The people of the shosho waited for a long time in Zenkoin Temple before Shintsu Sun Ichiro himself returned, and it seems that he was unable to invite reinforcements from Nobuyin Hamana, but fortunately the matter was properly handled and did not encounter major trouble.

The Hamamei family was reluctant to help, although it was unexpected by Gao Shisheng, but after all, the two sides did not have any subordinate relationship.

The countrymen did not cooperate with the Shosho's obligation, but Gao Shisheng had the right to report to the county and request that Hamana Shinko be punished.

Manjiro Kitashiro rode Takashiro's Shinano horse and carried the two written dossiers to Saku Castle to the county secretary, while the Kimura brothers and three loan companions had to carry the corpse back to the village first.

The monks of Zenko-in Temple could not leave the temple at will until the case was concluded, and the Hasegawa Hayabusa family was not far from the village, and Takashi Mori wanted to know the real situation in the homes of the people of Hongo, starting with Hasegawa, a military family.

During the Warring States Period, most of the "townships" parallel system was adopted, with townships under the county, and then according to the size of the township and the size of the population, there would be several villages or manors to divide the village into management.

The township is mainly in charge of the population and the land, and the village is mainly responsible for public security, although the village accepts the orders of the township head, but the two did not have a strict subordinate relationship before, and they are directly under the jurisdiction of the county.

The main reason is that the Wanxing of the wealthy family, and the direct collar of the daimyo are intertwined, and the ideal state is naturally a certain township, all of which are the direct collar of the daimyo, but the reality is that only half of a certain township, and even a few villages belong to the direct collar of the daimyo.

This is the case in Pingshan Township, where half of the land is owned by several families led by the famous family, and the rest is directly led by the Junfu, so it is necessary to set up a separate village to divide and manage.

The existence of the village has greatly curbed the right of the local wealthy to "guard the inaccessibility", which is only slightly better than the direct dispatch of the Junfu to send the cavalry to monitor.

Further down is the village, the smallest administrative unit. Most of the villages with the "nominal right" adopt the method of collegial discussion of the village elders to carry out internal management, and only the villages with the right to "nominal" can completely obey the orders of the township in affairs.

The Hasegawa Hayabusa family lives in "Hirayama Village under Hirayama Township, and Hirayama Village under Hirayama Village", and the five administrative units of the county town and village village have a high rate of duplicate names, some of which are together, and some are not.

Pingshan Township, Pingshan Villa, and Pingshan Village belong to the upper and lower integration, and they can be understood.

Yuanjiang has a state-owned riverside name county, township, and village, and has no relationship with each other at all.

At the end of Kamakura, the counties of Enoe were redivided, and the town of Fukichi was separated and divided into Hamana County, but Hamana Township was still in Fukichi County, and the two eastern and western Hamana villages were divided into Insa-gun.

It is estimated that not many people will be able to find the exact place based on the name alone.

Hirayama Village, where Hasegawa's family is located, is close to Hirayama Villa, and at the fork in the village road, he separated from the five Kimura brothers, got off the village road, turned into the dirt road, and after walking for a long time, he saw a settlement in front of him between the wheat fields and ridges.

During the Warring States period, most of the villages were rectangular in shape, and there were also semicircles built against the mountains. In order to facilitate management and prevent theft, there are wooden fences outside, and some villages on the border between the two countries have dug trenches.

There are wooden fences, and naturally there are gates for people to enter and exit, and large villages usually have four gates, and small villages only have two front and back.

Hirayama Village is not big, there are only two gates, Gao Shisheng is supporting Hasegawa Hayato, and Aoki Daizen is carrying a small half bag of grains, following behind.

This is the food that Monk Zhenghong said earlier that he would help Hasegawa's family, and when he left, he specially asked Gao Shisheng and the two to help bring it over.

The Pure Land Shinshu sect was able to be loved by the poor people, not by shaking their lips and deceiving them, but on the contrary, most of the "lecturers" were not profound in Buddhism, far inferior to the teachers of other sects.

However, as long as there are believers who can't get along at home to go to the "seminar" for help, no matter how much or less, they will not return empty-handed, compared to other peers, it is regarded as the true enlightenment part, the true meaning of my Buddha's compassion.

It is no wonder that there is a proverb that says: "When the daimyo is in the land, there is suffering everywhere, and everything goes smoothly when the sect lecturer is in charge." ”

At the well at the entrance of the village, two old people in the village were sitting on the wooden pier next to them chatting, and when they saw Gao Shisheng and the three of them, they all stood up, and one of them saw that Hasegawa was obviously injured, and his face was full of worry: "Yataro, what's wrong with you?" "It's clear that I know Hayato Hasegawa.

Hasegawa Hayato said vaguely, embarrassed to tell others about his glorious deeds of being beaten thirty sticks in public, and turned his head to Gao Shisheng and said, "Zhuangtou, this is the village boss of my village." ”

"Village elders" mainly manage the daily order in the village, and are also responsible for communicating with the famous owners on behalf of the village.

After introducing Gao Shisheng, Hasegawa Hayato and the two village elders introduced: "This one is the new Lord Zhuang of our village, who has just dealt with the case of the perfect light courtyard, and sent me home by the way... It's not early, so let's go home and rest!"

"The case? Don't you bluff us, didn't you get involved and were approached by the messengers? Lord Zhuangtou, if Yataro gets into trouble, please forgive him one or two, and we will definitely teach him a good lesson when we turn back! As he spoke, he picked up the crutch in his hand and made a gesture to fight.

Gao Shisheng hurriedly stopped and explained: "It's not a big deal, Yataro was injured in the back, and the two of us helped him send the miscellaneous grains he bought home, and he will leave in a while, don't be angry with the two village elders!" ”

More than eighty percent of the land in Pingshan Village is in the hands of the Imagawa family, and the villagers say that they are just "farming" tenant farmers who rent the Imagawa family's fields, and it is difficult for them to dare to defend the reasonable rights and interests of their own village in the face of errand labor.

Comforting the village elders, Gao Shisheng and the others followed Hasegawa Hayato into the village.

In the end, it is a rural place, and it is not as good as the castle town of Sunfu Castle. The castle town is well planned and has neat roads, and from this street you can go straight to the opposite street, and the longhouses are arranged on both sides of the street on the left and right. ”

The roads in Pingshan Village are crooked, and the houses on the roadside are also built at random, some in front and some in the back, and the narrow paths that connect these gateways are narrow.

The population of the village is about forty or fifty households, and most of them are closed.

Passing by two houses with unclosed doors, there was a woman in one of them who was sitting in the courtyard and washing laundry; A family of two children chased each other around the house with tree branches.

Witnessing this scene, Gao Shisheng couldn't help but think of when he was a child, other children gathered together to ride bamboo horses and dance wooden swords, and he always knelt in the cloister under the eaves, silently beside him, looking at the sky, thinking about stupid things that even he might not understand.

Everyone doesn't like this big stupid melon from Yuanjiang Country, but they don't know how much that big stupid melon envy their carefreeness······

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"Zhuangtou, this is my family!"

Hasegawa Hayato motioned to stop in front of a house.

From the outside, the courtyard is not only small, but also very dilapidated.

Half a circle around the house, bamboo, reeds mixed with yellow mud into the fence barrier, barely counted as the courtyard wall, I don't know how long it has not been renovated, by the wind and rain, cracked out a lot of fine cracks, there are weeds on the top of the courtyard wall, two old wooden doors are also broken almost.

Hasegawa Hayato is a military service inadequate, and he doesn't want to be so cold at home.

This was much poorer than Gao Shisheng imagined, and if Hasegawa himself hadn't led the way, he would never have believed that this was actually a family of Ashigaru people. "How can the family be so embarrassed?"

"The harvest in the past two years is not good, the family's famous field to the Junfu mortgage annual tribute, although the land is still planted by my family, but from four public and six people, changed to six public and four people, at the end of the year, the food is just enough for the family to eat, and the money for the helper on weekdays is also taken to buy knives and guns, and the house will be able to live on the line, so I am willing to spend money on renovation."

To be able to get a military service account, Hasegawa's family has at least five kan of land, that is, at least 20 koku of rice per year, which is enough to bear the burden of annual tribute, which is not heavy compared to other people.

However, Hasegawa Hayato must pay for the maintenance of the equipment for a long time, otherwise if he fails to review, the samurai will remove him from the military service.

Normally, Wuguan field is enough to support the family, but his family has changed from a homesteader to a tenant farmer because of the arrears of annual tribute, and his income has been greatly reduced, and it is difficult to bear military service normally.

In addition to the necessary armaments such as long armor, curls and hats, you also have to prepare at least three days' worth of military rations, salt, flags, straw sandals, fire, and many other miscellaneous items, which cost a lot of money.

During the Warring States Period, there were actually a variety of sources for the ashigaru, except for the standing flag books that were completely out of production and the temporary recruits of miscellaneous soldiers, they were mainly divided into two types: the ashigaru and the military service.

The former is a wealthy yeoman farmer, in order to enjoy the preferential policies and exemptions provided by the daimyo, he takes the initiative to enlist in the army as an individual and family unit, has a strong nature of private interests, and his name is recorded in a fixed book, and his father dies and his son succeeds him, and as long as there are men of appropriate age in the family, he will not be removed from the list, and if the father dies in the war and the son is under the age of 15, he can be exempted from general labor for three years, and he will not pay miscellaneous taxes such as don't pay money or money, and his status is similar to that of a military household.

In order to cope with the laws and regulations of the daimyo, each village decided through the decision of the village elders, or by the villagers themselves by drawing lots and sorting, who would serve in the military, as long as the number of people was gathered according to the minimum requirements of the daimyo's conscription.

For example, Pingshan Township inspected 832 stones, 6 buckets and 1 total, and calculated on the books, at least 24 troops should be dispatched, but in reality it would have to be more than doubled.

Two years ago, Sunfu sent troops to recruit the Owari Oda family. There are a total of 30 people in Pingshan Township, four small flags, 10 archers, 8 banners, three war horses, and a number of warriors and small soldiers.

Among them, the flag and horses were selected from the homes of local samurai like the Nagata Mori clan, and there were ten ashigaru people for every thousand stones, and these ten people did not need to be burdened by the villagers.

In addition, there are still 34 ashigaru left, to be provided by the people of Pingshan Township, theoretically over 15 years old to under 65 years old are eligible for recruitment, in order to ensure the continuation of the village as a whole, many times, the elderly people will take the initiative to apply, in order to avoid too many casualties in the young and strong, and cause a devastating blow to the village.

The daimyo of each family have repeatedly issued orders to strictly prohibit the village from going out of battle with the old and weak, and prevaricate military service.

The Ashigaru people like Hasegawa Hayato are the backbone of the Daimyo's army, so naturally they will not only have obligations but no treatment.

There are also regulations in the laws of the Junfu, which allow the Ashigaru people to pawn the "name right" to the Junfu if they cannot afford to pay the annual tribute, and they can retain the "style" right, and after five years, they can also redeem the "name style" from the Junfu.

There is also a one-time subsidy for the bankrupt Ashigaru, and if it goes bankrupt for the second time, the Samuchi can only abolish the family name and completely recover the land.

Unless absolutely necessary, few ashigaru and samurai would declare themselves bankrupt, after all, the cost of abolishing the family name was too great.

This is also the Hasegawa family's preference to pawn the fields and become half tenant farmers rather than turn to Sunfu for help.