In the following days, Yoshitoki Kira stayed at Daitokuji Temple to communicate with Nagao Kagetora. Of course, one of his main purposes was to see the Toraya girl. Unfortunately, the Toraya girl was very indifferent to him. In his eyes, the Kira family in Kyoto
The noble young master is an idiot with strange eyes, always staring at him intentionally or unintentionally.
Nagao Kagetora seemed to have noticed his abnormal behavior. When he had nothing to do, he pulled his sister aside to be an audience. He didn't know whether he wanted to improve the relationship between the two, or to cultivate his sister. When he did Kiragi, he was a feast for the eyes, and Huya also
My sister was even more unhappy.
"Forty-two times! You looked back at me forty-two times!" The long-tailed tiger finally broke out and stood up and said: "Brother! Tiger has had enough! He is going out!"
"Okay! I happen to want to go out too, why don't you, Your Highness, come with me!" Kira Yoshichi said shyly as he approached.
"No!" Nagata Torahime turned around brilliantly and ran out, leaving Kiragi standing there in shock.
"Torahime! Come back here..." Nagao Kagetora quickly stood up and wanted to chase after him. Unfortunately, his left foot was injured during the battle with the Sanjo Nagao family in his early years. Not to mention that he was insulated from running all the way. Sometimes it rained, snowed, and cold air entered his body.
, my left foot will be so painful that I can't walk normally, so I can only walk with a bamboo stick.
Kira Yoshi sat back in embarrassment and continued: "Uh, it's okay, I still have questions to ask about the main hall!"
During this month, Nagao Kagetora walked through Yamato Province to see Kofukuji Temple, visited Master Obayashi Sota in Izumi Province, and also saw the prosperity of Sakamoto and Otsu on a boat. Along the way, he also learned about the vast differences between the Kinai states.
, among which the territory under the Kira family's rule is the richest. This shows how powerful the Kira family's governance is.
Sakamoto Castle Town has also been transformed from a waterway hub in the Lake Biwa area to one of the three major commercial centers along with Kyomachi in Kyoto and Sakai Town on Osaka Bay due to the governance of Kira Yoshiji. This can already be described as an economic miracle.
Kira Yoshishi has too much aura surrounding him, which not only makes outsiders curious, but also makes it difficult for people to see the inside story clearly.
So Yoshitoki Kira gave a comprehensive explanation of his political and economic reforms. In the process of explaining to Nagao Kagetora, he was also sorting out and reflecting on his own political ideas. There will be some improvement in the communication of the new administrative decree of Takashima County.
The reason for the deviation is that the people's autonomous body is at fault.
This is because he relied on his personal trust to completely abolish the power of the guardian. The followers of the Kira family will go to the villages to investigate at any time. If the problems are found, they will be dealt with on the spot and supervised by the elders in the villages. The referee will be fair to the servants of the wealthy family.
All convinced.
But even so, the local control is still stretched thin, because the territory is still owned by the lords of the country, and the annual tribute does not pass through the hands of the Kira family. The inspection of the territory can only establish military service, but the Kira family does not do military service at all. They rely entirely on the recruitment system.
Therefore, the resistance of the Japanese lords to the Kaandi is not strong. However, the land lords are very conservative. They have problems such as insufficient implementation of the Kira family's decrees, lack of firm attitude, and incomplete obedience. This also makes Takashima County always worse than Shiga County.
The fundamental reason for the difference.
Even so, everyone in Takashima County highly respects and trusts the Kira family. This is also the main issue that Nagao Kagetora wants to discuss. How to make the people and lords cooperate with the government's decree and how to eliminate the power of the guardians.
It was very complicated, and Kira Yoshitoki couldn't tell him for a while, because no one knew what the form of Echigo Kingdom was.
In the past few days, Kira Yoshishi has been living and eating in Dade Temple. He was too embarrassed to live for free, so he sealed off a hundred guan of Yongle money as sesame oil money and presented it to Dade Temple. Since the day before, the long-tailed tiger princess had become angry on the spot.
After that, Kira Yoshi became more careful when he saw her, at least he wouldn't stare at her blatantly.
While showing her little fangs to scare Kiragi, the long-tailed tiger girl thought in annoyance: "Damn it, he sneaked over again! It's true!"
"Uh... what did you just say? Oh yes! Let's talk about the military system of the Kira family!" The long-tailed tiger princess made Kira Yoshitoki so adorable by posing with such a cute animal that she almost got it in her mouth
Forget what you said.
"Tell me about the Kira family's recruitment system and high pension system. The merits of all soldiers who died in battle are calculated as usual, and a pension of ten guan is given at a time. Those who are disabled and lose combat effectiveness but do not affect their labor are given a pension of five guan at a time, and
Join the Kira family's reserve corps as a teacher and continue to receive three-person support rice. Of course, those who do not want to be involved in the military can also join the Kira family's direct leadership and participate in labor according to their personal choices..."
People who have lost their labor force, such as those who are missing arms and legs, are given a ten-gun letter at a time. They are responsible for serving as the unified police force in the countryside. They are responsible for handling civil and criminal disputes in the countryside. They have the power to arrest and interrogate, and they belong to the public security enforcement team, Sakamoto and Katada.
The castle towns have been initially connected together.
The security office was located at the weak point of the new connection between the two places. A large number of disabled soldiers were properly accommodated by the security office. These people were veterans who had survived the battlefield and were very loyal to the Kira family. Although they acted
It's a bit inconvenient, but it's more than enough to deal with those scoundrels.
"This strategy is very good! We, the Nagao family, plan to learn from it!" Nagao Kagetora immediately clapped his hands in praise, then frowned and said: "But our Nagao family really lacks political talents, and several members of the Kasugayama Castle have followed it.
He is also a powerful national lord in each county. If the followers of the genealogy feel that my family's decree is inappropriate, they will not hesitate to refuse to implement it, and my family has absolutely nothing to do about it!"
Seeing Nagao Kagetora's gaze, Kira Yoshihi shrugged and said that there was nothing he could do. Echigo was far away in Hokuriku. What could he, a samurai from Kyoto, do? He could solve Echigo's problems with just a few clicks.
Miscellaneous diseases are impossible, and he is not the wise Zhuge Liang.
Seeing that one strategy failed, he continued to discuss the issue of the military system. Kira Yoshitoshi's military recruitment system was not his first. During the Heian period, the imperial court also learned from the Tang and Song dynasties and established a military recruitment system. However, due to the corruption of the military system, soldiers fled and the system collapsed.
Bad, it’s just that the recruitment system during Kira Yoshinori’s time was different from the one hundreds of years ago. Such an exaggerated method of raising soldiers is really surprising. Of course, the terrifying combat effectiveness is also surprising.
Yoshitoki Kira then discussed with him the merits of the strategy of elite soldiers and simplified policies. Recruiting a large number of peasants and soldiers would not only bring no benefits. On the contrary, it would also affect the normal development of the territory. In order to ensure that local development is not affected by the population decline caused by frequent wars,
Due to the dual economic impact, the strategy of elite troops must be brought up.
His strategy of recruiting elite soldiers is not suitable for use by other lords, because his two standing troops are based on a large number of direct leaders from Mikawa Kingdom and Shiga County. Without strong financial resources to support this strategy of elite soldiers, it is impossible to talk about it, but for Vietnam
Later it was said that it was not impossible to do it, at least it could be done by lowering the requirements.
For example, each soldier supports rice, and the king pays for daily training meals and wartime rice supplies. In this way, some landless refugees, criminals, and mountain people will join in. Then they will assist the monks in their spiritual and Buddhist education. They only need to shout a few words.
With simple slogans such as the blessings of gods and Buddhas, and some Buddhist teachings that meet the requirements of the lord, coupled with strict management and rigorous training, you can become a warworthy army in less than a year.
Of course, these are all things he talks about on paper. Military training is too troublesome and he never manages it personally. Anyway, he has a group of capable ministers under him, such as Yamamoto Kansuke and a bunch of his assistants, all of whom are good at grassroots instructors. Except
The monks at Miaoyun Temple like to meditate, but they are a bit weak, but otherwise they are fine.
I don’t know why. When the two talked about the issue of enfeoffment, Kira Yoshi clearly stated that enfeoffment was inevitable. 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.
force.
For example, Nagao Kagetora is like this now. The total stone height of Echigo is 390,000 koku. The Nagao family in the mansion directly manages only 50,000 koku. Among them, there are 15,000 koku that Uesugi Sadami has recognized as the head of the Echigo Kingdom.
Before that, the Nagao family only had a territory of 35,000 koku, less than one-tenth of it. At most, they were just a large national lord.
The current situation is not very optimistic. Even if it is a national lord who has been enlarged by one size, one-eighth of his direct leaders is not enough for him to take the initiative. Especially the terrain in the Shimogotsu area is complex and the composition of the lords is complicated. Moreover, with Deyu and Mutsu,
They have a close relationship, and the most terrible thing is that the samurai group called "Yangbei Zhong" fights bravely, they are all strong generals, and they have always refused to obey Echigo's protection, which is simply a trap.
Nagao Kagetora frowned and said: "Military service is still necessary, and the strength of the country's lords also needs to be relied on. Although 'no offense' is not reliable, it is imperative to abolish the power of guardians not to enter, but it is really undesirable to rashly change the enfeoffment system.
, I think it is better to let them develop on their own, as long as the country owner has the right to control the country."
Kira Yoshitoki expressed his disdain for this statement and directly retorted: "What does it look like to be an earth servant of a wealthy family at this level? I must also know what virtue it is to be in the main hall! Let these people who usually stoop to plow the fields, in wartime, be like
How much combat effectiveness can the peasant soldiers charging with guns guarantee? They may still be thinking about whether the mother-in-law at home is going to give birth, whether it will be a boy or a girl, and it is time to water the food in the fields. Has the mother-in-law thought of watering it, in case they themselves
If your mother-in-law dies on the battlefield and remarries another man, then she becomes someone else's wife who sleeps with her mother-in-law and beats her own children. Isn't this a lie?"
Nagao Torahime burst out laughing, and Nagao Kagetora was also dumbfounded by his strange metaphor. Although the brother and sister didn't understand what "cheating" meant, they generally understood what he meant. Peasants and soldiers.
The combat effectiveness and quality are completely unreliable, but the Chinese people should not be like this.
Nagao Kagetora asked: "But the lords of the country are also warriors after all. Isn't it the right thing to serve the master's family?"
"Are the lords of the country your retainers? If so, why are there still guardian factions and guardian factions? The Yangbei people who play soy sauce on neutrality? If the righteousness is reliable, the public officials and governors in Guandong will not decline, and the imperial court will not decline.
Even the shogunate and the shogunate will not decline. If you don’t have real power, why should people listen to you?" Kira Yoshiki sneered at this pedantic thought.
"Having said that, I, Kagetora, believe that the 'Tao' in the heart of the samurai family must still be adhered to! The Tao of the samurai family is to do justice in the world. Isn't it for this reason that both Wuweidian and I, Jingtora, continue to work hard for the revival of the shogunate?
"Nagao Kagetora was also impatient and even changed his name back to his original name.
"Now we are only discussing the essential issues of the people, and let's not talk about the righteousness for now." Kira Yoshi shook his head and said: "Once the retainers have land, they will begin to transform into the level of the lords of the people. There may be several generations of loyal ministers, but once the lord makes a decision,
After you act against their interests or at least have this intention, these loyal ministers will immediately turn into vanguards to resist you. What is the reason? Or is it because they have land, and there is an entanglement of interests between them and the land, and every day
When calculating how much grain can be harvested from the fields, the first thing that comes to mind in times of famine is to ignore the various taxes levied by the king.
There may be some people like this who will be loyal to the Nagao family for the pursuit of martial names, but in the final analysis, they still want more knowledge and ennoblements, and they are just from small lords to big lords. Without knowledge and ennoblement, will he support the deconstruction of the main hall?
Isn’t the dominance of the Nagao family still going to be shaken? Why did I write a letter saying that in the war against Shinano, you must give sufficient benefits to the Nagao family’s national lords? Whoever fights with the Nagao family without benefits, can Daiyi take care of the food?
?The crops in their own fields are almost gone, so if they still go on an expedition with the Nagao family, there is definitely something wrong with their brains."
Nagao Kagetora was also attracted by his description. He pondered for a moment, shook his head and laughed, "This is the first time I have heard of this statement."
"When the leader of the Uesugi family mobilized 80,000 troops to fight against Kagotsu, didn't he still promise to enfeoff the Hojo family as soon as they captured the Hojo family? Otherwise, how could the 80,000 people come? Although the Astronomical Rebellion in the East Kingdom is fierce this time, the 100,000-strong army of wolves
Benzhu suddenly fought over each other, but they were of different origins and had disagreements over the sharing of territory. They were easily defeated by Hojo Ujiyasu one by one. How much do you think the national lord contributed to you?" Kira Yoshi entered the state.
His words also became sharper, and Nagao Kagetora was thoughtful and silent.
The faint sound of chanting came from outside the house and floated into the room. After a while, Nagao Kagetora said: "...You are trying to say that the recruitment system is imperative, right?"
"Well! It's different for direct ministers. For example, all the retainers of my Kira family are directly subordinate to me. They only need to receive their salary from the main family. Moreover, this is also the place where Shiqing Shilu lives for generations. They have a nominal share in the direct control of the main family.
The actual ownership of the land is still owned by the family. As long as they do not make an unforgivable mistake or have no heirs, they can inherit the land from generation to generation and pass it on to their descendants.
This is also called family salary, which means that no matter whether your performance is competent or not, this salary is still yours. In addition, there is a job salary. You will receive another job salary according to your official rank. Be careful when increasing your family salary.
The salary is much more generous. Our Kira family currently accepts the salary of the direct family. After the political situation is stable in the future and the family salary of the retainers is established, the amount of the salary will be determined." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated.
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ps: Discussing reform with the Echigo Military God... a very impactful talk!