Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 757
The news of Mrs. Ito's drowning in Arakawa was only spread among the upper strata of Fengchun City, and no one paid much attention to such a famous woman from Kyushu.

Many people only know that the couple brought their children to the Xiu family to seek shelter, and the Xiu family also kindly helped Ito Changyi to restore the feudal clan.

As for why Mrs. Ito and her two children did not go to Kyushu with them, many people understand that this is the proton placed by the Ito family in Toyoharu's house.

Ah Chu's experience is very tragic. In this story, the Xiu family is the perpetrator, the ruthless villain.

However, in public, Hideka expresses his condolences for Mrs. Ito's unexpected death, and expresses that he will adopt a group of her children as Youzi and Younv (not adopted sons and daughters).

The Xiu family specially ordered people to send Ah Chu's body back to Kyushu by fast boat, and sent his old family Togawa Tatsuan to Kyushu to express his condolences.

Ah Chu is a poor woman. It is conceivable that even if she dies, his brother Otomo Yoshitomo and husband Ito Changsuke will not shed a single tear. Her life and life are as quiet as if she has never been in this world. Come quietly, go quietly.

Ah Chu left, but the Xiu family's anger still persisted. He even hoped that he didn't know about this at all, so he wouldn't hold back his anger like he is now.

Because of Ah Chu's incident, Xiujia felt that he owed Naoko, Ju Ji, and Kai Fei Ji three people, even if they met, they didn't know how to face them.

Even in the subsequent military and political discussions, the elders of the Xiu family felt at a loss for the appearance of the Xiu family as if everyone owed him.

Fujido Takatora thought that he had not handled the matter of the Ezo rioters well, which caused dissatisfaction with the Hide family, and even when reporting to the Hide family, he was a little submissive.

Naturally, the Xiu family would not vent their anger on their retainers, but the indifference in the tone of their words could not be hidden.

It has been several years since the Xiu family developed Ezo, but there are still not many people in the Fengchun family who know about it. When they hear that the Xiu family is going to make a northern expedition to Ezo, there will be more or less complaints.

But Xiujia still expressed that he would advance the matter, and in the end only mobilized 3 soldiers to join the battle.

Originally, according to the requirements of the military service account, the Xiu family needed to mobilize 9 people to go north, but now the Xiu family only mobilized 3 people, and in fact only completed 7% of the military service account requirements.

In the final analysis, because Ezo is located in the northern region, the pressure on military food transportation is too great.Besides, the Xiu family didn't prepare enough warm clothes before. Too many people going north will only cause unnecessary non-combat attrition.

But what is interesting is that among the 3 soldiers mobilized by Xiujia, there are only 2 reserve teams with a total of 3000 people, and the remaining dozen reserve teams are all reserved and defensive.

At present, the internal military organization structure of Fenghuang Village can be roughly divided into three parts. One is the professional soldiers composed of full-time samurai and ashigaru. These soldiers are only on guard, training and preparing for war.

It is mainly composed of 1600 cavalry under Xiujia's banner, and everyone is composed of warriors who are skilled in bowing and horses.

And an attendant team of about 300 people. Most of this team is composed of martial arts children, including both Yuanfu and Weiyuanfu.For example, Satomi Yoshiya is 2 years older than Hideka, and still serves as a bodyguard by Hideka's side.

In addition, 2 people from Goben Fanzhong, who are in charge of guarding Fengchun City, are divided into 3000 battalions in pairs.

This is like the Forbidden Army in ancient China. They only guarded the safety of the capital and palaces, and basically did not have the task of going to war.

The current combat effectiveness of this army is relatively guaranteed. After the transfer of the Kanto, the Xiu family used the Jibei warriors as the backbone to fill the army formed by the Kanto warriors and ashigaru.

However, with the addition of the surrounding samurai children in the past few years, it may become the end of the Shence Army of the Tang Dynasty in history one day in the future.

The best way to maintain combat effectiveness is to let these soldiers go to the battlefield again, but the Japanese mainland has been relatively peaceful in recent years, so where can there be wars to exercise?
After the end of the Korean War, the Xiu family divided the backbone left by the Korean War into several standing teams. After all, the standing team is the main force of the Xiu family. .

In addition to the 2 vassals, Hideo also has 4 standing teams, of which there are a little more than 2200 people in Ueno, and each of the other three countries, Shimono, Ibaraki, and Sagami has a standing team. Garrison a standing.

There are also Xiujia's artillery reserves here. There are a total of 3 artillery battalions with dozens of large and small artillery.

Due to confidentiality reasons, the artillery equipment was not included in the Hideka official army establishment, but it was actually composed of full-time samurai and ashigaru.

To sum up, the Xiu family's standing warriors have a total strength of about 12000. Since there is no configuration of civilian husbands, for a leader of 300 million shi, it is almost the standard of 50 per [-] shi.

However, due to showing weakness to Hideyoshi in the past few years, there was a perennial shortage of permanent troops stationed in Shimono and other places, and the strength of the troops was only about 7% of the standard and 1000 people.

In addition, there are more than 3000 policemen who specialize in poaching in various countries, sub-counties, and castle towns. These people can be regarded as full-time soldiers. Can only be equipped with sticks.

But when necessary, the Xiu family can still organize them quickly to supplement the additional military force.

In addition, Xiujia also has 5 garrisons. The garrison is filled by samurai, half-time farmers, soldiers, and townspeople who have been included in the garrison military service account. month service.

During the service period, when encountering spring plowing and autumn harvest, etc., the township must ensure that the land of the serving family is harvested in advance in order to organize people to cultivate and harvest other people's land. This is the reason why the guards are willing to serve.

In addition, the garrison will still be borne by the Xiu family during their service. Although there is no salary, they can still get a one-time allowance of 1 guan according to their military position after serving.

In addition, there are only 4 people in the garrison. They are the main garrison force in the 6000 cities within the Xiu family's territory.

However, for the reason of "improving the control of the territory", the Xiu family still garrisoned important cities in the territory such as Kagoe, Hachioji, Stable Bridge, Mito, Utsunomiya, and Sekijuku.

Because Iyo does not have a permanent garrison, there is a special team stationed in Iyo, which is assigned by Akashi Jingqin.

That is to say, at the same time, the total number of soldiers serving in Fengchun's family was about 2, which is not too much for the size of 3000 million shi.

For this battle, the deployment of Xiujia in the collar is not going to change, and all the troops that go out to the battle will be additionally deployed from the collar.

Hideka planned to adjust Ibaraki's standing conscripts, and the remaining 19 feudal clans were all mobilized from within the territory, consisting of 12 reserve feudal teams and 7 defensive squadrons.

The Goben Fans needed to deploy a battalion of sergeants each, and the other feudal domains deployed a company with a total of nearly 1 people to rush into the reserve teams as low-level sergeants.

The reason why Xiujia made such an arrangement was to prepare for this mobilization as a rehearsal for the subsequent decisive battle between Japan and East.

So try to use the opportunity of this Northern Expedition as much as possible to train as many reserve soldiers as possible to be able to fight the enemy on the battlefield.

Therefore, the reserve soldiers are mainly farmers, soldiers, and townspeople who mobilize and train themselves in each county. They usually have no combat missions to live their own lives, but they must complete one month of military service training tasks every year. The county divisions are responsible for the organization.

The difference from regular preparations is that this is the task of every Fengchun leader. Every leader needs to prepare their own military rations during military training, but after the military training is completed, each person can get a bucket of white rice and 300 Wen as a reward, which is considered a treat. A compensation for the poor life of the people.

But the one-month military training is just to complete the basic queue training and familiarize themselves with the flags and drums. It is impossible for them to train in the battle formation. They must learn more about the use of weapons and archery training.

Although the [One-Ling Bow System] organized by the Xiu family in Jibei is still implemented in Kanto, but the territory here is larger and there are more soldiers and civilians. It is an astronomical figure to have enough bows.

If you ask ordinary people to prepare Marugi bows, it will not have much lethality on the battlefield, so in the Kanto [one-collar bow system] has gradually evolved into a matter that only wealthy families who want to pass the exam will participate in.

Fortunately, archery is still the basic skill that every garrison soldier needs to learn and train every day when he is serving. In other words, the garrison strength in Xiujia's territory is roughly the same as that of the directly governed garrison in Jibei.

Because of the premonition of the slow mobilization of ordinary samurai families, a considerable part of Hideo's army in the Northern Expedition was conscripted from Togawa, Fujido, Sanada, Osafune, etc. The countryside moved.

The requisition belongs to the requisition, but when reorganizing, you have to follow the rules of the Hide family. Leaving aside the fan team with enough numbers to form an independent army, it doesn't matter if you call it the Fujido Stable Bridge fan or the Togawa Fuchu fan.

As for those whose military strength is not enough to form opposition, such as Sanada, Maeda, Jian and other daimyos who have just passed Wanshi, they must be reorganized, mixing their own military strength with the military forces mobilized directly under the Hideo family, and accepting Hideo's leadership. home number.

Fortunately, for the convenience of naming, Xiujia basically named them according to the location where most people mobilized, such as the Kanbayashishu led by Sanada Nobushige, and the Shimokanshu led by Masatoshi Suga.

In addition, this army CNOOC has always been a special existence, the Utsunomiya group led by Asahi Chiyo who is about to be 12 years old.

Asahi Chiyo is Anan's son, and his uncle is Date Masahiro.The son born as a concubine should not have been granted the fief of 5 shi, but he was lucky. It was the time when the Xiu family was jealous of the Xiu family. living son.

It turned out that the Hide family had negotiated with Akashi Jingqin when they were in Iyo, and they would send Asahi Chiyo, who is about to be 12 years old (false age), to Iyo to be raised by him, and let her marry a daughter of the Akashi family as the main wife. It can be regarded as paving the way for Asahi Chiyo's future.

But now the Xiu family has changed his mind. He wants to have a son who can accompany him to the Ezo, and also to have a good look at the appearance of Ezo, and to experience the feeling of war in advance.

As the oldest existence under the name of the Xiu family, Asahi Chiyo is naturally an undeniable existence. In addition to Asahi Chiyo, there is also Shenyue Maru who is actually 12 years old and 13 years old in falsehood.

Unlike wanting Asahi Chiyo to meet the world as the son of the Xiu family, the Xiu family's affection for Shenyue Maru is much weaker.It may be more of a tool man's idea to bring him on board.

In addition, the 11-year-old adopted son Taisong (Abatai) will also join the conscript, and the Xiu family intends to let him go back to rule the Jurchen tribe in Ezo.The two of them don't know how to lead the army, they just went north with Zai Xiu's family.

As ordinary people in Kanto who have not experienced war for nearly 10 years, even during the Korean War, Xiujia mostly mobilized standing and garrison to participate in the war, and the preparation was only to undertake the work of transporting food.

But this time it was different. Since the Xiu family had recruited regular samurai to serve as officers in the reserve team, they naturally wanted to let them join the conquest.

If there is a battle, there will be a military leader, and if there is a military leader, you can fight for a field that can be handed down from generation to generation. If you perform particularly outstandingly, you will have the opportunity to be promoted to a samurai. This is recorded in "Ukita Military System".

Leaving aside other trophies, these land grants that can be handed down from generation to generation are enough to motivate ordinary people to desperately save their lives.After all, only 4% of the land tax was collected, and 5% of the open field tax was temporarily granted to him for farming!

Moreover, according to the requirements of the military system, ordinary people who join the army can be exempted from this year's fixed money and cadastral tax, that is, house land occupation tax and land use tax. (Note: In order to encourage childbearing, the Xiu family has exempted the small income tax)
This is not a small fortune for the people living at the bottom.

After finalizing the military service arrangements for the expedition to Ezo, the main topic of the meeting moved to the domestic government affairs.

As Hanaba Masanari took his children and transferred to the Okayama Domain, although Hanaba Masaoki and Hanafaka Shihide still worked in the Toyoharu family, the Hanabahon family only kept 4000 koku of Hanaba Masayuki’s seclusion materials and materials in the Toyoharu family. The 7200 Shi Zhixing place of Huafang Zhixiu.

This is also the reason why Utsunomiya was led by the Hide family's income and handed over to his son Asahi Chiyo to be in command.

In addition, Okagari was transferred to Kyoto and ordered to guard Kanto, and the Shangzong was also vacated.The most important thing is that there is a vacancy for the elders in Xiujia's territory.

Hideka additionally added Nobushige Sanada as a candidate for the old family, and asked him to take over the task of armament production that Okano Toshi was in charge of in the past.

As a samurai who was born as a servant of the Hide family, as the second son of the Ueno Sanada family, perhaps 15 years ago, he would never have thought that he would become a daimyo one day.

When he first became the subordinate of the Xiu family, it was impossible for him to think that 12 years later he would become one of the 14 most important people ruling the family.

出生于永禄10年（1567年9月9日）真田信繁，如今才33岁！这一点与当初藤堂高虎入阁的时候年岁相当。

This move by Hideka seems to indicate that Nobushige Sanada is likely to become the next Takatora Todo, the next most important minister of Hideo.

(End of this chapter)