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"Your Majesty, the Japanese envoys came from Dongjiang Town. Naturally, they should draw soldiers from Dongjiang and cross the sea into Fusang. As for the payment, His Majesty is highly respected and powerful. All the Japanese admire Jing Cong. In addition, the Toyotomi family has ruled Fusang for a long time. , who is expected of the people, will be sure that wherever the flag goes, the Japanese will win the food and the scenery will follow, and the soldiers and horses needed are not many, three thousand is enough! Can the Ministry of Households still not come up with this military salary?"

What position does the person say? Gao Jie, who is also one of Wen Tiren's henchmen, stood out in this play, and gave his idea slowly.

But as soon as this suggestion came out, it almost made half of the court laugh out loud, 3000 people?Are you too self righteous?If 3000 troops can solve the problem, why did the first dynasty mobilize an army of 17 and spend tens of millions of taels of silver in military pay? This is the only way to withstand the offensive of the Japanese in Lee's Korea. Without the ability to wipe them out, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is dead , Only then did all the Japanese soldiers stationed in North Korea be recruited back to the country. 3000 people, are you asking for humiliation?

Besides, Dongjiang Mao Jue is famous for being domineering. If he throws this burden on him, it will be no wonder if he doesn’t blow up! At that time, if Dongjiang is forced to repeat between Jin and Daming, and the Liaodong flank is lost, it will be another catastrophe. Who will bear the burden? responsible?

Yuan Chonghuan has already fallen on the Dongjiang River!

Thinking about it, Yao Ximeng turned his eyes to Chen Zanzhong who was aside. Everyone knows that Mao Jue is his grandson-in-law, and if this shit is given to him, you old man should stand up and speak out, right?

However, what made him disappointed and speechless was that Chen Zanzhong didn't seem to wake up, lay there in a nest, and didn't mean to make a sound at all, so anxious that Yao Ximeng really wanted to go up and give him a kick.

your son-in-law!

For a long while, the imperial court was so strange that there was not even a single squeak. Here, the role of the emperor's ruling was finally brought into play. Seeing that no one objected, Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand.

"In this case, let the chief assistant discuss the matter of sending the Lord Fusang back to the country at the discretion of the Ministry of War!"

The two of Luo Xiaoyi wanted to vomit blood again, and the opportunity to refute was wasted when they were silent during the discussion just now. Now that the emperor has made a decision, wouldn't it be a slap in the face to refute again?Amid Wen Tiren's smile, resentful, the two retreated to the court with some followers.

Looking at the silent back, on Wen Tiren's face, the smile became deeper and deeper. Don't look at this time, it seems that no one lost his head or anything, but the officials are just snobbish, and the two of them claim to be clean Everyone can see that they are deflated. The force they formed will have to dissipate today, and Luo Xiaoyi also said taboo words, which made the emperor unhappy. If he wants to deal with him, he will have to delay the official in a short time Concede your ass, this time, his warm body and benevolence won the big victory.

Today's court meeting is also extremely short. Once this matter is over, whoever has anything else on their minds to discuss other matters, no matter what kind of military situation he has, let's hold back!The hard-won and hard-to-return are vividly displayed in the Ming Dynasty at this time. From the emperor to the officials, they are all obsessed with power struggles. Who cares about the raging flames of war?

Amidst Cao Huachun's sharp retreat, Wen Tiren proudly stepped out of the palace gate.

But the shock wave of this matter is far more than that. The imperial court is just the beginning of the game. It revolves around how the Ministry of Households and Rites send Fengchen missions to each other. The Xiuliu doesn't care what the Ming Dynasty will lose if Mao Jue has no military salary and fails to leave Japan! Anyway, from their point of view, Wen Tiren couldn't be allowed to gain power, and Yao Ximeng and the Donglin Party tried their best to delay the payment of the military pay, food, fodder and equipment allocated by the Ministry of Households.

But this matter has dragged another political force into it, eunuch! One of the representatives, Cao Huachun, patted his chest and told Emperor Chongzhen that he had received a box of gold ingots from the Japanese. , he has to follow suit! In addition, Wen Tiren himself is involved in this matter, and he can't let the matter of Zheng Wo stop.

Henceforth, in June, a funny scene appeared in the household department of the Beijing Normal University. Two or three waves of Shangguan Yushi inspected Dacang very diligently, and each of them was extremely picky. This one called the warehouse manager to criticize together, and they took more food. Oh, the weapons are too new, and I don’t know how to save the court. This end is replaced with Chen Liang, a broken knife, and the other end has a censor, who swears and swears, chilling the soldiers. Can you take care of it?Forcing those warehouse clerks, they had to quickly exchange things back.

What is even more frightening is the eunuch, the grandpa who came from the palace, would tell the emperor and his old man at every turn, copying you all over the house, not to mention more things, but also to give filial piety to these father-in-laws. Originally, the salaries and rations of 3000 horses and horses were ready in ten days. Yes, but in this back and forth game, the warehouse manager had a heart attack, two resigned from office, and three ran away. It dragged on from June to August, and they still didn't get out of the capital.

And the pressure fell on the Dongjiang side, Song Xiance was still waiting for the imperial decree to go back in the capital, but on Mao Jue's table, there were already a lot of manuscripts written by this lord, that Qingliu's censor.

"Hmph, you really think of me!"

The whole article was delayed by Mao Jue's rebellion, and mutiny was fine. He, Yao Ximeng, beat the drums for him in the capital to protest against Wen Tiren's random fate. As a result, the envelope didn't even have a signature, and he didn't even mention his name between the lines. If it is more black-bellied, Mao Jue even suspects that this letter was not written by Yao Ximeng himself, but someone who took a knife to write it for him.

Maybe when the time comes to crusade against Dongjiang, he has to be a vanguard, um, the kind who speaks out.

After reading this letter, Mao Jue really wanted to laugh. It’s no wonder that in the later period of the Ming Dynasty, there were as few military generals who were willing to be loyal to the dynasty as giant pandas. In the four towns of Jiangbei in Nanming, only one Huang Degong was considered half-loyal, and the remaining three were not at all loyal. Bird court, these civil servants have played too much, they all treat their generals as fools and gunmen, and they all want to gain benefits for themselves.

Where are so many cheap?

"General, there's news from Mao Lifan. The trained peregrine really carried the letter across the sea! Uh, what is so funny about General?"

Excitedly, she brought the envelope into the door, but Adelaina asked again in amazement, but Mao Jue shook her head slightly when she asked.

"It's nothing, just a few self-righteous clowns!"

As he spoke, he casually threw a stack of unopened envelopes and a letter from Yao Ximeng on the table into the brazier beside the table.

The fire bursts into flames

Chapter 267. Samurai's pockets

Maori Fan, Zhou Fangguo Hagi City.

In August, it was time for harvest gathering again. The farmers in the countryside had worked hard for more than a year, and almost all the rice produced by hard work and sweat gathered here. Almost at the same time, the warriors also gathered in the fan hall like going to the market. , here, one after another received their Lumi.

It's a pity that since the Great War of Guanyuan, it was a happy day, but it has never been a good time, but this year seems to be particularly deep and infuriating.

"What? It's dropped again! It was dropped last year! It's going to be dropped this year? And it's too hard?"

"Baga! Are you slaves who are slaves to our slaves bullying our samurai family?"

However, amidst the chaotic din, those rice shop chachas waved their sleeves in disdain as if they were chasing flies away.

"This year's rice harvest is bumper, and the price of rice has dropped. In this market, do you want to trade it or not!"

"Ba Ga, the slaves are pressing the way!"

His eyes were red with anger. A bearded, tall warrior with a full height of 1.6 meters even wanted to draw a knife. The rest of the warriors had to hold him down in a panic, and dragged him back forcibly. Amidst the yelling of Ga, these warriors scattered again in a chaotic manner.

There's nothing wrong with it. Seeing the warriors fleeing in embarrassment, Mi Liangzacha's mustache raised his head in disdain and hummed contemptuously.

"One and three samurai!"

It is said that they are scholars, farmers, businessmen, but in Japan, the status of samurai is also very embarrassing. The superior samurai and genealogy retainers are okay. They have knowledge and practice, belong to the big landlords, and the ruling class, but the most numerous lower-level samurai ashigaru is different. , All their source of income is to receive support rice from the shogunate or their own daimyo.

But rice can’t be spent as money, and you can’t just eat rice when you’re alive. Besides, the knives and armor equipment that the samurai pretends to be expensive also cost money. To deal with Lumi, the shogunate has a special kind of businessman, Zacha! The shogunate or daimyo The issued Lumi was directly distributed by Zhacha, and the warriors wanted to exchange rice for silver, and they also exchanged it directly from Zhacha. This is a rice-based economy, and rice is used as a general equivalent.

But in troubled times and famine years, eating rice is an enviable privilege for warriors, but in peaceful times, it is not a good thing. With the stability of the society and the increase in grain production, the price of rice will naturally fall, and The prices of other commodities have also increased, so the quality of life of the samurai will naturally decline, and the samurai are still hereditary, and they cannot go to farm or do business. Next year's Lumi borrows money from Zacha, but the interest is almost a quarter of a meal every year, and the warriors who have no extra income are unable to repay it at all. They can only pay interest year after year. Two knives are just a big rock. When you are cold, you can lift the rock to keep warm. When you are hungry, you can press the rock on your stomach to cushion your hunger.

The same hard-core crops, the Eight Banners people receive hard currency silver, but there are also dilapidated Eight Banners, and the lives of warriors under the rice standard are even worse.

Even if the life of the samurai is like this, among the 40 or [-] samurai in the entire Edo period, none of them lived worse than the Maori samurai.

It has to be traced back to the Sekigahara War. Although the Sekigahara War was dominated by civilian officials such as Ishida Mitsunari, the general of the Western Army was Terumoto Mori, one of the five elders, the governor of the Mori family. To be honest, the Sekigahara War was not one-sided. On the contrary, as the Eastern Army, it actually has a great advantage. It is said that during the Meiji Restoration, the German instructor who trained the new army for the emperor saw the map of Sekihara and concluded that the Western Army would win, and learned that Ishida Mitsunari was the loser. After that, I was very surprised.

The Mori family also put their treasures on it. Once Tokugawa Ieyasu loses, the Mori family will step on Tokugawa's corpse and make a fortune.

But here, the Mori family committed a classic Yuan Shao problem in the Three Kingdoms period. They refused to pay for big things. After the bitter battle, just sit and watch, and the famous Maori Ryokawa Yoshikawa Hiroshi family of the Maori family also secretly communicated with the Tokugawa family for the song, and deliberately blocked the army from entering under the promise of the Tokugawa family's guarantee of territory and the addition of Kyushu. When Hideaki Kobayakawa, another Sichuan province, rebelled, the Western Army was already doomed.

But here the Mori family was tricked by the Tokugawa family. The Sekigahara War came to an end. The Tokugawa family's hegemony is already unstoppable.While the Hiroshi Yoshikawa family was waiting with joy, what they waited for was a comprehensive punishment of the Maori family, a large-scale reduction of seals, and the Maori family that occupied the Seven Kingdoms at the strongest time was reduced to 36 shi from the two countries of Shufang Nagato. The retainers and vassals were still so right, but the fief Shigao had been reduced by more than half. From then on, the finances of the Maori Changzhou vassal did not turn around until the end of the shogunate.

The lord is poor, and his salary is already small, and then the price of rice is coaxed down by these shackles. One can imagine how much less money the Maori warriors have each year.

As a result, the Maori family hated the Tokugawa family, and it is even said that the first sentence of the feudal lords is to ask solemnly every New Year's celebration.

"My lord, can I (turn down the curtain)?"

The Kuroda family is an old fox, provoking them to attack the shogunate and letting the Toyotomi family, that is, Mao Jue, pick up peaches in the back is something that is beyond even thinking! Although the Maeda family has a handle in Mao Jue's hands, the Maeda family The relationship with the Tokugawa family is too close, and this time the Maeda family was maimed by Mao Jue again. If the Maeda family is provoked to turn the Tokugawa back, the feudal lords will defect, and the geographical location is too close to the shogunate. It is estimated that the war will be one-sided. Fold a good chess in vain.

Poor and hate! Now that I haven't contacted Mao Jue, this Maoli family has naturally become the target of Mao Jue's black hands. The samurai have just dispersed from the Tibetan shop of the poor at one end, but at the other end, a cold triangular eye It provoked a smug smile.

Putting on the hat again, the ninja leader Fujitaro Inoue quickly hid himself in the night again.

On the contrary, the distribution of Lumi became a sharp point of contradiction in the Maori family. In the next two days, there were samurai riots in Yuanbao, Changfu, Sanjian, Yanagida, and a series of towns under the Maori domain. The samurai even rushed into Zhacha's Tibetan lodging, ordered the granary, and robbed the money. At this time, the Maori feudal lord Mo Liyuan had just finished the battle of Kyushu. The news of the riots in the leading country had to resign from the shogunate quickly, and hurriedly returned to the feudal palace to deal with the feudal affairs.

But history is doomed, the Maori family will not be able to live comfortably this autumn.

On August 25th, a team of lightly dressed and simple people hurriedly marched on the muddy and dilapidated official road of the Japanese kingdom. More than 500 red cavalry in red armor looked around tiredly, and the team of about [-] warriors behind them also They walked lazily with guns on their shoulders. Starting from Edo, these soldiers and horses walked thousands of kilometers in a row, and they were already exhausted.

It’s really called a broken house when it rained all night. In the bleak autumn wind, an autumn rain came unexpectedly, casting darkness on the sky. Amidst the annoying raindrops, a scene of thunder fell, shaking the bearers who carried the sedan chair. trembling.