Even in the Wa country, the Miki River is a place where birds don't. There are sparse shrubs in the rocky ground between the mountains, and three tenacious trees are very conspicuous in the land. A small river flows through the rocky field.

From here, three directions are the territory of the Ashikaga family. From here, it was a long way back to enter the territory controlled by the Kamakura shogunate. If it weren't for the war, it would have been a four-way zone. The men and horses of the Ashikaga family retreated dejectedly along the difficult stone field, walking behind and supporting the wounded. Further behind was a mocking laugh and scolding. A small fortress was built on a high part of the stone field. It is four meters high and is made of stone, pebbles and concrete. The platform on the fortress was full of people from the shogunate, who loudly laughed at the people of the Ashikaga family.

There were several broken crash cars underneath the fortress, the body remained intact, and the arrows fired from the top of the fortress were completely insufficient to destroy it. The problem was with the wooden stake hammer, the front of the thick wooden pole was shattered. The Ashikaga army sent very strong siege equipment, and also sent strong men. They were so hard that they had to retreat from under the fort after they were completely destroyed by the use of solid wooden poles.

The Ashikaga army who returned to their camp was dejected, and the shogunate army took advantage of the fact that the Ashikaga army did not pay attention to build this fortress that could only accommodate 100 people in a short period of time. The Ashikaga army launched two attacks in succession, but they lost their troops and returned without success, and now this is the third time. It was extremely difficult to get a heavy crash through this rocky field, and the Ashikaga Army did it, paying a huge price in the process. It turned out that a crash that could knock open the main castle of the Ashikaga family was useless in front of this small fortress.

At this time, Eiichiro was drinking tea and chatting with a head of the Ashikaga family in the back of the butcher's shop in the embassy area outside Kamakura Castle, and the boundary of the land was by the sea, which was windy and humid, and there was a lot of rain in the Wa country, and the soil would be lost under the rain. This kind of land is considered a very bad land in the Wa Kingdom.

It was not strange for Inoichiro to cooperate with such a landlord, who was surprised that he had not participated in the siege of Miki River and had come here. Miki River is a model project carried out by the Great Song Dynasty, and Inoichiro hopes to meet as many Ashikaga family horses as possible.

"Your Excellency, I am willing to provide labor in my territory."

Hearing this, Inoichiro simply replied, "Oh." ”

This aristocratic answer made the landlord feel the superior position of Inoichiro, and the landlord could only humbly continue to tell his request, "I want to buy cement to build a fortress." Could you please use your good offices in this mode? ”

Ichiro's expression did not change, and he took out a piece of paper and handed it to the ground in front of him. I picked it up and looked at it, and there was a list written on the paper. In the name of the fourth, money and shops were opened in the local area, and the laborers of the Japanese Kingdom who went to the Great Song Dynasty to engage in production would no longer pay completely in kind, but in currency. When the Japanese laborers returned to their home countries, they could take the money to the shops to buy the goods they needed.

"What does that mean?" The ground is a little confused.

"Can you go from house to house and loot the iron pots of the laborers and take their clothes?" Inichiro asked.

The heart of the earth said, 'Your Excellency, you are really on the way, I do think so,' but he couldn't say that. According to the rules, saying this means that the next step is to propose how much to pay to Inoichiro. How could he be willing to give the materials he had worked so hard to collect to others, and the head chose to be silent.

"Don't worry, we don't want your stuff." Ichiro patiently reassured, "We ask that you not take all the money earned by the laborers. You have to leave some of the goods for him to buy from the store. We all know how much money the inflow is, how many laborers have come to your place, and how much money Da Song has given them. Do the math and it's out. It's useless for you to keep those banknotes, don't you want to buy cement, just use those banknotes to buy them in the store. ”

This amount of information is relatively large, and it took me a while to think about it before I could barely figure it out. He couldn't contain his joy anymore, and excitedly probed, "Your Excellency is saying that we can take the money earned by those laborers and use it to buy cement." ”

"Not only cement, but everything in the store you can buy." Nichiro guided the train of thought of the ground. The Great Song Dynasty did not want to plunder the Wa State by force, and forced the Wa State to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty. In Yin Ichiro's opinion, the Great Song Dynasty was really strange, and they only asked for business and money when they went anywhere. It's all thankless and requires a lot of effort to operate. In particular, it will be more difficult when the transaction partner is not a noble person, but an ordinary person. However, this is the task assigned to Yin Ichiro by the Great Song, and he has to complete it.

After being excited for a while, the ground felt uneasy again, "Will Song Guo definitely give money to those people?" ”

"You should have been to those places, right?" Inichiro asked. Looking at the expression on the ground, Inoichiro was sure that the guy must have seen it. "You must know very well whether the laborers got their things or whether they came back safely. In that case, why do you have to doubt that Da Song will give money? ”

"They gave it this time, will they not give it next time?" There is no pure optimism in the ground, fishing is to give bait, if the purpose of the Great Song Dynasty is to deceive more people to work in the Great Song Dynasty?

Yin Yilang's tone was full of ridicule, "If you don't give it, it means that the Great Song Dynasty doesn't need Japanese laborers." The Great Song Dynasty is so rich, just say that you don't want people. How much good does it do them to lie to everyone? I can't do it for the sake of this. How, what the hell are you going to do. ”

The ground thought for a while, and asked tentatively, "I want to collect it according to the rules, three public and two people." ”

The so-called rule of the three princes and two people means that the land revenue is divided into five parts, three of which are taken from the land and two are left to the people. The tax rate is 60. According to the tradition, this fee standard is not excessive, but Yin Ichiro immediately objected, "No, two public and three people." If you are worried that too many people go to the Great Song Dynasty, those families who have worked hard will have to pay taxes to become two public and three people. ”

This is the standard that the personnel on the Great Song side require Yin Ichiro to do. In the past, the landlords of the Great Song Dynasty collected half of the rent, and the annual interest rate of 30 for borrowing money was considered a low interest rate. It is about half a catty and eight taels compared with the Wa Kingdom. After the Zhao official family of the Great Song Dynasty came to power, the agricultural tax was reduced to 30, and the loan interest rate of the Great Song Dynasty was reduced to about 14. In order to be able to absorb labor, the Great Song Dynasty naturally wanted to let the Japanese laborers earn more. Only when it is profitable, the Japanese workers will have enthusiasm. More importantly, only when it was profitable, the young and middle-aged laborers of the Wa Kingdom had a strong desire to work in the Great Song Dynasty.

For the ground, the ratio of two public and three private almost subverted his perception of the world, and he immediately said in embarrassment, "This is too low!" ”

"You can't do that. You'll have to change the algorithm! Eiichiro immediately retorted, "Those people spend a few months a year working to produce food and make money?" I say four months a year is an exaggeration. Most of the time they are busy with their own family affairs. That is to say, the three public and two private things you really receive every year are all in the work done in these four months. Do you think about it? ”

The ground had never thought about such a question, and he lowered his head and bit his lip and thought for a while, reluctantly saying that Yin Ichiro's words made some sense.

"Now they work in the fields for four months and in the Great Song for seven months. Even if it's two public and three private, what you receive is already the money and food they have worked for 11 months. They earn twice as much for seven months in Da Songgan as they do for four months under you. It means that you don't have to do anything, and you will more than double the charge. ”

As he spoke, Inoichiro took out another piece of paper with two calculations and showed them to the ground. The first is that the working families collect the income in the local area according to the two public and three private. For laborers, three public and two private collections are carried out. The income from the land has changed from 3 per year to 8 per year. If the tax is paid according to the local government or according to the three public and two private, the laborer himself collects it according to the two public and three private. The income from the land has changed from 3 per year to 7 per year.

After only looking at it twice, the head of the ground raised his head and said, "Your Excellency, I understand!" I'm willing to do it the first way! ”

I thought that I would have to work hard to make the ground understand, but I was surprised to see that the ground could figure out the key to the problem so quickly. He was not at ease, so he asked what the ground understood. The landlord briskly told his opinion, the laborers are still family-oriented, if they can reduce the family's taxes by 20, they instinctively feel that they have made a lot of money. As for how much you can earn in the Great Song Dynasty, in the eyes of the laborers, you can earn extra money, earn more and take more, earn less and take less. It's all a 'windfall'.

Having reached such a profound level of cognition in such a short period of time, Inoichiro felt ashamed. Then he asked solemnly, "Your Excellency, are you sure that the Great Song Dynasty will keep the promise?" ”

"Are you worried that the Great Song Dynasty will invade the Wa Kingdom?" Nichiro asked rhetorically.

"The Wa Kingdom is so poor, why did the Song Kingdom invade?"

"The Great Song Dynasty is so rich, what good do they do to deceive us? Even if you cheat us out, can you make the Great Song Dynasty richer? ”

"Are you sure it is the will of the Great Song Dynasty?"

"If you have the opportunity to go to Ashikaga-sama's side, you don't even have to go, and in a few days you will hear who is meeting Ashikaga-sama. It was the envoy whom the prince of the Great Song Dynasty personally met. Inoichiro said confidently. He admired the Great Song Dynasty's means of doing things very much, and the things he decided would be clearly expressed, and he would not pretend to be false like the Wa Kingdom, giving people a lot of room for conjecture.

In the days that followed, a steady stream of landlords came to see Inoichiro in private. Yin Ichiro found that these people were very understanding of the psychology of the Japanese laborers, and the landlords did not hesitate to choose the distribution plan of 'two public and three private in their own territory'. The news that the prince of the Great Song Dynasty personally met with the envoy of the Ashikaga family also spread over time, and there was no need for Yin Ichiro to emphasize it, and the landlords no longer raised questions about the credit of the Great Song Dynasty.

After the first batch of intensive visits, the owner of the orange stem shop came. After listening to the boss's report that he might gather a dozen or so people, Inoichiro smiled and didn't answer. This figure did not surprise him, as it was the shogunate and the Ashikaga family that held great power in the Wa Kingdom, and it was the generals and local probes who came forward to do all kinds of important things. The owner of the orange stem shop is at most the so-called Taoist brothers, and in terms of strength, the strength of such Taoist brothers is actually insignificant.

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(Tianjin)