As the core stronghold of Yingzhou's development of Ezo, Hanazawakan has the strongest defensive base in the local stronghold, and also has a defensive force of about 60 people with rudimentary armor.

But in the clash just now, half of this force suffered heavy losses on boarding, and not only seven were killed, but the rest were wounded and captured.

Most of the other 30 or so surrendered under Liang En's intimidation after he had slain the warriors, so the few less than ten of them naturally couldn't resist the lamp gods pouring out of the cabin and the giant soldier ants hatching.

So just six minutes after the conflict broke out, Liang En controlled his summon and quickly took control of the local situation, and even cleaned up the blood-soaked hall again.

"Dare to ask what your Excellency intends to do with us?" After being untied and watching Liang En finish his work, the young samurai known as Michihide Haneda asked.

"As I said, I'm not here to plunder, but to reason." Liang En made a gesture to the wind lantern god next to him to get something, and then stood up from behind him and said.

"It's just that the lord of Oysaki Castle wants to reason with the sword, so I will reason with him with the sword as he wishes. But it's clear that he didn't speak to me about that. ”

Oyster Qi Jixin obviously regarded Liang En as a second ancestor who was powerless and just had some self-defense in his hands, so he dared to try to hold him hostage with a mere sixty years of martial arts cultivation.

If he knew that Liang En was a sword cultivator with a three-hundred-year cultivation and a top-level sword immortal inheritance, he would definitely not dare to move this thought—a normal cultivator with a five-hundred-year cultivation would not dare to get so close to this level of sword cultivation when fighting.

"And you—" After explaining what had happened, Liang En said as he stood in front of the samurai who had resisted the coercion and had almost been killed, "and you are willing to reason with me, so I am willing to reason with you." ”

"As I said earlier, you can choose to take a large sum of money and go where you want to go, or you can follow me, of course, if you choose the latter, then everything must go according to my rules."

Liang En naturally knew that this group of people who opposed Oysaki Jixin just now was not purely for justice, let alone because they were inclined to themselves, but it did not prevent these samurai from having a bottom line and could be trusted to a certain extent.

Not to mention that this group of warriors almost lost their lives just now for Liang En's business, and this situation also made Liang En change his plan to completely clean up the local Yingzhou upper class and decide to accept some of them.

Unlike before, Liang En's willingness to offer such a price despite having an absolute advantage clearly showed his sincerity, and soon, the rest of the people made their decision.

"I've seen the lord!" Led by Michihide Haneda, the remaining seven samurai bowed to Liang and swore allegiance to him.

Liang En was also a little surprised that this group of people took refuge so quickly, although the moral bottom line of the samurai in this era is relatively flexible, but it is really a bit surprising that he is directly loyal without being reserved at all.

Fortunately, the chat that followed relieved Liang En's doubts, and it turned out that except for a few of the samurai on the field just now, the other samurai were actually just some peasant leaders.

As for the fact that they were purely oppressed here, and there was no allegiance relationship with the previous city lord, it was only because of their status that they were a little bit decent, so it was not surprising that they were now loyal to Liang En so quickly.

"We're willing to take risks here, either to reinvigorate our family name, as Haneda did, or, like me, to build a future for ourselves and those who follow us."

The one who was the first to stand up and ask Liang En what price he was willing to pay to acquire their land, Harada Katsumura, a samura with a beard, had seen many people over the years, so he naturally understood what Liang En was thinking, so he explained.

"In the beginning, the land was barren and dangerous, but at least it could feed everyone until ...... Until the previous lord came here—"

The older samurai babbled for a long time, and several other samurai added to him. Ten minutes later, Liang En finally figured out what was going on here from their words.

According to Harada Katsumura, as the local rulers, the Oysaki clan received some kind of incomplete dominion and partial support from the Takeda clan to the south, so that they were able to become the leaders of these pioneers.

It's just that after becoming the leader, the Oystersaki family did not take the scattered pioneers in this land into their subordinates, but charged everyone a high protection fee - if they were subordinates, they couldn't be squeezed like this.

This protection fee is far more than normal: every year they have to pay sixty percent of the harvest for these pioneer villages, and they and others have to respond to the call of the city lord to serve in turn at any time.

In addition, once attacked by barbarians or monsters, the city lord will collect a large amount of rescue money when he comes to the rescue, and this rescue money will sometimes be as high as 1/10 of the annual income.

And if you don't pay this protection fee, then the lord will refuse to support when the barbarians or wild beasts attack, and will even prevent others from doing so.

In addition to this, it is also likely that several surrounding barbarian tribes have a special relationship with the city lord, because whenever a settlement refuses to make an offering, there will be barbarians who will severely damage their settlements and even raze them to the ground.

Some samurai, such as the group of people who were killed by Liang Enge before, wantonly oppressed their subordinates after they couldn't resist the city lord, and wagged their tails and begged for mercy in front of the city lord by relying on the blood and tears of the farmers who once believed in them.

And now the group of samurai who survived are the ones who stick to their hearts, and although they are pressured to choose to pay tribute, they are not willing to overly oppress the people who believe in them and follow them to this island.

So they united against small groups of invaders, and at the same time offset a part of the tax burden by various means, even by their own military service.

"You've worked so hard all these years," Liang En sighed and continued. "I can swear that all the people under my command are taxed and served much lower than before."

According to Liang En's plan, the status of this group of Yingzhou immigrants was higher than that of the serfs who came to this land as slaves, but it would be slightly lower than that of the native immigrants and the aborigines who returned to the land.

That is to say, they are free people in terms of status, and in terms of tax rate, they will be charged 4/10, although this amount is higher than 2/10 of the indigenous people and peasants, but it is significantly lower than the tax rate of the five public and five people in Yingzhou.

As for the conscription, they had to serve a month and a half, which was higher than the month of a local citizen, but they were also able to receive two meals a day and a suit of clothing provided by the authorities.

In addition to this, they also have a series of obligations such as participating in wars in emergencies, and Liang En needs to provide them with a sufficient number of cheap livestock, agricultural tools, seeds, and other production tools.

"You are indeed a merciful adult." After listening to Liang En's arrangement, these warriors who had sworn allegiance once again bowed to the ground and praised from the bottom of their hearts.

"We will be the sharpest sword in your hand, the sharpest spearhead, and we will do whatever it takes for you."