Thinking of the role of the Yodogawa clan, Kira Yoshihide summoned Hattori Koshiro and asked him to bring the information about the Yodogawa clan collected by the Hattori family. After reading it carefully, he found out that the Yodogawa clan was not a group of ordinary ship bosses who sailed ships as he imagined, but the people of the Mino Kingdom.
The Kiso River was similar to the Kawami I had encountered before.
Both are local tycoons, shipheads, and fishermen who spontaneously formed rural parties. They prospered by monopolizing daily trade on the river. Of course, the name Yodogawa Zhong is very general. After all, the Yodogawa River contains many tributaries, and its geographical location happens to be in the Kinai area.
The core area, so the cohesion of Yodogawa people is far worse than that of Kawami people.
"Because the Yodogawa River is located in the Kinei area, it has been suppressed and attacked by many forces including the imperial court, the shogunate, the governor, the guardian, and the large temple monks and soldiers. The development of the Yodogawa people has not been very smooth. All large and small rural parties living on the Yodogawa River can be called
Only 30% of the Yodogawa people are river navy troops. These river navy troops are scattered among dozens of small families. Among them, the Yodogawa family, the most powerful, serves as the nominal leader of the Yodogawa people." Koshiro Hattori reported a series of information without stopping.
They are a family famous for their intelligence, and they can master this skill at such a young age.
"Oh! I see... By the way, Koushiro is one year younger than me, right?"
"Yes! I am an eleventh-year astronomy student." Hattori Koushiro answered respectfully.
Kira Yoshishi prompted with a smirk on his face: "Has the bedwetting problem been solved?"
"..."
Kira Yoshi felt that the act of exposing people's scars in front of them was a little unkind, so he changed his words and said: "That's right! I remembered something! Michinaoze Michizan pushed his son Morizuma Suminao to become a samurai here in my family.
You go to him and ask for a prescription for treating bedwetting! Even if he doesn't know how to do it, there is still a father he can ask for advice!"
"I would like to thank the host on behalf of my brother!" Hattori Koshiro ran away with an embarrassed look on his face.
"What a shy guy! Is he Hanzo? He doesn't look like him at all!" Yoshiki Kira continued to read the information.
Fully understanding the specific situation of the active river navy on the Yodogawa River, Kira Yoshitsune sent an envoy to discuss various matters regarding Sakamoto's water transportation, and summoned dozens of leaders of all sizes in the Yodogawa River. How many of these people had seen the famous names of the samurai family and their status?
Your noble minister, the samurai family used their own private ships to enter and leave Yodogawa. The people in Yodogawa who came into contact with most were businessmen, craftsmen, and farmers. At most, there were some less wealthy samurai families and ronin who swarmed around like flies.
Therefore, when they received the order from Kira Yoshitoki, they drove to Sakamoto Marquis without a second thought. Kira Yoshitoki did not intend to embarrass this group of low-status countrymen and directly made his request. Kira represented the shogunate.
The obligation of employing the Yodogawa people to serve the shogunate is that the boats of the Yodogawa people must be mobilized free of charge in time of war. They must not disobey whether they are tasked with transporting troops or food. If they are required to fight land battles or water battles, they must fight unconditionally. Kiragi
Shi also promised that they would not be allowed to fight on land without special reasons.
Of course, it is not just obligations but no rights. The right is to be fully responsible for the water transportation trade of Sakamoto Castle. All the shipping fees for allocating ships will be paid. The passenger flow and goods handled by Sakamoto Port are all responsible for the Yodogawa people. This is equivalent to finding an iron rice bowl for them.
, you don’t have to go out to work anymore, just follow me and you can have enough to eat.
This condition made many leaders of Yodogawa rejoice, and they looked sad after hearing the many obligations in front of them, but the rights behind were still very tempting. If they monopolized the trade of Sakamoto Port, the shipping fee alone for the line from Sakamoto to Sakai Town would be enough. Huge profits, not to mention another line to Kyoto.
The nominal leader of the Yodogawa clan, Yodogawa Sanemon, immediately decided to join the Kira family. After calculation, the total military strength of the dozens of leaders of the Yodogawa clan who attended the meeting was only over 1,600 people. The largest number of Yodogawa Sanemon was 100. There were many people, at least a dozen people. How to deal with these people was directly left to Jiuki Shigetaka to deal with.
Then Yoshitoki Kira called Hosokawa Fujitaka and asked him to build a batch of Kansai ships at the dock in the Katada area north of Sakamoto Castle. When Sakamoto Castle was built, there was still a lot of good wood left over, and the suitable ones were picked out and used directly for shipbuilding. With insufficient funds, Takashima County imposed on-site felling restrictions and built ten Kansai ships within one month.
Throughout May, the Kira family was busy reorganizing and training, and the two hundred horse warriors were also training with the Akabi cavalry. The Ryugai horse archery skills passed down from generation to generation by the horse warriors were not easy to learn even if they wanted to teach them. Yamaoka Tokugawa's archery talent can only be regarded as rough in horse archery. For ordinary samurai to be proficient in it, they must train persistently for more than ten years.
After half a year of training, there are still more than fifty people in the horseback riding community who have not yet mastered the style of horseback riding. These people, like Shan Gang Shichang, are all young boys under the age of twenty. They have done nothing but practice riding since they were young. , archery, after serving Yuan Dynasty, he was incorporated into the horse community to receive professional equestrian training. He was a qualified product before he was 20 years old.
This efficiency is almost the same as training English longbowmen. The cost of building a group of elites in a few years is too high. The Kira family's expansion at all costs can only barely reach the level of 200 people. The real elites are still the original team. Sixty people and their descendants.
Kira Yoshito inspected the training situation of the newly formed military force. The Japanese people in Shiga and Takashima prefectures jointly trained according to the Kira family's military system. Many Japanese people were not used to this kind of group combat. In the past, they used to fight in groups. Each family is the basic unit, either thirty to fifty people, or a hundred or so people form a team. Although they are not clearly distinct from each other, there will inevitably be some gaps.
In the military law customized by Yamamoto Kansuke, each powerful clan is divided into groups, divisions, and generals based on the troops they send. These people are responsible for their own military strength. It is inevitable that there will be more than 130 ashigaru generals and more than 20 generals. There are situations like the Ashigaru Bantou, the Ashigaru-gumi leader with less than ten people, etc. Although the non-standard military organization brings some troubles to the training, there is still no problem in general. In the words of Kira Yoshitoki, as long as this It is an army that is not fully staffed.
On the way to Saijobi, he passed through a small forest and heard noises in the distance. Kira Yoshi was curious to find out what was going on. He walked over and saw a hundred or two hundred people sitting in the dark forest. In the middle of the forest, a samurai was sitting. Performing archery, looking towards the end of the woods, the target is only as big as a grain of rice.
Kira Yoshishi pointed to the target in the distance and looked back and asked: "Zenji...cough! Duration! How far away is this target?"
"About thirty! We have to calculate the exact number of ministers to know." Yamagang Shichang looked around and reported a number.
"Oh, thirty rooms? Let's take a look." Kira Yoshi stopped outside the woods and looked around. Thirty rooms is more than fifty-four meters. This level is not something that ordinary archers can achieve. Ordinary and bows are the best.
The optimal killing distance is only 20 to 30 meters, with high-level bows and bows within 50 meters, but they are far away and I don’t know who is so powerful.
"Bang!" The bowstring vibrated and the unstrung arrow quickly popped out. Then the warrior took two steps back, unloaded the bow again, and another arrow flew out, and then stepped back two steps... and went back and forth like this for forty consecutive times.
He took a step forward and shot twenty arrows. The warrior was already more than ten rooms away from him, and gradually came to the edge of the woods.
The archery warrior stood up with his bow drawn. After a while, the warrior waiting next to the target hurriedly came over holding the target and proudly showed his results to the surroundings. Twenty arrows were densely inserted into the center of the target.
The red dot was almost filled up. Such an impressive achievement immediately received cheers from all the warriors. Some warriors admired their bow skills with great respect and praised them for their superb bow skills.