Edo Traveler

"Besides, the southwest has been a foreign vassal for a long time, and the shogunate has no traffic. You can use this as an excuse to issue military orders first, until March and May, and then next year."

Yoshida Songyin has all planned. In the past, the southwest was all foreign princes, and the shogunate did not have any direct military and administrative power here, so the administrative efficiency was relatively low, and it was naturally relatively slow to issue orders from superiors.

We issued a military order in the summer, and firstly sent out the news that 8,000 soldiers would be recruited in Hiroshima and Kumamoto, so that the "strong men" in the southwest were happy and excited. With a goal, they will definitely be able to settle down for a few months. When Gongmi is released from custody in the autumn and the next year, and the foreigners have settled the balance before Christmas, the recruitment can officially begin.

Fudge them first, hold them steady. This is called stability is better than everything!

Anyway, they recruited soldiers as soon as the money arrived, and there was no way to deceive them. Let's make it clear, because the southwest is all foreign princes, and my shogunate is not strong, and it takes time to post military orders everywhere. Is there a problem with it taking three to five months?

No!

In this way, tens of thousands of strong warriors who feel that they can be selected as soldiers can settle down immediately, and even if they are not selected next year, they can rush to become postmen, which is perfect.

"You are really reliable!"

Chuemon stood up and patted Yoshida Shoin on the shoulder. This kid has a flexible mind. It is no wonder that he has become the ideological mentor of the extremists in history, and now he has become the chief architect of the modernization of the kingdom of Japan. Basically, if you take one step, you can count two or three steps later, and you really want to be in place.

"Can we set up another division in Nagoya?" Tokugawa Keibao, who was sitting at the end, suddenly asked.

"How do you say it?" Chuemon smiled at Tokugawa Keibao and asked him what he thought.

"Although the 2nd Osaka Division guards Osaka, there is no official army on the Tokaido. In the end, a new division is still needed to protect the Kanto. Furthermore, the Tokaido belongs to the vassal family..." Tokugawa Keibao fell. Also tell the truth.

Protecting the Tokaido or something is secondary. Now is a new era. There is basically no force in the country that can compete head-on with Tokugawa, and it is unlikely that there will be tens of thousands of male divisions in the southwest to attack Edo. It is not a top priority to set up Nagoya divisions.

But there is one thing that Tokugawa Keibao said rightly. The main vassal and genealogy of the shogunate were either in Kanto or Tokaido. This was the arrangement of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and it was also the arrangement of Tokugawa Hidetada and Tokugawa Iemitsu. persist in.

The personnel in Kanto are easy to settle, and the construction of the Hokuriku Railway has already begun, and it will be arranged soon. But what about the samurai of Tokaido?

The main line of the Tokaido Railway was all used to house the shogunate's own Hajimoto family, so the samurai of the Tokaido feudal lords had nowhere to go now?

It is impossible to place people who are foreigners, but not people who are close to our vassals and generations of people.

So we still set up another division in Nagoya to recruit 8,000 die-hard Tokaido fans on the Tokaido, and the rest will be installed with cameras. Only in this way can we not chill the hearts of relatives and samurai warriors.

"Youtang is right." Songping Qixuan expressed his support.

Indeed, if we want to resettle, we must first resettle our own people from the old Tokugawa family. This is the first class. The external kind must be ranked second, nothing else to say.

"Hmm..." Chuemon thought for a while, and it really should be like this.

"Then let's add it together."

With permission from Chuemon, Tokugawa Keiho showed a very bright smile. This is nothing to hide, he himself belongs to the vassal, so he should speak for his own people in the Tokugawa family. Besides, the division was based in Nagoya, so at least 2,000 Nagoya clan soldiers would have to be recruited. The placement of the Owari clan was solved at once.

Not happy is strange.

"Shangqi, since the army has been added to the southwest, the navy should also be set up more." Yoshida Songyin thought that he had already said it anyway, so he simply said everything.

The shogunate set up a new army training team in the southwest, it must be to strengthen the rule in the southwest. After all, the ruling center of the government is now in Edo, and in Kanto, even if there are telegraphs and trains, it will take a few days to go to the southwest. Strengthening the military force locally is the most direct way to publicize the strength of the central government in Edo.

I heard the rumbling of the cannons in the martial arts field, and saw the training team of the running drills.