Now that the mobilization order has been issued and the date for sending troops has been roughly set, Tsugawa Soji also hurriedly summoned the important ministers of the family to discuss the specific matters of Shangluo.

The Tsugawa family's various powerful departments, including the Foreign Affairs Office, the Government Affairs Office, the Agricultural Affairs Office, the Forging Office, the Economic Office, and the Chengguan Office, gathered in the Ueno Castle Castle Tower, and although there were only a few dozen people in the morning, every word spoken here may affect the general trend of the world in the future.

After the people arrived, Tsugawa Soji did not rush to speak, but asked Yajima Jimitsu to place an RB map in the center of the main hall according to custom. This map is very large, and it took several years for Soharu Tsugawa to draw it, and it covers almost one-tenth of the entire main hall of the castle tower.

The map is accurate to each county of each country, and not only does it use different colors of paint to mark the power of each region, but even the slightly larger people of the country are also marked.

Seeing such a large and detailed map for the first time, the retainers in the hall couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

Although it seems that the actual significance of this map is not very large, this time the Tsugawa family Kamiraku is also very important in addition to the detailed arrangement and tactical deployment.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the first point I want to talk about is the route of the troops. This was mentioned by the family several years ago, and I will reiterate it today. ”

"This time I sent troops to Kamiluo, and the army of my family was divided into three batches, which were assembled in Ueno Castle, Tsuruoka Castle, and Kurokawa Castle. The troops of the Mutsu region, the Hago region, and the Rikuchu region gathered at Ueno Castle and set off for Wakasa Province on their own ships! ”

"The forces of the Hazen area and the Rikuzen region are gathered at Tsuruoka Castle and pass through Echigo, Echichu, and Echizen to Wakasa!"

"The troops of Iwashiro, Iwaki and other places gathered in Kurokawa Castle, and they also entered from Etsushu, and then diverted to Wakasa!"

"Do you have any questions about that?" As he spoke, Tsugawa Soji set his eyes on the retainers in the palace.

There was silence in the hall for a long time, and no one answered, which means that no one has any problems with this.

Soji Tsugawa nodded, and then said, "Since you have no objections, then I plan to enter the army one at a time. Then the next task of the Foreign Affairs Office is to send people to Echigo, Echichu, Noto, Kaga, Echizen and other places to negotiate with the Nagao family, the Jimboho family, the Hatakeyama family, the Kaga Ichishomune, the Asakura family and other forces! ”

"Be sure to make clear the purpose of our family's dispatch this time, and don't let the other party cause misunderstanding!"

"In three months' time, the family hopes that nothing will go wrong, otherwise the people from your foreign affairs office will be able to go home and farm," Tsugawa Soji said in a deep voice.

"Hah!" Gao Guangzhong and the others from the Foreign Affairs Office hurriedly replied, not daring to hesitate in the slightest.

After finishing speaking, Tsugawa Soji suddenly thought of something, and continued to speak, "In addition, the family also wrote dozens of handwritten letters, and then the Foreign Affairs Office arranged for people to deliver them to the various forces to which they belonged on the envelope!" ”

"I will live up to the trust of the lord!" Da Gao Guangzhong hurriedly promised.

To put it bluntly, these letters are all Tsugawa Soji's "begging for thieves", and they can't be found much with Cao Cao's begging for Dong Wenwen in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The purpose is to set off RB's public opinion on Miyoshi Changqing, and by the way, pull some more people to join the gang.

Not to mention the far away, the Rokkaku family in Omi, the Hatano family in Tanba, and even Takamasa Hatakeyama of the Hatakeyama family in Kawachi will be happy to join.

Although I didn't think that relying on these salted fish would be of any substantial help to the Tsugawa family, even if these forces were waving their flags on the sidelines, it would be a lot of pressure on the Miyoshi family.

"Tsushimasuke, let's talk about the state of military rations." After talking about the route of the troops, Tsugawa Soji turned his head and asked Saigo Muzo about the military rations.

Saigo Kizo was originally just the son of a down-and-out ground servant, but now he is one of the "Eight Missions" of the Tsugawa family, and has also been granted the official career of "Tsushimasuke" by Tsugawa Soji, which can be passed down as a "receiving name" in the Saigo family.

This kind of receiving name does not require the permission of the imperial court, and it is the lord who allows a certain retainer to call himself with the official career of "xxx", which is also the fundamental reason why all kinds of official careers such as xx shou in the Warring States period are flying all over the sky.

"My lord, the military rations are basically fully prepared. In the territory of the Wakasa Takeda family, the family built nineteen warehouses specifically for storing grain, and has stored nearly 200,000 stone military rations. ”

"The Echizen Asakura family, the Omi Asai family, and the Owari Oda family were all close to the family, and they were able to purchase food from these forces during wartime. In addition, a special grain transport fleet has been set up to transport grain and ordnance to Wakasa and other places every month. ”

"According to preliminary estimates, about 50,000 stone of grain can be transported every month!" Saigo Muzo said with an affirmative face.

In wartime, the military rations are calculated according to ten stone rice per person a year, and if the Tsugawa family sends 30,000 people to Luo, the annual military food consumption is 300,000 stone. And Wakasa Province has already stockpiled 200,000 koku of military rations, and the shortage of 100,000 koku is easy to buy and raise nearby or transport from Dewa.

But don't underestimate the consumption of 300,000 stone of grain this Chinese New Year's Eve, you must know that the Tsugawa family's current stone height is 2.6 million, and according to the agricultural tax of six gongs and four people (some five gongs and five people), the annual grain income of the Tsugawa family is about 1.5 million stone.

However, the 1.5 million koku includes the knowledge and action of the retainers and the stone height of the people of the subordinate countries, so in fact, the grain that the Tsugawa family can really hand over to the treasury is only about 700,000 koku.

And this includes daily expenses, as well as various reserves, and the grain that can be used in a year does not exceed 500,000 stones. And with a force of 30,000 people, it will cost 300,000 stone a year.

At that time, the Western Kingdom explored the theme of Ouchi when the lord of the Ouchi family was so domineering when he waved his master to Shangluo, but why did he finally retreat from Zhou Fang? In addition to the fact that there are Niko and others secretly doing things and the water in Kyoto is too mixed, it is also the Ouchi family's own finances that can't keep up.

The stone height of the Ouchi family is far inferior to the current Tsugawa family, and the Ouchi Yoshiko direct leader is not as much as Tsugawa Soji, and the exploration trade seems to be profitable, but it is not as much as the current Tsugawa family earns a year.

Ouchi Yoshiko has been able to persist in Kyoto for so many years, and it can also be said that Ouchi Kamiro has almost hollowed out the Ouchi family's foundation, so in the end, the western giants of Ouchi Yoshitaka's generation were planted all at once.

If there is no Ouchi Yoshixing's Shangluo, the Ouchi family is still in the state of its peak, and Maori Yuan is still in the same state, what is the matter with these salted fish!

In the same way, in order to avoid the appearance of the Tsugawa family's Kamiraku like the historical Ouchi Yoshiko, Tsugawa Soji had to prepare in advance. The simplest guarantee is to ensure that there is enough food, so that the ashigaru under his command can eat enough, which is the minimum guarantee.