Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 122 Sanuki Evaluation and Takamatsu Fortification

The Xiu family continued to give instructions in the hall, "Although Hesheng Castle is good, it is still some distance away from Takamatsu Town. I plan to build a castle in Takamatsu as the ruling center of my family in Sanuki. After Takamatsu is completed, Tianwu Castle will be abolished in time.

"I think Mine Mountain not far from the south side of Takamatsu Port Town is very good. Although the mountain is high, it is adjacent to the Port Town, so you can overlook the entire harbor. It controls the Seto Inland Seaway with Okayama, one south and one north, and you can build a city here .”

"Gaohu, I will leave the construction of Takamatsu to you. You also participated in the battles of Marugame Castle and Tianwu Castle. If you think about it, let's use Takamatsu as a model to build a strong city that can resist cannon attacks. .”

In history, Todo Takatora learned the art of building castles from Hashiba Hidecho, and his first independently designed castle was Yukoyama Castle in Tajima.

Hashiba Hideaga can be said to be the teacher of Fujido Takatora's life, which is why Gaohu sincerely surrendered to Hidecho after changing 4 lords in a row, even after Hidecho's death, he was willing to die for him, but was stopped by Hideyoshi and Hideho .

Fujido Takahu is good at using the terrain to build the city strong and save money and food. After the fall of Youzishan City, even Xiuchang is full of praise.

In this life, Todo Takatora was loaned to Hideyoshi by Hideyoshi for more than a year and a half, and most of the time was also sent by Hideyoshi's subordinates to study under Hidecho's command. Hideka also completed his ability value formally. Sometimes Hideo even wondered what if He didn't promise Hideyoshi back then, but kept Todo Takatora by his side, maybe he wouldn't have the achievements he has today.

"Your Highness? I didn't build a national city!" Fujido Takatora was a little surprised when he heard that Hideka arranged for him to build Takamatsu Castle. Although he had been under Hidecho Hashiba's camp, he had learned a certain amount of internal affairs skills and had some ideas about building a city, but After all, I haven't personally practiced it.

Now that Hideka directly entrusted him with the task of building the new "National Castle" of Sanuki Kingdom, this samurai, who was like a fish in water on the battlefield, was a little panicked.

"Building a new-style castle that can guard cannons is the first time in history. Everyone has little experience, and Kamei Tomoki will preside over the field registration work in Sanuki. He has also participated in two joint battles. He must have some ideas. , you can just exchange opinions and work together to submit a satisfactory answer."

"I entrust this matter to you, and it is also a test for you. The battle of Ruyi Mountain caused a huge loss of energy and equipment, so I only give you 800 shi. If you can complete the construction of Gaosong, Ruyi I will let the matter of the mountain go, and I will seal you up to 2 shi."

At this time, Takatora Fujido possessed 1.88 koku of Shigao in Tenjinyama Castle, and the 800 koku was awarded by Hideka Nian when Sanuki contributed a lot. The division method is simply impossible to obtain the seal.

The Xiu family thinks highly of Gao Hu and regards him as his right-hand man, so they support him a lot, and now his Shi Gao is the No. 1 among the new members.

If he really crosses the threshold of 2 shi, his stone height will be second only to Osafune Sadakin, and even surpass that of Akashi Jingqin. After passing away, Todo Takahubi will become the next generation of Ukita's family elder.

Seeing that Xiu's family valued her so much, Gao Hu was deeply moved.Although he had long followed the Xiu family and became his retainer.

But because he was directly airborne from Yuchai's house to Yuxi's house, and he landed at a stone height of 1.5 shi, his family had a lot of opinions on him, and he was eager to gain the approval of his retainers.

He secretly made up his mind to build Takamatsu Castle as the facade of the Uki family, to declare the martial arts of the Uki family, and to show his ability to the retainers and gain their approval.

"Please rest assured, my lord, I will definitely do my best for Gao Song's matter." Gao Hu pressed his head deeply on the floor, and expressed his sincere thanks to the Xiu family above the imperial steps.

Kamei Tomoki, who was at the back of the hall, also bowed to Xiu's family and said, "I take orders."

The Xiu family was very satisfied with Gao Hu's reaction, and raised their heads and continued to instruct their retainers, "After you have mastered the new collar, Kamei's followers will be responsible for the land inspection. You only need to assist from the side. After the land inspection They will tell you the number of acres and the location of the field.”

"There are more important things for you, that is, to build the city. The construction of Takamatsu requires manpower and material resources. In Sanuki, the rich families and retainers with the same original collar will participate in the construction every 1 stones; One person out of two hundred shi will participate in the construction, and after the land inspection is completed, one person will be out of every 1 shi to participate in the construction."

The powerful family members of Sanuki in the palace felt uncomfortable when they first heard about the request for building a castle. After all, the request for building a castle is an opportunity for one of the few warlords to consume the strength of their retainers and establish their own prestige.

In the history of the history of building a city, please do not make a special article, requiring retainers to pay both money and people, and even give a very strict deadline. If it cannot be completed, it will be punished and changed.

After each request, the strength of the retainers has been greatly consumed, so the retainers are very disgusted with this kind of project that hurts themselves. When the land was exempted before the land inspection, the retainers were all stunned, and there was a noisy discussion in the evaluation room.

Sanuki received a total of 13.2 shi. Even if it was unavoidable, the entire Sanuki country only produced 1320 people. How many people will build the city until the year of the monkey?What is the difference between this level of spectrum please and not spectrum please.

Even the new retainers in the palace, such as Shihe Depository and others, have a question mark in their minds, "Does this baby know how to be a big name?"

The Xiu family ignored their doubts and slapped the ground with their folding fan. Zhuang Zhiqing behind him said "Quiet~" again in a crane voice. When the calm in the hall returned, the Xiu family continued to throw heavy bombs.

"For this invitation, my Yuxi family will be responsible for the food of the peasants. You don't need to prepare your own. The participating peasants can also receive a reward of 10 coins per month. In contrast, this invitation will no longer reduce or exempt farmers. Taxes, each family will arrange for wealthy laborers with many children to participate this year."

"This matter is not in a hurry, and the construction of Takamatsu is not in a hurry. There is no need to delay the farming season. Tianzheng's construction was completed 14 years ago."

"It's just that the conditions are so generous. The husbands given by each family must be wealthy people with many brothers in the family. At the same time, they must be strong and strong. If someone still sends a weak person, I will punish them severely."

The Xiu family's arrangement for Takamatsu was unexpected. After all, there was no daimyo in the Warring States Period who would say "it's okay, take your time, and it's okay to delay and rebuild" when asking for the castle building record.

Who would have thought that the Xiu family's request for this genealogy not only has no time limit (what kind of time limit is 2 years of repair), but also not only does not require retainers to pay for food and money, but Yuxi's family pays wages instead. Where can such a good thing be found?
At this time, let's look at the standard of one person per hundred stones requested by the Xiu family. No matter how you look at it, it seems to be a measure to fear that the retainers will send too much manpower and empty Yuxi's pockets.

They even thought that if the Yuxi family did not limit the number of people, they could even take the initiative to send more civilian husbands to participate. At that time, half of the rewards obtained by the civilian husbands would have to be handed over to the main family. Please come down and earn a thousand Eight hundred guan is not difficult.

Compared with these favorable conditions, the exporters are required to be able-bodied people, but it has become the right thing to do. Of course, each family will not get stuck on Yu Xiduo on this point and attract punishment.On the contrary, the request to have more brothers in the family is a bit puzzled, but the rich people don't care.

Hideya knew that at the end of the 13th year of Tensho (January 1586, 1), there would be a major earthquake rarely seen in Japanese history, and the entire Hida clan below Guiyun Castle Lord Uchijima Uchijima would be wiped out.

This city, which allowed the Uchijima clan to rule Hida for hundreds of years, is a treasure for them to survive in the troubled times of the Warring States Period.

But I didn't expect that this cliff fortress, which made Takeda Harunobu and Uesugi Kenshin helpless, disappeared into the long river of history together with his master in such a comical way.

Of course, it was impossible for the Xiu family to tell them that they knew there would be an earthquake in the future, so they used the excuse of "not delaying the farming season".

In fact, there is another reason for the Xiu family, which is to use the invitation of the city building genealogy to gather more than 1300 of the most elite and strong people in the entire Sanuki territory to train the third standing team. The able-bodied generation with many sons and brothers will participate in the genealogy.

The Hide family can take advantage of the gap between building the city and arrange for Takatora Todo to train them. After the building of the city of Takamatsu is over, they also have a certain emotional foundation for Yuki family in their hearts.

Do you still want to go back to these people?

no way!
Even bringing their family members would be asked to move to Takamatsu to live. The Hide family used the locals of Sanuki as soldiers to prepare a third standing dog, and planned to use them to stay in Takamatsu permanently to suppress the non-surrender forces in Sanuki.

"The Battle of Sanuki is over, but it's not over yet. 99 Yamashiro still hasn't surrendered. And this reassignment involves too much, so we need to temporarily reserve the team to contain it.

"Yizhijie and Shizong led the two standing teams to continue to stay in Tianwu City, Gao Hu led the Heqi equipment to stay in Takamatsu to deal with the construction of the city, the Kume and Shengbei people on the side of 99 Mountain City did not move, and the other reserves stayed in the past two days Disband one by one and transport them back to Honshu Island to disband for the New Year."

"All the soldiers participating in the exhibition will be rewarded with 2 pieces of dried fish, 300 cash, and 2 buckets of rice. Let's go back and celebrate the new year. Finally, I wish you all a happy new year."

"I wish the main hall a happy new year and prosperous martial arts!"

Following the congratulations of the retainers in the palace, the Xiu family got up and left the evaluation room, and Zhuang Zhiqing followed the Xiu family out of the Da Guang room with "Long Boat New Law Changguang".

The Xiu family left after dealing with Sanuki's enfeoffment, and the evaluation room resumed the hustle and bustle just now. Some congratulated each other and some discussed the new law. It was very lively.

The Xiu family did not attend the subsequent banquet. After all, he was in the hall, and the retainers could not let go of the celebration at the banquet. How the Kagawa family will deal with it has not yet been decided. disposal.

(End of this chapter)