After receiving the letter, Ohuchi Nobuzada immediately contacted Kira Yi'an. After the two of them discussed it, didn't they become honest farmers? This was easy to handle! They went directly to Shangougou and said that they could move to Omi country, and the Kira family would guarantee the travel expenses.
They are people from a whole village. These farmers have never seen the world and don't even know where Omi is. As long as they are given food, they can go into battle and have their heads cut off, no problem.
So Mikawa settled the matter without any effort at all. The accompanying Okawachi Moto also escorted the Kira family's new salt to Sakamoto. Kira Yoshian wrote a letter at the beginning of the year, hoping that he would dig some similar salt in his territory.
Yanchi, and promised never to leak the technology.
Naturally, he couldn't refuse when he mentioned Kiragi like this. Later, the amount of new salt in Mikawa increased by 50%. Fortunately, businessmen from the West Country and Kyushu also came to buy in bulk as the reputation of Sakamoto Town grew. Otherwise, the price of salt would definitely rise.
A big decline occurred because supply exceeded demand.
In addition to relying on Tsushima's transshipment advantage to traffic in new salt from Mikawa, the Kira family sent out the last batch of more than 200 Mikawa samurai, including Settsu Shouji Ogasawara Anji from Hatama Ogasawara, Ogasawara Nobumoto from An Yun Shouke, and Ehara Tanba
Ehara Taro Hidemasa of the Mori family, Masamitsu Takahashi Dewa of the Mori family and others.
Okawauchi Motaka's explanation was that these people were members of the family who had lost their right to inherit and were unwilling to waste time in Mikawa. After Yoshimoto Imagawa learned about Kira Yoshi's impressive performance in Kyoto, he immediately set out to win over and appease him.
When he established the Mikawa Kira family, he not only granted his son-in-law Kira Yian an additional 5,000 kan territory in Bihai County, but also generously transferred the Nakajo family of Kamo County and others to the Kira family. Anyway, the land he transferred was near the end.
At the same time, the people of Zhang State who were not very obedient were sent away as a favor.
He had no time to care about the affairs of the two hundred Mikawa samurai, so he directly asked Yamamoto Tokiyuki to lead them to the military camp outside Sakamoto Castle for transformation training. Watching these arrogant Mikawa samurai walk out one by one with their heads held high, Kira Yoshi
Nobuzada Ohuchi did not even have the intention to complain. This time, Nobuzada Ohuchi overfulfilled the task. Of course, his overestimation made him a little bit dumbfounded.
He moved a total of more than 1,800 men, women, and children from two villages in the mountains of Kamo County. According to Okawachi Kigo, there were 1,400 laborers including women riding horses, and another 400 children trained several
He was able to work even if he was young, which reassured him that these people had a clean background and had been living in the mountain den for hundreds of years. It was unavoidable to have wars, and the lords of Kamo didn't like to come to this mountain den to collect taxes.
Kira Yoshitoki could only pick up this team with their families and move them together into a workshop in the valley northwest of Sakamoto. The exit of this mountain col happened to be the base camp of Kira's army, and the valley was surrounded by
The high mountains and dense forests are inaccessible even to people and horses. Mikawa's reserve team only needs to switch to an Ashigaru team every few times to ensure that the secret recasting of this craftsman town is not leaked.
At the beginning of June, the rate of recasting was not more than 50 new coins per day. It was basically recast non-stop from early morning to midnight. This was already the speed at which the maximum production capacity was reached, and with the addition of these 1,800
With more than one person, the recasting speed can be increased to more than 200 guans a day in the short term. According to Soga Heibei's estimate, the daily output can be increased to a peak of 500 guans in six months.
The earth was sweltering in the scorching summer heat of June. During this season of fire, Kiragi couldn't help but relax his spear training and found an excuse to hide and be lazy. He hid in the castle tower and slept all morning before getting up. Just when he wanted to go out, he
When I saw Aju pushing the door in with tea and biscuits, I saw Kiragi's sleepy look and said with a smile: "Your Highness has not slept for such a long time in a long time! Your Highness is just growing up, so he is working too hard."
If you do, your body will be unable to bear it!”
"Well! Aju came just in time, I'm starving to death!" Kira Yoshi picked up the pastry and wolfed it down, not forgetting to praise: "Is this a bean paste cake? It's really delicious! Aju's pastry skills
It’s getting better and better.”
Aju asked expectantly: "Your Highness, can Aju give Princess Shengji some cakes?"
"Yes! Katsuki will definitely like it!" Kira Yoshihi clapped his hands and finished a simple breakfast. Then he flexed his muscles and walked to the terrace to look at the Biwa Lake view outside the window. He had an idea and said, "Why don't we go and do some exercise! It's been a long time.
I’ve practiced archery, but I don’t know if I can still hit the target?”
"Your Highness! Aju is going too!"
"Aju wants to go too? That's archery!"
Aju looked slightly satisfied and said: "Yes! Aju has been practicing pot throwing with Her Royal Highness the Princess since she was a child. Her Royal Highness was the most powerful pot throwing master in Kyoto! So Aju is very good!"
"...Hu throwing is different from archery, isn't it?" Kira Yoshishi said with black lines on his head.
"A-Ju hasn't finished speaking yet! Her Royal Highness the Princess's archery skills are also the best in Kyoto, so A-Ju is also very powerful!" A-Ju clenched her fists and put on a serious expression of "I'm good at it", letting Kiragi
Sometimes I can't laugh or cry.
"Okay! Let's go take a look!"
At the Nimaru training ground in Sakamoto Castle, Tokugawa Yamaoka stood in front of dozens of people approaching with a bow and arrow in his hand, and shouted: "The way of the bow and horse is the way of the samurai family. We, the samurai family, started from a young age, and with the six-foot long bow in our hands
After sweeping away floating prisoners and suppressing rebellion, there are often singers boasting about the bravery of the Kamakura samurai! Today, the ancient legends of the name are preserved. The reward for those warriors with outstanding martial prowess is the reputation of bow and arrow, and the best samurai are also called bow and arrows.
Such is the case with the No. 1 bowman in the East China Sea, Imagawa Yoshimoto! Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for a samurai not to master the art of bowing and horsemanship!"
"No matter what the art of war is or how good the spearmanship is, we must not give up on bow and arrow practice. We are all samurai who want to win honors immediately. How can we become a horseback samurai if we don't know how to use bow and arrow? Okay! Let's start today's practice!" Yamaoka Tokichō retreated.
He went aside and urged everyone nearby to practice archery.
It happened that Kira Yoshitoki and Aku were walking over. Seeing Yamaoka Tokugawa's serious look, they couldn't help shouting: "Zenjiro! Why didn't you go to practice?"
"Mr. Master!" Shan Gang couldn't hold back his serious expression for a moment, and hurriedly ran over, bowed, and said flatteringly: "I specially spent half a day to supervise their practice. These guys are very lazy. They can't do anything without supervision for a day.
I don’t know how to practice.”
"Go! Don't we understand our close friends? They are not as lazy as you said! You came here because you wanted to be lazy, right?" Kira Yoshitsune took out his folding fan and hit Yamaoka Tokuma on the head, "
Please tell me quickly and go back to train. If you don’t master your skills right away, you will be punished by me.”
"Yes! Your Majesty, let's go right now!" Yamaoka Tokugawa ran away with a grimace. Aju chuckled and said, "Tokugawa-kun is really interesting!"
"That lazy guy!" Kira Yoshishi shook his head, took the bow and pulled it casually a few times. This kind of Maruki bow with weak elasticity didn't require much effort at all. The short bottom and long top design makes it easier to hold a nearly two-meter long bow.
, the bow string flicked and an arrow flew out and plunged straight into the edge of the target.
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ps: Many people do not understand the development of new weapons and think it is not in line with tradition... What traditions do Japanese samurai have? The most direct tradition of Japanese samurai is the way of bow and arrow, which is to ride a horse in circles to fight.
During the Kamakura period, the Mongolian army made two eastern expeditions. After seeing the Mongols' powerful military formations and spear, sword and shield formations, they learned the lesson and began to use long spears to increase close combat.
In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, castle defensive warfare was introduced, which was another military reform. The caged castle could also block a hundred thousand troops. This kind of anti-traditional reform was incomprehensible in the Kamakura period.
In the Muromachi period, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu used a firecracker called "Sasa Yoshinaga" to burn Ouchi Yoshihiro and defeated the Ouchi army. In the Onin Rebellion, all kinds of weapons were used in both the east and west, including the Ming Dynasty's
Fire blunderbuss (not iron cannon), and later the iron cannon came, and so did the Nanman people. It was another round of military reform, and the Japanese samurai developed an enlarged version of the iron cannon, called the "Otsubo", and later the Otomo family's
The 3-pound Nanbarbar Cannon "National Collapse" is also here. As a time traveler, why can't the protagonist carry out military reforms?
In the words of many people, time-travelers still live like the ancients. They don’t brush their teeth, don’t eat meat, and follow the rules and worry about whether to eat pickled radish or salted fish all day long. Is there any point in time-traveling?
Don’t worry about writing about the Warring States period of Japan that you don’t know. The Japanese samurai in the Muromachi period were not as rigid and conservative as you imagine. Don’t put your thoughts into the style of the Edo samurai.
What kind of person is silent, loyal, brave, emotionally restrained, and has a perverted view of shame? He is talking to you with a smile, but the next moment he suddenly draws a knife and kills someone.
That is not the samurai of Japan's Warring States Period, let alone the samurai of the Muromachi period. The samurai before the Edo period were a group of tangled groups who had no moral integrity and emphasized morality. They could deceive their teammates without any psychological burden, and they oscillated between law and chaos.
