Pillars of the Wu family

() At the beginning, many people in the Kira family opposed Echigo, and they were united across factions, including Tokihide Nakajo, Naotaka Isse, Takatsuna Watanabe, Tsunataka Okochi, Tadaka Ina, and Tatoki Honda There are different opinions inside, and the shogunate faction and the Omi faction are even more opposed.

Even after coming to Echigo for the past six months, many people still don’t understand what is so good about Echigo. It’s cold and deserted, and there are mountains and swamps everywhere. It's a lot of losses, but the samurai of Echigo still enjoy it, and even the samurai of Mikawa, who has always boasted of his martial arts, can't bear it.

But Tokiyuki Yamamoto has always firmly supported him, and actively worked for the retainers of the Kira family, and formulated several plans to integrate into Echigo. The most feasible plan is to use strong economic effects to drive the people of Echigo to gradually accept it. The existence of the Kira family made them realize that Echigo's future masters would be the young couple sitting next to Nagao Keigora.

Now it seems that everything is connected very well, including the Nagao family's vassal group, the Ueda group, the Echigo Uesugi group, and the Yangbei group have all begun to actively approach. At first glance, the issue surrounding food cannot affect their political stance at all. , But in fact, quietly changes have begun to appear. The samurai obeyed the orders of the lord because of the laws of the shogunate, and the second was that the lord could protect their interests. This part of the role was played during the time of Kira Yoshi.

"The Kanto refugees I met in the Yuzawa Imperial Palace by chance, now recalling that those fleeing villagers rushed to Echigo with their families, food and shelter, and the hope in their eyes shocked me. It made me realize that in this Warring States period In troubled times, what do people hope for? That is the longing for a peaceful and peaceful life, and what we warriors are fighting for is not to protect the elders of one side, and to protect the homeland from being trampled by war?"

Nagao Jinghu said angrily: "There are too many injustices in the world. Those who have the righteousness of the samurai family should raise their bows, arrows, knives and guns to fight for the shogunate. If we samurai do not have loyalty in our hearts, what is the difference between them and wolves and beasts? If I become a bandit and become a disaster, the depraved samurai will become moths devouring my samurai's foundation.

Just like the Kai Takeda family, who did not think about the shogunate's great kindness, repeatedly invaded and plundered Shinano.Killing the famous Suwa clan, expelling Shinano to protect the Ogasawara clan, and once attacking Oku Shinano in an attempt to get my hands on Echigo, what a disgrace to the samurai family! "

"Speaking of which, the Kai Takeda family is also a famous Genji family! After Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, is the family not much worse than Bueden?" asked an Echigo samurai.

Kira Yoshishi just laughed without saying a word, and the samurai of Kira's family also sneered with their arms folded.Seeing the embarrassing scene, Nagao Masaki came out to smooth things over again: "Kai Genji should be a little worse than Takeda's family, after all, Hanoi Genji's descendant is the current public, and as the family governor of the Kamiso Ashikaga family, Takeda is obviously higher than Takeda Daizen Palace?"

"That's right! It can be seen from the official position! Wuweidian is the fourth rank of the left guard at a young age, and Takeda Ozen is over [-] years old. The official position is still the fifth rank? Hehehe..." Honjo Shino Having said that, of course no one will talk too much, such a comparison can indeed reflect the gap.

Takeda Harunobu has not moved a single step in his official position in the past ten years, but this Wuweidian has risen rapidly step by step since the beginning of Yuanfu. At the age of 13, he is under the fourth rank.In the future, it is no problem to sit in the public office, and the current public office Ashikaga Yoshiki is in early March this year.The promotion of the three powers, Da Nayan, and You Jinwei, Ruyuan, is more real than real money.

"It is precisely because of being touched by the refugees that my family is determined to do something, something more meaningful, such as public welfare."

"Public welfare...cause? What is it?" Naoe Mitsuna carefully chewed this strange term, puzzled.

"It's public, rather than doing things that compete with the people for profit. Our family initially plans to invest 5000 yuan of Yongle money to rebuild and strengthen the embankments of the Guanchuan, Shinano River, Agano River, Himekawa, and Kaji Rivers. As well as the dredging work of some rivers, it is estimated that [-] man-times will be required, and the construction period will be completed before November after winter, and the finishing work will not be delayed until the first month.”

"Oh, 5000 people? Doesn't that mean that one-tenth of the population has to pay the general service? But this year's general service has been used for disaster relief. Isn't such a large project a bit..."

"Everyone, please don't misunderstand!" Yamamoto Tokiyuki stepped forward to solve the problems of the family governor, and said with great enthusiasm: "The so-called general service means that the common people use voluntary labor to complete the construction demands of the lord, and the project of my Kira family does not need Voluntary labor, but paid employment, two meals a day, dry food and soup should be provided during the construction period."

"Hiss!" The people of Echigo gasped, and even Honjo Mino and Nagao Jingxin praised in a low voice: "Tsk tsk! What a great handwriting!"

5000 people have two meals a day, and the construction period lasts for two to three months. What kind of concept is this?In other words, 5000 people can save two to three months of food rations, and in this winter, the farmers are idle and have nothing to do. If there is a lord who is willing to provide two meals for the work, a large group of people will surely break through head.

Everyone present had a profound experience of how difficult the life of farmers in medieval Japan was. The people sitting in a row on the verandah of the Great Hiroshima were the small nobles of Echigo. Most of them had knowledge of fifty or sixty They are not qualified to enter the main hall to participate in the banquet, so they can only sit outside the hall to drink and eat meat. These people were considered rich peasants or small landlords in ancient China. These small wealthy people usually have to bend down to plow and weed the fields.

As for the poorer class of land servants, knowledge and practice are at most twenty or thirty shi, and some are at the level of ten or eight shi, which is about the same as the five anti-lands that Ueno Isari and Shimohira Yoshinaga competed for, converted into Chinese land units. It's almost eight mu of land, and the grain yield per mu is less than one stone, which is almost the same level.

These servants are peasants, who usually carry hoes and go into battle with swords and bamboo guns. They wear tattered old clothes in the countryside. They look exactly like farmers. Donwan, who was reluctant to wear it, carried a Taidao and held three guns majesticly leading a few farmers who were farming for his family to the battle.

Thirty-five thousand people saved two or three months of food rations.When the next year is young, there will be 5000 rations to support more people to survive. The elderly in those villages will not be driven to the wilderness to fend for themselves because of lack of food.Babies will not be drowned in the river because of lack of food, and there will be no tragedy of old people volunteering to pretend to be wild boars and being caught and killed by farmers to be eaten as "boar pork".

"Wuweidian is really a good man!" Immediately, a samurai from the banner of the Nagao family kowtowed excitedly to him, while making a good wish: "May Guanshiyin Bodhisattva bless Wuweidian and His Highness the Princess with many children and blessings!"

"May the Medicine Buddha bless the Hall of Defense and His Royal Highness the Princess!"

"May Shakya Tathagata bless the Hall of Defense and His Royal Highness the Princess!"

The warriors issued their good wishes one after another. In the Buddhist society, gods and Buddhas are the most authoritative existence. They believe that gods and Buddhas are blessed in the dark, from the emperor, generals, Guan Bai and down to the common people. Everyone in the whole class is highly aware of it. When a When a samurai tells you that the gods and Buddhas will bless you, it also means that this person is sincerely grateful to you.

Facing the sincere gratitude of the samurai.Tiger Hime looked very excited. The salesman's face was flushed with excitement when he held Kirayoshi's hand tightly, and his big watery eyes were full of pride and pride. For girls, the hero in their hearts is grateful to the Echigo samurai , is the most beautiful thing in this world. As for the righteousness of the martial arts family, justice and justice are too far away from her, at this moment the girl only has her Highness in her eyes.

"Toraji and I both accept your wishes! Thank you!" Yoshihiro Kira raised his cup.He said loudly: "This family uses tea instead of wine, please drink this cup together!"

"Yinsheng!" Tokiyuki Yamamoto and Shino Honjo shouted in unison. The rhythm was so synchronized that the two senior ministers from the two families looked at each other and smiled, and then they raised their glasses and drank happily.

"In addition, our family also plans to invest heavily in land improvement within the seven counties of Echigo. The main content of land improvement is to improve and optimize the maps that cannot be cultivated, such as rivers, swamps, dry diarrhea, and saline-alkali land. It is estimated that it will take five to five The initial results can be seen in ten years, the initial investment is about [-] Guanwen, and the investment in the next few years will not be lower than this amount.”

"Oh! Those useless lands! Why did the Hall of Martial Guard spend huge sums of money to renovate those useless lands?"

"That's right! A pile of useless land, and it costs a lot of money. It's really rich!"

Some people shook their heads secretly, this Wuweidian was generous and generous.It's just that he doesn't take money seriously, and he sprinkled [-] Yongle money with a wave of his hand. The tax revenue in the entire Echigo years may not be so much. This nobleman only pays so much for a year. Listen to him The tone will continue to add the same amount of investment in the future, really can not make them shake their heads secretly.

"I'm here to answer the questions for the owner!" Hosokawa Fujitaka knocked on the case table with a folding fan, and said with a smile: "Although these lands are not valuable, they are bordering on the land of the lords after all, so there are more funds for construction. Rarely will you use the farmers assigned by you gentlemen. You also know the rules of my Kira family. The hired labor is in charge of food. Some surplus materials in the transformation process can also be transferred to you for free for territorial transformation. Of course, these The improved land is to be assigned to the Kira family, do you have any objections?"

"What about the water source? And how to define the scope?"

"I will discuss this in detail with you after the meeting. As long as it is your farmland and the inherent water source of the road, this land improvement plan will not encroach on it!" Matsui Yuxian added: "I will wait I will do my best to protect the rights and interests of the gentlemen from infringement, and of course I also ask the gentlemen to cooperate, if you have any opinions, you can raise them."

"No! As long as our farm and water sources are not invaded, there will be no problem!" All the warriors in the hall replied in unison.

Seeing that the Kira family has made complete preparations without losing their existing farms and water sources, of course they will not object to this good governance. It would be great to build embankments without spending money. As for the land Who cares about the improvement? It’s nothing to give the worthless swamps, dry diarrhea, and saline-alkali land to the Kira family for free. Besides, they don’t want it for nothing. Spending real money for land improvement can also benefit the people in the county. , who would refuse such a good thing.

The people here represent the will of nearly [-]% of the people of Echigo. Except for some retainers and people who are unable to get away from the internal affairs of the autumn harvest, they basically rush here to participate in the banquet. Even if many people fail to participate in this agreement, it will not hurt. , [-]% of the Chinese people passed it unanimously, which means that other Chinese people will also support it with high votes.

Many people began to look forward to how the agreement after the banquet would be negotiated. Except for some drunkards, they all began to think about clearing their minds and gaining more rights for the next negotiation.

No one in the venue cared what those Chinese people who did not attend the banquet would think. As long as this agreement is signed, any opponents will be reduced to a minority. At that time, no one will be able to stop them on their warships, so the nature of the banquet will become another meaning.

"What do you want those wastelands for in Yishi? Forget it! Since you are determined to do it, then the family should also support it." Changwei Jinghu thought for a moment, and felt that it was not a big problem, so he nodded in approval: "Since Yishi has the intention to do it Echigo seeks welfare, so the family is here to express their support!"

Ben Zhuang looked at Nagao Jinghu worriedly, and he couldn't think clearly how many of them were worthy of scrutiny in a hurry, but he always felt vaguely inappropriate, as if jumping into a big pit, but this He couldn't express this intuition, and seeing the joyful expressions of his colleagues around him, he could only hold the words in his stomach.

"Success!" Yoshitoki Kira secretly praised, squinting his eyes and talking and laughing with Nagao Jinghu, his expression and movements were impeccable, but the subtle changes still couldn't escape the Tiger Princess who held his hand, the girl was sensitive to him. The hand that was holding him trembled slightly for a moment, feeling the excitement in his heart, the girl gently held his palm.

"What's wrong?" Yoshiki Kira turned his head to look at the girl.

"It's nothing! As long as His Highness is happy!" Hu Ji smiled, with an indescribably charming charm.

"Yeah!" The two expressed their love with their eyes, their voices were as soft as mosquitoes, but this small gesture could not be concealed from the battle-tested Echigo Dragon. Being unkind doesn't mean he doesn't have this knowledge. For the young couple's attention, he could only pretend to appreciate Tian Le without noticing it, and at the same time, he was silently thinking about whether the preparations for the two of them's wedding should be prepared as soon as possible in two years' time.

The two have gone through hardships at a young age, and finally the lovers finally got together. In his opinion, it is something worth celebrating. He even has the heart to let that reckless Chiyo Inoball go. Without him Stupid and reckless, this pair of Bi people don't know how long they will be at odds.

At this time, the sound of the monkey music stopped, and the Kagura of the shrine was replaced. One by one, they held copper bells, cypress fans, Sasa leaves, Sakaki leaves, and the kind of coins used by Hakurei Reimu, and danced a solemn and sacred dance. This kind of dance usually only appears at shrine celebrations, but because Wuwei Gong Ji Liangyi and Konoe Princess Nagao Tiger Hime returned safely after suffering, so most of the shrine priests decided to dance the divine dance for the two after discussing it. Your Highness prays.

A solemn and sacred dance ended, and the samurai who had been quiet for a long time were relieved. Some drunken guys cursed secretly, and they were so happy that they suddenly came out. If they didn't sit up straight and listen carefully, they would look frivolous. , I don’t know the rules, but fortunately, the witches soon performed the Yannen Dance again. This is also considered a revenue-generating project for the shrine, and they get paid for the ministers, samurai daimyo, and temple dances. (qidian.) m. qidian. Reading. )

ps: In fact, it is not easy for Hu Ji, but it has not been shown yet. After two chapters, I will probably know what kind of girl Hu Ji is.