A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiaopingta looked at the dozens of people gathered in small groups in front of him. They were sallow, skinny, short, and looked like they were begging for food. He turned around and asked Uncle Tsunaliang: "I must have recruited twelve strong men to take care of the family." ?”

Uncle Tsunaliang did not expect that the people he assigned to go to Northern Shinano would actually bring back more than a dozen families who had fled, without even doing the preliminary sorting work of selecting the best. He was a little embarrassed and said nonchalantly: "I just need to have two full meals. After all, I just escaped."

Xiaoping had no choice. Everyone had been tricked. What else could he do? He could only take a closer look at his level first. "Stand up as an ashigaru!"

After hearing these words, fifteen men stood up and said, oh, yes, the task was exceeded. He said there were twelve, but he deceived fifteen, which is okay.

"Have you ever fucked an ashigaru before?" Koheita looked at the group of people. Only two or three people responded obediently, "Have you ever been on the battlefield?" Now everyone agreed.

Xiaopingtai nodded. At least he had been on the battlefield and knew some rules. I guess they all work as handymen for the little ones, so they are better than ordinary people. The quality of the soldiers, alas, can only be sighed.

Koheita suddenly thought of something, "Can you ride a horse?" In the end, half of the people raised their hands. Sure enough, Northern Shinano is an important horse-producing area, and everyone can ride a horse. "Where are the rest of you?"

"The younger ones can feed and raise horses." "The younger ones can also.".

I understand, even those who have never ridden a horse have raised and fed horses for famous owners. "Then who will treat a horse?" Xiao Pingtai continued to ask.

"The younger one knows how to treat horses with diarrhea." The younger one has delivered babies to horses. "The young one was beaten by a gelding." "There are some bits and pieces of skill here and there.

"Are you all sincerely willing to be an ashigaru? You will die on the battlefield." These men responded somewhat numbly.

When Heitai saw it, he didn't have much to lecture him, "Aji, Chensan, go home and get the rice balls. Heiroku, go and fetch two buckets of water."

Hearing the word "rice ball", the group of people who were a little numb suddenly came to life. Everyone looked at Xiao Pingtai with expectant eyes, and they all bent down and bowed, "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir." They shouted.

Within a few minutes, Aji and Chensan each carried a wooden basin, and Pingliu also brought two buckets of water.

"The ashigaru ones come to the front first." The fifteen men immediately swarmed in front of Heita. If they weren't afraid of offending Heita, they would have pressed their faces against Heita.

"Line in line, will you line up?" The men understood this sentence, and they formed a line to fight for it. The man who was first in line obviously had some strength, and he looked like he had been an ashigaru.

"Been an ashigaru? From which family?" "The villain was originally an ashigaru of the Futaki family. He was killed by Murakami-sama the year before last and had to flee." It turned out that Shinano was the ashigaru guarding the Ogasawara family retainer Futaki Shigeyoshi. light.

"Can you bow and arrow?" "Yes, yes, a little bit." He is still an all-rounder. "What's your name? How old are you?" "The younger one's name is Anji. He's twenty-seven years old." Xiaoheita wrote in the book that he was an Ashigaru. He could use a bow and arrow, and he was able to ride a horse. He was born in Beishin, and now he is affiliated with Zixiaoji Danzheng, Anji. , twenty-seven years old and other words.

"With an annual salary of six thousand dollars, a longhouse will be arranged for you and your family. Just press your fingerprints." Anji pressed his fingerprints without hesitation.

Xiao Pingtai then asked Pingliu to water him and wash his hands, and then asked Aji to give him six rice balls. He took the rice balls and quickly called a short woman and two boys and girls in the crowd to come over and eat the rice balls. The two children seemed to be hungry, so they wolfed down the rice balls as soon as they got them. The woman asked Pingliu for a ladle of cold water. After watching the two children finish eating, she gave them some water to prevent the children from swallowing. After the children finished eating, they ate the rice ball in their hands. The two children were still looking at the woman eagerly. The woman divided the small rice ball between the two children and slowly ate the rest. Half a rice ball. It looks like this rice ball is the most delicious food in the world (which seems to be true, people can't eat rice more than once in their lives).

The man ate two rice balls by himself, and there was still one left, which he didn't know how to divide. The woman wrapped the rice ball with a bamboo leaf and stuffed it into the man's arms, signaling to him that he would eat when he was hungry.

Mrs. Xiaoping really couldn't stand it anymore. Do these people think that I only give out one meal a day, and they hide it in such a fussy way? He simply said to them directly: "Let's share it. In addition to the lunch meal, there is also a multi-grain meal in the evening."

When this news came out, this group of people was very happy, but Xiao Pingtai said again that it was the first day here, so everyone was in charge of the meal. After the documents are signed and the house is divided, Sanguanwen's annual salary will be paid first, which is for the remaining half of this year. After the money was distributed, only the Ashigaru was responsible for the food, and the family members could get food by themselves.

Although everyone is not in charge of the meal, the promise of early salary payment also makes these people grateful. Uncle Tsunaliang asked Xiaopingtai if he had been posting for more than half a year at a time. Xiaopingtai thought it was an opportunity to win people's hearts. If these people took the money and ran away, they might not get such good treatment elsewhere. They are all refugees, and they know the difference between good and bad.

Uncle Tsuna is still cautious, but now that Heita and he are important ministers of the Yamauchi clan, Heita's status is still slightly higher, so he can't say too much.

The rest of the people were much the same, and in the end they all signed the paperwork. He sold himself to Mrs. Xiaoping and promised to serve until the age of fifty-five. This ashigaru position can also be inherited. As long as Xiaoping is around, they can always have this bowl of rice.

Then Koheita placed them in an Ashigaru long house in Fuchu Town, Yamauchi. The old house was renovated and partitioned with wooden boards. The three rooms were divided into fifteen rooms, which was just right for them to live in. But everyone has to use the kitchen together, or have a party by the fire pit in their own room. This is not something Xiaoping Tai cares about. His promise to take care of food and housing has been fulfilled. There is no need to do anything more. It is not charity.

Anyway, it seems that these people are quite satisfied with this arrangement, and they all look grateful.

Since Xiao Pingtai has always been a typical lazy person who doesn't care about things, he must sleep until he wakes up naturally in the morning, and then lie down with his eyes squinted until his body thinks it's time to get up. The Iron Cannon Workshop is already on the right track. They are skilled craftsmen, and the leader has made clear the requirements, so they just do it. What's more, Yamauchi was in charge of food, housing, housing and paid, but he was not allowed to go anywhere except Yamauchi.

Koheita therefore did not ask the ashigaru group to report to the playground at the foot of the castle early, and asked them to gather after 9 o'clock, that is, at the same time. After giving these instructions, let the gang disband and go home with Uncle Tsunaliang.