Pillars of the Wu family

In the next few days, Yoshitoki Kira kept communicating with Jinghu Nagao at Dade Temple. Of course, the main purpose was to see Huya girl. Unfortunately, Huya girl was very indifferent to him. In his eyes, the Kira family in Kyoto Your noble son is a fool with strange eyes, always staring at him intentionally or unintentionally.

Nagao Jinghu also seemed to notice his abnormal behavior, and pulled his sister aside to be an audience when he had nothing to do. He didn't know whether he wanted to improve the relationship between the two, or to train his sister, so that Ji Liangyi could feast his eyes and let Huya My sister is even more unhappy.

"42 times! Your home decoration looked back at me 42 times!" The long-tailed Hu Ji finally broke out, stood up and said: "Brother! Hu Ji has had enough! I have to go out!"

"Okay! I just want to go out too, why not Her Royal Highness come with me!" Kira Yoshitoki said with a shy face.

"Don't!" Nagao Torahime made a gorgeous turn and ran out, leaving Kira Yoshihime staring blankly.

"Hu Ji! Come back to me..." Nagao Jinghu hurriedly got up and wanted to chase after him, but he had no choice but to injure his left foot from fighting in Santiao's house in the early years, not to mention trotting all the way. , her left foot was so painful that she couldn't walk normally, so she could only walk with a bamboo stick.

Yoshishi Kira sat back in embarrassment, and continued: "Uh, it's okay, I still have questions to ask Danseiden!"

During this month, Nagao Jinghu traveled through Yamato country to see Kofukuji Temple, visited Dalin Zongtao master in Izumi country, and saw the prosperity of Sakamoto and Otsu on a boat. This journey also knows the vast differences between the states and countries in Kinai. Among them, the territory under the Kira family's rule is the richest.This shows how powerful the Kira family's political level is.

Sakamoto Castle Town has also been governed for several years since Kira Yoshitoshi.It has changed from a waterway hub in the Biwako area to a Kyomachi with Kyoto.One of the three major commercial centers in Sakai-cho in Osaka Bay. This can already be described as an economic miracle. Yoshitoki Kira is shrouded in too much aura, which not only makes outsiders curious, but also makes people unable to see clearly the inside story.

Therefore, Yoshitoki Kira made a comprehensive exposition of his own political and economic reforms. In the process of explaining to Nagao Jinghu, he was also sorting out and reflecting on his own political thinking.There will still be deviations in the communication of the newly attached land government order of Takashima County, and the reason is that the Chinese lord autonomous body is at fault.

This is because he relied on his personal belief to completely abolish the power of guards and envoys. The followers of the Kira family will go to the villages to investigate at any time, and if any problems are found, they will be dealt with on the spot and supervised by the elders in the village. Everyone is convinced.

But that's it, the control over the locality is still stretched, because the territory is still owned by the Chinese lords, and the annual tribute is not passed through the hands of the Kira family. The land inspection can only establish military service, but the Kira family does not use military service at all.The expedition is entirely based on the recruitment system, so the resistance of the Chinese lords to the inspection is not strong.However, the lords with land are very conservative. They have problems such as insufficient implementation of the Kira family's decrees, unresolute attitudes, and incomplete obedience. This is also the fundamental reason why Takashima County is always inferior to Shiga County.

Even so, everyone in Takashima County highly respects and trusts the Kira family. This is also the main issue Nagao Jinghu wants to discuss. How to make the lords of the country cooperate with the decree of the king, and how to break the power of guards and envoys. It's very complicated, and Kira Yoshiki will not be able to tell him for a while, because no one knows what the form of Echigo Kingdom is.

Kira Yoshishi has been eating and living in Dade Temple for the past few days, and he was too embarrassed to eat free food, so he sealed a hundred guanyongle coins as sesame oil money to donate to Dade Temple. Afterwards, when Ji Liangyi saw her again, he was much more careful, at least he would not stare at her blatantly.

When the long-tailed tiger princess showed her small tiger teeth to scare Kirayoshi, she thought annoyedly: "Damn, he sneaked over again! Really!"

"Uh... where did I just say that? Oh yes! It's time to talk about the military system of the Kira family!" Long Tail Tiger Hime posed such a cute animal, so cute that Kira Yoshitoshi was so cute that he almost caught his mouth Forget what you said.

"Tell me about the recruitment system of my Kira family and the high pension system. The merits of all soldiers who died in battle will be counted as usual, and they will be given ten pennies at a time. Those who are disabled and lose their combat effectiveness but do not affect their labor will be given five pennies at a time. The reserve regiment who entered the Kira House served as an instructor and continued to receive three-person support rice. Of course, those who do not want to join the army can also enter the direct collar of the Kira House to participate in labor according to their personal choice..."

People who have lost their labor force, such as missing arms and legs, will be given ten guanwen at a time, responsible for acting as a united police officer in the village, handling civil and criminal disputes in the countryside, having the authority to arrest and interrogate, and belonging to the deputy of the public security department, Sakamoto and Katada The castle towns have been preliminarily connected together.

The security office was set up at the weak point of the new connection between the two places. A large number of disabled soldiers were properly resettled by the security office. These people were veterans who survived the battlefield and were very loyal to the Kira family. It's somewhat inconvenient, but it's more than enough to deal with those young people.

"This set of strategies is very good! My Nagao family plans to learn from it!" Nagao Jinghu applauded immediately, and then frowned: "But my Nagao family really lacks political talents. He is also a powerful lord of the country in each county, and if the genealogy executives feel that the government orders of our family are inappropriate, they will not hesitate to refuse to implement them, and our family has absolutely nothing to do about it!"

Seeing Nagao Jinghu's gaze, Kirayoshi shrugged and said that he could do nothing, Echigo was far away in Hokuriku, what could he, a samurai from Kyoto, do?It is impossible to solve Echigo's difficult and miscellaneous diseases with just a pinch of fingers, and he is not Zhuge Liang who is wise and close to the demon.

Seeing that the strategy failed, he continued to discuss the issue of the military system. The recruitment system in Yoshihide Kira’s time was not initiated by him. The imperial court in the Heian period also learned from the Tang and Song dynasties to establish a recruitment system, but because the military system was corrupted, the soldiers fled and then the system also collapsed. It's bad, but the recruitment system of Kira Yoshitoshi is different from the one hundreds of years ago. The exaggerated method of raising soldiers is really surprising, and of course the terrible combat effectiveness is also surprising.

Yoshitoki Kira then discussed with him the beauty of the strategy of lean troops and simple policies.The enlistment of a large number of peasants and soldiers will not only do no good.On the contrary, it will also affect the normal development of the territory.In order to ensure that local development is not affected by both population and economy caused by frequent wars, the strategy of elite soldiers must be brought up.

His strategy of recruiting elite soldiers is not suitable for other lords, because his two standings are based on the large number of direct leaders of Mihe Kingdom and Shiga County. Without strong financial resources to support this strategy of elite soldiers, it is impossible to talk about it. Later, it is not impossible to do it, at least it can be done by lowering the requirements.

For example, each soldier supports rice, and the daily training extra meals and wartime rice supply are paid by the king, so that some landless refugees, criminals, and mountain people will join.Then assist the monks in the education of gods and Buddhas. You only need to shout a few simple slogans such as the blessings of gods and Buddhas, and then preach some Buddhist teachings that meet the requirements of the lord. With strict management and strict training, you can become a monk in less than a year. An army to fight.

Of course, these are all things he talks about on paper. The training of soldiers is too troublesome. He never manages them himself. The monks of Miaoyun Temple like to practice Zen, which is a little bit weak, but other things are fine.

do not know how.When the two talked about the issue of enfeoffment, Ji Liangyi made it clear that enfeoffment was imperative.However, the head of the country must ensure that he has more than a quarter of the direct share, otherwise it will not be a deterrent to the people under his jurisdiction.

For example, Nagao Jinghu is like this now. The total stone height of Echigo is 39 koku, and the Nagao family in Fuchu directly controls only [-] koku. Among them, there are [-] koku. The part given later, before that, the Nagao family only had [-] shi territory, which was less than one-tenth, at most it was a large Chinese lord.

The current situation is not very optimistic. Even if it is a Chinese lord who has increased one size, one-eighth of the straight collar is not enough for him to take the initiative, especially in the Shimotsu area with complex terrain and complex lord composition. They are closely related, and the most terrible thing is that the group of warriors named "Yangbeizhong" fought bravely, all of them were fierce generals, and they always refused to accept Echigo's guardianship, which was simply a pit.

Nagao Jinghu frowned and said: "Military service is still necessary, and the power of the Chinese lords also needs to be relied on. Although 'non-offender' is not reliable, and the abolition of the power of guardians to prevent entry is also imperative, it is really not advisable to rashly change the enfeoffment system. , I believe that it is better to let them develop on their own, as long as the leader of the country holds the righteous name enough to control the neighboring country."

Yoshitoki Kira expressed his disdain for this statement, and directly retorted: "What is the existence of the level of the noble family's servants like? Presumably the Tanseiden also knows what virtue is! Let these people bend down and plow the fields in peacetime, and in wartime How much combat power can the peasants and soldiers with guns charge guarantee? They may still be thinking about the mother-in-law at home, whether it is a boy or a girl, and the grain in the field should be watered. After dying on the battlefield, the mother-in-law remarried to another man, and she became someone else sleeping with her mother-in-law and beating her own child, isn't that cheating?"

Long-tailed Tiger Ji burst out laughing, and Chang-tailed Jinghu was dumbfounded by his strange metaphor. Although the two brothers and sisters didn't understand the meaning of "cheat father", they generally understood what he meant. Combat strength and quality are completely unreliable, but Chinese people should not be like this.

Changwei Jinghu questioned: "But the lords of the country are also warriors anyway, shouldn't they serve the master's family?"

"Is the lord of the Chinese people your retainer? If so, why is there still a guardian faction, a guardian faction? Neutralize the Yangbei people who are making soy sauce? If the righteousness is reliable, the officials and leaders of the Kanto will not decline. The imperial court The shogunate and the shogunate will not decline, so why should people listen to you without real power?" Yoshitoki Kira scoffed at this pedantic thinking.

"Having said that, I, Jing Hu, believe that the 'Tao' in the minds of the Wu family must be upheld! The way of the Wu family lies in doing the world's righteousness. Isn't it for this reason that the Wuwei Palace and I, Jing Hu, are constantly working hard for the revival of the shogunate? "Changwei Jinghu was also in a hurry, and even changed his self-proclaimed name back to the original one.

"Now we are only discussing the nature of the people, and let's not talk about righteousness." Ji Liangyi shook his head and said: "Once the retainers have land, they will start to change to the level of the lords of the people. There may be several generations of loyal ministers, but once the king makes a decision After actions that harm their interests or at least have this intention, these loyal ministers will immediately turn into vanguards against you. What is the reason? Or is it because they have land, and there is an interest entanglement between them and the land. When calculating how much grain can be harvested in the field, the first thing that comes to mind in a famine year is to lose all kinds of taxes levied by the king.

Some of this kind of people may be loyal to the Nagao family for the pursuit of Wuming, but in the final analysis, it is for more Zhixing enfeoffment, from a small lord to a big lord. Without Zhixing enfeoffment, would he support Danzhengden?Isn't the dominance of the Nagao family still to be shaken?Why did I write a letter saying that in the war against Shinano, you must give enough benefits to the national lord of the Nagao family?Whoever has no interest in fighting with Nagao's family, can Dayi take care of his food?The crops in their own fields are almost running out, and it is definitely a brain problem to go to the battle with the Nagao family. "

Changwei Jinghu was also attracted by his description, thought for a moment and shook his head and laughed, "This is the first time I've heard of this kind of statement."

"When the leader of the Uesugi family mobilized 8 troops to attack Kawagoe, didn't they still promise that as long as the Hojo family was taken down, they would be enfeoffed? Otherwise, how would the [-] people come? Although the Tianwen Rebellion in the Eastern Kingdom was violent this time, the [-] army wolves Benzhu suddenly fought over, but they were different from each other and had differences in land allocation, so they were easily defeated by Hojo Shiyasu, how much do you think the Chinese lords have contributed to you?" Kira Yoshitoshi who entered the state The words also became sharp, and Nagao Jinghu said nothing in thought.

The faint sound of chanting from outside the house drifted into the room, and it took a while for Changwei Jinghu to say: "...Do you mean that the recruitment system is imperative?"

"Well! It's different for direct ministers. For example, all the retainers of my Kira family are directly subordinate, and they only need to receive their salary from the main family. Moreover, this is also the place where Shiqing and Shilu have been descended from generation to generation. They have a share in the direct leadership of the main family The land, the actual ownership of the land is still owned by the family, as long as they do not make unforgivable mistakes, or have no children, they can pass on the land from generation to generation and from generation to generation.

This is also called family salary, that is to say, no matter whether your performance is competent or not, this salary is still yours, and there is another job salary. The salary is much looser. My Kira family currently receives the straight family salary. After the political situation stabilizes in the future and the family salary of the retainers is established, the number of positions and salary will be determined. "(to be continued...)

ps: Talking about reforms with Echigo Junshen... a very impactful talk!