Chapter 197: Dig a pit for the Demon King

There are many people like Honda Tadayasu in the Ashikaga family, including Nobuyasu Takenaka who is now also a single, and he who has just been promoted can't even make up a few servants in his family, so he has to recruit a wave. Fortunately, Ashikaga Molong has always practiced an open national policy, whether it is the Japanese people, the Ming people, and even the southern barbarians, as long as they obey the law, they can move here, and the generally peaceful environment in the Kanto region has also caused many people who have suffered from war to flee here with their families, and a large influx of foreign population has provided sufficient labor for the prosperity of all walks of life. Originally, this would have brought about an extreme deterioration of the social security environment, because it was difficult to ensure that immigrants could find a good job to support their families when they ran to Kanto, but the Kanto Development Company launched by Ashikaga Molong solved this problem, and the sky-high investment of 20 million yuan was like a perfect supplement, and the entire Kanto seemed to have become a big construction site, and there was an urgent need for employment everywhere, and these people who could get wages could create a lot of consumption, attracting businessmen from all over the world to pour here. In order to provide these people with food, clothing and entertainment, many modern factories have even been set up, large-scale textile mills, ironworks, etc. can be said to be everywhere, anyway, there is no shortage of water in this place in Kanto, and it is completely sufficient to use hydraulic power to propel machinery, and when it is saturated, Ashikaga Molong will give a way, and the merchants themselves will solve the problem of steam engines, and Kanto can be said to have begun to take a rocket to develop rapidly.

What makes the surrounding forces even more uneasy is that there is never a shortage of people at the recruitment point under the command of Ashikaga Molong, and almost everyone is optimistic that Ashikaga Molong will unify the world in the near future, so taking this last train and getting a handful from the troubled times has obviously become a good choice for many ordinary people to change their fate. In order to solve this problem, Ashikaga Molong had to set extremely strict conscription standards, and in order to respond to the needs of the majority of civilians, but also to further promote the modernization of the Wa country, Ashikaga Molong began to implement a reserve system on the basis of the census and household register, and all residents of the Kanto region were within the scope of use of men over 16 years old and under 60 years old, and at least four days of military training per month and at least 60 days of military training a year. Those who are unwilling or unable to participate in the training only need to pay three times the tax of ordinary people, and in any case, they cannot be expected to abandon their shops and run to train with a group of old farmers.

Don't underestimate the reserve system, this is the premise of the two world wars, and the European countries can easily send millions of troops to bleed each other, after all, no matter who it is, it is impossible to raise a standing army of millions in peacetime, it is not necessary, and it is difficult to maintain the productivity at that time. However, once it is necessary to carry out a general mobilization, the reservists in various places will replenish it when the main force on the front line is about to bleed, and continue to maintain the posture of bloodletting on the front line. During World War II, Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan mobilized more than 12% of the population, which is undoubtedly a very terrifying number, and although the Celestial Empire fought extremely hard in World War II, the actual mobilization rate was only about 4%, which is a huge difference between whether or not the mobilization system was perfected.

In fact, Ashikaga Molong, who is still enjoying his newlywed life, is now doing nothing with the long-tailed Jinghu in his arms, and he can directly push it when he goes out in twenty years, and in the face of overwhelming national power superiority, any resistance is futile. Just like the Celestial Empire often endured the attacks of the northern nomads in history, it is not that it can't be beaten, but that it is still holding back its big moves, as long as it can be held back to hit Mobei in one breath, the nomadic people have to kneel like a fierce one.

However, Ashikaga Molong can't be idle, he is easy to be cranky when he is idle, staring at the map of the sixty-six countries, Ashikaga Molong immediately touched Nagao Keihu's buttocks, "Do you say that Oda Nobunaga's development is a little too smooth?" ”

"In two years, he has grown from a small city lord to a million-stone daimyo, and you can still hold him down." Long-tailed Jinghu snorted comfortably and replied.

"Then we have to find something for him to do, I can't let him digest the territory with peace of mind." Ashikaga Molong thought for a moment, and decided to write a letter to the masters of Ishiyama Gofang, he still maintains a friendly relationship with Oda Nobunaga at present, and directly turning his face is not conducive to his image of Wei Guangzheng, so it doesn't matter if he finds the masters to go to Ise Country to do things, anyway, Oda Nobunaga has already beaten the masters of Nagashima Castle once, or was beaten by the masters of Nagashima Castle, and it is nothing to fight again. However, at present, Oda Nobunaga is also a million-stone daimyo, and if he is really in a hurry, he can also pull out an army of 50,000, and a crusade army of this scale seems to be under great pressure for the masters. The wealthy people of Northern Ise are basically scattered sand, and if no one organizes them, they can basically only do the work of dragging others back. After the death of Kitabatake Harugu of South Ise, although his son Kitabatake Gujiao has good swordsmanship and is a famous swordsman, he is far worse than his father in terms of wrists, and he is still unclear in South Ise, and even his retainers are a little unable to command. Such an Ise country can't afford to take on the heavy responsibility of dragging its feet, so it has to find foreign aid for this group of loose sands.

Ashikaga Molong thought about it, and there seemed to be two families with this qualification, the Rokkaku family and the Imagawa family. Now that the Rokkaku family and Miyoshi Nagakei are making peace, the Asai family in the north is estimated to have no courage to take the initiative to attack the Rokkaku family after the ally Asakura family has just hemorrhaged in Kaga Province, and the Iga country ninja people and the Rokkaku family have been cooperating for a long time, and it is just right to mobilize reinforcements from Iga country to support Nagashima Castle. The Imagawa family made Ashikaga Molong not so satisfied, Imagawa Yoshimoto did burp well, but he couldn't stand the Imagawa family's thick foundation, if the Imagawa clan really adopted the best strategy and moved the city to Okazaki Castle, then the power of the Imagawa family could be used to directly contain Oda Nobunaga. However, the Imagawa clan directly gave up Mikawa Province and concentrated on the management of Enoe Suruga Province, which was equivalent to giving up the strategy of containing the Oda family, otherwise Oda Nobunaga would never dare to attack Mino so frequently. No, we have to let the Imagawa family participate in this battle, at least send more than 10,000 troops, change into the clothes of the Kitabatake family, and help the Kitabatake Gujiao mobilize the retainers. In this way, it is estimated that you can bring 30,000 or 40,000 reinforcements to the masters, so that's it. The two sides fought in Long Island City into a sea of corpses and blood, and then fanned the flames inside Minong, those Meinong wealthy families were originally a bunch of wall grass, although they were very combative, but they were still wall grass, just wall grass with combat effectiveness. If they are restless, even if Oda Nobunaga has an advantage on the battlefield, he can only retreat, which can greatly deplete the strength of the Oda family. Anyway, the frequent dispatch of troops to Mino before has already tossed the wealthy families in the two places a lot, and if he bleeds in Nagashima City again, it is estimated that Oda Nobunaga can only lie on the ground and hum.