Chapter 41 45. Minor Achievements Are Rewarded with Great Rewards

Having been hit hard by life, Kobayata was like a salted fish that had lost its dream. He wanted to collapse on the floor. He felt that he had lost the meaning of life and just wanted to stay at home and eat and wait for death.

Just as Kobayata was about to pat his butt and leave, Hosokawa Harumiya indicated that he had not finished speaking yet, so don't worry. Kobayata had a question mark in his mind. Hasn't I been transferred to the official system? What else do I need to do?

"You have made a lot of efforts in the negotiations with the Imagawa clan. This is a great achievement." Hosokawa Harumiya smiled and nodded at Kobayata.

Kobayata realized that he had indeed sprayed a lot of saliva when negotiating peace with Okabe Motonobu. "Could it be that spraying a little saliva can be considered a merit now?" Kobayata thought so.

To be honest, he just came up with an idea, not really fighting to capture the city or risking his life alone to persuade the city to surrender. Kobayata thought that it would be a reward of a few dozen kan of money, or a knife or a few tables of rice. If Hosokawa Harunaga hadn't mentioned it, Kobayata would have forgotten it.

After all, how could such a casual thing be as important as knowing a dazzling and true samurai? Okabe Motonobu alone occupied a large part of the memory.

However, Japan often used a reward method similar to that of the Tang Dynasty in China for the merit of capturing a city (no matter how it was captured).

This method was mainly implemented in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and was called the return of personal officials. That is, a certain vassal warlord led his troops to defeat another vassal warlord. After the dog-biting and dog-biting war ended, the central government of the Tang Dynasty did not make any rewards. The successful one was allowed to take everything from the one he defeated, including but not limited to official titles, property, land, wife, separatist scope, and even adopted sons and chamber pots used at night.

This policy changed to a certain extent in Japan, such as Sanada Yukitaka's design of a strategy to help Takeda Shingen seize Toishi Castle, an important town of Murakami Yoshikiyo's side, by strategy. He wiped out the humiliation of the defeat of the Takeda family in the Ishibeng War and made a milestone contribution to Takeda Shingen's invasion of the north of Shinano. As a result, he was able to restore the power of the small county of Sanada Township in Shinano, and was rewarded with a territory of more than 1,000 kan, returning home in glory.

Another example is Takenaka Shigemon's father Takenaka Hanbei Shigeharu's Warring States Adventure (Hogen), which was written by Takenaka Shigemon. His father Takenaka Shigeharu and his younger brother made a small cooperation and used 18 people to capture the important town of Inabayama Castle in Mino. After hearing the news, Oda Nobunaga was willing to exchange it for a reward of 300,000 koku and half a country in Mino.

In Japan, if you capture a city that is of great use to the master, you will get a reward that matches the city. Even an ordinary branch castle, such as the Furuta Oribe mentioned above, who persuaded the Takato branch castle to surrender, can also get a hereditary salary of 200 koku.

But when Hosokawa Harumiya said that he had made great contributions in persuading Futamata to surrender, he was promoted to the rank of samurai general Uchida County Dai and was awarded an additional reward of 300 kanwen. All the civil and military officials in the audience were speechless with surprise.

Kobayata's samurai status was not given by the Yamauchi family, but was picked up by his uncle Tsunayoshi through nepotism after he became famous. Although Kobayata was a magistrate of the Yamauchi family, the positions of tongshin and tongshin can be held by any literate second son of a samurai family or the son of a rich farmer. In this era, it is completely unrelated to the status of a samurai, and can only be said to be a job.

If a samurai works as a tongshin, he is a samurai position. If a commoner works as a tongshin, he is still a commoner. You can't automatically become a samurai of the Yamauchi family just because you come out to serve.

So Kobayata is still a commoner in the Yamauchi family. At most, he is a high-level commoner, yes, a very high-level one.

Of course, Kobayata had been formalized ten minutes ago because of his merits and officially became a hatamoto samurai directly under Yamauchi Yoshiharu. This foundation already exists.

Ordinary hatamoto should bring their own recruited foot soldiers as guards for their lords, but if the lord intends to promote you, then you should first serve as the general of the foot soldiers and lead the foot soldiers recruited from the daimyo's direct territory. After fighting a few battles and accumulating merits, you can become a team leader in the hatamoto and manage a few ordinary hatamoto. When you have enough qualifications and have made contributions and hardships, you will basically be a samurai general. You can be sent to the local area to serve as a parent official or be in charge of temples, shrines, castles, and general magistrates.

So what is the concept of this Uchida County Dai? It is higher than the rank of Luoyang Beiwei held by Cao Cao, and higher than the Luoyang Ling held by Dong Xuan, and not much different from Bao Zheng's acting governor of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Maybe some people still remember that Uncle Tsunayoshi was originally the head of Kawabe Village, Yamanouchi Township, Uchida County, Minamishin Province. This Uchida County is similar to the capital's direct jurisdiction of the Yamanouchi family, and the Uchida County Dai is the highest administrative and judicial chief of the capital.

This position almost immediately promoted Kobayata from the lowest-ranking samurai to one of the highest-ranking samurai in the daimyo family, and it was based on military merit, which was very different from the hereditary positions held by the hereditary ministers from generation to generation.

It was comparable to Kasuga Toranosuna who was promoted to Kaizu Castle Lord of the Takeda clan, succeeded to the 95,000-koku of the famous Kosaka family in Shinano, and was eventually praised as one of the four famous ministers of Takeda and the three dansho of Takeda.

However, the civil and military officials present had basically no objection. The military merit was unquestionable, and Futamata Castle was quietly in the hands of the Yamanouchi family.

Hosokawa Harumiya also said a fair word, not rewarding hereditary salary, this reward was still slightly low. And the hatamoto scribe Konishihara Saemon, who was shot half in the face, also attended the meeting. He could not speak for the time being, but nodded and applauded repeatedly to agree with Hosokawa Harumiya's opinion.

Before Kobayata could refuse, the chief monk, Yoshiharu Yamauchi, waved his hand and told him not to refuse.

He also said that Kobayata worked hard in transporting military rations, and he saw it all, and hoped that Kobayata could be more loyal and brave.

Everyone left the stage, and Yamanouchi Yoshiharu kept Kobayata, and sincerely thanked him for everything he did to maintain the morale of the army.

Kobayata recalled that other people may not realize the importance of good logistics because they have experienced a short-term war with a few thousand people for many years. Yamanouchi Yoshiharu is a wise ruler who is determined to lead 30,000 brave soldiers, point his troops to Kyoto, and go to Kyoto to defend the king. He has seen the value of Kobayata, and he found that Kobayata has broken through his cognition again and again. Perhaps the sentence "I don't want to be a minister to you" is not ambition, but anger full of talent.

For a while, the two people in the field felt a little hot. There was an atmosphere of good birds choosing trees and meeting good trees, and good ministers choosing masters and meeting good masters.

At this moment, Kobayata seemed to have really integrated into this era.

To be continued. (Kobayata finally entered the ranks of high-ranking samurai, and a more turbulent era is about to begin)

The first volume is over, with more than 80,000 words, Kobayata finally became a high-ranking samurai, and the next step is to fight for the hereditary nobility and land. In addition, thanks to the big brothers for the recommendation.