Iwatake Castle Outer Pill.

On the shooting range, an iron plate is being tied to a wooden frame by two strings.

Thirty meters away, Xiaohan Xiaoxian was dressed as an iron cannon, wearing a hat on his head, bamboo shoulder pads, and a small sleeve cage on his arm.

Right now, Kohata Xiaoxian was half-kneeling on the ground, holding an iron cannon in his hand and aiming at the iron plate, and the iron cannon's fire rope was sparkling.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out.

The mouth of the iron cannon spewed out a fiery serpent, and a puff of white smoke came out.

"Hit!"

On the side, ten people dressed as lightly dressed as Xiao Xian Kohata said in surprise.

"Such a thick iron armor can penetrate with a single shot, this iron cannon is terrible."

"Yes, against the iron cannon, no iron armor will work, no matter how powerful the general is, if he can't shoot it, he will have to go to half a life."

"Do you think it's that easy?" Kohata Xiaoxian stood up, he was only fourteen years old when he was just subdued, but he was also a samurai.

Under this scolding, the ten iron cannon ashigaru closed their mouths and remained silent.

Xiaohata Xiaoxian reprimanded them loudly: "No matter how powerful the iron cannon is, it must be aimed accurately, otherwise everything will be in vain." And the speed of reloading is also important. ”

Under the scolding of Kohata Xiaoxian, the ten newly recruited iron cannon ashigaru all bowed their heads honestly. Immediately, Kohata Xiaoxian asked him to continue to train without bullets.

Xiaohan Xiaoxian had just finished his busy work, and he saw Li Xiao standing aside not far away and looking at this with a smile.

Xiaohan Xiaoxian hurriedly ran over, bowed and said, "See the lord." ”

Li Xiao nodded, with a smile on his face, and said, "Get up, what you just said is good, you just want this momentum." ”

Seeing Li Xiao's praise, Xiaoman Xiaoxian stood up happily, and he still looked a little childish in Li Xiao's eyes.

However, Xiaohata Xiaoxian will soon become his brother-in-law, and Li Xiao will also look down on him, and he must be cultivated in his heart.

After Yuanfu, because he was good at iron cannon shooting, Kohata Xiaoxian was appointed by Li Xiao as the head of the iron cannon team of the iron artillery team, and his subordinates commanded ten iron artillery ashigaru.

The iron cannon equipped with Madein Omi Kuniyu Village is considered to be the best iron cannon at that time.

Oda Nobunaga recognized the brand of Omi Kuniyu Village and formed the Oda family iron artillery team, which later became famous all over the world.

These ten iron cannon ashigaru were recruited by Li Xiao a few months ago, and they are still in the training of Xiaohan Xiaoxian, and they are about to form combat power.

Xiaoxian Kohata's training is very hard, especially in the past few days, he does this because he wants to get ahead, and secondly, he plans to do it for his sister Yumi Kohata.

When Li Xiao officially announced that Yumi Kohata would be his wife at the New Year's greetings of his retainers, it immediately caused an uproar among the retainers.

On that day, Shima Katsumo, the retainer who had followed Li Xiao for the longest time, immediately objected to it in person, and two or three samurai from the family echoed it.

This was not unexpected by Li Xiao.

Moreover, Li Xiao understood that Dao Shengmeng, who raised the objection, only objected from his own point of view.

In the upper echelons of society, marriage is largely a political instrument. Even in modern times, it is often said that marriage is not a matter of two people, but between two families.

Even Takeda Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori can't choose their own fate.

At that time, Li Xiao's retainers all felt that with Li Xiao's current status, it was not a problem to marry a woman from a famous family or a major minister of the Takeda family.

didn't expect Li Xiao to marry his Ji warrior in the end.

Li Xiao finally persuaded Dao Shengmeng and told them that this was his own decision, not a discussion with them.

At that time, the opposition of the retainers was not much.

Because Yumi Kohata has always been by Li Xiao's side, they all know her and feel that they are qualified to be the wife of the lord. For example, Kinoshita Koichiro and Dazang Chang'an both immediately expressed their support for Li Xiao's decision.

Although this turmoil passed in a blink of an eye, it buried a deep shadow in Kohata Xiaoxian's heart, in his opinion, his sister can marry Li Xiao, it is definitely a happy thing for the two.

At the beginning of Guofeng City, if it wasn't for Li Xiao's rescue, the three Kohata sisters would have died at the hands of Takeda Yoshinobu.

And the death of their parents was purely an attack between the two countries, and it had nothing to do with Li Xiao.

So out of the desire to repay his kindness and cheer up his family, Kohata Xiaoxian has been working hard to temper himself this year so that he can become a qualified samurai, and now he has one more task, which is to protect his sister Kohata Yumi.

As long as he can make some feats under Li Xiao and break out of his martial arts, no one will criticize his sister again, saying that he is climbing Li Xiao.

Xiaohata Xiaoxian's thoughts, Li Xiao also guessed a few points, but he didn't say anything, nor did he persuade the surname of some guidance, everything depends on how Xiaohata Xiaoxian is, a little more pressure when he was young will definitely be beneficial rather than bad for the future.

After coming to Antan County for half a year, Li Xiao was in charge of the local Qianqian people, and the ronin head was in charge of some military affairs and government affairs.

As a former minister, Li Xiao was mainly responsible for collecting taxes from the villages and townships within the direct jurisdiction on behalf of the Takeda family, such as field taxes, passing services, weir service, etc., and each township collected taxes according to the stone height of the previous land inspection.

After Li Xiao collected all the money, he went to Fukashi Castle, where the city hall was located, and handed over the taxes to his family.

Takeda Katsuyori's subordinates are close to the samurai's pen head Masadada, and he is the son of Katsutada. And the lord of Fukashi Castle, Takeda Nobuyo, is also an old acquaintance of Li Xiao, when Li Xiao went to Shenzhi Castle to pay taxes, Takeda Nobuyoru also entertained him and Masada to the castle tower of the castle tower for a tea party.

According to Takeda Shingen's Koshu Law Order, in addition to paying taxes, the people of Shinano were required to serve in the Tsudo service and the general service.

For example, when civil engineering projects such as castle building and water control were carried out in the Takeda family, the people had to participate in them as a way of service.

At the same time, Takeda Shingen also made a provision that merchants and craftsmen could also exempt them from the Imperial Service by paying taxes on behalf of the Takeda family or serving the Takeda family.

At the same time, if they are conscripted into the army as peasant soldiers or as soldiers in war, they can be exempted from part of the taxes and labor.

In this way, the laws of Koshu have made detailed regulations, and there are also some strange taxes, such as monks marrying wives and paying taxes, and villagers fighting with each other in the territory, if you want to settle things, you must also pay taxes.

However, Li Xiao only grasped the big aspects of the tax matter, and handed over the rest to Chang'an.

Governor Chang'an was the first minister of the Tokugawa shogunate and the chief acting officer of the world, and it was not easy to manage the taxes of Azumi Prefecture in this district.

The Great Treasury Chang'an lived up to Li Xiao's expectations and did a good job, but Li Xiao thought of his later so-called 'honest and honest' name, so he still sent Kinoshita Koichiro to supervise.

Among Li Xiao's retainers, Kinoshita Koichiro is loyal and sincere, and he doesn't have any special skills at first glance, but he is very serious in his work, meticulous, and has a tolerant attitude, which is easy to gain favor.

When Li Xiao first dug Kinoshita Koichiro, one was in the corner of digging monkeys to weaken his future achievements, and the other was to value Kinoshita Koichiro's personal qualities.

In history, Kinoshita Koichiro was able to achieve so much, in addition to his fortune on the monkey side and his own surname, to a large extent, it was also due to Takenaka Hanbei.

At that time, after the Takenaka Hanbei became a monkey staff, Koichiro Kinoshita and Masakatsu Wasuka Masakatsu both studied carefully by his side for a period of time, and both taught him a teacher.

After seeing the advantage of Kinoshita Koichiro's diligence, Li Xiao thought of Kinoshita's historical talent and decided to let him develop a little bit of omnipotence, and he could take charge of Li Xiao in the future.

After handing over the internal affairs of the generals to Chang'an, Kinoshita Koichiro was in charge, in the past six months, Li Xiao focused on military affairs.

According to the ratio of 1,000 kan (the 200 kan added by the Iwaja Castle Castle is not counted, this is a salary, and if it is abolished, it will be gone), in the army account of the Takeda family, when the Takeda family needs to go into battle, it must provide a hundred cavalry troops.

Because the separation of soldiers and peasants has become the general trend in the future, Li Xiao summoned all these 100 people to be on standby, and when they were not fighting, they were not disbanded as peasants and soldiers.

All recruits were recruited from local ronin.

Its strength is composed of ten horses, composed of the original Xiaoba cavalry, who have experienced the battle of Baigen Mountain and the battle of Yanzhu City with Li Xiao, and each of them is an absolute elite samurai.

So Li Xiao used them as his direct troops.

The rest are ten iron cannon ashigaru, with Kohata Xiaoxian as the head of the iron cannon group, ten bow ashigaru, sixty of them are spear ashigaru, and the remaining ten are as formation men, responsible for the small lotus team, holding the flag and so on.

In addition to the samurai, each standing ashigaru was given a seven-pin a year and received two portions of support rice, which was also the standard treatment of the Takeda family's standing ashigaru at that time.

After the recruitment of 100 standing standings, Li Xiao promoted Dao Shengmeng to be a general of the ashigaru and let him manage the training of this 100 standing preparations on his behalf, Dao Shengmeng is a general who can lead the army, not to mention his own bravery, not to mention his ability to lead troops, and his will to fight is tenacious, and more importantly, he is loyal to himself, Li Xiao can match him with a think tank in the future, and he can completely let him lead an army to read and fight.

As for Shigang Kazuha, he is a swordsman himself, and what he pursues all his life is the highest level of swordsmanship.

In other words, in addition to killing people, Shigang Yiyu can't do anything else.

Therefore, Li Xiaoping would not send him to do things, and at the same time, he hoped in his heart that he could comprehend the swordsmanship of the two schools of Katori Shinto and Kashima Shindangliu as soon as possible, so as to open up the two veins of Ren Du and create his own plume.

As for Yumi Kohata, after becoming his wife, Li Xiao was not ready to let her go out to fight and kill again, and said that it was only right to let her have a baby and go home with the child.

Now after half a year of running-in, Li Xiao's retainers have gradually set up a shelf, showing a trend of steaming, and the military situation under his command has also reached a point where it can be used, and now they are waiting for an opportunity to use troops against Hida.

After going to the shooting range, Li Xiao went to the training ground of Koiwayue Castle and watched the standing ashigaru training with Shima Katsutoshi.

Suddenly, a subordinate hurriedly came to report that Jiangma Huisheng, the third son of the Jiangma family, had come to visit.

Li Xiao was slightly surprised, his heart was so fast, and then a smile appeared on his face.

When Li Xiao came to the castle tower in the city, Jiangma Fraser was already waiting at the guest seat.

Li Xiao waved his hand and ordered all the attendants to retreat.

Seeing Li Xiao, Jiangma Huisheng immediately saluted and said: "I heard that Lord Li Xiao is about to get married, so my Jiangma family brought a congratulatory gift to congratulate Master Li Xiao, please accept it." ”

Li Xiao said with a smile when he heard this: "Lord Jiangma, why be polite, we are not the first time we have met, there are only you and me here." ”

Jiang Ma Huisheng raised his head, smiled at Li Xiao that was not a stranger for the first time, and said: "Lord Li Xiao, the conversation is still so straightforward. ”

Li Xiao smiled, then walked to the stacked seat of the main seat and sat down, and asked Jiangma Huisheng, "How did you persuade your father, and how did it go?" ”

(To be continued)