Prime Minister Bizen

They couldn't understand the operation of the Xiu family. In their view, those people were just consumables. They could work for the master and still want the master to pay for it?

But after all, it was the Xiu family who paid to support these peasant husbands. Since their retainers were not required to bear this part of the expenses, why did they bother to persuade them?
Of course, the Xiu family's financial resources are not unlimited, and it is impossible to save the economy by using this way of bleeding the daimyo all the time in the future.

It has to be said that in peaceful times, this kind of general request system where the people build sieges for daimyos out of their own pockets is really a good system for daimyos.

It's just that the entire Kanto has been turned into a pot of porridge, and the Xiu family is unwilling to do nothing when the people's livelihood is dying.

When encountering disasters in the past, there were very few big names who took the initiative to rescue the disaster. They all relied on the people to lick their wounds and quietly restore their strength after several years.

Xiang Jinchuan is already a high-level player who will take the initiative to provide food relief after a disaster.

But as mentioned above, whether it is not providing relief in the face of disasters and letting them fend for themselves, or giving food compensation free of charge, it is not good for the economy.

This economic issue is a bit complicated to explain. In short, from the perspective of Western economics, the active and free disaster relief method is actually more harmful to the economy than doing nothing, allowing the economy to recover itself.

The reason is similar to the economic crisis, when things cannot be sold, continuing to fight price wars will only make the economy more depressed.

Therefore, based on the summary of the Xiu family's hundreds of years of experience, in the face of the disaster, the Xiu family will definitely choose to use work relief to revive the economy.

And the best export caliber of work-for-relief is infrastructure, because infrastructure can have a positive circular effect on the economy, and good infrastructure can promote further investment.

The purpose of Xiujia's guarantee of food for the peasants participating in the work-for-relief program is to reduce their family's living burden, and at the same time use their physical strength to complete various projects that Xiujia needs to face at the moment.

The Xiu family gave them wages after the project was over, so that they could take the saved money back to the market after the end of the labor service, and promote the positive flow of the entire Kanto economy.

Never worry that ordinary people will save money, because they don't have much money after deducting taxes throughout the year, and food and clothing are hard expenses.

don't understand?Have you ever seen a house slave who has extra money to go out to travel, play, and recharge money for games?

As long as the people are suppressed by such a huge economic mountain, and this mountain is their most important asset, in order to guarantee their final asset value, they will be the most obedient group of people in the world.

People only think about all kinds of messy things when they have spare money.People who live for survival are the most stable group of people in the whole society.

After a round of discussion in the audience, someone took the initiative to ask, "His Royal Highness, according to what you said, Musashi and Hitachi may have to undertake two labors next year, and will the three countries of Ueno, Shimono, Saitama, and Shisoso be in the second half of this year?" Wouldn't there be no labor?"

"That's not the case." Hideka looked at the people below and said, "The three countries of Ueno, Shimono, and Saitama will be the key areas for the preparation of military service accounts, and they must be completed before the end of the year.

This is not the case in Xiazong, Xiazong, Musashi, and Qiyu, there are countless small towns and villages in a mess. Xiazong originally appointed 1.2 people to be responsible for the ruined cities of the Three Kingdoms.

Next year, the plan for river improvement and the construction of Iwatsu Castle will be finalized. Musashi, Hitachi, and Shimoso will be responsible for the river improvement. Shimono, Ueno, and Saitama will be responsible for the construction of Iwatsu Castle. Sagami and Kamiso will continue to be in charge. The matter of Odawara Castle.

For all the projects, refer to what I just said. The family will provide tools and food, and after the construction stage is completed, wages will be provided. "

Good guy.

When everyone heard Xiu's order, they couldn't help spying in their hearts: Good guy!
It has long been heard that the Toyotomi family is rich, and Toyotomi Hachiro from Kibi, Kansai is even richer, but they never thought that the Hide family is so rich that they can carry out projects in eight countries at the same time.

The tools, materials, and food cost tens of thousands of dollars a month, plus the rewards after the completion of the work, none of which are affordable for this group of village elders.

However, the Xiu family's arrangement was not over yet. He looked at the people who were discussing in the audience and continued, "I have decided to build a 2000-man standing team based on the samurai in Shimono. The horse team, the horses are all provided by the main family, and the captain of the reserve team is Sanada Nobushige."

"The six countries of Xiazong, Shimono, Hitachi, Musashi, Ueno, and Sagami also formed a standing army, each with 6 people, divided into two battalions. The armor and weapons were provided by the family, and there was no cavalry."

"Saitama set up a standing group with 2000 people, and set up a cavalry team. The armored stomach and military horses are provided by the main family. A goben group is formed under Iwafu Castle, with 1500 people. The armored stomach is provided by the main family, and no cavalry is set up separately."

"Yin Yuguo organized a standing army with 1 people, divided into 600 regiments, stationed in Songqian, Jiangzhichuan and Xinbang respectively."

"However, due to financial constraints, Ueno and Yin Yu's standing camps are given priority. Other countries will first set up a standing battalion of 500 people, and the brigades will be stationed in each city."

"Standing is given priority to the selection by the children of each samurai family, with an annual salary of 10 guan and half of gold. The cavalry team chooses those who are skilled in bow and horse, with an annual salary of 15 guan and half of gold. The ashigaru under the command will give priority to two wealthy sons from each leading country. , with an annual salary of 5, rice and half gold."

Calculated in this way, the Xiu family has 188 permanent personnel in the entire territory of 12 million shi, including two cavalry teams of 100 people.

But this is not all the standing troops. Don't forget that Xiujia also has a banner of 800 people on horseback and a team of 150 entourages.

With the transfer of the Xiu family to the Guandong, this part of the people will inevitably be reorganized and expanded. The number of people in the Xiu family's mind is 1000 people and 200 people. cavalry.

But these are all dreams, as the Xiu family said, due to financial constraints, it is impossible for the Xiu family to form such a large standing force now, and the annual maintenance cost is more than 10 guan.

Now, the downsizing of multiple standing reserves, and only maintaining a battalion size of 500 people, can keep Hideka's short-term expenditure below 5 guan, and Hideka only needs to complete the replenishment of the army before Hideyoshi's death.

The term used by Hideo here is "supplement" rather than "expansion", because Hideo's idea of ​​stationing more than a thousand people in Kanto countries is reported to Hideyoshi.

Now it is only limited by economic pressure and cannot be implemented. When the economy is more prosperous, people will be replaced. But there is no expansion of the army privately in violation of the no-things order. This is a big difference in nature.

秀家的开出的条件不可谓不雄厚，要知道依照贯高制来说，10贯文相当于80石的土地的领主纯收入了（5公5民，1:4）。

80 shi is already a lot of money. You must know that in the Warring States Period, an average of 1.7 shi fed a person, and 80 shi was already equivalent to the annual income of 3 to 5 households.

At that time, many low-level samurai were often land servants. They lost their own share of the fields they had cultivated, and the lord's family often rewarded only 30 to 50 years of knowledge and practice.

Even if it is 50 stone, you still have to provide your lord with 2 soldiers with guns, which were paid by the samurai before sending troops.

Therefore, in many cases, those low-level samurai did not necessarily live better than ordinary civilian husbands. Although they did not have to perform hard labor, in order to provide military service for superior samurai, they needed to prepare equipment for those on their military service account.

The lord will not allow you to take two peasant soldiers without armor and chop a bamboo gun to make up for it. At the very least, you must prepare cloth armor for your peasant soldiers, provide a bamboo spear with an iron tip, and a bamboo hat. At least look decent on the outside to get through.

The equipment for 2 people, plus your own armor and weapons, you can't get it without 10 pennies.

And the 10 Guanwen given by the Xiu family now is equivalent to 80 shi's annual salary, but you don't need to provide military service, this is your pure money!
And the Xiu family didn't say that Zhixing would take it back after you became a standing samurai and received your salary!
Anyway, now the Xiu family is not sealed below 2000 shi, and you don't need to organize military service. In other words, you can do one job by yourself and get two parts of the salary!
After everyone listened, there were only two words left in their hearts: Heartbeat.

But they were completely wrong. The Xiu family brought thousands of warriors and their children from the relationship this time. None of them have a few sons. This time the Kanto reward, which one didn't get dozens of stones? The conferment of the sons who were previously landless became landed nobles.

In addition, more than ten thousand ashigaru were directly arranged by the Xiu family to various villages, which not only made up for the lack of population, but were also promoted to village chiefs and local servants. These are low-level samurai, with a total of 2 people!

The people brought from the Western Kingdom alone are enough to fill these standing reserves, and these people are all skilled soldiers who have been trained by the Xiu family's military system for a long time, which is much easier than training a group of people from scratch.

Even if it is impossible for all of these 2 people to be filled into the standing reserve, after all, it is necessary to provide basic backbone soldiers for the training of the half-soldier and half-farmer directly under the central government and the reserve teams of various samurai families, but 2-4 thousand of these 5 people will be selected. There must be no problem as the new standing backbone.

It seems that only 1/3 of them seem to be a small number, but don’t forget that Hideka promoted many ashigaru in Kanto to become low-level samurai, regardless of whether the word low-level is on the front, he is always a samurai.

In addition to the attendant team, the banner crowd, and the two cavalry teams that will be formed by warriors, most of the main soldiers of the reserve team are still farmers with land!It is impossible for a samurai to become an ashigaru.

In this case, there are actually not many positions in the hands of the Kanto Wu family.

Regardless of whether they will be disappointed in the future, after hearing the news from the Xiu family, the people in the hall are more excited than before.

Feelings, your Xiu family is really "wronged." Ah no, "a good person".

Not only does he have a bodhisattva heart for ordinary people, but he also cares for us warriors like a general.

What else is there to consider?Is it too late for such a big name to stop expressing allegiance?
I don't know who took the lead first, and shouts of "Master Shengming" sounded from outside the hall to inside the hall one after another.

"There is one more thing to announce this time."

"In this battle of Kanto, many people were displaced and fled to other neighboring countries. I decided to send people to post notices around, and all the people who rushed back to Kanto before the beginning of spring will be paid 1 Guanwen'anjia fee per household.

And the notice should state that at the beginning of spring next year, the family will distribute rice seeds and agricultural tools to the returning people for free. "

In the end, Xiujia even made a bold statement: "In short, I only ask that the Kanto countries resume cultivation of cultivated land within three years, and open up no less than 3 shi of barren land after five years of water control and land reclamation, and open up no less than 5 shi in ten years. Wan Shi!"

This order has never been discussed with the elders before. After hearing that the Xiu family made their own ideas and set a national policy, Akashi Jingqin, who is in charge of finances, habitually had a brainstorm and wanted to explode, but looked at the situation. Finally swallowed it down.

In any case, after this evaluation meeting, the image of the Kanto Toyotomi Hideo family's "land rich man" has completely planted roots in the minds of the Kanto warriors.

After everyone left, the family members who were the elders did not leave. In fact, everyone was very puzzled by the last order of the Xiu family. Changchuan Zhenqin directly asked the Xiu family, "My lord, is this money and family expenses worthless?" It is necessary.

This money is not too much, it cannot buy much food, and it is not enough to re-establish a family in Kanto. "

The Xiu family has relaxed a lot at the moment, and is playing with the jade wrench in his hand. He smiled and looked at the three people below and said, "It's really not a lot of money. If you count 1-5 people in a family, you can buy it." For half a year's food, I can't even buy more clothes.

But think about it, the government has always kept money from the common people, but when has the government ever given money to the common people?Even if there must be work rewards or temporary rewards from the daimyo.

But this time is different, as long as you come back, I will send money, and you need to provide additional payment, and it is not a random income. What do you think the common people will think of me?

This amount of money may not be much, but the meaning revealed in it is different, which indicates that the main family is a new force that is completely different from other daimyos.

With the addition of food and lodging, food and lodging, wages and other operations, the expectations in the hearts of those people are different.”

"Besides." Xiujia paused for a moment, then said with a slightly sinister tone: "Who said my targets are only those who fled before?"

"My lord?" Everyone looked at Xiu's family in surprise when they heard what they said. Akashi Jingqin frowned and said, "Are you trying to poach someone from other famous families?"

Xiujia raised her eyebrows and glanced at him, nodded her head and gave a "hmm".

Hearing Xiujia's confirmed reply, the few people in the audience were not happy, but turned pale with shock, "My lord! The world is now peaceful. Although we are not friendly with the surrounding daimyo, we are not too friendly either." Big contradiction. (Tokugawa: Meow?)

The people of all countries are the foundation of the country. It is understandable to ask the people scattered in Kanto to return from other countries, but if they want to persuade the people of their own country to come from them, I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction in other countries, and then sue His Highness Guan Bai! "

"You're all right, but there are always a few unregistered people living in the mountains, aren't they?"

In fact, the Xiu family did not say what was in their hearts. After all, those people in the mountains all had their own villages. Even if they lived in the mountains in order not to pay taxes, how could they go down the mountain so easily?
Xiujia didn't target such a small population from the beginning, he aimed at the refugees in Yu'ao area.

He is very clear that in history, the Yu-O area will not settle down so easily. In history, a new incident occurred during the process of inspection.

It's just that he can only keep these words in his heart and can't talk to others. In name, this policy is only limited to the beginning of spring. In fact, the Xiu family intends to be effective for a long time, but now it's just an excuse.

After all, I am responsible for supervising Yuao. If there is a turmoil in Yuao, there is a high probability that I will organize people to counter the rebellion. At that time, as the general, I will do something to the enemy's "reserve soldiers" in the enemy's area in private. Dare to stand up and take responsibility?
In short, amidst the astonishment of everyone, the three policies of the Xiu family were finally finalized and became the basis for the great development of Kanto in the next few decades.