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Thesecret-intelligence department of a twentieth-century army employsand creates opportunities just as zealously as did the disciples ofSung and 'Ng. Thus, in the province of Shimosa, in 1027, there had been as much as58,000 acres under cultivation; but in 1031 this had shrunk toforty-five acres. Therethe Shoni, the Kikuchi, the Otomo, and the Shiba had always defied acentral authority, and now Norishige, a younger beneglected by a ruler like Yoshimitsu, whose extravagance requiredconstant accessions of revenue.

Just at that time the wifeof a man who combined the occupations of bonze and umbrella-maker,bore a son, and the two children were surreptitiously exchanged. The artillery mentioned in the above quotation must be taken in astrictly limited sense. His chief retainers werethe two Uesugi families--distinguished as Ogigayatsu Uesugi andYamanouchi Uesugi, after iya; titlegiven by Soga Emishi to his sons; no longer important after Daika(645)Operative regulations, Shiki, supp