Looking at Lu Ning's gestures, Ichiro Ohno just said to the outside that he didn't need anything for the time being, and suddenly there was a commotion outside, listening to the movement, the boss hurried to deal with the emergency.

Lu Ning didn't pay much attention to it, but the noise outside was getting louder and louder, so he listened intently.

But there was a team of ashigaru.

"Ashigaru" comes from Lu Ning's naming of the indigenous armed forces under the command of the city lords.

In fact, it is similar to the regimental training of the Central Plains, or rather, it is more like the peasants who served in the Central Plains dynasties in the past.

The upper layer of Ashigaru is the samurai, also known as Ashigaru long, and the city lord selects the most brave and healthy Ashigaru in the city to fill the position, as the city lord's pro-army, and it is also a professional soldier who is out of production, and the county guard with a population of several thousand may only have a dozen samurai, such as Donglai and Xinqi City, which have a population of tens of thousands of people, and there are only a few dozen samurai.

The samurai is also a reserve of the Zhendong Army, and he is registered in the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and may be called into the Zhendong Army at any time.

Once drafted into the army, the samurai were given a surname, and thus became an upper class.

In Toei, commoners did not have surnames, and acquiring surnames was a striking sign to change class, but nowadays, they are even more surnamed Qiren, so you can imagine how great the attraction to these samurai was.

At the same time, the Andong Prefecture will also send people to inspect the samurai in various cities every year, and those who are outstanding can also be given surnames.

This was also a powerful move by the Anto Prefecture to firmly control the military forces of Dewa and Mutsu.

After preparing to finally digest the two countries of Dewa and Mutsu into the territory of Daqi, Lu Ning naturally changed his original concept, and the Imperial Protectorate had the greatest control over the cities.

Originally, it was envisaged that the two lords of the two countries of Chuide Yu and Mutsu would be hereditary, but now they are also stopped, and the lord of the country is more like the county guard of the Central Plains, but the power is greater.

And if it invades the southern part of Dongying, it will still implement the real lord feudal system according to the original concept.

Because the southern part of Dongying can be annexed, Lu Ning also feels that it is meaningless, it is difficult to assimilate this large ethnic group that is isolated overseas, and the two countries of Deyu and Mutsu, which are vast and sparsely populated and have the potential for reclamation, can immigrate and educate Ezo, so that the He tribe, which is not very dominant in population, can be assimilated, but in the southern Dongying, it is difficult to concoct it in the same way.

After it is annexed, it is very likely that in the later generations, the voice of separatism and independence here will become higher and higher, and in vain it will make the eastern island of the Central Plains appear a foreign country that is synchronized with the development of the Central Plains, because after it is annexed, it will be difficult to prevent a large number of talents, technologies and advanced ideas from the Central Plains from entering the Dongying Land to benefit the entire He tribe.

Therefore, once the second step is started, invading the south and the east, you will not be afraid of its chaos, you will not be afraid of bloody civil wars that will break out from time to time, use the lord to enslave its people, and carry out crazy resource plunder, and the longer this time lasts, the better.

Thinking wildly, Lu Ning also listened to the movement outside.

The outer room is a samurai leader, and seven or eight ashigaru follow, saying that it is in Yaijuku, from the merchants of Hitachi Province, there are southern stabbing ninjas.

Lu Ning's ears immediately stood up.

Assassination ninja, in fact, is the prototype of the legendary ninja before the name of the ninja is determined, as the name suggests, spying on military intelligence, assassins and so on.

In Toei, ninjas have appeared since the time of Asuka, at that time it was mostly called "ninja", pronounced as "Zhi Nengben", to the former Nara era, and because of the study of the Central Plains, learning the Tang Dynasty, also according to the name of the Central Plains, called "scout", to the present Heian era, the so-called national style is flourishing, it is also the time when Dongying formed its own unique culture, this kind of professional name is also varied, the name is not uniform in various places, in this area of the new Qi City, this kind of spying assassination profession people, is called "assassination ninja".

The leading samurai reported his home and his name was "Kuroda Guard".

The approximate meaning of this name is that this guy named Kuroda has someone in the capital who has guarded the city gate in the capital.

For remote areas, the ancestors have this kind of background, this is a great honor, after all, those who have been to the capital are all big people, not to mention, they have lived in the capital.

Of course, most of the remote area suffix "bei", such as this Kuroda Bei, is likely to be boasting about his own worth, but he is now a samurai, ashigaru long, and no one will compare with him.

Of course, this name must have been his earlier self-proclaim, and now, there are Qi people, as a samurai, he may be given the surname Qi in the future, and what is the great thing about the ancestors guarding the gate in the south? After all, it seems that there is not a small chance to obtain the surname Qi that is more noble than the surname of the Duke of the capital, and to become a local nobleman from now on.

This Kuroda Guard, sure enough, was also dutiful, and the boss seemed to want to bribe him to make it convenient, but he kicked him down.

After a while, the noise gradually became quieter, and Kuroda Guards led the ashigaru to the back room, and then there was a cry, and when I heard the movement, it was Kuroda Guards and others who took the merchants from Hitachi Province away.

"What do you know about Changlu Country?" Lu Ning asked Ichiro Ohno with a smile.

Moriichiro Ohno was stunned, and said with a smile: "Moriichiro is a countryman, and he followed the lord to the east coast so far. ”

Indeed, what he knows is also the things in the Xintian area.

It is the current Changlu Country Guard, he doesn't know who it is, in fact, don't say anything about Changlu Country and Mutsu Olympic Country, originally he didn't have any of these geographical concepts, and now, he doesn't know how far Changlu Country is from this new Qi City, and what specific direction it is.

Lu Ning smiled, to say that Ichiro Ohno didn't understand it, but when he arrived in this new Qi City, he didn't have the idea of inquiring about the situation in the Quartet at all, he could only say that he was not a person who could achieve anything, and he was not pretending to be stupid and wise, he was really talented.

However, if he is really ambitious, it is not good to take it with him.

Hitachi Province, next to Ou Province, is the easternmost country in the Kanto region, with abundant products and developed fisheries, and is the country with the most cultivated fields in Toei today, but of course, it will lag behind Mutsu and Dewa in the future.

In the Toei region, which is connected to Mutsu, Ueno and Shimono countries are separated from Ou by a steep mountainous area, and only Hitachi Province is connected to the Tohoku region along the Kashima Beach and the flat land, so it is also the base for the development of the Tohoku region in the past.

Hitachi Province has always been led by the Imperial Prince, and Hitachi is the de facto ruler of Hitachi Province.

Today's Changlusuke is the source of Manchu.

This person is a very important figure in Japanese history, he is the founder of the Genji samurai group, and later the famous Genpei Battle in the history of Toei is the great battle of the Genji samurai group and the peace samurai group.

In the end, Genji defeated the Taira clan, and Genji became the master of Minamoto Yoritomo and led the general to establish the Kamakura shogunate, which was also the beginning of the ruling of the Toei shogunate, and the samurai family replaced the public family as the ruler, and the emperor became the mascot of the samurai family from the puppet of the public family, thus ending the Heian period and entering the Kamakura period.

And now, the ancestor of the future Eastern Samurai Regiment is located at Kashima Shrine in Hitachi Province.

From Xinqi City to the original Mutsu Kingdom and Changlu Province between the Belai Pass, there are more than 300 miles.

However, Lu Ning only sent envoys to the prefectures of Mutsu between Xinqi City and Belai Pass from Xinqi City to the south, but did not really drive troops south, and these counties were used as buffer zones for the time being.

Otherwise, the current army is scattered, and it is getting closer and closer to the Toei mainland, and even the Kashima Shrine in Hitachi Province is not far from Tokyo in the future, but it is more than a hundred miles away, of course, Edo Castle has not yet been built, and the area around Tokyo is just a piece of farmland in the land of Shimochoku, which is adjacent to the southwest of Hitachi Province.

However, in any case, if you invade all the way south without any scruples, but the other party suddenly attacks on a large scale, those Central Plains soldiers who are scattered and guarding the southern counties will suffer unnecessary losses.

When Lu Ning was pondering, the noise outside gradually faded away, followed by the voice of the boss, which naturally comforted the guests, so that everyone did not need to panic, not to mention that the Qi people in the town guard were very reasonable, and they would definitely not wronged people.

Lu Ning heard it in his heart, this Qinglong patrol station is stationed in two classes of Xuanfu soldiers, and the patrol chief is served by one of the team leaders, called Gao Xing, who can get the recognition of the local natives so quickly, which shows that the young man is good, and his quality is still quite high, and he was originally a new-style military attache who had studied in the Bianjing Military Academy General Hall.

Most of these new-style military attachés belong to people who are not stupid themselves, and they are brave and good at fighting, so they can enter the Military Academy Hall for further study, and they will also receive some basic knowledge education in the new Ming and Physics Departments of this dynasty in the Military Academy General Hall, and their minds are open, and their understanding of the world is very different from that of their predecessors, and they have broadened their horizons, and their strategies and tactics will be improved.

Of course, in this era, the wisdom of the people is not necessarily good, and the foolish people are not necessarily bad.

Of course, in terms of Lu Ning's insight, the current so-called enlightenment of the people still has the meaning of "the people can make it, but they can't make it known", otherwise, I am afraid that if I "let it" go down, there is no civil and military general at the executive level who knows how to do it.

What's more, Lu Ning doesn't believe it very much, as long as he is alive, in the absence of major setbacks, including war defeats, natural disasters and other heavy blows, Daqi will be in chaos because of his promotion of new learning.

After chatting with Jin Sen Xing about the goods of Qi country, Lu Ning said, it is still necessary to find some suitable local merchants to sell on behalf of you, which is more efficient than you bothering to establish a sales network here, and it is also extremely worry-free, and it can also support a group of wealthy people who depend on and support the Qi people to rule here, you just need to do a good job in the accounting of commodity volume and profits, at the same time, small merchants in Middle Earth, or those Qi people who like to take risks and do not have too good promotion channels in China, will naturally come here to be sellers, East China Sea Baixing, overseas trade, Don't try to do it yourself at the bottom of the sales network, don't give other businesses a way to live, and don't benefit evenly, I'm afraid it will backfire in the end.

Jin Senxing listened and nodded silently.

At this time, listening to the movement outside, Lu Ning's brows gradually furrowed.