$ Chapter 701 13. Planning for Yamauchi Elementary School
At this time, it is no longer practical to send Portuguese cannons to Ganshoji Temple in Nagashima, but it is no problem to send a hundred or so iron cannons to enhance its firepower.
And don't think that it can't be transported in. Although Nagashima is fighting hard, the sea transportation in Ise Bay is still smooth. The Oda family and the Nagashima Ikki fought with real swords and guns, but the Oda family's Tsushima still did business happily with Nagashima.
Except for the iron cannons, gunpowder and lead bullets that cannot be sold on the surface, what can't be sold? If you don't do business, you are a fool!
Now, as long as there is a way, sending some contraband to Nagashima is not easy, but it is not that difficult to do. It is more troublesome to deal with the Kuki navy that covers the surface of Nagashima. They were ordered by Oda Nobunaga to come and surround Nagashima. I don't know if it is easy to deal with them.
This matter is not up to Xiao Pingtai. Murakami Yoshimitsu has been working in the special department for several years, and now he should also gain experience. Just entrust him to do it. You can't just be the leader's secretary for the rest of your life.
Regarding the various information channels and secret agents left by Yamanouchi Yoshiharu in the East and Luoyang, recently, because Yamanouchi Shukei felt that he was too old and couldn't keep up, he took the initiative to come to discuss with Xiao Pingtai and told Ashikaga Yoshiaki about this matter.
At the beginning, the original and the contact list were in Xiao Pingtai's hands, but Yamanouchi Yoshiharu gave the copy to his younger brother Yamanouchi Shukei, and agreed that Ashikaga Yoshiaki would return it to him when he came of age. Now it's just a notice in advance that this thing exists.
Xiao Pingtai has no objection. Anyway, it's just a temporary custody. He doesn't regard this thing as his own. Besides, he is not the only one who knows about it, so it's impossible for him not to come down.
There are many other things to do, and it's impossible to just take care of this one. First, the army must be disbanded. Except for the hatamoto standing guard, the conscripted soldiers have been exhausted for nearly four months outside and can't hold on for long.
The summer harvest in the territory has also been roughly completed. In the current situation, Xiao Pingtai has stored most of the harvested grain. Anyway, he can now advance from the National Yamauchi Bank, and the cash gap is not too large for the time being.
Oda Nobunaga and Ashikaga Yoshiaki have actually fallen out, but there is still a fig leaf on the surface. As the core pillar of the shogunate, the Yamauchi family may be involved in the war against Oda Nobunaga at any time because of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's call. If we don't store grain now, we will have nowhere to buy it when something happens.
And this time, it happened to be a drill for tens of thousands of troops to go to Kyoto. If Yamauchi really wants to go to Kyoto, at least 30,000 to 50,000 people are required, and the entire logistics will be a complicated matter that will make people bald.
This time, we will start with 15,000, and we can directly understand and deal with any problems. At first, in Yamauchi's territory, we can eat the grain stored in the military stations of each county and city one by one, without the need for large-scale transportation. After passing the East Mikawa, since this time we are marching in the friendly territory, we can also purchase grain and mobilize supplies along the way.
For example, Tsuda, Inoguchi, Otsu, Kusatsu, Luoyang, etc. are all prosperous and wealthy towns, and it is quite convenient to mobilize supplies. Mino and Owari are grain-producing areas. Even after winter, there are considerable food reserves in the countryside, so there is no place to buy food on the march.
Jiangnan and Jiangbei are prosperous rural markets and river and lake plains, so it is even easier to mobilize food and grass. As long as gold and copper coins are spent, even the purchase of military horses and iron cannons is a matter of a moment.
However, if the two sides fight, it has been said before that the main suitable route for marching is the Tokaido. According to Kobayata's estimate, if Tokugawa Ieyasu cannot rebel in Okazaki Castle, it will take about ten days and half a month.
Then there are the generals Hirate Hanhide, Mizuno Nobumoto, and Hayashi Hidetada of Kiyosu Castle reserved by Oda Nobunaga in Ansho Castle, who probably don't seem to surrender easily. The army can't continue to march without pulling out these nails in Luoyang.
Once they enter Owari, it is estimated that Oda Nobunaga will have to sell everything he has to gather 30,000 to 50,000 people to fight. If the battle is fought immediately, it may be easier. If it is like the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, it will be a logistical disaster.
It is extremely difficult to feed tens of thousands of mouths fighting in enemy territory every day!
It seems that finding a way to set up a Yamanouchi samurai elementary school should be put on the agenda!
We don’t expect everyone to be successful, at least they should learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of three-digit numbers. Not to mention knowing thousands of Chinese characters, knowing 700 to 800 commonly used characters, and being able to read and write is enough.
The school system does not need to be too long. Xiao Pingtai thinks that five years is enough. Learn culture in the morning and martial arts in the afternoon. After entering school at the age of seven or eight, graduating at the age of thirteen or fourteen, you can do internships everywhere, and when you are sixteen, you will be completely an adult.
Perfect!
When Xiao Pingtai was the magistrate of the iron cannon, the little Tongxin sent to him was only thirteen years old. He had not even passed the puberty period and spoke in a baby voice. He still went out to make a living and earn money to marry a wife. It was not strange in this era.
But where did the teaching staff come from? Learning to kill people was very simple. Just find a few 1.4-meter-tall strong men in the hatamoto. They jumped more flexibly than monkeys and crows flew on airplanes.
Learning arithmetic and Chinese characters was a big problem. Although there were hundreds of samurai in the Yamanouchi family hatamoto, not all of them were literate. Many of them only knew their own names. Some people could only read Chinese characters, but they were not reliable and could not write long letters.
Expecting them to teach and educate people in their spare time was a bit risky!
You can't really invite monks to run schools. Although Terakoya has a long history in Japan, and although Xiao Pingtai pretends to believe in Christianity, he actually hates religious forces entering education.
How can education not be secularized? We still have to find other ways. The best thing is, of course, to let the educated warriors from the hatamoto directly under Yamanouchi come out to teach the children. They are the most reliable! They are loyal and their level is not bad!
Unfortunately, there are always several months of fighting outside at the end of the year. We can't stop classes when there is a war. How can we train the next generation?
Xiao Pingtai simply handed this matter to the Lianpanzhong for discussion. Anyway, everyone has seen it now. It's useless to just know how to wield a knife to kill people. Managing counties and preparing logistics are both top priorities. The bigger the war, the more administrative personnel are needed.
Recruiting is definitely not reliable. It is better to train the children of our own samurai families in Yamanouchi. This scale is not big or small. There are at least several thousand children of school age.
Those present naturally exclude girls directly. Due to the limitations of the times, they will not talk about it. It is not realistic for all these boys to be concentrated in Fuchu Castle in Yamanouchi for classes. It takes several days to walk to the faraway Hachioji in Musashi Province, so it is impossible to arrange.
There are many problems and it is impossible to solve them all at once!