Edo Traveler

Vol 2 Chapter 50: Popular feelings are raging

   The people outside the city are getting more and more together. When Chuemon and his party are waiting outside the city, it is estimated that the number may have exceeded 100,000, and the number is still increasing. It seems that all the people of Musashi have gathered here.

   The people inside the city and the people outside the city do not seem to be the same species. Although most of the people in the city are living in hardship, after all, Edo is a large city with a population of one million and requires a lot of labor. As long as you have the strength to carry a day's work, you can still earn money by eating a large bowl of dry rice. .

   But the vast Kanto Plains villages may not be the case. The land under the cultivation of small-scale farmers will only produce that little thing at the limit, after paying countless taxes. Only tares and chaff are left to the peasants. Many people stumbled. Because they suffer from severe night blindness in general, they must rely on the torch that flickers and flickers in their hands.

   These farmers are extremely dark, regardless of men and women, regardless of age, imprinted in the darkness of the night, only a trace of light is revealed in their eyes. But the light didn't have any charm, it was just on.

   Some of the clothes that are the same as the torn sack cloth have been broken into strips, but they are just hanging on the body like that, floating in the wind. The bare feet stepped on the mud, and the nails were already twisted and deformed. Of course, there were also toes that didn't even have nails. They were like twisted withered pine roots and cracked dead skin. They were the relics of the sunburnt by the blazing sun.

   Seeing thousands of "officials and soldiers" arrived, the crowd exclaimed again and again. Women and girls cried and screamed, pushed back by the people on the left and right. The men were either holding wooden sticks or shaking torches, nervously looking at the shogunate who was riding on the horse.

   Don’t look at it as a forceful lawsuit from tens of thousands or even tens of thousands, but Ieki Tokugawa will not come forward at all, and even Laozhong such as Mizuno Tadakuni, Mabe Tsukatsu, and Sanada Yukun will not come forward. It is impossible for Nianji, Nishimaru to stay behind, Goshoin Bantou, and Omesuke. Only Yuanshan Motomoto and Yabe Sadaqian, who were paid less than a few hundred shi, were sent out.

   Or that’s not right. Three groups of the twelfth group of Yufan, under the command of Fantou, carrying more than two hundred iron cannons, rushed to the edge of the city, and could shoot at the people at any time.

   These fans can meet Tokugawa Jiaqing's existence directly. Although Jialu is definitely not far from Yuanshan Yuangao, his identity may not be much lower.

  Tadaemon Heizo is a junior, and he has not experienced previous forceful prosecutions and suppressed civil unrest. Naturally, Yuan Jingyuan could not delegate such a major task to them. After all, the two talents are only seventeen years old. Although they are already adults at the moment, they don't have the experience of doing things after all.

   If this matter is not dealt with right now, causing these people who forcibly prosecute to enter the city, or even clash under the main castle of Edo, and submit an appeal to Tokugawa Ieki, then the matter is really out of control.

   Japanese farmers are accustomed to the habit and tradition of compelling lawsuits. The famous Kai-Katsurai Takeda in the Warring States Period lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses because of his great defeat in the battle of Nagashino. In order to rebuild the Shinano Corps, the search for peasants could only be increased. Like Mizuno Tadakuni, he has no abilities to innovate and can only use the old method of land inspection.

  Kai and Shinano's Sengoku peasants, they are so-called "sufficient military virtues"!

They are not used to you Takeda Katsuyoshi. After learning that Takeda Katsuyori was going to Komaba Hot Springs to take a break, thousands of farmers beat the guards who were guarding Takeda Katsuyoshi, and then took Takeda Katsuyori who was taking a bath with his bare butt. Lai was directly stuck in the pool.

   Takeda Masarui didn't do it, and it didn't make sense, but he accepted the peasants' appeal in embarrassment. It should be noted that there is a joint here, that is, the kings are generally merciful and compassionate to the people. However, the subordinates who actually do things are abominable and infinitely exploitative.

   Although this is bullshit, just take a look. But in general, rulers will pretend to be tolerant and fraternity. This seems to be the normal state of feudal rulers, and bad things are done by the following dog officials.

   As long as the appeal is in the hands of Takeda Katsuyoshi, in order to maintain his image, he will inevitably agree to the peasants' request to stop land seizures and deal with the violent magistrates who seized the land.

  The acting officials were not wronged, and after doing this, they never thought of trying to please the people. If you are hit now, won't Takeda Katsuyori be able to move you elsewhere in the future.

   Now these peasants also have the same idea. It is impossible for them to make a sound in the countryside. No matter how they cry or beg, the magistrates will still sternly inspect the land and deprive them of the last drop of oil and water.

   But if they enter Edo, their useless wailing will turn into a roar that shakes the world. The names of the feudal vassals in the world, UU reading www.uukānshu.com will see that the general Tokugawa abused the common people, and the Tokugawa family's reputation will be hugely killed!

   This is the only channel for farmers to express their humble request!

   As long as the appeal is accepted by the shogunate, the shogunate must give them an answer, and in order to quell the civil unrest, the shogunate is very likely to stop land seizures. In that way, the common people got their own satisfactory answer, and the shogunate also disbanded the gathered common people, and the contradiction between the two sides was temporarily suppressed, waiting for the next outbreak.

   If the petition can be directly submitted to Tokugawa Kaki, then Tokugawa Kaki will not only comfort them with gentle words and stop land seizures, but may even reduce the collection of annual tribute or distribute rice to the people. After all, Tokugawa Kayuki is always good, how could Shogun Kan have bad thoughts?

   Therefore, Yuanshan Yuan’s purpose here is twofold. One is to never contact any farmers, so as to avoid receiving an appeal from the farmers and being unable to deal with it. The second is to disperse the people who have gathered, not to let them rush to the town of Edo Castle, especially not to let them rush to the Edo Castle.

   The town who was assigned is also a local snake in Edo, and he is familiar with many middlemen who organize farmers to sell vegetables in cities, and most of those middlemen are village heads or small landlords. With them as intermediaries, this transaction should be easy to play.

   However, it is obvious that the people's accusation is very firm this time, because there are a large number of floating people who have been ordered by Mizuno to return home and cannot survive. If they work hard now, they may shake the "return order" and return to the Edo castle or work in the towns surrounding the streets of Edo to make a living.

   While giving nothing, he was thinking of calming things down. One side was empty and hungry like fire. How could it be possible to get together, without a large-scale conflict breaking out on the spot, it is already restrained.

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