However, Sena Ujitoshi and others waited at the inn in Otani Castle for most of the day, but only received the news that Asai Hisamasa was ill and it would take a few days to receive Sena Ujitoshi.
"What a coincidence?" Maeda Toshiie said with a smile, "As soon as you came here, the head of the family fell ill?"
"I don't know. Those of us who have just arrived have no information." Yu Qiuping shook his head.
"Yes." Sanada Masayuki shook his head and analyzed: "When I saw Master Asai coming to deliver the news today, his face was red. It seemed that a quarrel had just broken out, and there was resentment in his eyes. He must be very aggrieved."
"The only person who can make Young Master Asai have to give in during the quarrel is Hisama Asai-sama." Sanada Masayuki said with a smile, "After Young Master Asai informed us of the news that we requested to see him, a quarrel broke out with Hisama Asai-sama.
.The most likely reason is that Lord Asai Hisamasa is unwilling to see us, but is willing to maintain harmony with the Rokkaku family. However, the young master is eager for change and hopes to regain his dignity and independence."
"As a result, a fierce quarrel broke out between the two. Finally, with the mediation of the retainers, they reached an agreement - neither rejecting nor agreeing. Instead, they used illness as an excuse to delay for a period of time to allow the Asai family to think clearly."
Sanada Masayuki ended his analysis and looked at everyone.
"It's amazing, the younger generation is formidable." Sena Ujitoshi praised, "The ability to observe words and emotions is not inferior to that of a veteran who has been in the officialdom for decades, and he is also very sensitive to information. Hongye, you have picked up a treasure."
"I haven't picked it up yet, he's just trying to find it. Such a good treasure, Doctor Dashan will definitely want it back!" Yu Qiuping's words caused everyone to laugh.
"In this case, let's wait for a few days." Sena Ujitoshi said, "If there is anything you want to see in Omi, feel free to go. All of you who are not members of my family, please feel free to do so."
Yu Qiuping originally planned to visit Kunitomo Village in Omi to see what the muskets of this era, called iron cannons in Japan, were like. But on the evening of June 30, Asai Kenmasa found him in a hurry.
"Shinkuro, what's the matter?" Yu Qiuping asked.
"Brother." Kenmasa Asai took a deep breath and tried to calm down, "To be honest, my father is in good health. I just don't want to meet you, and I deeply apologize for that."
"This is not your fault, His Highness Asai must have his own considerations." Yu Qiuping said with relief.
"What can father think about?" Asai Kenmasa shook his head in disappointment, "Ever since he lost to the Rokkaku family, he has become disheartened. All he thinks about is how to show obedience to the Rokkaku family and not to cause trouble."
"Yesterday I and many retainers tried to persuade my father to meet you all," Kenmasa Asai sighed, "but he just said that the Asai family's army is so weak that there is no point in cooperating. As long as you surrender to the Rokkaku family,
Just keep the territory safe."
As expected, it was exactly as expected by Sanada Masayuki.
"So I decided to train troops!" Asai Kenmasa looked at Yu Qiuping, "If I can train a soldier as capable as my brother Tokiwabi, who can defeat a large number of enemies, my father will definitely be persuaded by me to have the courage to fight with the Rokkaku family.
Fight!"
"But my military training method is quite demanding." Yu Qiuping explained, "It is best to recruit people...who are honest people with no background and scheming, and who can unite as a team."
"I will prepare this, brother, don't worry." Asai Kenmasa promised, "The Asai family has more than 200,000 koku of territory, but its military equipment is weak and there is a serious shortage of troops. The remaining places are enough to recruit new troops and form a new army.
We have a reserve team. Among the original 300 subordinates, there are many who meet the conditions." Kenmasa Asai looked at Yu Qiupei, "Brother, if you have any other requests, just ask! As long as the Asai family can regain the dignity of the samurai family, I will do it.
No matter how hard you die!"
"Every ashigaru needs to be given dignity, and it is best not to have any level differences in the reserve team..."
"An adequate supply of food is needed to ensure that the ashigaru have enough energy and will not become dissatisfied and mutiny..."
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Yu Qiuping put forward a series of various demands, originally hoping that Kenzheng Asai would retreat when he saw the difficulties. However, the latter had the energy of a fool. No matter what Yu Qiuping said, he promised to complete it. In the end, even Yu Qiuping was defeated by him.
Determination and obsession moved me.
"If Shinkuro is so determined," Yu Qiuping said with a smile, "I will ask His Highness Sena to stay here to help you train troops. Anyway, I have no other tasks in the future."
"Then thank you brother first!" Asai Kenmasa said excitedly, "I'm waiting for the good news from brother!"
"Hongye's request..." Sena Shitoshi frowned after hearing this, "There are some..."
"The people of the Imagawa family are helping the young master of the Asai family to train the army..." Jun Sena pondered, "Would it be inappropriate? After all, this is not the intention of the governor of the Asai family, but the private request of the young master.
"
"Then I can assist him as a friend of the young master of the Asai family." Yu Qiuping said, "As long as I don't wear a red leaf shawl, I can still hide my identity. I happen to have a few other companions, including Mino and Kai.
, with Owari and Mikawa, it’s not easy to be suspected.”
"That's okay..." Sena Shijun breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just... Hongye, why do you plan to help this young master?"
"Because he is my adopted brother and my friend." Yu Qiuping said with a smile, "And he, like me, is willing to uphold justice and face this dark and troubled world. It can be regarded as sympathy. He wants it so much.
It’s only human nature for me to help him with his military training.”
"In that case, you go ahead. But don't reveal your background of the Imagawa family. The mission and I will not interfere." Sena Ujitoshi said, "My intuition tells me that the internal conflicts of the Asai family may arise.
It will break out within a year or two. So you must be careful not to get involved."
"As expected of His Highness Sena, your intuition is so accurate." Yu Qiupei secretly admired. Indeed, next year, the Asai family will depose Hisamasa Asai and appoint Kenmasa Asai as the family governor, launching a counterattack against the Rokkaku family.
On July 1st, Ame Qiupei took Honda Nanosuke, Matsushita Karan and his three attendants, Sanada Masayuki, Amano Keitoku, Maeda Toshiie, and Honda Nanosuke to help Asai Kenmasa.
Preparations for a series of trainings began. Kenmasa Asai wanted to recruit a reserve team of 500 people. The recruitment requirements were very simple. Regardless of origin, no matter how high or low, as long as he was a man who was unwilling to accept the current humiliation of the Asai family, he wanted to recruit a reserve team of 500 people.
Any man who fights for the glory of the Asai family can come and apply. In order to avoid Asai Hisamasa's questioning, Asai Nagamasa used the excuse of increasing the number of troops for his banner, instead of establishing a new reserve force.
On July 4th, the work of recruiting troops came to an end. During this period, Asai Hisamasa seemed to be very dissatisfied with Asai Kenmasa's private recruitment of troops, but he had no choice but to give up on the call of his retainers to strengthen military preparations.
Seeing that the reserve team had been assembled, among the five hundred ashigaru who were eager to regain their dignity from the Rokkaku family, Asai Kenmasa couldn't help but get a little excited: "Brother! What do we need to do next!"
"Of course we have started training!" Yu Qiuping said with a smile, "Let these five hundred passionate men have the strength to protect the warriors' moral principles."
In terms of training, Yu Qiupei and Amano Keitoku are already very familiar with it. They first trained fifty selected ashigaru heads and ashigaru generals, and then asked them to teach the same training methods to the ashigaru.
As Asai Kenmasa personally practices and participates in training, he strives to be the best in every movement. Since the young master is so hardworking, the Ashigaru are naturally embarrassed to be lazy. Even the rest time given to them by Yu Qiupei will be done in Asai
Additional training under the leadership of Xian Zheng.
Of course, the most important corporal punishment system was naturally introduced first. At Yu Qiuping's strong request, he and Amano Jingtoku were responsible for supervising the movements-selecting those who needed to do push-ups. This naturally gave Yu Qiuping another opportunity.
It was a huge pleasure. In the first three days of standing training, Yu Qiupei and Amano Keitoku unceremoniously killed everyone. Basically, except for Asai Kenmasa, every Ashigaru had to do more than a hundred push-ups.
The worst one, Yu Qiuping remembers that he basically did more than 200 per day.
After the standing training, Yu Qiuping immediately abolished the kneeling ceremony and implemented the military salute system. However, this caused a lot of protests among the Ashigaru. Most of the old subordinates took up their positions and felt that they could not enjoy the respectful salute of their subordinates.
They were very dissatisfied, thinking that the dignity of the samurai had been disrespected. Some people were unwilling to be so slight to the young master and still insisted on using the kneeling ceremony - Yu Qiuping estimated that many of them wanted to flatter Kenmasa Asai, but this was not the case.
Photographed on the horse's hooves.
Kenmasa Asai is extremely eager to build a strong army, revitalize the Asai family, and restore the justice of the Wu family. To this end, he is willing to give up anything. He does not hesitate to punish those who still kneel to him to do push-ups, and follow Yu Qiuping's instructions.
The request was made to promote the idea of ​​equality and mutual respect in the army. Although they were not comparable to Yu Qiuping's 200 subordinates at the time, there was still a lot of resistance and a lot of overt and covert practices, but no one jumped out to oppose it.
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On the seventh day, the team began the training of the three-sided turning method. After this short seven-day training, the mental outlook of the team has been completely renewed. Each one maintained a straight posture and executed the instructions meticulously. As Asai followed
Kenzheng Asai gradually became familiar with and adapted to this training method, and Yu Qiuping also began to gradually let go - after all, Kenzheng Asai has unparalleled prestige in this army, and training with him will obviously have better results.
When the five hundred ashigaru ended their day's training and Asai Kenmasa announced their disbandment, they all saluted and shouted "disbanded". Their invincible spirit made Asai Kenmasa burst into tears. And the ashigaru people burst into tears.
They did not disperse like in the past, but stood silently in place, waiting for something. Because they learned that Asai Kenmasa and Yu Qiuping would give them the military flag of the reserve team and the name of the reserve team today.
"With such a strong army, our Asai family has nothing to fear from the Rokkaku family!" Asai Kenmasa excitedly pumped his fists and shouted: "You are all good men of my Kitanomi Asai family!"
The Ashigaru responded to the commander's praise with neat "Hey! Hey! Roar!" and looked expectantly at Kenmasa Asai.
"Please also ask my brother to give me a name for the reserve team." Asai Kenmasa turned around, cupped his fists towards Yu Qiuping and said: "Thank you for your generous teachings, brother, for sharing such secrets of military training with me, so that I can achieve such a strong army!"
Yu Qiuping looked at Kenmasa Asai, the famous Warring States general he had admired before.
In your previous life, you were praised by the world as the "Eagle of Omi" because you upheld justice and were brave and good at fighting.
In this life, I have the honor to witness your growth, your passion, your struggle for the glory of the Wu family, and the hundreds of good men who have formed an army for the dignity of the Wu family. I have witnessed you, like an eagle, about to take off.
"Name the Eagle." Yu Qiuping said loudly. At the same time, Honda Nanosuke behind him held out a white eagle flag with a blue background and handed it to Asai Kenmasa.
"The eagle is the most amazing, courageous and righteous bird." Kenmasa Asai took the flag, put it on the flagpole, looked at the five hundred ashigaru, and said loudly: "They will not be willing to be like poultry.
Just like others, they rely on others and exchange obedience and submission for a life without worries about food and clothing. Instead, they give up all happiness and enjoyment, spread their wings and fly high, yearning for the mountains and white clouds. They risk their lives, fighting against the violent wind and rain, and fighting against the lightning and thunder,
Just for the freedom and dignity of soaring into the sky!"
"The end of every eagle is the sky!" Asai Kenmasa said sternly, while waving the white eagle flag in his hands with both hands. The white eagle was striking the sky vividly.
Chapter completed!