Edo Traveler

  Chapter 291 56. Samurai and brave

  The so-called Thousands of Wushu Hachioji with one heart, of course, does not mean that there are a thousand concentric samurai in the place of Musashi Hachioji. Moreover, thousands of people are also an imaginary number. The agreed quota is 1,000 people. Do you think that after two hundred and fifty years, this post can still be neat?

  If you want to talk about the same heart, Chuyemon once did the same heart, the same heart under the Edo castle, that is the head of the real police station, the actual management of the ground, a total of 20 people in two groups. In the future generations, there are more than 20 districts in Tokyo, and you will know how much power this Tongxin has.

  Typical inferiority and power, not to mention in Japan, you are in the mainland, as long as you are out of society and have ideas, you can know how powerful a police station is. It looked like a mere nine-grade Sesame Officer, really wanting to use some means or something, it was not just a matter of saying hello in one sentence.

  At that time, the Hachioji Thousand People of Wuzhou was established with one heart. In fact, Okubo Changan was sealed to Hachioji Yachiishi, and Hachioji was the main pass of Koshu Street into Kanto. Soon he was ordered by Tokugawa Ieyasu to recruit people and try to form an army.

  To put it plainly, Hachioji is a bayonet who is a man who is a master. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who runs Kanto, has both the ambition to fight for the world and the patience to hold Kanto and wait for the sky. Therefore, in Izu Nirayama, Musashi Hachioji, Ueno Tsukihyo Pass and other places, famous ministers and generals were set up to guard.

  Hachioji, as the head of the Hojo family, Shizhao, once stationed at the main pass, naturally, they also need enough troops to guard. But as we said before, Ieyasu Tokugawa entered Kanto and compromised with Kanto tycoons. The land he actually controls is so large that he can't support too many people.

So he used the method of setting up villagers. Instead of recruiting samurai directly, he saved the cost of salaries. He compiled the old Takeda clan and Hojo clan in the vicinity of Hachioji into the Hachioji congregation, guarding the pass of Koshu Street. , Watch the door for him.

  These so-called concentrics, even in the Takeda clan and Hojo clan, are not actually samurai. Their status levels are relatively vague, because the Takeda clan and Hojo clan, who were in the warring states contending era, fought for almost years, and their desire for soldiers is unimaginable.

  So in addition to the "genuine" samurai that ordinary people can understand, that is, the daimyo's direct vassal, Hanamoto, and the local powerful samurai who belong to the daimyo, there are also a large number of local powers and floating populations.

  The most typical example of local forces is called "Wuchuan Jin". This "suji" is a model or system used by the Takeda clan to compile local people. Under normal circumstances, they don't even need to respond to Takeda Shingen's military obligations on the expedition. Their main duty is to guard their hometowns, especially the important gates on the borders of their hometowns, when the army goes out.

  It is not so much that they are warriors or soldiers, but rather that they are self-insurance teams of local residents, only wandering around one acre of land in their hometown. It seems that it is not very useful, but it can suddenly become a soldier in a sense when Takeda Shingen goes out to defend Kai's borders.

  Generally speaking, in the Warring States Period, don’t talk about 250 or 300 pawns from 10,000 stones. We can make a conclusion here. In the whole world, whether dead or alive, there is no so-called expert or scholar who can say with certainty that there is a standard general number of troops sent during the Warring States Period in Japan.

  Anyone who swears to you and tells you that so and so will be able to send as many soldiers, and specific to the tens of single digits, it is basically pure bragging, and you don’t know how to pretend or learn a little.

  In the Takeda family in the immediate example, the upper and lower limits of the total number of soldiers fluctuate greatly, which is simply unimaginable. Sometimes it can almost fluctuate in units of 10,000. It only depends on the standard for calculating the number of soldiers and the actual military needs of Takeda Shingen and Takeda Katsuyoshi.

  Furthermore, in addition to these local forces, the Takeda family also likes to use floating population. Naito, one of Takeda's four ministers, repaired the town of Mininawa Castle. Because of the repeated wars in the Nishi Ueno area, the population was lost and military service was difficult to recruit. In order to ensure the number of soldiers in wartime, in addition to mobilizing the manpower of local wealthy tribes, they are also very good at commanding and recruiting Ronin.

  The ronin group under the command of Naito Masao is a complete name, not only the so-called samurai who lost the main family, but also the refugees, and all those who are willing to take up arms and join the army in exchange for rewards after the victory.

  In the Warring States Period, people’s lives were like grass and mustards, and there was no need to send them all before the war. You carry the gun first, I won't have your bite until I win. The point is that you have to survive. If you don't survive, you will be blind.

  Such a variety of people, a little generalization, the size can also give people a number...

  The topic goes back to the Hachioji Thousand People Concentric. At that time, Okubo Changan recruited the kind of local power and floating population we were talking about. Tokugawa Ieyasu got the allegiance of these people at the expense of his official samurai status and granting them the land that was not reclaimed for farming in Hachioji for generations.

It is said that the Yonekura clan of the shogunate was born in the Musashi Hachioji and a thousand people with the same heart. A little bit forward, it was a certain muscle-level organization from the Takeda clan~www.wuxiaspot.com~ was originally just a small farmer guarding the Kaii border, because of Germany This policy of Kawa Ieyasu became a samurai, and with the Tokugawa family's ambition to seize the world, step by step, he became a daimyo. Sometimes life's encounters are indeed full of all kinds of incredible.

  At present, the eight princes of Wuzhou have thousands of people with one heart. In the long two hundred and fifty years, they have hardly encountered any wars worth mentioning, and the Shogunate has never recruited them to participate in any wars. Compared with the beginning of its establishment, the number of its personnel has increased by at least four or five times, or even more.

  In addition, they themselves are villagers without any salary. If they want to live, they have to dig in the soil, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, so they have now become brave and brave mountain people.

  Not only has the identity of a samurai, but also maintains the aggressive and brutal habit!

  On the broken ship of the shogunate, there is almost no better source of troops. Recruiting farmers is a taboo, and it will cause a large-scale backlash from the samurai class, but recruiting soldiers from the Hachioji Thousands of People is one thing that no one can fault.

  Are you against? How dare you object? This is the samurai recruited by Tosho Daquan and God Sovereign Ieyasu himself. You dare to question Ieyasu's decision? You are no longer an ordinary waste, you need to send one by one to the Japanese bridge to hang to death!

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