It was already late at night when I came back from Matsunaga Yashiki.
I sat in the side hall for a while, drank some wine and ate something to fill my stomach.
Kyogoku Takamasa sat there quietly with a wine plate in his hand, his thoughts wandering to nowhere.
The most urgent thing for Kyogoku Gaozheng now is to improve the Kyogoku family's overall strength as soon as possible, whether it is agriculture, commerce or military.
Omi has been a place with developed agriculture since ancient times, so there is no need to worry too much about agriculture. Business has gradually returned to the right track, and all the measures that should be issued and implemented have been used. Now we can only wait for the results.
The only thing left is the military aspect.
The Kyogoku family currently controls 190,000 koku. Based on the population size of Kitaomi, the Kyogoku family's wartime military mobilization strength should be around 15,000 to 20,000 people.
It seems like a lot, but these troops are all peasant soldiers.
According to the situation reported by Numata Mitsuwa and others, a large number of peasant soldiers can only hold basic weapons-bamboo guns. Some peasants and soldiers don't even have all the equipment. It's already good to have a belly roll.
This shows how rubbish the Kyogoku family's combat effectiveness is.
In this era, due to their own economic capabilities, most of the samurai class were able to purchase their own weapons and equipment, and they were quite sophisticated.
But ordinary peasants and soldiers can't even afford food and have no spare money to buy equipment.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, these utensils are provided by the daimyo and provided to farmers and soldiers in the form of "loan", which is called "yudai utensils", which means "borrowed utensils".
However, the Kyogoku family has no money and no extra equipment to supply the peasants and soldiers, even if they want to implement the "equity of imperial loan", it will not work.
Without equipment, Ashigaru's combat effectiveness will plummet, and the casualty rate will increase. This is a very important thing.
Thinking of this, Kyogoku Takamasa stood up and walked to the shelf nearby and rummaged for a while, then took out a thick stack of account books from a pile of documents and started reading.
"Although I know I'm poor, it's quite okay to be this poor."
Looking at the inventory displayed on the account books, Kyogoku Takamasa was on the verge of tears.
Yongle Qian 860 Guan 320 Wen.
There are 3546 bad money in 9 articles.
Meters 54,232 stones.
Brown rice 64005 stone.
426 long guns of various types.
74 nodachi.
29 swords.
There are 524 array hats.
There are 142 pieces of Okekawa Kabuto.
There are 52 carcass pills.
There are 83 abdominal rolls.
He is really poor.
According to the inventory, there are less than 500 ashigaru people in the Kyogoku family that can actually be armed.
According to the prices in the Kannonji Castle Castle Town, the price of a long gun is between 3 and 5 guns. The vermilion gun will be cheaper, but the quality is extremely poor.
The price of a Tokawa Kabuto (the most rubbish Ashigaru, mass-produced ones) is around 8 to 10 gu.
To purchase a complete set of ashigaru equipment, the cost is about 15 to 20 guan.
Even if all the remaining money is used to purchase equipment, or even part of the food is sold, the maximum amount can be purchased is about 2,000 sets.
If this is true, then the Kyogoku family is not far from bankruptcy, and even the retainers' salaries and daily expenses will have to be frugal.
More importantly, even if weapons and equipment are purchased for the peasants and soldiers, the peasants and soldiers are still peasants and soldiers and will never be able to take the stage.
Therefore, Kyogoku Takamasa must focus his limited resources on a specific group.
In other words, instead of wasting a lot of resources on ordinary peasants and soldiers, it is better to create a group of real elites! Although the number of these people is small, their combat effectiveness is by no means comparable to that of ordinary peasant soldiers.
Thinking of this, Kyogoku Takamasa quickly picked up a piece of white paper and started writing and drawing.
Soon, an idea about forming a standing army appeared on paper.
good!
Just be prepared!
Although a standing army has high daily expenses and high overall consumption, it cannot sustain a strong combat effectiveness.
As a time traveler who is familiar with the history of the Japanese war, how could Kyogoku Takamasa not know that in future history, standing troops will be the absolute main force in joint wars.
The reason why Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu and others were able to dominate RB was because while other daimyo were still guarding their own one-third of an acre of land to gather peasants and soldiers, these three big guys were already in the army. The troops started to explode.
Although military strength is not the only condition for victory, there are also political factors and economic strength involved, but with a fixed elite force, the chance of victory will be doubled.
...
Kyogoku Takamasa has always been a resolute person, and after thinking about something, he will definitely take action.
He did what he said, and the next day Kyogoku Takamasa found Kyogoku Takahiro.
"Father, I have a proposal regarding the development of our family."
"My son, it's okay to say it!" Kyogoku Takahiro was quite satisfied with Kyogoku Takamasa. It was a blessing to have such an outstanding heir.
Kyogoku Takamasa paused, and then said, "I believe that although our family currently owns a territory of 190,000 koku and mobilizes about 15,000 peasants and soldiers, most of these peasants and soldiers cannot be reused."
"It is not difficult to see from past joint battles that the combat capabilities of farmers and soldiers are really limited. Most of the previous joint battles relied on the warriors of their own families to play their role."
"So I believe that soldiers are more valuable than their numbers."
"What I mean is that you want to form an elite Ashigaru army?" Kyogoku Takahiro replied thoughtfully.
Kyogoku Takamasa nodded, "I am going to select a thousand strong men between the ages of 20 and 35 in Kitaomi, supplemented by the equipment provided by my family, to form a standing ashigaru! "
"A thousand?"
"Wouldn't that cost tens of thousands of dollars?" Kyogoku Takahiro suddenly felt a little heartbroken. Could it be that the wealth he had saved so hard was about to be thrown away like this?
"In fact, it may be more than that. Just purchasing these ashigaru equipment will cost nearly 20,000 guan. If the ashigaru salary and daily expenses are included, the cost will probably be more than 30,000 guan!" Kyogoku Takamasagi It’s also a bit painful, it’s really expensive.
Kyogoku Takahiro's breathing suddenly became rapid, and he replied with a troubled expression, "The total money in the Imahama Castle warehouse is only about 10,000 guan, and most of it is bad money."
"Where can I raise these 30,000 yuan?"
"Do you want to sell food?"
Kyogoku Takamasa shook his head, "I thought about it all night last night. At first, I thought like my father. But then I thought about it, and there is another way."
"any solution?"
"The first is borrowing, the second is making, and the third is robbing!"
Hearing this, Kyogoku Takahiro was confused again, "Who can I borrow from? How to make it? How to rob it?"
"Nowadays, a large number of businessmen have gathered in our territory due to the relationship with the castle town, and there are many businessmen with strong financial resources. My lord can contact these businessmen as the head of the family, and then borrow funds from these businessmen in the name of the Kyogoku family."
"There are mines near the river, and you can order people to mine them. In addition, you can gather various craftsmen in the territory to make enough weapons and equipment to be self-sufficient."
Kyogoku Takamasa was about to reach the third point when Kyogoku Takahiro, who was on the side, quickly reached out and interrupted, "Wait a minute, you said there is a mine in Omi?"
Kyogoku Takahiro had been poor for half his life. Suddenly one day someone told him that he had a mine at home.
When thinking of mines like Iwami Ginzan, Kyogoku Takahiro felt like his heart was going to jump out!
"There is a mine!"
"Gold mine or silver mine?"
"Copper Mine!"
MMP!
