Chapter 412: Dying Struggle
"Come into the house, you haven't eaten yet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The mother wiped away two handfuls of tears and dragged her son into the room.
Entering the room, the familiar objects and breath of the house came to his face, making Fang Yuanshan feel relieved, he really wanted to sit there motionless at this time, but now is not the time to rest.
"Mom, don't be in a hurry now, boil me some hot water first, I want to wash, I've been on the boat for twenty days, and my body has already been rancid." Fang Yuanshan said with a smile.
"Eh, boil water and cook together, it'll be fine for a while." Mom hurriedly lit a fire and boiled water.
The family had already finished eating, and Fang Yuanshan was also hungry, so he didn't let his mother be busy anymore, so he swept away the leftovers, so that his stomach was full, or he didn't have the strength to take a bath.
Now that the conditions of the Fang family's house are good, and there is also a special bathroom, Fang Yuanshan mixed the boiled hot water and cold water, and got into the big wooden barrel, he shouted comfortably, lying in the wooden barrel and relaxing, his tense body began to relax.
When Fang Yuanshan was about to finish washing, he heard the courtyard door ringing, and the voices of his father Fang Shun and younger brother Fang Mingshan came from the courtyard, and then the bathroom door rang, and Fang Mingshan rushed in,
"Big brother." Fang Mingshan was extremely excited, he hadn't seen his eldest brother for a long time, and his eldest brother was much better to him than his second brother, who always treated him badly.
"Yohe, third brother, you are so tall." Fang Yuanshan looked at his younger brother, who was already taller than his father, and sighed, two years have passed, and things are different.
"I'm fifteen years old, can I still have a head if I don't grow taller?" Fang Mingshan's face was still full of childishness, "Big brother is much stronger, I remember that you were quite thin when you left, but now you are much stronger." ā
"Practice every day, swimming, horseback riding, and go out to exercise, and you will be fit." Fang Yuanshan said with a smile. He's spent most of the year like this.
"And horseback riding, is it the same horse in the village?" Fang Mingshan asked, the young man was new.
"No, the horses in the village are called bantams in Jeju." Fang Yuanshan explained, most of this kind of horses are used to pull goods from cultivated land, and the battle array is no longer needed.
"What kind of horse is that?" There are too many problems with teenagers. What's more, there is a very knowledgeable big brother in front of him, and the answer is no.
"Mongolian horses and stone island horses." Fang Yuanshan patiently explained, "The Shidao horse is bigger than the Mongolian horse. ā
"It's still big," Fang Mingshan said in surprise with wide eyes, in his opinion, the Mongolian horse is very good, how can it be big, how big is it.
The two brothers poured out the water, Fang Mingshan rinsed Fang Yuanshan with clean water, and the two of them made Fang Yuanshan think of the days a few years ago.
During this period, Fang Mingshan kept asking how big Jeju was. What do the Koreans look like there, the sea ships are not big, and there are not many of them.
Fang Mingshan's mind was alive, he was full of longing for the outside world, and he felt aggrieved and unwilling to live in the village.
Fang Yuanshan knew his younger brother's thoughts, and he also came here at that time.
When Fang Yuanshan changed into clean clothes and came to the lobby, he saw his old father Fang Shun talking to his mother.
"Father, my son has kowtowed to you." Fang Yuanshan knelt down and kowtowed to Fang Shun.
"Let Daddy see it." Fang Shun picked up his son, who had been away from home for a long time. looked up and down, and pinched the eldest son's sturdy body in his hand. "Well, it's a lot stronger, Dad is relieved."
"Don't worry, we have three meals a day in the barracks, meat every day, and practice every day. Everybody's strong. Fang Yuanshan said with a smile.
He saw that the hair on Fang Shun's sideburns began to turn gray. I can't help but feel sour.
"Well, that's good, your mother always mutters that I'm afraid that you and Gao Shan will suffer outside, and I'm annoyed with the chatter, when we first arrived in Beihua. Lord Zhao, Lord Wan, Lord Gu, didn't let me wait for a short time to eat, and I couldn't at this time, your mother just couldn't see it. Fang Shun nodded.
"Yuanshan, how many days can you stay when you come back this time." Mom asked wistfully.
"A month and a half, the boss said, let me wait until I go home and have a good reunion." Fang Yuanshan said with a smile.
"Great, old man, look at that." The old lady looked at Fang Shun.
"Well, while Yuanshan is at home, hurry up and get things done." Fang Shun decisively asserted.
"What's the matter?" Fang Yuanshan was confused.
"What's the matter, your marriage, foolish, you can't delay it any longer, your brother's baby is there." Fang Shun scolded with a smile.
"This, this is not in a hurry." Fang Yuanshan scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Don't worry, don't worry, your sister is married out of your head." The old lady said angrily.
"This matter is so decided, the houses at home are all ready-made, and it is enough to buy some things in Fang Maocai." Fang Shun waved his hand, and the momentum of the head of the family was fully revealed.
"Yes, other people's girls can't afford to drag it out, they're all old girls." The old lady chimed in.
Fang Yuanshan can only be as good as a stream.
Then the younger sister Li who coaxed the child in the back also took the little nephew out to visit, Fang Yuanshan experienced a weird Chinese dialect, teasing the very cute eldest nephew of the third month, Fang Yuanshan also couldn't stop laughing.
The last one to go home is now the little sister who is mostly helping at home, and there is a lot of excitement on her own, and the two siblings are talking non-stop.
The long-lost relatives couldn't finish talking about meeting each other, and the candle flame of Fang Shun's house was lit for most of the night, and it lasted for a long time.
The North China and South China Breakers were thriving, and the ripe fields had been cultivated, and now they were just weeding and watering.
In much of southern China, the refugees of Denglai set foot on this strange land and began the hard work of cutting down trees, removing stumps, and digging deeply, but they toiled with energy.
Because the old immigrants in North China are inspired by the rich, happy and peaceful days, as long as they think that there will be fifty acres of black and fertile land that will belong to them, they can forget any tiredness.
What's more, the clothes, rice grain, and a few silver and copper dollars distributed by the Broken Army are enough for them to live a very easy life, without any worries, the most important thing is that there is a strong and undisturbing armed force to protect them, and after experiencing the bloody horror of the Denglai War, the peace and quiet here are too rare.
They are destined to survive and multiply here.
Unlike most of Beihua, in the southwestern hilly area of Beihua, Daonan, it can be described as miserable and miserable.
From the feudal lords to the samurai to the lower classes of Ashigaru, the common people are all worried about when this broken army will attack Donan.
It is no longer a question whether they will come, the question is when they will come, the trend of the Broken Army to dominate North China is too obvious.
On the main road from Tokachi to Donan, Tengzan Castle stands here, a small hill turned castle that has been around for nearly 100 years, but was just a mound in the early days.
When Matsumae Yoshihiro was the lord of the domain, it was located in a key position here, and in order to prevent the attacks of the Anuits, the place was expanded into a brick-covered castle.
Matsumae Gonghiro stood at the head of the East Castle, looking around the city on Thursday, and admired his grandfather, who had built Tengshan Castle 30 years ago, which showed his grandfather's foresight.
A lot of ashigaru at the head of the castle are moving the big tube, these ten large tubes were given to the Matsumae Domain by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, the purpose is to strengthen the defense of the Matsumae Domain, maybe the Matsumae Domain can't defeat the Broken Army, but only if it can cause huge losses to the Broken Army, it is enough.
Matsumae Kimihiro was clear about Tokugawa Iemitsu's thoughts, but he had to stick to it and fight to the death, otherwise he would retreat to Honshu without a fight, and the shogunate would not spare him, and it would be possible to abolish his family name.
If he holds out here and inflicts great losses on the Ming people, then there will be a territory of 100,000 koku in the northern part of Honshu or northern Kyushu.
Losing the land that has been settled for a hundred years, there can be 100,000 stone fiefs to settle the Matsumae family, and Matsumae Gonghiro can't ask for more.
"Lord of the Domain, Yoshida Shinyuki sent someone to report that more than 1,000 ronins recruited by Shiota Keiki in Kyoto and other places have arrived at Fukuyama Castle." The pen head of the old Inoue trust in the side to report.
He didn't say if the money needed was enough. Matsumae looked at Inoue Trust.
"He said that all the expenses this time were from the shogunate, but the cost of the ship's food was from the domain." Inoue trusts back.
"Alas, the lords of the shogunate have finally done a good thing, otherwise, my Matsumae Domain will not be able to support it." Matsumae Gonghiro sighed.
Last year's fiasco completely bankrupted the Matsumae Domain, and the cost of the bereavement alone was as high as more than 200,000 silver, and there were too many people who could not die in battle, 2,000 people.
If you don't have a pension, I'm afraid it will cause civil strife, and in addition, the back of the ashigaru and the hired ronin see that there is no pension in front, and when they go into battle, they won't fight with all their might.
When the time came, it was difficult to get the Matsumae Domain to collapse, so Matsumae Gonghiro took out all the gold and silver, and mortgaged the silver mountain for three years to raise the silver to appease the family who died in the war.
This year, it was necessary to replenish the armor and renovate Fukuyama Castle and Tengzan Castle, which cost money like water, and of course the Matsumae Domain could not support it, so it had to ask the shogunate for help.
Now that the shogunate had paid a lot of money to hire ronin, and at the same time supported artillery and iron cannons, as well as 500 ashigaru, the defense line of the Matsumae domain was finally stabilized.
But to make a bet with the seedling characters and lives of the Matsumae family, this is the exchange of interests, Matsumae Keihiro has no choice but to do so, and the survival of the Matsumae family is today.
"Trust, this time this domain asked you to guard Tengshan City, you must know that there is no way, the loyal samurai of this family withered, and the other recruited samurai told the truth, this governor did not believe it."
Matsumae looked at the vague field in the east, which was once the hope of the Matsumae family, and was the one that his grandfather Keihiro began to explore, but now it is the nightmare of the Matsumae family.
"The head of the family can rest assured, trust knows the stakes, if I can't kill the army this time, I'm afraid the general won't let me wait to return." Inoue Trust bowed.
"The Governor also has to hold on to Fushan Castle, after all, the Ming people have a huge fleet, and if they land from other places, Tengshan Castle will be powerless." Matsumae Kohiro smiled bitterly. (To be continued.) )
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