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Chapter 308: Military Heart

The news that Yuqihei returned safely from Inabayama Castle made Ohara's senior officials excited. Everyone was amazed at Yuqihei's good luck and praised Takenaka Shigeji. In order to praise Yuqihei's hard work in concluding the alliance with the Asai family (I almost lost all my life), Oda Nobunaga granted the 6,000-stone territory of Nakashima County to Yuqihei, to the south of Yeli County. He also promised to grant him some of the territory close to Yeli County in Niba County after quelling Oda Nobuki's rebellion. In order to accept the new territory, the rules of acting officials, circuit courts, banking systems and other details were implemented, Naoe Tadaehiro, Amano Keito and Sena Nao Yoshi were busy again.

Oda Nobunaga also tried to send someone to recruit Takenaka Shigeji, who served as a teacher for Yu Qiuhei, and gave him 30,000 stone territory and the position of the Oda family's old man, but was rejected by Takenaka Shigeji. Oda Nobunaga was quite generous and did not stubbornly anymore - but he was unable to recruit capable retainers, obviously he was full of anger - so Ikeda Hokkai and Maeda Taki's Maeda were in trouble.

Because they violated the order privately, they took people and Imakawa Kaede to rescue Yuqiuhei, which made Oda Nobunaga so angry that they hid in Yuqiuhei. The two hid in Yuqiuhei's territory for half a month and thought Oda Nobunaga had already calmed down. However, as soon as they returned to the city of Kiyosu, they were immediately beaten by Oda Nobunaga and were both locked up.

Yu Qiuping originally wanted to find an opportunity to visit these two good brothers, but there were too many trivial facts in the territory, which made him unable to escape.

The most urgent task is Chang Panbei's expansion of recruitment. What made Yu Qiuping feel relieved was the one recruited a few years ago. It has now completely integrated into the Yu Qiu family. It is no longer the new recruits who were complaining about being tired and had no loyalty to the Yu Qiu family back then.

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Kazumatsu Masayoshi has a deep understanding of this.

He was 24 years old and turned out to be a farmer in the Shimocho of Kono Castle. He passed the selection of Yuqiu family two years ago and joined the army and became a young man in Yuqiu family. As for why he came to Yuqiu family to serve in the army, Kazumatsu Masaki's reason was very simple: it was a lot of money. He was different from the dozens of farmers from around Minghai. He had never been to survive by Yuqiu's "sending food and supplies to the enemy" and had no feelings for Yuqiu family. He even rejected this foreign household. However, the settlement fee offered by Yuqiu family was really touching, which was far beyond the salary of other wealthy families in Ozawa who recruited regular troops. It was also for this reason that Kazumatsu Masaki ran to Kuroda Castle to serve in the army.

However, he soon felt regretful.

The training at Yuqiu's training ground was too perverted, and it was simply as if it were "punishment". Kasumatsu Masaki had seen the Sasa family and Shibata family's training in the slack season. They were nothing more than holding bamboo guns and machetes. How could they be as terrifying as Yuqiu's family? On the first day, Kasumatsu Masaki and more than 100 new recruits stood with Chang Panbei's veterans for three hours. Kasumatsu Masaki's legs were sore that they were about to break, so they found a chance to be lazy. In fact, they just didn't keep their attentive posture and bent their legs slightly. However, his behavior was immediately discovered by the veteran who supervised him one-on-one and reported to the "crow judge" Amano Kyoto.

Keidu Amano was not polite and immediately punished him for thirty push-ups. Before he could breathe, Masayoshi Kasumi was asked to stand in a military position. Within a day, he was punished for ninety push-ups. There were countless people who were tragically punished like him - this was to train people as beasts.

That night, the newlyweds gathered together to scold Yuqiu's family for training, and many of them even wanted to escape. However, they were reluctant to give up the salary they had not received, so they stayed there. Although they cursed fiercely, they had to admit that Yuqiu's family's food was still very good and they could have three full meals every day. However, everyone actually understood in their hearts that providing sufficient food was just to train every day.

Standing in military posture, marching, walking in unison, turning three ways... The massive training poured towards these recruits, making them miserable. Everyone complained about Yu Qiuping and Yu Qiu's family. Although the military posture became more and more standard, Kazumatsu Masayoshi was increasingly dissatisfied with Yu Qiu's family. He vowed that when he had the chance to escape, he would never fight to the death for Yu Qiu's family. He didn't understand how Chang Panbei's veterans endured the hard training over the years and were loyal to Yu Qiuping.

Until that day, his view changed.

Just one day shortly after he joined the army, he and several of his friends were walking on the streets of Kuroda Castle Town, and they met Yu Qiuping and his guards. The habit they had developed over the years made them kneel down and kowtow to salute immediately - but this was stopped by Yu Qiuping and his guards.

"Isn't the military rules very clear? You don't need to kneel down when you see the warriors and commanders of the Yuqiu family. Just marching," Yuqiuping's opponent complained with great dissatisfaction with his bowing: "Do you want to be punished for push-ups?"

Of course, Masayoshi Kanematsu knew this military rule, this military rule that was made privately by their recruits. Everyone thought that this was just a fun thing written in the military rule. Who dared not to worship when he met the head of the family? Which warrior didn’t like others to kneel down?

Yu Qiuping really doesn't seem to like it.

After seeing the confused gazes of Masaki Kanematsu and his friends, Yu Qiuping said seriously and seriously: "Everyone is born equal. No one is born nobler than others, and no one is born inferior to others. The reason why I am the family governor is that you are just a matter of different division of labor. If you leave the position aside, you and I are just equal creatures. The etiquette of humiliating yourself like a kneeling ceremony will never be allowed in Yu Qiu's family."

All beings are equal... Isn't this the Buddha's teaching? Kazumatsu Zhengji is a little confused. Does it really exist in the secular world?

"Your parents have been born and raised by you for so many years," Yu Qiuping looked at Masayoshi Kanematsu and said in a deep voice: "Grain you into a manly man. It's not for you to kneel down to others everywhere!"

"High your chest! Say the military salute!" Yu Qiuping suddenly changed his tone and said sternly. The recruits who had been strictly trained for many days had already developed a conditioned reflex to execute the order. Subconsciously, they stood straight with their left hand close to the trouser sewing, raised their right hand and pointed to their temples, and saluted Yu Qiuping.

"Very good." Yu Qiuping also stood upright with a smile and replied to their military salute, "This is what a good man should look like."

Until now, the great principle that Yu Qiuping said of "Everyone is born equal" was not very clear. He could not understand why the royal nobles born with a golden key and the Daming Children would be equal to those of themselves, who had been digging food from generation to generation, and he still felt inferior to others.

However, their family governor and His Highness Hongye never showed his superiority. He always talked with all the recruits kindly, and even told everyone about it for fun. Those instructors who were strict and fierce during training never asked themselves to kneel down, and they would always get along with them on the same level after the training.

The heartfelt touching came to Masayoshi Kazumatsu.

No one is born to kneel down, and no one is born to endure unequal and humble status. When they can live in the world with dignity, everyone will sincerely feel happy and relieved. However, Masayoshi Kanematsu could not attribute the respect he received in Yuqiu's house to those strange "thoughts", but regarded it as a favor given by Yuqiu, a good lord Yuqiu-hei - this is also their supreme glory.

In this world of unequal hierarchy, Yuqiu's family is the most equal place. In Yuqiu's family, the military camp is the most equal place. No matter what position or identity, people meet each other with military salutes. A few months later, when Kazumatsu Masaki met Yuqiu again on the street, he stood up proudly and saluted a military salute. Yuqiu's family also smiled and returned the salute. At that moment, all the people around him cast envious eyes on the recruit who could salute the family equally, which also made Kazumatsu Masaki feel a sense of belonging to Yuqiu's family for the first time.

Here, I am no longer a farmer who lives under others' roofs, but a dignified man. This dignity and pride are all given by His Highness Yuqiu. He treats me well and I cannot let him down.

Such a change in the hearts of every recruit quietly happened. The instructors were surprised to find that these recruits gradually began to stop complaining and worked harder during training.

What shocked Masayoshi Kasumatsu even more was the power of Takababa as a collective.

After nearly a year of training in the army, he followed Yu Qiuhei to fight. First, the Ikki Ikki of Mikawa, and their 400 soldiers were facing thousands of Ikki. Kanematsu Masaki couldn't help but tremble, feeling that the small army of Tobaba was about to be submerged in the sea of ​​people. But to his surprise, the veterans around him all looked natural and turned their confident eyes to their commander-Yu Qiuhei.

Later, Masaki Kasumi Masaki understood the meaning of that gaze - not only trust in Yu Qiuhei, but also trust in the collective of Takababa. He saw with his own eyes that the army of Ikkijimaki was helpless in the face of Takababa's gun formation. Perhaps two masters of Ikkijimaki could be besieged and killed by one Takabababa. But when 400 Takabababaki formed a gun formation and served as a solid support for each other, their strength could resist thousands of troops. As a member of Takababa, Kasumi Masaki Kasumi also stabbed a monk soldier who rushed to the front of him. As a member of the group, I would cover my companion, and my companions would also try their best to cover me. It was really good.

For the first time, Kasumatsu Masayoshi was proud of his belonging to this group.

What shocked him the most was the battle in Mino last year. The entire Oda family army was ambushed and fell into chaos. In the chaos, the troops of each family were trying to adjust, but were in a mess. Only Takababe quickly completed the array and launched a counterattack on the invading enemy. Three-sided forwarding, queue changes, running and march... Many things that Kamamabe Masaki felt useless during training played a huge role at this moment. When he realized that his efforts on the training ground had played such a great role, he felt extremely satisfied and proud. When the other Oda family retainers were busy adjusting the formation and turned his admiration and surprise to Takababe, who had been arranged, Kamamabe Masaki suddenly felt that he had never been so proud of the paper red leaves he wore on his head.

"Don't worry, leave it to us Takababa!" Kanematsu Masayoshi said to the Ikeda family's footsteps with great pride, "We Takabababababa, we have always been the strongest!"

Yes, we Chang Panbei. I am also a member of Chang Panbei. We are Chang Panbei, who is the most difficult to practice and the most powerful on the battlefield.

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When Yu Qiuping issued a call to recruit soldiers to Ou Zhang Quanling this time, these young men from all over Ou Zhang immediately demanded to return to the territory and promote Yu Qiuping's recruitment policy as a propagandist. The new recruits who were extremely dissatisfied with Yu Qiuping finally understood why those veterans of Chang Panbei were so loyal and combative.

They vigorously promoted it in their hometown, describing Chang Panbei as a combination of heaven and hell. All the warriors and senior officials respected every recruit, enough food, the salary and the settlement fee! However, the training ground was like hell, as if it was about to be gone for a few days.

Relying on the hard publicity of these voluntary propagandists and the large salary they brought home, the Yuqiu family quickly recruited 200 new recruits and began to train them as full-time juniors. Although these young people complained at the beginning and were dissatisfied with the Yuqiu family. But at this moment, Masayoshi Kasumatsu, as a veteran, only laughed at this and continued to strictly supervise the actions of their new recruits. Any minor mistakes would be picked out by him.
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