The so-called "The Eight Prince of Wuzhou has a thousand people who are united, of course, does not mean that there are a thousand samurai warriors in the place of Musashi's Hachiko. Moreover, the number of people is also an imaginary number. The agreed quota of one thousand people. Do you think this post can still be neat after 250 years?

If you want to talk about Tongxin, Tadaemon has been Tongxin. Tongxin under Edo Castle is the real police station director and actually managing the ground. There are a total of two 20 people. In the later generations, Tokyo has more than twenty districts, and you will know how powerful this Tongxin has.

A typical person with a low position and weight is not to mention in Japan. Even if you are in the mainland, as long as you have a society and have some experience, you can know how powerful a police station director is. It seems that if you really want to do some tricks, it is just a matter of greeting each sentence.

When Wuzhou Eighth Prince was established with one heart, it was actually because Okubo Chang'an was granted the Eighth Prince Eighth Monoshi, and the Eighth Prince was the key pass to the Kanto streets of Koshu. Then he was ordered by Tokugawa Ieyasu to recruit personnel and try to form an army.

To put it bluntly, the Hachinozi is a checkpoint that can only be opened by a man who can be a 10,000 men. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who runs Kanto, has both ambitions to compete for the world and a patience to defend Kanto to the times. Therefore, in Izu Chiushan, Musashi Hachinozi, Ueno Cone Iceland, etc., famous ministers and generals were set up to command troops and horses to guard them.

As the key pass that the Hojo family's boss, Ishishizawa, had been stationed in the Hojo family, naturally needed enough troops to guard it. But as we said before, Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Kanto, he compromised with Kanto. The land he actually controlled was so large that he could not support too many people.

So he used the method of establishing a village sect. Instead of recruiting samurai directly, he saved the expenses of this salary, and organized the old Takeda clan and the remnants of the Hojo clan near the Hachinoko into the Hachinoko's unity, guarding the gates of the Koshu streets to guard the gates for him.

These so-called unity, even in the Takeda clan and the Hojo clan, were not actually samurai. Their identity ranks were relatively vague, because the Takeda clan and the Hojo clan, who were in the warring era of victory in the Warring States Period, had almost fought for years, and their desire for soldiers was unimaginable to ordinary people.

Therefore, in addition to the "real" samurai that ordinary people can understand, namely the direct retainer of Daming, and local tyrants who are subordinate to Daming, there are also a large number of local forces and migrant populations.

The most typical example of local forces is called "Wuchuan Jin". This "jin" is a model or system for the Takeda family to organize local populations. Generally, they do not even need to respond to Takeda Shingen's military obligations. Their obligation is mainly to guard their hometowns, especially key passes on the borders of their hometowns when the army goes to war.

Rather than saying that they are samurai or soldiers, they are local residents' self-security teams, only wandering around one acre and three-point land in their hometown. It seems that they are not very useful, but when Takeda Shingen goes to war, they suddenly become soldiers in a sense and defend Kafa's border.

Generally speaking, in the Warring States Period, we should not talk about 10,000 stones to produce 250 soldiers or 300 soldiers. We can make a conclusion here. No so-called experts and scholars in the world can say that there was a standard number of soldiers sent in Japan during the Warring States Period.

Anyone who swears to tell you that someone will definitely be able to send out many soldiers, and specifically ten digits, is basically a pure brag, pretending to understand or learning a little bit of it.

In the examples in front of you, the upper and lower limits of the total number of soldiers are simply unimaginable. Sometimes they can float up and down in units of tens of thousands, only by calculating the number of soldiers, as well as the actual military needs of Takeda Shingen and Takeda Katsurachi himself.

Furthermore, in addition to these local forces, the Takeda family also likes to use migrant populations. Naito, one of the four ministers of Takeda, guarded Mirhara Castle, because the Nishi Ueno area was repeatedly war-torn, with population loss and military service difficult to recruit. In order to ensure the number of soldiers in war, in addition to mobilizing the manpower of local tyrants, they are also very good at commanding and recruiting ronin people.

The ronin commanded by Masato Naito is a complete synonym, not only the so-called samurai who lost his master's family, but also the refugees, as well as all those who are willing to take up weapons and join the army in exchange for rewards after victory.

In the Warring States Period, people's lives were like grass, and salaries and rewards were all given before the war. You can carry the gun first, and I will only have this bite after I win. The key point is that you still have to survive, and it will be useless if you can't survive.

Such various personnel, to a little generalize, can make people have a number of sizes...

The topic goes back to the fact that the Hayao people are united. At that time, Okubo Chang'an recruited local forces and migrant populations that we mentioned. Tokugawa Ieyasu gained allegiance to these people at the cost of officially recognized samurai and granting them the land that was not reclaimed in Hayao's place for generations to cultivate land that was not reclaimed.

It is said that the shogunate daimyo Yonekura clan was born in Musashi Hachiko, and a thousand people were united. Going forward, it was a certain thorn-level organization that was born in Takeda clan.

Originally, he was just a small farmer guarding the border of Kafari, but because of Tokugawa Ieyasu's policy, he became a samurai, and with the Tokugawa family's ambition to seize the world, he became a daimyo step by step. Sometimes the encounters in life are indeed full of incredible things.

At present, the eight princes of Wuzhou are united in one group. In the long years of 250 years, they have almost never encountered any war worth mentioning, and the shogunate has never recruited them to participate in any war. The number of personnel has increased by at least four or five times, or even more than at the beginning of its establishment.

In addition, they are rural scholars who do not have any salary. If they want to live, they must dig out food from the soil and rely on the mountains to eat, so now they have become brave mountain people.

He has both the identity of a warrior and maintains his tough and savage habits!

There is almost no better source of troops on the shogunate ship. Recruiting peasants is a taboo, which will cause a large-scale rebound of the samurai class, but recruiting soldiers from the eighth prince's thousand people is something that no one can find any mistakes.
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