Chapter 5 The Life of the Japanese Aristocracy

Just as Zhou Budo was practicing swordsmanship full of resentment, Naji Keicho was also sighing: "This family treats me so much, presumably because they appreciate my martial arts." I used to hear Mr. Jiazhi say that the Central Plains people are cunning, but I didn't expect the Central Plains people to have such a person who loves martial arts. The meat is really good, and the rice. I guess it's all a tribute from the Celestial Empire. Take this opportunity to eat more, and it will be rare to have this kind of opportunity to eat enough after you go back. ”

Let's start by introducing this Keinaga Kira. From his previous lengthy name, everyone can see that this product is a descendant of the Genji family, with the status of a samurai nobleman, and the family is a famous family of Mikawa. However, the Japanese daimyo in these years are not too full, so what is he......

This young master of Changqing has been sent to the Katori Shrine to study since he was a child. When he was twenty years old, he met Iishino Nagashi Ienao, who served His Royal Highness Gongkata, who was also the shogun of the Japanese shogunate, in the shrine. Iishino Changwei Sai Jiazhi and Kira Changqing chatted speculatively, and they also passed on a set of swordsmanship from Kira Changqing. Later, the Iishino Nagawei Sai family left the shrine directly, and the Yoshida family changed, and our young master Kei, who was obsessed with swordsmanship, followed an old acquaintance, that is, our Tohihara family, to Sea Shark Island in order not to be involved in trivial matters at home. Later, as mentioned above, our innocent and lovely young master Qing was slapped by our honest and credible Tufeiyuan ministers, if it weren't for Zhou Budo knowing the meaning behind the three words of this source courtier, it is estimated that our innocent and lovely young master Qing should not be lamenting the Lin family's generosity now, but dying in a foreign land.

Soon it's time for dinner, this time we are cunning and cunning, ahh and his son Lin Zhongxiong set up a banquet to entertain Jiliang Changqing, because of our reminder from Zhou Da Shaoxia, there are no exquisite dishes in the south of the Yangtze River, such as delicious eggplant, steamed lamb with milk, sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup, these painstaking dishes have not come up, these exquisite dishes let Jiliang Qingchang eat, it is really a cow chewing peonies, just some fish, turtles, shrimps, crabs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks and other meat, just to meet this poor young master of the Kira family who has not eaten enough a few times since he was a child, and the amount of meat eaten is small. If it weren't for Lin Zhongxiong's feeling that his face was not good-looking, the Lin family would only prepare a roasted whole sheep...

Sure enough, for the great master of Dongying, Kira-kun, the most suitable thing is really these unfettered dishes. However, the good habits cultivated over the years in the Katori Shrine also made the Lin family's father and son and Zhou Shaoxia not appreciate the scene of Kira-kun gobbling up.

After a few staggered discussions, the banquet ended.

Lin Yuantu, Lin Zhongxiong, Zhou Budo, Ji Liang Qingchang, and his party of four walked to the study. Along with it, there was also a translator raised by the Lin family.

"Kira-kun, we know that you are from the Mikawa Kira family. "Lin Zhongxiong has the miraculous effect of Zixia Divine Skill, and he has greatly improved after Zhou Budo helped him heal his injuries.

Looking at Kira Changqing's blank face, Lin Zhongxiong glanced at the translator, and the translator said very consciously: "Kira-kun, 私たちは知っているあなたはMikawa Kirajiaの人." ”

"How do you know? Kira Nagakei saw that he couldn't pretend anymore, so he had to speak.

"The famous family of Genji, Mikawa Kira, is famous. How could I not know?" Lin Zhongxiong replied without hesitation, without the slightest embarrassment of knowing Ji Liangjun's identity from Zhou Budo's mouth just now. "I don't know why Kira-kun is not in Mikawa, how did he run to Sea Shark Island?"

Kira Keichaga is also honest and tight, 1510 said that he had studied in the Katori Shrine since he was a child, and later ran out to relax in order to escape the family fight.

The three foxes glanced at each other: "There is a door!

Let's go back a few hours ago, when the three foxes conspired to deliberate.

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"Little Brother Zhou, you didn't understand what Lin said before, can you tell me more about the origin of the Dongying boy?" Lin Zhongxiong has been in charge of maritime business all the year round, and he has often had dealings with the Satsuma Domain, so he naturally knows some Japanese things more or less, and what the samurai represents in Japan, Lin Zhongxiong also knows very well in his heart.

"This Kira family is a great family in the Mikawa country of Japan. Or the Muromachi shogunate under the command of the clan, the Muromachi shogunate is the king of Japan canonized today, this Fuso shogunate sect is our Central Plains clan, and it is said that the shogun is also ready to canonize it as a royal family and dismount people, that is, in addition to the descendants of the shogun, their family also has the right to inherit the shogun. ”

Obviously, Zhou Budo remembered the wrong time, at this time, the Jishoin of the Mikawa Kira family and the Jishoin of the dismounted people were still small cells that had not been secreted in the body of a certain samurai, and by the time he canonized the Kira family, it was already decades later.

"So if it's possible, that kid will become the king of Japan?" Lin Yuantu muttered.

"What Lin's predecessors said is true. And ......" Zhou Budo wanted to sell a pass, but the Lin family stared at him with bright eyes, so he could only give up.

"And even if he can't be the king of Japan, with the power of the Mikawa Kira family, if we know that he will die at our hands. And no matter whether we can mobilize a large army to attack me, even if we can't, as long as we give an order and prohibit Japanese merchants from doing business with us, our Fuwei Dart Bureau will suffer extremely heavy losses every year. Is that what you mean?" Lin Zhongxiong continued.

"It's the pole, it's the pole. With the power of the Yoshida family, it is certainly impossible to persuade the Japanese shogun to send troops to attack us, but as long as he says a word, those Japanese merchants and Japanese princes who have come to communicate with us will no longer dare to trade with us. Zhou Budo couldn't sell it, so he could only say it truthfully.

"Thanks to Xiaoyou, otherwise this time my Lin family mistakenly killed the son of this important minister of the shogunate, wouldn't I get into big trouble?" Lin Yuantu sighed, "Then Xiaoyou, what should we do now?"

"We didn't kill Kira Chokei, which is a great benefit to us. We can take advantage of this opportunity to get involved with the Japanese ministers, and this will be beneficial to us on Japan's route. Zhou Budo smiled and said, "And at the dinner, we can first touch the foundation of this eldest young master and see why he ran to the sea to become a widow." ”

"Then do you want to give it to Kenichi Tsuchihara first. Lin Zhongxiong made a gesture of cutting off his head.

"Don't worry, Zhongxiong, you go and arrange the hibiscus banquet first. Lin Yuantu said: "The silver purchased is deducted." ”

"Don't be in a hurry, Lin Darttou, Lin seniors, treat such a warrior from Fusang, you don't need to go to the Furong banquet. Just an ordinary banquet table is enough" Zhou Budo hesitated for a moment, but stepped forward to remind him.

"How can it be done, that is the heir of a wealthy and powerful person. You can't wait," Lin said.

Zhou Budo said with a smile: "Don't say that his Mikawa Kira family is just a member of the shogun, that is, the shogun himself, and each meal is only three dishes and one soup, and the only meat dish in it is just two cold fish." To entertain this young master of the Kira family, just get some fish, turtles, shrimps, crabs, and other aquatic products, and it doesn't have to be too exquisite. As long as it's delicious. As for the meat of livestock, don't eat it, the people of Fuso can't eat meat. ”

How is it possible to hear that this child who may be obsessed with Japanese culture will complain there?

In fact, before modern times, the Japanese people, including the aristocracy, had a very miserable life, and the nobles were okay, at least they could eat enough. It is rare for the people at the bottom to meet the time when they can eat enough. Let's make a list of two recipes:

1. Two pieces of small rice and boiled radish;

2. Rice, a small fish two fingers wide, a small dish of pickled radish, a cup of boiled wild vegetables, and a small bowl of miso soup.

Can anyone guess what the two recipes have to do with each other? Many people may think that there is not much difference between these two shabby recipes, and it feels like a person's recipe for breakfast and dinner on a given day.

In fact, the first recipe is the breakfast and lunch of poor families during the Warring States period, and the second recipe is the breakfast and dinner of rich people during the Warring States period. It seems that these two recipes are just as shabby, but the people of the Warring States period really lived by eating such things day by day. The peasants who ate small rice dreamed of eating rice like the nobles.

At that time, Japan's grain production was so small that it was not even enough to feed the whole country, and ordinary people had to ensure that they would not starve to death, and in addition to fishing for seafood, they had to go up to the mountains to dig wild vegetables even in good years, and the low rice production led to the emergence of two meals a day. Because the rice production was very low, the rice became the main strategic material specially designated by the feudal lords in various places. Farmers work hard in the field for a year to grow rice is basically to complete a task, the harvested rice is often sent to the lord's castle as an annual tribute, they can only eat small rice, gnaw radishes and eat wild vegetables, some farmers have never even tasted the taste of their own rice in their lives.

What about the samurai and the ministers, especially the samurai who were the ruling class? Although the Japanese annual tribute was collected very harshly, the tax standard of six dukes and four people was already a benevolent monarch, and some feudal lords would set the tax amount to seven dukes and three people, or even eight dukes and two people, and the number of kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes was unheard of, and the tyranny of taxes was almost several times that of the Ming Dynasty, which could simply be described as tyranny. Although it is said that you can eat enough, there is very little meat.

But even so, as the ruling class of the samurai did not live very happily, both the samurai and the peasants were faced with the problem of difficulty in eating, and the powerful samurai could still rely on the annual allowance to maintain two meals a day, and a good day with rice, pickled radishes and small fish soup to eat, the small wealthy and the landlord class were much more miserable, in order to survive they had to put down their bodies and go to the fields to participate in the work with the peasants.

In ancient Japan, there was an almost perverted obsession with growing rice, and it is incomprehensible why they insisted on growing rice, although the rice produced in Japan was very sweet and delicious, but it was not in accordance with the laws of nature to force farmers to grow rice no matter what the land.

What's even more strange is that this is a country that prohibits eating meat for nearly a thousand years, since Emperor Tenmu promulgated an edict prohibiting the consumption of five animals such as cows, horses, dogs, monkeys, and chickens, and the establishment of a fishing moratorium every summer, and then Buddhism Daxing, according to Buddhism, eating meat should fall into the animal way, in order not to fall into the animal path after death, no one will eat four-legged animal meat, and later Shinto Daxing absorbed many of the rules of Buddhism that the defilement of eating corpses, and the emperor as the spokesman of the gods and Buddhas in the world, further prohibited the eating of meat.

Originally, the samurai didn't care about this decree, the original samurai were just the Fujiwara family's soldiers, guarding the manor of the country for the head of the minister, and then the Genpei War broke out, and Minamoto Yoshinaka was embarrassed in Kyoto, so the samurai realized how much they used to live, so in order to follow the trend, they also began to ban meat, of course, fish and seafood are not included, and it is not realistic for them to not eat meat at all.

In this way, Lin Yuantu and Lin Zhongxiong arranged a banquet with suspicion, which was also the only time in the Lin family that there were no exquisite dishes. Although they never believed that the shoguns of the Japanese world were worse off than them.

When arranging, Lin Zhongxiong heard that Ji Liang Qingchang ate five catties of mutton at noon, so he still asked people to make a series of beef, sheep, chickens and ducks. Maybe people don't pay attention to it?

However, it turns out that although what our Zhou Shaoxia said is correct, what Zhou Shaoxia doesn't know is that Young Master Kira was sent to the Katori Shrine to practice since he was a child, and the monks and priests were the richest people in Japan at that time, and they were also the least elaborate people. Later, Oda Hisamasadahei courtier Nobunaga burned Koyasan on the grounds that the monks ate meat, and at that time Fuso was the so-called Buddha country, and normal people were not allowed to eat meat, of course, this was just an excuse, in fact, it was coveted that the monks were rich. Monks and priests are typical rich second generations in Fusang, their profession and net worth can be passed on to their sons, and their sons can be passed on to their grandsons, who are much richer than the samurai class, and it is impossible for the Fuso samurai at this time to eat white rice at once, but the monks and priests can, not only that, but they can also carry the secret supplements made by the major shrines and temples, and the taste is excellent.