In early February 1791, just as the people of the whole country... ahem, just as the people in Jeonbukhai Town were in the winter, a massive "escape incident" broke out in Kyushu, the island country, shocked the shogunate and the Kansai vassals.

You should know that the total population of Kyushu Island is only more than 3.2 million, and the number of farmers involved in this escape incident accounts for one-tenth of the people. The farmers' voting with their feet is not so much because of the "rumor" that the "rumor" has spread from south to north, but rather because of the exploitation and suppression of the vassals, the farmers can no longer survive.

To put it in some people's opinion, as long as the Qing farmers in the 18th century did not cause disasters and did not fight wars, they were already considered the luckiest farmers in East Asia, at least they could still eat enough.

But farmers in countries like the Li Dynasty and island countries were simply living in hell, named farmers, but actually serfs. These people worked hard day and night, but 70 to 80% of the income a year had to pay taxes, which was not enough to support their parents and wives.

Although Nguyen Phuc Ying has a good reputation in Annan, his suppression of farmers under his control is a little lighter than that of Xishanchao. Although rice is abundant on the Mekong Plain, the people in Guangnan eat taro and all rice is needed for Nguyen Phuc Ying to exchange for arms.

On the other hand, in the island country, since the dawn of famine, the Kansai vassals have not only not lowered their taxes, but have repeatedly transported the rice produced to Edo and Osaka for profit. Although Matsupei Tatsushi adopted a policy of focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce during the "reform of government", farmers still couldn't eat.

To put it bluntly, the characteristics of the shogunate system determine the economic policies of various parts of the island country. In order to limit the strength of their subordinates, the shogunate had to let them undertake heavy "public duty" tasks, including attending and exhorting, expenses of the Edo vassal residence, military service, general envoys, guards at various gates in Edo Castle, firefighting and reception of envoys sent by Kyoto, etc.

Even the same is true for the Ida Village, which manages the Satsuma Vocationals in the south. In order to divide the Sendai Vocational family, Matsupei Daon specially asked the Haigou Gongfang to enthrone the Ida Village as the lord of the Satsuma Vocational family. Although the Ida Village does not need to be Tokugawa Shogunate, he has to go back to Aoba Castle every year to "study and explain".

If a daimyo does not want to abide by this "playing method", he will have to rebel except to cut off the seal and change the family leader. The problem is that even if the rebellion wins and sits on the throne of the general, he still has to play this game under the premise of a small peasant economy that is closed to the country, and he has no choice.

This is true for the Tokugawa shogunate, and even more so for the Sendai vassal. Of course, the town of Kitakai didn't have the intention to help the Sendai vassal change the feudal system, so it's great to just do it.

The cause of the incident originated from a dispute over arable land in the Kumamoto family and Aoma village in the Saira family. The Shogunate Assessment Office determined that the land for "land arrest inspection" was implemented, that is, the land disputed in three villages belonging to the two vassals was remeasurement and inventory.

The island country began to establish the Tokugawa Shogunate until the 1720s. It had experienced five national land clearances, namely the Kyotochou District, the Kanyeong Kyoto Security District, the Kanweng Yanbao District, the Mungroku District, and the Enjoyed New Field Inspection District. After the Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoyed Enjoy

The purpose of encouraging the land for the new fields was to get rid of the predicament at that time, hoping to alleviate financial difficulties by increasing annual tribute income and collect as much annual tribute from these developed new fields as possible. The Tokugawa Shogunate set the farmland in the world at seven levels, namely the top, the upper, the middle, the lower, the lower, the lower, the lower, the seven levels of the isolation land.

After being graded, if a flood or drought causes a bad harvest and wants to complain to the acting official... I deserve it! I have to pay as much as I should, and it doesn’t matter if I don’t have a grain of rice!

Unexpectedly, for the sake of his own selfishness, Tokubee, the servant sent by the lord of the Kumamoto family, only let his subordinates operate when he finished the land, and did not allow the people in the village to intervene at all. As a result, after the land measurement, the annual tribute burden of Ashiki Town increased by 4,000 rice.

The problem is that it is winter, and even if you want to increase the annual tribute, you can wait until next year to prepare for the people. As a result, Tokubei Kawai ordered Ashikimachi to immediately make up for the four thousand pieces. In addition, this guy also forcibly levyed the exempted wine shop tax in the town, causing complaints.

Of course, the people of Ashiki Town are quit, and the rabbits are still biting people when they are anxious. But if there are no three counties occupied by the town of Kitakai in the south, these farmers will go to the shogunate in Nagasaki to carry out the petition. The final punishment of the shogunate is generally 50 bans each; Kawai Tokuiwei should punish the crime, and the people sue the officials for the people, and they will be exiled!

However, when the villagers were discussing, some people immediately exploded when they heard the rumors about the three counties in the south. What! Is there another way to live?

After some discussion, someone suggested that the person who sued the official should be considered as a raven. The world is like a black crow. Let everyone smuggle the south together, let the bastard grow the four thousand rice by himself. We Zhu Bajie threw the rake and stopped serving us!

The reason for this is that the three counties under Beihai Town have completely changed from other places. Compared with farmers in other areas of the island country, the farmers in the three counties are no less than living in paradise.

Since Beihai Town actually controlled the three counties of Nanjiuzhou, it began to implement the "three public and seven citizens" tribute. In addition, there are no miscellaneous taxes, and even if corvee is levied, money will be paid. Not only that, the township governments with civil affairs in the three counties also opened up mountains and forests, allowing the people to go to the mountains to hunt, but logging needs to be reported.

At the beginning of last year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs considered that Isa and Rikikagi-gun had many mountains and few lands and poor output, so it simply encouraged farmers to carry out poultry breeding, mainly Satsuma chickens, which is a specialty in the Risamo area in another time and space, and the slaughter time is only 60 days. The Ministry of Civil Affairs sent personnel to go to villages for breeding training, but also provided interest-free loans through the Beihai Trading Company, and all livestock were purchased openly after they were slaughtered.

Last June, a large meat processing site was built in Ajiugenlu, Tushui County, and nearly a thousand people were hired. All the purchased chickens will be sent here, divided and frozen, and then transported to Beihai Town.

With interest-free loans and acquisition guarantees, farmers began to try raising chickens. After two or three months, they saw that the chicken-raising families made money. All the enthusiasm of the people suddenly increased, and every family began to raise chickens.

The reason for doing this is actually to supplement meat nutrition for soldiers and the people under their jurisdiction. When the total number of soldiers in the North Navy reached 55,000, and it will continue to rise, it also led to the demand for meat, poultry and eggs alone in the army every day, not to mention that those migrant workers who have become rich and school children also need to increase nutrition.

The problem is that although the lives of the farmers in the three counties have improved, it is even more difficult for farmers in other vassals to come. The reason is that the various vassals have set up layers of outposts on the roads in Isa and Rikikari on the three counties of the three counties, which are not airtight. Not to mention that the pieces of paper cannot pass, once a person is caught, his head will be lost.

However, when hundreds of farmers in Ashiki Town were preparing to give up their hometown with their families, the news spread somehow. More than a dozen villages including Koma Village, Shane Village, Aira Village, Nishi Town, and Asaki Town dozens of miles away also began to move.

These people thought that there were many people and great powers, or that the law did not punish the masses, so one night in early February, more than two thousand men, women, young and old men held torches and began to enter the mountains in the south, heading towards the water, Isa and Rikikari.

The Tokugawa Shogunate was set up in a "custody office" on Yagoyama Mountain Road. The soldiers on duty in the Forensic Sword (Observation Area) suddenly lit up a torch on the mountain road to the north, as if someone was brushing a gold pen in the snowy mountains. Seeing that the situation was abnormal, the soldiers on duty rang the bronze bell that called the police.

It is said that the guards on the post roads between the various vassals during the Edo period were directly managed and controlled by the shogunate, and each vassal was not allowed to set up privately. These guards are important nodes in the shogunate government, used to monitor the national population and material flow, and at the same time grasp information on public opinion incidents.

Originally, Kyushu was far away from Edo, and each vassal was established by the shogunate to approve it. However, after the Shimazu family was destroyed, the southern part of the Kumamoto family and the Saira family bordered the three counties of the Kitakai Town, Tokugawa Shogunate had specially set up several vassals here since the previous year. The largest ones were 100 people and the smaller ones were 50 people.

As the bell rang, the guards who had already fallen asleep were awakened. As soon as the samurai Masato Okubo, who was the "companion", lit the lantern when the raid door was opened.

"Sir, something is wrong! Someone wants to pass the level!"

"Have you held it?" Masato Okubo, who was wearing only a cloak, was not panicked. Although the past two years have happened, they were all thieves and could not escape the "law eyes" of the shogunate.

The warrior who served as the "Changfan People" said anxiously: "You might as well come out and have a look. It seems that there are many people coming, and there are probably thousands of subordinates."

"How, how is that possible!"

After a while, Masashino Okubo who had climbed up the observation deck also saw the fire dragon getting closer and closer. He immediately ordered all his subordinates to be on alert, bow and string the musket load.

There are 50 people in this prison. Masatoshi Okubo is the leader - that is, the person in charge. He has one man named Yoshimitsu, eight people in Changban, and forty pawns. In addition, there is also a "person-seeing woman" responsible for inspecting women.

When the fire finally approached, the people in the station saw clearly through the fence gate that a group of ragged farmers came opposite. These people were carrying large bags of bags, both men, women, and young and old. When they saw the door closed, they immediately slowed down until a warrior stopped shouting that they stopped ten steps outside the door.

"I don't sleep well at home late at night. What do you want to do?!"

Hearing the samurai scolding, a man in his thirties in his thirties walked out of the crowd. He handed the torch in his hand to the others. He came to a five-step away in front of the door, and fell to his knees in the snow and said wailingly: "Please, please pity us, give us a way out and let everyone go."

After saying that, the men, women, young and old behind him also knelt down.

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Tadashi Okubo said sternly: "I am planning to join Beihai Town? I am really lawless! The government has an agreement with Beihai Town. Even if you pass the customs office, Beihai Town will not accept you! Go back quickly, I will not blame you! Otherwise, there will be no sight in the sword and gun!"

A warrior immediately said, "You have heard what Master Fantou said?! Go away quickly!"

The man seemed to have expected it, and then stood up and shouted to everyone behind him with grief and anger: "We work hard every day, but the official department has been exploding more and more day, and we don't even give us a way out! Since that's the case, what are you afraid of?! Why are you dead? As long as you rush here, you will have a way out!"

"If you fight with them, you will die! Instead of starving to death, it is better to rush over and make a way for your family to survive!"

"Everyone who wants to survive, go together! Fight with them!"

As the agitation shouted, the farmers who had just begged suddenly turned into evil spirits, pulled out hatches, wooden sticks and other objects from the package, and rushed towards the gate of the gate.

"Sir, what should I do?" The warriors and soldiers in the gates suddenly panicked. They could not have imagined that the cowardly farmers would become like this on weekdays.

When Tadashi Okubo saw the shaking gate of Guansuo, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Iron Cannon! Shoot!"

Twenty bird guns fired immediately, and the roar of the musket broke through the quiet forest in the night. The birds flew in shock and woke up the outpost of Beihai Town a mile away.

"There is a situation! Everyone gathers!"

With a rapid whistle sounded, seven or eight Northern Navy soldiers were busy putting on their clothes and rushed out of the barracks with rifles. The squad leader who led the team first sent someone to call to report the message to the barracks behind, and then walked up to the stairs to look around. At this time, he heard the roar of muskets sounded again, and then a faint shout of killing came.

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The squad leader who led the team looked suspicious. He had never heard of shooting from the other side since he was sent to guard this outpost. Since the Tokugawa Shogunate and Kitakai Town ceased, the hostile relations between the two sides have gradually eased. Sometimes, people would send gifts such as rice and sake to the office. After asking for instructions, they would also send some specialties from Kitakai Town to the post.

Thinking of this, he said to the deputy squad leader: "You bring five people to stay here, I'll take two people over and take a look."

In the shogunate gate, two thick fence gates had already swarmed up and pushed down the crowd. Dozens of corpses lay at the door, some of which were shot and killed, while others were stabbed to death by two sharp guns. In the courtyard of the prison, the crowd who ignored the death knocked over the frightened soldiers to the ground and snatched the weapons in the hands of the other party.

The "person-seeing girl" in the trust center was so scared that she hid in the toilet and shivered. However, the samurai such as Okubo Tadashi and others retreated into the foreign station because they were outnumbered.

The angry crowd seemed to have forgotten what they were here for now. Everyone, regardless of gender, waved their "weapons" with crazy expressions, surrounding the chamber. Then, someone threw the torch in his hand towards the house.

As more and more torches were thrown out, the fire finally became unstoppable. The panicked warriors stumbled out of the house, waving the samurai sword in their hands without thinking, trying to disperse the farmers who were constantly leaning over.

"You, you are rebelling! If you dare to kill officials, you will be executed, and you will be executed!"

Facing the howling of Tadashi Okubo, no one cared, and he didn't plan to be a submissive person for the shogunate. Who cares if you are an official or something! Seeing that the once high-ranking official became messy and his hair was disheveled, everyone felt something released in their hearts, and they felt a burst of pleasure.

The squad leader of the North Navy, who had two subordinates, suddenly understood something when he saw the sky-high fire ignited in the clearance and the dark crowd in the courtyard. He hurriedly blew a copper whistle hanging around his neck, and the crowd's attention was attracted.

"Northern Hai Jun! They are the North Hai Jun!" As a man, women, old and young inside the station suddenly rushed to the squad leader, crawled down and knelt down, crying and howling to take in.
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