At the foot of Atami House, there are a few vendors selling local products and setting up stalls every day until the evening.

Naturally, it was specially supplied to "Master Ban" and his entourage.

These vendors are actually nearby farmers, who come to set up stalls every day, and as long as they can sell some local products one day, it is also a rare subsidy for their families.

Lu Ning and Zhen Dongji are now walking in the dozen stalls on both sides of this path.

Under the shade of the trees on both sides of the path, there are various baskets and baskets for carrying them.

The peasants and vendors, most of them in rags.

Even, seeing a fish seller, Lu Ning couldn't help sighing, in fact, if Sister-in-law Ah Ming bought it from here instead of going to the fishing village to pick it, nothing would have happened.

"Master Ban, there is fresh glutinous rice here, which is delicious to make into rice balls, but local glutinous rice is not common." A familiar woman took up half a basket of glutinous rice in her rice basket to Lu Ning with respect, and showed it to Lu Ning, the rice basket was not big, and the half basket of rice was about five or six catties.

"Do you know who I am?" Lu Ning asked interestingly.

The woman grinned, revealing a mouthful of black teeth, the kind that were deliberately blackened, "With such a beautiful young lady as his wife, you must be a member of the class." ”

Lu Ning smiled, glanced at Zhen Dongji, and said, "Praise you for being beautiful." Then he said to the woman, "Okay, I bought the glutinous rice." ”

The small letter bureau that followed behind came up and bargained with the woman.

In fact, these villagers, usually go to the market town to barter and exchange goods, and rarely see copper coins, in the local area, copper coins are also particularly valuable, and the purchasing power of the Central Plains is not equal at all.

Such as these glutinous rice, in the end, the Xiaoxin Bureau gave her twenty copper coins, and she was so happy that she smiled.

In the Central Plains, the dou rice is basically stable at about 100 yuan, and she has half a dou of rice in her basket, and for the local area, it is still scarce glutinous rice.

"Ban-sama, class-sama!" A woman next to her suddenly cried and knelt on the ground, "Master Ban, please be kind and buy them, no, no, I don't want money, I don't want money!" ”

Lu Ning saw that this woman was with two seven or eight-year-old children beside her, looking like a boy and a girl, both skinny and skinny, it turned out that she was here to sell her children, or rather, she wanted to send her children to a place where they could eat.

"Xiaoxin, you come on." Lu Ning beckoned to Xiaoxinju, and seeing that Xiaoxinju was a little confused, he said, "You also need helpers, don't you?" Ask them about their details, and ask their fellow villagers about their character. ”

Although since I've seen it, and I can't talk about anything that doesn't help, free human resources are all cost-effective.

But if you have been abducted since childhood, then you don't have to.

The woman immediately knelt on the ground nervously and muttered, "Master Ban, they are all good children, they are all good children." ”

And perhaps seeing that "Master Ban" was so approachable and easy to talk, many of these hawkers began to kneel and beg for help.

Lu Ning listened to them one by one to tell them about their sufferings, and he was actually a little impatient in his heart, but he naturally wanted to make an appearance and create a humble and polite image of a noble nobleman for the Qi people.

After a toss, it was almost noon, and on the way back to the Atami Hut, Madong Ji suddenly said, "Brother Ban, you are very smart, aren't you?" ”

Obviously, what Lu Ning did just now is very inconsistent with the image of a simple-minded soldier with well-developed limbs.

What's more, often get along with Lu Ning, plain, Zhen Dongji will also be a little confused, Lu Ning is very elegant, and gentle in life, although he will not deliberately show anything, but many details will always make people feel that he should have a particularly high level of life in brocade clothes and jade food, and it is simply unimaginable to live a way of life.

If it is said that the people of the Central Plains are like this, it is too terrifying.

Lu Ning smiled: "Yes, I was originally very smart. ”

Zhen Dongji was helpless, and gradually felt that "Big Brother Ban" was pretending to be crazy and stupid many times.

……

Atami House is halfway up the mountainside, surrounded by dense trees, and the corner of the exposed grille hut and the wind chimes under the eaves are very elegant.

From the moment he came to Dongying, Lu Ning felt that this mansion was the most comfortable place for him to live, and even pondered that if the Kwantung Army did not suffer a major setback, he would live here as a vacation, if it was not a little dangerous, it would be better to take Huang Baoyi's little girl over.

In fact, if it is an ordinary aristocratic house, the bedding is collected during the day, and the living room becomes the "day throne", and the house here is no exception.

Gongzi and Jizi and Zizi are all here, all of them are doing what aristocratic women do in a dignified manner, Gongzi is studying her hair bun, facing the bronze mirror, she can study it every day until dark, day after day without end, Jizi and Zizi are all writing something, it should be either poetry or notes or something, but Lu Ning's heart is tight, and he always feels that the talented women of Dongying in this era are a bit scary, and it is better to study hairstyles and clothing like Kyoko.

After Lu Ning came in, they naturally stopped what they were doing, spread out the tatami mats, and knelt on both sides of Lu Ning.

Looking at Jizi and Zizi, Lu Ning was still a little embarrassed in his heart, he drank a lot yesterday, and he rarely slept very soundly, when he wanted to come, he found that he was holding them, fortunately, it was two small bean sprouts, and in his sleep, he seemed to have dreamed of his two daughters in Bianjing.

I really want to go back to the Central Plains.

Lu Ning shook his head and looked at Kyoko: "What is the relationship between Tian Shanzhong and you?" ”

As soon as I returned to Atami no Ya, I received an urgent report from Toyoda Michiyuki.

The advance army, which was the main force of the general country, was violently attacked when it entered Suruga Province, and less than half of the four or five hundred people of the advance army fled back, and most of the rest were taken prisoner.

And the commander of the other party is Fujiwara Hidego.

Fujiwara Hidego also ordered the captives and brought back two letters, one addressed to Toyoda Nakahito and the other addressed to the Qi Humanities General Academy.

Toyoda Dao made a copy of the letter he sent to his father, and sent it to Lu Ning along with the letter to the General Academy.

Why did there be an advance army to go to Suruga, Lu Ning didn't bother to ask, but he also knew that it was the Toyota Michiyuki who couldn't control this group of rabble, and the warriors from the general government wanted to loot or the like, or they thought that they could break through the castle of Suruga Kuniji with a few hundred of them, and thus get the fief of the Toyota Imperial Domain.

It was Xiuxiang's letter, and Lu Ning read it carefully.

Whether it is written to Toyoda Zhongren or to Qi people, it reveals a message, he does not want to become a mortal enemy with Qi people or Toyota Zhongren, but now, he has just obtained the dominance of Suruga, if the Toyota Imperial Leader wants to go to Luo, please also enter the land of your allies in the country of Confident Nong.

In the letter to the Qi people, Xiuxiang even made a deep reflection, and even buttoned down a bunch of high hats, saying that now he knows that Daqi has never had the heart to swallow Dongying, and he acted recklessly at the beginning, so that the two sides were tired of losing peace.

In fact, Xiuxiang had at least one son and two grandsons who died in the war between Shimono and the Qi people.

But this old fox has obviously been keenly aware that the Qi people do not want to be deeply involved in the Dongying Civil War, and even in the Western Expeditionary Legion led by the Kwantung Emperor, they did not send a single soldier at all.

Therefore, the old fox suddenly discovered that the great changes that had not been seen in a thousand years might be some kind of opportunity for him.

I don't know, how did he steal the dominance of Suruga Province, and moreover, Minamoto Manchu's son, Minamoto Yorimitsu, became his retainer.

But he obviously lost Shimono, and now, he has found a new territory, although the area of Suruga Province is much smaller than that of Shimono Province, but after all, it is getting closer and closer to Kyoji, and it was developed very early, and the population and stone height are almost the same as Shimono Province, and may even be slightly higher.

Xiuxiang should hope to use this as a starting point to find his place in this great change.

Of course, from the history and system of the expansion of the Yamato clan in Dongying to the present, it has almost always been the supreme leadership in the name of the emperor, but the division of various forces fighting each other is just that in the past, this division was more reflected in the group of ministers in the capital, and now, the local heroes have gradually stepped onto the stage of history, and they have given these local heroes a chance to accelerate their emergence.

Let's just say that Ono Yoshiko was appointed as the general of the Seiyi to recruit the world's warriors in Omi, but it didn't go well.

The heroes of Kyushu Island even allowed Qi Shang to trade in the ports of Kyushu with a swagger, and they did not respond to Ono Yoshiko's recruitment order at all.

Heiankyo can really affect the five countries and surrounding countries today, and of course, it is also the political and economic core of Yamato.

In this situation, Lu Ning suddenly wanted to know who Kyoko was, Tian Shanzhong, and what he wanted.