In Vietnam, the Shentong River is divided as the boundary river between the two counties of Xinchuan County and Nu Cheng County.

Now that he has crossed the Shentong River, the land under Li Xiao's feet belongs to the boundary of Xinchuan County, Yuezhong.

There is a river in Shinkawa-gun that flows into the sea called Togenji River, and the ancient name is Shinkawa, which is the origin of the name of Shinkawa-gun.

At present, Shinkawa County is roughly controlled by the Shiina family, but it is not completely controlled, and there are many wealthy forces under its command, which have the right to read autonomously, and even have a tendency to protect the family, and there are also wealthy families who tend to be in the same clan.

As the place that Shioya Qiuzhen wanted Li Xiao to seize, it was on the east bank of the Shentong River, up to the area of the Kumano River, another tributary of the Shentong River, although the place was not large, but compared to the barren Hida, the local agricultural output was still okay, and the stone height of the land under its jurisdiction was about 6,000 stones.

The famous owners of these 6,000 stone villages are now waiting for Li Xiao on the shore.

The two sides met in detail in a gassho house, a special local farmhouse building not far from the Shentsugawa ferry port.

During the conversation, the wishes of these celebrities are also very simple, they hope to exchange for certain preferential treatment through this active investment.

For example, in the reduction and exemption of the annual tribute, the original ratio of three public and two people was reduced to five or five equal shares, or even the proportion of two public and three people.

Others want to get a reduction in military service and general service.

There are also relatively own reading privileges such as the name is not entered, and the inspection is not entered.

In the face of the various requests of these famous masters, Li Xiao did not answer, but handed it over to Yanya Qiuzhen to deal with.

After a while of negotiation between the two sides, the two sides finally reached a rough agreement after Shioya Akihara's efforts to persuade and negotiate.

After that, these lords will return to the village for a while, and they will gather the people of the village to discuss one side again, and after reaching an agreement, they will decide whether to officially join the Takeda family.

However, generally speaking, it is not very difficult for Li Xiao and Yanwu Qiuzhen to take down these 6,000 stone territories, and it is really difficult how to defend this stronghold on the side of the Divine Power River.

While waiting for the lords' answers, Li Xiao and Shioya Qiuzhen first inspected the local territory and discussed the location of the city.

In the end, the two chose the site of the fortification on Mt. Sarukura.

The elevation of Mt. Sarukura is 342 meters, close to the Jintong River, where the water is slightly slower, and there are several months of the year when the Shentong River is used to pass.

Building a castle here can not only control this territory, but also take into account the water transportation of the Shentong River.

And this city to be built was named Sarukura Castle after Sarukura Mountain.

Historically, Sarukura Castle was also built by Shioya Akisada during the Eiroku period.

The specific historical data is unknown, but it is said that Uesugi Kenshin ordered Shioya Akisada to build a castle here in order to prevent Takeda from entering Echichu, so as to serve as a base for the wealthy clans of Echichu to fight against the Takeda army.

The castle fell in the second year of the Honnoji Rebellion, when Shioya Akisada had defected from the Uesugi family and was under the command of Sasa Narumasa, and the castle was captured by the lord of Joseijo Castle, Saito Nobuyoshi, together with the Uesugi army.

Shioya Akisada was also killed in this battle.

Right now, in a wooden house of a local waiter at the foot of Sarucang Mountain, Li Xiao and Yanya Qiuzhen are discussing in the house.

And Shigang Kazuha and other mothers stayed outside the house to be on guard.

This landlord was very wealthy, and there were paper sliding doors made of paper in the room as a partition, instead of ordinary famous owners' homes, and generally only opaque wooden doors were used as partitions.

The rooms are covered with wooden planks, and there are several stacked mats for resting.

Generally speaking, the most important thing in the living room is the location of the fire pond, which is a place where families often gather.

Right now, Li Xiao and Yanwu Qiuzhen are discussing around the fire.

As the owner of the house, the landlord can only kneel away from the fire, while the family of the landlord is not eligible to enter the house and is arranged to live in other houses in the village.

As for Kohata Xiaoxian, Yusada Kohata, Usami Katsuyuki and others were also in the house, enjoying dinner together around the edge of the fire.

While Li Xiao and Shioya Qiuzhen were eating, they discussed the offensive and defensive aspects of their family's strategy in Vietnam.

In order to let Li Xiao fully support him and become the lord of Sarucang City, Shioya Qiuzhen made a lot of efforts.

Shioya Qiuzhen suggested to Li Xiao that after the construction of Sarucang Castle, it could coexist as two support points for Li Xiao's family in Viet Nam and Chengsheng City, and they would be horns for each other.

At the same time, Shioya Akisada also suggested that a castle called Iwaki Castle along the Jintong River should be restored.

The Iwaki Fortress is across the Shinto River from Joseijo Castle, and Shioya Akisa wanted to restore the Iwaki Fortress as a link between Sarukura Castle and Joseijo Castle.

In this way, a triangle can be formed between the three cities as a solid support point for Li Xiao's foothold in Yuezhong.

Shioriya Qiuzhen told Li Xiao one by one so affectionately, and her glasses-wearing little eyes flashed one by one, revealing excitement.

Li Xiao knew that although he looked like he was carefully planning for himself, it was more for the position of his city lord.

For this little ambition, it is within the scope of his own tolerance, and Shioya Qiuzhen's opinions are also quite insightful.

Seeing Shioya Qiuzhen's anxious mood, even the food on the plate in front of him didn't move.

A smile appeared on Li Xiao's face, thinking that this person was really eager.

Li Xiao stretched out his chopsticks and put a dried sardine on the dark red lacquer plate, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, while thinking about Shioya Qiuzhen's words.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Xiaocai said: "Building the Ape Cangcheng and repairing the rock and wood fortress require a lot of manpower and a lot of funds, are you sure about this?" ”

Yanwu Qiuzhen saw Li Xiao's intention to move, and immediately the small eyes behind the glasses were even brighter, and he said loudly: "My lord, after your subordinates can build Ape Cangcheng, it is expected to be built in half a year, and then use manpower to repair the rock and wood bars." ”

"As for the funds, my salt house will raise it by itself, and the manpower will also ask the lord to allow him to send general service to the people nearby."

Li Xiao nodded and said, "This is okay, but the strength of the garrison?" ”

Shioya Akizhen also said with a strong voice: "This is raised by his subordinates, recruited from the ronin, and there are also bodyguards among the merchants who can join, and the samurai on horseback in the city will not be less than fifty people on the standing ashigaru." ”

Fifty people is already a considerable proportion, Li Xiao nodded, and said: "Very good, then you can do it, after the repair of Ape Cangcheng is completed, I will let you serve as the lord of this city, and after the re-survey of the Shigao in this territory, I will give you sixty percent as a Zhixing." ”

Yanwu Qiuzhen couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Li Xiao's words, after the survey of Zhixing here, it was at least more than 6,000 stones, and if it was sixty percent, it would mean that his Zhixing Land was above 3,600 stones, only a lot more.

Yanwu Qiuzhen immediately bowed with joy and said: "Thank you for the reward, your subordinates can only swear to die to repay the service." ”

Li Xiaohaha smiled and said: "Qiu Zhen, you are the first retainer in the family to obtain Zhixing, work hard, don't disappoint me, if you do your best for your family in the future, the Zhixing you will gain will be far more than now." ”

What Li Xiao was thinking at the moment was that with the fifty warriors of Shioya Qiuzhen, they were always prepared, and if they mobilized the peasant soldiers in the territory, they could send out two hundred troops.

These horses are enough to defend the Ape Cangcheng for themselves, and the Ape Cangcheng will serve as the existence of the eastern barrier of the Chengsheng City.

After listening to Shioya Qiuzhen, he has been in extreme excitement.

Because of Li Xiao's promise, Shioya Qiuzhen immediately got up the brown rice in the black bowl in front of him and ate it in a hurry, I don't know if it was because of this to increase his appetite.

Li Xiao only smiled slightly when he saw Yanwu Qiuzhen like this, and then used the big chopsticks next to the fire pit to turn over the charcoal fire in the fire pit.

Looking at the flickering charcoal fire, Li Xiao thought to himself that his knowledge and deeds now had 26,000 stones.

This time, he was able to obtain a territory of 6,000 stones without spending a single soldier, and this trip was too easy for Li Xiao.

Compared with the original battle to the death, taking the risk of taking 5,000 stone from the Jiang Ma family, the difficulty of this cannot be said at all.

That's probably what potential does.

Li Xiao thought that his current reputation and prestige in Yuezhong, and the combat strength of the two reserve teams under his command were obvious to all, so that the wealthy clan near the Ape Cangshan could sincerely take refuge.

And when Shioya Qiuzhen was a Shioriya businessman, her status was equal to herself.

Now he has become his own subordinate and bowed in front of him, and the changes in this situation before and after are quite impressive.

Li Xiao turned his head and saw the owner of the house kneeling far away on the side, the local waiter, but when he saw himself, he showed even more awe.

When he saw his eyes sweeping, he hurriedly kowtowed.

Li Xiao smiled, this landserv's family is only a hundred stones, and when he hears his words, he decides the ownership of his villages, and gives people more than 3,000 stones of Zhixing, I don't know how he feels about himself at this moment.

After nightfall, Li Xiaozheng took the topography map of Sakura Mountain presented to him by Fang Cai, and sat on the edge of the fire pond to look at it carefully.

Li Xiao looked at it and pondered whether it was appropriate to assign those lands to Yanwu Qiuzhen as a matter of knowledge.

Just as Li Xiao was watching intently, he suddenly felt that the lights next to him were on, and the light in the room was much brighter.

Li Xiao turned his head to look, and saw Yuzhen Kohata wearing a light shirt, standing behind him with a smile, holding the lamp for him.

I don't know why Xiaohata Yuzhen is dressed up exceptionally beautiful tonight, which makes Li Xiao feel refreshed, and looking at the beauty under the lights, there is also a feeling of red sleeves adding fragrance to the ancient scholars when they read.

Xiao Hata's white wrist gently placed the oil lamp beside Li Xiao and said, "You've been watching it for half the night." ”

Li Xiao nodded, and Yuzhen Kohata sat in front of him.

The two were close to each other, and Li Xiao smelled the indifferent fragrance on Xiaohata Yuzhen's body, and the whole person was a little calm.

Li Xiao pressed his mind to Xiaoba Yuzhen and said, "I have never seen you wear this Wu costume before." ”

Kohata Yuzhen nodded, ignored Li Xiao's question, and asked with a smile, "Does my Wu suit look good?" ”

Li Xiao nodded slowly and replied in the affirmative.

After that, Li Xiao picked up the map again and looked at it carefully under the oil lamp.

And Kohata Yuzhen looked at Li Xiao at the moment, her lips were tightly closed, but the countless words in her heart were blocked in her throat, but she didn't know which one to say at the moment.

(To be continued)