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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 301 The Discovery of the Teenagers

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    There used to be a piece of wasteland under Kasugayama Castle, where children from nearby castle towns used to love to play. Since the Kira family built a new town three years ago, it has been surrounded by a circle of wooden fences and transformed into a large church that serves as a garrison and military training.  The field, the tall arrow oars and the small castle all indicate that this is a military facility. All group training that cannot be accommodated in the small training ground on Kasuga Mountain can be done here.  Yamaoka Tokinaga straightened his back and observed Kiragi who was standing on the edge of the teaching field with the corner of his eye. He tried hard to behave like a qualified horseback general. Today was the day to review the training results of the horsemen.  Since accepting the responsibility of training Ma Huizhong three years ago, except for the days when he went out to fight, Yamaoka Tokugawa has spent all his time here.  After three years of rigorous selection, 300 young people with outstanding riding skills and some talent in archery were selected from nearly 8,000 young people of the appropriate age in Echigo. In the past two years, the young people have eaten the best food.  Food, using the best equipment, and enclosing a nearby hot spring for them to bathe and relax. The medical team led by Moruma Konaose will come here every half month to conduct a physical examination on the teenagers.  For the poor children, this is a wonderful life like a dream.  Of course, how much effort you get in return depends on how much effort you put in. In the first month, the training time increased from four hours a day to six hours a day, from weight-bearing running to wrestling training, to riding and arching training, every day.  The schedules are so full that the teenagers can no longer remember how long it has been since they went home.  A group of twenty young knights lined up and galloped on the trail. Each of them held a bow and drew an arrow, aiming at the target thirty-six meters away. The bowstring trembled.  One after another, people completed a round of shooting.  On this fifty-meter-long trail.  Each young knight must complete three prescribed riding and shooting actions.  Only difficult special training can reflect the professional quality of a samurai. Some teenagers calmly and calmly complete horseback shootings again and again. Each action corresponds to a different rhythm. After shooting three arrows, they have not finished the race, while some teenagers have already shot two arrows.  After running more than half of the distance, I hurriedly bent my bow and fired wildly, but couldn't even find the target. In the end, I could only retreat to the corner in despair.  It takes a quarter of an hour for fifteen groups to complete a round of mounted shooting. They looked at the target in the distance, which was densely packed with arrows.  Kira Yoshitoki applauded the outstanding performance of the young knight: "Well done! It takes two years to practice to reach this level. It is very good! Zenjiro may not be at their level back then, right?" "Uh Master!  Don't mention the past, okay?" Yamaoka wiped the cold sweat from his head in embarrassment.  In just a few years, Yamaoka Tokinaga's image has changed a lot. He has grown a majestic mustache on his lips, and his messy samurai uniform has been neatly tidied up. It is much better than the slovenly look he had a few years ago.  , Kira Yoshitoki did not care about his image, and walked out of the shooting range with a few followers to continue the following inspection.  With the continuous influx of refugees from all walks of life in Echigo, the population increased by 200,000 in more than three years. Today, Echigo is a large country with a population of 500,000, with more land and human resources than Hokuriku, and the entire Kanto only has  Musashino can match it.  Although the population continues to increase.  However, the number of pre-armed people receiving armed training did not increase much. The reason came from the population shortage caused by excessive land development in Echigo.  The new fields of Kira and Nagao alone are facing a labor shortage of hundreds of thousands. A large amount of land has been developed but there is not enough manpower to plant it. They can only spread grass seeds, simply apply fertilizer and harvest the grass. This is an extreme waste of land resources.  Big waste.  In order to solve the contradiction of labor shortage, the originally planned preparatory armed training system had to come to a standstill. The surplus labor force in rural areas and towns was organized to accept the unified dispatch of followers and formed several teams to work in the fields.  This is just a temporary measure that can solve a temporary emergency but cannot solve the fundamental problem of labor shortage. Town residents have also complained about this unkind tax system. Even if they can get a certain amount of grain income after autumn, they are not satisfied.  At first, most of these townspeople were unwilling to be farmers anymore, so they came to the castle towns, port towns, and gate towns to make a living. Now that life is so good, who is willing to leave the business in the town and go to the countryside to do menial work.  So at the beginning of last year, members of the Kira family began to prepare for related issues, how to solve the adverse effects of labor shortages that could not meet agricultural production. After more than a year of discussions and several revisions of drafts, a new decree on the annexation of new villages was finally formed.  It is not yet known whether the rotational cropping method can achieve the desired effect. Currently, it is only being tried out in the Sekikawa area, and the degree of promotion will be determined based on the effect.  The teaching ground is divided into several blocks. The outermost earth fence, wooden fence and arrow oars are guarded around the clock. The interior is divided into a shooting range, a battlefield, a training ground, a house, a soup house, a pharmacy, a canteen and other facilities. It covers an area of ??ten machibu.  , because of the ownership issue of this land, Yamamoto Toki returned and Honzo Minoru became friends.It took several days and a lot of effort to get it over.  The terrain here is excellent. It happens to be on a gentle high slope between the foothills of Kasugayama. The land is completely flat. To the west is Mount Kasuga, which is also one of the many intersections outside Otemon. To the east and north are the castle towns with lower terrain.  Surrounded by the mountains, there is a natural cliff with a height difference of seven or eight meters blocking it in the south. Not far below the cliff is a farmland, and further away is a village with smoke curling up.  Yamamoto Tokiyuki trained a new army at the training ground. There were only 2,000 people. From basic formation training to fighting, wrestling, weight-bearing running and other methods, they all referred to the training methods left by the Nanman instructors. They had only trained for two years.  The new army currently has good quality, and the concept of ordering, prohibiting, and allegiance to the Kira family has been thoroughly implemented.  "It should be said that the martial culture of Echigo Country is very good, and the talents of these children are also very good. After another year of training, they can develop combat effectiveness. I am going to find some opportunities for them to experience some battles and see the light of blood" Toki Yamamoto  Sachi dragged his lame leg and tried to keep up with Kira Yoshitoki, and Mogami did not forget to explain his training philosophy.  As an unruly and maverick warrior with rich experience in wandering various countries, it is not surprising that he has absorbed and summarized the different ideas of the Southern Barbarians. Now, at his age, he is no longer able to support the heavy burden of government affairs, so he took the initiative last year.  Proposed to withdraw from the political circle.  Spend your main energy on cultivating qualified warriors and military research.  Kira Yoshiki also found that his pace was too fast.  He quickly stopped and waited for his teacher to catch up.  Looking at the old Tokiyuki Yamamoto, and then at the young faces on the training field, Kira Yoshiki couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "In the blink of an eye, my master's hair has become as frosty, and our family has gradually grown up from a three-foot-long child."  , How ruthless the years are!" "Remembering that Yamamoto Tokiyuki spent five years building up eight hundred elite soldiers, and now he has organized two thousand outstanding soldiers in just two years, it can only be said that the times are progressing, and the Kira family is getting stronger and stronger.  But time is not forgiving, and Yamamoto Kansuke, who was once omnipotent, is still old after all.  "Old minister, I also feel that I am really old! My sleep has been getting shorter and shorter recently. My back and legs are sore on cloudy and rainy days. The old injuries on my back are particularly serious. Man! The older I get, the more useless I become.  " Yamamoto Tokiyuki smiled wryly at himself, "In the blink of an eye, Yamamoto Tokiyuki is already fifty-six years old. This age is considered a standard old man in the Warring States Period. However, he has no children and no one to rely on. In the past year, he even moved out of a separate courtyard.  Come to the big training ground to train new troops and attend the evaluation meeting.  He spoke less and less, like an old man in his twilight years.  Most discussions took place in naps.  "I heard that the master is writing military records? I wonder how the writing is? Can I read the master's masterpiece in advance?" Speaking of the military records, Yamamoto Tokiyuki did not hide the heroic look in his eyes: "Also,  It cannot be called a military record. It is just a compilation and deletion of the notes taken by the veteran over the years. From the 10th year of Eisho (1513), the Imagawa family personally launched the Toe invasion.  All my experiences and experiences have been written down. The period from the six-year-old minister of Dayei wandering around various countries to returning to Mikawa and wandering around Toga and Suruga has been sorted out. I am currently sorting out the part from his official career in Mikawa to the present day. It will take about one to two years.  It will take time to sort it out. " Kira Yoshitoki also understands his teacher's thoughts. Writing books is always a matter for intellectuals. Yamamoto Tokiyuki just doesn't believe in this. When he was at Kira's house, he often held the eminent monk's hand.  He practiced calligraphy with copybooks, and his accumulated practice made him good at writing regular script.  The Kira family has never advocated the use of kana writing. In the words of Kira Yoshi, it is useless for people with kana who do not understand the Chinese characters. As for the master's attitude towards cultural reform, Hosokawa, as a cultural person,  Fujitaka, Namioka T¨­f¨­ and others could only smile bitterly.  It is recorded in "Kojiki": "However, in ancient times, words and meanings were not simple, and it was difficult to use words to formulate sentences. Because the words of the expounders did not catch the heart, so now, we use phonetic training in one sentence."  Since the formation of kana in the mid-Nara period, it has experienced the systematic influence of the "Man'yoshu". The history of kana for more than 800 years has formed a strong inertia. Even illiterate farmers can use kana to write petitions and requests without guessing.  The lords paid taxes in disaster years, and it was too difficult for them to learn the complex Chinese character system.  "Do you want to start recording it from the time of the Imagawa clan, the great hero of Suruga? That is really an incredible period of history! Speaking of it, there were so many heroes in the past few decades. I wonder what it will be like in this generation of my family." The two of them slowly said  Slowly walk to the side of the training ground and watch the young recruits demonstrate various complex tactical changes.  Yamamoto Tokiyuki pinched his messy beard and said with a smile on his face: "The master of the museum is the Duke of Wuwei and Zhenfudian. He was a first-class hero at that time. Why should I envy the glory and honor of those who have passed away? Now I am the power of a country."  Supplemented by the support of the two counties of Omi, it will exceed the combined power of the three countries of the Imagawa family.The prosperity of the family business is just around the corner.  " "It's just a temporary sigh!  "Ji Liangyi took a quick glance with his eyes and was surprised to find a few familiar figures in the dense queue: "Huh?  Isn¡¯t that Nagao Seiharu?  There's also Watanabe Moritsuna in there. Isn't he in Gogen's suit?  " "The owner is talking about these two boys!  Ever since he saw the new army training last year, that Kankuro has been visiting Lao Chen every now and then. He insisted on coming in and refused to leave. Lao Chen was so troubled that he agreed Gengoro was his father who personally came to visit him on the second day of his Yuan server.  When I sent it over, I specifically asked the old minister to take more control of it. What a smart man!  " In the Kira family, the importance of this new army can be seen in no more than two palms. Apart from several important ministers and main executive officers who participated in formulating the plan, there are only the top few reserve teams.  The general can see that the high-intensity endurance and fighting strength training, the best supply of supplies, and the comprehensive training and treatment system are clearly aimed at cultivating elites.  For example, Watanabe Moritsuna is only fourteen years old. This kind of potential is scary to imagine. It is no wonder that Watanabe Takatsuna came to send his children. It is not known how many people will come in the next year or so.  Come and send the children off. Compared with Saijo Bei ten years ago, these children are much taller. There are almost no short people under 1.6 meters. It is not known how powerful the new army will be in training for three years, but it can be  One thing that is certain is that there is no problem in being better than Saijo Bei of the past. ¡°What is the physical fitness of these boys?  Are your strength and stamina up to par?  "He used the new word "standard" to measure whether the new army's physical fitness is "up to standard." This assessment must first start with this new army. The new army that cannot march with arms is unqualified, and there are two monkeys.  For example, Yoshiki Kira¡¯s first consideration for the new army is whether their strength and stamina are qualified. ¡°There is no problem. The current standard is that if you can complete a one-mile cross-country run with a weight of five kilograms in one moment, you will be considered qualified, and it takes half a month.  In the previous spring training, all members achieved the goal of passing the standard. In the next step, this standard will be further improved.  " One mile is approximately four kilometers. If you wait for fifteen minutes, you can run four kilometers in twenty-two and a half minutes with a weight of five kilograms. It is definitely an astonishing level in this era. The physical fitness of the younger generation in Echigo has greatly improved.  With improvement, it is not too unusual for the best to achieve this result. After all, it is the level of one among dozens of people. ¡°I can also run this result, but it is not enough to continue to increase the weight and the distance.  Increase.  " When the two were talking, today's training was basically over. Kira Yoshi looked up and saw that the sun seemed to be only three o'clock in the afternoon, and asked: "The training ends so early?  Didn¡¯t I hear that the training you arranged was very intense?  We only trained for three hours today, right?  " "There are some special reasons today, and it is because of the new style of Cuju advocated by the owner" Yamamoto Tokiyuki made a smiley expression at him. At this time, more than two thousand people were each holding a ball made of leather.  The round ball ran to the newly opened court to play. The twenty or so boys who grabbed the court first screamed with excitement. The remaining groups were not discouraged and quickly ran to the nearby open space to set up their formation and play. This kind of  The game has very low requirements for the venue. It can be played in the streets and alleys. As long as two bamboo poles or stones are placed as goals, it doesn't matter if the sideline is offside. Ji Liangyi shamelessly pretended not to see it: "It's Cuju, it's just Cuju anyway."  What an elegant thing!  " "Cuju is an elegant thing, it's true. The new Cuju seems to be a bit far from an elegant thing.  "Yamamoto Tokiyuki caught a glimpse of many samurai stopping to watch at the entrance of the training ground. Judging by their dress, he knew they were samurai from the Nagao family. Kick-off at three o'clock every afternoon has become a new entertainment activity. For ancient times that lacked entertainment,  , this game is indeed very attractive. In Kasugayama Castle Town, two young men from Ueno were sitting listlessly in a bar. Their investigations in the past few days had yielded no results. Several people in the house disappeared the next day.  , the two inquired about the nearby neighbors but did not get any meaningful information. Unwilling to fail, Nagano Yegu determined to risk the danger and sneak into the house. However, they still found nothing of value, and those few people seemed to have evaporated from the world.  There was no trace left, so the two thought of telling the news to the Kira family. As a result, they went to Kasugayama Castle to talk about it early this morning, but they were chased back by the guarding samurai as a liar. If not for the fact that there happened to be someone on duty  An acquaintance acted as guarantee, and the two of them were bound to suffer a few blows. ¡°Those bastards didn¡¯t believe us!  If something serious happens, you deserve to be unlucky Okay!  Don't stare at me with that wrong look in your eyes, it's scary!  "Obata Nobuzada had a look of depression and annoyance. The dignified heiress of the Obata family, the young master of Ueno Kunimine Castle, was treated as a liar and a madman by a few samurai guarding the gate. What if he was dismissed by the people from his hometown?If your partners find out, they will lose their face.  Naganoye insisted stubbornly: "We can't just let it go! Let's go to the Guanling Hall to try our luck?" "What? Are you going there to try your luck and come back? I want you to go! I'll stay.  I¡¯m not here to touch the bag, I¡¯m here to see the mountains and rivers of Echigo.¡± Nobuzada Kobata refused his request without mercy.  The experience of the past few months is enough to make any optimistic person feel disappointed for the Kanto governor. Every day he is either hugging his wife and making fun of the moon, teasing his youngest son, or simply drinking and getting drunk with Nagao. Compared with a month ago,  He still looked like a noble, but now he is so decadent.  Where did they hear the reminder that even the gate guard didn't believe?  "That's right! The Guanling Palace will definitely not listen. He must still be thinking about giving away his family's property in exchange for the opportunity to return to Ueno, right?" Nagano Yegu covered his head in confusion.  "You are just talking in your sleep! Even if Kira and Nagao are willing to send troops, they will never help him get Hirai Castle back. Who can't see that the leader of the palace is a idiot? Help him take the city sooner or later. It will be sent out sooner or later.  "Forget it! It's better not to think about that, let's go out for a walk!" After all, we are still young at heart. As soon as we wanted to go out to play, the two hit it off and stayed on the street for a while. Xiaobata Nobuzada said:  "Would you like to go further this time? You haven't been to the countryside yet!" Nagano Yegu looked at the time, which looked like three o'clock in the afternoon, and said awkwardly: "It's getting late. You might not be able to come back after going to the countryside, right?" "  If you can't come back, just go to the nearby countryside. Anyway, we will go to the countryside sooner or later, so we can't stop going out just because we can't come back, right?" Nobuzada Kobata encouraged her, and Nagano Yegu thought about it carefully.  It makes sense, so I readily agreed.  To the east of Kasugayama Castle Town is the lower reaches of the Sekikawa River Basin, where Naoetsu Town is located. Going upstream along both sides of the Sekikawa River is Nagao's main territory. In recent years, the Kira family has also successively opened up some new fields nearby, and helped Nagao.  The Ojia transferred the territories of the nearby larger wealthy lords bit by bit to the new fields in the distant country.  The entire Guanchuan Plain has become dominated by two families, but this does not affect the old waiter in the grassroots farm.  The so-called Su Lao Di Shi.  Also known as the Su Lao underground people, the ground servant is another name for the underground people. Their status is equivalent to the status of village elders and village chiefs. They are usually held by respected elders. Because of the survival of the ancient manor system,  The formation of the first batch of land servants came from the rich peasants in the manor and the concubines of middle and low-level warriors.  This kind of people have no chance to become a great martial artist and can only live in the manor for generations, relying on superficial martial arts and some armor accumulated by their ancestors, and bows and arrows to defend their homeland until the manor system completely collapses and the guardianship system is established and derived.  The locals formed their own grassroots armed forces, which were the most basic units of the samurai group called "Lang Party" during the Genpei and Kamakura periods.  Then, as the situation changed, the Kamakura shogunate fell, the Muromachi shogunate rose, the daimyo guardian system was established, and successive samurai families rose and fell. Only these grassroots servants were not affected and still continued the tradition of hundreds of years to defend their own.  home.  These people are different from wealthy families who are not involved in production. They have formed a deep connection with the land in the farms early on, and they usually work in the fields with the farmers. In a sense, they still maintain the same status as their ancestors who have not yet become farmers.  The rich peasant identity of the waiter.  With the existence of this relationship, he stood up and took the initiative to protect the safety of the village during the chaos of the Muromachi period. Therefore, he was spontaneously elected by the villagers as the elder of the village. A village without the protection of force is easily vulnerable to ambushes, bandits, and even unscrupulous people.  The result of being targeted by a lord and having no force to defend himself in troubled times is definitely a tragic thing.  With the end of the Jiaji Rebellion and the famous Tuyiku incident that broke out in Kyoto, villages all over the world followed this system one after another, so the emergence of the grassroots unit of Su Laoji Shi was almost an inevitable trend.  Walking on the streets along the Sekikawa River, the high embankments isolate the wide river. If they climb up to the high slope, they can still see the magnificent scene of the river flowing. Originally, they really wanted to climb up the embankment to express their admiration for the mountains and rivers.  Magnificent emotions, but helpless that the old farmer who was looking after the alfalfa on the river bank did not give them face, and drove them away with a bamboo pole like shooing away flies.  Kobata Nobuzada turned his head and looked at the hunched old man in the distance, and said with surprise: "This old man is really interesting. He is not afraid at all when he sees us carrying swords." Nagano Yegu disagreed and said: "I was ordered to guard the river.  There are still those pastures on the embankment. Before getting permission, no matter who wants to board the river embankment, they will be chased away, even the Wuwei Palace. How can I protect the river embankment when I kneel down and kowtow to you? " "Wandering in the countryside, looking around.  It is an endless paddy field. This is the new agricultural decision of the Kira family.The planting area of ??high-quality Koshihikari rice in Echigo is no less than 60% of the total cultivated land area, which is equivalent to warning the samurai family in Echigo not to have too much expectation of replacing all rice with new grains.  This issue also caused a big discussion in Echigo. The result of the discussion was that selling new grains would probably not make money. The greedy Chinese people were even less willing to give the secrets of growing new grains to other countries, and neither Kinai nor Kanto had any information.  Regarding the trend of new grain sales, the main buyers of grain are merchants and samurai daimyo. They are all traditional groups that do not eat new grain. New grain cannot be sold outside Echigo.  "So we need to grow rice, leave a small part for the samurai to eat, and sell the rest to Kanto? It's really a good plan!" Nagano Yoshiko likes to use Echigo's buzzwords more and more, what "anticipation" and "system"  Words like "standard" and "plan" often come out of his mouth, and Nobuzada Kobata, who is walking on the road with him, is not surprised.  Next to a paddy field, a child was driving a group of ducks to forage on the ridge of the field. He saw two strangers standing blankly beside the paddy field and smiled indifferently. This situation happened two years ago.  Appeared, especially a lot last year.  There were some strange and strange warriors who stood in front of the tall cornfield for a whole day, without drinking water, eating or talking, and then walked away silently until the sun went down. Probably the same was true for these two strangers.  "What's there to see in the paddy field?" Xiaobata Nobuzhen looked around and urged impatiently: "If you want to see it, it's better to go to the corn field. I heard that the corn seedlings are taller than a person, so hide inside to be sure.  No one can be found. "Look, there is a ditch dug next to the paddy field. What is in it?" Nagano Yoshigu pointed to the bubbling ditch in the paddy field.  There is nothing unusual about rows of neat young seedlings planted in paddy fields. What is strange is that there is a row of deep river ditches in the corners of the rice fields. The river ditches block the rice fields with river nets made of layers of bamboo strips, and grow in them.  Some small fry with some small bugs and duckweed sprinkled on them.  "Huh? Isn't this a small fish? Digging a ditch in the rice field to raise fish? What's the point?" Nobuzada Oba scratched his head in wonder and shook his head. Although the wealthy warriors basically did not produce food, they had never eaten pork.  I have also seen pigs running away. Every year during the busy farming season, I have to follow my father around the fields. I have to understand which season is the farming season, which seasons and what conditions are abnormal weather conditions, and I also need to know enough about how farmers farm.  A lord who does not understand what his own people do is not qualified to be a lord. An outstanding lord can even call every local servant by name, know the general interpersonal relationships in each village, and can also predict the amount of grain production in any year.  Unexpectedly, to survive in this troubled world, the lords would not be able to hold down these cunning old servants without a few brushes.  There are actually very few lords who are purely untouchable and know nothing but only eat, drink, have fun, and live in debauchery. The probability of appearing is probably not much different from the probability of a generation of heroic lords. Most famous people and family governors of wealthy families have one.  There are too many tragic examples of being exiled or even killed by one of the gates and generations.  For example, there are those who act recklessly and recklessly like Otomo Yoshin, and consider the impact that converting to Catholicism will have on the retainers and fellow countrymen. As a governor, there are still relatively few people who are completely unaware of it. Of course, this is not the case.  For example, Kanesada Ichijo, who has been the governor of the Tosa Ichi family for the past seven years, is a standard dandy daimyo who knows nothing but eating, drinking and having fun. That is, his adoptive father, the governor of the Ichijo family, once had a left minister, Guan Bai, and Naikan.  With his help, Tosa Ichiyo's foundation was not destroyed.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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