Chapter 141 White Arowana Suit

When the fleet returned to Hirado, it was actually only two days, but the obedient officer found that Hirado was actually in good order, and from time to time there were men with chests and stomachs on the road, and there were three men walking across the knife in a group, with an armband on his arm.

Called Kanno Shin, the obedient official asked him what was going on, the former Shaolin Temple elder touched his head and smiled, "Little master, that's what our Shaolin Temple monks do, the people of Kyushu are fierce, one person is too thin, two people have to prevent them from colluding, but three people will be good." There is some truth in this, and it seems that the monks are still somewhat proficient in histology. Only then did the obedient official remember why the monks wanted to practice martial arts and form a group of warrior monks, because the temple had a huge amount of land, and these fields did not pay rent to the imperial court, and the rents to the peasants were collected by the monks themselves.

To put it bluntly, the monks practice martial arts to deal with those who resist rent and taxes, just like the people of the Ming Dynasty said verbally, thieves are bald, thieves are bald, no thieves are not bald, as for what to promote Buddhism and eliminate demons and defend the Tao, it can only be listened to as a slogan, and whoever believes it will be stupid. There have been several large-scale destruction of Buddha in history, all because the monks were so rich that even the imperial court was red-eyed.

As for why it is called inspection, it is probably because Kanno Shin thinks that inspection is faster than catching and sounds majestic

After listening to Kanno Shin's explanation, the obedient official felt that he would have to learn to let go of such a trivial matter in the future, and let his subordinates do it by themselves, but he couldn't bow down to everything, and the T800 robot couldn't bear it

So he let go of the fake monk and did it, but he just asked a little about how the commercial tax was collected. Kanno Shin said about the collection of commercial taxes as it was, he thought that the little man's tax was too heavy, and he was afraid that the merchants would make a fuss, but the merchants were all worried about the food, to put it bluntly, it was a cheap bone, and the ironclad ship made a threat at sea and blew the city of the Matsuura family into a pulp, these people were all frightened, you know, if you want to do business on Kyushu Island, the sea route is a must, so many ironclad ships, where do they dare to make trouble, and so Kanno Shin went to the first place to collect taxes with the intention of slowly discussing with everyone, and people didn't say a word, Quickly sent the money up, so that Kanno Shin's stomach didn't say anything, and he almost suffocated to death.

The second and third families, several families received it, and this fake monk also understood, Amitabha, I originally thought it was a great chore......

I have to say that the vision of businessmen in this era is vicious, and the vision of some big businessmen can even be said to have the level of the elder, and they know it when they see the ironclad ship, and most of the businessmen at this moment will form a similar guild organization, led by several big businessmen, and everything will advance and retreat together. Just like when Oda Nobunaga built an ironclad ship, the merchants of obediently sent a huge amount of money, but now there are ten good officials, if these merchants dare to make trouble, then they really underestimate these merchants, of course, it does not mean that these merchants are willing to be taxed.

As for the four public and six people of the peasant tax, it is unexpected, not as grateful as the obedient official imagined, after all, the Matsuura family has been inherited on this territory for twenty generations, the so-called people's hearts are back, but for a time it is not so quick to collect the heart, if the obedient official really engages in the eleventh tax, maybe these peasants will immediately bow down under the feet of the obedient official, after all, half of the year's harvest is handed over to the lord and one-tenth of the year's harvest is handed over to the lord, this is a big difference, It's like two hundred stones of land and five taels of silver for five hundred military households under a good official.

After hearing Kanno's words, the obedient official sneered, and Hu Litao next to him directly said to the fake monk in front of him: "Monk, even if you let it go, who dares to rebel, the Franc cannon on Lao Tzu's ship is just a good deal." ”

Also, it is unlikely that the vanquished will cry and cry to his mother to catch up with the conqueror, but he is not afraid, England does not dare to beat Ireland to pieces, it does not mean that he Zheng Guofan does not dare to beat Kyushu Island to pieces.

The Ming Dynasty does not lack benevolence and righteousness, only lacks iron and blood, which is not a righteous and evil speech, just like the Sui and Tang Dynasties expedition to Goguryeo, the heads of 100,000 soldiers were cut off to build a Jingguan, but now North Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and then North Korea is almost a country, relying on the Ming Dynasty to redeem it, the so-called time and time. Anyway, he may not dare to let him kill people, and he may not be able to watch the people he knows die in front of his eyes, but if there are really farmers in Kyushu making trouble, he doesn't know those people. ,

Spit on the ground, Hu Litao said to the good official: "Maocai, the last general suggested that if someone really dares to rebel, let's cut off those people's heads and fold them into a Jingguan ......."

"Isn't this that no one rebelled, but it's just a sense of unfamiliarity among the people below who have changed their masters." The obedient official still smiled and enlightened Hu Baihu, he didn't want that kind of thing to happen, changed the civil official of the Ming Dynasty, listened to Hu Litao's words, he must spit on and then say something like benevolence, the good official felt that there was nothing to say, the martial artist didn't kill people, so what did the martial artist do? Do you want the martial artist to chant the wind and make the moon poetry can't be sung?

Hu Litao was a little stunned when he heard this, and muttered, "When the time comes, it will be okay not to stack the Jingguan, which can be regarded as Xiao Maocai's benevolence to those who dare to rebel." ”

However, Kanno's words still made the good officials a little vigilant, so he thought about quickly inspecting the land and then giving it away with 200 stone each, and when he called Tachibana Xuanga and others, as soon as he said this, Tachibana Xuanhe immediately raised a question, what should I do if this language does not make sense?

When he asked him like this, the obedient official was stunned on the spot, and after thinking about it, he actually missed the simplest question, what should I do?

A group of retainers and subordinates were below, and Zheng Guofan was actually embarrassed on the spot. However, the fake monk Kanno Shin rolled his eyes, and immediately said loudly: "Little master, I don't know if I have an idea." These words were immediately lifted, and the good official hurriedly called him, and he told him eloquently.

When he finished speaking, the obedient official was stunned for a moment, this Suno Shin's idea is somewhat similar to the big farm cooperative model of later generations, the so-called all history is contemporary history, Kanno Shin's idea actually comes from Shaolin Temple, and the monks' fields are naturally handed over to the tenant farmers to plant, and the monks themselves can't care about the harvest of the fields all day long, so they divide the fields into many parts, and then send a monk called Zhuangtou to manage them, even the grain merchants dare not hack them.

This is also the so-called monk field occupies a lot of the original homesteaders' farmland, the farmers plant their own to run to sell grain, the so-called shop bullying customers, it is easy to be exploited by the grain merchants, and the homesteaders if they attach their own fields to the name of the monastery, then they do not need to sell their own grain, those fat-headed and big-eared Zhuangtou monks will negotiate with the grain merchants, these monks come out, they become a big shop, the grain merchants come to the monks, so the seven calculations, the self-cultivation farmers find that it is better to give the field to the monksJust concentrate on farming.

Of course, this kind of behavior is not allowed by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and the peasants who donate the land are called traitors by the imperial court, and the land that is donated is called the traitorous land, but no matter how it is not allowed, this kind of behavior has signs of intensification among the people.

The imperial court did not allow it, it was just because the peasants avoided forced labor, but the good official was different, what did he want to do with forced labor? Besides, this thing of conscription is something that future generations can't accept, and if you are the government, I will do it for nothing, what kind of joke are you?

Therefore, Zheng Chengguan was overjoyed at the moment, and the fake monk who immediately gave the idea rewarded Zhixing with a thousand stones, so that Sugano Shin, the former monk of Shaolin Temple, suddenly had a land of three thousand stones, and he was so happy that he connected to the obedient official and kowtowed several heads, the day before yesterday he became a town of two thousand stones, that is, he had the identity of the master in Fusang, and his mother-in-law was a Fuso person, only seventeen years old, and married him at the age of twelve, and he had all the advantages of Fusang people, which was really hard-working, hard-working, and durable. Originally, Kanno Shin was the head of the town, but he was elected by the people below, so although he has some power, he can't be regarded as a master.

But with two thousand stone Zhixing, that is a leap to become the master, so happy that the little woman asked for a few times at night, even the fake monk who has practiced martial arts since childhood is almost unable to get up the next day, and now the little master has added a thousand stones to him Zhixing, he is really painful and happy, just thinking that after going home, the mother-in-law does not know how many times to go home, it seems that Ming'er has a weak waist again.

The first thing is to make a register of the names of more than 500 military households, and then assign them to the land of 200 stone under each person's name, so that these dozen people do not need to go to war in the future, and they are in charge of the fields, and the obedient officials also let them learn some Fusang dialect, and they have made up their minds in their hearts that in the future, they will make up their minds that the official dialect of Nanzhili will be the official language of the entire Kyushu Island in the futureAnd, of course, if you want to do this, you have to use the Franco cannon to speak. ,

These things were busy for about two or three days, at this time, the Otomo family sent a messenger, after all, Kyushu exploration Otomo Zonglin is the nominal owner of Kyushu Island, after the envoy came, the first thing was to transport the five hundred large cylinders bought back to the inner city of the house, this behavior made the retainers of the Tachibana family very frustrated, you know, they are counting on these five hundred big cylinders to open up the territory, but the main hall seems to just want to guard the inner city of the palace drunk and dream.

This incident affected Tachibana Chiyo's mood very much, her father was the most loyal retainer under Otomo Zonglin, otherwise, how could he go to Daming to buy a Franc cannon, but seeing that the lord was so uncompromising, presumably the thunder god father was also very dissatisfied in his heart

The good official saw that Sister Chiyo was in a bad mood, so he smiled and said, Oh, I've been so busy these days that I forgot to visit my father-in-law.

As soon as he said this, Chiyo suddenly turned red, and the obedient official thought about it, this inspection is estimated that it will take at least a month to be completely proper, and the five hundred military households were assigned to the field, one by one became landlords, and everyone was in charge of Cao Laosan, who was trusted, and they were all full of energy, and they took out all their strength to practice in the past two days, and by the way, the good official bought a thousand black slaves from Ryanstein also practiced, these black slaves are worthy of being honest and obedient models in this era, and they are full of food for two days. treat Zheng Chengguan as his father.

Many of the customs of this era were different from those of five hundred years later, in order to make these black men loyal to him, he had to take in two black female slaves and give them names, one was called Behorey, and the other was called Bao Yiman, this is the limitation of the times, if he did not accept the cleanest and most beautiful women spontaneously selected by these two thousand black slaves, even he himself felt sorry for the thousand pairs of pleading eyes.

And Ryanstein was busy communicating with those Nanban merchants in Heto Town, you know, Hirado is one of the three major Nanban gathering places in Fuso, and the obedient official didn't want to be like the old woman Cixi who went to war with all countries, so he temporarily let Ryanstein be responsible for befriending those Europa, but at this time, the European countries were not so arrogant, and they were still accumulating primitive capital by being pirates, in their eyes, the Ming Dynasty was a behemoth*, so they expressed envy for Ryan Stein's respect for the Ming Kingdom. This is like a woman named Sister Feng in later generations who yearns for Citigroup, and Ryan Stein has enjoyed the scenery in the past few days.

Everything is on the track, and the good official feels that he needs to seriously deal with the most critical matter, which is how to smoothly receive Tachibana Mountain Castle.

You know, he accepted Tachibana Chiyo as a side room, which is the result of the compromise of the Tachibana family with Tachibana Genga and Ono Zhenyuki as the head of the important ministers, of course, Tachibana Genga and these people now feel that the original decision was not wrong at all, this is the most correct thing they have done so far, but, in the end, this matter is not promised by Thunder God Daddy himself, and Thunder God Daddy is the real governor of the Tachibana family, in case Thunder God Daddy refuses to agree, although the good official is sure that Tachibana Xuanga and at least half of the Tachibana family retainers are on their side, But this situation can be avoided, falling out with the old man is obviously not the love of his own woman, although he is Zheng Chengguan so far just holding hands with Sister Chiyo.

However, at this time, he was holding the hand of Sister Chiyo, who was flushed, and sighed secretly in his heart, to put it bluntly, he was still younger, after the New Year, I was officially fourteen years old, but fourteen years old was still younger, when would I be able to sleep with Sister Chiyo

Looking at the scenery on the sea, he also felt bored, so he grew up quickly

Looking for Tachibana Xuanhe and others, he said that he was going to Tachibana Mountain City to meet Thaibana Mountain Castle to meet Thunder God's father, Tachibana Xuanhe and others were overjoyed, for this matter, they were more nervous than the good officials Now that Xiao Maocai is willing to go to Tachibana Mountain City, this is good news.

At this time, most of the Ashigaru of the Tachibana family had already received the bounty and went back with a smile, just like the aforementioned men, in Fuso, the two generations of enmity of the Daimyo Residence City, the closest is only one or two hours away, and the far one is only half a day and a day away, so these ashigaru people have received the bounty and go home, just like ducks scattered from the pond in the evening, and they will be scattered all at once.

He was going to throw Hu Litao in Hirado and go to Tachibana Mountain City by himself, Hu Baihu heard what he said and resolutely disagreed, this Fusang is a fanbang, how can Xiao Maocai go to see that Tachibana Thunder God alone. ,

The obedient official persuaded him, Brother Hu family, where in this world is there a son-in-law who takes the army to see the old man's truth, Hu Baihu refuses to live or die, and stalks his neck and says that the side room is the concubine room of our Daming Kingdom, where in the world is the master who came to see the concubine's father in person, it is absolutely unreasonable, it should be that he came to see Xiao Mao in person

When the obedient official heard this, he had to smile bitterly, this is true, the rules of the Ming Dynasty are like this, but there are always exceptions to everything, he easily occupied such a large territory on Kyushu Island, to put it bluntly, he still borrowed the reputation of the Tachibana family, if he didn't dare to see Tachibana's father, what do people think of themselves? Maybe he will become a brave Ming boy.

Besides, he is also confident, Daddy Tachibana has read "The Art of War" all his life, and now he is over seventy years old. should treat me as a guest, and even officially announce in front of the retainers that he will re-pass the position of family governor to Sister Chiyo, this is a qualified master of the art of war.

After accepting Tachibana Yamajo Castle and rightfully gaining the support of the Tachibana family's retainers, he connected Hirado, Hakata, and Kokura into a great force covering an area of 500,000 koku, and he was qualified to slowly engage the gentry in one food, build ships and cannons, and then cruise the seas and collect taxes on any ships that passed.

Therefore, this Tachibana Mountain City must go, and besides, I have to go openly, with an ironclad ship to strengthen my courage, I am afraid that I will be looked down upon by the thunder god father, doesn't this weaken the prestige of my Ming Dynasty.

He carefully explained these words to Hu Litao, but Hu Baihu understood the reason, but he still refused, and he dragged out a white dragon fish suit, which made the obedient official cry and laugh.

"That's still not possible, we agreed in front of Zhongli's brother, we have to protect Xiao Mao to be safe, this kind of white dragon fish suit is too dangerous." Hu Litao said vigorously, "If you want to go, it's okay, I'll bring 200 small Franc cannons......"

"Brother Hu family, let's not go to war" The good official really couldn't help him, and then he understood that Emperor Renzong was embarrassed by Bao Qingtian and Bao Heizi and spit out his face in the book, you know that he is kind, but he is really unhappy in his heart.

Helpless, he had to pull down his face, "Needless to say, I, Zheng Guofan, can't do anything to let the Fusang people look down on me, if you want to bring a Franc machine gun, then you might as well tie me to the boat." ”

This is a bit serious, Hu Litao is not stupid, he turned his face when he talked about righteousness, this thing is inevitably not cost-effective, so he first asked for guilt, saying that the end would be wrong, and then turned around and proposed another method, saying, then he will take a few ironclad ships to follow the sea and not go ashore, which is always okay

The obedient official thought about it and felt that this compromise method could also work, otherwise, he was afraid that the Hu family's brother would not let him go, so he nodded and agreed.

In this way, he brought two hundred early girls' team, plus the retainers of the Tachibana family, and the two new female slaves, and naturally there were also retainers such as Ino Shizusai and Kan Naoto, so he went to Hakata Town by land, and Hu Litao led five ironclad ships to follow at sea.

It took about a day to walk slowly from Hirado to Hakata, and they set off in the afternoon, and in the evening, they set up camp, which is still the territory of the current good officials, and further down, it is the territory of the Ryuzoji family, and the most edge of the Ryuzoji family is the castle of the Takahashi family, which is the bridgehead of the Otomo family to resist the expansion of Ryuzoji.