Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 37

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In summer, Bizen was scorched by the sun, and finally the summer rain came to irrigate the crops that were about to be roasted to death. In summer, the cicadas sang around Hideka's Okayama Castle, disturbing Hideka's sleep.

Suddenly, with a few thunderclaps, the cicadas disappeared, and even Xiujia, who was tossed by the heat, felt a bit of coolness.

The samurai guarding outside the Honmaru Palace ran into the palace in a hurry, and fell several times in the middle, as if they saw something terrible.He kept chanting "Water...water..."

Kenjiro, the head attendant, was afraid that someone would disturb Hideyoshi Hideyoshi, so he quickly walked out of the side hall and scolded the flustered samurai, but after hearing the report, he ran into the side hall even more disrespectfully, and woke up the man who had finally fallen asleep. Xiujia said.

"Hall, water, water."

"If you want to drink water, you can pour it yourself. You are more familiar with where the kettle is than I am," Xiujia said with a hint of sleepiness.

"The main hall, there is a flood, and the stone mountain city has been washed away!" Kenjiro finally organized his sentence and said

With a bang, Xiujia woke up from her sleep and sat up.He pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the sounds outside, the sound of rain and water flowed around Xiujia's ears alternately.

Hideka stood up from the hall, running out of the muddy hall without shoes in time, looking towards the direction of Asahikawa from Okayama Castle Honmaru, the once 50-meter-wide Asahikawa has become like a hundred-foot-long river, directly submerging the low-lying Ishiyama Town.Even the earthen walls of Shishan City were washed away by the flood and swept away a piece of houses.

The lucky people stood on the roof of the town and called for help, while the unlucky people were directly engulfed by the flood and headed for the Seto Inland Sea.Xiujia looked at this scene like a purgatory on earth.Hurry up and call Kenjiro to call Tojo Makoto.

Due to the fact that the Xiu family inherits and relies on the family governor, they seldom face the orders of the entire Ukita Territory, so the three elders are seldom called to come to evaluate and vote.This time, by coincidence, the Zhong family has returned to Toyama, but even if the Zhong family leaves, there is no need to worry.

Xiujia formed the executive group with the loyal family as the core after supplementing the internal affairs masters with other skills after the direct participation of the executive group of the loyal family vassal group.Among them are the Shioda Moho who is in charge of the salt fields, the Armament Moho who is in charge of the production of gunpowder and matchlocks for armaments, the Hiramono Moho who is in charge of ordinary rush products and Bizen ware, and so on.

Hideya also divided Okayama Town into two, with Asahikawa as the boundary, divided it into Kawato and Kawanishi.There is also a Tojo Mori who is directly involved in Okayama Castle and is responsible for the construction of Okayama and the procurement and storage of materials.At this moment, Hideka asked Kenjiro to call Tojo Makoto.

At this time, Tojo Nakano Joji was instructing the defenders of the castle to reinforce the earth wall of Ninomaru, trying not to hurt Hideka's Honomaru. After hearing Hideka's call, he came to the palace with mud all over his body.

Nakano Joji came to see Hide's house in the imperial hall looking muddy, perhaps because he was afraid of getting dirty in the hall, he only met in the corridor outside the hall.

"Immediately take a small boat in the city and go to the Kodama Army's main family water army village, and ask them to dispatch Xiaozao to rescue the people trapped on the roof, and take 2000 gold to the Yanbaoshui army village, and ask the leader to send a boat Help save people trapped in water and on rooftops. Transport them to safety."

"Then go and summon Lord Zuo Jingliang, the three elders and other important officials to come to see him as soon as possible."

"Yes, my lord."

After receiving the order, Nakano Joji quickly left the Imperial Pavilion, and went down the river in a paddle boat prepared by Hideka.

Until the evening, the rain eased a little, and the flood gradually calmed down.The Xiaozao of Yuxiduo Shuijun and Yanbaoshui Army were able to go upstream and rescue the people trapped on the roof.Fortunately, before that, they had tried their best to rescue those who fell into the water in the river.

The flood did not recede until the afternoon of the next day, and the building materials, corpses, and silt washed down from the upstream covered both sides of the originally bustling Asahikawa in Okayama Town.

It was not until this was Ukita Tadaka, Hanafo Masayuki, Togawa Tatsuyasu, and Oka Toshikatsu that they were able to ascend the castle, and they were accompanied by Akashi Kageo of Sanshi Castle, Nasafune Sadachi of Osafune Castle and others.

For the first time, the Okayama Castle Palace, which has not been popular for half a year, is slowly being filled.Each family told each other their bitterness, citing the severity of the disaster in their own family.It wasn't until an attendant announced "the arrival of Yuxita Hall", that the hall like a beehive became quiet.

The Xiu family walked quickly into the hall and sat down in the middle, and everyone saluted the Xiu family as usual. "I have seen the lord."

"They are all flat, I believe that each family has more or less been affected by the flood."

"My lord, I..." Boom, following the Xiu family's words, the originally quiet hall seemed to be chattering here, interrupting the Xiu family's speech directly, and each family told the Xiu family in person The situation of their own family, and the Xiu family saw the lack of prestige of their own family behind them, and did not get the attention of their retainers, so they interrupted their own speech unscrupulously.

"Quiet" Zhongjia saw Xiujia's unhappy face and scolded everyone, so Xiujia could continue talking.

"Yuxi has suffered a catastrophe, so my family will naturally be more generous to you. To be honest, my family has indeed stored some food for disaster relief."

"Boom, buzzing, buzzing..." Everyone who heard that Xiu's family was about to release food was very much like the gentry and county magistrates in "1942" who begged for food from high-ranking officials.It wasn't until Zhong's family presided over He Zhi again that he calmed down.

"As I said earlier, our family does use food for disaster relief, but this time our family is not going to give it away for free, but is going to use work for relief."

"Relief with work?" Gu Er asked, as a well-known sinologist, Hanfang Zhengxing heard this term for the first time.

"That's right, it's work in lieu of relief. Has Izumoru heard the story of Xiao He building Chang'an?" Hideka didn't answer Hanabang Masayuki directly, but threw him a rhetorical question.

"I've heard it a little bit." Afterwards, Huafang Zhengxing told the story of building Chang'an.

It turned out that after Liu Bang pacified the world, he initially planned to make Luoyang his capital. Later, Lou Jing, a soldier in the garrison, met Liu Bang and suggested taking advantage of the dangerous situation in Guanzhong to make Xianyang his capital.After Liu Bang asked Zhang Liang's opinion, he immediately decided to make Xianyang his capital.Therefore, Liu Bang temporarily lived in Liyang and ordered Prime Minister Xiao He to build Xianyang.

In 199 B.C., the palace was completed, and Xiao Hezuo invited the emperor to visit.Liu Bang then went from Liyang to Xianyang, Xiao He took over and led him to tour.The largest one, called Weiyang Palace, is twenty or thirty miles around.In the east and west, the Que gate is the widest.The scale of the halls is also high and open, especially the front hall is the most luxurious and magnificent.Arsenal and Taicang are built next to the hall separately, with a majestic atmosphere.

After Liu Bang inspected it, he thought the palace was too magnificent and luxurious, so he blamed Xiao He and said, "My uprising was originally to save the people. Now the world is set for the first time, and the people are exhausted. How can this palace be built so luxuriously?"

Xiao He saw that Emperor Han blamed him, so he said calmly: "It is because the world has just stabilized that we can take the opportunity to recruit more people and things to build the palace. Future generations will come and rebuild.”

Seeing Xiao He's answer was so decent, Liu Bang turned his anger into joy and said, "In this way, I can't help blaming you by mistake."

After Hanafang Masayuki finished telling the story, the people who were doing it still didn't understand what it had to do with opening the warehouse to release grain, but Hanafang Masayuki and Ukita Tadaka's family had already guessed half of it.

Hideka simply said, "Bizen was flooded suddenly, the people were displaced, the houses in Okayama town were washed away in a large area, and the people suffered a sudden catastrophe. I am afraid that it will be difficult to rebuild the houses for a while. At this time, it is time to rebuild Okayama town. good time!"

"It happened that some time ago, the rush harvest could be used as a roof, and all the wood used by the people to build houses was provided by the family. There is only one thing, how to repair and where to repair need to be re-divided according to the plan of the family, and can not be built at will."

Hachiro's plan is to refer to the structure of Odawara castle town and build another ring of general structure on the periphery of the castle town as the outermost city wall, making Okayama town the first line of defense of Okayama castle.

It should be known that only Odawara was the only one who included the town into the city in a sense, and even Futamata Castle, which was supervised, only included the samurai's Jinya and some fields in the city.

In addition to rebuilding Okayama Town, Hideka also plans to use these refugees to build and widen the Asahikawa River to prevent flooding here next time, repair the roads together with the counties to make the business routes more convenient, etc. At the same time, it can also be further built. Okayama Castle.And people, regardless of men, women, or children, can get two meals in the morning and evening as long as they participate in the work.

Hideka's suggestion seems to have opened up everyone's horizons, and they all exaggerated to Hideka. After confirming the policy, Hideka ordered Tadaka and Hanafo Masayuki to be responsible for the construction of Asahikawa, Okayama Town, and Okayama Castle. Part of the grain was returned to the ability to be responsible for the maintenance of the ability.

Before leaving, the Xiu family strictly required each family to follow the requirements of the "Health Regulations" and not to drink raw water directly. It must be filtered and boiled before drinking. I just don't know how many people listened to it. Anyway, the Xiu family strictly requires The leaders of the villages directly under the Central Government will continue to implement it, and warn that any epidemic disease must be reported immediately.

After half a month of intense tidying up, there were few reports of epidemics in the territory directly under Ukita's jurisdiction. Instead, the peasant warriors of the wealthy family, who had not taken it seriously at the beginning, began to fall in pieces.

So much so that after June, when Ukita's direct administration began to resume replanting autumn grain, these wealthy families were still held back by the disease and could not restore their livelihoods. The Xiu family had to send medical officers to see a doctor. There are no specific medicines for diseases such as malaria and malaria, and we can only continue to replenish water for patients to recover with their own immunity.

However, if the water is still fed with unpurified and boiled water, it is nothing more than constant poisoning. This is why the epidemic in the Hao clan cannot be suppressed until the medical officer of the Xiu family arrives and strictly controls the use of water. It gradually improved.

The Uki family suffered a sudden catastrophe, and the national power declined sharply. If the Hideyoshi family hadn't accumulated some food and money in the first half of the year, it would have been like the Uki family in history.

The Xiu family knew that the Uki family was like fish on a chopping board at this time, and the Maori family in the West Country must have secretly mobilized the wealthy Uki family.Xiujia must hurry up to prepare the territory, and at the same time ask Nobunaga for help.

So on July 7th, the ninth year of Tianzheng, after Hideka stabilized a little in the territory, he handed over state affairs to Zhongjia and Sanlao, and brought Akigami Hisaka and Kenjiro with him to go to Luo for the first time since the succession of the family governor.

Accompanying Shangluo was the second batch of 300 members of the Ukita Banner Army, and Qiu Shangjiujia finally obtained 800 shi after serving the Xiu family for many years, and served as one of the 12 captains of the Banner Team.

Xiujia’s banner team is equipped with contemporary equipment uniformly customized by Xiujia. The body part is made of Qiefu Xiaozha (big iron sheet), and the carcass is made of blue prestige rope. And the grass cover, together with the uniform blue painted pheasant tail hair helmet.

Coupled with the blue-backed sword piece and the banner finger with the slash pattern, the heroic image of Ukita Banner comes alive on the paper.

In addition to the armor, each banner needs a heavy rattan bow, 20 arrows or an iron cannon, some ammunition, a two-gun spear, and a number of knives. These need to be prepared by yourself. Considering that many banners are selected from ashigaru When the family was in a difficult situation, Xiu's family lent it to them temporarily and repaid it from their annual salary.

Xiujia still can't equip every banner with horses, so the 300-person banner team has only one squadron of more than 30 people on horseback, except for the squadron leaders and captains riding horses.

After the preparations were completed, the Xiu family set off from Okayama to Shangluo with the prepared gifts, and more than 500 businessmen/citizens accompanied them.

(End of this chapter)