Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 210 Arguing at the Military Feast Banquet
The Boqi people invaded Jipu City, and there was nothing left in the places they passed. All the valuable and worthless things were emptied, and the women were dragged into the house and raped by several people in turn. "Following a thief" is punishable by death.

Originally, torches were not used in daytime siege battles, and I don’t know who kicked over the stove in the house and ignited the house during the looting, which actually set fire to Jipu City in broad daylight. The smoke can be seen even in Daping Castle on the other side of Uomiyama Castle.

You must know that even if it is as strong as a fish-seeing mountain city, there was no fire before and after the siege. What happened on the other side of the mountain?It made Asano Nagamasa and other daimyos extremely curious.

That night, under the leadership of Takayama Ukon, the Hoki people who "returned with a full load" returned to the main camp of Dahei Castle, reported their meritorious service to Asano Nagamasa and inspected their heads.

"Reporting to the general, I won the victory in the Raid of Minura City and returned, and won 423 heads. Please inspect it." As the captain of the backup team, Ukon Takayama reported to Nagamasa Asano.

Asano Nagamasa, who didn't know the specific situation, immediately gave the three people a high evaluation, "Everyone is so powerful in the siege of Minpu City. I have heard of it even in Dahei Castle. You have worked hard. I have already done so for your meritorious deeds." Make a note, I will report to Zuoweimen Dudian for you, go down and rest."

Hearing Chen Nuo of Nagamasa Asano, all three of them said with great joy, "Thank you, Your Highness." Everyone entered into the atmosphere of the dinner party very happily.

That's right, in order to celebrate the capture of the next two castles in one day, Asano Nagamasa specially placed beer wine in Ohira Castle to celebrate Hosokawa Tadako and Takayama Ukon and others. Due to the Hideya's alcohol prohibition, everyone can only use tea instead of wine. With pickled radish, mustard and dried fish tout each other.

What if there is no singer and dance music?Naturally, the warriors performed wrestling and art of war in the yard to add to the fun, and the atmosphere was considered lively for a while.

But just at this point, Junmu Fukimura Joji (commander Nobuno, Zhimou, and political 70 fierce man) walked into the hall with a heavy face and walked into the hall with two heads, and whispered a few words in Asano Nagamasa's ear.

There were no singers in the hall to add to the fun, so it was easy to be noticed by others. Here, Kimura Dingji carried two heads into the store.

Tadake Hosokawa, who was sitting in the front seat, had already seen the problem from the heads. He stared straight at the two heads. After a closer look, one looked like a woman, and the other looked like a child!

"Kill the good and take the credit!"

This word flashed in Hosokawa Tadake's mind. Born in the late Warring States period, Hosokawa Tadake had only heard this word from his fathers before. After all, he had served under the Oda family since he was sensible.

The Oda family strictly forbids killing good deeds. Firstly, the obtained head cannot cause real damage to the enemy's combat effectiveness, and the newly conquered territory is the new territory of the lord, and the people on it are also the lord's. People, if you kill the people, who will work for the lord?

Can not help but strictly prohibit the killing of good deeds, Oda Nobunaga also divided the death penalty for samurai who killed good deeds, they would be directly stabbed to death on wooden stakes for public display.

In fact, during the same period, many daimyos, including the Takeda family, were carrying out reforms, and it is extremely rare to kill good people and pretend to be meritorious. It is no wonder that Tadakashi Hosokawa has not seen such a situation.

Yasuyuki Matsui, who was sitting behind Tadake Hosokawa, also clearly saw the abnormality of the head, and looked at Ukon Takayama and the others with a solemn expression.

How do they do this? It’s rough, it’s fine to kill someone who is good, at least you can cheat with the head of an adult man, even if you spend a little money to buy it from bandits, it doesn’t make you shiver after spending money. The heads of children and women were taken out?Are you really blind?

Sure enough, after personally confirming the abnormality of the head, Asano Nagamasa looked solemn, the blood vessels on his head burst out, and he slapped the table heavily with his fist.

There was a loud sound of "touch", which made the outsiders not understand the situation, and the samurai who was performing jumped. Fortunately, a superior samurai came and led them away, and soon only Asano Nagamasa's retainers and the others were left in the hall. A daimyo and the family elders they brought. ,

Asano Nagamasa is considered a smart person, knowing that this matter was leaked.Not only did the three of them have problems, but he also lost face.

Well, now they are all on their own, and they can speak openly and honestly. Asano Nagamasa directly signaled Kimura Joji to ask, "Doctor Ukon, you are the captain of the equipment, do you want to explain these problems of the leaders?"

After finishing speaking, he took the two heads and walked down. The daimyo along the way approached and found that it was the head, and a thought popped up in their minds, "Hey? Killing the good and pretending to be meritorious? Are these three people pretending to be muddy?"

Everyone's eyes followed Kimura Joji to the three of them. Compared with Nanjo Motosuke's panic, Yamada Nobushige and Takayama Ukon were much calmer.

Takayama Ukon drew the sign of the cross on himself as a sign of condolences before saying, "I don't understand what your lord means."

Kimura Joji was also extremely angry when he saw Takayama Youkon, and he simply said openly, "Since my lord doesn't understand, let me make it clear. One of these two heads belongs to a woman, and the other belongs to a child under 15 years old. My lord Is it a problem to mix these two heads into the harvest?"

On the side of Takayama Ukin, Inaba 2 Ishida Kichiji tried to ease the atmosphere and said, "It may be that Dr. Ukin's subordinates got in when sorting out the heads. It is also possible that there are two mistakes in hundreds of heads."

Not to mention that the samurai in charge of sorting out the heads are all veterans. It is almost impossible to report the heads of women and children as gains. Even if there are, there are two problems in 432. The samurai of the Takayama family can also cure a dereliction of duty crime.

Yoshiji Tanaka's meaning is very simple, everyone is a daimyo under the account of the Oda family, there is no need to make this embarrassing, the problem of one or two heads will be over.

Who knows that Kimura Joji directly denied his and muddy words and said, "Of the 432 heads, 312 were adult men after inspection, including 55 of the elderly, 97 of women, and 14 of children. This is the head inspection error Is it a problem? As far as this leader, I, Kimura Joji, dare not investigate and report it."

Good guy, the crime committed by a gang is still a big case. If the heads of the elderly are included, 2/5 of them are the heads of gangsters.

After hearing this data, even Tanaka Yoshiji, who wanted to have sex with him, shut his mouth, shook his head and looked at Takayama Ukon with an expression of "you are asking for more blessings."

Unexpectedly, Takayama Ukon was not panicked, he drank a cup of tea slowly and said, "Is there any problem, Kimuraden?"

Kimura Joji was completely annoyed by Takayama Ukon's indifferent attitude, "What's the matter? Master Takayama doesn't know the meaning of this, do you want me to explain it more clearly? My lord, you are 'killing the good and pretending to be meritorious'!"

"Don't put on your hats, Kimura Joji." Takayama Ukon did not answer, and Yamada Nobushige, who was sitting beside him, jumped up and pointed at Kimura Choji and shouted, "Every one of our heads was captured on the battlefield." Yes, how could it be possible to take credit for killing the enemy?"

Kimura Joji turned his attention to Yamada Nobushige and said angrily and amusedly, "Okay, you said that your heads were all captured on the battlefield, and I will forget about the old man's head, after all, it is reasonable to say that there are veterans in small towns in the countryside. , but what happened to the heads of so many women and young children?"

Faced with Kimura Sadaji's aggressive attitude, Yamada Nobushige was a little dumbfounded. Seeing that his "ally" was a little prepared to refute and was speechless, Takayama Ukon also stood up and faced Kimura Choji and said
"Sanuki, in a remote place, it's strange that the fields are farmed by women. These healthy women who have been farming all the year round are stronger than ordinary farmers and soldiers. They took up arms to resist. Is it any problem for me to kill them? Why wasn't it captured?"

"Okay, so what happened to the child's head?" Kimura Joji continued to ask when he saw that Takayama Ukon's mouth was stiff.

Takayama Ukon was asked about this, sighed and said, "Children from Changzong's department forced teenagers to enlist in the army, and all those over the age of 11 joined the army. Even though these children were young, the siege battle was chaotic at that time. It is really unclear. Many are still in the army." They were all beheaded by mistake, but I am here to make a promise, not a single head was beheaded by mistake, all of them were beheaded in Jipu City, if you don’t believe me, you can ask Nanjo Hokishou.”

Takayama Ukon knew that Nobushige Yamada had lost credibility with Joji Kimura, so he was going to pull another grasshopper on the rope.

Hearing Takayama Ukon mentioning himself, completely confused about the situation, Nanjo Motosuke, who was mixed up in the Minura Battle, hesitantly agreed, "It should, maybe, it might be like this."

"Hokimori, you can't answer like this, please give an affirmative answer." Asano Nagamasa, who was sitting in the upper seat, said to Nanjo Motosuke.

In fact, Nagamasa Asano is the one who is most concerned about the real situation. At this time, he is suffering more than Ukon Takayama. It is not easy for him to lead troops into battle for the first time as a general.

If Ukon Takayama really did it, and he didn't find out and was reported to the higher authorities, he wouldn't be able to get away with a crime of not being investigated, and he might have to be punished along with them.

If what they said was true, but he punished them, he couldn't escape even if he was unfairly rewarded and punished. If he was sued by two people, he would not be able to eat, so it's no wonder that he desperately wanted to get rid of the third person present. The truth from daimyo's mouth.

Facing the eyes of the audience, Nanjo Motosuke, who became the focus, swallowed his saliva, and looked at the two people around him. He knew that he was also a person who had boarded a pirate ship, and his subordinates also had the situation of killing good men and taking meritorious deeds. in the same boat as them.

After a great ideological struggle, under the urging of Kimura Joji several times, Nanjo Motonsuke finally said unhurriedly, "It is indeed the case. Our army launched an offensive against our army after being poisoned. When our army entered the city, many women fought with our army with pitchforks and plows. Our army paid some casualties for this. They are not ordinary people, they are rioters what!"

Hearing Nanjo Motosuke's words, Takayama Ukon and Yamada Nobushige, whose hearts were in their throats, finally let go. The secretion of adrenaline made them sweat coldly without knowing it.

After Nanjo Motosuke endorsed the two, Yamada Nobushige walked out of the desk first, and came to Kimura Singji, almost cheek to cheek.Nose to nose, he said, "Did you hear that, Mr. Kimura, these people are not common people, they are chaos~people!, chaos people! Chaos people".

Nobushige Yamada repeated the rebellion three times, just to characterize the matter. Naturally, there is no such thing as killing good deeds for the rebellion, and it is acceptable to include them in the first level.

But Joji Kimura, who had long believed that there was something wrong with the two of them, pushed Yamada Nobushige away, snorted coldly, turned to Nagamasa Asano and said, "What does His Highness Asano think?"

Asano Nagamasa was also caught in a dilemma. His rationality told him that this was killing the good and taking the credit, but he didn't dare to characterize it lightly. He hoped that Kimura Joji, as the head of the investigation, would admit it. Who knew that he would not accept this at all. stubble.

In desperation, Asano Nagamasa could only say, "Since there are different opinions on this matter, it is not weak to temporarily remove the heads of women and children, and use 312 head-level military merits. As for the remaining 111, we will make a decision after His Royal Highness comes down." .”

This is a compromise method, who knows that it will not be good for both sides.

Takayama Ukon and Yamada Nobushige pretended to object, "These are all our gains, how can we deny the merits of our samurai with a few conjectures by the sycophant?"

Kimura Joji said without giving any face, "I will not sign and pledge on this military loyalty certificate. If your lord insists on going your own way, you can sign and pledge on it alone." "Apologize, I still have something to deal with , take a step first."

"Apologize, I still have things to deal with, so let's take a step first." After finishing speaking, Kimura Dingji turned and left without looking back.
　General update, this one has a little change

　　
　
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