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Chapter 2177 Flower Controversy (85)
In the records of Louis Floys, there was such content that Toyotomi Hideyoshi planned to move the capital in the 11th year of Tensho, that is, in 1583, and moved the emperor's palace from Kyoto to the north of Osaka Castle, a place surrounded by rivers. In the Nakajima area, there is a temple town on the north side of this area, but this plan has not been completed.Two years later, Honganji Temple got part of the land and moved here, so that Kawanakajima became the land of the temple and the land of townspeople.

Town people is a Japanese name for urban residents. "Machi" refers to streets and communities. The town people of the Muromachi shogunate mainly refer to the handicraftsmen in Kyoto, and later included the merchant class, that is, all living in the "castle town" people.

The nobles and samurai lived in the castle, and the townspeople had to provide services for them. Under the regime of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the daimyo also imitated Osaka Castle to build or renovate the castles and castle towns in their respective territories, and all of them appeared in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s urban policy. characteristics, and in this way realized the rule over neighboring countries and strengthened the daimyo's power.

In Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s regime, [-]% of the neighbors can be considered to have excellent governance. His territory includes the Nagahama area. Nagahama Castle was the residence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in his early years. Thirty percent of the records related to him were destroyed, but the decrees he promulgated have been carefully preserved by the town people, some of which are related to the construction of the city.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi became the Taiko, he granted Nagahama the ink payment of "Eternal Year Tribute Exemption". When Sagayama Castle was built, Nagahama was also asked to send strong workers, and the people of Nagahama immediately took out Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Mofu resolutely resisted corvee.They even elected representatives to file a direct complaint with Toyotomi Hideyoshi at Fushimi Castle. Fushimi Castle acknowledged the ink payment and asked Sancheng to exempt the citizens of Nagahama from slave labor in accordance with the meaning of ink payment.

But Sancheng refused: "Exemption of the Yongdai annual tribute" is correct, but the "annual tribute" is different from the general labor for building the city.

Thirty percent expressed displeasure with the appeal of the representatives of the local residents to Fushimi, so they decided not to exempt them from the labor service. On behalf of Sancheng, I apologized to the representatives of the people.

In the early Qing Dynasty, land taxes and labor were collected separately, and the number of people increased accordingly. There were citizens, villagers, guests, tenants, soldiers, villagers, craftsmen, stoves, etc., in a variety of styles and styles. , increasing the difficulty of collection. The "one-whip method" expropriated civil servants, and Kangxi and Yongzheng divided them into mu, and the forced labor was also distributed into the land. In theory, there should be no more compulsory labor.However, near Beijing Zhili, there are servants from various departments all the time. It is called employment, but in reality it is difficult to reimburse them. They are all dispatched without compensation. Sacrificing to heaven, offering incense to Mount Wutai in Shanxi, visiting the south of the Yangtze River, etc., repairing bridges, paving roads, setting up palaces, providing food and other things, all of them use labor.

Water transport corvee is particularly heavy. Once the water transport stops, the food needed by the capital and the northern army and civilians will pose a threat. However, due to repeated breaches of the Yellow River and water conservancy and other reasons, Emperor Jiaqing planned to change the water transport to sea transport.

With the increase of land reclamation, water conservancy for irrigation has also become the object of competition. There have been fights between wealthy clans in Fujian for scrambling for water conservancy irrigation.

However, the construction of water conservancy also required corvee labor. The admiral who was about to succeed the governor of Nanhe was worried about this issue. Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, not only spending a lot of money in the treasury, but also wasting money.After confiscating Heshen's family property, Emperor Jiaqing practiced frugality and no longer allowed his officials to pay tribute. However, General Qinglin of Fuzhou still presented treasures to Jiaqing as usual on August [-]th. Not only was he reprimanded, he was even dismissed. .

The admiral wanted to find someone to "share his worries", but he didn't have a son. Nick looked at the moaning old man and felt that he was sad for Wanning's departure. His son-in-law Cao Xi was still on board.

In the evening, they arrived at Zhenhai County. It is not a particularly outstanding place, but there is a kind of building called "earth building". Those inside are ordinary people, not city lords.

"Tulou" is circular, taking the concept of "round sky and place". It was built in the middle of Ming Dynasty to resist the invasion of pirates. There is also a smaller earth building on the nearby mountain, which is similar to a watchtower. , if abnormalities are found, the people down the mountain will be alerted.

There are water wells, granaries, fire and earthquake resistance in the "earth building". The "earth building" that Nick entered had a total of four floors. People's dwellings are very similar, but every household has a kitchen with a smokestack inside.The Walled City of the Warring States Daimyo has both the function of a living room and a symbol of the power of the city lord. Toyotomi Hideyoshi not only built a tea room with gold, but also used a lot of murals of the Tang Dynasty, which are on every paper door that can be opened. Others The same is true for daimyo. The Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which was established by the Tokugawa shogunate, retained the splendor of the Momoyama period. People dug a moat and installed a decoration on the roof. A charm for fire prevention.

Nick prefers the atmosphere of life in the "tulou", but the residents here have never seen a foreigner, and they are surprised to see Nick's blond hair and blue eyes. The naughty children even look at his fine hair, as if to confirm whether it is also golden.

He collected a lot of material in the earth building, and returned to the water post after dark. Cao Xi found an old man and asked him to tell Nick about the torture he suffered when he was taken captive by pirates.

The old man told a lot about the atrocities of the pirates, and there was a sense of fear in his words, and Nick wondered if what he said was true.

At night, there was a high tide, and someone chanted the poem "The bright moon on the sea grows together with the tide". Nick used the moonlight to vaguely see the dark shadow on the sea in the distance, but it disappeared when he was about to distinguish it carefully.

He didn't sleep well that night and kept tossing and turning in bed, which caused him to wake up the next morning looking sluggish. Cao Xi looked at him and smiled, as if he thought Nick was frightened by the old man's story last night.

The fleet was still moving forward, and it was obvious that the crew members were not as nervous as before. Even Nick felt that he was just having a strange dream.

He was just about to go back to the cabin to sleep for a while, when he suddenly heard the sound of a gong. Before he could react, there was already a commotion in the crowd. He wanted to hear what they were talking about. A sailor pointed in one direction, dozens of A sailboat was approaching them.

At this time they had come to a steep coast full of hidden reefs, civilian boats stopped one after another, and then the scene that happened in the dream reappeared, the difference was that besides the sound of metal crashing, there were also the sound of gongs and drums, which sounded very similar to when singing an opera The "musical" sound used for accompaniment.

There is an idiom called "Yi Drum Qi Qi", which means that soldiers attack after hearing the sound of a drum, and another idiom is called "Ming Jin Sui Bing", which means that they retreat when they hear the sound of a drum.

Pirates attacked civilian ships mainly for cargo and wealth, while attacking official ships was purely for bloody battles. Fortunately, there were forts on the mountain, and the pirates withdrew after firing two cannonballs.

They came and went so fast that Nick would have thought he was still dreaming if it hadn't been for so many wounded and dead.

"Go and bandage them." Cao Xi said, maybe he thought Nick was a doctor.

They arrived in Jinghai County in the afternoon, and there was a military camp nearby. After Cao Xi communicated with them, some wounded soldiers were arranged to go to their barracks, while others followed him to the sea again.

It was only later that Nick found out that this sea area was not full of hidden reefs, but a landform caused by sea erosion. There is a place called Ke Niaowei near the military camp. .

"Rampant, it's too rampant!"

Captain Yao cursed, Nick thought he was weird, isn't the Navy set up just for this?

In 1786, before the United States established a navy, John Adams, Minister to France, was ordered to negotiate with the pirate "government" in Tripoli. Four months later, he negotiated with the pirates in Morocco and signed a "gift exchange" to ensure the safety of North American merchant ships. After the United States has a navy, the first thing to do is to go to Morocco to fight pirates.

After Jefferson came to power, he reduced the size of the army and dismissed many officers. It seems that the president felt that expensive expenses to support the navy were not as cost-effective as "exchanging gifts".

Bonaparte suddenly laughed.

He looked at Georgiana and said, "Guess what Mr. Murray's visit is for?"

"Who's Murray?" Georgiana asked.

"Adams' messenger."

Only then did Georgiana remember that Mr. William Murray was sent after the defeat of John Adams in the 1800 election. Adams was the main fighter. "There is no other war that can unite people more."

Instead, Jefferson was originally pro-French.

"I wonder why that place is called Bird's Tail," Georgiana said, and turned to the next page.

(End of this chapter)