The Koyasan Shingon sect has a long history and is the authentic Eastern Esoteric sect of the island country. The Buddhist temple hierarchy is strict.
The island country has a strict hierarchy of hierarchy, not only in the martial arts family, but also in religion. Shiba Yiyin was of noble birth and was the protector of the Shingon sect, so he naturally received preferential treatment.
Among the sixteenth-level nuns of the Shingon sect, Zhong Nisheng ranks third, second only to Dai Nisheng and Quan Dai Nisheng. Koyasan has given the Shiba family enough face.
Although Yiyin is a fake nun who can't distinguish between Tantric Buddhism and Zen Buddhism, who can be more real?
The Shingon sect recognizes him as a high-ranking nun, and the Honganji Temple will treat him with courtesy. Everyone knows the rules.
Yoshigan went to Ishiyama Honganji Temple in Settsu Province as the Shingon Sect's Koni, and Ichigozong must protect the safety of Shiba Yoshigan.
Next to the stone mountain is Sakai Port. According to Honganji Temple's usual arrogance, the Miyoshi family is not willing to provoke this group of fanatical believers, so Yi Bank's activities in Sakai Port have a layer of insurance.
Sakai Port is located near the mouth of the Yodogawa River where Izumi Province and Settsu Province meet. If Izumi and Hosokawa's family say hello, they will naturally send troops to supervise it. This is another layer of insurance.
With double insurance, Yiyin takes the elite colleagues to Sakai Port, which is foolproof.
Yiyin insisted on going to Sakai Port to see Yukino. The actions were careful and the security was perfect, so it was difficult for the girls to say anything.
Only Maeda raised his eyebrows in dissatisfaction, and Yoshigan pretended not to see it.
Nizi Shengjiu asked with some doubts.
"Why did Ishiyama Honganji Temple send an invitation letter to its lord?
Even if Master Xianru is interested in communicating Buddhist principles, he would not be so presumptuous as to disturb you, my lord? "
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled and bowed slightly to Yoshigan. After getting permission, she explained to the concubines.
"It seems that the Master is holding a breath in his stomach.
Previously, the Nanman religion was not recognized by the shogunate when it came to Shangluo Kyoto, but it secretly left a few missionaries behind. They were protected by local believers in the castle town of Kyoto and engaged in underground preaching.
After His Majesty Oda came to Luo, he temporarily lived in Tofukuji Temple.
I don’t know how these missionaries got through the joints, established friendship with His Highness Oda, gained the support of the Oda family, and preached vigorously in the Tofukuji Temple area.
The Buddhist sects originally regarded the Nanman religion as enemy bandits, so how could they tolerate these missionaries being so arrogant in Kyoto and usurping the guests and taking over the host.
But the situation in Beijing had just settled down, and the Buddhist sects were unwilling to act as villains and offend the shogunate and the Oda family.
The Tofukuji sect of the Rinzai sect wrote to Ishiyama Honganji Temple to encourage Master Xianru to come forward and deal with these missionaries.
Master Xianru was also an honest man, so he sent the Zahe people to kill those missionaries.
The Zahe people caused massacre in the capital, and their actions were so large that they shocked the shogunate and even angered His Highness Oda.
The Buddhist sects in Kyoto were relieved to see that all the Nanman missionaries were dead. The Tiantai Sect came out again to pretend to be a good person, appease the general, and stabilize the shogunate.
His Highness Oda temporarily tolerated this tone for the sake of the smooth passage of Luozhong's legal system.
The Tiantai Sect also brought together various sects in Kyoto to speak out, supporting the new general's measures to stabilize Kyoto, and condemned certain sect colleagues who deliberately caused murders. This will not be the case in the future.
The Tendai Sect is considered a good person, but the blame is thrown on Ishiyama Honganji Temple, which makes Master Mianru very unhappy.
Although the current general comes from the Shingon sect, he is getting closer and closer to the Hieizan Tendai sect.
Now, the shogun and His Highness Oda are working together to conquer Settsu Country. Ishiyama Honganji had just offended them, so they would naturally feel uneasy.
It seems that it was a lie that the Master asked the Lord to attend the Buddhist meeting, but that it was true to discuss the status of the Yixiang clan in Settsu country after the Settsu strategy. "
After Akechi Mitsuhide finished speaking, he smiled at Yoshiyin. Yiyin turned away his eyes, not bothering to look at her face asking for credit.
After retiring from the mansion and returning to the throne, the strategy of keeping a low profile has initially paid off. Akechi Mitsuhide's plan has indeed given Yiyin an advantage.
Ashikaga, Shiba, and Oda were engaged in a three-party game at the center of the shogunate. Shiba withdrew from the whirlpool and gave up the center to Ashikaga and Oda.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Oda Nobunaga did not intensify their conflicts because of Yoshihiro Saba's withdrawal, but instead cooperated.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki has the status of a general, and Oda Nobunaga has sufficient strength. Once the two sides cooperate, the peripheral forces will feel the pressure.
The Miyoshi family and the Ichigo clan successively expressed goodwill to Shiba Yoshigan because they valued Yoshigan's influence on the shogunate. This is the power of neutrality.
As long as there is sufficient strength, neutrality itself is a sufficient bargaining chip. But this is not enough. Hiding one's strength and biding time does not mean just sitting and waiting. Something needs to be done.
Yoshigami looked at Ishida Mitsunari and said.
"Ishida Hime, I have temporarily added a dividend annuity from Shiba Chu Fund, which has caused trouble for you."
Ishida Mitsunari kowtowed to the ground and said.
"Your Majesty, Your Excellency, the money and food have been prepared by Mr. Takada Haruno. I am just distributing them according to the order."
Yiyin nodded and said.
"Two hundred thousand dan is nearly a few thousand dan, and more than a thousand shiji warriors are produced. The brown rice distributed once exceeds 2,000 dan, and twice a year is four to five thousand dan.
This is not a small number. How are you going to guide this brown rice into Warrior Ji's pocket? "
Ishida Mitsunari was stunned. These days, she just wanted to collect the amount of brown rice as soon as possible to ensure that this annuity can be released smoothly. As for what the Lord means when he says he can guide?
Seeing Ishida Mitsunari's confusion, Yoshigami shook his head.
"In recent years, Sibo has received 200,000 shi, and the four public officials and six citizens have received 80,000 shi in taxes. Most of these incomes have become Ji Ji's salary and military reserves.
Less than 10% of the food that can enter the treasury is stored. The 120,000 stones left in the place, excluding the next year's seeds, were not enough to feed the people.
If you spend four to five thousand kilo of grain this year, will the local rice price remain stable? "
Ishida Mitsunari suddenly realized that the master's words hit the nail on the head.
The fixed price of copper coins and brown rice is always two stones. However, market prices are unstable. In disaster years, food is as valuable as gold. It is common for rice prices to go up upside down. Two copper coins may not be able to exchange for one stone of brown rice.
The Shibachu Fund's annuity brown rice was obtained through trade with samurai families from various countries through the Hokuriku Road trade route.
Because it is brown rice that is directly imported into the Shiba family territory, not copper coins. Therefore, Yiyin does not have to worry about a surplus of copper coins and a surge in rice prices in the market.
However, if a large amount of brown rice is imported, there will inevitably be a surplus, which will be sold by Ji Ji on the market. This will cause the price of rice to be suppressed, and the low price of grain will hurt farmers.
Yi Bank wants the Shiba Zhong Fund to become the ballast of the Shiba family territory, but if a large amount of brown rice is imported and causes chaos in the rice market and unrest within the territory, it will be shooting itself in the foot.
Ishida Mitsunari is proficient in internal affairs. With a little help from Shiba Yoshigan, she understood the key and nodded.
"Ashamed, my subordinates didn't think of this."
Yiyin said.
"It's not your fault. After all, no famous person has ever been so stupid as to hand out food. Don't say you're not used to it, I guess everyone is not used to it."
Yiyin's words immediately made all the ladies present feel uncomfortable. We are all high-level martial artists, and four kilograms of brown rice a year is of no concern to them.
The Shibachu Foundation's efforts to win over the middle- and lower-class Ji warriors also had a negative impact on the high-level samurai's control over the tribesmen.
The Lord passed over them and scattered grain directly below to win people's hearts. Even a dog-licking admirer like Maeda Yoshida feels uncomfortable.
Yiyin glanced at the scene and continued to talk to Ishida Mitsunari.
"Few of the lower-class Ji warriors have well-off families. If they put down brown rice once or twice, it will not impact the rice market for the time being.
This food will be eaten by their families, and any more will be saved for later use.
However, in the future, the number of annuity payments will reach three stones per time, and as the number of payments increases, there will inevitably be a surplus of food in the territory.
So you need to take advantage of these few years, before there is a surplus of food, to help them think of a way.
My idea is to encourage the expansion of cash crops such as beans and radishes, and to grind brown rice into white rice.
I hope that the Shiba family’s Ji Samurai can always have a few more spoons of white rice, a little white tofu, and a few slices of dried white radish on the table of every household. "
Ishida Mitsunari was stunned when he heard this. According to his master, he was encouraging everyone to eat and drink well. . Doesn’t this encourage luxury?
Nizi Shengjiu was in charge of household affairs and was the most sensitive to this. She frowned, stepped out of the queue and bowed, and said.
"My lord, we are in troubled times now, and all the powerful vassals in the world are expanding their armaments and sharpening their swords.
You have a kind heart. In order to ensure that the Ji warriors who serve as officials can support their families, you established the Sibo Zhong Fund, and I admire you very much.
only. . Everything is too much and too little is too much. You are too lenient towards your ministers.
There is a saying in heaven: it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go back from luxury to frugality. Are white rice, white radish, and white tofu something that lower-class warrior princesses and their families should consider?
Living a simple life, sharpening their art of war, and serving their families loyally is what they should do. Your generosity may weaken their will and make them no longer resemble a Ji warrior.
I beg you to think twice, my lord! "
After Nizi Shengjiu finished speaking, all the Ji warriors came out one after another and bowed together to show their support for Nizi Shengjiu.
Ishida Mitsunari was very embarrassed.
She is the person in charge of the Spozhong Fund, the executor of the annuity plan, and a beneficiary of the Spozhong Fund after it became big. Logically speaking, she should fully support her lord.
But what Nizi Shengjiu said made sense, making it difficult for her to object. The support of a group of high-level martial artists made her unwilling to offend her colleagues.
Therefore, Ishida Mitsunari silently kowtowed to the ground and followed the trend.
Yiyin looked expressionless as all the concubines bowed and begged.
The group of Sibo's retainers was created by Yi Bank. There are admirers, grateful people, and promoters among them. There has never been a scene of a group opposing Yi Bank's decision.
But this time, they are united and hope that Yiyin can give in.
The annuity payments from the Shiba Zhong Fund have damaged the power of high-level samurai families and weakened the financial resources of the Shiba family. Everyone has already pinched their noses and endured it.
If we continue to encourage extravagant consumption, it will weaken the fighting will of the Shiba family princess. If extravagance spreads in Spurring, the family business will fall into a disadvantageous situation in troubled times.
The master's whims finally made everyone unable to bear it any longer, and they all opposed the master's new policy.
Yiyin knocked on the document beside him and said.
"In your hearts, what do you think of Warrior Ji? Is he a cannon fodder fighting for power? Or a slave who is consumed at will?
I have been thinking about a question, how did the Wu family world become like this?
The original samurai family were the lackeys of the emperor and the royal family, the slaves who guarded the manor, and the servants responsible for killing people.
The Ji warriors have been trying to change their destiny. They have tried to marry into the Genpei bloodline, the emperor's son and heir, and they have tried to integrate into the public family and become a part of the royal family.
The results of it? They discovered that the emperor and his ministers, those noble people, had never been on the same side as them, and had never regarded them as one of their own.
The Taira family, who became part of the public family, were eventually defeated by Genji. Why? Because they betrayed their class and their sisters.
Taira Kiyomori thought that as long as he fell in love with the cage and the shackles, the Taira family could become superior people. It's sad, it's sad, I'm trapped in a cocoon without knowing it.
The Taira family rose to power by stepping on the corpses of the samurai family. The Hime warriors, who were not willing to continue to be slaves, lifted up Genji and won the Genpei war.
The Wu family world replaced the emperor's court. The Ji Warriors went from having nothing to becoming the masters of the world. "
Yiyin took a breath, looked at the concubines below, and sighed.
“That time, that time, exactly this moment.
The lower class Ji warriors have been busy all their lives, what have they gained? There is only hunger and death.
The food in the fields was stored as military supplies, bought weapons, and used as military rations for consumption in war after war.
Starting from the Eighth Generation Shogun Rebellion, the world was in chaos for more than a hundred years. Starting from the Genpei War, the Ji warriors fought against each other for more than five hundred years.
The Ji warriors have become accustomed to this kind of life. They put their family business first and continue to fight and get involved until they die.
The precious food was not willing to be eaten at all, but it was used generously in the war.
Why? Tell me, what does this mean? Some people were lucky enough to board the car, but they forgot who was pushing the car they were sitting in.
The Hime warriors went from being slaves of the Emperor's court to slaves of high-ranking samurai families.
There are many high-level martial arts masters who say that they are Warrior Ji and talk about the principles of the martial arts, but in their minds they never take the Warrior Ji below seriously.
There are still a lot of dirty things about the emperor and ministers class in his mind, and he has no idea what a Ji warrior is, what the world of the samurai family is, and what the fundamental interests of the samurai family are. "
Yiyin straightened his back and said.
"Do you still remember the days when Nizi was victorious for a long time, the mountains were prosperous, Nizi's family fell into decline, and Nizi's party became rogues?"
Nizi Shengjiu and Shanzhong Xingsheng kowtowed to the ground and said.
"I will never forget it!" x2
"Maeda Benedict was a wild and unrestrained lover in Owari Country.
You can't see the greedy war of the Wu family and the ruin of your life. You refuse to fight for those injustices. Do you still hold on to your original intention? "
Maeda said excitedly.
"I'm still me! I've never changed!"
"Gamo clan village, do you still remember your mother holding you in front of me and begging me to take you in because you were affected by the internal fighting in the family?"
There were tears in Kamouso's eyes.
"I am willing to follow my lord forever until death."
"Otani Yoshitsugi, do you still remember what happened in Otani Village, your ancestral home? Do you still remember those difficult days?"
Otani Yoshitsugi's face was full of determination.
"Your kindness is like the sea and will never be forgotten!"
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