To tell you the truth, I was addicted to Japanese Sengoku games for a while, and I could talk about Japanese famous names, internal affairs experts, and fierce generals. But then I read a piece of information about the Japanese Warring States Period.

Many of the heroes have new views!

That is to start from the grain output and analyze the actual wealth of Japan's Warring States Daimyos! What was the actual national power of Japan at that time! That is, the tens of thousands of shi or hundreds of thousands of shi that Japan's Warring States dynasties made their blood boil. How many acres were equivalent to the Ming Dynasty?

What about land? This cannot simply be measured by acres, but needs to be analyzed in detail.

If we take the main rice-producing areas in the Taihu area of ​​the Yangtze River Basin in the Ming Dynasty as a standard, Songjiang Prefecture and Songjiang Xixiang during the Jiajing period have fertile land, low fields and abundant water, and are easy to irrigate. The couple can farm 25 acres, and those who are diligent can farm up to 30 acres.

Three shi of rice can be produced per mu. Even if the rice yield is two shi and five dou per acre, the rice can be harvested 70 or 80 shi per year. "Eat dried fish and farm with white rice." But what if the land is not good? It is also the Songjiang area, and its Dongxiang area

, then the fields are high and the banks are steep, making it difficult to water. In good years, the harvest is one stone and five bushels per mu. "In mid-summer, they only eat coarse wheat porridge."

If you switch to Shaanxi, one stone corresponds to one acre. But conversely, if the Japanese nickname of one thousand shi is converted into the land of the Ming Dynasty, it will be more than 300 acres of land in Jiangnan, which is just a small landowner. How many

Tens of thousands of stones, hundreds of thousands of stones, is equivalent to tens of thousands of acres of land, which is just a threshold among the so-called poetry and calligraphy families in Jiangnan.

Moreover, considering that Toyotomi Tokugawa was a guy who had to squeeze out oil from stones, and the so-called stone plus commercial production... then the actual wealth of these daimyo is probably even lower, plus they have to support a whole family.

There are so many retainers, no wonder they are so rare to eat meat. [Of course, to be honest, there are still many Japanese samurai who can be called first-class. For example, Shimazu Yoshihiro killed the Japanese army that invaded North Korea when it was defeated thousands of miles away.

Ming general Yi Sun-shin was still top-notch at that time, but touting all cats and dogs as famous generals is a bit much, haha.]

If the life of the big name and the little name is like this, how good are the samurai, especially the grassroots samurai? Coupled with the influence of Japanese bushido, the basic treatment is only the standard of the general nursing home, which is really quite cheap cannon fodder!

Zheng Zhibao reminded Liu Baiyu in a low voice that the more important thing about this Japanese samurai is that he is not afraid of the government. He only knows his master and not the Ming Dynasty emperor. Liu Baiyu and a powerful man of his own level will inevitably do many forbidden things. From this point of view

, he is really an excellent candidate, incomparable to the Han people!

Liu Baiyu nodded, but he had other plans in mind. After all, he was not simply changing dynasties, but wanted to establish a world empire. Japan, which was so close at hand, had to be conquered, and he also needed several loyal and loyal leaders. Right, suddenly

So I agreed!

The banquet was over, and Liu Baiyu said goodbye to Liu Zeqing and Kong Lingqi. Although Liu Baiyu didn't know whether the two drunk people knew what he said, Fan Zhongchu fell into an obsession with clicking on the New Neo-Confucianism.

He could only treat it as a piece of wood, ignore it, waved to Fan Zhongchu's close family members, gave him a red envelope of twenty taels of silver without any explanation, and went with Zheng Zhibao to the second floor where the guards were having a drink.

Don't tell me, what Zheng Zhibao said about the Japanese samurai's benefits was unknown to Liu Baiyu, but he was really good at paying attention to discipline. As soon as he entered the door, he saw two Japanese samurai with their backs straight and posing intently.

Seeing Zheng Zhibao coming in with Liu Baiyu, he immediately said:

"Shikawa Hidetsu, Kuroshima Hitoshi, please see Mr. Liu Baiyu! Mr. Zheng Zhibao!" Liu Baiyu said in his heart that he was just a country squire and a rich man, so what kind of an adult he was. It seems that Zheng Zhibao's statement about Japanese samurai treating Chinese landowners as Japanese names was true.

That's right! After looking at Murasaki Hideji and Kuroshima Jin, they didn't shave off those weird hairstyles of Japanese samurai. They just had their hair pulled up. In addition, their delicate faces looked like transvestites, and they really matched my impression of the bloodthirsty Japanese samurai.

Not relevant!

Forget it! Liu Baiyu is also used to being surrounded by non-mainstream people. In other words, his preconceived impressions in novels and movies may not be reliable to begin with.

So through chatting with Murasaki Hideji and Kuroshima Jin, I learned more information about the two of them.

Murasakikawa Shuji and Kuroshima Jin were both genuine samurai. They were not some bandits and wild samurai pretending to be samurai. They were from the Owari system of the Oda clan's Anae Masaru. They were still the type of people who had an iron rice bowl during the time of Oda Nobunaga. Murasakikawa

It is said that Hideji's grandfather also served as the lord of a small town under Shibata Katsuie. However, once Oda Nobunaga died, their families, like most of Owari's wealthy families, were inevitably involved in the political whirlpool and declined.

First, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated Shibata Katsuie, his status as a samurai was almost revoked. Fortunately, Maeda Toshiie, who was both a subordinate of Shibata Katsuie and a close friend of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, interceded and kept his status as a samurai. But the price was the two of them.

Grandpa committed seppuku, and the family also changed from a managerial mid-level samurai to a low-level samurai who was almost cannon fodder!

After much difficulty, their fathers made great contributions through life and death, and were promoted by Ishida Mitsunari, a loyal minister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. However, Ishida Mitsunari was a foolish and loyal man, and was defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara. Their fathers also died.

In the rebellion, not only did his glory and wealth come to naught, he was even wanted by the Tokugawa shogunate and became a prisoner of the imperial court. Along the way, he was hunted down by big names and minor names who wanted to please the Tokugawa shogunate. In the end, only himself was left in the huge family.

, it has no place in the motherland of Japan.

In other words, these two people only have hatred for Japan, the people in power in their motherland, and they can use it boldly!? Liu Baiyu asked insinuatingly why Zheng Zhibao didn't take in Murasaki Hideji and Kuroshima Jin. These two guys were hesitant.

Said, the Japanese samurai under Master Zheng Zhilong have their own system, and the two of them cannot cooperate well, so they can only go outside to get a job...

In fact, this is a personnel struggle that occurs everywhere! However, these two people have been squeezed out and cannot stand. They also know how to make faces for the Zheng family without talking about anything. They are extremely rare honest and kind people. After all, skills can be practiced.

It can be cultivated physically, but it is difficult to change this character!

Liu Baiyu suddenly became interested in money and expressed his willingness to take in Murasaki Hideji and Kuroshima Jin as his retainers. Liu Baiyu also accepted Murasaki Hideji and Kuroshima Jin's ten Japanese ronin.

Of course, Liu Baiyu's cautious character determined that he could not completely trust the Japanese. He only gave Murasaki Hidetoshi and Kuroshima Jin to protect themselves with a specially made large Japanese sword and three layers of inner armor. As for following Murasakikawa Hidetoshi and Kuroshima Jin
Chapter completed!