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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 249 Strategy at the Banquet

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    At the beginning, many people in the Kira family opposed the move to Echigo, and they were united across factions, including Nakajo Tokihide, Isshiki Naotaka, Watanabe Takatsuna, Okouchi Tsunadaka, Ina Tadaye, and Honda Tokimae in Naito.  There are different opinions, and the shogunate faction and the Omi faction all express opposition.  Even after coming to Echigo for half a year, many people still don¡¯t understand what¡¯s good about Echigo. It¡¯s cold and desolate, with mountains and swamps everywhere, and the folk customs are fierce. The warriors are also very fierce. Fighting incidents have occurred frequently in the past six months, and both sides have suffered.  Although they suffered a lot of losses, the Echigo samurai were still happy with it. Even the Mikawa samurai, who always boasted of his martial prowess, couldn't bear this.  However, Yamamoto Tokiyuki always firmly supported him and actively worked for the Kira family retainers to formulate several plans to integrate into Echigo. The most feasible plan was to use strong economic effects to drive the Echigo people to gradually accept  The existence of the Kira family made them realize that the future owner of Echigo would be the young couple sitting next to Nagao Kagetora.  Now it seems that everything is connected very well, including the Nagao family retainers group, the Ueda clan, the Echigo-Uesugi clan and the Yohoku clan have begun to actively move closer. At first glance, it seems that the issues surrounding food cannot affect their political stance at all.  , but in fact, quiet changes have begun to appear. The samurai obey the orders of the king because of the laws of the shogunate, and the other is that the king can protect their interests. Kira Yoshitoki is playing this part.  "I happened to meet the fleeing Kanto refugees at Yuzawa Imperial Palace. Now when I think back to those fleeing villagers who rushed to Echigo with their families and food and shelter, I was shocked by the hope in their eyes. It made me realize that in this Warring States Period  In troubled times, what do people want? That is to long for a peaceful and peaceful life. Isn¡¯t what we and the samurai family are fighting for is to protect our elders and protect our hometown from being trampled by war? " Nagao Kagetora said angrily: "  There are too many injustices in the world. Those who are loyal to the samurai family should hold up their bows, arrows, swords and guns and fight for the shogunate. If we, the samurai family, do not have loyalty in our hearts, what is the difference between us and wolves and beasts? Degenerate samurai will become bandits and cause trouble.  The samurai family will become a silverfish that devours the foundation of our samurai family. Just like the Kai Takeda clan repeatedly invaded Shinano and exterminated the famous Suwa clan, expelled Shinano and protected the Ogasawara clan, and once attempted to invade Okoshino.  It's really a shame for the samurai family to get involved with me! " "Speaking of which, the Kai Takeda family is also a famous Minamoto family! After Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, is the family not much worse than the Echigo family?" asked an Echigo samurai.  Kira just smiled and said nothing, and the samurai of the Kira family also crossed their arms and sneered.  Seeing that the situation was a little embarrassing, Nagao Masakai came out to smooth things over again: "The Kai Genji family should be inferior to the Takeda family. After all, the direct descendant of the Kawachi Genji family is the current official family. As the governor of the Ashikaga family, the Takeda family is obviously higher than the Takeda Daisen."  "Yes! It can be seen from the official position! Wuweidian is the fourth-ranked military governor at a young age, and Takeda Ochan is still the fifth-ranked official  "Honjo Sano said this, of course no one would say anything more. Such a comparison can really show the difference.  " Takeda Harunobu has not moved a step in his official position in the more than ten years he has been in power, but Takeda Harunobu has been rising rapidly step by step since the Yuan Dynasty. At the age of thirteen, he was ranked among the fourth.  It¡¯s no big deal that I will be a minister in the future. The current minister is Ashikaga Yoshiteru in early March this year.  He was promoted to the third rank, Nagan Yan, and to the right Konoe general, Rugen, but he was a real official who was worth more than real money and silver.  "It was precisely because we were touched by the refugees that we decided to do something more meaningful, such as charity." "Public welfare charity? What is it?" Naoe Mitsuna chewed this weird question carefully.  Noun, I can't understand it.  "It's public rather than doing something to benefit the people. We initially plan to invest 10,000 guan of Yongle money to rebuild and strengthen the embankments of the Sekikawa, Shinano River, Agano River, Himekawa, and Kaji Rivers.  As well as the dredging work of some rivers, it is estimated that 35,000 people will be needed. The construction period will be completed before November after the onset of winter. The finishing work will not be delayed until the first month. " "Oh, isn't that 35,000 people?  One of the population has to pay for the general labor service? But this year's general labor service has been used for disaster relief. Isn't such a big project a bit" "Please don't get me wrong!" Yamamoto Tokiyuki stepped forward to help the family governor solve the problem.  , said with great enthusiasm: "The so-called universal labor service means that civilians use voluntary labor to complete the lord's construction demands. However, my Kira family's project does not require voluntary labor, but paid employment, and two meals a day during the construction period.  Soup and food will be served as soon as possible.¡±  Two meals a day, construction period lasts two to three days?, what is this concept?  In other words, 35,000 people can save two to three months of food rations, and the farmers have nothing to do in this winter. If a lord is willing to provide two meals a day, a large group of people will definitely grab it.  Broken head.  Everyone present had a profound experience of how difficult the life of peasants in medieval Japan was. Sitting in a row under the verandah of the Ohiroma were the small wealthy families of Echigo. Most of them had a wealthy family of fifty or sixty koku.  It seems that if you are not qualified to enter the main hall to participate in the banquet, you can only sit outside the hall to drink and eat meat. In ancient China, these people were considered rich farmers or small landowners. These small wealthy people usually had to bend down to plow the fields and weed.  As for the poorer class of land servants, the knowledge and practice can only be twenty or thirty dan at most, and some are only ten or eight dan, which is about the same as the Five Anti-Anti land that Ueno Iashiro and Shimohira Yoshinaga fought for, converted into Chinese land units  It's almost eight acres of land, and the grain produced per acre is less than one stone, so that's about it.  These land servants are farmers. They carry hoes at ordinary times and carry tachi and bamboo spears in battle. They wear tattered old clothes in the countryside and look exactly like peasants. They only wear their usual clothes when they formally meet the lord or participate in the war.  Tamaru, who was reluctant to wear it, went into battle majestically with a sword on his shoulder and three spears, leading a few farmers who worked for his family.  Thirty-five thousand people can save two or three months of food rations.  During the lean years next year, there will be rations for 35,000 people to support more people to survive. The elderly in those villages will not be driven into the wilderness to fend for themselves due to lack of food.  Babies will not be thrown into rivers and drown due to lack of food, nor will there be tragedies like old people volunteering to pretend to be wild boar and being caught and killed by farmers to make "wild boar" and eat them.  "Buwei-don is such a good man!" Immediately, a powerful warrior from the Nagao family kowtowed to him excitedly and made a good wish: "May Guanshiyin Bodhisattva bless Wuwei-don and the princess to have many children and many blessings!" "May the Medicine Buddha bless you.  Wuweidian and Her Royal Highness the Princess! ""May Sakyamuni Buddha bless Wuweidian and Her Royal Highness the Princess!" The warriors expressed their good wishes one after another. In the Buddhist society, gods and Buddhas are the most authoritative existences, and they believe that the gods and Buddhas are the gods.  , generals, Guan Bai, down to the common people, everyone in the entire class is highly aware of it. When a warrior tells you that he hopes the gods and Buddhas will bless you, it also means that this person is truly grateful to you.  Faced with the sincere gratitude of the samurai.  Torahime looked very excited, her face flushed with excitement when she held Kiragi tightly, and her big watery eyes were full of pride and pride. For the girl, her hero was grateful to the Echigo samurai.  , is the most beautiful thing in the world. As for the righteousness of the Wu family and justice, it is too far away from her. At this moment, the girl only has her own highness in her eyes.  "Tiger Princess and I accept your wishes! Thank you!" Kira Yoshihide raised his cup.  He said loudly: "I serve tea instead of wine. Please drink this cup together!" "Drink!" Yamamoto Tokiyuki and Honjo Minoru shouted in unison. Such a high-synchronized rhythm made these two people from two families  The elders and ministers smiled at each other, then raised their glasses and drank together happily.  "In addition, we also plan to invest heavily in land improvement within the seven counties of Echigo. The main content of land improvement is to improve and optimize maps that cannot be farmed, such as rivers, swamps, dry lagoons, and saline-alkali lands. It is expected to take five to  It will take ten years to achieve initial results. The initial investment will be about 30,000 yuan from Yongle. The investment in the next few years will not be less than this amount. "Oh! Those useless lands! Wuweidian spent huge sums of money to transform those useless ones."  What are you doing with the land?" "That's it! It's a bunch of useless land, and it costs a lot of money." Some people shook their heads secretly, this Wu Weidian was so generous.  It¡¯s just that he doesn¡¯t take money seriously. He just waved his hand and threw out 30,000 kan Yongle money. The tax revenue in the entire Echigo years may not be so much. This noble man only said so much in a year. Listen to him.  The tone of saying that he will continue to invest the same amount in the future really prevents them from shaking their heads secretly.  "Let me answer the question for you, the owner!" Hosokawa Fujitaka knocked on the table with a folding fan and said with a smile: "Although these lands are not valuable, they are bordered by everyone's land after all, so it will cost more to fund the construction.  I will also use the farmers under you. You also know the rules of my Kira family. The hired labor is to take care of the food. Some excess materials during the transformation process can also be transferred to you for free for the improvement of the territory. Of course, these  The improved land is to be owned by the Kira family. Do you have any objections? " "What about the water source? How to define the scope? " " We will discuss this in detail with you after the meeting. As long as you are  The cultivated land of the farm and the inherent water source of the road will not be infringed upon by this land improvement plan!" Matsui Yuxian added: "We will do our best to protect your rights and interests from infringement, and of course we also ask you toPlease cooperate. Do you have any other comments you can make?  "    "No!  As long as my farm and water source are not encroached upon, there will be no problem!  "The samurai in the hall replied in unison. "Seeing that the Kira family is fully prepared, without losing the existing farms and water sources, of course they will not oppose this good governance, and they can increase the number of people without spending money.  Building embankments is of course the best thing. As for land improvement, who cares about that? It¡¯s nothing to give the Kira family worthless swamps, dry lagoons and salt-alkali land for free. Besides, they don¡¯t ask for it in vain. They can spend real money on it.  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 70% of the people of Echigo. Except for some retainers and people who are dealing with the internal affairs of the autumn harvest and can't get away, basically everyone here.  Everyone rushed here to attend the banquet. Even if many people failed to participate in this agreement, it does not matter. Seventy percent of the people voted unanimously, which means that other people will also vote for it. Many people are looking forward to how the agreement will be negotiated after the banquet.  Except for some drunkards, everyone began to think about clearing their heads and gaining more rights for the next negotiations. No one in the room cared about what the Chinese who did not attend the banquet would think, as long as this agreement was signed.  Down the line, any opponents will be reduced to a minority. This is also a strategy that the Kira family has always used. Pulling a samurai group onto their warship, no one will be able to stop them by then. In this way, the nature of the banquet will change.  It has another meaning: ¡°What does Yishi want with those wastelands?  never mind!  Since you are determined to do it, my family should also support it.  Nagao Kagetora thought for a moment and felt that it was not a big problem, so he nodded in approval and said: "Since Yoshitoki is determined to benefit Echigo, my family is here to express support!"  " Honjo Minoru looked at Nagao Kagetora worriedly. In a hurry, he couldn't think clearly how many points were worthy of scrutiny, but he always had a vague feeling that it was not appropriate, as if he had jumped into a big pit, but  He couldn't express this intuition. Looking at the happy expressions of his colleagues around him, he could only keep his words to himself: "Success!  " Kira Yoshito secretly praised, narrowed his eyes and chatted and laughed with Nagao Kagetora. His expressions and movements were impeccable, but the subtle changes could not escape Torahime who was holding his hand. The girl was sensitive to the fact that he was holding his hand at that moment.  His hand trembled slightly, feeling the excitement in his heart, and the girl gently held his hand, "What's wrong?  "Ji Liangyi turned back to look at the girl. "Nothing!  As long as His Highness is happy!  "Hu Ji smiled, feeling indescribably charming. "Yeah!  "The two of them expressed their love with their eyes, and their voices were as low as mosquitoes and flies. However, this small gesture could not be hidden from the experienced Echigo no Ryu. His lack of affection did not mean that he did not have this knowledge. In order not to arouse the young couple.  Attention, he could only pretend to appreciate Tian Le without realizing it, and at the same time silently pondered in his mind whether they should prepare for their wedding as soon as possible in two years. The two went through hardships at a young age, but in the end they still fell in love.  The fact that people finally get married is a matter worthy of celebration in his opinion. He even has the heart to let go of the reckless Chiyo Inomaru. Without his stupidity and recklessness, this pair of people would not know what to do.  How long has it been awkward? At this time, the sound of the monkey music stopped, and the shrine's kagura was replaced. Each one held a copper bell, a cypress fan, a sasa leaf, a sakaki leaf, and the royal coin used by Hakurei Reimu, and danced solemnly.  A sacred dance, this kind of dance usually only appears at shrine celebrations. However, because Lord Kiroyoshi and Konoe Princess Nagao Torahime returned safely after suffering many hardships, the priests of many shrines decided to dance it after discussion.  Shenwu prayed for the two highnesses. A solemn and sacred dance ended, letting the warriors who had been quiet for a long time breathe a sigh of relief. Some of the drunken guys secretly cursed for bad luck. They were so happy that this suddenly happened. If they didn't sit up straight,  If you listen carefully, you will appear to be frivolous and ignorant of the rules. Fortunately, the witches soon performed the longevity dance. This is also a revenue-generating project of the shrine, and they can get paid for dancing for the ministers, samurai lords and temples (qidian.) m.  .qidian.Read.) PS: In fact, Hu Ji is not easy, but it has not been shown yet. In two chapters, we will roughly know what kind of girl Hu Ji is.
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