Original God, life in red Teyvat from scratch

Chapter 115: Save the Land and Lose the People or Save the People and Lose the Land

"Is it confirmed? Can we go over?"

"Confirmed. The shogunate soldiers standing at the bridgehead won't question you. They won't even bother to look at you. Just walk over."

"Can you come back then?"

"I don't know, but who would come back to this underworld place?" The person being asked looked disgusted.

Just a few days ago, the war broke out. The shogunate army and the Kaigi army fought on Bayin Island, but were defeated in just half a day.

No one knew what happened north of the Musang Blade Space on Yagyu Island. All they knew was that the shogunate army was pulling corpses to the rear in truckloads, and the wounded were lying all over the shogunate army's tents.

Afterwards, the shogunate army retreated to the south of the Wuxiang Blade Space on Yain Island, relying on the natural advantage of the Wuxiang Blade Space and the defense of several suspension bridges to remain in hiding.

This caused more suffering to the villagers of Feimu Village.

You know, the Shogunate army had just suffered a defeat!

Even with the blessing of the faith in Narukami and the restraint of some fairly good superiors, it was harder than climbing to the sky for the tens of thousands of shogunate troops who had just been through a near-death experience and were facing life-and-death pressure to come up with some way to bully men and women.

Even if the probability of it happening is very low, it will continue to happen despite repeated bans due to the huge base of the shogunate army.

And those who silently endure all of this are still the villagers of Himiki Village who are at the forefront.

More and more people are beginning to be unable to bear it.

Until recently, the shogunate army stopped setting up checkpoints and released people, and a large number of people ran to the other side one after another.

The population of the village is decreasing day by day.

Until this day...

"Village Chief, what do you think?"

The propaganda officer from Haigi Island talked with the village chief accompanied by members of the underground group.

"This is our home. We have lived here for thousands of years and believe in the General."

The village chief's words were firm, but his tone was full of hesitation.

"Village chief, this is the ancestral land of our Feimu Village. If there is any other way, I don't want to leave. But if we don't leave now, there will be no future for our Feimu Village!" A member of the underground group who came from Feimu Village persuaded.

"Yes, grandpa village chief, if all the people in Feimu Village are gone, then what's the use of the land of Feimu Village? Isn't it just leaving it to others as a dowry?" The younger brother of a group member was also trying to persuade.

"If you save the land but lose the people, you will lose both the land and the people. If you save the people but lose the land, both the land and the people will be saved, village chief. Let's go!"

"Comrade Jiang Ming and Comrade Xin Hai have already given clear instructions. If you are willing to move to Himeki Village, which is the closest settlement of the shogunate people to Kaigi Island, we will set aside a new urban area on Kaigi Island as the new Himeki Village for you to live in." The propaganda officer who came explained the current policies of Kaigi Island to the village chief.

He handed another letter to the village chief.

"This is a joint letter written by the villagers of Himeki Village who have already gone to Kaigi Island. I think there are names you recognize on it. Why don't you take a look?"

The village chief hesitated for a moment before taking it and quickly flipping through the names and contents on it.

Indeed, it was a person he knew and a tone he was familiar with.

They...are all living so well now?

Do we eat white rice for every meal?

The village chief looked dazed.

Seeing this, the people around started a new round of persuasion.

"Alright, alright, let me think about this quietly."

The village chief waved his hand, signaling them to stop for a while.

Everyone just stared at the village chief, waiting for him to make up his mind.

To move or not to move?

After a long time, the village chief was still hesitating.

"How about this, I'll gather everyone again, and this time I'll ask everyone if they want to go."

Although everyone felt a little regretful that the village chief did not agree directly, it was good enough to be able to do so at the moment.

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"You're here! I see you seem to have figured it out?"

After Kujo Takayuki replied to the letter that day, Kujo Masahito also showed the letter to the injured general on the front line.

The other party did not say anything.

In the past few days, the injury has improved and the patient has started to get out of bed and move around.

It just so happened that he came here today.

"I can't say I've figured it out, I just want to see if the deaths of my brothers who were sacrificed as 'part of the plan' were worth it."

Kujo Masahiro nodded silently.

He also agreed with the other party's attitude of actually visiting and obtaining information.

The two of them are now walking slowly towards Himuko Village.

"Ok?"

They sensed something was wrong.

Why is the Himuki Village so desolate today?

Not even one person in sight?

It shouldn’t be!

On weekdays, the people in Himuki Village should be farming at this time.

What about people?

They ran all over the Feimu Village, and finally found a thin old man in tattered clothes and smoking a pipe in front of a small house.

"Old man, what happened here?"

The thin old man glanced at the two of them and said nothing more.

Kujo Masahito and the front-line general looked at each other.

"Old man, are you embarrassed about anything?"

The old man continued to puff on his pipe without saying a word.

This made the two of them a little confused. They could only ask repeatedly, hint at the problem, and even talk and gesture at the end.

"Okay, I can hear you. I just don't want to bother with you. Now everyone has run away and the land is yours. Are you satisfied?"

These words suddenly came out of the old man's mouth.

Hearing this, the two became even more confused.

"When did we ever occupy your land? Old man, please don't wrongly accuse a good person."

"You are the only good people?"

The old man suddenly scolded them.

It was also through the old man's intense verbal output that the two finally understood what had happened.

Someone occupied the fields of the people of Himiki Village under the banner of the Shogunate Army!

The villagers of Feimu Village who lost their land are finding it difficult to survive.

Recently, the morale of the shogunate army has been severely hit, military discipline is poor, and bullying of men and women often occurs. Just a few days ago, the village chief of Himeki Village led everyone in Himeki Village to discuss and decide to move to Kaigi Island to establish a new Himeki Village.

"I am old now, I don't want to leave, I also want to return to my roots, I am not afraid of dying here, you two guys listen, you can kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you."

The old man took the last puff of his cigarette, then stretched out his neck and waited to be killed.

As Kujo Masahiro watched this scene, he felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart.

He looked at his companion beside him, and the expression on his face was also very complicated.

In the end, he did nothing. After bowing and expressing his gratitude, he left the Mora he was carrying and then turned around and left.

The two people were quite cheerful when they came, but now the atmosphere became quite heavy.

"Is this how we achieve eternity?" The wounded frontline general said slowly. "If this is the case, I think it would be better to do nothing. Right now, even putting a pig or a dog there would be better!"

Although this was equivalent to pointing fingers at Kujo Masahito's father, Inazuma's tenryo fuss, and calling him worse than pigs and dogs, but...

He recalled the words of the thin old man.

He couldn't think of any rebuttal.

His conscience would not allow him to object.

He thought of the man who had occupied the land under the pretext of garrison needs, and who seemed to be an officer of some kind, and vented all his anger on this man.

"Check it for me!"

Chapter 116: Hiding the truth from the heavens, but things don’t go as planned

Kujo Masahito, the eldest son of the Tenryo Bugyo, gave the order personally, and the internal organization of the shogunate army began to operate at an unprecedented speed in recent years.

It didn't take long to find out the culprit behind the "Hiki Village Land Occupation Incident".

An order from a quartermaster at the Shogunate's front line.

But when Kujo Masahito interrogated him, he got an unexpected answer.

"What do you want to say? Didn't you order the occupation of the land?"

Kujo Masahito stared at the quartermaster who was tied up in front of him.

"I ordered it to be occupied, but I had no choice."

"You have no choice?" Kujo Masahito sneered. "How do you mean you have no choice? I want to see how you have no choice to force the villagers of Himiki Village to die?"

"The army has come to quell the rebellion, but we can't get enough food! The brothers can't all be training patrols and fighting the enemy on an empty stomach. No one can bear it, and I can't bear it either. So I let people occupy the land of Feimu Village. It's harvest season, and the brothers can finally have a full meal. As for those people in Feimu Village... I feel sorry for them, but I can't care so much."

The quartermaster's words made Kujo Masahito's eyes widen, his face full of shock.

"What did you say? How could there not be enough food for the shogunate army? I ordered a strict inventory of supplies before I came here, how could there not be enough? Whose pocket did it go into?"

"I don't know. Anyway, it's not our pocket. In fact, Master Jiujo, it was like this before. I don't know when it started. The brothers always reported twice as much as they could, so that they could get just enough food. But some time ago, when the turmoil on Kaigi Island just started, you came over and resolutely refused to let us report more. Isn't that..."

The quartermaster didn't finish his words and shut up at the right time.

Kujo Masahiro sat in the main seat and gasped for breath.

It turns out that it’s not that someone in the military was greedy, but that the full amount was never distributed!

Those insects!

Then the relationship became his fault?

When Kujo Masahiro thought of this, his face was filled with surprise.

He did not allow false reporting, which led to food shortage. Because of the shortage of food, the quartermaster occupied the land and seized food, which led to the subsequent development?

He was doing things in a pragmatic way, so how could it be a mistake?

"Look, you see, just like I said, even putting a pig or a dog there would be better than it is now! Well, you are no exception."

The front-line general on the side mocked at the right time.

"..."

Kujo Masahiro was silent. He waved his hand and said, "Come here, take him to the cell first and try him another day."

"So what do you think now?"

"Investigate! Investigate thoroughly!" There was suppressed anger in Kujo Masahiro's tone.

"Come on, if we really investigate this thoroughly, your father and his colleagues might all have to go to jail. With your small stature, who knows who will be the one investigating whom. Oh, I almost forgot, you are the eldest son of the Kujo family, so you will definitely be safe. At most you will just be scolded a few times."

Kujo Masahiro began to frown and looked at him suspiciously.