Pillars of the Wu family

In September, Edo is full of flowers, and the coast of Tone River is in the busy season of farming. In the villages all over the Kanto plains, the rice drying fields are piled up like mountains, making the farmers smile happily. Tortured by floods and floods for many years, the last five years have been getting better and better, and the bumper harvests have gradually changed the old appearance of Kanto's successive years of disasters.

Echigo's mature agricultural system spread rapidly across the entire Kanto. Whether it is the generation of the flag or the foreign leaders, they all strictly follow the decrees of the Kanto General's Mansion. Whether it is the village system or the manor system, the rural areas must obey the government's decrees. Those with less than [-] anti-land land and mainly self-cultivation are regarded as grassroots farmers, and those who own more than [-] anti-land or do not engage in production are registered as grass-roots tax and service bearers. Add burden.

Except for large-scale general service and military service collection, it is usually prohibited to collect relevant taxes and services for peasants whose land holdings are below ten anti. The tax burden between land-creating servants and village officials and grassroots farmers, as small landlords or non-producers as grassroots servants, and small and medium-sized peasant families whose self-cultivated land area is lower than ten anti, will gradually reduce the tax burden.

After six years of continuous repair and expansion, the first phase of the Edo Castle project completed 25% of the total project volume at a speed much less than the construction period, and the Edo Castle Town with a total area of ​​20 town steps or about [-] square kilometers was completed. For the most part, more than [-] permanent residents moved into Edo Castle Town, and almost all the essence of Edo Naoetsu Town was moved to Edo Castle.

The impact of moving half of Echigo country's industry and commerce to Musashi country is huge. The most direct change is that Musashi country is rapidly becoming more and more backward at a speed visible to the naked eye. The strong Echigo dialect and the native dialect of Kanto blend together to form a new dialect. Culture, what Echigo townspeople brought to Edo and Kanto is not only a mature and developed handicraft system, but also simple and sturdy folk customs and infinite respect for the Kanto government.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki's prestige in Echigo is very exaggerated, and the simple townspeople think that His Royal Highness raised troops in Echigo, driving the Echigo tigers and wolves to conquer the Eastern Kingdom and shock the world.This is the pride of Echigo and the pride of all Echigo people, so they proudly become the residents of Edo Castle, the new pearl of Kanto, and this is the reason why so many residents are willing to abandon their homes and jobs and leave Naoetsu.

The development of Xintian in the past five years has made amazing achievements.Last year, the first inspection of the Kanto countries found that the total stone height was 460 million stones, of which Musashi ranked first among the eight Kanto countries with 120 million stones.Became the second big country with more than one million koku under the Kanto government, Hitachi 75 kok, Shimono 70 kok, Ueno 60 kok, Shimoso 60 kok, Shangso 40 kok, Sagami 25 kok stone.There are [-] koku in the country of Anfang, and [-] koku in the country of Izu.

In the first Echigo country, the stone height slowly increased to 330 million shi, and the total population of Echigo country dropped rapidly from more than 90 at its peak to less than 45. Among them, there were more than [-] farmers from Musashi country.This caused great fluctuations in the farming order in the Echigo Kingdom. Fortunately, the cooperation of the executive officer and the garrison quickly suppressed several riots, and resolved the basic contradictions between old and new immigrants with fair judgment.

The large-scale development of Nitta and the collective migration of Echigo farmers to Musashi country led to a shortage of labor and a short-term population shortage in Echigo Junior High School. In five years, a total of [-] towns of Nitta were developed in Echigo Plain.A large number of polders and sparse agricultural population have greatly reduced farming efficiency. [

In the past few years, the population has decreased and there are not enough farmers to cultivate the land. The cultivated land of nearly 20 chobu is converted into 200 million anti-land, and then divided by the total population of Echigo. Not too much, the four-anti farmland is only six mu of land converted into mu.

But if you consider that Echigo Junior High School still has 18 to [-] professional residents.Excluding the special situation that the old, weak, women and children can only be counted as half of the labor force, the entire strong labor force of Echigo is less than [-] people, and the cultivated area of ​​Fudan that each person needs is more than [-], which is converted to [-] mu. Five points of arable land.

This number is astonishing. Even with enough cattle and horses for farming, it is inevitable that each person responsible for such a large piece of land will be overwhelmed. If the men in the family are too busy, they can only ask the old, weak, women and children to help , When the farming season is busy, I often get up early and work hard every day. I start to be busy before dawn and stay busy until dark before going to bed.

No matter how busy you are, you can't change the fact that the grain output of each crop has dropped significantly. The original rice-wheat rotation and intensive cultivation mode can ensure that the grain output per crop is stable at between three and four stones. However, the current situation is that the average grain yield is gradually declining. The net grain income is so low that every turn of the land is less than one stone and five buckets. Many farmers are too tired to simply give up the rice-wheat rotation. After autumn, they either plant soybeans and vegetables, or simply fallow the land.

Farmers are learning how to allocate their labor time. There are fewer and fewer villages working as hard as they did a few years ago. It doesn’t matter if production efficiency decreases and food output decreases. The most important thing is to get rid of poverty and let people live a better life. Walk the streets People who are capable of ape music and performing arts in the alleys compiled and sang nursery rhymes praising the wise Guandong Gongfang.

In a fleet of boats going up the turbulent Tone River, several executive officers sat together and talked in a low voice. As river patrol officers, they were responsible for inspecting the embankment facilities near the river. Due to the temporary assignment of responsibilities, several executive officers seemed very relaxed.

The young Hikosaburo Tsuchiya seemed very excited, dancing with his hands and feet, and said: "At the end of the hundred years of chaos in the Kanto, His Royal Highness Gongfang has governed the Eastern Kingdom with outstanding martial arts and martial arts. Perhaps we will usher in a peaceful and prosperous age that has not been seen in hundreds of years! We can live a peaceful life.”

His companion suddenly laughed and said, "Yan Sanlang still knows about the times of peace and prosperity, but have you ever seen the times of peace and prosperity? Don't just want to learn the words of the Ming Dynasty without understanding the meaning of the words. This is also called the times of peace and prosperity?"

"Why can't it be a peaceful and prosperous age? During the few years of Kanto's unification, everything has changed smoothly. The peace of mind in Kanto is an opportunity for us to pursue our grand plans. If this is not a peaceful and prosperous age, when will it be?" Tsuchiya Hikojiro argues , causing a burst of laughter.

"You are wrong. The peaceful and prosperous age is not a few years of good times, but it is an era of stability and chaos in the world. It takes at least 30 years of stability to be considered a peaceful and prosperous age! The prosperity of the peaceful paradise in Kanto today The scene is not the same as it was in the peaceful and prosperous time in Gina in the past, the world is so big, it is not just a powerful warrior from Guandong Gongfang."

"The position of His Royal Highness is very embarrassing."

"The shogunate is very afraid of His Highness Gongfang! I think Kanto Gongfang is probably very uncomfortable. That's why I went to Mutsu's place where the birds don't shit and stay there for four or five years. In my opinion, this is It means giving in."

The young Eunuch Hikosaburo Tsuchiya was unconvinced and wanted to defend himself, but found that the expressions of several executive officers became more and more strange.One of them had a deceitful look in his eyes: "It makes sense. The Shogun's Palace grasps the righteousness of the Shogunate and has the grace to know Guandong Gongfang. The Shogunal Palace will definitely not let Guandong Gongfang go east. Dare to go west, after all, his family status will be lifted up after all! Hehehe..."

This group of executive officers are new members from the Eight Kingdoms of the Kanto. Their loyalty to the Kanto General's Mansion is far less stable than that of the Echigo Samurai. It is inevitable that there will be outrageous remarks when they carry outsiders' backs on Ashikaga Yoshitoki. Occasionally, young people show off The latest news that I have learned, the language performance is not to put on a posture that when I knew Ashikaga Yoshito very well, I knew the situation of the Kanto government very well.Since ancient times, there have been such people who boasted and pretended to be experts, but this group of people is not that simple.

"Hush! This is taboo, let's talk about it and don't spread it!" [

"I know, don't put on a look of fear. I also know a few people who practice mysteries and mysteries, but they are just a group of clowns who play mysteries. Don't listen to the mysterious words in the market. I don't believe they can find out what we are talking about! There are 26 people in this fast boat, including me and the boatman, and they are all people with clear background. Are you afraid that they will know something?"

"Hahaha... I don't think it's believable! I wait to meet once every ten days through the temporary errand of the river patrol officer. I haven't been discovered by anyone for several years in a row!"

"I didn't even notice our whereabouts, so I probably wouldn't know that I betrayed the important information about the Kwantung General's Mansion! Oda Masatada's generosity is much better than the stingy Kwantung Kungfu!"

"If a government order is memorized and passed on to Owari, it will be a generous reward. Trifles can also be rewarded by Yiguanwen, and important information can range from dozens of Guanwen to hundreds of Guanwen. , You can earn two rewards for a job as a middle-level executor. It’s really cool that the income can catch up with those high-ranking officials in the Yulian Judges!"

The tall, fat and handsome executive officer seems to be their leader, touched the jade wrench on the little finger and said with a faint smile: "Money is very important to me, if I don't have money, I won't have the opportunity to enjoy Chinese clothes and food, if I don't It is impossible for money to live better than those tight-knit colleagues, we have had enough of life without money, we want to be masters in Kyoto just like the Guandong government!"

Another thin samurai said with a cold face: "My master's family is either living a hard life on Sado Island or has died in Huangquan. Speaking of it, I have to feel guilty for betraying the Guandong government, and there are too many grandparents in the Guandong general's residence." How many warriors like us whose master’s family has been destroyed are sneaky and sneaky to be pests under this towering tree.”

"Haha! Pest is a good name!"

They think their hiding is more secretive, but they don't understand that there is no impenetrable wall in this world. While these warriors were talking and laughing, they didn't realize that the hatch door was opened quietly, and a few honest watermen suddenly broke in to cover up with lightning speed. Grasping the inside of the cabin with ear-to-ear, just when they were frightened, they saw the hunched boatman slowly walk in.

"You are not only pests under the towering tree, but also a group of courageous bugs. The rotten smell from your body can be smelled hundreds of miles away..." The boatman moved closer to the tall, fat and handsome executive officer. Sniffing carefully, it seemed that he really smelled an unconcealable stench, and he slumped like a flexible monkey covering his nose and dodging in a hurry.

"It's really smelly! I followed the smell all the way and caught a few small bedbugs."

The tall, fat and handsome executive officer trembled from the sarcasm, and said in a cold voice: "You... who the hell are you! Do you know who we are? Pretending to be a waterman and trespassing on the river patrol officer's clipper is a serious crime. Leave wisely. Let us go back quickly, and I will pretend that this never happened."

The boatman circled around a few officials, and stood still in front of the tall and fat official, his crooked body fully stretched out, making a creaking sound, and transformed into the strong body of a young warrior. He looked at him and sneered: "You should have guessed it, right? Xuanxie is talking about me, the ninjas pretending to be ghosts, right?"

"You are……"

The boatman gently took off the disguise on his face, revealing a youthful face: "Remember my name, Hattori Hanzo."

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Edo Castle Nerimacho is said to be named after a horse farm. It is located at the edge of the Edo Castle Town and serves as an ordinary residential area. The structure of the Kanto General's Mansion is very large.Instead of the traditional step-by-step construction method of the castle town, related commercial facilities were set up in several places near Edo Castle.

Then build the supporting life setup.And build wide streets and build satellite cities among them. About [-] households are settled in Nerima Town, and the life is very peaceful. The garrison is set up near the main crossing outside the castle town, and the concentric police force composed of powerful underground people in the castle town The crowd is enough to ensure their safety.

Lianyueshan Guanyin Temple is a temple of the Fengshan sect of the Shingon sect. It was first built in the fifth year of Yongxiang. Zongbenshan Changgu Temple invited Master Zhuanyu to serve as the abbot of the temple to rejuvenate this century-old temple.

The imperial shadow hall, bell tower and five-storied pagoda in the temple are fully equipped.There are also three branch temples, Kannon-in Temple, dedicated to the eleven-faced Kannon deity, Aizen-in temple dedicated to Aizen Myo-o, and Bishamon-in temple dedicated to King Bishamon. Kenshin Uesugi likes to leave Edo Castle to meditate here in his spare time.

The abbot, Master Zhuanyu, is also a scholarly monk with noble interests.With the great influence of Uesugi Kenshin, the incense of this quiet and elegant Guanyin Temple has become more and more prosperous. There is an endless stream of tourists and believers who come to visit and worship Buddha. Therefore, Zhuanyu has been treated by many samurai in Edo Castle. Ruyi Academy, please go to the imperial palace to explain "Dai Lai Vajra Bukong Zhenmu Samaya".

Every believer who heard his lectures was amazed by the witty words.Today, it has become a frequent guest of the Kwantung General's Mansion, and an eminent monk as famous as Huzai Zongyi, Asayama Nichijo, and Nanguangfang Tianhai. Therefore, Guanyin Temple has become a relatively famous tourist attraction outside Edo City.

In the Juexin Hall of Guanyin Temple, there are two people sitting on the corridor playing chess. This courtyard is relatively quiet and peaceful in the corner of the temple. Occasionally, there are bursts of Sanskrit sounds floating in the air, which match with the sound of wind chimes on the corridor. A sense of harmony.The origins of these two people are unusual. One of them is Haruki Imidegawa, the second power master of the dynasty, and the other is a ghost who was lucky enough to become a Daoist ghost when he was the fifth guardian of Sado and Yamamoto.

Imadegawa Haruki held the black chess and contemplated for a moment, then dropped a piece and said: "Do you know how much you have gained from this battle in Ozhou, and can you take down the Yuao land in one go?"

"It depends on the will of His Royal Highness." Yamamoto Michiki seemed to have expected Imadegawa Haruki's move, quickly picked up the white chess and made a move, and in a blink of an eye, the black chess's advantage on the board was lost. That big dragon will always face the danger of not being able to look at each other from head to tail.

Imide Chuan Qingji fell into the long exam with one hand resting on his chin, and it took a long time before he fell down and let out a sigh of relief: "How do you say that?"

"His Royal Highness, if you want to save time and effort for a while, issue a blockade to order the people of all walks of life to donate their sons to Edo Castle to put down the "chaos" in Oshu. The wings of the Central Nanbu Clan and Yuhou Andong Clan have been completely cut off. The two Chinese nationals have been entrenched in Oshu for hundreds of years, and the Date Clan of Minamilutsu is intertwined. The goal is difficult to achieve." Yamamoto Michiki gently lowered the white chess piece.

It was as if a sharp knife had cut into the vital points of the black chess dragon, and the precision like a scalpel made Imadegawa Haruki look bitter and then fell into deep thought. This long exam took a very long time, and it took about half an hour. Seeing that Haruki Imadegawa dropped a chess piece, he was still trying to save Dalong who was about to collapse. After dropping the chess piece, he shook his head and smiled wryly: "Yu's chess skills are still a lot worse!"

Yamamoto Daogui said softly: "The poor monk is very unfamiliar with this way of playing chess. These years, he picked it up again after being idle in the Omi Kingdom. He often went to Miaoyun Temple to play chess with Zen Master Kuaichuan Shaoxi. After a long time, he lost his chess skills. Work it out slowly."

"Still talking about the topic just now... It seems that the first method is relatively simple. Why did His Royal Highness choose the second time-consuming and labor-intensive method?"

"Let me ask Yaxiang, if someone is sick and seeks treatment from a doctor, and he comes up with the two methods of quick cure and slow cure, I don't know how Ya should choose?" Yamamoto Michiki dropped another piece, and steadily took advantage of the disadvantage of the black chess dragon. , Squeeze this big dragon into a half-dead little dragon.

Seeing that the situation is in dire straits, Imide Chuan Qingji decided to admit defeat, opened the chessboard and asked, "What is quick governance? What is slow governance? I would like to hear more about it."

Yamamoto Michiko said: "Quick cure can be prescribed a tiger wolf "medicine" for two or three days to suppress the pain, on the surface it seems that the "medicine" to cure the disease is a magic doctor's technique, but in fact, the disease is poisoned by the tiger wolf. The "medicine" is still hoarded in the body forcibly. It may recur in three to five days or maybe a year or so, and the pain will only be more painful when it recurs.

Slow treatment is a slow-acting method compared to quick treatment. It takes only a few doses of decoction to cure the disease.Those who need medical treatment look for a room to grab medicines and carefully treat them. Occasionally, they have to adjust prescriptions and change decoctions, and pay close attention to changes in their condition.After three or two months, the sickness will be expelled and the patient will be able to heal himself. "

Imadegawa Qingji suddenly realized: "So that's the case, it seems that His Highness Gongfang is planning to deal with the Yu-Austrian countries with a slow method!"

"Not necessarily, maybe His Royal Highness is considering a combination of the two methods. After all, the Aozhou joint battle took a long time and the investment is huge and the return is not high. After four years of continuous fighting, the veterans have already been exhausted. Feeling war-weary, one should find a chance to win a battle to boost morale. It would be better to use the momentum of the victory to force the people of Ozhou to surrender. After all, Kyoto is not very stable, and it is not suitable for His Royal Highness to go out at this moment. " Yamamoto Daogui handed out a look full of deep meaning.

Haruki Imadegawa smiled wryly and said: "That's right! That's how I left Kyoto and took refuge in Edo Castle in the sixth year of Yonglu. It is simply unreasonable arrogance for the head of this dignified Tsinghua University to threaten him personally."

"The situation at that time was indeed that Miyoshi went too far in repairing the hall." Yamamoto Michiki knew the inside story of the turmoil in Kyoto in the sixth year of Yonglu. His wife died in Shenglong Temple City due to a long-term illness and unfortunately contracted herpes.

Miyoshi Changqing once again proposed a marriage proposal to the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiki.The goal of the marriage is Ashikaga Yoshiki's concubine sister Shihime. This Ashikaga Shihime is in her prime and has no problems in terms of age and health. The fetters between the shogunate and the officials in charge.

It seems that the general's concubine's concubine is married to Miyoshi's son-in-law.However, the strength and authority of the Miyoshi family in Kinai is doubtful. Miyoshi Changqing thinks that strength can make up for the invisible family gap, but he still makes two preparations so that Miyoshi Yoshihing can successfully marry his second wife. Miyoshi Changqing proposes Willing to pay a high price as a price, in exchange for Ashikaga Yoshiki nodding and promising to release him.

Miyoshi Changqing didn't know that he accidentally touched Ashikaga Yoshiki's self-esteem. There are very few cases where the Ashikaga general's daughter married a foreign minister. Except for the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu era, there is no record of a concubine's daughter marrying, the only exception. It is Ashikaga Yoshiki's sister who married Takeda Yoshitomo.

There are not many examples of General Ashikaga's family marrying their daughters to foreign ministers, so there is no precedent for Ashikaga Yoshiki as evidence. He was not very happy to marry his younger sister Ashikaga Shi to Miyoshi Yoshiko. "Buying" the daughter of the Ashikaga family with a betrothal gift, the fire in my heart was ignited.

Without saying a word, he rejected Miyoshi Changqing's enthusiastic suggestion, and on the spot, Miyoshi Yasunaga and Miyoshi Changyi, the envoys of the Miyoshi family, scolded that the nose is not the nose and the face is not the face. Everyone is talking about Miyoshi Yoshihing's toad wanting to eat swan meat, trying to improve his family status by climbing high branches.

Miyoshi Yoshiko was maliciously described as a greedy, lustful, arrogant, selfish and stupid guy, and his father, Miyoshi Changqing, who had pus on his feet and sores on his head, would put Miyoshi's family in the most vicious clown pile. Qing was so angry that he couldn't eat for a few days. He secretly scolded Ashikaga Yoshiki for not knowing good and evil.

Here, Miyoshi Changqing was sulking with annoyance. Before he planned to do anything to the shogunate, he heard that Ashikaga Yoshiki betrothed his younger sister Ashikaga Shihime to the Tsinghua family of the current dynasty. It is said that Chuan Qingji, as the wife of the first wife, will apply for a second-ranking public secretary for the freshly baked brother-in-law.

This is not over yet. Within a few days, it was reported that a grand wedding was held in the Nijo Imperial Palace in Kyoto. The groom, Haruki Imadegawa, married Ashikaga Shihime and completed the consummation ceremony in the Nijo Imperial Palace. From engagement to promotion to marriage The whole process took less than half a month, and it would be an absolute lie to say that this was not intentionally targeting Miyoshi Changqing.

The face of Miyoshi’s family was slapped. If Miyoshi Changqing looked in the mirror, he would definitely find his face swollen like a pig’s head. However, the public opinion in Kinai commented on this very happy, just like the handsome described in the novels of the Heian era The handsome Gongqing, fighting against the beautiful story of catching a girl's monster and forming a marriage with the girl, some good people cut off the beginning and cut off the tail to make this story into a new folklore.

How could Miyoshi Changqing tolerate Ashikaga Yoshiki insulting him like this, he went into a rage on the spot to find a place for his poor son Miyoshi Yoshiko, the [-] troops in Katsuryuji Castle suddenly crossed the Katsura River, and seized Kyoto with lightning speed The whole process took less than three hours, so that the news passed by the people in Kyoto was all over before it reached Sakamoto Castle.

The security force of the Nijo Imperial Palace was disarmed, and the armed forces in the Cizhao Temple were also blocked in the temple. Miyoshi Changqing planned to use force to forcefully separate the newlyweds at the time of the wedding. Unfortunately, he missed the ability of the Ashikaga family to be seen by the public. With the ability to confront an armed conflict head-on, the Iga ninjas are definitely not the opponents of the group of battle-tested arrogant soldiers assigned by the Miyoshi Army, but it is not a big problem to save a few people.

Originally, there were secret passages set up during the construction of the two imperial palaces. Under the cover of Ashikaga Yoshiki, it was very easy to sneak this young couple away without anyone noticing. People can't find the secret way, just walk around blindly and then retreat. Now Haruki Imadegawa took Ashikaga Shihime to pretend to be an ordinary couple, and fled to Sakamoto Castle overnight by boat to seek asylum, and then came to Edo, Kanto city.

Miyoshi Changqing was very angry. Failure to catch him meant that Miyoshi Yoshiko's wife would have to be single if he couldn't catch him. Although several samurai immediately said that their daughters were good-looking and old enough to marry, but Miyoshi Changqing paranoidly believes that the daughter of the general's family is the most suitable for his son, and the general will never tolerate him repeatedly denying him face.

If you can't tolerate it, you have to do something to retaliate. Miyoshi Changqing's way of retaliation is to abolish part of the treaty of the joint war between Luozhong and complete control of Kyoto without breaking the agreement with the shogunate. The strength was reduced from 1000 to 100, and all the extra troops were sent to Cizhao Temple outside the city of Kyoto. The Miyoshi Army sent [-] troops to station in Xiangguo Temple, which is across the river from the city, to monitor the nearly [-] guards in Cizhao Temple. main force of the army.

Then, [-] troops were stationed on Nakao Mountain and Fushimi Mountain, which were important places in several joint battles, for a long time. Build a military Fushimi mountain castle, which can monitor the military movements on the Yamashina street and the Uji River basin around the clock.

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