After the New Year, the time came to the ninth year of Yonglu (1566). Just after the Lantern Festival, the holidays of Tokiwabei's 650 soldiers were over. They were gathered by the officers and returned to the barracks under Kuroda Castle, except for five
Except that one platoon had to go on duty at a rental facility on the north bank of the Kiso River, the rest of the platoon was devoted to intense training.
However, Yu Qiuping is still more humane than before. He considered that with the expansion of the territory, the ashigaru people came from all over the place, and their homes were far away from the military camp, so it was impossible to go home every night to spend time with their families like in the past.
Therefore, he implemented a "single day off" system. Every five days of training, the ashigaru would be given a day off to go home and have a look. The ashigaru who lived nearby could still return home after training every day.
Spend time with your parents, wife and children at home.
As for those Ashigaru who live far away, Yu Qiupei built dormitories for them outside the barracks. They must get up on time when the wake-up call sounds every day and have one more morning exercise than other Ashigaru. However, they still have compensation——
That is, you can eat more breakfast and dinner provided by the cafeteria for free every day - this is a benefit that those Ashigaru who are going home cannot enjoy.
Speaking of this cafeteria, it is nothing new. Yu Qiupei implemented this system as early as when he was still in the Imagawa family. If Yu Qiu's family is the most equal place in Owari and even Japan, then the cafeteria is the most equal place in Yu Qiu's family.
The most equal place. Whether you are a samurai like Amakihei or Fukushima Yasunari, or you are an ordinary little Ashigaru, if you want to come to the cafeteria to eat, you have to queue up in front of the dozen or so windows, and you are not allowed to
Any queue-jumping phenomenon. Originally, everyone was still a little quick-witted, and the senior warriors had tried to jump in the queue. But when Yu Qiuping himself set an example and queued up according to the rules, they were embarrassed to make it easier for themselves.
At this moment, Yu Qiuping was waiting in the team like an ordinary person, chatting with Takenaka Shigeharu who was visiting the military camp.
"I have heard for a long time that when Tsukiwabi arrives on the battlefield, he will always follow orders and prohibitions, and share the same hatred with the enemy. I have been very curious about this before, but when I saw it today, it turns out that the secret is here." Takenaka Shigeharu looked at the dozen lines neatly lined up.
The straight-line team couldn't help but sigh: "Both top and bottom are equal, regardless of high or low, and are intimate. Everyone in Tokiwabi regards each other as brothers who share life and death. Coupled with hard training, they can develop such combat power and discipline.
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"Hanbei, thank you," Yu Qiuping said humbly, "I don't have any other abilities, I only have a kind heart. These Ashigaru are my brothers who went to the battlefield with me. Maybe one day
That’s all. If you can treat them well, you can do your best.”
"Hongye feels that treating others equally and giving respect to the ashigaru may not be a big deal, but it would be extremely difficult in other places." Takenaka Shigeharu shook his head and glanced in the direction of Mino: "Let's just say we are Mino.
Right. No matter which of your highness's armies you are in, samurai will always bully ashigaru from peasant backgrounds, veterans will bully new recruits, and fellow villagers will exclude foreigners. How can such an army have the cohesion of Tokiwabei? How can it be possible to train the kind of person who can put his life at risk?
Where are the spear formations handed over to the collective?"
"Haha, that's true." Yu Qiupei was chatting with Takenaka Shigeharu while constantly greeting the ashigaru people passing by. The red leaf shawl he was wearing was very conspicuous, and many passing recruits rushed to say hello to Yu Qiupei.
——Because Yu Qiuping, who is the head of the family, will definitely give them a gift in person, which is something they dare not even think about. And those veterans who have been in such an equal group for many years are all
I smiled as I watched all this happen - I had never been so excited before.
"Hello, Your Highness!" At this time, another warrior from Tokiwabi walked past Yu Qiuping carrying a dinner plate and greeted Yu Qiuping with a smile.
"Xinxian Chengliang, why did you come to say hello to me?" Yu Qiuping recognized this old subordinate who had been following him since Chili Castle at a glance. He is now also an ashigaru general platoon leader of Tokiwa Bei. "It's not ordinary.
Are only new recruits coming up to say hello to me?"
"Hey, I've seen His Highness, and I'm too embarrassed to leave without saying hello, don't you think so?" Xiancheng Liang smiled and joked with Yu Qiuping, and then said hello to Takenaka Shigeharu who was next to Yu Qiuping.
Said: "Hello, Mr. Takenaka."
"You kid, why do you eat so much again?" Yu Qiuping glanced at the dinner plate in his hand - except for a grilled fish, a small piece of livestock meat, a vegetable, a bowl of soup and four dishes that are provided at noon every day in the cafeteria.
In addition to two rations of dry food and multigrain cakes, there were two steamed buns and a chicken drumstick. "Are you asking the master to give you more? Didn't I tell you that if you can't finish it, your salary will be deducted! Our Yuqiu family's food is terrible.
It’s expensive!”
"Your Highness, don't you know me yet?" Xin Xianchengliang smiled and touched his belly, "Just based on my appetite, let alone these things, I can eat even half a catty of rice!"
"If I let you eat freely, the Yuqiu family will be poor for you sooner or later." Yu Qiuping shook his head angrily and funny. The reason why he originally ordered that if you can't finish the food distributed in the cafeteria, your salary will be deducted.
It’s not that he’s worried about the ashigaru people wasting it – in this day and age, how could these ashigaru people who are living a hard life waste such good food? What he wants to prevent is that the ashigaru people don’t eat that piece of livestock meat!
Because in Japan, which has a tradition of banning meat, many livestock are not on their diet, and only fish is widely accepted. At that time, Yu Qiupei tried to persuade Imagawa Kaede and Honda Tadakatsu to eat pork, beef, and mutton, but his words were almost worn out.
He did not have such a good temper for his Tokiwa Preparatory Army, and directly ordered them to be forced to eat. Because the protein and fat supplemented by fish are not enough to support their high-intensity training, the piece of meat every day is indispensable. In order to feed these
He spent a lot of money on pigs, cows and sheep! If the Sena family name was wasted, he would be furious.
"Isn't it for the reputation of our Yuqiu family that I eat freely?"
"You really are! Alas!" Yu Qiuping was so angry when he remembered what Xin Xian Chengliang did at that time that he was so embarrassed. "The food in Yu Qiu's family is better than everyone else, just keep it in your heart and enjoy it! Who?
Let you show off everywhere! Ikeda Tsuneaki, Kinoshita Hideyoshi and others brought people to our cafeteria to eat and drink for a long time. What a shame! You Sena-sama is about to kill me, you know!"
"Then the last two times we sent troops to Meinong, we marched in a hurry and had no time to prepare delicious food." Xinxian Chengliang said with a matter-of-fact expression, "Last time we went to East Meinong and were stationed for a long time, we were finally able to build a canteen in
We're on the front line! Their people are all eating braised vegetables. We're just eating three dishes and one soup. Can we show off? This is also helping Your Highness to attract ashigaru from other families to come to our Tokiwa Prefecture!"
"Come on, the ashigaru who manipulated his colleagues will be caught and beaten!" Yu Qiuping pinched Xinxian Chengliang's belly hard, "You brat, go and eat your food quickly.
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On March 17, the ninth year of Yonglu (1566), the spring plowing in each retainer's territory was basically over. Oda Nobunaga was also anxious and asked all senior officials in the territory to go to Qingzhou City to hold an evaluation meeting. As for the content of the meeting, Yu Qiuping
You can imagine it with your toes - he is going to attack Mino again. However, this time, Mori Katsunari, who was in Mino, failed to come back. It is said that the Saito family gathered troops west of Sekijo and seemed to plan to
Attack the territory occupied by the Oda family in Mino. Therefore, Kinoshita Hideyoshi had to come to the meeting with his envoy.
Sure enough, Oda Nobunaga arrived at the evaluation room in a hurry as usual, strode up to the main seat, and said domineeringly: "After a year of rest, we are almost ready. We don't want to compete with Saito Ryuuki.
That brat is wasting too much time, I will take down Meinong within this year!"
"Get ready to go back and assemble your troops now. We will send troops to Mino as soon as summer comes. We will have a decisive battle before that guy Ryuuki Saito attacks us and catch him off guard." Oda Nobunaga said with excitement.
, while tapping the tatami quickly with the folding fan in his hand, "Yu can't wait any longer."
"My lord." At this time, only Niwa Nagahide dared to stand up and advise: "My lord is wise and powerful, and invincible. It's just that we already have the advantage, so why don't we pursue the goal of completing all our efforts in one battle? After all,
Owari has been fighting for many years, and everyone has been devastated. If we can capture Mino by gradually cannibalizing it, Owari will be lucky!"
"Oh? What do you mean? Do you want to advise Yu to play it safe again?" Oda Nobunaga was more gentle this time. After all, the last strategy of Higashi Meinong gave him a big benefit, "What about this time, what do you have?
Thoughts? Want to play Simeron?"
"That's right, my lord is wise." Niwa Nagahide bowed down and said respectfully.
"But West Meinong is not as tough as East Meinong." Sakuma Nobumori on the side put forward a common opinion, "East Meinong is full of small wealthy families who do not belong to each other, so we were given the opportunity to encroach on the territory last time. And
West Mino is basically controlled by several wealthy Mino families, and they are very united. Once we invade, we will immediately provoke a joint attack from them. By that time, the partial army has just crossed the Kiso River and has no foothold.
, how to defeat the Spanish-American coalition forces?"
"What His Highness Sakuma said makes sense." Niwa Nagahide is also a person who listens well, and naturally he will not be unable to listen to other good opinions. "If it seems like this, we need to consider it in the long term."
"What about long-term planning? Long-term planning. How can I have so much time to give you long-term planning?" Oda Nobunaga sneered and stood up. "Isn't it just that there is no foothold? Just build a city there? Where?
Why so much trouble?"
As he spoke, he walked towards the hall, tapped the map of Meinong hanging on the wall with a folding fan, and said loudly: "I think Sumama is a critical place. Which of you has the ability to build a city for me in Sumama?"
Chapter completed!