"Congratulations to my lord! I will be loyal to the Hosokawa shogunate for generations! The ministers saluted again.

"Well, Zong Gui, let's start reading the reward." Hosokawa Nobumoto said to Yoshida Munegui again, Tianhai's task is complete, and the following is the internal assessment of the shogunate.

"Yes!" Yoshida Sokatsu took out a roll of paper from his cuff and slowly unfolded it, his mood was very complicated at this time. He didn't lead the crowd to salute the emperor just now, naturally at the behest of Hosokawa Nobumoto, but this went against his original intentions, and he was naturally more supportive of imperial power as an imperial doctor.

"Hey... Seemingly... It's time to say goodbye to your hometown. Yoshida Sogui made up his mind in his heart, he was loyal, but he lost his righteousness, and his heart suffered from gains and losses.

As soon as the ministers below heard that there was a reward, they immediately straightened their backs one by one, and left the stubble just now behind.

The list of rewarded personnel is long and boring, and everyone in the family has a share, from the old to the ashigaru, but the ministers listen to it with relish. When you read your own name, you are satisfied, and you congratulate each other when you read the name of others.

In this grand reward, there was not a single person with a total territory of more than one million koku, which is a lesson that Hosokawa Nobumoto firmly remembered in history.

Historically, the Toyotomi regime had established the positions of the five elders, and the incumbents were the five most powerful daimyo under the Toyotomi regime. The original intention was to wait for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to die, and the five elders would assist his young son Toyotomi Hideyori. The fundamental purpose was to suppress the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu (who owned 2.56 million koku in the Kanto region) through a collegial system, so as to ensure that the Toyotomi regime could be passed on from generation to generation.

However, due to the sudden death of the No. 2 person, Maeda Toshiie (Kaga Million Stones), Ieyasu violated the covenant many times without restraint, and the "Five Elders" became nominal and the world was eventually stolen by Ieyasu.

Therefore, more than one million stones is resolutely not feasible!

However, there are many people between 500,000 and 1 million stones, and there are relatives and daimyos.

Haruyuki Hosokawa, Shinyuki Hosokawa, Motohisa Niko, Takashi Hosokawa, Hidei Mibuchi, Motoken Hosokawa, Keikatsu Uesugi, Terumoto Mori, Nagahide Niwa, Masanobu Honda, Munekaru Yoshida, Motoku Kitada, Hidehide Matsunaga, Yoshitsutsugu Miyoshi, Tsuneko Ikeda, Nobuyasu Matsudaira, Asakatsumi Yuuki, Yoshishige Satake.

Originally, there was also a Tianhai, that is, Hosokawa Nobumoto wanted to make Akechi Mitsuhide vulgar, but it was all unified anyway, and it was time for Mitsuhide to return to the bright side. But Tianhai politely refused, hoping that he would still hide in the darkness, so that he could easily discover the things in the darkness.

Hosokawa Nobumoto had no choice but to give all the rewards to Amami to his descendants, as well as to the descendants of Akechi Hidemitsu, who was still the prime minister in black, hiding in the dark and observing the outside world.

Further down is a reward of 100,000 to 500,000 yuan, and there are more of these people, basically including all the reserve commanders, deputy commanders, military commissioners, and interior ministers at home. It can be said that this part of the people is the backbone of the Hosokawa family, and almost everyone is very satisfied, for example, Ito Yubing regained the old Hyuga leadership of the Ito family and revived the family's name.

Of course, there are also people who are not satisfied, such as Yoshinori Otomo. In the Kyushu conquest war, his Otomo family's territory suffered the greatest loss, but in the end, he was only allowed to retain 400,000 territories of the Bungo country, you must know that when his Otomo family was at its peak, it had more than one million stones in the six countries of Kyushu!

At this time, Otomo Yoshitomo clenched his fists, suppressing the anger in his heart, and did not dare to show the dissatisfaction in his heart, but one after another vicious plans began to brew in his mind.

Tianhai, who was originally half-squinting, suddenly flashed a fine light in the corner of his eye, and his position as the celebrant was just enough to see the expressions of everyone in the audience.

"The rewards below 100,000 stone will not be read out one by one in the future, and they will be rewarded one by one according to the canonization after the meeting." As he spoke, Yoshida closed the reward book and looked up at Hosokawa Nobugen, meaning that he was done here.

"Well, hard work." Hosokawa Nobumoto is a pun, not only to Yoshida Sokatsu, but also to the meritorious minister.

"The ministers are terrified!" Everyone hurriedly thanked them, but their hearts were a lot more relaxed, and the world was decided.

In addition, the shogunate will move to Edo in the future, and there will be the rulers of the world. But before that, Masanobu, let's announce the national policy that we are going to implement. Hosokawa Nobugen nodded, although he himself likes to be a territory, but it is impossible to do it in this era, and he can only weaken the influence of the lords as much as possible.

"Yes!" Honda Masashi received the order, and it is time to officially promulgate the "one country, one city" order.

With the announcement of Honda Masanobu, the daimyo listened carefully word for word, and although they had heard it for a long time, when they heard it with their own ears, their hearts were still not so happy. Although this decree allowed him to increase his control over the territory, he also had to revoke many castles to facilitate the control of the shogunate.

This is fine for the daimyo who are loyal to the Hosokawa shogunate, but it is a great disadvantage for those who are reluctant or have bad intentions.

"What? Is there any difficulty? Hosokawa Nobumoto saw some daimyo with a difficult face, and his tone was not good. He knew that the reason why the Tokugawa shogunate was able to proceed smoothly in history was due to the fact that most of the new daimyo were originally direct retainers of the Tokugawa, and the entire disobedient daimyo was repaired.

And his Hosokawa family, there are many daimyo who took refuge in earlier, such as Matsunaga, Miyoshi, Tsutsui, Mihosokawa, etc. There are also mid-term incorporations, such as Niwa, Ikeda, Takigawa, etc. There are also later periods, even those who are subordinate to the late period, such as Satake, Yuuki, Uesugi, Mori, and so on.

Therefore, there are active and passive ones, and it is very difficult to implement this national policy. But fortunately, the feudal title of Hosokawa's direct retainers has completed the order of one country and one city, if there is a daimyo who is not willing to carry it out? So... Those who have already done it will be happy to help them demolish their houses!

"Don't dare! Obey the Lord's command! No matter what you think in your heart, you will obey it verbally first and receive the orders one after another.

"Hmm." Hosokawa Nobumoto nodded slightly, although it seemed to be smooth, but in the same way, he would also secretly send ninjas to closely monitor their every move!

"Well, I'm sure you're hungry too. Come! It's time to feast! Hosokawa Nobumoto beckoned and set up a banquet to entertain the ministers and relieve the tense atmosphere just now.

"Thank you, lord!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and this page was turned over for the time being, which was good for everyone.

Hosokawa Nobumoto watched the busy field, the servants arranging the table and other matters, although it was nothing on the surface, but in fact, his mind had already begun to think about the future plans.

In fact, the one country and one city decree is just the beginning, and all mineral resources will be collected into the national treasury later; All firearms are only allowed to be used by the shogunate, and are not allowed to be minted and used privately in local areas; Without the permission of the shogunate, the castle could not be repaired or expanded; And finally the killer system to be implemented: attendance accounting.

Attendance accounting, also known as attendance accounting, is a system of controlling the major names. The daimyo of each domain had to perform government affairs for the shogun for a period of time before returning to their own territory.

In principle, the daimyo is required to attend the report every year. On average, half of the daimyo in the country stayed in Edo and half in the territory. On the one hand, the daimyo's sons-in-law were also required to live in Edo for a long time, serving as a minor surname or being close to each other, and in fact becoming hostages, which limited the daimyo's antipathy to a certain extent.

On the other hand, going to Edo was not a public expense, and the daimyo had to travel at his own expense. In addition, the service was a kind of military service, and the daimyo usually took a large number of retinues to Edo, and it was necessary to carry out a large-scale "daimyo procession" when advancing, which was a large financial burden for the daimyo and greatly suppressed the financial strength of the daimyo to a large extent.

Not only that, but Hosokawa Nobumoto is also preparing to transform Edo into a paradise on earth, with everything to eat, drink and be merry, and all of them are high-cost. This greatly stimulated the commercial level of the Edo area, and it can be said that it stimulated the domestic demand of the shogunate, which was of great help to the shogunate's increase in GDP.

Therefore, attendance not only "exploited" the daimyo's money, but also "exploited" their time. Because there are many places in the main mountain of Japan, transportation is inconvenient, and the time of the daimyo in Edo is a hard and fast rule, and the journey to Edo takes a lot of time.

In general, if it is a distant daimyo, he usually spends only one-third of his time in the territory, and the other two-thirds of the time, either in Edo, on the way to Edo, or on the way back to the territory.

Of course, for those daimyo who were closer to Edo, the shogunate also extended their time in Edo accordingly, and the name was called "Jofu" - in short, the shogunate reduced the time of the daimyo in the domain as much as possible.

"Let's have a feast!" With the singing of the attendants, Hosokawa Nobumoto was pulled back to reality, looking at the new delicacies on the table, all from the Kyushu region... I want to talk about "Mortals Through the Law of Survival" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~