The Oda family has expanded too fast, and the retainers have not yet formed a stable interest group. Now is the most favorable time to start restructuring.
Once the retainer group is fully integrated, even Oda Nobunaga will be unable to resist the will of the entire retainer group.
If Oda Nobunaga wants to concentrate his power to accomplish great things, he must first seize the power into his own hands before the retainers recover.
Among her orders, Leshi Lezao seemed to harm the interests of the local martial arts family, but in fact it had the lowest opposition.
The most important thing for the Wu family is land. They set up cards to pay taxes, pluck caravans and geese, and just add a piece of dried radish to their rice bowl. It is good to have it, but you can live without it, and you will not jump up in rebellion.
What really touched the fundamental interests of the samurai family was Oda Nobunaga's creation of the concept of the zodiac clan, which elevated Ashigaru's class status.
Previously, Oda Nobunaga proposed to give ashigaru a salary and create the position of ashigaru head to give them a channel for advancement.
Although the samurai were dissatisfied, and even the lower-level Hime samurai had to serve as the ashigaru head, alongside the ashigaru. However, the ascending path was only a small opening, and it could not shake the foundation of the samurai's status.
Now, Oda Nobunaga has requested that the standing ashigaru be registered, pointing out that the ashigaru are already a military class higher than civilians.
Even though this class is lower than the martial class, it is still a special martial group.
The samurai family is a group that relies on force to rule the world. Now that Ashigaru has its own special group, will it have an impact on the rule of the samurai group in the future?
In addition, the policy of keeping retainers together was laying the foundation for the enfeoffment of the samurai family. The land and power that the Ji warriors accepted under the family name was the division of land and power under the family name.
Japan is poor, and many samurai warriors at the bottom still have to participate in labor. There are only two samurai families who can separate farmers and soldiers from farming.
One, high-level warriors who do not participate in labor. The other, elite warriors who are full-time warriors who are free from work.
Once the gathering of retainers was successful, as long as Oda Nobunaga could control the gathered warriors in Gifu Castle Town, he would be able to control the retainers and main military strength of the Oda family.
High-ranking warriors left the place and became officials dispatched by the family governor. Elite warriors gathered in the city and were loyal to their lord.
Even if they go to war, it is impossible for most of their families to escape the control of their lord. It is only the privilege of a few high-level warrior families to leave their relatives and relatives in the centralized area.
Once the cornerstone of power of the retainers is poached, the monarch's power will no longer be constrained. This is a naked conspiracy.
The Nishimino samurai who had been beaten just now had nothing to say, the Higashi-Mino samurai who was about to be slaughtered in the beginning of the spring did not dare to speak, and the samurai of the four Kamiowari counties joined the group too late and were not qualified to speak.
Oda Nobunaga's cronies headed by Niwa Nagahide were unwilling to speak, and the retainers of the Shibata Katsuie family who were preparing to seize the land after spring plowing were inconvenient to speak.
In the end, Lin Xiuzhen couldn't help but bow and say something.
"Your Highness, are you being too hasty?"
Someone was so excited that the room was buzzing. The retainers hid in the crowd and agreed, but no one dared to come out and stand beside her.
Oda Nobunaga looked at the Oda family elder and felt murderous intent in his heart, but it was not the time yet.
she said.
"The standing ashigaru is organized into a separate register and the retainers are gathered together, all for the sake of victory in the war!
For the sake of the Oda family, and also for the sake of having fewer dead people in each of your families, we can gain more land, population, and fame.
The combination of the two strategies means the separation of peasants and soldiers.
My family can send troops during spring plowing, summer harvest, and autumn harvest. Just imagine who else in the world is my rival to the Oda family?"
Of course, Oda Nobunaga cannot say that this is to strengthen her own power and make the retainers her subordinates, so that they no longer have the power to check and balance her.
Therefore, the reform of the military system must be good governance to expand the Oda family and allow all Oda family ministers to share the fruits of victory.
Oda Nobunaga is a good lord and a loving mother to the Oda retainers!
Moreover, her reasons are not unreasonable.
The Wu family avoided winter and spring plowing and summer and autumn harvests in order to ensure food. The Wu family was too poor to fight a high-intensity and long-term war.
If enough retired warriors and ashigaru can be mobilized during busy farming seasons, even if they cannot defeat the enemy, they can still be exhausted and starved to death just by repeatedly mobilizing for confrontation.
Meino and Owari are both big grain-producing countries. The Ashigaru family may not necessarily be brave, but they must have plenty of food. It is really confidence to raise a group of soldiers who are free from work and eat.
Oda Nobunaga gathered his retainers under the castle, established the Ashigaru clan, and linked it with mobilization for war. No one can fault it.
When the Wu family goes into battle, the most important thing is to win, and victory is everything.
Oda Nobunaga used this as an entry point. The retainers group was unable to resist due to internal chaos and could only follow her baton.
Lin Xiuzhen was speechless and retreated.
Oda Nobunaga looked around and saw that although the warriors looked unhappy, they reluctantly accepted her statement and felt reassured.
As long as this most difficult step is overcome, the Oda family will no longer be the Oda family of the retainers, but will truly become the Oda family of Oda Nobunaga.
With sole power, she could turn the Oda retainers into pawns and command the Hime Samurai Ashigaru to form legions at will.
It expanded in all directions like a snowball until it swallowed up the whole of Japan. She used Oda Nobunaga's unique independent army to pacify the sixty-six countries in the world by force.
This is the world of martial arts!
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While Oda Nobunaga was integrating the inside of Owari Mino, he stretched out his tentacles to test Kitaise.
Ise Province is the western end of Tokaido. To the west of the country is the Suzuka Mountains and the Bunuhiki Mountains, and to the east is a large plain, Ise Bay.
Across the mountains, it is divided from the three countries of Minamiomi, Iga and Yamato from north to south.
Geographically speaking, Kanto and Kansai are divided by three passes. Aifa Pass in Echizen in the north, Fuwa Pass in Mino in the center, and Suzuka Pass in Ise in the south.
Suzuka Pass is located in the Suzuka Mountains, connecting Minamiomi, Iga, and Kitaise.
Ise country, especially Northern Ise, is a strategic location leading to the central and southern Konkyu. Oda Nobunaga's move to send troops to Northern Ise was a threat to both Minamiomi and Iga.
At this time, Iga Ueno Castle.
This military fortress, which Maeda's interests have high hopes for, is still under construction. But she has come to station and supervise the construction of the fort. She has been in a good mood recently because Mitsuhide Akechi took the initiative to give in.
Maeda's interests demanded the construction of Iga Ueno Castle to hoard military supplies and enhance Iga's domestic mobilization power.
Akechi Mitsuhide sent people to mobilize a large amount of material and manpower to support and expressed her support. Although she kept silent about the military service account, Maeda's interests were not in a hurry.
There is no problem in building military forts and enhancing the war mobilization capacity of the Spur Territory in recent times. However, whether the military service account falls within the scope of authority of Maeda's interests is a matter of dispute between the two sides.
Nizi Katsuhisa from Peking University will not comment on this. He does not support or oppose it. As long as you two don't get into a quarrel, I will pretend that I didn't see it.
Maeda thought about taking it step by step, building the city first, and then talking about other things. She was thinking about another thing now.
She said to her mother.
"News has arrived from the north. There is a riot in Kannonji Castle. Rokkaku Yoshiken and Yoshiharu's mother and daughter fled to Hino Castle of the Kamao family for refuge."
Maeda Riku frowned.
"You must intervene in the Minami Omi incident? When Kenshin left, the task given to you was to suppress the Rokkaku family.
Is it appropriate that you want to help Rokkaku and his daughter now? Do Nizi Katsuhisa and Akechi Mitsuhide understand your thoughts?"