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"Enough talk, do you dare to fight me one-on-one?"

The translator shouted, "Listen up, bandit general! General Zhao is going to take you down single-handedly!"

Abiru Motomori looked at the tall and imposing Zhao Xiaozhong.

Then he looked at Zhao Xiaozhong's tall and mighty warhorse.

He instantly lost the courage to fight one-on-one.

This guy jumped off his horse.

Quickly run and slide on your knees:

"Greetings, General of the Celestial Empire,"

"The Abilu clan is willing to pledge allegiance to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhao Xiaozhong asked, "Your name is Abiru Yuansheng?"

"Yes."

Abiru Motomori answered while kneeling.

Zhao Xiaozhong said, "The name is too long."

"From now on, let's call it Yuansheng."

He also used a spear to write words on the ground.

"Your surname is Yuan, given name Sheng, and you are a descendant of..."

"The surname should also be changed to Yuan."

Chapter 3203 Eating Rice

After the translator finished speaking, the guy immediately kowtowed:

"Thank you for bestowing this surname upon me!"

Yuan Sheng, who changed his name and surname from then on,

With his son and subordinates,

They guided the Ming soldiers to rest.

This place is even poorer than Tamna Island.

The government office where Yuan Sheng lived

They were not even as wealthy as the local tycoons in the countryside during the Ming Dynasty.

He glanced at the meager meal.

Zhao Xiaozhong said to his personal guards, "Get some food!"

Forty minutes later,

Yuan Sheng ate white rice.

Drinking corn wine,

A feeling of happiness arises spontaneously.

He asked curiously, "General, a military man of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Is it possible to eat rice every meal?"

At this time, Jeju Island, Tsushima Island, and Hokkaido,

None of them produce rice.

Yuan Sheng wanted to eat white rice every meal.

We need to trade with Japan itself.

Zhao Xiaozhong smiled and said, "As long as you are loyal to your work,"

"You can eat as much rice as you want every day."

Yuan Sheng immediately led his son to kneel and pay homage:

"I will definitely serve the Ming Dynasty loyally!"

Zhao Xiaozhong asked, "There's a place in Japan called Iwami,"

"You should know, right?"

Yuan Sheng replied, "I know. From Tsushima Island, take a ferry eastward."

"Then we can reach Iwami Province."

Zhao Xiaozhong said, "His Majesty dreamt of immortals."

"He received the message in a dream from an immortal,"

"Japan's Iwami Province has a silver mine,"

"This is a treasure bestowed upon the Ming Dynasty by Heaven."

"You want nothing from Tsushima Island anymore,"

"Take your family and warriors with you,"

"Come with me to Iwami Province."

"I will be there, and I will grant you new territory."

Yuan Sheng was overjoyed and repeatedly kowtowed to express his gratitude.

The territory of Iwami Province

It is much richer than Tsushima Island.

Since the Ming Dynasty wanted this dilapidated island...

Then let's offer it to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhao Xiaozhong asked, "Look at my army,"

"Can Iwami Kuni stop them?"

Yuan Sheng replied, "The general's soldiers are tall and strong."

"And it's protected by sturdy iron armor,"

"Even ten provinces of Iwami could not withstand it."

"In recent decades, the judicial system has deteriorated,"

"Many provincial governors and garrison commanders held their posts remotely,"

"The affairs of a country are handled by officials at the provincial level."

"These officials were from powerful local families who held hereditary positions,"

“They have actually become samurai.”

"The general led his troops to attack Iwami Province,"

"The enemy we've encountered is definitely a powerful clan from Iwami Province."

"They need to temporarily assemble warriors and peasant soldiers,"

"Moreover, each has its own interests."

"As long as we win one battle, we can demonstrate the military might of the Ming Dynasty,"

“Those powerful clans will not be united.”

"They will repeatedly back down and be afraid to fight,"

"Wait for the Emperor to send troops to rescue us."

"Even, as long as one has sufficient strength,"

"We can also secretly win over some powerful clans."

"If we defeat the Emperor's army in succession,"

"All the powerful clans of Iwami Province,"

"They will all secretly cooperate with the general."

"They only care about their own interests,"

"As long as they don't take their estate,"

"Even if the general kills the emperor, they won't care."

This is the role of the collaborators.

Xue Daoguang and Zhao Xiaozhong were completely ignorant about Japan.

They urgently need insiders to provide them with information.

.....

During the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty, Japan implemented the Taika Reform.

Learn comprehensively from the advanced experience of Tang Dynasty,

To strengthen the Emperor's centralized rule.

Chapter 3204 The Evolution of Doujinshi

One of the most important measures,

That is, to establish a public land citizenship system:

The people and the land belong to the state.

No private individual may possess it.

Specifically, regarding land, this was the system of allotted fields.

It is very similar to the equal-field system of the Tang Dynasty.

About a hundred years later, the "Law on Perpetual Private Ownership of Reclaimed Land" and the "Law on Three Generations in One Life" were successively introduced.

The nobles and powerful families took the opportunity to drive their subjects and slaves to cultivate wasteland.

To legally seize newly reclaimed land for oneself

They even illegally seized former public land and turned it into private farmland.

Another hundred years passed.

The system of allotted land began to collapse.

The situation was exactly the same as in the Tang Dynasty, where nobles and powerful families owned large amounts of land but did not pay taxes.

All the state's taxes fell on the shoulders of farmers on public land.

As a result, the farmers of the commons fled one after another.

They were taken in and hidden by nobles and powerful families.

The private estate economy began to emerge in Japan.

The Tang Dynasty emperors were so destitute that they couldn't even get enough to eat.

He often traveled from Chang'an to Luoyang for extra meals.

The Japanese Emperor directly chose to move the capital.

From the old capital where nobility and temples were deeply intertwined,

They moved to Heian-kyo to start over.

Thus began the Heian period.

Successive emperors have fought against corruption.

Implement performance evaluation for officials.