Chapter 11 Grain Collection
The little girl only felt a chill in the back of her head, and along with the sharp pain in her back, there was the screaming of the village woman next to her.
"Murder! Killed! ”
"Noise!"
Xue Nai glanced at a few village women, and they were so frightened that they trembled to the side like quails, covering their mouths with their hands and not daring to scream again.
Just now, a knife cut off half of the little girl's hair, leaving a not deep mark on her back, and blood stains slowly seeped out of her clothes.
Place the knife on the back of the neck. The little girl kowtowed, ignoring the blood on her forehead and yelling.
"Spare your life! Spare your life! I'll do it right away! Mercy from adults! Mercy from adults! ”
Xue Nai silently put away the knife and walked back behind Yiyin.
Yiyin glanced at her, a little surprised. He was a little disappointed in Yang Nai, Yang Nai was very smart and careful in the past few days, but this negotiation disappointed him.
But the taciturn Xue is unexpectedly like a samurai. What is Samurai? A samurai is a ruler who uses force to maintain the world.
Village women are the tools for producing food, and their value is to provide food. If you can't do it, you die, because they're useless.
What if the village women resist? Just kill it. Even if the dog is beaten to death by its owner, it does not dare to bite back.
Why? Because in thousands of years of captivity, all the dogs that dare to bite people have been killed, leaving behind genes full of fear of people.
Even if there are a few fierce dogs left, they are specially bred by their owners to bite people, and humans are the race that kills the most humans.
In the same way, the village women of this world have been ruled by the samurai family and have no idea of resistance, and a Ji samurai walking on the road looks at you unpleasantly, so you can kill it with a knife.
Yang Nai actually talked to her? The normal thing for a Ji samurai is to be like Yukino.
The master asks you what you want, and there is no explanation and no conditions, and if you can't do it, you will die, because you have no value in living.
Either farm for the master to death, or be a light foot and be cannon fodder, this is the world of the samurai.
It's not the violence of the righteous silver, but the rules of this era. If you are half a step ahead of the times, you are a great man. If you are one step ahead of the times, you are a madman.
Yiyin doesn't want to be a great man, and he doesn't want to be a madman. He just wants to live well, to be as strong as possible, and to live with more initiative. So he will only follow the rules, not to destroy, to rebuild.
Then things went very well, and the landlord who had been taught by the sword did not dare to question the majesty of the lord's house anymore, and returned to the village to lead the villagers to carry the grain after a few rough bandages.
Wheat is planted in winter and harvested in summer. Rice is ploughed in the spring and harvested in the fall.
The yield of wheat here is very low, and the tools for grinding wheat are very few and expensive, and it is not cost-effective to make flour in the big cities, and it is generally kept by the villagers for their own rations.
Rice was the main food of the samurai family and the material in exchange for copper coins, so the autumn harvest was particularly important.
Food production is low because of the lack of resources.
Therefore, generally during the slack between spring plowing and autumn harvest, the samurai will mobilize the light feet of the semi-peasants to go out to fight and grab something to come back, after all, idle is also idle.
After winning the battle, we had a full meal this year, and some people survived the defeat and starvation, and everyone has been used to it for so many years.
At this time in previous years, the Oda family had already informed the people of various countries, retainers, and genealogies that they were ready to go out to fight, but this year's situation was more special, and the family was uneasy.
The relationship between the two sisters, Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobuyuki, is no longer a discord between faces and hearts, it is called saber rattling, and sooner or later it will have to be done.
Everyone in the family stood in line, waiting to see what was next? Or do you want to fight? Or do you want to fight?
The samurai's method of solving the problem is so boring, no matter how to solve it, you can talk about it if you win, you can talk about it if you lose, but you can't stop fighting.
Since the advent of the first shogunate, the samurai used force and loyalty to serve the military, and the military rewarded them with wealth and land, and this set of principles of rewarding the public has been maintained for hundreds of years.
Where do you get military merit if you don't fight, how can you get a reward to expand your strength without military merit, and if you don't expand your strength, you will be robbed by the bastard next door every year.
When the strength is getting bigger and bigger, do you want to change your position and protect the generation? Guard? Or a general? How can the world be peaceful...
But even if he knew this, Yoshiin still had to collect grain, still have to fight Oda Nobunaga, or revive the Spo family.
To live is to survive, and there is no choice.
The Guardian House was not far away, but the village women, who lacked means of transportation, carried them by people and piled them up with wheeled carts, and were busy all day.
By the time all the grain was put into storage, it was already dark, and the specific number still needed to be calculated by Yiyin.
Yang Nai Xue Nai is illiterate, and she can't count, so these things can only be done by Yiyin herself for the time being.
Most of the low-level Ji samurai were uneducated, and those who could read and count would serve as the internal affairs of the samurai and be responsible for managing the territory.
The servant-born Yang Nai Xue Nai certainly did not receive a cultural education, and Yiyin needed to teach them some simple words and arithmetic so that they could manage the affairs of the family smoothly.
Only teach some superficial enough, if you are self-motivated, you will naturally continue to study.
The Ji warriors of each family have trained hard since childhood, and their strength, physique, and killing skills are not comparable to the two daughters who left the family halfway.
There is only one thing, books, as long as you study hard, you will always learn something.
A candle was lit, and Justin counted in the candlelight. There are more than 700 stones of grain stored at home plus new grain, which is more than expected.
The two daughters needed 60 koku and 30 koku, and they had to go to the castle town to exchange some copper coins to come back, and the family's copper coins were robbed during the suffering.
The price of food in Owari is about 2 stones, and it is enough to give Yono 100 stones, and let her take people to the city to change 50 koku and come back for the time being.
glanced at Yang Nai, who was looking at himself respectfully on the side, with an envious and well-behaved face.
"Yang Nai, I will teach you some arithmetic and writing from tonight, you have to study hard, and you have to take over the housekeeping of the family as soon as possible."
"Yes, Lady Yoshiin. Thank you for your cultivation. ”
Yang Nai, who showed ecstasy in his eyes, a standard kneeling. Knowledge is power, and only with strength can you be a useful person and be qualified to live a better life.
Yang Nai's joy is that it is difficult for Yiyin, who had to receive compulsory education in his previous life and must receive aristocratic education in this life, although he understands it, he can't empathize with it.
"Yukino, you too."
"Yes."
Xue Nai still looked cold, Yiyin thought about it, and said.
"If you want, I'll find you a teacher to learn some swords."
"Master Xie."
Still cold, Yiyin felt a hint of joy from her. Some people are born to kill embryos ...
Yiyin sighed, from the time he decisively cut people, Yiyin felt the excitement in Xue Nai's heart.
And under the excitement, the knife she put on the neck of the little girl did not tremble at all. It's terrifying.