little by little

Ninomiya Kinjiro was born in Ashigara of Odawara clan in 1787.
Ninomiya was a farmer of 13 koku.
　
But his boyhood，floods hit his village.
Rocks and sediment.　
Farmland of Ninomiya became a wilderness by it.　
　
After a while，his parents died.
After that，he came to live at the home of relatives.
Life of a relatives was also poverty.
　
He wanted to study.
But he was helping the family business of relatives in daytime.
(It was of course as a member of the family.)
　
Time he can study.
It was the only night.

Light at that time.
It was oil and candles. (and moonlight)　
Therefore he was a need to buy it.

But there was no extra money in their life.　
　
　
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Farmland of Ninomiya.
At that time it had became tax-exempt land as wasteland.
(Of course it was a wasteland actually.）
　
He got a little rapeseed from acquaintance.
He did sowed it to his wasteland and got a little harvest.
　
Can take the oil from rapeseed.　
　
He went to the oil store.
And he negotiated with the oil merchant and was replaced with oil.

He increased it little by little.
And he had sold its surplus.
　
At one point, the flow of river of his village has changed due to heavy rain.
Unnecessary wasteland appeared for this reason.
(Around the canal that becomes unavailable.)

After he got the permission of the villagers.
He picked up the rice of roadside.
He plowed its wasteland on holiday and sowed it.
As result，rice of 1 bale was able to harvest.
(about 0.4 koku.)
　
He sold it to the rice merchant.　
Of course he also increased it little by little.
　

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After that he went back to his house.
Farmland that was sold also repurchased.
He was an independent as farmer.

Then he was apprenticed to the chief retainer of Odawara clan.
During it period、he came to be commissioned of the negotiation of the sale of rice of his village.
　
When he returned to his village in 1815.
His farmland was more than 2 hectares.
　
He was supposed to large farmers.