Chapter 171
The Lone Son Army
Chapter 171 The Lone Son Army
The Hide family's words were endless, which aroused heated discussions among the retainers, so that the Hide family had just returned to the house where they were temporarily staying, when Oka Toshikatsu and Akashi Keiqin came.
Okari Katsuki said in a hurry, "Your Highness, what happened at Inuyamakan? I was afraid that Hirai was too young to hear what His Highness said clearly, so I came to ask His Highness in person."
Akashi Jingqin said, "Our family is already a daimyo across the Seto Inland Sea. Does Quanzhong Nayan have any complaints?"
Xiujia took a sip of tea before replying, "Three things, the first is to go back and prepare for the conquest of the Four Kingdoms. I once promised my retainers that I regret letting everyone rest for a period of time after the conquest of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Now it seems that I have to renege on my promise." .”
"The matter of the reward will be rewarded to the main family together after the four countries are pacified."
The Xiu family knew that it was impossible to hide this matter for too long, so they simply confessed to the two old ministers in front of them, so that they could prepare early. In addition, as Yu Xijia, who had contributed a lot in this battle, his superiors did not give him a reward, which may also cause turmoil in the hearts of the people. The experts simply confessed the reasons directly.
After listening to Xiujia's report of the reason, the two were relieved that it was this matter, and Gang Lisheng even geared up for a big fight.
Seeing their appearance, the Xiu family asked strangely, "The important affairs of the country, one is in the army, and the other is in the sacrificial ceremony. Why do I think you seem to be downplaying the matter of war so lightly?"
The two exchanged glances, Ming Shijing smiled and said, "We are very honored to be servants under the command of the lord. When the old lord died of illness and entrusted the lord to me to assist the government, many wealthy families thought that the Yuxi family was in turmoil. Who knows that the lord is young But the strategy is extraordinary, and we also believe that Yuxijia will become stronger and stronger under the leadership of the lord."
"That's right, isn't it a piece of cake for the lord to subdue Changzong and our department?" Gang Lisheng interjected. "My lord, what is the second thing?"
The Xiu family was silent for a while, then organized a sentence and said, "The second matter and the third matter can actually be seen together. One of them is that Chun Gongliang will retire soon. Who in the family can take charge of government affairs? Have a recommendation?"
"Ryo Haruka is going to retire?" Gang Lisheng asked in surprise, "But there is a letter from Okayama, is there any problem with his body?"
"It's not the reason, it's what Father wants." The Xiu family said solemnly, "This is the third thing to talk about."
"Today, my lord father asked me about my marriage and wanted to find a good match for me. I told him about Qing Ji, but my lord father denied it. After knowing that it was Chun Gongliang who was looking for a marriage for me as a retainer, I was furious. I was going to have him seppuku, but in the end I persuaded him to live in seclusion."
Hideka sighed when he said this, and he was quite helpless about the result. Hanabou Masako didn't have the ability to predict the future at that time, and he didn't know that the Oda family would collapse and the monkey would take over.
What he saw was the general trend that the Oda family was about to unify the world. As a daimyo under the Oda family, choosing to marry a public official was definitely the only choice, paving the way for a peaceful life in the future.
As the elder of the writer, when the lord was young and had no one to teach him, it was the right thing to think about the things that should be done on behalf of the lord.
Unexpectedly, the world has changed too fast. Now Hideyoshi, as the adoptive father of the Hide family, insists that the marriage has not been approved by his parents. Hanabang Zhengxing privately decides the marriage for the main family, and he is punished on the grounds that he is suspected of trespassing.
Hanafang was lucky about this matter, if you say he was wronged, he was wronged, if you say he was not wronged, from a legal point of view, it was indeed him who caused the trouble, now that Hideyoshi has the excuse to punish him, he can only admit it.
After hearing the news, the two fell silent for a while. Xiaobaicai has been in Gangshan for 3 years, and she is quite familiar with the elders, and they are also clear about the reason. The decision made by everyone together, but now Huafang Zhengxing is responsible for it alone, it also made the two of them sigh for a while.
After a long time, Ming Shi Jingqin took the lead and said, "Quan Zhong Nayan denied the marriage between the lord and the public, can you choose another good match for the lord?"
"I did. Hashiba Minomori's eldest daughter, Kikuhime, is 9 years old. She agreed to marry me when she was 13, and she will be my wife."
"This is a good thing. Minongshou has a good relationship with the main family, and he is the younger brother of Quanzhong Nayan. He is the second person in the Yuchai family. The Yuchai family has no descendants. The young master Husong is originally the same mother of the lord." Brother, now the lord is marrying in Meinong again, it is just an act of intimacy, which will ensure the prosperity of my family forever." Mingshi Jingqin said excitedly.
"It's really a good thing for the family, I'm afraid it might damage the reputation of the lord," Gang Lisheng said from the side.
"Don't worry about this matter, my lord father said that he will discuss this matter with Juting Zhong Nayan." The Xiu family said solemnly.
Hearing Hideka's explanation, Oka Toshikatsu did not feel happy, but sighed and said, "Hashiba's family style really opened my eyes."
"En?" (Akashi Keiki) "En!" (Ukita Hideya) heard Okatoshi's expression, and both of them made exclamations, but the meanings were different.
"What's the meaning of Misaku Shou?" Akashi Jingqin asked curiously.
"Satsumamoru doesn't know. There was a samurai in Hashiba's family who had crossed from the bottom to the daimyo, and asked the lord if there was a way to properly dissolve the engagement. Who knows that now Quanzhong Nayan actually opened the mouth for the lord to dissolve the marriage contract with the public. Marriage contract really works from top to bottom."
"There is such a thing?" Akashi Jingqin said in surprise.
"Cough cough..." Xiujia heard that Gang Lisheng brought up the old matter again, coughed twice in embarrassment and said, "Mizuo is careful."
"Your Highness, you should keep yourselves clean. Even if you are false, you have to get out of the mud." Gang Lisheng continued to persuade.
"Get out of the mud without staining? Where did you learn this?" Xiujia wanted to stop him from continuing, but after hearing this sentence, Xiujia was full of curiosity about Gang Lisheng.
Although Oka Lisheng is not illiterate, as a martial artist in the Warring States Period, I am afraid that he has no chance to see the poems of the Ming Dynasty, let alone utter such famous lines.
"I think His Highness likes Chinese, so I asked monks to learn it. This poem was included in the "Anthology of Poems of the Song Dynasty" that I asked my lord to borrow last time. I think it is very beautiful, so I remembered it."
Good guy, Gang Lisheng has started to learn Sinology. This feeling is as strange as young and Dangerous watching "Spring and Autumn".
"Misaku Shou still has to be careful with his words. Today's conversation was so eloquent that it caught the ears of both of us. Don't talk to the fourth person. It is a foregone conclusion that Haruka Ryo will retire. I don't want Misaku Shou to be reprimanded by my father to retire. " Xiujia warned Gang Lisheng solemnly.
"Yes, I'll wait until I wake up."
"The matter has come to this point, and it is a foregone conclusion that Chun Gongliang will retire. Do you have any suggestions for replacing the three elders?" After talking until now, the Xiu family finally brought the topic of the solar system back on track.
Ming Shijing said to him personally, "What do you think of Chang Lujie?"
Chang Lujie refers to Osafune Sadakin, who is also an old man who started a family with Ukita Nao's family.Historically, there have been various opinions about the three elders of Ukita, but it is generally a combination of Hanabou Masayuki, Togawa Hidean, Oka Toshikatsu, and Nasafune Sadakin.
It can be seen from this that even if Nasafune Zhenqin is not one of the three elders, his status in the Yuxi family is by no means weaker than the above three.
Akashi Jingqin's proposal was approved by Oka Toshikatsu, but Xiujia was noncommittal about it. He replied, "I will ask Haruka Ryo for his opinion after I go back and make a judgment."
Xiujia noticed that the moon had already hung high in the sky, and it was already late at night. If they didn't rest, it would affect their journey the next day, so they asked the two of them to retreat early to rest, and to make arrangements when they returned to Kyoto.
The army set off from Inuyama again the next day, crossed the Kiso River and entered Mino. This was the main battlefield in the early stage of the war between the two sides, so the damage was serious.
At this moment, according to the calendar of later generations, it is already the end of August. Mino, the granary of Japan, is at the time when the golden yellow rice is like a sea, and farmers should start preparing for the autumn harvest.
But because of the ravages of the war, there is no trace of vitality in the fields of Dongmeilong at this moment. Although the war has stopped and people in ragged clothes have returned to their huts in the field, how can they survive without food in the field? ?
The Xiu family originally thought that Hideyoshi, who was born as a farmer, would be like Zhu Yuanzhang in history, sympathetic to these farmers at the bottom of society.
But in fact, after Hideyoshi became a man of the world, he tried his best to get rid of his past, thinking that it was his own disgraceful past, which squeezed Japanese farmers even more.
For example, Toyotomi Hideji, who was born in 1568, should have experienced hardships in the same year.But after becoming Guan Bai, this young man actually made a vicious act of digging open the belly of a pregnant woman to take out the fetus for observation, without treating the low-level people as human beings at all.
Mino has not experienced war for a whole generation since Nobunaga's Gifu armies, and Nobi's soldiers have all sent the flames of war to foreign countries. When have they suffered such hardships?
The Xiu family looked at the people in ragged clothes beside the road, kneeling in the rice fields, and their hearts were full of pity. The upper class fought for power and profit, and they provided the most extensive soldiers to go through life and death. In the end, they were required to personally bear the hardships for the master's family.
For Japanese society, they are not even "people", even worse than the war horses of the main family.
For the society at that time, they were like leeks, thinking that once a crop was harvested, a new crop would always come. After all, life was like this no matter which daimyo ruled it.
Japanese farmers are like slaves bound to the land. When they meet a kind lord, if a war breaks out, they will be gathered into the city and become part of the city defense.
When encountering a lord who is unwilling to deal with this group of untouchables, they can only run up the mountain and fend for themselves.
What did you say?Why not go to another house to farm?
Because each country has a little sympathy for its own people, but it treats the rioters from other countries as they die.They are often arranged to do the heaviest physical work or thrown directly into the mine for mining.
More importantly, as the most important resource in the Warring States Period of Japan - manpower, unidentified farmers who left the protection of the lord often became the target of the populace, and eventually the whole family was dismantled and sold separately.
All in all, the life of escaping to another country is really not necessarily much better than living in one's own country, and you will also face various risks.
At that time, the Xiu family had no right to appeal for these people, because the Xiu family was not their lord. After the war, the Xiu family had not yet decided on the ownership of these territories. Most of these villages and general villages were ruled by the land chiefs and village chiefs, which were considered temporary. It directly belongs to Hideyoshi's territory.
There is only one person who can decide their life and death.
But when Xiujia saw an ignorant child wearing only a tattered crotch, Xiujia's weak heart was finally shattered.
The Xiu family called Akashi Jingqin who was behind him, and told him, "Nongwei people are suffering too much, Satsumamori, please work hard, gather all the people who are willing to come to our house to live, and send them to Sanuki by boat from Tsuda. "
Akashi Jingqin immediately retorted, "Master, this is against the rules."
It’s really against the rules. It’s okay if the Hide family is an independent daimyo. As a daimyo under the Hashiba family, Hide’s operation is like blatantly digging someone else’s corner. Family.
Of course, the Xiu family also knows this, but the soul of the Xiu family is not from this era after all. Although they have been here for more than ten years, they still have some bottom lines in life and cannot accept some of the current three views.
After thinking for a while, the Xiu family said to Akashi Jingqin, "There must be many children who lost their parents during the Noowei war. You can go to various places to inquire carefully. If there are any orphans, bring them to Okayama and have a family to take care of them." grow up."
In fact, there are no orphans, even if there are, there are only a few. In this troubled world, most orphans who lost their parents will be abducted by widows and sold exclusively. After such a long war, the real orphans have already fallen into the clutches of the devil. .
What the Xiu family meant was actually to ask Akashi Jingqin to ask the parents with their children if they were willing to hand over their children to Yu Xi's family to take care of them before the imminent famine.
The Xiu family's instructions were very firm this time. He looked at Akashi Jingqin with unquestionable eyes. The other party looked at his firm eyes and understood the lord's decision, so he sighed and said, "I know, I will Do what you can to accommodate those children."
Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for you to ask parents to abandon their children. Even the "untouchables" of society have human feelings, but this is a place that has just experienced the ravages of war.
According to the pissing nature of Japanese daimyo, even if Hideyoshi immediately entrusted the local lord, he would already be sympathetic to your family's hardships if he didn't take advantage of the trend to charge you a wave of autumn taxes. Do you still expect the lord to rescue you? ,
Go to sleep, dreams have everything.
Even in the Edo shogunate, the shogunate's relief for the direct-controlled territories was mostly superficial, let alone relief for the citizens of the daimyo under its banner.
As far as the shoguns and daimyo are concerned, as long as these "untouchables" don't make a fuss, they can do whatever they want.
However, in the troubled times of the Warring States Period, when these farmers saw their barren fields, they should also know that this year would be very sad. For the troubled times, these children have become a burden instead. Don’t think that "changing children and eating" only exists in In stories, life is often scarier than stories.
If it is possible, sending the children out so that they can grow up healthily, and let oneself bear the suffering, this may be another kind of maternal love.
This unintentional act of the Xiu family was originally intended to reflect their only conscience in the troubled times, but it has become a pattern since then, and has been inherited by future generations. Based on this group of children who lost their parents, Established an army that is only loyal to the Ukita clan - the Lone Son Army.
(End of this chapter)
The Hide family's words were endless, which aroused heated discussions among the retainers, so that the Hide family had just returned to the house where they were temporarily staying, when Oka Toshikatsu and Akashi Keiqin came.
Okari Katsuki said in a hurry, "Your Highness, what happened at Inuyamakan? I was afraid that Hirai was too young to hear what His Highness said clearly, so I came to ask His Highness in person."
Akashi Jingqin said, "Our family is already a daimyo across the Seto Inland Sea. Does Quanzhong Nayan have any complaints?"
Xiujia took a sip of tea before replying, "Three things, the first is to go back and prepare for the conquest of the Four Kingdoms. I once promised my retainers that I regret letting everyone rest for a period of time after the conquest of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Now it seems that I have to renege on my promise." .”
"The matter of the reward will be rewarded to the main family together after the four countries are pacified."
The Xiu family knew that it was impossible to hide this matter for too long, so they simply confessed to the two old ministers in front of them, so that they could prepare early. In addition, as Yu Xijia, who had contributed a lot in this battle, his superiors did not give him a reward, which may also cause turmoil in the hearts of the people. The experts simply confessed the reasons directly.
After listening to Xiujia's report of the reason, the two were relieved that it was this matter, and Gang Lisheng even geared up for a big fight.
Seeing their appearance, the Xiu family asked strangely, "The important affairs of the country, one is in the army, and the other is in the sacrificial ceremony. Why do I think you seem to be downplaying the matter of war so lightly?"
The two exchanged glances, Ming Shijing smiled and said, "We are very honored to be servants under the command of the lord. When the old lord died of illness and entrusted the lord to me to assist the government, many wealthy families thought that the Yuxi family was in turmoil. Who knows that the lord is young But the strategy is extraordinary, and we also believe that Yuxijia will become stronger and stronger under the leadership of the lord."
"That's right, isn't it a piece of cake for the lord to subdue Changzong and our department?" Gang Lisheng interjected. "My lord, what is the second thing?"
The Xiu family was silent for a while, then organized a sentence and said, "The second matter and the third matter can actually be seen together. One of them is that Chun Gongliang will retire soon. Who in the family can take charge of government affairs? Have a recommendation?"
"Ryo Haruka is going to retire?" Gang Lisheng asked in surprise, "But there is a letter from Okayama, is there any problem with his body?"
"It's not the reason, it's what Father wants." The Xiu family said solemnly, "This is the third thing to talk about."
"Today, my lord father asked me about my marriage and wanted to find a good match for me. I told him about Qing Ji, but my lord father denied it. After knowing that it was Chun Gongliang who was looking for a marriage for me as a retainer, I was furious. I was going to have him seppuku, but in the end I persuaded him to live in seclusion."
Hideka sighed when he said this, and he was quite helpless about the result. Hanabou Masako didn't have the ability to predict the future at that time, and he didn't know that the Oda family would collapse and the monkey would take over.
What he saw was the general trend that the Oda family was about to unify the world. As a daimyo under the Oda family, choosing to marry a public official was definitely the only choice, paving the way for a peaceful life in the future.
As the elder of the writer, when the lord was young and had no one to teach him, it was the right thing to think about the things that should be done on behalf of the lord.
Unexpectedly, the world has changed too fast. Now Hideyoshi, as the adoptive father of the Hide family, insists that the marriage has not been approved by his parents. Hanabang Zhengxing privately decides the marriage for the main family, and he is punished on the grounds that he is suspected of trespassing.
Hanafang was lucky about this matter, if you say he was wronged, he was wronged, if you say he was not wronged, from a legal point of view, it was indeed him who caused the trouble, now that Hideyoshi has the excuse to punish him, he can only admit it.
After hearing the news, the two fell silent for a while. Xiaobaicai has been in Gangshan for 3 years, and she is quite familiar with the elders, and they are also clear about the reason. The decision made by everyone together, but now Huafang Zhengxing is responsible for it alone, it also made the two of them sigh for a while.
After a long time, Ming Shi Jingqin took the lead and said, "Quan Zhong Nayan denied the marriage between the lord and the public, can you choose another good match for the lord?"
"I did. Hashiba Minomori's eldest daughter, Kikuhime, is 9 years old. She agreed to marry me when she was 13, and she will be my wife."
"This is a good thing. Minongshou has a good relationship with the main family, and he is the younger brother of Quanzhong Nayan. He is the second person in the Yuchai family. The Yuchai family has no descendants. The young master Husong is originally the same mother of the lord." Brother, now the lord is marrying in Meinong again, it is just an act of intimacy, which will ensure the prosperity of my family forever." Mingshi Jingqin said excitedly.
"It's really a good thing for the family, I'm afraid it might damage the reputation of the lord," Gang Lisheng said from the side.
"Don't worry about this matter, my lord father said that he will discuss this matter with Juting Zhong Nayan." The Xiu family said solemnly.
Hearing Hideka's explanation, Oka Toshikatsu did not feel happy, but sighed and said, "Hashiba's family style really opened my eyes."
"En?" (Akashi Keiki) "En!" (Ukita Hideya) heard Okatoshi's expression, and both of them made exclamations, but the meanings were different.
"What's the meaning of Misaku Shou?" Akashi Jingqin asked curiously.
"Satsumamoru doesn't know. There was a samurai in Hashiba's family who had crossed from the bottom to the daimyo, and asked the lord if there was a way to properly dissolve the engagement. Who knows that now Quanzhong Nayan actually opened the mouth for the lord to dissolve the marriage contract with the public. Marriage contract really works from top to bottom."
"There is such a thing?" Akashi Jingqin said in surprise.
"Cough cough..." Xiujia heard that Gang Lisheng brought up the old matter again, coughed twice in embarrassment and said, "Mizuo is careful."
"Your Highness, you should keep yourselves clean. Even if you are false, you have to get out of the mud." Gang Lisheng continued to persuade.
"Get out of the mud without staining? Where did you learn this?" Xiujia wanted to stop him from continuing, but after hearing this sentence, Xiujia was full of curiosity about Gang Lisheng.
Although Oka Lisheng is not illiterate, as a martial artist in the Warring States Period, I am afraid that he has no chance to see the poems of the Ming Dynasty, let alone utter such famous lines.
"I think His Highness likes Chinese, so I asked monks to learn it. This poem was included in the "Anthology of Poems of the Song Dynasty" that I asked my lord to borrow last time. I think it is very beautiful, so I remembered it."
Good guy, Gang Lisheng has started to learn Sinology. This feeling is as strange as young and Dangerous watching "Spring and Autumn".
"Misaku Shou still has to be careful with his words. Today's conversation was so eloquent that it caught the ears of both of us. Don't talk to the fourth person. It is a foregone conclusion that Haruka Ryo will retire. I don't want Misaku Shou to be reprimanded by my father to retire. " Xiujia warned Gang Lisheng solemnly.
"Yes, I'll wait until I wake up."
"The matter has come to this point, and it is a foregone conclusion that Chun Gongliang will retire. Do you have any suggestions for replacing the three elders?" After talking until now, the Xiu family finally brought the topic of the solar system back on track.
Ming Shijing said to him personally, "What do you think of Chang Lujie?"
Chang Lujie refers to Osafune Sadakin, who is also an old man who started a family with Ukita Nao's family.Historically, there have been various opinions about the three elders of Ukita, but it is generally a combination of Hanabou Masayuki, Togawa Hidean, Oka Toshikatsu, and Nasafune Sadakin.
It can be seen from this that even if Nasafune Zhenqin is not one of the three elders, his status in the Yuxi family is by no means weaker than the above three.
Akashi Jingqin's proposal was approved by Oka Toshikatsu, but Xiujia was noncommittal about it. He replied, "I will ask Haruka Ryo for his opinion after I go back and make a judgment."
Xiujia noticed that the moon had already hung high in the sky, and it was already late at night. If they didn't rest, it would affect their journey the next day, so they asked the two of them to retreat early to rest, and to make arrangements when they returned to Kyoto.
The army set off from Inuyama again the next day, crossed the Kiso River and entered Mino. This was the main battlefield in the early stage of the war between the two sides, so the damage was serious.
At this moment, according to the calendar of later generations, it is already the end of August. Mino, the granary of Japan, is at the time when the golden yellow rice is like a sea, and farmers should start preparing for the autumn harvest.
But because of the ravages of the war, there is no trace of vitality in the fields of Dongmeilong at this moment. Although the war has stopped and people in ragged clothes have returned to their huts in the field, how can they survive without food in the field? ?
The Xiu family originally thought that Hideyoshi, who was born as a farmer, would be like Zhu Yuanzhang in history, sympathetic to these farmers at the bottom of society.
But in fact, after Hideyoshi became a man of the world, he tried his best to get rid of his past, thinking that it was his own disgraceful past, which squeezed Japanese farmers even more.
For example, Toyotomi Hideji, who was born in 1568, should have experienced hardships in the same year.But after becoming Guan Bai, this young man actually made a vicious act of digging open the belly of a pregnant woman to take out the fetus for observation, without treating the low-level people as human beings at all.
Mino has not experienced war for a whole generation since Nobunaga's Gifu armies, and Nobi's soldiers have all sent the flames of war to foreign countries. When have they suffered such hardships?
The Xiu family looked at the people in ragged clothes beside the road, kneeling in the rice fields, and their hearts were full of pity. The upper class fought for power and profit, and they provided the most extensive soldiers to go through life and death. In the end, they were required to personally bear the hardships for the master's family.
For Japanese society, they are not even "people", even worse than the war horses of the main family.
For the society at that time, they were like leeks, thinking that once a crop was harvested, a new crop would always come. After all, life was like this no matter which daimyo ruled it.
Japanese farmers are like slaves bound to the land. When they meet a kind lord, if a war breaks out, they will be gathered into the city and become part of the city defense.
When encountering a lord who is unwilling to deal with this group of untouchables, they can only run up the mountain and fend for themselves.
What did you say?Why not go to another house to farm?
Because each country has a little sympathy for its own people, but it treats the rioters from other countries as they die.They are often arranged to do the heaviest physical work or thrown directly into the mine for mining.
More importantly, as the most important resource in the Warring States Period of Japan - manpower, unidentified farmers who left the protection of the lord often became the target of the populace, and eventually the whole family was dismantled and sold separately.
All in all, the life of escaping to another country is really not necessarily much better than living in one's own country, and you will also face various risks.
At that time, the Xiu family had no right to appeal for these people, because the Xiu family was not their lord. After the war, the Xiu family had not yet decided on the ownership of these territories. Most of these villages and general villages were ruled by the land chiefs and village chiefs, which were considered temporary. It directly belongs to Hideyoshi's territory.
There is only one person who can decide their life and death.
But when Xiujia saw an ignorant child wearing only a tattered crotch, Xiujia's weak heart was finally shattered.
The Xiu family called Akashi Jingqin who was behind him, and told him, "Nongwei people are suffering too much, Satsumamori, please work hard, gather all the people who are willing to come to our house to live, and send them to Sanuki by boat from Tsuda. "
Akashi Jingqin immediately retorted, "Master, this is against the rules."
It’s really against the rules. It’s okay if the Hide family is an independent daimyo. As a daimyo under the Hashiba family, Hide’s operation is like blatantly digging someone else’s corner. Family.
Of course, the Xiu family also knows this, but the soul of the Xiu family is not from this era after all. Although they have been here for more than ten years, they still have some bottom lines in life and cannot accept some of the current three views.
After thinking for a while, the Xiu family said to Akashi Jingqin, "There must be many children who lost their parents during the Noowei war. You can go to various places to inquire carefully. If there are any orphans, bring them to Okayama and have a family to take care of them." grow up."
In fact, there are no orphans, even if there are, there are only a few. In this troubled world, most orphans who lost their parents will be abducted by widows and sold exclusively. After such a long war, the real orphans have already fallen into the clutches of the devil. .
What the Xiu family meant was actually to ask Akashi Jingqin to ask the parents with their children if they were willing to hand over their children to Yu Xi's family to take care of them before the imminent famine.
The Xiu family's instructions were very firm this time. He looked at Akashi Jingqin with unquestionable eyes. The other party looked at his firm eyes and understood the lord's decision, so he sighed and said, "I know, I will Do what you can to accommodate those children."
Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for you to ask parents to abandon their children. Even the "untouchables" of society have human feelings, but this is a place that has just experienced the ravages of war.
According to the pissing nature of Japanese daimyo, even if Hideyoshi immediately entrusted the local lord, he would already be sympathetic to your family's hardships if he didn't take advantage of the trend to charge you a wave of autumn taxes. Do you still expect the lord to rescue you? ,
Go to sleep, dreams have everything.
Even in the Edo shogunate, the shogunate's relief for the direct-controlled territories was mostly superficial, let alone relief for the citizens of the daimyo under its banner.
As far as the shoguns and daimyo are concerned, as long as these "untouchables" don't make a fuss, they can do whatever they want.
However, in the troubled times of the Warring States Period, when these farmers saw their barren fields, they should also know that this year would be very sad. For the troubled times, these children have become a burden instead. Don’t think that "changing children and eating" only exists in In stories, life is often scarier than stories.
If it is possible, sending the children out so that they can grow up healthily, and let oneself bear the suffering, this may be another kind of maternal love.
This unintentional act of the Xiu family was originally intended to reflect their only conscience in the troubled times, but it has become a pattern since then, and has been inherited by future generations. Based on this group of children who lost their parents, Established an army that is only loyal to the Ukita clan - the Lone Son Army.
(End of this chapter)