However, opening up new territories is not as simple as what Yu Qiuping's subordinates thought.
On March 10, the Oda Army arrived at the foot of Yagami Castle. Since they had to guard a large number of prisoners in Inai Castle, the Oda Army was able to free up only 10,000 troops to reach the foot of Yagami Castle. In Yagami Castle, they luckily escaped back to the city.
The Tenui teaching skills in the middle of the country cobbled together 2,000 strong men, and they were planning to defend this mountain castle. Yagami Castle is a fortified castle that has been run by the Hatano family for many generations. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is estimated that it will take a lot of effort to capture it.
Not a small price to pay.
However, Yu Qiupei and Akechi Mitsuhide have no intention of attacking immediately - they have to think carefully about how to deal with Sanin's territory.
In reality, it is far from as simple as in the game to digest and occupy a territory. In Nobunaga's Ambition, you only need to capture a city and send your people there, and the surrounding territories will be available to you immediately, and the enemies will also
They will all be driven out. However, in reality, not only is it impossible for you to digest your territory immediately, you even need to rely on the hands of your former enemies.
After conquering a territory, a Warring States daimyo has many options:
The most radical one is to drive away all the original lords, wealthy families, and warriors in the territory, and take all the land under direct jurisdiction, and manage it by the agents you send. But in fact, only when the family has strong strength.
It is possible to operate in this way - this requires not only a huge number of acting officials and economic strength, but also a strong army to suppress the rebellion of the expelled samurai and the ronin who lost their jobs.
Therefore, most daimyo would adopt a milder approach. They would take the most elite and core parts of the territory they had conquered under their direct control, and reduce the territories of the defeated samurai who originally ruled here, and transfer them to remote areas within the territory.
The space vacated will be allocated to the daimyo's loyal samurai. These samurai will continue to divide the territory they took over and pass it on layer by layer. This choice is the most common and the most reasonable.
Of course, if a daimyo is completely unable to control the territory he just conquered, then he will have no choice but to accept the surrender of the enemy and let the original lord continue to rule the territory and be loyal to him. Such a relationship chain is very fragile. Surrender
The lord is likely to rise up and rebel when the master's family declines.
Under such a feudal system, the territory and retainers of a Warring States daimyo were also divided into four categories.
The first category is under the direct jurisdiction of the daimyo. All the output of the territory belongs to the daimyo family. Although these territories will also be entrusted to his subordinates by the daimyo, these subordinates all live in the daimyo's residence city and will not personally govern the territory.
The territories are instead taken care of by agents sent by the daimyo. Part of the taxes collected from the territories every year will be given to the nominal owners of these territories as salaries, and the rest will be given to the daimyo. And these people who accompany the daimyo do not need to go
The retainers in their own territory were later also called flagmotos. Taking the Oda family as an example, samurai such as Sawaki Yoshiyuki, Hachiya Noraitaka, Kawajiri Hidetaka, Ikoma Ochimasa, Nakamura Kazushi, and Hori Hidemasa were Oda Nobunaga's
Directly under the banner.
The second category is the daimyo's close vassals, that is, the daimyo's clan. They have a blood relationship with the daimyo. They are entrusted to the territory by the daimyo to manage the territory. They lead the army in wartime and can gain the trust of the daimyo the most. In the Oda family
Among them, Oda Nobunaga’s brothers and sons played such a role.
The third category is genera, which are retainers who have been loyal to a master's family for generations. They also have their own territory and army, and are relatively powerful among the famous people. Due to the bond of master-slave relationship from generation to generation, they have a special relationship with the master's family.
Unusually loyal. Among the Oda family, there are many families such as the Hayashi family, the Shibata family, the Sakuma family, the Sasa family, the Hirate family, etc.
On behalf of important ministers.
The fourth category is foreigners. Their status is relatively special. But in terms of the rights and obligations they enjoy, they are no different from their close vassals. They all have territories and armies. However, most of them are in the daimyo Kaiji territory.
Many of those who surrendered to the daimyo when they were expanding their territory were enemies of their masters even before they surrendered. Most of their territories were not enfeoffed by the daimyo, but were passed down from generation to generation. They took the oath of allegiance to the daimyo as a sign of loyalty.
In exchange for the Daimyo's recognition of the legitimacy of their territory, the Daimyos are very independent and their loyalty to the Daimyo is not very reliable. The Daimyos are quite afraid of the Daimyo's strength, so they often start to weaken the Daimyos.
As time goes by, if the former foreigners are loyal to the same master family for many consecutive generations, they will slowly become loyal and reliable generations. In the Oda family, the Uaki family, the Hashiba family, the Akechi family, and the Takikawa family
The family, the Mino trio, the Kamao family, the former Araki family, the Matsunaga family, etc. are the typical appearance.
Generally speaking, if a family has not expanded for a long time, there will be a large number of generations in its territory. But if the family expands rapidly, the number of generations will not be enough to support the family's large-scale governance and military operations.
It is necessary to rely on many capable foreigners - this is the situation of the Oda family.
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Yu Qiuping's territory is very different from the traditional Warring States daimyo - almost all of his territory is directly under the jurisdiction of the government, which is the most radical choice to digest the territory. However, he did not achieve it overnight, but after nearly ten years of hard work, he only achieved
Completed the direct administration of the three kingdoms.
The territories in Hanoi and Izumi that originally belonged to the Miyoshi family were naturally taken over by Yu Qiuping. The small wealthy families initially surrendered to Yu Qiuping under the prestige of Hatakeyama Taomasa. Later, they accepted Yu Qiuping's exorbitant lease agreement and rented their territories.
It was given to Yu Qiupei. However, the wealthy family of Kii resisted fiercely against Yu Qiupei's move to direct the government. The Yuqiu family went to Kii three times, and they fought and harassed the wealthy people of Kii. It was only thanks to the conspiracy of Amano Keitoku that they were finally pacified.
The territories of most of the rebel noble families in Kii were confiscated and reduced, while the families loyal to Yu Qiupei such as Genlai gave up their territories through a lease agreement and joined the upper house of the National Assembly.
And Yu Qiuping himself did not entrust the territory to the important ministers of the family, but in exchange for generous salaries, benefits, and security. The high-ranking retainers in the family all followed Yu Qiuping from poverty, and most of them had no objection to this.
It means. Although many newcomers have some complaints, they can't make trouble. The special system of the Yuqiu family is maintained by Yu Qiuping's strong personal charm, many coincidences and strong strength - this obviously does not apply to
Today's wise man.
If Yu Qiupei thinks about it, he is absolutely sure that he will capture Tanba, Tango, Tajima, and Inaba before the autumn harvest. But what's the use of capturing it? If the territory cannot be properly digested and occupied, harvesting
Taxes cannot be collected, and mobilization cannot be mobilized. Those local warriors who have been entrenched here for hundreds of years will still rise up in rebellion. The guerrilla warfare all over the mountains and plains is enough to bear.
Akechi Mitsuhide doesn't have the military, economic strength or a large team of acting officials like Yu Qiupei, so she can't take all these territories directly under the jurisdiction; secondly, she doesn't have any relatives, and she doesn't have enough important officials to support her.
Reduce the title, transfer the title to the Shanyin tycoons and enfeoff their own people to fill the gap; thirdly, her own power is not large enough. If she does not weaken the Shanin tycoons and directly accepts their request for vassalage, she will wait until they recover their strength.
There will be a situation where the tail is too big to fall off.
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Akechi Mitsuhide's situation put the two of them in trouble. At this moment, Yu Qiuping and Akechi Mitsuhide were discussing the matter in the military camp outside Yashang City.
Ways to digest territory later.
"There are only a few people in the family who can be used, such as Saito Toshizo, Tsumagi Hirotada, Tsuda Shigehisa, and Mizuo Shigemo." Mitsuhide Akechi sighed feebly when talking about his situation.
, “It’s not as talented as Hongye’s subordinates.”
"Talents are all trained. With enough opportunities to hone, talents will naturally appear. My old team members were all unknown slaves in Zhili City. Who could have imagined at the time that they would have such talents?
Achievements?" Yu Qiuping shook his head and explained, "Akai Naomasa, Tenui Gyoye and others in Tamba are all heroes. If they can be used by Mitsuhide, they will definitely have great achievements in the future."
"Yes." Akechi Mitsuhide nodded, understanding what Yu Qiupei was referring to. Now she couldn't eat all of Tamba in one go. If she wanted to rule Tamba, she had to rely on Tamba's wealthy family.
"The Hatano family is almost at the end of their rope. We can try to persuade them to surrender. They no longer have the capital to refuse." Yu Qiuping faced a map of the Tanba Kingdom and the accounts of the number of Shigao in each county of the Tanba Kingdom, and told Fukuzawa Yunan
The territory acceptance plan prepared by the general staff was read to Akechi Mitsuhide, "You can take over 150,000 koku of Kuwata County, Funai County, and Hyogami County as your own territory. And the Hatano family, Akai family, Renjing family and other
The Tanba wealthy family moved to remote places such as Taki County, Helu County, and Amada County. At the same time, they improved the status of the Akai family, the Tenui family and other wealthy families, allowing them to dissolve the master-slave relationship with the Hatano family, and become equals and check and balance each other. As for the Taki family,
Key places such as Yakami Castle in the prefecture, Fukuchiyama Castle in the Amada prefecture, and Ayabe Castle in the Horuka prefecture were entrusted to the subordinates to monitor the noble families who surrendered to Tamba."
"But Amada County and Helu County are located in the northwest of Tamba, close to Tajima and Tango. If this area is given to the Tamba wealthy family, what if they collude with the Tajima Mountain famous family and the Tango Isshiki family to invade Tanba?" Akechi?
Mitsuhide saw the loopholes in this enfeoffment plan at a glance - although the rich land was in his hands, there was a hidden danger of opening the door wide.
"The Isshiki family is over. The master and the young master are in our hands. We can also force them to surrender." Naturally, Yu Qiuping would not come to Akechi Mitsuhide with a plan full of loopholes. The staff had already done this.
I have made a plan, "We can ask them to cede to us the 68,000 stone territory of Kasa County in the south of Tango Kingdom and adjacent to Tanba Kingdom, and Yosa County, and then let Saito Toshizo, an important minister under his command, be entrusted to Yosa County Yumiki Castle and Kasa County's construction department.
The mountain castle was taken under direct jurisdiction to cut off the communication between the two countries. The Isshiki family and other Tango noble families were transferred to Takeno County, Kumano County and Naka County in the west of Tango Kingdom."
"There will be big problems at the borders of the three countries." Mitsuhide Akechi pointed to the map on the map where the three countries border the west of Tango Kingdom, the northwest of Tamba Kingdom, and the east of Tajima Kingdom. "Both the Tamba wealthy clan and the Tango wealthy clan are gathered here. Once
The famous people in Lianhe Mountain are revolting, and it is difficult to suppress them in a hurry."
"A hundred-footed insect will die but not freeze. Although the head of the family, Yamana Yutaka, is already in our hands, the Yamana family still has some strength left. They will definitely not surrender directly to us like the Isshiki family and the Hatano family. At most, they will cede the border to me.
Just a little bit is used to redeem the head of the family." Mitsuhide Akechi rapped his knuckles on Tottori Castle, the residence of the Yamana family, "But to digest Tanba and the Tango half country, I have used up almost all my strength. The Yamana family ceded
Our enclave of Tajima Kingdom is surrounded by the Yamano family in front of us and the wealthy families of Tanba and Tango behind us. It is surrounded by enemies from both sides and is isolated outside the country. I have no ability to defend it."
"Just ask someone else to guard that land." Yu Qiuping smiled mysteriously, "You don't need to worry about this. There are people who are more anxious than you."
Chapter completed!