Chapter 50: Tokugawa Hidetada

Tokugawa Hidetada was still very young, he was only in his early thirties, and he was in the prime of life and was able to make a career. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

He pays great attention to his own maintenance, not the maintenance of the appearance of women, but the maintenance of the body and spirit. Like many ambitious people, he was always ready to write his name in history, and for that he needed a good body, a body that would allow him to live long to do what he did, and he needed the intellectual courage and all the mental abilities that were necessary for him, without which he would have achieved nothing.

Is it hard to exercise every day? Is it hard to force yourself to read some esoteric books every day? Of course it's hard, but if you think of his surname, then all the hard work is meaningful.

Tokugawa, the surname of the largest great nobleman of the Warring States period, and now, this is the surname of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

"Tokugawa Hidetada, you have the blood of the Tokugawa family in your veins, and with this alone, your starting point is much higher than those who are ambitious but from humble backgrounds. You're the one you've been at the top of the country since birth, and you're just a handshake away from that top. As long as you are willing, as long as you put in the action, the highest position will be yours after all, so why don't you try? Stand at the top, sway your mark in history, and become a wise monarch for all generations, so as to live up to your identity. ā€œ

Since childhood, Tokugawa Hidetada's eyes have revealed ambition. To be a man like my father, no, to be a man who is beyond my father!

Unfortunately, he was the third son of the Tokugawa family.

That is, there are two more people standing in his way to the top...... No, if you count my father, it's three.

At a young age, he quickly realized the threat of his two brothers.

His unrevealed ambition is hidden deep in his heart, and the innocence and kindness of the little boy are revealed. So everyone knew that the third boy of the Tokugawa family was a gentle, sensible and respectful man with a little indecision in his personality, and he did not have an advantage in the competition for the position of daimyo.

And when he got older, he didn't still rely on the capital to form a gang like his two brothers, but took the initiative to ask his father for a fief. He picked very carefully, he didn't want the richest land in the Fire Country, nor the most barren land, but the easiest land to make achievements and the most popular land.

His father looked at him deeply, and Tokugawa Hidetada looked back at him without the slightest fear, and he remembered that his father had smiled at that time. Then, with a stroke of his pen, his father cheerfully divided the land he had asked for to him.

When he was transferred to the fiefdom, he was only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, and now that he has returned, he is about to enter middle age.

More than ten years have passed, and his two brothers are still alive and well, and they have been fighting openly and secretly for so long, but they still haven't been able to get rid of each other.

Tokugawa Hidetada smiled and looked at his calloused hands.

For more than 10 years, he did not learn the ability to form gangs and factions, did not learn any ghostly tricks of slander, and did not accept bribes at all. All he learned was the ability to use people and the momentum of the blue wisps of the road.

When I first arrived in the fiefdom, it was a barren place compared to the capital. There are no dazzling goods, no bustling streets, and no powerful people gathered from all over the world, just ordinary people. To make achievements here, it is not by slander and flattery, nor by political struggle between gangs and factions, but by something that can be felt by these ordinary people.

So, did he do it?

Tokugawa Hidetada smiled and rubbed his palm slightly, where there was a striking scar, it was a wound cut by a sickle. When he was governing his fiefdoms, he also picked up all kinds of farming tools with his own hands and worked with his people. When it comes to the skill of cultivating crops, he is not inferior to the old farmer.

In his bookcase, a thick stack of letterheads was neatly placed, which was his correspondence with his father for more than ten years.

When his two elder brothers were fighting for favor in front of his father, his letters to his father were not only greetings, but also asking about the many problems he had encountered in governing the fiefdom, and did not mention the state of the capital at all.

For more than a decade, Tokugawa Hidetada had completed his most important accumulation in a land far from the political center, and he was already a qualified ruler, an enlightened monarch.

For more than ten years, my father's handwriting is still strong, and his vision is still wise, but the breath of aging has inevitably been revealed between the lines. So, Tokugawa Hidetada returned, and taking advantage of the opportunity to celebrate his father's birthday, he came to pick up what he had coveted for a long time.

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At this time, Tokugawa Hidetada looked at his two guests with some surprise.

One is a teenager with a calm and sophisticated face that does not belong to this age, while the other is a middle-aged man with a strong body, faintly revealing a majestic momentum.

With a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, Tokugawa Hidetada nodded towards Sarufei and Mingyuan: "I really didn't expect to meet in this kind of place, His Excellency the three generations of Hokage of Konoha, and this one, it should be the newly famous Your Excellency Mingyuan." ā€œ

Ape Fei and Ming Yuan glanced at each other, this trip was not revealed to the outside world, how could the man in front of him know their identity?

Tokugawa Hidetada smiled: "In the lower Tokugawa Hidetada." Your Excellency Hokage's appearance naturally has to be memorized in the future, and Your Excellency Ming Yuan is even more recognized, who can accompany Your Excellency Hokage at such an age, who can you be? ā€

Hearing Tokugawa's surname, Sarufei and Mingyuan showed surprise in their eyes.

The light in Tokugawa Hidetada's eyes flashed: "Did Your Excellency Hokage also go to celebrate his father's birthday?" ā€œ

Ape Fei nodded: "Exactly." ā€œ

Tokugawa Hidetada said softly, "Konoha is at war with Sand Shinobi and Iwa Shinobi, and His Excellency Hokage is still able to take time out of his busy schedule to celebrate his father's birthday, and Hidetada is also deeply honored." ā€œ

Ape Fei said with a smile: "The development of the Great Name Fire Country has been exhausted, and he is also a strong supporter of the development of Konoha Village, and his eightieth birthday, I am naturally coming." At the front, although it is tight, it will not be a big problem for a while. ā€œ

Ming Yuan listened quietly to the conversation between the two on the side, and he was also very surprised in his heart.

Tokugawa Hidetada, he had heard of the name. It is said that he is a very capable person, and in more than ten years, he has governed his fiefdom into prosperity and wealth, and his government is also fair and honest, and he is deeply loved by the local people.

And not only that, Tokugawa Hidetada used his fiefdom as a base to develop trade, and his fief became an economic center in the Fire Country, with enough influence throughout the country.

"He's going to the capital this time...... Could it be ......?"

The same thought passed through Ape Fei's mind, and his heart began to quietly calculate.

The current daimyo of the Fire Nation is really an incomparably wise monarch, but after all, he is old, how many years can he stay in the position of the daimyo at this age? Although it is imperative to use the war to obtain sufficient benefits for the village, there are some things that it is better to plan early than later.