Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 33 Xiujia's Ezo Raiders

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In the main hall, the samurai of the Yuki family and the warriors of the Hashiba family played together. The Hide family came out of the banquet early and came to the backyard of the Imperial Palace. From the Honmaru, they could see the Asahikawa passing through the city under the moonlight, and Okayama in winter was covered with a Layers of light frost and snow, do not have a taste.

"Hachiro." Since Xiujia Yuanfu, the only people who can still call "Hachiro" are his mother Fukuzhifang, Hideyoshi and Zhongjia.

Hideyoshi turned his head, and the person who came was the Zhong family, followed by three thin men.The Xiu family was very curious, did the Zhong family bring their own farmers to see them?

"Hachiro, this is the head of the ninja army, Takano Zongyoshi," the Hide family introduced to one of the three.

"In Shimokoya Kankuro Soyoshi, see Mr. Ukita."

The Xiu family looked at this thin, dark-skinned man. If the Zhong family did not introduce him, the Xiu family looked like an ordinary peasant in the Warring States Period.

"Lord Takaya, you have worked hard for so many years of serving the public." The show family greeted Takaya Zongyoshi.

But this greeting was obviously beyond the expectations of everyone present. None of them thought that a big name of 50 stone would say hard work to a commoner of inferior status.

Koya Zongyoshi was stunned for a moment, and then said with sincerity: "These are all things that I should do."

"I just heard that you surrendered to me, Lord Yuxi, why aren't you a retainer of Yuxi?"

"I'm just a lowly person, I'm not even a samurai, how can I become a retainer of the Yuxi family?" Koya Sungyoshi shook his head and said.

Seeing that the Xiu family didn't know much about their own ninja army, the Zhong family took over the words and introduced, "Zongji is the land of the high field where Bizen Mizuo meets the border. The place is full of mountains and mountains, production is difficult, and there are many refugees who have experienced escaping war."

"Because of the lack of grain production, the main source of income is to go over the mountains to collect mountain treasures and sell them to merchants, or to go down the mountains to work as tenants for the landlords. These also exercise their flexibility. Grandfather Zongyoshi once asked Iga to learn ninjutsu, and came back to teach the surrounding area. Residents of the villages of

"Hachiro, you also know that there is no Shigao in that place, and the elder brother did not conquer there. He accepted Zongji's surrender and cooperated with the family's intelligence work as a subordinate, and gave some support rice as a reward every year."

Hideyoshi understood the meaning of the loyal family. Although the emotional Nao family is nominally the emperor of Bizen Mizuo, in fact, there are many places far away from the emperor who do not listen to you at all. They just don't bother you anymore, and these places are like chicken ribs. , the Zhi family is not interested in soliciting.

"How much did your father pay you before he died?" the Xiu family asked Zongji
"Give 200 shi of support rice a year, and 400 kuai will be distributed by me to each village"

百度百科上说日本的1石约现在的 17~20公斤，其实这是错误的，等秀家来到这个世界才知道1石大概合约后世的130公斤重，都是未脱壳的糙米。按照每人每日5裱即1.3斤来算，1石米基本相对于一名日本成年男人一年的食物。

而宗吉所说的200石扶持米，大概相当于给了他手下200人一年的粮食。依照1个家庭5~8个人来算，宗吉手下男女老少应该在1500人左右。

"From now on, I'll give you 200 stone of support rice and 200 kuai reward money every year. I hope you can continue to serve for the family." The Xiu family almost doubled the reward they gave them directly. I think they can live a better life too.

"Hayi, I'm here to thank Lord Yukita for the people of Koya Tsuruta."

"Don't worry, there are some things for you to do"

"Please do as you please, Your Highness."

"Strengthen the intelligence of Maori, Shikoku and Kinai. If there is anything important, you must report it to me as soon as possible."

"These are all things that the minister has been doing, and the minister promises to send the information to His Highness as soon as possible."

Hachiro nodded with satisfaction after hearing Zongji's words, and whispered in his ear again.
"In addition, I want you to arrange as many men, women and children in your village as possible to work in each house in your territory, and report back to me as soon as possible if you have any troubles."

Takano Mongyoshi's eyes widened when he heard Hide's words, and he asked uncertainly, "Is it all?"

"As much as possible, senior samurai must arrange."

"A group of people too"

"I said all. Do it well, and there is another reward for this."

"Yes, Your Highness"

The Xiujia and Zongji's whispers were not heard by the Zhongjia. He just thought that the Xiujia was arranging some special multi-tasking, and simply looked at Asahikawa outside the city just like the Xiujia just now.

The Xiu family was very satisfied with Zongji after instructing Zongji, and deliberately said loudly, "Work hard, and you will definitely be rewarded in the future. It is also possible to become a samurai and give you land."

The Xiu family's words were of course said in front of several people. Zongji's eyes widened and he even thanked him. The Zhong family, who was in a daze, was also pulled back to reality, and looked at the Xiu family in surprise.

"His Royal Highness, these two are the third son Kansuke and the nephew Sasaburo, both of whom have obtained 8 points of the family's true inheritance. This time, they have specially brought him as His Highness's attendants. If there is anything that needs to be ordered, you can also notify them through them. I."

"I see, I have received your sincerity, and please serve the public wholeheartedly in the future."

"Roms."

The Hide family called Kenjiro, who had just been taken away by the Chu family, and instructed him to arrange for the two of them to be with them.

The Hide family asked the Chu family while blowing the sea breeze from the Seto Inland Sea.
"Uncle, what do you think the family needs most now?"

The Zhong family pondered for a moment and returned to "After the war just now, the population of the family was exhausted, and the gross profit almost destroyed the best part of the family, and now it is most in need of recuperation."

"In the turbulent times of the Warring States, why are you still eager to recuperate? Uncle, you are too idealistic." The Xiu family denied the idea of ​​​​the loyal family.

"What the family really needs is a wealthy country and strong soldiers." Xiujia put forward his own point of view. "The family and the Maori family have formed a one-year contract. I want to make the family's strength to a higher level within this one year. One year After that, Daisuke Central Affairs was unwilling to double the amount of the bizhong leader that he gave me to come back."

The Zhong family looked at the ambitious little nephew. If he hadn't created too many legends, who would believe a child's Zhuang language?

Early the next morning, the Xiu family, who had become the clan supervisor, issued the first order to build a fortress.

In history, the great flood in the ninth year of Tianzheng would wash down Shishan Castle, so that the Hide family who returned to Shishan to inherit the family governor had to rebuild Okayama on the basis that had been washed away.

The Xiu family, who knew this period of history, was prepared to plan ahead, taking advantage of the fact that the army had not dissipated and the manpower was sufficient, so that these peasants and soldiers who were soldiers in wartime and farmers in peacetime stayed temporarily to rely on Pingjing Mountain on the other side of Asahikawa. Mountains build fortresses.

It happened that Kanbei Kuroda, a well-known fortress of Yuchai, was in the formation, and the Hideka asked this adult to help design the Pingjing Mountain Castle.

Most of the main cities in the Warring States period of Japan were changing from mountain cities to Pingshan cities. After all, mountain cities were inconvenient for transportation.

With the mutual annexation of the samurai families, Japan's war at this time has developed into an economic war. Before Hideyoshi's starving Tottori, he sent Governor Konishi to purchase a large amount of food from Inaba and Tajima, which was able to quickly make Tottori run out of food.

Moreover, with the fall of Otani Castle, the Japanese daimyo also found that the mountain city was easy to be attacked from the side, and gradually abandoned the mountain city, and chose to build the city on the ground. The representatives of this era were the cities of Edo and Mito.

At this time, most of the families that still relied on the mountain castle as the main city could not relocate because of the historical significance of the original, such as the Kasuga mountain castle of the Uesugi family.

However, the Pingjing Mountain chosen by the Xiu family is different. To the north of Pingjing Mountain is Shanyang Avenue, which is opposite to the current Shishan City across the Asahikawa and across the river. The cost of mounds when the city is built.

Moreover, Hirai Mountain also has an advantage over Shishan. In fact, it is the mainstream of Asahikawa in the west, and the Baijian River, a tributary of Asahikawa in the north and east, and the two rivers branch into the sea in the northwest of Hirai Mountain.

The future Okayama Castle planned by the Xiu family will be a large city built on the basis of the mountains, with a wharf of Okayama Town in the south and a river in the northwest and east.On the opposite bank of the Baijian River in the north and the Asahi River in the west is the Sanyo Avenue, and the surrounding towns are built around the Uaishan Mountain, which has become a large city in the Western Kingdom.

Of course, these all take decades of hard work. At this stage, Hachiro only dares to build a mountain city with 3 guo on the west side of Hirai Mountain. Unlike other mountain cities, Hachiro directly orders people to level the mountain and cut down trees. Height, shot a flat mountain city.

On the 1th day of the first month of the ninth year of Tianzheng, Hideyoshi Hideyoshi, who had been staying in Bizen for a month, finally retreated with his reserve. Each person gave 3 hot rice balls and 100 wen to disband the army.

Although the time was short, with the huge military population of Yukita and the Yuchai family, the outline of the Pingjingshan Castle planned by the Xiu family was finally pushed out.

The Xiu family plans to wait for the first month to pass, and then turn to summon Lingming to build the castle, earthen walls and screen panels.I have no idea about the temporary flashy castle tower.

During this time, Hachiro asked the Chu family to count the bows of the main family, plus the bows captured in the previous Inaba Mori campaign, a total of 4350, but there were only about 200 heavy Fuji bows, and most of them were Marugi bows with little lethality.It seems that it is imperative to rush to make new bows.

The show family knew that there were many elastic woods that Bizen and Mizuo could make into bows, but most of them were low-elasticity woods such as nanmu.These are not the sphere of influence of the Xiu family, but they do not prevent the Xiu family from making plans.

It just so happened that not long ago, Qiu Shang Jiujia and Master Xuanzhu returned with 300 iron cannons that Oda Nobuta sold cheaply, along with a Portuguese missionary from Sakai Port, Silvio Zinal.The Xiu family was not interested in the Catholic style, so they dismissed him after seeing him.

The Xiu family first summoned the former head of the Zhi family, the head of the Jiushan Shige family. After the Zhi family was injured by the iron cannon and died, he has been brooding, thinking that this is his responsibility.He was summoned at Xiu's house, hoping to help him return to his own home.

"Kaga Mori, long time no see."

"The official Hatoyama Shige family sees the lord."

"I heard from Master Takashima that you haven't reported to the flag book since your father died, and now the flag book of Yuxi is no longer under control. This is not good." Lord Takashima in Xiujia's mouth is the head of Yuxi's right flag. (Deputy leader of the banner) Takashima Masaru has always been the deputy of the Hatoyama clan.

"The death of the main hall is the inescapable responsibility of the minister." The Hatoyama Shige family said in a choked voice.

The Xiu family didn’t expect the Hatoyama family to start crying without saying a word, and had to be comforted, but also saw that the Hatoyama family might have a hard time getting out of this shadow, so they gave up the initial persuasion. The idea of ​​him coming back to play.

It happened that Hachiro thought that his family lacked wood for making bows, so he asked Hatoyama Shige's family.
"I still hope Kaga Mamoru can play for the family, but seeing Kaga Mamoru's situation today, I'm afraid it's not a good choice to stay in Shishan. Have you heard of Ezo?"

"Is Your Highness talking about the extreme north? I heard that there is no grass there, and it is not a place where people can live."

Nonsense, if Hokkaido is not suitable for life, how can the local Ainu survive, and Hokkaido will still be Japan's grain-producing area in the future.It's just that these show families couldn't speak directly to the Hatoyama Shige family, so they nodded and said.
"It's there, but it's not a barren place, and it produces excellent furs and wood, and the family is now in need of the pine wood over there to make strong bows."

"Since the head of Koishi-gong left Shiharima, there is almost no one to lead the naval army. I will now assign Endo Juntong and the marine army to you. You can take you to Ezo to purchase fur, cut wood, and make the wood on the spot. When the bow is transported back to the territory, the food and Bizen-fired in the territory can be transported to trade with the local people."

"But I don't know how to do business here." The Zhong family asked suspiciously.

"Business affairs will naturally be handed over to others. I will let you go to Ezo to establish a settlement in advance, as a place for your family to call the port in the future. You have to rely on the settlement to expand the place under your family's control, and you can rely on economic control. The Inu people depend on the economy, and if they can't, they will return to their own family, and the family will send troops to annihilate them."

After that, he took out a map of Ezo drawn by himself and handed it to the Hatoyama Shige family, and pointed to the place of Tomakomai in later generations and said, "This is the first stronghold you want to build."

The Xiu family confidently talked about how Datong looked at the Hatoyama Shige family with a lot of doubts, thinking that he had absolutely no idea how to do the colonial tricks of later generations.

After talking for a long time, only the Ainu who said that they would be able to disobey and that the Ainu could be wiped out.

The Xiu family looked at the Hatoyama Shige family's idea of ​​ruling by force, and after thinking about it, they still felt that handing over this matter to a martial arts school would only get half the effort with half the effort.

If the Ezo Ainu unite is triggered, I am afraid that it will not be saved in the vast ocean of the war of names like the current Yuzaki family. I simply hand it over to the Hatoyama Shige family to occupy a settlement to reclaim the territory and cooperate with the Ezo governor to defend and invade. the command of his land, and said
"Half of the territory you reclaimed will be rewarded to you as a reward for your future knowledge and deeds. The more you occupy and reclaim, the greater your knowledge and deeds, and maybe the Hatoyama family will become the master of Wanshi in the future. Of course, all your actions in Ezo You must obey the orders of the governor above you."

The Hatoyama Shige family heard that as long as they fight the Ainu people in the primitive society, they can still get half of the reclaimed territory.

After the Hatoyama Shige family left, Hachiro was troubled by the lack of enough internal affairs talents in the territory.

After thinking about it, only two people in Ukita's territory should understand what Hachiro meant by colonization.

One is Master Xuanzhu, who has been promoted by the Xiu family since he was a child. I think he can understand the Xiu family's strategy for dealing with Ezo matters. The other is Silvio Zinaer who they brought back this time. I want to know a little bit about colonial rule.

The Xiu family thought about it again, and it is true that religion is always the best weapon for expansion. Sending Xuanzhu and Silvio Zenal to Ezo is just the way to prevent religion from dominating one family.So Hachiro, who made up his mind, decided to call the two of them together to talk about his thoughts later.

(End of this chapter)