Samurai of the Takeda Family

Takeda Shingen and Li Xiao talked about Sanada Kotaka and said: "At that time Sanada Yukatsu was sheltering under Nagano's parent Nokage. At that time Yamamoto Kansuke recommended him to me and said that he was a wizard. That's why I met him. On the one hand, Sanada was always eager to regain his territory in the small prefectures of Shinano at that time, so seeing it at that time impressed me deeply."

Takeda Shingen still had half a word to say to Li Xiao. Now Kotaka Sanada is old, and the undisguised *** has retreated and became deeper. On the contrary, it was his third son Masao Sanada, who made him feel the aggressive ambition to usurp everything in his father.

Having said this, Shingen Takeda looked at Li Xiao and said: "In your eyes, I also saw Yukatsu Sanada from twenty years ago."

Li Xiao laughed, and said: "The lord laughed, is it just a look in his eyes?"

Shingen Takeda smiled slightly and said, "This is my intuition at the time. I certainly won't judge one-sidedly. But based on your performance in Takeda's home for three and a half years, I can see it in silence. I am more sure before Moreover, when Yamamoto Kansuke was in office, he told me that you were a man of great ambition. Shingen believes in my own vision, and I also believe in Kansuke’s vision. Li Xiao is a person with talents and ambitions in my Takeda family. "

Li Xiao smiled slightly, not commenting, he didn't want to hide his ambitions, and he couldn't hide his ambitions in the eyes of a hero like Takeda Shingen.

In the troubled times and the Warring States period, there is no shortage of careerists.

Those who have left their names in the long history, from the emperor to the generals, who said that there is no driving force behind the ambitions.

If those who say that they follow the crowd all day long and have no intention of fame and fortune, they will eventually be able to become a master.

It's nothing more than writing in a novel, if it really appears next to you, would you believe it?

But as for ambition or ambition, there is a world of difference between the word, it depends on how Takeda Shingen looked.

Shingen Takeda smiled and said to Li Xiao: "I remember Kosuke Yamamoto mentioned that you once said that when a person is waving on the mountain, others can see him, not because he is tall, but because he is tall. Take advantage of the power of the mountain. And you just have to stand on this big mountain and see the general trend of the world, and you also want to let everyone in the world see yourself."

"Li Xiao, Shingen has always admired your ambition, and I appreciate your unabashedness. This is very rare. I am also grateful to you for choosing our Takeda family as this mountain and contributing to my Takeda family."

Li Xiaoyan said: "Your lord has a good reputation. It is an honor for your subordinates to serve the Takeda family. If it hadn't been taken in by the lord at the beginning, I'm afraid I would have died of freezing and starvation in Jiafei Mountain."

Shingen Takeda nodded and said, "Li Xiao, I admire you very much, Shingen, that's why I entrusted him on the strategy of the Etsuzhong area. I need him to sit in the center of the Baba Minbu and plan a strategy for Nishi-Ueno, so it is impossible to send him. Go to Etchung. So I decided to let you temporarily replace the Baba Civil Affairs Department as the general of the Hida Etch.

Li Xiao was stunned, the general of the legion, this is equivalent to a general who is out of town, Takeda Shingen's trust in him is extraordinary.

The military system currently practiced by the Takeda family is the parent-child system.

The so-called parent-child system is a top-to-bottom military management mechanism based on geographical division, with important cities as the core.

Consider the Takasaka Masanobu Corps currently in charge of Kita Shinano in the Takeda family.

As the lord of Kaizu Castle, Masanobu Kosaka was responsible for commanding the military forces of the four northern Shinano counties of the Takeda family.

In the military system, the level of Masanobu Takasaka is called "castle lord", "first-hand service", and "big guide".

Below the Takasaka Masanobu, there are Ohata Prosperity, Terao family, Amemiya family and other families directly under the head of the family Ashikaru, or the local leader of the country, this level is called "send relatives", "guides."

And the lowest level is the local warrior, the ordinary level warrior such as the ground servant, this level is called "Jizi", "being guided".

When mobilizing during the war, Masanobu Takasaka issued a mobilization order to generals at the level of relatives based on the salary of each person in the military service account, and Shigao.

After receiving the mobilization order, the generals at the Jiqin level will issue a mobilization order to the local warriors to which they belong, that is, the "Jizi" level.

In history, the Takeda clan also followed this military system, and successively organized them into the Southern Shinano Akiyama Shinyou Army Corps, which was responsible for the Sanhe and Zhongshan Road Raiders, Naito Masaotou organized the West Ueno Army Corps, and the Yama Prefecture Masakei Army Suruga Corps.

In the Warring States Period, the Takeda family adopted the military system of sending parents and children, as did the Imagawa family and Hojo family.

This military system was later followed by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Historically, after Komakiyama had battled for a long time, because the general Ishikawa Sukisasa defected to Hashiba Hideyoshi.

Ieyasu Tokugawa worried that all military secrets would be known to Hashiba Hideyoshi, so the Tokugawa family's military system imitated the Takeda family's Koshu style to reform.

Tokugawa Ieyasu organized the forces of the Tokugawa family into five major corps, namely Sakai Tadoji, Osuga Yasaka, Honda Tadachi, Kanbara Yasasa Corps, and Ii Naomasa Corps formed by Akobe.

There is another subtle coincidence between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Takeda Shingen. In the establishment of the commander of the army, Takeda Shingen was the four ministers of Takeda plus Akiyama Nobuyuki, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was Tokugawa Four Heavenly King Dasuga Yasuko.

Both of them were established as a legion based on the method of adding local people and sending rides.

Therefore, he heard that Shingen Takeda appointed himself as the commander-in-chief of the army in charge of the attack on the Etchu Hida front. The consternation in his heart is unspeakable.

In the past, Shingen Takeda's lineage vassals were handed up by Takeda Shingen. Four ministers such as Baba and Takasaka did not mention this position, and Nobuyuki Akiyama was also handed over by Takeda Shingen.

Li Xiao's ability to be granted this important task by Takeda Shingen shows his appreciation for himself.

Although it is a temporary generation, as long as Li Xiao performs well in the future, he can remove the temporary generation and formally become a regular.

In this way, you can be on an equal footing with Iifumi Tomasa, Takasaka Masanobu, Takeda Katsuyori, and Baba Nobubo.

Takeda Shingen was able to appoint Li Xiao as the acting commander of the army in this way. Li Xiao knew that in addition to the fact that he had become a member of his family, there was also Takeda Shingen's trust in him.

At the moment, Li Xiao solemnly said: "Thank you for the master's kindness, and Li Xiao is willing to be loyal to this family."

Three days later, the elder of the Takeda family appraised it by walking around the Tsuzaki Hall.

Takeda Katsuyori, Li Xiao, Sanada Kotaka, Takeda Shintoyo four people all participated.

Sanada Kotaka, Takeda Nobuyoshi is now the sender of Takeda Katsuyoshi Corps, and belongs to the power assigned by Takeda Shingen. However, they were all old retainers of the Takeda family, so they are also eligible to participate in the assessment of the elders.

As for Kenju Oba and Ouma Asashi, they cannot be listed among them.

Above the main hall of Tsuzakikan.

Under Takeda Hiroshima’s family crest, Takeda Shingen is sitting solemnly on the stack of seats, with the feet he wears in battle on his side. On the feet is Suwa's head with white bear hair and a ghost face. pocket.

On the other side, there are the flags of Takeda Shingen, the Fenglin Volcano flag, and the Suwa Daming flag.

Takeda Shingen on the left, hand side, in order of order, sits Takeda Nobuhiro, Takeda Yoshinobu, Takeda Katsuyoshi more than a dozen old retainers of the Takeda family.

Because Li Zheng has not yet been married to Ju Ji, although Li Xiao has been recognized by everyone, it is still not considered to have entered the category of the family, and the rank of the old retainers in the family is relatively low.

Li Xiao dressed up in a formal dress. After taking a certain position, he was sitting on the soft cushion, looking around.

Now he controls these more than ten senior retainers of the Takeda family.

Whenever the Takeda family discusses important matters, the decision made by the judges will be the final decision of the Takeda family after it is approved by the supervisor, and no one can violate it.

Of course the truth is this truth, but in fact it mainly depends on the prestige of the chief family supervisor.

If the ruler is strong and the minister is weak, then the house governor's intention is basically judged that the public dare not violate it, and there will be a situation like the Oda family, Oda Nobunaga alone said it counts.

If the ruler is weak and the minister is strong, then the house superintendent will be emptied, and the judges controlled by the few powerful ministers can completely ignore the opinions of the house superintendent and make their own decisions.

This example is the best in terms of the current shogunate. Ashikaga Yoshiki is basically empty, and the affairs of the shogunate are determined by Miyoshi Changkei, known as the "half king."

Miyoshi Changqing's acting general is in charge of the world, so he can be regarded as half of the world.

Before Miyoshi Changqing, it was the half-shogun Hosokawa Masamoto who played with the shogunate. At that time, Miyoshi was just a retainer of Hosokawa.

In Takeda's family, with the death of Nobukata Saka and the elder of the Taigai Ganrihu family, Shingen Takeda's authority has grown stronger, and his decision has gradually affected the results of the left and right evaluations.

However, the judges also maintain a certain degree of independence. If Shingen Takeda insists on making certain decisions, the judges will also reject it.

Compared to the other side where the judges were sitting, Li Xiao looked up, and saw that under the steps down one step, there were densely seated magistrates below the old rank and the servants of the generals.

These people are sitting at the bottom of the hall~www.wuxiamtl.com~ and will listen to the results of the assessment meeting.

People at this level have no right to speak and can only sit and listen.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiao not only remembered a similar scene when he first entered Takeda's house.

At that time, he was in the city of Haijin, his seat was sitting under the steps, listening to Iifumi Tomosuke, Baba Shinbo, Yamamoto Kan, and helping them conduct the military meeting before the fourth Sichuan-Nakashima War.

The single-eyed and lame Yamamoto Kansuke proposed woodpecker warfare in the hall, and this scene is still fresh in his memory.

After three and a half years, drifting away from the front, Li Xiao is now sitting in the seat of his family.

If it was three years ago, and I could also express my own opinions in the military meeting at the time, then the fourth Sichuan Zhongdao battle might have another ending.

Now Li Xiao finally has the power to influence the decisions of the Takeda family center. . ..

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