Generally speaking, there are two kinds of salaries that a samurai receives from the lord (calculated on the basis of annual salary).

The first is Zhixing, which is generally enjoyed by middle and high-ranking samurai. The so-called Zhixing means that it is directly divided into your territory, and then you take it from yourself in the territory. For example, before Ishida Mitsunari recruited Shima Katsutoshi, he gave 15,000 stone to Zhixing.

However, this fifteen thousand stone was not the actual amount of money in hand, and the tax at that time was generally two gongs and one people or three gongs and two people. Take the three dukes and two people as an example, out of 15,000 stones, in fact, the peasants have to take 6,000 stones, and Shima Shengmeng has 9,000 stones. (The bitter man said that the agricultural tax of the Ming Dynasty was one of ten in the same period, and in the end it was destroyed by the peasant uprising, of course, there are other objective reasons that are not discussed here)

Of course, 9,000 stone only refers to grain income, and Island Shengmeng can occasionally levy other taxes in the territory, such as toll tax, commercial tax, etc., the more prosperous the place, the more additional income, even far more than the local stone high. Of course, if the territory is changed to an agricultural area like Kai Shinano, you should not think too much about the income in this area.

The second is the distribution method of Guan Qian + support rice, which is a salary payment method for middle and low-level samurai. The support rice was distributed directly to the samurai in the form of fresh rice.

At that time, one stone of rice (150 kg). The support rice per person is said to be five he, which is equivalent to 1.75 stone in one year. Li Xiao is now the salary that General Ashigaru receives directly from Takeda Katsuyori, which is a year of 100 yuan plus three people's support.

At that time, at the same time, it was almost a little more than 200 stone to buy two stone of rice. According to the algorithm of modern people, if a modern person's annual salary is 30,000 (monthly salary of 2,500) RMB, the price of rice is two yuan and five pounds, which means that a modern person's annual salary can buy 12,000 pounds of rice, that is, 6,000 kilograms.

Converted to the salary of the Warring States period is 40 stone per year, but this conversion is not standard, because the standard of rice conversion is different in ancient and modern times, but it can also objectively reflect a little problem. Li Xiao's current salary of 200 stone is almost equivalent to the income level of white-collar workers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

At present, Li Xiao accepted Daosheng Mengsaku's subordinates, and the treatment he was offered was 50 yuan a year, plus one person's support rice. This treatment was on the high level at the time, and the annual salary of the head of the Ashigaru group was generally between 30 and 50 times (for example, when the monkey came out of the Oda family Ashigaru group, Oda Nobunaga also gave him 50 times a year).

Island Shengmeng is still relatively satisfied with this treatment at present, after all, this salary is a lot of spare money for him, a bachelor who has nothing to worry about, and he goes to the clubbing bar every day to drink and drink his sister. Didn't Ishida Sancheng give forty percent of the Yulu to Shima Shengmeng, but Li Xiao gave half of his salary share.

In this way, Li Xiao was very unhappy, after more Island Shengmeng, his salary was reduced by half, and all the expenses became overstretched.

The chestnut horse that Takeda Shingen rewarded him before has always paid for it by himself, I don't know if it's because it's much bigger than other war horses, the chestnut horse is particularly edible, and this evil animal eats a lot of money from him every month, not counting the cost of specially hired to take care of the war horse servants.

After deducting the cost of raising horses, Li Xiao often goes to an izakaya to buy drunk, so the cost is even greater.

Ranked below the head of the ashigaru group, the last first-class standing ashigaru treatment is a grade lower, almost at the grade of 20-30 stones, in addition to having a large family to raise, and the money for weapons and armor during combat must be brought by themselves.

After saving Shima Katsu and Suganuma, Li Xiao decided to take Suganuma to a local farmer to recuperate, and he and Shima returned to Takato City.

At this time, the recruitment work had been completed, and Takato Castle had already formed an army of 700 people, and Yamamoto Kansuke, who was in charge of the overall planning of military rations, gave the recruited peasant and soldier ronin treatment, and the unified was that each person was three people for each person.

On how to train, Katsuyori Takeda and Kansuke Yamamoto consulted Li Xiao together. Unexpectedly, Li Xiao showed ignorance and was at a loss when it came to leading troops.

In fact, Li Xiao, who is a modern person and an amateur military fan, has his own set of opinions about training and leading soldiers, not to mention that he has participated in military training in high school and college, and he knows what is going on.

But Li Xiao just didn't want the people of the Takeda family to know that he had this ability, and he mainly didn't want this method to spread so early.

On the other hand, Li Xiao showed a brave and resourceful general in front of Takeda Shingen, Takeda Shinshi, and Yamamoto Kansuke. If they know that Li Xiao has the ability to lead troops and train soldiers, it will be too sharp.

Well, no matter how brave a person is, he is only ten enemies, and he is a great enemy of a hundred, Li Xiao has some ghost ideas and plays tricks, and he can be restrained in the eyes of Takeda Shinxuan, a master of conspiracy. But if Li Xiao is really allowed to train a strong army that can defeat the strong with the weak and block ten with one, then the Takeda family will change from the original emphasis on Li Xiao to being deeply vigilant.

At least if he makes great contributions in the future, Takeda Shingen will give Li Xiao a fief, and let him be a city lord to think about it. After all, when you become a city lord, you have the right of autonomy, and you have the right to control the financial and military power, and with such a big power, if the time comes, the city lord himself rebels and rebels, or changes the flag, which is also a common thing.

If Li Xiao's ability is too strong, it will be bad in case of rebellion, so it is better to be a direct minister by his side and control it under his nose.

When Li Xiao was still an ordinary samurai, everything was given by the Takeda family, including the identity of the samurai, Yu Lu, etc., and the same Takeda family could take everything back in one sentence.

Therefore, every step Li Xiao takes now must be like walking on thin ice, and carefully look at the faces of others to act, and he can't expose his true strength, it is best to make everyone think that he is just a military general with empty muscles.

If Li Xiao becomes the lord of the city, he will have a fief of tens of thousands of stones, so that he can farm and raise soldiers at home, and if he trains a strong army that shocks the Warring States. With this, Li Xiao can get rid of the situation of looking at people's faces and taking care of everything.

Summing up the history of China's internal strife over the past few thousand years, there is only one sentence, power comes out of the barrel of a gun. This is what the high school history teacher said, and Li Xiao has always remembered it firmly.

If you have a soldier in your hand, you will be hard, and in the future, even if Takeda Yoshinobu succeeds to the throne, he will not be afraid at all.

In fact, if all the hopes of Takeda Katsuyori to the throne were pinned on Takeda Yoshinobu rebelling four years later, and then things fell and he lost his position.

Such an idea is purely resigned to fate and eating by luck. In fact, after Li Xiao crossed, it has been confirmed that history can really be changed, for example, those who should have died in the Battle of Kawanakajima, Takeda Nobushigeru and Yamamoto Kansuke, didn't they change their fate because of Li Xiao's efforts.

If the future development does not go according to history, and the rebellion of Takeda Yoshinobu does not happen, then waiting for Li Xiao can only be a lifetime of inaction under Takeda Katsuyori, and wait for death as a rice worm.

So Li Xiao must start to change now, enhancing the strength of Takeda Katsuyori is one thing, in fact, with Yamamoto Kansuke, Sanada Masayuki's left and right assistance, Takeda Katsuyori's retainer group has been slowly formed. There is no white pie in the world, it is impossible for Takeda Katsuyori to get the governor of the Takeda family without hard work, and he also needs time to prove himself to Takeda Shingen.

Similarly, Li Xiao himself must also be self-reliant, and recruiting Dao Shengmeng has just taken the first step. But Li Xiao's ultimate goal is to become the lord of the city, with money, food and soldiers, chips in his hands, and confidence in speaking, otherwise everything is just floating clouds.

When the time comes, if one day, even if Takeda Yoshinobu takes the throne and decides to be unfavorable to Li Xiao, Li Xiao will have the confidence to change his face and rely on another big force, and even dare to pull the banner, raise an army to rebel, and break hands with Takeda Yoshinobu to fight against Taiwan.

And at present, the fiefdom in the territory of the Takeda family is saturated, and it is basically hopeless to obtain the territory and Shigao in the existing territory of the Takeda family, and even if there is, it will not be able to take his turn. A member of the Takeda family, a family member of the Genealogy Dynasty, and a vote of people waiting over there.

Therefore, if Li Xiao wants to obtain the position of the city lord, he must use the Takeda family's external territorial expansion, and the only hope at the moment is the next attack on Ueno Kingdom.

If it is really according to what Takeda Shinhiro said, Takeda Shingen intends to let Li Xiao return to him as a direct minister, so it is ideal, because the direct minister has a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and it is easy to be promoted in the eyes of the lord.

Li Xiao made great achievements in the strategy of Ueno Country, and he had the opportunity to let Takeda Shingen seal a territory for the purpose of consolidating the territory of Ueno Country, and let the brave and warlike Li Xiao serve as the lord of the city, stationed there, to consolidate the rule of the Takeda family, and at the same time guard against the Uesugi family in the north, and monitor the Hojo family in the south.

In this way, Li Xiao's city lord's plan can be achieved.

Of course, Li Xiao must also take precautions, if Takeda Shingen does not plan to summon Li Xiao back. Li Xiao must work hard beside Takeda Katsuyori, on the one hand, he helps Takeda Katsuyori accumulate military merits and enhance his value in the eyes of Takeda Shingen, on the other hand, the courtiers are not without a little opportunity, and they are directly named the lord of the outer city by the lord. If you have the opportunity, you have to work hard.