Samurai of the Takeda Family

At the same time that Takeda Katsuyoshi attacked Kuragano Castle, Li Xiao issued sword hunting orders to villagers in the nearby villages in the city of Vietzhong.

In the history of the Warring States Period, the first person to use the so-called sword hunting order was Shibata Katsura.

At that time, Shibata Katsushika was the general general of the Oda Family North 6th Army, and he was in Echizen. After the Asakura family was wiped out by the Oda family, Echizen has become the worst-hit area of ​​Yixiangzong. Therefore, Shibata Katsuka issued a sword hunting order to confiscate civilian weapons in order to prevent the life of the same.

With the exception of Shibata Katsuji, the real large-scale implementation of the sword hunting order in history was issued by the world's citizen Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 16th year of Tensho (1588 AD).

When it comes to sword hunting orders, we have to mention the separation of soldiers and peasants.

Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi's direct jurisdiction is not high in stone, because he controls most of the ports and mines in the country, he has a lot of money in his hand, and this is the way to raise a standing army of organizational scale.

In this way, the Toyotomi family broke away from the past warring states, mobilizing peasants and soldiers from the countryside, using a combination of samurai + peasants and soldiers.

With the separation of soldiers and peasants, peasants can farm with peace of mind. They do not need to be conscripted, and the fighting is handed over to a more professional standing army.

Although the benefits of separating the peasants and soldiers are obvious, maintaining the military strength requires a lot of money. For those who rely mainly on agricultural economic names, each year may be a disaster year or a bumpy year, and income is very unstable.

If a large-scale crop failure occurs in the collar, the daimyo and his servants can't eat their stomachs, and they maintain a standing army, it would be a dead end.

In the Warring States period, the separation of soldiers and agriculture was the only one like Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who controlled most of the country's mines and were able to afford it.

Although the standing army is a burden, since the standing army, like the samurai, lives in the castle town, it also stimulates the exhibition of the castle town at the same time.

It was also one of the reasons why the commerce of the castle town gradually prospered as the population gathered from the village to the city in the later period of the Warring States period.

Just as in the Edo period, the reason why Edo Castle became one of the few cities in the world with a population of one million at that time was due to the attendance accountability system. The daimyo of each domain had to live in Edo for half a year every year. Retainers, the family must follow, and the main reason is because the Tokugawa family's Kimoto Yu family, and the samurai population, are stationed in Edo Castle.

This is due to the gathering of the population and the arrival of related artisans and merchants. The commerce has been greatly expanded. The increase in population density has become a major cause of the prosperity of Edo Castle, and even the birth of Edo culture in the future.

The realization of the separation of soldiers and peasants means that peasants and soldiers can not be enlisted to fight.

If you continue to let the peasants hold weapons, it will easily lead to turmoil and instability in local security.

In addition, the implementation of the sword hunting order has another advantage, which is that it can greatly weaken the power of low-level vested interests such as the people of the country and the local servants, so that the daimyo's control over the locality can be increased.

In history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi implemented the sword hunting order, which was issued after the separation of soldiers and farmers.

The purpose at that time was to prevent Yi Kou from being born, and to ensure the income of the annual tribute, and at the same time stabilize public order.

Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took the ironware from the sword hunting order and cast Buddha statues and door nails at Fangguang Temple in Kyoto. I don't know if this move imitated Qin Shihuang's twelve bronze figures.

Li Xiao dared to play the separation of soldiers and peasants because he had the support of Jingang Yinshan on hand and the standing army on his hands, and he was out of the scope of mobilizing peasants and soldiers to fight.

In addition, the law and order in the territory is relatively stable, so the villages do not need to prepare their own weapons to defend against looting by bandits.

In order to prevent local residents from rushing to resist the issuance of the knife hunting order, Li Xiaocai deliberately took advantage of the mysticism to be killed, adding to the flames behind his back, so he transferred away from the group of Yixiangzong disciples.

This group of people is always bewitched by the sect, and it is difficult to be persuaded. If they resist, it is easy to cause killing and arouse greater public anger. Other villages that are fighting against taxes can also join hands with Li Xiao when Yixiangzong takes the lead.

What worries Li Xiao the most is that Hongan Temple officially intervened in this matter under the pretext of the believer being killed. If an official was angry and called the believers to behave like Li Xiaodong, it would be really bad.

Not to mention that Li Xiao was besieged by followers of Yixiangzong, and the deterioration of his relationship with Honganji was also intolerable by Takeda Shingen.

At that time, Ranwen Novel.com, Takeda Shingen's greatest possibility is to withdraw Li Xiao's blockade of Chengshengcheng in a rage.

Therefore, Li Xiao planned to separate the adherents of Yixiangzong and deal with it in another way.

The reason for the tax resistance of the remaining villages is that some of them are controlled by the Saito family’s legacy, while others cannot pay the annual tribute, and more are to follow the trend and watch to see if someone is taking the lead. Take up.

If last year's tribute can be exempted, it would be a great joy for most people.

Therefore, for these non-stubborn hardened elements, Li Xiao believes that threatening the big stick with force, and then imposing tax cuts on the villages that actively cooperate with the knife hunting order, under such warmth and persuasion, it is still very fruitful to deal with these gangsters. of.

Moreover, when Xuan Li was killed, these villages hurriedly formed the ‘teaching’ Fa conference, and there was no group of dragons. And without always picking this head, Li Xiao wanted to see who was so afraid of death, to try the taste of the iron gun in his hand.

Before dispatching troops, in order to issue a sword hunting order, Li Xiao also bothered to think about two legitimate reasons.

The first reason is that in the first two days, people in two villages fought for the use of water in the upper and lower reaches of the Shentong River.

Li Xiao seized the matter and decided to intervene as a pretext for the implementation of the knife hunting order.

The second reason is that in view of the Hongan Temple, Master Xuan Li Fang was involved in this major vicious case in Li Xiao's collar.

On the one hand, Li Xiao sent people to express to Hongan Temple that Master Xuan Li was killed in his own domain and felt regretful, self-blame, guilty, and regretful. On the other hand, he said he had learned from his pains and decided to confiscate the weapons of the villagers and make similar incidents. No rebirth, let the Hongan Temple Fang official preach in the collar safely and will not hang up.

After finishing this superficial effort, the people of Yixiangzong collectively went to Shengxing Temple and asked not to break the door three days later.

Li Xiao dispatched the five hundred standing guards in his own city, and drove over from village to village, using force to urge them to implement the sword hunting order.

The first move is the village where the Saito family's survivors are harboured.

Prior to this, Li Xiao made Yokotani Yukishige already do the intelligence collection work, and conducted investigations into the villages where the Saito family's survivors were hidden, so the operation was very purposeful.

It only took Li Xiao's five hundred standing equipment for one day to subdue two villages in one breath.

The process was that Li Xiao first let the iron cannon team fire several rounds of iron cannons at the entrance of the opponent's village. After that, the people in the village were already scared and immediately sent people to surrender.

For these non-religious factors, believers who resist taxation, their will to resist is not tenacious.

Obeying the lord's arrangement and paying the annual tribute is the rule of this era, and the strongest local Saito family has been defeated. They have no reason to resist such a powerful Takeda family.

After disintegrating the resistance and entering the village, Li Xiao controlled all the villagers, and then searched the whole village to collect weapons, and then carried out similar-name household registration measures for all the villagers, and at the same time screened the Saito spies who had mixed into the village.

Once the widow of the Saito family was found, they were executed immediately and the other party’s body was hung up for public display to deter other villagers.

Li Xiao is convinced that this is a bit cruel, but only with such resolute means can we avoid the process of implementing knife hunting orders on the villages, and reduce the opponent's resistance to the lowest level, and finally reduce the number of dead people.

Otherwise, because of the moment of mercy, this time the sword hunting order cannot be cut quickly, and there will be more people who die so innocently.

The knife hunting order went smoothly. In just five days, Li Xiao completed the execution of the knife hunting orders in the various villages in the territory.

Although there was a temporary small resistance in the process, it did not cause much conflict. Li Xiao's standing and the villagers in the confinement were very few casualties.

The weapons were seized because of the sword hunting order, with a total of 380 ribs, 170 samurai swords, more than 300 bows and arrows, more than 600 spears (guns), and 230 swords.

Li Xiao looked at these confiscated weapons, and was stunned. Although most of these weapons are inferior, many of them can still be used after they are eliminated. This is enough for him to equip his small half of the new standings of 500 people.

Therefore, as far as Li Xiao is concerned, most of the money for equipment can be saved.

After the knife hunting order was implemented, the villages were like plucked roosters, with no resistance left, and immediately handed in this year's annual tribute.

For the villages that took the initiative to cooperate with the knife hunting order, Li Xiao returned part of their annual tribute this year. First, he kept his promise, and secondly, it can be used to gather people's hearts.

After receiving the Nian Gong, Li Xiao heard the news from Shengxing Temple.

After the believers gathered at the gate of Shengxing Temple.

Xuanzong, the abbot of Shengxing Temple, personally clarified the rumors to the believers, saying that he would not break the door against the believers because of the death of Fangguan Xuan Li.

Upon hearing the news, those believers immediately filled their eyes with tears that were moved by Xuanzong. They bowed their heads and recited the six-character Buddha name'Nanwu Amitabha' together to thank the Lord and the abbot for their kindness.

So Xuan Li went to the altar to preach, preaching to the gathered believers.

After finishing the sermon, Xuan Li personally wrote on the memorial plaque the name of "Immortal Life for Returning to the Netherworld."

This passage comes from the general compliment of the Zhengxin Sutra written by the pro-luan of the first generation of the Hongan Temple.

After the Xuan Li was written, the officials would directly sprinkle the clay on the plaque with the dharma name, and then let the believers chant the dharma name together.

The reason for sprinkling soil, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com reflects the meaning of the Pure Land in the Pure Land Shinshu.

In the past, the ‘Imperial Texts’ written by the Master of Hongan Temple were printed on the plaques, and then the princes took them to the chants and explained the meanings of them.

But having said that, this card is to collect money from believers.

Therefore, the believers of the Zong Zong saw the Xuan Li and wrote the ‘dharma name’ themselves, and all of a sudden they entered the craziness of faith and piety, and they paid a lot of money, and they were not stingy at all.

Compared with Li Xiao's violent taxation, the always-zong method of charging, after bewitching believers, makes them more willing to pay.

In this way, the followers of Xiangzong have spent several days under Shengxing Temple. Except for some people who plan to stay in the gate of the temple and serve for life, most of them have embarked on the way back to Chengsheng City.

So how to deal with these followers has become a problem for Li Xiao again. Of course, if possible, Li Xiao would like to stay in Shengxing Temple instead of coming back. . ..

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