Chapter 1438 - Returning with a Full Load
"That Xu Xiaofeng!"
Su I Mazi frowned and shook his head, "When I personally show a letter to the Son of Heaven, please set Shika Island as Shiga Township, Chikuzen Prefecture, and appoint Xu Xiaofeng to operate the land on Shiga Island, and ask the imperial court to confer on him the name of Shiga Daimyo and the land on the island as his famous field!" ”
The so-called Bantian system is naturally to collect all land into public ownership, including the emperor's cantons and the manors of the nobles, and then grant these fields to the people, and the people will pay rent and serve. These bantians, of course, are nominally owned by the imperial court, but they are just for the people to cultivate.
Of course, in order to gain the support of the powerful nobles, the Soga clan had to keep the manors of the nobles, and the manors they occupied were nominally state-owned, but in turn, the Soga clan issued letters of appointment to these manor owners in the name of the shogunate.
Shikashima is not very large, and this is not the first time that the Wakoku has ceded land, and it has already ceded a part of the Hi Province to the imperial court to administer it, but this is the first time that the land has been ceded to private individuals.
Since it's renting, you have to figure it out.
Therefore, Soga Mazi took the initiative to show Xu Xiaofeng as a daimyo to the Son of Heaven, and appointed the fields on Shiga Island as Xu Xiaofeng's famous fields, just to emphasize that the sovereignty of this land was still in the hands of the Japanese state, which was different from Hizen.
"Let's also divide the twenty miles of Haizhong Dao together as Xu Xiaofeng's famous field fiefdom." Su Ma Zi took the initiative.
Ezo was puzzled.
"Shikashima has been rented by that Xu Xiaofeng for a hundred years, and now he has to give him the middle way of the sea for nothing?"
"It's just some wasteland." Su I Ma Zi said, he also has his own considerations, now he wants to open a shogunate, replace the Wa King to control Yamato, this is an unprecedented thing, although they Su I clan is strong from generation to generation, they have never had such an opportunity before.
And to maintain this power, it is inseparable from the support of the Great Qin Emperor.
Half of the fat country has been ceded to the Great Qin Emperor, and a small Shiga has nothing to be reluctant to.
"Think big!"
However, Su I Mazi still kept a hand, he did not lease the twenty-mile-long sandbar in the middle of the sea to Xu Xiaofeng, but gave it to Xu Xiaofeng, so that this place is still in the hands of Xu Xiaofeng.
The middle of the sea is more than 20 miles long, but not all of them are long and narrow, there are two large protrusions, and the width is five or six miles long, and these two large sandbanks are far flatter than Shikashima and can be cultivated.
"Ezo, you take the time to go to Natsu on my behalf, have a good talk with Murakami, and then go to meet Xu Xiaofeng, just say that I apologize to him for the previous misunderstanding, I hope this matter will pass, and in the future, we welcome him to trade with more goods regardless of his previous suspicions, and also welcome him to establish a mining castle on the sandbar of Shiga and Kainakaido!"
Natsu.
Xu Xiaofeng and his gang have been very chic recently, and they are searching for money and property in Najin City everywhere every day, but there are also thieves, and he is also thinking about future exchanges, so he is just searching for the money of the original government in the city. After searching for all the money, he simply began to demolish the Yamen mansion, and moved everything that could be moved to the ship.
Natsukushi Murakami was very unhappy, and every day he would send someone to send a batch of money and silk, or gold and silver or some silk silk, and later, he even began to send salted fish.
Xu Xiaofeng is not in a hurry, if you drag it like this, then he will stay in Najin City and not leave.
Anyway, everyone eats and drinks spicy food in the city every day, both drinking wine and widows, and some guys are already happy, and I wish that this village would never be able to make up those thousands of gold coins to compensate.
However, early that morning, Murakami came to the city in person, and the difference in compensation was paid at once, and he paid a little more.
Xu Xiaofeng was a little surprised.
"Xu Lang, this is the son of the general of the Dongying Province Zhengyi who was sealed by the Son of Heaven, the political envoy of the Dongying Province Zuobu and the Iyo Taishou Suga Ezo, he came on behalf of the general, and apologizes for the misunderstanding before."
Xu Xiaofeng didn't know Su I Ezo, but he also knew that Su Ma Zi had now become the first person in power in the Japanese Kingdom.
"It turned out that Su I was too guarded, disrespectful and disrespectful!"
Su I Ezo crossed his hand at Xu Xiaofeng, "I've seen Xu Langjun, I'm here to apologize to Xu Langjun and congratulate him." ”
What's the joy?
Soga Ezo first asked someone to carry up a box of gold.
"Three hundred taels of gold, a little sorry!"
Xu Xiaofeng was surprised in his heart, what a big deal, three hundred taels of gold, but it was worth three thousand yuan. Su I Mazi is now in charge of the Japanese country, and he is also a proper local powerhouse, and he is also a good speaker to the emperor, and he is so polite to his small maritime businessman, but it makes him very vigilant.
But then Ezo took out another letter of appointment.
However, he entrusted him with the two places of Shiga and the Saitozaki and the wild goose back to the nest, and gave him the name of a daimyō.
"Shichipin Shiga Prefectural Order, and Shiga Guardian Daimyo?"
Xu Xiaofeng really didn't understand, there was no reason for Su Ma Zi to be so polite to him.
"Captain, is there any deception here?"
Xu Xiaofeng listened to the reminder of the treasure gun, and he was also suspicious.
But Ezo was polite, and even said that Shiga Island and Kainaka Road form Shiga County, under the jurisdiction of Shiga Township, Nishitozaki Township and Yanhuichao Township, and the fields above are all appointed as Xu Xiaofeng's famous fields, and even the rents collected by the famous fields are all sealed as Xu Xiaofeng's food estates, and they do not have to be handed over.
However, Ezo also proposed that the shogunate would set up a battalion of government soldiers in Shiga Prefecture, and Xu Xiaofeng's fleet would be organized into the Shiga battalion, which would be subordinate to the shogunate's command.
"It can't be!" Xu Xiaofeng shook his head.
"Hehe, it's just in name, Xu Langjun don't worry, Shiga Prefecture can be autonomous in the future, and the shogunate will not interfere."
"Hahaha, I didn't expect General Su I to be so bold, I really can't refuse this proposal, no matter what, it's hard to resist, so I should go. If you have something in the future, you can say hello, and I will definitely help if I can. ”
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say."
The two of them were playing haha there.
This time, even if the Natsu incident is over, both sides are satisfied. Tsukushi Murakami is also very happy, two desert islands are just two desert islands, not valuable, although he also lost some indemnities, as well as some property in Nazu City, but in exchange for the appreciation and value of the shogunate general Soga Mazi, he was also promoted to the shogunate Sanpin Sima, and his son was able to take over as Tsukushi Taishou and serve as the guardian of Tsukushi, all of which is worth it.
Although Soga Ezo asked Ezo to bring 2,000 soldiers to garrison and assist in defense on the grounds that Nazu Port would be a major trade place in the future, which was an infiltration of Tsukushi, but in the end Murakami still accepted it, after all, Mako also gave him a lot of benefits, this is an exchange of interests, and smart people know how to respond.
Xu Xiaofeng was also a happy person, with a large box of gold and silver money, and led his subordinates to withdraw from Najin City with hundreds of killing gods as promised.
They swaggered all the way out of the city, and Murakami and Ezo watched from afar, and they didn't get too close.
The group went out of the city to the dock and boarded the boat smoothly.
"Anchor and sail."
"To Shikashima!"