Chapter 1070 Recruiting famous officials
"It's really interesting!"
In October of the fourth year of Yonglu (1561 AD), Tokaido Toei Kingdom in Macheng, Luo's Nobura, after reading the report of the intelligence cabinet staff on the fourth battle between the Takeda family and the Uesugi family on Kawaakashima, he couldn't help but sigh....≦
"It seems that the battle between these two families will last for a long time? I hope the Uesugi family can delay the Takeda family for a longer time. In this way, our family can also take the opportunity to guide the Guan Suga family and the Amano family hiding in the mountains."
In previous strategies for these two families, Luo's army occupied the Guan Suga family's villages and territory in the East Sanhe Plain in one fell swoop, which allowed Guan Suga family to retreat into the territories in the southeastern mountains such as Duando Mountain and Baijiu Mountain in Sanhe. Since then, all the plains in the eastern part of Sanhe Kingdom have fallen under Luo's control.
After the attack on Guan Suga family, Luo's army turned around and entered the Toro River Kingdom directly, heading towards Jushinobuki, which was located at the junction of the plains and the mountainous areas.
After knowing that it was not a rival to Luo's Nobura, the Amano family members simply gave up the Inuyu Castle, which was managed by the Amano family for several generations, and directly fled into the territory of the Kyomaru Mountain and Shirakura Mountain Mountains bordering Shinono. At this point, Luo's Nobura also controlled the plains of the Toro River Country.
After pacifying the plain areas of the Toho River and Toho Kingdom, the Kanto Alliance's conquest against the Hojo family ended with the retreat of the Uesugi family. The military forces of the Takeda family and the Suruga Imakawa family were not only able to return to their respective territories, but also these two companies can also pay attention to the situation of the Toho River and Toho Kingdom. In order to consolidate the newly occupied territories and deal with the subsequent invasions of these two companies that may be faced. Nobura Roche also suspended further conquests of the Guansugi family and Amano family. While strengthening the construction of their own territory, the Hojo family took advantage of the Uesugi family's retreat and regaining the territory they had lost.
However, what Luo's Nobura did not expect was that after the Uesugi family army returned to Echigo's country, it had pacified the situation in the territory so quickly, and then quickly set out to fight against the Takeda family. This made the Takeda family missing among the enemies that Luo's Nobura had to face. So he was preparing to take the opportunity to directly deal with the Guan Su family and Amano family who retreated into the mountains.
The so-called cutting of grass to eliminate roots has kept these two families hiding in the mountains and forests. I don’t know when they will suddenly jump out and bite people. Especially the Amano family, there is a gold mine that Luo Shi Noburo has always coveted. Therefore, we naturally need to speed up the attack on these two families.
So, after reading the information about the battle between the Uesugi family and the Takeda family on Kawaakashima, Luo Nobura said to someone beside him:
"After this autumn harvest ends, the standing army will be expanded to a scale of 600 people. The recruitment system will be adopted. As long as the scope is Yuanjiang, people from Sanhe can do it."
"Yes!" Maeda Genyi immediately wrote the order on paper after hearing this. He was directly recruited by Luo's Noburo to Komatsuhara Temple in Ohara Kingdom in June. At that time, he was still in charge of Komatsuhara Temple. At the sincere invitation of Luo's Noburo, he came to surrender to Luo's Noburo and became a retainer in the Interior Cabinet, mainly responsible for managing accounting affairs.
The reason why Luo's Nobura was able to find Maeda Geni was mainly because of the talent list Masara wrote back then. When the Luo family started, Masara specially created a talent list from all over the Warring States Period, and then asked the Intelligence Bureau to send people to recruit these talents everywhere.
So many years have passed, and although not all the people on that list have been found, or when the people from the Luo family find the talents on the list, this talent has been recruited by other forces, as long as the talents on the list are recruited by the Luo family, they will show varying degrees of ability in the future, which makes Zhengliang's list almost a topic of surprise among the Luo family's retainers.
Maeda Geni is also the talent on this list. However, when the Luo family found him, he had already gone to the Horiyama Yanri Temple to practice. However, after he had just returned to Ohara Kingdom recently, Nobura Luo immediately sent someone to recruit him.
Matsuda Nagamori was also recruited with Matsuda. At this time, Matsuda Nagamori was still a small retainer under the Oda family. So with the generous treatment of the Luo family, he also took his family to Luo's Nobura. These two were two of the famous five-performing people in history, so when Matsuraki learned the news in Kyushu, he was very happy and wrote a letter to his second son, Noburaki, to let him reuse these two people.
So both of them became retainers of the Luo family's Inner Affairs Office in the Tokaido region. With the addition of these two, military advisor Kanasuke Yamamoto had more time to manage affairs in the Intelligence Office.
In the evaluation room, after Luo Shi Nobura ordered Maeda Gen to take advantage of this period of time to add another 100 standing positions, he thought for a while and then continued, "Try to choose people who are not always in the sect."
The colleagues were enemies, and Maeda Ichigen immediately thought of several methods and wrote down small footnotes after the order.
"Try not to be traced about this matter, and then spend 100 cents from the warehouse to give it to Honze Temple to express my respect." Since occupying the territory of the Yoshira family, the Tomeng Imakawa family has become neighbors with Honze Temple.
Perhaps because of his father's attitude towards the local temple shrine forces, he himself did not have a good impression of these temple shrines, especially the Honzen Temple was still a sect. But at this time, many local wealthy forces that Luo Family Noburo subdued in the Tomjiang and Sankhe areas believed in the always-sect. In order to avoid the troubles in this special period of stable development, Luo Family Noburo planned not to intensify conflicts with the local temple shrine forces for the time being.
This trick was learned from his father Masaru, especially recently he was writing letters to exchange his experience in governing the territory with his brother Luo Shi Huiliang. Not only did he personally lead a large army to quell this riot during the temple shrine riots in the Kyushu area, he also often stayed behind and presided over the overall situation when his father Masaru went on a war. Especially recently, he had just personally stayed in Minami Kyushu to handle affairs, and his experience in governing the territory was quite rich. Therefore, from the letter exchanges with his brother, he had learned a lot of knowledge about governing the territory.
"Your Highness, Shima Katsuma Meng is asking for a meeting outside." At this moment, the warrior outside the door came in to report the report. Then Roche Nobura approved Shima Meng's request for a meeting.
"Your Highness, I have spent three months in Yuanjiang Preparation. Please make sure that I will serve in Yuanjiang Preparation." As soon as Shima Mengsheng came in, he asked. Although he had accepted the recruitment of Luo's Noburo under the persuasion of his friends, Ken Ken Mai of Mitsukoshi, and others, he seemed to still want to continue to observe in his heart to see if the "Imakawa family of the Yuanjiang Preparation" is worthy of his resignation, and whether this Noburo young master is worth his follower.
So, in the past few months, he spent all his time in the military camp, and had food, accommodation and training with Yuanjiangbei. His purpose was to learn the military strategy of Luo's family. The more he understood, the more he loved it, and finally came to work for Luo's family Xinliang today.
"Don't worry, let me tell you what you think first." Luo Shixinliang asked.
"Your Highness, what I feel most about in the past few months is that the soldiers in the Toru River are strong, and they are even stronger than the Nishimoto in the Kinki region."
"Is it just that?" Luo Shinryu was a little disappointed.
"There is also the soldiers' discipline and training are extremely strict, and even their subordinates were whipped a few times!" Shimasaki shook his shoulders and seemed to remember them freshly, "The reward is also very high. No wonder he is so powerful."
"Not bad! In the near future, the reserve army will be expanded. You can take on the position of the reserve army and take charge of the reserve army." Luo Shixinliang overestimated the overall situation of others, and their thoughts are still at the tactical level and cannot think from the strategic perspective of military construction.
The Luo family's Nobuliang's Torii was formed after combining the Luo family's standing construction method with the actual situation of the Imakawa family in the Torii country. According to his plan, this standing preparatory person is one hundred people, including the first six soldiers and one general. These seven people form the most basic command system in the preparation army.
They are the group of people who spent the most effort on Luo's family. They are ahead of ordinary soldiers in terms of equipment, treatment, and training. Ordinary soldiers wear formation hats, and these people wear the "官方方方" (the reason why they use common equipment in the Warring States Period instead of using the unique equipment of the Luo family is mainly to avoid being identified by other powerful people in the Inner Relationship between the Toei Imakawa family and the Luo family).
It can be said that whether the military is strong or not depends on whether these seven people are powerful or not. Moreover, the military is unified in command, single and repeated in organization, and fighting is like a hand. With sufficient logistical support and strict military law constraints, it is difficult to think hard.
Of course, Luo's Nobuliang felt that he was a bit overly high on the Warring States people outside the Luo family. This was a bit too far. The reason why he had such a view of the overall situation was that he had followed his father Zhengliang since childhood and had received a lot of Zhengliang's words and deeds from Zhengliang. Secondly, he had learned from the Luo family's academic institution, and he obtained a lot of knowledge that Zhengliang combined with reality to teach the school teachers. In this way, he, or many retainers of the Luo family, had a view of the overall situation much higher than that of ordinary Warring States people.
After Shimakashi retreated sharply, Roche Nobura faced Matsuda Nagamaki on the other side and ordered: "From next month, let Roche House and other shopping malls help us purchase more horses. The more the number, the better. There are too few war horses currently in stock. There should also be some cavalry and sabers to the ordnance."
Nearly one hundred war horses were already quite a lot for ordinary wealthy families, and they were even very burdened. However, Luo's Nobuliang had the support of the Luo family in the Kyushu family at this time, so he was not afraid of the burden. Moreover, this decision was not made by him, but from his father Shirago.
Masara knew that Kakai, Shinono and Ueno were all horse-producing places, and Tokaido was close to these areas, so he naturally took the opportunity to ask his second son Shinoro to buy more war horses. In this way, while increasing his own strength, he also weakened the strength of daimyos such as the Takeda family to a certain extent.
"My dearest!" Matsuda Nagamori responded immediately after listening to Luo Noburo's orders, and then said: "Your Highness seems to want to build a horse riding team."
"Yes." Luo Shi Xinliang nodded: "Although my family is strong in the long river, they are just slow to form formations. So I need a horse riding team that can only move quickly. It should be noted that there is a strategy that is the same in the formation battle."
"Your Highness's army is a little admirable!" Matsuda Nagamori immediately exclaimed. Matsuda Nagamori was not deliberately flattering, but sincerely praised. Since he was recruited by His Highness Nobura, the young master in front of him for this period of time and stayed with him to work, he has become more and more convinced by his highness's many abilities.
"Your Highness. I found that the public security situation in the territory in the past two months has been deteriorating. There are more than ten more injuries than in the previous few months. There are more than twenty stealing and robbery. Three people have died this month. I also found that most of the incidents are concentrated in Shibu Town." At this time, the Maeda Takiya, who was on the other side, also spoke.
Since he was beaten by Luo Shi Nora and went home to cry, he really found Luo Shi Nora and became a retainer of Luo Shi Nora. Nora's idea at this time was that the Maeda Tatsuya family completely gave up their nostalgia for the Oda family? Or was he planning to work with Luo Shi Nora for the time being.
It is estimated that the only one who can truly understand the thoughts of Maeda Tatsuya now is Luo Nobura, who had a thorough discussion with him, but Luo Nobura did not make any public statements on this topic. He just recruited Maeda Tatsuya under his command in the name of his private retainer, and he never said much.
"Oh, what happened to that death incident." Luo Shixinliang asked immediately after hearing this.
The Salt Town mentioned by Maeda Taki family was developed by the Imakawa family before, and now it is cheaper to Luoshi Nobura. Although he has the support of the Luo family, he still plans to be self-sufficient as soon as possible, and these salt fields have become an important source of economic for him to be self-sufficient. Now when he hears something happens to the salt fields, he naturally takes it seriously.
"The cause of the incident is very simple. A group of thieves stole salt merchants' salt funds. Due to the uneven distribution of spoils, three people died and two were arrested in the fierce fight."
"Show me the records of the other events!"
"All are here. Your Highness!"
After reading it, Luo's Nobura found that the time of the incident became more and more densely, and the rectification of public security was impatient. The military cabinet established various villages, and the town had not yet fully obtained the military training system and the boy scout patrol system, so it was necessary to do some targeted responses at present, so he said to Maeda Geni:
"The rectification of public security cannot be slowed down. Let's do this. Just set up a town office to specifically manage the city town. What do you think?"
"Your Highness, this is a good policy, but my family has to pay one more expense." Matsuda Nagamaki took the account book and calculated that the Standing Army had already consumed most of the family's income, and the pressure after the expansion was even greater.
"Why?" Luo Shi Nobura stood up and walked around the room. Thinking of how the Celestial Department plundered funds, he could also learn: "The funds offered by the Castle Town are jointly responsible for by merchants under the city. Every month, they pay a certain amount of security funds to the Castle Town to maintain expenses. The shops are less than six tatami-sized. The Chae Town Town's duty is to maintain the security of the Castle Town Town so that the transactions and life of the town people can proceed normally. Have you remembered it?"
"It's already written down." Maeda Geni, who manages the accounting, said at the same time as Maeda Tsuki, who manages the public security.
"But this is not enough. The people of the town must know that the consequences of destroying order are serious." Luo Shi Nobuya thought for a moment, and then continued to say to Maeda Takiya: "Anyone who steals and robs will work hard for three months and kills his hands more than three times."
"Whoever hurts innocent people will be punished by ear cutting, and those who have been beheaded more than three times."
"Anyone who kills innocent people shall be beheaded."
"These three are written on the notice board, and each town entrance and bridge must be erected."
Maeda Takiya asked after writing, "Where is the man?"
"Other people are recruited among the town people except for the Purpose of Purpose. If they have status?" Luo Shinryu touched his chin and laughed: "The status does not belong to the samurai, they are all Dingfu, but above the civilians. Each person is given a small sword to defend himself."
After thinking for a while, Nobura Luo said again: "If you follow the Buddha Town, you will be the Ri family."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Since becoming a retainer of the Luo family, the Maeda Tatsuya family has been appointed to manage territorial security affairs, so it was as expected that this position would be owned by him.
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Chapter completed!