Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 273 Using the Tiger Skin to Conspiracy with the Chief Zongwo Department
Togawa Hidean didn't quite understand Hideka's decision, but he still agreed to the matter.

A few days later, news spread in Bizen that the Hide family wanted to collect the Okayama Tumulus.It was heard that the Xiu family specially built temples and erected pagodas so that the wandering ghosts could have a shelter, and everyone praised the Xiu family's benevolence.

It's just that Togawa Hidean still didn't understand the fact that the Xiu family chose to build a city in Okayama, so when he reported the recent government affairs to the Xiu family a few days later, he brought up the old matter to the Xiu family again.

"According to the preliminary calculation between us and King Kong Temple, the temple reconstruction, tomb relocation, waterway puja and other affairs will cost about 5 guan. About 2 guanwen will be needed for the tomb and the water and land ceremony, and these expenses will be invested in advance, and then the expenses will be invested year by year for the expansion of the King Kong Temple."

Togawa Hidean was really taken aback when calculating the amount, and today he said in front of Xiujia that he hoped that Xiujia would pay back the high early fees.

Who would have thought that when the Xiu family heard this amount, not only did they not think it was expensive, but they blurted out, "This side is cheap?"

Hideka's rhetorical question directly confused Togawa Hidean, "Your Highness?"

It’s not that the Xiu family doesn’t know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt, but based on his previous life’s cognition, a water and land ceremony starts at 20 yuan and is not capped, which is equivalent to the salary income of ordinary people for more than 2 years. You can’t be rich or expensive manage.

Little do they know that 8000 guanwen was already a sky-high price in the Warring States Period, and the 5 guanwen needed to build a temple can make the temple magnificent. In the final analysis, it is the fault of the different currency values.

Fortunately, the Xiu family reacted quickly, and after reviewing the accounts, they said to Hidean Togawa, "Just follow the plan you reported, and try to complete the construction of the New King Kong Temple before next summer. Only in this way can I move the ancient tomb as soon as possible."

The amount reported by Hidean Togawa was supposed to be higher, in order to stimulate the Xiu family and make the Xiu family retreat.

Who would have thought that the Xiu family would not follow this plan, so he simply said to the Xiu family bluntly, "Your Highness, do you know what 5 guanwen is equivalent to? The annual income of our family's direct land tax is only about 10 guanwen. The annual offerings are about 2 guan. The trade income of each directly-administered port town Omachi is about 15 guan, which is considered to be 30 guan from the trade between His Highness and the Ming Dynasty, and the annual income of the family is only 57 guan.

Every year, 18 kanmons are needed for the salaries of samurai at all levels in the family, 4 kanmons are needed for the salary expenditure of the four standing Nakaashigaru, and about 6 kanmons are needed for the renewal of armaments.

Your Highness and the wives in the museum need no less than 2 guan of tea and 8000 guan of rouge money each year. This is not less than 8 guan if your highness still has a married couple and 44.8 guan of miscellaneous emergency expenses spent
The daily expenditure of the family is mainly trade income, and the grain from the land tax is used to pay for support rice and military rations, which is particularly insufficient. It also needs to spend about 5 yuan to buy rice grain every year.

Your Highness!Our family is already extremely tight on finances and taxes, and the War of the Four Kingdoms borrowed from His Highness Guan Bai is still squeezed out. Please, Your Highness, be careful about the construction of Okayama! "

Togawa Hideyasu's tone became more rapid as he spoke, and finally he raised his voice and pleaded to Xiu's family. It can be seen that my hometown is always serious.

In his opinion, the Ukita Hide family's move to build a castle in Okayama is like a teenager who found a novelty toy, full of curiosity about everything, and wanted to get it no matter how much money it cost.

But the Uki family really has no more money to support Hideka's big toys. Even for the second edition of Okayama Castle, Togawa Hidean plans to dig out 4 guan every year and complete the construction in ten years.

After all, what the Xiu family built was not an earth wall screen castle, which can be built with only soil and wood, but a stone wall castle from beginning to end.

The mountainous terrain is the advantage of Okayama City. Even though it saves the time for building soil, it also increases the subsequent construction costs.After all, the Uki family is only a regional daimyo, not a person from all over the world like Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who can gather the power of the whole country to build the city.

Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Osaka Castle started to expand from the Honmaru one by one, it took 16 years to complete the main structure of the Sannomaru until Sekigahara.

At the beginning, the Xiu family never thought of directly spending millions to build Okayama Castle. For the Xiu family, if the construction of Okayama Castle can be a life-saving talisman, then naturally the longer the repair, the longer it will be.

Therefore, Hideka said to Togawa Hidean, "The construction of Okayama Castle is not accomplished overnight. According to Maeda Minbu, it is only ideal to complete the construction in about five years. The construction of Okayama Castle is expected to be completed within three years. It is hoped that the two circles of city walls on Okayama can be completed within 5 years, and the construction of other city walls can be completed in ten years according to the arrangement.

Okayama Castle can finish the work of building the earth wall first, and there is no rush to build the stone wall, just delay it later. "

"Even if the project is completed in ten years, the annual expenditure is still as high as [-] guan. This is still a heavy burden for the Yuxi family. The family's finances cannot support such a huge project. I am afraid that it will need to pay the public price tax. Increased income."

Although Hideya has relaxed the conditions for Hidean Togawa, as Togawa Hidean said, 10 kan per year is still a sky-high expense for a Sengoku daimyo.

Hideka could tell from Togawa Hidean's words that he was not optimistic about the Okayama Project. In fact, Hideka didn't know that the Okayama Project was a waste of time and money. Then tell Hideyoshi that the Ukita family's animals are harmless.

Xiujia's usual behavior is too old and dull, he doesn't want to be a teenager at all, and he doesn't have a trace of youthful blood.

Such a person is worthy of trust in wartime, but in peacetime, with a capital of millions of shi in the Western Kingdom and a personality like a family member, who can rest assured?

In fact, compared to Togawa Hidean's sad face, Hideka himself still has some background. After all, he knows that there is the largest copper mine in Japan in Iyobesko Mountain, and this copper mine will be mined soon.

After the Besshi Copper Mine is mined, there may be an income of no less than 10 guan in the first year, and the income will only increase year by year with the development of the copper mine. The income from copper mining alone is enough to pay for the construction of Okayama Castle. Fees, so Hideya didn't worry about money like Togawa Hidean.

But to this day, seeing Togawa Hidean's attitude of never leaving unless it is resolved, and even willing to raise taxes for it, the Xiu family understands that the matter of Tongshan may not be able to be kept secret.

Hideka originally wanted to pretend that it was the copper mountain that Todo Takatora and others accidentally discovered during Iyo's suppression, so before that, they quietly told Akashi Keikin and Todo Takatora, which also had a great impact on the discovery of the copper mine and Mining has a reasonable explanation.

After the two of them knew the situation of the copper mine, their attitude towards Iyo's suppression became more determined, which is why when they left a few days ago, they promised the Xiu family that they would guard Iyo for the Xiu family.

The Xiu family had already thought up a plan, and it could be regarded as an addition to the military merits of the two, but judging by Togawa Hidean's current attitude, he could only reveal this secret to Togawa Hidean in advance.

"I have already realized that Higo is loyal to the country, but the tax increase is unnecessary. Let's change it for a while and wait for Iyo to calm down."

"Your Highness means that I don't understand. Iyo's country is only 17 shi, which is just a drop in the bucket for the construction of Okayama. If there is no tax increase, the family will definitely not be able to spend so much money to build the city, unless His Highness has another opened up new sources of income.”

Togawa Hidean replied to Hideka angrily, Hideka looked at him coldly, as if to give his guess a positive answer, after a while, Togawa Hidean saw that Hideka had not responded suddenly After reacting, "Could it be that His Highness found a new source of income in Yiyu?"

"Good guy, I just realized it now." The Xiu family murmured inwardly, and said, "This matter has not been confirmed yet, I only hope that Iyoshou and others can make a successful start, and then the family's financial difficulties will be greatly eased.

The land of Yiyo is nothing more than a trick of clowns. It won't take half a year to pacify Yiyo, and the King Kong Temple, which is nothing to you after Feihou, has just opened.

Even if there is no new source of income in the land of Iyo in the end, you don't need to talk about the construction of the Okayama city, I will naturally stop.At that time, the main family just spent more than 2 yuan to build a temple and relocate some ancient tombs without owners. It's just that the main family spent money to accumulate merits. Is there any serious problem? "

Hidean Togawa calculated that this was indeed the case. If, as Hideka said, no new sources of income came in from Iyo's side, and Okayama Castle stopped, Hidean Togawa would consider the expenditure of more than 2 kan as charity donations. There is no need to fight the Xiu family here.

After receiving such a reply from Hideka, Togawa Hidean finally resigned to Hideka with satisfaction, but only Hideka knew that the construction of Okayama Castle would never stop, just like the Besshi Copper Mine would inevitably be mined.

Not long after Togawa Hidean left, Zosezhi Sanzhicheng rushed over, holding a small bamboo tube in his hand and handing it to Xiu's family.

This is the letter box used by warriors of the Warring States period for falcon communication. It is tied to the falcon's feet to transmit information. Due to the size limit, only short messages can be written on the limited paper, so it will never be used if it is not urgent.

"Where is the summons?" Xiujia took the bamboo tube and twisted off the sealing wax to ask.

"It's the Falcon of the Iyo Legion, and I brought it to Your Highness the moment I received the summons." The reply from Tsuge Sannojo was short and clear, but the information behind it was very important.

The Iyo Legion is the one that Hideka placed high hopes on. It was the first time that Ukita's army fought without Hideka's leadership.

Hearing that it was a letter from Yiyo, Xiujia couldn't wait to flatten the scroll, on which only a few words were written: Kaneko raised an army in Xiaosong, and reintroduced Changzong as the main department.

The general meaning is that Kaneko Yuanzhai finally did not accept Yuxi's request to transfer the title. In Iyo Zhoubu Komatsu raised his troops, held high the banner of revival of the Changzong family, and pushed the Changzong family who became a monk in Koya Mountain as the main one.

The Xiu family's first reaction when they saw this letter was: Is Jin Ziyuan's house really the elder of the Changzong family?Is this because Chang Zongwo Yuanqin didn't die fast enough?

The reason why Changzong Gabu Yuanqin was taken away from Tosa was because he had great influence in the native land.If he hadn't been lucky enough to bump into Hideyoshi's ascension to Guanbai and amnesty the world, he would have had his head beheaded long ago as a warning to others.

Now that Changzong's relatives are still monks in Koyasan, and you Yiyo can raise his banner in rebellion. You really want to send Changzong's relatives for a while.

In fact, Kaneko Yuanzhai had no choice. After all, Toiyo had not been unified in the late Warring States period in the past, and the whole was a small Warring States period until Changzonggabu Yuanqin Beichu Tusa launched the Four Kingdoms Raiders.

Changzong's relatives are considered to be the most appealing existence in the contemporary history of the Four Kingdoms. Kaneko Yuanzhai naturally needs to learn from the banner of Changzong's family if he wants to pull the banner to seek tiger skin, otherwise who will listen to his command.

Although he said it was for the good of the Changzong family, the root cause was that it touched his own interests, and his behavior did not even consider the situation of the two generations of the Changzong family. A loyal minister of Changzong's family?
Xiujia slowly rerolled the letter paper, thinking about the point that can maximize the benefits of this matter.

First of all, there must have been no relatives of Changzong and Ibu who did not participate in Iyo Ichikui, but this is not important.The important thing is that you make the monkey feel that you are not involved.

However, when the situation in Kyushu is about to collapse, and the two allies of Dongguo are in conflict over Shinano, you, a newly pacified Shikoku, are even higher than Moth, how can you tell Hideyoshi to stop?
From the moment Jin Ziyuanzhai hoisted the banner of Changzong's family, it was the original sin for Changzong's relatives to live.From this moment on, Yuan Qin's fate has been decided.

For the Xiu family, the life and death of Yuan Qin is not what he cares about, but what he cares about is the attitude of Changzong's family on this matter.

If Changzong's family is awkward because of Yuanqin's death, the Hide family can take the opportunity to take back the Akasaka 4 koku that they just gave them.

If they accept Hideyoshi's ruling with humility, they will inevitably have conflicts with Hideyoshi. At that time, Hideyoshi can take the opportunity to intervene between the two, so that Chang Zonggabu's family can insert nails from Hideyoshi to the Uki family, and completely transform their allies.

And the premise of all this is: Hideyoshi has to know that Iyo Ichikui is fighting under the guise of reviving Changzong Gabu's family.

Wanting to understand all of this, the Xiu family crumpled up the letter again, stuffed it into a bamboo tube, and handed it to Zosezhi Sanzhicheng and said, "Do you still remember the spy who was hidden by Mr. Guanbai in our family?"

"Ha Yi, I have indeed mastered a few." Zhezhi Sanzhicheng replied.

"You have to let them get the news without anyone noticing it, and make them feel that they got the news through their own hard work, and the family deliberately concealed it, so that they can tell Guan Bai to ask for credit. This matter must be done quickly, and this Results will be available within two days."

Zhezhi Sanzhicheng took over the bamboo tube to respond to the matter, and promised to do it beautifully and brightly without being noticed, and then resigned to the Xiu family.

(End of this chapter)