Pillars of the Wu family

Among the servants of Kira's family, there are not many people who don't know his surname. They still have a good impression of this interesting surname, so they said with a smile: "My name is Masanari Hattori, and I am a ninja."

"Ah! You are Hattori Koshiroden! I heard that you are very powerful. You can fly over walls, invulnerable to swords and guns, and kill people invisible, isn't that true!" Masuda Shinsaburo looked at him adoringly.

"Actually, it's not..." Masashiro Hattori was about to explain, when he suddenly heard an angry shout from the room: "Tell me, what did you do? Huh? How much time will the family give you to improve Echigo's intelligence system?" Three full years! For three years, you can’t even control Echigo, so how can the family trust you?”

"Yes! It's the subject's fault!" A vaguely familiar voice made him realize something immediately.

"Hush!" Hattori Masashiro made a gesture to Masuda Shinzaburo, quietly approached the paper door, knelt down and listened carefully.

"Admit your mistakes and it's over? Tell me what you Hattori ninjas have done? The establishment of the Echigo intelligence agency has been progressing slowly since I came to the Echigo intelligence agency. This family understands and does not blame you. Now the Echigo samurai family has been overwhelmed by the family one by one. , why you still can't improve the intelligence system? Because you are incompetent and my blind eye?"

The conversation in the room fell into a long silence, Hattori Masamari was terrified when he heard it, and suddenly felt a light rushing from the tailbone to the top of the sky, and his whole body couldn't help shaking.

"If you don't talk about my family, I will tell you for you! It's all because of your son, Taro Jiro Saburo, who is more capable than the other! Taro hangs out with samurai all day long, drinking and fighting to make trouble, and treats the big business of the family as a joke! Jiro likes to gamble .If you don’t gamble for a day, you can’t eat. If you don’t gamble for three days, you can’t sleep. It’s just that the gambling is not good, and you lose nine out of ten bets. Most of your family’s money is lost by him. Debt, look at your father!

Saburo likes married men, and he is also the daughter-in-law of a senior official in Echigo. He uses ninjutsu to sneak into other people's homes and do things repeatedly.The entire Hattori ninja group was led by your three sons. You, a father who is not strict and conniving, caused a lot of internal complaints among the Iga ninjas. Many tasks were resisted, so that the family was almost harmed by your incompetence. Death, what crime do you think you deserve? "

"Seppuku suicide!"

"Suicide? Is suicide considered over? Can you atone for your sins by dying alone? No! My family hates samurai who are prone to seppuku. Are you called a samurai? You answer me, how should I deal with you?"

The room fell into silence again, this time for a short time.Then I heard the thick voice of the middle-aged man say: "This subject is so incompetent that it has ruined the great cause of the owner of the pavilion. No matter how punished you are, you will never complain!"

"You have served the family for many years, and you have done a lot of hard work. If you are not a heartless person, you will not be allowed to die. However, it is really not suitable for you to perform such a job. The family entrusted him to Mochizuki Yoshinaga. Do you have any comments?"

"I have no objection! Mochizuki Anyun's ability to guard the palace is comparable to that of my subordinates, and I also have an advantage in age. I support the decision of the owner!"

"Well! As a punishment, the main family decided to transfer Hattori Masaki to take over Hattori Hanzo after you came to take over Hattori Ninja, and you took your three sons to Kyoto to disintegrate Hattori Masaki's work! Koshiro Masanari will be adopted by Masaki as an adopted son. Do you have any opinion on the successor of the next generation Hattori Hanzo?"

"There is no objection! Thank you, Lord Master, for your generosity. I will definitely protect the two counties of Jinjiang. If the two counties are in, the minister will live. If the two counties are lost, the minister will die!"

"Xiao Shiro should be right outside the door, you go and meet him before leaving!"

"Yes!" After a moment of silence, the paper door was slowly opened, and Yasuo Hattori walked out with a sad expression.

"Shiro, follow the owner of the museum and work hard to serve the public. You must take your three elder brothers as a warning, and you must not do things that are perverse. Otherwise, the owner of the museum can get around you, and the family law of my Hattori family can't get around you! Anything more Listen to your uncle, he will be your father in the future, you must keep in mind your duty and the samurai law, love it wholeheartedly, and do your best to maintain it, this is the duty of our samurai family and the duty of my Hattori family!" Hattori Yasunaga's tone was firm and forceful. If it wasn't for his gray hair fluttering in the wind, he would have thought it was like ten years ago.

"Yes! Father! I will definitely keep it in my heart!" Masamari Hattori wept silently, and tears kept falling down.

"Don't cry! If you do something wrong, you have to bear it and face it. It's time for atonement for doing many things wrong for your father. You are the man of my Hattori family. The future Hattori Hanzo will rely on you to maintain the family business." , Be sure to remember the word loyalty! Alright! I’ve said everything that needs to be said, and it will depend on your performance in the future.” Baochang Hattori patted his son on the shoulder hard and left slowly.

"Father!" Hattori Masari watched his father's lonely back when he left, knelt down in pain and cried bitterly.

Ten days later, Masaki Hattori led dozens of capable men to Kasugayama Castle, and was adversely affected by the cold storage of Baochang Hattori. The influence of Iga in the Kira Ninja Army was greatly weakened. Shinobu was either punished or demoted to Omi Sakamoto to guard his lair following Hattori Baochang.

From a political point of view, relegation from the center is a very severe punishment, but considering Sakamoto's mature business system and the warm and humid climate is more livable, it is also a very kind punishment to demote Hattori Baochang there for the elderly. There is no need to drive him out of Kira's house to become a ronin, but he still has the unanimous understanding and gratitude of the Iga ninjas.

Hattori Masaaki got started very quickly. A few troublemakers who used to make trouble with the three boys of the Hattori family were arrested and locked up in a small dark room for fifteen days. He didn't dare to make mistakes, and successfully completed the transfer of power by using this relatively gentle method without killing and exiling, and basically achieved the purpose of leaving a few small tails for Hattori Yasuo before leaving.

It is still very difficult for Mochizuki Anyun Shouji Changsheng to be appointed as Monomi to lead the [-] ninja army. The reason for his difficulty is not that he is not good at ninjutsu and his prestige is too low, but that the Koga ninjas under his command are at an absolute disadvantage in number.

However, the 200 Mochizuki ninjas plus the Koka ninjas collected over the years only add up to [-].The difference in numbers makes Koka ninjas and Iga ninjas have power differences.This surprise is likely to cause unnecessary trouble.

After thinking about it, Mochizuki Yoshinaga asked Kira Yoshinaga for approval and wrote to his brother Mochizuki Yoshito for help. Soon the 53 Koga families sent a 600-member Koga ninja army group , On average, each family sent more than ten ninjas, and some of the big families took out fifty clansmen and sent them to Echigo.

He had expected that the appointment of Mochizuki Jichang would have a great impact on the Koka ninjas, but he took out four hundred ninjas in one go.Moreover, the elite team of Chunin with as many as 35 people is definitely beyond imagination. If you think about it, Yoshihide Rokkaku will be mad with anger!It's a pity that the local tyrants in Koga County are not easy to mess with, even if he gets angry again, he can only bear it.

It is not surprising that the Koga ninja would do this. Since Rokkaku Sarai died of illness, the development of the Rokkaku family has fallen into a bottleneck period in the past few years. The scale of Kannonji Town has not expanded at all. Business resources are gathered to Sakamoto.

For wealthy merchants in Kinai, the commercial centers of Kyoto, Sakamoto, and Sakamoto are enough, as a castle town of a daimyo city.The scale of Kannonji Town is already healthy enough, it would be foolish to expect more.Liujiao Yixian didn't think he was stupid, so he didn't do the stupid act of challenging the three major business centers.

The development in Kinai has been stuck in a bottleneck and no progress has been made. Yoshihide Rokkaku focused his attention on the circles of influence in Iga, Kita Ise, Kita Daiwa, and Kita Omi Asai County, and worked hard to gradually stabilize the influence of the Rokkaku family on these circles of influence in these countries. , and at this time the hexagonal vassals fighting for power and profit intensified, making the 53 families in Koka County even more worried.

This kind of worry is not enough to make them betray the Liujiao family. As the aboriginal wealthy family in Jiahe, they do not have the strength to betray the Liujiao family. They lack a strong leader and strong foreign aid, and the cultivated land in this county is very scarce. Koka ninjas are born to be vassals of the strong. The Iga ninjas who are better than them can barely support themselves, but the price of self-reliance is to be dominated by the samurai daimyo of Ise and Omi. In fact, their political status is not much better.

Since Yoshito Kira left, Omi Sakamoto has been developing in an orderly manner in the past three years. It has not been affected by public opinion in Kinai, and the population has steadily increased in the past three years, especially in Sakamoto, Katada, and Otsu. After the circle, the status of the economic center has been steadily rising, gradually stabilizing the gap in Sakai Town within a small range.

This is the effect of the Miyoshi family's vigorous support of Sakai Town and the strengthening of the import and export of Shikoku's products in Sakai Town. Although Miyoshi Changqing's goal is to extract more profits from Sakai Town and collect more Yaqin in proportion, but this is very important to Sakai Town. Objective development is still of great help.

The Katada area has also become a new type of handicraft gathering place. Many handicraft workshops that originally belonged to Sakamoto have moved to Katada one after another. On the one hand, it will strengthen the development speed of Katada in the handicraft industry, and on the other hand, it will loosen Sakamoto’s environmental protection. Many commercial towns are heavy-duty The clanging sound of the workshop, the high temperature and the thick black smoke are all criticized. The most annoying thing for businessmen walking in Kinai is that there are too many heavy workshops in Sakamoto, which cause too much noise and air pollution.

The problem affecting the business atmosphere was also solved with the relocation of the workshop, and at the same time, enough land was freed up for Sakamoto to attract more commercial population and ordinary craftsmen to live in. The experiment on the safe use of biogas in the Kokata Town of Katada was also completed. After three years of hard work and countless failures, all of them were completed. The newly developed alloy globe valve perfectly solved the problem of air leakage. In addition, installing a simple tempering device can also effectively prevent the violent explosion of the biogas digester caused by tempering. tragic scene.

The so-called alloy is not uncommon. Copper coin is a copper-lead alloy. Bronze itself is also a copper-tin alloy. The ancient alloy technology has existed since the Shang Dynasty thousands of years ago. It is also possible to invent a simple alloy ratio to produce a more suitable alloy. Not too high technical content.

On the contrary, Takashima County has always focused on the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. The commercial towns in the Azumi River area have become the downstream industry development areas of the three business districts in Shiga. Many craftsmen are used to working in Katada during the day and returning to Takashima County at night. Resting in Azumino Town, high-quality rice and livestock breeding have become the pillar industries of Takashima County.The large amount of livestock manure produced by breeding livestock is used as the main source of biogas and fertilizer.Ninety percent of them were transported to Jiantian as a source of fermentation for biogas digesters.

Form a circle of hand-crafted workshops for firing ceramics in Katada.The ceramic firing process comes from the potters in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty who taught the craft, and from the high-quality clay in the Jiantian Mountains. The fired celadon is several grades better than the poor pottery pots.

As soon as it appeared in the Piwa House, it was favored by many merchants in Kinai. Affected by this, Tokoname-yaki, Iga-yaki, and Shigaraki-yaki, which were originally best-selling in Kinai, were affected to varying degrees. Fortunately, it was named "Kada-yaki". They focus on high-end porcelain products, and strive to find out their own firing style and technology, which does not have too much influence on the production areas of ordinary household pottery.

In addition, there is a gradually rising textile industry. The high-quality blue ramie woven city hemp cloth provided by Echigo is a commodity that is in short supply in the market.Clothing, food, housing, and transportation are closely related to everyone. Even farmers in the countryside have to wear some old sackcloth, so this kind of high-quality and cheap sackcloth is very popular. For this reason, Pipa House also opened a ready-made clothing store, accepting pre-ordered clothes according to the style of the material and the manual cost. orders.

Of course, the textile industry is indispensable, finer high-end fabrics, coupled with the purchase of a large number of indigo from Shikoku by Biwaya, and the development of printing and dyeing from madder purchased from Kyoto. Red, blue, and light yellow clothes are more expensive than ordinary clothes. Linen is two or three times more expensive.But it is still acceptable to the townspeople and small businessmen who are getting richer in Kinai.

The rise of industries such as textiles, pottery, wood processing, shipbuilding, and civil engineering has given great support to Shiga County, and the number of handicraft practitioners in Shiga County has exceeded 7.The population engaged in commerce and fishing is also on the rise, and the non-agricultural population has exceeded 15.

Since box cage fish farming has achieved great success after many experiments in Omi and Echigo, fishermen have also been freed from the fishing life of sunrise and sunset. During the monthly fishing moratorium, he was engaged in handicraft activities, and was even hired by the Kira family during the busy farming season to undertake the work of weeding, pest control, harvesting and drying.

Otsu has become another cultural circle in Kinai due to its excellent role as a transportation hub and its proximity to Kyoto, Yamato, and Minami Omi. Many cultural people who hate the noisy atmosphere of Sakai Town destroying the artistic atmosphere come to live in Otsu by boat. There are beautiful mountains and rivers here, and Otsu There are Mitsui Temple, Saikyo Temple, and Hieizan Enryaku Temple in the county, which is still very attractive to this medieval Japan that believes in gods and Buddhas.

Three business districts and three atmospheres in one county This is definitely a unique initiative in Japan at the time. Of course, the wealthy merchants in Kyoto and Sakai-cho seem to have not realized how deterrent the two little brothers next to Sakamoto are, because these two are cultures. The holy land also has sound workshop facilities and is not afraid of your development at all. The development of that little land in Shiga County will not surpass Sakai Town in the end.

It is reasonable for them to think so, but there is one thing these wealthy businessmen still haven’t noticed. They have a sound commercial system and developed facilities, a relatively stable and complete police and solid concentric system, and they are trying to improve the water supply and drainage system. The two miniature cities have great potential, and their reputation has slowly grown over time, and no one knows where they will go.

As for the small number of opponents in Takashima County, there is no need to worry. The left-behind military and police power is controlled by the general of the Kira family who was born in Mikawa, and the power of administrative inspection is in the hands of the executives who came from the shogunate. Severe restrictions, both the shogunate and the Kira family cast a cold eye on them, and sporadic incidents in the past few years were easily resolved by Nakajo Tokihide and others.

In June, I received a letter from Owari Oda Nobunaga. It can be seen between the lines that the former leader of Shamate has disappeared forever. Both his tone and behavior are infinitely more stable than those of previous years. After the war in former village Muzhai, Oda Yamato and his trustworthy friends in Qingzhou City suddenly killed Shiba Yoshitomo who was hunting in a frenzy. This action aroused the anger of Owari.

Oda Nobunaga took the opportunity to kill Oda Nobunaga's family to obtain Qingzhou City. According to the investigation afterwards, it was Oda Nobunaga who was planning to assassinate Oda Nobunaga. The news told Oda Nobunaga that he was brutally killed by Oda Nobunaga's pursuers as soon as he ran out of the city. Of course, most people don't believe this statement, and no one knows the actual situation.

The letter only briefly mentioned this incident, indicating that he has entered Qingzhou City and controlled more than half of the country's strength, so he is not considered a small wealthy family. At the same time, he focused on another thing for him to show off. moon.He had only 24 and 1000 troops in the Inosu Battle.Among them, there are three hundred iron cannons.With [-] feet and [-] cavalry at an absolute disadvantage, they easily defeated the [-] troops of Oda Nobuyuki, Shibata Katsuie, and Lin Xiuzhen.

In this battle, Sakuma Nobumori, Maeda Toshiie, Niwa Chohide, and Mori Kasunari, who will become famous all over the world in the future, performed well. The defeated Oda Nobuyuki returned to Suemori Castle and could not hold on. In the end, his mother Mrs. Tsuchida Under the intermediary of Oda Nobuyuki and Shibata Katsuie, the faults of Oda Nobuyuki and Shibata Katsuie were exempted. The victory of this war also declared that the division of the four lower Owari counties came to an end.

At the beginning of this year, Oda Nobunaga decisively invited his mother Mrs. Tsuchida to Qingzhou City for the festival.At the banquet, Oda Nobunaga suddenly fell ill, and then his condition took a turn for the worse that night. On the sickbed, Oda Nobunaga proposed to give up the position of family governor to Oda Nobuyuki, and personally wrote a letter asking the state Oda Nobuyuki invites you to Qingzhou City.

Then Kawajiri Hidetaka and Ikeda Hengxing, who were ambushing in the castle tower, jumped out decisively and killed the unsuspecting Oda Nobuyuki, thus solving the only hidden danger in the lower four counties. Betrayed Oda Nobuyuki and encouraged the young lord to go to Qingzhou City to die. Such unscrupulous behavior also received special attention from Oda Nobunaga, so he also started his long-term career on the bench.

There was a lot to say in his letter.Among them, he mentioned that he sent people to Sakamoto, Sakamoto, and Kyoto for a few laps, and felt that his Sakamoto Castle was the best commercial city.Regardless of the business atmosphere or the advanced system, he will learn. In the future, he will gradually implement various regulations of Sakamoto in Cheongju, and strive to develop a "Sakamoto" of his own.

Kira Yoshitoki smiled while holding the letter. It was quite interesting to watch Owari's mental journey of becoming a Sengoku hero. As a bystander and influencer, it seemed to have some strange chemical effects on him. He muttered in his heart: "Did I also affect his life? I don't know if this influence is good or bad."

When I received a letter, I naturally had to write a reply. Yoshihiro Kira was not as flamboyant as he was. He just briefly mentioned the situation in the past few years, including the bloody battle on Kawanakajima, the big wedding, and a brief introduction to some administrative strategies for the development of Xintian. He is not afraid of being known about these things. Knowing does not mean in-depth understanding, let alone how difficult and resistance it is to learn to use.

With the arrival of summer, Yoshitoki Kira's stature is also growing upwards. In Nagata Tokumoto's words, the cold in winter makes the bones shrink and grow slowly. As long as the nutrition can keep up in summer, no matter how old he is. relatively normal.

When I first arrived in Echigo a few years ago, in order to consolidate my advantage of being tall, Yoshitoki Kira began to change his diet to a special meal consisting of soy milk, milk, beef, and various vegetables. Saito Asanobu replaced the left Jo Dayton Knight, presided over the intensive training every summer, this kind of perverted walking and jumping, strengthens his strength, agility, flexibility, jumping ability, physical strength and slightly reduces IQ, the latter sentence is added by himself, because he I feel that if you practice like this for a long time, people will become stupid.

No one knows whether he will practice stupidity, but judging from the current situation, it is no problem to toss him to death. Every day when he returns to the building, he is too tired to lift his arms. It is Hu Ji who comes to massage his body in person Restoring the tired joints, after a few years, people have not practiced a stupid and strong figure, but they have been trained. Hattori's six-pack muscles are faintly formed, so that he has to pose a few poses in front of the Nanban mirror every day when he gets up.

The long-haired girl stood in the Nanman mirror, gestured at her height, and said happily, "Your Highness! Hu Ji has grown a lot taller!"

"Tiger Princess!" Princess Linghime walked over slowly with small steps, Tiger Princess hurriedly stood up with a reserved and gentle smile, and respectfully saluted Kira Yoshihime: "Your Highness, my concubine greets you!"

"Tora is free!" Yoshiki Kira nodded with a smile. Under Nagao Aya's gaze, there was no slight mistake in the movements of the two of them. Princess Linghime nodded in satisfaction and said: "Women of the Wu family should be like this. There must be no mistakes in the tone of speech, manners, facial expressions, sitting and lying postures, and wearing accessories!

The more famous and important the family, the more attention should be paid. Sooner or later, Hu Ji will have to deal with the daughter of the Gongqing family. It is good for you to learn more now, so as not to be laughed at by the wife of the Gongqing family for not knowing the rules. The Kamiso Ashikaga family is ashamed, and you must always remember that the daughter of my samurai family represents the identity of my husband's family, remember? "

Princess Ayahime is a very gentle woman, even when she taught Tiger Princess her tone was so gentle, as if the gentle spring breeze in March was blowing on her face warmly, even if she was a little embarrassed and embarrassing, it gradually dissipated with the spring breeze go.

"Yes! Hu Ji understands." The girl nodded her head awkwardly, this little girl was still too immature in front of her older sister,

Since she was a child, she knew that she had a very powerful older sister, who protected her very young brother from being bullied by other brothers. Later, when she was very young, that sister married into Ueda Nagao's family far away, a girl who lived under the shadow of her elder brother since childhood. I have adoration for this legendary sister.

In the words of this elder sister: "Women in the Wu family should be perfect and blameless. They should take care of the housework, help manage the housekeeping and even make decisions when the husband is away from home. Contribute to the revitalization of the family. The duty of a warrior woman."

The red cheeks were full of shyness, it was nothing to be taught by her sister face to face, but it was the first time in front of Kira Yoshimi, she was a little worried about the attitude of her highness, so Hu Ji was punished by her elder sister who had just given birth and had nothing to do. Grasp the training etiquette, the nearly one year of training has brought about many changes in Hu Ji.

Not as naughty and coquettish as before, but learned to take care of Kirayoshi's daily life in a gentle and considerate manner. The two agreed not to touch their bodies, which does not mean that they cannot share the same bed. In the past, they would wake up and wash up separately, but now they have become Tiger Princess to serve her husband Daily life, enjoying the most luxurious life made him feel really happy for a long time.

"My sister's teaching is very good! Even those female officials in Kyoto are not as meticulous as my sister's teaching!" Yoshitoki Kira followed Princess Ayahime's words and argued for Tiger Hime: "Actually, Tiger Princess did a good job. , now that we don’t have children, it’s better to be more active, only a healthy wife can give birth to a healthy son, so please rest assured, my lord, it’s better for my Wu Family!”

"Yeah! What Yoshitoki said is right! From now on, we will change the training standard and change it to afternoon etiquette training!" Princess Ayahime nodded at them with a smile and left gently.

"Your Highness is so kind! Thank you, Your Highness!" Tora Hime took the initiative to hug Kira Yoshishi's shoulders, kissed him lightly on the mouth, and then ran away blushing.

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Echigo's war preparations are proceeding in an orderly manner. From the beginning of April, it was decided to send troops until July to complete the assembly of troops. At this time, the flood season is approaching, and the soaring river brings trouble to the troops. Overcoming the famine, but the loss of national power cannot be solved in a day or two. Hojo Shiyasu saw the opportunity to send troops to Ueno country again, and it seemed that he was determined to pursue it fiercely.

In West Ueno Minoru Castle, hundreds of people from the West Ueno Kingdom gathered. Nagano Ye, the military leader of the Minoru people, brandished his military uniform and shouted angrily: "It is our countrymen who are fighting for the preservation of the hot land that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Ueno Kingdom." Faith, my lords! We wait for the hinoki fan to fight hard until we defeat the invaders and drive out the Hojo army!"

"Follow the order!" A large group of sons-in-law of Nagano Yezheng replied in a deep voice. They swallowed the evil consequences of driving Uesugi Constitutional Government in one gulp. Only he knows how much ups and downs he has. The Oye's [-] koku food aid restored the lost morale, giving them more confidence to fight against the Hojo family.

Nagano Yezheng looked at his junior handsome talent, and asked with a stern expression: "Yegu, immediately write to the lord and the main hall for help! Remember to invite enough reinforcements, do you understand what I mean?"

"Yes! I understand!" Nagano Yegu promised solemnly, and caught a glimpse of Kobata Nobusada who was sitting across from him, and they also looked over, and the two looked at each other and smiled. (To be continued..)