Samurai of the Takeda Family

The seventh year of Yonglu, the first month.

Lasted for half a month, the turmoil in the Jiangma family in Beifei was almost over.

Jiangma Fraser's help in the Takeda family finally quelled all opposition within the family in one fell swoop, and was jailed as the governor of the Jiangma family.

However, after this civil strife, the Jiangma family was greatly injured. Recently, there have been rumors that the sister Xiaolu family’s army was preparing for war. When the snow of Feida country melted, Jiangma family would be used.

Facing the threat from the sister Xiaolu family, Jiangma Fraser's current situation can be described in terms of panic, so he counts all hope on Li Xiao, as well as the Hida's expedition army that he said the Takeda family is going to battle this year. Body.

In this way, Jiangma Fraser could only vassalize closely under Li Xiao, and he didn't even dare to blow his wings.

Hida Country, Kamoka Castle.

Since the Jiangma family’s remonstrance succeeded and his paternal master was transposed, Li Xiao has returned to Shengang City. The first thing he did when he came back was to send someone to completely take over Shengang Yinshan. In addition to the miners, he still used the original Jiangma family’s people. In addition, the garrison has been replaced by his own.

Shengang Mine is only one mile away from Shengang City. It can be said that it is right under Li Xiao's nose, which adds convenience for him to control the mine.

However, as Li Xiao who can only play Xinye and Taige, he is not a graduate of the University of Mining, and he is not familiar with mine matters at all, so he can only collect talents from all over the place, and they will be responsible.

After acquiring the Shengang Mine, Li Xiao asked the ninjas to spend a lot of effort, and invited the mountain masters, surveyors, and refiners who were specifically in charge of prospecting to explore the mines of the entire Shengang Mine.

The chief of mine prospecting is Li Xiao's Dazang Changan.

For the strength of Tibet Chang'an, Li Xiao is very relieved.

In the Tokugawa shogunate, Daizo Changan was once appointed as the Iwami Ginzan and Sado Kinzan.

You must know that Iwami Ginzan and Sado Ginzan are the production of silver and gold respectively. Both were once the largest mine in Japan or the world's richest mine.

The reason why Daizo Changan was appointed to practice by Ishimi Ginzan and Sado Kinzan is largely because he is extremely proficient in mining.

On that day, Changan of Tibet took the mountain division, surveyor, and refiner to explore the entire Shengang Mine for a whole day.

After that, Dazang Chang'an didn't wash his face, and hurriedly rushed into the Tianshou Tower of Shengang City in a dirty suit. When he saw Li Xiao, he looked excited and overjoyed.

Excited, the Tibetan Changan spoke uncomfortably, saying almost intermittently: "Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, great rejoicing, great rejoicing."

Li Xiao saw the great Tibetan Changan like this, and said in amazement: "Changan is just asking you to go to Jingang Silver Mountain. Don't give me excitement like this. I keep telling you that as a samurai, you must have a samurai. tolerance."

The Tibetan Changan was taken aback for a moment, and said: "It was the minister who lost his attitude, but the lord, I am really overjoyed."

"Oh? Is there anything happening in Shinoka Ginzan?"

Changan Dazang made two heavy clicks, and said: "Lord, it's more than a present, it's really a joyful present."

"To be specific."

Dazang Changan calmed down for a while, organized some language, and said: "Lord, today the ministers will lead people to explore the entire Shengang Yinshan, organize the ore into samples for analysis, and take a detailed account of the mine’s reserves. Estimate."

After a pause, Dazang Changan's eyes flashed, and he said in a serious tone: "The minister feels that the length and quality of the Shengang Silver Mountain vein is incomparable, and it is quite easy to dig new veins. The minister did it. A rough estimate is that even if the mine reserves of Shengang Mine are not as good as Iwami Silver Mountain, the gap will not be too far behind."

Nani?

Although Li Xiao knew that the reserves of Shengang Mine were surprisingly large, he didn't expect to be so much.

Li Xiao uttered a loud voice, and then asked, "To be more specific, how much can the Shengang Mine's annual mining volume reach?"

Dazang Changan’s eyes gleamed and then said: "If the lord, you let your subordinates be responsible for the mining of the Shengang mine, deduct the part of the Jiangma family, the subordinates are sure that within one year of this year, the family will be expanded by 500 people. Stand by."

"Five hundred people standing by?" Li Xiao was very surprised, and paused: "This is not the annual output of a Shengang Yinshan, equivalent to the knowledge and action of more than 20,000 Shigao."

At the beginning, Li Xiao set up a standing staff of one hundred people, using one thousand straight salaries, and the same salary on the military service account of the Takeda family, only one hundred troops were sent, but most of them were temporarily mobilized peasants.

Only Li Xiao has Mingguo Ramen Restaurant as his income, and his salary is not his only source, so he dare to do so.

If they are replaced by other retainers, they will also have one hundred standing stocks, and it will take nearly two thousand straights to equip them. After all, their salaries have to leave a portion of the money for their own use, otherwise they will really be 2B youths with all the income. They were all used to raise soldiers for the big name.

According to Li Xiao's future estimates, the ratio of 50 shi to one person in the territory will be used to form their own standing reserves.

However, Shengang Yinshan actually provided himself with standing reserves of five hundred people, which is equivalent to a piece of 25,000 stones of knowledge and action.

After hearing Li Xiao’s question, Tibetan Changan nodded with certainty and said: “The lord, this is affirmative, and this is the first year, and everything is not going on in a mature condition. As for next year, the ministers are confident that they will form a branch for the lord. A thousand people are standing there. As for the year after, there can be more."

"Standby for a thousand people."

That's not the equivalent of five or six thousand shih heights. Li Xiao felt that he almost fainted happily.

"No," Li Xiao thought about it again and asked, "According to you, Shengang Yinshan had been in the hands of the Jiangma family before. Why didn't you see the Jiangma family's equipment?"

Dazang Chang’an You suddenly smiled and said: “This lord doesn’t know anything about it. Jiangma’s silver mining method has always used the local method to make gold, so the mining volume has not been high. However, the mining method used underneath the mining efficiency, It is much higher than the Jiang Ma family."

"Oh, what mining method?" Li Xiao suddenly became interested.

The Chief Tibetan immediately assumed that I was a brick house called a beast, a posture of an authority figure, and said in a very professional tone: "The mining method I use besides digging in holes and tunnels, there is also a special technique of refinement. Add lead to gold ore by melting at high temperature for refining, which is the use of metal and metal to bond easily. First, silver and lead are combined, and in the next stage, lead is absorbed by ash, and finally only silver is left."

"Oh, it turned out to be the ashes." Li Xiao suddenly realized.

Great Zang Changan was surprised, and asked with an expression that you all know: "It turns out that the lord also knows this kind of alchemy."

Li Xiao laughed and was very ashamed in secret. To be honest, if he hadn't played the letter field, there is a science and technology tree of internal affairs, which is a method of blowing dust. Otherwise, how could he know this knowledge.

The Tibetan Changan suddenly realized that he said: "The minister forgot that the lord is from Mingguo. This dust-blowing method came from Mingguo. However, when the ministers went to Hakata, Kyushu to learn the mining method, they were taught by Nanban. But this The soot-blowing method is really applied in Japan. It was the method used by Ouchi to mine Ishimi Ginzan a few decades ago."

So, Li Xiao nodded. At that time, the Ouchi family had control of Iwami Ginzan, which has the largest amount of silver mining in Japan in one hand, and the power of trade with the Ming Dynasty in the other hand, so they exported a large amount of silver to the Ming Dynasty. .

Li Xiao saw that the Great Zang Chang'an was rightly speaking, and thought that he had dug the Great Zang Chang'an from Takeda Katsurai's side, and now it finally came in handy.

Dazo Changan’s father, Dazo Uemon Shinan, although he was born as a Dazo ryokan musician, he was good at alchemy and was hired by Takeda Shingen as a refiner. He held the post of Kurokawa Jinshan in the Takeda family.

In addition to the mining skills taught by his father, he also went to Hakata, Kyushu to learn from Nanban people. In the future, the Tokugawa shogunate ordered him to practice Sado Jinshan and Iwami Ginzan, and you can see his abilities.

So Li Xiao said to the Tibetan Chang'an: "Chang'an, I will now appoint you as the practice of Shengang Yinshan, with an annual salary of one hundred and fifty."

After listening to Li Xiao's words, Da Zang Chang'an was shocked. The annual salary was one hundred and fifty. This was already the level of General Admiral. Even Li Xiao's top general, Shima Shengmeng, did not have that much annual salary.

The Tibetan Changan immediately worshipped and said with gratitude: "Thanks to the Lord for his generous gift, and his subordinates must swear to death and repay."

Li Xiaoyan said: "I don't want you to swear to the death. You only need to do two things. First, the mining volume of Shengang Yinshan must reach the figure you just said. Second, there is no need for corruption, understand?"

"Oh the minister must follow the lord's instructions."

After the Tibetan Changan raised his head, his eyes were slightly red, and he looked overjoyed. From this moment onwards, the Tibetan Changan finally regarded himself as a staunch member of Li Xiao's retainers.

The Tibetan Changan appeared to be planning on behalf of Li Xiao, saying: "Master, I heard that Shengang Yinshan was borrowed from Jiangma’s house. It only has a three-year period. If the three-year period expires, if To return Shengang Yinshan to Jiangma's family, all our efforts will be in vain."

Li Xiao laughed and said with a smile: "Don't worry, after three years, even if I give this Shengang Yinshan to Jiangma Fraser, he dare not ask for it."

Li Xiao didn't do this nonsense, he had already calculated the **** to contain Jiangma Fraser.

That is Jiang Ma Shisheng’s brother Jiang Ma Xinsheng. This person was formerly named Dan Lishi, and he was a monk at the Shanmen Shorian Temple in Shirakawa-go Hongan Temple. Later, because Jiang Ma Shisheng did not like Jiang Ma Shisheng, he planned to let him be Jiang Ma Shisheng.

The candidate of Ma Jiajia governor, and the official samurai name Jiang Ma Xinsheng.

In history, when Jiang Ma Shisheng surrendered to the Takeda family, he was sent to Takeda Shingen as a hostage. Shingen Takeda liked him very much, so he let him take the post of General Asuka in his family's Qimoto. Afterwards, the Takeda family always wanted Jiangma Shisheng to let the pro-Takeda Jiangma Shinsheng as the heir of the family governor.

Later, after Jiangma Fraser heard about the incident, in the sixth year of Tianzheng (1578), he sent an assassin to murder Jiangma Shisheng and usurped the seat of Jiangma’s family governor. After that, he severed the relationship with the Takeda family and joined Uesugi. , Snakes and Rats on both sides of Oda.

However, under the influence of Li Xiao, the traverser, Jiang Ma Shisheng was killed more than ten years earlier, and Jiang Ma Fraser is now firmly standing under Takeda Ling's banner.

And in the Jiangma family civil strife, Jiangma Xinsheng was sent to the Takeda family as a hostage in the future, and he himself was still a monk at Shoren Temple.

As Li Xiao expected, the ambitious monks of Hongan Temple would be uneasy if they didn't disturb a little.

After learning about the Jiangma family's civil unrest, Hongan Temple acted as a moral condemnation of Jiangma Fraser, who had killed the father, and then stated that Jiangma Fraser was not qualified to inherit the Jiangma family. And his brother Nobuhiro Jiangma, who was a monk at Nichiren Temple, was the candidate for the governor of the Jiangma family.

Therefore, the Hongan Temple’s ambition is very clear to Li Xiao. They just want to take advantage of the Jiang Ma family’s change of ownership and internal strife, take a chestnut out of the fire, and bring Jiang Ma Xinsheng, who tends to their own side, to come to power, and then allow Jiang Ma family to be completely included. The sphere of influence of Hongan Temple.

Although Hongan Temple’s power in Hida is not as strong as Etchu Kaga, under the flags of the monks, Jiang Ma Xinsheng’s subordinates gathered a group of former Jiang Ma’s courtiers who opposed Jiang Ma Huisheng. This is for the present. For the weak Jiangma Fraser, it is indeed a bit threatening.

Therefore, Jiangma Fraser is now respectful to the Takeda family and Li Xiao, and Li Xiao's attitude is very important. If he turns to Hongan Temple, then Jiangma's family governor's position will change again.

As for three years later, after the large-scale exploitation of Shengang Yinshan, Li Xiao's power at that time was even more different than before. Even without Jiangma Xinsheng at that time, would Jiangma Fraser dare to ask Li Xiao? Even if Li Xiaoken gave it to him, he did not dare to accept it.

Seeing that Li Xiao was so confident, Da Zang Changan immediately relieved most of his heart. With Li Xiao's assurance, he can devote all his energy to the mining of Shengang Yinshan.

When the Great Zang Changan retired, a subordinate went to the castle tower and handed Li Xiao a secret letter from Takeda Shingen.

Li Xiao quickly opened the letter, and after reading it carefully, he knew that the Takeda family was finally about to dispatch troops.

Sure enough, as in history, Shingen Takeda launched a conquest of Hida in the seventh year of Yongluo, and was led by Yamaxian Masaki.

Of course, Yamaxian Changjing has not yet changed its name, and it is still called Iifumigen Goro.

In Takeda Shingen’s letter, the Hida Expeditionary Forces consisted of the commander-in-chief Ii Fugen Goro, the supervising army Sone Masayo, and the rations will be given to the baggage, and the rest of the preparations will be a letter dragon, Kiso Yoshihide, Baba Masabo, Aoyagi Kiyoshi long.

Excluding Li Xiao's standing and the Jiangma family's military strength, the Takeda family's combined force is more than 3,500.

In the letter, Shingen Takeda issued an order that the main goal of the Hida Expeditionary Army is to make the sister Koru family and the Uchishima family surrender to the Takeda family. If they fail to comply, it will be completely eliminated.

Among them, Li Xiao's task is to ensure the smooth passage of military rations, and to hoard enough food and grass for the army in Shengang City for more than two months.

It is expected that the army will be out in May ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ so Li Xiao must start preparations after the heavy snowfall in April, after the road is unblocked, and the time given to him is almost a month.

While Li Xiao was considering how to raise the rations, his intelligence chief, Yokotani Yuki Kiyoshi, sent another letter to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"

Yokotani Xingqing looked serious and did not answer in silence. Li Xiao was slightly surprised. He took the letter and looked at it carefully, and suddenly a gleeful joy that oozes from the bottom of his heart was beyond words.

At this time, Yokotani Yukiki lowered down and said: "Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord."

Li Xiao smiled heartily like a child, and he raised the letter paper and read it again and again.

Finally Li Xiao confirmed the good news and I became a father.

The first month of the seventh year of Yonglu was an unforgettable and happy month for Li Xiao. Yumi Obata gave birth to Li Xiao's eldest son in Takato Town. . ..

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