In the early morning of January 1, Yu Qiuhei, who had completed the rectification, said goodbye to his friends and entered Iimoyama Castle. Before leaving, Oda Nobunaga also gave him a service position from Ashikaga Yoshihiro - the Guardian of Hanoi. This is the most the Oda family can do, and Yu Qiuhei is also the first retainer in the Oda family to serve as the Guardian of the Guardian of the Oda family.
The Guardian Hanoi has been hereditary by the Hoshiyama family, one of the three-managers and four-managers for generations. It is impossible to hand over the Guardian Hanoi to Yu Qiuping, so he can only give one Guardian Hanoi. The Guardian Hanoi has always been the responsible officials of the Yu Saiyama family and the Anjian family. This time, he has brought Guardian Hanoi to Yu Qiuping, which is a waste of effort.
In addition, all the important officials of the Oda family also received official positions from the court, basically all six officials from the six, and about six. Shibata Katsura seemed to have obtained a Zuo Kyoshi Dajin, and others were also granted some titles.
"What is my official position?" Yu Qiuping asked the mother-clothed crowd who came to pass the order.
"The lord said, this is the gift he prepared for His Highness." The mother-clad man smiled and handed Yu Qiuping a note with Yu Qiuping's official position. The latter took the note and turned around to see that there were eight big words neatly written on it.
Six senior officials of the lower-level ministers.
Treat the department...
Yu Qiuping suddenly laughed. It took a long time since the people around him laughed so happily.
"It seems that you are very satisfied with the lord's gift." The mother-in-law laughed when she saw this, and then bowed respectfully: "Your Highness, the Lord of the Zhi Department, have surrendered."
As the mother-clothed people turned and left, Yu Qiuping's laughter gradually became bitter, until it finally faded away, and tears also rolled in her eyes.
The Ministry of Management? I am now the Ministry of Management of Yuqiu. I can also be called to the Ministry of Management. Your Highness.
Your Highness, are you watching?
·
"Your Highness, why didn't you discuss with the inferiors at all before making this decision?" Until now, Amano Keidu is still very dissatisfied with Yu Qiuhei's decision. However, even so, he still firmly supported Yu Qiuhei in front of everyone, and just protested to him privately.
"The samurai's duty is to obey orders. This is the order given to me by the Lord's bus. I can't refuse." Yu Qiuping shook his head and whispered in a little moved: "It is the most important thing to be a human being to be grateful. I am the first guardian of Oda's family. The lord even allowed me to bring my family to Iimoyama Castle and allow me to surrender when necessary. This kind of kindness... The lord treats me with a national hero, and I will repay the national hero."
"Iimoyama Castle is isolated and helpless, surrounded by enemies, this is a place of death." Amano Keido whispered in pain, but things could not be changed, and finally he had to turn into a long sigh.
"That's not necessarily. Don't you believe in the strength of our Yuqiu family?" Although Yuqiuping was unsure, he still pretended to be confident and smiled: "Maybe we will take down all Hanoi and Kazumi!"
·
On the evening of January 1, the Yuqiu family finally arrived at the outskirts of Izumi Mountain City. I saw a large forest of maple trees on the foot of the mountain east of Izumi Mountain City. Against the backdrop of the sunset, it was even more beautiful and sad. Yuqiuping was intoxicated by this beautiful scenery and forgot about the official duties at hand for a while, until the defenders of the Matsunaga family in Izumi Mountain City personally sent someone to find him.
After the handover, Matsunaga Jun hurriedly handed over a series of documents and land deeds from Iimoyama Castle to Yu Qiuping, he ran away from this place of failure.
"Oh, Your Highness, I'm really sorry!" The Matsunaga family's elder apologized to Yu Qiuping before leaving, "I didn't know that this city would become Your Highness's fiefdom before, so my subordinates plundered it a little. Don't blame Your Highness! Before the Mihao family retreated, they also arrested them randomly, but it was not just us who did it!"
It was not until Yu Qiuhei actually saw the Iimoyama Castle with his own eyes that he realized that this place had been slightly plundered? It was completely destroyed. One of the most prosperous and fertile cities in Kinki has now become a ruin like Kyoto.
The fire that Matsuezuki ignited to ignite the mountain of supplies that had accumulated in the Miyoshi family was still not completely extinguished. The fire had long affected the walls of Iimoshi Mountain City, Tianshou Pavilion, and even the surrounding castle town, almost burning the entire city to ashes. The remains burned to death at the door could be seen everywhere on the road - these poor people probably didn't want to give up their houses, fought hard against the fire, but eventually died.
The originally prosperous city is now without any chance of life. The streets of the town are full of homeless refugees, some of whom are curled up on mats, while others are covered with straw. You can often see several people sitting on the street, who can only share a blanket to resist the cold. In front of them is a porcelain bowl waiting for good people to give alms to the money and food that they rely on. However, most people are already penniless near the entire Izumi Mountain City, so where can anyone give alms to these beggars?
Most of the houses that were left without burning were now empty. Most of the houses were marked by being smashed and robbed, which could be seen as the Miyoshi family and Matsunaga family. Before retreating, the Miyoshi family swept away the city town of Xicheng. Anyway, they couldn't hold on and didn't rob it themselves. Could it be that Matsunaga's snatched away for free? During the three days of Matsunaga's snatched the prosperous Isomishi City, and nothing was left. These poor people lost their homes when the cold winter was approaching, and even the money, grain and arable land they depended on were mostly destroyed in the fire, and the rest were swept away by Matsunaga's army.
If Yu Qiuping couldn't do anything, most of the more than 50,000 people around Izumi Mountain City might not be able to survive this winter.
When the refugees on the street saw the well-clad troops approaching the street, they immediately exclaimed. Then, the poor people leaning against the street immediately packed up all the things they could carry around and ran away into the streets and alleys. It can be seen that the random capture of the Matsunaga army made them feel fiercely afraid of the army. When a family was escaping, they accidentally dropped the worn-out porcelain bowl for begging on the street. The little girl at home wanted to run back to get it halfway, but all the fathers grabbed it hard and ran away quickly.
"The entire army is not allowed to invade the people or enter the people's houses. Those who violate the order will be executed." Yu Qiuping sighed and issued this order. However, he knew that even if he did not give a special order, with Chang Panbei's qualities, there would be no mistakes.
Longzi, who was walking beside Yu Qiuping, looked at the poor refugees with tears in her eyes. She took out a string of copper coins from her arms and placed them in the lost porcelain bowl. However, before they could leave a few steps, a few crazy refugees immediately rushed towards the porcelain bowl, trying to compete for the copper coins in the bowl. The string of copper coins was torn off, and the copper coins were all over the ground, attracting a larger-scale competition. The refugees almost lay on the ground to grab each other's scattered copper coins. Longzi originally wanted to come forward to stop it, but when he saw that the people who came to grab the money were all poor people who could not survive. Among them, a little girl who was about ten years old was also fighting there.
Longzi was stunned. Wasn't that the same person she used to be? A weak and helpless little girl had to grab money for survival because she couldn't survive. Tears suddenly burst into her eyes, and the girl hugged against the black wall beside her. Yu Qiuping stopped, hugged her slowly, gently stroked her back, hoping to calm the girl down.
After a long time, Longzi suddenly pulled Yu Qiuping's clothes and whispered in a low voice: "Your Highness, can you help them?"
"Of course." Yu Qiuping nodded heavily.
After all, I'm still a good person.
·
When the army slowly drove into the Tianshou Pavilion in Iimoyama Castle, a messenger suddenly rushed from the rear army to the front army where Yu Qiuping was and reported in a low voice: "Your Highness, there are refugees behind you to cause trouble, Lord Fukushima is maintaining public order."
"Making trouble? Are they going to attack the army?" Yu Qiuping turned his head in surprise and asked in a low voice.
"No. They saw the military rations transported by our army and wanted to beg our army to give them some food. However, our army did not have much military rations and could only last for ten days. Therefore, Lord Fukushima did not dare to make a proposition. Some hungry people came forward to rob military rations, which had already led to a conflict."
"Mr. Fukushima is sent here, hoping to allow His Highness to distribute the rations to the hungry people. They really can't survive without food." The messenger conveyed Fukushima's request, and the guards around him looked at Yu Qiupi with a proper expression. This good man with a good story about sending food and supplies will naturally not be saved.
"Your Highness, please don't be kind to a woman." Amano Keidu, who was following Yu Qiuping, immediately reminded coldly: "There are more than 50,000 people around Iimoyama City, and Your Highness cannot save us. Our military rations are only enough for ten days, and even if all of them go out for three or four days, it is not enough. Once the first person is ready to save this person, another person will come to ask for military rations. Your Highness will not give it, nor will it be if you don't give it. We will be the one who will cut off the food first."
"According to your opinion, I'm going to die and never save me?" Takenaka Shigeji's tone sank and looked at Keidu Amano, who looked at him without fear.
"Don't worry, leave it to me to deal with it." Yu Qiuping smiled and patted his two subordinates on the shoulders, then ordered: "Gather the hungry people who are coming to ask for food downstairs in Dongcheng City, and transport our military rations to Sannomaru in Dongcheng."
·
By the time Yu Qiuping arrived at Dongcheng, the hungry people in Dongcheng had gathered nearly tens of thousands of people. They were desperately rushing to Chang Panbei's guards - the target was the military rations behind these guards. Yu Qiuping stepped onto the city that was burned by the fire and ordered Honda Tadao to raise his maple bird flag high.
After seeing this flag, the originally noisy and chaotic hungry people gradually calmed down, but slowly turned their eyes to the young man under Maple Bird. They were all people in the Kinki area and had a good news. Yu Qiuhongye, a kind-hearted man who once had a good story of sending food and supplies, specially summoned them to release food! Therefore, everyone was waiting for Yu Qiuping to speak with anticipation.
Yu Qiuping supported his hands on the battlements, cleared his throat, poked his body out of the city, and shouted to these hungry people: "Friends, I know you are hungry and cold, I know you have no surplus food anymore, and I also know that you need Yu Qiu's family to support you in food."
Then, Yu Qiuping took a deep breath and shouted:
"But I won't give you a grain of rice now!"
·
As soon as Yu Qiuping said this, tens of thousands of hungry people downstairs were in an uproar. Even though they were honest people, they were respectful to the warriors who could kill them at any time. But they were so hungry that this trusted lord not only did not release food, but also summoned them under the city to tell them not to release food, as if they were humiliating and playing with them. It was really too much to deceive people. For a moment, there were constant calls and curses downstairs, and Yu Qiuping was almost pulled down the city directly.
Ryuko, Amano Keito, Takenaka Shigeji and others were also very confused, and they did not expect Yu Qiuping to say this. After shouting this sentence, the latter seemed to be quite satisfied with the reaction of the people under the city, and patiently waited for the crowd to return to silence. After waiting for a while, Yu Qiuping's people under the city had not stopped, so they gave Honda Tada. The latter inhaled knowingly, and then shouted with the roaring volume of the giant beast: "Silent!"
This shout instantly covered the noisy discussions and scoldings of the people. After being stunned for a moment, everyone realized that Yu Qiuping seemed to have something to say, and stopped one after another and looked at Yu Qiuping.
"The reason I don't give you food is because those are military food! Military food is used for war!" Yu Qiuping pulled out the Chidori from the scabbard and pointed to the direction of the food. "I have sent someone to Kyoto to transport food and grass. The temporary relief food I gave you will be delivered tomorrow night. Please endure it!"
After learning that there was still food to eat, these people suddenly turned sadness into joy. However, many people shouted below, asking Yu Qiuping to release food now, anyway, the food will arrive tomorrow, and it will be no longer the day.
Seeing this, Yu Qiuping continued to shout loudly: "The reason why I didn't give you military rations today is because if there were no military rations, Chang Panbei would be unable to guard the city tomorrow! If there is an enemy invasion, Chang Panbei would have to abandon the city and flee. When the enemy enters the city, you will face another robbery like the Matsunaga family. Do you want to see this situation? Do you hope to be arrested again?"
The hungry people who were originally called were speechless under Yu Qiuping's back-question. They recalled the days that had been like hell in the past three days - the fires all over the city were swallowing their homes, and the vicious soldiers snatched away their former property. If there was any trouble, the head would fall to the ground. Who would want to experience such a day again?
"I Yuqiuping, our Yuqiu family will treat Izumishan City as our city and guard it forever. This requires the army, and the army needs military rations, so we cannot give you military rations. If you give you military rations, we will be unable to defend the city, and Izumishan City may fall! We are different from the Sanhao family and the Matsunaga family who looted and abandoned Izumishan City. We will not use it as a tool to abandon it after the effect is finished, so we cannot give up military rations, we must guard here! We will not show your lives and property to be weak and bully and dominate. I sincerely want to protect this beautiful city, so that the people in the city can live and work in peace, and the hardworking people can get rich, without worrying about one day the owner of the city abandons the city and flees, and the chaotic soldiers enter the city to rob, so that the property accumulated by your ancestors will be gone."
"For decades, there have been turmoil in Kinki, and Izumiyama Castle has changed its owner so many times, and has been repeatedly affected by wars. I think you are all afraid, don't want such a thing to happen again, and want to live a peaceful life." Yu Qiuping looked at the people gathering more and more under the city, and almost shouted at the top of his voice: "So Izumiyama Castle and all its previous misfortunes have become history! I announced that Izumiyama Castle will be renamed Maple Leaf Mountain Castle!" Yu Qiuping said while pointing at the beautiful maple forest on the east mountain of Izumiyama Castle with Qiandou, and shouted solemnly: "Maple Leaf Mountain Castle will be the main city of our Yu Qiu family. As long as the Yu Qiu family still exists for a while, we will never abandon Maple Leaf Mountain Castle and guard Maple Leaf Mountain Castle and the people in the city forever!"
"I swear to the mountain of maple leaves, this is the last time Maple Leaf Mountain City changes ownership! From now on, the Yuqiu family will guard this city for generations, so that you will no longer have to worry about wars and wars! From now on, you will live a peaceful life of peace and prosperity! I, Yuqiuping, do what I say!"
·
After shouting such a long sentence, Yu Qiuping felt his voice hoarse. He turned around and asked softly to the people behind him: "How is it, are you satisfied with my words?"
"The people's hearts are attached." Amano Keidu didn't say much, but just spit out these words.
"It doesn't matter whether you are satisfied with the Shimo. The key is to look at the people." Takenaka Shigeji said with a smile, and pointed his finger behind Yu Qiuping, "Your Highness, listen."
Chapter completed!