Chapter 202: Pacify the inner corpse

Just as Takeda Katsurai attacked Kuragano Castle, in Joseon Nakagawa, Li Xiao issued a knife hunting order to the villagers of the villages near the city.

The so-called Knife Hunting Order was the earliest person to use in the history of the Warring States Period.

At that time, Shibada Katsuya, as the general of the Oda family's Hokuru Army, was in charge of Echizen. After the Asakura family was wiped out by the Oda family, Echizen had become a severely affected area for Yixiangsen. Therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of Yixiang Ikki, Shibada Katsuya issued a knife hunting order to confiscate civil weapons.

In addition to Shibata Katsuya, the real implementation of the knife hunting order on a large scale in history was issued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a member of the world.

When it comes to the knife hunting order, we have to mention the separation of soldiers and peasants.

Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi's direct jurisdiction is not high, because he controls most of the ports and mines in the country, he has a lot of money in his hands, which is why he can afford to support a standing army with a large scale.

In this way, the Toyotomi family separated from the Daming of the Warring States Period in the past, and mobilized peasants and soldiers from the countryside to combine samurai and peasants.

When the soldiers and farmers are separated, farmers can farm with peace of mind without being recruited, and the battle is left to more professional standing troops.

Although the benefits of separating peasants and soldiers are obvious, maintaining military strength requires a lot of money. For the famous name of the agricultural economy, each year may be a disaster year or a bumper year, and income is very unstable.

If the harvest is not bad on a large scale, Daming and his subordinates will not be able to eat enough and maintain a standing army, it will be a death sentence.

The soldiers and peasants were separated. During the Warring States Period, only Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were like this. Only those who controlled most of the mines in the country could afford to trade.

Although the standing army is a burden, because the standing army lives in the castle town like the samurai, it also stimulates the development of the castle town.

It was also one of the reasons why the population gathered from rural areas to cities in the late Warring States Period and the commerce of the city gradually flourished.

Just like the Edo period, Edo Castle became one of the few big cities in the world with a population of millions at that time. One was because of the attendance and interpretation system. The daimyo of each vassal had to live in Edo for half a year every year. At the same time, the family members of the Daima family and the family must follow. The main reason was that the Tokugawa family, the Imperial family, and the samurai population were stationed in Edo Castle.

This is because of the population gathering and the relevant craftsmen and merchants also moved in, and the business developed greatly. The increase in population density became a major cause of the prosperity of Edo Castle, and even the birth of Edo culture later.

The realization of the separation of soldiers and peasants means that peasants and soldiers can be recruited to fight without recruiting them.

Then continuing to let farmers possess weapons will easily lead to instability in Ikki*** and regional public security.

In addition, the implementation of the knife hunting order has another advantage, which is that it can greatly weaken the power of low-level vested interests such as the Chinese people and the local servants, so that Daming can strengthen its control over the local area.

In history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi implemented the knife hunting order, which was only issued after the separation of soldiers and peasants.

The purpose at that time was to prevent the occurrence of Ikki, ensure annual tribute income, and stabilize public security.

Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi confiscated the iron tools from the sword hunting order and cast Buddha statues and door nails for Kyoto Fangguang Temple. I wonder if this move was imitating Qin Shihuang to cast the twelve bronze men.

Li Xiao dared to play the separation of soldiers and farmers because he had the support of Shengang Yinshan and the standing army in his hands, which was separated from the scope of mobilizing peasants and soldiers to fight.

Also, the public security within the territory is relatively stable, so each village does not need to bring its own weapons to defend the looting of bandits.

In order to prevent local residents from rebelling against the issuance of the Knife Hunting Order, Li Xiaocai deliberately used the murder of Xuanli to fuel the fire, so he transferred the gang of disciples of the always-off sect.

This group of people was bewitched by Xiangzong and it was difficult to be convinced. If they resisted, it would easily cause killing and arouse greater public anger. Other villages that fought against taxes could also attack Li Xiao together when Xiangzong took the lead.

What made Li Xiao most worried was that Honanji officially intervened in the matter on the pretext that believers were killed. If any official in the court was angry and called on believers to launch Yixiang Ikki on Li Xiao, it would be really bad.

Not only did Li Xiao besieged from all directions by the believers of the Sect, his relationship with Honan Temple deteriorated, which was something that Takeda Shingen could not tolerate.

At that time, Takeda Shingen's greatest possibility is to recover Li Xiao's security in the land of Shingen in a fit of anger.

So Li Xiao planned to separate the believers of the Sect from the Sect to make another solution.

The reason why the remaining villages resist taxes is that some of the Saito family's remaining party is controlled by the Saito family's remaining tribute, while others cannot afford annual tribute. Most of them follow the trend and wait and see if someone takes advantage of the situation.

If we can avoid tribute last year, it will be a great pleasure for most people.

Therefore, for these non-stubborn elements, Li Xiao believes that using force to threaten this big stick and then implement tax cuts on villages that actively cooperate with the Knife and Hunting Order. With such warm persuasion, it is still very fruitful to deal with these troublemakers.

Moreover, Xuan Li was killed, and these villages that hurriedly formed the "Talk" Dharma Assembly had no leader. Without always taking this lead in the sect, Li Xiao wanted to see who was so unafraid of death and try the feeling of the iron cannon in his hand.

Before sending troops, Li Xiao had to think of two legitimate reasons in order to issue a knife hunting order.

The first reason is that two days ago, the people of two villages had a large-scale armed fight because of the purpose of using water sources for the upstream and downstream of Shentong River, and more than 20 people were killed or injured on both sides.

Li Xiao seized this matter and decided to intervene as an excuse to implement the knife hunting order.

The second reason is that in view of the major vicious case of the Honan Temple, the official of the Xuanrifang hangs it under Li Xiao’s leadership.

On the one hand, Li Xiao sent someone to tell Honunji that Master Renri was killed in his own jurisdiction, and felt regretful, blamed, guilty, and regretful. On the other hand, he said that he learned from his mistakes and decided to confiscate the weapons of the villagers in each village, so that the same similar incident would not happen again, and that the officials of the Honunji Temple safely preached in the jurisdiction and would not die.

After doing this superficial skill, the people of the sect, collectively went to Shengxing Temple and asked not to break the door three days later.

Li Xiao dispatched the five hundred regular staff in his city together, drove them over one village after another, and used force to urge them to implement the sword hunting order.

The first thing I did was to do was to hide the villages that had the remains of the Saito family.

Before this, Li Xiao asked Yokotani Yukishige to collect information and investigate all the villages that contained the Saito family's remains, so the operation was very purposeful.

It took Li Xiao only one day to subdue two villages in one breath.

The process was that Li Xiao first asked the iron artillery team to fire several rounds of iron artillery at the entrance of the opponent's village. After that, the people in the village were scared and immediately sent someone to subdue.

For these non-religious factors, the tax-resistant believers have no tenacious will to resist.

Obeying the arrangements of the lords and paying annual tributes is the rule of this era, and the strongest Saito family in the local area was defeated, and there was no reason for them to resist such a powerful Takeda family.

After the collapse of resistance and entered the village, Li Xiao controlled all the villagers. He then searched the entire village for weapons collection, and then carried out measures to register household registration similar to names of villagers. At the same time, he identified the Saito family spies who were mixed into the village.

Once the Saito family's remaining party was found, they were executed immediately and the other party's body was hung up to public to deter villagers in other villages.

Li Xiao firmly believed that although this was a little cruel, only by using such decisive means can we avoid the process of implementing knife hunting orders on each village, and reduce the opponent's resistance to the lowest level, and finally fewer deaths can be achieved.

Otherwise, because of the moment of mercy, this time the sword hunting order could not be cut off the mess quickly, and more people would die in such an innocent way.

The knife hunting order went very smoothly. In just five days, Li Xiao completed the implementation of the knife hunting order in various villages under his leadership.

Although there were temporary small resistances during the process, none of them caused much conflict. Li Xiao's standing and the villagers in the territory were injured and killed.

The weapons were confiscated because of the sword hunting order, with a total of 380 ribs, 170 katanas, more than 300 bows and arrows, more than 600 spears (smalls), and 230 naginatas.

Li Xiao was stunned when he looked at the confiscated weapons. Although these weapons were mostly inferior, many of them could still be used after the elimination part was eliminated, which was enough for him to equip his small half of the new regular set of five hundred people.

Therefore, for Li Xiao, the money he had always equipped could save most of the money he had.

After the implementation of the knife hunting order, the villages were like plucked roosters, without any strength to resist, and immediately handed over the annual tribute this year.

For the village that took the initiative to cooperate with the Knife Shou Order, Li Xiao returned part of their annual tribute this year. He kept his promises and also used it to win people's hearts.

After the annual tribute was collected, Li Xiao heard about the news from Shengxing Temple.

Wait for believers to gather in front of Shengxing Temple.

Xuanzong, the abbot of Shengxing Temple, personally clarified the rumors to believers, saying that they would not break into the door because of the death of the Fangguan Xuanli.

Upon hearing the news, the believers were immediately moved by Xuanzong's eyes and burst into tears. They all knelt down on their heads and recited the six-character Buddha name "Namo Amitabha" together to thank the Dharma Lord and the abbot for their kindness.

So Xuanli came to the altar to preach and preached to the believers who gathered.

After the preaching, Xuan Li personally picked up a pen and wrote the Dharma name "Returning to the Amitabha Buddha, Namo's Incredible Light" on the plaque.

This passage comes from the general praise of the righteous faith verse written by Chinran, the first master of the Honwan Temple.

After writing the mysterious theory, the officials will sprinkle the plaques with the Dharma name directly on it, and then ask the believers to recite the Dharma name together.

The reason why soil is sprinkled with soil reflects the meaning of Pure Land in the True Sect of Pure Land.

In the past, the "Imperial Text" written by the Master of the Honan Temple was printed on the plaque, and then the plaque officials were asked to take it to each 'speak' and recite it, and explain the meaning of it.

But then again, this plaque is to collect money from believers.

Therefore, when the believers of the sect saw Xuanli, they personally wrote the "fada name" and suddenly entered the crazy piety of faith, and they all paid a lot of money without any stinginess.

Compared with Li Xiao's violent taxation, the charging method of the sect can make them willingly pay after bewitching believers.

In this way, the believers of the sect, after staying at Shengxing Temple for several days, except for some people who planned to stay in front of the temple and served for life, most of them set out on their way back to the city of Shengxing Temple.
Chapter completed!