The night after the lecture, Mr. Xiaonan held a banquet at home to thank Naohide. Fuso's dinner was always simple. What was rare in winter was that there was a grilled fish, in addition to two pickles, a bowl of miso soup, rice, and sake.

That's all.

Sake is fermented rice, not distilled liquor, so the alcohol content is not high, only 14-16 degrees, but the atmosphere at the dinner was very good. Due to historical impressions, Naohide regarded Mr. Xiaonan as an arrogant person, but Mr. Xiaonan was kind and enthusiastic towards Naohide.

, everyone gets drunk even if they are not drunk, Naohsiu was still a little tipsy when she returned to the door of Hatago.

After taking off her clogs and entering the yashiki, the landlady rushed to greet you, "Your Majesty, there are two guests who have been waiting for you for a long time." It turned out that Genbei Kawakami was leading Hikojiro in the hall, and Naohide quickly invited them to his apartment.

(Bedroom), told the landlady to serve tea quickly.

Kawakami Genbei was wearing a Kosode and a Hangaha (short coat) draped over Hikojiro who was wearing a tortoiseshell half-day (similar to a cotton vest). It could be seen that the two of them had been waiting for a long time, and their faces were a little blue.

Naohide quickly asked Murata Nagatoshi to ask the landlady to light the brazier - Naohide was now a group of four and couldn't fit in one room, so he asked for two rooms this time. In order to win over Omura, this guy specially assigned himself and Omura to a room.

Omura doesn't care about the room at all. He is a typical image of an uncle who eats and drinks without thanking his grandson.

Kawakami Genbei warmed up for a while, looked at Omura with embarrassment, and then respectfully presented a gift box, "Naohideo-den, it is too precious, I apologize for not accepting it."

It turned out that after the lecture, Naohide gave Hikojiro a gift box alone, and then told him to "study hard in the future and come see Naohide-san when you have time." Hikojiro did not dare to accept it, so Naohide forced it on him.

Mr. Xiaonan's dinner party did not include Kawakami and his son, because their samurai family status was relatively low, and they were not close disciples of Mr. Xiaonan.

According to Fuso's etiquette, it would be very rude for Naohide to directly give a gift to Hikojiro. Fuso believed that "don't bring out gifts unexpectedly", and since Hikojiro is a child, Naohide should give it to Kawakami Genbei first, "Haha——, we are destined to meet you.

I have prepared a small gift, please keep it as a souvenir." This is normal.

At the same time, the person receiving the gift must decline it, giving three concessions and three thanks. Of course, if it is given to a person of high status to a person of low status, the low-status person only needs to decline once, so as not to anger the noble person. And the gift cannot be opened in person.

, to avoid the embarrassment of both parties, "What did you give me? Do you look down on me?" or it is too expensive and makes it difficult for the recipient to express his gratitude.

Genbei knew that Naohide liked Kouhikojiro very much, and Naohide's knowledge also awe him, so he didn't take it seriously at first. But when he got home and opened it, he found ten gold coins and a letter in the gift box. Naohide said in the letter

Apologize, "The schedule is too hasty and I cannot come to visit. I am very optimistic about Hikojiro and hope that he can study more and shine on the lintel of the Kawakami family when he grows up."

Compared with the salary of a samurai, ten small coins may seem inconspicuous, but at this time it was indeed a large amount of money.

The average annual salary of the lower-level samurai of the shogunate is about 24 gold, which includes rations. Of course, there are even lower salaries. The minimum is four liang and one support - the support is rations, also known as support rice. The annual salary of the lower-level samurai of each domain is definitely higher than

There are few ministers.

In the early days of Fuso, Zhixing represented the samurai's right to control the territory given to them, because Fuso calculated the productivity of the territory based on the yield of rice. The calculation unit of rice was the capacity unit "stone", and the "stone height" was the output of the land warriors.

Therefore, it is generally said that the knowledge and conduct of a certain samurai is worth 370,000 ge.

Of course, not all the output of the territory can be taken away by the samurai. The shogunate is usually composed of five officials and five citizens or four officials and six citizens, and each prince depends on his conscience. For example, the Shangzhou Takasaki clan once frantically committed eight officials and two citizens.

Knowledge and practice are directly proportional to the samurai's income. People usually don't compare how much stone rice they harvest because unscrupulous samurai would be embarrassed, so knowledge and practice are called the samurai's annual income.

During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Oda Nobunaga implemented the "separation of farmers and soldiers", which separated ordinary professional soldiers from farmers. They were only given lumi but did not receive land. The income methods of samurai were changed from the "knowledge system" and "salary system"

The two methods coexist. The samurai whose income is based on the salary system only have the amount of knowledge and action but no specific place of knowledge and action. The salary given by the daimyo to the samurai is called "hidden rice". It is not necessarily all rice, but usually a small amount of rice.

Amount of gold and silver currency.

Because the samurai whose income was based on the salary system could not directly control the land and the farmers on the land, these samurai were easier to control by the daimyo than the samurai whose income was based on the knowledge and practice system. The daimyo strengthened his dominance over the territory through the salary system.

Beginning in the middle of the Edo period, the shogunate and each clan changed the income of most samurai from the knowledge system to the salary system, generally based on five hundred koku. In other words, if a samurai controls a territory of more than five hundred koku, then the shogunate and each clan will

The domain basically acquiesced to him continuing to directly control the territory. At most, he sent officials from the administrative office to collect taxes, but he did not directly intervene in the daily life of the territory.

Management. But if the samurai's knowledge and practice are less than five hundred koku, then the shogunate and each domain will take over the daily management and taxation of the original samurai territory. "You can just get the money directly, why bother with that?" So those who own a large amount of land

The income of high-level samurai is the "knowledge and practice system", while the income of middle and lower-level samurai is the "salary system", which is called "hidden rice".

However, for the sake of status difference, the income of mid-level warriors is still called "hidden rice", while the income of lower-level warriors has a new name of "support rice".

The salary paid to samurai by the shogunate and daimyo was mainly rice plus a small amount of cash. This cash was called "gongjin". In the late Edo period, the mining volume of gold, silver, copper and other heavy metals in Fuso declined, so the "gold" of intermediate samurai

You can also get money by "hiding rice and taking it", and the "support rice" of lower-level warriors is basically distributed in the form of rice.

The support rice is usually distributed one quarter in February, one quarter in May, and one half in October. This method of installment distribution is called "cut rice".

During this period, the amount of knowledge and practice was equal to the nominal fiefdom of Shi Gao, so some people also used "Shi Gao" to refer to the income of samurai.

However, in the eighth year of Kyōho (1723 AD), "ashigao" appeared. In order to save expenses and recruit talents under special circumstances, the shogunate began to issue "ashigao" (post allowance) to samurai in addition to "shigao", and the regulations were low.

When a salary recipient takes up a senior official position, he will be issued an additional "foot-high" in addition to the original "shigao", and the foot-gao (post allowance) will be canceled after resignation. This not only selects talents, but also avoids wage inflation.

Smart officials gradually introduced "foot high" to lower-level samurai. The annual salary of lower-level samurai was broken down from the original "support rice" into "foot high" and "support rice". Of course, it is customary for everyone to still regard the salary of lower-level samurai as "support rice".

"Foot high" and "supporting rice" are combined to call supporting rice. But the following

After the senior samurai retired, the salary "foot high" was no longer paid, and the shogunate reduced salary expenditures. For example, Naohide belonged to the second half of the "royal family". If his retired son took over, then Naohide's son would receive full salary

, Zhixiu can only receive retirement salary - the original "support rice" part.

As for the lowest-ranking member of the royal family, Baoshi, his son cannot take over after retirement, and he himself has no retirement salary.

At this point, the annual salary of the shogunate samurai has stabilized, including three types: family salary, job salary, and supporting rice. Family salary is the part deducted from the knowledge and work or Shigao and turned over to the shogunate, and job salary is the post allowance "foot high", and supporting meters

Meter is the basic salary.

Sometimes the shogunate would also give out some bonuses, usually money, which was called "downward gold." However, in the later period of the shogunate's financial difficulties, it was basically invisible.

The average annual salary of the lower-level samurai under the shogunate is about 24 yuan, and there is also a ration of "support rice" for several people. So how much money can be left in a year?

In order to maintain the dignity of a samurai, he had to hire servants and buy clothes, plus entertainment and other expenses. If he was not seriously ill and was careful with his budget, he could save four taels of gold a year.

As a lower-level samurai who has just joined the Ashigaru army, he or she usually has a ration of about 400 kilograms worth of gold per person and a meal of "support rice" for one person. In other words, you may be rich to support yourself, but not to support your family.

Therefore, for Kawakami Genbei, ten small fines were about ten taels of gold, which was a large amount of money for him, and he did not dare to accept it rashly.

If Genbei accepts it directly, Naohide will be very happy. If he doesn't accept it directly, Naohide will have a way.

"The gift is for Hikojiro to study. The Kawagami family has been clean for generations. I hope that Hikojiro can inherit the family tradition of the Kawagami family and excel in the future." Naohide waved his hand to Genbei and waited for him to finish. "If you don't feel presumptuous, can you

Will you accept Hikojiro as my disciple? Although I am not talented, I still have some experience in orchid learning. I hope I can help Hikojiro."

Money is not so easy to collect, if it is other

It said that Genbei must have declined, but Hikojiro was smart and cute, and Genbei really didn't want Hikojiro to continue working in the ashigaru profession with no future.

"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders." He pressed Hikojiro and performed the apprenticeship ceremony for Naohide.

Naohide laughed loudly and finally brought Hikojiro back. Naohide was confident that he would not let Hikojiro take that life path of blood and tears again.

Now that his status has been decided, Naohide can speak more frankly. He advised Genbei to take care of his health and persist for another seven or eight years, leaving more time for Hikojiro to study. As for the future arrangements, Naohide has already obtained the money for Satsuma Yoaki from Yokoi Kokusu.

Scholar Ito Shiemon's

Letter of introduction, please ask Hikojiro to take a good rest at home this year. In the spring of the following year, Naohide will come to Kumamoto. At that time, you can arrange for Hikojiro to study at Shiseoken or Naohide's private school. Yes, Naohide has already planned to open a private school next year, but

The location has not been decided yet.

Naohide was generous and magnanimous - people in the future will be magnanimous when they return to ancient times. Because they don't have such a big sense of hierarchy, they behave more confidently. Genbei didn't think too much about it now that he had made his decision, and left after drinking tea for a while.

Only Hikojiro was confused, what happened? Why do I have an extra teacher? Naohide rubbed his head, satisfied, and made the future a little better.

After sending Kagami and his son out, Naohide happily went to find Nagatoshi Murata. This guy was like a transparent person in the room. He said nothing and had no expression on his face the whole time. Naohideo would have been out of trouble a long time ago, and Naohide was itching with hatred.

Naohide called Toranosuke and Gakujiro over and asked Murata Nagatoshi to do the accounting. Naohide used to take care of the accounts himself, mainly because he spent a lot of money to buy books at Lan Guo Merchant, which was not suitable for the two students to know. Now there is

Murata and Naohide also wanted to gain Murata's popularity, otherwise they would not be able to find a wife in the future. In fact, there was no need for Naohide to worry. Eight years later, Omura would marry a girl from the same village, Kotoko, who has a bright eye to recognize heroes.

Naohide concealed the one hundred and forty taels of gold given to Dr. De Vries and asked Murata to do the accounting. Murata had a look on his face and his heart was bright, and he finished counting after a while. Naohide only said that he came out of Edo with four hundred and forty taels.

Two three-well gold tickets, sixty Tianbao small gold coins, and six copper coins. The total cost of taking the boat today is forty-four.

In order to demonstrate Orchidology in Saga, I spent nineteen coins. I spent nearly thirty coins on gifts, accommodation, and meals. I gave twenty coins to the Fukuzawa family of Okuhira Domain Nakatsu, and today I gave ten coins to the Kawagami family.

, counting the bits and pieces, one hundred and thirty small gold coins have been spent so far, and there are three gold tickets worth one hundred taels left.

The small penalty is thirty pieces of gold, and two copper coins are more.

After calculating, Toranosuke was dumbfounded, Gakujiro was dumbfounded, and Murata Nagatoshi's face turned pale. It doesn't scare you to death. Why do you still want to study abroad if you don't have money? Money can make ghosts go around, and money can communicate with gods.

Naohide felt proud. Fortunately, when the Okudaira clan Nakatsu visited the Fukuzawa family, he did not say what gifts he had given. Otherwise, these people would have revealed their true colors, which would have frightened the children.

I visited the Fukuzawa family under the banner of my father, Hori Naoyu, and said that my father had been helped by Mr. Fukuzawa Momosuke, and before his death, he asked me to repay the Fukuzawa family. I used to be young, and it was not until recently that I went to Osaka Nakatsu Domain.

Kuroyashiki visited Mr. Fukuzawa. Unexpectedly, Mr. Fukuzawa passed away and the whole family had returned to Nakatsu.

"This time I made a special trip to visit and brought some small gifts to express my condolences. Please accept them."

Fukuzawa Momosuke had many friends and was a well-known Confucian scholar. Mrs. Fukuzawa was not sure whether Naohide's words were true or not, so she couldn't refuse, so she accepted them after refusing. Fuso people are not allowed to open gifts on the spot, Naohide.

I put twenty small gold coins in the gift box and kept it

In a letter, he said that Mr. Momosuke helped his father free of charge back then, and that he was here to repay the money today. In addition, he left the address of Mr. Xuanpu, Saga Ito, to Mrs. Fukuzawa, saying that Mr. Xuanpu was his teacher. If he met

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The mainstay of the Fukuzawa family passed away, leaving behind five children. I believe this money can help a lot. If Xiao Yuji's childhood was not so difficult, the future may be more lenient. In short, Naoxiu wants to try it if he can get it back.

Money is not the problem, lack of money is the problem. Naoxiu holds the idea that the future will be better if he can change it a little, so he throws money everywhere, hoping it will work. As for whether it can work, the mind of an ant can also ascend to the sky, and if you work hard, you can shoot an arrow.
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