Chapter 10: Understanding the Yamada Family

Although Shen Fei, who drew out the spear, was very relaxed, he had to pretend that he had spent a lot of strength and scheming, and he looked like he had been fished out of the water, dragging his feet, holding the spear, and he came to the head of the Yamada family out of breath out of breath.

A few meters away, Shen Fei dropped his spear, knelt on the ground respectfully, and shouted with all his might: "The minister is fortunate not to be dishonored!"

"Haha, good, very good, get up, Toyogen Murataro, from now on, you are the samurai of your own family, and you will be the same as before, this is a special reward for your bravery! The head of the Yamada family laughed, but after he finished speaking, he motioned for Shen Fei to get up, and from this he knew what kind of mentality this thing was.

"Thank you for the reward, the minister swears to die to serve the lord!" Shen Fei shouted a slogan before getting up, glanced at the head of the Yamada family, and saw the look of satisfaction between his eyebrows, he couldn't help but pout his lips secretly, relying on it, it stands to reason that the name of the world cares about the name of the family, and it is his family that asks his subordinates to be loyal, but he didn't expect this thing to ask his subordinates to be loyal to him personally, but he also knows how to pat himself on the back.

"Haha, Lord of the Qingtian family, this time the battle is won by my Yamada family, so ...... according to the agreement" The head of the Yamada family shouted directly at the other side in a loud voice.

"Hmph! Congratulations to Lord Yamada!" There was a cold snort from there, and then the military formation began to slowly retreat, and the Yamada family naturally followed, this is preparing to receive the inkstone township, for the samurai of this world, there is nothing more exciting than occupying the land.

As for the unlucky man who didn't blink his eyes to death? Of course, it was for the Qingtian family, no matter whether they won or lost, they always sold their lives and didn't do anything about collecting corpses, which was too chilling. A promising samurai would never do such a thing.

Shen Fei and the low-level samurai of the first vote and the peasant soldiers of the big vote did not receive the task of receiving the territory, but ordered the head of the Yamada family to return to Yamada City with the pen of the family, that is, the middle-aged samurai who counted the merits, and the peasants and soldiers were directly disbanded on the spot. And he led the middle and high-ranking samurai with Ashigaru to follow behind the Qingtian army to receive the territory.

Shen Fei had no choice but to mutter: Rely on, I'm not afraid that people will regret it and directly counterattack and destroy you halfway! Just look at the fact that you can make a fortune if you go to receive the territory, right? But this is just muttering, looking at the mental state of these people, they all feel that there will be no problem with receiving the territory, since everyone thinks so, then the people of this age should still keep their promises.

The samurai were busy dismissing the peasant soldiers. was busy taking care of his bags, and Shen Fei, a newcomer, didn't have much work, so he wanted to show that he was in the middle of it, so he naturally followed the pen and was busy. Shen Fei, who has been fighting in many worlds, is simply perfect when he pats his sycophants, which makes people have a good impression of him unconsciously. Although some people don't look down on his peasant background, those samurai who go from peasant soldiers to ashigaru to samurai account for the majority, and these people have a sense of identity with Shen Fei, so Shen Fei naturally became familiar with everyone here at once. You can also whisper a few words.

Through the communication with these low-level samurai, Shen Fei had a certain understanding of the Yamada family that he had taken refuge in. Well, low-level samurai may not be able to know the family's secrets, but some seem mundane. But when it comes to the situation of the entire family, these low-level samurai are very clear.

For example, how many ashigaru are in the family, how many high, middle, and low samurai are there, which samurai is better with which samurai, which samurai is hostile to which samurai, which samurai likes what things, which surname does the lord prefer, which lady in the lord's house is the most beautiful, and which young lord is the most favored. There are several factions in the family, what members of the faction are, and what strength do they have. Which factions will be linked together, but those factions will never get along.

How much money and food is there in the family, whether it is enough to support the autumn harvest, what is the business tax in the family, what is the price of goods, which territory in the family is the poorest, which territory is the most fat, which people are the most powerful under the influence of the family, what strange characters exist under the influence of the family, which tavern has the best chick in the castle town, which blacksmith has the best blade! And so on, these seemingly extremely trivial things, but related to the content of confidential information from top to bottom of a force, inside and out, these low-level samurai can actually say in detail and detail like counting their fingers.

Of course, it's not someone who can boast about it, everyone says a little bit about this and that, and ordinary people only listen to interesting things when they hear it, but Shen Fei is this person, collect it all and analyze it in his mind, hehe, it can be said that the current Shen Fei definitely knows more about the situation of the Yamada family than the head of the Yamada family!

United, the Yamada family has 125,000 stone of Zhiyuki, which is directly under the Yamada family, that is, so many Zhixing need to bear the more than 1,000 ashigaru and nearly 100 samurai who lead the support of rice and Yuroku. Don't look at the cost of not much, but the cost of roads, ditches, ashigaru equipment, castle repairs, maids, and the expenses of the head of the house and the inner house, etc., can only maintain dignity and food and clothing in this direct Zhiyuki.

A samurai like Shen Fei who received Zhixing and erected a flag are not counted in the Zhixing of the Yamada family, because Shen Fei and they all have to support themselves, and they also have to follow the rules, when the Yamada family sends troops, they must lead soldiers who meet their knowledge and practice to fight, that is, the requirement of 1 person in ten stones, regardless of whether you are a peasant soldier or a ashigaru or a samurai, anyway, you must bring enough people, you can do more or less, more than you don't reward, less deprivation of Zhixing!

This is not just a matter of pulling people to participate in the war, not to mention being in charge of weapons, you have to be responsible for the food during the battle, right? And a hundred-stone warrior can collect a hundred stones of grain a year, and exchange it for only 100 yuan, and for a whole year, you don't have to eat and drink, you don't have to socialize, you don't have to wear decent clothes, you don't have to buy weapons? Many samurai owe a lot of money to the merchants all year round, and the production of the territory is transported away by the merchants before they can be touched. So it's hard to maintain an army.

What's even more bitter is that you lead people to the war, and if you win, you will be rewarded, and if you lose, you will be responsible for the loss. And if you lose because of you, well, either you will be cut to apologize, or you will be deprived of your knowledge and deeds. Therefore, the Zhixing samurai don't look at having a piece of their own territory, no one can take it away when they are fine, but they are also very poor and hard. Therefore, Shen Fei received Zhixing and was able to lead the support of Mi and Yulu, which is definitely eye-catching, because the people of Zhixing with five hundred stones are probably not as chic as Shen Fei.

Shen Fei was a little shocked to learn that the territory of the Yamada family actually had more than 120,000 stones, he thought that his lord was a 10,000-stone daimyo, but he didn't expect it to be a 100,000-stone daimyō, although there were still 500,000 stone daimyo and a million-stone daimyo on it, but this was also very awesome. Judging from the world he had experienced before, this 100,000 stone daimyo was already a small overlord. If the opportunity is right, he may become the lord of the country, and even a million-stone daimyo can sit down.

It's just that after Shen Fei analyzed the intelligence, he sighed helplessly, the big names in this place are a little unlucky. The Yamada family is located in a place called Kikukatsu Province, about 3,000 square kilometers. Oh, there are always similarities in civilization, they all call a place the size of a county a country, a place the size of a town is called a county, and a place the size of a village is called a township.

Don't care about these shrinking names, just say this chrysanthemum Shengguo, the ghost knows why it's called this, but it is near the sea, there are several big rivers meandering through, and there is a traffic artery connecting the east and west, it can be said that the land is fertile, the transportation is convenient, and it can also engage in seafood, whoever occupies this country, then can immediately become the overlord of the world.

Sadly, there are 7 counties in Kikusheng Kingdom, and the five richest counties have been semi-unified, what is semi-unification? That is, half of the territory has fallen into the hands of a family, such as Yamada County, where the Yamada family is located, and Aota County, where the Aotian family is located.

If there is no accident, these five semi-unified counties can definitely unify the whole county, but the accident happened, and I don't know how to get it in the first place, the territories of the five semi-unified forces are all intertwined, and the forces of the ununified half of the counties are behind them. Rely on it, that is, the five big guys fight each other, and the little guys in the five counties stay behind the big guys, while uniting with each other to keep warm, while fighting each other to become the sixth big guy, of course, the main thing is to keep pulling the hind legs of the five big guys and drugged them, and never let these five big guys turn around and eat their little guys.

For example, the Yamada family, if there is only one enemy in the Qingtian family, or one more, then if you give up certain interests, you must also stabilize the enemy, and then turn around and eat the bastard behind you! But unfortunately, any one of them is facing four enemies, although everyone is in the same state, they all want to turn around and eat the bastard behind them, but they have never achieved harmony between the five families, even if you are at odds with him, can you just watch your enemy dominate the whole county, and then turn around and eat yourself? No one is so white|Stupid, so, the five big guys are just confined like that.

The five big guys are very sad, it stands to reason that the family that controls half of the territory of a county can coerce the other forces in the county, make them surrender, and lead these cannon fodder to fight. But as I said before, the five counties are connected, and the little guys in the five counties are all huddled together for warmth, so once any big guy dares to do a unified act on the surface, it will definitely be resisted by all the forces in the five counties!

And this is also the battle for the Mao Shan Tian family and the Qingtian family, they are all soldiers of their two families, and there is no foreign minister, because these five families are all 100,000 stone daimyo, and there is no foreign minister system at all! (To be continued......)