Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 859 The general is autistic

Eighteen drummers beat the drums, and amid the rumbling drums, the chief shipwright directed the soldiers to remove the giant trees supporting the giant ship one by one.

Every time a support was removed, there was a cheer.

When all the supports were removed and the cheers reached their peak, the giant ship only slid a little and then stopped.

The scene was completely silent, and everyone looked at the General.

But I saw Ashikaga Yoshimitsu calmly saying: "Don't panic, the weight of the giant ship is too great, and the bottom of the ship is flat, it is normal that it cannot slide down."

"What should we do?" everyone asked.

"This general has already thought about it, so he chose this location to build the ship." General Ashikaga shook his paper fan proudly, as if he had a pearl of wisdom in his hand.

Lake Biwa is like an inverted Pipa. The water surface becomes wider towards the north and narrower towards the south. By the time we reach Tang Bridge, this section has become as thin as a river, otherwise there would be no way to build a bridge across it.

In this way, the slipway is built on the east bank of the river, and the rope can be used to pull it on the west bank of the river.

Everyone saw five thick ropes thrown down the side of the giant ship, and a small boat caught them in the lake. Then the soldiers rowed the rope to the west bank and connected it to the cattle that had been prepared long ago.

Twenty cows are divided into five groups, each group is connected by a crossbar, and the rope is tied to the crossbar.

Following the officer's order, the soldiers waved their whips together, urging the cattle forward and stretching the rope straight.

But no matter how hard the twenty oxen exerted their strength, the giant ship remained motionless.

"Twenty more!" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu ordered, and the soldiers quickly connected five more rows of cattle with shaft wood.

In this way, the number continued to increase, until at eighty oxen, the giant ship finally moved slowly with a huge creaking sound.

"Okay!" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu excitedly waved his hand and said, "Add the last twenty heads too!"

All the monarchs, ministers and guardian daimyo of the Northern Dynasty also completely forgot about themselves. They shouted and encouraged a hundred cows regardless of their appearance. The atmosphere in the venue reached a boiling point!

Finally, under the desperate pulling of a hundred cows, the huge battleship finally followed the slope and fell heavily into the water!
The huge splashes of water continued, making everyone on the Tang Bridge wet. But no one cared. Everyone screamed with excitement. They jumped and jumped, venting their joy and almost causing the bridge to collapse.

However, when the water splashed down, the cheers on the bridge suddenly became smaller. It was replaced by a hissing sound of gasping air.

Because they discovered that the giant ship was missing...

"Where's my boat? Where's such a big boat?!" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also noticed the abnormality. His eyes nearly popped out, and he roared at the top of his lungs: "Where did you take my boat?!"

There was complete silence on the Tang Bridge. Everyone stared with wide eyes, searching the lake, and soon it became clear that the giant ship had indeed entered the water, but it disintegrated the moment it entered the water.

After the ship disintegrated, various parts fell into the water one after another, which is why the water splashed so big and for so long.

The wreckage of the ship floating all over the lake is proof.

Especially the castle tower with its richly carved edifices and the banner of the Satoshi family, "Two Yin Liang", was definitely built on the deck of a giant ship originally, but now it is floating sideways in the water. "Anyway, it's true that he went into the water." His Majesty the Emperor said quietly, happily, as he looked at Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's face that turned into an eggplant color.

The others didn't dare to say a word, for fear of becoming the general's punching bag.

"Get out! Get out!" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu glared at the Emperor fiercely, roared and drove everyone away. He also got on the sedan chair and left Lake Biwa without looking back.

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As soon as he returned to the imperial palace, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu became autistic and did not see Hatakeyama Motokuni for ten days.

The maid gently pushed open the shoji door, and Hatakeyama Motokuni bowed in. He saw his master lying in the arms of several beauties with black teeth and white faces, drinking wine with open arms and listening to shamisen. The feeling of decadence immediately fills me up.

"General, please cheer up!" Hatakeyama Motokuni was so shocked that he quickly reminded: "The great cause has not yet been accomplished, so we must not be knocked down by temporary setbacks!"

"It's not a temporary setback," the handsome young general, his face full of world-weariness, cried out to the accompaniment of shamisen, "It's a hurdle that will never be overcome, Jiguo."

"It's not that serious. It's our first time to build such a big ship, so failure is inevitable. Let's learn from the lessons and just build it again!" The young family boss cheered the general loudly.

"You don't understand." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu shook his head dejectedly and said: "In the past ten days, the shipwrights have investigated the cause of the failure."

After a pause, he pointed out: "Our wood is not hard enough. Our ship has no keel. It is only made of thick wooden boards connected flat. It cannot support such a large hull at all. If it weren't for the support of those logs, it would have collapsed when it was built. fall apart,"

As he spoke, he almost shed tears of sadness: "There's no need to bother studying cannons. Once you install them, they will shatter into pieces as soon as you fire them..."

"Is there no way to solve these?" Hatakeyama Motokuni asked in a low voice.

"There is no way." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu murmured: "There is no wood in Japan to build big ships, and there are no shipwrights who know how to build big ships. It is useless to just follow the gourd and paint the gourd..."

"As long as you know where the problem is, can't you solve it bit by bit?" In order to make the master no longer depressed, Hatakeyama Motokuni did not pour cold water on him, but gave him chicken soup. "No matter how far the distance is, if you make a little progress every day, won't you get a little closer to your goal?"

"You don't understand." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu said dejectedly: "Well, actually I don't understand either. The shipbuilders before were bragging and were tortured before admitting that building a treasure ship like the Ming army requires a lot of effort. Hundreds of different types of work can only be completed by division of labor and cooperation. Even if we try to find a few shipwrights from Ming Dynasty, it will be useless."

"..." Hatakeyama Motokuni also fell silent. There is really no way to solve it.

"Then we have to face reality, General." After a while, he said in a deep voice: "The Ming army has already reached the Seto Inland Sea. If we don't find a way to retreat from the enemy, the pressure on the government and the opposition will be too great. Those The powerful daimyo who finally surrendered will definitely become a monster again."

"Yes." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu nodded, closed his eyes in pain and said, "Accept the conditions of the Ming army."

"But General, it is no longer the original three." Hatakeyama Motokuni said bitterly: "Every time we delay for a while, Mingguo will add one more, and now it is a full ten. And the fourth article also stipulates that every time we delay, One day, I have to compensate them for 100 million taels of silver in military expenses. It has been three months..."

"Sell me to compensate them!" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu broke the wine glass and said angrily, "What have you been doing?!"

"It was the general who instructed Shiba Biji to delay the time." Motokun Hatakeyama said depressedly: "The general said that as long as we build a giant ship, we can counterattack. Shiba Biji has worked hard to delay it until today..."

"..." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu held it in for a long time, and then he choked out two sentences: "Why don't you remonstrate? It's all the fault of you sycophants!"

Hatakeyama Motokun was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.

(End of this chapter)