Thinking of the role of the Yodogawa people, Kira Yoshitoki recruited Hattori Koshiro and asked him to bring the Yodokawa people information collected by the Hattori family, and after reading it carefully, he realized that the Yodokawa people were not a group of ordinary ship bosses who drove ships in his imagination, but were similar to the Kawanami people that Mino Kuniki had encountered on the Kiso River.

Both are local tyrants, bow boats, and fishermen spontaneously formed a township party, relying on the monopoly of daily trade on the river and developed, of course, the name Yodogawa is very general, after all, the Yodogawa contains many tributaries, and the geographical location happens to be the core area of Kinai, so the cohesion of the Yodogawa people is far worse than that of the Kawan-man.

"Because Yodogawa is located in the province and has been suppressed and attacked by many forces including the imperial court, the shogunate, the leader, the guardian, and the great temple monk group, the development of the Yodogawa people has not been very smooth, and the large and small township parties living on the Yodogawa River can be called the Yodogawa people, of which only thirty percent are inland water armies, and these inland river water armies are scattered in dozens of small families, of which the strongest Yodokawa clan serves as the nominal leader of the Yodogawa people." Hattori Koshiro reported a series of information without stopping, in the end, it was a family that was famous for engaging in intelligence, and he could master this kind of ability at such a young age.

"Oh! I see...... Anyway, Koshiro is a year younger than his family, right? ”

"Yes! His Majesty was born in the eleventh year of astronomy. Hattori Koshiro replied respectfully.

"How is Kogoro now?"

“…… Very good! Hattori Koshiro's expression twitched suddenly.

Kira Yoshitoki prompted with a wicked smile: "The problem of bedwetting has been solved? ”

“……”

Kira Yoshishi felt that the act of revealing people's scars in front of him was a bit unkind, so he changed his words again: "That's right! My family remembered something! Michizo has pushed his son, Mori Kotose, to his family as a samurai, so go to him and ask for a prescription for bedwetting! Even if he doesn't, there's a father to ask for! ”

"Your Majesty has thanked the Pavilion Master on behalf of my brother!" Koshiro Hattori ran away with an embarrassed face.

"What a shy fellow! He's Hanzo? It's not like it at all! Kira Yoshitoki continued to read the information.

Fully understanding the specific situation of the inland water army active on the Yodo River, Kira Yoshitoki sent an envoy to discuss the affairs of Sakamoto water transportation, and recruited dozens of leaders of the Yodogawa people, large and small, who had never seen a few samurai daimyos, and the high-ranking ministers and samurai used their own private ships to enter and leave the Yodogawa River, and the most contact with the Yodogawa people were merchants, craftsmen, and farmers, at most some not very wealthy samurai and ronins who were scurrying around like flies.

Therefore, when they received Kira Yoshitoki's edict without thinking about it, they drove the boat to Sakamoto Marquis, Kira Yoshitoki did not intend to embarrass this group of low-status countrymen, and directly put forward his own request, Kira hired Yodogawa people to work for the shogunate on behalf of the shogunate, and the obligation was that the boats and ships of Yodokawa people must be dispatched free of charge in wartime, whether it is to take on the task of transporting troops and food, they must not disobey, if they are required to fight land battles and water battles, they must fight unconditionally, and Kira Yoshitoki also promised that they would not be allowed to fight land battles without special reasons.

Of course, it is not only the obligation but also the right, the right is to be fully responsible for the water transportation and trade of Sakamoto Castle, and the ship money for the transfer of ships will be paid, and the passenger flow and goods of Sakamoto Port will be handed over to the Yodogawa people to be responsible, which is equivalent to finding an iron rice bowl for them, and they will not have to go out to collect work in the future, and they can eat with me.

This condition made many of the leaders of Yodogawa happy, and there were a lot of sad faces in front of them, but the rights in the back were still very tempting, and if they monopolized the trade of Sakamoto Port, the ship money on the line from Sakamoto to Sakai Town alone would be very profitable, not to mention the other line to Kyoto.

The nominal leader of the Yodogawa Sanemon immediately made a decision to join the Kira family, and after estimating, the military strength of the dozens of leaders of the Yodogawa people who attended the meeting added up to more than 1,600 people, and the largest number of Yodogawa Sanemon had more than 100 people, and the least was only a dozen people.

Then Kira Yoshitoki called Hosokawa Fujitaka and asked him to build a batch of ships in the dock in the Katata area in the north of Sakamoto Castle, and when Sakamoto Castle was built, there were still a lot of good timber left, and the remaining ones were cut down on the spot in Takashima County and ten ships were built within a month.

The entire May Kira family was busy with the reorganization and training, and the two hundred horses were also trained with the Red Reserve Cavalry, and the flowing horse archery skills passed down from generation to generation by the horse warriors were not so easy to learn even if they wanted to teach them, and the archery talent of the mountain hill length could only be regarded as a rough flow of horse archery, and the average samurai who wanted to master it must train persistently for more than ten years.

After half a year of training, there are still more than 50 people in the horse crowd who have not mastered the equestrian skills for the time being, these people are the same as the mountain hill are less than 20 years old hairy children, since childhood, what do not do to specialize in riding, archery, Yuan service after the integration into the horse to receive professional equestrian training, before the age of 20 out of the teacher is a qualified product.

This kind of efficiency is almost the same as cultivating English longbowmen, and the cost of building a group of elites in a few years is too high, and the Kira family can only barely reach the level of two hundred full personnel at the expense of expansion, among which the real elites are still sixty of the original team and their heirs.

Inspecting the training of the newly formed army, the people of Shiga and Takashima counties were jointly organized and trained according to the military system of the Kira family, and many of them were very unaccustomed to this method of group warfare, and in the past, they were based on their own families, or thirty or fifty people, or a team of about 100 people, and although they were not clearly distinguished, there would inevitably be some gaps.

In Yamamoto Kansuke's customized military law, the troops of each wealthy family are divided into group heads, heads, and generals, and these people are responsible for their own military situation, so it is inevitable that there will be more than 130 Ashigaru generals, more than 20 Ashigaru heads, and less than 10 Ashigaru group heads, etc., although the non-standard military establishment has brought some trouble to training, but overall it is still no problem, in the words of Kira Yoshitoki, as if this is an army that is not fully formed.

On the way to Saijo Bei, passing through a small forest and hearing the noise in the distance, Kira Yoshitoki was curious to find out, and walked over to see one or two hundred people sitting in the black pressure of the woods, and a samurai in the middle of the forest was performing archery, and looked at the end of the forest, and the target was only the size of a grain of rice.

Kira Yoshitoki pointed to the target in the distance and looked back and asked, "Zenji...... Cough! Duration! How far away is this target? ”

"About thirty rooms! The exact number of subordinates must also be calculated. The hill probe looked down and called out a number.

"Oh, thirty? Let's see. "Kira Yoshishi stopped and looked outside the woods, thirty is more than fifty-four meters, this level is not what ordinary shooters can do, the best killing distance of ordinary and bow is only twenty or thirty meters, and the advanced and bow are within fifty meters, but it is far away and I don't know who is so powerful.

"Bang!" The bowstring shook and the wound arrow popped out, and then the warrior took two steps back, drew his bow again, and flew out again, and then took two steps back...... Forty paces back and forth were fired, and twenty arrows were fired, and the warrior was a dozen miles away, gradually coming to the edge of the woods.

The samurai who shot the arrow put away his bow and stood, and after a while, the samurai who was waiting next to the target hurriedly came over with the target, and proudly showed the results to the surroundings, twenty arrows were densely inserted into the center of the target, almost filling the red dot, such an impressive achievement was immediately cheered by all the samurai, and some of the samurai were very reverently praised for the mastery of the bow and the like.

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