Takamaru is an ordinary farmer in a small village southeast of Kurota City. His family of five lives in a small house, with a small acre of land. Although it is not wealthy, he can still live a life. During festivals, his family can also eat rice and meat. Takamaru has always been very grateful to the village chief and the elders of the clan. He always believed that it was the village chief who maintained the stability of the village, and the elders' monthly prayers have blessed the fields with a good harvest. It is precisely the two old men with great merit that allowed Takamaru to live his current life.
However, over the past few days, Takamaru has some opinions about the two old people.
The reason is very simple, that is, Takamaru was very dissatisfied with the verdict of their elders. The matter involved in the verdict was the land that every farmer regarded as life. Takamaru's family had cultivated their land for three generations and was very familiar with every grass and tree between the ridges. When Takamaru was a child, he heard from his grandfather that these lands were wastelands that his grandfather reclaimed when he was young, and when he was old, he passed it to Takamaru's father. Now that Takamaru's father is old, he naturally is Yu Takamaru to farm.
But just over a dozen days ago, a family suddenly came from Mino. They seemed to be from the village chief's tribe. They said that in the land cultivated by Takamaru, there is nearly one acre of land that was once their family's land. The elderly families around them also said that they remembered that this family had fled for famine decades ago. So, the family sued the village chief, hoping that the village chief would decide who the acre of land should belong to.
In this case where the husband said that the mother had a good reputation, the village chief inevitably turned to his fellow tribe and awarded the land to the family. Although Takamaru was very dissatisfied, the village chief comforted him and said that he had no such acre of land and could barely live. However, the family now had no land and could not survive.
Even though Takamaru was dissatisfied with one hundred people, he could only listen to the village chief honestly at this moment. Few people in the village dared not listen to the village chief, and the village chief's judgment was just the truth.
However, things have turned around in the past few days!
Yu Qiuping, the great lord of Yeli County, was the legendary great charity who had the legend of sending food and supplies to the enemy. On the grounds of "leading democracy and advocating justice", he sent something called the "Circuit Court". The village acting official and the one-armed judge repeatedly emphasized that any entourage who is dissatisfied with the punishment within one year can go to the circuit court to appeal. Justice Amano Kyoto will help everyone to uphold justice.
To be honest, even if there is such an institution, Takamaru still dares to appeal - because it seems like he doesn't trust the village chief. But that acre of land is really important to his family, and everyone in the family wants to return to the land, so he mustered up the courage and personally ran to the temporary camp of the circuit court.
The judge who received him was the judge from their Murakami. Although Takamaru had never visited this foreigner whom he could not trust, he was very enthusiastic about Takamaru. Takamaru's case was scheduled to be tried one day later, and the family who robbed him of the land was also called. However, the circuit court made a very strange arrangement. They asked a judge to go home with Takamaru. Takamaru was still a little confused - but he understood immediately.
After hearing that Takamaru went to appeal, the village chief came to the door and persuaded Takamaru not to make trouble again, to believe the village chief's judgment, and to be willing to return half of the land to Takamaru. However, after seeing this, the judge immediately stated that Takamaru was already protected by the territory law. If the village chief insisted on letting him withdraw the lawsuit, he would be unable to get along with Yuqiu's family. The helpless village chief had to retreat in disappointment, but Takamaru suddenly felt a sense of security of being protected - he was no longer a commoner who could be bullied, and the Yuqiu family would protect the interests of every conqueror!
The style of the circuit court is something that the village chief’s family cannot compare! Defendant, plaintiff, judge and juror, all these titles that Takamaru had never heard of appeared in the court. They were asked to sit in different positions, while Amano Kyoto sat behind the table in the middle. After listening to the statements of both parties and the jury’s advice, Amano Kyoto made a judgment.
All that acre of land was returned to Longwan!
The reason is very simple. According to the written law that Amano Kyoto had formulated with the village chiefs before, the land without owners and land deeds belongs to those who have been farming for more than ten years! Although the family could prove that they had owned the land before, they could not produce the land deeds that had been lost long ago, the land was naturally awarded to Takamaru! Although Takamaru had heard of some written law before, he had no concern at all, and he still listened to the village chief's lawsuits. After learning that this written law could actually help him get back the territory, he immediately vowed to go back and study it carefully!
After seeing this, the family shouted for justice and refused to give up the land they occupied. Judge Amano Keito was not vague and immediately asked the infantry platoon of Omaezaki Nakahide and drove to the next to the field in a mighty manner - the family had to hand over the land obediently. Amano Keito also threatened that if someone dared to illegally reclaim Takamaru's land, Takatanbei would defend the legal judgment!
This incident made the whole incident known to everyone. People in the village asked about the trial one after another. Takamaru, the judge, the acting official, and the extremely expressive Omaezaki Nakahide immediately expounded the matter. The explosive news immediately ignited the village! There was actually a court that could change the village chief's verdict!
For a time, the people in the entire village who were unwilling to accept the case flocked to the circuit court, and Amano Kyoto also refused to refuse. Seventeen cases were tried and overthrew twelve of them. As soon as the circuit court appeared, it immediately had a huge impact in the territory. The people spread through ten thousand and hundreds of them, and soon spread throughout Yeli County. Many people who happened to encounter cases and disputes saw that what the village chief said was no longer counted, and they went to the judges who had been ignored before to request a ruling. The territorial law that was originally ignored immediately became a favorite among the villagers. Everyone asked the literate agents and judges to explain the magical law to them one by one.
Just as Kyō Amano's circuit court continued to travel, the five angry village chiefs also came to Yuqiuhei's door. They pointed at the monk and scolded the bald donkey, accusing Amano's domineering person in front of Yuqiuping. They insisted that Amano deprived the village chief of judicial power in this way, and announced that the village chief's judgment was illegal, which caused great trouble to them, which would lead to the deterioration of the folk customs.
However, Yu Qiuping lightly played Tai Chi with them. He first pointed out that his starting point was good, to help the village chiefs relieve the pressure and to give the people peace. Then he reminded that the laws used in Amano Kyoto's trial were the territory laws that all village chiefs had agreed to before. The village chiefs had already guaranteed that all matters in the territory were subject to the written law, so so many judgments did not match the written law, so the village chiefs should review themselves.
The village chiefs knew that they were in the wrong and were embarrassed to ask Yu Qiuping to continue to revoke the circuit court. But they still felt that Yu Qiuping's judge had deprived them of too much power, making their judgment almost invalid - without the judge's judgment, they might be overturned in front of the circuit court.
Therefore, Yu Qiuping gave in. He promised that after the village chief made a judgment, he could hand the case over to the judge for examination. If the judge approved it, the case would take effect.
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In the second half of the fifth year of Echonro (1562), the Oda family was considered a bad period. In order to wipe out Oda Nobuki of Inuyama, Oda Nobuki sent troops twice in a row after the autumn harvest, attacking Oda Nobuki's side Xiaokou Castle, but failed to capture it. The reason is very simple. Oda Nobuki assembled troops in the city of Kiyosu and drove toward Xiaokou Castle again. Oda Nobuki, who received the warning, could calmly deploy defenses, and apply for support from the Saito family to make Oda Nobuki return in vain. Oda Nobuki, who was angry, was said to be planning a city-building plan - he wanted to build a city on Komaki Mountain, seven miles away from Komaki City, and move the army to Komaki Mountain, so that he could launch an attack without giving Oda Nobuki time to prepare.
However, in the second half of the fifth year of Yonglu (1562), it was a relatively relaxing year against Yu Qiuping. The Saito family became increasingly chaotic due to power struggles. The conflict between the central and local tyrants had intensified to the point where they could not coexist, and they had no energy to attack Yu Qiuping's territory. The four small tyrants bordering Yu Qiuping all had the handle in Yu Qiuping's hands. They asked themselves that they were not Yu Qiuping's opponents, and they were very at ease - not to mention that they were too busy counting money.
The caravan of Seminei, who has a strong capital, travels back and forth between Mino and Ohashi every month, and each time it can bring a profit of thousands of knots. The four small families are divided into 400 knots. They are gradually paying off Yuqiuhei's debts and are about to turn losses into profits. Excited, they not only provide various conveniences to Yuqiuhei's caravan, but also work hard to handle the tax checkpoints of the Saito family so that they don't make things difficult for the Mitsubishi caravan.
In September, Sena Yoshihiro opened a shop in Mino and Ohashi to stock up on goods and sell them to the market for a long time, so that the caravan's business would be further expanded. Sena Yoshihiro even planned to enter Omi, and Yuqiehei also wrote to Asai Nagamasa, hoping that he could provide some convenience for the caravan. If Asai Nagamasa agreed, Sena Yoshi's Mitsubishi caravan would become a super caravan with a territorial market of nearly 2 million yuan. The extra income of the caravan also gave Yuqiehei the capital to support him, who spent a huge amount of money every year. Tootan's feet were all full-time soldiers, and with frequent exercises, they consumed a lot of food every day, and 400 people would spend 4,000 guan a year.
In the Warring States Period, the composition of the army can be roughly divided into two types: leadership militia and standing soldiers. Leading militia are the farmers who serve in the military. They farm during busy farming, and respond to the lord's recruitment and participation in training or go out with the battle with slack farming, and often have to buy weapons and armor by themselves. Generally, the auxiliary soldiers and some war soldiers in the Daming army are composed of these leadership militias, and the poorer Daming and even the war soldiers are basically all leading militias.
As the name suggests, the regular soldiers are the most important thing that can go out to fight at any time. They do not need to engage in production, they only need training or war every day, and have high combat effectiveness. For example, warriors at all levels are all regular soldiers. However, supporting regular soldiers requires high costs, and daily food expenses are required (the lord needs to provide food when leading militias to fight) and salary.
Even Oda Nobunaga, who advocated the separation of soldiers and farmers, had only about 600 full-time soldiers, that is, regular soldiers. The single expenses of these 600 people were far lower than the average level of Tobababe - after all, they did not need daily training.
Since Sena's Yoshinori was completely unable to get rid of her body, this year's autumn harvest was all under the responsibility of Tadaehiro Naoe. He had always been responsible for it and did not make any mistakes, and he also completed the relief work for areas with poor harvests. The Military Information Department built by Masayuki Sanada is also slowly getting on the right track. He hired two small ninjas to train many military information personnel and improve his military information department team.
What surprised Yu Qiuhei the most was that Imagawa Kaede seemed to be pregnant with another child! Yu Qiuhei, who realized that Yu Qiuhei would have another little life, was very excited.
Chapter completed!