A samurai who doesn't want to be a daimyo is not a good onmyoji

Chapter 181 Meeting

A few days later, Asai Nagamasa called his cronies and subordinates and started his first meeting after succeeding the daimyo.

Without too many pleasantries, Asai Nagamasa directly asked many of his subordinates to start reporting on the recent situation. He had already assigned certain tasks to everyone, because when the news of his succession as daimyo spread, it was left to him There is not much time left, and the powerful enemy Rokkaku will definitely take action.

Shima Sakon was the first to speak: "Your Highness, I have successfully arranged the defense of Kotani Castle and dispatched a certain number of patrol troops. Any suspicious person approaching within five miles of Kotani Castle will be reported immediately. .”

"As for the training of the soldiers on weekdays, I will also complete it together with Baixiang Jiajia and Muzo Yuri. There will definitely not be any slack."

The two people whose names were mentioned nodded repeatedly. They had already been completely conquered by Shima Sakon's martial arts and military strategy, and they were willing to be his lieutenants, because they could really learn a lot by following a strong man. .

Asai Nagamasa nodded: "Very good, there is no need to be too eager, too late. You can control the training yourself. How is the food situation?"

Although Asai Nagamasa wants a real professional army, he knows that it will take a long time to train. After all, most ordinary ashigaru are farmers, and they can't eat enough all the year round. Suddenly they are forced to train hard. I'm afraid that he will vomit blood and urinate blood the next day, and he still needs to take care of his body first.

"The only problem now is that the consumption of food is very serious. The daily consumption of thousands of soldiers is not a small amount. However, since Koichiro arranged some fish soup yesterday, this problem seems to have been slightly alleviated."

"Hehe, Koichiro, you did a good job."

Koichiro straightened his chest when his name was called.

In fact, at the beginning, he was still very inferior, because among all the people present, except Ning Ning, who was a kunoichi, everyone else was a samurai with a surname. Only he was born as a farmer, and his brother Tokichiro was not there either, which made him feel a little scared when he was alone.

But fortunately Asai Nagamasa had expected this. After he showed his appreciation for Koichiro in public, the man from a peasant background immediately received a lot of kindness.

After all, with his famous name behind him, who in Kitaomi would dare to bully him, Koichiro?It’s too late for them to fawn over!

Then it was Masuda Nagamori's turn. Although this middle-aged man with a mustache was also a good samurai and could kill with a sword, three or five ashigaru could not easily defeat him. However, in Asai's home, he was currently He is responsible for internal affairs and logistics, which is what he is best at.

"Your Highness, I have successfully contacted the Tsuruga businessman-Michikawa Hei Saburo, and I am currently trying to purchase food through him and sell the antiques you gave me in exchange for military funds. The attitude of the other party is very enthusiastic at present. , and worked very hard.”

This is also a matter of course.

Although Tsurujun Miyabe had given Saburo Michikawa some business before, allowing him to maintain the continuation of the family, but since he chose to join Asai Nagamasa, he naturally couldn't just be willing to be a small businessman, right?

The small businessman is also very hardworking. After all, it stands to reason that he is one of the first people to follow Asai Nagamasa. Now that Asai Nagamasa has successfully succeeded him as a daimyo, he must of course show more value in order to be taken seriously.

Asai Nagamasa thought about it for a moment: "Chang Sheng, continue to keep in touch with him. If necessary, you can send some manpower to eliminate his troubles."

The reason why Saburo Michikawa directly worshiped him as his lord on the road before was because he felt that he was not an ordinary person, and on the other hand, it was also because the other party was oppressed by the local merchants.

Although Tsuruga belongs to the Asakura family, if Asai Nagamasa really wants to do something for the other party, the Asakura family, as an ally, can at most send someone over to complain, which is not really too serious. Too annoyed.

Moreover, Asai Nagamasa actually has higher expectations for the other party.

Tsuruga is the seaside port in the north, and Izumo, where Aguo is located, is also adjacent to the sea. If you travel by sea, it is much more convenient and faster to get from Izumo to Tsuruga than to Otani Castle.

If Aguo can initially build a simple fleet and cooperate with Saburo Michikawa to conduct maritime trade, the profits will be huge.

But currently they do not have this qualification, because maritime trade requires enough and strong warships and sailors to escort them, and those pirates are much more vicious than the robbers on land.

If the battle is defeated on land, if there are complex terrains such as woods and mountains nearby, the defeated army is still very likely to successfully escape. However, if the battle is defeated on the sea, if it encounters a fierce enemy, it is very likely that even the enemy will be killed. He sank with the boat.

Asai Nagamasa currently has a suitable candidate in mind, and that is Hachisuka Koroku and the many water demon kappas under his command.

No matter how strong the pirates are, can they still defeat the real water monster in the water?
It's just that the success rate of recruiting the opponent is not enough now, and there is still a slight lack of some conditions from the outside world.
Masuda Nagamori naturally understood the subtext of Asai Nagamasa, and he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Your Highness, I will tell him, but according to his previous performance, he seems not to be able to accept this method. He wants to truly Rely on business competition to defeat his opponents in an upright manner, and to carry forward his family's Kawafunaya."

Asai Nagamasa smiled and shook his head: "Haha, your courage is commendable."

Having said that, he is quite optimistic about the other party. With the support of himself and the entire Beijinjiang, if he can't compete with a few merchants, it will be too useless.

He then started his second question: "How is the situation in Le City?"

After the visit to Kiyosu Castle, he decided to develop a happy market in Kitaomi, and it was easier to promote a happy market in Kitaomi than in the Owari area, because the local merchants here were basically involved in the rise of the Asai family. Affected by the war, almost killed.

The reputation and financial resources of the businessmen who gradually emerged later were far inferior to those in other places. If Leshi really wanted to be promoted, the resistance would definitely be much smaller than Owari's.

Moreover, he learned from Oda Nobunaga's experience and he could do better than the other party.

Oda Nobunaga's strategy was to not allow merchants to set up checkpoints to collect taxes, abolish the business privileges of merchants, and in order to reward merchants for settling down, he specially built a group of houses for merchants. As long as they carried out commercial activities in the castle town, they would continue to live there. Free for them to use, exempt from rent, etc.

But Asai Nagamasa can do more, because he has more than one open source method, and he can make these businessmen earn more money.Although in this era, the four major inventions have been almost thoroughly researched by the Nibon people, but he, who came from later generations, still has many ways.

For example, the abundant fish in Lake Biwa are used to make dried fish, canned fish, and the like, and then sell them to people in inland areas who cannot eat fish.

For example, making fruit wine from fruits, growing specific plants to make and purify sugar, raising poultry and livestock on a large scale to provide meat, and using the characteristics of earth magic to survey and dig salt wells and various mineral veins.
There are many such things, and he is very sure that these measures can make a lot of money.

In the end, businessmen are all about making money, and if they can make money by following themselves, they will naturally come rushing over.

But now we still have to proceed step by step, and we can't eat everything in one go. On the one hand, it's because the professional talents available to him are not enough, and he can't carry out so many activities at the same time.

On the other hand, it is also because he has just taken office not long ago and has not really established much prestige. Although the samurai and the people under him seem to be very obedient, after he issued so many things in one breath, they thought they were very novel. After the order, how much they can carry out will definitely be discounted.

However, according to Asai Nagamasa's expectation, this situation will soon change. After seeing themselves become daimyo, some people may be even more anxious than Asai Hisamasa, who was forced to abdicate, and they will definitely take action.

Hearing Asai Nagamasa talk about this topic, Masuda Nagamori became more confident because he did a very good job in this regard.

"Your Highness, I have checked carefully. There is very little resistance from the local merchants, and the Kawafune house of Michikawa Hei Saburo and the Tennoji house will be our help. The only problem is that our castle town may need to do something. Only by expanding can it meet your highness' expectations."

Asai Nagamasa thought about it seriously: "Then expand a new area on the edge of the original castle town, and make a good plan. The west side will be a commercial area, and the east side will be a shinning town. A well-organized castle town.”

"Youguang, you are quite familiar with Kyoto, so it is up to you to make some suggestions to Changsheng."

Although Kyoto is dilapidated, the huge ambitions of the original founders can still be vaguely seen. The entire Kyoto is like a chessboard, with extremely neat planning, which is very worthy of reference by the current Asai family.

Even after this matter is completed, Asai Nagamasa wants to go further, for example, to establish a complete domestic water and drainage system. He doesn't want to step on some inexplicable disgusting things by himself.

For another example, directly digging a waterway to Lake Biwa will greatly facilitate future commercial and military activities.

Coming from Kaizhen or Kyoto, water transportation via Lake Biwa is much more time- and effort-saving than land transportation.

However, these things are still just plans in his mind, and the corresponding conditions are not yet available. The labor force required for these projects is not small.

Although there have never been systematic statistics, Asai Nagamasa estimates that the current population of Kitahimi is only about 50 million, scattered in several counties, excluding farmers who need to farm and people who maintain public security. There are actually not many people like Ashigaru and Samurai who can really be used to do work for him, so he can only prepare for a rainy day.

"Yes, Your Highness, I will do my best!"

It can be seen that Masuda Nagamori looks very excited. As smart as he is, he certainly knows how important this is a task.

But it's no wonder that half a month ago he was so poor that he wanted to join the Ichikou Sect Honganji family as a monk. Now he turned around in the blink of an eye. Not only did he become an Ashigaru general with a salary of more than 100 koku, he even took over such a How could he not be excited for such an important task?

"Yes, I accept your orders!"

In contrast, Military Advisor Numata Yumitsu is much calmer. At least he can still maintain calm on the surface. As for what he is thinking deep down, probably only he knows. After all, he has always been He looks so calm. This quality is very important for a military advisor.

Now that Yumitsu Numata was mentioned, Nagamasa Asai simply asked him to start reporting on the mission.

"According to your Highness's instructions, I have officially started recruiting the nobles, nationals, servants, ronin, etc. in Beijinjiang and the surrounding area with generous rewards, and selected those who are truly capable."

"Just because the time is short, the current progress is not ideal. Only one local servant named Masatsugu Ishida has come under my eyes. I am in the process of further communication with him."

Asai Nagamasa thought for a while and then roughly knew who the other party was. In the parallel world, he had a son named Ishida Mitsunari, who was quite a celebrity and had served as the commander-in-chief of an army of nearly [-] people.

It’s just that he completely overestimated his own strength and charisma. He was good at dealing with domestic affairs, but not at all good at fighting, and his emotional intelligence seemed to be slightly problematic. As a result, most of the team were either rebels or fishermen, and they were beaten badly in the end. of.

In that world, Shima Sakon was also invited by the other party, so he got rid of his identity as a salted fish and was able to leave a strong mark in the history of the Warring States Period.

But when Asai Nagamasa appears in this world with monsters and monsters, the other party may not have that chance, and based on time, it is not certain whether the other party is born or not.

However, the Ishida family is not an ordinary wealthy family. It belongs to the kind whose ancestors were once a little wealthy. They are not much different from the Asai family before they became rich. Even now, they still maintain a lot of land, and this Ishida Masashi will be able to succeed in the future. If you raise a son like that, he should be a good samurai himself, at least in terms of culture and politics.

So he nodded slightly: "Yes, if he is willing to serve as an official, he can take the position of infantry general first, with a salary of one hundred shi."

Although for Ishida, who was born as a ground servant, this salary is not particularly high, but his position is not low. After all, the soldiers in our family are professional soldiers, not farmers who are called upon. This is enough to show his Attitude.

Although the salary of one hundred koku was already higher than that of the people next to him, such as Baixio Iaka and Kizou Yuri, they did not have any dissatisfaction because the other party was a land servant, so it was natural for them to enjoy such treatment.

Numata Yumitsu immediately responded with a smile: "Yes, His Highness is so generous. I believe Lord Ishida will come to formally pay his respects soon."

(End of this chapter)