I haven't seen fireworks.

"What do you mean by non-participation? Huh? What is non-participation?"

"We give them so much money every year, and they just refuse to participate?"

"Stop their funds!" Miura Yamato roared angrily.

"But, they are not short of money now. That Sarutobi Hiruzen embezzled more than 300 billion, which is enough for them to use for ten years!" someone next to him reminded.

"Asshole!" Miura Yamato gritted his teeth: "Damn it, Hiruzen Sarutobi. The daimyo trusted him so much, but he dared to do this and die like this. It was really an advantage for him!"

"Then what should we do now?" Li Shang Bowen, the head of the Li Shang family, asked.

The Lishang family is a traditional samurai family, active in the era when ninjas were not emerging. At that time, they were still called the Zori family.

Later, they assisted the current daimyo to create the Kingdom of Fire. Because the status of samurai was too low, in order to make everyone forget Sauri's past experience as a samurai, Sauri made a decision that went against his ancestors and changed his surname.

So the Zuoli family became the Li Shang family.

In order to fundamentally draw a clear line with the samurai, the Rishan family also burned all the family secret books and ordered the next generation to only learn literature and not martial arts. Even the family's famous Sori sword was destroyed.

Up to now, the Lishang family has become a pure literati family. They have been in charge of the finances and tax audit work of the survey for generations. It is the Miura family, which is also the most loyal and trusted family of the daimyo.

"There are more!" Miura Yamato shook the letter in his hand: "Oshemaru asked us to spread funds and gather troops to fight against these untouchables!"

"Huh?" Li Shangbowen was taken aback and asked, "Army?"

This word made him both strange and familiar.

It's strange because it seems that the five major countries haven't done anything similar for a long time since ninjas became the country's armed forces.

As for familiarity, the Li Shang family had seen a famous sword army back then.

Later, they discovered that swords were not easy to use on the battlefield, and guns were better, but the name of the unit was still used.

However, this army was disbanded thousands of years ago. There are still some training methods of this army left in the family, but no one in the Lishan clan can be the leader now!

"He also suggested that based on the power of each city and county to recruit troops, change the city lord to the city guard and the princess to the county guard. In this way, the lord of a city and the lord of a county also has the responsibility of pastoral guardian!" Miura Yamato continued.

"This..." Li Shang Bowen scratched his head: "Sir, what do you think of this proposal?"

"I think?" Yamato Miura frowned. Is he really worried about the Fire Nation?

Of course yes, but only a little.

More importantly, I am still worried about the Miura family's own safety. After all, whether the daimyo dies or not has nothing to do with me. We have been a family for thousands of years, so we don't really think that we are loyal to the daimyo.

The idea of ​​letting the city lords summon their troops is a bad idea at first glance. If these city lords have soldiers in their hands, are they still willing to listen to the big names? ?

You know, how many years have passed since the Warring States period, and the older people still have memories in their minds!

But for the Miura family themselves, it is a good thing!

Because there are quite a few people from the Miura family who have been sent to serve as city lords. If these people have soldiers in their hands, doesn't that mean that the Miura family has soldiers?

Only when the Miura family has soldiers can they better protect their own family!

"Since the Datongsha incident is unavoidable, then I have to make preparations to protect myself!" Miura Yamato thought for a while, then looked at Lishang Bowen and Zhixue Xiaojian next to him.

The Zhixue family is naturally sensitive to the weather and changes in astronomical phenomena, so they followed the daimyo and became the astronomical officials of the Land of Fire. Because astronomical phenomena and agriculture are closely related, they took up the work of land reclamation in the survey.

Their family also has all the land information in the Kyoto District, and it is these materials that guarantee the annual tax revenue of the Kyoto District.

Therefore, the Chiyuki clan is also the right-hand man of the Miura family.

It seems that there are people from these two families who are serving as city lords outside. They are dominated by us, so aren’t their troops our troops?

"Moreover, before the news spreads, I can send as many tribesmen as possible to serve as city lords in various cities. The more cities I capture, the stronger my power will be in the future!"

"When I take control of Kyoto District, one-third of the Fire Country, and nearly half of the army, then who will be the master of this country? Is it not me who has the final say?" When I was over ten years old, I suddenly saw an opportunity for my family to dominate the Fire Nation!

He didn't think it was impossible. After all, you can think of it this way. He, Hiruzen Sarutobi, had only been Hokage for 20 years and could embezzle more than billion.

The Miura family has been in charge of taxation for a thousand years and is in charge of the taxation of the entire Fire Country. How much money can he have in his hands?

This money is used to recruit soldiers and horses. Let alone 10 to million, even million is probably enough!

After all, manpower is very cheap now, and there is no need to pay wages. As long as you take care of the food, a lot of people will be willing to follow you!

There are many people in the Datong Society, but those people follow the Datong Society just to eat.

I can also make you full!

Moreover, you still have to go to work and study with Datong Society. You don’t have to do anything here, just concentrate on fighting!

This condition is better than that of Datong Society!

The more Miura Yamato thought about it, the more beautiful he became, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing, seeing the two patriarchs bewildered.

"Miura-sama? Miura-sama?"

Isn't he stupid?

After shouting twice, Miura Yamato finally came to his senses.

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He waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, and then fell into thinking again.

Today's daimyo lives in a daze, but their brains are not stupid, and they also have some political opponents. They are the type that no matter what is right or wrong, as long as they say something, their opponents will object without thinking.

Therefore, now is not a good time to propose this strategy. At least until the Datong Society is full of wars and the situation is irreversible, the courtiers have no choice but to agree to this proposal.

Just before that, he had to arrange for the family members to become city lords.

Well, it’s not good in the north, the Datong society is very powerful, and being a city lord there is to deliver food, so it’s better to go to the south.

Kyoto District, Nandu District, and Nanwei Island are mainly these three large areas, preferably those areas where the influence of the Datong Society has not spread.

In addition, there are many city lords, how could it be possible that if you want a name, you will give it to you?

And there are still so many!

Therefore, we have to find a way to let the daimyo let go and let him wholesale the city lord without money.

After all, it is a thousand-year-old family, and after a little thought, he has a solution.

The next day, he went to meet the daimyo.

"Daimyo, we sent people to investigate the Datong Society, and the results have come out!" Miura Yamato said calmly: "It was obviously alarmist to say that the Datong Society was flooded in the Land of Fire. There is no spread, because someone deliberately made it serious and wanted to take this opportunity to gain benefits!"

"Really?" Daimyo believed it without thinking too much.

After all, he didn't have a chance to go out, so how could he have a chance to know the truth?

Besides, Miura Yamato has been assisting him for more than 40 years. If you don’t trust such a veteran, who do you trust?

Besides, my name is doing well, and suddenly someone came to me and told me that your country is going to end, and the rebels have gathered tens of millions of soldiers.

Would you believe it if it were you?

"That's right!" Miura Yamato couldn't see any flaws on his face: "However, after this investigation, I found a bigger problem!"

"Oh? What phenomenon?" Daimyo asked curiously.

"In the past forty or fifty years, our Fire Country has become more and more prosperous, but its tax revenue has been falling again and again. Ten years ago, there were 2400 billion, and five years ago, there were only 1800 billion. Last year, it was even more We only collected 1300 billion!" Miura Yamato said: "At first, everyone said it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, but after my investigation, I found that there may have been a man-made disaster. However, in the past ten years, the weather has been good in all parts of the Fire Country, and even major floods have not happened. No, where did the natural disaster come from?”

He also told lies with his eyes open. Sun Jingyun visited many places and discovered the rice blast disease in his eyes. The scope of the design and the depth of the spread were simply unheard of and unseen.

Do you really think that all farmers like to study and join the Datong Society?

That’s because Datong Society has mastered the solution to rice blast!

However, rice blast is not really a disaster in the eyes of the nobles. Perhaps earthquakes, meteorites, droughts and floods are.

"If this continues, I'm afraid it will fall below 800 billion. After billion, it will fall to billion. If it continues to fall, it will not be there anymore, because our Daming Mansion's annual expenditure is very large, far more than billion!"

"Then where did our tax money go?" asked the daimyo.

"The most important thing is the interception by each city and county!" Miura Yamato said: "Originally, 100 billion was supposed to be handed over, but with the help of the city lord, it may become billion, billion, you pick a little, I picked it up a little, and when it was in our hands, the number suddenly became much smaller!"

"In addition, we have never done supervision before, so their courage is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more corruptions. Now, some city lords are so bold that they dare to take %!"

"How unreasonable!" Daming slapped the table angrily, "These people are so audacious, how dare they take my money!"

"Yeah!" Miura Yamato nodded, and calmly put on eye drops: "Once the city master, the princess sits in one place for a long time, he will have inextricable relationships with the local people. In order to protect them, naturally I can't care about the name and the law!"

"This..." The daimyo didn't quite understand and asked, "Then let them continue like this, but if there is no suitable reason, we cannot abolish them."

Corruption is definitely not a reason. If someone dares to do it, they will definitely give you a suitable reason.

For example, if you want to build a road or replace a water pipe, 2 million is not too much!

"Miura-sama, what can you do?" Daimyo asked.

"Is there any way? Of course there is!" Miura Yamato stroked his beard and said, "Selling an official position!"

"Ah?" Daming was shocked, even though he was stupid, he still knew that the behavior of selling an official was stupid, this is what a stupid king did!

"In emergencies, you should do extraordinary things!" Miura Yamato said calmly: "Besides, they withheld that little money, what if they don't let them shed some blood? Do you want to continue to be the city's leader? Okay, then use the money to buy it back , if you don’t have money, or don’t want to give money, then just give up your seat obediently!”

"Our country of Fire has a vast territory and rich resources, and the people are simple and kind. As long as the city lord who replaces him does not act recklessly, the country will not be able to decline. Therefore, whoever becomes the city lord is the same. If this is the case, why not change it to someone who can bring us Money?"

"This..." The daimyo blinked his big silly eyes, yes!

My country of fire is so powerful and prosperous, even if I put a dog on it to be the city lord, it won't be too bad.

Since this is the case, the city lord with the highest price wins, so why not!

"Of course, for the sake of your reputation, daimyo, I will ask someone to bring this matter up. Then daimyo, you just need to nod!"

"Yeah!" The daimyo nodded, and took Miura Yamato's hand firmly: "I can see that those people are vegetarians, and they are officials just to make money for themselves!"

"You are the only one, Miura, who truly cares about the Country of Fire!"

Miura Yamato smiled modestly: "Oh, who told me that I was appointed to implement it? How could I watch a country that has been guarded for a thousand years just watch it fail!"

"Leave this matter to the old minister!"