Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 312 Kyushu Military Service Arranged in Advance
For the Xiu family, choosing a writer must choose from four Jianzin elders, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Yu Xiduo's family is still young, and they don't have enough experience, prestige, and meritorious service. They are the first choice to be excluded by the Xiu family.

And Oka Toshikatsu has military exploits and prestige, and after Masayuki Hanabou and Hidean Togawa, Ukido is the most promising person to write.

But this person's character is more easily excited, which limits his upper limit.In addition, although he has military achievements, but lacks political experience, it is difficult for the Xiu family to trust him to manage the huge Yuxi family.

Therefore, for Xiujia, the choice of writing is an alternative.

Changchuan Zhenqin is kind and humble, has reasonable experience in governing the country, and has a lot of prestige in the family, but he seldom fights as a sole commanding general, and his military exploits are slightly insufficient compared to the others.

Akashi Jingqin is also kind and humble, and has reasonable experience in governing the country, but it may be because his spying in the Urakami family was unknown, and everyone in the family unanimously classified him as one of Urakami's old ministers. Prestige is not as good as the other three.

But it was precisely this point that allowed the Xiu family to see the advantages that Akashi Jingqin had mastered.

In the past few years when the Xiu family has governed the country, they have been reforming and innovating every year.And every reform will inevitably touch the interests of the conservatives, and the Xiu family has not been in Okayama all year round. The Xiu family must have a firm follower to lay out their ideas.

However, at the embarrassing moment when the qualifications, prestige, combat achievements, and abilities of the new senators promoted by Xiujia are insufficient, Xiujia can only choose a taller one from the short ones, and he has to choose someone who is relatively easy to master. Rely on yourself and work for yourself.

And Akashi Jingqin is the best choice among these few people here, plus he needs to be rewarded for his military exploits just now, the Xiu family could have used this opportunity to fight against all opinions and promote him to the top position.

However, Ezo is the most important fulcrum of Xiujia's future strategy, and Xiujia has to take the matter of Ezo into consideration.

In the Ezo area, there must be a samurai who is capable enough and loyal enough to the family to take care of the development of Ezo for the Hide family.

Being far away from Eizo under the jurisdiction of the Xiu family is like a remote military town in the Ming Dynasty. The Xiu family had to think again and again about this personnel arrangement.

This position is far away from the center, and expatriates used to be regarded as exiled and alienated, and the pressure involved is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

But in Xiujia's view, this position is precisely the training base for Yuxi's many prime ministers in the future, and it is the best classroom for the family's samurai to exercise diplomacy, governance, and military at the same time.

After much deliberation, Xiujia finally felt that only Akashi Quandeng was the most suitable for three reasons.

One is that he is the farmer of his own family, and he still has some understanding of the hints related to farming, and the most important thing in the development of Ezo is to develop new fields. The purpose of sending a farmer like him over is to speed up the development of land. Develop new collars.

The second is his absolute loyalty to the Xiu family. Whether it is in history or now, Akashi Quanto has always obeyed the orders of the Xiu family, and has taken it as his duty to strengthen the Uki family. The Xiu family is absolutely assured of entrusting him with the remote Ezo to manage.

The third is his identity as Qiezhidan.

The Xiu family's covetousness and fear for Qiezhidan are contradictory. After thinking about it, the Xiu family finally decided to send Qiezhidan far away, so as to be clear.

Anyway, Ezo is a piece of white land, and the Xiu family will not feel bad if these people who believe in Chezhidan are allowed to toss about.

In the same way, Xiujia knows how powerful the so-called religion is in this era, and Xiujia also hopes to use the various ethnic groups in Chietchitan.

Today's Ainu people are afraid of the trade between the Yamato people and looking forward to the trade with the Yamato people, some of them choose to belong to the Hide family, but such a bond is very fragile, and the Hide family needs a link between the two tribes.

Agreed, for the immigrants from the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, whether it is Yamato or the Ainu people, they are all foreigners to them. They lack the ownership management of this "big family". Xiujia needs to condense them in Together.

And the religion of Qiezhidan is exactly the glue that the Xiu family intends to use.

In addition, after Ezo Chechedan was allowed to preach, some of the population has already converted.For the large number of Chechidan population that may appear now and in the future, the Xiu family must send someone to bring them under control.

The experience and lessons of history tell us that no matter whether it is Buddhism, Taoism or green cutting, as long as it is a comprehensive religion, it is easy to be instigated and used by interested people.

In order to prevent the possibility of an earthly kingdom of God, and at the same time to win the trust of the people of Chezhidan, Xiujia will have converted to believe that Chezhidan Mingshi Quandeng faction is the most suitable choice.

As soon as Akashi Quandeng goes to Ezo, Akashi Jingqin must let the virtuous, this is the rule of the upper-level political game.

In fact, the Xiu family thought about it afterwards, and it was quite good to choose Longchuan as a true relative.Although the Xiu family doesn't like his character of being both right and wrong, it is undeniable that this character is the glue between the retainers that the Xiu family lacks now.

Osafune Sadakin is an iron-clad conservative, but he is not as firm as Yu Togawa Hidean and others, which is also a shortcoming caused by his character.

The Xiu family could accept such a relatively weak conservative.It is also because he is a conservative, supporting him to take office is an acceptable candidate for the conservatives in the family.

As expected, after seeing the expressions of the three of them, the Xiu family turned their eyes to the other retainers. None of them showed any special surprise or resistance to Nasafune's superiority, and accepted the Xiu family's decision frankly.

"Then let's move on to the second topic, which is also the most important part of this topic." Xiujia continued, "I think you've all heard about the situation in Kyushu to some extent, and it's true that the barbarians in Kyushu are brutal. He rejected the peace talks led by His Highness Guan Bai, resisted the court's decree, and is still attacking the family of His Highness Guan Bai's vassal Dayou, as colleagues, we must lend a helping hand."

"At the request of His Highness Guan Bai, our family will need to supplement His Royal Highness Wakayama's vanguard army. Is the number around 3000? For the convenience of command, I plan to organize the army based on the Shikoku region."

Xiujia said this, took a military service certificate with his name from Shimizu Nobuya behind him, spread it out and said, "Todo Takatora, continue to lead the white tiger to join the battle, as the acting general of the family."

"Ha Yi" heard Hideka read his name, Fujido Gaohu came out and responded.

"Samkawa Iemitsu, Kagawa Nobuyuki, Kosai Kasaki, Takahara Toshiji, Kannai Seiwa..." Every time Hideka said a name, a samurai came out and sat cross-legged in the corridor in the middle.

"You Sanuki will form the second reserve team, mobilize at the standard of 150 people per 1500 shi, and form a Sanuki crowd of [-] people. They will follow Todo Takatora to go out, and the reserve captain will be Kasai-sama."

"Of course." Everyone said in response.

The Xiu family struggled for a long time, and finally began to say: "You have arrived under the command of His Royal Highness Wakayama, and your priority is to protect yourself, and on this basis, obey His Royal Highness Wakayama's orders."

There are some things that the Xiu family can't say too clearly, if it gets out, it will cause bad influence.

But the Xiu family was really worried about Hashiba Hideji, after all, he sent his own troops, and it would be distressing if there were too many dead.

Everyone responded to the Xiu family's order one after another, but in the view of the Xiu family, it didn't seem to have much effect.

After the Xiu family gave the order to go out, the Xiu family noticed the constant chattering voices below, accompanied by a joyous atmosphere and congratulatory messages to each other.

It can be seen that the retainers are eager for the matter of war.From their point of view, it is a great honor to be selected to play in other countries. They can gain military exploits and improve their knowledge and behavior. Everyone wants to go out.

Xiujia felt that the morale was good, so he coughed to signal everyone to be quiet, and then continued, "Everyone, don't be discouraged, our family will have a backup team to go to Kyushu in Echigo, and everyone will have a chance at that time.

His Highness Guan Bai attaches great importance to Kyushu's crusade against the Shimadzu barbarians, and decided to raise 20 troops to teach the Shimadzu family a lesson, but the recent earthquake caused the helpless postponement of the battle. "

In fact, there is no need to hide the matter today. With the level of secrecy in the Warring States Period of Japan, Hideyoshi's desire for Kyushu has long been known to everyone.

It's just that today, when everyone heard the number "20" from the superiors for the first time, they all exclaimed.

"20, we only mobilized more than 2 Bizen and Bizen Misakus. These 20 people need 10 Bizen Misakus, right?"

"Even when the Ouchi Prime Minister raised his troops to go to Luo, the total number of allied forces was only 10. Now the overlord of Kinki is mainly raising 20 troops to conquer Buchen?"

Seeing everyone's eagerly looking forward to it, the Xiu family struck while the iron was hot and continued, "The 3000 army just now is just a supplement to the vanguard army. The first wave of troops officially dispatched by our family will be a 1-strong army. Send troops after spring plowing.

After the autumn harvest, the family will start a general mobilization, with the standard of 350 people per 2 shi, and mobilize the remaining 5000 people.Next, I will read out the composition of the dispatched troops.

The general of the vanguard army is Oka Danmasa, and the vanguard general is Suzaku Bei led by Takayama Ukon. The configuration includes:

In the first battle, the Suzaku of the Takayama clan prepared 1 people;
In the second round, Masatoshi Suga and the Qi prepared 1500 people;
In the third formation, Qingshui Jingzhi, Huafang Zhengcheng, and Zhuang Zhiqing had a total of 3 people, divided into two reserve teams to participate in the formation.

The fourth team leader Zonggabu Xinqin, Omori Motomori Akasaka Bei, 1000 people;
In the fifth team, there were 2000 people in Inaba led by Oka Toshikatsu and Yoshioka Takakatsu;
In the sixth team, there are 2 people from Harada Sada, Osafunao Nao, Takeuchi Hisaji, Miura Sadhiro, Emi Hidekiyo.
The seventh formation is led by Xinmen Zongguan, Misaku Tsuyama, and prepares a battalion of 1 people and 500 people led by himself as the rear, responsible for the transportation of armaments. "

Among them, Zhuang Zhiqing himself concurrently served as the captain of the Qinglong Army, and Xiujia reminded him, "Ji Bingwei (Zhuang Zhiqing) you will act with the Qinglong Army yourself, and your family's army will be dispatched by the elders."

"Originally, the whole family should be mobilized according to 150 people per [-] shi, but I thought about it, Bizen, Iyo, and Hoki don't move for the time being, and the rest of you can only share the pressure, please don't mind. "

As I said before, everyone in the Yuxi family is extremely eager for war. Now that the Xiu family has raised their military service status, but let them do meritorious service, how can they feel conflicted?
If you really reduce the military establishment and wait until after the autumn harvest, I am afraid that the day lily will be cold. After all, no one thinks that the Shimadzu family can survive the offensive of Toyotomi Hideyoshi until the autumn harvest. I am afraid that at that time the so-called large army will come out. , but an armed parade.

"Your Highness, please don't worry, I will wait for Your Highness to return with the victory!"

"The reason for setting the quota so early is to allow you to prepare early when you go back. The reason for postponing the mobilization until after the spring plowing is to avoid delaying the farming season. You must not forget that you have lost sight of the other.

As for the list of general mobilization after the autumn harvest, I haven't made up my mind yet, but it should be based on those who have not been named today. You have more time to prepare than them. At that time, I hope to see a neat and solemn army. The army, don't let me, Yu Xijia, lose face.

So after you go back, you must use your spare time to train the personnel on the military service certificate to improve their military literacy.

In the past, I have no other requirements for your own military strength, only that the number of people and equipment meet the standards. But starting from the Battle of Kyushu, I require that your armor rate, iron cannon rate, spear foot light, bow The ratio of ashigaru is prepared in accordance with the prefectural standard.

Those who lack equipment, make good use of next year's harvest, buy weapons and equipment in advance, and report to me in advance if it is really not enough, I can lease them to you.

Those who think they are not well-trained, they also send the instructors to each territory to train the citizens in advance.

I require that the army that goes out after the autumn harvest, no matter which company it is led by, all refer to the direct-administrative preparation standards, with a limit of 1500 people to form a reserve team.If the number is insufficient, combine with each other, and if the number is too large, form two backup teams. There must be no mistakes. "

The Xiu family intends to take advantage of the conquest of Kyushu to reach out to the army of the various retainers below.

Right now, they are at the height of their sexuality before going out to battle, everyone wants to go to the front line to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds, how could they think of Xiao Jiujiu from the Xiu family.

And the Xiu family took advantage of this opportunity to let them recognize the fact that the Xiu family sent instructors to the various military forces below.

These instructors need to continue to train for one year in the various territories. After one year, I am afraid that these new reserve teams will be engraved with the shadow of Yu Xiduo from top to bottom. They have become the actual controllers of these military forces. Reserve ownership is held indirectly in the hands.

The main reason why Iyo, Bizen, and Hoki were chosen to practice first is that Bizen is the territory with the strongest ruling power of the Hide family. There are no powerful lords in the territory, and most of them are small wealthy families. The omen of the Xiu family will not resist.

And Boqi is the territory of the Xiu family's relatives, Ukita's Quan family, and the Quan family has always supported the Xiu family's policies, and there has never been a big rebound.

Even if he disagrees, after all, he needs to stay behind in Okayama during the period when the Xiu family is no longer able to return to the territory. The Boqi retainers who lost the backbone of the Quan family can only obey the people sent by the Xiu family.

Most of the Yiyo area is the territory of the new members promoted by the Xiu family, and they have always been fans of the Xiu family.Within the Yuxi family, they can only rely on the Xiu family to gain the right to speak with the conservatives, so they will definitely cooperate with the Xiu family's decision.

As long as all these reforms are completed, after the Battle of Kyushu, even though the Shigao under the direct control of the Xiu family has not increased, it has actually indirectly controlled the mobilization force of nearly 30 shi from Hoki and Yiyo.

The so-called political power comes out of the barrel of a gun. On the basis of the Xiu family's own 32 shi, plus the 30 shi, the Xiu family can truly control more than half of Yuxi's armed forces.

(End of this chapter)