After settling the main business and confirming that there was no conflict of interest between the two parties, the group decided to move forward with Ryunosuke's troops the next day, as the destination would be the same in the short term.

Following the mighty Ronin forces would have been contrary to the original purpose of keeping a low profile, but with a little reflection on the newly obtained information, it is clear that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

The riots in Pingshan County, which occurred more than a decade ago when Ryunosuke stepped down, have not ended to this day in a sense. At that time, only a few henchmen knew about the death of Saburo, who was very popular, and most of the civilians who loved him very much thought that the Chinese killed him. Although the large-scale riots of the rabble were quickly suppressed by the authorities, some of the people who went underground and lurked under the impetus of those who were interested are still engaged in various small activities.

But that's not all.

The newly appointed Chinese knew about the small actions of these civilians, so the punishment became more severe, and the curfew was enacted, and the samurai patrols were often dispatched, and the slightest suspicious behavior was sent to prison. But this has only fueled more discontent. After being arrested and executed, and the population was lost due to fleeing or falling into the grass, they sent immigrants from other territories to restore the population, and tried to let these well-controlled new arrivals gradually influence Pingshan County and stabilize it.

The new immigrants did not experience the Saburo era, so they had more trust in the newly appointed Chinese, and naturally they inevitably had conflicts with the original Pingshan County citizens in their daily lives. There were many contradictions between commoners and commoners, and between commoners and nobles, which led to the fact that bandits and bandits in southern Zhangzhou were also constantly violent. Moreover, except for the county seat of Pingshan County, which is controlled by a large Chinese force, the other areas are entangled by various small and medium-sized forces, and it is difficult for outsiders to distinguish whether the other party is hostile or friendly.

The county seat controlled by the aristocracy and the surrounding core area closer to the county seat were relatively stable, but this stability was based on high-pressure rule. All kinds of checks inside and outside the gates, and even when entering the city, you need to pay taxes to obtain identity cards, and once you lose or lend them to others, you will be directly detained and beaten with sticks and corporal punishment.

The sensitive Ryunosuke and his party naturally want to avoid places like the county seat, and for Henry and his party, it is actually a delicate choice to go to the county town that seems to be safer under the rule of the aristocracy.

Theoretically, the same nobles have privileges, and the little master and others can be exempted from a lot of interrogation, but in practice, there will be a lot of room for interpretation. The nobles of the domain could not be compared with the prefectures directly under the central government, and they belonged to the kind of people who went near the county seat if they didn't have an accident, but if something happened, they couldn't run away if they were in the core of the other party's sphere of influence.

So in the end, I came to the conclusion that I walked with Ryunosuke and others and walked in a more chaotic area. According to the explanation of the previous prefectural commander, although these places are intertwined and difficult to distinguish between friends and enemies, they are not exactly the kind of people who are in a state of eternal struggle.

The rules here are simple, the law of the jungle is the strong. If you have enough power to pass peacefully, everyone will be polite to you, and if you treat each other with enough respect, it is possible to trade goods and get the help of craftsmen. But if you can't protect yourself, the smiling and nodding villagers will immediately show their claws and eat you.

Narumi and Okami and other Qingtian family samurai looked at each other when they heard about this paragraph. This is still the case in only some parts of the domain, and a large part of the prefecture directly under the direct influence of Xinjing has become a situation where the villagers refuse to obey discipline by force, which is simply unreasonable in the country of the moon where the emperor's grace is mighty.

Unity and peace were the symbols of the country for 4,000 years, and the people were supposed to be subordinate to the nobility, yet they were grouped together on the scale of a village to do such barbaric things. And it has been more than 10 years, and the rebellion has not been quelled - which naturally makes them blurt out: "What is the new county magistrate doing?"

Ryunosuke gave them a deep look, and finally just sighed, "It's different here than the domain. ”

He didn't explain much, but our Sage who was listening could probably know why.

The Moon Country is an empire, and many people can't tell the difference between empires and kingdoms, and most of them only think that it is a difference in scale, and this is indeed one of the criteria for distinguishing.

At first glance, the empire appears to be an enlarged version of the kingdom, but in reality there are several decisive differences—the first of which is, of course, the question of the distribution of power.

Most of the kingdom systems, including the former kingdom of Avenella and the current United Kingdom on the West Coast, where our Sage and the Roan Maiden met, do not even have a standing army.

Although the royal family is the symbol of a country and the most powerful nobles, they do not have the same power as the royal family of the empire. The territorial governance of the local nobles and the military power in the territory are controlled by the local nobles themselves. This was usually a small group of professional soldiers with knights and sergeants as the core, supplemented by a few junior private soldiers who recruited stronger peasants, and then when the war was needed on a large enough scale, the main force was conscripted into the militia, and this group served as the backbone.

If the royal family wants to start a war, it needs to rely on reinforcements from other nobles, and get the other party to join them through ordinary marriages or the threat of force. The aristocracy had a considerable amount of power, and to some extent could even refute the royal family. This is also the reason why most kingdoms are always in constant internal and external troubles - even if the person who is the king is unwilling to start a war, a certain nobleman at the bottom of the border with other countries may directly disobey the king's order to start a war.

The empire, on the other hand, was directly subordinate to the royal family, although most of its military power was provided by the local government. The royal family has the power to appoint or dismiss local officials, who are only pawns of the royal family and are not qualified to sit on an equal footing.

- In short, the power of the kingdom lies in the locality, and the royal family is only one of the relatively strong local lords, while the core power of the empire is firmly controlled by the royal family, the central is the most important, and the local government is only the executor of the central.

Based on these cognitions, to understand Ryunosuke's words, the chaos in Pingshan County has not stopped, naturally because Xinjing is unwilling to delegate power to the newly appointed Chinese.

Man is a very contradictory creature, like the situation of a scholar. Xinjing attaches great importance to the inheritance of knowledge, but it also tries to control the circulation of knowledge, prohibiting scholars from marrying and having children or holding power. The same is true of the chaos in Pingshan County, they must want to control these privately armed people who do not listen to discipline, but in order to do so, they have to give the county magistrate of Pingshan County a considerable amount of power.

This kind of indecision and repeated entanglement affected the eventual fact that the small power of the villagers' groups formed by villagers or clans in this land became more and more solid.

Fortunately, no matter how brave the village militia is, it is only an amateur, and Ryunosuke, who has 150 professional samurai, walks in this kind of area, and no one dares to take the initiative to provoke him. After going back and forth, Narumi and the others naturally decided that the big tree was a good shade and went with them for the time being.

And some of the doubts before this step have also been explained - those hungry people by the well are not the core strength of Ryunosuke and others, but the poor people who have fallen into the grass and have been excluded have automatically followed after receiving a few favors from them, wanting to eat together.

After all, he still has a sense of responsibility as a nobleman, and he can't let these people starve to death, but in fact, he doesn't have much control over these people.

If you have food to eat, you can get shelter and follow suit. The rogue, who had clashed with Henry and his party before, saw that they had become guests, and the next morning he scolded and screamed that the nobles were really the same rotten and left on their own - before leaving, he didn't forget to take a lot of supplies from Ryunosuke and his party.

They didn't even give Henry and his party a chance to explain or apologize, or even if they did, these people probably wouldn't buy it.

As for the mudslide blocking the road, the result of the consultation before the hungry people left angrily was only an accident of chopping wood to make a fire for cooking. They didn't care about things like landslides blocking roads, because the interests of others weren't something to care about for a group of people who couldn't protect themselves.

This is still the "unintentional fault" of this group of people, and when the truth is true, Ah Yong, who has somewhat recovered his strength after a night of repair, but is still unwell and grumpy, obviously does not buy it at all after hearing all this.

"I'm afraid I didn't think about it on purpose, if it was a good businessman who stopped the reroute, he would swallow it himself. If you can't beat it, ask the samurai for help, crying that you have been brutally killed by the vicious gangsters, and the disaster will lead to the east!" he looked full of indignation, but no one, including Henry, opened his mouth to refute it, because the probability of Yong's speculation was really not low.

The sympathy of the aristocracy who had no worries about food and clothing, the people at the bottom did not necessarily accept it with gratitude. The reality is that it is very likely that they will be regarded as wronged bosses, and even try to use the strength of the other party to rub oil as much as possible.

It is a common psychology of the aristocracy to treat commoners as pure and weak little white flowers who need to be cared for by themselves, and there is no difference between the east and the west. Even commoners, who live in relative peace, have such a sense of responsibility based on a sense of superiority towards beggars and the like.

"Half-baked kindness. "Our Loan girl still remembers a similar scene shortly after her first encounter with her teacher, a moment of charity that seemed kind and warm but more self-satisfying, but she didn't think it was the right thing to do to these people.

What was right, Henry wouldn't tell her directly, he always did.

He would just stop her from making those impulsive decisions that were wrong and easily hurt herself, but more often than not, he made her learn more, absorb more, and think more.

They can't help these hungry people. Many of the food they took from Ryunosuke's camp was unhulled, and if they wanted to, they could actually open up fields and plant them as seeds.

However, according to the sighs of the surrounding samurai, I am afraid that they will eat it all in one go, and if there is any leftover, they will take off their shells and put them in a jar to soak in water and ferment them to make rice wine and eat them.

Don't think about the future, don't think about tomorrow, and eat as much as you can when you have something to eat in the moment. If you don't have it, you will beg, you will steal, you will rob. And so on and so forth.

This is the cycle of death after being forced to a dead end as a low-level people, not that the body can no longer work, but that they have given up their yearning for a better life and the future, and have become able to live a life of deplorability.

It's not a bad thing to part ways here, otherwise these hungry people who love to pull the banner will break into the matter and hold up their banner, and end up in trouble. Although there are many ronins under Ryunosuke's command who scold those hungry people for eating ungrateful dog things, the former Chinese themselves don't seem to feel much about it.

Regrouping their ranks, they began to set up early in the morning and prepared to continue south. However, because the road was washed away by a mudslide, it had to make several bends back and forth.

The horses of Ah Yong and others recovered faster than humans, vomited the remaining berries after vomiting, took care of some soybean meal and forage all night, and kept feeding water to replenish their physical strength, and were able to stand up in the early morning. There was only one poisonous berry that was fed in the multitude, and in the end it could not be saved and collapsed to death.

Since Ryunosuke still had a lot of extra clothes on his side, the three samurai who fell to the ground were also extremely disgusted by themselves, so they simply discarded them and replaced them with new ones. Ah Yong and the others, who were on crutches, could barely stand and walk short distances, but with the help of others, they turned over and got on their horses several times without success. Eventually, their horses were used to carry some of the supplies, while the men lay down to rest in the carriage of Ryunosuke and his party.

Since it was nearly dusk when they met, Rigal and his party, who had seen the carriage and the horses the next morning, were very surprised. Because the horse's shoulder height is 1.68 meters, although it is not as high as the little unicorn Mitya, it is a full circle taller than the horses of the Moon Country, which is less than 1.5 meters.

Two tall horses pulling a four-wheeled carriage, which can carry a dozen people and supplies with an astonishing capacity, is a product of Rigal, far larger than the ox carts of the Moon Country.

Pack horses are scarcer than pack oxen, because horses are noble creatures, and if they want to carry goods on horses, the coachman must also act as a samurai.

This vehicle full of Rigal style is naturally not a native product of Crescent Island, according to Ryunosuke and others, it is bought second-hand from the landed Nanban merchants - the Nanban merchants who took great effort to transport it to the ship thought that they could pass directly, and they happily thought of getting off the ship and coming directly to the north and south of the Crescent Island, while traveling and doing business. Unexpectedly, the horse was for the exclusive use of nobles, and finally had to change hands. But because of the samurai who was willing to be a coachman, he came to the hands of the informal Ryunosuke and his party.

It is not uncommon for derelict samurai to become ronin in today's Japanese-world society, but these people still have the dignity of a samurai despite their many hardships, and they are reluctant to engage in "lowly" industries. Eventually, Ryunosuke's group was willing to broaden their horizons, and as soon as they got their hands on the Nanban carriage, they discovered its superiority, and then tried to get local carpenters to copy and managed to buy some more Rigal horses.

The introduction of the former county order was an eye-opener for the group, and it was obvious that after a long period of exchanges, the products of Rigal on the Crescent Island were far more numerous than the group expected.

Since the southern part of Zhangzhou, the presence of the Southern Barbarians has become not so rare. The silk, sugar, and tea of Crescent were the favorites of the Southern Barbarians, while Rigal's tall horses and iron ore gradually attracted the attention of the samurai class. It is said that some people have already begun to try to breed horses with better bloodlines using horses from Rigal and Crescent continents.

Although the troubles caused by the missionaries were not long ago, according to Ryunosuke's party, most of the Rigalis and the locals got along surprisingly well.

And this has to do with Joshua's coming to such a distant place.

The focus is not on the Padrosi Empire, but on the Southern City-State Alliance.

Located on the southern shore of the Mobigas Inland Sea, the Southern City-States Coalition has a small section of territory on the eastern side, which is very narrow from the doorstep of the mountain dwarves. The southern lows of the Parosian Plateau and the valley between the mountains passed the coastline of the Far East of the Rigal mainland, where merchants from the south established ports and transported supplies by land and sea to the Crescent.

Joshua traveled all the way east from Soladin and finally came to Crescent Island by boat from the south, which was much shorter than Henry's group taking the North Rical Sea Route, and the only drawback was that it was not very capable of transporting goods by land to sea.

The Empire's repeated large-scale expeditions had little effect, but the merchants of the South gained a lot of favor from the small but uninterrupted exchange of people and goods.

During this period of time when the missionaries tried to stir up chaos in the society of the Moon Country, the keen merchants of the Southern City-State Alliance immediately informed Shinkyo that they were different factions, and took the opportunity to go on a rampage.

A few families are happy and a few are sad, but all in all, judging from the news learned from the head snake Ryunosuke and his party, the fact that there are many people in Rigal in the south is a good thing for Henry and the others.