Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 106 The Xiu family's reward
Originally, the Yuxi family had contributed a lot to Jianyue, so they should have been granted titles according to the military loyalty certificate, and the warriors who joined the army in the war would also be rewarded with knowledge and deeds, after all, they had indeed won battles for the Xiu family.

In the end, the reward that the Yuxi family deserved was used by the Xiu family to offset Sakuma's life. This was all done by your patriarch himself, and has nothing to do with the soldiers below. Therefore, the Xiu family must honor the meritorious service according to the family's military loyalty status. The officers and men were rewarded.

At the beginning of the period, the Hideo family was still struggling to dig out which land to use to secure the heroes. As a result, Hideyoshi gave him a pillow as if he was asleep, and added the two counties of Zuoyao and Ako to him. The Hideo family's arrangement for the daimyo in the collar is as follows:

Hideka transferred 4000 koku from Mizukami Fudo to Harima Kamizuki Castle for 8000 koku.

The Takayama Clan added 3000 shi to succeed the Akikami Jiujia Fudu City stronghold. The total stone height was 4600 shi.

Oka Toshikatsu won the 1200 koku entitlement of Kunikatsu Yamajo, and the 3.1 koku of Misaku Takada Castle, becoming the third person on the genealogy behind Ukita Kane and Hanafo Masayuki.

Akashi Jingqin won the entrustment of 600 koku from Bingo and Nagi Castle under his escrow, and the Xiu family also officially called the western defense line to the Akashi family.

Maeda Keiji, who bravely killed 21 enemies in this battle, was also awarded 500 shi, and the total stone height reached 5000 shi. Directly governed Beizhong and became independent, and was promoted to the captain of Qinglong Beizhong.

Shonai Isshin and Ikaruga Heiji, who had captured Sakuma Shengmasa and Shibata Katsumasa, could have received Sengoku Zengoku, but since Sakuma and the others have become the Hide family's comrades, it would be inappropriate to publicly publicize their achievements .

Therefore, the two were awarded 800 shi respectively, and were promoted to the standing team captain.The Xiu family personally rewarded the two with a wild horse worth a hundred dollars as a token of appeasement.

In addition, the more than 1.3 shi where Hideyoshi rewarded the generals and Qiben Beizhong for meritorious service were all arranged by Hideyoshi in the two counties of Zuoyong and Ako.

After the war, Xiujia prepared to supplement and adjust his reserve team.The first is to replenish the two standing teams. As Qinglongbei and Suzakubei, who fought the hardest in Jianyue, more than 200 people were killed in battle, and more than 150 people were seriously injured. The total reduction of the two reserve teams exceeded 1/5.

The most important thing for Xiujia now is to use this half year to replenish the standing team, and expand the number to 3000, complementing two full reserve teams of 1500 people.

In addition, the Xiu family's iron cannons also suffered heavy losses in Jianyue, and the system of the reserve team was basically reduced. Over 230 iron cannons were left behind in the war.

Fortunately, the Xiu family captured 850 iron cannons in Jianyue and received rewards from Beizhizhuang. In addition, the iron cannons he still has are just enough to make a 1000-person all-iron cannon group. The Xiu family split it up It is two iron artillery battalions, which are incorporated into the standing independent and reserve teams.

The Xiu family also took the remaining hundred iron cannons back to the banner for use.

Nearly 4000 collars were captured and rewarded in the Battle of Jianyue, and Hideka handed them all over to Akashi Quanto, ordering him to select good quality collars for the standing expansion.

Eliminate the poorer ones in the regular stock, and distribute them together with the poorer ones this time to the management of the county divisions of the Xiu family's directly-administered armies, and use them as military loans.

It's just that after the sword is seized and the hilt is finished, there will inevitably be surplus. Akashi Quandeng asked for instructions to recast the old sword and spear that was replaced, which was approved by the Xiu family.

The Xiu family also regards this as a formal formula. The best things are first equipped with the standard equipment and the standing equipment. After the standing equipment is eliminated, it will be handed over to the arsenal of each county as the military storage of the directly-administered army. If there is any surplus equipment, it will be returned to the military equipment for recasting.

Xiujia encouraged the independent nobles in the territory to reorganize and train the troops according to the Ukita military system.

But until this time, only the Kurashiki members of Ukita’s commentator, the Yagami members of Kamei Tomoko, and the Atago members of Yoshioka Takakatsu have completely adapted according to the requirements of the military system. The Matsuyama congregation and the Takada congregation of Oka Toshikatsu only adapted some of the leaders.

For these aristocratic families, they did not have so much enthusiasm for the reform of the military system at this time. After all, the Xiu family has adjusted its territory twice since it took the throne for 3 years, and Hidean Togawa was directly adjusted continuously.

Under the circumstances that there are still powerful families who choose not to change, it is indeed a thankless task to spend time on making major changes to the military system in the territory at this time.

However, it is a fact that the strength of the reorganized reserve team has improved, and the treatment of the two is also very different. Therefore, it is necessary to classify the various reserve teams in the territory. Reserves composed of soldiers are classified as Reserve A;

All the reserve teams prepared by highly disciplined semi-production "fubing" trained under the new military training under the Ukita military system are marked as the second-class reserve team;

新编备队人数占到1/3以上（500人），2/3为豪族备队编入的为丙种备队；
The new-style troops only account for less than 1/3 (500 people) of the reserve force, all of which are small-scale reserve forces, or known as the Chinese people.

The reserve captains and battalion generals of the above three reserve teams, A, B, and C, all need to be appointed by Ukita Hideka to be used as Ukita's main force.

The Ding Zhongbei team composed of the people of the country is still under the command of each powerful family. Before the battle, the city preparation team is established according to the number of people, and it is used for auxiliary tasks such as defense.

--------------

While Hideyoshi was disposing of things in the territory and reorganizing the standing equipment, Hideyoshi, who was far away in Kyoto, was meeting an unexpected visitor.

It turned out that with the help of Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi defeated Shibata Katsuie with the power to almost dominate the world, and the successors of his territory, Ishida Mitsunari and Masuda Changsheng were ordered to go to Echigo Echigo to test the attitude of the Uesugi family.

At this time, Uesugi Kagekatsu was facing the rebellion of Shinbata and was devastated. After the persuasion of Naoe Kenxu and Ishida Mitsunari, he finally decided to form an alliance with Hashiba Hideyoshi.Uesugi Jingkatsu sent his adopted son, Kamechiyo, the son of Masashigege Kamijo, to Kyoto.

Naoe Kenxu, formerly known as Higuchi Yoroku, grew up with Uesugi Keikatsu as a close congregation of Uesugi Keikatsu since childhood, and the two have a deep relationship.

In the tenth year of Tianzheng (1582), Jingsheng's confidant Naoe Nobutsuna was killed by Mori Hidehiro due to a quarrel. In order to prevent the Naoe family from cutting off, and at the same time to improve his family status and identity, Jingsheng ordered to continue to marry The Naoe family, married his cousin Achuan (the daughter of Naoe Ketsuna, and the wife of Nobuna), inherited the Naoe family, officially changed his name to Naoe Kanetsugu, and became the lord of Itaka Castle.

After that, he co-governed with Kano Hideji, assisted Jingsheng in governing Echigo, and exerted his talents in internal affairs and military affairs, and finally became Uesugi's writer. Become the number one escort in the world.

Since Osaka has not yet been built, and Nijo Castle was transferred to Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Hideyoshi temporarily lived in Sakamoto Castle of his adopted son Oda Hidekatsu. On this day, the lives of Naoe Kensuke and Hashiba Hideyoshi had intercourse.

As early as on the way from Mount Kasuga to Luo, Naoe Kensuke was asking Ishida Mitsunari about the adult's preferences. During the exchange, the two gradually became sympathetic to each other and became friends.

According to Ishida Mitsunari, Hideyoshi is the person who can best inherit the will of Nobunaga. He is a corporal who is respectful and virtuous, without the slightest arrogance of a superior.

At the same time, Hideyoshi also has a super high personality charm, even Ukido, who owns 70 stones, surrendered to Hideyoshi's rule.

Ishida San became Naoe Kensuke's image of a capable minister who governed the world, which made Naoe Kensuke even more curious about this "hero" who unified Kinai.

But when he saw Hideyoshi in Sakamoto Castle, he looked like an extremely shrunken old man.

Hideyoshi had already listened to Ishida Mitsunari's introduction in advance, and he was also very interested in this young man named Naoe Kenxu. When he first met, he asked, "I heard that the reason why Takeda Katsuyori retired was because you brought 4 taels. gold?"

"Yes, that's true." After saluting to Hideyoshi, the person sitting at the bottom didn't wait for Hideyoshi's instruction to let him flatten, so he could only continue to salute.

"But I remember that from the last generation of your Uesugi family, Kenshin, you hated buying people's hearts with money? He is the one who said that the loyalty of a samurai cannot be measured by money? What are you now?"

After hearing this, Naoe Kenxu, who was lying on the ground in the hall, began to sweat on the temples beside his ears, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little awkward.

After a while, the monkey got a little impatient, and began to hit the ground with its fan, making a "dong dong dong" sound. Following these rhythmic sounds, Naoe Kanetsugu finally spoke.

"This move is all to save the people of Echigo from suffering. Lord Kenshin also said: If you can persuade Takeda to return and save the people of Echigo if you don't fight a useless war, even a hundred thousand gold is still worth it."

Naoe Kanetsugu used a Japanese homonym here. He described Uesugi Kenshin's common saying "do not fight an unjust war" as "a war that is not very beneficial" to increase the rationality of his point of view. Unlike Kyoto, Hashiba Hideyoshi did not find out.

(However, since the accent of Echigo Yi and Yi is similar, why do later generations think that what Kenshin said must be "yi" instead of "yi"?)
Hideyoshi nodded upon hearing this, and asked Naoe Kanatsugu to raise his head, and it turned out to be a handsome young man.

Hideyoshi continued to ask, "Are you really willing to sacrifice your life for Echigo?"

"When doing things, you will look forward and backward, and you will only be unable to protect what you love. You will see death as your home, and everything can be overcome. Everyone in Uesugi has this mentality. Don't mention me, any retainer is willing to risk his life for it. More and more for peace.”

Naoe Kanesu's words deeply touched Hideyoshi's heart, which made Hideyoshi think highly of Echigo's samurai and no longer dared to belittle him. In the end, Hideyoshi accepted Uesugi Kagekatsu's alliance and promised to help him calm down The Xinbatian Rebellion.

I don’t know that Hideyoshi still remembers what he said with Narumasa Sasa in Toyama Castle. At this time, Hideyoshi openly supported Jingkatsu Uesugi, which is tantamount to betraying Naruma Sasa completely. Maybe this is the reason why Naruma Sasa betrayed Hideyoshi later. Bar.

(End of this chapter)