Tiger Zai Zongyi continued to write his diary, the best way to deal with Asayama Hisaka is to ignore him, let him play at will, and he will always explain the things that should be said, which is also the method of dealing with it gradually explored and summarized after several years of practice.

Chaoshan Richeng suddenly stood up and opened the doors and windows to check around, confirming that the courtyard outside the window was quiet, and the cold night breeze took away the heat in the bedroom, closed the doors and windows and walked over again, Chaoshan Richeng showed an unprecedented serious expression: "After the poor monks went in, they found that these peasants in Yuezhong were secretly organizing a group of people, and in a few houses were crowded with black and oppressive crowds as if they were discussing the things that had always been done, and the poor monks didn't know how many people they had, because there were too many believers in the past. The poor monk was afraid to show his horse's feet, and hurriedly turned around and came out. ”

"All the time?" Hu Zai Zongyi's eyes widened, carefully placed the brush on the inkstone, turned around and asked, "How can there be a single one?" Didn't anyone notice their anomaly? ”

Chaoshan Hisaka shook his head and said: "This poor monk doesn't know very well, the poor monk just happened to bump into the followers when they left, and they didn't have time to talk." ”

"Tomorrow, the poor monk will go to the spring mountain city to report the matter."

Three days later, several temporary settlements were suddenly surrounded by large armies, and the Vietnamese and Chinese peasants who were caught off guard were strictly guarded, and several Vietnamese Chinese leaders hiding among them were seized and executed on the spot for violating the Echigo ban on the preaching of the Sect.

In a whale house in a town in Naoetsu Port, two ape musicians are performing the Kyogen drama "Two Daimyo", each wearing exaggerated masks. Accompanied by the side playing the taiko drum and playing the flute, the interesting story is detailed. The wonderful repertoire and vivid performances attracted bursts of cheers.

By the time the ape music was over, it was already evening. The ape musician also packed up his things and went to a dormitory near the whale house, and the two ape musicians who had taken off their costumes showed two similar but plain faces, the two were the old man and the middle-aged man who accompanied the music in the tavern that day, and the one who played the taiko drum today became the little granddaughter, and it was her mother who played the flute.

The four of them approached the house and became very quiet, and after a long time a strong man wearing a hat walked into the room and sat down, if Kohata Nobuzhen saw him, he would definitely be able to reveal his identity, he was the leader of several Vietnamese-Chinese travelers who had been following him that day.

"Why is there a leak? Can you afford to break the big thing? The old man's expression remained unchanged. The voice was strange like a sharp sound from cutting foam, and a pair of cloudy eyes erupted with strong killing intent.

"It's the people below who made a big mistake, they thought that they could achieve the best effect by uniting together, they refused to obey my command, and threatened the army brought in by that person's adjudicator, but please don't worry, we are very well prepared, and the other believers have already been broken into pieces and integrated into the villages, even if something happens to one point in Vietnam, it will not affect the great cause."

The old man stared at him expressionlessly, and after a long time, he snorted: "Don't underestimate the power of Hattori Ninja!" Last time, you were stalked and almost broke something. Luckily, my people reacted quickly and noticed that there was movement outside, and they used a little trick to scare the Hattori ninja away. ”

"Yes! We've learned our lesson! I was very careful when I came here this time. It took five stand-ins to get all the way from Joshita, and no one would follow me anymore. The strong man was already sweating profusely after sitting down for half an hour: "We will adjust as soon as possible, it is more convenient for the farmers in Vietnam and China to spread out, please believe us." ”

"We are very short of time, we can't wait for you to adjust calmly, if you can't do the required cooperation, you know the consequences!"

"Rest assured! We will live up to His expectations! As for the payment of fees...... the tone of the strong man deliberately aggravating the words "expense" attracted a glance from the expressionless middle-aged man.

"Give it to them!" As soon as the old man spoke, the middle-aged woman took out two huge cages from her back and pushed them in front of the strong man.

"Five hundred taels of gold is not bad, please click on it!"

"No, no, no! We're sure you and the guy won't lie to us, so rest assured we'll be ready before the date! So, I'll take my leave! The strong man picked up the burden and slowly left.

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The busy spring sowing has come to an end, and the first experiment of diversified planting has been successful this year, with grapes, tea, fruit trees and a small amount of peppers and sugar beets planted on the mountains, and rice, potatoes, corn, pumpkins and a small amount of wheat and soybeans planted on the plains to form a large-scale planting.

Grapes, tea, and all kinds of fruits are all purchased by the Pipa House, and they are still in the predetermined mode, and when the fruit trees begin to bear fruit, they begin to book these fruits, and there are various ways to trade, relying on the logistics channels of the Pipa House to give Yongle money, rice, cloth and other trading methods.

The introduction of new planting techniques and the great success of new grain cultivation greatly encouraged the farmers of Echigo, who were inspired by the local agricultural experts to study rice cultivation techniques day and night, and under the guidance of Omi farmers, they soon mastered the intensive cultivation methods from the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, due to the maturity of irrigation technology and the widespread use of fertilizers, the yield of rice under cultivated land has risen from one stone to two stones, which alone is enough to double the rice output of Echigo, and although it is not as dazzling as the new grain, it still meets the domestic demand for rice.

After the grain production was settled last autumn, a surplus of nearly 270,000 koku of rice was generated after deducting the rice reserves, which was enough to make Echigo Province, which was originally short of grain, a major grain producer.

The reputation of Koshihikari rice also resounded in Kinai, and this sweet and soft rice was extremely popular, and it was given to the shogunate, the imperial court, Kyoto Gozan, and Myunji Temple with 5,000 koku each, and then received a great response, and the cultural people of Kyoto were full of praise for such delicious rice, and there were also cultural people who made several waka songs on the theme of Koshihikari rice.

Rice that was originally unknown in Hokuriku is due to its special growing environment, long winters, cold and snow. As a result, Echigo's rice can only be grown once a year. And it is not the favor of the peasants of Echigo. The local wealthy landlords have eaten this kind of rice for generations, but they can't taste what is delicious, so Koshihikari rice has never been famous.

Now all this is different, the brand effect is rapidly fermenting, and soon the order list of Koshihikari rice is in short supply, and there are gourmets who personally set several grades for Koshihikari rice, the Koshihikari rice in China and Vietnam, and the Koshihikari rice in the lower Yueguang rice is medium. The Koshihikari rice of the upper and lower levels, etc.

The price trend of Koshihikari rice is also soaring, from the reserve price of 500 Wen Yongle money per stone, all the way up to the high price of 500 Wen Yongle money per stone, among which part of the Koshihikari rice in Uonuma County in Zhongyue is to reach a sky-high price of more than two times, and more than 200,000 stone Koshihikari rice was sold out in only two months, and this income alone was as high as 180,000 Guan Yongle money.

As a personal participant, each Echigo countryman shared in the corresponding returns, among which Kira and Nagao, who planted the least rice and had the most land, shared the profits to 20,000 and 30,000 respectively, and the remaining 130,000 were shared by the Echigo people according to the proportion of the profits. Nagao Masaki ranked third with a profit of 17,500 yuan, which made many people's jaws drop.

The locust plague the year before last had a great impact on Echigo. This is not just a locust plague caused by a drought, but in the eyes of the Kira family, it is caused by various reasons, such as the lack of water conservancy facilities, the failure to do a good job in the prevention and control of the plague, the lack of decisive response to the disaster, and the lack of willingness of local people to cooperate.

It seemed like nonsense to support their efforts to hold meetings to discuss and summarize for a whole year, and soon some officials found that chickens and ducks eating locusts can effectively reduce the flood rate of locust plagues, so they consciously increased chicken and duck breeding last year, and put a large number of locust eggs and live locusts in a test field, which really had a good effect.

Since last autumn, the increase in chicken and duck breeding has become a new requirement, and the manure produced by chickens and ducks has been warmly welcomed as a raw material for composting, because there is no cost to breed chickens and ducks, and they will hunt insects all over the mountains.

On the other hand, the new fertilizer planting method greatly increases grain production and ensures that the soil fertility of cultivated land will not be reduced, and planting pumpkins and corn requires a lot of fertilizer, and if you want to grow alfalfa grass well, you also need a lot of fertilizer, and rice needs not a lot of fertilizer, even if it is not much, it cannot withstand the consumption of large-scale planting.

The lack of effective animal manure has put agricultural development into a bottleneck, and many agronomic experts have gone down to the countryside to do inspections in the past few years.

Today happens to be a monthly spring sowing festival, and the venue of the festival is randomly chosen in front of the grain drying floor in a new village near Kashiwazaki Port, and the officials attending the meeting come and go from Mikawa, Omi, Echigo, Shinano and other regions, and everyone speaks a variety of dialects.

As the initiator of the topic, the project leader and the host of today's meeting are responsible for the important part of the speech: "Every year there will be a little pest, pest control has become the biggest problem, according to the introduction of agronomy expert Li Ding, we found that some plants have a universal insecticidal effect, such as the toxic and harmful castor bean has been ignored, castor leaves pounded into sap and double the water spray can effectively kill the insect......

"I have a problem!" Lord Kashiwazaki, who was in attendance, raised his hand and asked, "What is spray?" ”

"I have a couple of spray bottles here, you can take them! This lid is a bayonet that can be opened, the bottle can hold water, the bottle cap controls the spray of water, this wooden handle links a bamboo pipe to the bottom of the bottle, and the wooden handle can be pushed and pulled to do the action of suction and pressure to spray the water mist. ”

"What does that mean?" Dozens of people were stunned, and they didn't understand what he was talking about.

Ina Tadashi was not good at talking, they were all mouths that had been honed by years of government affairs, and an embarrassed expression flashed on his face: "Actually...... I don't quite understand either, but this is a little stir-fry that I wrote down, and according to Mr. Cronberg's terminology, this spray bottle is also a product invented by Mr. Cronberg, and we are authorized to produce it, but we have to pay him twenty Yongle dollars for each bottle. ”

"Can it really kill insects? Does it work to squirt out? "Many are skeptical.

"So this year's trial will require your cooperation, please rest assured that once the villages participating in the trial have insecticides that damage the rice fields, we will pay in full, so please cooperate with us!" Ina Chuke bowed hard.

Kira Yoshishi has been wandering outside the world for a long time. Somehow, a sentence came up: "Can the locusts be used?" For example, grinding it into powder for chickens and ducks. And the loaches and small fish in the rice fields to eat? Let the children catch locusts and give some compensation for every pound of locusts, such as a ...... reward for some three-in-one food."

The Inachu family thought for a moment and felt that it was feasible: "Do you encourage the capture of locusts when there is a locust infestation?" Locusts raise chickens, ducks, and fish, and it is a good idea to not know how much they can increase production, and the standard of compensation needs to be further confirmed. ”

"By the way, there is also the concept of cage farming that the owner mentioned last time. We can also try, isn't it just four wooden stakes and two layers of fishing nets around them? It's not that difficult! Hondo suddenly remembered the concept he had mentioned at an assessment meeting a few months ago.

Freshwater fish are cultivated in large quantities in living water areas such as rivers and lakes, and the grown fry can be transferred from relatively quiet fish ponds to cages, relying on the abundant plankton in the live water and regular feeding to ensure the growth of fish.

A short festival ended with a closing speech by the Ina Tadashi family, and Kira Yoshitoki concluded: "In ancient times, people were poor and people could not eat enough to eat and sleep in the open, so the gods and Buddhas forbade us to eat meat and fish, because they were afraid that we would fall into greed and eventually destroy the land, but now Echigo has abundant products, and the cultivation of chickens, ducks and fish has been gradually accepted by local farmers. All of this is made possible by your hard work! On behalf of the Kira family, I would like to thank you for your hard work! ”

With the current cultural situation, the cultivation and consumption of chickens, ducks and fish can be slowly opened. The problem of swimming in the water flying in the sky is not big, the saddest threshold is the game running on the ground, whether it is a wild boar, a hare, a bear, or a wild deer, it can not be touched at all, and even if it is touched, it will be covered with a strange name.

For example, the mountain whale meat sold privately by the semicolon noodle house wholly owned by the Kira family, mountain carp meat, mountain crucian carp meat and other series are substitutes for pork, beef, and mutton have long been quietly listed.

The supply channel of the noodle house comes from the pipa house, and the meat slices cut into thin slices come in directly, and they have not been caught for so long.

At the beginning of March, Kira Yoshitoki went to the horse farm to inspect the breeding of horses, which happened to be the season of estrus for the horses, and several majestic horses were mixed with a fixed number of mares to prepare for reproduction, the stallions could be bred at the age of two and a half, the mares reached adulthood and fixed body shape at the age of five, and the stallions did not stop growing and becoming full adults until they were six years old.

The stubborn John, who had the same temperament as Karl, insisted that the horses be familiar with the horses for three years, and by this year the stallions were exactly six years old and entered the breeding period, but he did the right thing, the mare matured first and the stallion was not too young, and premature breeding would consume the stallion's lifespan.

"It's slow enough to have the next generation in a year! Fortunately, you can reproduce again every six months in the future...... No way! It's still too slow, and I'll have to find some female Kiso horses to try to reproduce. "After inspecting the remote horse breeding base in Kariba Prefecture, Kira Yoshitoki was determined to train more horses as soon as possible, and at the current rate, I don't know how many years it will take to form a scale, so he asked the small surname to make a memorandum so that he could mention it at the next evaluation meeting.

As a summary of his work, Yoshitoki Kira sighed with emotion: "The mission of human beings is to reproduce, but reproduction is not the most important thing, survival and dignity are equally important!" Getting married and having children too early will make people suffer from premature aging, so young couples should not live as a couple too early, health is to have a pure heart and few desires, eat more and eat less, for a beautiful life, I also have to take care of my body! ”

"Insightful and incisive! He is a knowledgeable and talented owner! Hosokawa Fujitaka followed with a smile on his palm.

Squinting at the graceful Hosokawa Fujitaka, Kira Yoshitoki asked calmly: "Anyway, there are already three of them in my family, and there is no situation on your side?" ”

Faced with the inquiry of the lord and relative, Hosokawa Fujitaka wiped the cold sweat on his head and replied, "This ...... The wedding date will be delayed for a while, probably for a few years. ”

"Still waiting? You're twenty-three, aren't you? Your one is thirteen, and if you wait any longer, you'll be twenty-six! Twenty-six! "Deliberately reminding twenty-six is from the meme that peasants are only allowed to marry when they are twenty-six years old.

Originally, there was no such problem of late marriage in the Gongqing and Wu families, but because of the influence of the Yingren Rebellion, the Gongqing and Wu families were generally poor. There are many people who can't afford to marry a family and can't afford to support their families. It is not surprising that such a person as Kujo Minoru is bankrupt and lives in seclusion for the rest of his life without a main room.

Hosokawa Fujitaka is gifted and talented. In addition, he is young and has a stable status, and other families have long urged their daughters to hold a disclosure banquet, but Numata Mitsukan uncharacteristically insists on his opinion, saying that it was agreed at the beginning, and he will not get married until his daughter reaches the age of fifteen and Lu.

"I really don't understand what Uenosuke is thinking." Although he has such a relationship with the Numata family, Kira Yoshitoki does not call Numata Hikaru his father-in-law, his father-in-law only has the late Nagao as Kei, and there are only two adoptive fathers who count the adoptive father of Torakihime, the honorary nature of the Konoe family.

Seeing this, Hosokawa Fujitaka hurriedly changed the topic: "I don't know how Kasuga Yamashiro is prepared. Honjo Echizen Mamoru's wedding must be extraordinarily grand! It's really enviable! ”

"Don't be envious, sooner or later it will be your turn!"

"Then I'll borrow the good words of the hall owner!"

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On March 12th, the Kasuga mountain castle was lit up, and today she was married to Nagao Ohime, the daughter of the Sanjo Nagao family, and the groom was a former minister of the Nagao family, and the current Kira family general Honjo Fanchang, both of them are from Echigo's famous and surnamed big families, and they both have their own kinship, but they are more lively than the three games of the Kira family.

As the initiator of the destruction of the three Nagao clans with his own hands, Nagao Jinghu felt a little guilty about Nagao Xuhime. The lineage of Nagao Keitora is called Nagao in Fuuchi, and that is because Nagao Takakei served as the guardian of Echigo for later generations. Therefore, the castle was moved from Sanjo Castle to Echigo Prefecture, and the name was changed.

Twelve years ago, in 1544, at the critical moment when Nagao died of illness and Kasugayama Castle was once captured by Kuroda Hidetada, the fourteen-year-old Nagao Keitora was still commonly working for his brother Nagao Haruki.

The first battle he fought out of the mountain was a tough battle, the three Nagao family Nagao Toshikyo raised the banner to rebel, the young Nagao Jinghu was ordered by Nagao Harukei to crusade against the Sanjo Nagao family, he only had more than 100 samurai in his hands, and the opposite Sanjo family had more than 200 horsemen and 400 ashigaru.

Moreover, many Chinese people in China and Vietnam clearly wanted to respond to Nagao Junjing's rebels, and once this force was gathered, the Nagao family was powerless to resist, so in an extremely dangerous situation, Nagao Jinghu calmly judged the gap between the two sides, and decided to take advantage of the enemy's attack when he went out of the city to immediately decide to make a head-on assault, breaking Nagao Junjing's cavalry in one fell swoop, and killing Nagao Junjing with his own hands.

In this war, he injured his ankle, and after the war, he dealt with the rebels in the city non-stop, and he did not have time or conditions for medical treatment before he fell ill.

The order given to him by Nagao Harukei was to completely destroy the Sanjo Nagao clan and regain the ability of Sanjo Castle, and in the process of execution, he found that only Nagao Axu was just less than a year old, so there was a legend that the stupid little maid of the Nagao family was never punished.

Out of repentance for the tragedy of catching up with the cannibalism of the same clan at the beginning of the battle, Nagao Jinghu was extraordinarily generous to this "righteous girl", giving a slightly inferior specification to Nagao Toranohime, and several women of the Nagao family personally made him his female companions, and Nagao Aya, who had just given birth to her second son, Umatsu, also attended the disclosure banquet with the careful support of the maid.

Nagao Masakai loves his wife very much, especially just gave birth to a baby son for his Ueda Nagao family, and hurriedly asked Nagao Jinghu to give her amnesty to let her go back to rest, and Tiger Hime, as an important female guest of the woman, could not accompany her, and after the initial disclosure banquet ceremony, he hid in the quiet room behind with the bride Nagao Xuhime to talk.

Honjo did not have the special treatment of Kira Yoshi, he had to stay here to accompany the banquet guests, as the current lord of Honjo Shiganaga, and also had a special relationship between Ah Xu and Torakihime, he had to give a qualified wedding gift.

"Last time, I received dozens of knives, more than a dozen horses, and a lot of messy things such as gold, silver, jade plates, tea utensils, iron cannons, and books...... Gifts from relatives and friends are not easy to give, so let's give him a knife! ”

Summoned Iwazurumu to explain a few words to him and sent him away, only to notice two people who attracted special attention, these two people attracted attention not because of their special appearance or disheveled clothes, but because the two of them had a sad face and a depressed face, and their forced smiling expressions were extremely incompatible with today's festive and lively atmosphere.

These two people are the Kanto governor Uesugi Kenmasa, the former Shinano guarded Ogasawara when the chief, both of them are from the samurai family and are also down-and-out here are not entertained, today I see a bit of a feeling of sympathy, two incompatible people will push the cup to change the cup you drink a cup and sigh, I drink a cup and sigh.

"These two have been hanging for so long, and it's almost time to close the net. If it continues to dry, I'm afraid my brother will be dissatisfied. "Kira Yoshitoki caught a glimpse of Nagao Jinghu's eyes wrong. knows that he sees all this in his eyes.

If you put the current situation three years ago. Eighty percent have to smash the cup as the number, drink the rhythm of the rebellion, and now a serious illness and self-cultivation for two and a half years, the body and mind in the landscape, poetry, Buddhism, the attainment of cultural attainments by leaps and bounds, inadvertently said a sentence of Buddha can also Ji Liang Yi Shi to say stunned, than a few years ago the spiritual cultivation is not much higher, has already washed away the restlessness of that body.

The feast lasted from the afternoon until the evening. The long-tailed Jinghu can't drink, and he can't help this smoky wine field after many years of self-cultivation, but he just got up and left at noon and evening, and at the same time left Tiger Ji, Ah Xu and many female guests, they will not accompany the old man to drink and fight, and hide behind to play new military chess and checkers is more interesting.

As soon as Echigo no Ryu left the scene, the detention banquet became lively, pushing the cup to change the wine order guessing boxing, and even blindly comparing the wine, and some people drank it for half an hour before they were unconscious.

The moon is rising higher and higher, and the sky is very good today. The bright moonlight sprinkled the spring mountain castle, and the banquet also entered the real climax at this time. The shrine maidens of the shrine are still the shrines, and they dance with white sleeves and white socks under their scarlet hakama, and beautiful gilt pendants on their heads, and drunken Echigo samurai shake their heads and beat their heads.

As soon as the music and dance of this shrine ended, a group of ape musicians played taiko drums and played flutes on the stage, and this time they did not sweep the interest of the groom official to perform the face-slapping nature of "Night Run", but replaced it with the more orthodox ape music "Fune Benkei", which tells the story of Minamoto Yoshitsune leading a large army from Settsu Amagasaki Otaura to the sea to pursue the Heike family.

This ape music is divided into three parts, the first is Jing Yuqian farewell to the source of Yoshijing, playing Jing Yuqian is a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, wearing white and elegant beautiful clothes dancing, singing and laughing with an indescribable beauty, so that the samurai attending the banquet unconsciously have straight eyes.

The nearest Echigo samurai struck the festival and exclaimed, "This dance is truly a masterpiece!" ”

The little girl who played the role of Jing Yuqian seemed to hear the praise of the samurai, and showed a shy and sweet smile to the audience, and in the middle was the part of Kyogen, and there were many characters who appeared, such as the fisherman of Otura, Takezobo Benkei, Gen Yoshitsune, and the other three of the Four Heavenly Kings of Yoshitsune.

In the second half, the fisherman of Otaura is replaced by Taira Chimori, and one of the fierce sword drawing and dancing performances plays the role of the samurai Gen Yoshitsune who first takes out a wooden bow and makes an archery action, and then Taira Chimori flees backwards.

At this moment, the dance fight entered the most intense moment, and Gen Yoshijing drew out the power of the Tai Dao to fight against Zhisheng, and many people only felt a flash of white light in front of them, and only then did someone notice that the ape musician who played the role of Gen Yoshijing was holding a sword with a blade in his hand.

And the ape musician who played the role of Gen Yoshitsune seemed to have tripped and stumbled, and one stumbled in the direction of Kira Yoshitoki, and the audience in the hall was drunk and didn't react, and the next moment the ape musician jumped suddenly, raised the white dangling sword and slashed it down.

"Watch out for the assassins!" Several voices came out at the same time, and the snowy white light was like lightning in front of him, and a fierce spirit almost jumped up, subconsciously raised his foot and kicked the flying table, and crawled backwards.

"Someone will capture the assassin for me!" A loud roar woke up all the drunken samurai, and the groom, the official Honjo Shiganaga, jumped to his feet and threw himself at the assassin.

"Click!" The assassin's swordsmanship was outstanding, and with a dexterous turn and swing of the sword, he broke all the thrown projectiles, and rushed up with three steps and two steps and slashed again, and was dodged by a deft roll of Kira Yoshitoki, leaving only a strand of hair and half a piece of clothing on the sharp sword.

From the beginning of the banquet to the present, just a symbolic drink of a few sips of sake to always stay sober advantage shows, the instinct to survive continues to discover his potential, all the way the donkey rolls backwards desperately dodge, the assassin is also persevering one after another slashing, every time the snow bright knife light falls, the tatami mat will be cut out of a gap, seeing that it is about to roll to the end, Kira Yoshitoki roared frantically: "I can't die!" Someone is coming! ”

"I've been growing up!" Honjo swooped into the assassin, grabbed his arms and shouted, "My lord! Get rid of this man! ”

"Good!" Kira Yoshitoki got up in embarrassment and didn't care about the black hat rolling off and scattering his long hair, just in time to see Iwazurumu standing in the corner in a daze with a knife, so he snatched the knife and stabbed it fiercely.

"Poof!" With a knife into the neck and then a sharp twist, a fresh neck was cut off, and the blood that burst out everywhere splashed all over his body, dyeing the white hunting clothes red.

"Be careful!" There was an urgent cry from behind, followed by "Bang! A loud bang came from behind, and Kira Yoshitoki shook violently and stood still. (To be continued......)