On the morning of the weekend, Masao Ishihara walked to the study and saw Hideki Ishihara sitting on the stairs. Seeing the little guy's face full of frustration, he knew that the other party must have been "cooked".

Masao Ishihara turned around and sat next to his son and said, "You were punished by your mother again? What did she punish you this time?"

Ishihara Hideki said in a unique voice of the young child: "Mom has punished me for not eating snacks for a week."

Masao Ishihara asked slowly, "What's the reason for this time?"

Hideki Ishihara answered truthfully: "I didn't read the book as required by my mother. I really want to go back to ancient times. In that case, I don't need to read."

Masao Ishihara did not intend to explain the truth to his son, but said earnestly: "The purpose of reading is to make yourself smarter and realize the enlightenment of your mind as soon as possible.

If a person is not enlightened, he will not only be easily deceived by others, but also there is no big difference between him and other animals.

In slave society, slaves are also humans, but why are they regarded by slave owners and ruling classes as two-legged sheep or talking animals?

That is, at that time, the slaves or civilians were a group of brainless existences in the minds of the ruling class. Are they born stupid?

Of course not. Because the privilege of studying is not something that the non-ruling class can obtain. They have been confined to one place for almost their entire lives and know nothing about the outside world.

Even if it develops from slave society to feudal society, it is not good. A family of five, for example, like our family. With your father, me, your mother, your brother and sister, plus you, it will take at least fifteen acres of land to ensure the food and clothing of our family.

There is a major premise for this: we are self-cultivated farmers, not tenants. Even so, most families cannot do it at all.

As for studying, our family has to develop some side jobs, such as raising chickens and ducks, raising pigs, etc. Your mother does handmade arts, weaving straw sandals, weaving hats, weaving cloth... to let your brother study.

When you come to you, the possibility of studying has become very small. This has to be without war and the lord is light in taxes and taxes. Otherwise, the situation will not be like this."

Ishihara Hideki blinked and asked, "What would that look like?"

Masao Ishihara said straightforwardly: "It would be good if the whole family cannot starve to death. Even in the peaceful era of feudal society, there are still thousands of families who cannot eat enough.

Now, living in Karuizawa, you won’t feel that there is nothing wrong with it. If it were in the past, it would be really bad. Karuizawa is a remote place, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is a mountainous area.

The land here is not only barren, but also mostly mountainous. Once we encounter a disagreement, it will be even more difficult for our family of five to survive.

Your sister Nao may be sold by me at your age. In order not to let people traders, she used to ask people to make money in the middle, and she would directly take it to Tokyo, which was the former Edo and sold it for money.

If you encounter a worse situation, whether you can survive is a big problem. Girls can still be raised until they are sold after they are old, while boys are quite likely to be thrown into the fields to make fertilizer.”

Ishihara Hideki was frightened and stared at him with wide eyes and said, "Dad, what you said is so scary."

Masao Ishihara didn't joke at all: "It's not that my father said it was scary, but it was like this in the past. It's not true that having more sons in many remote places in Japan is simply out of place.

Not only can a boy become a strong laborer in the family, but he may also be a burden. If a boy really wants to become a strong laborer in the family, he must at least grow to a teenager.

When he was a few years old, even if he was asked to do his job, he could have his daughter replaced him. When his son grew up to his early 10 years old, he had to marry him.

By then, not only will you need to exhaust your wealth, but you will also have a high possibility of borrowing usury. This means you won’t have money to leave for your children to study or something.

Girls can still sell money, but boys have no one to ask for it. Besides, you know that since ancient times, Japan has been a country with poor resources, many people and few land, many mountains, many hills, few plains and many disasters.”

Hideki Ishihara proposed one of his own ideas and said: "Why do we have to be farmers? Can't we be merchants in the past like we are now? We can still be a merchant who makes wine."

Masao Ishihara raised his right hand, smiled and stroked his little head and said, "Your idea is very good. However, I would rather be a self-cultivated farmer in feudal society than a wine-making merchant.

At least, when you are a self-cultivated farmer in peacetime, you can still have enough food, and your wife and children can get a fuck. As for being a brewing merchant, it may not be necessary. If you make a private wine, you will be beheaded.

Legal winemaking will be subject to heavy taxes. In addition, in the past, merchants had a lower status than farmers, slightly higher than prostitutes and actors.

Even a rich businessman is just a bag of money in the mind of the lord. As long as the lord needs money, there will always be various ways to blackmail and blackmail.

The result of not giving is often that he randomly fabricates a crime to deal with. At the least, his property is confiscated, and at the worst, his family will be destroyed. In addition, there are warriors who have lost their lords, that is, ronin.

These people don’t treat civilians as human beings at all. They often test their swords with living people in broad daylight, just pull out the sword that is not on their waists to chop people.

At night, some of them would climb over the wall and enter the merchant's homes to steal, rob, or even kill and rob.

Why did some businessmen take down samurai as adopted sons or hire lower-level samurai as bodyguards in the past? It was all for the sake of wealth and life."

Ishihara Hideki said in a bold tone: "I can be a samurai! Go to the battlefield to make contributions."

Seeing that he said such childish words, Masao Ishihara laughed, and said, "In the past, you couldn't be a samurai just by wanting to be a samurai.

First of all, your dad, I have to be a warrior first. If I were a farmer, you would be a farmer. If I were a businessman, you would still be a businessman.

Of course, you can also spend money to buy the title of a samurai, but you have to know that you must first have this money. Even if you become a samurai, you are still a lower-level samurai.
Chapter completed!