Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 308
The four countries of Bizen, Misaku, Bichu, and Sanuki that Togawa Hidean introduced earlier were the old border countries of Hideka, and these countries were more or less ruled by Hideka for more than 2 years.

The next three countries, Hoki, Inaba, and Iyo, were just assigned to the Xiu family this year, and even the spring farming in these places was under the name of the previous lord, so the Xiu family did not report their production this year. How much hope.

Togawa Hidean sorted out his thoughts a bit, and continued to report to the Hide family, "The Hoki Kingdom of the Dazai Palace was just taken over in the middle of this year, and it has been managed by Yamada, Takayama and other families before, and the knowledge and behavior data are not high.

However, Boqi is also a country that uses rice buckets. After the unification of rice buckets, there are now 15.1 kokus in Hoki, an increase of 1.9 kokus from the table. Please tell your highness that these knowledges are included in the knowledge of Dazai Hall and the Nanjo family. , or fill in the management of the territory directly under the Central Government. "

In fact, the Xiu family is inclined to charge it directly into the territory directly under the central government. It is not that the Xiu family is stingy and focuses on the knowledge of nearly 2 stones, but that this head cannot be opened.

If today’s increase in knowledge due to the change of the unit of measurement reaches Ukita’s family, will other big names in Ukita’s family be able to request Xiujia in the same way tomorrow?
What's more, the 6 kokus of the Quanjia's self-contained 11 kokus transferred to Hoki is an excess transfer. Don't say anything about Kurashiki. This place is located on Sanyo Avenue, and it is close to Okayama and the sea.

The transfer of the Western Kingdom has always only looked at the number of stones, and did not make statistics according to the height.Previously, relying on the identity of the Yuxi family as a family, the transfer of 11 shi was already quite a criticism.

Now if you add 2 stones to him casually, the retainers and warriors below will not be able to make a fuss.

However, the Xiu family was somewhat concerned about the identity of the Quan family. After all, he was the only child among the blood relatives of Yuxi's family, so the Xiu family tried to ask the Quan family, "What do you think of the Dazai Palace? How about entrusting the 2 stones to you to manage?"

Who is Ukita Kanya?He is the son of Ukita's family, and he can become the elder of Ukita's family.Although the Zhong family has retired, it doesn't mean that he is out of the world, and he will still help and teach his son.

The Quan family naturally understands their situation, and it is also the meaning of the words of the Xiu family, and expresses to the Xiu family, "Thanks to the lord, I am willing to hand over the 2 shi Zhixing to me, but the territory of the family has just doubled. There are not enough capable ministers in the family who are good at governing, so the 2 shi Zhixing should be handed over to Your Highness for direct management."

As soon as Xiujia heard Quanjia's words, he immediately said to him, "I don't stay at home all the year round, it's my elder brother who supervises the collar for me, this knowledge is what my elder brother deserves.

But since the elder brother declined today, then I will temporarily keep it for the elder brother, and I will reward you with this land when I will make great achievements later. "

After Hoki came Inaba and Iyo. Togawa Hideyasu introduced to Hidejia, "The main family of Inaba's 8 counties has 4 of them, and their knowledge and practice total 6.2 shi, which is not much different from the height of the table.

Before and after the autumn harvest, Iyo country was suffering from war, and the land inspection work came to a standstill. After the war, according to statistics, it was found that Iyo country's knowledge and behavior may be inflated.

The total surface height is 16.6 shi, but the actual area of ​​the family is only about 14 shi.The specific reason may be caused by the use of small buckets for weighing. After the weights and measures were unified with the family, the stone height decreased.

Of course, this data is not accurate. After all, due to the war, many local inspections can only be estimated, and the specific data may not be known until next year when the inspection is carried out.above. "

So far, Hidean Togawa has finished describing all the knowledge and behavior of the seven countries that Hideka has mastered, and is waiting for Hideka to speak.

从总体来看，宇喜多家掌握5个完整国，2个半国合计7国领地, 天正13年的知行检地合计是117.7万石。

If this kind of knowledge was placed 20 years ago in the Warring States Period, it would definitely dominate one side. King Luochen is not a bad idea. I don’t know if a few hundred years later, there will be rumors such as "born 20 years earlier, the world will be Yuxi Family" .

Generally speaking, the Xiu family is quite satisfied with this knowledge and behavior data. After closing the accounts, they said to Hidean Togawa, "After the district inspection, the execution places of each family have become sloppy and messy. Find an opportunity in the next year, and work with Dazai Yiyu and other families to re-divide the land of the retainers in the territory, and the division should be as complete as possible, and there should be no big transfers, and the small wealthy families will be interspersed."

Territory re-division and transfer of titles have always been the prerogative of the lord. The Xiu family is now delegating power to the joint association of family elders. It is just that the Xiu family does not have so much experience involved in such trivial matters. It does not mean that the Xiu family The family really doesn't care about it.

Both of them are veterans in the political circle, and responded very cooperatively, "Your Highness, after we discuss a charter, we will send it to Osaka for your review, and you still need to decide in the end."

Xiujia turned her head to look at the sky outside the door, and said that it was getting late in the morning, so she nodded and said, "That's it, it's getting late, if there is nothing else, let's go back."

The Xiu family has already issued an order to evict guests. Usually, the two retainers should have gone on the road at this time, but Togawa Hidean said urgently: "Your Highness needs to decide on two important matters. Don't dare to be good at it."

Togawa Hidean's words pushed Xiujia's butt that had just moved back, and Xiujia asked him, "What's the matter, let's make a long story short."

Hidean Togawa apologized to the Hide family, and said slowly, "Master Maeda, who came from Osaka, asked me several times for a certificate of internal knowledge, but I delayed it because the inspection had not been completed."

The Xiu family frowned when they heard this, and asked a little strangely, "Is there anything to tell me about this kind of thing? I remember reminding me when I came back last time. If the Great Monk wants to see it, you can show it to him." Well, it’s the version you handed in last year.”

Yuxi's family has two accounts. The first account is made public, which is basically a slightly modified basis on the basis of the table height. The second account is the actual number of knowledge in the collar held by the Xiu family for the Xiu family to consult.

In later generations, this kind of thing is equivalent to a company having two accounts, one for inspection and one for actual internal operations, which is absolutely illegal.

But in a feudal society, this is not a rare thing. The habit of the world's rich and powerful families will give the lord two accounts.

Not to mention the big names, even if it is the numbers of knowledge and actions reported by the powerful families below, how many are accurate?The powerful families below will deduct a little, and the big names will deduct a little more. The number of knowledge and actions obtained by the people of the world has long been unknown.

That is why Yuxi's family revised the law in the past two years, severely punished for concealing the acres of land, and often checked the number of knowledge, so that the data reported by the following people was a little more real.

But this doesn't prevent Hideka from providing false data to the higher authorities for inspection. Hideka really doesn't understand why Togawa Hidean stopped him because of such a trivial matter.

"But the Maeda monk hinted to us that he wanted to check another account." Ukita Kanka said from the side.

After listening to Quan Jia's words, Xiu Jia's right eyelid twitched, and asked nervously, "Is the matter leaked?"

It's no wonder that the Hideo family is nervous. Historically, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has dealt with the district inspectors' concealment of land acres very severely.

The Shimono Utsunomiya family was changed as a whole just because they were reported to have concealed 1 shi, and the difference between the actual height and the actual height of the Hideo family was close to 20% and nearly 20 shi. shiver.

Because of the Xiu family's question, the hall fell into silence for a while. After a while, Togawa Hideyasu replied, "Probably not. The matter of seizing the district has always been the responsibility of Iyomori and the son of the Osafune family. This time Iyoshou went to suppress Ichikui, so I temporarily handed it over to me for overall management, but the people under him are all descendants of the family tree, and they will definitely not do anything to betray the family."

The Xiu family thinks about it too, he is pretty good to the retainers in the collar, and the retainers have no reason to betray themselves.

Besides, the inspection of the land has always been carried out by the Central Enforcement Office, which sent a group of Yumoto fans to the counties with a few concentric forces to carry out the inspection with the help of the county officials. The counties only know their own situation, and the final statistics The summaries were all completed by Gomoto Fanzhong.

All these goben fans are from the Yuki family or from generation to generation. The whole family relies on the Xiu family to eat at Yuxi family. It doesn't look like they will use the whole family as a bet to sell the existence of the Xiu family.

At this time, Ukita's commentator said quietly, "At that time, I did test the tone like the Great Monk, but the Great Monk was very tight-lipped, and just kept responding to things like 'if there is no one, forget it', but judging from the tone , it really should know some ways."

Speaking of all the bad news so far, the Xiu family scratched their heads a little nervously, and asked, "Have you inquired about Yuli and Tongxin who are in charge of receiving the great monk these days?"

Togawa Hidean "I asked about it, and they said that the chief monk did not do anything special. Every morning and evening, he went to Shishan City to supervise the construction work, and then went to various places to relax."

"Did you go to the field?" Xiujia suddenly raised his head and asked. "Just wandering around Bizen, or did you even go to Misaku and Bichu?"

Hideka Togawa was a little afraid of being stared at by the Hideka, and responded awkwardly, "The chief monk said that he wanted to see the place where His Highness fought against the Mori family, so as to pay homage to His Royal Highness's bravery, so after the construction of Stone Mountain City started, we I did pick a day to take him to Beizhong for a tour.”

Hideka heard Togawa Hidean's answer, covered her face with her hands, and frowned tightly, feeling constipated as if being dragged back by a pig teammate.

After finally recovering, Xiujia said to him, "Another copy of knowledge and practice, what is the number of knowledge and practice of my family this year, it is the one you gave Maeda Xuanyi to read at the beginning."

Hidean Togawa thought for a moment and replied, "102 million stone."

In this way, Xiujia can understand that there is a difference of 15 shi between the two figures, which is close to a 15% difference.Maeda Gen was born as a monk who was famous in the Nobunaga era. His ability is not only good at building castles, but inspecting the growth of crops is an essential skill for every monk.

In fact, Hideka had expected that Maeda Genichi's coming this time would not be easy, and told them to cooperate with him, but Hideka originally thought that Maeda Genichi came in the name of Xiucheng, at most it was in Bizen. take a stroll.

In another external account book, Bizen Kingdom’s Zhixing Shushu is close to the actual data. After all, this is the heart of the Uki family, and it is not easy to hide it.

After all, Maeda Genji came here under the pretext of helping the Xiu family build the city, and the Xiu family did not expect him to run to Beizhong.If he only went to the Bizen country, Hideka could use the reason that the direct-controlled territory has better management as an excuse.

But now that people have run around in Beizhong, how can you call Xiujia to make up excuses.

After thinking about it, Xiujia said helplessly, "Hurry up and make another copy, and change the data in the backup to about 22 shi and then show it to him."

At this moment, Hidean Togawa also understood that it was caused by his own fault, and replied with some embarrassment, "It is my fault, and I have caused trouble for Your Highness."

But just when Xiujia thought that the matter would be taken over, Yuxita Quanjia suddenly said, "Is it because the chief monk inspected the autumn harvest in Beizhong?

If this is the case, it would be bad. Last time I went from Hoki to Okayama Sanqin, I happened to meet the Great Monk, and he said that he wanted to inspect the white ash that supplied the paint for Osaka Castle and planned to use it on Okayama.

So I took him for a trip to the northern part of Bichu and the western part of Misaku. When I came back, I took the Tsuyama Road for convenience.In other words, he should basically know the reality of the United States as well. "

The Xiu family had been shown by these two treasures, but Maeda Xuanyi was smart enough to know that he would not agree to it if he told it clearly.

So he chose to put a high hat on Hideka, and after making Togawa Hidean feel proud, he felt like showing off, and took the initiative to run to Beizhong with himself.

On the other hand, Ukita's family is much more honest, and in the name of investigating materials for the Hide family's construction of Okayama, they went through the beautiful works.

The construction of Okayama Castle had already been confirmed as the highest limited level in the reward court discussion, and the Yuxi family attached great importance to this, after all, it represented the face of the Yuxi family.

The interpreter is also concerned about it, thinking that this designer is so good and will help find materials, so this is his way.

The Xiu family knew that they could not be blamed for this, after all, they had never thought that the "enemy" was so cunning.

Togawa Hidean was still able to use the inspection land before, and the Xiu family hadn't come back to procrastinate. Now it's the end of the year, and spring is about to start, and there is no longer any delay, and there is no time to make another copy.

The Xiu family had no choice but to hand over the book of knowledge and behavior in their hands to Togawa Hidean and said to him, "The matter has come to this, we can only hand over this policy to the chief monk for review.

If he asks why there is a difference, you say that the family will re-inspect the warehouses in each county after the year to prevent the retainers from concealing the report.

In addition, there are errors caused by the different sizes of rice buckets reported by retainers from various places. After the re-inspection, the knowledge and practice of the integration of weights and measures has increased.Guess he'll understand. "

Togawa Xiu'an felt guilty about the results of the account book, and again accused Xiu's family.

The Xiu family had already seen the self-blame of the two of them from their faces, so they didn't blame too much, but just reminded the two of them to pay more attention to this kind of thing in the future, so as to prevent others from taking advantage of their loopholes.

(End of this chapter)