Chapter 1775 Maeda’s interests are unwilling to be left alone
Let alone Uesugi Miyuki's helplessness and Shiba Yoshigan's desire, the story of the infant two-year-old daughter and her twenty-three-year-old father who has not conquered the world has not yet begun.
Turning our attention from the distant future to the current world, the Spo family's situation of conquering the world is very good, but under the good situation, everyone's opportunities are as uneven as the five fingers on the palm of their hand.
Some people are proud and some are frustrated.
Akechi Mitsuhide was a good dancer and used the Fushimi Castle system to make a splash in Kinki politics.
The party in Nizishan, who were dazzled by the revenge painting of the Western Kingdom, were eager to try. Nizi Shengjiu was already unable to restrain the people under him.
How could she still have the energy to supervise Mitsuhide Akechi's various behind-the-scenes operations as the acting magistrate of Kinki Shiba?
Since the death of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Akechi Mitsuhide, who had been suppressed overtly and covertly by Yoshihiro Shiba, finally used the bridge of cooperation between the Shiba and Oda families as an opportunity to take the helm again and ride the waves.
Even though she didn't have much territory, her ability to talk to both the Shiba and Oda families was enough for many Kinki samurai to treat her as an honored guest and ask for their help.
However, the scale of the war under the Fushimi Castle system was controlled and it was difficult to spill over. The other side of Mitsuhide Akechi's brilliance in the diplomatic service was the loss of interests of Kinki General Maeda.
As spring turns to summer, the weather gets warmer, and the wheat ears, which are full of fruit, are heavy and already bent down.
This island country, which lacks the technology of ocean-going ships, has not even figured out how to use fishing nets at this time, and still needs to import fishing nets.
Marine fish are large and powerful, and local fishing nets cannot catch them at all, and they will be knocked out of large holes by the struggling fish, and their efforts will be defeated.
Surrounded by the sea, but unable to get food from the ocean, it can only dig the ground on the barren volcanic island to get food. Although it is an islander, it has developed the ability to farm.
Although the island country is located at sea, it is an agricultural civilization through and through.
Rice is hard currency and is the staple food collected by the lords of the Wu family. Beans can be squeezed for oil to feed horses, and they are also strategic materials. The lords of the Wu family also require the collection of military supplies.
Other cash crops such as green hemp were heavily taxed and used as military supplies.
Most of the economic activities of island countries revolve around war. They are either fighting or preparing for war.
It is said that the four public and six citizens are virtuous policies, but in fact, farmers are exhausted from farming all year round, but they can't leave much behind.
There is also the building-specific tax, which is a per capita tax levied on a house, plus sixty to one hundred days of labor per year, which is even more miserable.
A hundred years of chaos, it is said to be a low-intensity war, with not many casualties, and the population is even growing, but only a fool would want to live in such a world.
Everything was expropriated as military supplies. Farmers grew rice but could not eat a bite. The only staple food that could be retained was the wheat harvested in the summer.
The reason why farmers can eat wheat is not because the lords of the Wu family are kind, but because the island country cannot make stone mills on its own and needs to import them.
Without a roller, wheat cannot be shelled and made into flour. Steaming and eating the wheat rice with the shell is no different from stabbing your throat with a knife.
Therefore, in the island country at this time, except for a few nobles who could eat flour, only the hungry middle and lower classes would eat the unpalatable wheat rice.
But even this kind of wheat rice cannot be eaten every day. Many farmers have to mix it with tree bark to save food, and they can survive until next year half hungry.
Iga country, Ueno Castle.
Maeda Riku was so busy that she had to arrange everything before midsummer to ensure a smooth summer harvest.
Although the wheat harvested in the summer is not the staple food collected by the Wu family, if there is no wheat rice to eat, the vulgar village women in the village will starve to death. Who will grow rice for the Wu family?
Everyone in Ueno Castle is busy with Maeda Toshihisa, and the most leisurely one is Maeda Yoshida, the house supervisor. She has a good mother. Although she is not her biological mother, she works harder than her biological mother.
In addition to being good at military affairs, Maeda was good at lyrics, poetry, and tea ceremony and chess. He was a famous cultural person, but he was not willing to manage trivial matters at home.
Maeda Riku has been scolding him for many years. After all these years, he has finally given up. If he expects this damn daughter to help, it is better to hope that she will give birth to a granddaughter as soon as possible and let the grandfather and grandson take over directly.
But Maeda Benefit can neither help with the housework, nor can he be pregnant with a saint, and he hangs around in front of Maeda Rikyu all day long, which is annoying.
Especially in the past few years, Maeda Yoshida has grown older, which has made his mother, Maeda Toshiku, even more dissatisfied.
I can’t do anything, I can’t conceive a baby, I’m just a useless snack!
Today, Maeda Toshihisa was immersed in his papers. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Maeda Yoshiki sneaking in. His already busy and agitated mind was ignited with an unknown fire, and he spoke coldly.
"What's up!"
Maeda said with a smile.
"Come and see mother."
Maeda Riku snorted.
"If you don't do your job all day long, what are you looking at? Are you looking to see if I'm dead? If I close my eyes now, it's your turn to do all these things!
If you have time to hang out in front of me, why not think about how to please the saint and conceive a divine descendant? Otherwise, who are you going to give the Iga Maeda family's property to?"
Maeda touched his nose.
"It's not like I can do this alone. The saint is far away in Kanto. What can I do? Besides, Maeda Toshiie is older than me, so she's not in a hurry..."
Maeda Rihisa interrupted.
"How do you know she's not in a hurry? She's much more sensible than Qian Ke. Also, the Li family are your elders, so you should use honorifics when speaking!"
Maeda curled his lips and said perfunctorily.
"Yes, my fourth aunt is more sensible than me."
Maeda Toshihisa put down his pen and ink, raised his head to look at Maeda Maeda, and asked.
"What's the matter with you?"
Maeda smiled flatteringly.
"It's okay..."
"Then what are you doing here?"
"This... mother knows that the war in Kaga has basically stopped."
Maeda Riku nodded.
"Of course I know that the Li family brokered a truce between the two sides. Although there were sporadic conflicts, the overall situation was controllable and the credit was not small."
Seeing his mother praising Maeda Toshiie, Maeda subconsciously snorted.
"Akechi Mitsuhide was behind the scenes, and the fourth aunt was performing in front. His Highness Oda and His Highness Uesugi were really persuaded by them.
This year, the Oda family has made a lot of moves. The Settsu Kaga Stone Mountains have been conquered one after another, and they have the momentum to devour the world.
It was clearly promised that the Shiba and Oda families would work together to unify the world, but all the fat was taken away by the Oda family.
I really don’t understand what Akechi Mitsuhide is doing, and how does Nizi Katsuhisa, the highest official in Kinki, supervise it?
The Fushimi Castle system is in vain, and it is unreasonable for me to just sit in Iga country and do nothing."
Maeda Riku glanced at his restless daughter and sneered.
"impetuous!
The saint's trip to Kanto gave the Oda family an opportunity to start a war.
In the Kinki area, all the samurai who are willing to join the Shiba family have already joined, leaving only some grassroots, local snakes, and hard bones, all of which are too entangled to move.
The Oda family is willing to play bad guy and help the saint pull out these weeds, so why should the saint come forward to be this evil person?"
Maeda was frustrated.
"I understand the truth, but I just can't stand Mitsuhide Akechi. She can shake up Kinki with her clever words and gossip, and cause so many things.
Niko Katsuhisa was entrusted with an important task by the sage, but he could do nothing about Akechi Mitsuhide's wanton behavior and failed the sage's trust.
It would be great if I were the acting magistrate of Kinki Shiba..."
Maeda Toshihisa was startled, looked at his daughter who looked regretful, and said seriously.
"What do you want to do? You want to attack Nizi Shengjiu? I warn you not to mess around!
Nizi Sheng has been loyal to his duties for a long time. The sage firmly believes in this and cannot be his enemy.
If you have time to think about these things, why not go back and take a good look at your useless cultural books and periodicals.
Is there any position among them that can guarantee a child? If you give me a granddaughter earlier and give the Iga-Maeda family a divine descendant, it will be a hundred times better than your random thoughts all day long!"
Maeda Yoshida was scolded by his mother, his face was dull, and he touched his nose.
"Don't worry, mother, I have no ill intentions towards Nizi Shengjiu. I just want to make the best of the situation."