This was said so loudly that even Furukawa Hidetsuna couldn't secretly admire, but he still insisted on his face, "I have long had the heart to serve the judge, and even if there is no adult's instructions, I still have to fight with the Suganuma clan to the end, a little merit, why be worthy of being rewarded?" ”

His attitude was resolute, Gao Shisheng thought in his heart, he was not sure what this group of mountains wanted, and asked tentatively, "Even if Doctor Furukawa doesn't want it, he should also consider the people in the Jinju people, so when the doctor returns to the mountain, I will give another sum of money, not to the doctor himself, but to the people in the Jinju people, so good?" ”

"There is a lack of food and clothing in the mountains, and the people in the Jinju have always lived a hard life in the mountains, and it is useless to have money." As soon as Furukawa Hidetsuna opened his mouth, he directly mentioned the barren and bitter cold in the mountains, and linked it to the fact that the reward was unrelated.

Gao Shisheng nodded slightly, guessing what the other party was asking for, and sure enough, Furukawa Hidetsuna paused, and then said, "The judge praised the villain Gao Feng Liangjie, and he was very ashamed. To tell you the truth, it wasn't us who first proposed to return the reward. ”

"Oh? Who is that? ”

"But it was the people who fled into the mountains."

As soon as these words came out, Gao Shisheng, the person from the mountain, guessed seven or eight points, and politely filled the tea for Aoki Daizen, who was kneeling beside him and working hard as a guard, and said, "Why is this?" Isn't there something else hidden? ”

"The general didn't know that most of the people in the crowd were farmers before they fled into the mountains, and although they also fished, hunted and mined gold, they still had to get three meals a day from cultivating the ladder. In the mountains in the north of the county, the land is thin and barren, the fertility is really not good, and often plant millet and wheat grains, because of the lack of water and rain, most of them are killed by drought, and the life of the people is quite sad. ”

Hata ladder; That is, dryland terraces. Although the people of Tsuju lived in the mountains and built mountains, because of the lack of people, they could not mobilize thousands of laborers like the daimyo of the township, bulldoze the entire mountain, and then build a large castle on it.

These hills occupy a natural flat-topped hilltop, and the cultivated thin fields are scattered, either dry land away from water sources, or terraces where cattle and horses cannot be used for intensive cultivation, so they rely on buying or plundering grain from the bottom of the mountain.

The Suganuma clan has always had a bad relationship with the floating waves in the mountains, probably because of the food problem, the people of Tsuju went down the mountain to buy grain and were taken advantage of by the Suganuma clan to increase the price and exploit it.

Last year, all the countries of Tokaido were affected by floods, and although the Yasaku River in the west irrigated the Okazaki Plain, and the Toyohashi Plain in the Toyokawa River valley in the east, the Toyohashi Plain was formed in the east, and the grain production stone was high, but because of the large number of wealthy families in the country, the land that was exploited and annexed by the floods was wantonly exploited and annexed, and the disaster was even more serious than that of the Togae Province, which was ravaged by the Tenryu River, and the domestic grain price soared several times.

Although it cannot be compared with the huge gold mountains in Suruga, and the mining cost is extremely high, the floating mountain households in the mountains still sporadically mine some dog-headed gold and associated pig iron stones, and exchange the necessary salt, grain, cloth, tools and armaments with the following mountains.

The Suganuma clan took advantage of the disaster to sit on the ground and raise the price, charging ten times the price of grain from the people of Tsuku, trying to force them to go down the mountain and become the vassals of the Suganuma clan's manor, and the two sides officially declared war and private fighting, and the fight has not stopped since last winter.

The meaning of Furukawa Hidetsuna's words, Gao Shisheng knew very well, it was nothing more than that he was dissatisfied with these rewards, and wanted the lion to open his mouth and let the Zhongquan Pavilion bear the military rations and even military equipment for the crowd.

Gao Shisheng said, "Although I have never been to Wanggong Mountain, I have also marched in Shinano Mountain. It is true that the land in the mountains is poor, and the people are suffering so much, and I am derelict in my responsibility······ Isn't there a thousand people in Furukawa's disciples? ”

"Counting the group that has recently defected, there are nearly two thousand of them." This is inevitably an exaggeration, and regardless of whether Wanggong Mountain can afford to support 2,000 people, just saying that there are really 2,000 people, it is enough to send seven or eight hundred troops, and the Suganuma clan, who is constantly in civil strife, probably does not dare to provoke this group of mountain ambushes at all, but has to worry about them coming to attack.

Furukawa Hidetsuna deliberately exaggerated, in addition to wanting to brag about the façade, he just wanted to blackmail some more military rations from here, and this thought couldn't be hidden from people at all.

"Two thousand?" There are too many people, and they will definitely not give so many soldiers, Gao Shisheng asked, "I don't know what Dr. Furukawa's plans are?" ”

"If the judge is willing, we are willing to exchange the judge's reward for some old rice and grains, so that the disciples in the mountains can barely have enough food and clothing."

Gao Shisheng had nothing to do with this kind of request, but his face frowned, and said, "It's still early before the autumn harvest, and the food for the soldiers in the Zhongquan embassy hall is not much, and there are hundreds of stone of surplus food left, I'm afraid it won't be enough for the people in the mountains to eat." ”

The more people there are, the longer the confrontation with the Suganuma clan will be, but Mo said that he wants two thousand soldiers' rations, and as long as he has two hundred stones, he can't give them all at once. The wealthy clan led by the Sugannuma clan in the northern part of the county is already quite difficult to govern, and it is too dangerous to add this group of mountains with big tails.

The so-called heart of harming people must not be had, and the heart of guarding against people is indispensable, and it can be used but not credible for these mountains.

Gao Shisheng picked up the tea set, took two sips absentmindedly, pinched it for a moment, and said, "It's better to do this, when Dr. Furukawa leaves, he will take fifty stone of military rations with him, and he can't let the people of the Jinju tribe starve in the mountains; If there is still a shortage, when the food and rice for the soldiers transferred from Yuanjiang arrive, I am trying to find a way to supply the people; However, there are still a lot of leftovers in the sword and spear arsenal, so you might as well bring some back when you receive the rations, so that the people can also use them to resist the invasion of the powerful, what does Dr. Furukawa think? ”

Although fifty stone soldiers are not much, it is enough to relieve the hunger of the thieves in the mountains for a while, and the gift of swords and spears is to strengthen their prestige. If things go well, you can disturb the village fields in the north of the county; The army was defeated and defeated, and some losses were not worried about change.

On the bright side, the excuse given by Gao Shisheng is very reasonable, not that he refuses to give it, but that there is really no surplus food.

Furukawa Hidetsuna lowered his head and thought about it, he also knew that it was impossible to want too much military rations, and what Yada Sakujuro gave before was nothing more than this amount, and there was still a team of people on the side of the temple to ask for help, and the two compartments were added in one place, which was not less.

If Gao Shisheng really agreed, he would be suspicious and suspicious, and wonder if there was a conspiracy and calculation hidden in it.

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