Author: The beggar

Of course, the focus is not on the activity trajectories of these people.

It's about what these people do outside of their activities.

"When we arrived at the Iki Kingdom, the townsfolk and tribesmen surrendered, and the army captured more than 500 people. The Lord of the Iki Kingdom had long heard about the reputation of the Black Banner Lord, so he presented a hundred taels of silver, as well as polished rice, bonito, and kelp."

This is what the official document says.

Before this sentence, Aikawa Kazuki led one hundred and fifty fully armed black flag warriors and two hundred Japanese armored men, about one Niulu's force, and first sold Liaodong rice, cotton, cloth and other products on Tsushima Island.

Then these products sold like crazy on Tsushima Island.

This is a product that is in short supply.

But the quality of Northeastern rice is still refined rice that has been carefully shelled.

At this time, in the Japanese state, due to the shelling technology and the principle of abstinence from eating and drinking, the staple food eaten by the relatively wealthy samurai and landowners was mostly simply shelled, and the outer cortex and embryo of the rice grains were retained.

brown rice.

Most famous people also eat this kind of food.

As for polished rice that has been completely shelled, let alone ordinary people, ordinary daimyo cannot afford it.

Not to mention the plump grains of Northeastern rice that these black flag warriors brought, as if they were white jade grains.

In the eyes of the Japanese at this time, not only eating it, but also smelling it would prolong their life.

The Daimyo clan of Tsushima Island all came here after hearing the news. After eating this rice made from newly imported rice from Liaodong, the rice grains turned around in their mouths and were reluctant to swallow them. Then they decisively purchased three liters of rice to make a large amount.

The banquet with all the ministers is also a preparation for a good year.

Aikawa Kazuki used the rice to entertain some famous ronin warriors on Tsushima Island. These ronin warriors were more exaggerated than the Sou clan.

White rice and a piece of fish, a plate of pickled vegetables that had been cooked overnight, and a bowl of miso soup were placed in front of them. Some people burst into tears before they even ate it. After one gulp, the sounds of gratitude from Aikawa Kazuki could be heard all around.

His recruitment operation went very smoothly.

As time passed and the world became more stable in Japan, the living environment of the ronin samurai deteriorated from bad to worse.

Nowadays, they either form a gang in the castle town and start some underworld, monopolize some small businesses, and at the same time try to make their group show some use value in front of the upper class nobles, and become a group of dogs raised by the nobles that can be used at will.

Or just keep wandering around, doing a little bit of everything, being both a mercenary and a bandit, never stopping for a meal.

Or just go out and farm the land for others.

During the meal, the ronin warrior here was crying while eating and said that last month, he and a group of ronin warriors stayed in a village and fought with a group of robbers for half a month just for two meals of brown rice a day.

It took several people dying to drive away the robbers and rogues.

On the other hand, it is said that the merchants on Tsushima Island are looking down on samurai warriors more and more. More and more ronin are coming to make a living, and the price of hiring them is getting lower and lower.

This made a group of black flag warriors feel a little resentful.

If they hadn't broken through Guandong, they might not be as good as these ronin warriors now.

After all, the people who can be invited by Kazuki Aikawa are all experts on Tsushima Island.

But this time, the Black Flag warriors returned to their hometown and showed up in front of the fellow villagers wearing brocade clothes and showing off.

The 'Black Flag Dream' that had been flooding Tsushima and even neighboring islands suddenly became manic.

The Black Flag warriors' personal explanations completely dispelled the doubts of the Ronin warriors. Wherever they went, there would be Ronin warriors and onlookers to watch.

The Tsushima Daimyo clan had no control over these people who had returned home in violation of the lockdown order.

Tsushima has close ties with North Korea.

He had heard a little about everything that happened in Liaodong.

"It's those warriors of the Black Flag!"

"No, no, those are just the Ashigaru servants below the Black Flag Warriors, and the adults behind them are."

"Your Majesty! Please allow me to serve you in front of Your Majesty Ichigi! I am willing to do anything!"

According to the Black Flag Samurai's experience and knowledge, the Black Flag Liaodong mainland is a vast land in the north of Japan with various scenery. It has a powerful hero with extremely strong martial arts, abundant products, and an extremely high degree of acceptance of foreigners. There are an unusually large number of races, but the upper-class samurai daimyo get along very harmoniously. They are stable internally but are constantly fighting external battles.

The rewards for military exploits are very generous, and there are already many He nationality immigrants.

They are also in urgent need of the services of these ronin warriors.

After this operation, it was different from the scene when Black Flag came to Tsushima for the first time to recruit Ronin samurai.

The ronin samurai on the entire island were greatly shocked. One after another came to join Aikawa Kazuki's command. Even many ronin who were originally attached to the Daimyo clan of Tsushima came.

As a result, the team under Aikawa Kazuki expanded rapidly. In less than half a month, it swelled to more than a thousand people, and basically all the ronin on Tsushima Island came.

And this is just the beginning of the official document, and it is carried over in just a few words.

The big thing is later.

With someone else, Aikawa Kazuki became worried.

There were too many people to carry back, and the boat couldn't fit in them.

But he is here to recruit people and is reluctant to lay off employees.

Moreover, this time Aikawa Kazuki not only wanted to take in the ronin samurai, he also wanted to get some slaves back for his dispatch.

But he didn't want to spend more money to buy a boat.

Together with the samurai under his command, they thought that a group of them had committed the crime of beheading in their hometown! There was no room for them in their homeland! They might as well just stop doing one thing and keep doing the other!

Rob!

Carry forward the fine tradition of Black Flag.

I'm planning to take action.

The Daimyo clan of Tsushima felt something. There were more than 1,300 elites, including Ashigaru, all wearing armor. How could they feel at ease within their own territory?

So we came to talk quickly.

"The Tsushima Fuchu Domain has always been on good terms with the Black Flag King. They have set up a special Black Flag Pavilion on the island, and there are constant trade exchanges. I have also presented gifts to the Black Flag King. Ichiki-dono, please don't do anything on the island that will harm the Black Flag King." It’s about the relationship between the flag and Tsushima Fuchu Domain.”

Aikawa Kazuki suddenly felt a little embarrassed when he saw Zong's respectful attitude towards him.

The robbery of merchant ships on Tsushima Island was immediately abandoned.

but.

Just don't do it on Tsushima Island.

It was also from this time that Aikawa Kazuki led 600 troops to leave Tsushima Island by boat and headed for the Iki Domain in the south. He first circled the island, intercepted more than ten small fishing boats, and then landed directly! He wreaked havoc in the northern part of the island. Search for the common people and the untouchables!

The island is not big, but it has more arable land than Tsushima, so the population on the small island is quite large, so it is divided into two counties.

Aikawa Kazuki also came here for this reason.

On the day of landing on the island, the Matsuura family, the daimyo of the Iki clan, received the news and summoned an army.

As expected, a conflict broke out between the two sides.

The 600 troops with Black Flag samurai as the main force faced off against the 800 army composed of 24 villages and two counties under the Iki Domain.
Chapter completed!