Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 227
After Hideka finished dealing with the diplomatic issues, he needed to deal with the issues of Gotoyo and Tosa.

It is not accurate to say that Tosa is one place. In fact, Hideka wants to make preliminary arrangements for Shikoku.After all, the skills of the Xiu family are not here, and most of the big names in the Four Kingdoms Legion are no longer here, so they cannot form an effective rule over this place.

Although Hideyoshi has already handed over the distribution rights of the four countries to the Hideka, but the wartime has just ended at this moment, and the army has not yet counted the ranks of military merits, so the Hideka's division of the territories of the four countries is naturally impossible.

The fact that knowledge and practice cannot be divided does not mean that Hideyoshi cannot manage them. In fact, Mino, Owari, and Ise have been managed by Hideyoshi so far, and the real division has not yet been carried out.Tokugawa Ieyasu is preparing for the relocation and clean-up of the territory of the Mikawa Kingdom, waiting for Hideyoshi's handover.

There are two advantages to entrusting the new territory. One is that it can be inspected before the enfeoffment, so as to find out the real situation of this territory.

However, because of the poor number of civil servants and the operating system in old Japan, it is unrealistic to want the main family to take care of it after the war and reward it after the actual situation has been found out.

Because Japan rose early in the Warring States period and there were constant wars, large and small, the main family needed retainers to quickly grasp the letter and provide military service certificates for the main family. The model of first entrusting and then rewarding would delay the formation of combat power and was not suitable for the high-intensity wars during the Warring States period.

In addition, since ancient times, there has been a saying that rewards are not out of date. During the Warring States period, warriors put their heads on their belts to fight. Afterwards, can you guarantee that you will still be alive at that time?
Therefore, the most common practice at that time was to reward the retainers based on the situation they had mastered. In the follow-up, depending on the situation, the head family would send commissioners to pick up the land accompanied by the retainers. Move around in the subsequent rewards for meritorious service.

For example, after defeating enemy A and occupying A's territory today, a certain warrior was awarded 1000 shi for knowing and doing, but later found that the actual height of the stone was 1500 shi.

Then after defeating enemy B next time, a certain samurai can be awarded 1000 shi for his meritorious service, but since his real height after seizing land is already higher than his military service certificate, he will add 1000 shi to the new certificate of knowledge and action, but the actual Only a new territory of 500 shi was allocated to him.

However, due to the greed of human nature, after the main family’s control over some relatively strong retainers is reduced, the retainers will often conceal it in the knowledge report. Japan is a mountainous place. There are many villages in the mountainous area, and they will reclaim terraces for farming. But if the retainers deliberately conceal the existence of this village, it is impossible for the inspector sent by the master to go to the deep mountains and old forests to check you.

During Hashiba Hideyoshi’s period, the Kansai Maori family, the Shikoku Chogabu family, Kyushu Shimadzu, Kanto’s Utsunomiya, Satake, Tohoku’s Mogami, and Date all concealed the actual situation of the territory. The actual data needs about X1.3 for data correction.

(The special case of 8 shi in Tosa is too outrageous)

There seems to be something strange mixed into it. They are all big names with hundreds of thousands of stones. You only have 10,000+ in Utsunomiya, who gave you the courage to hide it!Sure enough, after being reported by others, Hideyoshi directly set an example, and Utsunomiya Hirotsuna changed to exile.

This was actually beating the Satake family, which was related to Utsunomiya. As expected, when Hitachi seized the district again three years later, Zhixing rose from 50 to 65 shi.

However, even if Hideyoshi started to manage Tosa at this moment, it is impossible for Hideyoshi to wait for the real data to come out in the first half of the year. Hideyoshi must think Find a convenient way to grasp the basic situation of Tosa.

Xiujia first announced in front of everyone, "Everyone's meritorious service has been registered in the military order. After my inspection is correct, I will start to compile the reward."

Hideka looked at Nagamasa Asano and asked, "I'll ask Asano-den and Miyoshi-den to evaluate the situation of the strategy in the Awa area, and submit it to me after 10 days, is that okay?"

Asano Nagamasa and Miyoshi Hideho are responsible for attacking Awa from both sides. Only they can evaluate the performance of the daimyo under their command on the battlefield, and Hideka, as the general general, needs to wait for their evaluation data to be sent before they can be summarized. Award.

The daimyo evaluation at this time is not the score in the game, but the evaluation of the upper, middle, lower, third, and ninth ranks. This is not conducive to the Xiu family's grasp of the actual situation of their battlefield efforts. Therefore, the Xiu family requires that behind the tangled evaluation of the third class Then write down the meritorious service that this daimyo/rich family actually obtained on the battlefield, and then the Xiu family will judge.

Even so, Hideka's 10 days is still more than enough. The reason why Hideka did this is to allow enough time for his next plan for the Tosa inspection district.

How to do it?Without him, only Saqian.

Xiujia plans to set up stations in the main cities of Tosa's counties in the name of Tosa's pacification and the common people's nuisance, and specifically requires all villages to come to the stations to receive benefits on a village-by-village basis.

Welfare includes 3 buckets of white rice and 5 pieces of dried fish per catty per household. Adult males over 15 years old can receive 100 cash, women 50 cash, half for minors, and half for men and women over 45 .

If you are a land attendant or a rich peasant with weapons, knives and guns, then congratulations, your reward is 300 Wen plus 1 bucket of rice.

In order to ensure that each person and each household only receive one time, and there is no repeated collection, the Xiu family requires everyone to register their village and life, and the names in the village cannot be repeated.

Don't underestimate the fact that there are only 100 ren, which is usually a month's salary for an adult man, enough for him to buy 100 brown rice balls at the market. This amount of money is a huge sum of money even for low-level samurai. Not to mention farmers, hunters, and fishermen who are just mud legs.

As for the rice, 3 buckets of meat, and 5 pieces of dried fish per catty distributed by Xiujia on a household basis, these are things that the common people do not necessarily eat during the festivals. According to the actual household registration data, there are several adults, elderly people and children in each family on average.

After the data is uploaded, the Xiu family will use the population data to calculate the actual knowledge and behavior. After all, the land can be concealed, but the food that people eat cannot be concealed.

These registered population will be handed over to Hideyoshi at the same time, as the basis for his rule of Tosa, and become the military service certificate of the new lord.

As for the Xiu family asking them to register their names, it was not out of goodwill.After all, at that time, the peasants who were the foundation of the people's power generally had no names, and the heads of each land were randomly counted according to the military service certificates issued by their superiors during wartime.

The reason why the Xiu family did this was to ensure that they would not receive multiple receipts from one person.If the Xiu family didn't do this, then it would be the Xiu family who paid for the money and food, and in the end there were more people on the military petition that didn't exist.

Not only did the common people suffer from labor apportionment, but some people may question the authenticity of the Xiu family’s entire data, thinking that the Xiu family was framing the Changzong family, which caused a blow to the reputation of the Xiu family from point to point. People don't want to see it.

Don't underestimate the enthusiasm of the people at the bottom to pick up cheap. In the 21st century, the aunts in Hebei can still shoot up the free hot meals prepared by the store for sanitation workers and the unsecured within 30 minutes, let alone the Japanese people who live in hardship.

The Xiu family had already prepared the necessary supplies and coins in advance, but they had no names before.Now it is time to carry out this project by taking over Tosa's ruling power.

Xiujia estimates that it will only take 7 to 8 days from the first day of distribution to the completion of the registration of most of the residents of a county, and two more days for the round trip. As for the data sorting work, there is no rush, just go slowly on the way back This is why Xiujia gave Asano Nagamasa 10 days to report for evaluation.

After everyone left, the Hide family left three people, Hanafo Masayuki, Ishida Mitsunari, and Kamei Izumo. I do not know.

Xiujia told him his plan and the reason again, and he, who was smart, immediately understood the mystery, praised Xiujia's plan for its simplicity and clarity, and readily agreed to join the plan to practice it himself.

The reason why Hideka brought Ishida Mitsunari was very simple. In order to strengthen the credibility of Hideyoshi's data, after all, if the players and referees were both Hideka, the final data would inevitably be refuted by Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin. With the supervision of a third person who absolutely trusts, the credibility of the data in Xiujia's hands will be greatly improved.

What Xiujia did not expect was that once the "welfare policy" of Xiujia was launched, it was warmly welcomed by the people at the bottom. It took only 5 days to complete the statistics of the four counties of Tosa, Nagaoka, Wuchuan, and Kami. Oka and Hata also brought back the data within 10 days.

Due to the restriction of the Xiu family on the basis of villages, many adult ordinary farmers are willing to borrow tools, knives and guns from the land servants or rich peasants in the next village in order to get rewards from the most high-end land attendants, and then come to the station to receive the rewards. Pay them 100 of them as a rental fee.

The Xiu family had expected this situation and knew it well. First, what the Xiu family pursued was controllable and unchangeable population data. As for who was the armored warrior, they didn't care. They would rather spend more money than hit the farmers. enthusiasm.

When the daimyo, who was newly entrusted to Tosa, brought the military service certificate written by the Hideka to the village chief to be prepared, then naturally there would be these sneaky and slippery people to look at.

Then, has someone organized Xiujia to make statistics on the relevant data?Of course there are.

Yoshinari Kuwana, the lord of Nakamura in Hata County, seems to have seen through Hideka's plan, and prevented Hideka from setting up a site in Nakamura Castle, an important stronghold in Hata, and set up checkpoints on the roads to drive back people who tried to come from other places.In the end, of course, he got the one-click three-link package that he wanted to break the city and reform and exile.

When the data came in, Hideo did a little statistics and got a satisfactory data. There were 8 civilians in Tosa, 7642 armored samurai / ashigaru, and 7630 soldiers on military service certificates.According to this data, Tosa's Zhixing should be between 1 shi and 1430 shi.

From this data, it can be seen that this ratio of armored warriors is unreal. Even Tosa, who has "full collar", can't have such a high armor rate. Not much to give up, he is the elite of the elite.

In addition, from this data, we can also see the problem of data inversion. Data inversion through Dingkou can only get the approximate data of knowledge and practice, but cannot get the real and accurate annual grain production.

However, no matter whether this data is accurate or not, it is far higher than the data of more than 9 stones previously reported by Yuanqin of Changzong.Coupled with Ishida Mitsunari's testimony and endorsement, in the face of Tosa Tomoyuki and Dingkou hiding more than half, Hideyoshi still believed your Yuanqin's nonsense?
Hideka's performance in Tosa will naturally fall into the eyes of some caring people. Minami Iyo tycoon Doi Kiyoshi paid a special visit to Hideka on the last day. On the surface, it was to congratulate Hideka on the evaluation of the four countries, but in fact, he wanted to express his submission to Hideka the meaning of.

Doi Qingliang was originally a retainer of the Xiyuanji family, but Xiyuanji Gonghiro couldn't even protect himself, so how could he protect the noble family under him.

Therefore, Doi Qingliang can only rely on his own efforts. His most famous battle is to lead 300 people in the battle of Okamoto Castle, and take advantage of the night to retake Okamoto Castle while Nagamune's family is celebrating.

In fact, Doi Qingliang was originally a local tyrant in the five villages of Chengmiao Township and three villages of Lijian Township in Iyo Uwa County. His knowledge and actions were only 2000 shi. Tired of running around, the five-dimensional supermodel warrior Xiyuanji Gonghiro came up with a clever plan, using Doi Qingliang as the banner head of Nanyuhe County to guard the southern border on his behalf.

In this way, Doi Kiyoshi became the leader of the powerful clans in the south, including Doi, Watanabe, Imajo, Ji and other families under his command, who can indirectly command the territory of more than 2 shi.The Tuju family also expanded during this period, Zhixing expanded to 1 shi, and made the Imajo and Watanabe family vassals.

However, the description of him in "Qingliangji" compiled by his descendants is absolutely exaggerated. In "Qingliangji", Doi Qingliang became an independent daimyo with both wisdom and courage and more than 3 stones from Nanyiyo.

In the night attack on Okamoto Castle, where he became famous, Doi Kiyoshi led only 300 people, and he was able to use more than a hundred iron cannons to shoot in three stages. fled back to Tosa. (Baidu Baike also uses this record.)
After previous understanding and study, we know that the iron cannons in the Warring States period were not as cheap as imagined. The purchase and equipment of 100 iron cannons cost at least 4000 guanwen, plus the ammunition consumption and maintenance costs required for training three-stage strikes. , This is definitely not something that a powerful family that can only mobilize 300 people can have.

In contrast, the number of people (300 people) led by him when he launched a surprise attack on Okamoto Castle, which was occupied by the Nagamune family, in "Seiryoji" matches the number of Zhixing who was about 1 shi in historical research.

As for what Takakage Kobayakawa said, "If Kiyoyo Doi is on the opposite side of us, the Mori family will never get involved with Iyo." At first glance, it is a way of embellishing himself. If Kiyoyo Doi is really so awesome, it is impossible for Minami Iyo to be brought up The Zongwo family took over, and there was no need for the Tuju family to surrender to save their lives.

Of course, Doi Kiyoyoshi has many similarities with Fujido Takatora. He has been looking for a lord worthy of entrustment all his life.It is true that the pentagon warrior Xiyuanji Gonghiro is too capable, which led to Kiyoyo Doi's self-reliance, but in the troubled times of the Warring States Period, who wouldn't want to find a backer?

(End of this chapter)