After talking for a long time, the two finally introduced the topic. Jing Zhen Zheng Se Dao:

"We already have the method of training troops, and the rest is only to expand the army, cultivate the army, and work together. And now there are three strategies, which can collect the source of troops, collect money, and gather the hearts of soldiers, and listen to the details. ”

"First, it is called service in lieu of relief. In the early stage, in order to lure the Saito clan coalition army, we have robbed most of the autumn grain of most of the villages under the rule of the Furuta clan, the Shiki clan, and the Ishimaru clan, and the villagers have no surplus food, and it will be difficult to survive in winter. It is not our original intention to make innocent people suffer, and it is now advisable to divide the troops and move the villagers, young and old, to the cottage to settle the grass, so as to enrich the population and soldiers in the village. ”

"Second, it is called draught by water. Feeding the extra population and training and expanding the soldiers required extra money and food, and it was impossible to make up for it by farming and your previous 'side jobs'. Fortunately, there is the benefit of the Kiso River, and you should not worry about eating and drinking under good management. ”

"Kisogawa, do a good job? We also often make fishing as a business, but it is difficult to make a profit all year round, so we have to occasionally buy road money. Wasuka Masatoshi was puzzled and said weakly.

Jingzhen listened to Wasuka Masato's question, not only angry but also funny, the so-called empty entry into Baoshan without knowing it, it is said that it is these stupid thieves. I couldn't help but sigh:

"His Royal Highness Zhengli has probably eaten too much fish in the middle of the river, and there are only fish left in his eyes and brain. The Kiso River starts in Kita-Shinano and spans Hida, Mino, and Owari to Ise. ”

"You don't see it, there are countless timber and cargo ships drifting down from the river every day, and a large number of commercial goods are transiting in Mino and Owari on the spot, and the merchants are struggling to deliver and unload the goods for a long time. If you set up a few humble wharves in proper places, and set up cards to provide services and collect fees, will it not be a hundred times better than the harvest of casting nets and fishing? ”

Hearing that Jing Zhen explained carefully, and then roughly calculated the lost gains over the years, Wasuka Masaori slapped his thigh and regretted it:

"Alas! We only hate to meet Your Highness late, if you had your guidance in the early years, how could we have fallen to such a point! ”

Jing Zhen smiled and said secretly, Your Highness Zhengli, I just became a prophet and told you in advance the truth that you will realize in a few years. (Note 1)

"Third, the name is the cultivator has a field. With the former policy, the money and food for raising the people and training the soldiers are not worried, but the soldiers trained by this method alone will be far inferior to the first batch of Sichuan and the people. His Highness Zhengli knows why? ”

"Zhengli doesn't know, please let His Highness make it clear."

"Because money and food alone are only enough to buy their wars, not enough to buy their hearts. In the past, whether it was fighting with the people of the nearby country or fighting the family, it was for the sake of a better life for their own families, how could they not use their lives. ”

"And the new subordinates who have been recruited by the first strategy have hidden resentment since they were half-lured and half-forced to leave their hometowns, and they can only eliminate one or two more money and food, and it is difficult for them to identify themselves in the short term and claim to be a member of the cottage. If you fight against the wind, you will probably be like the Saito coalition army, but if you lose a quarter of the casualties, your morale will be lost, and the whole army will be defeated. ”

"Bamboo spears and arrays are not advanced military techniques, and sooner or later they will spread, and the trick that is really difficult to replicate and enough to fight ten enemies is precisely the determination of a million people to be single-minded, not to retreat, and to die without life. If we can't train the military spirit, then when the heroes of each family master the method of gun formation, we will be completely lost to everyone. Not to mention that it is difficult to replicate this time, winning more with less, even the same battles are between five and five. ”

"Your Highness is really a famous general, and we have learned again. So is the so-called method of harvesting the heart of the cultivator who the cultivator mentioned by His Highness just now has a field? ”

"Haha, that's right, His Royal Highness Zhengli can get through at one point."

"Nowadays, the daimyo and powerful of various countries mostly talk about the strength of their power in Shigao, which is also because agricultural harvest is an important way for them to maintain their retainers and military power, and sometimes even the only entry. Therefore, a multi-level commission and land head were set up to supervise the village dwellings and collect grain and rice, so that the peasants cultivated at the end of the year, and finally handed over seven or eight out of ten, and the remaining income was only two or three out of ten, and they often needed to use wild vegetables, weeds, and radishes to carry through the disaster year. ”

"Mino, Owari, and Shinano are all large producers of large countries, and the people of Kawanami can buy grain with money under the draught of water, and they do not particularly rely on their own farming, so they can cut into the favor of the people."

"Nowadays, the cottage is full of dense forests, and although the shrubs are overgrown with weeds, it is moistened by the Kiso River, and as long as it is cultivated a little, it is a fertile field. In my opinion, the newly attached people can be allowed to reclaim and cultivate on their own, measure the borders, and give them security, and they will be exempted from all taxes for the first three years, and after three years, they will only receive two to three percent of the output. For those whose families are poor and unable to sow seeds, we can even provide seeds and farm tools without interest and return them after the harvest. ”

"On one side are the seven or eight adult offerings of each family, and on the other hand, there are two or three adult offerings from us. In addition to the newly attached people, who will support us with all their hearts, there will also be people from all over the world to vote. ”

"After the cottage is reclaimed everywhere, the cottage population is saturated, and the army is abundant, our next step will be to implement the access system within the expanded Sichuan Merge, and expel those who do not obey orders, those who commit major offenses, those who endanger the cottage, and those who dare not fight according to their crimes, and then recruit new people to join."

"In this way, the soldiers will fight to the death for their own land and property, in order to maintain their identity, and the military will be gained."

After listening to Jingzhen's narration, Wasuka Masaori was greatly impacted. Since ancient times, the whole world is not the king's land, the guest of the land is not the king's minister, everything naturally belongs to the emperor and the general, the Gao family and the samurai, and the cultivator has his own land is really unprecedented, unheard of. He instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything.

However, Jingzhen had the intention to develop the Sichuan and the people into an important force under his command, and did not hide the hidden dangers in it, but said frankly:

Today, however, it is a poison that quenches thirst. Although the cultivator Arita won the hearts and minds of the people, it actually harmed the interests of all the samurai people, and if it was really implemented, it would inevitably lead to a mass attack. Therefore, we can contain more than 1,000 people at most, train 3,500 soldiers, and don't cause a catastrophe and burn ourselves. ”

Then he smiled bitterly:

"Of course, after more than a thousand scales, His Royal Highness Zhengli intends to expand, and it is difficult to do so, after all, the benefits of the Kiso River that we rely on subsidize all parties, this item is limited after all, and it is impossible to expand indefinitely."

After listening to all the explanations of Jingzhen, Bee Suga Zhengli was even more afraid, and bowed and retired, and later summoned the leaders to lead their troops to go around to collect the people Tuntian River, and the respondents gathered in the month, and finally recruited 1,200 men and women.

Jingzhen personally selected more than 300 young and strong people, and made up 400 with the original people, all of whom were thrown to Nagasaka Nobumasa to practice the gun array, and he was fully responsible for the affairs of Tuntian. After more than a month, Nagasaka Nobumasa finally trained into a gun formation of 350 people, because of the abundant money and food, the training for a long time, the elite level is still better than the initial training of the soldiers, although it is still called the Kawa and the public, but everyone only knows Jingzhen, Nagasaka Nobuya, Wasuka Masatoshi, but no longer knows the other leaders.

Note 1: Historically, Sichuan and the people have accumulated a lot of wealth by relying on water conservancy, and they have long stopped doing black business in the sixth generation. Therefore, Kawa and Zhong can be roughly similar to Cheng Hei Shihui started, and later established a joint-stock shipping company, began to do serious business, to the second generation of chairman Comrade Xiaoliu, halfway to abandon business and politics, the Oda family of GWY, and finally retired with national treatment.