The heavy snowfall since the beginning of winter has caused great trouble for Echigo, and it is not as warm and comfortable as Owari Province in the East China Sea, and after a heavy snowfall that lasted for two months, many houses were crushed, and the people of each village and town took on the responsibility of patrolling day and night, urging the people to sweep the snow from the rooftops and streets.

Heizaburo's family is a farmer in Shinkawaso, near Sekikawa, because the edict of the lord of Echigo revoked the small Shinkawaso, and then merged with several nearby villages to form a larger Shinkawaso, Heizaburo had already become an independent family at that time, with a good carpentry work moved to the town near Naoetsu as a craftsman, in the past few years in Naoetsu town day and night hard work, finally saved enough money to open the house, become a new generation of townspeople success.

Just over half of the lunar month, the weather is still very cold, Heizaburo's younger brother pushed a flatbed cart to bring a stone of rice, a few pheasants and a few fish to him to send him New Year's goods, the peasants in the countryside live a simple life to send some food to relatives is not the meaning of clinging to sycophancy, these years the villagers have a smooth life, the grain collected in the field can not be eaten, often see farmers pushing a cart to the town to send things to relatives.

Hei Saburo's younger brother is named Heigoro, a man in his thirties who has a somewhat roundabout temperament, pulling his brother to hum and chirp and pull the parents in the countryside, talking about the peasants' complaints about the trivial matters at home, it turns out that because of what is called agricultural cooperation, the neighbors who stirred up the calm and peaceful countryside are uneasy, and in the past, they were spurned in the village and spurned by others.

The villagers accused Lai Han of being lazy on weekdays, fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, and when it came to the autumn harvest, he had to fight hard but had to separate people's rations. The Lai Han used their ability to play tricks. said that he did his best to do the work. The two sides quarreled and went to the old underground people to seek arbitration, which made the old underground people suffer for a long time.

There are many such stories, there are always two or three out of ten incidents that are not clear, the villagers are clumsy and clumsy to say that they are cunning and pranky, and they are not willing to let their own food be snatched away by these lazy goods, so they have caused many major cases that harm people's lives, and the public has taken a heavy blow to strictly investigate and punish many desperate peasants, although this move is in line with the law but also hurts the reason. The villagers were afraid of the fierce samurai, and they did not dare to move.

Fortunately, the police were dispatched to lock up and interrogate those people who were tortured, and it was verified that more than 100 false accusations had a very bad impact on society, and the followers then reduced the criminal responsibility of some people with special circumstances as appropriate, and the villagers worked desperately for their own food and people, and it was reasonable to appropriately reduce the punishment of the crime.

"It's been a few months since the autumn harvest, and now our village is going to make trouble again, saying that we want to re-figure out who did more and who did less this year, and the grain should also be redistributed. It's uncomfortable to come to us on purpose! ”

Heigoro didn't dare to criticize the rules set by the lord of the country, and I heard that it was the dictation of the general of the town guard. That is the legendary Genji noble, the status of the noble makes people look up to the mountains, only the prince of the east can compare, where have they seen such a noble lord, the legend of the Kanto governor to see him kowtow, this identity is very high.

Hearing Heigoro's complaints, Heizaburo didn't say anything more after a vague perfunctory few words, and the brothers chatted about kelp and pickles and drank wine for an afternoon, and at the end Heizaburo handed his brother ten copper coins and said that it was to subsidize the family, Heigoro excused himself but hummed for a long time and thanked him, and then he was embarrassed to go back.

As the sky gets darker, Heizaburo asks the apprentice in the shop to close the door and closes the door, and he goes to the hut behind him to write down a string of ghostly notes and stuff them into a ball and stuff them on the tanuki to send them out, which is his hidden identity, a peripheral member who provides information to the Hattori ninja.

Outside information like this is transmitted from Echigo everywhere to Kasuga Yamajo at a rate of dozens every day, and since the end of the Battle of Kawanakajima, Kira Yoshitoki has received thousands of unfavorable comments about agricultural cooperation in the past two months, and the people of the government have also complained about this, and how can they be happy about the increase in workload.

Hosokawa Fujitaka has become more and more mature and capable this year, and he has succeeded in stabilizing people's hearts in the case that the main force of Echigo is not in the nest, and he has to do various investigations and studies in Kasugayama, Naoetsu, and Niigata Town in normal times, and he submitted a document to abolish agricultural cooperation two months ago, to the effect that the summary report of Echigo's agricultural development in recent years is a re-analysis, and the focus is on the data differences in the trial agricultural cooperation are very obvious.

"According to the current autumn harvest statistics, the total grain output of Echigo is 2.23 million stones, an increase of only 130,000 stones over the same period last year, and this increase is far lower than the target of 2.6 million stones expected by our minds. Third, the disadvantages of agricultural cooperation have been undoubtedly exposed, and many problems caused by various labor disputes and egalitarianism have given me a headache. Hosokawa Fujitaka said it very tactfully and subtly, and you can't accuse him of being too unrealistic in front of Yoshitomi Kira, it is enough to point out the current difficulties.

This meeting was the last meeting before the arrival of the new year, so the retainers and samurai from all over the country came to Echigo Kasuga Mountain Castle, including Shinano and most of the people of Ueno, and they were surprised to find that Nagao Keitor's position had been moved to symbolize the position of the lord of the country, and only Kira Yoshitoki sat alone in the entire Ohiro room.

Nagao Jinghu caught a glimpse of the surprise of the Echigo and Ueno people, and said quietly: "You should know that my Kasuga Mountain Castle has just left a minister, this secretary is the head of the Qinghua family, and the purpose of Imadegawa Yaxiang's visit is to announce the new appointment of the imperial court, and the town palace will be promoted to three from now on, and the left guard governor and the general of the town guard will be like Yuan, and the princes will be renamed the town government in the future." ”

The words of the dragon of Echigo startled the samurai in the hall for a commotion. After a brief period of panic and panic. Murakami Yoshikiyo, Ogasawara Nagasagawa, Takanashi Masayori, and Nagano Yoshimasa hurriedly paid homage with the samurai of the two countries. Even Uesugi Kenmasa under the fence hurriedly bowed down and shouted, "I'll wait to see the town government!" I wish the palace good health and a long time of martial arts luck in the Ashikaga family! ”

"Yu is also a public party from now on!" The flames in Kira's eyes were beating, and he calmed down for a while, and said gently: "All the princes are loyal to the shogunate, so you must work hard for the shogunate's hundred generations!" The Yoyo Shogunate Gongfang Hall thanked the princes. ”

The samurai were shocked and said loudly, "I am willing to serve the shogunate!" ”

When they came back to their senses, the eyes of many samurai looking at Nagao Jinghu changed. In addition to being surprised, it is more admiration.,Almost single-handedly defeated Ueno Province Nuo Da merit but willing to be a vassal.,This decision is not something that ordinary Warring States samurai can do.,No wonder there are rumors that Kira Yoshitoki wants to support Nagao Keitora as the Kanto governor.,And then turn your face to look at Uesugi Kenmasa's respectful expression.,It turns out that all this is not groundless.。

The Echigo two-headed political system, which was once ridiculed by the samurai of Kanto and even the world, was forced to become the standard Warring States daimyo who commanded the three kingdoms of Echigo, Ueno, and Shinano when Yoshitoki Kira, and the First Battle of Takayama shocked the Kanto, the Third Battle of Kawanakajima shocked the entire Eastern Province, and the Battle of Mizuo Mountain shocked the world again with an army of 8,000 to more than 100,000. The Kamiashikaga family quickly rose to become the number one daimyo in the Kanto region with an almost unstoppable upward momentum, and it was only then that people woke up from a dream. It turned out that the Echigo miracle, which had always been unfavorable, really turned into a shocking "miracle".

The biggest problem of Echigo is the instability of the two-headed system, and the reason why people are not optimistic about him is this, there is only so much power to give one a little more and the other a little less, before that, only Echigo is a country, this problem is not obvious, and the people of Echigo can still vaguely mess around with this.

However, at present, it is no longer possible to continue this vague rhythm of chaos, and the people from Echigo to control the three countries, and the people from Shinano and Ueno can only recognize one country, and will not consider imitating the Echigo people to vaguely recognize the two giants, so that one of them must make concessions.

Whether it is status or strength, it is impossible to make Akagaga make concessions, so it is this brother-in-law who retreats, but fortunately, the serious illness in the past few years has made Echigo Dragon's desire for power greatly reduced, and it is not expected that he chose to retreat, and he revealed his unwillingness to continue to maintain double-headed politics a long time ago, and he rarely spoke at the assessment meeting and did not like to meddle in government affairs.

His brother-in-law made the decision to decide on the strategy of dealing with the Echigo encirclement network, and he chose to spend a large amount of time recuperating and attending Zen, leaving enough time for the Echigo people to choose.

In addition to the retainers of the Petsuyo family group who seemed very lost, most of the Echigo people showed a happy expression, and their most feared result was that they would not back down and then evolve into a rhythm of confrontation and death, the two tigers fought each other, one was killed and one was injured, and Kira and Nagao fought a civil war in Echigo, which was bound to be a catastrophe of human suffering, even if the victorious side had to pay a heavy price, and the scene of Echigo's prosperity would also come to an end.

The people of Echigo breathed a sigh of relief, and the samurai of Shinano and Ueno also relaxed, and then looked back at the young ministers on the high throne, and their hearts were filled with endless awe, what kind of concept did it take to become the three ministers at the age of seventeen, and the legend says that only the sons of the public family who were above the minister's family were qualified to become the three ministers at the age of eighteen, and in the samurai family, in addition to the current shogunate minister, Kira Yoshishi was the second to become the third minister.

The law of the imperial court, three or more can be called the public, the title of the public is also derived from this, from the Seiyi general Ashikaga Honji, the Ashikaga family obtained the privilege of being called the public for generations, since then the Kanto Ashikaga family although the official position is not enough, but relying on the fact that they are the Ashikaga shogun's family of the imperial family called themselves the Kanto Gongfang, and then gradually formed the samurai culture of the Muromachi shogunate for 200 years.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the qualifications of this town government is very strong, and at the same time, he is noble and famous, and he has the strong support of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the shogunate minister, and from the intimate and casual tone between Imadegawa Sunny and him, it can be seen that the Ueki Ashikaga family has quite a good connection in the imperial court, and there is really nothing to fault with such a nobleman with an extraordinary background and great influence as the supreme leader.

"Back to the topic, the disadvantages of agricultural cooperation have been basically clear, and the model of farmer cooperation seems to be very good. But Yu still ignores the most important change in people's hearts. People who are not gods and Buddhas have greedy hearts. Some people are industrious and brave, some people are greedy and lazy, and those who can work more and earn more, and it would be contrary to the definition of fairness to forcibly close the gap between everyone, so Yu decided to abolish agricultural cooperation. ”

Many samurai believers were relieved by Kira's open-mindedness, and their worst fear was that Kira would not approve or admit his policy mistakes, even if he ended up in anger with his current prestige. Most of them are also samurai in the middle layer to bear the blame, and the people's worship of Kira Yoshishi is almost superstitious, where will you believe that the town government has set the wrong tone, and will only simply think that the samurai below are not effective in execution or have a wrong understanding of the strategy.

"This lesson is a lesson, governance is not a banquet and gossip, and there is no room for the slightest deception, and every time a samurai daimyo implements a government, he must walk on thin ice and tremble, and a mistake in a strategy will lead to the loss of the national leadership and the loss of the people's will, which is a huge mistake of the ruler...... Of the three points mentioned by Fang Cai Fujitaka, the first point of countermeasures is to strengthen the construction of river and lake embankments, and carry out detailed inspections before the arrival of the rainy season every year. Establish a system of day and night patrols during the rainy season, and the construction of polders should be accelerated. Yu knows that this is urgent, but let's try to shorten the construction period!

The second point is to deal with the adverse effects of the withdrawal and merger of the new village, drinking milk needs to pursue a large number of people to go to the countryside to meet the old underground people and villagers, to find out the cause of the discord between the villagers, it is really not possible to hold more small assessments to conduct a joint consultation, gather the benefits of the talents, and resolve the current unfavorable situation, but we must pay attention to the means and methods, and must not rush for quick success and quick profit to destroy the simple and kind folk customs in the township.

The third point is that after the abolition of agricultural cooperation, it is necessary to actively collect and count the labor force and cultivation situation of the peasants in each village and town, and divide the fields according to the willingness of the peasants and the area of the fields that they can bear. Then I will punish him with the law of my Kira's house! As many years of tribute and taxes they owe, they must return the grain with unpaid labor, two years if they can't pay it off in one year, and five years if they don't pay it off in two years, and they will not be allowed to release it until they are paid off. ”

The samurai were overjoyed when they heard this, and finally looked forward to making a greater decision when Kira Yoshishi, and after thinking about it carefully, this strategy was really seamless, and hurriedly flattered loudly: "This is a wonderful plan for the town government!" Advocate those who can work more and encourage a variety of foods, if this policy is implemented, it will not take two years for the atmosphere to change! The town government is not only good at commanding troops and fighting, but also has such a powerful internal strategy, let me really admire the five bodies and throw themselves to the ground! ”

Dozens of samurai from other countries made a shocking sound, and finally looked forward to Kirayoshi's promise: "Shinano and Ueno will fully implement the Echigo strategy, and Yu will appoint the entrusters to calculate and count the land area, land fertility and high yield of the two countries. ”

"We will swear allegiance to the town government!" This is the end of a flowery evaluation meeting, and the three years of Hongji are gradually coming to an end, and the next thing is to welcome the arrival of the new year.

At the end of the third year of Hongzhi, a major event occurred in Kinai that still stopped, and the protagonist of this incident was actually the second goods of the Hatakeyama family in Kawachi, the governor of Hatakeyama Takamasa, taking advantage of the Miyoshi family in recent years to rectify government affairs, the key to the revitalization of the economy, but the Hatakeyama family in Kawachi caused serious contradictions, and the monopoly of power like Kizawa Nagamasa and Yusa Chokyo caused Hatakeyama Takamasa to be dissatisfied, so the governor and the family were opposed again.

This time his luck is really bad.,The retainers of the spectrum are full of bad feelings for this second cargo family governor.,The former guardian of the Daiyu Satsu religion is full of negative emotions for Hatakeyama Takamasa because of his father's death.,And the guardian generation of his own family for generations was snatched away by the Anmi family.,So he didn't have any feelings about the family governor being exiled again.,The result of this confrontation is that the Anmi family successfully exiled the family governor like the previous ones.,Hatakeyama Takamasa fled to Sakai Town in embarrassment.。

Ashikaga Yoshiki had the heart to help him, but his arm couldn't reach out and Yamashiro could only sigh with joy, what about Rokkaku Yoshito? He was busy with two things, the first was to appease the Asai family in Kita-Omi, Asai Hisa's sister-in-law, Saruyasha Motofu, and the hexagonal Yoshiken gave the word Asai Kenmasa, and adopted Hirai Dingwu's daughter as an adopted daughter to marry Asai Kenmasa to strengthen the centripetal force of both parties.

According to common sense, this method is also relatively normal, just like when Imagawa Yoshimoto wanted to use his adopted daughter to fool Kira Yoshi, the dominant daimyo always wanted to maintain his dominance, but Asai Kenmasa, a young man, didn't play cards according to the routine, he seemed to feel that Rokkaku Yoshigen looked down on him, and it was insulting to marry him with the daughter of a minister's family, so he has been making trouble in Kotani Castle for the past few months, and Asai Hisamasa has no choice but various headaches with this sister-in-law.

Another thing is the harassment and infiltration of Shiga County.,Kira Yoshitoki has been away from Kinai for a longer and longer time.,The so-called people go to Cha Liang is almost the same meaning.,Rokkaku Yoshiken thinks you're doing well in the East Country when Yoshira Yoshitoki.,This Shiga、Takashima County is not particularly needed.,It's better to just give it back to me.。

In the past few years, the frequent harassment of Otsu and Sakamoto is based on this reason, a piece of fat is placed in front of you, but you can see that you can't eat and die of gluttony, and the feeling of a hundred claws scratching your heart burns the reason of Rokkaku Yoshiken day and night, and I used to be afraid of Kira Yoshi, and now you Kira family is trapped in Echigo and can't extricate yourself, this should always give me a chance to turn over.

So Rokkaku Yoshiken was busy stepping up his armaments and planning the armed seizure of Shiga and Takashima County, and he didn't care about the life or death of Hatakeyama Takamasa, anyway, it wasn't his own bad luck, he liked to find whoever he wanted, and the gears of fate were quietly turning at this moment, and 1558 was just around the corner. (To be continued......)