In the spring of the 10th year of Astronomy, Kakurayama Castle, which had just spent a winter, finally ushered in a good year. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the abundance of food, there were no starvation deaths throughout the winter, and a group of displaced people were gathered to settle in Jiaoshan City, which was unimaginable before. For the harvested booty, Soji asked the Kuroda family to take the more than 10 koko of money seized last time, and went to the nearby wealthy clan to buy more than 20 stones of brown rice, and distributed it to the people who did not have enough food in the territory. For the generosity of the new lord, the peasants who had been exploited seemed to dare not believe what they saw, but when the bags of grain were distributed to them, although they did not believe that there was such a good thing, the peasants were still happy to accept the lord's gifts, and they became more and more fond of Zongzhi.

"My lord, the ashigaru people have been assembled," Kuroda Iekane reported to Soji. For this new head of the family, the family has changed from the initial disdain to the current recognition, and even has some worship meaning. "Well, yes, I'll take a look" After the last battle, I saw that more than 10 people under Ashigaru couldn't beat a few bandits, if it weren't for the courage of the real soldiers, maybe there would be a lot of losses last time. Zongzhi deeply felt that it was still necessary to master the army that was always on stand, otherwise it would not be possible to do great things by relying only on the peasants and soldiers organized on the verge of death.

Soji, who had food, allowed the Kuroda family to select a part of the young men from the original peasant soldiers, and when they were busy, they dealt with agricultural chores, and in their spare time, they gathered in the city and were trained by the Kuroda family, and Soji also joined the training team, as a family governor, he couldn't hide behind every battle, which was a blow to the morale of the troops. After a few months of hard training, not only did the ashigaru under him have a certain combat effectiveness, but even Soji himself played the sword well, at least in the face of a few ashigaru, he could hold on for a while. This is not easy for a powerless otaku in the 21st century.

At present, the number of standing ashigaru in Kakuyama Castle has increased to 30, and more than 50 young men have been selected from the newly assembled team of displaced people to participate in the training. Since I joined later, the training effect is not as good as the previous ashigaru, but it is still okay as a reserve. The displaced people were still grateful to Zongzhi for taking them in, and Zongji provided them with rations and help to build houses, as well as set aside a piece of land and provide food for them to cultivate. In addition, after becoming a standing ashigaru, Soji will provide rations for training and battles, so he no longer has to prepare his own, which also greatly reduces his own food consumption.

As the order to assemble sounded, all the ashigaru in the territory were gathered into a school field in the city that Soji had chosen in advance. This school field is located on the edge of the city gate of Hornhill City, which is enough for hundreds of people to train.

Soji looked at the ashigaru in the school yard and shouted, "Although everyone has been training hard for a while, I want to tell you that this is not enough. You're still going to need to train for a while. After hearing the discussion, Soji of course knew what they were thinking, and continued: "I know, you may be worried that the training will affect the next spring ploughing, but I want to tell you one news first", after watching the Ashigaru stop talking and start listening to him, Soji continued: "When this training is over, I will choose the best person from among them, and he will become the samurai of my Tsugawa family, the noble samurai, and take the position of the head of the Ashigaru group." Soji threw a bombshell at the right time, and then stared at the group in front of him and asked loudly, "So now, tell me, are you still willing to continue training?" ”

"Wow" This news undoubtedly made the ashigaru below cheer up "Yes, Lord Lord", one Ashigaru was very excited after hearing Soji's words, and hurriedly replied. "Yesterday I was an ordinary peasant, a pariah in the eyes of the samurai, but now I have the opportunity to become a samurai as long as I participate in the training of the lord. Honorable samurai lord. Let the people in the family do the spring ploughing thing, as long as you can become a samurai, then the future is not very big? No, I'm going to tell Mei that I will marry her when I become a samurai, so that her snobbish parents won't look down on me. Such thoughts abounded, and after a short period of thought, they promised Soji that he was willing to stay and continue training.

Soji smiled with satisfaction when he heard this, it seems that the temptation of this samurai is still quite great.

After that, every morning at dawn, Kuroda Iekane began training with this ashigaru team, and everyone carried bamboo guns and rice balls provided by Soji to the school grounds.

First of all, a long-distance run around Kakurayama Castle to exercise the physical strength of the ashigaru. Soji himself also ran with the ashigaru with a load. (Soji: I don't want to, either, but in order to survive in this world, I can only strive for self-improvement) The ashigaru people watched the lord also train with them, and they all worked very hard to train one by one, and everyone worked very hard for the position of that samurai.

After about an hour of training, the Ashigaru team began spear training under the leadership of Kuroda Iekane, the most powerful force in the family. Soji asked the Kuroda family to prepare dozens of thatched men, and asked the ashigaru to contact slashing and stabbing for at least one hour a day. (This seems to be similar to a certain road army practicing bayonets back then, but the bamboo spear is much longer)

After the spear training, the formation training began. In addition to the Nobunaga series before Soji crossed, he also played Rome 2 Total War (a good game), and he has always liked the phalanx pikemen in it. This kind of anti-line infantry with an excessively long attack distance has a great role in maintaining the battle line. Of course, the main thing is to train the phalanx and the round formation. Due to the small number of ashigaru, the current phalanx can only be divided into two staggered rows, front and back, which are used to meet the enemy head-on; The circle formation is to be able to fight in groups of several people when the troops are scattered.

After the above steps were completed, a morning had passed, and considering the importance of spring ploughing, Zongzhi did not dare to let the few laborers in the territory spend all day on training. So, after the morning training, the ashigaru students can disband and go back to their fields. Alas, now he is just a little tyrant with low strength, when will he become stronger, and make him a standing army of hundreds or thousands, so that he is not walking sideways in the remote place of Xianbei County. Of course, the current Zongzhi can only be simply obsessed in his heart, and the standing allowance of thousands of people is light, which is at least the strength to do it after the unification of Xianbei County.

After the last incident, both the bandits of the Caomuchuan and the Yamada family next door have stopped, and it has also provided valuable time for Soji to develop. Otherwise, where would you get the idle time and training?

After the training is carried out in an orderly manner, the next spring ploughing will be the top priority. This is a matter of food and stability in the future and must not be sloppy.

However, it's easy to say but it's hard to do.,Soji, who has never been in contact with agricultural production.,I don't know anything about things like spring ploughing.,And Kuroda Iekan is just a samurai.,Maybe it's not as good as Soji in this kind of farming.。

But fortunately, a month ago, Zongzhi, who was worried about spring ploughing, finally found a talent in a group of displaced people who came to take refuge (let's be considered a talent, for the Tsugawa family, which has only one retainer, it is considered a talent if there is a skill)

Saigo Heihachiro Kicho has been busy lately, and he is still happy to hand over all the agricultural affairs in the castle lord's lord's Soji generals to him. After all, as an outcast, being able to serve a city lord and become a samurai is a blessing that has been cultivated for eight lifetimes.

Saigo Kicho is the head of a small village in Yuri County, Dewa Province, because the village was attacked by bandits, the grain was looted, and the lord of the village did not care about the life or death of their peasants, so he had no choice but to take these peasants and start to find another way. When passing by the Kakujian River, he was discovered by Soji Tsugawa and invited them to settle in Kakuyama Castle. Under the condition that Zongzhi promised to provide food and shelter, Saigo Kicho decided to take these peasants to settle down in Kakuyama Castle, because he showed a certain ability in handling some affairs, and he had been the head of the village before, so he knew more about farming. Zongji, who was worried about spring ploughing, immediately appointed Saigo Kicho as the executive to deal with the spring ploughing of Kakuyama Castle and the problem of the reclaiming of the displaced people.

Soji, who had just finished his morning training, found Saigo Kicho and said to him, "Saigo-sama, how are the spring plowing preparations?" Saigo Kicho replied: "My lord, everything is ready, the previous land plus the newly reclaimed 20 anti land (20 anti about 200 acres of land) If the harvest is good this year, it should be able to produce 200 koku of grain" Soji nodded after hearing this, 200 koku is not too little, enough to maintain a team of dozens of people. "Good work, Saigo-sama," Soji said. Saigo Mu Chang didn't dare to be formal, and replied: "This is what subordinates should do, the lord can take in the people of our entire village, and provide us with shelter and land, I am already very satisfied." And his subordinates have already left the Tsugawa family, so naturally they should work hard for the development of the Tsugawa family."

"Yes. Yes, do a good job, I won't treat meritorious people badly, in this way, your Yulu will increase by one stone, tentatively set at 3 stone per year," Zongzhi Daifa said. "Thank you, lord," Saigo said happily.

"Okay, you go get busy, I'll leave the matter of spring ploughing to you" Soji patted Saigo Kicho on the shoulder and encouraged. "Hey, Lord, please walk slowly"

On the way home, Soji had a lot of thoughts: "Everything seems to be in order, but I can't relax easily." The bandits of the Kusakigawa and Yoshinobu Yamada are always troubles to face.,It seems that I'm going to find a time to solve it all at once.,Ah!! I'm going to die a lot of brain cells again."