Chapter 261: Transactions (21)

Scold! Hehehehehe! That's how you're progressing? Qin Yuzhen laughed mockingly. It can be seen that Qin Yuzhen does not believe in the common things in the 21st century, and she said unhappily: "I agree with your words, the population will be more and more, and the existing things that can be produced will not grow as fast as the population, so everyone will become poorer and poorer." Until the outbreak of war, the mass death of the population, the death of the people to make room for the survivors, this round of crisis is over, and the next round of chaos and chaos begins again. You have eliminated the barbarians, recovered the homeland of China, and left a vast living space for the population of the Great Song Dynasty. With this achievement, the population of the Great Song Dynasty can eat for hundreds of years. In the hundreds of years of peace, the population will be dozens of times that of now. How are you going to feed these billions of people? ”

"By progress. In the future, one acre of land can harvest 2,000 catties of grain a year...... Eh! Zhao Jiaren was kicked by his wife, and he cried out in pain with half-truths and half-truths.

Qin Yuzhen turned over and sat up and walked towards the bedroom. Zhao Jiaren seized the time behind him to continue to introduce: "Hey! Not only can one acre of land produce 2,000 catties of grain, but also rice can be planted by the sea in the future, without watering, directly using seawater. ”

"Good, good!" Qin Yuzhen replied without looking back: "I'll go to sleep." You don't have to sleep. Now go and bring me the rice irrigated by seawater with your machine that flies 10,000 miles in more than two hours, and I will personally steam the rice for you two to eat. You also know that my craft is very good, I'll wait. ”

Seeing his wife's back disappear behind the door, Zhao Jiaren naturally wouldn't take his wife's angry words seriously. After talking to his wife about progress for a while, he only felt that he had confidence in progress. Standing up, Zhao Jiaren also went to sleep.

At this time, the envoy of the Ashikaga family also returned to the Eichiro family. After lunch, the messenger who said that he had gone out for a walk did not come back in the middle of the night, and Ashikaga Saiyun had to sit in the living room lit with two bright candles and wait, and when the maid went to open the door, Ashikaga Saiyun still put down the Great Song comic book "Ranger Kenshin" in her hand, but she couldn't help it, and took advantage of the gap between the locks on the door to quickly read a few more pages.

Lighting candles was a symbol of the rich and noble families of the Japanese Kingdom, and the envoy was no longer surprised. He asked Ashikaga Saiun, "Your Highness, what is the holiday today?" ”

"It's not."

"Then I see there is a temple fair on the street."

"Temple fair?" Ashikaga Saiyun was a little puzzled, and after thinking for a while, she smiled a little nostalgically: "That's not a temple fair, it's a shop street." You see the streets lined with people selling food and doing business, right? ”

The messenger nodded hurriedly, and many shops on the street set up large cauldrons and were frying and frying. The smell of oil smoke and the smell of various seafood and meat mixed in the air made the messenger feel a little dizzy. In that bright glass lantern is brighter than the moonlight, and the underside of the illumination is not dim. People come and go shopping, and the population of Matsuyama Castle is not as large as that of Kamakura Castle and Kyoto, and it doesn't sound like a festival to have so many people gathered on one street.

However, the messenger did not have the courage to question the nobleman, so he could only go back to their room with the attendant and go to sleep. Ashikaga Saiyun wanted to go to sleep, but his hand involuntarily touched the manga serialized publication. Before being arranged to marry Adachi Inichiro, Ashikaga Saiyun was very resistant, not because the Adachi family was destroyed, nor because her sister also married Adachi Inichiro. Not to mention that at that time she knew that Adachi Inichiro was arranged to assassinate the important ministers of the Hojo family.

Ashikaga Saiyun was most dissatisfied with Adachi Inichiro, saying that he would take his two wives to Shikoku. Although Shikoku has such a nice name as 'Yuzhou', it is a 'ghost island' in the eyes of the Japanese people of Honshu Island. In the story of the well-known Kintaro, the ghost island that Kintaro went to is the island of Shikoku. Moving from Honshu to Shikoku is terrifying just as it sounds.

However, after arriving on Shikoku Island, Ashikaga Saiyun realized that she was wrong, this may be Onijima, but there is a huge treasure on Onijima in Kintaro's story. Kintaro only became rich after killing all the ghosts and robbing them of their treasures. The 'ghost island' of Shikoku Island is really very rich, unusually rich. Not only a rich life, but also an extraordinary cultural life.

For example, when he was on Honshu Island, Ashikaga Saiyun could only listen to a limited number of stories, and the books he read were all written for men. There are very few places to go, so I can only live a life of pure heart and few desires. When she arrived on Shikoku Island, she and her sister saw comic books sold from the Great Song Dynasty. Ashikaga Saiun's favorite is "Ranger Kenshin" from the serialized manga, which is a story of the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties. That is, every time the author speaks, he will say in the same way, 'This story was created by the author, not real history'. Ashikaga Saiyun thinks this story is really good, and it is the same as the real thing. Even more exciting than the real thing.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the heroes rose together, and the world was in chaos. A child who lost his relatives in the troubled times, Wu Yong, was rescued by the master on the way to be trafficked, and the master took a fancy to the child's qualifications, accepted him as an apprentice, and renamed him Wu Jianxin. The boy later defected to an organization that rebelled against the Sui Dynasty court and became a killer. After the Xuanwumen Incident, he left Li Shimin and began a ranger life.

Compared to the stories told in this serialized manga, the stories that Ashikaga Saiyun has heard and the stories told in the books he has read are weak. And Da Song's comic weekly is not only this one serialized comic, but there are many serialized comics on it. Sometimes Ashikaga Saiyun wonders if he is more anxious when he waits for the return of Inichiro, who is out of the house, or when he waits for the manga to be released.

Anyway, it's all at this point, Ashikaga Saiyun picked up the manga and continued to read. It's not too late to go to sleep after reading this serial.

The next afternoon, the envoy went out again, and this time he was ready to visit Songshan Castle, the main city of the Four Nations Army. Walking on the streets of Matsuyama Castle, the touch under his feet always made him feel very wrong. The Wa Kingdom learned many things from the Tang Dynasty, such as the kind of official boots on the feet of officials. As a thank you for the envoy's hard journey, the Ashikaga family's aunt Eiichiro gave the envoy a suit of clothing after bringing him out of prison.

Fluffy and delicate underwear, long trousers and long-sleeved tops, and a delicate cowhide belt. These aren't bad. The messenger took off the hair that had been tied up and washed it with shampoo. Tie a silk rope mixed with gold thread around the neck, and apart from the accent, the messenger was dressed no differently from most of the people of Matsuyama Castle.

The clothes are okay, but this pair of rubber-soled shoes that are divided into left and right feels completely different on weekdays. In the past, the foot was loose and baggy inside the official boots, but now every step will have a very clear feeling. Even two days later, I'm still not used to it. After walking for a while, the messenger's eyes were attracted by a woman in front of him, and he completely forgot the sensation on his feet.

The woman wears a pair of trouser trousers with wide legs, and just looking at the trouser legs, I feel that the woman's legs are very different from the Luo hoop legs of the Wa Kingdom, which are very straight. The crotch of the pants is cut tighter. The upper body is a light blue short shirt that can be found everywhere on the streets of Matsuyama Castle, and the fabric is the same as that of the pants. The hem of the top exposes the lower half of the snow-white tights. There is a very subtle gap between the white tights and the belt of the pants, and you can see the skin on the woman's waist, but there is only a trace of it.

What attracted the messenger the most was the woman's walking posture, she raised her leg and stepped forward, the posture was smooth and natural, without the slightest artificiality. However, such a step makes the woman's slender waist swing with the smooth pace. The amplitude is not big, just right. The messenger followed the woman behind for a while, blaming the woman in front of her for walking like this is completely unethical, but her eyes just can't leave, and she always wants to take a few more looks.

It must be said that there is really no talk of bad morals. The Wakoku lacked the fibers to make the fabric, and if the envoys had visited Shikoku a few years earlier, the women they saw would have been dressed similarly to those on Honshu. In winter, the calves and even thighs are exposed, the short jacket is wrapped around the body, the neck is completely exposed, and part of the shoulders are exposed, and even the career line can be seen clearly. In contrast, the women of the four countries in front of them can be justifiably called tightly wrapped.

The woman walked through the door of a house, and the door shut. The messenger didn't want to be seen that he had followed his sister paper all the way, so he continued on his way. A few more steps and you find yourself already walking in a residential area. On both sides of the road are bungalows and three-story buildings. The pavement is not a stone slab, it is a gray-black pavement, and you can probably see that there is a lot of gravel in it, which is smooth and solid. It is not difficult to walk on it. The road is much wider than the streets of Kyoto or Kamakura Castle, and the best part is that there is a line drawn in the middle of the road with unknown materials, and the pedestrians and vehicles on the street walk along the right side, which feels orderly.

Without the goal of the tail line, the messenger regretted himself a little and wasted a lot of time. He was also a person with status, and it was inconvenient to complain, so he continued to move forward. Matsuyama Castle is not very big, and you will get to the edge of the castle while walking. Matsuyama Castle, which was built on a mountain, did not have a city wall. It's just that there are some intermittent things outside the city, and I can't understand what it is. The messenger was impressed by the fact that he could see a gray building. He was initially caught here, and uniformed Shikoku soldiers pushed the envoy and his retinue into a small room. At first glance, it looks like a prison cell.

The cells of Kamakura Castle are also made up of cage-like rooms, each of which is enclosed by a wooden railing made of wooden poles the thickness of a child's arm. Inside, all sorts of vicious sinners sat on rotten straw mats that smelled of foul odor, or simply sat on dirt floors. The floor is paved with stone, the inside is clean, and there is a row of wooden benches against the wall.

When the troops of the Four Nations left the passage, the envoy's retinue could not help but shake these thin poles with their hands, and the railings here were only the thickness of the little finger, and they appeared black. Since the railing was so thin, the attendant wanted to see if there was any possibility of breaking the railing and escaping. After trying for a moment, the attendant exclaimed, "This is iron!" ”

The messenger did not believe his attendants, and he leaned over the fence and shook it with his hand, struck it on his shoulder, and struck it with his knuckles. It was finally determined that these slender railings were all made of iron. Then he was so frightened that he took a few steps back and sat on a clean bench speechless. This is a prison cell, but the value is comparable to that of a nobleman's house. Even the ordinary nobles of the Ashikaga family can't get so much iron, and of course they have to make weapons or utensils with so much iron, how can they be idle enough to process iron into such a thin railing with horizontal bars.