Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 252
After listening to Hanchuan Iemitsu's description, Xiujia finally understood the reason why he wanted to go back and inherit Jin Guang's family.

As an old friend, the Hide family can show sympathy for Iemitsu Suzukawa from the heart, but as the patriarch of the Uki family, for the stability of the family, the Hide family will never go back to Iemitsu Suzukawa to inherit the family name of the Jinguang family at the same time.

After much deliberation, Xiujia decided to change the topic first.

After comforting Iemitsu Samukawa, Hideka made a promise to him and said, "Since I photographed Yoshihei as the standing captain, I have indeed lost some considerate attendants.

As long as you want, don't go back to Sanuki later.Ask Hanbei to find you a house in Nijimaru as your residence in Okayama.

As for your rank, first serve as the captain of the entourage by my side. "

To be honest, the arrangement of Samukawa Iemitsu's position is somewhat troublesome.Because his grade is not very old, he has enough prestige no matter whether he is assigned to the standing reserve or the banner reserve.

After the Yuanfu, Kenjiro used the family's own armed forces, as a supplement to Ukita's armed forces, and appeared in Ukita's military service certificate.

To be honest, Xiujiaben was still a little worried about whether he could keep up with Shangqi Benbei or Changbei's fighting ideas that transcended the times.

The most important thing is that the selection requirements for Banner Bei are quite special.

As the only large-scale cavalry unit under Xiujia's command, the requirement for Banbei to be selected is proficiency in bow and horse.Based on Hideka's understanding of Kenjiro, his equestrian skills can be described in the past, but it is a bit reluctant to say that he is proficient in bowing and horse riding.

When the Xiu family established the Yuxi family system, the most important requirement was fairness and justice. Nowadays, you can't parachute onto the head of the banner team to command them just because you and the family leader are young.

In doing so, it is actually a blow to the upward enthusiasm of the diligent and diligent samurai class.The most important thing is that it is very difficult for a samurai who can't even ride and shoot to gain the respect of his subordinates in Banner.

If you don't arrange a high-level position and give it a position similar to that of the captain, this will be a bit of a disservice to the 2.5 shi of the Hanchuan family.

Therefore, the Xiu family could only arrange him in the attendant team that the Xiu family made a decision with one word.In terms of age, Samukawa Iemitsu is only 17 years old now, which is just right.Moreover, the attendants did not restrict the knowledge and actions of the samurai.

Of course, in order to properly arrange Iemitsu Samukawa, Hideka still created the position of captain for this purpose.Before that, there were only 5 squadron leaders in the entourage team, who were directly responsible to the Xiu family.

"Now that the family has stabilized, you can learn some unique tactics of the family by following me, and you can gradually train the Hanchuan people under your command after you go back.

I really hope that all the wealthy people under my family will train me with the same military power as my own directly under my family, just like my brother Quan's. "

"Is Your Highness talking about Kurashiki Ubi?" Samukawa Iemitsu asked. "The heroic appearance on the battlefield of the four countries is hard to forget. I can't believe that this is a reserve team mobilized by a wealthy family, not a daimyo's standing team."

"As for what you said, hoping to change back to Jinguangmiao, I advise you to think about it. I believe you can understand the meaning. The reason why I gave the Hanchuan family 2.5 stones to guard East Sanuki is exactly It is because of your existence. If you are no longer in the Hanchuan family, then the status of the Hanchuan family will be very embarrassing."

"Of course, I already know about the continuation of the Jin Guang family. This is indeed a big problem. I allow your second son to go back and inherit the Jin Guang family's Miao characters, so as to ensure the survival of the Jin Guang family name. What do you think?"

It is unrealistic for Han Chuan Jiaguang to abandon Han Chuan's surname and go back to inherit Jin Guang's family.

In fact, Hanchuan Jiaguang also understood this point, but he really couldn't wait for his first wife to give birth to a son, so he told the Xiu family all the bitterness in his heart.

It turned out that it was fine at the beginning of joining the Hanchuan family, but in the past two years, because the Xiu family didn't interfere with the habits of the wealthy families in the territory, they took less care of Iemitsu.

Every time they go to battle, the main force is the standing and directly-administered troops with the former as the core. The Hao clan's reserve team is mostly used as auxiliary troops, and there is not much military merit to be gained. Therefore, the Hanchuan family has not been rewarded generously in the past two years.

In the eyes of the samurai in the Hanchuan family clan, this is just a symbol of Iemitsu's loss of favor. Therefore, Iemitsu's life in the Hanchuan family is not easy. At the Hanchuan family, he needs to take into account the face of the old man and the branch family. Strict control over his wife depends on Han Chuanniang's face, and it is absolutely impossible for him to marry another concubine.

Although the Xiu family had experienced similar situations in their previous lives, they hadn't experienced love in this life, so naturally they didn't know how to relieve him.

After thinking for a long time, I said to him, "I can't interfere with the affairs of the Hanchuan family, you have to discuss the details yourself, so I agree to transfer the Jin Guang family to the Hanchuan family as a retainer and as your assistance.

In addition, you choose one of your sisters from the Jin Guang family to send to Okayama as my concubine.It can be regarded as the Yuxi family's honor to Jin Guang's family. "

Iemitsu Hanchuan is just that this is the best condition that the Xiu family can offer, and since the most important requirement of returning to the center has been met, he will stop complaining.

In fact, the main problem of Iemitsu Samukawa is that he has not been reused within Ukido after he joined the family.So much so that it gave the Hanchuan family an illusion that the son-in-law and adopted son who married in had the status of a daimyo and the capital to dominate East Sanuki because of his own bonus.

It's not that the Hanchuan family has no heirs to succeed the family governor, so they naturally dislike the son-in-law and adopted son who came down from the air.

Xiujia mentioned Hanchuan Iemitsu to his side as the captain of the attendant team, just to solve his problem.

At the same time, the Jinguang family was handed over to Iemitsu Iemitsu as a sender, which was to strengthen the strength of the trusted samurai around Iemitsu.

Although in the view of the Xiu family, this arrangement is still too late, and now the Jin Guang family's lineage has withered, only uncle Tongzhen is left.

However, since the Jinguang family can survive in Bizen for a hundred years, the warriors who followed the Jinguang family during the era are still loyal enough.

What the Hide family is doing now is precisely the hope that Samukawa Iemitsu will use the resources of the Jin Guang family to promote some Bizen samurai to fight against the natives of Sanuki.

With the head of the Hide family supporting him, the natives of the Sanuki Samukawa family could only grit their teeth and swallow their opinions even if they had some opinions.

As long as the Hanchuan family has a firm foothold in the Hanchuan family, the Hanchuan family can also become the new genealogy retainers of Yukiduo, just like the big names such as Hanafang and Longfune.

The matter of Iemitsu Hankawa reminded Hideka that tomorrow is the grand meeting of the Uki family, and there is another important person who has not been arranged yet, that is, Changzong's relatives.

Although the Xiu family was a little embarrassed to see him, they had been thinking of ways to get more people, but hiding like this was not an option, the ugly daughter-in-law wanted to see her in-laws after all.

So after sending Iemitsu away, Hideka asked Shimizu Nobuya to go to Gangshan to meet with Xinqin of Changzong's family, Qintai of Xiangzong's family and others.

"Your Highness, His Highness Tongfangyuan asked me to ask His Highness whether to have dinner with the foreign ministers in the foreign hall today, or go back and have it with the family."

While waiting, Xiujia brandished the red spear in the courtyard and practiced the art of war under the guidance of the elder warrior.It just so happened that Ah Fang, who was the head maid of the Xiu family, came out from the courtyard behind, and knelt on the side of the wall corridor to ask the Xiu family.

Xiujia stopped what he was doing and looked up at the sky.In the absence of clocks, time can only be estimated by the rise and fall of the sun.

Xiujia wanted to give an accurate answer, but Xiujia was really not sure about the time for the next small meeting.After all, Changzong's family is an outsider, and they don't have a fixed residence in Okayama Castle, and Shimizu Nobu is also a little troublesome to find.

So Xiujia said to Ah Fang, "If I haven't returned before the sun goes down, I'll eat outside."

Ah Fang left at the sound, and the Xiu family continued to practice gun skills in the courtyard.

After waving it intermittently for about an hour, Xiujia turned around and found that Qingshuixin had already led someone to stand on the wall corridor.

Seeing that Xiu's family turned their eyes towards him, the relatives of Changzong's family took the lead and bowed to Xiu's family.The Xiu family retracted their guns and stood upright and said to him, "Go to the hall and wait for me first, I will come to see you after I wash up."

When Xiujia simply wiped his body and changed his clothes, the sun was already hanging on the western mountain.

Xiujia thought, "Today I'm afraid I'm going to release my little mother's pigeons again."

Although the Xiu family felt a little guilty at the moment, as a qualified family governor, the Xiu family would not put personal feelings above the family business.

When Xiu's family returned to the assessment room, Chang Zong and others from our department had already been waiting for a long time.According to Shimizu Shinya's report, they were extremely cautious while waiting here, and showed enough respect to Yuki's family.

"I've seen the palace of Lieutenant General Yu Chai." Seeing Xiu's family coming in, Xinqin and others saluted Xiu's family.

The Xiu family sat on the imperial steps to make them flat, and said politely, "I just came to Gangshan, have everything settled down?"

"In the past, I didn't have any requirements for the residence of my retainers. I only asked them to come to Okayama to attend the meeting every quarter, and they usually acted in their own territory.

But some retainers spontaneously want to live in Okayama, and I will also provide them with land or houses in Ninomaru and Sannomaru.If they do not want to live in the city, it is also possible to buy land and build houses under the city.

However, I plan to formally propose the "Retainer Collection" in the near future, requiring the heads of all families to live in Okayama, especially the daimyo above Wanshi.

You also know that Lord Guan Bai set you 4 shi for knowledge and practice, so naturally you have to abide by the rules of your family.Of course, if you don't want to participate in our family's affairs, it's another matter for us. "

In fact, the Xiu family's system of "collection of retainers" and "township of old people" are in conflict with each other.

The Xiu family not only hoped that the elders of the famous Ge family above Wanshi would live under their own eyelids to facilitate supervision, but also hoped that someone in a distant country could temporarily make decisions for themselves before they could react.

Since ancient times, restraining subordinates and giving them autonomy have been two incompatible choices, and now Xiujia has two ideas.

One is that due to the particularity of the elders of the town, except for Togawa Hideyasu, who needs to be in charge of government affairs in Okayama, and the express relatives who participated in the cooperation, the other elders are all on the feudal clan, returning for a few days every quarter to discuss matters.

The advantage of doing this is obvious, that is, the elders of the town can better exercise their powers.

The second idea is similar to Hideyoshi's request for daimyo collection in the Momoyama period.That is to say, the family governor must live in Osaka, and the affairs in the territory are managed by the elders and the sons-in-law.

The disadvantages of doing so are obvious. Historical experience tells us that this will make the recruited daimyo feel alienated from the master.

Ask yourself, as a lord, you can't control the affairs of the territory, and you have become a vain title, will you worry about your retainers rebelling in the territory?

We must know that the samurai class was originally the mud-legged stewards of the Gongqing family's manors all over the country. The Gongqing family's obsession with the luxurious life in Kyoto weakened their control over the manors everywhere, and they were finally suppressed by the samurai class, the actual controllers of the land.

During the Momoyama era, Hideyoshi also asked daimyos from all over the world to live together in Osaka. How could those daimyos not worry about how their home territories would be turned into by those wealthy families?Will the territory still be named after you after you go back?

Therefore, there was a particularly interesting phenomenon in the Momoyama period, that is, there were often house governors who chose to live in seclusion in their prime of life. The nominal house governor was his son who went to work in Osaka, while he retreated to the territory to control everything behind the scenes.

After all, he lived in seclusion, and if he came out to manage the affairs of the territory, he would leave a handle for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to change. Therefore, the matters in the territory were formulated by the old ministers of the old governor's era in name, but in fact it was not a matter of a word from the old governor. ?
Tokugawa Ieyasu himself is the biggest beneficiary of this political situation, so he clearly knows the disadvantages.

The gathering of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's vassals could not effectively restrain the big names at all. Tokugawa Ieyasu simply sold his face and asked the big names from all over the world to come to Osaka every other year to attend and explain for half a year, so as to emphasize the Tokugawa shogunate and the lower daimyos the link between.

If it were just the family of Shimadzu of the Kagoshima Clan at the southernmost tip of Kyushu, the one-way trip to Tokyo would take three months.Along the way, it is necessary to ensure that Shimadzu is the guard of honor of the 3 shi daimyo, so every time they go to work, it consumes a lot. Gradually, going to work has become a way for the Tokugawa shogunate to consume the strength of the daimyo.

Xiujia thought about it and prepared to make appropriate changes on the basis of the Tokugawa shogunate, so as to require all retainers to come to Okayama to live together.

First of all, the distance between the leading countries under Hideka's command is not far away, even Kamei Tomoki, who is sealed in the farthest place.The journey from its neighboring country to Okayama is no more than 15 days at most.

Therefore, the Xiu family plans to divide the three kingdoms of Dongyiyo, Hoki, and Inaba into distant kingdoms. The daimyos and wealthy families of these three kingdoms, no matter how much they know and do, must go to Okayama for 2 months every six months. One month is spent in Okayama or on the road.

As for the vassals of Sanuki, Bitchu, and Mizusa, their journeys are relatively short, and most areas are only 5/5 days away on 6th, so they must be planned separately.

All the retainers who travel within 3 days become near countries, and are strictly required to live in Okayama, just like the retainers of the Bizen Territory. If they have to go back to deal with the affairs of the territory, they need to ask for leave from the Hideya or the Family Elders' Association.

As for the vassals who are on a journey of more than 3 days, they are allowed to return to the territory for one month every quarter for management.

Of course, in order to ensure the restraint of the retainers of the wealthy family, the Xiu family also planned to ask the retainers to send the hostages to the residence in Okayama in advance when they returned to the territory.

Although it would seem a little ungrateful to say this, it was a necessary precautionary awareness in the Warring States Period.Even Xiang Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu asked for this.

As for the elders of the town, that's another way of saying it.

As mentioned above, due to its particularity, it bears a certain special mission.Therefore, the Xiu family plans to grant permission for them to live in the country they belong to for a long time.

　I had something to do yesterday, so I dove. The last day of this month is New Year’s Eve, so I should dove too.

　　I believe everyone will understand, right?Right, right!

　　Now that the manuscripts are gone, I want to save some manuscripts, and today this chapter will be published in advance.It should be gone today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)