The warriors lined up in a long line and walked onto the pier.
Murakami Naishin, who had been sitting in the bottom cabin, arrived at the pier and found that the ship from Sendai had merged with other ships to form a huge fleet. Each ship was filled with people recruited from all over Japan.
The warriors, all wearing shabby clothes, walked from the ship to the shore one by one.
Like Murakami Meishin, these samurai are full of aura of abjection. After Li Zhi conquered Japan, all Japanese samurai lost their masters and income, and could only live on savings and doing handymen. Most samurai at this time were wearing
The silk feather fabric at the bottom of the box was mostly patched and looked very shabby.
If this situation continues for another five years, the samurai may forget that they were samurai.
Murakami Nanobu followed the flow of people to the flat ground in front of the fourth berth, waiting for the civil servant Ning Lanhe.
Kobayakawa is still walking with Murakami Minganobu. The two of them are land servants from the same village. The so-called land servants refer to the local tycoon samurai during the Warring States Period. They do not have aristocratic blood, they are local natives and have influence in the local area.
of wealthy warriors.
However, the Jishi also relied on the samurai system. They were the grassroots organization of the Sendai Domain's Date family. After the Tokugawa shogunate and the Date family both perished, the Jishi also lost control of the local area and lost its source of income.
Kobayakawa was obviously very dissatisfied with Murakami Meishin. He pushed Murakami and kept shouting at Murakami to walk faster.
Murakami Nanobu was walking and suddenly stopped.
When Kobayakawa saw this scene, he couldn't help but burst into anger. With a strong hand, he pushed Murakami Nobunobu hard, causing Murakami to stagger and fall to the ground.
"asshole!"
Murakami Nanobu was also angry. He pressed the hilt of the sword on his waist and climbed up. He was about to draw his sword and fight Kobayakawa.
The surrounding samurai were startled and quickly moved out of the way, fearing that they would be stabbed by the furious Murakami Nanobu.
At the critical moment, the Japanese woman Ji Zi who was standing aside ran over. The Japanese woman who was married to a Chinese sailor plopped down and knelt down next to Murakami. She put her hands on the ground and fell deeply in front of Murakami.
"Samurai! Patience! Be patient!"
Murakami Nanobu looked at this Japanese woman married to a Han man and couldn't help shouting: "Get out of here!"
Ji Zi raised her head and said loudly: "Brother, we are all Mutsu Japanese, and my father is also a samurai. Be patient! When the most difficult days are over, there will be sunny days."
Murakami Nanobu glared at Ji Zi, but found that this woman was not at all afraid of his rage.
Ji Zi even nodded to Murakami Mingxin.
In the face of Ji Zi's dissuasion, Murakami's anger seemed a little weak and willful. He was dazed on the ground for a while, and then got up helplessly. He no longer had the idea of drawing his sword and fighting Kobayakawa, but walked to Kobayakawa's side.
The queue in the distance is waiting quietly at the fourth berth.
After waiting for half an hour, Ning Lanhe, a civil servant, came over.
Murakami Nanobu saw this man standing on the high platform in front of everyone.
"The boat was bumpy, thank you all for your hard work."
The warriors all bowed to Ning Lanhe and shouted loudly in broken Chinese: "It's not hard work!"
Ning Lanhe nodded and said:
"There's nothing we can do about letting you crowd in the bottom cabin. There are too many warriors we have to transport this time."
"You are all low-level samurai. You were originally responsible for maintaining local order in the Japanese countryside. But after the fall of the Date family of the Sendai Domain, you all lost your livelihood and could only make ends meet by working as handymen in taverns and markets."
"But when you get to Vietnam, you can hold your head high and become warriors again!"
Hearing Ning Lanhe's words, the faces of the Mutsu samurai paled. When Ning Lanhe said he wanted them to become samurai again, did he want them to wield their katana and fight on the front line?
All the warriors fell silent, no one spoke, and many shed tears of self-pity.
Kobayakawa in the crowd suddenly waved his fist and shouted: "Even if we die fighting for King Qi, we will never look back!"
When the samurai heard this roar, they all looked at Kobayakawa.
Soon, the samurai were infected by Kobayakawa's generosity. They all imitated Kobayakawa and raised their right hands and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid of death in battle!"
"No turning back!"
Only Murakami Meinobu stood at the end of the crowd and said nothing.
Ning Lanhe looked at the excited warriors and laughed.
"I'm not asking you to go to the front line."
"What you have to do is just go into the mountains to suppress the restless mountain people of Indochina. The task is very simple."
When the warriors heard this, they all showed confused expressions.
Ninglan waved his hands and said loudly: "The Indochina Peninsula is densely covered with forests and crisscrossed by mountains. In these mountainous forest areas, there are many southern barbarian indigenous people who are not convinced by the king. They occupy a large amount of land, but it is difficult to control them. After you warriors arrive in the mountainous areas, you will
Become a grassroots warrior responsible for collecting taxes from these natives and maintaining order in the mountainous forests."
Hearing Ning Lanhe's words, the warriors opened their mouths in surprise.
Putting samurai in charge of collecting taxes and maintaining local order sounds like a good job.
Isn't this what the samurai did in Japan before the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate? This is a decent job. You can wear your katana and ribs to inspect the houses of civilians majestically, and be a superior member of the upper class of society.
Ning Lanhe nodded and said: "According to our statistics, there are more than 10 million indigenous people in Indochina. These indigenous people will all move to the mountains and forest areas. The plains will be vacated to welcome the Han immigrants from Jianghuai Province. In order to manage
The natives in the mountains, we recruited 150,000 samurai from Japan who had lost their livelihood."
"You warriors probably have to manage a hundred natives each."
"Your salary comes from the farmers' land tax in the management area. We implement a 30% land rent system in Indochina, which means that the indigenous people have to hand over 30% of their harvest to the government. And these land taxes collected by the warriors, 10% goes to the local people.
Privately owned by the Samurai of Order."
Hearing Ning Lanhe's words, Murakami's eyes suddenly widened.
One hundred people each receive 30% of the land tax, and the land tax is enough to support forty people. 10% of the land tax that is enough to support forty people goes to the warrior, and the land tax that the warrior receives is enough to support four people.
The living expenses of four people should be shared by one samurai. This sounds like a good policy. Although this is the living expenses according to the standards of Vietnamese indigenous people. Maybe the living expenses of the indigenous people are only enough to survive, but the samurai can still marry a wife anyway.
Give birth to children and live a life of food and clothing.
Did the Han give the warriors another chance to live a decent life?
Ning Lanhe said: "You can teach your terraced fields and water conservancy technology to the indigenous people. If the warriors can develop the mountainous economy, the 10% of the land tax will naturally increase. Each warrior has his own area. If the warriors can manage it well,
Well, let the population in the area multiply and the output increase, and the harvest of the warriors will naturally become higher and higher."
"On the other hand, if the samurai do not manage their business well and cause the natives to flee and the land becomes desolate, not only will the samurai themselves suffer poverty, but our military administration in Indochina will also punish such samurai."
"We recognize the local governance rights of the samurai. The samurai are the local tax collectors, magistrates and judges. The samurai have the right to handle the lawsuits and disputes of the local indigenous people. Except for the death penalty, which needs to be reported, other punishments for the indigenous people can be decided at their own discretion.