Aoki Daizen and the two returned from their inspection, many times earlier than expected.

After only half an hour of going out, the clothes on his body were soaked in rain, and Kimura Heiroku couldn't stand it anymore, and kept shouting that he wanted to go back.

Guy is too big because of today's wind and rain, and the two of them were dizzy by the mountain wind all the way, and the sky was dark, and the township was full of mud roads, which were slippery and difficult to walk. Aoki Daizen wore waterproof black lacquered clogs, which was better. There was only one miscanthus broken shoe left on Ping Liu's feet, and the other one didn't know when, and the deep foot and shallow foot fell into the mud.

Kimura Heiroku fought with his teeth, hugged his arms, trembled into the courtyard gate, went straight to the school, and shouted when he entered the door: "Why don't you light the lamp!" "—a little fire to warm up.

In the school, Gao Shisheng has been silent since he blew out the oil lamp, and Murono Heizo is worried in his heart, not knowing what to say or do.

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting to light the lamp, and hurriedly touched the fire sickle, clicked twice, and lit the oil lamp.

Kimura Heiroku was so cold that he couldn't care about anything else, so he took off his coat in three or two, threw it to the door, and was about to lean on the edge of the fire in the corner of the school, and begged Murono Heizo: "Scholar, hurry up and make a fire!" ”

Gao Shisheng noticed that his lips were blue from the cold, and hurriedly reminded: "Take off the clothes on your body first, and wipe the rainwater with a dry cloth, otherwise people will freeze!" ”

"Hey, hey!" Murono Heizo answered twice, turned around and went into the back room to get it.

"Why didn't Fu Thief come back with you?"

"In the back!" Kimura Heiroku replied briefly, and then urged again: "Zhuang Tou quickly make a fire!" ”

The single clothes on his body were completely soaked by the cold rain and clinging tightly to his body, and Gao Shisheng wasted a lot of energy to help take them off, leaving only a pair of calf nose pants, which was not cool.

Gao Shisheng noticed that he was covered in mud, probably accidentally falling on the way back and forth.

hurriedly lit a fire, and the other two people in the house wiped his body with a dry cloth from top to bottom, so as not to get into the cold. Pingliu drank some hot water and went down to his stomach, only to feel that his whole person woke up a little, and then he felt a heart-piercing pain from the soles of his feet, and he grinned in pain.

The two people who were so frightened that they were wiping his back hurriedly stopped, and Gao Shisheng asked with concern: "Where did your hand hurt you?" ”

"No, Zhuang Tou is my foot hurt!"

Looking down, sure enough, a stone was bumped on his left foot, and a large road of blood was cut, and the blood and mud mixed with the wound wrapped tightly.

Gao Shisheng was discharged from the hospital in the rain, and quickly ran to the well to get back the big wooden bucket for laundry.

I first made a basin of hot water, let Pingliu soak his feet first, and then took out the winter cover to cover him from the cold.

Fuku, that is, a quilt that is filled with flocculents, is thick and warm.

While taking off his coat, he asked Murono Heizo, "Scholar, is there any sores in the hospital?" "Gold sore medicine is trauma medicine, which is mainly used to treat all kinds of wound trauma, and is applied to immediately relieve pain and stop bleeding, not to mention pus.

"Seto Fangjiu went to Sanhe yesterday, saying that they were a group of foot merchants who were out of the house, and it was inevitable that there would be a bruise, so I brought all the wounds for them, and now I didn't come to the village."

Seto Kasahisa and others stayed at the village, and there was also a short period of time, and the servants had no part with each other, so they asked the clerks to help sort out their bags every time they went to the horses and sold goods, and if there was a temporary shortage of anything, they would also take the temporary use of the village first, and then make up for it when they came back.

"There's no need to use any medicine, just wipe it with a cloth after soaking your feet and wrap the wound!" Aoki Daizen came back just when he heard the medicine, standing under the eaves of the door and saying, before leaving, he asked the other party to wrap his feet with a cloth to prevent injury, Kimura Heiroku didn't listen to the trouble, and didn't want to say a word.

took off his coat and hat, picked up the rain gear that Heiroku threw at the door, and hung it on the buckle on the wall next to the door before stepping in.

"Pay for the thief! Why is there a delay on the road? Gao Shisheng also helped him take off his soaked clothes and put them by the fire to bake, and then said: "Drink some hot water first to ease the warmth!" ”

After pouring half a bowl of hot water, he reached out and handed the Aoki Diet next to him, and Heizo Murono got up and went around to the back to help him wipe his back.

Aoki Daizen has been practicing kendo all year round, no matter the rain, snow, wind and cold, he only wears single clothes, and hones his sword skills outdoors, which is nothing to him, and unlike Kimura Heiroku, he has to be wrapped in a quilt to be warmed.

He is scarred and has experienced a fierce battle to the death, obviously better than Hasegawa Falato, only his right arm is slightly twisted, when it was smashed by a blunt object, it is usually covered by sleeves, and it is not obvious, this is bare-chested, it is very eye-catching, no wonder the knives are hung on the right side, Gao Shisheng originally thought he was a left-hander.

"I didn't worry about the water level, so I went around by myself halfway." After taking a shallow sip, Aoki Daizen, put the bowl aside, and his tone could not hear sadness and joy.

"How's it going?" Outside, the wind was still raging, and the whistling sound was endless.

"The Misawa River and the Hamana River Water Monument have obviously been submerged a lot, and according to this increase in the situation, I am afraid that the Tenryu River will be flooded again this year." The meaning of the water rule is "criterion", and it is usually one per city foot, also known as a stroke. The stele engraved with the water ruler is the water stele.

At that time, the observation method was to inscribe marks on the rocks in the banks and rivers to record the flood or dry water level that occurred once in many years.

The Misawa River and the Hamana River both accompany each other and flow through the two rivers of Hirayama Township, starting from the Shiraku Plateau in Mikawa Province and flowing through the three counties of Shiraku, Hachina, and Shikichi and finally flowing into the Hamana Wide Sea, which is why the two rivers are called the Misawa River and the Hamana River.

"Has the situation reached such a serious point?" When Murono Heizo heard this, he was so shocked that he didn't even notice that the rag in his hand fell to the ground.

He is a native of Yuanjiang country, and when he was young, he lived in Fumata Castle for a long time, and he was accustomed to the flooding of the Tianlong River by the city, but he was also frightened inexplicably.

Futamatata Castle was originally a flat castle, and in the first year of astronomy, the Tenryu River flooded. "The water entered the city deeply, the barns were lost, and the officials and private houses were half washed away by the waves. Only the temples, monasteries, and houses of the remaining edge of the mountain are dozens, the water is even eight days, the water begins to fall for half a month, and most of the houses are poured, and it lasts for two months, and it can live in a little bit, and there are many people who die of people and animals."

It was precisely because of that flood that Futamata-jo had to be rebuilt into a mountain castle, and Murono Heizo was the novice of Enzanji Temple at the time, and witnessed the tragedy caused by the flood.

Aoki Daizen nodded yes, this is already estimated in a good direction.

The Misawa River and the Hamana River, two rivers with flood channels, have been flooded, and the winding and rugged and dangerous Tenryu is probably not possible, but has now begun to make waves with the help of the majestic rain.

Gao Shisheng frowned, he did not have witnessed the power of the flooding of the Tianlong River like Murono Heizo, but he understood that in the year of the catastrophe, there would be plague.

Unconsciously blurted out: "The plague is the plague, and the chaotic gather troops." ”

His words, though soft, were heard by the rest of the room.

Except for the sluggish Kimura Heiroku, although the two of them didn't understand why he came up with such a sentence, they understood the word plague, and they all changed color when they heard it.

"Zhuang Tou is cautious!"

The epidemic is as fierce as a tiger, it is even more terrifying than the ghosts, gods and demons that Gao Shisheng and Murono Heizo talked about before!

Gods, ghosts, demons eat people and harm people, at most dozens of people, because the human and animal corpses that died in the flood are mainly not dealt with in time, and the lives taken by the outbreak of the plague are often hundreds or thousands, tens of thousands!

During the "Onin War", a long-term war was rampant with thieves, leaving the streets of Kyoto deserted and the squirrels running around the palace.

Eventually, five years of civilization and the Kyoto pandemic. In the nine countries of, the funeral did not stop for a moment, and the crying was heartbreaking, and later, due to the number of deaths, the coffins were not enough, and it can be seen that the number of deaths that year was really unimaginable.

Even the two generals of the Eastern and Western armies, Soquan Yamana and Katsumoto Hosokawa, also contracted the disease and died violently one after another.

At the beginning of the sixth year of civilization, the plague broke out again, and more than 70,000 people died in just three months. The soldiers of the Eastern and Western armies were panicked and demanded that their respective generals call for a truce, and some daimyo even fled from with their troops without any permission, even disregarding the reputation of the samurai.

On April 3, Yamana Masatoyo, the son of Sosen, and Hosokawa Masamoto, the son of Katsumoto, were forced to leave the soldiers due to the epidemic, and hastily reached a peace.

Yuanjiang country alone is only 180,000 Dingkou, even if it does not reach the "civilization epidemic", that kind of terrible situation, plague, thousands of people died of disease is also a very terrible number, the epidemic can be no matter the status of the person, the infected person will die.

Yamana Soquan sits on the eleven kingdoms of San'in, Sanyo, and, and the world calls it "one-sixth hall"; Hosokawa Katsumoto, as the head of the shogunate, also led the guardian of the five kingdoms of Settsu Province, Tanba Province, Sanuki Province, Tosa Province, and Iyo Province.

The two are extremely human, and the famous doctors around them are gathered, and they can't escape the violent death of the epidemic, and the other Shengdou people are infected, so they can only wait to die.

If it is said that the Yingren epidemic has passed nearly 100 years ago, it is too far away, and the great famine and epidemic caused by the typhoon in the ninth year of Tianwen have only been more than ten years ago, and everyone present can be said to have experienced it personally and survived.

"The Records of Miaofa Temple" said that "all people and horses were killed, and a disaster that was rare in a hundred years, and only one thousand people were spared".

"The Legend of Myohoji Temple" is "The Legend of Katsuyama". Recording the tragic situation caused by the typhoon in the ninth year of the Astronomical Calendar of Kai Province, the typhoon will definitely not be limited to Kai one place, but will affect the entire eastern country.

In the ninth year of astronomy and the tenth year of astronomy, Gao Shisheng often got up on the second day, and the servants in the Junfu Pavilion were changed again.

The people who left either died, or went home to mourn, but in Gao Shisheng's eyes, there was no difference, because none of the people who left could return, and there were many people in the Gao clan who died of illness, or even died violently in the whole family.

Thinking of that terrible memory, Gao Shisheng also shuddered.

"Floods and epidemics will come in the future after all." Aoki Daizen used a wooden stick to make the bonfire burn more vigorously, and he didn't want to talk about the frightening epidemic, so he rarely took the initiative to change the subject, and said: "The annual tribute will be collected in a few days, and I don't know when this rainstorm will fall." ”

"The scale of the torrential rain is still going down, and the scale of this year's floods is the best case like last year, the harvest is definitely over, and there is still any annual tribute to be levied." Heiliu hugged Fuji, his eyes glazed, laughing for a while, crying for a while. I don't know if it's because my body is cold and I can't control it. I still saw that the rice in the fields was all washed down by the ravages of the torrential rain, and I was stimulated

"People are the city, people are the wall, benevolence is a friend, hatred is the enemy, the truth of the Junfu Palace is also understood, the general manager is even more loving the people like a son, after the rain stops, people will inevitably be sent to come to disaster relief and release grain, reduce the annual tribute." Kamikosuke is the Imagawa clan, who succeeded to the governor of the family in the second year of Hongji, and is known for his generous administration and good reputation.

Last year's Tenshu flood decree was personally drafted by Imagawa Shin, who promulgated the benevolent government issued, and followed the Rokkaku family's "Rakuchi Rakuza" decree, and presided over the reform of the Imagawa family's tax name and management system for the merchants of Sunfuza, expanding the commercial tax, and reducing the burden of the people on the annual tribute.

Although Gao Shisheng believed that Junfu would inevitably have a remedy for the poor harvest of the people, after all, these words were just to comfort Kimura Heiroku's words, and even he himself would not really believe that he could really implement it completely.

Turning his head, he looked at the official documents on the wall about virtue and politics, and sighed even more in his heart: "This is simply forcing the people to rebel!" ”

This year's major floods in Yuanjiang have really led to a poor grain harvest, and I am afraid that I will really be unable to pay the annual tribute.

The wealthy families of Yuanjiang repeatedly ignored the moral decrees, expropriated violently, and were all military servants, such as the tens of thousands of wealthy people such as the Nagata Sheng family, and they were all over the place; The poor are like Hasegawa Hayato, and their families are poor and poor, and they are bare on all four walls.

The military service is light and there is no way to live if they are forced by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the situation of the people in Qianshou is even more conceivable!

If you don't want to be a hungry mayfly, I'm afraid that the only way to go is to break out of virtue and politics, and you can go by rising up and resisting.

All Gao Shisheng could do was to pity him in his heart and comfort him with false affection on his face.

As a direct samurai retainer under the Imagawa family, all his words and deeds must be based on the law of Sunfu, and anyone who dares to resist Sunfu's rule in Enoe Province is an enemy he must suppress and execute, just like the people of Tak Masa, when they are determined to launch a great rebellion, they will inevitably kill the daimyo lackey acting officer, so that he and his companions have no way back.

In public and private, he is a famous samurai lord who stands opposite the head of Qian.

Note: The Great Kyoto Plague was actually two Edo cholera strains in 1858 and 1862. It is not known whether there was a plague outbreak in the Onin Rebellion, but Yamana Soquan and Hosokawa Katsumoto died violently in the same year, and the only explanation for illness is more plausible, excluding assassination.

If the conjecture of the scattered people is true, then the Eastern and Western armies hurriedly negotiated peace the following year, and it seems that it can be explained.

Note 2: The Imagawa clan had already succeeded the family governor before the Battle of Barrel Sama, and there are many theories about that year, but the clan took the place of Yoshimoto in government affairs early on, and presided over the reform of the business of the Sunfu.