Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 408
Asuka, Yamada Temple.

The sun has sunk behind the tall pagoda. As a symbol of the advanced culture from the mainland at that time, the entire temple of Yamada Temple is symmetrical with the north-south axis as the central axis. The central axis is the south gate, the middle gate and the pagoda from south to north. , Jintang, lecture hall, and the corridors surround the tower and Jintang.If you look down from the pagoda, you will find that the tiled roof of Yamada Temple is surrounded by the thatched roofs of nobles and imperial palaces, which is particularly conspicuous.

"Duke Ming!" Cui Hongdu followed behind Wang Wenzuo, and said in a low voice, "Did you notice that Shantian Temple looks familiar?"

"Do you think it looks like Dinglin Temple?" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"Yes, yes, it's exactly the same model as Dinglin Temple, but the scale is much smaller!"

"It's normal!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Buddhism was originally passed from the Baekje people to the Wa people. These temples and the Buddha statues inside were also built by Baekje craftsmen to help the Wa people. Didn't Liu Chongguang say that his ancestors came to the Wa country to repair it?" Have you ever been to a Buddhist temple? Maybe this Shantian Temple has the credit of his ancestors!"

"No wonder!" Cui Hongdu lowered his voice, "Why did Qiyu move here?"

"Her Tianzhao Shrine was burned, and it will take time to build a new palace! A house with tiles is better than a thatched roof. If I were her, tiles would be used for the new palace!" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"That's right, the house with the thatched roof is too dark. Even in broad daylight, there is always no light in the room!" Cui Hongdu nodded in agreement, but his next sentence jumped thousands of miles away: "Sanlang, what do you think she is doing?" You suddenly summoned us, and the eldest brother, the prince, is calling?"

"It's possible!" Wang Wenzuo's accent was a little vague. His eyes swept over the exquisite portraits on the four walls of the corridor. The exquisite craftsmanship of Baekje craftsmen made him involuntarily admire: "It's really good, what a pity!"

"What a pity? What a pity?"

"These murals, if there are no accidents, will soon become a battlefield, and these portraits that have condensed the efforts of countless people are likely to be burned!"

"Didn't you say that if Prince Zhongda came in, Princess Saitama's army would collapse?" Cui Hongdu asked, "Prince Zhongda should send people to protect these temples, right? After all, this is his wealth!"

"Hongdu, the test of Prince Zhongda started after he occupied the Asuka capital!" Wang Wenzuo said: "The soldiers made him a great position, and now it's his turn to pay. As a king, this Debts can be owed to anyone in the world, but the debts of soldiers cannot be owed!"

In front was the end of the corridor. Wang Wenzuo and Cui Hongdu stopped talking. The priestess guarding the door bowed to Wang Wenzuo and said in a low voice, "Minister, Your Majesty is waiting for you!"

Wang Wenzuo nodded. He followed the priestess into the lecture hall. Cui Hongdu was waiting at the door. This place was regarded as Saitama's temporary bedroom. Oil lamps, incense burners, braziers, the only thing that can be associated with luxury is the precious wood and gorgeous reliefs used on the floors and walls.

"Your Majesty, I'm here!" Wang Wenzuo stopped and bowed to Qiyu after a few cases. Qiyu raised her head, a smile appeared on her pale cheeks, and she said to the priestess: "You step back first, Don't let other people bother us!"

"Yes!" Priestess's feet moved silently on the smooth wooden floor, and then Wang Wenzuo heard the sound of the door being closed behind him. Only he and Saitama were left in Nuoda's scripture hall, and he couldn't help feeling a little A strange feeling.

"What happened?" Wang Wenzuo smiled.

"What happened?" Saitama repeated Wang Wenzuo's question, and the angry words spewed out like a spring: "Can you imagine? Katsuragi's army has already crossed the Kasagi Mountains. The terrain there is very rugged. Use your The people of Tang said that cars cannot be squared, and horses cannot be tied. There are six rock villages and mountain cities on the road he passed. I sent a total of 3000 people to guard them, and they did not even try to resist. Traitors, cowards, say They are worms who insult worms, I really should replace them with a group of women, at least it won't increase Katsuragi's troops!"

"In the face of the general trend, few people dare to stand up!" Wang Wenzuo smiled: "But it's nothing, at least we don't have too much loss!"

"No big loss?" Saitama's gaze reminded Wang Wenzuo of a she-wolf: "The forward of Katsuragi's army is only three days away, and my men are scrambling to surrender to him. We are finished, and he won! "

"He won the first game, and the game has just begun!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "In my opinion, the worst is almost over!"

"Lang Jun!" Like a man in the water grabbing a straw, Qi Yu firmly grabbed Wang Wenzuo's hand: "You have already asked Datang for reinforcements? When will you arrive, and how many troops are there?"

"That's right, I've already written a letter!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, "But the key to victory is not Tang Jun, but who can answer the questions correctly!"

"Answer the question correctly? What question?" Saitama asked puzzled.

"When Prince Zhongda escaped from Asuka, there should not be many people around him. He was able to sweep Omi so quickly, and then brought tens of thousands of people into the Nara Basin. How did he do it?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: " Why is this?"

"I don't know either!" Saitama shook his head, with a look of doubt on his face: "Really, I didn't expect such a thing to happen at all. If you didn't let me build the city in Nanbajin first, I would have no way out now. None! By the way, you should have expected this, right? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I'm a foreigner, how could I have expected this!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Letting you build a city in Namba Tsu is nothing more than fighting too many battles and suffering too much. I think it's always good to plan for the worst first! Nanbajin is located at a key point, guarding the throat of the waterway from various countries to the capital, as long as you control it, you can control the capital's food road and get reinforcements from Baekje, so I chose it!"

"That's true!" Saitama's eyes sparkled with excitement: "You are indeed more thoughtful than I thought, so what do you think should be done next?"

"Next? How much food is there in Asuka? How long is it enough for the local residents?"

"There is less than 15 shi in the granary controlled by the imperial court! Probably enough to last until next year's summer harvest!"

"Very good, let the people in the capital take as much as they want, and let the people in the capital take it for themselves, and burn all the rest that cannot be taken away!"

"I understand that the purpose of burning grain is to not leave it to Katsuragi, so why open a warehouse to release grain?" Qiyu asked in confusion: "The people in the capital have food, doesn't it reduce the burden on Katsuragi? If the granary is burned, not a grain of grain will be left to Katsuragi?"

"Your Majesty!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Opening warehouses and releasing grain kills two birds with one stone. First of all, it can win the hearts of the people. Asuka is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea on one side. A considerable part of the residents' food comes from the county, most of which come from the sea. Once the war breaks out, the sea route will be cut off. And after Brother Zhong brings tens of thousands of people into Asuka Capital, there will definitely be no food to sell in the market, and the price of food will skyrocket. At this time, people in the capital will only resent Brother Zhong, and I won't hate you!"

"What's the use of human hearts?" Saitama sneered: "It's better to just burn them all, so that there will be a famine in Asuka before spring, and Katsuragi can only retreat to the Omi area. If you follow your approach, Katsuragi will be completely You can collect food from the people to feed his army through the winter!"

"On the contrary!" Wang Wenzuo said: "If you use your method, Katsuragi will indeed withdraw to Omi, and what you will get is Asuka full of resentment, so how sure are you of defeating Katsuragi who controls Omi? As for you Collecting food from the common people, what else can cause more resentment than this? Isn’t that your great opportunity, Your Majesty? Don’t forget, Asuka has gathered a large number of nobles and Buddhist temples, and they are not easy to bully!”

"It sounds like what you said makes more sense!" Qiyu rolled her eyes, and her shoulders were already leaning on Wang Wenzuo's chest: "And then? What else do I need to do?"

"Burn the excess ships, the shipyard, and if possible, bring the craftsmen who built the ship to Namba Tsu, it will be useful for us in the future!"

"This suggestion is very good!" Saitama nodded: "I can do it right away! Is there any more?"

"There are only so many now!" Wang Wenzuo replied: "Actually, the most important thing is the question I asked at the beginning, why so many people voted for Brother Zhong, this is the key point! Help, the key to victory depends on who finds the 'Tao' first!"

The smile on the woman's face disappeared, and she looked at Wang Wenzuo coldly: "If you get the right way, you can help but if you don't, you can't help it. So I am a person who has lost his way?"

"Looking at it now, yes!" Wang Wenzuo said bluntly.

Saitama felt something in her eye, stinging, blurring her vision.She couldn't cry, especially in front of this man. She raised her head proudly and stood up: "Minister, you can go out now!"

Wang Wenzuo didn't move, as if he didn't hear Qiyu's voice, the woman bit her lips tightly, forcing herself not to cry: "Get out, Minister of Internal Affairs!"

Wang Wenzuo stood up, looked into Qiyu's eyes, and bowed to him: "I thought you knew what a king is, but now it seems that I was wrong!"

"It's not too late!" The woman's voice was bone-chillingly cold: "Gecheng's striker is very close, if you join him, he will be very happy!"

"If I had been on his side from the beginning, you would be dead!" Wang Wenzuo sneered, "I will write down everything that happened here in the memorial, and I will plead guilty to the emperor!"

"Didn't you say that Gecheng is the one who has attained the Tao, why don't you help him?"

"Four years ago, I was a gang leader of the Tang Army, and there were twelve people under my command." Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice, "We just captured the capital of Baekje under the command of General Su. After guarding for a year, you can go back to your hometown, disarm and return to the fields, and live a peaceful life. Everyone drinks and shoots, thinking about how long it will take to go home." At this point, Wang Wenzuo paused a little: "But Fukunobu Onimuro raised troops, He begged for help from the eldest brother, the prince, and made Yu Fengzhang king, so we fought for three years. During these three years, I have experienced hundreds of battles and hardships, and countless robes have died around me. Do you think I'm going to help him?"

Qiyu opened her mouth and found that the original anger in her chest had disappeared. She reached out and grabbed Wang Wenzuo's sleeve: "I'm sorry, I don't know these things, otherwise I wouldn't say those words!"

Wang Wenzuo snorted coldly: "Forget it, Your Majesty, you were born in an emperor's family, and it is difficult for you to understand the minds of us warriors!"

"That's not necessarily the case!" Qiyu rolled his eyes, hugged Wang Wenzuo's right arm, dragged him to the table, and forced him to sit down: "Just say I can't hear you!"

"Say you listen? Tell me about these past events at this time? Katsuragi's army has already crossed Mt. Kasagi!"

"Don't be afraid, I will write down your suggestion just now into a decree for my subordinates to carry out!" Saitama wrote down the opening of the warehouse and the burning of the shipyard in three strokes like flying, and stamped his own seal Yin, called the female officer to pass it on, and then returned to the case and said with a smile: "Now the matter is over, you can talk about those past events!"

Wang Wenzuo hesitated for a while, and finally decided to do so. He thought for a while and said, "Alright, then I will tell the story of my Baekje men. The first one is Sancho. He followed me the first time. He was originally a three Han Munu..."

"This is the story of Wang Gao." I don't know how long it took, Wang Wenzuo felt his mouth was dry, picked up the water glass next to him, but found that it was empty, and forced a smile: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, today is the time." Come here?"

"That Wang Gao is still alive now? How is his fourth brother now?" Qiyu refused to let go, excitedly refusing to let go: "And that Yuan Fei, can he really be as agile as a monkey? You Why don't you bring them here and let me see them?"

"I didn't expect you to be interested in this at the beginning!" Wang Wenzuo, who was tortured helplessly by the woman's curiosity, said with a wry smile, "Next time, next time, I will definitely let them come and let you meet!"

"It's a deal!" Qiyu laughed, and she slapped her knee suddenly: "I understand why Katsuragi was able to gather so many people all at once!"

"How to say?"

"It's very simple! He must have promised those who defected to him to be officials and secure the land! In this way, many people must come to defect to him and work for him!"

After careful questioning, Wang Wenzuo found out that Japan was still in the era of the Bumin system, that is, the land belonged to the chiefs of the big nobles headed by the emperor, and the Bumin themselves did not have land ownership. The civil system has changed to the state ownership of the emperor, and ordinary people still have no land ownership.However, in fact, there are many small wealthy families like Akatsuki in Japan. They either cultivated privately by themselves, or acted as agents for the farms of big nobles headed by the emperor. They accumulated a considerable amount of wealth and possessed considerable manpower. The ownership of the land they own is illegal and not recognized by the emperor's country. They may be deprived of their land and property by the local state secretary at any time, and become lower-class farmers. These local tyrants have a very strong motivation to change the status quo.

(End of this chapter)