After four years of life in Echigo, the Kira retainers gradually adapted to the climate of Echigo, followed by a new wave of fertility peaks, Naito Masanari, Watanabe Takatsuna, Shiraku Sadatsu, Suzuki Shigeji, Okochi Tsunako and others gave birth to new children, such as Matsui Yukan, Mitsui Tora and other high commissioners.

The most surprising thing is the Numata family, Numata Hikaru is a family with many children, especially a large group of daughters in the boudoir, he is like a hard-working bee in his life busy in the flowers to reproduce many offspring, and now he is busy looking for a home for his daughter, this time he is looking at the Yamaoka time, Honda Tokimasa and Langoka Hatsu.

Kasuga Yamajohara Kira Yoshitoki Residence, now known as the Kasuga Imperial Palace Guest House, Kira Yoshitoki and Numata Hikaru sat opposite each other, Numata Sandalwood, who was wearing a beautiful gown, as the daughter of the Numata family, also attended this meeting, and she didn't speak but sat quietly next to Kira Yoshitoki like an obedient little woman.

Looking at this father-in-law, his body is more rigid than a few years ago, his face is full of red light, like a rooster can lead his neck and sing at any time, it can be seen that his life has been very good over the years, it is said that he also took the monk from Wakasa to Echigo, although he failed to convince Chong'an Temple to return to customs, he can at least set up a small nunnery in his own residence so that Chong'an Temple can reunite with his daughters.

Seeing Numata Mitsukane Xingchong's introduction of his own family, and reported these three names, Kira Yoshishi said with a smile: "Hikari Kaneden is really good at picking candidates, one of these three people is a companion who has served his family since he was a child, and the other two are his advisors, so he must have been thinking about it for a long time to come up with a candidate, right?" ”

"The hall owner praised it falsely. These are all well-known figures in the younger generation of my Kira family. Which family's daughter of a martial artist doesn't want to marry these people! I'm just one step ahead. The owner of the museum also knows that the daughters of my Numata family are outstanding in appearance and morality, so I have the courage to ask the owner for his permission! ”

"Hmm......" Kira Yoshishi seemed to be thinking, and suddenly looked up and said, "Sandalwood, come and pinch your shoulders for your family." ”

"Yes!" Numata Sandalwood stood up with a red face, walked behind him with small steps, knelt down and gently kneaded his shoulders, this kind of small action between husband and wife happens every day in the palace, but it is the first time in front of outsiders, especially his father, Sandalwood doesn't know why His Highness suddenly made this request. I just hung my head shyly and didn't dare to look up.

Seeing this scene, Numata Mitsukan didn't mention how happy he was, and he hurriedly made a sycophant to praise Kira Yoshitoki's wisdom and martial arts, and his daughter looked like a goddess like heaven and earth, until Kira Yoshitomi coughed before the impromptu old man stopped his mouth, because Numata Mitsukani had unconsciously compared the young couple to Minamoto Yoritomo and Hojo Masako, who also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly closed his mouth and leaned over to apologize in fear.

"I'm so abrupt, I'm so sorry!" Numata Mitsukan can't wait to smash this stinky mouth in front of his son-in-law. Saying that the son-in-law and daughter are Minamoto Yoritomo and Hojo Masako does not imply that he is Hojo Tokimasa. So isn't Numata Yumitsu Hojo Yoshitoki, their Numata family is the Hojo family, and it's just a good death.

"Forget it, the light and the temple are not intentional......" Kira Yoshitoki seemed to be unconcerned and shook the bat fan, "As for the marriage contract of the three people, the family has also agreed." ”

"Ahh Thank you, Master, for your grace! Don't dare to disturb the rest of the hall owner, your majesty will retire, retire! Numata Mitsukani staggered out of the inner room, almost jumped up in excitement as soon as he went out, but fortunately he remembered that Kira Yoshishi was still indoors, and hurriedly closed the paper door and left in a hurry.

Numata Mitsukane's departure made the inner room quiet again, but Kira Yoshitoki did not get up, and Numata Sandalwood did not dare to move, still gently pressed his shoulder, and after a while he turned his face sideways and asked, "Now, your father is over sixty years old, right?" ”

Numata Sandalwood lowered her eyebrows and said, "Yes, Your Highness!" My father is now 61 years old. ”

"Don't press it and sit down yet! Sit next to your family. ”

"Yes!" The girl got up and walked to him, and just as she knelt down and sat down, she was pulled by Kira Yoshitoki.

A brute force dragged a little girl as if playing, and pulled Sandalwood directly into his arms, and when he looked at Kira Yoshishi with his head on his thigh, this sudden pull almost made Sandalwood scream, and he swallowed back the screams with an unhappy expression when he hit Ji Liangyi.

"Tell me what your Numata family is going to do!"

Numata Sandalwood replied in a panic: "Your Highness's meaning is not understood by the concubines......"

Kira Yoshitoki gently stroked the girl's jade-like face, stroked all the way down the snow-white neck on the two towering mountains, and said coldly: "Don't hide it in front of the family, the family knows everything about the inner court, where did that strange maid come from?" How did Numata Mitsukane's outer room get into the inner court of the main family, why are you reluctant to tell the main family? My family gives you opportunities again and again, and you live up to your family's expectations again and again, what do you want to do? Do you really want to be Masako Hojo and build a Hojo family? ”

"It turns out that His Highness already knows about it?" At that moment, Numata Sandalwood's face showed a trace of pain and relief, and she said calmly: "Since this is the case, the concubine will say it!" That was my father's plan, and he had an ambitious plan to build the most powerful territory of the Numata family.

After His Royal Highness picked sandalwood, his father has been instilling in Sandalwood a lot of things that he has never heard of, including pleasing and flattering, as well as buying people's hearts, intrigue, etc., so His Highness saw Sandalwood was different from a few years ago, and Sandalwood had long found that His Highness was disappointed when he first looked at it......"

Pulled off the bow on the coat, lifted the shirt to reveal the snow-white skin, and the two raised peaks changed shapes at will in his hands, until the girl's breathing became heavier and heavier, and her face turned crimson like a red apple, so she sighed and retied the shirt for him, "If it weren't for the health of the family and the promise of the tiger queen, I would definitely correct your little girl on the spot today, forget it!" Go back as soon as the family is in a good mood, otherwise it will be too late to do something that you regret. ”

"Huh? Shouldn't His Highness be angry and angry, and then punish his concubines? Sandalwood looked at Kira's movements with a confused expression, and she already felt a big hot thing on her back. Blushing, he closed his eyes and waited for His Highness's "last favor". Then make a punishment for abandonment or even worse or something.

"Remember not to be clever in the future. That trick played by your stupid dad is not worth mentioning in the eyes of my family, and I want to get married, don't you? The family let him do it! Then remember it for the family! Don't tell him all this, the family will see how far he can jump, understand? ”

"Yes!" Sandalwood hung her head to her chest, not daring to look up at her husband's terrible face.

"Remember, you are the daughter of the family, and then the daughter of the Numata family, and being a good woman of the family is the most important thing for you at the moment. Any attempt to interfere with your duties is your enemy, even if he is your father, understand? ”

"Yes!" Sandalwood nodded mechanically, all this came so fast that she didn't have any chance to react and think.

"Okay, get your clothes in order, and go back as if nothing happened, understand?"

"But...... His Highness hasn't punished Sandalwood yet! Sandalwood squirmed and stared at the bulging part of his lower body, covering his hot face like a small stove, and said shyly: "Although this will make Sandalwood embarrassed, it is also the duty of the concubine to relieve the desire for His Highness!" ”

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Kira Yoshishi looked at her with a strange expression. Like a hungry wolf staring at its prey, Sandalwood couldn't help but shrink back.

Sandalwood was afraid of this glowing green look. But she still mustered up the courage and nodded vigorously: "Sure!" ”

"Then you're welcome!" Kira Yoshitoki stepped forward and took the girl's cold little hand like an inner room, always with a strange smile on his face: "This family is here to teach you a very interesting exercise, which is very good for the body!" Your Tiger Sister has also practiced saying! ”

"Good! Sandalwood will definitely try to catch up with Sister Tiger Ji! The silly Sandalwood followed him happily to the inner room.

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The New Year was a month for the Echigo samurai to rest and relax, and it was not until the end of the first month that the priests began to work for the new year, nominally on a break, but in fact they were still working on a vacation, and the development plan for the new year was brewed from the second half of last year, and it was summarized during the New Year's holiday.

The construction of two new polders in the Niigata area increased the number of new fields by a total of 17,000 towns, and it took 20,000 people to fight for most of the winter to basically complete the construction, and the completion of these two large polders also marked the beginning of the development of Niigata Town, and the people of Japan expressed that they would also reclaim wasteland to build new fields.

But the development of new fields is subject to the permission of the Kira family, and without the consent of Kira Yoshitoki, they have no reason to invade, who told them to agree without thinking clearly, and if they want to regret the tough robbery, they also have to consider the consequences of the suppression of the Kira family and the Nagao family's army, so they can only be like an angry little daughter-in-law, complaining about the followers of the Kira family and complaining.

Kira Yoshishi doesn't stop this, if you want to open a new field, go open it! The premise is that the Echigo people must follow the rules of the Kira family, and there are clear regulations on where development is allowed and where it is not allowed, for example, the area of Niigata Town must not be touched, because it is the core area of the Kira family, and all the people who live nearby are transferred to other areas of Echigo as early as possible, making the Niigata area a piece of land that the Kira family dominates.

However, he didn't plan to eat alone, the 200,000 machibu with Niigata Town as the core could not be eaten by him alone, in fact, he only needed to grasp the core of 15 or 60,000 machibu, and those branches were too remote and not too concentrated in the corners of the Shinano River in Chuetsu and the Agano River in Shimoetsu, and the development was relatively low, so it was better to hand it over to the people of the country.

As the guardian of Echigo, Nagao Jinghu was also strongly recommended by Kira Yoshitoki for a piece of land, which was out of a large riverside wasteland southwest of Sanjo Castle in the Shinano River Valley, and Chuetsu was originally the starting place of the Nagao family, and Sanjo Nagao, Kuroodo, Suyoshi Nagao, Ueda Nagao, and Shimoda Nagao all came from here, and it was also beneficial for Nagao Keihu to eat such a large piece of land to strengthen the control of Sino-Vietnam, so as to tie up the less honest people.

It took more than a year for the Nagao family to expand their military service, and it was interrupted because of the war in the middle, and 15,000 military service was simply a fantasy for Echigo in the past, and it was not the population pressure mainly because of the lack of enough food to support so much military service, and the military service account could only reflect some or most of the country's armed forces, and it was not equal to the country's hidden war potential.

But the longtail family doesn't care. After the expansion of military service, the military service of the Nagao family was as high as 5,000 people. A genealogy and a countryman lord jointly bear 10,000 people. For example, the Ueda people of Nagao Masaki were responsible for more than 2,000 military services, of which Nagao Masaki directly burdened more than 700 people, Nagao Keishinobu directly burdened more than 700 people, Saito Asanobu shouldered more than 600 people, and Honjo Minori burdened more than 600 people, and so on.

Basically, the military service burden of the main important ministers of the family and the lords of the country was increased by one or two times, and after a winter of brewing, a new military service account was announced, and it was quickly supported by all walks of life in Echigo, and the most striking thing was that the military service account was not signed by the Nagao family. Instead, it is called "Koji Three Years Echigo Military Service Account", referred to as "Echigo Military Service Account"

Many people have noticed that in this "Echigo Military Service Account", the first line of military service turned out to be Nagao Jinghu, who was the same as Nagao Yi, with 5,250 military service, including 1,500 samurai on horseback, 500 ashigaru iron cannons, 500 ashigaru with bows and arrows, 3,100 ashiba with spears, and several large and small flags.

This change was much more than anyone expected. It is important to know that the military service account is a concentrated embodiment of the complete control of the lord of each country, and the countrymen who have the privilege of guarding the envoy will not appear on the military service account. Therefore, the possession of the law of military service accounts and a sound system of enforcement became an important symbol of the Sengoku Daimyo.

Another point is the most important, the military service of the lord of the country will not be marked on the military service account, whether the heir of the governor is marked or not between the two, and most of them will not be marked, the main body of the military service account is a genealogy, the lord of the country, which means that the lord of the country establishes the domination power over a public, a genealogy, a foreign country and even other countries, so the lord will not write how much his military service.

But this time, the "Echigo Military Service Account" marked the military service of Nagao Jinghu, doesn't this mean that he is not the lord of Echigo, and the real lord of the country is someone else? Remembering that the name of the military service account was not "The Military Service Account of the Long Tail Family", people quietly looked at the young man sitting in the highest position.

People were surprised to find that there were many more Ashikaga Nichi and two flags in Kasuga Mountain Castle, and even the main wall of Ohiroma was replaced with Maruji Nibi, which represented the Ashikaga Shogun's family.

The number of mentions of the Ueki Ashikaga family increased, and relatively unpopular history books such as "Azuma Mirror", "Genhei Rise and Fall", "Taihei", and "Difficult Taihei" suddenly became popular, and the samurai of Echigo were reacquainted with that vanishing era, an era that represented glory.

Kira Yoshitoki also knew the reaction of the Echigo samurai, and the "Echigo Military Service Account" was made by him and Nagao Keitora, because he single-handedly pushed off the Echigo guard position, and accepted the town guard general to let Echigo no Ryu clearly understand his brother-in-law's ambitions, so he proposed to take the opportunity of the military service account to establish the difference between master and slave.

With the economic and agricultural development of Echigo both into the road of rapid development, the desire of the Echigo people to make meritorious contributions is getting stronger and stronger, the basic attribute of the samurai is to highlight the name of the samurai, expand the family leadership and inherit the family business, the simple explanation is for fame, for profit, for the descendants, and now the Echigo soldiers are strong and strong The successive victories in the war make the Echigo samurai more and more eager to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield.

The political and economic construction of the interior could no longer tolerate the interference of the Echigo people, and the strong executive strength displayed by the Kira family convinced the Echigo people, and there was a hidden demand for external expansion, and the restless hearts needed to be appeased, and the establishment of a new military service account became an inevitable move at this juncture.

As for the system of dividing the country, it has been done since the Kira family came to Echigo, and in the pacification of the Hojo, Honjo, and Kurokawa rebellions, they easily dispersed the people of Chuetsu and Shimoetsu who were grouped, and under the operation of the powerful officials of the Kira family, the privileges of guarding the inaccessible people were like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun, and they disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The guardianship on which the people of the country relied was abolished, and the privilege of not entering the temple was abolished, and the privilege of not entering the temple and the community was abolished, and the Kira family came up with a way to have a large team of temple leaders, and the temple will give you as much land as there are monks, and the standard for giving is one person and three antis, but the premise is that from now on, the monks must be ordained as monks, and the temple must be appointed by the temple to manage the monks' membership.

Monks who travel from other places and want to go to the monastery to live in the monastery for a few years or simply stay in the temple must go to the temple to register their monks, including the common name, the Dharma name, the monastery, the teacher's Dharma name, the sect to which they belong, and the Buddhist classics that they are good at.

Kira Yoshitoki's attitude is very clear, not afraid of them coming to make trouble, if they want more land, they can also give it to them, even if they want each monk to take ten steps, the premise is that these cultivated land to the monks themselves, there are local residents and underground people to monitor on their behalf, and the followers carry out spot checks every month, if it is found that these temples and societies cannot grow so much land, so that the land is barren and the grain production is reduced on a large scale, it will be immediately divided by the penalty of confiscating excess land.

In this way, the initiative to pinch the new monks in the temples of Echigo, and also pinch the true strength of the temples, if you want to support the monks, you have to bow to the Kira family, and each monk is against the land, which forces the temple to not hide the hidden households, because the cultivated land area has been made separately, and how much land in each temple is fixed, if someone plays tricks and suddenly has dozens of more towns and steps of land in a certain year, it must be the peasant land under the temple. (To be continued......)