Samurai of the Takeda Family

Chapter 39: City Lord Albert

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of salary that a samurai receives from the lord (calculated by annual salary).

  The first type is Zhixing. The so-called "knowledge and action" means that the lord has all the power of control over his possession, and the level of knowledge and action is calculated by the stone height.

   For example, before Ishida Sancheng recruited the island for victory, he gave 15,000 stone to Zhixing.

   However, these 5,000 stones were not the actual salaries that were actually obtained. At that time, the taxation was generally two people and one people or three people and two people. Take three people and two people for example, fifteen thousand shi, in fact, the peasants have to take 6,000 shi, and Dao Shengmao has nine thousand shi.

   Of course, Nine Thousand Stones only refers to the annual tribute income of grain. Dao Shengmeng can also levy some road tax, commercial tax and so on in the territory.

   Like the current Owari Tokoname ware, it is provided for the Oda family, and a lot of commercial trade.

   At that time, Oda Nobuhide used the power of Owari half country to fight against strong neighbors such as Matsuhira Kiyoshi, Saito Dozo, Imagawa Yoshimoto, and gained the prestige of Owari Tiger.

   The Tokoname ware trade provided strong financial support to Oda Nobuhide.

   Of course, the rise of the Takeda family is also closely related to Takeda Shingen's vigorous exploitation of his family’s Kurokawa Jinshan, and he obtained a lot of financial resources.

   However, during this period, the main income of the daimyo was still the annual tribute income of the manor.

  In the Heian period, it can be said that the early daimyo was the manor of the field, and the samurai was the thug under the manor. The second is the payment method of paying money + supporting rice. This is a low- and middle-level samurai, and it is always a light salary payment method. Supporting rice is directly distributed to the samurai in the form of fresh rice.

   One stone (150 kilograms) at that time. A person who supports rice is five times a day, which is equivalent to 1.75 shi in one year. Li Xiao is now the salary that Admiral Ashikaga received directly from Takeda Katsuyoshi, and it is a year of 100 pennies plus three people's support rice.

   At that time, I used the usual money to buy two shi meters, and there was almost a little more than two hundred shi. According to modern calculations, if a modern person's annual salary is 30,000 (monthly salary of 2,500) RMB to calculate, the price of rice is two yuan and fifty-one catty, which means that a modern person can buy 12,000 catties of rice, which is 6,000 kilograms.

   Converted to the Japanese Sengoku salary is 40 shi per year, but this conversion is not standard, but it can also objectively reflect a little problem. Li Xiao's current salary of 200 shi is almost equal to the income level of white-collar workers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

   At the moment, Li Xiao has taken Shima Katsushige's subordinates, and he is given a salary of 50 cans a year, plus one person's support rice. This treatment was a high level at the time. Generally speaking, the annual salary of the Asuka group leader is generally between 30 and 50. 50 Guan a year).

  Isamatsu is still relatively satisfied with this treatment. After all, this salary is a lot of money for him, a careless bachelor, to go to the bubble bar every day to drink and drink. Didn't Ishida Sansei give 40% of his salary to Shima Katsumou? Li Xiao was half of his actual annual salary. In this way, Li Xiao was very unhappy. With the addition of Dao Shengmeng, his salary was reduced by half, and all expenses became stretched.

The chestnut horse that Takeda Shingen rewarded him has always been supported by his own money. I don’t know if it is much larger than other horses. The chestnut horse is especially edible. This evil animal must be eaten every month. He is a large sum of money, which does not count as the cost of specially hiring to take care of the horse servants.

   The cost of raising horses is deducted, and Li Xiao often goes to the izakaya to buy drunk, which makes it more expensive.

   Ranked below the head of the Zuqing group, the last-class standing Zuqing treatment is a lower grade, almost at the level of 20-30 stone, and they still have a large family to support.

   After rescuing Katsumou Shima and Sadazu Suganuma, Li Xiao decided to take Sadazu Suganuma to a local farmer to heal his injuries, and he and Katsumushi Shima returned to Gaotocheng.

   At this time, the recruiting work has been completed. Gaoyuan City has formed an army of 700 men, and Yamamoto Kansuke, who is in charge of arsenal coordination, gives the recruited peasants, soldiers, and ronin treatments, and the unity is that each person is given two allowances per day.

   On how to train, Katsuyoshi Takeda and Kansuke Yamamoto asked Li Xiao for advice. Unexpectedly, Li Xiao was completely ignorant and at a loss as to how to lead soldiers.

As a matter of fact, Li Xiao, who is a modern and amateur military fan, has his own opinions about training and leading troops. Moreover, he knows the general process of military training after participating in military training in high school and university. Wen, a little bit of knowledge will do.

   But Li Xiao just didn't want the people of the Takeda family to know that he had this ability, mainly because he didn't want this method to spread so early.

   On the other hand, Li Xiao appeared in front of Takeda Shingen, Takeda Nobuhiro, and Yamamoto Kansuke as a brave, resourceful, and often ingenious general. If they were to let them know that Li Xiao had the ability to lead troops to train, it would be too sharp.

   No matter how brave a person is, there are no more than ten enemies, a great enemy of a hundred people. Li Xiao came up with some wicked ideas and played tricks. In Houhei, the conspiracy master Shingen Takeda can also restrain his eyes. But if Li Xiao is really allowed to train a strong soldier that can defeat the strong with a weak one and block ten, then the Takeda family's emphasis on Li Xiao from the original will be changed to a deep guard.

   At least if he makes great achievements in the future, Shingen Takeda will grant Li Xiao a fief, and let him be a city lord in the outside world. After all, you have the right to autonomy when you become a city lord. With such great power, if the time comes, the city lord himself will rebel or change the flag.

  If Li Xiao's ability is too strong, it would be bad if he rebelled. It would be better to be a direct minister by his side and put it under his nose to control it.

   When Li Xiao was an ordinary samurai, everything was given by the Takeda family, including the identity of the samurai, salary, etc. The same Takeda family could take everything back in one sentence.

   Therefore, every step Li Xiao takes now must be like walking on thin ice, and carefully watching other people's faces, and not revealing his true strength. It is best for everyone to think that he is just a military commander with no muscles.

   If Li Xiao becomes the lord of the city, he will have a fief of tens of thousands of stones, so he can farm and raise soldiers at home, if he trains a strong soldier that shocked the Warring States Period. With this, Li Xiao can get rid of the situation of looking at people's faces and taking care of everything.

   Summarizing the history of China's internal fighting for thousands of years, it can be summed up in one sentence: power comes from the barrel of a gun. This is what the high school history teacher said, Li Xiao has always remembered it firmly.

   If he has a soldier in his hand, he will be hard. In the future, even if Takeda Yoshinobu succeeds to the throne, he is not afraid.

   In fact, if Takeda Katsuyori’s hopes for a superior position are all pinned on Takeda Yoshinobu's rebellion four years later, then the matter will fall and lose his protagonist position.

   This kind of thinking is purely resigned to fate, relying on luck to eat. In fact, after Li Xiao passed through, it has been confirmed that history can really be changed. For example, Nobuhiro Takeda and Kansuke Yamamoto, who were supposed to be killed in the battle on Chuanaka Island, changed their destiny because of Li Xiao's efforts.

If the future development does not proceed according to history, and Takeda Yoshinobu’s rebellion does not happen, then waiting for Li Xiao can only be a life of inaction under Takeda Katsuras, and when a rice insect eats and waits to die, the big deal will be in the future. In the history books of war, I recorded this for you.

   So Li Xiao must start to change now. Strengthening Takeda Katsuyori's strength is one aspect. In fact, with Yamamoto Kansuke and Sanada Masaoyuki's left and right assistants, Takeda Katsuyoshi's retainer team is slowly being formed. There is no such thing as a pie in vain. It is impossible for Takeda Katsuyori to get the Takeda family governor without hard work. He also needs time to prove himself to Takeda Shingen.

   Similarly, Li Xiao must also be self-improving. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com to attract the island's victory is just the first step. But Li Xiao's ultimate goal is to become a city lord. He has money, food and soldiers, has a bargaining chip in his hand, and has confidence in his words, otherwise everything is just a cloud.

At that time, even if Takeda Yoshinobu is in power and decides to be disadvantageous to Li Xiao, Li Xiao will have the confidence to change his face and attach to another big power, and even dare to face the flag, rise up in rebellion, and break his arms with Takeda Yoshinobu. Field to stage.

   At the moment, the inner fiefdom of the Takeda family's territory is already saturated. It is basically hopeless to obtain the territory and stone high within the existing territory of the Takeda family. A group of members of the Takeda family, a group of family members and a group of people were waiting there.

   Therefore, if Li Xiao wants to obtain the position of the city lord, he must use the Takeda family's external territorial expansion. The only expectation at the moment is the subsequent attack on Ueno.

   If you really follow Takeda Nobuhira's words, Takeda Shingen intends to let Li Xiao return to him to serve as a direct minister. This is ideal, because the chances of a direct minister are great, and he is easily promoted by the lord.

When Li Xiao made great achievements in the Ueno country strategy, Takeda Shingen will have the opportunity to seal a territory for the purpose of consolidating the Ueno country’s territory, and let the brave and combative Li Xiao be the lord of the city, stationed there to consolidate the Takeda family’s strength. Rule, while guarding the Uesugi house in the north, and monitoring the Hojo house in the south.

   In this way, Li Xiao's plan for the city lord can be achieved.

   Of course, Li Xiao must also take precautions, if Shingen Takeda did not plan to summon Li Xiao back. Li Xiao must work hard by Takeda Katsurai's side. On the one hand, he helped Takeda Katsurai to gather his military merits and enhance the value in Takeda Shingen's eyes. On the other hand, the accompanying minister was not without a chance to be directly sealed by the lord. You must work hard if you have the opportunity.

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