarized and reported to Gao Jian here, but Gao Jian felt that the atmosphere was not enthusiastic enough.

So he found Masayuki Boko and asked the shogunate to reward the lord who produced the most and give honor.

After Matsuhira Nobuzu left, the shogunate tyrants appeared. Tokugawa Iezuna also said that whoever produces more products from each vassal state will be the shogunate tyrants.

Seeing this, the lords from all over the country ignored the lives of the people in the corps and continued to ask the people to produce.

It was originally a good strategy, and the shogunate hoped that domestic farmers would use the slack farming time to produce and create a fortune while ensuring agricultural production.

However, although the various vassals and lords competed, the production movements carried out by some vassal states gradually became unruly and began to ignore the people, affecting agricultural production.

There are many Japanese people on the land and the land is relatively barren, so they need to cultivate carefully to achieve a good harvest.

Now, after such trouble, hunger quickly spread throughout Japan, while the poor Shikoku and Kyushu have become the hardest hit areas.

Japanese farmers, especially those in Daming, have extremely heavy taxes. Most of the food of the people in Daming generals is confiscated. When they encounter famine, they have to eat grass roots and tree bark.

Nowadays, handicrafts have been vigorously developed, trees have been cut down to make looms, iron smelting, grass has been cut to make paper, farmers have no need to eat bark and grass roots, and they can only drink salt water soup every day, and their stomachs are full of water and they will make a sound when walking.

For a time, the elderly were starving to death every day in the four countries. However, the lives of daimyos, samurai and Chinese people in the vassal states were still prosperous, and they did not care about the farmers below starving to death.

After all, many places in Japan have some traditions. Some elderly people have to be carried up the mountain by their sons and abandoned them to death by starving them to death when they reach a certain age.

Now is a difficult time in Japan, and the whole nation has to carry out production. It is acceptable to tighten the belt to pay off debts and starve some people to death.

In order to obtain the rewards from above, these lords not only did not report the disaster, but instead concealed it and allowed the farmers to continue to produce.

After Takayasu's businessman collected a batch of goods produced by various vassals, he left Edo in the name of investigation.

At this time, Takaya took a team of subordinates to Shikoku by boat. There were bags of goods piled up on the pier, and the words "cloth", "grain", and "paper" were written on the mountain. All of them were collected by Tadashi Abe, preparing to help the shogunate repay the debt.

"Go to Sanye County!" Gao Jian looked at it and took his subordinates straight to his former territory.

The group left Abe Tadama's Gun Castle, and headed for Mino County.

The four countries have many mountains and roads are difficult to walk.

The roads are now built when Gao Yan was in power. No one has repaired them in the past two years, so the roads are bumpy.

Before going to Shikoku, Takaya had learned that the famine in Sanqi is quite serious and it is common for people to starve to death in the village, and it is not uncommon to die of dozens of people.

The vassal lord Tadashi Abe wanted to get rewards and praises from the shogunate and get promotions, while the people of the counties in the country wanted to get rewards from Tadashi Abe and get more land.

Sanki's people were already hard-working, and they had to pay the land tax as a way to do handicrafts. They were so hungry that they had to pay their backs and had to do production, so they had no energy to go to the ground, which led to the abandonment of the fields.

At this time, Gao Yan came outside a manor, where he once set up his command center to preside over the construction of water conservancy and road construction projects within the county.

He walked into the manor, and it was no different from two years ago, except that there was no one at the entrance of the village, nor did he hear the dog barking.

Gao Jian remembers that there are many yellow dogs in this manor, and it is very interesting to grow up. He even gave his sister-in-law two, which is considered apology.

Now the entire manor is as silent as a ghost realm, and it is estimated that all the dogs have been eaten.

At this time, Gao Jian walked into the village and saw some skinny old men sitting against the wall. When they saw Gao Jian and his group enter the village, they thought it was the samurai of the Okura family who came to collect grain and cloth again.

Goto Yubue came forward and asked, "Old man, where is Kagawa's family?"

The Kagawa family was once a tyrant from the Sangi country. Later, they were conquered by the Nagazo and became their retainer. However, the Nagazo and I took the wrong team in the Battle of Sekihara and lost their territory, so the Kagawa family became a ronin.

When Takaya was the lord, many people in the Kagawa family became their own samurai, but after the territory was confiscated, they were under the management of Tadama Abe.

The Abe family has its own retainers and warriors, so naturally they would not use the Gaosai people. Soon after, his people became ronin and peasants.

Several old men looked at everyone, pretended to be deaf and dumb, waved their hands and refused to answer, and got up and wanted to leave.

At this time, Gao Jian walked forward, took off his hat, and smiled and said, "Old man, I am Matsuhira Kama!"

Everyone opened their faint eyes, looked at Gao Yan carefully, and their lips trembled: "You are Lord Matsupita!"

Gao Yan smiled and said, "You didn't know me in just two years? When I started the water conservancy construction, the command center was in your village!"

When the old man heard this, he looked at Gao Yan's tall body and straight waist. Isn't he the lord of that year?

After all, in Japan, where the height is generally only 1.45 meters, Gao Jian is tall and mighty, which is unforgettable.

Everyone still has feelings for Gao Yan. When Gao Yan was the lord, they were never hungry.

"Ah! Lord Matsupi is back! The lord is back!" The old people stood up one after another and shouted at the top of their voices.

For a moment, a group of ragged farmers with vegetables slowly came out of their house and surrounded Gao Yan.
Chapter completed!