Pillars of the Wu family

Thinking of the role of the Yodogawa people, Kirayoshi recruited Hattori Koshiro and asked him to bring the information on the Yodogawa people collected by Hattori's family. After reading it carefully, he realized that the Yodogawa people were not a group of ordinary boat bosses as he imagined, but He Mino. The rivers that Kiso Kawakami encountered were not similar.

Both are township parties formed spontaneously by local tyrants, boat heads, and fishermen. They developed by monopolizing the daily trade on the river. Of course, the name Yodogawa is very general. After all, the Yodogawa contains many tributaries, and its geographical location happens to be in Kinai. The core area, so the cohesion of Yodogawa people is far worse than that of Sichuan.

"Because Yodogawa is located in Kinai, it has been suppressed and attacked by many forces including the imperial court, shogunate, management, guards, and temple monks and soldiers. The development of Yodogawa people has not been very smooth. Living on Yodogawa, large and small township parties can be called Among the Yodogawa people, only [-]% are Uchikawa Navy, and these Uchikawa Navy are scattered in dozens of small families, among which the most powerful Yodogawa clan is the nominal commander of the Yodogawa people." Koshiro Hattori reported a series of information without stopping. It is a family that is famous for intelligence, and they can master this kind of ability at such a young age.

"Oh! So that's the case... By the way, Koshiro is one year younger than the main family?"

"Yes! Your servant is a ten-mon 11th year student." Hattori Koshiro replied respectfully.

"How is Kogoro doing now?"

"...Very good!" Koshiro Hattori's expression suddenly twitched.

Yoshiki Kira suggested with a smirk on his face: "The problem of bedwetting has been solved?"

"..."

Yoshishi Kira felt that the behavior of exposing people's scars in person was not very kind, so he changed his words: "That's right! My family remembered something! Qu Naose Michizo pushed his son Qu Naose Moroma to be a samurai here. You go to him and ask for a prescription for bedwetting! Even if he doesn't know, there is a father who can ask for advice!"

"My lord thanked the owner on behalf of my brother!" Hattori Koshiro ran away with a look of embarrassment.

"What a shy guy! Is he Hanzo? He doesn't look like that at all!" Yoshitoki Kira continued to read the information.

Fully understanding the specific situation of the inland water army active on the Yodo River, Kira Yoshishi sent envoys to discuss matters related to Sakamoto Water Transport, and recruited dozens of leaders from the Yodo River, large and small. Noble ministers and samurai used their own private ships to go in and out of Yodogawa. The most contacted people in Yodogawa were businessmen, craftsmen, and farmers.

Therefore, when they received the decree from Kira Yoshitomi, they ran to Sakamoto Marquis in a boat without even thinking about it. Kira Yoshishi did not intend to embarrass this group of low-status people, and directly put forward their own demands. Kira represented the shogunate Hiring the Yodogawa people to work for the shogunate, the obligation is that during the war, the boats of the Yodogawa people must be dispatched free of charge, and they must not disobey whether they are taking on the task of transporting troops and food. If they are required to fight land or water battles, they must fight unconditionally. At the same time, he also guaranteed that they would not be allowed to fight land battles without special reasons.

Of course, it’s not just obligations without rights. The right is to be fully responsible for the water transport trade in Sakamoto City. All the shipping fees for all the ships are paid. The passenger flow and goods handled by Sakamoto Port are all handled by the Yodogawa people. , In the future, you don’t have to go out to get work, and you can have a full meal with me.

This condition made many leaders of Yodogawa rejoice, and a lot of obligatory listeners in front were frowning, but the rights behind were still very attractive. If the trade of Sakamoto Port was monopolized, the cost of the boat from Sakamoto to Sakaimachi alone would be enough. Great profit, not to mention another line to Kyoto.

The nominal leader of the Yodogawa Congregation, Yodogawa Sanemon, immediately made a decision to join the Kira family. After calculation, the combined military strength of the dozens of leaders of the Yodogawa Congregation who participated in the meeting was only more than 100 people, and the largest number of Yodogawa Sanemon had more than [-]. People, at least a dozen people, how to deal with these people was directly left to Shigetaka Jiugui to deal with.

Then Kira Yoshitoshi called Hosokawa Fujitaka and asked him to build a batch of closed ships at the dock in the Katada area in the north of Sakamoto Castle. When Sakamoto Castle was built, there were still a lot of high-quality wood left over to pick out suitable ones and use them directly for shipbuilding. Insufficient in-situ felling in Takashima County produced ten shut-off ships within one month.

Throughout May, the Kira family was busy reorganizing and training, and the two hundred horsemen also trained with the red cavalry. Yamaoka Shicho's talent in archery can only be regarded as a rough proficiency in Yabusame archery, and ordinary samurai must persevere in training for more than ten years if they want to be proficient.

After half a year of training, there are currently more than 20 people in the horse club who have not mastered Yabusame equestrianism for the time being. Like Yamaoka Tokinaga, these people are all children under 20 years old. Archery, after Yuanfu, was incorporated into Ma Huizhong to receive professional Yabusa equestrian training, and it was a qualified product before the age of [-].

This kind of efficiency is almost the same as that of training English longbowmen. The cost of building a group of elites in a few years is too high, and the expansion of the Kira family can barely reach the level of 200 people, and the real elites are still from the original team. 60 people and their offspring.

Yoshishi Kira inspected the training of the newly organized army. The people of Shiga and Takashima prefectures jointly organized and trained according to the military system of the Kira family. Many people were not used to this method of group combat. Each family is the basic unit, or a team of three or fifty people, or a team of a hundred or so people. Although there are not clear distinctions between each other, there will inevitably be some gaps.

In the military law customized by Kansuke Yamamoto, the troops sent by the powerful clans are divided into group heads, fan heads, and generals. These people are responsible for their own military power. It is inevitable that there will be more than 130 ashigaru generals and more than [-] ashigaru fans. head, there are less than ten members of the ashigaru group, and so on. Although the irregular military establishment has brought some troubles to the training, it is still no problem overall. In the words of Yoshitoki Kira, it is not enough compiled army.

On the way to Xijobei, I passed a small forest and heard a noise in the distance. Kira Yoshishi was curious to find out, and walked over to see 200 people sitting cross-legged in the dark forest. In the middle of the forest, a samurai was standing Performing archery, looking towards the end of the forest, the target is only as big as a grain of rice.

Kira Yoshitoki pointed to the target in the distance and asked, "Zenji...cough! How long! How far is this target?"

"About thirty rooms! The exact number of ministers will have to be calculated." Yamaoka Tokichang looked around and reported a number.

"Oh, thirty rooms? Let's take a look." Yoshihiro Kira stopped outside the woods and looked around. Thirty rooms are more than 54 meters. This level is beyond the reach of ordinary shooters. Ordinary and bows are the best for killing. The distance is only 30 meters, and the advanced and bow are within 50 meters, but it is relatively far away and I don't know who is so powerful.

"Boom!" The bowstring vibrated and the stringed arrow quickly popped out, and then the warrior took two steps back, raised the arrow again and drew the bow again, and another arrow flew out, and then took two steps back... just like this back and forth repeatedly for forty years Step by step, shoot twenty arrows, calculate the distance from the warrior and retreat more than ten rooms, and gradually come to the edge of the forest.

The archery warrior drew his bow and stood. After a while, the warrior who was waiting beside the target hurriedly came over holding the target, and proudly showed his achievements to the surroundings. Twenty arrows were densely inserted into the center of the target. The red dot was almost filled, and such an impressive record immediately got cheers from all the warriors, and some warriors admired their bow skills in admiration.

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