Yoshigan Shiba can no longer pretend to be a werewolf. If he continues to pretend, he will take the route planned by Umino Riichi.
At that time, the Uesugi and Shiba families will start another fierce battle over the dominance of food and the distribution of land.
For the sake of Yoshigan, Uesugi Teruhora is preparing to suppress the Uesugi retainers' food-grabbing operation. If Yoshigan plots a conspiracy here and stabs him in the back, how can he be worthy of the sincere Uesugi Teruhora?
He simply revealed his identity and stopped pretending. I am on the side of the civilians. The Ji warriors thought they had understood the meaning just now, but Yiyin suddenly became confused again after revealing his identity.
Umino Riichi carefully observed Shiba Yoshigami and couldn't figure out whether the Odaisho was being pretentious or just being stupid.
she tried.
"What the Odaisho means is that by blocking the Uesugi retainers' food supply plan, you are not seeking to take the lead in post-war land distribution, but you are showing pity for the people of the Kanto Plain?"
"yes."
Umino Riichi suddenly felt a sense of absurdity. She looked at Yoshiyin's handsome face like a fairy, but she didn't dare to mistake this person for White Lotus.
He killed from Owari to Konki, and from Konki to Kanto. He killed hundreds of people, and he became a famous samurai man who attracted the attention of the world.
Umino Riichi's cold voice sounded in the room, looking extremely cold.
"The Imperial Palace has sixty-six countries in the world, with a stone height of 20 million and a population of 10 million. There is always a certain amount of land that can support the population.
Who doesn’t want to have a family full of descendants and multiply innumerable numbers? But destiny cannot be violated and some people have to be taken away.
The famine in Guandong, if we don't bother, others will. People who deserve to die will die, but we will be at a disadvantage because of your kindness.
My advice is loyal and sincere, and if it offends my ears, please forgive me."
Although the other Ji warriors did not speak, their eyes showed approval.
There is only so much land and so much food. Someone has to die, and it is better to die to others than to die yourself. The most important thing is to block your position, take advantage of famine, and make the family business more prosperous.
In troubled times, when no one dies? What's the difference between dying from swords and guns and dying from famine? Otaisuo, that's a bit hypocritical.
Yiyin looked around the room, knowing that his own moral values were completely different from those of these Ji warriors.
Even in previous lives, in war-torn foreign lands, animals would often eat humans. Civilizations like the Celestial Empire, which has denied animal nature and insisted on the goodness of human nature since ancient times, are inherently alien.
Yoshigan's demands were not high. He had no hope of saving the civilians from famine, and had no intention of being a savior. His only good intention was not to rob, and Echigo would solve the food problem on his own.
The height of the Echigo stone is 400,000 stone, and the failure of the harvest is 40 to 50% less, which is a shortfall of 200,000 stone.
One stone here was about 130 kilograms in the previous life, and 200,000 stones was 2,600 tons. Even for brown rice, the amount is astronomical in this world, and transportation is even more difficult.
But it is impossible for the Echigo samurai family not to collect grain from their territory just because of the disaster. The actual food gap is about 30% to 40%, which is more than 60,000 koku.
The people in Echigo will also starve and some people will die. Yoshigan can pretend not to see it.
However, if the Echigo army lets go and starts looting in Kanto, it is foreseeable that Ueno Musashi Ryogoku, which has failed to capture a large number of crops, will be empty and empty, and it will turn into hell.
Yiyin can offset the food gap of more than 60,000 koku by buying food and using Hokuriku Road business profits, but he must solve two problems first.
First, persuade the Shiba family to use all their strength to prevent the Uesugi retainers from robbing grain.
Second, it is to ensure that after the food gap is filled, the Echigo army conducting the Kanto Raiders will not go out of their way to grab food.
Umino Riichi's strategy has proven that the wolves of the Shiba family are no more kind than the hungry wolves of the Uesugi family. They are just beasts.
Regardless of whether it is Shiba's force or Uesugi's force, who can use the commercial profits from Hokurikudo to make up for the food gap?
Even if they agree, food in a famine is more precious than gold, so who would have too much? Even if the free money buys back the food and fills the gap, they will still go and rob it, taking the master's order as nothing.
Yiyin only felt powerless, and he was trying to pull a chariot with his arms. But the last string in his heart refused to break, making him unwilling to become a beast.
I won’t rob it! Even Echigo’s army is not allowed to rob it!
What Umino Riichi said was said by Terutora Uesugi and Takeshi Shimakatsu, and they all understood it.
But Yi Bank knows that he must stick to this seemingly worthless bottom line. Disaster relief is impossible, there is no food and no one to support it, and Yi Bank only protects its own bottom line.
Taking a step back, he will become a true martial artist, no longer a civilized man looking down on the barbarians.
Deep down in his heart, he has always despised this sick Wu family society. He was a civilized man from the Celestial Dynasty in his previous life, not a barbarian from the Wu family in this life.
I'm sorry I can't throw away this pride in my bones.
Yoshigan looked at the eloquent Umino Riichi and said with contempt.
"Natural selection, survival of the fittest, is the law of nature and not the way of humanity. As a human being, you must have a heart of awe and do what you do and what you don't do.
I have been in Kanto for more than a year. I always put justice first and share benefits with others. I want to work together with His Highness Uesugi to restore order.
You tell me now that I was wrong and that I should also go and rob. So what is the difference between me and those wild dog-like warriors wandering around the Guandong Plain?
Two days ago, someone told me that the strong make the rules and the weak follow the rules. I deeply believe that.
Umino Riichi! You said death by swords and guns or famine, there is no difference between the two.
Then let me tell you, there is a big difference between dying from order and dying from chaos!
I, Shiba Yiyin, came to Kanto and tried my best to promote the Kanto strategy. The purpose is to calm the chaos in the Kanto Plain and restore order to the Kanto Plain.
People in the Kanto Plain can starve to death, but they cannot die due to the Echigo army robbing food. This is my bottom line.
I want to establish laws, re-establish order, and return a peaceful world to Kanto! Whoever crosses this bottom line is my enemy!
I, Sibo Yiyin, will not rob it, and my subordinates are not allowed to rob it either. The restoration of order in the world starts with my righteousness."
Yoshigami's categorical words aroused the awe of the girls, but in Umino's eyes, they were meaningless.
In the troubled times of the Wu family, who among the great names with strength and ambition would not want to restore order and become the master of the world. Is it useful to talk high-key and talk about it? Will the martial arts below buy it?
But Yoshigan Shiba's ambition was greater than Umino Riichi had imagined. She thought Yoshigan Shiba wanted to seize the distribution rights of food, and his goal was to reap the fruits of victory after the success of the Kanto Strategy.
However, this Otaisuo aimed at establishing a new order and wanted to drive the Kanto samurai into his own cage and play according to his new rules.
This ambition is too great. It cannot be achieved by shouting a few slogans and then using moral principles to suppress people.
Only iron and blood can tame the human heart. Only one hand of law and one hand of sword and gun can make people follow their own rules.
Umino Riichi keenly felt that under Shiba Yoshigage's awe-inspiring declaration, he actually had a struggle that was different from ordinary samurai.
Although she didn't know exactly what was buried deep in the heart of this Odaisuo, she was not optimistic about this matter.
The Wu family is a hungry wolf, not a domestic dog, so the food issue is not so easy to solve. Even if you talk about it, your belly will always be bigger than reason.