After Li Xiao was promoted to the rank of general, the first thing he did was to move his place of residence from the castle tower of Takato Castle to the castle town of Takato Castle.

Why? The reason is very simple, because the population of the family has increased, and the number of samurai directly under his command has increased a lot.

After the First Battle of Baigen Mountain, among the cavalry of the Xiaohata family who followed Li Xiao to die in life, many people were grateful to Li Xiao for saving his life, or felt that following Li Xiao would be more promising in the future, and they had plans to serve him in their hearts.

After Li Xiao learned the news, after hearing the news that he was expected to be promoted to a general, he looked for an opportunity to ask Kohata Xian an important person in the Tsugasaki Pavilion. Kohata Kenshige didn't really want to let go, but he always felt that in Shirane Mountain, he owed Takeda Katsuyori and Li Xiao a favor, and at this time Li Xiao was very famous, and he faintly had the momentum of being the first fierce general of the Takeda family.

Kohata Kenshige also made a long-term plan to befriend Li Xiao, so he decided to release him at the moment. At the beginning, among the more than 20 Kohata Chibei who followed Li Xiao, a total of eleven Kohata warriors joined Li Xiao.

The increase in the number of directly subordinate samurai means that Li Xiao's expenses will also increase. Although Li Xiao has now been promoted to the rank of a general, he has not been given the land of Zhixing, but directly received a salary of 600 yuan from Takeda Katsuyori.

The annual salary of 600 guan is considered a medium-grade salary as a general, such as Fujitang Gaohu, when he worked under Yuchai Xiuchang, when he was a general, he received 3,300 stones, which was slightly higher than Li Xiao.

However, considering that Li Xiao received it as a direct salary, and the income was guaranteed in drought and flood, unlike Zhixingdi, who had to deduct the expenses of the three public and two people, Li Xiao still felt good, and if he was a small and famous family, the 600 yuan was equivalent to the grade of the old family.

Before this, Li Xiao negotiated with the samurai of the Kohata family, and the annual salary he offered to each person was thirty kan, which was a little lower than the annual salary of some of them, but they all expressed no doubt about it.

In addition to this group of newly joined Kohata samurai, Li Xiao's original three samurai, Shima Katsu Take, Shioka Kazuha, and both of them were fifty kwan, and Kohata Yumi originally Li Xiao promised him a year of forty kwan, but due to her outstanding performance in the battle of Shiraneyama, after Li Xiao returned to Takato City, she also promoted her skuroku to a level of fifty kwans with Shima Katsu and Shioka Kazuyu.

Well, Li Xiao's 600 guan has not yet arrived, so he has divided 480 guan from his share.

Now Li Xiao wants to live in Takato Town, although it is ready-made, but because it has a certain number of years, it is a bit in disrepair, and there are damage in several places, Li Xiao also decided to repair the house.

At that time, wooden houses were still quite rare, and in the countryside, only village attendants, or those with a little economic foundation at home could afford to live, and most people lived in grass and mud houses. The situation in a castle town like Takato is a little better, but more than half of the houses are mud and straw houses.

Therefore, although the samurai house is simply crude in the eyes of modern Li Xiao, it is still a wooden house, which is definitely a luxury for most of the people who have never lived in a wooden house at that time. Therefore, living in a wooden house is considered a privilege of the samurai class.

The longhouse of the samurai yashiki was the equivalent of the current tube building, with a corridor in the center and long and narrow rooms on both sides, which were divided into many separate rooms, and the samurai and his family lived in such a small single room.

A better place than a grass mud room, the floor of each single room will be covered with wooden boards, for the accustomed to sleeping on the floor of the bedding, it is already very good to sleep on such a wooden plank. Moreover, the longhouse is also equipped with wood to raise the air, so that sleeping is not only moisture-proof but also not grounded.

Li Xiao personally advanced money to rest and repair the samurai house, and repaired the originally broken roof and leaky wooden walls, which cared about the performance of his subordinates, so that the island and Kazuhiro Shigang who lived here were very moved.

Outside the samurai longhouse, there is the house of Lord Li Xiao, and the distribution of the two patterns is exactly an L-shape. When it comes to the level of a samurai, the general will have a decent house, and he will get rid of the fate of crowding the samurai yashiki in a collective dormitory.

The house where Li Xiao lived felt a bit like the mountain villa he used to live in when he went to the resort.

The house of the general is made of wooden planks, and the ground is supported by wooden pillars, and there is an overhead of half a meter. Ascending the wooden steps and entering the main entrance, there is a small transition area between the outside and the inner room, with separate halls for guests and bedrooms for personal rest, in modern terms, as a result of the separation of movement and stillness.

The rooms are separated by sliding paper doors. And in addition to the hall bedroom, there is also a kitchen, a thatched house, and even a bathroom for reading.

Well, how can I say that such a house can finally satisfy his psychology of being a rich man and a petty bourgeoisie for Li Xiao, who used to live in a university dormitory every day. What is lacking is that there is no Internet access, no access to Nobunaga's ambitions, no mobile phones, no roommates as companions, and no family care.

Forget it, thinking of this, Li Xiao pounded his chest and said secretly, how to say, in the half year since he came to the Warring States Period, he relied on his own efforts to fight to the point of becoming a man, which was definitely an unattainable achievement for many people at that time.

Li Xiao walked out of the house, and now his warriors had moved their homes to the longhouse on the side. At present, Li Xiao is the lord they will be loyal to in the future, and their personal honor and disgrace and wealth have been firmly tied to Li Xiao.

So when Li Xiao appeared outside the house, the families of these warriors left what they were doing and came over to salute.

Li Xiao smiled and signaled that they didn't have to bother, and then they went back to their own business.

The outside of the samurai house was enclosed with a wooden fence, and the open space of the house became a large courtyard, and there were stables on the side, and the war horses of the samurai were raised by horse servants specially hired by Li Xiao.

In addition to the stables, there are also thatched houses, and at the request of Li Xiao, he also built a large collective bathroom, his original purpose was not to have a bunch of stinky subordinates around, and to follow him every day, how to talk about hygiene, and also to get sick less, as part of improving combat effectiveness.

However, in the eyes of the samurai, Li Xiao's move has become a good reputation for being considerate of his subordinates, because no matter in the past or now, he regards bathing as a luxury. It's a pity that at that time, as a samurai, this condition was generally not available. Therefore, Li Xiao was able to fulfill their wishes, and of course these warriors looked grateful.

In addition to improving the accommodation conditions of his samurai and building a bathhouse, Li Xiao also deliberately changed their diet, changing his original habit of two meals a meal to three meals a day.

Modern science has proved that eating less and more meals is very beneficial to physical health, as his own samurai, he will work for Li Xiao in the future, and Li Xiao will naturally not treat them badly at this point.

As for these warriors, they were a little unaccustomed to this temporary increase in dinner at first, but Li Xiao deliberately used dinner as a subsidy for the cost of the night meal, and paid it directly from his money.

In view of the fact that some people eat for nothing and do not eat, these samurai will naturally not refuse. Of course, Li Xiao didn't let them eat for nothing for this dinner, and naturally there were important things for them to do at night.