Captain Huang Zu and the prince of the Ryukyus Kingdom devised a plan on the sea route to Shanbei Island, and they were going to capture these Japanese samurai thieves alive. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There were only about 300 people on the two warships, including the Ryukyu Kingdom's own soldiers, but they were all arquebuses and cap-type mini guns, plus they also had ship-type tiger squat guns, so they were powerful both at sea and on land.

However, there would not be the naval battle that Captain Huang Zu had hoped for, because there were no warships of its own in the whole of Japan, let alone the Satsuma Domain.

When they arrived at Shanbei Island, they set up a trap and set up several secret posts in the places where thieves often went ashore, and waited for the thieves to report quickly when they came ashore.

The rest of the people trained the local youth while waiting for the thieves to come ashore.

After the unification of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom treated the islanders of the other two islands equally, and not only distributed good seeds, but also lowered the price of salt, and all kinds of dried whale meat were extremely cheap, and the people here were very happy.

After the first harvest of all kinds of good seeds, they felt that life was beginning to be better, but there were more thieves, and they even robbed the oil lamps!

Captain Huang Zu is too experienced in dealing with such things, and he can't blame the common people for not having the courage to resist, in front of a group of organized thieves with knives, the common people can't win.

The Satsuma Domain, located in the southwestern part of Kyushu, was the lord of the domain, Shimazu, who is now the guardian daimyo of the domain.

The Kamakura shogunate was first founded by Minamoto Yorito, the leader of the Kanto samurai, and has been controlled by the Hojo clan, a relative of the Genji clan.

During this period, they implemented the dictatorship of the shogunate, and the shogunate was located in Kamakura, and there was a government office in charge of administration and finances in the shogunate domain, a residence for the imperial family who had a master-slave relationship with Genji, and a reference office for the trial of the imperial family's lawsuits.

The shogun appointed the royal family to all parts of the country to serve as the guardian of the local administrative unit "state" and the head of the estates, and to control the local security, taxation and land management.

The Kamakura shogunate was a samurai regime headed by a shogun and a member of the imperial family, and coexisted with the imperial court headed by the emperor. But there is real power.

Therefore, the Shimazu clan is actually the royal family of the Hojo clan.

He also had a large number of lands under his command, as well as a large number of samurai, including feudal lords and village warriors.

Their system of village warriors stipulated that the village soldiers lived in the countryside, engaged in agricultural production in peacetime, and went on expeditions with the lord in wartime.

The status is equivalent to that of a lower-ranking feudal lord, and those with outstanding merit can be promoted to the Left-behind HOS Category of feudal clan or higher.

The name of the countryman can be bought and sold. Those who sell their names and have more than 40 years of experience can still "bear the surname with a knife", and their status is above that of ordinary farmers and industrialists, but below that of villagers.

If a townsman or a ronin with a "surname and a sword" enters a certain domain to engage in feudal administration, he can also be promoted and promoted if he has good results

If you don't have a samurai background, if you want to enter the samurai class, you can only enter the samurai class by buying an identity.

Only then can you move to a higher rank, and there is also a special situation where you are engaged in a position in the domain lord's family, and the feudal lord is specially promoted. But there are not many examples, and now Mihara Eleven in the Hachido River area is counted as one.

He was promoted by the Mihara clan because he was hired, and he also earned an extra salary in this area, so he was full of energy.

In addition, if you don't have a samurai who has reached the rank of feudal lord, you can't go around at will.

The samurai had the privilege of holding official positions, receiving salaries, taking surnames, swords, riding horses, and "beheading and forbidding" those who were "rude" to the common people, that is, to kill them.

The greatest right of the samurai was the right to participate in the government and the right to receive a salary, and other privileges were attached, and the other privilege was compulsory education.

The shogunate and the feudal clans financed the school. Enroll samurai children.

However, the so-called beheading of the Imperial Exemption is also conditional, and it is only possible to kill someone if someone proves that it is indeed an insult to the samurai.

If you just find an excuse to cut someone. will be held accountable or even ordered to seppuku.

No matter how rich their merchants were, they didn't have much political power, and they were often bullied by the samurai, so they often paid for them.

But the poor samurai who can't be an official can only stick to a meager salary and pretend to be high, if he really can't hold on. They don't dare to steal the property of the area, because they will lose their identity and be held accountable by the guard daimyo.

However, they can go out to sea to rob, and this has been recognized and even encouraged by everyone.

The land of the Satsuma Domain was somewhat barren compared to other places, and it was only dependent on rice cultivation as its main business. Fishing is a side hustle.

The Japanese peasants of this period were really poor, far less than the peasants of the Great Song Dynasty, and too many peasants never had enough rice in their lives.

The Japanese farmers hired by Zhang Guoan, at the beginning, gave them all enough rice to eat, and they almost didn't believe it was true!

Even in such heavy physical labor, they were all fat.

The Satsuma Domain was mainly based on agriculture, and the output of agriculture was low, so it was relatively poor.

At this time, the terrible thing is that the Shimazu clan guardian daimyo is still a master who likes to spend money, and he also spends ahead of time.

Whenever there are any good goods of the Great Song Dynasty in Japan, he must have them, especially if there are many interesting goods recently------ if there is not enough money, he will raise taxes and borrow from merchants.

It is impossible to increase taxes all the time, there must be a limit, and he mainly borrows from merchants.

In the beginning, you can balance it by selling your status as a merchant samurai, but after a while, after borrowing money from a merchant, what will you use to pay it back?

The guardian of the Satsuma Domain, the daisy officer, was distraught and said to his head of the family, Shimazu, the long-established guardian daimyo, "Shogun, it will be a hundred years since I borrowed the money from the merchants!" ”

Shimazu Hisashi was also taken aback, and unknowingly owed so much money?!

The ancestors of the Shimazu clan were the descendants of the Qin clan, who claimed to be the first emperor of the Qin clan. After the death of Qin, his ancestors went to Japan to take root.

During the reign of Minamoto Yoritomo, Yumune went to Kyushu as a sho official of Shimazuso.

His son, Yumune Tadahisa, became the lord of Satsuma, Hinata, and Osumi during the Minamoto Yoritomo period, and was renamed Shimazu Tadahisa, which became the birthplace of the Shimazu family.

By the time it was passed down to Shimazu, he had already become the guardian daimyo for two generations.

At that time, Shimazu had long asked merchants to come to his mansion.

Shimazu sneered and said, "Show me the deed of my borrowed money------"

How dare the merchants refuse to give, so they handed over the arrears one by one.

After a short look, Shimazu knew that he couldn't pay it back at all, so he threw himself into the charcoal basin, and those arrears burned into ashes in the charcoal fire in the blink of an eye!

The merchants were shocked, but no one dared to say anything, so they could only bow down obediently on the ground, not daring to say anything.

Guardian Daimyo Shimazu sneered and said, "I won't borrow money and not pay it back, but I have to repay it in a period of 1------00 years."

The merchants couldn't laugh. (To be continued.) )