The Kanto Plain, the most fertile land in Fusang, is as anxious as the Ming Dynasty erupted from natural and man-made disasters.

A group of peasants in short clothes and tattered clothes trembled and knelt on the ground, watching the fierce samurai master carry the pitiful rice grain in his house, and the village chief kept kowtowing and begging at the entrance of the village.

"Master, our village has run out of food this year! His Royal Highness the General has provided another wave of military rations for the Western Kingdom, and if it is levied again, the people in the village will starve to death, I beg you, slow down! It's okay to levy it next year! ”

"Yaga!"

The answer was that the knife came out of its sheath with a clatter, resting on his neck, and the flag warriors of the Ii family shouted and cursed savagely.

"The expropriation order of the Autumn Kingdom was personally issued by the general, to protect you untouchables from being slaughtered by the barbarians of the Western Kingdom, you untouchables are not grateful, and you dare to pick and choose? One more word, dead and dead! Retire! ”

The samurai had the right to kill the peasants who offended him at any time, with a shiny katana around his neck and beads of sweat on his head, the village chief staggered and kowtowed, and hurriedly retreated, watching the last bit of harvest be carried away by the Japanese samurai basket by basket.

It's just that the peasants who knelt on the ground and trembled had terrible eyes.

This village is quite cooperative, Musashi Kuniruma, the generation of Goryeo County, also used a knife and saw blood.

There are more than a dozen grinning heads hanging from the trees on the roadside, and on the narrow and dilapidated official road, peasants who are equally sad are pushing carts and transporting grain.

The corners of the old man's mouth twitched when he came to supervise this scene, and the wrinkled head was even tighter, three expeditions a year, even if it was the most intense days of turmoil in the world during the Warring States Period, it was not so ruthless, this year's army, the countryside Ashigaru has already suffered a lot of casualties, and now it is levied again, and the great famine in the east this winter is inevitable.

And such a levy is a loss of the Tokugawa family's popularity, and the families of the people who died of starvation will remember the shogun's rampant conquest, to be honest, he would rather let the terrible cavalry of the Western Army sweep in, and let the Eastern samurai fight to the end with swords, even if the Toyotomi family of the Western Kingdom seized the grain, it had to be exchanged for blood, rather than let the shogunate bear this infamy itself.

It's a pity that the major families, including the Tokugawa family, were all scared by the sea of corpses and blood in Osaka's Sannojin, and the old family on the Edo side decided that they would negotiate peace with the Western Kingdom no matter what, but how could there be real peace between the weak and the strong, and how the Tokugawa family destroyed the Toyotomi family back then, these cowards have all forgotten.

Now such a large-scale expropriation of people's grain is just to accelerate the corruption of the shogunate, and the slow death, maybe the Toyotomi family didn't fight, and this winter, there will be a war in the Kanto Plain first!

"If Ieyasu was still here, it wouldn't be like this!"

With a sigh, the old man Qingshan suddenly turned his head helplessly and waved his hand to the Qingshan family behind him.

"When I go back to Edo, I will take out all the tea utensils, screens, and clothes at home and send them to the Imperial Palace!"

"My lord, this is the wealth of the Aoyama family! Besides, the general did not order the retainers to clear the family, if the Qingshan family dumps wealth and other families should not, the Qingshan family will be suspicious!"

It's just like the death of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, everyone is drunk and I wake up alone, but at this time, Aoyama Yukinari didn't care at all and waved his hand again.

"If you want to do it, you will do it!"

Then he sighed deeply.

"It's good to have a few fewer deaths!"

…………

After all, Mao Jue didn't need to do it, and in August, a steady stream of food and goods transported from the Kanto Plain drove into Omi little by little, passed under Kyoto Castle, and was transported to Osaka Castle in Settsu Province in the eyes of the nobles of Kyoto.

660,000 stone doesn't seem to be much, but it really can't stand the accumulation of time, fifteen years, 9.9 million stone, it's almost the shogunate's old life, even if it is desperately scraped in the pro-domain, Pudai territory, and ordered to pay more than 20% of the tribute to the foreign daimyo, the shogunate only collected about 6 million stones, and the rest can only be repaid with silver, according to Mao Jue's pricing, two taels of silver and one stone of grain, the shogunate paid four million taels of silver, 200,000 taels of gold, and even a lot of royal objects like ukiyo-e screens, The famous paintings, famous swords, and famous tea sets of the Japanese dynasties, and the Edo Tokugawa Great Castle Guard, which was not attacked last time, were cleaned by Mao Jue in another way.

afterworld

There was such a description in Du Mu's "Abang Gongfu", Yan Zhao's collection, Han Wei's management, Qi Chu's elite, several generations of years, plundering his people, leaning on a mountain! Once you can't have it, you lose in the meantime. Now Mao Jue is as strong as the Qin people, he is in Kyoto, and the little emperor also gave him a house, which is placed here like a museum.

"Famous things are too big! Three days and the moon are near! Boy Che Angang!"

With a bang, the katana more than a meter long was pulled apart, and under the sun, countless exquisite patterns of the sun and the moon could not help but emerge, just like the rural daimyo who had never seen the world, the old fox Kuroda Tadayuki was slightly smoking, as if caressing the delicate skin of a beauty, and stroked the blade of the knife in obsession.

"There are five swords in the world, and Mao Fengxing actually got three of them!"

"Not only that, but also these tea utensils, the evening bell of this smoke temple, the three days and the moon of the teapot, the tea bowl daytime, the three roads, the incense box and the hand-to-hand zygote, these two boxes, a full hundred and thirty tea sets, and the general's collection of Liuying imperial objects, almost all of them are here, oh my God! There is also the first flower shoulder chong, which is the most beloved tea set of Taige Hideyoshi, and it is also here!"

Even if he is Mao Jue's hardcore master, Mao Lixiu also treats himself as a bellows, and he can't stop pumping back.

The Maori family and the Otomo clan fought for hegemony in Kyushu, the Otomo clan is a famous hunter in the town, this set of first flowers shoulder rush is the Otomo family in order to ask for help from the Toyotomi family and dedicated to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, just such a set of tea sets, let the Toyotomi family meddle in Kyushu affairs, the Maori family calculated that the Otomo clan was a failure, not to mention, he had to surrender and bow his head, after that, the head of the Maori family also developed the habit of famous hunting.

However, even if Maori Xiu has collected it all his life, it is not as valuable as one-tenth of these tea sets in front of him.

Mao Jue didn't have so much research on porcelain, swords, and saw that the princes on both sides were looking straight in their eyes, and he asked with some surprise.

"You all love it!"

I couldn't wait to shake my head into a fan, and the eyes of the two of them looking at Mao Jue were almost smoking, and it was not easy to maintain the unique reserve of the East, waving their hands again and again.

"General Mao's famous thing, how dare the lower officials covet it!"

However, the subtext in the hearts of the two of them is that Mao Jue waved his hand in a chic manner and gave it to the Qing family, and then the two of them were polite, and they took these famous things and knives into their pockets and brought them back as family heirlooms.

What made the two vomit blood was that Mao Jue himself also looked like his eyes were shining, shaking his head and muttering repeatedly.

"Both daimyo love it so much! It seems that the Tokugawa family didn't dare to lie to me! Come! Box! Sealed!"

The two high-ranking and powerful daimyo watched as if their daughter-in-law followed others into a small hotel, and watched several Dongjiang treasury managers carry these Fusang treasures to the warehouse.

It was also Grande's gaze that watched these famous things take away, and then Mao Jue looked at Mao Lixiu and Kuroda Tadayuki with some astonishment.

"You two arrived, I don't know why?"

It can be regarded as pulling out the eyeballs from the direction of the warehouse, and the two names rubbed their hands together pitifully.

"Lord Mao, I heard that the Tokugawa family has been escorted to Osaka one after another!"

"Wait, imagine borrowing food from Toyotomi!"

It's really miserable, in fact, the west is more miserable than the east, at the beginning of the year, the Maori family raised troops, the war from the Zhou defense, An Yun has been burned to the back, the Shikoku strategy war, Shikoku Island in the Li Korean soldiers and horses in the looting of most of the ashes, Kii landing, Li Korea is in the Kii Peninsula is considered a place of ointment of the robbery, most of the western countries were affected by the war, this year's cultivation is wasted most of the waste.

Kyushu Island has been cleaned up by Mao Jue before, although there is no military disaster this year, it can supply 780,000 troops to fight a decisive battle in Osaka City for half a year, which is also a cost of consumption, the Kuroda family got 177,000 stones, and the Maori family recaptured 420,000 stones from An Yunguo, but the two families are not capable of developing, and if they want to appease the people and win people's hearts, they can only borrow money from the Regents.

It's just that as soon as they finished saying this, the two of them couldn't help but have a feeling of regret, because Mao Jue's eyes instantly lit up again, and they were as bright as light bulbs, exuding a dangerous divine light.

…………

After some bargaining, Mao Linggong was happy, and one of them also rewarded a famous thing, but Kuroda Tadayuki was holding the big ceremony, and Mao Lixiu was holding the first flower shoulder tea set, but the expressions of the two were not happy no matter what, but there was a feeling of wanting to cry.

Bidding farewell to the two of them, Mao Jue was like a dragon guarding his wealth, and once again moved out the treasures ordered by the shogunate to compensate him, and fiddled with them one after another.

But who knew this kung fu, there was another rush of footsteps on the porch, and this time there was no announcement at all, and someone broke in, and Mao Jue couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Inspector Yuan, who was full of anger and devastation, rushed all the way from Osaka City, and was thrown away by Mao Jue to do rough work, squeezed out those words directly from between his teeth.

"General! Silver!"

(End of chapter)