At the beginning, there were many people in the Kira family who opposed Echigo, and it was a cross-factional unity, including Nakajo Tokihide, Isshiki Naotakaka, Watanabe Takatsuna, Okochi Tsunada, Ina Tadashi and Honda Tokimasa, and the Shogunate faction and the Omi faction all expressed opposition.

Even in the past six months since coming to Echigo, many people still don't understand what is good about Echigo, the cold and desolate mountains are everywhere, the folk customs are fierce, and the samurai are also fierce, and there have been many brawls in the past six months, and both sides have suffered a lot of losses, but the samurai of Echigo are still happy to do it, which even the Samurai of Mikawa, who has always boasted of his martial arts, is a little unbearable.

However, Yamamoto Tokiyuki has always been a firm supporter of him, and he has also actively worked for the retainers of the Kira family, formulating several sets of plans for integrating into Echigo, the most feasible of which is to use a strong economic effect to drive the people of Echigo to gradually accept the existence of the Kira family, so that they realize that the future masters of Echigo will be the young couple sitting next to Nagao Jinghu.

Now it seems that all this is very well connected, including the Nagao family retainers, the Ueda people, the Echigo Uesugi faction and the Yohoku people have all begun to actively lean in, at first glance the issue around food can not affect their political position at all, but in fact, the quiet change has begun to appear, the samurai obey the orders of the lord of the country one is because of the law of the shogunate, and the other is that the lord can protect their interests, and Kira Yoshitoki is playing this part of the role.

"When I think back to the hope in the eyes of the fleeing Kanto refugees I met at the Yuzawa Imperial Palace, I am shocked by the hope in their eyes and made me realize that in this troubled world of the Warring States. What people want. That is the desire for a peaceful and peaceful life. Isn't what our warriors are fighting for is to protect the elders and protect the homeland from being trampled by soldiers? ”

Nagao Jinghu said angrily: "There are too many grievances in the world, and those who have the righteousness of the samurai in their hearts should hold high their bows, arrows, swords and guns to fight for the shogunate. A fallen samurai will become a scourge of bandits, and a fallen samurai will become the foundation of silverfish devouring my samurai.

Just like Kai, the Takeda clan did not think about the shogunate's heavy grace, repeatedly invaded Shinano, and killed the famous Suwa clan. Expelling Shinano to protect the Ogasawara clan, and once attacking Okushinano in an attempt to get involved in my Echigo, it's really a shame for the samurai! ”

"Speaking of which, the Kai Takeda clan is also a famous Genji family! After Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, the door of the house is not much worse than the Wuwei Palace, right? One of the Echigo samurai asked.

Kira Yoshitoki just smiled and didn't say anything, and the samurai of the Kira family also hugged his arms and sneered, seeing that the scene was a little embarrassing, Nagao Masaki came out again to make a round: "Kai Genji should be worse than the family of the Takei Guardian Palace, after all, the descendants of the Kawachi Genji are the current princess, as the governor of the Ashikaga family." The Martial Guard Hall is obviously higher than the Takeda Great Dining Hall, right? ”

"Yes, yes! You can see it in the official position! Wu Weidian was very young and became the fourth subordinate left guard governor, and Takeda Dashan was over thirty years old. The official position is still under the fifth position, right? Hehehe...... "Honjo really said so, of course, no one will talk more, such a comparison can really reflect the gap."

Takeda Harunobu has been in power for more than ten years, and this Wuweidian has risen rapidly step by step since the beginning of the Yuan service, and at the age of thirteen is the fourth place, and it is not a problem to sit as a minister in the future, and the current public Ashikaga Yoshiteru was promoted to the three big names and the right guard general Ruyuan, but he is a real minister than real money.

"It was precisely because of the refugees that the family decided to do something more meaningful, such as public welfare."

"Public welfare...... Undertaking? What is it? Naoe mitsura chewed on this strange term carefully, puzzled.

"It's public, not to do something to compete with the people, the family initially plans to invest 10,000 Kanbun in Yongle money, for the rebuilding and reinforcement of the embankments of the Sekigawa, Shinano River, Agano River, Himegawa, Kaji River and part of the river dredging work, it is estimated that 35,000 people will be required to work, and the construction period will be completed before November after the winter, and the finishing work will not be delayed until the first month."

"Oh, thirty-five thousand? Isn't that a tenth of the population to be burdened with universal service? But this year's general service has already been used for disaster relief, isn't it a bit ...... such a big project?"

"Don't get me wrong!" Yamamoto Shixing stepped forward to solve the problems for the family governor, and said with full confidence: "The so-called universal service is that the common people complete the construction demands of the lord with the burden of labor and voluntary labor, and the project of my Kira family does not require compulsory labor, but paid employment, and two meals of dry food and soup should be provided a day during the construction period. ”

"Shhh The Echigo people gasped, and even Minoru Honjo and Nagao Keishin whispered, "Tsk! What a big deal! ”

What is the concept of 35,000 people taking care of two meals a day, and the construction period lasts two to three months? That is to say, 35,000 people can save two to three months' rations, and the peasants are idle in this great winter, and if the lord is willing to provide two full meals, a large group of people will be guaranteed to break their heads.

How difficult the life of the peasants in medieval Japan was, everyone present had a profound experience, a row of kneeling under the verandah of the large wide room were the small wealthy people of Echigo, most of them had a fifty or sixty stone Zhixing appearance, they were not qualified to enter the main hall to participate in the banquet, they could only sit outside the hall to drink wine and eat meat, these people were also considered rich peasants or small landlords in ancient China, and these small wealthy families usually had to bend down to the fields to plow the land and weed.

As for the poorer landlord class, Zhixing is only twenty or thirty stones at most, and some are only ten or eight stones, which is about the same as the five anti land that Ueno Ienari and Shimohira Yoshicho competed for, and when converted into China's land unit, it is almost eight acres of land, and one mu produces less than one stone, which is almost to this extent.

These landlords are peasants, usually carrying hoes, carrying swords and bamboo guns in wartime, wearing tattered old clothes in the countryside, and looking exactly the same as a peasant.

35,000 people saved food rations for two or three months, and 35,000 people will have food rations to support more people when the next year is not enough. The old people in those villages are not driven into the wilderness to fend for themselves because of lack of food. Babies also do not drown in rivers because of lack of food. There will be no tragedy of the old man volunteering to pretend to be a boar and being caught and killed by the peasants and eaten as a "boar".

"Wuweidian is really a good man!" Immediately, the warriors of the Qiben Hao clan of the Nagao family kowtowed to him excitedly, and made a good wish: "May Guanyin Bodhisattva bless the Wuwei Hall and Her Royal Highness the Princess with many sons and blessings!" ”

"May the Medicine Buddha bless the Wuwei Hall and Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

"May the Buddha bless the Wuwei Hall and Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

The samurai have issued their own good wishes, in the Buddhist society in the gods and Buddhas are the most authoritative existence, I believe that the gods and Buddhas are blessed in the dark is also from the emperor, the general, Sekihaku down to the common people, the whole class of people are highly recognized, when a samurai tells you that the gods and Buddhas bless you, it also means that this person is truly grateful to you.

Faced with the sincere gratitude of the samurai, Torahime looked very excited. The sales tightly held the palm of Kira Yoshishi's face flushed with excitement, and a pair of big watery eyes were full of pride and pride, for the girl, the hero in her heart was grateful to the Echigo samurai, which is the most beautiful thing in the world, as for what samurai righteousness and justice are too far away from her, at this moment the girl's eyes only have her own highness.

"I and Tiger Queen have received the wishes of your lords! Thank you! Kira Yoshishi raised his cup and said loudly: "My family replaces wine with tea, please drink this cup together!" ”

"Drink!" Yamamoto Tokiyuki and Honjo Minoru shouted in unison, such a high synchronization rhythm made these two veteran ministers from the two families look at each other. Then raise your glass and drink together.

In addition, the family plans to invest heavily in land improvement in the seven counties of Echigo. The main content of land improvement is to improve and optimize the uncultivated maps such as rivers, swamps, dry lagoes, and saline-alkali land, which is expected to take five to ten years to achieve initial results, and the initial investment is about 30,000 yuan in Yongle Qian, and the investment in the next few years will not be less than this amount. ”

"Oh! What a useless land! What did Wuweidian do with spending a lot of money to transform those useless lands? ”

"That's it! A bunch of useless land, and a huge amount of money, what a lot of money! ”

Someone secretly shook his head, this Wu Weidian was generous, but he didn't take money seriously, and with a wave of his hand, he spilled out 30,000 yuan of Yongle money, and the taxes of the entire Yue Hou years were not necessarily so much, this noble man had so much in a year, and he would continue to add the same amount of investment in the future after listening to his tone, so he could really not let them shake their heads secretly.

"I'll answer it for the Pavilion Master!" Hosokawa Fujitaka knocked on the table with a folding fan, and said with a smile: "Although these lands are not valuable, but after all, they have to border with the land of the kings, so when they invest in the construction, they will more or less use the farmers under the princes, and the princes also know the rules of my Kira family, and the hired laborers are all in charge of the meal, and some of the excess materials in the transformation process can also be transferred to the princes for territorial transformation free of charge, of course, these improved lands are to be owned by the Kira family, and the monarchs have no opinion, right?" ”

"What about the water source? And how is the scope defined? ”

"We will discuss this with you after the meeting, as long as it is the cultivated land of the grange and the inherent water source of the road, this land improvement plan will not be encroached upon!" Matsui Yukan added: "We will do our best to protect the rights and interests of your monarchs from being violated, and of course I also ask you to cooperate, and you have any other opinions to make." ”

"Nope! As long as I wait for the grange and the water source to not be encroached upon, there will be no problem! The samurai in the hall replied in unison.

Seeing that the Kira family is fully prepared, without losing the existing grange and water source, of course they will not oppose this good governance, and it is naturally better to build embankments without spending money, as for land improvement, who will take care of that thing, it is nothing to give worthless swamps, dry lagoes and saline-alkali land to the Kira family for nothing, and besides, people are not in vain, spending real money to improve the land, and it can also benefit the people in the county, who will refuse such a good thing.

The people here represent the will of nearly seventy percent of the people of Echigo, except for some retainers and countrymen who are unable to take time out to deal with the internal affairs of the autumn harvest, and basically rush here to attend the banquet.

Many people began to look forward to how the agreement would be negotiated after the banquet, and except for some drunkards, they began to think about clearing their brains and fighting for more rights and interests for the rest of the negotiations.

No one in the room cared about what the people who didn't attend the banquet would think, as long as this agreement was signed, any opponents would be reduced to a minority, which was also a favorite strategy of the Kira family, pulling a samurai group onto their own warship, and no one would be able to stop them at that time, so that the nature of the banquet would become another meaning.

"What do you want to do in those wastelands in the time of righteousness? Never mind! Since you have the heart to do it, then your family should also support it. Nagao Jinghu pondered for a moment, and felt that there was no big problem, so he nodded approvingly: "Since Yishi has the heart to seek welfare for Echigo, then the family also expresses support here!" ”

Honjo Minoru looked at Nagao Jinghu worriedly, and in a hurry, he couldn't think clearly about how many of the tricks were worth scrutinizing, but he always felt faintly inappropriate, as if he had jumped into a big pit, but he couldn't say this kind of intuition, and he looked at his colleagues with a happy expression, so he could only hold the words in his stomach.

"Success!" Kira Yoshitoki secretly praised, squinted his eyes and laughed with the long-tailed Jinghu, his expression and movement were impeccable, but the subtle changes still couldn't escape the tiger Ji who held his hand, the girl sensitively noticed that he held his hand at that moment and trembled slightly, feeling the excitement in his heart, the girl gently held his palm.

"What's wrong?" Kira Yoshitoki turned his head to look at the girl.

"Nothing! Your Highness is happy! Tiger Ji smiled, there was an indescribable charm.

"Hmm!" The two poured out their love with their eyes, and their voices were as small as mosquitoes and flies, but this little action could not hide the battle-hardened Echigo Dragon, and his bad feelings did not mean that he did not have this insight, in order not to attract the attention of this little couple, he could only pretend to appreciate Tian Le unconsciously, and at the same time silently pondered in his heart that two years later, the wedding preparations of the two of them should not be prepared as soon as possible.

The two of them went through hardships at a young age, and finally there were lovers who finally got together, in his opinion, it was a thing worth celebrating, and even he had the heart to let go of the reckless Chiyo Inomaru, without his stupidity and recklessness, the pair didn't know how long to make trouble.

At this time, the sound of the ape stopped, and the shrine's kagura was replaced, and one by one they held a copper bell, a cypress fan, a sababa, a sakaki leaf, and the kind of coin used by Hakurei Reimu, and danced a solemn and sacred dance, which usually only appears at the shrine celebration, but because Takee Gong Yoshiyoshi and Konoe Princess Nagao Toraki returned safely after suffering, so the priests of the main shrine decided to dance the god dance to pray for the blessing of the two highnesses.

A solemn and sacred dance ended, so that the samurai who had been quiet for a long time breathed a sigh of relief, some drunk guys secretly cursed a bad luck, drunk is happy to come suddenly, if you don't sit up straight and listen carefully, you will appear frivolous, do not understand the rules, fortunately, soon the shrine maidens performed the longevity dance, which is also a shrine income generating project, for the minister, the samurai daimyo and the temple dance to get paid. (To be continued......)

PS: Actually, it's not easy for Tiger Ji, but it hasn't been shown yet, and in two more chapters, you'll probably know what kind of girl Tiger Ji looks like.