Chapter 57: When This Happens, No One Wants to Happen (Part I)
The "Tie Shou Shao Cheng" who has recently stood up, has two sons and a daughter, especially the eldest son Yan Chiyomaru from the main room, who is only eight years old but has begun to show his demeanor, and is the nephew of Oda Nobunaga, so he is recognized by all parties. The Yaksha Pill has not yet been enlightened, but the body is very healthy, and there is no appearance of early death. For the samurai family, it is equivalent to having the main force and retaining the substitutes, of course, it can be regarded as a successor.
In this case, having two low-status side chambers of joy doesn't seem to be something particularly worth celebrating. There was no intention to invite colleagues to a large banquet, and the retainers did not need to get together, at most they just congratulated them during the meeting. The superiors (Ashikaga Yoshishowa and Oda Nobunaga) were even more unworthy of any reaction.
However, the tie was quite happy. Originally, even if he was not diligent in government, now he put on a posture of not doing his job at all, spending only one or two hours a day attending meetings, reviewing urgent official documents, and then closing the door to thank customers, and no longer haunting people.
The daily affairs have long been dispatched according to the duties of the retainers, Kawada Changqin and Iwanari Tomoto are in the middle to coordinate, pass on instructions, and take charge of the overall situation. Honda Masanobu was in charge of drafting documents, and Numata Yumitsu was in charge of foreign affairs; After training, Ina Tadaji has taken charge of his own affairs, leading the team to take on the work of land inspection, agriculture and mulberry, and water conservancy; Asano Nagayoshi continued to stay in Izumi to maintain the normal conduct of the "auction"; The "Metropolitan Police Department" under Hattori Haruan is also sufficient to carry out public order and investigation operations normally; As for the two sets of external and internal situation institutions (Nakamura Kazuji, Ishikawa Goemon, Hattori Hideyasu), they are operating non-stop.
Most of these things work well in the hands of the practitioners, and they are just tied and bowed. Only the most important business matters at the moment are personally handled by me. In this matter, there are two businessmen, Tamagoshi Sanshiro and Harutaya Shuichi (that is, Raphael), plus Horio Yoshiharu, Kinoshita Hidenaga, Konishi Yukinaga and other new "close Xi people", among which there is no one who is enough to be a "squad leader", and because of this, the will of Hirate Hinoya can be fully implemented, but it is inevitable that it will take some thought. Two hours of "working hours" a day, but one and a half hours are spent here.
With the Seto Inland Sea as the core, the Hirate family's network began to expand slowly but surely. Tamagoshiya, which sells pawns and recycled weapons as well as swords, Harutaya, which develops and sells iron cannons, and Mikaya, which deals in rice and other grains, has opened more than a dozen branches in Awaji, Izumi, Harima, Tosa, Sanuki, and other places.
In these areas where the tie family can speak, the three commercial houses are all "official businessmen", and they can obtain unrestricted monopoly rights, and it is really simple to occupy the market and make some money. However, the tie did not regard profit as the primary goal, but came up with many preferential programs in an effort to promote the "military ration stamps". For this reason, not only did he have no income, but he also invested a lot of 20,000 yuan in support from Oda Nobunaga. With about 40,000 stone of grain as a "reserve", bills with a face value of nearly 100,000 stone were printed and produced, of which 50,000 or 60,000 stone had already entered the market circulation.
At the same time, the stalls of this "military ration stamp" are also spreading more and more. This reputable, cash-out token is widely favored. Large denominations of only one stone, ten stones, and one hundred stones, were obviously not suitable for the daily use of ordinary people, but for large merchants and high-ranking samurai, they were much better than gold and silver, which was difficult to measure the actual value. Tie Sho also allowed this coupon to bear the tax, which reassured the merchant houses in the territory.
As a result, a few months after it was issued, the "military ration stamps" with a face value of 10 stone and 100 stone were more popular, and the face value of one stone was not very popular. This situation will certainly affect the liquidity and lead to poor circulation, but it also greatly reduces the difficulty of management.
The printing and anti-counterfeiting of tickets, with reference to the technology of the Northern Song Dynasty and Italy, took a lot of effort, at present, the same as rifling technology, belongs to the "Spring Field House" trade secrets, for a while and a half will not actually worry about the problem of imitation, but the flat hand is very sensitive to this, and would rather take a smaller step.
Nobunaga, who was far away in Mino, was also very enthusiastic about this. The concept of "credit money" was easily understood by his old man, and he even went one step further to create a new financial system that combined bills, banknotes, precious metals, and copper coins, including, Mino, and Owari. This thing will obviously not be able to be done for a while, and the flat hand show can only be honestly a "test product", and the follow-up things will naturally have a headache for Murai Sadakatsu.
All in all, the government affairs of the Pingshou family were well organized, and the civil officials and scribes performed their own duties, and many people accumulated merits and stood out. Yumitsu Numata, Nagayoshi Asano, and Tadaji Ina were all honored. In addition, Noguchi Nobuchi, a distant relative of the Hete family, the wandering monk Nakajo Tsuneyasu, the Hanoi wealthy family Sueko Yasui Narita, Owari Ashigaru Nagasaka Kananobu and others were given blue eyes and were successively promoted to the practitioners of Zhixing Baishi.
However, the other part of the retainers who wanted to show themselves on the battlefield were inevitably bored and had some complaints.
In the late spring of the first year of Motogame (1568), Hirate Honhide sent troops to Shikoku and fought fiercely for several months, conquering the three prefectures of Sanuki and winning the victory in the autumn. Then, until the beginning of the spring of the following year, most of the year died down, and there was no intention of raising troops again.
Although there are still a lot of potential enemies around, but seeing that the most up-and-coming Miyoshi family has been cleaned up, who else will not open their eyes and touch the mold? Since Tieshou Fanxiu did not take the initiative to go out to beat people, no one will come to the door to beg for a beating.
This is very good for recuperation and the development of internal affairs, but it is not good news for military generals.
At this time, there was no obvious demarcation between the civil and military systems, and most of the middle and high-ranking samurai were on the horse to govern the army and the people on the horse, and there were few civil officials and military generals in the strict sense. However, at the grassroots level, there are still many martial artists who lack cultural knowledge and even can't read big characters, so they can't engage in government affairs at all, and can only rely on swords and soldiers to gain a future. This kind of person is very common in the group leader (command of 10 people) and team leader (command of 3 teams of 30 people) sequence in the tie army, and there are also two or three people who can be promoted to the head of the fan (command of about 100 people in 3 teams).
If the war is not fought for a long time, the soldiers who have no hope of making meritorious achievements will be dissatisfied, and this sentiment is further transmitted to the ears of Hiratome Honhide through the generals (commanding 300-400 men) such as Kago Ieka and Kato Kyoaki.
The Pingshou Army is a small family, and there are not many relatives who are brave and good at fighting, so several Bei generals are all from the Hanmen samurai, and they are naturally close to the front-line soldiers in terms of emotional appeal. (Except for the famous apprentice Keita Keika - Marume Nagae himself ran away because of "disagreement in philosophy", but introduced his senior brother to take over)
The response to this tie is that the retainers at the head of the team and the head of the fan head will go to the "Art of War School" to make up classes to learn basic military knowledge and improve their posture level, and the group leader and ordinary soldiers will be thrown to the training ground to organize one-on-one combat competitions of wooden knives and guns to vent their excess energy.
After all, Tieshou Tsunexiu is a commander who has won many battles and has a prominent reputation, and he also provides generous conditions such as "service allowance", so he doesn't worry much about this kind of thing.
During this time, the Oda family as a whole also entered the rhythm of recuperation, and only a few legions were still fighting. Such as Shibata Katsuie, Mori Kecheng and others have all appeared in the situation that the soldiers can't bear to be lonely and make trouble, and the problem is much more serious than that of the tie.
The only positive example is Sakuma Nobumori - he and his close retainers were busy bullying the newly subdued people, and many small wealthy families were forced to flee and even ruin their families, and land and property naturally became the property of Sakuma's family. Eating meat above and drinking soup below, the overall morale is very high, and they all feel that this is much stronger to buy ** to fight, how can there be dissatisfaction?
And Oda Nobunaga is also ignorant of this and even happy to see it, which is very scary to think about......
A rare long-term peace, and even more letters. The Shogunate and the Oda family were probably idle, and letters of greetings were sent one by one, and many of them talked about the situation in Izumi and expressed concern.
It seems no secret that the new shogunate's officials were at odds with the local forces in Izumi, especially with the Daiji Taisha Shrine.
Tieshou Fanxiu secretly sent someone to do not mention anything, and only made three "official responses" on the surface:
First of all, if you are not in your position, you will not seek politics, and since you have already left your post, it is not good to directly intervene again;
secondly, out of the righteousness of colleagues, we advise both sides to abandon their previous suspicions, seek common ground while reserving differences, tolerate each other for the sake of the country, and never try to solve the problem with violence;
Finally, in a serious tone, he warned all forces in Ki not to intervene in the internal affairs of Izumi for any reason, so as not to intensify the contradictions.
In this regard, those who do not know the truth naturally praise the light and the moon, the selflessness, and the worthy of being a respected elder.
And those who have interests - such as an old friend, Ise Sadako, the deacon of the shogunate government, he really hopes that Honhide will come out to preside over the overall situation and settle the contradictions, and he can't help but be disappointed at this moment, but he can't find any reason.
Very few people understood the response.
For example, when Oda Nobunaga learned of this, he laughed and sent a letter with only the words "very interesting" written on it.
The message that Hu Zai Zongyi asked someone to secretly send back was-"Please don't make a big deal about it afterwards!" ”
The half-guards of Takenaka, who lived in seclusion in Minono, also wrote a letter, but what he said was-"Kill chickens with a knife? ”
Pingshou Fanxiu can only express his disapproval of this: Hequan's matter may indeed only be regarded as a "chicken", but who called this chicken a cow relative?