A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiaopingtai, who had been hit hard by life, was like a salted fish who had lost his dream. He wanted to collapse on the floor. I feel like I have lost the meaning of struggle in life, and I just want to eat at home and wait to die.

Just when Koheita was about to slap his butt and resign, Hosokawa Harumiya signaled that he hadn't finished speaking yet, so don't be impatient. Xiaoping Taiyi had a question in his mind, hadn’t I already been transferred to the official establishment, what else do I need to do?

"You contributed a lot when negotiating with the Imagawa family. This is a great achievement." Hosokawa Harumiya smiled brightly and looked at Mrs. Kohira nodding.

It was only then that Xiaopingta realized that Xiaopingta had indeed spitted a lot when negotiating peace with Okabe Motobubu. "Is it possible that spraying saliva can be considered as credit now?" Xiao Pingtai thought so.

To be honest, he just came up with an idea, not a real bloody battle to seize the city or venture into the city alone to persuade him to surrender. Xiao Pingtai originally thought that the reward would be a few dozen guan of money, or something like a knife or a few meters. If Hosokawa Harugong didn't mention it, Koheita would have forgotten it.

After all, this kind of casual talk is not as important as meeting a dazzling true warrior. Okabe Motobu alone occupies a large part of the memory.

However, Japan often uses a reward method similar to that in the Tang Dynasty of China for the credit of capturing a city (no matter how it was captured).

This method was mainly implemented in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and was called the body-official transference. That is to say, a certain warlord in a feudal town defeated another warlord in a feudal town. After the dog-eat-dog war ended, the central government of the Tang Dynasty did not provide any rewards. The one who succeeds is allowed to take everything from the one he defeated, including but not limited to official title, property, land, wife, territory of separatist rule, and even the adopted godson and the chamber pot used at night.

This policy has undergone some changes in Japan. For example, Yukitaka Sanada designed a strategy to help Takeda Shingen seize Toishi Castle, the important town of Murakami Yoshikigata, with a strategy. The humiliating defeat of Izuki Takeda's family was a milestone in Takeda Shingen's Hokushin invasion. As a result, he was able to restore his skills in Sanada Township, a small county in Shinano. He was rewarded with more than a thousand kan territory and returned home in glory.

Another example is Takenaka Shigemon's The Wonderful Adventures of the Warring States Period (Token) written by Takenaka Hanbei Shigeharu, who is known as the modern Zhuge, in which it is written that his father Takenaka Shigeharu and his younger brother made a small cooperation, using eighteen people After seizing the important town of Mino, Inabayama Castle, Oda Nobunaga was willing to exchange Mino's reward of 300,000 stone and half of the country after hearing the news.

In Japan, if you seize a city that is of great use to your master, you will receive a reward that matches the city. Even an ordinary branch city, such as the Gaoyuan branch city mentioned earlier by Furuta Oribe who persuaded him to surrender, can still get a salary of 200 shi.

But when Hosokawa Harugong said that he had done a good job in persuading Futama to surrender, he was promoted to the rank of Uchida-gundai, and was given a reward of three hundred kanfu. All the civil and military personnel in the audience were so surprised that they were speechless.

Koheita's status as a samurai was not given by the Yamauchi family, but was picked up through nepotism after his uncle Tsunayō attained the rank of chicken and dog and ascended to heaven. Although Koheta is the Yamauchi family's loyal supporter and supporter, the positions of Dosin and Riki can only be held by the second son of the samurai family who is literate or the heir of a rich peasant family. In this era, it is not linked to the status of a samurai at all. It can only be said that it is a job.

When a samurai does the same thing, he is a warrior. Even if a shitty person does the same thing, he will still be a shitty person. Just because you serve the public, you will not automatically become a samurai of the Yamauchi family.

So, to put it bluntly, Xiaopingta was still a commoner in the Yamauchi family. At most, he can be considered a high-end asshole, well, a very high-end kind.

Of course, Kodaira had been promoted to full service ten minutes ago due to his merits and officially became the direct subordinate samurai of Yamauchi Yoshiharu. This foundation already existed.

It stands to reason that an ordinary Hatamoto would bring the ashigaru he recruited as his lord's bodyguard, but if the lord intends to promote you, then you should first serve as a general of the ashigaru and lead the ashigaru recruited from the territory directly under the daimyo's jurisdiction. After fighting a few battles and accumulating meritorious service, you can become a team leader in the flag book and take charge of several ordinary flag books. Once you have had enough seniority and hard work, you will basically be unable to run away as a general. You can go out to the local area to serve as a parent official, or be in charge of temples, towns, towns, and popular worship.

So what is the concept of this Neitian County Dynasty? It is higher than Cao Cao's Luoyang Northern Lieutenant, higher than Dong Xuan's Luoyang Order, and not much worse than Bao Zheng's power to know Kaifeng Mansion.

Some people may still remember that Uncle Tsunayoshi was originally from the riverside village of Yamauchi Township, Uchida County, Minamishin Prefecture. This Uchida-gun is similar to the capital jurisdiction of the Yamauchi family, and Uchida-gundai is the highest administrative and judicial chief of the capital.

This position almost instantly promoted Koheita from the lowest samurai to a high-ranking samurai among daimyo, and it was based on military exploits, which was very different from the important ministers who had held worldly positions for generations.

With Kasuga Torasuna, he was promoted to the rank of general of the Takeda clan, Kaizu Castle. He succeeded the famous Kosaka family of Shinano with 95,000 koku. He was eventually hailed as the Four Takeda Ministers and the Takeda Santansho's Kosaka Masanobu. A fight.

However, the civil and military officials present had little objection. The military merits were unquestionable, and Futamata Castle was quietly in the hands of the Yamauchi family.

Hosokawa Harungong also said something fair, not rewarding Shilu, this reward was still a little low. Hatamoto Konishiharazaemon, who had half of his face shot, also attended the meeting. He could not speak for the time being, but he nodded and applauded in agreement with Hosokawa Harumiya.

Before Koheita could refuse, the leader, Yamauchi Yoshiharu, waved his hand to tell him not to refuse.

He also said that Xiaopingtai worked hard when transporting military rations, and he saw it in his eyes, hoping that Xiaopingtai would be more loyal and brave in serving the public.

Everyone exited, and Yamauchi Yoshiharu left Xiao Pingtai behind, sincerely thanking him for everything he had done to maintain the morale of the army.

Xiao Pingtai recalled that other people may not realize the importance of good logistics because they have experienced short-term wars with thousands of people all year round. And Yamauchi Yoshiharu was determined to lead 30,000 troops to Kyoto and become King Luo Qin's hero. He has seen the value of Xiaopingtai, and he found that Xiaopingtai has exceeded his own knowledge time and time again. Maybe the sentence "I am not a minister as I wish" is not ambition, but an anger full of talent.

For a moment, there was a hint of excitement between the two of them. There is quite an atmosphere in which a good bird chooses wood and will meet a good tree, and a good minister chooses his master and will meet a good master.

At this moment, Xiaopingtai seemed to have truly integrated into this era.

To be continued. (Heita Kohei has finally entered the ranks of high-level samurai, and a more prosperous era is about to begin.)

At the end of the first volume, after using more than 80,000 words, Koheita finally reached the position of a high-ranking samurai, and the next step is to fight for the legacy of Shilu Zhixing passed down from generation to generation. Also thanks for the recommendation bro.