Chapter nine hundred and sixty-five there is always someone to pick on
Everyone has several faces.
Takeda Harunobu is a person of common deeds. She loves Kosaka Masanobu and is willing to share the peerless beauty Shiba Yoshigan with her same-sex lover.
Takeda Harunobu, a woman named Ai Siba Yoshigan, was willing to give birth to an illegitimate daughter for him, become a monk for him, and live a lonely life.
The daimyo Takeda Harunobu was only interested in profit. In order to gain the religious advantage of the Tendai Sect, he dragged Master Tenkai into the water and let her get a piece of Shiba Yoshigan's pie.
The complexity of human nature can be jaw-dropping and reasonable at the same time. People are not animals. If you stay with people for a long time, you will like dogs more.
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The rice smells fragrant in the golden autumn, and it’s the busy farming season again.
The samurai prefer to fight after spring plowing and autumn harvest. Because rice accounts for most of Japan's staple food, they cannot help but be careless and avoid busy farming seasons.
At this time in the world, except for Oda Nobunaga, who had too much food, he began to try to use his off-the-job occupation ashigaru, deliberately went to war during the busy farming season, and conquered the Northern Ise samurai family, which was miserable.
Most other places still follow the tradition and maintain the rules of fighting during the slack period and repairing during the busy period.
Except for a few elites, most of the reserve teams are mobilized from the local area. During busy farming periods, they will disband and go home to help with the farming. Even the Ji Samurai and the middle and lower classes will go to the fields to help at this time.
The autumn harvest seems to be perfect, but it is the most frightening time. A journey of 100 miles is half a mile, and the last trembling of rice is not easy.
The plump ears of rice make the stalks bend deeply, so they must be drained as soon as possible, harvested, and placed on rice racks to dry in the sun.
No one can predict when the autumn rains will start. If the rice cannot be dried before winter, mold and insects can ruin a year's farming and most of the hard work.
Only when the rice is completely dry and stored in the warehouse can farmers feel relieved.
The straw is then made into dry rice straw, which is used for cooking and horse feed. Most of the rice is carefully stored and is not processed after shelling. It is called brown rice. Even Hojo Ujiyasu eats this kind of brown rice.
Only the extravagant nobles can afford to eat processed white rice. If you add a small dried fish to every meal, you will be scolded by others as a prodigal who ruined your family business.
People in this era lived a hard life, far beyond the imagination of later generations. Even the rulers of the martial class were in hardship.
As powerful as Terutora Uesugi and Yoshigan Shiba, they could only send Nagachi Kawada and a small number of elites to attack Numata Castle first. They would wait until the autumn harvest was over before they dared to march south with all their strength.
The waiting was so painful, but the day finally came. As the autumn harvest season passed, high-level martial artists from all over the country had already gathered in Shangyue.
In the Imperial Palace Hall, Uesugi Shiba and two Fangji warriors were sitting on the left and right, with the two masters at the top.
Shiba Yiyin looked at Daxiong Chaoxiu and asked.
"Big Bear Ji, has the food purchase plan been completed?"
Daxiong bowed to Chao Xiu and said.
"Returning to the imperial office, we purchased a total of 215,000 shi of various grains, and put 83,000 shi in Zhijiangjin.
Among them, rice is 71,000 dan, and the remaining wheat, millet, beans and other miscellaneous grains are 12,000 dan."
After she finished speaking, she raised her head and met Shiba Yiyin's eyes. The monarch and the minister looked at each other and smiled.
The grain that Naoejin put into the warehouse has already been reported to the government office. Speaking of it at this time is nothing more than a demonstration of the wisdom of Shiba Yiyin.
Look, my plan to buy grain has come true, I’m so awesome!
This is also true. The expectation for buying grain this time was 60,000 to 80,000 shi, and the actual amount put into the warehouse even exceeded the expected upper limit.
The acquisition site of Ohkuma Asahide is in the Hokurikudo and Ou areas. The distance is relatively close, and the consumption is relatively small, so it can only squeeze out 40,000 koku.
The really powerful one is Takata Harano. The straight-line distance between Sakai Port and Naoetsu is more than 500 kilometers.
Transporting it all the way across mountains and seas would cost at least two-thirds of it, but to be able to scrape together more than 40,000 dan was really impressive.
After this incident, Takada Harano has become a shining golden doll in Shiba Yigen's heart, a little genius who can make money and supplies.
The two of them were mentally prepared, but most of the Wu family who attended the meeting didn't know it yet. They were all astonished by the Sibo family's powerful ability to allocate supplies.
One stone is 150-160 kilograms in later generations, and 83,000 stones is 13,000 tons. Based on the ration of two stones per month for ten people, it is enough to feed 400,000 people for a month.
In the eyes of these rustic warriors in Kanto who are not familiar with commercial logistics, mobilizing so much food in less than half a year is simply a fantasy.
Saito Asanobu was the first to be unable to bear it. She had a lot of grudges with Daxiong Asahide in China and Vietnam. Now that she is getting better and better, her sense of crisis is getting worse day by day.
At this time, when she saw Da Xiong Chao Xiu showing off such a beautiful report card, she immediately stepped out to question it and bowed.
"Your Highnesses, is there something wrong with this quantity? Two hundred and one hundred thousand stones were purchased, and more than 80,000 stones were stored in the warehouse. It is simply unbelievable."
Daxiong gave her a sideways look and waited silently to see her misfortune.
Since Shiba Yiyin cried a lot, Daxiong Chaoxiu finally calmed down a lot.
He just immersed himself in doing what he was committed to and spoke ill of the Uesugi family inside the Kanto Palace. As for provoking the Uesugi family, it never happened again.
This made Naoe Keizuna very surprised, and also made Terutora Uesugi secretly happy. As expected, Yoshihiro Shiba did not let his men continue to attack him. It must be the intention of Lang Youqing's concubine.
With the restraint of Ohkuma Asahide, the conflict between the Uesugi and Shiba families went underground. From the outside, they seemed to be sincerely united and united in dealing with the outside world.
Because of this, Daxiong Asahide is happy to see Saito Asanobu suffer bad luck. If I don't provoke you, you will jump out to find trouble yourself. It depends on how Uesugi Teruhora handles you.
As expected, Terutora Uesugi, who was at the head, suddenly looked very embarrassed.
She pointed at Saito Nobunobu, then pointed at her seat, and cursed.
"Go back! You are an ignorant person!"
Saito Chaoxin was stunned for a moment, and when she saw her master's expression getting even more angry, she didn't dare to be stubborn and walked back dejectedly. From the corner of her eyes, she saw the half-smiling expression of Daxiong Chaoxin, and she felt secretly hateful in her heart, and her face was gone.
Naoe Keizuna couldn't help but hold his forehead and sigh, why is this guy rushing out?
Saito Asanobu also engaged in religious affairs and said that she did not understand that she had been wronged. But she jumped out to find fault at this time. This was not a kind reminder. She was simply displeased with Daxiong Asanobu and took the opportunity to attack.
The Uesugi family must have a copy of the grain receipts stored in Naoetsu's warehouse. Naoe Tsuna has already submitted it to Uesugi Teruhora, so there can be no problem with the quantity.
If she was not sure, how could Daxiong Chaoxiu talk nonsense in the big review? Does she still need her head?
Yoshigan Shiba glanced at the angry Terutora Uesugi and shook his head secretly.
There are many thorns in the Uesugi family. If Okuma Chaohide does not provoke, they will inevitably cause trouble. This Echigo dual politics is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.
He had to come out to smooth things over, so as not to ruin the pre-game review, he said.
"Hime Saito is a general in the army, but she was also worried that there would be problems with the logistics supply, so she was anxious for a while.
Don't worry, Zhu Ji, there will be no mistake in the quantity. Mr. Naoe and Da Xiong Ji are responsible for this matter together, and the accounts are clear.
We were able to raise so much food this time because the Tokaido trade route declined and the Hokuriku trade route flourished, and we took advantage of it.
The large number is indeed surprising. When I first saw the number, I thought I had seen it wrong. No wonder Saito Hime was surprised and confused."
