Chapter 5 A Table of Dishes
"Now that autumn is on, it is a little difficult for us to continue farming and storing grain, but if we cultivate it, there is basically no problem. Nakono Castle is not too close to Inuyama Castle and Inayama Castle, and the first task is to build roads, get the two castles in good communication, and lay the foundation for our commercial plans, and then go to the sea to build fishermen's buildings and a large port. The task is daunting! "Guo Jia knelt at the head of the council hall, this was originally Xinxiu's position, but Xinxiu gave him a lot of authority, since he wants to be the city lord, then be a real city lord! So Xinxiu directly gave up the seat to Guo Jia.
"There are many villages around our ancient field, and those are population, which are units that can be conscripted, so the outside of the ancient field requires the construction of houses, and the interior of the ancient field must also be renovated, these will be put aside for a while, twenty days is too short. We can build hundreds of houses, but it is too slow to renovate the interior of the ancient field, so we don't want to mention it. ”
"Thirdly, gather all the caravans and cancel all the taxes they have paid into the city, as well as the taxes of all the residents of Nakono who have participated in the construction of Nakono City in the past twenty days."
"Fourth, go to the gate of the ancient wild city to erect a pillar, just carry it alone, and then offer a reward, if someone can carry this pillar to the ancient wild castle tower, the reward is ten times."
"Fifth, all the soldiers of Nakono City will go out and build Nakono."
After Guo Jia read out a series of plans, the faces of everyone present became more and more exciting, and one of his plans was enough to be busy for a few months, and even the construction of a city outside the city could not be completed in three or four months. In other words, that's what a strong man does!
"Chengzheng, you take a part of the manpower to give me a vigorous propaganda in the ancient field, the plain area on the right outside the ancient field, no matter who takes the initiative to reclaim the farmland, no matter how much they reclaim, let them enclose the land by themselves, and the land will be given to them. Xiulong, you go and take the two thousand young people who have been gathered, go to the mountains and forests in the distance to cut down the timber for building the city, and process it into building materials on the spot, and let this group of young people go back to their villages to publicize it today, as long as they can help us collect materials, the family will give us a house. ”
"Nagahide (Niwa Nagahide, Nobunaga's advisor) You lead people to publicize the issue of taxation, don't forget! Be sure to let all sorts of caravans hear. ”
"Katsuya (Shibata Katsuie, Nobunaga's shogun, similar to a military general. You go and lead the troops to build the road. ”
"All the materials that need to be collected, go with Xiulong to collect, and the time for you to collect is ten days, only a little, as much as you can get. Go ahead! ”
After Guo Jia arranged the order of various plans, the retainers were all shocked, they had never heard of building houses in this way. So they were all eager to try, and even as soon as Guo Jia's voice fell, two people had already run out, of course, those two were Cheng Zheng and Xiulong. The two of them have seen Guo Jia's methods with their own eyes, and they don't know what kind of surprise they will give them this time.
"Guo Jia, explain it to me, why don't I understand." It is true that his words are completely understood for Zhimou, but for military generals who have not read since childhood, they are basically completely incomprehensible, and even Oda Nobuhide, who is known as the Tiger of Owari, is at a loss.
"Father, you said that when you build a house, you cut down a tree, transport a tree, and then process a tree, so that people can build it slowly, or it is faster to process it in advance and assemble it directly." Guo Jia looked at the middle-aged man with a smile on his face.
"Secondly, what if we use the soldiers to work faster or if we have the residents of the ancient field and the nearby villagers come and work together?"
"The reason for the abolition of taxes is to make our Furuno a commercial city in the near future, and they may bring something we need. There will be brave men under the reward! Guo Jia's eyebrows showed cunning, and the smile on his face seemed to say that the new Naguye City would appear in twenty days.
"What about the pillars?" Xinxiu looked at Guo Jia in front of him, and felt that he was old for a while.
"Tell them that I'm an Owari fool, all of this was arranged by my father, and I haven't promoted it in the past twenty days, and after twenty days, I will have to rely on your father to come forward and take the credit." Guo Jiake did not regard the famous case of carrying a pillar and giving him a reward as a way to increase his integrity, but waited until the information was transmitted to make others think that Oda Nobunaga was a big fool even if he changed his name.
"I don't understand ......" Nobuhide shook his head, once this kind of thing is successful, Guo Jia can become the smartest person in Owari.
"Hey, don't say it, don't say it." Guo Jia stretched out a finger and shook it, the smile on his face even thicker.
"Stinky boy!" Nobu-su smiled, stood up and walked out of the council hall.
"Build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow to become king. Show the enemy to be weak, and defeat the enemy to be strong. The war will be broken, and the pursuit will be fierce. You won't understand. Guo Jia had a tactic in mind, yes, he already wanted to send troops, and now he just had to make some pre-war preparations.
At this time, the manpower arranged by Guo Jia knew that everything depended on the time, they did not delay, and seized all the time to complete Guo Jia's task, for them, the current general is Guo Jia, and they will be punished if they can't complete it.
However, at this time, Guo Jia had already returned to his house.
"Gui Die, I'm back." Guo Jia went home very early today, and basically went back directly after the meeting, because as a resourceful, he didn't need to do things with his subordinates.
"Husband, I came back very early today, don't you need to discuss the matter with them in the next twenty days?" Guidie stood up from the tatami mat and helped Guo Jia take off his clothes.
"No, I've had my own business lately." Guo Jia touched Guidie's head and walked towards a wooden knife. "Exercise! After being exempted, I went to the battlefield and didn't know how I died. ”
Guo Jia told the truth, he himself didn't know anything about martial arts, and the real Warring States Daimyo Oda Nobunaga was a master, and every time he fought, he went to the battlefield in person. It's not a reckless act, but it can greatly boost morale!
"Oh? Swordsmanship (the Japanese call their katana a sword)? It's rare for the husband to show off his swordsmanship. Guidie saw the wooden knife in Guo Jia's hand and said happily.
Guo Jia touched his nose in embarrassment, he didn't know anything about this.
The two walked into the courtyard, and Guidie watched Guo Jia wave wildly, with a smile on his face. She has never seen such a genre, or this Guo Jia really didn't study hard when she was a child to become like this.
"Husband, you." Guidie finally couldn't help it, her little hands covering her mouth, giggled. "Husband, you better find someone to teach you, your swordsmanship is too interesting."
"Uh...... All right. Guo Jia also knew that his swordsmanship was a little funny, so Guo Jia began to complain, "Their swordsmanship, alas, can't do anything else except watching anime." ”
"If you don't practice, don't practice, it's so troublesome!" Guo Jia was also disturbed by Guidie's laughter, and gritted his teeth and stomped his feet to stop practicing! "Cook!" Compared with practicing martial arts, Guo Jia resolutely chose to cook.
"Well, husband, let me come, men don't go into the kitchen. (In the past, a man's entry into the kitchen basically symbolized a sin)" Gui Die hurriedly stopped Guo Jia, not daring to let him enter the kitchen.
But Guo Jia didn't have this concept, he didn't pay attention to Guidie at all, but felt that Guidie was too good to him, but he never took care of Guidie, this time he planned to cook a good table meal and treat Guidie.
"Don't, don't, dear madam, just wait over there, and I'll serve you a good meal in a moment."
Although Guo Jia doesn't care about these, for Guidie, it is like sitting on pins and needles.
The kitchen is clanging, chopping, running water, and stir-frying.
"Knock knock" There was a knock on the door, and at the same time, it was Oda Nobuhide's voice that came from outside, "Guo Jia, open the door." ”
Guidie immediately jumped up in fright when she heard this, she didn't know why Guo Jia's father suddenly came to look for him, but Guo Jia was cooking in the kitchen at this time. Guidie's face was very frightened, and she opened the door uneasily.
There were two people standing outside the door, Nobuhide and Ashi. Seeing that it was Guidie who opened the door, Xinxiu frowned and thought, "Isn't Guo Jia back?" ”
"Guo Jia, he ......" Guidie's voice was so small that she was almost inaudible, she was afraid that Guo Jia's entry into the kitchen would be discovered by Xinxiu.
"Huh? Father? Ashi? What are you doing at the door, come in. Madam, please take care of it for me. Guo Jia held a steaming plate of dishes in his hand.
"Well, you haven't eaten yet, so stay with me and eat before you go back." Guo Jia looked at the two of them, just put the dishes on the table and returned to the kitchen to get busy again.
At this time, Guidie's face was full of uneasiness, for fear that Xinxiu would punish her, even Ah Shi's face was surprised, but it was Xinxiu, who had no expression on his face and knelt directly at the table waiting for Guo Jia.
Gui Die saw that his father-in-law did not speak, and hurriedly poured tea and water for him and Ah Shi.
"Sister-in-law, elder brother, he ......" Ah Shi was surprised to find that Guo Jia was in and out of the kitchen, which obviously violated a man's taboo.
"Ah Shi, have you forgotten your brother's nickname?" Nobuhide didn't have any anger, his eyes looked at a plate of dishes on the table, and he swallowed his saliva.
"I've been waiting." Guo Jia brought another dish at this time and put it on the table. "Well, I didn't expect my father and Ah Shi to come over, I'll fry two more." As soon as Guo Jia finished speaking, he hurriedly ran into the kitchen again.
"Stir-fry?" Ah Shi's head was tilted and he didn't understand Guo Jia's words. (At that time, it was rare in Japan, or there was almost no stir-frying.) )
"I guess it's some kind of Nanban language." After so many days of close contact with his son, he found that there were many words that he couldn't understand, so it came down to Guo Jia speaking Nanban again.
Not long after, Guo Jia brought out two more hot dishes. He placed it on the table and sat down on his knees as well.
"Well, Father, try my craft?" Guo Jia looked at the table of food proudly.
"Craft?" Ah Shi heard a strange sentence again. Nanban language! It must be Nanban!
But Nobuhide smiled, picked up the chopsticks and tasted it. In an instant, Nobuhide couldn't restrain himself and tasted all four dishes. "It's delicious!"
"Father said it was delicious, but if you don't do it, let your father finish it in a while!" Guo Jia hurriedly picked up the chopsticks and said while picking up vegetables for Gui Die.
His behavior surprised Aichi and Nobuhide again. What is it called? This is called a favored wife in modern times, and it is weakness in ancient times. Is Guo Jia weak? It's not weak, almost all his behaviors make Owari no Tiger want to give up General Owari to Guo Jia immediately!
"Look at what? What's there to see? Father, I don't have any alcohol here, so don't hint at me. Drinking less is good for your health. Guo Jia once again said something rebellious.
Nobuhide said a long time ago that whoever stopped him from drinking would have to take someone's head, but now this is actually coming out of Guo Jia's mouth.
"Bastard! If you don't drink it, you don't drink it! Xinxiu was so troubled by Guo Jia that he forgot about Guo Jia helping Gui Butterfly to pick up vegetables just now, because he loved Guo Jia so much, he even forgot what he had said.
Not long ago, Guo Jia regarded the people of the Oda family as his own. Because he saw his old father in Nobuhide, the estrangement between the two was resolved after several quarrels.
The family ate a table of meals happily, and even Nobuhide lost the shelf of the Oda family governor.