Chapter 702 Spy Paradise
Due to the incident of the lord forcing the robbery of a civilian woman, Masarara wasted nearly a day near the Imali Bay of Matsuura, Kyushu Hiramaki Kyushu. After dealing with the robbery and inspecting the village where Seramoto Shincho was located, Masarara and others had to consider the issue of spending the night there tonight.
Stay in the town where I visited at noon. Let’s not talk about the commotion caused by the gathering of hundreds of cloaks and samurai teams who were standing by half a mile away. The accommodation conditions in town alone are not acceptable to Masaru.
There are generally two types of buildings used to entertain guests in the town, one is a long house and the other is a hotel.
The long house is equivalent to the later tube building. A narrow and long house is divided into many rooms (usual town residents live in one room). It is narrow and crowded. Once a room is quarreling, the whole long house will be heard by the entire long house. These long houses were originally the specific dormitories of the samurai footballers in Imali City. Later, Imali City was demolished by the slave team of the Luo family, and these long houses were left behind and became houses for local lords to live in.
In addition to long houses, hotels can also be accommodated by travelers. These hotels are completely different from those in later generations. Strictly speaking, they are not real hotels.
The local hotel is generally called "wooden rental houses". The specific situation inside is that a large bunk (which can be understood as the appearance of all beds being arranged side by side) can accommodate dozens of people. The shops are covered with wooden floors, a large fire pit in the middle, and all the beds are surrounded by beds. In order to accommodate more people, some shops also set up beds on the beds, which doubles the number of beds.
Stores with better environments have two floors, one floor is a large bunk shop, and the second floor is a single room. These single rooms are only a few square meters in size. They are for people who are a little money but are unwilling to sleep on a large bunk shop, but the price is much more expensive.
Moreover, these hotels generally only provide accommodation but not food. Therefore, travelers usually have to bring their own food when traveling. After arriving at these hotels, they cook fires and make meals by themselves. The hotels only provide cooking venues and a certain amount of firewood (if they are not enough, they have to pay for additional money). Everything is a self-service buffet.
In order to facilitate merchants and horse-riding warriors, hotels generally have stables and warehouses to store goods behind the hotel. However, the hotel does not provide storage services for general personal belongings, and are kept by tourists themselves. However, the environment of the hotel is really bad, especially the large bunk shops. Whether it is mattressed under the body as a mattress or covered with quilts, they are all straw mats. The two bunks are close together, and there is no place to store personal belongings. Many thieves specifically focus on the hotel and look for opportunities in the hotel.
A hotel that is better than a "wooden rental house" is called a "travel cage". The living environment is better than a "wooden rental house". It can provide food and drink.
In addition, some local places with hot springs will also build hotels near hot springs. This kind of hotel with hot springs is the most advanced hotel of this era and is called "money soup". Of course, staying in a hotel and taking a hot spring bath requires separate money.
Hot springs are also an important means to attract customers. Many travelers will go inside to take a hot bath when they are exhausted. They feel comfortable all over and their bones are soft. Who wants to go out? So they stayed in the hotel.
It is said that there are more than 6,000 hot springs in various places in Japan now, because the water in these hot springs always bubbling. Therefore, it was originally called "hell soup", which means a hot water pool that looks like hell. Later, people thought the name was not good and changed it to "money soup". Temples, shrines and daimyos in various places controlled a large number of hot springs as financial sources. There were many hot springs in the territory of the Luo family, Feihou Kingdom and Fenghou Kingdom. These hot springs were controlled by the Luo family's inner court. Some sulfur-rich hot springs were used as military facilities of the Luo family for the military power of the Luo family for recuperation. Others were set up as hotels, so that the Luo family and the Shen house were controlled as a means of increasing financial sources.
The above places often live in travelers from all over the country, which can be described as places where people hide and hide their dragons and hide their tigers. Many famous works will also choose to exchange information here, which is really a paradise for detailed works. Therefore, these places are also the places where the Luo Family Intelligence Pavilion focuses on monitoring. In order to strengthen the monitoring of these hotels, the Luo Family’s laws clearly stipulate that when leading people to establish hotels, they must register information at the local internal affairs cabinet.
In addition to being a paradise for information exchange written by various places, it is also a place where ronin gathers from all over the country. They can inquire about information from various places here and then decide on their next goals. There are even raps, pipa and blind monks gather here to compile what they see and hear into jokes or songs, forming a unique culture.
Of course, for the military power and officials of the Luo family, in addition to the accommodation mentioned above, there is also a place for them to stay. That is the Luo family's unique station, which is jointly controlled by the Interior and Intelligence Pavilion. The most basic function of these stations is to provide a place for supply and rest for the Luo family's army and officials in various places, and to be responsible for raising horses for transporting materials and conveying information. That is, the "horse transmission system".
However, since these inns were just starting and had not been laid in the area near Imali Bay, Masara was destined to be unable to rest at the inn tonight. In desperation, Masara had to stay in the local village for a night. However, when more than 400 cloaks and the joint samurai team of regular warriors appeared outside the village, it caused panic among the leaders of the village. In the end, it calmed down again after Cheng Fu Xinzhong and the two village heads came forward to comfort him.
After solving the accommodation problem, the next issue was the problem of eating. In fact, Zhengliang's guards also brought military rations with the army, but Zhengliang suddenly planned to have a meal with the villagers, so he soon tasted the pain.
Although the people in the Luo family's territory have greatly improved after their lives, an ordinary family of people can occasionally have a meal of rice (usually mixed grains are the staple food), a plate of dried radish, and a few vegetables, which is a sumptuous meal.
As for meat, there is no need to mention. Due to the influence of culture, ordinary people rarely eat meat in their families (unless they are from the untouchables. In this era, eating pork and other behaviors are considered to be blasphemy to God. Only the untouchables at the bottom of society who are responsible for killing cattle and pigs will eat these meats). It would be nice to have an occasional meal of fish or eggs.
Chapter completed!