[Comprehensive master Naruto] The daimyo of the country of fire is in a panic

What does it mean to talk on paper?

It refers to my current behavior.

This morning, after my desk had been empty for a year and a half, a memorial appeared on my desk, roughly recording the autumn harvest situation in various places.I really don’t know how to describe this report, let’s say it’s careless. It does record the approximate number of grain harvests in various places; but I can’t unconscionably think it’s credible.

Although I don’t know much about agricultural politics, I at least know that the fertile land near the river in the central and eastern part must have more food than the saline-alkali land near the Wind Country in the west. Not to mention that two months ago, Ocher Mori Ishida Takataka complained at the morning meeting. Overcome local drought.

——So how do your twelve counties achieve almost the same average grain output per day?Ishida Takaka, are you an agricultural expert?Stop being a border guard!What a shame!

There is only one answer, this is fabricated data.Statistical investigation is too difficult. Who can’t collude in confessions?

I couldn't help sighing and took a sip of tea, but unexpectedly found that the tea was still warm.

"Isn't it good this year? Ah, this is not something I should ask..." Zhuzhi received Canaan's gaze, and Aiai covered her mouth.

"No, it's better to say it's so good. It's so good that I want to take my fan and go dance in the atrium now," I complained to this real agricultural genius without a smile. "The country is governed by data, and the world is peaceful. It's awesome." .”

Hashirama didn't know how to answer the question for a moment: "Uh-"

I lowered my head and flipped through the first volume of "The Doctrine of the Mean" that I was going to talk about today in Shan County. I asked him as if unintentionally: "Has your family bought enough grain to store this year? This autumn is getting colder earlier than in previous years, and this winter may be very long."

"No, the price of food has gone up. Farmers would rather hoard more than sell it. My father is still thinking of a way." Hashirama shook his head.

What can be done?It's just a few things, robbing farmers, robbing nobles, and robbing other ninjas.

Robbing farmers means breaking up with the source of food, and robbing nobles means breaking up with the source of money, so in most cases the third path is chosen. This is the current behavioral logic of the Ninja clan.

I asked the question I've always wanted to ask: "Why don't you try growing food with your wood escape?"

"No, I tried it. There is a time limit and I need to keep supplying chakra. If it is just a plant, it can be kept for about a day; if the grain particles are picked, it can only be kept for up to sixty breaths." Hashirama opened his mouth. His hands clenched into fists again, "And we need seeds."

I think he must have been tested by the Thousand Hands Clan.Even though I had already guessed the result, I still couldn't suppress the disappointment in my heart: "Why is this happening?"

"I don't know, sorry." He lowered his eyes.

"No, it's not your fault."

If I want to control my land more accurately, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has already given me a strategy, which is the "Taiko Land Inspection": depriving the local lords and some upper-class owners of their land ownership, and concentrating them in Castle towns, and the rest were bound to the land together with the direct producers, small farmers, as workers bearing annual tribute.

Looking back further, the trend of "separating soldiers and peasants" during the Warring States Period has been strengthening. Shibata Katsuie, Oda Nobunaga and others implemented this policy to increase national strength, supplemented by "Rakuza" and "Sekisho Evacuation" " and other economic measures have laid an indispensable foundation for "the deployment of weapons all over the world."

"Your Highness! Dinner is ready!" Quan Nai popped her head out from the paper sliding door.

I looked up at the courtyard. Toramaru and Madara seemed to be arguing about something in the distance. Ranmaru looked at them with a smile. After noticing my gaze, he gave me a flying look.

The Taizheng Minister and Guan Bai still have lessons from the past. At first glance, the world is no different from the Azuchi Momoyama era, and they may be able to serve as teachers.

But I actually have one more choice than them.

Madara considers himself to have a strong ability to act. Whether he is killing enemies on the battlefield or dealing with daily affairs, he never procrastinates and will go all out as long as he determines the goal.

Since arriving at the Daming Mansion, he has begun to become hesitant in doing things.

If he had come here alone, he would not have cared about the little surname making things difficult for him, but now Izuna is here; if this eldest son was as violent as the previous generation, then he would have left early as his father asked, but that day at the martial arts arena, there was The conversation made people care too much.Madara would not completely believe it, but this explanation was indeed convincing and made him want to follow this line of thought to verify the truth.

Also, about that maid.If you want to judge a person's thoughts and character, you still have to start with how he handles disputes.

"House——" Madara took advantage of the opportunity when the servants brought the food, and swooped close to the daimyo who was deep in thought.

"Cough um."

Toramaru squeezed Madara's seat away, knelt down and poured the miso soup into a bowl.Kanan's cold eyes also fell on Madara, while Ranmaru smiled, but it was cold and distant.They keep a close eye on them, and now they even have to participate in the night watch, giving no opportunity for ninjas and daimyo to communicate at all.

Madara had no choice but to give up halfway again and returned to the seat near the door to start eating his lunch.

To be fair, the daimyo's attitude was truly refreshing. Not only did he allow the ninjas to dine in the same room with him, but he never treated them harshly when it came to food.In this era, white rice was a precious ingredient that could be exchanged for supplies, so ninjas usually consumed millet or brown rice, with pickles and soup as a meal.Here in the daimyo, they can even eat fresh fish from time to time - this is not the Nanga River in the flood season. Prices in Sagayama City are very high, and a "country dweller" like Madara will never be able to afford such a good meal based on his own reward. s things.

There was a long fish tail on the rice in my hand.Madara looked sideways and saw that Quan Nai's cheeks were bulging and she arched her eyebrows at him.

Madara smiled unconsciously and gave the fish belly in his bowl to his younger brother.

When he looked down again, a whole fish suddenly appeared in the natto dish.

Madara raised his face in confusion, and the sister opposite him was smiling so hard that his teeth were missing, and there were several grains of rice stuck to his mouth, and he blinked expectantly.

You gave this to me on your own initiative, and you still want to exchange it?no way.

"Crack—" There was a crisp sound.

Everyone looked towards Canaan.The dark-skinned boy put down his chopsticks and maintained his usual expressionless expression: "It is unclean to eat together, three of you."

Unclean?Is this called unclean?

The battlefield was so depleted of chakra that the blood spattered and contaminated the Bingliang Pills. Is it even more unclean?The glutinous rice dumplings left for me by my brothers, who regarded them as treasures, were dirty when they held them in their little hands. I am afraid they are even more unclean, right?After a hard day's work, the rice that the farmers brought to me was made from the precious white rice they had saved, but it was already moldy. I'm afraid it was even more unclean, right?

I've eaten them all!I ate them all with gratitude!Are you calling me unclean?

"Eat." The big name didn't raise his head. "You can eat whatever you want. If you have a full stomach, you will win. Just don't waste food."

Everyone ate with their heads down, and the fire of anger in Madara's heart was extinguished, while a strange feeling rose from the ashes.Strange, this didn't sound like what he thought a famous person would say.

He quietly raised his head and saw that the distinguished man was holding a grain of white rice in front of his eyes and looking at it, as if he was thinking about something.The next moment, Madara realized that he was actually looking at him through his movements.

"Write it down." He gestured.

The light was dim at night, and I didn’t want to suffer from myopia caused by the lamp oil, so I put down my books and went to the corridor to exercise.It was at the age when I was growing taller and taller that I asked the kitchen to change my diet from two meals a day to three meals a day in order not to grow into a short stature.

Hibiscus blooms in the garden, its slender branches are light red, it spits out its fragrance in the morning, and sways its charming shadow in the breeze at night.

Madara gave me a piece of information. Although I had pardoned the singing maid in person and even gave her some money, the little people finally expelled her from the house behind my back. Winter is approaching, and I don’t know if she can be found. Work and accommodation.

"If you wish, we can find her for you." Madara's proposal was so idealistic that I couldn't believe it.

No, I have not sent ninjas to perform tasks outside the house until now, because the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light. Your combat power is the only card in my hand. It is a weapon that surprises the unprepared and cannot be used in this kind of thing.

I kept my hand on the edge of the flower for a while, but finally stopped touching it.The petals look very soft, so I'd better not interfere and just enjoy them quietly.

No one came to hold a banquet with me, and I didn’t have any harem to go to, so I still came to my mother’s place as usual.

Since autumn, the weather has turned cooler. She has been suffering from illness for a long time and is very afraid of the cold. She put on her winter clothes early and leaned on the couch.Seeing me coming, she gently pushed away the medicine bowl held by Rong Zhenyuan.

I bowed my head and saluted, and when I saw the thick black medicinal soup in the bowl, I heard the exact same conclusion from the Kampo doctor and the Senju doctor Ninja: "A terminal illness cannot be cured."

"What did you learn today?" Mom asked after taking a breath.

"The first half of "The Doctrine of the Mean"."

"Ha," she sneered, grabbing her chest and coughing, "The Four Books and Five Classics... learn the Doctrine first..."

Rong Zhenyuan worriedly wanted to support her, but she declined: "You are busy taking care of me. You are too tired, so you should go back and rest first."

"You are serious." Rongzhenyuan meekly excused herself. I thanked her and took the medicine bowl.

My mother took the medicine and drank it in one gulp. She pinched my shoulders and looked at me with a burning gaze: "So have you learned moderation?"

"A gentleman lives in easy places to wait for his fate, while a villain takes risks to seek luck."

"You like Bai Letian so much? So you want to be a gentleman and be locked in this city for the rest of your life? With your current strength, if you don't fight for it, you will lose everything in the end!" There was fire in her eyes, Almost burning my skin.

"I didn't learn well. I thought this sentence meant what my mother said about 'waiting for the right time.'" My shoulder hurts.Tolerate.

The long-lost smile finally appeared on my mother's face, disappearing just like a puff of smoke. "That's right. What else have you learned?"

"There are nine scriptures for all states in the world, which say: to cultivate one's self, to respect the virtuous, to be close to relatives, to respect ministers, to care for the ministers, to serve the common people, to do hundreds of works, to be gentle to people from far away, and to be considerate of the princes."

"Cultivation of one's character leads to the establishment of the Tao, respecting the virtuous leads to no confusion; being close to one's relatives leads to no resentment towards fathers and brothers; respecting ministers leads to no dazzling; respecting ministers leads to the repayment of gifts from scholars; children of common people lead to the encouragement of the common people; doing hundreds of works leads to sufficient wealth. If you are gentle, people from far away will come back from all directions; if you are pregnant with princes, the world will fear you."

This is also an entry in "The Doctrine of the Mean", but it is something Shanxian will not explain to me.I straightened my upper body and looked at her calmly: "I will learn what they teach me, and I will learn what they don't teach me. Mother, please believe me."

She stared at me for a long time and sighed quietly: "Your father always thought that his descendants were stupid and stubborn. He should really be allowed to see you like you are now."

I didn’t know how to answer the question, because the fact that our father and son have been unable to see each other involves a conflict between two generations.

"Chongmingyuan is here," my mother's tone was unintelligible, "she wants to see you."

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1. Both paragraphs are from "The Doctrine of the Mean" (I can't be original at my level)

The first paragraph (original meaning): A gentleman lives in the status quo and waits for his destiny, but a villain takes desperate risks to get what he doesn't deserve.

The second paragraph has nine principles for governing the world and the country.Cultivate oneself, establish talents, be friendly to relatives, respect (alert) ministers, be considerate of ministers, put people first, recruit talents, treat distant guests favorably, and appease princes.

Cultivation of one's moral character and virtue are the most important.The way to self-cultivation.

Respect wise people and they will help you solve your problems.The way to respect the virtuous.

If you love your relatives, you will not make your uncles and brothers resentful.The way to serve relatives.

If you respect your ministers, you will not be confused when encountering difficulties.The way to treat a minister.

If you show sympathy to your ministers, you will be able to recruit talented people.The way to recruit talents.

Putting people first, caring for the people means (encouraging) consciously improving moral cultivation.Kindness.

As technical talents from all walks of life rush to invest, all industries will prosper.The way to strengthen a country.

If you treat distant guests kindly, people from all over the world will submit to you.Hospitality.

He has vassal states in his heart, so all states are in awe of him.The way of king and minister.