Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom has always been a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty, and its customs and habits were mostly influenced by the Celestial Empire.

Even the imperial calendar solar terms they use are all based on the imperial calendar promulgated by the Celestial Empire, and this kind of thing is naturally copied from the Celestial Empire, although many places are copied from the four dislikes.

The Tanba Domain can also be regarded as "at the feet of the Son of Heaven", but the lords of Kyoto have gathered hundreds of thousands of "armies" in this square inch, which directly causes the people of the Tanba Domain to dig out the grass roots and eat almost everything.

Due to the shortage of food and the heavy snowfall that has been falling for several days, the number of elderly people who have been carried up the mountain by their children and grandchildren is more than ten times higher than in previous years.

In the New Year of the twelfth year of Yuan You, the rich families in the village hung shabby white flags in front of the door, indicating that the family had a white funeral this year and would not entertain guests for the time being.

Knock Knock......

"Song, it's me, vine, open the door quickly!"

The dusty man knocked on the door of a dilapidated thatched hut at the edge of the village, and the deliberately low voice made the woman who was about to starve to death inside open her eyes, and there was a look of surprise and hope in her eyes.

"It's my brother......"

The woman wanted to open the door for the visitor, but she was so hungry that she didn't even have the strength to raise her hand, and struggled several times, so she had to use all her strength to shout outside the door: "Brother, Song is not here, I can't get up, just take the door down." ”

Where can this gate prevent people, but it is only to prevent beasts from descending the mountain.

The man effortlessly removed the tattered door, and as soon as he entered the room, he smelled of mold and decay.

Bang dang......

In the dimly lit and low house, the visitor put down the cloth bag on his back and saw the situation clearly by the light through the door.

The man with withered hair and a pale and emaciated face lying in the rags turned out to be his sister Momoko.

"Momoko, what's wrong with you? Is it sick? What about loose others? ”

Heavy snow covers the mountains, and the Japanese rarely leave their homes.

Not only will it consume little food, but it will also be easily eaten by wolves coming down the mountain.

Hearing this, Momoko's face showed bitterness and sadness, and under the gaze of her brother, she cried: "Song was captured by the people of the General's Mansion, and as long as the men in the village can still afford to hold a sword, they have been arrested. They wanted Song to go to war with the nobles of the Celestial Empire, and the food was also robbed by them, I am not sick, I am hungry, I have not eaten for three days......"

Boom!

Teng was furious, and sure enough, as the nobles of the Celestial Empire said, the nobles of the Wa Kingdom would never treat these poor people as human beings.

The enemy of the Wa people is not the Celestial Empire, but the Wa nobles who ride on them and constantly suck blood.

The tattered table collapsed with a bang under the fist of the vine.

The broken dishes on the table were all scattered, and there was a black paste with mold growing in them, which made Fuji's heart even more desolate and angry.

His sister actually eats these things on New Year's Day!

Ahem......

Momoko coughed again, trying to get up but never getting up from the rags.

Fuji rushed forward in distress, picked up his sister, took out the dry food with body temperature from his arms, and stuffed it into her mouth.

"You eat something first, I'll cook porridge for you." Don't eat too much if you've been hungry for a long time......"

……

Fortunately, Peaches' home was on the edge of the village, and the vine quietly cooked a small pot of hot porridge, and added some pickled mutton to it, and the brother and sister took advantage of the heat of the bonfire to drink the porridge in a big gulp.

It's been more than two years, and peaches are still tasting meat for the first time.

Although my family was also poor a few years ago, I was often hungry.

But her husband Song treated her very well, and even if the family lacked food, he never thought of throwing her to the mountains.

But in the past two years, the people of the General's Mansion have continued to come to grab food, and even sealed the mountain, not allowing people to go hunting in the mountains.

I thought that her brother had died in the Izumo Domain, but I didn't want the vine to come back, and brought back a bag of rice and several pieces of meat.

"Did my brother become a samurai? In which general's mansion was he on an errand? ”

This is the only possibility that Momoko can think of, and only samurai can eat precious mutton.

Filling her stomach, Momoko's spirit is much better.

She eagerly inquired about Fuji's situation, thinking that if the shogun who worked for Fuji was willing to show kindness, maybe she could let her husband go home.

I don't want to do it, but his eyes are full of resentment, and he sneered and said: "My name is Kato Tadayi now, and I am a second-class citizen of the Celestial Empire!" ”

What?

Kato what?

What is the Celestial Empire?

Momoko didn't understand Kato's words at all, and it was difficult for her to understand Kato's current thoughts.

"When I went home to see, my father was beaten to death by the people of the General's Palace, my mother and sister starved to death, and the family house was demolished and burned...... Momoko, I'm here to take you with Song. ”

"What? Father, they are all dead? ”

Momoko hadn't been back to her parents' house for a long time, although it wasn't far away, but her husband was taken away, and she couldn't walk a few miles away as a weak woman.

What's more, she couldn't even scrape together dry food for the journey.

When I learned about the situation at home from my brother, tears kept falling.

When night fell, Kato boiled a little rice porridge and fed it to his sister who was tired of crying, and then whispered to his sister about the fairyland-like Daxia Fusang Bu Political Envoy Si Izuyunzhou.

"The nobles gave us a surname, gave us the status of a second-class citizen of the Celestial Empire, gave us land and houses, and lent us agricultural tools and grain ......"

"I'll send you to Izumo's house first, and then I'll go to Matsu......"

Peaches has been attracted by the description from her brother's mouth, it is really heaven on earth, it is a fairy day that she never dared to imagine.

It's a pity that her husband was arrested by the people of the General's Mansion and taken to the barracks, and it is difficult for him to come back alive.

Thinking of this, Momoko grabbed her brother's sleeve tightly: "Brother can't go, the people in the General's Mansion won't relax and leave, let alone let you go!" ”

Kato's face was full of disdain: "Heh, the warriors of the Celestial Empire are ready, when the time comes, the king will march eastward, and we will lead the way, and all the rotten nobles of the Japanese kingdom will be crushed by the king!" ”

……

On the Shangyuan Festival, the Izumo Prefecture Ya once again distributed holiday rewards to the people under his rule.

Although it is just ordinary rice grain, the best thing is just a pickled mutton, but this is the best thing for the Japanese people who often have a full stomach.

The incense of the two saints is continuous, and the most smooth words that the Japanese people say now are the saints, long live your majesty, long live, long live, and ten thousand years in Great Xia.

Jia Cong was wandering around the streets as usual to observe everything, and the number of soldiers and civilians in Izumo Castle seemed to have skyrocketed again.

There are also a large number of people in tattered clothes who are queuing up in front of the city gates, registering and collecting identity badges.

"Matsushita Momoko? Isn't this your sister? Why the surname Panasonic? ”

"Back to my lord, my sister is married, and that person's name is Song. Now that he has been captured by the Japanese and taken to the barracks, the villain plans to send his sister back for resettlement first, and then he will go there to save people. Panasonic is the villain's surname for him. ”

Jia Cong recognized the person who spoke, Tadayoshi Kato, a name he had personally chosen for him.

He asked his soldiers to call him over, and after a while, he saw Kato coming quickly with his sister Momoko, and when he was about to get there, he pulled his sister to kneel on the ground and kowtowed.

"The villain meets the ...... of Master Hou"

"Okay, hurry up, the Celestial Empire doesn't want this."

Although it is very cool to let the Japanese kowtow, for the sake of the great cause of the country, Jia Cong can still suppress the desire in his heart.

He raised his hand and told him to get up.

Looking up and down the two brothers and sisters, it was obvious that the spirit and spirit of the Japanese people under the rule of Izumo were far higher than those under the rule of the Japanese country.

Look at the group of aristocratic beasts in the Wa Kingdom, and sure enough, the king of the Heavenly Dynasty came to relieve the suffering people.

Jia Cong once again praised his foresight and asked about Kato's experience on this trip.

When I learned that the Japanese capital was about to clean up the people near Kyoto, I almost laughed out loud.

In this way, where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Seeing that the green tendons on Kato's hands were beating, Jia Cong knew that this person had now become a diehard loyalist of the Heavenly Dynasty.

Because the Celestial Empire not only gave him an elevation in status, but also gave him hope for the future.

The samurai he wanted to become in the past was just a dog for the nobles of the Japanese kingdom.

And the second-class citizens of the Celestial Empire can join the army to serve the imperial court. When the time comes, you will have the opportunity to become a first-class citizen of the Celestial Empire and become a military attache of the Celestial Empire......

That was much better than the samurai of the Imperial General's Mansion, at least in his impression, those generals used to have to kowtow respectfully after seeing the officials of the Celestial Empire.

"Since you have brought your sister here, go to the yamen to get the grain and make some new clothes. Dressed in tatters, it is a person who throws us Celestial Empire. ”

Jia Cong's words are holy decrees for Kato.

Moreover, our Celestial Empire in Jia Cong's mouth is more sacred than the Holy Decree.

That is to say, the nobleman took him Kato as his own, which strengthened his belief in serving the Celestial Empire.

"The great grace of the Heavenly Empire, the villain will never forget!"

"What can't die, don't say these bad words. Your father and mother died at the hands of those beasts, and your brother-in-law is still suffering from the oppression of beasts. Kato, you are a man, the only remaining bloodline of the Kato family. What you have to do is to save people, to take revenge, to do a career, to start a family, and to reproduce for your Kato family......"

If you draw a big pie, Jia Cong can blurt it out now.

And the pie he painted is not just to fool Kato, but to make it come true.

As long as Kato can make great contributions to the Celestial Empire, the imperial court can grant him the status of a national of the Celestial Empire and give him a bright future.

There's not much movement here, but it's very attractive.

Many Japanese people who had just escaped from the oppression of the Japanese nobles and their relatives cried excitedly.

They knelt on the ground one by one, kept kowtowing to Jia Cong, and shouted long live the awkward Celestial Empire.

The Central Plains Celestial Empire, the central country.

The nobles of the Celestial Empire were too good to them, worried that they would be hungry, and in several cauldrons at the gate of the city, sweet meat porridge was boiling.

The soft and white steamed buns, biting into the mouth, are sweeter than the starch candy.

The adults who registered at the gate of the city repeatedly reminded them that after completing the identity card, they would go to the yamen to receive resettlement grain, and those who did not have a house could still go to register, and the government would issue them houses and land at that time......

Compared with the wolf-like aristocratic beasts of the Wa Kingdom when they were at home, at this moment, they are even willing to give up their lives for the Celestial Empire.

……

Tadayoshi Kato settled his sister and no longer had to worry about it.

His father was dead, still beaten to death by those noble brutes.

They even snatched the few food in the family, leaving his mother and young sister to starve to death.

Kato's hatred for the nobility of the Wa Kingdom is higher than that of Mt. Fuji.

He left Izumo with the long sword given by Jia Cong, and went east with him, along with a large number of Japanese samurai who had settled their relatives......

No, now these people have a new identity.

They are second-class nationals of the Celestial Empire, and the Great Xia Fusang Returning Home Regiment is not many, only less than 3,000.

Jia Shiyi was personally ordered to lead the team and quietly sneaked into the countryside and mountains near Kyoto with this team of 3,000 people.

……

Ergouzi left by boat with several letters from Jia Cong, and Liu Yi also handed over the tiger talisman to Wang Ziteng, and returned to the Feiqian Domain with Wang Ziteng's military order.

As soon as the first month passes, spring arrives in Wajima.

When the snow melted and the weather warmed, it was just in time for the army to start disrupting the spring planting of the Japanese country.

It took two whole years with the Wa Kingdom, and this wave of spring planting is being reconciled, Jia Cong really wants to see if the Wa State can afford to raise hundreds of thousands of troops?

Wang Ziteng's body is healed by Li Shiqian, and it can still be seen that his hard work is very heavy, and it is difficult to persist as before.

In order to prevent the boss from being tired to death, Jia Cong had to take over most of the military affairs after arranging the spring planting.

The news of the total annihilation of the Xiyi fleet by the Dengzhou Navy Division has arrived, and Wang Ziteng was once again frightened by Jia Cong's clever calculation.

"You kid even counts this? How do you know that Xiyi's fleet will come by that time? ”

Jia Cong was still writing hard, and said without raising his head: "Is the marquis Wang sick and confused?" Let's celebrate the New Year, Xiyi is not a New Year. Shouldn't people seize the opportunity of our relaxation and secretly increase troops to Wajima? Even if it doesn't increase its troops, what is the most lacking of the Wa State now? Firearms! Who else can provide them with firearms now but Xiyi? ”

Although Jia Cong also has the idea of hitting a pole without dates, he can't stand God chasing after him to send military merits.

This wave of surprise attacks by the Dengzhou Navy Division not only added a big sum to Jia Cong's credit book, but also cut off the ordnance supply of the Wa State.

It is estimated that Xiyi, who is in Kyoto City, will still be wondering if their fleet has encountered a storm and delayed the trip.

Killing them would not have imagined that they would not be able to see their fleet arrive at Wajima even if they looked through the autumn water.

"After the beginning of spring, we will directly press on the army, first capture the feudal kingdoms near Kyoto, and then encircle the north and south. When the time comes, they will only surround and not fight, and when they run out of ammunition and food, they will naturally be chaotic! ”

The reason why Jia Cong bothered to send a 3,000-person homecoming group to infiltrate Kyoto was to plan for the center to blossom.

When the hundreds of thousands of troops gathered by the Wa Kingdom can't eat enough, any jade crushing plan, any Japanese locusts, and any generals will all become the enemies of those hundreds of thousands.

I'm afraid that at that time, there was no need for the Celestial Empire's royal master to take action, and someone would tie up the nobles of Kyoto City and dedicate them to the Celestial Empire.

The more Jia Cong thought about it, the happier he became, he couldn't wait to see the Japanese locust kneeling on the ground and asking for surrender!

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That's all for tonight, continue tomorrow, good night!

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