The one who led Pei Ziyun into the main hall was a new maid, petite, wearing a light white maid outfit, very young, looking seventeen or eighteen years old, with very light movements and a soft voice.

"Fruit is the castle. "When Pei Ziyun was led into the main building, he found that the main building had a wall, using sharp corners to reduce the surrounding defensive dead ends, and there was no castle tower, so it is estimated that artillery had appeared at that time to prevent it from becoming the main target when attacked by powerful firepower.

"It's not a mountain city, it's a flat mountain city!"

It was built on a hill or hill, and there were many castles during the Warring States period, but of course, Japanese castles can be considered a kind of fortress.

However, it is a time of peace, and there is a garden around the main building, a lawn on the ground, a living water that attracts it, and a rockery, and there are fruit trees planted in it, and there are servants taking care of it.

Pei Ziyun took a cursory look and found that these trees were loquats, which was a little strange, because in Japan, although loquat cures diseases, fruits, leaves, and seeds can be used in medicine, which is a very common fruit tree, and it is also highly respected, but there are some taboos in planting loquat trees in the yard.

Because loquat is an evergreen tree with wide leaves, it is planted in the yard, and the sunlight is blocked, and the yin qi is heavy, which is not good for health.

There is also related to the time of loquat fruiting, the seed is planted to bear fruit, it takes a long time, when planting loquat there are older people in the family, when the loquat blossoms and bears fruit, the old man may age and die, so it forms a kind of association, that loquat blossoms and bears fruit means that someone in the family will die, so that many Japanese people are afraid.

In addition, loquat seeds are poisonous, and it is very dangerous for children to eat them by mistake, and there are almost no families in Japan who plant loquat in their gardens.

Pei Ziyun followed the maid to the main hall, thinking silently in his heart: In the courtyard of this main hall, loquat is planted, is it done occasionally, or is there another reason?

Entering the main hall, it was a little gloomy, several maids were busy, as if they were making a small banquet, Pei Ziyun also saw a small cake, they saw the visitors, and they all bowed.

"Cake, remember that Bandong Yuanzi is not today's birthday, which Bandong family is celebrating his birthday?" Pei Ziyun thought casually, his eyes narrowed, these maids acted in unison, and their appearance and even temperament were similar.

The Bandong Foundation has extraordinary financial resources and profound heritage, and because cultivating these people consumes not only money, but also time.

After a while, we will lead to a living room.

Entering the living room, Pei Ziyun found that the walls around the living room were covered with some ukiyo-e prints, and on the shelves were some old-fashioned weapons.

"Hey, please take a seat, Miss will come over immediately!" The maid made a cup of tea and left backwards, and the whole living room fell silent, Pei Ziyun took a sip of tea, put the wooden knife on the table, and looked around with his hands behind his back.

Ukiyo-e, Pei Ziyun also has some understanding, took a closer look, and found that the ukiyo-e is not only well preserved, but also has a smooth texture, revealing a kind of charm, which is obviously made by everyone.

Pei Ziyun took a closer look at the content and found that it was all a drawing of the Fallen War.

Just as Pei Ziyun was carefully observing, a voice suddenly sounded in Pei Ziyun's ears.

"Yamada-kun, are you also interested in the fall of the curtain?" It turned out to be the owner of the main building, and Sakado Yuanko appeared.

Pei Ziyun turned around and bowed slightly: "Bandong-san, hello." ”

Bandong Yuanzi is a beautiful fetus, but she looks a little thin, wearing a long skirt, but because of her thinness, she looks a little empty, and her face is a little pale, and she is sixteen years old, but she looks like she is only about fourteen years old, but her eyes are very attentive and very smart.

"yes, a little interested. Pei Ziyun pointed to the picture: "This painting is relatively realistic, some ukiyo-e depictions of war, most of which depict samurai holding katanas fighting." ”

"That's not right. ”

"Although both sides had sword drawing teams at that time, the shogunate also had the famous Seiguchi group. ”

"Shinmi Hidema was known as the first samurai at that time, assisted the shogunate in battle, turned to the feudal domains, and killed the thieves who fell to the curtain. ”

"But if you really talk about the overall war, it has already entered the level of hot weapons at that time. ”

"This kind of samurai slashes with a sword, but the impression caused by the poison of the so-called "The Last Samurai". "By this time it was approaching the afternoon, and the rain was already a little heavy and crackling.

Bando Yuanzi smiled: "I've read your two long books, and I admire it very much, twelve-year-old samurai, I don't want you to have such thoughts." ”

"These are two different things, even if I am a samurai, I can't help but admit the historical facts. ”

"What I said is that in fact, the weapons of the Shogunate are similar to the weapons of the shogunate, one English and one French. Sakado Wonko: "Of course, strictly speaking, all countries have weapons, and after the victory of the shogunate, the style was unified. ”

She looked along the picture: "These are all battles in which my family participated, a total of seven, representing seven battles, of which the first and second were the most intense, and my family killed seven men at that time!"

Sakato Yuanzi crossed her finger over the map and pointed to a person: "This is my direct ancestor Sakado Takumi, when my father and brother died in battle, he inherited the position of the head of the family, continued to fight for the shogunate, was carried off the front line with three bullets in his body, and was reported by the newspapers at the time." ”

"After the victory of the war, the shogunate rewarded the Sakato family Hokkaido with 3,000 koku, and the total chiyuki had 3,800 koku, and the sacrifices we made were rewarded. ”

Pei Ziyun nodded, many people think that this is not much knowledge and action, in fact, there are a lot, if the feudal priest is more than 150 stones, he is a retainer of Dalu, and the old man is generally between 1500 and 2000 stones.

Among these banners, there are 2 people with more than 9,000 stones, 4 people with more than 8,000 stones, 12 people with more than 7,000 stones, 21 people with more than 6,000 stones, and 73 people with more than 5,000 stones, a total of only 112 people, which is regarded as the lineage of descendants.

100 stone to 200 stone is the lower-level flag book, most of the flag book Zhixing is below 500 stone, occupy 60 percent, 3800 stone in the shogunate is the big body flag book, from the small general invitation to the promotion, but it is not a general sense of decency, can set up a house to manage by itself, the past generations of lords have been reused.

The Bandong family was truly recognized by the shogunate in the Shogunate War, so it soared.

Although Bandong Yuanzi saw his results in the information, seeing Pei Ziyun's small face and pondering seriously, she couldn't help but laugh, and asked casually: "Do you think, why did the rebels win first, and the shogunate won the last?"

"It's too simple, Banto-san. Pei Ziyun came to his senses in contemplation, shook his head and said lightly: "The three feudal clans of the Shogunate sold the backward arquebuses and other old-style weapons very early and bought British-made rifles, but the shogunate was not an idiot, and also bought French-style weapons. ”

"In terms of weapons, it can be said that there is no distinction between the top and the bottom, and even the shogunate is still sluggish, but the gap is not very big. ”

After 200 years of peaceful rule, the descendants of the samurai who fought in the bloody war have actually become a powerful class that is afraid of blood. Pei Ziyun's eyes showed some emotion.

"The three feudal clans were small in the downfall, and the feudal warriors (samurai) were a little unreliable after a long period of infiltration by the shogunate, so they abolished the samurai as the basic establishment and established a new army with ronin and peasants as the main force. ”

"And although the shogunate has new weapons, they are all composed of old banners, and these people have not seen blood for two hundred years, although it is not impossible to progress, but there must be time. ”

At that time, the shogunate also went through two major events, that is, the assassination of the shogunate elder in broad daylight, which is described in my "Samurai under the Cherry Blossoms". ”

"The second is that General Qingzhong died violently, and Qingxing came to power at the age of seventeen. ”

"The elder is a samurai, the new shogun is too young to come to power, the prestige of the shogunate has been seriously affected, and the most lacking thing is time, so as soon as the battle is fought, the shogunate was defeated. Pei Ziyun said.

When Bandong Yuanzi heard this, she was shocked in her heart, and some of the original ridicule disappeared, and she looked at Pei Ziyun with a new gaze - I don't want this person to be twelve years old, and his views on this period of history are so clear!

You know, Bando Yuanzi spent several years studying this period of history, but she never understood the reason for the defeat of the shogunate.

"Seeing that the situation was critical, General Keiko mobilized the army of Hokkaido to fight, which may not have much hope, but the climate in Hokkaido was relatively harsh, and the corruption of the samurai was relatively low, so as soon as he entered the battlefield, he immediately stopped the fallen army. Pei Ziyun continued.

After several battles, General Qingxing immediately discovered each other's strengths and weaknesses and issued an order—an order to hold the front line and contain it. ”

After all, the shogunate army has a large number of people and resources, and it is relatively easy to simply contain it, and when it enters the war of attrition, the 80,000 army of the shogunate gradually adapts to the war after a bloody battle, and the shogunate army is gone. ”

Pei Ziyun said, knowing in his heart that the history of this world was similar to that of Tokugawa Yoshiki at that time, and he made stupid moves in politics, which made people smack.

Militarily it was similar, after two hundred years of peace, there was not a single army to fight, and it was okay to suppress the ronin and peasants on a small scale, but they pounced when they encountered the new army.

Of course, what is more serious is the huge mistake of strategy.

Even if the previous cards are wrong, even if there is no Hokkaido army, just order the shogunate army, not in a hurry to fight in the field, dig the fortress and line according to the wall, and "surround but not fight, base the wall and wall", you can easily destroy the shogunate army.

The reason is very simple, you can't fight, you can always shoot at the bases.

Once the Fallen Shogun Army was stopped and unable to break through quickly, its weaknesses were exposed.

It can be said that knowing this, Tokugawa Yoshiki can easily crush the fallen shogunate, and the so-called historical inevitability is actually worthless.

"It turns out that our Hokkaido Army, is the role only to contain it?" After being surprised, hearing Pei Ziyun say this, Bandong Yuanzi was a little lost, and the leader of the Hokkaido Army was the Bandong family.

"This containment is the difference between life and death, a turning point in the fortunes of the country, and of course, the general has to wake up at that time. Pei Ziyun said and smiled: "Otherwise, although the Bandong family fought bravely, they didn't actually have many records, how could they get three thousand stones of Zhixing?"

This sounds easy, as long as the general comes to his senses and contains, the result will be completely different.

But Pei Ziyun knew that in that scene at that time, how could he wake up without a broad vision and enough strategy?

"The first shogun certainly could not have predicted what would happen in the next 200 years, but when Hokkaido was included in the development, a Hokkaido army was able to stop the shogunate, so that the shogun could wake up, adjust his strategy, and completely annihilate the shogunate faction in three years. ”

"It's really interlocking, it's amazing. Pei Ziyun sighed, and at this moment, the whole manor suddenly swayed, and there was a "boom".

"Earthquake?" the two of them snapped.