Warring States Eagle

In fact, this time Konoe came to Zhou Hizen country a long time ago, in addition to sending Masara the great gift of imperial companions, he also had two tasks. (music) (reading) (fiction). 2x.com One of them is to renegotiate with the Luo family the emperor's royal land in the Luo family's territory (equivalent to the emperor's directly subordinate territory).

When the Luo family was just starting up, in order to establish a relationship with the government represented by Emperor Go Nara, Masara donated the territory of a village near Hizen Kuno Takayama to Emperor Go Nara as his royal land.Of course, the emperor's family also knew that it would be very good to get this gift from the Luo family, so they did not send people to manage this territory, but entrusted the Luo family to manage it on their behalf. As for this territory, every year It is enough for the Luo family to settle directly in coins according to the market price.Yi Shenglong, who was previously a permanent member of the Luo family in the Kyoto area, would send these coins to the palace every year after the autumn harvest.

Now, since Emperor Go Nara has passed away, and the new Emperor Shochinachi has succeeded to the throne, the government represented by Emperor Shochina naturally hopes to reconfirm with the Luo family the ownership of the land that originally belonged to Emperor Gonara. of.Zhengliang naturally readily agreed to the request of the public. Anyway, the Luo family has always taken care of the territory themselves, but they just gave the public a name and donated coins to the public every year under the pretext of the territory.In fact, the public family has been quite worthy of the support of the Luo family for more than ten years. At least every time they fight against a hostile force, the public family will not support the party that is hostile to the Luo family in righteousness.

After re-establishing with the Luo family the ownership of the land that originally belonged to Emperor Go Nara, Konoe Maeku had another mission to learn about the Ashikaga Yoshito, the prince of Harahira Island, who had previously migrated from the Awa country in the Shikoku region to the Luo family. , Ashikaga Yoshiei and others.

According to the rules of the public, when the original Hirashima Lord Ashikaga Yoshito, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others left Awa country.Someone sent someone to inform the public in Kyoto.It was only when the public learned the news.Hara Hirashima, Ashikaga Yoshito, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others have already gone to the Xiguo area to join the Ouchi family.

Unfortunately.The original Hirashima Prince Ashikaga Yoshito, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others happened to encounter the Itsukushima World War I at this time and the Luo family's strategy of the West Country, and the newly appointed Emperor Shochin-machi happened to be related to the Ashikaga family, so they also It seems that at this time, the Luo family, who has become the new owner of the former Ouchi family's territory, is inquiring about the whereabouts of the former Ouchi family's prince Ashikaga Yoshito, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others who have lost contact.

So where are Ashikaga Yoshifuyu, Ashikaga Yoshiei and the others at this time?

In fact, at this time, these people had just been resettled by the Luo family near Hizen Kono Takayama, and had been gifted a small manor by Zhengliang as their territory near the public imperial material land.

Ashikaga Yoshiei, who was playing near Utayake Castle in Zhou Fanguo in the Western Country, was put under house arrest by the lord of Udayake Castle. After being rescued by the Luo family who captured Udayake Castle, Masara followed the vine and attacked Yamaguchi Castle.Ashikaga Yoshiei's father Ashikaga Yoshifuyu and others were also "protected".

Afterwards, under the "guard" of Luo's family, Ashikaga Yoshifuto, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others set off from the coast of Shufang State by boat, directly crossed the waters of Shufangtan, passed through Iyu Bay and Beppu Bay, and finally arrived in the state of Shufang. Qibu City went ashore.

Qibu City was the residence of Dayou's family, the original overlord of the state. At this time, it was renamed Qibu City by Luo's family.It is said that the name "Qibu" was chosen by the governor of the Luo family, Luo Shi Masahiro, based on the allusion of "Fengming Qishan" in the Ming Dynasty. From this name, the father and son of Ashikaga Yoshito and Ashikaga Yoshiei immediately felt the young and rich family of the Luo family. The family governor Bu Wu has the ambition of the world.

I don't know if Qibu City was very prosperous when Otomo's family was in power.Anyway, when Ashikaga Yoshifuto, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others came to Qibu City, they were all shocked by the towering walls, majestic buildings and bustling people of Qibu City.Based on the prosperity of Qibu City at this time.Totally comparable to Kyoto.

After staying in Qibu City for two days and taking a short rest, Ashikaga Yoshifuyu, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others continued to go to other territories in the Luoshijiazhou area under the protection of the accompanying Luo family samurai.Although they don't know their ultimate purpose, Ashikaga Yoshifuyu and Ashikaga Yoshiei father and son, who have already accepted their fate, did not have too much resistance and resistance to this arrangement. Instead, the two of them took it as a spring outing, admiring the journey along the way. The scenery is up.

When Ashikaga Yoshifuyu and Ashikaga Yoshiei were admiring the scenery along the way carefully, they first discovered the road under the wheels of the bullock cart.According to the guards of the surrounding Luo family samurai, this avenue turned out to be a main road directly connecting the school city of the Luo family in the Hizen country. Tens of thousands of people were mobilized to build this road, and construction was started in multiple areas at the same time. It was built over a year ago.This avenue is very spacious, from the naked eye, at least seven war horses can fight side by side at the same time.What is even more surprising is that this avenue is smoother and harder than the avenues that Ashikaga Yoshifuyu and Ashikaga Yoshiei have seen before.This is good for walking on rainy days.

Aside from the surprise of Ashikaga Yoshifuyu and Ashikaga Yoshiei, the father and son of Ashikaga Yoshiei, the avenue that the bullock carts traveled along the way, they found that there seemed to be a lot of vehicles and pedestrians on the avenue.This time Ashikaga Yoshiei seemed much smarter, he knew how to take the initiative to ask the Luo family samurai around him for advice.So he quickly got a reply that some of the people walking on the road were businessmen within the Luo family, doing business everywhere, and the other part were ordinary people, some of them were indeed going to the market, and the rest were in visit relatives.

Ashikaga Yoshiei was amazed when he received this answer. He had never seen ordinary people walking around so frequently in other places. From this, we can see the peace and prosperity in the Luo family's territory.

In the process of walking, in addition to finding the general citizens coming and going, Ashikaga Yoshiei immediately discovered the fields on both sides of the road.The first is the continuous paddy fields. Judging from the grasses that cover the fields after harvest, it seems that these fields have just undergone autumn harvest.And in the dry field next to the harvested rice, Ashikaga Yoshiei saw the magic melon vines covering the field again.

These divine melons are also called Zhengliang melons.It is a unique crop of the Luo family.Disseminated by some merchants.In fact, this miraculous crop has also begun to be planted in many areas other than Luo's family. Among them, Oda Nobunaga, who was called a fool in Owari country, most admired the cultivation of this crop.Ashikaga Yoshiei also ate this magic melon when he settled in Awa Kunohira Island before, and he thought it was really delicious. He has always hoped to see the cultivation fields of these magic melons with his own eyes, and now he finally got his wish .

In addition to those melon fields that attracted Ashikaga Yoshiei's attention, he also discovered the ditches that were distributed around the fields like fishing nets.

"Is this the famous Zhengliang Canal in the Warring States Period?" Looking at the canal inlaid in the field, Ashikaga Yoshiei couldn't help but praise.

Of course, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others were amazed.Naturally, it was more than that. When they arrived at the Xuefu City where the head of the Luo family lived, they were once again shocked by the size of the Xuefu City.The greatness of Xuefu City is not only the towering city walls, the splendor of the seven-story castle tower located in the center of the city, and the large tube called the artifact above the city walls, but also the castle towns outside the city with a radius of two or three miles.

Here, the same pedestrians are everywhere, and the happy smiling faces of the residents are all over the place. In addition, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others also saw the soldiers of the Luo family patrolling the castle town.The neat pace, serious makeup, and shiny weapons all make people feel their mighty and extraordinary.Just the general security team in the castle town is so powerful, so the rest of the Luo family's regular team is naturally even more powerful.

Similarly, in Xuefu City, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others were arranged to rest for several days by Luo's family.During these few days.Ashikaga Yoshiei and others not only visited the castle town of Xuefu City, but also visited the well-known Luo's Academy in the Luo's territory, accompanied by a retainer of the Luo family with such a strange title as "principal".

In school.Ashikaga Yoshiei and others saw children from families such as lords, ministers, and commoners learning various knowledge such as martial arts, marching, and farming.Here, there seems to be no distinction of blood or identity, and all the people are full of vigor, racing against time to absorb all kinds of knowledge.

After resting in Xuefucheng for a period of time, enjoying the accommodation in some garden houses built with bricks and tiles in the southern style of the Ming Dynasty and the wonderful food in various episodes, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others once again carried the Ariake Sea near Xuefucheng The ships at the pier, among the various fleets of ships, finally arrived at the last stop of their trip to the Luo family, a manor near Hizen Kuno Takayama.

This manor was originally a slave farm of the Luo family. Because it was temporarily donated by Masaragi to Ashikaga Yoshiei and others as their future settlement in the Luo family's territory, the slaves who had worked for several years on the farm were also promoted to The general residents of the Luo family, and each of them allocated some fields of the farm as their own territory. From now on, they only need to work and live according to the laws of the Luo family.

After finally being free and being treated as a general citizen of the Luo family, all the slaves on the farm were pleasantly surprised. As early as when they were slaves of the Luo family, they had learned the law of the Luo family from those farm officials, and knew They will get a lot of benefits that will never appear in other regions in the future, so they are naturally very happy. Even Ashikaga Yoshiei and others officially called their manor (after the farm was cancelled, it was actually regarded as a manor. When they were in the small village), they all gave them a great welcome, so that Ashikaga Yoshiei and others misunderstood that they were welcomed by these people because of their noble status.

It was only after settling down, and after a period of time behind them, that Ashikaga Yoshiei and others finally realized that their previous thinking was obviously wrong, and these people in their name actually welcomed the laws of the Luo family.

And these laws of the Luo family really shocked Ashikaga Yoshiei and others. For example, although they are the lords of this manor in name, in fact, the daily farming and political affairs of their territory are all managed by Luo Shi. The family dispatched a guy called the head of the village to manage it. Ashikaga Yoshiei and others only need to wait to collect the agricultural tax every year.

Not puzzled by this, Ashikaga Yoshiei and the others even visited a nearby lord in an attempt to learn more about the Luo family's legal records from them, but Ashikaga Yoshiei and the others soon discovered that their neighbors had also just passed away. A small local lord of the original Zhou Fangguo transferred from Zhou Fangguo in the Xiguo area.

This neighbor is also adapting to the law of the Luo family at this time. The strange thing is that when the lord's family was transferred, all the money and food of the lord's family were collected by the Luo family, and the internal affairs cabinet of the Luo family was only given to them. After receiving a voucher for a coin, they sent their family here to become the neighbors of Ashikaga Yoshiei and others.

The neighbor who originally thought that his property was annexed by the Luo's family, but after arriving here, with the credentials in his hand, he obtained the same certificate directly in the local Notakayama Luo's Town, which is known as the place where the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet resides. The confiscated supplies equivalent to money and food enabled this neighbor to quickly settle down in the new territory.

In addition to seeing this strange phenomenon, Ashikaga Yoshiei and others also discovered that the boys and girls in their territory would regularly go to the place in the nearby Nodakayama Shimoroji Town every day to participate in the so-called "school" where they studied. some strange words and language etc.What surprised Ashikaga Yoshiei and others was that these children, both male and female, would be regularly organized to participate in military training, and it is said that in April every year, they would "march in the field" to the place called the Tomb of Heroes in Ye Gaoshan. Place of worship tombstone.

"It's really amazing, this is a magical and stable place!" After settling down, Ashikaga Yoshiei was completely attracted by what he saw and heard in the Luo family's territory.Even until Konoe came to visit their clan under the leadership of the Luo family samurai a long time ago, and secretly asked Ashikaga Yoshiei and his son whether they intended to leave the territory of the Luo family, Ashikaga Yoshiei, father and son and others rejected Konoe's offer With good intentions, she is determined to settle down in the Luo family's territory.From then on, what was originally Hirashima Gongfang became Yegao Gongfang.

Of course, these are not the places that attract him the most. The Zhongxiao Temple near Nogayama, known as the Luo Family Clan Temple, is the place that attracts Ashikaga Yoshiei the most.

(Thanks to "Ghost and Beast King Lance" for the monthly ticket; thanks to "Li Xiaoyixin" for the reward. There are many housework, and I just got home, and I haven't eaten, so I hurriedly typed a chapter. If there are any mistakes, I hope everyone will forgive me.) (unfinished to be continued..)