Little by little, the sun rises to dispel the frost of an autumn morning. In the blink of an eye, it is the season to plough the fields after autumn, and after the flood has been rectified, the villagers in Pingshan who have not yet been recuperated have picked up their hoes and gone out of the village to the fields, and the farmers on the dirt road at the entrance of the village are endless.

On the north side of the road, three or four miles away is a ditch that leads from the Misawa River, and many farmers and apprentices have already begun to work in the farmland along the canal, and the lake in the far sea ripples slightly in the sunlight, just as in the past.

The master sits on the Hu bed, the flag behind him is displayed, and the six big characters of 'Amitabha Buddha in the south' are written, and the warriors in the township are pressed by the sword, standing on both sides. In the distance, dozens of ashigaru wearing curls and holding long bamboo poles, under the command of their respective soldiers, shouted slogans and beat each other.

In front of the crowd, there were four or five open wooden boxes, which were filled with copper coins that had always been well penetrated, and on both sides there were also tables stacked on both sides, and grain bags stacked into a hill, which were not miscellaneous grains and weeds that fooled people, but genuine rice, which attracted many homeless people who worked to stop watching and envy them.

On the other side, there are arrow targets in front of the flat school field, and there are more than a dozen archers, after the line marks fifty steps away, the bow is held and shot, the bow is not a good bow, it is a maruki bow used for hunting in the countryside, the posture of holding the bow is a wild road at a glance, without the regular army training, Gao Shisheng looked, their posture of bending the bow and opening the arrow is not standard.

Some of the footsteps are crooked, some of the waist poles are rickety, and even the posture of a person raising the bow is not right, but the accuracy is not bad, and I dare not say that the arrow is even hit, at least it can be ten shots and three hits, which is not a random shot.

Even samurai may not dare to say that they are proficient in archery, not to mention that Ashigaru, whose life is even more difficult, forcibly forcing them to change their shooting methods does not guarantee that they will be effective.

Since ancient times, the strong bow and arrow is an indispensable killing weapon in the hunting of the military array, when the "Book of Rites, Archery" was introduced, the Ping'an public family appeared not to kill for the purpose of "Wen Shooting", archery has since been deduced into the entertainment culture of the bow and arrow, shooting and drinking, and since then the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, the order of the young and the old.

But for the samurai shogunate of father and son, among the six arts of samurai, archery ranks first, and even above riding, after all, not all the kingdom of the order system produces horses, and the famous samurai who are famous for later generations are mostly good at bowing, whether it is Fujiwara Hidego to retreat with a heavy bow to control the hundred-legged centipede, or that must fight with Ichiya Island, an arrow to injure the beautiful girl of the guardian god of the Heike family, the general of the Yashima bald dog, all show the importance of bows and arrows to the samurai.

Above the military array, there is a 'saying that archery is the heaviest', and the master is not familiar with the art of war, but he has also gone to the Ogasawara Ryo Dojo by himself and practiced it seriously, but the talent is only a middle man, and he is not as good as a real archery master, but at the current level, it is much stronger than most of the wild warriors who have not been taught.

There is a lack of iron cannons in the east, Gao Shisheng naturally takes a special fancy to the lethality brought by the bow and arrow, anyone who can shoot the arrow target fifty steps away, there is a reward, and three rings are hooked on the round target, the center of the ring is the outer circle and the inner square, shaped like a copper coin, how big can a copper coin be, whether you can see it in the distance or not, if you take this as a target, the difficulty is greatly increased, there is no long-term practice, I am afraid that few people can shoot, so the reward is also different.

Those who shoot the outermost ring will be rewarded with a Yuanzhou coin, those in the second ring will be rewarded with five Yuanzhou coins, and those in the inner ring will be rewarded with ten Yongle coins. Not to mention the miscellaneous soldiers, these days are samurai, and there are many people who are full of confidence and personally go down to test shooting, although there are good hands, they have earned nearly two dollars in the past two days, which greatly boosts Ashigaru's confidence, but still no one can take a table of rice.

Gao Shisheng pulled out the folding fan pinned to his waist, pointed to the ashigaru on the field, and pointed to the samurai beside him: "The archery is threefold, one is the instrument, the second is the mind, and the third is the induction. Then he talked eloquently: "The instrument is the bow and arrow, and if the bow and arrow are not adjusted between shots, then even the bow skills are difficult to use in the strong." The wrestler holds the strong bow to pierce the armor with heavy arrows to kill the enemy, and the light plagiarism uses the short bow to shoot sharply, and the bow is rather in the hands of people, not the bow is subject to the bow, and the bow must be made to make it like an arm, which is the foundation of the bow. ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and someone next to him immediately asked: "Dare to ask Xiangzuo, what is the mind and the introduction?" "They are all local warriors, and where do they have the opportunity to learn this martial art of war.

"Thoughts, that is, when opening the bow, you must be free of distracting thoughts, not subject to the interference of the seven emotions, and at the same time concentrate on it, replace the eyes with the ears and distinguish the six ways and eight directions. The seven emotions are 'joy, anger, sorrow, thought, sadness, fear, and shock', and the injured person is the 'seven obstacles of archery'. Take military law as an example, it is about those who are put to death, and then they can be born! ”

The samurai nodded again and again, they didn't know how to bow art, but they knew that the seven emotions and six desires would interfere with judgment and reflexes on the battlefield, and these were things that cost people's lives.

"Draw points refers to the length of the bow, while examining the distance of the opponent, adjust the distance between their bows to ensure that they can hit the opponent and achieve the purpose of killing. If the body is not right, the shot is not right. The most taboo hunched back, shoulders, elbows, waist, and legs should be concentrated in one place, first of all, the eyes should be straight, and the arms should be stable·····"

Many people have seen him with their own eyes, one arrow seriously injured Misawa Zuobei, the strength penetrated the carcass, the explanation of Gao Shisheng, there is no doubt that there is him, and the reason is easy to understand, everyone can understand, and the samurai on the left and right are all humbly listening.

If it is said that the two events of the destruction of the Misawa clan and the persecution of Haoqiang and the law only allowed Gao Shisheng to gain the fear of the people and Haoqiang and annex a large amount of wealth, then after rewarding all the land and property obtained at the Yuanfu ceremony to the Hasegawa family, plus scattering wealth to others, he was admired by most of the samurai in the township.

No matter how strict his methods were, at least he was a warrior who could share hardships, share wealth and righteousness, and gain some of the reputation of heroism for Gao Shisheng, and even the second sons of several countrymen also came to serve, wanting to find an errand with him.

In the case of the people and the powerful bowing down, the next governance can be called easy.

The purpose of Gao Shisheng's appointment in the township is very clear, that is, to ensure that he is prepared for the upcoming battle of Tsubasasa, and even 'recruits troops', and strives to continue to survive in the destruction of the Imagawa family. Since the purpose is clear, there are traces of what to do next.

In the case of not affecting agricultural affairs, the recruitment of brave and young people, with the Lang Party of the wealthy families as the mainstay, a little bit of training, all day long on the lakeside opposite the village, follow the sound of the golden drum, advance and retreat drills, the high division is not through the military formation, naturally do not know how to train, at this time the benefits of the children of the famous martial arts family, it is reflected.

Although he didn't understand, but there were always people in the county soldiers who could train soldiers, and when the Misawa clan was exterminated that day, the county soldiers set up a formation of guns, more than 30 spears, and their Xu Rulin, Misawa Zuobei and others fled in embarrassment. On the other hand, on his side, although Kitano Manjiro, Hasegawa Hayato, and Ono Tadaaki are all brave, they really caught and killed, but they couldn't take it quickly.

Therefore, in the name of preparing for the theft, Gao Shisheng asked the county guard to send a few soldiers to Bina Motochang to come and instruct the group of miscellaneous soldiers in the township on how to deploy guns and shoot bows and arrows, and silently, the various Jialang parties have been assigned to the name of the Zhuang office.

The six archers who had just been replaced had not yet finished shooting the arrows in the pot, and the fast ones had only shot two arrows, and the slow ones had not fired a single arrow.

Gao Shisheng stopped explaining, and although the samurai around him were still proud, they all returned to their original positions in an orderly manner. Gao Shisheng laughed, looked at the sky, and said with a smile: "You can eat with me!" ”

Although there is no guarantee that you can eat rice, all kinds of miscellaneous grains and rice are full, and Pingshan Township is adjacent to the open sea, and if you are lucky, you can still drink fish soup.

The living conditions are really not bad, and many of the ashigaru and samurai came from distant villages, and it is inevitable that there are people who live in poverty, so they simply live in the village with the messengers, and the food and use are usually provided by the high master, in fact, these people can also be said to gradually break away from the Imagawa family and become the private soldiers of the acting official.

If it weren't for the fact that Gao Shisheng's quota of training sixty ashigaru was already full, I am afraid that the young and strong people in the whole township who were idle would come to him to ask for recruitment, and the disaster in the Mikawa country next door was also very serious, plus the Imagawa family did not force the people of Mikawa to fulfill the law and the moral decree, and many people were forced to go into exile with their families.

Because the displaced people have no source of livelihood, although the village continues to distribute some miscellaneous grains, the Changtian family will also open a porridge shed in the village every two days to provide relief, but this little porridge and water is not enough to feed their stomachs, at most they can barely hang their lives, not to starve to death, far less than the food ordered by the village.

It's just that the food in the village is limited, and secondly, it is impossible for Gao Shisheng to recruit too many people, although he sympathizes with these poor people, but there is no way to do it for every family, without worrying about food and clothing, he can only say that he will give relief to the widows and children first.

In order to prevent some of the displaced people from taking risks and gathering into thieves, Gao Shisheng sent the young men to prepare ditches and roads, and also lifted the ban on mountains, forests and lakes, allowing them to hunt for fish.

Strictly speaking, these undeveloped mountains and lakes are the private domain of the Imagawa family, and if you want to enter, you have to pay money, and fishing requires fishing nets and boats, although the village borrowed some boats and fishing nets, but after all, the number is limited, so there are not many people who can really go.

Although there are no tigers in the mountains and forests, there are wolves, mountain whales (wild boars), and even ghost bears, which are mountain bears that have lived for many years, and it is rumored that ghost bears often break into the village near the Kiso River in Shinshu, and drag cattle and horses out of the livestock sheds and bring them back to the mountains to eat.

It is said that it walks upright like a human, and once a hunter killed a ghost bear, and the bear skin was the size of six tatami mats.

The homeless people can't even eat, and where do they have the physical strength to fight with wild beasts, at most, they go to the edge of the forest to pick up some dry firewood and dig some wild vegetables, so they also disappeared two people, I don't know what beasts dragged them away, which makes the homeless people even more avoidant of the wilderness.

Giving relief every two days, allowing the displaced people to temporarily live in their villages, hunting for fish, giving relief with labor, and even deliberately showing off force in front of them are all perfunctory copies, and they are by no means the means the solution to the root cause of the displaced people. Gao Shisheng also knows this, but unfortunately in this world, there are some things that he knows what to do, but he can't do it.

The name of the displaced people is like a flood, and if you want to retreat, there are only two strategies: either block or evacuate.

Blockage: Send people to forcibly drive it back to Sanhe and block it abroad. Shu: Ask the county to come forward and build a house and divide the land for him, and accept him as a good citizen.

It is impossible to block, this method has been proposed by Chinese people before, and it was vetoed by others at that time.

Pingshan Township is located on the main road, facing the country of Sanhe in the north, there are hundreds of displaced people, and the number is increasing every day, how can this miscellaneous soldier in the township be overloaded, and these displaced people are not unarmed, defenseless honest people, not to mention that everyone carries a knife, at least they are young and strong with wooden sticks and hoes in their hands, they are really forced to launch a hammer and loot the township.

The only feasible thing is to sparse, and the biggest problem with this strategy is where the fields come from. If you are diligent now, you can still plant some weeds, and even if there is no food in winter, you must at least ensure that they have some hope. It is true that there is a lot of uncultivated wasteland in Pingshan Township, but if you want to turn the wasteland into fertile land, you don't know how many years it will take to accumulate fertility, and the displaced people may not be willing to open up the wasteland.

There are some surplus fields in the township, but Gao Shisheng can't be really greedy, at least now that the two sides have just made peace, they can't stir up confrontation anymore.

Of course, in addition to dividing the land, there is still a compromise solution, that is, to ask the Haoyou people to come forward and absorb the displaced people as vain.

In fact, there are already some Chinese people who are taking the opportunity to buy homeless people as slaves and maids at low prices, but the countrymen in the township are not rich, and there are already slaves and maids and Lang Dang to raise at home, in order to save food, it is impossible for them to take in all these homeless people.

However, as the weather gradually turned colder, more and more displaced people began to pour in, and the longhouses of Misawa Gathering gradually became full, and later displaced people had to build shacks outside the village to escape the cold.

Gao Shisheng also had no choice, so he stopped training and instead sent most of the ashigaru to the homeless village to maintain order, and it was in this kind of passability that the first snow of the first year of Eiroku finally came, a little earlier than expected.