Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2177 Flower dispute (eighty-five)

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

Machi people is a Japanese term for urban residents. "Machi" refers to streets and communities. In the Muromachi shogunate era, the towns mainly referred to the handicraftsmen in Kyoto, and later also included the merchant class, that is, all living in "castle towns". people.

The wealthy and the samurai lived in the castle, and the townspeople had to provide them with services. 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 showed signs of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's urban policy. characteristics, and in this way achieved the rule of the territory and strengthened the power of the daimyo.

In Toyotomi Hideyoshi's regime, it is possible to say that the neighbors have excellent governance. His territory includes Nagahama. Nagahama Castle was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's residence in the early years. Thirty percent of the loser's records related to him were destroyed, but the decrees he issued have been carefully preserved by the townspeople, some of which were about repairing the city.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi became the Taiko, he granted Nagahama the "Eternal Tribute Exemption". When the Saga Mountain Castle was built, Nagahama was also asked to send strong workers, and the citizens of Nagahama immediately took out Toyotomi. Hideyoshi's Mofu, resolutely resisted corvée. They even elected representatives and went to Fushimi Castle to file a direct complaint with Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Fushimi Castle acknowledged the Mofu, and asked Sancheng to exempt the Nagahama territorial servants according to Mofu's intentions.

   But Sancheng refused: "Yongdai Nian Gong Exemption" is true, but "Nian Gong" is different from the general invitation to servitude for building a city.

Thirty percent expressed dissatisfaction with the territorial representatives coming to Fushimi to appeal, so they decided not to exempt them from the sabbatical service. Therefore, 30% of the territorial representatives, who pursued Sudo Gonemon Tongguang, had to persuade the territorial representatives while mobilizing the townspeople. On behalf of Sancheng, I apologize to the representatives of the people.

In the early Qing Dynasty, Tianfu and 傜servants were levied separately, and Dingzeng increased accordingly. There were citizens, villagers, guests, tenants, soldiers, villagers, craftsmen, stoves, etc., with various styles and styles. , increasing the difficulty of collection. The "one whip method" will recruit the old servants, and Kangxi and Yongzheng will spread their shares into mu, and the old servants will also be levied on the land. In theory, the old servants should not be levied again. However, there are always errands in various disciplines in Zhili near Beijing. They are called employment, but they are difficult to be reimbursed in practice. They are all transferred for free. They are called sacrifices to the East and West Mausoleum. For offering sacrifices to the heavens, going to Mount Wutai in Shanxi for incense, going to the south of the Yangtze River for fortune, building bridges, paving roads, setting up palaces, and supplying all food and beverages, they all use salaried workers.

   Cao transport was particularly heavy. Once the water transport stopped, the food needed by the capital and the northern army and civilians would pose a threat. Because of the repeated ruptures of the Yellow River, as well as 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. In Fujian, there have been fights between wealthy clans for water conservancy and irrigation.

   But the construction of water conservancy also requires corvée, and the admiral who will take over as the governor of Nanhe is very worried about this problem. Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze six times, not only spending a lot of money in the treasury, but also laboring the people. After confiscating Heshen's property, Emperor Jiaqing practiced thrift and no longer allowed his ministers to pay tribute. However, on August 15th, Fuzhou General Qinglin still donated treasures to Jiaqing as usual, not only was reprimanded, but he was even fired. .

   The Admiral wanted to find someone to "share his worries" for him, but he had no son. Nick looked at the sighing old man and felt that he was sad for Wanning's departure, and his prospective son-in-law, Cao Xi, was still on the boat.

In the evening, they arrived in Zhenhai County, which itself is not a particularly outstanding place, but there is a building called "Tulou", which is a kind of rammed earth dwelling. The people inside are ordinary people, not the city lord.

"Tulou" is round, taking the concept of "the sky is round and the place". It was built in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to resist the invasion of pirates. There is a smaller tulou on the nearby mountain, which functions like a watchtower. , if an abnormality is found, it will remind the people under the mountain.

There are water wells, granaries, fire and earthquake resistance in the "earth building". The "earth building" that Nick entered has a total of four floors. There are no windows on the bottom two floors. The lighting is on the side near the yard, and each room is not large. The dwellings of people are very similar, but every household has a kitchen with smoke windows. The famous castle of the Warring States period also functions as a living room and is also a symbol of the power of the city lord. Toyotomi Hideyoshi not only built a tea room with gold, but also made extensive use of Tang Dynasty murals. There are paper doors that can be opened. Others The same is true for the daimyo. The Nijo Castle established by the Tokugawa shogunate in Kyoto retains the splendor of the Momoyama period. People dug a moat and installed a kind of decoration on the roof. A spell for fire prevention.

  Nick prefers the atmosphere of life in the "Tulou", but the residents here have never seen foreigners. They are amazed to see Nick's blonde 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 materials in the tulou, and returned to the water station after it was completely dark. Cao Xi found an old man and asked him to tell Nick about the torture he suffered when he was kidnapped by the pirates.

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

  In the evening, there was a high tide. Someone recited the poem "The bright moon on the sea grows with the tide." Nick saw the dark shadow on the sea in the distance by the moonlight, but it disappeared when he tried to distinguish it carefully.

   He slept very restlessly that night, tossing and turning on the bed all the time, which caused him to wake up the next morning without looking energetic, 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 was not as nervous as before, and 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 his mind 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 with many reefs, and the civilian boats stopped one after another. Then the scene in the dream reappeared. The difference was that in addition to the metal crash, there were gongs and drums. The "musical" sound used for accompaniment.

   There is an idiom called "one drum to make qi", which tells that the soldiers will attack after hearing the sound of the drum, and another idiom called "calling gold to withdraw troops", which means to retreat after hearing the sound.

   Pirates attacked civilian ships mainly for goods and wealth, while attacking official ships was entirely for **** battles. Fortunately, there were forts on the mountain. After two cannons were fired, the pirates withdrew.

   They came and went so fast that Nick almost thought he was still dreaming if there were not 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. There was a barracks nearby. After Cao Xi communicated with them, some of the wounded soldiers were arranged to go to their barracks, while others followed him and went to sea again.

Later, Nick learned that this sea area is not full of reefs, but the landform caused by sea erosion. There is a place called Guest Bird's Tail near the military camp. From the mountain, you can see the magnificent sea, and at the foot of the mountain is a wide range of sea erosion bamboo shoots. .

   "Crazy, it's so crazy!"

   Captain Yao cursed. Nick thought he was strange. Isn't the navy set up for this?

In 1786, before the United States did not establish a navy, the Minister to France, John Adams, was instructed to negotiate with the pirate "government" of Tripoli, and four months later negotiated with the pirates of Morocco, and signed a "gift exchange" to ensure the safety of North American merchant ships. After the United States had a navy, the first thing to do was 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 spending expensive expenses to maintain the navy was not as cost-effective as "exchanging gifts".

   Bonaparte laughed suddenly.

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

   "Who's Murray?" asked Georgiana.

   "Adams' messenger."

   Georgiana then remembered that Mr. William Murray was sent after John Adams was defeated in the 1800 election. Adams was the main war faction. "There is no more war that can unite people."

   Instead, Jefferson was originally pro-French.

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

   (end of this chapter)