Chapter 52: The Hidden Dangers of the South

After the new guardian moved in, Izumi's various policies began to be carried out in an orderly manner. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was transferred to the feudal and left their homeland, Heishou Honhide first determined the policy that all his retainers lived in the city and that the land of Zhixing would be managed by the lord's family.

This policy is used to some extent by many daimyos. The advantage of this is naturally that it strengthens the centralization of power and is conducive to public order. However, there are also corresponding disadvantages, which will cause the retainers of the officers and the peasants and soldiers to be unfamiliar with each other, which will affect the combat effectiveness.

If you want to completely get rid of the peasants and soldiers, the cost is very expensive, and although the draw has a series of plans to make a fortune, it will be difficult to implement it for a while. Therefore, the current plan for Hequan is a dual-track system, and the standing army is popularized in the direct territory and the Zhixing area of the genealogical retainers. The subjects still provided peasants.

In this way, you can have both a small elite force that can be mobilized quickly, and a large mobilization when necessary. As economic development slowly transforms, the ultimate goal must be to make all or most of the standing armies ready.

The combat effectiveness of the peasant troops is not necessarily lower than that of the standing forces (such as the peasant troops in Satsuma), but the strategic mobility is too poor. In Tsunoxiu's prediction, there are many expeditions he will have to face in the future, and it is impossible to deal with them all in the traditional way.

Of course, this will be a long-term process and cannot be achieved overnight.

Next, the first task to be carried out by all the powerful daimyo on the newly conquered areas - land seizure. It is necessary to calculate the details of the population and income in the territory, and then to reasonably arrange the salaries of the retainers, the amount of taxes, the intensity of conscription, and so on.

After using stratagem to remove Sungoro Matsuura, Hisho Tsunohide can barely be regarded as a relatively strong conqueror. He sent Kawada Nagakin, Honda Masanobu, Ina Tadaji and other retainers who could do internal affairs, and Masuda Nagamori and Hitaku Ji Yin also temporarily returned to the family from the separation to help. But even with such a lineup, it is expected to take at least two months, and it will take overtime to catch up with the autumn harvest of Yonglu's ten years.

If you can't catch the autumn harvest, how should you calculate the tax for the year? And how shall the vassals be paid? In order to avoid the problem from exacerbating, a large amount of manpower has to be maintained.

But in this way, no one will implement the several domestic policies expected by the tie show, and they can only be shelved first.

Back then, he could go to Cheongju Town with Matsui Yukan to build a music market, but with his current identity, if he rashly contacted the people at the bottom, he would only scare the other party.

And the security factor cannot be ignored, what if the enemy assassinates?

So eventually, another scheduled transaction was put on the agenda.

From the second day of the seventh month, after leaving some people to defend the city, he led several close ministers and more than 100 soldiers, all of whom rode horses, and began to make corrections to the topography and road conditions of Izumi country. also brought Sasa Chengzheng and Pingshou Xiuyi, and by the way, he found a suitable location for these two people to build a branch city. In addition, Dr. Terada heard about it and took the initiative to come over as a guide.

It is said that when Nobunaga was young, he pretended to play in the wilderness, but in fact, he secretly took his own soldiers to observe the terrain, rivers, roads, etc., so that he was able to find the weaknesses of the Imagawa family in one fell swoop and successfully carry out the battle plan of the night attack.

Unlike him, Fan Xiu does not have the extraordinary energy to imprint maps in his mind, and has to rely on pen and paper.

Izumi Province is a small area, showing a shape similar to the stroke "Ichichi" (i.e., 丿), the north is a continuous plain, the land is fertile, the roads are smooth, there is no shortage of water conservancy, agriculture and commerce are relatively developed, and the people value profit rather than fighting. Most of the population and harvest of Izumi Province is provided by the north.

It took several days to inspect and compare the old maps with the old ones and add the new residential areas and bridges.

Then he led his men south, and found that the scenery was very different from that of the north.

The southern half of the country is relatively sparsely populated, and only along the coast there are relatively dense villages, and the inland areas bordering Kii Province are all hills, and farming and transportation are very difficult, so it can be called a poor and remote country.

But it wasn't until I walked into these poor rural areas that I found that although I was so poor that I lacked food and clothing, there were so many Buddhist temples that there were amazing.

Moreover, these Buddhist temples do not belong to the Rinzai sect and the Soto sect that Heite Honshu was familiar with, nor are they the two most powerful Tendai and Nichiren sects in, but the Pure Land Shinshu and Shinyi Shingon sects that have been handed down from Kii Province.

The villages in the mountains and forests are small, usually less than 200 people. But almost every village has a humble monastery of one of these two sects, and some even both. It is said to be simple, but in fact, it is spacious and luxurious compared to the surrounding houses.

Monks also do not enjoy incense in temples as well-dressed as in other places. Along the way, you can see many people in monk's robes bending down with the peasants to tend to the crops in the fields, or sitting on the ridges of the fields to give lectures to the young children.

Fan Xiu had heard that the religious power in this area was very strong, but he didn't expect this level.

The situation is difficult to reassure, but a deeper investigation cannot be done at present, and this group of hundreds of people rushed to the mountain village, obviously outsiders, and it is impossible to see the real scene.

The representative forces of the Pure Land Shinshu and the Shinyi Shingon sect in Kii are the Hybrid and the Root Clan. As a ruler who knows what happened, Hirate began to feel a headache when he heard these two names.

But this headache is difficult to understand, because the attitude of Saga and Nerai is now to take money and do things, and there are no political demands. Some time ago, in the battle of Wakae Castle, the Suzuki family, in order to show friendship, also led the Saga Party to help Tie Tosuhide fight for free. Therefore, there is no reason for Fanxiu to deprive the temple territory in Hequan at the moment.

Now among the retainers of the Tie Hands, only Honda Masanobu realized the degree of harm caused by the two parties of Saga Genlai. Others may need some time.

In the original history, it was also after the establishment of the Azuchi administration that an attempt to centralize power in Kii Province was blocked, and it was only then that I discovered how deep the water here was.

And now, the Oda family has not yet had the strength to go deeper, and the nominal guardian of Kii Province is Hatakeyama Akitaka.

Looking at the name of this Hatakeyama Akigao, you know that he comes from a famous family that is one of the three leaders, and there have been many capable people in his ancestors. This person has a dignified appearance, elegant temperament, and extraordinary conversation, and his first impression has always been very good. Nobunaga was also very interested in his blue eyes, and married Mrs. Nohime's sister to this person as his own sister, and let him inherit part of the ancestral property and serve as the guardian of the southern half of Hanoi and Kii.

In this way, Hatakeyama Akitaka can be regarded as a brother-in-law and a close neighbor of Tie Tsusu. However, unlike Honhide's killing of Matsuura in Izumi and laying the foundation for the overall situation, Hatakeyama's real power has always been threatened by the old family Yusa's religion.

Therefore, this nominal guardian lord can't even sit still in his hometown of Hanoi, and he is completely unable to govern Kii. The Sakaga congregation and the Genlai congregation are in a state of complete independence and freedom.

Tieshou Honxiu has no ability to take care of the neighbor's affairs for the time being, and he has no feelings for this brother-in-law. But the lawless temple forces have reached out to their own territory, which is intolerable.

Because of the slack of samurai power, they could not collect taxes and attract people, and this generation has built very few fortresses in recent decades, and most of the original castles have become ruins.

And without a city, it is impossible to garrison an army, which further reduces the influence of the samurai power, which is a vicious circle.

It was difficult to fight at the level of faith for the time being, but Honshu immediately decided to build a new city on the edge of the hilly area and hand it over to Sasa Narimasa, who had always been steady and resolute.

In this way, whether you want to attack or defend in the future, you will have a usable entry and exit base. And this is also in line with Nobunaga's requirements.