Guardian Daimyo Shimazu has "beautifully" solved the problem of arrears, but he did not solve the fundamental problem. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Candles in the Hachido River area are also popular in Japan.

In the candlelight, which was much brighter than before, the young guardian daimyo Shimazu Kukei also fell into thought, where to get some money?

Thinking about it, he thought of the Mihara-style guardian daimyo in the Hakata region, and when he heard that his industry was growing rapidly, he immediately called one of his own merchants to go to them to learn from them.

The guardian daimyo Shimazu rebuked him and said, "As a retainer of the Shimazu family, you can't even earn money for the Shimazu family, what an incompetent person!" ”

The retainer could only kneel, grab the ground with his head, and admit his incompetence.

If even the guardian of the daimyo Shimazu is worried about money, you can imagine what kind of life those villagers of all sizes will live.

Due to the poor economy, the Satsuma Domain recruited very few feudal lords, and too many villagers could not become feudal lords with a fortune.

They receive only a few meager subsidies, and some of them do not even receive them.

They can be peasants, which is not a shame for the villagers, but they can be dismissed as samurai if they don't do it.

Although Japan is now in the Kamakura Shogunate period, it was also a period of strict hierarchy.

The first rank is the emperor. He had no real power, but he was deliberately deified as a spiritual leader, and because he was a son of God, not a mortal, he had no surname, and there was no surname in the later world.

The second rank is the general of the expedition. The de facto rulers of the world claim to be entrusted by the emperor as a god to rule over the world.

The third estate is the daimyo of various places. They were fiefdom-torn princes who had almost all the power over their own territory, and who carried out their own taxes and even conscriptions.

The fourth rank is the samurai, large and small. They were salaried professional soldiers under the shogunate or daimyo and belonged to the ruling class.

Even if their master family perished, they became ronins or wild samurai. Identity is also above ordinary civilians.

The fifth rank is the monk. During the shogunate period, they were powerful enough to form their own vassals and compete with the samurai.

The people of the above five classes are the ruling class, and they have the power to kill and kill the following classes.

The sixth rank is the merchant. Merchants were in an awkward position during the shogunate, they were rich but did not have the corresponding political status.

A broken samurai can ask a merchant to kneel for him, and if he doesn't, he can be legally killed.

Therefore, merchants always tended to donate money to the daimyo in exchange for a samurai status.

The seventh rank is an entertainer. This is yet another awkward identity group. Including singers, tea men, painters, etc.

They represented the arts, and the refined samurai class often courteously represented themselves as cultured, but in fact their political status was extremely low.

The eighth class is peasants, craftsmen. These working classes, with their low status, were confined to their villages or towns and could not leave for life. Accept the multi-layered exploitation of samurai and merchants, and accept the deception of monks, cheating money and goods. His life was far more miserable than he could have imagined.

Even a samurai lord travels and stays at a commoner's house. Civilians had to sleep in the open and give up their houses and provide the women of the family without complaint, otherwise the samurai could legally behead the entire commoner's family.

The ninth rank is the untouchables, and this is the lowest level.

It is usually the descendants of the losers in the political struggle who are sent to the barren land to do punitive work.

This also includes people who engage in undignified occupations, such as prostitution. They have no human rights at all, and even civilians can legally bully them.

There is also a special class here, which is the ninja. The samurai are about dueling openly, while the ninja is stealthily assassinating and destroying. Ninjas are a group of people who give up their honor.

It doesn't matter if you were a samurai or a commoner before you became a ninja, after you became a ninja, you were the lowest pariah.

So those with a ninja background who became samurai were willing to contact the original ninja group but were reluctant to go back.

However, although the status of ninjas is extremely low. However, due to its special military force and military value, in fact, the samurai class, especially the daimyo, generally used some money to support the ninja group to serve them.

If there is no daimyo to raise. The source of income of the ninja group is generally extortion from merchants and civilians, which is typical of the underworld nature.

Now, many villagers live a life of insufficient food every day, and they can't stand it, so they have to find a way overseas.

Previously, the Shanbei Kingdom, which was closest to them, was unlucky.

Those villagers had a harvest before. But then it turned out that the harvest was getting bigger and bigger, and the people, who were almost as poor as them, even used oil lamps!

The harvest of the last robbery made everyone very happy, and in addition to food, they also got a lot of weird things. Some can be eaten raw, some are tasteless, but they can all be cooked and eaten.

They still have a lot of salt.

The biggest regret is that they didn't grab the buffalo and other livestock, and it seems that they must have hidden even further.

Seeing their harvest, the eyes of many villagers turned red, and everything that could be eaten could be sold for money, not to mention others.

They immediately began to organize a larger robbery, and more buffaloes were the way to go.

Samurai Oda Saburo woke up one day to see his wife kneeling in front of him, as well as his two children.

They were quietly waiting for themselves to wake up.

Seeing Oda Saburo wake up, his wife honestly kowtowed to him and pleaded guilty, saying, "Husband, I'm so incompetent, the rice at home is only enough to eat today!" ”

Oda Saburo sighed at this time, thinking that he would not be able to become the imperial family of Shimazu Daimyo this year.

He had to live on a very meager subsidy, he could starve, but his wife and children couldn't.

At this time, of course, it was impossible for all the daimyo in Japan to hire all the samurai in the domain, but they couldn't drive them away------ so it was good that there was no war now, but once it happened, I was afraid that I would not be able to find it temporarily, so I could give a little subsidy every month, especially those samurai who did not have land and did not do business.

This subsidy would have allowed the family to live a life that was poorer but could survive.

But the subsidy given by Shimazu Daimyo is getting less and less, and this is not enough to live.

As usual, he had to bow his noble head again and borrow money from usury merchants.

Soon after, they could always meet the Shimazu family who hired them to do something, and after they were paid, they paid back the money, and added some profits.

The loan shark merchant was still afraid of a samurai like him, and did not dare to charge more interest.

Samurai like him were quite numerous in the Satsuma domain.

They had also heard that the samurai subsidy at Mihara Daimyo in the Hakata region was far higher than theirs, but they could only express their envy that the spirit of the samurai did not allow them to run there.

Saburo Oda is happy that he really doesn't have to worry about it today.

He said, "Sadako, don't worry about rice, Sanyuan Otomo and I have found a way out!" ”

Sadako was happy and still dressed him up carefully.

The place where his clothes were torn was sewn by the oil lamp last night by taking the opportunity of chatting at the neighbor's house.

Saburo Oda saw that he could still maintain the glory of a samurai, and went out of the house proudly hungry.

Sadako bent down behind him and asked, "Husband, let's drink the porridge before going out." ”

"No need, let the kids eat more!"

Saburo Oda is now swaggering down the street. (To be continued.) )