Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 54
The next day, as the Hide family's first full-college evaluation since he succeeded the family governor, even Inaba Zhitou's Yoshioka Takakatsu and Kamei Tomoki came to the evaluation room in Shin-Okayama.

At the beginning of the construction of Okayama, it was thought of the increase in the number of retainers after the expansion of Ukido's territory in the future, so the evaluation period of the front hall of the imperial hall was extremely wide.At this moment, even if Yu Xiduo led the powerful families and retainers gathered together, he was still very wealthy.

The vassals were seated on both sides according to the genealogy and appearance. As the No.1 under the current Ukita family, the Ukita Tadashi family presided over the evaluation.The evaluation starts with the decrees issued by the Xiu family since inheriting the family governor, and reports on the situation of the Yuxi family in the past year.

"Since the lord took over as the governor of the family, I have been lamenting at night. The state affairs of my family are stronger. Last year was another harvest year. The total grain output was 42.5 shi. 18 shi of grain." Zhongjia began to describe last year's data

"The income from miscellaneous taxes is 1.2 guan, and the direct trade or profit of iron, rush, bizen yaki, gunpowder, etc. may be 7 guan." The Zhong family paused and looked at the wealthy families who sat down.

When they heard that Yuxi's family had obtained a complete harvest with a height of 18 shi, all the retainers who were working were surprised.

After all, there was a flood in Bizen this year, especially in the lower reaches of Asahikawa and Ichikawa, most of Uki's territories are concentrated on both sides of the fertile impact plain, and it should be the most severely affected area this year.

However, Naochi Ukita, who should have been affected by the disaster, was able to get a bumper harvest as in previous years, which is very intriguing.They didn't know that even when the autumn grain was just planted when the disaster hit last year, Yu Xiduo spent a month quickly processing the collar and replanting the autumn grain, and obtained a certain degree of bumper harvest under the action of soil and fertilizer.

Excuse me, but when they heard that the family had earned 8 guan in miscellaneous taxes and business, they were all incredulous. This is equivalent to the extra income of about 30 shi for the Yuxi family.

This is different from the food of 5 citizens and 5 people, which does not need to be shared equally with the minions. That is to say, the Yuxi family has obtained the equivalent income of a territory equivalent to 60 shi through commerce and trade.As a result, the Ukita family, which originally accounted for only 1/3 of Ukita's entire collar, directly surpassed all the families in the collar in terms of comprehensive strength.

If it is said that there were still wealthy families who looked down on Yuxi family as the main family at the beginning, now they are full of fear of Yuxi family from the bottom of their hearts.

When the Zhong family looked back at the expressions of the nobles in the collar, they suddenly found something unusual, and after repeated confirmation, they came to the Hide family and whispered, "The main hall, Miura, Nakamura, Saito, Bizen Matsuda, and Ugaki did not come."

Hideo was a little bit surprised when he heard the words of the Zhong family. He confirmed the situation with the Zhong family here. Tomorrow, is it true that Miura Sadahiro of Takada Castle, Nakamura Yorimune of Iwaya Castle, and Saito of Oda Kusao Castle are real?"

After hearing the question from the Xiu family, the two walked out of the hall and saluted in the hall, explaining to
"The servant is the old man of the Miura family, Fukui Zesheng. The head of the family is seriously ill and cannot come to Okayama, so I specially sent the servant to come to help." The speaker was a middle-aged man in his 40s.

"My subordinate is Keitoshi Nakamura of Iwaya Castle. My brother accidentally broke his leg while riding a horse, so he can't come to Okayama. The special agent will do it for me." This time it was a young man in his 20s who spoke.

"Is that really the case? Didn't you report it to Zuo Jingliang Hall? Why didn't His Highness Zuo Jingliang know about it?" Xiujia said in a stern tone
"It's true, I dare not lie to His Highness." The two saluted the Xiu family again
Seeing that the two confirmed again, the Xiu family was unwilling to get involved anymore, after all, there were still three families who did not come forward. "Then there are three other families, who knows the situation." The retainers of the Xiu family who were present asked
Xiujia clearly saw that the people sitting there were hesitant to speak, especially Nakamura Jingli who was kneeling below. Xiujia saw that he looked up several times as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.

Xiujia didn't want to waste time at this time, and planned to question several foreigners based on the information of the hostages after quitting Pingding.In fact, Xiujia and Zhongjia already sensed something unusual from the absence of the five people.

After all, these five are a few wealthy families directly bordering Maori from Yuxiduo, and they are responsible for the front line of Yuxiduo's resistance to Maori.

After the evaluation went wrong, everyone here is not a fool, and they have already smelled something unusual, and this evaluation with different thoughts continues like this.

The most important thing in this evaluation is undoubtedly to respond to Hashiba Hideyoshi's recruitment and mobilize the army to march towards the Mori family.

The military forces were simply organized according to the military service status, and the Zhong family began to distribute the military power according to the military service status.

During the Maori campaign, Hanafo Masayuki and Ukita Tadada stayed behind in Okayama.

"Togawa Hidean with 1800 people in Erdao, Osafune Sadakin with 1500 people in Oku, and Oka Toshikatsu with 1600 people in Waki ​​County..." With the distribution of military service certificates by the Tadaka family step by step, this time the Ukita Hide family will Organize an army of 1 troops, of which Bizen is in charge of 8000 troops and Misaku is responsible for the collection of 1 troops.

Ukido directly led the mobilization of 4200 people from the three reserve teams of Ono, Kamichi, and Tsuyama, and a total of 500 people were mobilized by Yoshioka Takakatsu and Kamei Izumo from Inaba Chizu County to supplement the Tsuyama reserve. They were randomly supplemented by Xiujia and split into two thousand-man reserve teams, which were handed over to Kamei Tomoki and Yoshioka Dadakatsu respectively.

So far this assessment is over.

Hideya, who left the evaluation room, immediately asked Sokichi Takano to be summoned by Ninja Rule.

"Your Highness, I already have an idea of ​​what you want me to investigate." Takano Sokichi said directly to Hideka when he saw Hideka

"After the main family was hit by a flood last year, the Mori family infiltrated the main family's Misaku and Bizen's wealthy families, and these five families were among them. The family of Yamashiro Muchoyoshi, Hetian Yamashiro Harada Sadasa and other families all met with Maori envoys."

"Do you mean that the western defense line of our family has been adjusted by the Maori family?" Xiujia asked in surprise.

"I'm afraid so."

"Are there any rebellious companies?"

"I'm not sure yet, I just know that Nakamura Yorimune went to meet with Miura Tesahiro not long ago."

"Why didn't you report such a big thing in the morning?" Xiujia said sullenly
"I read the records of the Ninja Army of the main family. The Mori family has been adjusting the main family all year round. This time the situation is similar to previous years. Besides, His Highness is devoting himself to conquest of Sanuki, so I did not report it. It is my negligence. I am very sorry." Takano Sokichi Salute to Xiu's family.

"I have already sent ninjas to five more companies to investigate the situation. I have confirmed that these five companies are really rebellious. I will get the news tomorrow."

Xiujia looked at Sanzhicheng, who had already reacted quickly to make up for it, and Xiujia, who had already said something, did not reprimand him in the end, and nodded in acquiescence to his handling. "No matter where I am in the future, I will be given a briefing every month."

"Ha Yi, I remember."

The Hide family has already found out from this information that it is unusual. Those wealthy families who did not come are probably already preparing for war. In the future, the Patriarch will send retainers to the Miura and Nakamura families.

Many of the wealthy families sitting in the palace received letters from the Maori family. How many of them explicitly refused, and how many of them were wall-sitters?
"Does the Mori family have any other information?" Hideka continued to ask Sokichi Takano
"The Motoharu Yoshikawa, the commander of the Sanin of the Mori family, has not taken any action since he conquered the Inaba tiger Shikano in September last year. He just went to Yamashiro, Yoshida County after the autumn harvest, and did not come back. The commander of Sanyodo, Takakage Kobayakawa, has been staying in Bingo Mihara. After the city was prepared, it was affected by China and the two countries."

The Xiu family listened to Takano Sokichi's information, and it was as terrifying as the tranquility in the morning. If the Mori family did not act, then did they really tune in to the wealthy family like going retrograde?

No, they are all foxes from thousands of years ago. Which family would be so demented that they would do such a rebellious thing to their master without the explicit support of the Maori family? ?
At this moment, Shonai Yixin, who was on duty outside the hall, reported that there was an urgent military message from a ninja outside the palace.As the commander of the ninja army, Takano Sokichi went out to obtain information in person. Hideka looked at Takano Sokichi who returned to the palace with a gloomy face, and knew in his heart that the news might not be good.

"Your Highness, there is news from Misaku that Motoharu Yoshikawa is out for Misaku's battle, and the castle of Hojo County was knocked down. Yesterday afternoon, the Mori family still surrounded the main family and led Tsuyama Castle."

"What? Didn't you just say that Motoharu Yoshikawa is still in Yamashiro, Yoshida County?" Hideka stood up from his seat and said in surprise.

If Hideka just had some doubts about Takano Sokichi's ability just now, Hideka is now ready to kill the leader of the ninja army. As the most important information acquisition for the military, Ukido has almost completely lost in his hands.

The Xiu family even had a slight suspicion, whether the Zhong family took his father's elite ninja army under his command, and left him with this kind of stinky fish and rotten shrimp. Otherwise, how could the ninja army who had assisted his father in the West Country Corroded like this?

Hideka's anger had reached the limit, but he didn't expect Sokichi Takano's next words to make him feel as if he had suddenly fallen into the ice cellar.

(End of this chapter)