"It's really interesting!"

In October of the fourth year of Eiroku (1561 AD), in the castle of Enma Castle in Tokaido-Ente Province, Nobuya Roshi sighed after reading the report of the intelligence cabinet personnel about the fourth battle between the Takeda family and the Uesugi family on Kawanakajima.

"It seems that the battle between these two will continue for a long time, right? I hope that the Uesugi family can delay the Takeda family a little longer, so that the main family can also take the opportunity to attack the Kansuga family and the Amano family hiding in the mountains. ”

In the previous strategy against these two families, Luo Shi Xinliang's army occupied all the cities and territories of the Guan Kan family in the East Sanhe Plain in one fell swoop, so that the Guan Kan family could only retreat into the territory of the southeastern mountain ranges such as Dando Mountain and Shirausu Mountain in Sanhe for a long time, and since then, the plain area in the eastern part of the Three Rivers Country has all fallen into the control of Luo Shi Xinliang.

After the attack on the Kan family was completed, the army of Luo Shinra turned around and directly entered the Enoe country, heading towards the Inui Castle, which was located at the junction of the plains and the mountain range.

After knowing that they were not Roche Nobusha's opponents, and before Roche Nobara's army arrived, the Amano clan simply abandoned Inui Castle, which had been run by the Amano clan for several generations, and fled directly into the territory of the Kyomaru Mountains and Hakukurayama Mountains bordering Shinano Province. At this point, Luo Xinliang also completely controlled the plains of the Yuanjiang Kingdom.

After pacifying the plains of Higashi-Mikawa and Tooe Province, the Kanto Coalition's campaign against the Hojo clan ended with the retreat of the Uesugi clan, and the forces of the Takeda clan and the Suruga Imagawa clan were not only able to return to their respective territories, but also the two clans were able to pay attention to the situation of Toe and Mikawa provinces in order to consolidate their newly occupied territories. and to deal with the ensuing invasion of these two that they may face. Nobura also suspended further conquests against the Kan and Amano families. While strengthening the construction of his own territory, he also paid attention to the fact that the Hojo family took advantage of the retreat of the Uesugi family to regain the territory they had lost.

However, what Luo Shishira didn't expect was that after the Uesugi family's army returned to Echigo Province, the situation in the territory was pacified so quickly, and then he quickly went out to conquer the Takeda family, which made the Takeda family immediately missing among the enemies that Luo Shishira had to face. So he was ready to take the opportunity to directly deal with the Kan family and the Amano family who had retreated into the mountain range.

The so-called cutting of grass to eradicate the roots has kept these two turtles cowering in the mountains and forests, and I don't know when they will suddenly jump out and bite people, especially the Amano family, there is still a gold mine in their mountain territory that Luo Shishira has always coveted, so it is natural to speed up the attack on these two.

So, after reading the information about the battle between the Uesugi family and the Takeda family on Kawanaka Island, Roche Shinra said to a person beside him:

"After the end of this year's autumn harvest, the standing army will be expanded to 600 men. A recruitment system is adopted for personnel. As long as the range is from the distant rivers and the three rivers, it is fine."

"Yes!" When Maeda heard this, he immediately wrote down the order on paper. He was directly recruited by Roche Shinra to Komatsubara-ji Temple in Owari Province in June, when he was still presiding over Komatsubara-ji Temple. At the sincere invitation of Roche Nobuya, he came to Roche Nobuya and became a retainer of the Interior Cabinet, mainly responsible for managing the affairs of the accounts.

The reason why Luo Nobuyo was able to find Maeda Genyi was mainly because of the list of talents that Masato wrote back then. When he started in the Luo family, Zhengliang specially made a list of talents from all over the Warring States Period, and then asked the Intelligence Pavilion to send people around to recruit these talents.

After so many years, although not all the people on that list have been found, or when the people of the Luo family find the talents on the list, this talent has also been recruited by other forces, but as long as the talents on this list are recruited by the Luo family, they will all show different abilities in the future, which makes this list of Zheng Liang almost become a topic of surprise among the retainers of the Luo family.

And Maeda Genyi is also a talent on this list, but when the people of the Luo family found him, he had already gone to Mt. Hiei Enryakuji to practice, but after he had just returned to Owari Province recently, Luo Shinra immediately sent someone to recruit him.

Along with Genyi Maeda, Masuda Nagamori was also recruited. At this time, Masuda Nagamori was still a small retainer under the command of the Oda family, so under the generous treatment of the Luo family, he also took his family to the command of Luo Xinliang. These two people are two of the famous five commissioners in history, so when Masato learned the news in Kyushu, he was also very happy, and wrote a letter to his second son, Luo Shishi, asking him to reuse these two people.

So at this time, both of them became retainers of the Luo family's internal cabinet in the Tokaido region. And with the addition of these two people, the military advisor Kansuke Yamamoto also has more time to manage the affairs of the intelligence cabinet.

In the assessment room, after Luo Shishiliang instructed Maeda Genyi to take advantage of this period of time to add another hundred standing guards, he immediately thought for a while, and then continued: "Try to choose people who are not of the same sect as possible. ”

The peer is an enemy, and Maeda Yixuan immediately thought of a few ways to write down the footnote at the back of the order.

"Try not to leave a trace of this matter, and then spend 100 yuan from the treasury to this temple to express the respect of the family." Since occupying the territory of the Kira family, the Toe Imagawa family has become neighbors with Honshoji.

Perhaps it was influenced by his father's attitude towards the power of local temples and shrines.,He himself doesn't have a good impression of these temples and shrines.,Especially this honshoji temple is still a sect.。 However, at this time, many of the local wealthy forces that Luo Shi Xinliang suppressed in the Yuanjiang and Sanhe areas were all believers in the same sect, and in order to avoid complications in this special period of stable development, Luo Shi Xinliang planned not to intensify the conflict with these local temples and shrines for the time being.

This trick was learned by him from his father Masashi, especially recently he was still writing a letter to exchange with his brother Luo Shi Huiliang about the experience of governing the territory, and his brother Luo Shi Huiliang not only personally led the army to quell this rebellion when the temple shrine riot in the Kyushu area was at the beginning, but also often stayed in the rear to preside over the overall situation when his father Masashi went on the expedition, especially recently he had just personally sat in Nankyushu to deal with affairs, and the experience of governing the territory can be described as quite rich. So from the correspondence with my brother. He's already learned a lot about governing his territory.

"Your Highness. Shimakatsu asks to see him outside. Just then, the samurai outside the door came in to report. Immediately, Roche Nobuya approved Shima's request to meet.

"Your Highness, Your Highness has spent three months in Yuanjiang Beizhong, please make sure that Your Highness lets your minister serve in Yuanjiang Beizhong." Shima asked as soon as he entered. Previously, although he accepted the solicitation of Luo Xinliang under the persuasion of his friend Bai Wu Xiankan and others, he still seemed to want to continue to observe in his heart to see if this "Imagawa family of Yuanjiang Province" was worthy of his defection, and whether this son of Xinliang was worthy of his follow.

Thereupon. During these months, he spent all his time in the barracks, eating, lodging, and training with Yuan Jiangbei. The purpose is to learn the Roche Flow Art of War. The more I learned, the more I liked it, and finally came to Luo Xinliang today to officially apply for a job.

"Don't worry, tell me what you think first." Luo Xinliang asked.

"Your Highness, what your majesty has felt the most in the past few months is that the soldiers of the Enoe region are strong, and they are the same as or even stronger than the flag of the region."

"Is that all?" Roche Shinra was a little disappointed.

"What's more, the discipline and training of the soldiers are extremely strict, and even the subordinates have been whipped a few times!" Shimakatsu shook his shoulders violently as if he remembered it vividly, "The reward is also very high." No wonder it's so powerful. ”

"Not bad! Soon after, the reserve army was expanded. You go to the position of the general of the reserve and take charge of the first reserve soldier. "Roche Xinliang has overestimated the overall situation of other people, and their thinking is still at the tactical level, and they cannot think from the strategic perspective of army building.

According to his plan, this standing reserve has 100 people, including the first six members of the reserve group and one general of the reserve army, and these seven people constitute the most basic command system in the reserve army.

They are the people who have spent the most effort on Roche Xinliang. They are ahead of ordinary garrisons in terms of equipment, treatment, and training. Ordinary garrisons with arrays, these people wear 'standing pockets before the word preparation' (the reason why the common equipment of the Warring States period is used, but not the unique equipment of the Luo family, is mainly to avoid being identified by other powerful people The internal relationship between the Yuane Imagawa family and the Luo family).

It can be said that whether the reserve army is strong or not depends on whether these seven people are strong or not. Moreover, the command of the reserve army is unified, the establishment is single and repetitive, and the war is like an arm. Coupled with sufficient logistical support and strict military law constraints, it is difficult to think about not being strong.

Of course, Luo Xinliang felt that he looked up to the Warring States people outside the Luo family, which was a bit too much, the reason why he had such a big picture, first, because he had followed his father Zhengliang since he was a child, and got a lot of Zhengliang's words and deeds, and second, he studied in the Luo Academy, where he got a lot of knowledge that was taught by the teachers of the school by combining Zhengliang with reality, so that he, or many retainers of the Luo family, their overall view was naturally much higher than that of ordinary Warring Statesmen.

Shimakatsu stepped back. Roche Nobuya Shinra turned to Masuda Nagamori on the other side and instructed: "From next month, let Roche House and other merchant houses help us buy more horses, the more the better, with less than a hundred war horses in the current standing stock, it is too few." Some cavalry spears and swords should also be added to the ordnance. ”

Nearly a hundred war horses, for the average wealthy daimyo, is already a lot, and even a very heavy burden, but Luo Shinliang has the support of the Luo family in Kyushu at this time, and he is really not afraid of the burden, and this decision is not made by himself, but by the order of his father Masashi.

Masarashi knew that Kai, Shinano, and Ueno were all horse-producing areas, and Tokaido was close to these areas, so he naturally took the opportunity to ask his second son, Roshi Shinra, to buy a little more war horses, so that while increasing his own strength, he also weakened the strength of the Daimyo such as the Takeda family.

"Your Majesty understands!" Masuda Nagamori immediately responded after listening to Roche Nobuya's instructions, and then said, "It seems that His Highness wants to build a horse riding team. ”。

"Yes." Luo Xinliang nodded: "Although the Yuanjiang Bei of this family is strong, it is only slow to move in formation. So I need a team of horsebacks that can move quickly. You need to know that there is a strange strategy to want to peace, and it is the same in the battle. ”

"His Royal Highness's army is slightly admirable!" Masuda Nagamori immediately exclaimed. Masuda Nagamori is not deliberately patting on the back, but sincerely praised. Ever since he had been recruited by His Royal Highness Prince Nobura in front of him to stay and work by his side, he had become more and more convinced by His Highness's many abilities.

"Your Highness. His Majesty found that the law and order in the territory had deteriorated in the past two months. There were more than a dozen injuries compared to previous months. More than twenty cases of theft and robbery. Three more people died this month. He also found that most of the incidents were concentrated in Shiocho. At this time, the Maeda Toshiya on the other side also spoke.

Since the last time he was beaten by Roche Shinra and went home to cry bitterly, he really found Roche Shinra and became Roche Shinra's retainer. No one knows what the Maeda Toshiya thought at this time, but whether they completely gave up their attachment to the Oda family? I still plan to do things next to Roche Shinra for the time being.

It is estimated that the only person who can really understand Maeda Toshi's thoughts now is Roche Nobuya, who has had a good discussion with him, but Roche Nobuya has not spoken out on this topic. After recruiting the Maeda Toshiya under his command in the name of a private retainer, he didn't say anything more.

"Oh, what's going on with that death." Luo Xinliang immediately asked after hearing this.

The salt town mentioned by Maeda Toshiya was developed by the Imagawa family before, and now it is also cheaper Roche Nobuya, although he has the support of the Roshi family, he still intends to be self-sufficient, and these salt farms have become an important source of economic self-sufficiency for him, and now when he hears that something happened to the salt farm, he naturally pays attention to it.

"The cause of the incident is very simple, a gang of thieves stole salt money from salt merchants, and the uneven distribution of the spoils caused infighting. Three people died and two were arrested in the fierce fighting. ”

"Show me the rest of the events!"

"It's all here. Your Highness! ”

After reading it, Luo Shi Xinliang found that the incident happened more and more intensively, and the rectification of law and order had reached the point of impatience, and the military pavilion that established various villages and towns to obtain military training system and boy scout patrol system had not yet penetrated into various territories, so it was necessary to do some targeted responses at present, so he said to Maeda Xuanyi:

"The rectification of law and order cannot be delayed, so what do you think about the establishment of a town office to manage the castle town?"

"Your Highness, this is good governance, but the family has to spend an extra one." Masuda Nagamori took the account book and calculated that the standing army had already consumed most of the family's income, and the pressure increased after the expansion.

"What's this?" Luo Shirana stood up and walked around the room, thinking about how the Celestial Empire department looted funds, and he could also learn: "The funds provided by the castle town are jointly responsible for the merchants under the castle, and a certain amount of security money is paid to the castle town office every month to maintain expenses. Shops smaller than six tatami mats do not have to pay. The duty of the castle town office is to maintain law and order in the castle and to ensure that the trade and life of the townspeople can be carried out normally. Did you write it down? ”

"It's been noted." Genyoi Maeda, who manages the accounts, said at the same time as Toshiya Maeda, who manages public security.

"But this is not enough, we must let the townspeople know the consequences of disrupting the order." Luo Shixin's conscience pondered for a moment, and then he continued to say to Maeda Toshiya: "Anyone who steals and robs will be sentenced to three months of hard labor and beheaded more than three times. ”

"Whoever harms an innocent person shall be punished with the cutting off of his ears and beheaded three or more times."

"Whoever kills an innocent person shall be beheaded."

"These three are written on the notice board, and every town pass and bridge must be erected."

After Maeda Toshiya finished writing, he asked, "What about the manpower?" ”

"All people are recruited among the townspeople except for the commission, and if you have a status?" Luo Shi Xinliang touched his chin and laughed: "The status does not belong to the samurai, they are all servants, but they are above the commoners. Each person is equipped with a small knife for self-defense. ”

After thinking for a while, Luo Shi Xinliang said again: "The castle town will be entrusted to you, the Li family." ”

"Yes, Your Highness!" Since becoming a retainer of Luo Shinrashi, the Maeda Toshiya has been entrusted with managing the affairs of the territory's security, so this position belongs to him, and he expected it.

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