On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the county commissioner Yoshida Toyo and the old Fukuoka palace came to visit, and as soon as the famous thorn was handed in, Naohide was happy - these two usually don't deal with each other, and everyone in Kochi Castle knows it, how did they get together?

It turns out that yesterday there was a series of dazzling stories in Kochi City.

Yesterday's Calamus Festival was the day when the Tosa sergeant ascended the castle to congratulate the lord of the domain, and the two generations of the Tosa Yamauchi family were present.

The temple is small and windy, and the water is shallow. Don't look at the remoteness of Tosa Province, but there are also a lot of intrigues.

The biological son of the twelfth generation head of the family, Toyoshi, failed to grow up, so he had to succeed Toyoshi from the split family to take over as the thirteenth generation head of the Yamauchi family.

The reclusive husband Fengzi did not voluntarily abdicate - after the murder of Tianbao, the finances of the Tosa Yamauchi family deteriorated, whether it was the sergeant directly under the family, the rural villagers or the people, there was no one who did not scold, Fengzi had been engaged in thrift and agricultural politics for more than ten years, and there was no improvement, Fengzi really couldn't hold on, and he didn't even have time to drink flower wine after a bunch of every day, and he passed the position of the head of the family to Fengxi in a fit of anger.

Poor Fengxi, he took on the heavy responsibility of reviving the economy of the domain when he came to power, but several major family elders did not cooperate, "The old feudal lord can't control us, what are you?" ”

It stands to reason that Feng Xi, as the head of a country, should be killed by his unsatisfied subordinates, but in fact this is not the case at all.

First of all, the shogunate of the pit father stipulated that all the major daimyo had to attend the pilgrimage and confess, that is, they took turns to go to Edo to cooperate with the shogun in governing the government, to put it bluntly, the shogunate was not at ease, and put all the daimyo under their noses to monitor.

In the 12th year of Kanei (1635), the third shogun Iemitsu revised the "Samurai Zhugado" and clarified the content of the "Attendance Confession", which stipulated that the daimyo must go to Edo once every two years to pay homage to the shogun, and that he should be on duty in the shogunate for one year, that his wife and son should live in Edo all the year round, and that the important ministers of the family should accompany the princes to Edo in batches.

Counting the time spent on the road, the time spent in the domain by the daimyo was very short, such as the Yamauchi family, the head of the family could only stay in the domain for more than nine months in two years, so the feudal government basically fell into the hands of a family member and a few family elders.

The family character and fortune of the high- and middle-ranking samurai are hereditary, and they cannot be confiscated if they are confiscated, otherwise these samurai will make a mess and then go to Edo to complain, and the shogunate will be reprimanded by "not appeased in the territory", and the head of the family will be secluded.

Originally, each feudal clan was like this, and many feudal clans were divided into Edo factions and local factions fighting each other, and as long as Fengxi slowly gathered people's hearts, as the head of the family, there were naturally people who took refuge, but Fengxi was young and vigorous, and promoted the tigerfish group of the middle-level samurai organization to fight against the elders of the family who were waiting to be sold.

Originally, Fengxi had a righteous reputation, and it was not a problem to suppress the family elders, but he didn't coax the retired old feudal lord Fengzi, who was originally prepared to support Fengxi's reform, but as soon as this right was put down, Fengzi's mentality changed, and he was instigated by several family elders to force Fengxi to dismiss several backbones of the tiger fish group, and finally Fengxi's new policy failed.

Fengxi failed to reform but was still the head of the family, although the real power was hollowed out by a few family elders, he was still able to do things, and he supported a few henchmen, and the one who took the lead was Yoshida Toyo.

The main measures of the reform of the two generations of Tosa Province during the Tenpo period were fiscal austerity, prohibiting farmers from doing business, and strictly prohibiting merchants from buying land.

Yoshida was going back to Aki-gun after the festival, and he didn't spend much time in Kochi, so during the banquet, he reported to Feng Xi that there was a shogunate flag to Kochi - He can't report it, Naoxiu's private school permission is a note he wrote~ Zi, and he can't pick it clean.

Several family elders took the opportunity to attack Yoshida in groups, and what kind of big hats such as bad intentions were buttoned up vigorously, and those bad things in Aki County were also turned out, only the old Fukuoka Palace secretly complained, not afraid of god-like opponents and afraid of pig-like teammates.

"Yoshida Qing, you carefully tell me the details", sure enough, Fengzi and Fengxi heard that there were two flags to study in the local area, and their eyes suddenly lit up, the Yamauchi family relied on knowledge and interest to get such a big territory in Tosa Province, but they have not been able to catch any high-level shogunate, this opportunity that fell from the sky, grasp it, there are people in the court who are good officials, and then borrow it from the shogunate for more than 100,000 taels of gold.

"The minister also knows a little about this", Fukuoka Palace hurriedly cut off the beard - mahjong has been popular in Fusang in the past two years, and cutting off the beard has also become a popular phrase.

Fukuoka Palace first told the origin of Naohide and the Sakamoto family, because the Sakamoto family is a subordinate of Fukuoka, he first picked himself up, and then he took out the registration information of Naohide and his party at the dock customs office, and then according to the name of the territory in the hand shape and the seedling character of Oguri, the identity of the big body flag of the Oguri family was picked out in one operation.

"Huh-", the Yamauchi family was ready to start immediately after seeing the big fish, and immediately wanted to invite the two flags to Kochi Castle for a prelude, Fukuoka Palace saw this and hurriedly persuaded that the shogunate made friends with foreign clans and spread it out badly, this matter has to be discussed in the long run, and Yoshida and I went to explore the road first, so this is the visit.

Naohide invited someone in, and after a few words, he found that Fukuoka was pulling at Oguri in a roundabout way, so he hurriedly invited Oguri over, this matter should not be his decision, whether it is good or bad is Oguri's own business.

Today's private school is on holiday.,Oguri is chatting with Murata Yongmin and others.,Don't look at Murata who is usually not good at talking.,But as soon as he says it's dry goods.,Quite like Oguri.,Gakujiro and two doglegs are helping on the side.,A few people talk about sex is really strong.。

Toranosuke came over to invite Oguri, and Oguri was very annoyed by these things that were ushered in, but Naohide was invited, and he also pinched his nose and came over to deal with it.

Yoshida Toyo looked at Fukuoka coldly how to hook up, Fukuoka first said some words of admiration, Oguri was noncommittal, he was tired of hearing this flattery in Edo, and the level of the Tosa countryside was not good; Fukuoka didn't see the words in Hong Kong.,And then turned to the elegant thing.,Oguri has a rough temperament.,The elegant party organized by the shogunate was unwilling to invite him.,He also despised the so-called elegant things.,Tea ceremony、Flower arrangement,The specific details of Oguri don't know much.,It didn't take long for him to be cold again.。

Naohide, as the master, had to say some conciliatory words, and then he and Yoshida reconfirmed the time to leave for Aki-gun, and Fukuoka had to follow Yoshida to say goodbye.

"Flies camp dogs", and when they left, Xiao Li complained to Zhixiu.

"Chickens and dogs are thieves, things can be done in an emergency, and the husband should be tolerant", Naoxiu took the opportunity to pour chicken soup on Oguri, Oguri pursed his lips and walked away.

Early the next morning, Toyo Yoshida brought people over to meet, and Naohide left Nakherjiro, the children, and Mizuo behind, and Oguri and the others set off.

Yoshida's team also has one more samurai from the Yamauchi family - Yamauchi Toyonobu. The old Fukuoka palace returned to Kochi Castle to report, he didn't say that he was not very popular, he only said that he had confirmed, Oguri is indeed the son of the big body flag Uenosuke Oguri Tadaka, that flag moto Hori Naohide flattered Oguri in every way, it is estimated that it is an ordinary flag book, in order to go further, the head of the family is inconvenient to come forward, can you arrange a group to pull in the relationship.

When the feudal lord Toyoshi heard this, he was indeed a big fish, and it was rare for Fukuoka Palace, who usually couldn't ask questions, to be so knowledgeable, so he arranged for his younger brother Toyonobu to participate in this matter.

Fengxi was born in a separate family in Yamachi, his father is Fengzhu, Fengxin is his blood brother, nineteen years old this year, and Koguri Zhongshun, Naohide is the same age, and the retired husband Fengzi also feels that the way to progress is still in the hands of his own family, he said yes, this matter is decided.

Yamauchi Toyoshi because he favors his son Fengxi, he has been suppressed this year, and Toyonobu has also been suppressed by several family elders, and he is currently idle at home, hearing the news, he was ecstatic, and quickly learned about the preferences of Oguri and Naohide with Yoshida Toyo, and as a result, a basin of water was poured on his head.

Toyonobu is a famous playboy in Tosa, usually suave, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting have dabbled, but Yoshida told him, these two flags from Edo, don't look young, but mature and steady, I sent someone to inquire, except for eating, I don't have any hobbies, by the way, do you know Lanxue? People love this.

Toyoshin listened to the wail, Lanwu, a toy thief, burns money, and Tosa plays less of this.

The Yamauchi family urgently transferred a few horses to Yoshida, Edo usually only allowed samurai with more than 200 koku to ride horses, Eiko had never played, she didn't sit in the cage, and beckoned Naohide to lead the horse for her, and she had a lot of fun.

In Izu Nirayama Oguri, he saw that Yingzi had an extraordinary status in the Hori family, but along the way, Yingzi took care of him comfortably and respected him very much, so he tolerated Yingzi's various outrageous behaviors, after all, you can't rashly offend the person who gives food on the road.

As for Toyonobu Yamauchi and Toyo Yoshida, they don't know Yingzi's origin, and it's inconvenient to rashly speak out against it.

But Eiko didn't have to be happy for long, and as she left Kochi, the pedestrians and farmers on the side of the road seemed to be poorly dressed, and the houses on the side of the road became more and more dilapidated, and Eiko lost interest in riding on a pony.

"The people of Nirayama are very different from this", Oguri asked Naohide when he was puzzled, ignoring the faces of Yamanuchi and Yoshida on the side.

Naohide explained to him softly - if you don't explain this lord, the scene is even more embarrassing, the shogunate controls the big mines of gold, silver and copper in Fuso, and controls the economic lifeline through the big merchants led by Sandu, and the imperial leader is a good place with abundant production, so the burden on the people is relatively low, and the farmer's field rent is generally five gongs and five people, and some acting officials also make four gongs and six people love the people, of course, life is good.

As for Nirayama, the Egawa family is a hereditary acting official and has developed agronomy from generation to generation, and although Izu is a so-called remote mountainous area, it is not bad at domestic management and agricultural product cultivation, and of course it is stronger than Tosa.

As for the siphon effect of the metropolitan area, the first to absorb is also the princes outside the imperial territory, but this point cannot be talked about.

"It is not bad to defend the two countries, Hizen, and Satsuma countries in the long run, and to develop domestic production," Murata Eitoshi mended on the side - he has recently become Oguri's royal advisor, and has developed the habit of answering Oguri's endless questions.

Naohide glared at Murata, but Murata didn't see it, and Naohide was directly depressed.

Oguri listened thoughtfully, and Yamauchi and Yoshida were embarrassed to listen.

"On this trip to Aki County, I also ask the two highnesses for a lot of advice", and the awkward chat also has to be discussed, Yamauchi forced Yoshida to express his position with his eyes.

Naohide promised, fighting for the world, suffering the people, Naohide came to Tosa for the purpose of this, first to promote the economic development of Tosa, and then according to this to drive the island of Shikoku, although it is said that Yoshida will do a good job in the future to carry out feudal reform, but why not add more handles.