Edo Traveler

  Chapter 355 58. Everyone is eager to apply

  Nothing to say, as soon as the recruitment notice was posted, it caused a discussion from the whole Hachioji. To be honest, the whole Hachioji, who doesn't have such a relationship with the thousand people.

Because during the expedition in Odawara, the lord of the castle Oshizhao took the retainers and guards of the city to Odawara for defense. Just like in the movie "Puppet City", if there are 1,000 soldiers in the family, 500 of them need to go to Odawara. Defensively, the remaining five hundred people are defending in their own territory.

The retainers of the Oishi family mobilized nearby farmers into the city to assist in the defense. Under the fierce attack of Uesugi and Maeda army, Hachioji Castle was eventually captured by several times the army. After the city was broken, not only the castle was destroyed, but the guards in the city, as well as the young women and children of the guards, were all beheaded to death.

  Therefore, the local indigenous people have suffered a great loss, basically they have changed their blood...

   Then Okubo Changan was ordered by Tokugawa Ieyasu to recruit the former ministers of the Hojo and Takeda clan to enrich the Hachioji area. The number of his family is no less than thousands, and it has multiplied to as many as 50,000 to 60,000 people. Except for thousands of people gathered in Hachioji Town, a large number of people live scattered in the mountains on both sides of Koshu Street.

   There is a saying that the town is at least familiar with the head of the person, and the notices and notices only took two days to spread. In some villages in the mountains, it only takes seven or eight hours to climb the mountain. He can tell them all in two days, and he has strong control over the place.

The Tokugawa family has not carried a gun for two hundred years, but the Hachioji people who are indeed samurai are numb at first, thinking that they have to collect some miscellaneous tax land money, or call for labor to build the roads of Kaikai. .

  Wait until the accompanying shogunate told everyone that this time the general was about to recruit artillery to defend Edo Castle, all of them were totally unbelievable.

  The matter of Yingmi’s ghost animals is too far away from them, what James of the United States, it is simply a strange story. The entire Hachioji, more than half of the people, have never left the Hachioji for a few miles in their entire lives. The only people who have left either transported the annual tribute to the imperial office, or went to Edo for part-time work in the winter, and there is no knowledge.

  As for serving as a soldier, they don’t think it is a thief with the army!

  Because after the separation of soldiers and peasants in the Azuchi-Momoyama era, peasants are farmers, samurai are samurai, and serving as a soldier is the prerogative of samurai. Those who carry a gun are better than those who hold a hoe. When you become a warrior, you will earn a salary, and you can gain knowledge and deeds if you make great achievements. It will be passed on from generation to generation. The descendants ride on tall horses and carry big swords and threats. They become the envy of everyone. "scholar".

  It's boiling!

  General Yu finally thought of us!

   Countless men flocked to the town house where Chuemon and Matsudaira Massuno lived temporarily, and it is now a temporary conscription office. The recruitment conditions were written at the gate of the house. The soldiers must be between 15 and 25 years old, and the height must be 5 feet 2 inches (1.5 meters, 57 meters) or more.

  The other condition is that he must be born in a family of one thousand people of Musashi Hachioji, and must be a member of this thousand family of samurai. It can be the brother, son, adopted son, son-in-law, etc. of this samurai, as long as you can clearly prove that your family is one of the thousand close relatives of the same heart.

  As for the past two hundred years, it has been completely separated, without the identity of a samurai, although it still has the Miao character, it is a peasant's common people. Then there is no way, the shogunate is not able to recruit farmers to serve as soldiers for the time being. If this hole is opened, it will cause a backlash from the samurai all over the world, and the impact will be too great to be touched temporarily.

  With these two conditions alone, many of the people who came here were immediately eliminated. But after all, this is to recruit Jianyong soldiers, and the requirements must not be relaxed. At most, if you are a nephew, or a cousin, you can relax a little more on the blood relationship, and that's it.

"It seems that five hundred people will be recruited soon." Songping Qixuan is the commander-in-chief of this army in the future, but he also has a general. He is to be the prime minister of the old China. it is good.

   "It will take three or five days, I heard the news in some places." Chuemon is naturally the current guard of this unit and the person responsible for enriching them into the fort in the future.

   "Hmm... don't say anything else, the mental outlook is indeed much better than the Edo trash." Matsudaira Qixuan has something to say straight. In Japan, few people are qualified to make him speak carefully.

  Tadaemon didn't dare to answer these words publicly, so he could only perfuse them. Our status and status have not yet reached the level where we can fire map cannons on the entire shogunate's Kakimoto royal family, so I dare not say.

  The people in front of you are indeed exactly as Songping Qixuan said. The whole audience was "black", and none of them had white skin. They were all the kind of dark ones that were exposed to the sun all year round. This year, when a man came to the ground at the age of fifteen, he was already a hard worker. It doesn’t take long to plant seedlings in the ground for a day, and your skin will turn black into charcoal.

  Judging from this point alone, this is because the peasants who worked in the field did not run away. Recruiters like this kind of simple and hardworking peasant. He has little brains and is willing to be obedient. As long as he is full of rice, you let him practice for ten hours a day, and he will be fine.

  After the height, age, and so on, that is, after a preliminary screening pass, the next step is to test your strength~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Doing artillery moving shells is not an easy job. The distance between unloading the ammunition from the carriage and stuffing the ammunition into the barrel is quite short, but it must be done by manpower.

  Those auxiliary machinery, at this time, they have not been designed and invented yet. If the artillery can't hold the cannonball, it won't be an artillery.

  The content of the test is also very simple. Hold a stone estimated to weigh more than 20 kilograms and run two laps. It's not too far away, about three to four hundred meters. If you can run down normally, you have passed the primaries. Take a marked note and wait five days to come back and try again.

  In the end, I will definitely choose the best recruits. For the time being, the number of troops will be 500. There will be more fortresses in the future, but it will be a future thing, regardless of it now.

  The people who won the lottery cheered and cheered, while those who were not picked were dejected. It's so easy for the shogunate to recruit a soldier, and the annual salary is as high as twelve gold. Isn't this better than digging in the land of Hachioji?

  Moreover, the army must take care of food and clothing, and can save money to prepare a wife for himself in the future. Twelve taels of gold in the disaster year, it is hard to say to buy ten wives, three or five wives, it is easy to think about.

  Very good. Tadaoemon, who recruited soldiers in Edo by taking to the streets to catch men, repeatedly sighed, this is the normal picture of recruiting. The previous rumors about arresting young men are self-defeating!

  (End of this chapter)