Xinshun 1730

Chapter 341 Zhu Ziyangming
Shi Shiyong finally knew why Liu Yu didn't want the sailors to go ashore to fight.

On the chaotic battlefield, after the sailors finished killing people, they were all busy grabbing the spoils.Thanks to the cutting of the head in this year, the military exploits are not counted, otherwise the battle would be completely messed up.

A sturdy sailor was carrying four Japanese knives, and was looking through the body of a Japanese warrior there. He pulled out his mouth to see if there were any gold teeth in his mouth. After the silver coin, it even attracted a burst of envy from the companions next to him.

However, these sailors are quite good at melee combat, and they were all trained to board the ship and seize the ship after the confrontation. Liu Yu also paid a lot of money, and each of them had two flintlock pistols.

It is not enough to form an array to attack the enemy, but it can be intercepted and killed, which is exactly what it is good at.

Fortunately, what Liu Yu told Shi Shiyong did not happen. These sailors did not kill red eyes, but fought for various spoils with red eyes.They didn't plunder the people spontaneously either, probably because they saw that the local people were poorer than they were back then, and they knew they couldn't grab anything.

When Liu Yu arrived, the sailors had already removed everything that could be removed, and there were corpses lying all over the ground.

The results were quickly counted.

"Ying Suo Bo, killed four hundred Japanese people in total. The seriously injured ones were not killed according to your order. After a while, they were carried upriver and waited for the Japanese people to take them away. How to deal with the nearly 300 people who were slightly injured or captured?"

"Let's tie it up first. Clean up the battlefield, first deploy a defense at this dangerous place by the river, and send some people to the nearby mountain to check the situation."

It is about five or six miles away from Urado Castle, and the hill that isolates and observes Kochi Castle lies across here, and there is only one road along the river leading to Kochi Castle.

According to the rules of defense, some people should be sent to occupy the hill, and the rest should gather by the river.

This time, the vitality of the Tosa clan was greatly injured, and it left a great psychological shadow. Maybe they can try to capture Kochi Castle.

Bypassing the small mountain, Kochi Castle can already be seen.

To the north is a river, using the river course as a natural moat.Inevitably there was a dug trench at the entrance, which was also full of water.

It seems that Kochi Castle was originally called Hezhong Mountain Castle, but after taking this name, there was a flood every day, and the Yamauchi family thought it was unlucky, so they changed it to Kochi Castle with the same pronunciation.Of course, it is the same pronunciation in Japanese, but after translation, the pronunciation is different. It can be seen that this broken place is surrounded by water, and it is difficult to capture it with water as a gully.

The river at the mouth of the sea still has a main stream in the south of Kochi City, and the other side of the river is already defended by Japanese iron gunners.

Kochi City is not high, and the mountain is only 50 meters, but many places are disgustingly built, and some places are extremely steep, making it difficult to pass.

Looking around for a while, Liu Yu clicked his tongue and said to himself helplessly: "It's tasteless. It's not that it can't be attacked, but it's just a little troublesome. Although it is meaningful to attack, it seems that the meaning is not as good as the casualties caused by the attack. .”

Warships can't enter the inland river, it's too narrow and the wind isn't right.If it is a steam paddle steamer that can go upstream without looking at Granny Feng's face, it will be much simpler.

As soon as the warship is launched, it will be bombarded for a while, which is simple and trouble-free.Now the guns on the warship cannot be dismantled just to capture the city of Kochi.

After watching for a while, Liu Yu had no choice but to retreat first.Some people were left to occupy a hill on the south bank of the river, about one mile away from Kochi Castle and only 300 meters from the river, and asked people to stay there, and raised a hot air balloon to draw a defense map of Kochi Castle.

I went back and asked the captured captives, and learned that the return time of the visit to Edo in previous years was more than a month.I have to return to the capital before August, and considering possible typhoons, I have to arrive in Edo at least in July.

There is not much time left for myself, how to bring the greatest shock to the shogunate without capturing Kochi Castle?

A few days later, all the merchants by the seaside and river opened their doors. The people here saw that Liu Yu's troops did not kill, set fire, or rob food.

Moreover, after the separation of peasants and soldiers, peasants are peasants and soldiers are soldiers, and the common people don't care about wars, as long as they work hard and pay tribute rice.

Liu Yu was not too busy propagating some ideas that seemed terrible to the shogunate, but was spreading a very subtle rumor in order to attract goodwill.

If you look closely, it is not a rumor, but after the famine in Japan, the shogun could not say that the Tang people gave him the books on sweet potatoes to save the famine.Liu Yu just added more details about this matter, boasted about himself, and said that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sent him to Japan to teach the method of planting sweet potatoes when he saw that the Japanese people were starving and hungry.

Not long after the Great Famine in Xiangbao, the Tosa Domain was one of the hardest-hit places, and many people did survive on the sweet potatoes that came later.

Originally, they couldn't eat rice, so they had to pay a fixed amount of rice every year. No matter how sweet potatoes were, they were much tastier than radishes.

Liu Yu pretended to be a master of the king every day, led the guards to look here and there, bought some fish and exchanged some crabs, and took out some rock candies from his arms from time to time, squatting on the ground to touch the child's Head, say Yo Xi, and give the candy to the child.

In a few days, he asked the local people a series of questions about taxes, labor, income, food, etc. He was good at instigating, and he often drew out the sufferings of the people in a few words. and wept bitterly, and told of the oppression he had suffered.

Nominally, there are four people and six people, but there must be middlemen who make the difference. All kinds of villas, group heads, and people's generations, plus the Tosa clan who has always been financially difficult, the people can only live by secretly cultivating some private land. For the cultivation of sweet potatoes and radishes, the fields included in the official register must be planted with rice to basically meet the needs of taxation.

There was a famine over there, and many people died of starvation in the Tosa clan. It was not long after this incident, and many people still remember it vividly.

The farmers were dissatisfied, and so were the small businessmen, especially the monopoly of many profitable industries in the Tosa domain in the hands of privileged businessmen, and some spent money to obtain samurai status, and even official status.

Under the ranks of scholars, peasants, businessmen, and businessmen, merchants are the cheapest. Although some wealthy merchants can lend money to various feudal clans, it is naturally not considered lowly, but the status of small traders is really fourth-class people, only slightly higher than workers under the four peoples.

After roughly grasping the resentment and dissatisfaction at the bottom of the Tosa clan, Liu Yu estimated the right medicine, and asked someone to inquire about the nearby Temple House.

He wanted to find someone who could write and read.

The common people are basically illiterate, this can be done through preaching.

But some things are nominally for the common people, but actually for the shogunate and daimyo, which requires someone with a certain level of education.

But it can't be too high, too literary, it looks like an official article at first glance, and the shogunate will not take it seriously.

Liu Yu is very skilled in talking about rebellion, but according to what he said, the shogunate will not be too moved after reading it: Dashun officials can't talk about these things, don't worry, it's just a bluff.

Therefore, we have to talk about rebellion, but we have to talk about benevolence and righteousness, and it can’t be more than esoteric, and we can’t be full of vernacular. My Japanese is two swords. Renyi words and rhymes are probably not.

The temple house is similar to a village school, and the people who teach in it at least know about others, benevolence, righteousness and morality, and it is more convenient for such people to write articles.The level is neither high nor low, and it can be spread in the middle and low levels, and it can also speak out about benevolence, righteousness and morality.

I walked slowly to a temple house in a town near Urado Castle, and listened carefully. The children inside were reading there, and it sounded like they were reading "Six Edicts" by Zhu Yuanzhang.

The master craftsman of Terakoya was talking about the "Six Instructions on Profound Meaning". When Liu Yu sent it to Edo, the shogunate liked it very much, and immediately asked the master of Confucianism Shi Jiuchao to translate it.

The ruler attaches great importance to such books that require the morality of the people.At this time, the children in the temple house were reading along.

"At the age of six or seven, men and women are not allowed to sit at the same table and eat together. As for girls, they are not allowed to go out of the boudoir at the age of ten to teach how to weave with needles, how to cut clothes, how to eat wine..."

It can be seen that the local people have become accustomed to the arrival of Liu Yu and others, and even the temple houses have started school, which is also in line with Liu Yu's expectations: since the peasants and soldiers are separated, and since the feudal lord is feudal, then farmers are farmers, and businessmen are businessmen. What does it matter to us that samurai gentlemen fight wars?

After waiting in front of the window for a while, until the class was over, the teacher inside had already noticed Liu Yu, and hurried over to salute.

The earl of the Tang Dynasty is also an earl.

Inviting Liu Yu into the house, Liu Yu casually flipped through the master's collection of books, and found that the collection is still very rich. It may be that the ancestors were warriors, and he was not the eldest son and could not inherit, but the family background must not be ordinary farmers.

There was also a book on the table, and after glancing at it, Liu Yu blushed a little. He felt that the book was interesting when he saw the title of the book.

"Moaning and Moaning".

Hanben's.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, market novels were well developed. Seeing the name, Liu Yu subconsciously thought that this must be that kind of book.

Opening it casually, I thought that the words that could exercise imagination, such as bodhi dew, pistil honey, nectar, and lianque xuanmin, would catch my eyes, but it was not.

On the contrary, the page I flipped through casually said what it said: Preventing desires is like holding a boat against the water, and when it stops, it will go downhill;With the heart of a gentleman, he is always in awe.Sending out a good thought, without talking about expansion, and holding on to it first, this is the storehouse of all good things.If you come and go as you please, don't worry about it, just like passing on a post, there will be no owner to live in for life...

Even if he has no culture, he still knows that this is not what he thinks.

Sure enough, the master asked: "What classics are the masters of the Tang Dynasty governing? Although this "Moan and Yinyu" was not written by Mr. Yangming, it is following the path of Mr. Yangming's learning. I don't know if the Tang Dynasty is governing Zhu Zixue at this time. ? Or Yangming’s philosophy of mind?”

Unreasonable and expected, Liu Yu didn't answer, but asked instead: "Are you studying Yangming's mind?"

The master craftsman shook his head.

"Zhu Zi Neo Confucianism?"

The master still shook his head and said after a long while: "I am studying ancient Confucianism. Zhu Zi's Confucianism emphasizes rules and principles, and if you don't pay attention, it will become empty talk; Yangming's Xinxue only emphasizes the heart, and it is biased towards the meaning of sages."

"Confucianism in the Song and Yuan Dynasties is contrary to the words of Zhou Gong, Confucius, and Mencius. You should directly read the ancient books of the pre-Qin period to restore the way of the sages of Confucius and Mencius..."

(End of this chapter)