Chapter 126: Kuroda Toshinori's Mission
"My lord, as long as a few more years pass, let the other horses continue to recuperate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info If the family's trading fleet can buy war horses from the Jurchens in the future, in the current situation, it is considered that the stallion is enough, and it is better to just buy a mare. When there are more than five horse farms of the same size, it can provide about 150 war horses every year, and it is a continuous supply, and it can even continue to expand the scale. ”
"I see, that is, if it is on the current scale, it can provide 100 horses a year, right?"
"If you go back to the lord, if it is to ensure the production of horses in the future, it is indeed like this."
"Then provide me with a hundred war horses this year, and we will not form a cavalry, first recruit three hundred elite soldiers to learn horsemanship, and this hundred horses will be enough, and then it will take three years to equip war horses and form this cavalry." Kuroda said.
"Your Excellency, this method is really too imaginative, so that as long as the horses are fully prepared in the future, we will have three hundred standing elite cavalry, and this will not affect the expansion of the scale of the horse farm." Yoshitsugu Otani said.
"But this is not going to ...... the finances," said Governor Konishi, with some concern.
"It's just that compared with the temptation of cavalry, the financial expenditure will still choose cavalry, and since the lord dares to do this, there will be absolutely no problem with the finances of this family." Hanabo Masanari also expressed his opinion.
"Okay, I'll leave the training of these 300 people to Arima-sama." Kuroda said.
"Hey! I will do my best under the next by all means. Arima Hidehisa said.
"Don't be nervous, you can be the lieutenant general of the cavalry for the time being!" Kuroda said with a smile.
"Adjutant general?" Arima Xiujiu said with some doubts, although he was a little dissatisfied that there was a character above, but he was still self-aware of his ability.
"Hmmm! The cavalry commander will be the Qi Yin Qi of the family. Kuroda said a name.
"Lord Qi Yin, is it a Ming countryman?"
"It is a native of the Ming Kingdom, and it is also a young military general I am very optimistic about, slightly older than you, rich experience in leading troops in the Ming Kingdom, and has some experience in cavalry combat, and has specially learned the cavalry tactics of the Jurchens in Liaodong, when the time comes, you have to learn it modestly!" Kuroda said earnestly.
"Now that I know, I must study hard."
In Nagato Province, the vigorous construction has been in full swing after the snow melts.
Under the key training, Kuriyama Riyan can be regarded as both civil and military, he has outstanding points in all aspects, and finally Matsui Shigetaka arranges him to be in charge of the heavy responsibility of money and grain according to his actual needs.
Although his three retainers were excellent in martial arts before, they did not have much responsibility for internal affairs, but they could still do some simple work according to the arrangement of Kuriyama Riyan.
The two brothers, Kuroda Toshitaka and Kuroda Naoyuki, were both calm and careful people, so after weighing up, Matsui Shigetaka asked the two of them to take charge of the expansion and reinforcement of the Yamaguchi Pavilion and the construction of the granary.
Because of the previous arrangements and plans before Yasuji Doton, although they have a lot of workload, they are mainly responsible for organizing and coordinating the work, which is not difficult for the two of them.
The most headache for Matsui Shigetaka is his brother's third son, Kuroda Toshinori, this guy is really the same as before, smiling, but the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water. Shigetaka Matsui talked to him, but it didn't seem to have much effect.
In the end, Matsui Shigetaka thought that if other samurai saw him Kuroda Toshinori, they would definitely recognize him at first sight, and it was estimated that it would be due to his temperament, which was definitely not something Kuroda and he wanted to see.
But there really seems to be a person under his command who doesn't know Kuroda Toshinori, and he has some ability, but he is a little rigid in doing things, and Matsui Shigetaka is thinking about what kind of sparks will be created if he is lost to Yumi Megada!
Shigetaka Matsui decided to send him over first, and as for what will happen after that, let time tell! If the cooperation between the two is unpleasant, it will be too late to transfer Kuroda Toshinori back then.
In this way, Kuroda Toshinori left the only prosperous Yamaguchikan in Nagato Province in his eyes, left his two brothers, his wife, and Kuriyama Riyasu, who came with him, and embarked on the road under construction on the border between Nagato Province and Shufang Province.
Since most of the workers who built the roads were actually prisoners of the Kuroda family's wars, according to the Kuroda family's law, they had to work for the Kuroda family for two years before they could be freed and become members of the Kuroda family.
Although this move of the Kuroda family gave these people hope to live, heavy labor can easily cause all kinds of fatal accidents, and there will be some soldiers who are unwilling to work, and the Kuroda family has always used a relatively large number of standing soldiers to supervise their labor.
The first thing is to ensure that they work hard, and no one can cheat and slack off on their work; The second is that they can monitor the movements of these people at any time to prevent the occurrence of various possible riots; Third, it is also responsible for supervising the safety of raw materials and grain and grass for construction, and by the way, clearing out nearby bandits. Taken together, these matters do require the supervision of a certain number of people.
This time, Kuroda Toshinori left the Yamaguchikan with three of his men he had recruited in the Kuroda Castle longhouse district.
The three people are called Emura Masakai, Oshima Keiichi, and Kashiwahara Nagatsune, who are the children of the original wealthy family under the rule of Harima Province, and none of the three are the eldest sons, so they have no inheritance rights, these three families are small families, and they don't have much stone high, and it is impossible to give land to non-inheritors, so the three of them can only come to the longhouse area of the Kuroda family to try their luck, and they happen to be favored by Kuroda Toshinori and accepted as retainers.
The Emura family was born as a samurai, and Emura Masakai is actually not very good at martial arts, but he and his father have learned some internal affairs skills, plus they are clever, good at being resourceful, and observing words and feelings, so they were recruited by Kuroda Toshinori.
Keiichi Oshima and Kashiwahara Nagatsune both counted their families as branches of the Akamatsu family, but the two families had declined decades ago, but both of them got some family martial arts, that is, the swordsmanship of the Akamatsu family brought from Kyoto before, so the martial arts are not bad.