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Chapter 357 Selling an official?

"What do you mean by non-participation? Huh? What is non-participation?"

"We give them so much money every year, and they just say no to participate?"

"Stop their funds!" Miura Yamato roared angrily.

"However, they are not short of money now. Sarutobi Hiruza embezzled more than 3000 billion yuan, which is enough for them for ten years!" Someone reminded him.

"Bastard!" Miura Yamato gritted his teeth: "Damn it, Sarutobi Hiruzen, daimyo trusted him so much, he dared to do this, just died like this, it's really cheap for him!"

"Then what should we do now?" Patriarch Lishang Bowen asked.

The Lishang family is a traditional samurai family, active in the era when ninjas were not emerging. At that time, they were still called the Zori family.

Later, they assisted the current daimyo to create the Kingdom of Fire. Because the status of samurai was too low, in order to let everyone forget the experience of being a samurai in the past, Zori made a decision against his ancestors and changed his surname.

So the Zuoli family became the Li Shang family.

In order to fundamentally draw a clear line from the warriors, the Li Shang family also burned all the secret books handed down in the family, ordering the younger generations to only learn literature and not martial arts, and even the family's famous Zori sword was destroyed.

Up to now, the Lishang family has become a pure literati family. They have been in charge of the finances and tax audit work of the survey for generations. It is the Miura family, which is also the most loyal and trusted family of the daimyo.

"There are more!" Miura Yamato shook the letter in his hand: "Oshemaru asked us to spread funds and gather troops to fight against these untouchables!"

"Huh?" Li Shangbowen was taken aback and asked, "Army?"

This word made him both strange and familiar.

Strange, because since the ninjas became the armed forces of the country, it seems that the five major countries have not done anything similar for a long time.

As for familiarity, the Li Shang family had seen a famous sword army back then.

Later they found that the sword was not easy to use on the battlefield, but the gun was better, but the name of the army was still used.

However, this army has been disbanded thousands of years ago, and there are still some training methods of this army left in the family, but no one in the Lishang family can be the leader now!
"He also suggested that based on the right of each city and county to recruit soldiers and buy horses, we should change the city lord to the city guard and the county lord to the county guard. In this way, the lord of a city and the lord of a county also has the responsibility of shepherding and guarding one side!" Yamato Miura continued.

"This..." Li Shangbowen scratched his head: "What do you think of this proposal, my lord?"

"I think?" Yamato Miura frowned. Is he really worried about the Fire Nation?
Of course yes, but only a little.

What's more, I'm still worried about the safety of the Miura family. After all, it has nothing to do with me whether the daimyo is dead or not. It's a family that has been passed down for thousands of years. We don't really think that we are loyal to the daimyo.

The idea of ​​allowing the city lords to call up troops is a bad idea at first glance. These city lords have soldiers in their hands, are they still willing to listen to their names? ?

You know, how many years have passed since the Warring States period, and the older people still have memories in their minds!
But for the Miura family themselves, it is a good thing!
Because there are not a few people from the Miura family who are sent out to be city lords. If these people have soldiers in their hands, doesn't that mean that the Miura family has soldiers?
Only when the Miura family has soldiers can they better protect their own family!
"Since the Datongsha incident is unavoidable, then I have to make preparations to protect myself!" Miura Yamato thought for a while, then looked at Lishang Bowen and Zhixue Xiaojian next to him.

The Zhixue family is naturally sensitive to the weather and changes in astronomical phenomena, so they followed the daimyo and became the astronomical officials of the Land of Fire. Because astronomical phenomena and agriculture are closely related, they took up the work of land reclamation in the survey.

Their family also has all the land information in the Kyoto District, and it is these materials that guarantee the annual tax revenue of the Kyoto District.

So the Zhixue family is also the right arm of the Miura family.

These two families seem to have people who are the city lords outside. They are dominated by us, so their troops are not our troops?
"Besides, before the news spreads, I can send as many people as possible to various cities to serve as city lords. The more cities I win, the stronger my future power will be!"

"When I control the Kyoto area, or even one-third of the country of fire, or even nearly half of the army, who will be the master of this country, and I will have the final say?" I am so old, I suddenly saw an opportunity for my family to dominate the Fire Nation!

He doesn't think it's impossible, after all, you can think of it this way, he has only been Hokage for 20 years, and he can embezzle more than 3000 billion.

The Miura family has been in charge of the survey and administration for 1000 years, and is in charge of the taxation work of the entire Fire Kingdom. How much money can he have in his hands?
The money is used to recruit troops, let alone 10, even 100 million is probably enough!

After all, manpower is very cheap now, and wages are not paid. As long as you take care of the food, many people are willing to go with you!
There are many people in the Datong Society, but those people follow the Datong Society just to eat.

I can make you full too!

And you still have to go to work and study with the Datong Society. You don’t have to do anything here, just focus on fighting!

This condition is better than that of Datong Society!
The more Miura Yamato thought about it, the more beautiful he became, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing, seeing the two patriarchs bewildered.

"Miura-sama? Miura-sama?"

Isn't he stupid?
After calling twice, Miura Yamato finally came back to his senses.

He waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, and then fell into thinking again.

Today's daimyo lives in a daze, but their brains are not stupid, and they also have some political opponents. They are the type that no matter what is right or wrong, as long as they say something, their opponents will object without thinking.

Therefore, now is not a good time to propose this strategy. At least until the Datong Society is full of wars and the situation is irreversible, the courtiers have no choice but to agree to this proposal.

Just before that, he had to arrange for the family members to become city lords.

Well, it’s not good in the north, the Datong society is very powerful, and being a city lord there is to deliver food, so it’s better to go to the south.

Kyoto District, Nandu District, and Nanwei Island are mainly these three large areas, preferably those areas where the influence of the Datong Society has not spread.

In addition, there are many city lords, how could it be possible that if you want a name, you will give it to you?

And still so many!
Therefore, we have to find a way to let the daimyo let go and let him wholesale the city lord without money.

After all, it is a thousand-year-old family, and after a little thought, he has a solution.

The next day, he went to meet the daimyo.

"Daimyo, we sent people to investigate the Datong Society, and the results have come out!" Miura Yamato said calmly: "It was obviously alarmist to say that the Datong Society was flooded in the Land of Fire. There is no spread, because someone deliberately made it serious and wanted to take this opportunity to gain benefits!"

"Really?" Daimyo believed it without thinking too much.

After all, he didn't have a chance to go out, how could he have a chance to know the truth?

Besides, Miura Yamato has assisted him for more than 40 years. If you don't believe such a veteran, who do you trust?
Besides, my name is doing well, and suddenly someone came to me and told me that your country is going to end, and the rebels have gathered tens of millions of soldiers.

Would you believe me instead?
"That's right!" Miura Yamato couldn't see any flaws on his face: "However, after this investigation, I found a bigger problem!"

"Oh? What phenomenon?" Daimyo asked curiously.

"In the past four or fifty years, our country of fire has become more and more prosperous, but the tax has been falling again and again. Ten years ago, there were 50 billion yuan, and five years ago, there were only 2400 billion yuan left. Last year, it was only 1800 billion yuan. 1300 billion has been collected!" Miura Yamato said: "In the beginning, everyone said that there were natural disasters and man-made disasters, but after my investigation, there may be man-made disasters, but in the past ten years, the weather in the country of fire has been smooth, and there has not even been a major flood. , where did the natural disaster come from?"

He was also talking nonsense with his eyes open. Sun Jingyun visited many places and discovered the rice blast in his eyes. The scope of the design was wide and the spread was deep.

Do you really think that farmers like to learn so they join Datongshe?
That's because Datong Society has mastered the solution to rice blast!

However, rice blast is really not a disaster in the eyes of the nobles. It may be earthquakes, meteorites, droughts and floods.

"If this continues, I'm afraid it will fall below 1000 billion. After 1000 billion, it will fall to 800 billion. If it falls, there will be no more, because the annual expenditure of our Daming Mansion is very large, far exceeding 800 billion!"

"Then where do our taxes go?" asked the daimyo.

"The most important thing is the interception of each city and county!" Miura Yamato said: "Originally, it was supposed to hand over 100 billion, but after the city lord handed it over, it may become 80 billion, 70 billion, you pick a little, I pick it One point, in our hands, the number is immediately much smaller!"

"In addition, we have never done supervision before, so their courage is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more corruptions. Now, some city lords are so bold that they dare to take [-]%!"

"How unreasonable!" Daming slapped the table angrily, "These people are so audacious, how dare they take my money!"

"Yeah!" Miura Yamato nodded, and calmly put on eye drops: "Once the city master, the princess sits in one place for a long time, he will have inextricable relationships with the local people. In order to protect them, naturally I can't care about the name and the law!"

"This" daimyo didn't quite understand, and asked, "Then let them go on like this, but if there is no suitable reason, they can't be abolished."

Corruption is definitely not a reason. If someone dares to do it, he will definitely give you a suitable reason.

For example, building a road and changing a water pipe, 2 million is not too much!

"Miura-sama, what can you do?" Daimyo asked.

"Is there a way, of course!" Miura Yamato stroked his beard: "Sell an official!"

"Ah?" Daming was shocked, even though he was stupid, he still knew that the behavior of selling an official was stupid, this is what a stupid king did!

"At an extraordinary time, you should do something extraordinary!" Miura Yamato said indifferently: "Besides, they withheld that little money, so how can we not let them shed some blood? Do you want to continue to be in the city? Yes, then use the money to buy it back , if you don’t have money, or if you don’t want to give money, then obediently give up your seat!”

"My country of fire has a vast land and rich resources, and the people are simple and kind. As long as the replaced city lord doesn't do anything wrong, the country can't decline, so it's the same whoever becomes the city lord. If this is the case, why not change to someone who can bring us something? Money?"

"This" daimyo blinked his big silly eyes, yes!

My country of fire is so powerful and prosperous, even if I put a dog on it to be the city lord, it won't be too bad.

Since this is the case, the city lord with the highest price wins, so why not!

"Of course, for the sake of your reputation, daimyo, I will ask someone to bring this matter up. Then daimyo, you just need to nod!"

"Yeah!" The daimyo nodded, and took Miura Yamato's hand firmly: "I can see that those people are vegetarians, and they are officials just to make money for themselves!"

"Only you, Miura, are really thinking about the Land of Fire!"

Miura Yamato smiled modestly: "Hey, who told me to be Kan Ding Xing? How could it be possible to see a country that has been guarded for 1000 years lose just now!"

"Leave this matter to the old minister!"

(End of this chapter)