Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 597

On August 19, Tensho Year 21, Hideyoshi Toyotomi was recommended by Hideyoshi. With the contribution of pacifying Ou Ichikui, he was promoted from among the three powers. He is already an irrefutable third person in the Toyotomi family in terms of knowledge and practice.

It's just that his 84 shi are not so real. Hideyoshi's retainers such as Kimura Shigetsu (1.2 shi) and Awano Hideyong (1 shi) were originally the knowledge of Wan Yushi, and now they are all included in his account. Next, for his retainers.

In addition, Chikugo Okuma Castle Horio Yoshiharu (6 koku), Omi Hachiman Castle Castle (3 koku), Miyabe Soji, and Tomita Kazushiro (2.15 koku) were also entrusted to serve as elders under their command.

It is impossible to transfer these old guys without compensation. On average, each person gets a seal of 5000 to 1 shi. The placement of these old guys alone takes up more than half of Toyotomi Hideji's knowledge.

Judging from Hideyoshi's arrangements above, he was obviously still worried about Toyotomi Hideji's ability to govern the territory, so he was given some retainers with excellent internal affairs capabilities.

For example, Horio Yoshiharu was one of Hideyoshi's earliest adherents. He worked diligently for the monkey for more than 20 years, and finally went to work for Hideyoshi's nephew.

In addition to the above daimyos who participated in the suppression of Ou Ichikui, Hideyoshi also took advantage of this big victory to meet Hideji's younger brother Hidekatsu Bizen Okayama's 15 koku Chiyuki.

As early as after the Battle of Odawara, this territory was exchanged by Hideyoshi from Hideyoshi with his knowledge of Kanto.

, this territory has been privately owned by the Yuxi family before, and it has been cultivated by the Zhi family and the Xiu family for a long time. The number of knowledge and actions has increased from 22 shi to 28 shi.

And the most important thing is that under the development of Xiujia, there is the most prosperous port and commercial town in Kansai——Okayama Town, which gradually replaced Hakata's share of trade with Ming and North Korea.

With Xiuji En's seemingly unfavorable personality, such a beautiful piece of land must give his relatives a big name.

Not to mention the excellent geographical location here, controlling Bizen is tantamount to guarding the important passage of Shangluo, the daimyo of the West Country, don't forget that there is a powerful foreign Mori family in the West Country!
At this time, if you open the area and take a look, you will find that there is Toyotomi Hideji on the north side of Kyoto, and Toyotomi Hidecho on the east side, but there is no pro-vassal daimyo guarding the west side.

It's a pity that Xiusheng didn't have any military achievements before. Originally, he had a little seniority in Kyushu and thought that 6 shi was too little, so he was deprived of his ability to go to his eldest brother Xiuci's house for dinner.

Hideyoshi did not participate in the Battle of Kyushu this time, but Hideyoshi still gave him a reward because he controlled the rear of the army with a certain amount of food.

With such a little credit, he was directly promoted from a white body to Okayama's 15-goku daimyo. With the existence of "Mitutoyo", I don't know how Yamauchi Kazutoyo would feel when he heard the news.

So sometimes when the boss wants to promote you, he only needs one reason, no matter how outrageous the reason seems to outsiders, as long as you have an excuse, he will promote you.

Do you believe that if Hideji hadn't left Hidekatsu with him in a hurry this time, if Hashiba Hidekatsu went north with Hideji to Ou, Hideyoshi might give Hidekatsu a 3rd prize and reward him with all the titles of Bizen?
Judging from the fact that Hideyoshi gave 15 koku to Hidekatsu Bizen, and the remaining part was still hidden, Hideyoshi obviously intended to do so. He would definitely reward Hideyoshi when he made military exploits in the next conquest.

Regardless of the fact that Hidekatsu only has 15 koku now, some people even think that even if he is given to Bizen, it is only 28 koku, which is not enough to support the small 80 koku of the Mori family.

But don’t forget that Bizen is the mountain city of Okayama Castle, which Hideka spent a lot of money to build two years ago. It is located on the mountain of Sanyo Avenue and controls the most important waterways and commercial roads in the Seto Inland Sea. Okayama Castle is a city that cannot be avoided.

With this fortified city in hand, with Hideyoshi's size of 15 shi, he can recruit 5000 soldiers. There must be no problem in holding on until Hideyoshi's main force arrives.

Although the construction of Okayama Castle has not been completely completed, Maeda Genei was in charge of the initial design plan, and besides, the final draft is in the hand of the show master, and it is enough to continue to build it when the time comes.

As for the funds, it is natural to raise part of it yourself, and Hideyoshi will bear part of it.

Hideyoshi also has no defense against Xiaofan like Xiusheng, and will not want to rely on engineering to consume, and naturally he will not speed up the progress like forcing Xiujia.

Hideyoshi didn't expect that he could only live for another 7 years. In his opinion, Okayama Castle only needs to be repaired slowly, and it doesn't matter if it takes 10 years. Could it be that he can't live for 10 years?

Moreover, Hideyoshi always has a special kind of self-confidence about his own vassal. Others say that his own son sees the most clearly, but Hideyoshi sees his own son the most confused.

He always felt that his own son and his own vassal could be as powerful as himself, and he felt the same way about Hideji and Hideyori.

This time, for Xiusheng, although only 15 koku of Banguo was resealed, but he held all the other half of Bizen's American works in his hands, and he planned to wait for Xiusheng to win the battle in North Korea before he could seal it.

But how could he be sure that Xiu Sheng might win a big victory in North Korea?
Even though he was very reluctant to give up on Okayama, and even more unwilling to see Okayama being handed over to a daimyo who had no relationship with him, the current situation was stronger than others, and Hideka also knew to admit it.

Fortunately, Hideyoshi is not an unreasonable person. Seeing that Hideka is so obedient, he waived the 5 kan military expenses previously loaned to Hideka for the conquest of Ou, and gave an additional 3 kan as compensation.

Naturally, the reason cannot be the "psychological comfort fee", but the fee to subsidize Xiujia to speed up the transfer of Jibei to the Kanto.

As for the nearly 10 guan that Xiuchang subsidized to Xiu's family before, Xiuchang had already erased it when Xiu's family died.

Now that the rewards have been issued, and the time has come to the second half of the year, the date for Hideyoshi to gather troops is getting closer. Before parting with Gamo and other daimyos, Hideyoshi specially told them to prepare for the conquest against the court.

At this moment, there is still more than half a year before the date of its expected dispatch of troops, but the whole of Japan has already known the news that Guan Bai is going to fight against North Korea.

As early as the beginning of the spring of this year, that is, in March, Hideyoshi issued an order for military service to all the famous names in the world, requiring 3 people from Shikoku and Kyushu, and 600 people from Kishu per ten thousand stones.500 people/ten thousand stones in Kinai.

骏河、远江、三河、伊豆300人/万石，由此以东，200人/万石。尾张、美浓、伊势、近江350人/万石。若狭、越前、加贺、能登300人/万石。越后、出羽200人/万石的标准征召士卒。

Now that Ou is tentatively determined, Hideyoshi has removed the troops of the daimyo who were affected or transferred due to the turmoil, but the three families like Nanbu, Ando, ​​Ogasawara, and Mogami still need to mobilize according to the standard of 200 people in Wanshi.

After the sequestration and sealing, Ogasawara Hidetada confirmed that she has 33 koku of Iwashiro, and 6600 people need to be recruited in accordance with the military service requirements. After the inspection, Zhixing 30.5 shi, 6100 people need to be provided, and the southern Xinzhi 12 shi Zhixing needs to recruit 2400 people to join the army.

Of course, these 6600 people may not all be soldiers. When talking about the Wanli Korean War and the ratio of Japanese army/auxiliary troops, historians of later generations generally quoted the figures of Konishi Yukyo's retainer Goto Jungen.

The retainer’s 1.4 shi Zhixing land needs to provide a total of 705 soldiers, but there are 200 sailors and 318 civilian husbands, so there should be only 187 soldiers, a ratio of 27:73.

In fact, it is inappropriate to understand Japan's military strength ratio in this way. The part that is regarded as a civilian husband in China should actually be regarded as a foot light in Japan.

The reason why it is not called peasants and soldiers is because the Japanese military system at that time had been reformed and the soldiers and peasants had been separated, and the conscripting of peasants and soldiers in the strict sense had gradually disappeared from the Japanese battlefield.

At this time, the main Japanese army has been changed to a semi-professional army composed of a small number of off-the-shelf standing as the core, with a large number of samurai who own land, and bannermen dominated by rich middle peasants.

Even Kanto, Ou, Kyushu and other places that were restructured late, when they provided Hideyoshi with Korean soldiers, they were mostly semi-professional soldiers who were spontaneously willing to gain benefits.

Including the 200 sailors above, they cannot be simply understood as sailors operating ships. Japanese sailors are essentially Japanese pirates, and the same soldiers and civilians are not separated.

Therefore, the 705 people of Goto Jungen's family should be understood as 187 samurai or standing ashigaru with 200 semi-professional Japanese pirate sailors, and 318 semi-professional conscripted samurai, ashigaru went north to North Korea.

Of course, the mobilization of troops belonged to the mobilization of the big names in the northern kingdom, such as Ogasawara Hidetada, Anton Miki, and Mogami Yoshimitsu, and there were not so many requirements for the actual battle.

According to "Taikoji", "Tianzhengji" and "Matsuura Series", in order to deal with emergencies, many daimyo were allowed to leave part of their troops in the territory. The daimyo was on standby in Kyushu.

Like Hideyoshi Ogasawara and others just mentioned, Hideyoshi asked them to only need half of the troops to go south and stand by.

This point can be seen from the fact that Xiaonishi’s 24 shi daimyo in history actually crossed the sea with 7000 people. The actual ratio of troops dispatched was only 290 people per [-] shi, indicating that half of his troops were left behind.

Of course, the daimyo who didn't mention their names doesn't mean that they are exempted from the military service certificate. This is to expand the territory for Sekibaku Hideyoshi. As a daimyo, you have to show your loyalty, don't you?

Therefore, more or less hundreds of people will be brought to Kyushu to wait for dispatch, just like Anton Miki in history brought 100 people, Mogami Yoshimitsu only brought 500 people, and Date Masamune brought 1000 people south.

This is completely inconsistent with their knowledge and actions at the time.

Of course, Xiujia also received a certificate of military service. Xiujia’s territory is divided into east and west. According to the requirement, Iyo needs to provide 17 soldiers to receive 10200 shi. , need to provide 194 people, total mobilization of 38800 people.

According to the favor given by Hideyoshi before, the mobilization force is halved. In fact, 24500 people need to be mobilized, and half of the garrison skills are reserved. The actual strength to go to Kyushu is 12250.

As for this, it may not be possible to go to North Korea. In history, Tokugawa Ieyasu brought 15000 people to blow the sea breeze in Hirado for 2 years.

The Xiu family couldn't go back to Heyue City at the moment, so naturally they couldn't mobilize their troops, so they could only send a servant to write a letter to Kanto, and let Changchuan Zhenqin take charge of the internal mobilization affairs.

The Xiu family intends to use it for military training in this battle. Even if they don't go to North Korea, they can adapt to long-distance mobilization and training.

因此秀家决定以常备：守备：预备以2:4:4的比例进行动员，也就是常备2500，守备5000人，预备征召兵5000人。

Hideka knows that North Korea is a quagmire, so he doesn't want his core corps to be consumed here. Therefore, Hideka made it clear that the red team under Sanada Nobushige, who shined in Ou, will not go to North Korea.

As for the general who will fight against North Korea in this battle, the Xiu family actually does not have a particularly suitable general.

Oka Toshikatsu and Hanafo Masayuki were ordered to live in seclusion, Osafune Sadain was a master of writing, and Akashi Kagein needed to guard Iyo and supervise the affairs of Tongshan and Ryukyu. Everyone was very important.

Hideka had planned to let Todo Takatora be in command before, but then the governor of Ezo was short of people, so he had no choice but to let him go to Ezo first.But Ezo's hole was on the top, and the hole of Ming Zhengzhan opened again.

Sometimes it doesn't matter that Xiu's family is a super daimyo with 200 million shi, and there are tens of thousands of retainers and warriors under his command, in fact, there seem to be very few big bosses who can really stand alone.

Originally, the Xiu family had the opportunity to serve Conghua Sakuma Shengmasa, Tachibana Muneshige, Chang Zonggabu Xinqin and others. If they were the elders under the Xiu family at this moment, there would be no trouble in choosing a commander when they went to Korea this time.

But the Xiu family couldn't plan for a rainy day for so long. At that time, it was the best arrangement to establish them as a daimyo and go out independently as an ally to assist the Xiu family.

Now I want to go to the 14 family elders under Hideka's command, remove the three immobile ones, Nasafune Sadachi, Akashi Keichan, and Todo Takatora, and the remaining 11 have no experience in commanding a large-scale war of more than [-] people.

Not to mention the scale of more than [-] people, many people have only commanded their own reserve team before, and the Xiu family or the elders of the older generation are supporting it anyway.

As for Narita's head and Kagawa's scenery, regardless of their grades, they used to be daimyos, but they don't have so many knowledge and actions, and the actual number of troops under their command is only 1-2k.

Ota Zizheng is in charge of the war against the Hojo family by the Furukawa government. The scale is tens of thousands, but do you have the nerve to let a 70-year-old man take command of the expedition?

After thinking about it, Hideka decided to go to Hideyoshi to make a statement, and begged Hideyoshi to forgive Oka Toshikatsu, Hanabou Masayuki, and Awa Hisutora, so that they could lead troops out of North Korea.

In this way, there are two advantages. One is that these veterans can be released to make the best use of them, regardless of whether they actually go to North Korea in the end, it is better than staying at home and dying.

The second is that Sora showed weakness to Hideyoshi, saying to him, "Look at the huge 200 million stones of my Kanto Toyotomi family, but the result is that even 1 people can't pick out the commander-in-chief of the army. What else can you Hideyoshi worry about?" where?"

(End of this chapter)