In September, Edo is in full bloom, the banks of the Tone River are in full bloom, and the barnyards of rice in the large and small villages of the Kanto Plains are full of rice and rice that make farmers smile happily.

The mature agricultural system of Echigo quickly spread throughout the Kanto region, and those who were assigned to the village and the manor system must obey the decrees of the public government, and those who own land within 20 anti and are mainly self-cultivated are the grassroots farmers, and those who own more than 20 anti or do not produce are the famous lords and officials, and those who are classified as the burden of grassroots service must bear the relevant burdens such as military service and general service according to the requirements.

This decree not only conforms to the traditional rule that the propertied bear the burden of military construction, but also makes a good distinction between the tax burden between the local officials and the grassroots peasants.

After six years of continuous construction and expansion, the first phase of the Edo Castle project was completed at a rate far less than the construction period, and most of the total construction volume of Edo Castle Shita Town, with a total area of 2,600 towns, or about 25.8 square kilometers, was completed, and more than 200,000 permanent residents moved into Edo Castle Town, and almost half of the essence of Echigo Naoetsu Town was relocated to Edo Castle.

The impact of the relocation of industry and commerce from half of Echigo Province to Musashi Province was enormous, and the most immediate change was that Musashi Province was rapidly becoming Echigo at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the strong Echigo vernacular and the local Kanto dialect were blending together to form a new dialect culture. Echigo townspeople brought more than just a well-developed handicraft system to Edo and Kanto. There is also a simple and fierce folk customs and infinite reverence for the Kanto government.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki's prestige in Echigo was exaggerated. The simple townspeople believe that His Royal Highness Gongkata raised troops in Echigo and drove the Echigo tiger and wolf warriors to conquer the eastern country and megatron the world, which is the pride of Echigo and the pride of all Echigo people, so they are proud to become the townspeople of Edo Castle, the new pearl of Kanto, which is why so many townspeople are willing to abandon their families and leave Naoetsu.

Last year, the Kanto Prefecture made its first land inspection and concluded that the total stone height was 4.67 million koku, of which Musashi Province ranked first among the eight Kanto countries with 1.2 million koku, becoming the second major country in the Kanto region to have more than one million koku. Hitachi Province 750,000 koku, Shimono Province 700,000 koku, Ueno Province 600,000 koku, Shimoku 600,000 koku, Kamiki Koku 400,000 koku, Sagami Koku 250,000 koku, Anbo Koku 90,000 koku, Izu Koku 80,000 koku.

In the first Echigo Province, the stone height slowly increased to 3.3 million stones, and the total population of Echigo Province quickly decreased from more than 900,000 at its peak to less than 450,000, of which more than 100,000 were farmers from Musashi Province. As a result, there were large fluctuations in the agricultural order in Echigo Province, but fortunately, the cooperation of the governor and the garrison quickly suppressed several riots. Resolve the basic contradictions between old and new immigrants with an impartial judgment.

The large-scale development of Shinta and the southward movement of Echigo peasant collectives to Musashi Province led to a labor shortage and a short-term population shortage in Echigo Kunichu, and a total of 50,000 machibu Shinta were developed in the Echigo Plains in five years, and the large number of polders and the sparse agricultural population greatly reduced the efficiency of farming.

In recent years, the population has decreased and there is not enough land for farmers to cultivate, and nearly 200,000 steps of cultivated land is converted into 2 million anti-land, and then divided by the average Echigo total population needs to bear the burden of cultivating the four-anti farmland, this number does not seem to be much at first glance, and the four-anti farmland is only six acres of land converted into acres.

However, if we take into account the special situation that there are still 780,000 professional townspeople in Echigo Province, and that only half of the labor force can be counted if the old and weak women and children are removed, the strong labor force of the entire Echigo is still less than 180,000, and the cultivated area of each person will exceed 11 yuan, which is converted into 16 mu and 5 points of cultivated land.

This number is very staggering, even if there are enough cattle and horses for farming, each person is responsible for such a large piece of land is inevitably too busy to appear the phenomenon of being busy, the men in the family are too busy to let the old and weak women and children take a hand, when the farm is busy, it is often every day to get up early and greedy for darkness, and the sky is not bright and busy until it is dark before sleeping.

No matter how busy you are, you can't change the fact that the grain output has been greatly reduced, and the original rice-wheat rotation and intensive farming mode can ensure that the grain output per grain is stable between three and four stones, but now the situation is that the average grain output is gradually declining, and the net income of grain per land is less than one stone and five buckets, and many farmers are tired and can't simply give up rice-wheat rotation, and either plant soybeans and vegetables after autumn, or simply fallow the land.

Farmers are learning how to allocate their labor time, there are fewer and fewer villages working as hard as they did a few years ago, it doesn't matter if production efficiency decreases, food production decreases don't matter, and the most important thing is to get rid of poverty and make people live a good life.

In a fleet of boats sailing up the river on the turbulent Tone River, several of the commissioners sat together and talked in low voices, and as river patrol officers, they were in charge of inspecting the embankments near the river, which was a temporary assignment that only used to inspect and had no other responsibilities, so the commissioners seemed very relaxed.

The young commissioner Tsuchiya Hikozaburo looked very excited, and danced with his hands: "When the hundred years of chaos in the Kanto region should come to an end, His Royal Highness the Gongfang will govern the eastern kingdom with outstanding cultural and martial arts, maybe we will usher in a peaceful and prosperous era that has not been encountered in hundreds of years!" We can live a peaceful life."

His companion suddenly smiled and said, "Yan Saburo still knows about the peaceful and prosperous world, but have you ever seen the peaceful and prosperous world?" Don't just think about learning the words of the Ming Kingdom and not knowing the meaning of the words, this is also called the peaceful and prosperous era? ”

"Why can't it be a peaceful and prosperous era, in the past few years of the unification of Kanto, the wind and rain have been smooth and everything has been renewed, and the peace of mind in Kanto is the opportunity for us to pursue the grand plan, this is not a peaceful and prosperous era, so when will it be?" Hikojiro Tsuchiya argues with reason, which leads to a burst of laughter.

"You're wrong, peace and prosperity are not a good year for a few years. It was a time when the world was stable and free from disaster. It takes at least twenty or thirty years of stability to be considered a peaceful and prosperous world! Today, the Kanto region is a prosperous paradise. It's not the peaceful and prosperous era of Jinai in the past, the world is so big, it's not just about a powerful martial artist in the eastern prince. ”

"His Royal Highness is in an awkward position."

"The Shogun's Palace is very jealous of His Royal Highness! It's also very uncomfortable for me to see that the Kanto Princess, so I went to the place where the Mutsu bird doesn't and stayed still for four or five years, which seems to me to mean retreat. ”

The young commissioner Tsuchiya Hikozaburo was not convinced and wanted to plead, but found that the expressions of several commissioners became more and more strange, and one of them showed a treacherous look in his eyes: "It makes sense, the shogunate general's palace has mastered the righteousness of the shogunate and has the grace of knowing the Kanto Prince, and the shogunate general's palace will definitely not dare to go west if the Kanto prince asks the Kanto prince to go east." After all, his family character has been lifted up after all! Hey, hey, hey......"

This group of officials is a new member of the Kanto Shogunate, and their loyalty to the Kanto Shogun's Office is far less stable than that of the Echigo samurai, and it is inevitable that there will be over-the-top rhetoric when outsiders talk about Ashikaga Yoshi's character, and occasionally there are young people who show off the latest news they have learned, and their verbal performance is all to put on a posture that I know Ashikaga Yoshii very well and know the situation of the Kanto Prince, and there have been such people who brag about pretending to be experts since ancient times, but this group of people is not so simple.

"Shhhh This is taboo, let's talk about it, don't spread it! ”

"Got it, don't look scared. I also know a few people who practice the mysteries of the gods, but they are just a group of clowns who jump off the beam. Don't listen to the legends in the market, I don't believe they can find out what we say! There were twenty-six people in this fast boat, including us and the sailors, and they were all people with a clear foundation, so what were they afraid they would know? ”

"Hahaha...... I can't believe it! We have been meeting every ten years on the temporary errand of the river patrolman, and it has not been unnoticed by anyone for several years! ”

"I didn't even notice our whereabouts, and I guess I won't know about the important information of the Kwantung General's Mansion that we are waiting for! Oda-dan's generosity is much stronger than that of the stingy Kanto Prince! ”

"A decree is written down and passed to Owari is a generous reward, trivial things can also get the reward of the consistent text, the important point of the information is less than dozens of pieces of text, hundreds of articles, doing a position of an intermediate commissioner can earn two rewards, the income can catch up with the high-ranking officials of the Imperial Lian Judge, this is really cool!"

The tall and rich executive seemed to be their leader, touching the jade wrench on his little thumb and said with a faint smile: "Money is very important to us, if there is no money, we will not have the opportunity to enjoy Chinese clothes and food, if there is no money, it is impossible to live better than those tightly knit colleagues, we have had enough of the days without money, we want to be the people of Kyoto like the Kanto Gongfang!" ”

Another thin samurai said with a cold face: "The master family we are waiting for is either living a hard life on Sado Island or has already died in Huangquan, and there is no need to apologize for betraying the Kanto Prince, and there are too many samurai like me in the Kanto General's Mansion who have been destroyed by the main family, and they are secretly being pests under this towering tree." ”

"Haha! Pest is a good name! ”

They thought that their hiding was very secretive, but they did not understand that there was no impermeable wall in this world, and these warriors were talking and laughing without realizing that the hatch was quietly pushed open, and a few honest sailors suddenly broke in and grabbed the cabin with lightning speed, and just when they were frightened, they saw the hunched captain slowly walking in.

"You are not only pests under the towering trees, but also a group of courageous bedbugs, and you exude the smell of decay, which can be smelled hundreds of miles away......" The captain leaned over to the tall and rich commissioner and sniffed carefully, as if he really smelled a foul smell that could not be concealed, and slumped down like a nimble monkey covering his nose and avoiding the smoke.

"It stinks! I followed the stench all the way and sure enough, I caught a few small bugs. ”

The tall and rich commissioner trembled with sarcasm, and said in a cold voice, "You ...... Who the hell are you? Do you know who we are? It is a great sin to pretend to be a sailor to trespass on the clipper of the river patrol, and if we leave the acquaintance, let us retreat quickly, and I will treat it as if all this has never happened. ”

The captain circled around a few commissioners, and stood still in front of the tall and fat commissioner, his body fully stretched out and made a creaking sound. Transform into the strong body of a young samurai. Looking at him, he sneered, "You should have guessed that, right?" Mysterious things see ninjas pretending to be gods and ghosts. Isn't that just me? ”

"You ......"

The captain gently removed the disguise on his face, revealing a youthful face: "Remember my name, Hattori Hanzo." ”

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Named after the former horse farm, the Edo Castle Nerima Town is located on the very edge of the town and served as a common residential area, and the Kanto Shogun's Mansion was built in a very large way, not in the traditional way of laying out the castle in a straight way, but in several locations around Edo Castle.

Then build a supporting living environment, and build wide streets, and then build satellite cities within them. The approximately 20,000 households in Nerima Town lived in peace, and the garrisons placed near the main crossings outside the castle were sufficient to ensure their safety.

Lianyuesan Kannonji Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect of the Toyoyama sect, which was built in the fifth year of Eiko after experiencing the invasion of the Joy Rebellion and burned down Garan, until the fifth year of Eiroku by Uesugi Kenshin from the Yamato Province Toyoyama faction head of the main mountain Haseji Temple to invite the honorary master to serve as the abbot of the temple, and once again revival this century-old temple.

The temple is equipped with a temple, a bell tower, a five-storied pagoda, and three branches: Kannon-in Temple to enshrine the eleven-faced Kannon deity, Aizen-in Temple to enshrine the Aizen King himself, Bisamon-in Temple to enshrine the Bishamon Heavenly King, and Uesugi Kenshin likes to leave Edo Castle to retreat here in his spare time.

The abbot is also a scholarly monk with high aspirations. With the great influence of Uesugi Kenshin, the incense of this quiet and elegant Kannonji Temple is becoming more and more vigorous. There was an endless stream of tourists who came to visit the Buddha, and the reputation was received by many samurai families in Edo Castle, and he was invited by Imagawa Ruyiin Temple to explain the "Dairakukan Karagonam no empty Shinmiya Sanmaya 経".

Everyone who listened to his lectures was amazed by the witty words, and today it has become a frequent guest in the Kanto Shogun's Palace, and is as famous as Tora Soo, Asayama Hishinori, and Nankobo Amami, making Kannonji a famous tourist attraction outside of Edo Castle.

There are two people sitting in the corridor to play chess in the Juexin Hall of Guanyin Temple, this courtyard is relatively secluded and quiet in the corner of the temple, occasionally there are bursts of Sanskrit sound fluttering and the wind chimes on the corridor are matched with the sense of harmony that makes people have a sense of harmony that complements each other, the origin of these two people is extraordinary, one of them is the two of the two Na Yan of the Dynasty in the sunny season of the river, and the other person is the five people who are on Sado Shou Yamamoto when he is fortunate to enter the Taoist ghost.

Imadegawa Qingji held the black chess and meditated for a moment, and then said with a son: "The Dao Ghost Hall can know how much you have gained from the battle in Oshu today, can you take the land of Yuao in one go." ”

"It depends on the will of His Royal Highness." Yamamoto Michiki seems to have expected the fall of this move in the Iidegawa sunny season, and quickly picked up the white chess piece and dropped a piece, so that the advantage of the black chess on the board was completely lost, and the big dragon had to face the danger of not being able to take care of each other at all times.

Izugawa Qingji fell into a long test with one hand on his cheek, and it took a long time for a son to let out a sigh of relief and said, "How do you say this?" ”

"If His Royal Highness wants to save time and effort for a while, he will issue a Ha Ao An blocking order to all the countrymen to offer their sons to Edo Castle to quell the Oshu Rebellion, if you want to annex the two countries, you must completely cut off the wings of the Nabu clan and the Yugo Ando clan, these two countries have been entrenched in Oshu for hundreds of years, and the Date clan of Nan Mitsu is not inferior, and the trapped beasts are still fighting, not to mention the samurai who are facing danger, it is difficult to achieve the goal of taking these two families in one fell swoop within the year." Yamamoto Michiki pinched the white chess piece and landed gently.

As if a sharp knife cut at the vital point of the black chess dragon, as if the scalpel-like precision of the grasp made the Imadegawa Qingji face a bitter and then fell into contemplation, this long exam took a very long time, about half an hour to see the Imadegawa Qingji fell a son, he was still trying to save the big dragon that was about to collapse, after falling this, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Yu's chess skills are still a lot worse!" ”

Yamamoto Michiki said softly: "The poor monk is very unfamiliar with this way of playing chess, and he has picked it up again after being idle in Omi Guoan over the years, and often goes to Miaoyun Temple to play against Zen Master Kuaikawa Shaoxi, and slowly hones his chess skills over time." ”

"Or is it the topic just now...... It seems that the first method is relatively simple, why did His Highness choose the second time-consuming and laborious way? ”

"Let's ask Yaxiang, if someone is sick and seeks treatment from a doctor, and comes up with the two methods of quick treatment and slow treatment, I don't know how Yaxiang chooses?" Yamamoto Michiki fell another son, and steadily took the disadvantage of the big dragon of the black chess. Pinch this big dragon alive into a half-dead little dragon.

Seeing that the situation is very bad in the sunny season of Iidekawa, he simply threw himself and admitted defeat. Pushing open the chessboard and asking, "What is a quick cure?" What is palliative treatment? I would like to hear about it. ”

Yamamoto said in a ghostly manner: "A quick cure can prescribe a pair of tiger and wolf medicine, and you can suppress the pain after drinking it for two or three days." On the surface, it seems that the medicine to eliminate the disease is a miracle doctor's technique, but in fact, the sick gas and poisonous fire are forcibly stored in the body by the tiger and wolf medicine, and it may recur in three or five days or maybe a year and a half, and the pain will only be more painful when it recurs.

Slow treatment is a slow method compared to quick treatment, not a few doses of decoction can be cured to the disease, the person who needs to get a doctor to look for a room to grasp the medicine and treat carefully, occasionally need to adjust the prescription to change the decoction carefully pay attention to the changes in the condition, and after three or two months, the disease can be cured by itself. ”

Izukawa suddenly realized: "I see. It seems that His Royal Highness is planning to deal with the two countries with a reprieve! ”

"Not necessarily, maybe His Royal Highness is considering a combination of the two, after all, the Oshu joint war takes a long time, the investment is huge, and the income is not high, the veterans of the division have been tired and unable to fight again for four years, and some of the troops have different degrees of war weariness, they should find an opportunity to win a battle to boost morale, and then it is better to force the people of Oshu to surrender with a big victory, after all, Kyoto is not very stable, and His Royal Highness the Duke is not suitable to go out at this moment." Yamamoto Michiki gave a look full of meaning.

Imadegawa Qingji smiled bitterly: "That's what I said!" This is how I left Kyoto and took refuge in Edo Castle in the sixth year of Eiroku, and the Miyoshi Repair Hall was arrogant and arrogant. He tried in vain to interfere with the family arrangements of His Royal Highness the Shogunate, and also made a personal threat to Yu, the head of the Tsinghua family. It's simply unbelievably arrogant. ”

"At that time, the situation was indeed that the Miyoshi Repair Hall was excessive." Yamamoto Michiki was well aware of the turmoil in Kyoto in the 6th year of Eiroku, and it turned out that in the early April of the 5th year of Eiroku (1562), Mrs. Miyoshi Yoshiko Masamu Asakura died of illness in Katsuryuji Castle due to a long-term illness and unfortunately contracted herpes.

Miyoshi Chokei once again asked the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki to marry, and the target of the marriage was Ashikaga Yoshiaki's sister-in-law Shihime, who was in the prime of his eighteen-year-old youth, and there was no problem with his teeth or health.

The general's sister-in-law marrying the son-in-law of the Miyoshi family seems to be unequal, but the strength of the Miyoshi family in the Ki is undoubted, and Miyoshi Changqing feels that the strength can make up for the invisible family gap, but he still makes preparations for Miyoshi Yoshiko to marry the step-wife smoothly, and Miyoshi Changqing proposed to be willing to pay a high bride price as a price, in exchange for Ashikaga Yoshiteru nodded and promised to release him.

Miyoshi Nagakei didn't know that he inadvertently touched Ashikaga Yoshiteru's self-esteem, there are very few examples of the daughter of the Ashikaga shogun's family marrying a foreign minister, except for the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu era to marry a concubine, there is no record of a concubine marrying, the only exception is Ashikaga Yoshiteru's sister marrying Takeda Yoshitomi.

There are not many examples of Ashikaga shoguns' families marrying their daughters to foreign ministers, and there is no precedent for Ashikaga Yoshiki to corroborate, and he was not very happy to marry his sister Ashikaga to Miyoshi Yoshiko, but when he heard that Miyoshi Nagakei planned to use the bride price to "buy" the daughter of the Ashikaga family, the fire in his heart rose.

Without saying a word, he rejected Miyoshi Changqing's enthusiastic suggestion, and on the spot, the messengers of the Miyoshi family, Miyoshi Yasunaga and Miyoshi Changyi, scolded the nose is not a nose and a face, and the news of the disgrace of the Miyoshi family spread all over Kyoto and even Kinai in a blink of an eye, and everyone is talking about Miyoshi Yixing Toad wanting to eat swan meat, trying to improve his family character by climbing high branches.

Miyoshi Yoshiko was maliciously described as a greedy, lustful, arrogant, selfish, stupid guy, coupled with his father Miyoshi Changqing, who had pus under his feet and sores on his head, that simply pushed Miyoshi's family into the most vicious clown pile, Miyoshi Changqing was so angry that he couldn't eat for a few days, he secretly scolded Ashikaga Yoshiki in his heart for not knowing what to do, and he was kind enough to propose a marriage method and was unwilling to pull it down, so why bother to use the topic to make their family's reputation stinky for ten miles.

Here Miyoshi Nagakei was sulking in annoyance, and when he didn't plan to take the shogunate, he heard that Ashikaga Yoshiki married his sister Ashikaga Shiki to the Qinghua family of the dynasty, and the three of them said that Izukawa Qingji was the wife of the main room, and then applied for a replacement for the newly baked brother-in-law.

This is not the end, within a few days it was rumored that a grand wedding was held in the Nijo Imperial Palace in Kyoto, and the groom official Izukawa married Ashikaga Shihime in the sunny season and completed the round house ceremony in the Nijo Imperial Palace Annex, which was less than half a month from engagement to promotion to marriage, to say that this was not deliberately aimed at Miyoshi Chokei, that is definitely a lie.

Miyoshi's face was beaten "popping", if Miyoshi Changqing looked in the mirror he would find that his face was swollen like a pig's head, but the public opinion in Ki Nai commented on this is very happy, like the handsome and dashing minister described in the novels of the Heian period, the beautiful story of defeating the monster who captured the girl and married the girl, and the good deeds pinched the head and went to the end of the art to process this story into a new folklore.

How could Miyoshi Chokei tolerate Ashikaga Yoshiki insulting him like this, and he was furious on the spot to find a place for his poor son Miyoshi Yoshiko, and the 15,000 troops in Katsuryuji Castle suddenly crossed the Katsura River and seized control of Kyoto with lightning speed, and the whole process was less than three hours before and after, so that the news transmitted by Kyoto's monomi people was all over before it was delivered to Sakamoto Castle.

The guards of the Nijo Imperial Palace were lifted, and the armed forces in the Jishoji Temple were also blocked in the temple, and Miyoshi Chokei planned to use force to forcibly break up the newlyweds on the occasion of Yan'er, but unfortunately he missed the ability of the Ashikaga family to see the public, and when it came to the confrontation ability of the frontal armed conflict, the Iga ninja people were by no means the opponents of the group of battle-hardened soldiers and fierce generals under the Miyoshi army, but it was not too much of a problem to save a few people.

Originally, there was a secret passage set up during the construction of these two imperial palaces, and it was very easy to secretly get the little couple away under the cover of Ashikaga Yoshiki, and the samurai of the Miyoshi family fought at a first-class level of search, and the search level was amateur, and they couldn't find anyone, and they couldn't find a secret passage, just wandering around blindly and retreating, and now Izukawa Sunny took Ashikaga Shihime to disguise herself as an ordinary couple, and fled to Sakamoto Castle by boat overnight to seek refuge and came to Kanto Edo Castle.

Miyoshi Changqing was very angry, and if he didn't catch someone, it meant that Miyoshi Yixing's wife couldn't catch him and had to beat him, although immediately a few martial artists said that their daughters were good and could marry Yunyun, but Miyoshi Changqing was paranoid that the daughter of the general's family was the most suitable for his son, and the general repeatedly refused to give him face, and it was absolutely intolerable.

If you can't tolerate it, you have to do something to retaliate, Miyoshi Nagakei's way of revenge is to abolish part of the treaty of the Luozhong War, and complete the complete control of Kyoto without breaking the agreement with the shogunate without war, and secondly, reduce the military escort force of the Nijo Imperial Palace from 1,000 to 100, and send all the extra troops to Jishoji Temple outside Kyoto, and the Miyoshi Army sent 3,000 troops to be stationed in Xiangguoji Temple across the river in the city, as the main force to monitor the nearly 3,000 defenders in Jishoji Temple.

Then there were 3,000 troops stationed on Mt. Nakao and Mt. Fushimi, which were important locations in several joint battles, and Nakao Castle, which had escaped the fate of being burned down, fell into the hands of the Miyoshi family by mistake, and a Fushimi Yama Castle was built on Mt. Fushimi with a military role, which could monitor the military movements of the Yamashina streets and the Ujigawa River basin around the clock. (To be continued......)

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