When March comes to an end and April officially enters the time node, the not-so-significant spring in the Northland will end in just January.

Time passed quickly, and for the sage and his party, the scene of landing on this land in the snow was still vivid, but in the blink of an eye, it was about to usher in the end of a season here.

As the group headed south and the season delayed, temperatures have been increasingly above 20 since the beginning of April. The light snow encountered in the wetlands was like the last struggle of a cold wave - still very strong, covering a distance of more than a dozen kilometers with a force that humans could not resist, but anyone could see signs that it was about to wither in favor of warmer days.

The melting of the snow and ice is a good thing from the point of view of the road conditions, there is no icy and slippery ground, and there is no snow that is difficult to move forward and sink into as soon as you step on it, making the road easier and easier for the group to walk after leaving the wetland.

The wolves that followed made many of the team nervous for about three days, but perhaps hunger caused them to turn to a better target and abandon the vigilant human team, and the moment they walked out of the wetlands on the morning of the fourth day, the wolves that had been quietly following behind them were nowhere to be seen.

The days of vigil and tense nerves made many mistakes on the fourth day when it was confirmed that the wolves were gone.

For the first time in a long time, Ashigaru Taya, who was in charge of cooking the fire, had overburned, and almost half of the precious white rice was wasted in one pot. And there were two people who accidentally cut themselves while maintaining their swords, and there was also one person who accidentally hit their feet while carrying firewood.

Anyone who has ever had a vigil knows that in the early hours of the morning, near the end of the vigil, the spirit is at its most exhausted and confused.

The excitement and tension in the first half of the night and nervous tension will make people very sensitive to all kinds of details, but when the day is about to shine and subconsciously feel that "everything is almost over, I can rest", the spirit will relax, and the fatigue will come like a tide.

Therefore, most of the experienced people who are in charge of the vigil will take turns to take a break, so that everyone does not let their guard down at the same moment, causing the night to be completely destroyed at the last minute.

But even with such a shift arrangement, considering that the 10-person Ashigaru had to take care of the daily life and food of more than 30 samurai, they actually didn't have much time to rest.

The samurai who kept vigil could sleep for an extra hour or two, but the ashigaru couldn't. Yajiro has good hygiene habits and likes to wash with warm water in the morning, so they have to have someone get up early to boil water. The food for the whole team also needed to be prepared, and although Henry and his party were able to take care of themselves to a certain extent, many items such as cooking utensils and food were still very easy to keep, so they had to borrow from there, and someone needed to be in charge of contacting them. From this point of view, 10 people is really not enough.

Ashigaru, who made a mistake because of exhaustion, was reprimanded by the superior samurai, although it was indeed excusable. The class relations of the country, which were too strict to be violated, were clearly conveyed to Henry and the strangers by the movement of the morning.

Looking at the samurai who could talk and laugh with them on weekdays and reprimanded Ashigaru with a hideous face, while the junior soldiers had to keep apologizing, Henry and the others who looked at each other didn't know how to speak.

People are two-sided, and even if you are friends who get along, there may still be some places where you can't agree.

Galeva looked impulsive to go up and stop it, after all, he had more or less understood the fatigue of the vigil after the test of the journey, but the girl of Loan held him back.

Born from a different cultural background, he doesn't understand the relationship between samurai and ashigaru, and his direct involvement in the Moon Country with Rigal values will only lead to the other party's dissatisfaction with him and cause him to become angry.

"You eat ours and live on ours, and you still have to point fingers when you don't do anything?" said Mila in a plain language that Galeva could understand, giving him an analogy.

Forcibly intervening to arouse the resentment of the samurai was only one thing, and perhaps worse still, if Kaleva had done so, the ashigaru would not have appreciated his actions, but would have hated him.

Because his forcible intervention would only exacerbate the conflict, and in the values of the Tsuki Country, the Ashigaru people believed that there was nothing wrong with the samurai's behavior.

This matter has a very complex internal situation, simple and direct, and acting according to the impulse of the heart at the moment will often only exacerbate the conflict and make the situation worse - in a way, Mira sees a shadow of her past self in this guy who is obviously older than her.

Young people and children can only see what is in front of them.

They can't look at everything on a longer time scale, and when they are reprimanded by their parents, they are full of grievances and resentment at the moment, thinking that their parents are too them.

The approach is not only too direct, but sometimes even radical.

Running away from home, severing ties, and even killing relatives and rebels in history. But no matter which one it is, most of them will gradually understand after a longer period of time, crying bitterly because of regret, and understanding that the original harsh criticism is all for the sake of polishing themselves little by little.

When the elders look at the children, what they see is not the present, but the time ten or twenty years later.

I can't wait.

Life is very long and complicated, and sometimes it can be very enjoyable to do it directly, but at other times, you need to use a more precise, more direct approach, but to a certain extent, to achieve the goal you want.

- Henry walked out.

After working together and working together for many days, under the premise of building up a sense of familiarity, trust, and a harmonious atmosphere between each other, he proposed that the Yiren help take care of the Japanese people's equipment and help them do things to reduce the labor pressure of the ashigaru.

It came naturally, and after some thought, Narumi and Yajiro finally agreed, although they still couldn't completely put their minds at ease.

"Observe the teacher's approach, you idiot. Mira gave an elbow to the stunned young man who was watching the sage's actions, and many of the other people in the group who noticed it all looked at Henry again and again after thinking about it.

There is nothing unrelated in this world, but even so, what kind of mentality and eyes do you have to be able to always accurately combine all the clues and choose the right path?

Gaps in experience.

When taking this step, you are prepared for what will happen later.

Because everything has been paved in the early stage, when making this step, it will give others the feeling that everything is taken for granted. But this was not taken for granted—if he didn't have the strength to convince the samurai, if he didn't choose to use his skill to stop and let his anger suppress the samurai and severely injure them, if he didn't unreservedly trust Narumi to support him in the battle with the bandits, and if he didn't respect these samurai who had been trained but lacked actual combat experience.

If he was just a stranger who was full of anger and arrogant because of his martial arts skills, he had no intention of cooperating with the samurai, let alone let go of his position to let the Yiren hunters cooperate with him.

After all, there is a limit to how strong a person is.

What kind of concept is "sage", looking at Henry's back, Miss Doctor suddenly understood, and Narumi, who had been thoughtful, also felt that he understood in an instant.

More people who are ordinary people may not be able to understand what he is doing at the moment, just like an ordinary person who knows nothing looks at a person who repairs complex machinery, and does not stand in front of the machine, but runs to the side and fiddles with other things that have nothing to do with it, as if he is running to fish without doing his job.

You won't understand what the other person is doing, but when all his seemingly unrelated things are gradually completed, and finally put together, you will be shocked-

He's actually just doing the same thing all along.

Concentrate, adjust, guide.

Make everything develop in a good direction.

Talented people, keen people, see these details and are impressed by them.

And even more people who don't have this ability, lack of experience and can't perceive what he wants, will be unconsciously attracted to it, following behind that back.

Because they are also vaguely aware of the fact that everything is always developing according to this man.

The few people who are aware of all this have a lot of thoughts, some sigh and sudden realization, and some vaguely feel that they see hope.

There are also.

Raised the vigilant.

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Time continues to pass slowly, and in the blink of an eye, April has passed a week and a half.

The repeated road ahead did not encounter any major troubles, and as the prepared materials were used, the baggage of the group also became lighter, and the speed of progress increased further.

On the afternoon of April 13, when the hot weather first arrived, the temperature was close to 30 in the afternoon of the scorching sun, they finally walked this section of the uninhabited road and arrived at Taizhou, a territory in the central and western part of the Crescent Continent located among the mountains.

The political system of the Moon Country, because of the arrival of a new territory, was also introduced to Henry and others through the mouths of samurai and Miss Doctor.

The starting point of the group, the territory in the north that is close to Yiji is called the "Northern Three Domains", and the lord of the domain is a branch of the royal family of the Moon Country. The feudal king gave the surname "Yuan" to express the noble and orthodox royal blood origin, but for a series of reasons, he was demoted to a minister, and he had no legitimate inheritance authority of the royal family, and was demoted to the level of a vassal king.

In layman's terms, it is the loser in the competition within the royal family, who is thrown to the north to give the title of prince and the like, although it is still more noble than the average Chinese, but it is obvious that they have been sent to the frontier.

And the nobles of the northern land were basically thrown over with the royal family members who once served, so from this point of view, the north will have a desire to rebel, and it is estimated that Xinjing has long expected it.

The feudal domain would have a certain degree of autonomy, because the region was far away and could not be controlled, and on the other hand, since it was an orthodox branch of the imperial family, it was natural that it would also have to be granted certain privileges.

Therefore, from the most traditional concept, the domain is actually the frontier of Crescent Island. And Taizhou, where they finally arrived after walking for so long on the mountain road, is the northernmost existence of Xinjing's sphere of influence.

The administrator of Taizhou is not the imperial family, but the existence of the Chinese second only to the ministers of the central power circle, and the official title is the state pastor.

This was a major position that could be held by ordinary nobles limited to important ministers in the court, and as the head of the magistrate, his personal life was perhaps more satisfying than that of the court in the fierce competition.

There are a total of 17 states in the Land of the Moon, and the 17 state ministers are the most important governors of the country. In addition, counting the three feudal domains with a certain degree of autonomy, as well as the four imperial territories including Honshu and Fuso, the territorial scope and overall national strength are indeed powerful enough to compete head-on with the Padrosi Empire.

When the group of dusty people arrived in the sunny day, it was the Qingming season, the festival of the country of the moon to worship the ancestors.

Beginning on the 10th, many parts of the country will give the workers, peasants and soldiers a week-long holiday. At this point in time, the people can go on a spring outing with their families to weed the graves of their ancestors.

Unlike the spring festival that Henry, Mira, and Sakura had experienced in the small village at the foot of the mountain, which was only close to the shrine, this festival was a nationwide festival stipulated by the laws of the Land of the Moon, and it was almost the only day of the year when the toiling people of the lower classes could have fun and have fun.

So when they came to the north of Taizhou, what they encountered was a scene of old and young people with their families and luggage marching in the opposite direction of the group towards the mountain.

The sacks of linen, the baskets woven of rattan and bamboo, and the straw hats that shaded the sun were one after the other, and when they looked back on their horses, they pulled out a long grass-yellow procession of people, but they all made way for the samurai.

Like the sunshine that began to flourish in late spring, after the winter subsided, the group heading south began to see it.

It's the vibrant and vibrant side of the country.

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