Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 400

The retainers from the direct line of the Xiu family have been divided into fiefs, and the Xiu family needs to confirm the fiefdoms of the rich family that Iyo originally ruled.

The first person to be granted fiefdom was Mr. Toshima, who was awarded 1.3 stone collars in the northern part of Fengzao County and the southern part of Noma County by Hideka. His home city was Kikuma Castle in Noma County.

Kuijima Dori is always the fourth son of Murakami Toshiyasu, the head of the Kurakami family in the Murakami navy family. In 1582, Kuijima Dori Hideyoshi (the latter's persuasion) joined the Oda family.

Therefore, he was attacked by the Mori and Kono allied forces, lost his territory and defected to Hideyoshi, and was taken in by Hideyoshi.

Later, after the evaluation of the four countries, it was awarded the full command of Fuzao County. At that time, the main city was Takaana Castle in Fuzao County on the south side. It was directly allocated to the Xiu family.

The allocation here is not Yuli, but directly awarded as an accompanying minister, which is equivalent to the fact that the Xiu family actually got less than 1 stones from Fengzao County's Zhixing.

Because he is an accompanying minister, the Hide family's attitude towards him is different from that of Bizen's Changzong Gabu Xinqin and Hoki's Nanjo Genxu. The Hide family has the right to transfer and resettle him.

In order to resettle Akashi Jingqin, Hideyoshi moved him from Fuzao County to the north by half a county, so that his territory spanned Fengzao and Noma counties while his knowledge and actions remained unchanged.

The one who transferred the seal together with Mr. Lai Dao Tong was also Deju Tong Xing, who was the elder brother of Mr. Lai Dao Tong.Like Mr. Kuishima, he took refuge in Oda Nobunaga and was repelled by the Maori family. After the War of the Four Kingdoms, Kashima Castle was restored on the eastern island of Noma County.

For this part of the territory, the Xiu family recognized it. Anyway, the Xiu family did not have so much thought to manage the situation on the outlying islands.

Noma County Zhixing has a total of about 1.1 shi, but after arranging the total 8000 shi of Laishima, it is difficult to arrange another retainer. The reason is that the Hakata area in the north of Noma is actually under the Murakami water under the Maori. under military control.

Originally, they owned the three counties of Noma, Kazhaya, and Ochi in the northern part of Iyo. Now, as the Toyotomi family settled in Iyo, they voluntarily gave up most of the territory under the signal of the Mori family.

Although they have not all withdrawn, they have clearly released a friendly attitude. The reason why Bo Fang is not retreating is because this has always been the core territory of the Murakami Navy, and it is really difficult to back down, and the Xiu family is not willing to be too much. This tangled.

The remaining 8.4 koku of the five counties of Sangcun, Zhoubu, Xinju, Uma, and Kume after Iyo’s transfer of seals, and the 1.5 koku of Iyo, Ochi, and Kazezao, a total of 10 koku, were assigned to Hideka’s direct jurisdiction.

For the 6 counties of Sangcun, Zhoubu, Kume, Iyo, Ochi, and Kazezao, Hideka will be used to place standing and direct-administered banner samurai with meritorious service, while Xinju and Umo counties will give little Hideka command due to their possession of copper mines. Envelope.

The territory of Bizen has not changed much. Only the Tenjin Mountain City Masatoshi Suga was sealed with 1000 shi, and the total increase of Zhixing was only 1.96 shi.

So far, the entire assessment of rewards has come to an end. The Xiu family is only responsible for the rewards of large body flag books that exceed 1000 koku, and Nasafune Sadakin and Oka Toshikatsu are responsible for dividing the fiefdoms below 1000 koku.
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After this round of fiefdom conversion, Hideka's territory in various countries has undergone great changes. Generally speaking, the direct jurisdictions of Bichu and Bizen have slightly decreased, the direct jurisdictions of Misaka and Iyo have increased greatly, and Sanuki has no direct jurisdictions. .

After the post-harvest inspection and this round of enfeoffment, Bizen had a total of 28.62 koku of Zhixing, 2 daimyo-level retainers in the territory owned 6.76 koku, and 16 retainers of Osami Banner’s head of Zhixing 4.55 koku, most of which were controlled by the Ukita branch. In the hands of the Xiu family, the Xiu family directly or indirectly controls 17.31 shi.

Bichu Yiguo Zhixing 22.79 shi, there are 3 daimyo-level retainers, namely Hanafang, Fujido, and Zhuang, with a total of 8.65 shi of Zhixing.

Oshen Banner and 17 members of the local wealthy family, including Ikato Heiji, Ueki Tomomi, Hirakawa Okinawa, Oda Ryokiyo, etc., possessed a total of 6.50 shi of Zhixing, and the Hide family directly or indirectly controlled 7.64 shi of Zhixing.

Sanuki Ichigo has 16.70 shi of Zhixing and 4 daimyo-level retainers. They control a territory of 15.95 shi. Daishen Banner Honjo Lin Yixin controls a territory of 7500 shi. Hideka has no direct or indirect control of territory.

There are 1.53 koku in the Inaba Ikkuni County, and there is one daimyo-level retainer, and the Hide family directly or indirectly controls 1 koku.

There are 18.54 shi of knowledge and practice in the country of Meizuo, and there are 2 daimyo-level retainers, who have 4.45 shi of knowledge and practice.

There are also 11 people from the Hao family and Dashen Banner, who have mastered 7.34 shi of Zhixing, and the Xiu family has obtained 6.75 shi through Zhixing directly or indirectly controlled.

Yiyu has Zhixing 20.73 shi, 3 daimyo-level vassals, 6.7 shi in total, Dashen Banner and 13 people from the Hao family, and they have 3.18 shi, which means that the Xiu family directly or indirectly controls the leading country Zhixing At 10.85 shi.

Boqi has 15.8 stones of knowledge and practice, and 7 daimyo-level retainers. They have 14.5 stones of knowledge and practice, and there are two Dashen Banners. Or indirectly control 2 stones.

Izumo has Zhixing 10.1 koku and 4 daimyo-level retainers. They control the territory of 8.32 koku. There are 1.3 stones.

To sum up, after the Kyushu assessment and the autumn harvest inspection, the total value of Yuxi’s knowledge and practice is 134.81 shi.

Among them, daimyo-level retainers own a huge territory of 62.38 koku, the Dashen Banner and the powerful family own a territory of 24 koku, and the Xiu family directly or indirectly controls a territory of 48.43 koku through the banners and small-collar retainers.

Among them, the more than 15 shi in Dashen Banner's territory were all brought up by the Xiu family. This part of the vassals, the Xiu family, has absolute confidence in mastering it. On the whole, the 100% control of the Xiu family's territory exceeds 66.43 shi, which is close to 50%. .

In addition, most of the daimyo-level retainers are retainers who have continued to expand their territory with the growth of the Yuki family, and their loyalty to the Xiu family is very high.

In other words, through 6 years of hard work, the Xiu family has promoted the new vassals, rewarded and promoted low-level warriors to control the small collars, and transferred and raised the fiefdoms of the original Yuxi family genealogical vassals. Ukido, whom the retainers looked up to, was in his own hands.

This award basically covered all the retainers of Yuxi's family, and everyone benefited from it. It made them believe that they would definitely get benefits from following Uxido's family, which strengthened their determination to follow the Xiu's family.

The whole morning of award evaluation lasted, and this was the case that the retainers who were less than a thousand stones did not announce the arrangement on the spot.

After the award was over, most of the retainers went to drink happily in groups of three or four, but the Xiu family and several family elders who were the governor of the family could not leave just now, and there was still a small meeting to be held for the final work after the award. It has become a customary rule for so many years.

Only those who attended this meeting, in addition to the 7 family elders, were also invited to attend.

It was also because the evaluation in the morning took too long, so the Xiu family simply asked people to set up a banquet in the evaluation room, and then held a meeting with this group of core retainers after lunch.

After lunch, Xiujia stared at Changshu Zhengjia and Nagafune Sadakin and said: "The construction of the Okayama Joto Maru is urgent, you two should deal with this matter as soon as possible, I will stay in Shishan I will go to Osaka again in November, and I want to see you make obvious improvements in this one month."

Changchuan Zhenqin, as the elder of the writing family, also supervises the internal affairs of the family.Originally, when the award was established recently, he was already in a state of distress, but now the Xiu family threw this matter at him again, which made him frown deeply.

But for such a big event as the marriage of the Xiu family, as the elder of the writing family, he should really take on this responsibility.

And what the Hide family said is correct, Kikuhime is the eldest princess of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's family, and at the same time Toyotomi Hideyoshi's favorite niece, such a daughter of a nobleman from the Tianmen married to Okayama, and now this Stone Mountain Castle really looks like A little crude.

Let Ju Ji live in Shishan City, if you say it in a small way, you will lose the face of Yuxi's family, and if you say it in a big way, it will make Ju Ji suffer. Isn't it disrespectful to Toyotomi's family!
Therefore, he gritted his teeth and said, "I know this. It is indeed difficult to mobilize the people to serve husbands when the year is approaching, but I will try my best to overcome it."

"It's not difficult at all." The Xiu family interrupted him and said, "In the past and present, there is indeed no record of mobilizing the people to serve husbands near the end of the year, and it is also the bad governance of tyrants.

But the common people have always obeyed the arrangement of the family. The family has hundreds of thousands of people. Is it difficult to mobilize 20/3 people at the price of 5000 Wen per person per day?

The wages of these people for 2 months are only 1 penny. Even if the cost of the craftsmen is only 5/6000 pennies, is it so difficult? "

When Ming Shi Jingqin heard that the Xiu family wanted to spend money again, he had held back his thoughts for a long time, and he said to the Xiu family, "Your Highness will spend 6000 guanwen for this marriage, and we can definitely pay for it.

But don't forget, Your Highness, we still have the construction work of Tangzhu, Songqian, Songjiang, Jingyuan and other cities. His Highness has just promised to give financial support to these cities, which is no less than 16 guan.

The building of the city is not just as simple as the mobilization of the laborers. The preparation of related materials, especially stone and wood, is several times that. Now that the end of the new year is approaching, the price of materials on the market is more expensive.

Timber is fine, we have already prefabricated and baked the relevant wood in advance for the city building next year, but this stone is all mined in real time.

Now that the end of the new year is approaching, and many caves in Meizuo, Beizhong and other places are ready to rest, how can we mobilize them to start quarrying again?Their wages are not cheap. Although there are not many of them, at least it costs 5 guan.

Even if the quarrying starts, it will cost more than 3/5 thousand people to transport the stone from Meizuo, Beizhong and other places to Okayama.

If the above-mentioned civilian husbands are given financial subsidies in the same way as the civilian husbands who built the city under the Okayama ministers, this is 5/6000 guan.

To sum up, if His Royal Highness wants to hurry up the construction period, the family will have to spend nearly 2 guan more on manpower alone, and the purchase of related materials and consumables will also need to spend more than 1 guan more.

If all the costs are included, it will take about 4.5 guan, which is basically equivalent to the regular expenditure we need to build the city for a year according to the plan.

Now that the end of the new year is approaching, there is a quota for all consumption. His Highness also told me to wait for the annual expenditure to be paid in advance. Now such a large sum will definitely exceed the budget at the beginning of the year.

The point is that we didn't leave enough money for this, and the 6000 coins for His Highness's wedding are all squeezed out. "

This was the first time Mingshi Jingqin confronted the Xiu family so bluntly. Although he did not directly reject the Xiu family's request, the meaning was already very clear.

Among the people present, only Nasafuna Sadako, the elder of the pen family, could understand the difficulties of Akashi Jingqin. As the elder of the pen family, he would check the account books submitted by Akashi Jingqin every month.

He knew very well that this huge Bizen Toyotomi family had made a lot of money, but also had a lot of related expenses. Now that the end of the year was approaching, it would be really difficult for him to ask Akashi Keiki to get another 5 kan.

However, the fire here has not stopped, and the Changshu Zhengjia behind them poured another fire, "Okayama Palace, I just calculated it again, and I want to complete Okayama Castle, Yamamoto City and East Palace within 4 months." For the construction of Maru, there must be no less than 8000 civilian workers, no less than 450 masons, and no less than 800 carpenters."

"What?" Hearing the new figure reported by Changshu Zhengjia, Akashi Jingqin was completely blown away, "God Amaterasu, the minimum expenditure required in this way must be at least 7 guan, and I can't get it out. Absolutely not.

Adding in the other costs of building the city, Your Highness, the cost of getting married, the cost is no less than 10 guan! "

After finishing speaking, he looked at the Xiu family and said: "Your Highness, you are well aware of our family's finances, if you could have given away so much money at the beginning, the reward given to Ashigaru in the Battle of Kyushu would not be offset by things.

Now you want me to spend so much money for you, there is really nothing I can do, if Your Highness does what you can, please ask your Highness to hire another wise man. "

Seeing that Akashi Jing was so anxious, he planned to resign directly, but fortunately, Osafune Sada and Oka Toshikatsu dissuaded him from the side, which made him turn off the fire a little bit.

Regarding his complaints, Xiujia was silent for a moment and said, "There are priorities, and the 6000 guan money for getting married must not be less.

You can look at the cost of building the city in Okayama. First, take advantage of the fact that there are still 2 months before the Chinese New Year, and step up the procurement of materials, and ask Bichu and Misaku to speed up the progress of quarrying and reduce costs.

You can look at the mobilization of civilian husbands separately. In the past, after the autumn harvest, there was a tradition of performing military service or serving in the spring of the next year. You can share this part of the civilian power with the countries under your command.

Starting with Bichu and Bizen, which have fewer entrustments, Meizuoyun is combined into a group, Hoki and Sanuki are combined into a group, and Bichu, Bizen, and Iyo are each in a group to send troops to Okayama. Each civilian husband is responsible for working for one month.

Except for the silver subsidy given in the first half of the new year and the second half of the new year, no money will be given to others, and all people will be recruited according to the general request for city construction.

Finally, there is the cost of building cities such as Songjiang. As you said, the price of building materials will rise sharply near the end of the new year, so let them postpone the building of the city. Xianpu asks the people to level the land, dig trenches, and ram the earthen walls. This kind of work.

As for the construction of castle towers, oar towers, and stone walls, it can be postponed to the next year or the year after. Anyway, the construction of the city cannot be completed in a short period of time.Let them temporarily garrison nearby cities. "

While the Xiu family was talking, Akashi Jingqin was also doing the calculations, and after the Xiu family finished his instructions, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If the 1.5 yuan for the construction of the distant country is suspended, and the subsidy for the construction of the city is reduced to one month. In the short term, related expenditures should be reduced to less than 1 guan.”

Chang Shuzheng’s family still didn’t forget to interject, saying, “Masons and carpenters are not ordinary craftsmen, and they cannot be hired by ordinary people. This part is not allowed to spend excessive money to hire people from all over the country, even Kinki countries.”

Akashi Jingqin turned his head and glanced at him and said, "It has already been counted. I have reserved 8000 guan for labor, of which 3500 guan are used as rewards for civilian husbands, and the rest are all for you to recruit craftsmen."

After getting a clear answer from Akashi Jingqin, Chang Shuzheng's family was relieved.

(End of this chapter)