Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 165 My sister can’t marry for nothing!

Overall, Harano was quite satisfied with the marriage with Oda Danmasatada's family.

The main reason was that the choice of Princess Inu was much better than he had expected. He had never thought that Oda Nobunaga would marry a softie. It seemed that even if she was sent to the "cold palace", she would not resist. She was so easy to bully that many preventive measures were in vain.

The main problem brought about by this marriage turned out to be the dog princess's dowry attendants.

The main task of these people is to serve the dog princess and ensure her personal safety and daily life. The personnel composition ranges from warriors, grooms to coachmen, from cooks, tailors to maids and servants.

Theoretically, these people also became members of the Nohara family, and the dowry samurai were disguised vassals. Nohara could even arrange for them to follow him in battle - just like when Noharahime married into Oda Danmasatada's family, Mino's famous general Ando Mamoru was sent to accompany Noharahime, and he also fought several battles with Oda Nobuhide.

But even if you use your butt to guess, you can guess that there must be spies from Oda Danmasatada among these people. Even if they are not spies, they will be loyal to Oda Danmasatada. Otherwise, there will not even be this little benefit, and it is impossible for them to give away a princess for nothing.

In medieval times, daimyo in Japan loved to marry princesses. A big part of the reason for this was to send such a group of people over so that their in-laws would be more inclined towards them and to secretly understand their every move.

For example, Asai Nagamasa, the "Eagle of Omi" who married Princess Ichi, suddenly betrayed Oda Nobunaga when he was in an advantageous position, and almost helped Oda Nobunaga to "close the door and beat the dog". A big part of the reason was that the Asai family had intermarried with the Asakura family many times, and had a large number of retainers who were inclined to the Asakura family. They were connected with each other and were so powerful that even Asai Nagamasa did not dare to underestimate them. He was forced to make a choice that seemed extremely stupid to later generations - the Asai family was obviously an ally of the Oda family like the Tokugawa family (at least in name), but one followed the Oda family all the way to establish the Edo Shogunate, and the other died and his family was destroyed. How can this be justified?

The reason why Asai Nagamasa failed in his "closing the door to fight the dog" was because he had formed an alliance with the Oda family. Just as he was about to cut off Oda Nobunaga's retreat, he was immediately discovered by the retainer of Princess Ichi, who immediately reported it to Oda Nobunaga, causing Oda Nobunaga to turn around and run away, all the way to the border of Mino, and then turned back to fight desperately with the Asai and Asakura coalition forces, and did not suffer any loss at all.

For this reason, a very good drama story was performed in the Edo period: "Beans in the Bag".

It is said that Princess Ichi sent someone to give Oda Nobunaga a bean bag with beans tied at both ends and filled in the middle, like a sausage. Others were puzzled, but Oda Nobunaga understood it at once, and understood Princess Ichi's hint. He knew that he was going to be attacked from both sides, so he retreated decisively and escaped from danger.

Now Harano also enjoyed the treatment of Asai Nagamasa, with a princess of the Oda family in his family. But there was nothing wrong with a soft-hearted princess, so he just kept her. However, he didn't want any of the retainers and party members given by the Oda family, even though he was short of manpower now.

After all, he himself doesn't want to recruit retainers, so how could he allow a bunch of cheap retainers to come to his territory and set up their own yoke?

Even if you use the title of princess, it won’t work!

But Shinwanzu and Oda Danjotada were currently in their honeymoon period, and it was not convenient for him to send them back, as that would be too disrespectful to Oda Nobunaga. So the first thing he did after his wedding was to meet with the three samurai in the group, comforting them with gentle words, and then actively expressed his desire to build a small village for the Inu Princess as a private villa, and tricked them into bringing their men to be responsible for the initial construction work, and directly isolate them outside and make use of the waste.

As for the rest of the family, that is, servants, maids and the like, these people have a wide range of skills and there is no place to throw them, and it is not easy to make things look bad, so he just keeps them in the house and monitors them secretly, and then slowly disperses them - for the time being, just make sure they don't have access to confidential information, nothing else matters, he has no intention of launching a surprise attack on Oda Nobunaga, so he is not afraid that they will secretly send him "beans in the bag".

Princess Dog was indifferent to all this. After all, she didn't know anyone in the dowry group except A Zhong and A Xia, two maids who grew up with her. So as long as A Zhong and A Xia were around, she hardly felt any changes. In addition, she was really soft-hearted. As long as Yuan Ye didn't abuse her, she would be satisfied. She was really young, and being sent to the marriage was just a forced move. She didn't understand some things at all. She was very happy living in Yuan Ye.

Yuanye was relieved by this. He actually had no feelings for the Dog Princess, at least for the time being. After all, strictly speaking, the two of them could be considered strangers, and feelings could not come out of thin air. But he also did not want to harm an innocent child, and was willing to give a little so that she could live a better life.

Now that she can live happily, Yuanye feels relieved and turns his attention back to work.

He didn't have to worry about the resumption of production in Wanjin. Endo Chiyo and others were doing a good job and were becoming more and more like internal affairs officials. Yuanye could only make some plans to prepare for more residents in the future, such as adding more detailed civil departments. So during this period, he mainly took advantage of the opportunity of the islanders coming to surrender one after another to build a small shipyard near the new Wanjin dock and began to try to manufacture ships by himself. However, his previous major had nothing to do with shipbuilding, so it could not play a big role. The shipbuilding technology mastered by the islanders was very crude. After a long time, the shipyard could only produce some small early-style fishing boats. If he wanted to really build warships, he needed to find a "chief engineer".

Only in this way can some of Yuanye's ideas have a basis for realization, otherwise they can only be fantasies without being put into practice. However, it is not easy to find such professional talents, at least not in the Ise Bay area. He sent Aman out to inquire but couldn't find any, so he could only keep this in mind and start to reserve qualified shipbuilding materials, in case the "chief engineer" is found and there is a shortage of large wood.

In addition, he often went to the military camp. After all, this was the foundation of Xinwanjin. Without this army, he was nothing.

The military discipline of the Wanjin Army was still strict, and the soldiers were all kept in check. More than 500 soldiers (some were injured and some were gradually replaced) were doing nothing but training. After fighting a few battles, Yuanye now had new ideas. Also for the final plan, he started to organize a teaching team and prepared to send someone to be responsible for the ideological work of the soldiers. After all, it was not safe to rely solely on military discipline to enforce constraints, and it might be better to add ideological education.

Of course, it is impossible for him to relax military discipline, even though some middle and lower-level officers have tactfully said that there is no need to restrain the soldiers so strictly, and that something might go wrong if they are too tense. However, he still does not intend to change this - this is human nature. In the context of East Asian culture, as long as there is a crack in the rules and a little flexibility, some people will quickly dig a hole in them and easily get in and out of them, and then after another three to five years, the hole will be big enough for a hundred-ton truck to pass through.

To correct a wrong, one must go to extremes. If someone is not a human being, then he should not be a human being. Otherwise, if someone violates military discipline today and does not lose his head, someone will definitely dare to rape and plunder tomorrow. Even if someone is executing military orders, there will be people who will steal some chickens and ducks. This must be prevented - he has fought several battles with Oda Nobunaga, and there was no battle without his gang of foot soldiers who went to rob, and some even auctioned off the looted items in the military camp. He does not want his army to become like this.

If things really become like this, it will be impossible to change them.

If he insists on changing it, I'm afraid he will lose his head!

So, he thought about it for a long time and felt that military discipline could not be relaxed at all, even if he killed more than 30 of his own people. However, he could make some adjustments with a combination of hardness and softness, emphasize "Aiwanjinism" more, do more ideological education, and organize more activities to enhance the sense of honor, encouraging soldiers to voluntarily and consciously abide by military discipline. In this way, the situation might be better.

Anyway, he planned to try it out for a while to see the results. After all, he had never been a soldier before and was a layman in military affairs. He could only learn on the job and summarize his experience on his own.

As he was busy, his life was peaceful again, no one came to beat him, the autumn and winter passed quickly, and time came to the third year of his misfortune, and Xinwanjin was developing normally. But as he had expected, as he wanted to do more and more things, and the workshops actively expanded production, and the spring plowing season was approaching, his manpower was in extreme shortage and he could not deploy it no matter how he tried.

He began to worry about this again, not knowing where to get another batch of labor. He wished that Imagawa Yoshimoto would stop the internal strife in his own territory and quickly go west to Kyoto and die so that the Chita Peninsula could be quickly ceded to him. At the same time, he was thinking that there were so many people in his neighbor's place, and they all looked sweet and delicious. He considered using money and food to lure their subjects to surrender, wondering if it would be possible and whether it would be considered a violation of the alliance.

He had been there for several days trying to think of all kinds of vicious ideas, and was having a headache because of the lack of people. Then Aman hurriedly sent someone to bring him a piece of urgent information - something had happened in Mino, and the Saito father and son had started a fight.

To be precise, it was Saito Dosan and his eldest illegitimate son Saito Yoshitatsu who had a fight. Saito Yoshitatsu was so cruel that he killed Saito Dosan's two legitimate sons directly and wanted to kill his biological father as well. At the same time, Saito Dosan's Inabayama Castle was also lost, and Mino was now in chaos.

Now both sides are calling their friends and preparing for a fight to determine who is the real ruler of Mino.

Nohara was very surprised for a moment. He didn't expect that such a bizarre thing would happen when spring plowing was almost approaching. The Saito family was indeed a viper family. The viper was actually born out of the belly of the little viper he was carrying. While he was marveling at this wonderful father-son relationship, Oda Nobunaga's messenger arrived shortly after receiving the information, asking the Nohara family to fulfill the alliance and assist Oda Danjotada's family to rescue another ally and fulfill their responsibility of helping each other.

Well, my sister can’t marry for nothing. My brother-in-law has to rescue my father-in-law, and my sister-in-law also has to send troops.

(End of this chapter)