The head of the Taira clan, Kiyomori Taira, was born with excellent resources. He was a descendant of the Empress of Japan and occupied Kobe on the Seto Inland Sea. It can be said that he had the right time and the right place. He was forced to play a good hand and was ruined. Now he has lost the hearts of the people.
He has 20,000 cavalry and more than 30,000 warriors, making up his entire main force.
The war horses used by the cavalry of the island country are different from the war horses in the Chinese impression. The horses here are just like the local people, extremely short in stature, so small that people think they also have Zhu Confucian disease.
However, cavalry is cavalry, and its combat effectiveness is far superior to that of ordinary warriors.
Genji's early intelligence work was not in place, and there was very little information. Liang Chuan and Ben went to the Taira's lair in Kobe not only to retaliate against the Taira's assassination, but also to obtain more accurate information.
In order to keep Liang Chuan's actions secret, Minamoto Yoritomo even announced to the outside world that Liang Chuan was slightly injured during Taira's assassination operation and needed to temporarily rest in order to protect the people and not go further among the people to have fun with the people.
In the dark of night, Liangchuan and Benkeiqiao disguised themselves as straw sandal sellers, rode two donkeys out of Kamakura Castle, and headed west toward Kobe, the base camp of the Taira clan.
Although the weather was still so cold in March, both of them were as strong as bears, and their simple clothing was enough to keep them warm.
The world is full of life. Although the treetops are still covered with ice and covered with snow, the green buds have already sprouted out of the branches. Liang Chuan stood on a hill not far from Kamakura and looked far into the distance. In the distance, there was a high mountain with white snow on the top. It is capped and shaped like an umbrella, majestic and poetic.
Liang Chuan quickly asked Benqing, "What kind of mountain is that?"
Benkei was surprised that there were people from the island nation who didn't know about this mountain. He frowned and replied, "Master, that's Mount Fuji."
This is actually the island country’s sacred mountain, Mount Fuji! In the past, when the sky was snowing, the view was very limited. On this sunny day, I could actually see the most beautiful mountain in the island country. There is also a group of white clouds on the mountain, as if I was wearing a bamboo hat. This beauty is shocking.
The transportation in the island country is very backward. There are no so-called smooth roads between villages and towns. Except for the Chi Road that Liang Chuan suggested Genji build, there is no decent road in sight.
The mountain road is extremely rugged, but fortunately donkeys are also very endurance animals. Although walking on the mountain road is a little slow, it is more stable than before.
The Genji occupies the Kanto region, which is roughly a line from today's Shizuoka, Aichi, and Gifu. To the east is Kanto, with fertile fields and thousands of miles of people and abundant products, and to the west is Kansai, which has an inland sea and abundant wealth.
The two of them walked for seven days and were about to enter Nara from Kamakura, which also marked the beginning of entering Kansai.
Along the way, Liang Chuan saw with his own eyes the efficiency of the island country's implementation of new technologies and new practices. Even the countryside in places like Aichi began to adopt the farming methods Liang Chuan mentioned, and even the curved-wheel plow appeared in the fields.
Minamoto Yoritomo: A woman can do nothing but do her best. A resolute and resolute style is the most basic wolf nature that an ambitious politician should possess.
Benqing also couldn't see the world clearly. When he traveled around the world before, he didn't see this scene of people living and working in peace and contentment. Instead, it was everywhere withered and people living in poverty. He asked Liang Chuan if these changes were brought about by Genji, and Liang Chuan nodded. answered him.
The island country of Kanto and Kanyo have been thought to be like two peoples with two different personalities since ancient times. The east likes quiet and the west likes noisy. There are many samurai in Kamakura. Most of them wear their swords on the left side of the body and draw them with their right hand. Therefore, for convenience When drawing a sword, it is customary to stand on the left. However, Kobe is mainly engaged in maritime trade. It is a commercial city with many merchants. In order to facilitate the holding of the abacus in the right hand, it is customary to stand on the right.
There is no need to deliberately set up barriers or barriers between the two areas. People can distinguish themselves naturally.
After entering Kansai, the two people saw a completely different scene. It was as if they had entered the Asura Hell from the Paradise World, and saw the most miserable scene in the world.
In Ping's eyes, he could gain huge profits from fast trade, and the profits were quick and easy. Naturally, he looked down on farmers who had to wait for four seasons for their harvests. The harvests were still so meager, so he took away the farmers' The food was as good as killing them. The collection of grain taxes causes numerous fights, large and small, every year.
Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is certainly not a good thing for the feudal dynasty, but valuing commerce and suppressing agriculture was putting the cart before the horse in the agriculture-based feudal era.
Where Liangchuan and Benkei passed, there should have been plains and valleys with fertile fields and abundant water and grass. However, a large amount of farmland was abandoned and uncultivated. The few cultivated fields were cultivated with very extensive techniques, almost allowing them to grow naturally. destroy.
The village under the rule of the Ping family is also extremely dilapidated. From a distance, it looks more like a pile of ruins. Even the meals have arrived, and there is not even a trace of fireworks. This means that no family has begun to cook rice.
As soon as the two people entered the village, they were surrounded by people. Benkei was impatient and thought his identity was exposed, so he was about to take out his dick and fight for it.
Liang Chuan pressed him down and gave him a hint: "Don't act rashly, these don't look like people from the Ping family."
The cold north wind blows from time to time, blowing the body with biting coldness. The so-called late spring cold is the most freezing because there is no defense.
In this weather, everyone in the village wears tattered clothes like summer clothes. They have numerous chilblains on their bodies and faces, their ears are red because of the cold, but their faces are strangely blue, which is caused by long-term hunger.
They carried broken bowls and broken basins and surrounded the two people, holding the utensils in their hands high, looking at the two of them eagerly, and muttering something miserable in Kansai dialect that Liang Chuan could not understand at all.
Benkei understood. Kansai dialect has an accent, but it is still roughly the language of the island nation.
Liang Chuan looked at Ben and said, "What did they say?"
Benkei cried with blood in his heart and said in pain: "They begged us to share a small amount of food with them. Many of them had nothing to eat for several days and were almost starving to death."
Liang Chuan glanced into the distance: "There are many people lying on the street. These people are skinny and look like horrible mummies. It seems that they have starved to death. There is not even a person to collect the corpses."
When I first arrived in Kamakura, there were also groups of refugees on the streets, but their situation was not as serious. Under the rule of the Kansai Taira clan, the life of farmers could no longer be described as dire.
Benkei burst into tears, thinking that the world was like Kamakura, but that was not the case.
"What should I do?" Bian Qing asked Liang Chuandao.
Liang Chuan's face was as sinking as water. There was too much suffering in the world. His belief was that he could not save the world but he should do his best.
"Give them the food you bring with you. The elderly and children should share more, and the adults should share less. We don't have much food."
Benkei said unexpectedly and worriedly: "What should we do if we give them all the food?"
Liang Chuan said: "We still have some money, so we can just buy it when the time comes. If we can't buy it, we will find a way. I really can't bear to see them like this."
If Benqing was impressed by Liang Chuan because of his flexible skills and war-god-like power, then what made him truly impressed was Liang Chuan's personality. He always had a playful attitude, but in fact his heart was full of compassion and compassion. Underneath his seemingly unruly character, his personality is like a great virtue in Buddhism, extremely pure.
The two men shared all the little food they had. People cried and kowtowed to the two men, thanking them for their generosity.
Liang Chuan asked Benqing to say to the people: "The East needs a large number of farmers, where people can have enough to eat. Let them go to the East, where they can survive."
The strength of the Taira clan was higher than that of the Genji clan in the early stage, and the Genji clan was defeated by the Taira clan in the early stage. The people's life was not better than that of the Taira clan. But when people looked at these two people from Kanto, some people began to waver and couldn't survive if they stayed. , why not go to Kanto to see it.
Only with food did the village regain its vitality. Even Ben couldn't bear to look at that scene and didn't stop. The two of them left without looking back. This is the first village that we have just entered Kansai. According to Liang Chuan's instructions, all the food is gone.
There was no worry on Liang Chuan's face, he always moved forward optimistically. Benkei started to worry about today's dinner.
The two of them had money, but there wasn't even a grain store in the village. Even if they had money, they had no place to buy grain.
The two of them walked into the woods, and somehow they met a wild boar looking for food. This delicacy was much more delicious than dry food. Liang Chuan jumped down and took out Benqing's knife and went after the wild boar. Wild boar.
Benkei can only watch this pig, he is very strong but his body is not flexible.
Liang Chuan had worked hard to practice dodging in the forest, and had long since developed agile skills. Although the wild boar ran fast in the forest, Liang Chuan was so hungry that he quickly caught up with the wild boar with the wind blowing under his feet and holding a knife. The white knife went in and the red knife came out, and he killed the wild boar with one knife.
Liang Chuan returned happily carrying the wild boar. He handed the knife and the pig to Benkei and asked him to deal with it.
Benkei used to be a monk, but as a monk, killing is not a sin. He dismembered the wild boar very skillfully and picked out the pork cleanly by the mountain spring.
Liang Chuan lit up a bonfire and cut a few wooden skewers. When Benqing brought the meat back, he quickly skewered the meat and grilled it slowly on the fire.
The wild boar meat is sizzling with oil on the fire, and the fat dripping onto the flames makes the flames dance more joyfully. It carries some salt, and the coarse salt particles are sprinkled on the wild boar meat, which melts immediately, and the aroma of the meat slowly spreads. Come.
What can change a person's mood? Only food.
Benqing was still immersed in depression due to the suffering during the day. Liang Chuan showed him a hand, which surprised him. The meat was not yet roasted, and he had already swallowed a lot of saliva.
The dusk was getting darker, and while the two of them were patiently waiting for the delicious food to mature, there was a sudden change in the forest, and a beautiful woman's sharp cry for help resounded through the forest, frightening many birds away.
The two looked at each other, quickly picked up their weapons and ran towards the direction of the call for help. .
