As the ship moved further and further away from the port, he turned his gaze to the empty sea.
"I wonder when a ship from the Yan Kingdom will arrive here..."
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Meanwhile, in Hisa Prefecture.
Unlike the flat plains of Akino, Hisa Prefecture is mountainous, and the once-famous Akino Deer Park is located here.
The reason it was once so famous is because Akino Deer Park has fallen into disrepair in recent years.
The Hisha deer, unlike deer elsewhere in Japan, is small in size, peaceful in nature, and most affectionate towards humans.
They often came down from the mountains and even wandered into the areas inhabited by the Fusang people, so the Fusang people of Feishe captured and kept these deer.
Venison is edible, and raising them in captivity to reproduce generation after generation is a way to obtain a stable source of meat.
Over time, the Autumn Deer Park was built on this site.
The reason for their defeat was that Japan had been expanding its military in recent years, resulting in more people joining the army and fewer people engaging in professions such as agriculture, commerce, and trade.
There are fertile fields but no one to cultivate them, while more and more soldiers need to eat.
The peaceful and friendly scarlet deer suffered the consequences. While they wouldn't become food for ordinary soldiers, the officers were entitled to eat them.
The deer in the deer park were slaughtered faster than they could reproduce, and thus the park gradually declined.
Fortunately, there were still wild deer in the mountains. These clumsy creatures were quite peculiar; they were actually attracted by the sound of the horn.
Many years ago, the Japanese people used to blow horns in the autumn to attract deer herds down from the mountains so they could capture them in large numbers.
There's a reason why autumn was chosen.
For deer to survive the harsh winter, they must eat as much as possible to become strong and healthy before winter arrives.
Therefore, deer are at their fattest and most delicious in autumn. Although the meat is tough, deer caught at this time of year have firm meat that is also full of juice, making them a delicacy.
It is for this reason that Akino Deer Park got its name.
But times change too fast. Whether it's the deer in the deer sheds in the autumn fields or the wild deer in the mountains, they have all become increasingly rare over time.
Even the loudest horn call at this moment couldn't attract a single wild deer to run down from the mountain.
Arrows flew, guns roared, and smoke filled the air, as if draping the mountains in a thin layer of mist.
Amidst the billowing smoke, a fierce battle was raging.
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