Since the end of the Great War of the Three Families, a few months have passed, and in the blink of an eye, 1575 is approaching, and at this time of year, Oda Nobunaga may have already sent someone to inform him to go to his castle to participate in the assessment meeting, but this time there was no movement, and later learned that Nobunaga was going to move the castle to Azuchi Castle, which was about to be completed, so the assessment would be slightly postponed.

In order to let the retainers under his command have a good year, the assessment meeting of the Gao Shan family can only be held in advance.

In Takayama Castle, the retainers were happily sitting in their places and were constantly talking, because the family had captured more than 300,000 stone land in Shinano last year, so there was no need to ask and know that the theme of this evaluation was the reward, so everyone was excited while festivating.

"The lord has arrived!" With a shout from the close attendant Hikoemon, the retainers immediately stopped talking, and the clan walked out of the inner room quickly.

After sitting down, I only heard the clan speak: "The reason why this family was able to win the land of more than 340,000 stone in Shinano last year was due to your bravery. Now that Shinano has thoroughly evaluated, I will award you today. The clan was disgusted by the Oda family's tirade at each of the meetings, so he just said a few words before getting to the point.

I only heard the clan sect speak: "Where is Wasuka Masakatsu! ”

"The subordinates are here!"

"Wasuka Masakatsu, since following my clan, he has made many meritorious contributions, and this time he has specially sealed the 30,000 stone knowledge of the small city of Saku, Saku."

"Thank you to the lord, my subordinates should swear allegiance to the lord." Bee Suga is victorious, and he can't help but be overjoyed, and the lord is not sealed. This one is tens of thousands of stones. This has exceeded his expectations by too much.

"Where is the Maeda Toshiya!"

I saw Maeda Toshiya hurriedly take a step. He said loudly, "My lord, please command." ”

"This battle is well commanded by the left, and now the daimyo has resounded throughout the eastern country, and he has accumulated the previous credit, and he was specially promoted to the general and sealed the 28,000 stone Zhixing of Gaoyuan City in Ina County."

"The subordinates were originally abandoned by Oda, and the lord did not give up recruiting as a retainer, and the subordinates can have today's prestige, thanks to the lord's gift, and the subordinates will swear allegiance to the lord." Maeda Toshiya couldn't help but say solemnly.

"You don't have to be humble. The prestige of the Gaoshan family is all up to you and all of you here, and this reward is well-deserved. After speaking, I only heard the clan sect say a little famously: "Where is Watanabe Shougang!" ”

"The subordinates are here, please give instructions to the lord."

"Watanabe Moritsuna has made outstanding achievements since he commanded the elite cavalry, and he was specially promoted to the rank of general to seal the 25,000 stone of Iiyama Castle in Suinai County."

"Thank you lord, my subordinates are more loyal than to the death."

When the clan clan rewarded Watanabe Moritsuna, the retainers present all thought that it was probably these three who could get Zhixing in the family, after all, these three had made great contributions since they became the ministers of the Takayama family. As for himself and the other retainers here, compare them with these three. There are still some big gaps, so although they also have expectations, but they still have some self-knowledge, but they have hope in their hearts, now that the three adults of the family have been sealed Zhixing, then the lord will definitely not let them continue to serve as the commander, as long as they can get this position this time, they are afraid that they will not be able to make great achievements in the future. If you can't get knowledge and action this time, it doesn't mean that you can't do it in the future.

But as soon as the retainers thought of this, they unexpectedly heard the lord call out the name of Yamauchi Kazutoyo. Not only them, but even Yamauchi Kazutomi himself didn't expect it, so he couldn't help but be stunned.

It wasn't until the clan sect clicked for the second time that he came to his senses, hurriedly stepped forward, and said a little weakly: "I don't know what the lord commands." ”

"Since you became the commander of the new writing group, although there is no chance to obtain military merits in foreign wars, you have no complaints about this, and the reason why your army can attack everything, and the stability of the territory is inseparable.

"It's... Lord, subordinates..."Yamauchi Yifeng wanted to refuse, after all, as the lord said, there is still a big gap between his own merits and the lord's reward, if he accepts it, then how will the retainers see themselves.

But before he could say anything, he only heard the clan directly interrupt: "You don't have to have other ideas, if you feel that the credit is insufficient, then you can make up for it in the future." Do you think that you will not be able to obtain merit in the future? ”

"Please rest assured that your subordinates will live up to your lord's expectations." Yamauchi Kazutoyo didn't shirk after hearing this, and said excitedly.

The reason why the clan wants to reward Yamauchi Ichitoyo, although there is a reason why he has been working hard for his own family, is more because it is too difficult to get credit for the position of the leader of the new writing group compared to other commanders, if you don't give hope to the retainers who hold this position, then who is willing to hold it in the future, if you have a grudge, how can you keep the territory for yourself in the future, so it is imperative to reward Yamauchi Ichitoyo.

And this time, in addition to the four of them, only the Sanada family was left with the Sanada family, and the Sanada family received 35,000 koku from Toishi Castle, which had been agreed upon when they returned to Shun, but because Sanada Yutaka had passed away more than a month ago, the Sanada family was inherited by the eldest son, Nobutsuna. There is nothing to say about another Suwa family, and the Suwa family, which was inherited by the son of the clan, retains the original Takashima Castle 40,000 stone Zhiyuki.

As for the other retainers in the family, there is no reward for Zhixing, but it is a great joy that the status can be promoted.

I only listened to the clan continued: "Keiji Maeda, Kotaro Kazama, Zenjubo Sugitani, Keiren Omiya, Masaaki Sanada, Katsusuke Tanaka, Kiyohide Nakagawa, Shikanosuke Yamanaka, Hidemasa Hori! ”

"The subordinates (subordinates) are here!"

"You have made outstanding achievements in this battle, and you have been specially promoted to a general with an annual salary of 500 yuan."

"Thank you Lord (lord), your subordinates (subordinates) must swear allegiance to the lord."

After the reward for the generals who went to war, for the retainers in charge of internal affairs, the clan did not hesitate to reward, although these retainers did not have the opportunity to fight, but their contribution was not much less than those who could get the merits of the war, if there was no money, no food and grass, no paved roads, no excellent armor, how could the family continue to achieve victory.

So this time, Kagawa Tadaji obtained the status of a general, and the rest such as Nakamura Kazuji, Yamada Nagamasa and others were promoted to the rank of general.

In the end, the clan clan wants to make a reward for the two military advisors in the family, and the two of them can really be regarded as strategizing and winning thousands of miles, so of course the clan will not hesitate, and directly promote the identity of the two to generals.

It can be said that after this assessment meeting, the retainers of the Takayama family are no longer mainly lower-level samurai, but this made the clan suddenly discover a problem, that is, after the retainers have received their due rewards, there are not many lower-level retainers left in the family, which is definitely not conducive to the development of the family, and it is easy to have a situation of lack of success in the future, and this is also a matter of no way, after all, compared with the Wang clan that has been inherited for hundreds of years, the development of the family has only been more than ten years, and the background is seriously insufficient, the only thing to be thankful for is that Although the Banner Samurai Team set up by the clan is basically from farmers, after several years of conquest, it can now be used.

Thinking of this, he only heard the clan sect ask: "This time, you and others will be rewarded, so the number of lower-level retainers of this family will be insufficient, I don't know that among the warriors of this family's banner, there can be a person who can be used." ”

Because he asked about the flag samurai, Maeda Keiji, as the commander, said in a nutshell: "Lord Hui, there are three people in the flag book samurai team who can be of great use. ”

Since Maeda Keiji has always been unreliable, the clan did not directly reward him, nor did he ask him anything, but said directly: "In that case, ask the three of them to come to see me immediately." ”

"It's the lord."

It didn't take long to see three flag warriors under the leadership of Maeda Keiji, walking in quickly, two of them were Lin Tongsheng's two sons Lin Guangzhi and Lin Shengji, and the remaining one was the lucky one and suke who stood out when they swept away the forces of the Ichizong in the territory.

For Lin Guangzhi and Lin Shengji to appear in front of him, the clan was not much surprised, after all, these two people are also from a samurai family, and their father is a major minister of the Oda family, the resources they get are much stronger than those samurai from farmers, and it is expected that they will stand out now, as for that and help, the clan is a little surprised, it was just good luck back then, so he could become a samurai, but now it seems that it is not so simple.

"Subordinates, etc., see the lord." I saw that the three of them immediately saluted and said.

Although Lin Guangzhi and Lin Shengji can be regarded as their own disciples, the clan is not too close, and only listens to him say without discrimination: "The three of you have made many meritorious contributions since you followed your family, so today I decided to promote the three of you to a light head, with an annual salary of 60 yuan." ”

"Thank you, my lord, my subordinates should swear allegiance to the death." Compared with Lin Guangzhi and Lin Shengji's calmness, Yosuke is much more excited, after all, although the flag samurai is also a samurai, but in addition to a higher status, it is actually no different from Ashigaru, and once he can become the head of Ashigaru, then it is equivalent to becoming a member of the ruling class, and becoming a major minister in the family in the future is no longer an unattainable thing.

And when the clan saw Yosuke's excited expression, of course he understood his feelings, and since the favor had already been done, it was better to make it bigger. Thinking of this, I only heard the clan sect say: "I really live up to my clan's expectations, I didn't expect you to have such an achievement in the flag samurai, and you deserve to be rewarded." ”

"The subordinates are just carrying out orders, if there is no prestige of the lord, the military division is strategic, and Maeda-sama commands properly, the subordinates will definitely not have this achievement." Yosuke couldn't help but speak. (To be continued......)