Chapter 112 Stone Mountain
When leaving Danbo, there was an additional clerk and a cook in the team.
The clerk has high attainments in literature, is proficient in the script and language of China, Japan and Korea, and even has in-depth research on the eight-legged essays in the Ming Dynasty. However, this man's arithmetic is a mess, and it is difficult to even follow it. Fortunately, his recommender is worthy of my face and arranged for him to be a boring position as a clerk who records my daily words and deeds.
However, this clerk was very decisive and did not even use the Spring and Autumn style commonly used by ordinary historians. He just recorded everything truthfully every day. The clerk always had a sense of arrogance from the bottom of his bones. Everyone gradually gained a new understanding of his serious and rigid appearance, and nerds became his nickname.
Every morning, the secretary would run to me with his pen and ink, ‘Which lady’s brand did His Highness turn over last night?’
‘First love.’ I answered truthfully.
‘Madam First Love.’ The clerk continued to ask, ‘What position does Your Highness use?’
I recalled and said, 'Female is on the throne.'
‘There are four postures for women to be superior. Which one does His Highness choose?’
"Guanyin sits in the lotus." It was my request to the clerk, but I didn't expect that this time I would be trapped. It seems that when I use the clerk's records to write "The Biography of Kudo", I will definitely restore the most real Kudo.
When I was about to arrive at Jetcho, Ninoha Nagahide, who was stationed in Waizumi Kishi Wada Castle, who was stationed in Waizumi Kishi Wada Castle, stopped us and invited him to Kishi Wada Castle in the name of His Highness Nobunaga. When I arrived at Kishi Wada Castle, I found that I was late. Oda Nobunaga and Mino, the three of them, the Sakuma family, the Sasa family, the Takigawa family, the Lin Xiuzhen family, the Ikeda family, the Tokugawa family, etc., have been distributed outside the Kishi Wada Castle. It seems that there are more than 20,000 people. However, in this year of disaster, gathering so many troops is really a waste of food.
Ninoha Nagahide smiled and led me to Kishiwada Castle Tensoumotomaru. As soon as he entered the door, Oda Nobunaga joked, "Brother-in-law is late. This time everyone has something to eat."
‘The Oda family has seen His Highness once I met him.’
Oda Nobunaga clapped his hands and brought everyone's attention back to the topic, 'Okay, since we have all come, we will continue the topic just now.' There was a huge city model in front of Oda Nobunaga, which looked seventy-seventy-seventh-something like the Kishiwada Castle where we were.
Kishiwada Castle is close to Jeta Town, and it is a city built on the cliffs by the sea. Deep moats are dug on all sides of the city to serve as moats, attracting seawater as a natural barrier to the city. From the perspective of geographical location and design, there are too many similarities with Ishiyama Honanji Castle, but Ishiyama Honanji Castle is larger in scale, with moats wider and deeper, and the walls of cliffs are higher.
‘How many people are there in Ishiyama Honanji Castle, 50,000 people. Think about it, how much food and grass should be consumed every day. This time, we just need to set up six forts outside to cut off the paths provided by the believers of the Sect to the Honanji family to the Honanji family, and trap the bald donkeys in Ishiyama Honanji Castle. Who has any questions?’
I raised my hand and asked, 'Your Highness, Ishiyama Honanji Castle has always had only more than 30,000 people, where does the remaining 20,000 come from?' More than half of the more than 30,000 people who have been stationed in Ishiyama Honanji Castle for a long time are the families of monks, and their combat power is almost zero. The truly combat-capable people are the eight thousand monks.
Oda Nobunaga gave his brother Ikeda Hokkai a proud look. Ikeda Hokkai explained, "I don't know, in early August, the family's siege of Nagashima Castle was effective. The food in Nagashima Castle was exhausted, and the believers, monks and family members in the city fled from the sea and arrived at Ishiyama Hokkaido Temple. Now there are more than 50,000 people in Ishiyama Hokkaido Temple, but it is estimated that there are actually as many as 60,000 people."
Tokugawa Ieyasu asked, 'Your Highness, everyone is not rich in military rations this year. I am afraid that the military rations will be insufficient in such a long-term siege.'
Oda Nobunaga waved his hand, "This is a long time ago. Aren't we guarding a large granary? Let the Chamber of Commerce in Jiecho serve 10,000 s of military rations." I felt relieved when I heard this. It turned out that I didn't want to defeat me and divide the land. Although it was nothing I could provide for the military rations of the 20,000 troops, the price of grain is high now, so it's better to sell it for money.
‘Ten thousand stones. I’m afraid…’ Tokugawa Ieyasu didn’t finish his sentence. Ten thousand stones of military rations were just enough to use the more than 20,000 troops for three months, and they could only barely fill their stomachs.
‘Take Chiyo, how many rice balls do you eat for each meal?’ Nobunaga Oda suddenly asked when he heard that Tokugawa Ieyasu had any comments.
‘Two rice balls.’ Tokugawa Ieyasu answered truthfully.
Oda Nobunaga continued to ask, ‘Then how many rice balls are you eating at each meal?’
‘Four or five’ Tokugawa Ieyasu’s impression is that his feet are almost all big-bellied. If he eats rice balls with two or two taels a day, some people can even eat seven or eight.
‘Very good, do you know how many rice balls the Kudo family eats at each meal?’ Why did I bring it to me again?
Tokugawa Ieyasu shook his head, ‘I don’t know.’
‘Two.’ Oda Nobunaga stretched out two fingers to strengthen his impression, ‘Because Kudo family had enough oil and water in their stomachs, they didn’t have to eat a lot of rice balls every day, just like Takechiyo. Those low-level samurai and Zuo only had one or two small fish to accompany their meals every day, so they had to consume more food and grass. This time, the Kudo family donated 300,000 kilograms of whale oil, which could greatly save food and grass.’
The oil refined by the three whales flew like this. I didn't know in advance whether these two high men played double acts for everyone to watch me. What is certain is that since Oda Nobunaga had already spoken, I can't stand up and deny this incident. The result would be that Nobunaga was very angry and the consequences were very serious. The matter of Ah Goun might fly like this.
Oda Nobunaga said, "Since the important access road to Ishiyama Honanji Castle is on the sea, blockade on the water is also essential. For this matter, please ask Nobuya Aya and Katsuraki Kyuki for this matter."
As Nobunaga's eyes turned to two middle-aged men in their thirties, they knelt on the tatami to show their loyalty, "I will definitely swear to guard Keido to the death, and dare not relax at all."
It's really hard to tell that this low-level samurai dressed like a poor low-level samurai, the pirate of the family, Daimyo Katsurachi of the family. The remaining one, Nobuyashi Ayao, was also a little heard of. He was originally a pirate of the Miyo family. After Miyo Nagao's death last year, Miyo Nagao's successor had been incompatible with the successor of the Miyo family. But I don't know when Oda Nobunaga took action and put his network under his command. The Awaji Island Shuhe's main castle of the Anzai Nobuyashi family is not far from Kishiwada Castle of Niba Nagaohide, and I believe that this is indispensable to this.
Chapter completed!