"Senior brother?" Itakura Shigekatsu saw Gao Shisheng suddenly leave the table, and asked inexplicably.

Hasegawa Mototada replied: "It is difficult to disobey the enslavement order of the Northern Shinano for the Junfu, but there are now thousands of displaced people in my township who are hesitating, even if they are ordered, I am afraid it will be difficult to mobilize the inadequate. ”

This is very right, not only what Gao Shisheng meant, but also what everyone present wanted to say, the wealthy families and villages were afraid of Yu Wei, who had destroyed the Misawa clan not long ago, and did not dare to stand up and speak out against the chaos of Junfu, but they all looked panicked, and it was the proper duty to protect Sangzi in the township, but it was another thing to abandon their family and business to fight for the daimyo.

Nobuya Hamana and Toyohisa Ishimatsu's son-in-law glanced at each other, and stopped talking.

The master of Zhenghong Yuan said worriedly: "The East China Sea is in trouble, and the Beixin Hao clan is in chaos again······" Muttered to himself the names of the wealthy families who started the rebellion mentioned by Itakura Shigekatsu, "The Oda clan, the Wakatsuki clan, the Okura clan, and the Hanamura clan, these wealthy families are all not very famous in Hokushin, I don't know where they came from?" There is such a momentum, taking the city one after another and repelling the crusade of the Takeda army? ”

The Oda clan and the Wakatsuki clan are former ministers subordinate to the Kitashinano Murakami family, and it is normal that the lord of Zhenghong Temple has not heard of it, and the Okura clan and Hanamura clan are branches of the Okura Shimazu clan, and it is not clear that the lord of Zhenghong is such a monk, even everyone present has never heard of it, although these four wealthy families are nameless, but they can also be called more powerful people in the county, and the relationship between them and the village in the county is intertwined, and the rebellion is by no means a simple change of flag, it can be said that it directly shook the Takeda family's rule over the county.

Gao Shisheng turned around and stood up, and asked Itakura Shigekatsu: "I don't know how much military service my hometown bears this time?" ”

"Military service in the county, according to the inspection list, Pingshan Township stone high 832 stones, six buckets and one together, according to the old practice, when the long military service of 30 people, small banners 4 people, 10 archers, 8 flag warriors, three war horses, 40 warriors and small soldiers, no old and weak prevarication." Itakura Shigekatsu took out the military service order wrapped in oilcloth from his bosom and read it according to the article, paused, and then said: "In addition, it is required to recruit a number of homeless people in the countryside to make up for the lack of military service, and the order must be assembled in the county after five days!" ”

When he finished speaking, Shi Song Fengjiu couldn't bear it anymore: "This is a chaotic fate!" Now there are people everywhere, how can we afford such military service, nearly 100 young people have been drawn out of the battle, I am afraid that every two days after I leave, I will wait for my wife and children to die without a remnant! As Lord Yuan Zhong said, even we don't want to wait, let alone the people in the village! ”

The loyalty and devotion of the people of each country to the Imagawa family of Sunfu is based on the complete mutual protection of the two sides, and it is by no means a unilateral request or payment, and when the order of Sunfu violates the rights and interests of these people, it will definitely be refuted and resisted mercilessly, not to mention this kind of matter related to the life of the family. This kind of opposition is by no means the attitude of Shi Song Fengjiu alone, but the dissatisfaction of the entire Yuanjiang people, although it will not be launched, but it will not bow down.

"Now that the autumn harvest has been handed over to the county, and the people of all countries respect the Junfu Virtue Decree, is it unreasonable to force the people to go out of battle this time?" Gao Shisheng considered the choice of words and asked tentatively: "I don't know if the Jun Mansion can be rewarded, and the people get money and food, so we can persuade and persuade them?" ”

Adhering to the duties of acting officials, Gao Shisheng must not only complete the law of Junfu, but also protect the reasonable rights and interests of the wealthy clans and villages under his rule to a certain extent, so he is reasonable this time, and he cannot stand on the side of the county guard to 'help the abuse', the two wealthy clans of Dajing and Nagata may not oppose too much because of their feelings, but other wealthy clans in the township, and even the common people, may be ready to move, collude with each other, and even deliberately cause some friction with the homeless people, and even human lives, to resist military service from the side.

He was more worried about this than he was about it.

Itakura Shigekatsu shook his head helplessly, which made the hearts of everyone present suddenly sink to the bottom, but as if he remembered something, he added: "The county guard has explained that anyone who responds to military service can get salt in exchange for salt in the Xinju salt farm, and it is also allowed to sell salt in Shinano with the army, and the income is privately owned by each township, and no tax is recorded." ”

What is the profit of selling salt? The daimyo of various countries have implemented a 'monopoly' policy in their own countries, and they must participate in all profitable transactions and 'compete with the people for profit'.

The Imagawa family is no exception, and they control salt at the source, that is, from the production of salt.

The people who moved to the coast of Tokaido were counted by household, and the name was called salt ding, and the salt was counted according to ding, and the name was called forehead salt, and each stone of salt was a citation. In order to ensure the production and flow of salt, the government is very strict with the management of these salt households, once naturalized, future generations are not allowed to leave the household registration, and they cannot change industries.

The salt that is boiled and dried is only purchased at a low price, and it is strictly forbidden for salt stove households to sell it privately, and the only advantage is probably that they can be exempted from miscellaneous labor. But to collect so much salt, you have to find a way to transport it out and sell it, not to mention how high the cost of Junfu itself is, the world is in turmoil, and if you want to sell the goods safely, you can only rely on big merchants.

If you want to sell salt legally, you must get the 'Kanhe Salt Introduction' of the Sunfu, and these salt introductions have been ignored by the Fuji Omiya family for many years, that is, the official monopoly accumulation.

Gu Yu first appeared at the end of the legal order system, and then prevailed in the world. A large number of ministers and ministers of state forcibly controlled the prices of salt, iron, tea, wine, horses, cloth and even grain by virtue of their privileges, the most famous of which was the Heike family, through the exploration trade, amassed a large amount of copper coins, and cooperated with the means of Gu Yu to attack the Kanto Genji, and later the source of the Yoritomo Dynasty raised troops, and among the crimes of the Hei family, there was 'Gu Rong wealth and profit, plundering the people; Extremely poor Kanto, rich and boastful', it can be seen that the hatred is deep.

On the surface, under the Gu Rong of the Fuji family, others can't intervene at all. Although it is only through salt introduction that sea salt can be purchased from salt households, there are always loopholes, because the price of salt is too low, and sometimes even copper coins are not available, so they can only get shoddy old grain, and salt farmers can be described as miserable and difficult to support their families.

In order to curb this behavior, Junfu will also allow local county guards to pay money to buy back, and it happens that there is a salt farm in the new residence, which is equivalent to giving up his share of profits to the people under his rule, which can be said to be very sincere

The price of salt in Tokaido is not high, a bucket of cheap salt is only 120 Wen, according to 10 buckets and one stone to calculate only 1,200 Wen, in addition to the purchase price and foot money, it is really not a huge profit, but to sell Shinano, which does not produce salt, at least wait for the price to double, and now there is a war in chaos, sitting on the ground and selling it to the Takeda Army, making two or three times the profit, it is not impossible, and the large army selling salt can also greatly reduce the cost of transportation.

But the people of the country didn't buy it, and some people immediately complained: "What kind of reward is this? It's not to trick us into going to Shinano, what if the salt can't be sold? ”

"People always have to eat salt, even if the remaining part can't be sold, you can bring it back for your own use or sell it to the people, the county guard has already explained to the Investigation Department, and it will not be difficult to judge and hold accountable for this." Itakura Shigekatsu seems to have persuaded many Chinese people to follow the good word, this condition is not unfavorable, which is equivalent to implying that as long as the Chinese people obey the military service, even if they secretly tamper with some other account details this year, they will not be held accountable.

But there are always people who are not satisfied, and want to bargain again, but they have no intention of glancing at Gao Shisheng, and seeing the dissatisfaction in Xiangzuo's eyes, they immediately shrank back.

The scene fell cold all of a sudden, and everyone looked at Xiangzuo, who was standing at the door, as if he had moved, waiting for him to make a decision.

"Since my uncle is sympathetic to the people and gives him a reward, I should do what I am ordered for my nephew!" Gao Shisheng opened his mouth and finalized the result of the whole thing, which is beyond doubt.

"Then ······" Under the expectation of many people, he continued: "Just as Lord Yuanzhong worried, the displaced people in the township are in trouble, and they must be prevented, although there is military service in the county, it is not required that it must be the people of the village, and we can hire the people with money and grain to cover the military service. ”

Itakura Shigekatsu immediately agreed, the county only cares about whether the young men who serve are qualified, and they don't care if they are in the military service order, every time Sunfu Castle goes out into battle, a large number of ronin are not all hired by the Imagawa family, but the merchants and townspeople in the castle town in order to avoid military service, go to the ronin house to hire ronins to replace their places, which is allowed by the law.

The people of the country did not object, even if they did not spend money to hire people to replace the battle, it was not necessary to use money and food to support each other in vain, and if some of them could be transferred, it would also be conducive to the security of the township.

"If the outcasts don't want that?" As soon as Gao Shisheng finished speaking, Shimoda Village asked hesitantly, their village was closest to Misawa Ju, where the displaced people lived temporarily, and it caused the most fighting, knowing that the displaced people were not obedient people, but then they found that everyone was looking at them with a terrible look, realizing that they were stupid, and asked a superfluous question.

The military order of the Junfu to go out of battle cannot be violated no matter what, and the fate of the Misawa clan, who has just been exterminated, is obvious to all, if the displaced people do not listen to the order and dare to resist, can't they just ask the county soldiers to come and take the people.

It's just that, after all, there are a large number of displaced people, there are hundreds of people just young and strong, and the Misawa clan that was wiped out is different, the force is strong, and the persecution is not easy, and it is easy to lose both sides if you really fight, so the best way is to coerce and lure, and persecute the old and weak.

The next words, it is inconvenient for outsiders to listen, Itakura Shigekatsu also said goodbye with interest, saying that he would go elsewhere to spread the news, Gao Shisheng did not keep it, and when he changed the warm winter clothes and straw shoes for the flag, he asked the messenger to bag the prepared rice balls and hot water to help dress him, and held Itakura Shigekatsu's hand at the door, and he couldn't help but say, so he asked people to lead his Shinano horse out: "The senior brother is very hard to pass the order for a long time, and he carries a package of official documents, and it is inconvenient to walk, and ride my horse away." ”

How could Itakura rewin, he refused again and again, but in the end he couldn't shirk it, and was helped on the back of the horse by Gao Shisheng himself, and then advised: "The wind and snow are filled, the sky is dark, and the road is difficult, so you must be cautious!" ”

Itakura Shigekatsu was very moved, and bowed his hand and thanked: "After the official document is delivered, I will definitely come to thank my senior brother for borrowing the horse!" ”

Gao Shisheng smiled and said nothing, and only after the figures of Itakura Shigekatsu and others were completely covered by the wind and snow did he take everyone back to Guangma.

Returning to the hall and revisiting the old things that had not been discussed before, Hasegawa Mototada preemptively spoke: "Such a major matter, do not act hastily, it will inevitably leak the rumors, arouse the vigilance of the other generation, and beg the townspeople to allow us to restrain each other with an oath, and besides, when we serve in battle, we should also win each other's trust, so that we can work together to survive, and if there is a violation of the oath, we should discuss it together!" ”

But it was to take the opportunity to coerce everyone to sign an oath and express obedience to Gao Shisheng, but it was a high-sounding sound, whenever they went out of battle, the people in the township would swear to each other in front of the statue of God and Buddha, and promise not to abandon on the battlefield, let alone flee and betray, although the binding force is not strong, but it has become a fixed process.

Hamana Nobumitsu and others were a little hesitant, mainly because Gao Shisheng had played with the law before, and the false conviction left a strong fear on everyone, who can guarantee that this oath will fall into the hands of Xiangzuo, and he will not use it to blackmail everyone again in the future.

Gao Shisheng is noncommittal about the oath, Fujiwara Michicho, Taira Kiyomori, and Minamoto Yoritomo are all masterpieces of the world, and they all asked for an oath from the world when they were dying, what is the result, Fujiwara North family killed each other, the Taira clan was destroyed for the world, and Kamakura was subject to Hojo, he didn't believe in the change of people's hearts at all, and it would be a letter that could be restrained.

This is the disadvantage of the ministers, or after the collapse of the legal order system, the inevitable drawbacks, the officials are subject to the regent, the regent is subject to the general, the general in turn is subject to the arrogant soldiers under his command, let them run rampant and dare not speak, and the power to protect the daimyo, in fact, there is no stable guarantee, most of the cases have to confront the wealthy families in the county territory, and even fight each other, especially the county guardian can not meet the requirements of the countrymen, and it is common to be killed and banished.

Take the Imagawa clan as an example, Imagawa Yoshimoto was able to inherit the Gao clan and Asahina clan, which were also the family governors of Toe Province, and the Omiya clan and Okabe clan of Suruga Province raised troops to support and oppress the Sena clan, Sekiguchi clan, Kamohara clan and other clans, so that he could defeat his brother Genhiro Keitan and seize the position of family governor with an absolute advantage.

Gao Shisheng He De how can he let the wealthy people in the township willingly serve him as the master, so he waved his hand and smiled: "This matter is not in a hurry, I believe that all of you here are loyal and righteous ministers of Junfu, and you know that this is not something that can be dealt with, after you go back, you will send the village people to ration a battle, and after tomorrow, I will gather the homeless people to be young and strong, in the name of labor, relieve their armament, and then use money and food to lure them to go to the county, and then the township fathers and elders can have no worries!" ”

The snow is falling, the cold is invading, Gao Shisheng brushes his sleeves and leans on the railing, looking at the tall green bamboo in the courtyard, swaying with the wind, calculating what impact tomorrow will bring to himself, how to deal with it, and possible chaos.

Nobumitsu Hamana, Toyohisa Ishimatsu, Mototashi Hasegawa, Morishi Nagata and others whispered about how to plan money and food and share military service.

Near and far, worries come one after another.