Chapter 62 Family, Honor, and Duty
Corresponding to the "outer domain" and "one gate", the retainers directly under the Heishou shogunate were traditionally called "genealogies", and their knowledge and deeds consisted of three things: the family roku, the lord, and the office.
The so-called "family lu" is the territory of knowledge and action in a general sense, the son inherits the father's business, the hereditary replacement, as the family property continues to continue, as long as the heir has not been extinguished or made a mistake has been changed, it can always be held. The only difference from the previous days was that the retainers were required to gather in designated cities, and the land was tended by someone else.
The retainers who followed the first generation of generals to start a business and fight the world will be divided into "family lu" of different sizes according to their status, status and merit and qualifications. However, after the shogunate stabilized, it would be very difficult to obtain the gift of "Ieroku", and it was necessary to have a very outstanding special contribution.
After all, there is only so much land in Fusang, and it is impossible to divide it indefinitely.
Then, those who worked diligently for the shogunate in peacetime, but did not reach the level of conferring on their descendants, were awarded titles, badges, certificates, and weapons to give spiritual praise, and the corresponding "honors" were given as material rewards.
Therefore, it is easy to understand that the knowledge and deeds of "Xunlu" are only related to the individual's honor, no matter how high the number is, theoretically after the person dies, it will be gone. However, in practice, the tie intends to formulate a principle of "subordinate inheritance".
If a person receives 10,000 koku for his long service, when he dies, a "charter and reward order" is issued, allowing his descendants to inherit one-fifth, or 2,000 koku. And so on, until the third generation is 400 stones, and the fourth generation is 80 stones, until the final calculation is less than one stone, it is completely canceled.
Of course, the premise is that the children and grandchildren have the same appearance.
The decision on whether or not to establish this "Concession Decree" remained in the hands of the shogunate, and it was not 100% passed.
Finally, there is the "Job".
As the name suggests, "Zhilu" is bound to the position one-to-one, which is equivalent to the salary of the post. Anyone who is in the job can receive it, and once they leave the company, they will stop receiving it immediately.
In the 16th century, Fuso, after all, still had a rather strong "feudal remnant", and the degree of centralization was still shallow, and it was impossible to obtain enough candidates for grass-roots civil officials from the people, so the retinue and staff of the high-ranking samurai were often not "state workers" but self-employed private ministers.
In the future, the shogunate will appoint people on the basis of merit and select talents. Isn't it embarrassing if someone from a humble background is promoted to a high position, but can't afford the corresponding pomp and staffing scale, resulting in poor work?
That's why we deliberately set up a "job lu" to ensure that people on the job will not be troubled by this.
At the same time, it can also make the middle and lower class genealogy retainers more enterprising.
In addition, if anyone retires normally without illness or disaster, some "honors" will be given as pensions while canceling the "position". If the work results are particularly huge, or if they die bravely in battle, they may even be given some additional "family luck". However, those who are dismissed due to lack of ability, or for reasons such as dereliction of duty, greed, or violation of the law, will not receive any compensation.
"Xunlu" and "Zhilu" also correspond to the specific scope of the land, but the relationship between their holders and the land is even more distant, and it is very different from the traditional understanding of "mining estate".
After the system was announced, Hirate Honhide couldn't wait to make a formal pleading, drafted the document himself, and appointed Kawada Nagajin as the first "pen head family elder" of the shogunate, enjoying the treatment of 100,000 koku of the family, 100,000 koku of the honor, and 50,000 koku of the office.
Only two days later, the first pen held a gift document weighing more than a thousand pounds, and passed away suddenly, smiling Jiuquan.
Hirate Honhide was grieved and granted permission to let Kawada Nagakin's six-year-old youngest son "Shochikumaru" inherit the Zhixing of 115,000 koku and 55,000 koku of Xunroku, a total of 160,000 koku. And according to his last wishes, the five members of the Kawada family set up their own family and served the shogunate as a genealogy.
Based on this, Hideyasu Hattori, Tomo Iwanari, Kazushi Nakamura, Nagayoshi Asano, Masanobu Honda, Tadaji Ina, Kayo Kayoshi, Fujitaka Hosokawa, Kazutoyo Yamauchi, Hidenaga Kinoshita, Yukinaga Konishi, Koyasu Kato, Genyo Maeda, Yukisai Itabe Okae...... and dozens of other people have obtained more than 10,000 stones, and they are considered to be "big pedigree generations".
There are about 230 people in the family between 1,000 and 10,000 stones, about 800 people between 100 and 1,000 stones, and more than 1,000 retainers.
A total of 7,400 people were given a hundred stones or less, and many common names were given to this kind of people, such as "small body", "small person", "small taste" or "lower servant" and "last servant".
In addition, there are thirty or forty thousand ordinary soldiers, who have been fighting for the Tieshou family for a long time, but they have never been able to get ahead, and they have always been pawns. Their status was different from that of the samurai class of the Iron Rice Bowl, but they were not purely mercenary either, and were allowed to continue military service for generations and continue to receive about the same treatment as a samurai of about twenty koku, and if there were no suitable male descendants to replace them, they were given a lump sum of property and converted to agriculture, commerce, and industry. The so-called "knowledge and action" of these people does not correspond to the specific real land, and is paid by the central financial allocation, which can be regarded as a "virtual territory".
The organization of the shogunate was divided into many divisions from top to bottom.
Those who surround the generals and assist in jointly handling major national affairs are the five levels of retainers at the top of the line, the elders, the elders, the preachers, and the close to the generals, who form the core of power "Nian Jizhong", who are responsible for making decisions and transmitting them to the outside world.
More than 20 important departments have been set up under it. These include the Youbi who drafted government decrees, the military officials who managed the administration of the army, the Banli public who communicated with the imperial court, the patrol who traveled between the nations, and the horse heralds who were responsible for maintaining the roads and letters...... There are even the eyes of the samurai who openly supervise the world, and the dark people who exist as eyes and ears in private.
Of course, the latter two will often have the opportunity to face the general.
Although the civil officials who manage money, grain, finance, and taxation, including the Degree Branch, the Survey Administration, the Warehouse Administration, the Ginza Administration, the General Invitation Administration, and the Commercial Housing Administration, etc., are also subject to the jurisdiction and supervision of the "Nian Jizhong", they inevitably have a certain degree of self-contained independence due to their heavy responsibilities, large scale, and strong professionalism.
Controlling the nation's gold and silver mines, monopolizing the right to mint money legally, controlling the printing and distribution of "military ration stamps," and prohibiting any other individuals and organizations from making credit bills, this controlled the economic lifeline from a monetary point of view. Then there is the important task of extracting money from the wealthy merchants through the granting of monopoly rights, which is a means that has to be used in the absence of tax collectors.
It is even more unlikely that there will be a dedicated audit department. Fortunately, there are also factions among civilian officials, such as Ina Tadaji and Nagashu Masaka, but they don't like Ishida Mitsunari and Ando Ryosei, and through job transfers, they can contain each other.
As for what to do in the long run, leave it to your children and grandchildren.
In addition, a large number of pro-guards were set up, responsible for the safety of the general himself and his relatives, as well as important office space, as well as the work of various localities.
There is also a group of "royal servants" who are engaged in service, including cooks, doctors, poets, scholars, soothsayers, onmyoji, eagle craftsmen, grooms, ...... and even the management of all the petty surnames and servants.
The shogunate's direct professional army remained at 40,000. Logistics and administration are in the hands of civilian officials, but training and operations remain the responsibility of the "generals." The appointment and dismissal of eight "army generals," more than 30 "powerful generals," and more than 100 "reserve generals" all require the signatures of the generals themselves.
In addition, the most detached from the jurisdiction of the "Nian Jizhong" is the "Question and Note Assessment Office", which focuses on hearing cases and resolving litigation. He hopes that they will develop into a relatively independent court system, so as to avoid the dominance of the civilian family.
In this way, the shogun is better controlled, but it is also a certain degree of "separation of powers". It's just a division under the monarch of real power.
Further, he also considered whether to hold regular parliaments attended by representatives from the Pedigree, Ichimen, and foreign domains, so that the parliament could hold legislative power. But at the moment, it seems that it may be a bit too aggressive.
At the local level, there are several different organizations.
The most notable are the samurai who managed the land.
Heite Honshu set up 18 "Imperial Offices" for the fields directly under the jurisdiction of the Shogunate, and 23 "Substitute Offices" for the fields that were nominally retainers but were actually acting officials of the Shogunate.
Each "office" manages a land ranging from 570,000 koku to 200,000 koku, some of which are connected into large tracts, and some of which are scattered enclaves, and the size of the number of people is determined by about one official samurai for every 5,000 koku. The main responsibility of the heads of the institutes is to ensure that the grain is handed over on time and in quantity, and also to undertake certain administrative and public security tasks.
Then, each of the 34 towns directly under the shogunate had a "town commissioner's office", and the number of people was determined by the size of the town's population and economic size.
The central institutions deal with big businessmen, mainly through the sale of monopoly rights, each time is tens of thousands of yuan. On the other hand, the work of the local town hall is trivial things such as donbetsu money and customs duties.
Of course, it is not a special purpose to make money, but in addition to finance and taxation, there are also police departments that come to catch thieves, fight fires, maintain law and order, manage various infrastructure repairs, and collect opinions from townspeople.
In a metropolis of this calibre, there are two hundred samurai in the hall, and these samurai, in turn, have six or seven hundred men who can take on complex tasks. The smallest town office may have only 10 samurai and 30 subordinates, but the work pressure is correspondingly small.
In addition, in the places where gold, silver, copper and iron are produced, 21 "mine offices" have been set up. Their task was clear: to dig out the ore, rough it, and transport it back to the shogunate.
Under each office, it is still divided into several small departments such as survey and planning, excavation, processing and transportation, craftsman management, and public security maintenance, which is actually not simpler than that of the town commission. Ecology is more like a "large state-owned enterprise".