Fifty Years of Dunsheng

Half a cup of tea is sent far away,

How can you be at home in the vast floating world?

The white dew in the grass is placed today,

The golden waves at the bottom of the water sounded.

Yunsin South Building will be a bad month,

The wind urges the golden valley to fold flowers.

A hundred years of life are gone,

How can a dream be boasted.

—Oda Nobunaga composed a song before the Battle of Barrel Sama.

In the first year of Yonglu, one morning in the autumn of September.

There was a young man on horseback from the Pingshanzhuang Acting Office, about twenty years old, with a black hat and gray shoes, wearing a black-patterned feather weave and a horse riding hakama, and a straight knife obliquely inserted in the corner belt of his waist. "Hakama and Hakama" are both samurai costumes, similar to the styles often worn by samurai in later Taiga dramas.

The young samurai's name was Taka Shimori, and he was the newly appointed acting official of the Murakashi Shoji Division.

Although it has entered the season of white dew, the heat has not completely disappeared, the weather is still very hot, Gao Shisheng is under the noon sun, riding a horse all the way bumpy, really feeling a little sleepy. In front of the farm, he reined in his mount and slowed down, and looked around.

Like most of the official offices in the world, the Pingshan Villa is also located on the main road.

In front of the village building, there is a flat and solid country road, which is also the road he took when he came.

On both sides of the road are large areas of farmland.

This year's year is good, since the beginning of autumn, the rain is more abundant, the winter buckwheat in the field is lush, the wind blows, the green wheat seedlings are undulating, more and more appear to be growing gratifying, from a distance you can see three or three tenant farmers, subordinate disciples wearing calf nose pants, shirtless in the period.

As the day approaches, there are many cars, horses, and pedestrians on the road.

There are apprentices and ronins who walk in single clothes, and there are also merchants and travelers who travel together, but more of them are in a hurry, and they are working hard for their livelihoods.

Gao Shisheng turned over and dismounted, humbly retreated to the side of the road, and avoided the road for the sedan chair ushered in on the opposite side.

In the sedan chair sat an elderly man in good spirits, neatly robed, sitting with his eyes closed and resting, and next to him sat a seven or eight-year-old child. As the two sides staggered, the child looked curiously through the window, apparently interested in the Shinano horse led by Gao Shisheng.

The child's eyes were smart, and he was not stage frightened when he saw someone looking at him, but bent down equally respectfully and returned the salute, thanking him for making way for his grandfather's sedan chair.

Gao Shisheng nodded, and smiled back kindly, and at the same time secretly thought in his heart, at the same age, he probably didn't have such a "precocious wisdom."

Further along the country road, more than ten miles away is Insaku, thinking that this old man should have come from other places, and he was going to visit friends in the city of Iyi Valley with his grandson.

Adjacent to the East China Sea and part of Enshu, Fukichi Prefecture was home to many wealthy families, the most famous of which were the Imagawa clan, which is now the guardian of the three kingdoms of Suruga, Enoe, and Mikawa, and the other is the Asahina clan, a major retainer under his family.

The Imagawa clan was born in the famous family of Seiwa Genji, and he was a member of the shogunate; The Asahina clan is a descendant of the Fujiwara Kitake family to suke the temple stream, the public family.

According to Article 32 of the Law of the Zoning Law "Imagawa False Directory", the Jun, Yuan, and Sanzhou samurai families are not allowed to respect each other with the family name and Miao descendants, but should be distinguished from the top and bottom in the order of the Imagawa family, and the rank of the Lu is high.

Young samurai should respect the elders, and those who served later should retreat from those who served first, among which the Asahina clan and the Miura clan are known for their loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness because they have served the public for generations.

Therefore, Gao Shisheng, as soon as he saw the team of the Asahina family, he consciously dismounted and stood solemnly, letting the sedan chair go first.

Since the Zengzenji Temple, that is, the Imagawa clan has established the samurai law, it can be said that it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Gao Shisheng, as a samurai of the Imagawa family, is deeply respectful of the "Imagawa Horseman".

Gao Shisheng's father and ancestors are here, the body is healthy, the people in the clan are prosperous, the ancestors are in the shade, there is a house in the family, hundreds of stones of fertile land, more than the upper than the bottom, belongs to the most common but small wealthy family.

According to the samurai custom of the Muromachi shogunate, the eldest son inherited the family business, the second son became a monk and practiced meditation, and the younger sons went out to fend for themselves. Even generals and stewards are not exempt from vulgarity, but now there is chaos, people's hearts are not sincere, even the Buddha's family has no surplus food, and it is no longer as easy to enter the temple as it was a hundred years ago.

The family donated a large amount of money to worship, in exchange for a place of a monk in Shande Temple, the master thought for a long time, after all, he still did not want to live in the temple, so he gave the qualification of shaving his hair to the younger brother who had been weak since he was a child, and he thought that Sinology and arithmetic were still acceptable, so he went to Junfu to recommend himself, and served as the head of the Tongxin people to study with the head of the book for two years, before passing the assessment, and finally selected the position of acting official of the head of a village.

The sedan chair went farther and farther, and Gao Shisheng's thoughts returned to the present.

He straightened his clothes before leading his horse to the door of the farm.

"Acting official", "acting also".

Shikichi is a large county, and Hirayama Village is one of the largest villages in the county, as the direct leader of the Imagawa family, the façade of the village is very magnificent.

From afar, you can see the flags erected high in the wall of the earthen courtyard, and when you get closer to the front, you can see more clearly, only to see that the village occupies a wide area, and the gravel paving road in front of the door extends from the steps to connect with the village road.

Standing in the countryside and standing between heaven and earth, Gao Shisheng suddenly hesitated, and he realized that after stepping through the door, it would be difficult to chase the old memories of the past.

"After 20 years of hard work, I was finally able to take charge of a village, although the territory under my jurisdiction was only five miles, but after all, I took the most difficult first step." ”

Muttering a few words to himself, as if to strengthen his own determination, he simply led the horse, no longer flinching and avoiding it, and went straight to the gate.

…………

There was an old servant sitting next to the room in the middle of the door, and when he saw someone coming, he walked out of the room and asked kindly, "Stay?" Or is there something? ”

"In the lower high school."

The old servant thought for a moment and asked, "But the new acting officer?" ”

"Exactly."

"Alas! Please also forgive the villain's clumsiness" The old soldier is sincerely afraid, and when he lifts his robe, he will bow down.

Gao Shisheng stretched out his hand to stop it, and said with a smile: "The old man is serious!" After looking at him a few more times, I saw that he was short in stature, and his steps were a little staggering, obviously because he had suffered a leg injury in his early years, and asked politely: "Before I took office, I heard Noyama Right Guard mention that the name of the Honjo Gate is Murono Heizo, but are you?" ”

"It's the villain."

Noyama Right Guard, whose real name is Noyama Masaki, is his official position on the Right Guard. Because of his effective management of floodwaters last year and his outstanding achievements, he was promoted to the county.

"Door Keeper Clerk" is one of the subordinates of the village chief officer.

Although the "village base" is the most basic unit, after all, it is the land that governs one township and five miles, so under the head of the village, there is also an assistant. The left and right hands are called respectively: pay the thief, the door keeper clerk. Pay thieves: "patrol and catch thieves"; The clerk of the door: "The book of the servant of the village". In addition, according to the number of households in the township, the errand service is arranged.

Gao Shisheng didn't feel strange to see that he was submissive, the door book was nominally the deputy of the garrison, and his status alone was even sometimes above the capture of thieves, but it was already an old account from a hundred years ago, and it was more than fifty years back, and the door book was still a good errand that could mix food and clothing.

For example, today's chaos, the strong use of force, how can the knife and pen officials who are buried in the pages all day long really be valued, coupled with the fact that Murono Heisan is old and weak, and his character is cowardly, so he is naturally more and more light, but it is also because of the honesty and reliability, Zhuang up and down, together with the former Zhuang Tou, he is very respectful, and when Noyama Yichao visited the high master, he also specially entrusted him to take care of him.

Even without Noyama Yosaki's instructions, Gao Shisheng was also in awe of an old man like Murono Heizo who was still insisting on serving his family at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven.

While leading the way in front of him, Murono Heizo turned around and said, "We just received news from the county the day before yesterday, but I didn't expect Zhuang Tou to come so soon, and I asked Zhuang Tou to wait for a while, and I will go and call them all back." ”

"No, it's not too late to see each other in the evening."

Note 1: "Fifty Years of Tsumori" is a Chinese translation of Oda Nobunaga's poem, and it is not clear who translated it because it was found on the Internet.

Note 2: The author does not know exactly what the black-patterned Fu Haori crotch costume was, in fact, the samurai costume of the Edo period, and the Muromachi Shogunate period were specifically called, but the difference in style is probably only the difference in the Haori ornament.

Note 3: The "li" in the text refers to the "li" in the Warring States period, and one li is roughly equal to the current three li, so more than ten li is still quite far.

Note 4: Regarding the part of the "Imagawa False List", the original text is limited to the banquet seats of the Imagawa family, and in the novel, according to the author's own understanding, the scope is expanded to daily travel, and "dismounting and retreating" is the privilege of the Ashikaga dismounters, so it is ridiculed that the Asahina family is the Imagawa Masa family, which is true in terms of status alone, and the trust and status of the Asahina family in Imagawa Yoshimoto's heart is probably above the same clan of the Toe Imagawa family.

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