In the half month of the Great Appraisal Conference, Kira Yoshitoki repeatedly convened his retainers to hold a military meeting, and asked them to quickly formulate a plan to march into the Kanto region, in fact, the relevant plans have been done since last year, but the progress has been delayed because of the distraction of several wars, and now that winter is going to spring and spring is coming to the good season of spring river heating, Echigo's further offensive plan is also on the agenda.

Just when the ministers were discussing the plan to march into the army, a piece of news from Yuezhong broke his good mood, and Yuezhong, who had only been stable for less than half a year, had been making waves again, and the officials in Tonba County had resurgence and made waves everywhere, and there was evidence that this matter was related to the Jibo chief who fled to Kaga, and this person had abandoned Masuyama Castle and left Kaga since the dragon saw the beginning and the end, and it was very difficult to control the movements of Yuezhong by remote control with his own influence.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki can't come up with a good way to cure the new situation that has always been a place in the same place, because they are different from the violent groups led by the leaders of Arishokoji Temple and Zuiquan Temple, since the army of the two monasteries was annihilated and the temple Garan was demolished and burned into a white field, the Yuezhong people have always been a piece of black and lurking, as long as they want to hide their identity and beliefs, it is almost impossible to be discovered with the help of local believers.

The latent backbone of the Ichijo clan can only be regarded as a cancer hidden danger of public security, but when they are combined with the local people who are dissatisfied with the rule of the Kira family, the local servants and the village, and then make trouble all the time, it will bring more trouble, often when the army is dispatched to pursue and destroy the village, the main force of the first has long been transferred to other areas, even if it is surrounded by a trap set by Yamamoto Tokiyuki, there is a way to escape, even if some small fish and shrimp are caught, they can't dig up more valuable information.

"Damn it. And that goddamn chief! Kira Yoshitoki suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and exhaled. said lightly: "Tell the master to let him do it." Beware of the infiltration of the Ichisujong sect in the direction of Kaga, and send a message by water if you need anything! It is necessary to make more efforts to collect intelligence in Vietnam and China. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty will do it as soon as possible. "Mochizuki Yoshicho respectfully responded, in fact, the information channel of Echichu has been smoothly assumed, such as Toyama Castle and Matsukura Castle to the sea, and the flying pigeon from Itsu Castle to Uozu Castle, and then through the sea passage connecting Echigo, I took a clipper to Naoetsu to deliver information, which can ensure that the information is delivered to Kasugayama Castle within two days.

"By the way, An Yunshou's son is also fourteen years old this year, right? What's the name? ”

Mochizuki Yoshicho said in a low voice: "The dog is in the Yuan service this year, and his name is Mochizuki Yingjiro Yoshimitsu. Starting from the lowest level of ninja in the ninja army. ”

"Yu Zheng is thinking about one thing, the Mochizuki clan in Saku County is the clan of your clan, why don't you let your son become the heir of the Mochizuki clan and inherit the clan's territory? The original twenty-five villages of the Mochizuki clan were demolished, and there are still eight large villages left, and none of the territories have been reduced, so if you hand it over to your son, it can be regarded as preserving the clan of the Mochizuki clan. ”

"This ......" Mochizuki Yoshicho moved slightly, and then said calmly: "Isn't the child of Yoshino Gozen inheriting the family of the clan?" ”

Kira Yoshishi had long expected him to ask this, and said with a smile: "Yoshino is too young, Yu has no plans to give birth to a child for Yu for the time being, and there is no hurry to wait for another two years, and the child she gives birth to for Yu will naturally have a family inheritance in the future, but it will not be the lord of these small eight villages." You can inherit it with confidence! ”

"Your Majesty has another problem, if the dog inherits the Mochizuki family. Will the salaries of His Majesty and the Ninja of Mochizuki be cancelled? Are the Mochizuki ninjas moving to live in Saku-gun? It's not that my subordinates are greedy for money, but I have more than 200 Mochizuki ninjas, and nearly 1,000 relatives and heirs are not a small number, once they are not handled properly, my subordinates are very worried that the ninjas who are matched will complain. Yoshicho Mochizuki voiced his worries, and he hadn't said if the much larger number of Koga ninjas would be affected.

Even further affected the structural changes within the Kira ninja, since the Mochizuki family, which represents the Koga ninja, was promoted to the Monomi by Kira Yoshitoki, the status of the Koga ninja has risen steadily and gradually suppressed the Iga ninja who is in the sky, and the stupid Mochizuki Yoshino is the status guarantee of the Koga ninja, I don't know how many Koga ninjas are quietly praying behind their backs that Yoshino Gozen will have a few more boys to be petted.

The rise of the status of the Koga ninja made the Iga ninja feel very nervous, especially in the third battle of Kawanakajima, after the Koga ninja successfully invited the Izuto hidden ninja to make great achievements and was vigorously praised by Kira Yoshitoki, in just over a year of hard work, the pressure of the Koga ninja and the Togakushi ninja to form an alliance to strengthen the alliance was like a mountain pressing on the shoulders of the Iga ninja.

As the supreme leader of the Iga ninjas, Hattori Masaaki, who is the deputy minister of Monomi, has always been secretive about this, Hattori Masaaki knows very well that Kira Yoshishi hates the fierce infighting of the retainers, and hates the retainers who make trouble on their own initiatives, he has always been cautious and cautious and does not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool, and the elder brother Hattori Baochang has lost his footing because of the problems of several sons, and being demoted to Sakamoto pension is equivalent to actually withdrawing from the sequence of important ministers of the Ashikaga family.

Of course, he didn't dare to make a bigger move, but the actions of the Koga ninja were too big, and if he didn't make any moves, he would inevitably be looked down upon, so Hattori Masaaki took the initiative to ally with Kato Duanzo, the leader of the Xuan Ape Ninja, which was probably equivalent to the nature of huddling together to warm up and tide over the difficulties, so as to stabilize his position and keep the confrontation between Koga and Iga maintained, rather than one of them being swallowed up by the other.

Xuan Ape's previous status was transcendent, and he didn't have to look at the face of Kira Ninja, and he could repeatedly ignore the shackles of the Kira family's decrees, but since their initiative Uesugi Masato took the initiative to end the pattern of two-headed politics and honored Kira Yoshishi as the ruler of the Three Kingdoms of Koshishin, Xuan Ape was naturally classified into Kira Ninja, and now he is the third person in Kira Ninja, which happens to be a little higher than the status of the new leader of the Togakure Ninja, Toda Gobei, who can only be relegated to the fourth place.

The combination of his four ninjas has indeed made the Kira ninja unprecedentedly powerful, there are more than 2,000 ninjas alone, and more than 5,000 people have been absorbed from the periphery to provide information over the years, they are mainly concentrated in Echigo, Shinano, and Ueno Three Kingdoms, followed by Echichu, Kinai and the Kanto region and the newly opened Dewa country, and the intelligence of the West Country, Shikoku, and Kyushu regions has not been carried out for the time being, even so it is enough to make this powerful ninja army proud of the world.

Strong but not united. The effect of the four ninjas forcibly pinching together will naturally not be very ideal. There are often small frictions and even very serious conflicts. Fortunately, the leaders of the four ninja clans also knew the priorities, and always kept this conflict within a certain range and did not break out.

And the nature of the ninja's work makes their conflicts with each other happen in silence, and the silent beginning does not know when it disappears without leaving any trace, even Kira Yoshitoki did not find out how serious the friction they had, but knew that the four ninja armies seemed to be divided into two groups of people who looked at each other unpleasantly, and they did not expect how much change one of their policies might bring to them.

Just as Yoshicho Mochizuki frowned and pondered, the paper door of the assessment room was gently opened, and Nanoka had a peaceful smile on his face. Shaking a feather fan, he walked in in a chic manner, and said: "An Yunshou can rest assured, the master's arrangement has always been foolproof, and I happen to know the lord's plan, presumably the lord is planning to take An Yunshou as the first example!" ”

"Hmmm! Yu has this intention, An Yunshou obtained 3,200 steps of territory in these eight villages, because the land was just taken last year and could not be further improved, so the autumn harvest of last year was 42,800 stones, and the rice seeds have been sown this spring, presumably the harvest will be obtained in the autumn, and the total population of these eight villages is more than 28,000 people. On average, there were more than 3,500 people per village, and all the nearby fortifications were demolished. The land has also been leveled and various irrigation canals have been built according to the plan, which happens to be the richest place in Saku County, and this territory is not handed over to An Yunshou, but not to you, does An Yunshou know what Yu means? ”

Mochizuki Yoshicho is responsible for intelligence collection and collation, so he naturally knows this information, and after all, it is the clan territory of the Mochizuki family, and he also knows that the demolished castles and village materials are used for the construction of new and larger villages, and the peasants are organized to bear the burden of general service to complete the establishment of their new homes, and the means of encouragement is that the new homes are built better and stronger, and the farmers are very motivated, so that the farmers can unconsciously serve the Kira family, which is where Mochizuki Yoshicho admires Kira Yoshicho the most.

"Does the Lord mean ......?"

"Actually, it's very simple, your son Mochizuki Yoshimitsu took over the position of family governor from you, and then succeeded to your clan Shinano Mochizuki clan as the leader of the Mochizuki clan, the power of the Mochizuki ninja was stripped from your hands and transferred to your son, and more than 1,000 members of your Mochizuki clan plus the people of the Mochizuki clan in Saku County were handed over to Mochizuki Yoshimitsu to be responsible.

Mochizuki Yoshimitsu inherited a clan but did not need to be a lord in the ground, and the governance of the territory was handed over to the rest of the encumbers to take care of, and every year according to the statistics of the stone height in the Mochizuki domain, and then after deducting taxes, Mochizuki Yoshimitsu was given the corresponding annual tribute, and you Mochizuki ninjas still stayed in Kasuga Mountain Castle to serve Yu with peace of mind, and you still did Yu's mononomies. ”

According to Nanaoka's explanation, Mochizuki Yoshicho roughly understood the meaning of the governor's decision, which was roughly to let his sister-in-law Mochizuki Yoshimitsu inherit the Mochizuki clan's clan, and then hand over the eight villages of the Mochizuki clan in Saku County, Shinano Province to Mochizuki Yoshimitsu, but these territories did not need to be taken care of by Mochizuki Yoshimitsu and did not need to go to the countryside to establish an annex to take care of the territory, including supporting agricultural reform, establishing canals for drinking water irrigation, building river embankments, protecting the ridges and other measures were handled by the acting officials appointed by the public.

And this territory is called the flag skill, which means that the flag of the Ashikaga family is hereditary from generation to generation, as long as the main family still keeps this territory, it will always be theirs, and the father and son will be passed down from generation to generation, whether it is the Mochizuki family who makes a mistake or the heir will not deprive them of their clan's territory, the main family will find a collateral relative for him as an inheritance to keep the family will not be cut off.

In fact, the general meaning is like the earlier European Middle Ages in the same period, the rise of the knight class was based on the manor of the feudal similar flag skills, they did not have to take care of the farmland in the village, nor did they have to care about whether the peasants had enough to eat or sleep well, and all agricultural matters were handed over to the officials appointed by the monarch to be responsible, which was equivalent to liberating the retainers from the role of local people, please rely on the influence of the fields and geographical factors, and concentrate on honing their skills to serve the main family.

Seeing Mochizuki Yoshicho's thoughtful expression, Nanoka Kanbo said with a smile: "In fact, the lord has long had the idea of changing the existing system, and the first samurai who followed the lord did not have the corresponding territory, although I went to the Ashikaga family to have a high salary support, but this method is not able to continue to be promoted, Echigo, Shinano, Ueno, and even the vast number of people in Echichu are pure local samurai, they have their own inherent territory, and they are new retainers who have just surrendered, and they will definitely not hand over their own territory in exchange for relatively generous salaries, Presumably An Yunshou can also understand this truth, right? ”

Mochizuki nodded thoughtfully, as if he remembered something, his eyes showed a little reminiscence, and he sighed for a long time: "Yes!" His Majesty has lived in Koga for more than 30 years, and knows that the local people and local servants have a very deep obsession with the land, no matter how much the high-ranking officials are not as good as the land in front of their eyes, after all, the drought or flood in the field is ultimately their own struggle, even if the grain production is reduced in a disaster year, it is better than losing the land in exchange for some floating wealth that cannot last for a long time. ”

"Before that, the lord was in the small land of the two counties of Omi Province, and he was unable to seal the land to protect the interests of the generations, and in the past few years since he came to Echigo, he has tried his best to open up the situation as soon as possible, expand the territory, and ensure that the door of my Ashikaga family does not fall, and the prestige is not reduced, and after five or six years, the territory is now there, and the genealogy who followed the Lord without regrets earlier has also begun to consider the territory and knowledge.

In the past two years, some different voices have been conveyed to the hands of the people through various channels, and the Lord attaches great importance to this matter after learning about it, and finally decided to move the existing Fenggong structure after careful consideration and repeated deliberation, so this set of plans came into being, An Yun Shou Temple is very lucky, becoming the first person to implement this plan, and it can be seen that the Lord attaches great importance to An Yun Shou! ”

Langgang Fangfang's answer is simple and clear, making it easy for him to accept this plan, he knows very well that there is an insurmountable gap in the genealogy of the family in the family, that is, the genealogy of the salaried family and the genealogy of eating their own land, although it seems that everyone is laughing and laughing and laughing together, and they get together to drink and brag in the New Year like good brothers, but because of this essential difference, they are naturally divided into two camps, and there are always some small knots between each other that are difficult to unravel.

However, the emergence of this scheme can avoid related things to the greatest extent, once the system of flag skills is successfully promoted, all the existing lineage retainers in the Ashikaga family will receive the corresponding flag capital, and the food from their own land will basically not be much different from the treatment of those local samurai.

The only difference is probably that these banners do not need to care about the shortcomings of the parents in the grange, do not have to worry about the seedlings in the field not growing high, the rice ears are not full enough, and do not have to worry about the river embankment being washed away by floods in every rainy season, and worry that the water in the ditch is not enough to irrigate their own land in every dry season, and they don't have to get up early and be greedy for cats to dig in the fields.

Living in Kasugayama Castle is not easy to worry about and very comfortable, in the grange can not be compared to the convenience and speed of coming in Kasuga Yama Castle, out of Kasugayama is the most developed Naoetsu Town in Echigo and even the second half of Hokuriku, you can taste all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables from the Kinai Sea at any time, beautiful clothes from the Wufuya under the jurisdiction of the Biwa House, as well as Nanban dioramas, colorful gems and precious silk and porcelain from the Ming Kingdom, In terms of the acquisition and use of resources, it is not comparable to the lords of the country who live in the countryside. (To be continued......)