Pillars of the Wu family

On October 25th, the basic construction of Sakamoto Castle was basically completed, and Hida workers also slowed down the manufacture of carriages and gradually appeared. The construction on the water side, generally speaking, the work of building the city is orderly and lackluster.

At this stage, Kansuke Yamamoto stopped staring at the resident construction site every day, and the main work was handed over to the Ina Tadashi family. In the words of Kansuke Yamamoto, the Ina Tadaka family has a very strong understanding of government affairs and grows very quickly. It will not take long. He doesn't need to take care of logistical matters.

The work of building the city was entrusted to Ina Tadashi's family. Yamamoto Kansuke watched the progress of the siege from time to time every day, and took over the work of preparing and preparing the team directly for the rest of the time. He approached Kira Wanmatsumaru and suggested: "My lord! It’s inappropriate to prepare samurai only as ashigaru training, but they have their own mounts, wouldn’t it be better if they were organized as horse-riding samurai?”

"Equestrian samurai? You mean the kind of troops that mount their horses and maneuver and dismount to fight? How useful is that?" Japan has always had a tradition of mounted warriors, which are unqualified cavalry because they lack suitable horses and there is no cavalry training method. , riding combat is not good at all, except for a few Yabusame warriors with excellent riding skills who have the ability to ride and shoot, the other so-called cavalry are all mounted warriors.

"Yes! Yabusame is too difficult to master. The horseback warriors of my Kira family still rely on the foundation passed down from generation to generation for 300 years, so they can easily expand to 200 people. Even so, only half of them can skillfully ride horses and shoot horses. Half still need years of training."

He knows that cavalry is not easy to develop. The quality of Japanese native horses is relatively poor. The best Kiso horses are also distant relatives of Mongolian horses. They can be regarded as good breeds of Mongolian horses. Hokuriku horses, Oshu horses, and Kanto horses Slightly below the first line, they can only be regarded as the middle and lower class among Mongolian horses. Most of these horses are inferior horses and pack horses that are not suitable for riding, and they have little use except for pulling carts.

"So horse-riding samurai? I understand, so let's get a horse-riding samurai first." Kira Manmatsumaru shrugged and said no problem. It was much worse for Feng Gong. Most of them rode a group of bad horses like Zenjiro Yamaoka to fight, and the speed was probably a little faster than trotting on foot. What can this kind of horse-riding warrior do?The mobility is greatly reduced, at most it is to practice riding and fighting skills, it is hard to say whether the effect is good or bad.

"Let's leave this matter to the master! Three hundred knights on horseback, two hundred warriors in red armor, but the ashigaru formation training must continue. The tacit understanding is to be discovered in the training, so it will be changed to joint training every two days. Once!" Kira Wanmatsumaru asked casually, "How is Shimazauchi doing these days?"

"Very good. This is a very smart kid. Unlike Honda Zhengshin, he is very smart. He has a very strong understanding of military strategy. He also has a set of spear skills inherited from his family. It is said that his bow skills are also very good, right? I really don’t know where the owner of the museum discovered the talents.” Kansuke Yamamoto sighed.

"Well, I met it by chance. At first I just thought I found a fierce general Miao character, but I didn't expect the talent of the military strategy to be very outstanding." Kira Wansongmaru lied, his face was red, and he couldn't tell him that I knew that Shimazakon was from a long time ago. A wise and brave general?

Hurrying and hurrying, I managed to finish Sakamoto's general affairs at the end of October, and rushed to Cizhao Temple with dozens of entourages. This time, many ministers came to say hello, but they were just acquaintances who nodded. Even Feng Gong couldn't ignore it, and went straight to Chang Yusuo.

The Great Imperial Palace was still dry and skinny, and it looked like it was about to fall when a gust of wind blew. When listening to the report from Kira Wansongmaru, he had to leave the seat to rest after only sitting for half an hour. Ashikaga Yoshito said: "My father has always had asthma. Ri's body was a little swollen, and Dao San asked my father not to sit for a long time."

"So that's the case!" Kira Wansongmaru exclaimed.

"Yu asked Dao San in private, and learned that my father will have a hard time getting through the next year."

"What? It's going to be hard to survive next year?" Kira Wansongmaru was startled, not surprised at all, "Anyone with a discerning eye in the Great Imperial Palace who is crooked and sick can see that his life is not long? It's just that His Highness Gongfang mentioned the name Dao San continuously. Who is it? It can’t be that viper of Meinong? He hasn’t become a monk yet.”

Ashikaga Yoshito also seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and explained a little: "Michizo Qu Naose is a famous doctor in Gyeonggi."

"It turned out to be him!" Kira Manmatsumaru suddenly realized that he had heard of Qu Naose Dosan's name, and there were occasional rumors of him in Tokaido. Later generations were hailed as the ancestor of the revival of Japanese medicine. The ancestor of ZTE in Fang TCM.

This Qu Naose Michizo is not an unknown person, but he was born in the Katsube Sho Katsube clan of Omi Rita County. Shortly after his parents died, he entered the Xiangguo Temple to study Sinology as a drinker. During this period, he changed his name to Qu Naose. At the age of 21, he entered Kanto Ashikaga School to study, and began to learn about medical books, and then met his mentor Tashiro Sankisai, and studied Kampo medicine under him.

It was not until the 15th year of Tianwen that his mentor Tashiro Sankisai died of illness, and he returned to Xuanhu, Kyoto, where he had been away for a long time, to open a clinic. A younger brother, Nagata Tokumoto known as "Mr. Shiliuwen", and Qu Naose Michizo have a little more utilitarian thinking, and they are basically only active in the vicinity of Kyoto. It is also treated equally, which is better than Nagata Tokumoto who only charges [-] cash for the consultation fee.

"Just now I saw His Highness the Great Imperial Palace in pain, and sitting and lying down should also be troublesome?"

"That's right! You have to take anesthetic before going to bed every day before you can fall asleep. Daozan said that you should use datura flowers as little as possible, and only increase a little if the pain is too severe." Speaking of this, Ashikaga Yoshito frowned into a lump.

"Although I don't want to admit it, it is an indisputable fact that my father's deadline is not far away, and the shogunate must make preparations early."

Kira Manmatsumaru was silent. He understood what Ashikaga Yoshito meant. There was only bitterness and helplessness but no joy. No matter how the shogunate declined, Ashikaga Yoshiharu was always a shogun who had experienced 25 years of ups and downs. The rise and decline of Hosokawa Takakuni and Hosokawa Harumoto, it can be said that he has become the actual symbol of the shogunate since the Mingyu coup. Even if he escapes many times, he can still return to Kyoto with difficulty. Great encouragement to many samurai loyal to the shogunate.

As soon as Ashikaga Yoshiharu left, the symbol disappeared. Although Ashikaga Yoshito had a noble status and had the support of a relative from the Konoe family, in the final analysis he was only a teenager, and he did not have enough fame to support the banner of the shogunate. How can you get those samurai loyal to the shogunate to support you?So he can understand Ashikaga Yoshito's sorrow, because he also encountered similar problems in Mikawa.

"My father had already predicted that he would die soon a few months ago, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted for the sake of the shogunate's great cause. Nakao Castle is the last power my father left for Yu, and Yu must protect this power! " Ashikaga Yoshito stared at him sideways, and said seriously: "Saburo, I need your strength!"

For the sake of saying everything, what else can he say?He could only kneel on the ground in gratitude and said, "I, Saburo Kira, will do my best to be loyal to His Royal Highness."

"I've given you a mission to send Yu's parents back to the Sakamoto Imperial Palace for recuperation. I will ask Dao San to accompany you there."

"Yes! Your servant understands!"

"Go! Remember to come early before Zhengdan Chao meeting."

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