The speed of the county's dispatch was very fast, and on the day the horse envoy arrived, he began to send people to the townships to supervise the disaster relief.

Xu is the determination of the Cangtian God Buddha to see the Imagawa family's disaster relief, or the people of Pingshan Village want to sacrifice to the three palaces, so that General Yuan Yinliang can temporarily calm his anger, although the sky is still gloomy, but the rain has basically stopped.

Don't bother the two masters, this time the person in charge of Pingshan Township is the one who is in charge of the "Zonglun" case.

It stands to reason that inspecting the disaster should have been the responsibility of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for managing local household registration, taxation, transportation, construction, disaster relief, and other work. Because it is responsible for the tax collection work of the imperial court, it is an important position second only to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Style. Maeda Genyi, who was appointed by the Fifth Commissioner, was appointed as the Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Matsumae Keihiro, who met with Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was appointed as the Daisuke of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Hideyoshi's Yellow Mother Cloth Aoyama Ichige was appointed as the Minor Minister of the People's Department.

Maeda Genyi and Aoyama Ichishige were both elders of the Toyotomi regime, and Matsumae Keihiro, who ruled the Ezo land, which was later Hokkaido, only received 10,000 koku in name, but in essence as the only independent daimyo in Hokkaido, he controlled the territory as high as 200,000 koku, and at the same time, there were two major gold sand lands in the domain, Reimoji and Osawa, and they controlled the trade routes between the Mutsu region and Ezo Toman.

This shows the importance of the official career of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In the official career system of the Imagawa family, the civil ministry officials were under the jurisdiction of the embassy, and Yamauchi Shitoyo was the general judge of the prosecutor's office, so he had no right to meddle in civil affairs, but this was personally assigned by the county keeper Asahina Mototo, and in addition to disaster relief matters, Yamauchi also carried an arrest notice against Yada Sakujuro, the official of Zenshu Temple, so no one in the county stood up and said that it was not in accordance with the system.

When the convoy arrived outside the farm again, the people who were busy harvesting crops in the nearby fields retreated and knelt down to the side of the road.

The general judge Lang official traveled to the countryside and was a herdsman for the king, representing the face of the county guard, the Junfu and even the shogunate and the imperial court, the honor guard was majestic, dignified and solemn, the Yamauchi clan was wearing a black hunt, wearing a black hat, wearing a sword, and there were flags in front and behind the ox cart, and the two small attendants knocked the gong to open the way.

When the clerk heard the sound outside the courtyard, he hurriedly put down the brush in his hand and hurriedly ran out of the courtyard, not caring about helping the villagers who came to the village to receive relief to record the 'borrowing', and fell to the ground: "I didn't know that the Lang official came, and the subordinates failed to respond, and they were still begging to atone for their sins." ”

Although Yamauchi is a son of the samurai family, he is also a small official from the end of the small work of the public service, all the way to the official career before he was appointed as a Lang official, and he did not discriminate against the loyal old officials like Murono Shu, but on the contrary, he was very respectful, and ordered the left and right to get out of the way, and he personally got off the ox cart, stepped forward to help him up, and said with a warm smile: "The same Junfu is a public servant, why should the secretary be too polite and humble." ”

Murono Heizo came out in a hurry, and the courtyard door was wide open.

Yamauchi glanced at the courtyard, and saw that the front yard was crowded, and two errand servants, Kimura Heiroku and Shintsu Sun Ichiro, were standing in front of the door of a longhouse, while using a funnel to help the villagers weigh rice into the cloth bags, and their mouths kept shouting for people to line up, and there were four or five grain bags stacked on the stone steps next to them, which were mostly empty.

There is a limit on the daily distribution of grain in the village, and it is no wonder that the people behind are anxious and look forward to it, for fear that when it is their turn, they will be sent out, and they can't even care about the arrival of the county officials.

On the cloister-style table, there is another desk, on which is placed pen, ink, paper and inkstone, which is used to record the 'borrowing notes', which will be used as a basis for the future to be delivered to the county and the Nagata family, so as to show that the servants of the village did not get up and down their hands, and took the opportunity to be greedy for ink.

Seeing this, Yamauchi only noticed at this time that Murono Heizo, his fingertips and cuffs were stained with ink, he was old and experienced, and immediately understood what was going on, so he asked strangely: "Dare to ask the clerk, where is the surplus grain distribution in the village?" ”

'Borrowing food' means distributing seeds, rice, grain, and money to the people at low or even no interest to survive the famine, and when the harvest comes, it will be repaid according to the 'loan', and if it suffers from the disaster within three consecutive years, or if the government does not send someone to ask for it, it means that it has given up the right to repay the borrower.

If it is bankrupt and unable to repay due to personal reasons after borrowing, the Junfu will take away the land in its name, of course, it will appropriately compensate the bankrupt with a small amount of money and grain, and the bankrupt has the right of first refusal.

It is equivalent to using the 'nomenclature right' as collateral to borrow money from Junfu.

The Imagawa False List was set up to encourage the common people to borrow money from the Sunfu rather than the merchants.

It is not surprising that the village helped the people of the county to distribute 'borrowed food' to the people, but at present, the county's disaster relief money and food have not been raised, so where does Pingshanzhuang get the money and food.

"The day before yesterday, the head of the village went to Changtian Village to inspect and distribute grain, and the richest man in the county, Mr. Changtian Lishi, saw that the money and grain in the village were not enough, so he was willing to scatter his family wealth and ask the people in the township to buy family treasures to benefit future generations." In the past two days, Heizo Murono has to talk about almost everyone who comes to the village to borrow grain, and now he is even more clever to paraphrase.

"The Nagata clan... Jiabao..." In the first half of this year, the county's military department and the second Cao of the civil department also came to the door to lead the soldiers to "persuade" a large amount of "money", and I heard that the head of the family, Nagata Lishi, was also angry and seriously ill.

As an official of Junfu, he has always despised the mercenary businessmen, not to mention that the Nagata family is still an unscrupulous businessman who started as a lending. This kind of disaster year has always been a great opportunity for wealthy businessmen to embezzle the people, and even small people from small countries, the Yamauchi family once owed a loan to the Omiya Shrine Fuji family due to the flooding of the Tenryu River, and even the people of the Yamauchi family were almost unable to parry, and other people were often forced to lose their jobs and sell themselves into slavery.

If the Nagata family doesn't take the opportunity to raise the interest rate, it is considered a good deed, how can they open a warehouse and release grain unusually, and what family treasure to buy?

"Hmm..."

Murono Heizo saw that Yamauchi was silent, and vaguely guessed his intention, and thought with apprehension and joy in his heart: "What Zhuangtou said is true, but I didn't expect that the moral decree of the Junfu would be promulgated so soon... It's just that I don't know how much I can exempt, oops, I almost forgot, Zhuang Tou instructed me to make a name for the county for the Nagata family..." Hurriedly added: "The villain is stupid and can't say clearly, Lang Guan might as well move to the courtyard and take a look at the 'Lubu Announcement', Zhuang Tou will write the whole thing on it, and Lang Guan will understand after reading it." ”

"Lead the way." Yamauchi was noncommittal, and several flags followed him into the village with Murono Heizo.

The official was still outside the courtyard before, and the villagers inside could be regarded as ignoring, but now that they came in, they couldn't continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb, kneeling to the side with hulala, and saying goodbye to the adults.

"Lang Guan is lenient, let Er and others continue to receive 'borrowed food' without courtesy." , Yamauchi Tongju and Qianshou replied that they lost their identity, waved their hands, and the little attendant Itakura Shiro Uemon, who had been waiting beside him, immediately understood the meaning, and stepped forward to give orders to the people for him.

After receiving the order, the people got up again, and even the two servants consciously retreated to the wall, standing honestly, and no one took the words of this dark-skinned and short-lived county official seriously.

"Officer Lang, please come with me." Heizo Murono respectfully led Yamauchi's party to the door of the longhouse where the grain was delivered, pointed to the few pieces of dew cloth on the wooden wall outside, and said, "What happened is all on the announcement. ”

Yamauchi's eyes were not good, standing in the distance can only see a string of blurred handwriting, two steps closer to see clearly, the Lubu proclamation is not written in Chinese, but easier for the people to read, usually used kana, so that even if you don't know Hanshu can only plain language, people with fifty-syllable kana letters can understand.

I couldn't help nodding, I was very satisfied with the rigorous attitude of the Zhuang office, it was not unheard of in the past, the errand deliberately wrote the announcement as ordinary people did not know Hanshu, and then took the opportunity to distort the decree of Junfu.

More than 10 years ago, the 'Sanjo One Rule' was because the governor of the Hosokawa family deceived the people into not knowing Hanshu, misinterpreted the law, and took the opportunity to levy and increase the faction, which finally caused a commotion among the people of Kyoto, resulting in the three main streets being burned down by fire, and the fire continued for days, and even the royal palace and the imperial palace were affected.

Although the 'Three Strips and One Sword' did not occur under the rule of the Imagawa family, it still attracted the attention of the Jun government, and sent the prosecutor to the countryside to inspect the law, and sure enough, many similar things happened.

Under the anger, nearly 100 people were severely punished, among which one of them was responsible for picketing and honesty, and three were responsible for the investigation of the customs of the county and the embassy.

With this old example, Yamauchi Tong was particularly concerned, and when he looked carefully, when he saw the "Xue Guo Daimyo Meng Yantian Clan" and "Ronin Feng Chen", he couldn't help but be surprised, he was familiar with the classics, and saw that the story of Meng Yanjun Tianwen and his retainer Feng Tan's "Burning Coupon City Righteousness" was adapted in this way, and he was also suddenly amused, but he also had a great change in his opinion of Gao Shisheng.

Although it was not written on the Lu Bu, the "Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit" planned by the 'Ronin Feng Chen' for the lord 'Xue Guo Daimyo Meng Weitian Clan', but he guessed that Gao Shisheng must have taken this as an example to admonish Nagata Lishi, and thought in his heart: "I can use the story of the historian as a model to teach Hao Qian and persuade the people to be kind, but there is a more remarkable backward talent among the Gao children after Saburo and Goro." ”

San Lang and Goro are both Junjie of the younger generation of the Gao family, and they are all brothers of Gao Shisheng according to the family tree. The Gao clan Saburo clan Zhong and the Goro clan are known for their skill in bows and horses, and together they worship the current governor of the Imagawa clan with the real "clan" character as the common character, and are under the official career of the table soldier Guard, and now the "Daiyue people" in the Junfu are in service.

The 'Daigaku people' is taken from the military attache of the Heian Dynasty, the three of them, the Great Nayan and the Right Guards General of the Military Department Saka Uedamura Maro, the leader of the Eastern Barbarians of the Mutsu Ezo Land who was defeated by the shrimp 'Abi Ryuwei', also known as the strange story of the King of the Evil Road.

Legend has it that after the death of the evil king, the evil spirit possessed the head and turned into the ghost king 'Ogakumaru' of Ise Suzuka Mountain, and caused evil in. Plundered and plundered many times to seize the tribute offered to Kyoto on the land.

Tamura Maro led the army to crusade for the second time, but was defeated by Daigakumaru with supernatural powers and the sword of Sanming, and had no choice but to ask for help from his side room, and was able to use supernatural powers to entrust demons, and was called the daughter of the fourth day demon king called "Rikuro hat" - Suzuka Gozen.

With the help of Tamura Maro, Suzuka Gozen used the Yin-Yang Technique to retreat from the Daigaku Pill, subdued him as a Shikigami, and acted as the vanguard general of Tamura Maro's conquest of the Quartet.

Maro Tamura got the help of 'Daigaku Maru', and was crowned as the first general of the Imperial Court for his meritorious service.

With 'Mt. Daitake' as the army, the Imagawa family's ambition to replace the Ashikaga clan to rule the world can be said to be obvious.

At that time, most of the warriors were selected with bow and horse martial arts, and most of the famous warriors were on the battlefield and charged into the position. Although the Imagawa clan has been fighting for many years, on the border between Mikawa and Owari, the Imagawa and Oda families are still in skirmishes, and the samurai Lang party under their command is based around Odakajo Castle, provoking each other for a long time, plundering each other's wives and daughters, in order to show off their military name.

Many samurai from Enoe and Suruga will choose to be led by their parents and go to the vicinity of Otaka Castle for the first battle.

The two brothers Gao Saburo and Goro were no exception, and at the age of fifteen, they joined forces, rode horses and rushed into battle, and successively won the name of the Owari samurai, and their reputation was greatly enhanced.

Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find; Brave generals can be recruited, but Wang Zuo is hard to find. The Imagawa clan was at its peak in literary style, and valued the scribes who were good at governing the people more than the brave generals.

Yamauchi turned around and descended the stairs, reached into the rice bag and grabbed a handful of buckwheat corn, without looking, he could feel that this was some years old grain, threw it away, and asked the murono clerk, "Is it all old grain for disaster relief?" ”

"Not exactly."

Yamauchi picked up half of the "borrowing note" that had not yet been written, a wide bamboo slip about one-third foot long, on which was written: "On September 28, a certain household in Uji Village led the village to "borrow a fake food" buckwheat and old grain ......", and the handwriting was contaminated with ink stains here.

The paper was insufficient, and it was very common to cut bamboo for the bamboo to remember, and Yamauchi didn't think there was anything to make a fuss about, so he put down the slip and asked, "I don't know where Gao's right guard went?" ”

After coming for a long time, I didn't see Gao Shisheng go out to greet him, thinking that he should have gone out, but he had a decree announced this time, and the head of the village was not there, so he couldn't just hand it over to the secretary.

"Zhuang Tou led the young people in the township to repair the road and drain the stagnant water in the fields......" Murono Heizo stretched out his hand in the direction of the south, pointed, and said: "As soon as the sky was bright in the morning, I took people with my hands, and now I should still be near the water storage tank of Pingshan Villa." ”

After hearing what he had said, Judge Yamauchi noticed that the people who came to receive the relief in the courtyard were all old and weak, women and children, and even the laborers in the fields outside the courtyard were not very young and strong, and he couldn't help but be very curious.

It is not that he did not help his colleagues in the Ministry of Civil Affairs to levy and issue general labor, and the people in various villages have always tried their best to delay and deny it, and if they can, they will not go, after all, the burden of labor is heavy.

It is said that it is a salary, just what can those two or three bad money be worth, and if you are unlucky, you don't even have bad money, even if you say 'work for relief', it is not necessarily how many people are willing to give up their fields to receive the little support rice every day.

The people of the village are ignorant, and if Gao Shisheng can recruit young and strong people to serve in labor, he will definitely not be empty and white-toothed, and persuade with words, but rely on the money and grain of the Changtian family to serve labor obediently, so that he can get money and food.

This is not the relief food sent by Junfu, and he has the final say on whoever he wants to give it.

Yamauchi said to Murono Heizo: "In that case, then I can go to Hirayama Village to find the Gao clan's right guard, and the clerk will continue to distribute relief, so you don't have to go with me." ”

"How can that work, or ...... me"

Yamauchi stopped Murono Heizo and didn't let him go with him, saying, "I've been to Hongo many times, and I still know where Hirayama Village is. ”

After speaking, he immediately urged Murono Heisan to hurry up the secretary, turned around and led people out of the hospital, boarded the ox cart, and let the little attendant reopen the road in front.

Note: The prototype of Sanjo and Ichiza is the 'Sanjo Tsuza Incident', and only 'Sanjo Tsuza Incident で死したFujizaki Kichigoro のbrother' was found.

It is also mentioned in "Bo Sakura Ghost" that this incident occurred in the autumn of the second year of Qing Xin, which should be a reform incident.

Note 2: There is a separate regulation in the "Imagawa Fake Directory" that indicates that the disaster victims will be borrowed at no interest or low interest, but the specific interest rate is not indicated, and it does not explain what will happen if you really can't afford to pay it back.

Therefore, the Bankruptcy Ordinance was incorporated as a supplement, and the general historical situation should not be too different.