At Tofukuji Temple, Oda Nobunaga and Takenaka Shigeharu discussed possible ways to win over the Asai family.
At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had returned to his home base in the southern suburbs of Kyoto, was instructing his subordinates.
The Tokugawa Iehime samurai raised his head in astonishment and looked at the calm Tokugawa Ieyasu, unable to believe his ears.
"Your Highness, do you want us to provoke the Oda family's warrior Hime in the capital?"
Tokugawa Ieyasu nodded.
"good."
The Tokugawa Princess warrior said puzzledly.
"Why...why is this?"
Tokugawa Ieyasu stared straight into this person's eyes, making her bow her head with guilt before speaking.
"I remember that you led the troops to attack Jisaku Castle first and received a commendation from His Highness Oda.
Why, do you have a yearning for the Oda family and that’s why you hesitate? "
Warrior Ji's face turned red and he growled.
"Your Highness! We, the Mikawa Princess warriors, have always upheld loyalty. If you don't trust me, I will commit seppuku to express my feelings!"
Tokugawa Ieyasu shook his head and said.
"Of course I understand the loyalty of Samurai Mikawa. You have to think about it yourself. Regardless of whether you think it through or not, things must be done well.
Remember, you can provoke a fight, but you are not allowed to kill with a knife! "
Warrior Ji was a little confused, but he still bowed and accepted the order and walked out.
Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at her leaving figure with deep eyes.
Oda Nobunaga pressed hard on the Tokugawa family step by step. While befriending the Tokugawa family's warrior Hime, he led Tokugawa Ieyasu to Luo.
The Oda family went to Luo by themselves, and the other families of Shiba Asai and Hosokawa were caught off guard. Only the Tokugawa family was forced to share the credit of going to Luo.
Instead of feeling glorious, Tokugawa Ieyasu had a strong sense of crisis.
Oda Nobunaga wanted to tie the Tokugawa family to his warship and make Tokugawa Ieyasu gradually become a subordinate and subordinate.
The Oda family already had a fortune of two million, while the Tokugawa family only had two families, Mikawa and Toe. The balance of strength between the two sides was seriously unbalanced.
The Qingzhou Alliance back then was based on the relatively equal strength of both parties. At this time, the strength of the Tokugawa family has been far away from the Oda family, which makes Tokugawa Ieyasu very uneasy.
Oda Nobunaga was not a good person, and her actions were malicious, but Tokugawa Ieyasu did not dare to turn against him.
One is that they cannot defeat them and dare not betray their alliance. The second reason is that because of the threat from the Takeda family, the Tokugawa family needs the help of the Oda family and cannot make enemies on both sides.
Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu could only silently endure Oda Nobunaga's wanton instigation of the Tokugawa family, but she was also secretly thinking of ways to deal with it.
She will participate in the Battle of Jolow because of the requirements of the alliance and because the Tokugawa Hakashi name needs to be certified by the Ashikaga Shogun family.
Nowadays, Shiba Yoshigan has represented the direct line of Kawachi Genji and recognized the Kawachi Genji bloodline of the Tokugawa family.
The merits of the Battle of Jolow were enough to ensure that the Tokugawa family would receive honorary rewards from the shogunate, and they would no longer be unknown people bragging about themselves in the local area.
The Oda family's annexation of Minami Omi made Tokugawa Ieyasu understand that Oda Nobunaga, who liked to eat alone, would not expect a piece of meat for himself.
In this case, what else can Tokugawa Ieyasu look forward to?
The accident of the Buddhist flag that went up to Luo Zhiyi today, and the crying and struggling of Ise Sadao, all made Tokugawa Ieyasu deeply feel that Kyoto was a bottomless whirlpool.
The Tokugawa family has gotten all the benefits they can get, so why are they still staying next to this whirlpool? Are you waiting to be sucked into it?
That's why she arranged for the Tokugawa Iehime samurai, who was favored by Oda Nobunaga, to cause trouble in Kyoto. I want to use some small mistakes to find an excuse to leave Kyoto and return to my hometown.
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Kyoto is turbulent, and the departure of the Miyoshi family has not brought peace to this city, the center of the world. The re-establishment of the shogunate brought about a new wave of turmoil.
Some people want to get away, but some people want to get into the whirlpool.
At the end of the Battle of Kamiro, Oda Nobunaga took Ashikaga Yoshiaki and invited all parties to Kamikaze with great fanfare and restored the shogunate.
Although Yiyin felt embarrassed, he had to participate. Instead of letting others decide your future, why not stand up for a better outcome?
With this beautiful expectation, he set out from Duowen Mountain City, rode up to Luo with dozens of concentric people, and rushed to Kyoto.
The journey was dusty and the capital was not far away. Instead, Yiyin calmed down and pretended to enter the capital calmly, so as not to let outsiders notice his embarrassment.
He even had the leisure to chat with Ii Nao, a horse from the Kamao clan, and talked while walking.
The spring is bright and it's almost early summer. The wheat ears on the roadside are bent over and swaying in the wind, as if they are looking forward to the arrival of the summer harvest.
Smelling the fragrance of wheat in the wind, Yiyin seemed to be in a good mood.
In life, we are busy running around just to eat and clothe ourselves. Looking at the wheat watchers nervously guarding their fields, this is the essence of life.
The people at the bottom don't care about the struggle for power at the top. They only care about whether this year's harvest will have enough food to eat after paying taxes.
On the side, Ii Naomasa saw Yoshigage's gentle face, looked at the peasant woman in the field, and finally asked the question that had been bothering him for many days.
"Otai Suo, I have something unclear."
"you say."
"You asked me to be responsible for supervising the Shibachu Fund, and Master Ishida Mitsunari has sent a copy of this year's plan.
I looked at it carefully and felt that it was a bit wasteful. "
Yoshihiro looked back at Ii Naomasa.
"waste?"
Naomasa Ii looked serious.
“Hey, that’s a waste.
I have read the expectations of Spozhong Fund. Starting from this year, in the next few years, it will strive for market share and earn excess profits.
In addition to maintaining the funds and accumulated reserves for the operation of the Loyalty Fund, the annual profits will be distributed to the Shiba family's Ji Samurai, expanding the beneficiary group year by year, allowing more people to own annuities.
However, the six-stone annuity per person is really too much. Will your generosity lead to slackness at the grassroots level?
What should we do if we raise a group of lazy people who live on their pensions and eat while lying down? "
Yoshigan looked at Naomasa Ii who was speaking with awe, this was definitely not the idea of one or two people. There are many senior officials who are worried and want to give advice and advice to themselves through Ii Naomasa's mouth.
He smiled and asked.
"Naomasa, do you know the salary of a low-level warrior?"
"I know this. It should be at least thirty stone years, which is quite a lot. This is the rule for all the famous families."
"Then do you know how much of these thirty stone salary can go into the mouths of the grassroots warrior Ji and her whole family?"
"This...I don't know..."
Yoshigan glanced at the confused Ii Naomasa and said.
"The Jingyi family is a famous family in Yuanjiang. Although it has been in decline for many years, it still has three-thirds of its wealth to support its daily life.
Although you have experienced some ups and downs, you are still happier than the real low-level martial arts family.
I can tell you that a grassroots Ji warrior has to bear the cost of owning his own weapons and equipment, passing them down from his ancestors, buying them, and repairing them. The cost is not cheap.
When Maeda wanted to buy a horse, he spent a year's salary and struggled to keep the horse fed and drunk.
Most of the rank and salary of the grassroots warrior Ji is spent on maintaining armaments, and the rations that can really be left behind are not enough to feed the whole family.
Moreover, career and salary are not given by knowledge and practice. Once Warrior Ji dies in battle, her career and salary will cease.
What's even more sad is that Warrior Ji has been destined to strive for public service since birth in order to obtain a job and salary.
They learn to fight from the age of three. They have no childhood, only constant training, until they become officials in Yuanfu and die in battle. "
Naomasa Ii sighed.
"This is the fate of the Wu family."
Yiyin nodded.
"Yes, the martial arts family seeks favors and rewards by serving the public, but if they are not good at war, how can they have a family fortune?
The grassroots warrior girls are born with no chance of respite and must strive to reach the top, but do their efforts really gain anything?
They spent the first half of their lives studying continuously, striving to become useful tools for high-level martial artists.
But no matter how hard they work, their salary and salary cannot support their families. They can only place their hope on the next generation to continue to study hard and become better tools.
From generation to generation, there will be no end.
Getting rich through hard work is a lie. There is never an inevitable causal relationship between hard work and getting rich.
The grassroots warriors fought bravely to gain more benefits for the daimyo they were loyal to, but they themselves gained nothing.
Today, Ji warriors killed a few more people. Tomorrow, the daimyo will have an extra territory and a few more stones of food.
The Wu family has a strict hierarchy, and since the people at the bottom see no hope, they are naturally full of hostility. Things that are suppressed by the lower body are like maggots attached to the bones, which are difficult to cure.
There is a cloud in the heavens: the king regards his ministers as dirt, and the ministers regard him as a bandit.
High-level warriors never treat the lower-level warriors as human beings, but only as hawks and dogs. The collapse of rituals and music is inevitable.
You see, I only gave a little benefit to the lower-level warriors, but the high-level warriors felt uneasy.
The high-level martial artists wish they could hold all the money and food in their own hands. As long as the people below them don't starve to death, there is no need to improve their lives or share the benefits. "
Naomasa Ii said, the more he listened, the sadder he became.
“But the way the world is, everyone does it.
Just because the situation is difficult, we must be more cautious about our work. In troubled times, everyone is working hard. How can the Si Bo family be an exception?
If the Shiba family gives too much, and the lower-level warriors become indolent and become useless, who will protect the Shiba family business? "
"What's wrong with raising a few trash?"
Yoshihiro looked at Ii Naomasa and seemed to see the puzzled looks of the high-ranking martial artists behind her. They do not recognize Yiyin's benevolent government and hope to dissuade their lord from continuing to act foolishly.
He said slowly.
"I force the grassroots warriors to be given an annuity of six stones of brown rice. There will definitely be a surplus in some families, and there will definitely be people who are free to eat.
But will this affect the prosperity of the Sibo family? "
Ii Naomasa was confused.
"No way?
If some people are unwilling to work hard, of course we have to find ways to force them to make progress. If you watch them lie down and ignore them, how can the family business continue to prosper? "
Yiyin looked forward and said.
"Warrior Ji is working hard to make progress so that his children and grandchildren will be tired forever?
Those who are free to eat are the relatives of Ji Warriors and their flesh and blood!
They keep working hard, just hoping that their husbands and children can live a better life than themselves! I hope the next generation will have a better life than our own!
Working hard to make progress should be to make your family live a more comfortable life, not to suffer hardship for generations to come!
Why did the Wu family's society become disorganized and morally corrupt, leading to chaos in the world? Just because some martial arts consensus is wrong!
The hard work today is so that future generations don’t have to work hard again. If future generations can't eat a few more bites and stop to enjoy it because of their own efforts, what's the point of their own efforts?
Everyone doesn't think about what the problem is, and just rushes down the wrong road.
Is the world unrest because the martial artists are not working hard enough? I think they tried too hard.
In the troubled times of the Wu family, everyone is struggling to survive, and they all want to die. Can everyone be happy by doing this?
I didn't have the ability to change this before. But now, I have the Hokuriku Road trade route, and I have the ability to make the life of the Shiba family's Ji warriors better.
In this case, why can't I let them live a better life, and why can't I allow their children to live in leisure for a few years?
Will the Ji warriors be indolent? Will the Sibo family business decline?
When the prosperity of the Sibo family is closely related to the interests of each of them, they will naturally help me with their heart and help me Sibo Yiyin!
When my interests are consistent with those of the grassroots Ji warriors, they will naturally step forward to share my worries and solve my problems, throw their lives and blood for me.
What I want is a Spo family that can unite and become strong. Rather than a group of senior officials who are concerned about the country and the people, and their slaves who always work hard but never have enough to eat.
Naomasa, I know there are many people gossiping behind my back, saying that I was stupid for establishing the Loyalty Fund.
When I came to this world, I had already compromised too much. I also knew that my character was incapable of accomplishing any earth-shattering feats.
I just hope that the people who follow me can live a good life for a few days and live a human life for a few days.
I just hope that wherever I look, the Ji warriors I protect can live a better life than outsiders.
I don’t know how far Spozhong Fund can go, and I don’t know if what I’m doing is right or wrong, but I want to give it a try.
I'm a little tired of those traditional martial artists who talk about benevolence, justice, propriety, trust and wisdom, and tired of those progressive martial artists who shout slogans of innovation.
I just want the Shiba family's Ji warriors to eat a few more bites, just a few bites.
Don't talk about morality, don't talk about ideals. While I can still hold my own, let’s make the whole family happy and have enough to eat for a few days. "
After Yoshigan finished speaking, he rode forward, no longer looking at Ii Naomasa's reaction.
The society of the samurai family has its own rules. Yiyin knows very well that if he wants to live a good life, he must become a complete samurai family and cannot be an alien.
If you are not a martial artist, you are not considered a human being. He can't change the world, he can only integrate himself into it.
But come and go, there is always something to be done.
Fan Zhongyan was able to set up a family righteous village in the Song Dynasty. The righteous bank was within the rules of the game of the Wu family, giving some benefits to the people under it, so that everyone could live a good life for a few days, why couldn't it be done?
Behind him, Ii Naomasa was speechless. The Kamao family next to him glanced at her and shook his head silently.
The high-ranking martial artists not only approached Ii Naomasa, but the Tongxinzhong were the bodyguards of Yiyin. As the writing staff, there were actually even more people approaching her to send messages.
Ii Naomasa is still too young. Although she is young and mature, she is prone to passion. She was fooled into it by the words of high-level samurai masters who thought about the Shiba family business.
Those people are not thinking about the Spo family, they are all thinking about their own interests!
