Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 430 The Dignity of a Warrior

"This woman learned too fast!" Wang Wenzuo secretly slandered, but said in his mouth: "I'm afraid it won't work. There were many murderers at that time. If he was killed, what would the others do? Even if it was for the safety of these people." Heart, can't kill him!"

"That's true! Or are you being thorough? Then what do you think should be done!"

"Let's be locked up in Shantian Temple for a while!" Wang Wenzuo said: "After the limelight has passed, I will arrange for him and give him a lesser-known but more important official position!"

"Well, this is a good idea!" Saitama nodded: "Then let's put it aside for now! What do you think is the most important thing now?"

"Of course, it is to attract as many counties as possible, and to train the army!" Wang Wenzuo said: "Frankly speaking, your current army is a mob. It was largely a fluke to win last time. This kind of thing can never happen." No two!"

"I know this well. I'll leave it to you to organize and train the army!" Qiyu said, "If possible, you can send another batch of reinforcements from Baekje!"

"I'm afraid it will be very difficult. There are too few ships. Even if they can be transferred, there will only be 2000 people!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head: "And Brother Zhong should transfer the troops stationed in Kitakyushu, as well as the Baekje people in exile. The fighting power of the army is not comparable to those local tyrants from Omi that are temporarily thrown in!"

"That's true!" Saitama frowned. After the Battle of Baijiangkou, in order to resist the possible invasion of the Tang army, Brother Zhong deployed many troops in Kitakyushu, including the Baekje people in exile. The training is far superior to the local tyrants he temporarily summoned in Omi, and the natural combat effectiveness is also far superior.

"If you can, you can try to win over these troops. Although Brother Zhong and you both claim to be kings now, after all, you control Asuka now, so the quality of the throne should be higher than him, right?"

"Well, I'll try it!" Saitama nodded, "But Abehirov has a high prestige in the army, so he must be on the side of Brother Zhong now."

Wang Wenzuo didn't speak, but nodded. Of course he knew the reason why Abebirov was on the side of Brother Zhong, but because of Liu An's matter, he didn't have to think too much about it since he had already made a death feud.

"This method is very good!" Qiyu laughed, and suddenly changed his tone: "But! Sanlang, you really need to practice your handwriting, your handwriting is too ugly, not worthy of your status as the right minister! "After that, before Wang Wenzuo could react, she jumped up and ran to the back of the house with a smile.

"Knot?"

"It doesn't matter, I'll give half of it first, just five thousand knots!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "I will give five knots of land to the soldiers who have done meritorious service. This should be enough, right?"

"That's true! Most people live in the countryside, where silver can't be exchanged for anything. This is a rare thing that looks pretty. It is estimated that they will be enshrined on the shrine and treated as a family heirloom for generations!"

"I do have this plan, but it seems that the effect is not very good!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "When I selected the shooters, I rewarded some silver, but many people don't seem to value them too much!"

"Then I can divide these fields into small pieces and distribute them to the soldiers who have done meritorious service?"

"It will be the season for sowing rice soon. At this time, the soldiers will go home, and no one can fight!"

"Of course the best way is to give them land and farms!" Saitama said with a smile: "No samurai would dislike having a lot of land and farms. With fields, rice can be produced, and with rice, more people can be fed. More people can open up more farms. It's a pity that only after defeating Brother Zhong will there be enough farms to reward them. Most of the farms around Nara belong to temples, royal families and nobles, and there are too few rewards Already!"

"Give it to you?" Qiyu laughed: "Didn't you say that you will resign from the Yamato Kingdom immediately after the war?"

"This is your Fengtian, of course it's okay if you want to do this!" Saitama smiled indifferently: "But it's okay if there are only a few people, but if there are too many, it will damage the interests of your own family, isn't it? A wise move!"

Qiyu took the blank paper, and saw that there were two large characters "feelings" written on the top, and below it was written when and where so-and-so was, fought bravely, how many people were shot, how many people were killed, whether they were injured, and the last line In order to thank him for his heroic service, he was rewarded with five taels of silver and five knots of land.

"No, in the Yamato Kingdom, you have as many lands as you are in any official position or title. This is a one-to-one correspondence. Otherwise, a member of the tribe can occupy more land than the court officials? How is this proper?" Qi Qi Yu smiled and said, "If you want to obtain our country's property, then you can't resign from the official position; if you want to resign from the official position, you can't even think about the property! You can choose it yourself?"

"Your Majesty, if you can calm down Brother Zhong, how much land do you plan to give me?"

"Of course, I'm Lieutenant Zaemon, and the minister of the right personally ordered it!" Seeing the surprise on the face of the former master, Heiraku felt smoky, as if he had drunk a large bottle of the best wine.He tried his best not to show a smile on his face, according to the new friends he made these days, so that he could be worthy of his official position and be a decent nobleman.

"Yes! A knot is probably a field that produces twenty shi of grain!"

"What's the matter? What are you thinking again?" Qiyu found that Wang Wenzuo had fallen into a state of insanity again, and stretched out his right hand to shake in front of Wang Wenzuo: "Could it be that you are thinking about some wild woman?"

"What kind of wild woman!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "I don't have the skill now, I'm thinking about how to reward meritorious soldiers!"

"I'm not a god, how can I know everything!" Wang Wenzuo smiled wryly, but Qiyu was right. The so-called "knot" as a field unit was originally a unit of measurement in the Qi State during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, that is, bundle, bundle, negative, and knot. , It is the land that can produce a handful of ears of rice, ten bundles are a bundle, ten bundles are a bundle, and a hundred bundles are a knot.Since Qi State and the Korean Peninsula faced each other across the sea, this unit of measurement spread to the Korean Peninsula, and then to Japan, becoming the main land measurement unit in Japan during the Asuka period.

"Oh, oh, I almost forgot!" Wang Wenzuo patted his forehead and laughed.Ancient Japan was a civilization based on rice farming. Rice planting was the cornerstone of the ancient Yamato country. Unlike common dryland crops in East Asia such as wheat, barley, and millet, rice planting required a complex irrigation system. This irrigation system cannot be established by individual small farmers.Therefore, for a long time in ancient Japan, the village community rather than the family was used as the basic production unit.

Seeing that Wang Wenzuo didn't speak, Qiyu thought that the other party was worried about the future war, so she curled up into Wang Wenzuo's arms: "Actually, you don't have to worry too much. Whether it's me or Katsuragi, it will take at least a few months before the war begins." Yes, you have enough time to train the army and wait for reinforcements!"

"Your mansion?" Seeing Akatsuki, he couldn't believe his ears: "Pingliu, you mean that little grass house in Namba Tsu?"

Wang Wenzuo frowned, what Qitama just said made him feel a little unhappy.Whether intentional or not, Saitama still puts himself in the shoes of the imperial family and clan aristocrats, who, under the existing system, are the owners of Yamato land.She gave more land to supporters as a forced exception.

"My lord, this is the mansion of the Jijian family!" Heiliu replied, "The villain's mansion is in Nanbatsu, and the ground has not yet been broken!"

"Then what are you going to do? Reward them with gold and silver?"

"That's right, Minister of the Right is a very prestigious official position. If he is not a son of the royal family, he will generally not be able to take up the position!" Qi Yu said with a smile: "But this knot is also from your China, why don't you know?"

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"At the end of the testimonial is my stamp and official seal!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "The awardees can use this to obtain land in the future, and they can also keep the testimonial as proof of their own martial arts!"

"How many more months?" Wang Wenzuo was taken aback: "Why?"

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with that, anyway, as long as those people are willing to fight hard!" Qiyu said with a smile: "If you give them the fields, it would be too cheap for them!"

"A mansion with a square meter of [-] paces? Namba Heiroku!" Ji Jian Akatsuki looked at him in surprise, with a smug smile on his familiar face: "So you are no longer a member of the tribe?"

"No!" Ping Liu proudly puffed up his chest: "In order to reward the villain for his achievements, the Minister of the Interior has already given the villain a mansion in Namba Tsu, which is about a hundred steps square. By the way, His Majesty also gave the villain Namba My surname, from now on you should call me Namba Heiroku!"

"Then with my current official position, how much land can I have?"

"If you are stingy, how can you motivate soldiers to kill the enemy?" Wang Wenzuo smiled. He walked to the desk, wrote vigorously, and then handed it to Qiyu: "Look, how about this?"

"That's 20 shi to 40 shi, so much?" Wang Wenzuo was taken aback.

"It's enough!" Qiyu said with a smile: "If you hunt and grow some melons and vegetables nearby, it's enough to feed a small family of 30 people! It's just that you are too generous!"

"That's true!" Wang Wenzuo sighed. Just as Qiyu said, gold and silver were not a currency in large-scale circulation in East Asia at that time. It can be used, let alone in Japan, where the commodity economy is far behind Datang.For those Wangwen Zuoshe people who received the reward, they may regard these silver ingots as a beautiful treasure rather than a large sum of money.

"That's true, the same is true for Chang'an and Luoyang!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "Then we can only postpone this, but we must also reward them, otherwise they will not contribute next time!"

"So troublesome?" Wang Wenzuo muttered. He knew that Saitama was not lying. Japan's land system at that time was indeed like this. It was somewhat similar to that of the Western Zhou Dynasty in ancient China. What kind of things, how big a house you live in, what kind of vehicle you ride, and how much land you occupy are all stipulated by etiquette. If you possess more than what you should have in your status, it is a breach of etiquette.Although this system looks ridiculous to modern people, it was regarded as a natural rule thousands of years ago in ancient times, and it is by no means something that Wang Wenzuo can refute with a few words.

"Yes, an official position is an official position, and a field is a field. Just because I don't want an official position doesn't mean I don't want a field!"

"Pingliu, this is our home, right? What a pity, it took a lot of effort to build this house, but now it's gone!" Chi Jian looked at the ruins in front of him, and couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion.

"Lieutenant Zuoemon, the minister of the right personally sealed it!" Seeing that Akashi seemed to have turned into a parrot, he kept repeating the words of the old servant, and he could feel the sourness in his mouth, no, the sourness was not only in his mouth, His whole body was sore, especially his eyes, tears had already begun to roll.From a member of the tribe to a military officer like Lieutenant Zaemon, he has crossed the steps of several generations of struggle. Why didn't such good luck fall on him?Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel jealous of Ping Liu.

Moreover, the labor demand for rice planting is very unbalanced. Both spring planting and autumn harvesting require a lot of labor, while the labor required in normal times is much less. Therefore, it is economically impossible for ancient Japan to launch large-scale wars in spring and autumn. Different from suicide.With the mobilization level of the Yamato country at that time, neither Brother Zhong nor Saitama was able to force the village society to send out enough young and middle-aged men to form an army.

"You are the right minister now. If you follow the convention, you should be able to receive a land of [-] knots to [-] knots!"

"Namba Hall!" Chi Jian said in an unaccustomed respectful tone, "Why didn't you say it earlier, I was really rude when I screamed like Liuping Liu just now, please forgive me!"

"Master, you don't have to do this!" Namba Heiroku was both happy and terrified when he saw Akatsuki's appearance: "What's the big deal, I'm still called Heirioku! You can continue to call me that! "

"Namba-den!" Ji Jian Akatsuki said solemnly: "Your name is indeed Hei-roku, but only people with higher status and official positions than you can call you that. It would be rude for others to call you that. You can reprimand him loudly, and if he dares not apologize to you, you will have to cut him down!"

"Cut him?" Namba Pingliu was taken aback: "Isn't it? Just to call Pingliu, you want to kill someone?"

"It's not a matter of injustice. You are already a military officer of the imperial court. To be rude to you is to disrespect the imperial court. If you don't kill him, you will lose the court's face. The only way to apologize is to die!" Seeing Chi Yan's serious expression: "As a samurai, the first step is to have the dignity of a samurai. Only in this way will others respect you, understand?"


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