be ambitious

Kinjiro has been entrusted with the fiscal consolidation of Utsu family.
A opportunity for it at first place.
It was that kinjiro had been worked to home finances reconstruction of executive of Odawara clan.

"Hattori Jūrobee" of Odawara clan chief retainer. 　(服部十郎兵衛)
His family line was a director of Odawara clan for generations.
Their's enfeoffment was 1300 koku according to Hōtoku-ki.
（1200 koku according to his chronology.)
　
1812，When Kinjiro was 26 years old.
He started working in Hattori home.

　
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Kinjiro regained their paddy field on 1806.
And he began to write the household account book from the following year.
　
"Know current income exactly."
After this，It became a model of fiscal reform of Kinjiro.
　
He was calculated surplus rice from harvest.　
And he got interest to lend it.
Of course,He would have also sold surplus rice to rice merchants.
He bought paddy by its profits little by little. 　

In short,"Commonplace.”
There was not special things there.


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When he started working in Hattori home，he had owned the paddy considerable already.

The reason to start work at Hattori home.
It seems to have been in order to obtain a wage.
　
"Kinjiro's income would have been enough.
Why he went to work?"　　
I have such a question.
　
"Making personal connections.
Seize the opportunity."
Kinjiro might had this intention.

Probably Kinjiro had ambition in politics.
(Later he did proposal to Domain duties of the Odawara clan.)　
　
But era was feudalism.　
It was class system.　
And Kinjiro were farmers.
　
However，Class system in Japan was not strict at that time.
Though there were many constraints，Farmers were also able to elevated to government by own's ability.
(The best example would be Kinjiro.)

But they had to be recognized by government at first.　
So,Kinjiro also had to be recognized by odawara clan.