Chapter 42: Prestige
Iwamifu, Yamabuki Castle.
Hachiro sat on the wooden plank of the rain corridor like a lord of the Warring States, listened to the reports of the officials from various places to the three prefectures of Iwami, Izumo, and Aki, and asked, "Can't there be more output in the silver mountain?" β
Iwami's Silver Mountain Ambassador used to be the main craftsman of the Mori clan under the pursuit of Silver Mountain, but now he has switched to Hachiro and has been appointed as the Jiupin Silver Mountain Ambassador, one of the four positive nine products of the entire Iwami, so he is very grateful to Chen Bazhi, and when he heard his question, he still bowed down according to his past habits, and kowtowed: "It is not difficult to divide silver and lead by ash blowing, but it is difficult to dig out more silver ore because of the lack of manpower in the mine." β
Chen Bazhi nodded slightly, said a few words of encouragement to the ambassador of Yinshan, waved him down, and then summoned several county commanders around him one after another, and instructed them to go down to encourage farmers to plant rice and grain.
After the political affairs were dealt with, he continued to summon the princes from all over the country, and his policy in the western country outside the three prefectures directly under the central government was basically the same as Japan's previous concept, emphasizing military force over literature, and the generals who led troops in various places ranged from the third rank to the ninth rank of military attachΓ©s according to their mastery of the troops, and the three prefects with the highest civil officials were the jinshi sent by the imperial court, and the orders of the three prefectures and counties were the civil servants who flew across the sea from the South Seas to promote their officials.
Even if such a small number of civil and administrative talents were sent over, Chen Bazhi still felt a little redundant...... There is no governance at all here, the degree of autonomy in various places is more powerful than that of Daming Township, the government is in vain, there is no need to build water conservancy and no one supervises, and often out of a few miles is another set of decrees, coupled with frequent wars, there is no such situation that people have their minds set up.
Because this is not a disaster of twenty or thirty years, it has been more than 100 years since the Onin Rebellion, four or five generations have passed, and no one knows what it means to be stable, and where is the peace of mind?
There is only one way out of the world by force.
After dealing with political affairs, Chen Bazhi rode on a healthy horse and took his entourage along the way to listen to the messengers sent by Li Ruzhang and Li Rubai from Aki and Izumo to inform them of the situation there. Now the head of the Izumi Mansion is Li Ruzhang, and the head of the Izumo Mansion is Li Rubai, who led their respective thousands of households to settle in Zhucheng earlier, and got the order to control the place in the hands of Chen Bazhi, so they became the city lord there.
Like Chen Bazhi in Iwamifu.
The three of them now have a group of local samurai in their hands, and they are equal in military strength, the two sons of the Li clan in Liaodong have all the army in their hands, and Chen Bazhi also controls the island of Hidden Qi in addition to Izumo, and there are a large number of navies in addition to the army.
Especially the few Rokcho-Rokuka-class battleships that he docked at the new ship-repair port called Chen's Port in the north of Yamabuki Castle were really giant gunboats that could shock the world if they were taken out at random.
"General, a letter from Captain Xingsheng of Bozhou Mansion."
The Boshu Prefecture is the former Boqi Kingdom to the east of Izumo, and now Niko Katsuhisa is named the Boshu General, and his subordinate Yamanaka Kasuke is named the Captain of the Tadamu Shogun of Kume Prefecture, the Hakushu Prefecture, and he sent a letter for nothing else, but to ask Chen Bazhi why there was no rebellion in the land of the Three Prefectures, while the other prefectures of the Ming Dynasty had to deal with the endless rebellions of the countrymen.
Chen Bazhi read the letter and asked people to put it away, and write a letter later to reply, he was going to see his flag army.
In Yamabuki City, the city was rebuilt after the war, only 500 households were stationed in the city on weekdays, and a large number of soldiers lived under the city, they built two camps in the place where they once seized the city and fought, guarding a large field, and the guard was Wang Rulong, who also shouldered the responsibility of training the soldiers.
On the side of the castle schoolyard, next to the castle town, several vast seowon were built, each of which had two local samurai as teachers, and under the decree of the lord Chen Bachi, all children in the four prefectures of Iwami Prefecture were able to enter the academy to study, and those who surrendered samurai learned Chinese and taught it to the boys, and those who had martial arts taught the martial arts to the children.
All the children of the common people are eligible to go to school, including those who have been displaced and can only become bandits, and all of them can learn how to be loyal to the Great Tomorrow as a citizen of the Ming Kingdom.
Some adults who lack the ability to make a living will also enroll, but after they have basic literacy and can recite the Banner Army manual proficiently, they will leave the academy and go to the military camp opposite the academy to get a set of ashigaru armor of their own, and then devote themselves to new training.
Of course, at this stage, in fact, there is no Japanese king canonized by Wanli, and the king of Oda Nobunaga Gongwei is definitely not good, and the generals of King Qin in various places have too many troops, and in the eyes of Chen Bazhi, it is also a source of unease for Japan in the future, at least it seems that he is still looking for new candidates.
In fact, Chen Bazhi did not intend to canonize the king of Japan according to the will of the imperial court, and the canonization in his eyes was equivalent to using the bait of the generals of King Qin in various places, and when needed, he threw out one - as long as he was not the king, but he had the power to canonize the king, he could make them invincible.
After meeting with the children studying in various academies, and then looking at his son's spear learning, Chen Bazhi walked to the camp school.
His adopted son did not have a surname in the past, his name was Little Dog, he was a little pirate that Chen Bazhi picked up on Hidden Qi Island, he had never seen his parents since he could remember, and naturally he didn't know how old he was, wandering around Hidden Qi Island and living with pirates, thin and pitiful, attracting Chen Bazhi's attention because of his walking posture.
He looked like he was only eleven or twelve years old, and he followed the older pirate dolls, and he walked with his shoulders on his shoulders, trying to make people look wider on his shoulders so that he could have a deterrent that didn't exist, but in fact there was no deterrent at all, and it would only make people feel very funny.
Because of this, the little dog became a Wei dog, from a little pirate who was bullied to the son of a Ming general.
Although both the son and the father are too young to speak, this is already a tradition after all, and the flag army who crossed Japan can gladly accept this situation.
"Naoyama Nakaka Kasuke wrote a letter asking me why no one in the three prefectures rebelled."
Chen Bazhi held a Nanyang arquebus and looked at the inscription on the body carefully, and only after seeing the year of production did he skillfully reload, slightly tilted his neck and aimed at the dragon head rod, and after a loud noise, he threw the bird gun to the flag army, turned his head to Wang Rulong and asked, "How should I reply?" β
"Why didn't anyone rebel among the people of Sanfu? Good question! β
Wang Rulong, who had been through the wind and frost for a long time, frowned and showed three forehead lines, standing aside with a war sword and meditating, but after thinking for a long time, he didn't know why, at the beginning of the attack on Shanbuki City, he made a detailed plan for Chen Bazhi, at least three large-scale suppression and rebellion before he could rule here, and as a result, except for a few martial artists who rebelled, all other battles were fought outside the territory.
He squeezed his eyes and said without confidence: "My great tomorrow is prestige overseas, and the people of Sanfu are looking forward to it?" β
Chen Bazhi pursed his lips and nodded: "Then I'll go back like this, if he is willing to persuade Nizi to hand over Bozhou to me, I can also make that there is no rebellion over there." β
Who let you five people and five people?
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