Nothing was said all night.

This year's autumn rain is more frequent than in previous years, and the dense rain continues to splash down along the eaves, like a waterfall, washing the masonry under the platform, making a rattling sound, accompanied by a clammy and cold breeze, blowing the collision sound of the entrance door, and the noisy people are upset.

This abnormal weather is no longer strange to the people of Tokaido, and the weather has become more and more unusual and unpredictable over the past few decades since the Onin Rebellion.

The people of the world think that it is the rebellion and rebellion, which causes the gods and Buddhas to be angry, and rain and drought locust plagues. On the contrary, Gao Shisheng felt that this statement should be reversed, because it was precisely because of the successive natural disasters that the shogunate was weakened and the world was in turmoil.

And now the war has formed a cycle that is difficult to break, and the daimyo of various countries have a good harvest just in time to seize the time to recruit troops to fight other countries and seize new territories; It doesn't matter if the harvest is bad, it is better to quickly mobilize the army to go out into battle, first, you can eat other countries, and secondly, the young and strong outside also reduce the probability and number of a handful in their own territory.

Gao Shisheng was lying on the couch, looking at the lattice shed, unable to sleep.

Now that he was awake, he was not sleepy, he got up and found a robe from the board room to put it on, pushed the door and sat alone on the cloister of the house, not only did he not feel cold, but it was refreshing.

It's still early, everyone in the courtyard is still sleeping in the house, only there is some movement in the side room, it is the scholar Noheizan who got up early, is cooking on the fire in the station, heard the movement, poked his head out and asked: "Zhuangtou, get up so early!" ”

Gao Shisheng nodded and replied, "Isn't it the same for the scholars?" Seeing that there was not much firewood in the earthen house, he quickly ran to the firewood house in the corner of the backyard.

The firewood house was in disrepair, and several large holes in the roof were leaked and never repaired, and by the impact of the rain, large pieces of mud were knocked off the beams of the house, turning into mud flows, and wanton runny water. Even the firewood piled up in the house was a little damp, so I finally picked up some that was not yet soaked and carried back to the dirt.

During the Warring States period, the meal system was similar to that of the Heian Dynasty, and it was still a two-meal system in the morning and evening, or a two-meal system in the afternoon and evening, of course, the nobles and wealthy were not restricted by this rule, and they could eat three meals.

The daily rations of the errand in the village have a fixed number, the head of the village is five grains, pay the thief four, and the rest of the errand is even less, only to the three, relying on this to support the rice, a day is not able to eat three meals, if you pay for it to buy and reluctant.

In the morning, I couldn't eat anything good, it was nothing more than all kinds of grains boiled into porridge, and with a few pieces of dried radish, it was dealt with.

Murono Heizo was afraid that Zhuangtou would not be used to eating food in the countryside, so he specially cooked two chickens for him, Gao Shisheng ate one, and left one left, leaving it for the most tired in the village, Kitazhuang Manjiro.

The people in the village haven't woken up yet, and the two of them didn't call, but they just left food in the pot, and when they woke up, they would just eat it hot again.

The work of the village office is tedious and boring, and when the autumn harvest is approaching, many of the account books about the field and property need to be read in advance, and when the county commissions come to collect the annual tribute in a few days, if they don't know what to do, how to help.

This is the first thing to be done after the handover of the official documents, because of the "murder case" two days ago, it has been delayed until now.

Last night, I read all kinds of files overnight, and after writing the receipt paper, I wanted the rain to stop and let people send it to the county, but looking at this posture, it should not be done.

I have a free day, and after eating, I simply followed the scholar Nohei San to hold an umbrella and went to the front yard to check it.

The rain is continuous, enveloping the mountains, forests and fields, the dense rain curtain obscures the sight, but also blocks the people's work trip, the mountains in the distance, the villages in the near distance, are all gloomy, can only barely see a silhouette, a little farther away, you can't see the count.

This rain has been raining since yesterday evening. It went down all night, and there was not the slightest pause, but it got bigger and bigger.

After Aoki Daizen had eaten, he put on his coat and led Kimura Heiroku, who was on duty today, out along the village road to inspect the five villages under the jurisdiction of the village to see if there was a situation where the heavy rain had washed away the houses and blocked the roads.

If there is, it will be counted, and then the village will organize labor to clean up and rescue. If not, go into the village and ask if there are poor families in need, and if the house is not good and needs to be renovated with the help of manpower, these are the most ordinary and important tasks that the village is responsible for.

It was the tireless work of these humble officials in the village and their dedication in the wind and rain for several years that allowed the Imagawa family to firmly rule the land of the Three Kingdoms of Tokaido and millions of stones.

Kimura Heihachi was idle, slipped to the door, leaned against the door and squatted with his hands together, counting the reward while thinking about waiting for tomorrow when the sky was clear, and finding a good home to spend the night.

Gao Shisheng is not a greedy person for money, he got twenty "redemption money" yesterday, and after returning to the village, he distributed it to everyone in full, even if Hasegawa Hayato and Nagata Mori did not pull it down.

Hasegawa didn't refuse this time, I don't know if he didn't want to sweep the nature of the crowd, or if he saw the majesty of the two county officials, he moved his mind to be on an errand.

Nagata Sheng was born in a businessman, and his family has small assets, but in line with the elders, he didn't dare to resign and accepted it, and originally said that he would come to visit again today to thank him, but depending on the weather, it was probably unlikely to come.

The Kai native dog lazily lay under the stable in front of the rain to avoid the rain, allowing Nitsu Sun Ichiro, who had fed the horses in the past, to raise his feet and tease in every way, and he didn't bother to move.

I don't know if it's because I've become familiar with the smell of Gao Shisheng in the past two days, although I won't go forward and wagging my tail and begging, but I won't bark like he did on the first day, when he first came to the village.

Because he saw that the coat on his back was particularly dark brown and came from Kai, he simply named it a bareback dog.

Manjiro is still sleeping with his head covered, and it is good that he doesn't wake up, and he will starve. The porridge in the pot was eaten clean by everyone who got up early, and the chicken left by Gao Shisheng was secretly eaten by someone who was greedy.

This kind of dull and busy daily life, in a trance, made Gao Shisheng feel that he was back to the days of serving in Junfu City, and he couldn't help but shake his head and scolded himself: "It's really a hard life that can't enjoy happiness!" ”

"Huh? What did Zhuang Tou just say? Heizo Murono, who was explaining to him on the side, asked suspiciously after hearing it.

"Nothing, nothing!" Gao Shisheng hurriedly waved his hand, turned his head to look at the bored two people outside the courtyard, and said to Murono Heizo: "Scholar, it's not too late to talk about it after a while." ”

"It's okay, I'm not tired!"

He was not tired, but Gao Shisheng was a little tired, got up and wanted to go to the courtyard for a walk, one side of his face happened to see all kinds of documents pasted on the wall, and he remembered that he had not read it carefully, in line with the idea of understanding the people's livelihood, he moved over and watched carefully.

The official Yada Sakujuro killed people and absconded back to Mikawa Province, and the official document on his arrest is expected to be handed down soon, and it will also be posted here for identification and viewing.

The content of many official notices on the wall is different, the time is also different, some are relatively old, and the ink is blurred; Some are very new.

Gao Shisheng habitually looks from left to right, the first two are the cases of Suruga country, the first is the "non-permitted crime", that is, when going abroad, he privately entrained, and the acceptable certificate is the certificate after paying taxes, and the crime of tax evasion can be large or small, but it is a more serious crime when it reaches a certain amount.

The second is the case of Junfu City, which was committed as a "crime of fighting and killing". Fighting and killing is fighting, and in the course of a fight, a person is accidentally injured, and according to the law, it is also to be beheaded for public display.

The story of the case is that two ronins had a quarrel at an izakaya, because they lost their temper after drinking, one of them drew a knife and killed the other party, and then absconded in fear of crime, and he has not been caught until now, and it is estimated that he escaped from the territory of the Imagawa family.

The third is the announcement of mediation between two local villages in Pingshan Township, because of disputes over the right to use wells and ditches.

And so on, Gao Shisheng read more than a dozen copies one after another, and nearly half of them were murders committed by the ronin. On the contrary, the cases of the local natives of the three kingdoms of Junyuan were all in arrears and were ordered to return it on a certain day, otherwise they would be fined hard labor.

Or the people closed the villages, refused to allow the countrymen to enter, and demanded the implementation of the German government decree, but were suppressed by the army sent by the Junfu.

Although the prison ronin always causes various cases, the daimyo of various countries have always maintained a mentality of both defense and use for the ronin.

A large number of ronin longhouses will be built in the castle town of the main city for them to stay overnight for free, and Sunpu Castle has even set up a special commission to manage it because there are too many ronin gathered.

When Gao Shisheng was in Sunfu Castle, the main problem he was responsible for was to deal with the affairs of the ronin on a daily basis.

In the event of a joint battle, the daimyo would hire ronin and no samurai to form a parade and act as cannon fodder to drain the morale and strength of the enemy.

At the end, there was a wanted notice about fugitive slaves that caught Gao Shisheng's attention.

It's not strange that the fugitive slave is wanted, but it's a little strange in the middle of a pile of murders, he asked: "Why is this slave wanted by Junfu himself?" ”

"This is a fugitive slave from the Abe prison camp."

Gao Shisheng's first thought was that the Pure Sky Monk who was exiled by the assassination yesterday was immediately denied by himself. This time, the errand guards who escorted the monk of the clear sky probably haven't left the road yet.

The Abe prison camp is located near the Abe gold mountain, but it does not participate in the excavation of the gold mountain, which is the work of the Abe gold diggers.

The prisoners were mainly responsible for mining in the mountains and smelting iron in furnaces.

Iron mining is not only tiring, but also dangerous, and there are often cases of tunnels collapsing and crushing people to death. Cast iron is even more difficult, with flames rising, smoky and sometimes furnace explosions.

In such a harsh working environment, there have been several cases where prisoners in the Abe prison camp not only fled without permission, but even gathered to resist and tried to escape from prison en masse by force.

In the 22nd year of Astronomy, the three captives of Saburo Nagano, Shiro and Mitsuhide Naito, who were born as samurai warriors of Shinano Province, planned to organize a rebellion of 100 prisoners, seize weapons, and kill the jailers who guarded them.

After escaping from the prison camp, he plundered the villages along the way, attacked and killed the servants of the village, and finally fled to the area of Koshin Ghost Face Mountain.

Junfu has sent troops to crusade many times, but has not succeeded in exterminating it, and now from time to time I will hear the news that this gang of rogues has come down the mountain to be a coward.

This fugitive slave also killed the guards and fled.

Gao Shisheng has been in public service for many years, and he has heard a lot about this kind of similar thing, which is not surprising.

However, he was surprised by the fact that the people refused to enter the wealthy family, and asked suspiciously: "Junfu can be said to be exempt from taxation every year, why are there so many people who still demand virtue and politics?" ”

Not to mention, last year, the floods in Yuanjiang Country were serious, and the Jun government issued a number of German decrees in succession, and the day before yesterday he had only read a document exempting the victims from paying farewell money.

Murono Heizo spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "I have only heard of over-donation taxes in the world, and I have seen underpaid annual tribute there." ”

Gao Shisheng was stunned and speechless. This year's German decree is mainly concentrated in the first three months, and now in mid-September, it has only been half a year since the full battle, and there are already so many villages in debt.

Murono Heizo sighed: "The moral decree issued by the Jun Mansion, there are not many wealthy families who are willing to honestly abide by it, and they should inherit the moral government and pay less annual tribute, but the people in the territory are still the number of previous years, and even because of the decrease in harvest, the levy is even more powerful." If the poor family can't pay the annual tribute, they can only be in arrears, or they can pay it with labor, and the wealthy families can transfer these labors to Junfu, and they can reduce a lot of annual tribute. After a long time, there are always villages that can't afford it, and in order to save themselves, they can only organize a political and moral struggle and resist the famous owner. ”

Gao Shisheng shook his head, and said in his heart: "These wealthy families, on weekdays, shout one by one to "guard the forbidden entry" and "do not lose unless inspected", and dare to disobey the moral decree of the Jun Mansion. ”

But I forgot that the Yuanjiang Gao clan did the same.

For the wealthy people, the promulgation of the moral decree by Junfu is a serious infringement of the interests of "no loss and no entry" and a despicable means to weaken their financial and material resources.

The people's annual tribute is exempted from five cents, and the people can only be exempted from two cents. Suppose that in the past, a 100 guan annual tribute was levied on the village, but this year it can only be collected 50 guan.

In the past year, the foundation of the Junfu was exempted from two points, and the people had to pay eighty yuan, one plus and one subtraction, and thirty yuan should be pasted upside down.

If last year's "Yuanzhou Flood Control and Safety Moral Order" is really honestly followed, I am afraid that a small wealthy family of 2,000 stones like the Shangchuan family will directly declare bankruptcy.

Gao Shisheng vaguely remembered that later because of the issue of German government decrees, there were two major disturbances in Tokaido.

The first time was during the "Enshu Rebellion", after the Imagawa clan failed to recover Enshu after many efforts, he issued the "Enshu Tokusei Decree" to retaliate against the rebellion of the Enjiang people, and encouraged the people to launch a tokusa to support the Imagawa family, and Lin Dengwan guarded the country.

The Jing family, who was just preparing to rebel, was directly bankrupt and declared temporarily extinct.

The second time was that Takeda Katsuyori transferred the burden of the people to the retainers of the Spectrum Dynasty in order to restore the national strength, which led to the serious dissatisfaction of Anayama Nobujun and Oyamada Nobushige, the former defected to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the latter attacked and killed Takeda Katsuyori in Tenmu Mountain to Oda Nobunaga "anyway".

For a while, I didn't know how to comment on right or wrong.