After sending off these loyal Murakami retainers, Ueda Nobukata saw that there was still time to see his creditor, Tsuda Muneki.

Not long after Tsuda Munekazu returned to the Tennoji House, he heard that Ueda Nobukata was coming, and immediately ran out to greet him.

He greeted him with a smile and said, "Congratulations to Ueda Tetsuki for becoming the guardian of Shinano and becoming a daimyo of one party." ”

Ueda Nobukata also smiled proudly, now he has six counties, roughly calculated that there are about 100,000 stones, and he has stepped into the threshold of a medium daimyo. (Kitashinkai Province (8 guns/186,000 koku, Mizunai Prefecture: Asahiyama Castle, Yokoyama Castle, Iiyama Castle, Lake Nojiri.)

Kamitakai-gun: Naganuma Castle, Yamada Castle, Takanashi Castle.

Kita-Atsumi-gun: Kotani Castle, Mori Castle.

Minami Anzumi-gun: Koiwatake Castle, Nakata Castle.

Higher counties: Makinoshima Castle, Arato Castle.

Hanko-gun: Kaijin Castle, Katsu Castle.

Xiaoyi County: Stone Castle, Tail Mountain Castle.

Saku-gun: Umi-guchi, Maeyama Castle, Shiga Castle, and Kotsu Castle. ）

However, compared to the whole Shinano, there are not many, and Shinano's stone height is four or five hundred thousand stones, and it can be said that most of them are in the hands of Kai.

And Kai's development route is to fight Shinano, and after fighting Shinano, Echigo, and the current rear of Takeda Harunobu is not very stable, and it will not be until two years later, when the Koushojun Triple Alliance is formed, and Takeda Harunobu can attack Shinano with all his might.

Ueda Nobukata smiled: "Hahaha, although I am already the lord of more than 100,000 stones, but you are my creditor." ”

Tsuda Zongji said with a smile: "Thirty thousand qu, the Ueda palace will be able to be repaid soon, and the creditor will not dare to be it." ”

Ueda Nobukata walked in and sat on the throne and said, "What is the matter with Soji looking for me today?" ”

Tsuda said, "I just wanted to visit Ueda Tenaki and congratulate Ueda Tenaki on becoming the guardian generation. ”

Ueda Nobukata nodded, exchanged pleasantries with Tsuda Munekazu for a while, and left.

As for the commercial matter, he didn't say anything, Matsuo Castle is still making paper, and the first batch of paper will not be produced until autumn.

Now Ueda Nobukata is going to vigorously expand the production of iron cannons, and after eating the Murakami family, he is enough to expand the production of iron cannons, and there will be no one to rob him.

Anyway, he and Takeda Harunobu are rivals, and they make big moves to scare him to death.

Previously, he only had fifty iron cannons, thirty of which were old, and Ueda Nobukata eliminated these iron cannons and used them to train until they reached the end of their life, and then melted them down and reworked them.

He planned to build an iron artillery unit, which included a regular iron artillery ashigaru unit, a cavalry iron artillery team, and an iron artillery ashigaru team led by a samurai of the banner.

According to the current skilled workers, they can build a gun pipe in a month, and it will take nearly a year to complete the equipment assembly of this unit.

This is also because the iron cannon barrel of the iron cannon cavalry is shorter than the iron cannon of the ashigaru, so it is suitable for cavalry combat.

The Iron Cannon Cavalry is the trump card of a hero who appeared in the late Warring States period - the one-eyed dragon Date Masamune. It is precisely with this trump card that Date Masamune once said that if he was born decades earlier, he could also compete with the heroes for this world.

The cavalry iron artillery team is composed of soldiers with superb riding skills and archery skills. Armed with an iron cannon, a long stabbed spear with a slanted handle next to the vest.

In front of the enemy's formation, shoot to break the enemy's fixed point defense, and then perform a powerful secondary charge.

If the enemy had been holding out to avoid being slaughtered by the cavalry, it would have been a good target for these cavalry troops.

As soon as the enemy line loosens and gaps appear, these elite horsemen will immediately break through to the enemy line. Keeping the opponent from attacking and holding on is the most terrible thing about these cavalry units.

Of course, the Iron Artillery Cavalry was also disadvantaged, and Date Masamune's Iron Artillery Cavalry was raided by Sanada Yukimura's cavalry troops in the Battle of Osaka Castle and suffered a heavy defeat.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also related to the cavalry iron artillery unit of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, but the Guanning Iron Cavalry had a strong melee ability, after all, the musket of the Guanning Iron Cavalry used a three-eyed firearm.

After the three-eyed firebolt was finished, it was directly used as a weapon, while Date Masamune's cavalry iron artillery unit could only put down the iron cannon and pick up the spear again.

It's a pity that he didn't know how to make the three-eyed musket, after all, before coming to this era, he played arquebus, flintlock pistol, etc.

The Three-Eyed Fire Gun belonged to the Ming Army's crooked technology tree and was used to fight the northern nomads.

Ueda Nobukata wrote a letter about what he had done most recently, and asked Iizuna Nobugen to send it to Sanada Yutaka in Toishi Castle.

As for the iron materials needed to build the iron cannon, I can only go to Tsuda Sokazu.

When he finishes taking care of the affairs of the Murakami family's territory, he will gather a group of craftsmen to build some light artillery to defend the city.

Artillery was not used until the later period of the Warring States period in Japan, after all, there are many mountains here, and the castle is built on the mountain, so the artillery is inconvenient to operate, and it is difficult to use it for siege warfare.

Therefore, the people of the Warring States period made new tricks for iron cannons, and also distorted the technology tree like the Ming army, so large iron cannons also appeared, similar to small artillery.

Three days passed, and the bride procession from Echigo had arrived, and in addition to the team of more than 100 people, there were eight maids, and a senior maid, who were generally nurses.

Among these maids are maids in charge of literature and art, such as copying things and the like, maids in charge of testing drugs, as well as personal maids, and a few rough maids.

And there may be a very small number of these maids who are meticulously crafted.

When Ueda Nobukata saw Akizuki, she was dressed very traditionally, her face was snow-white, her eyebrows were just two black spots, and her teeth in her mouth were blackened.

As she spoke, Ueda Nobukata saw it.

Ueda Nobukata didn't care, although it seemed a little uncomfortable, but after all, he was a big name, and he also needed to talk about etiquette, otherwise he would be ridiculed as a hillbilly.

Received the bride during the day, and then waited for the guests, this time Ogasawara Nagataka came, and the Nagao family still came from Usami Dingmi, Takanashi Masayori came in person, and there were many people from Kitashinano.

Ueda Nobukata only received some distinguished guests, and the rest was received by the old fritter of Osuka Kubei.

When it comes to dusk, the wedding will begin, and in ancient times, weddings basically started at dusk.

After the salute, you can enter the cave room.

Of course, Ueda Nobukata also had a drink with Ogasawara Nataka and others.

A somewhat drunken Ueda Nobukata quickly returned to the new house, and the personal maid took off his clothes, while Akizuki was already waiting.

In the sleeping place of the room, there is a screen, and the personal maid waits outside the screen.

Ueda Nobukata was drunk and pushed to Akizuki when he entered the room, only to hear her exclaim, and then he was gagged and couldn't say anything with a whimper.

After a while, there was only the sound of whimpering.

Early the next morning, Ueda Nobukata lifted his pants and left, only telling the nurse to take care of Akizuki and leaving.

Qiu Yueji endured the pain, and got up under the service of the personal maid, and the frequent frowning made the nurse feel distressed.

The nurse complained a little: "The lord is so rude, no wonder it's just a light one..."

Qiu Yueji frowned and said, "Sanlian, shut up." You have to be careful here. ”

Sanlian said aggrievedly: "The slave maid just feels distressed for Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

Qiu Yueji looked at the blurred face in the bronze mirror and said, "So what? This is the fate of samurai women. Okay, I'm going to see my husband's other side ladies today. ”

Sanlian said in a low voice: "The slave maid heard that Mrs. Satomi was brought by the lord on the battle array, and she was originally the lady of the side room who guarded the palace of Takeda Daizen.

As for the newly married Mrs. Baihua, she was originally the daughter of the late Yoshikiyoshi Murakami, but she didn't expect this Mrs. Baihua to marry her father-killing enemy. ”

Qiu Yueji's expression was also a little sad, and said: "They are all poor people, they will be pitiful in the future, so get along well and prepare some gifts." ”

Akizuki took pity on Hakuka and Satomi Youzu here, but he didn't know that Ueda Nobukata left in a hurry to deal with his father and father-in-law.

Ogasawara Nataka got Ogasawara reminded that he was going to leave after attending the wedding banquet, so he was ready to leave as soon as it was dawn, and Usami Dingman naturally couldn't stay, so he went back with him.

Izuura Kiyoshi informed Ueda Nobukata who came out in a hurry of the news, and he frowned and said: "Ha, my father-in-law is really too careful, can I still kill the son on the wedding day?"

Kiyoshi, tell them to start acting now, just in time for Tsuchichi to attack Ogasawara Nataka's team and scare them! ”

Deura Kiyoshi nodded, then left.

Ogasawara Nagataka and the others left the castle in the morning and walked to Yashiro Castle, and then they were besieged by Doichi.

It wasn't until the samurai from the nearby fields arrived that the dirt was gone.

Ogasawara Nataka was so frightened that he said directly to Usami Dingmi: "It's over, it's over, Ueda Nobukata wants to kill me!" ”

Usami Dingman's head is big when he hears it, and if you shout it directly, this is forcing Ueda Nobukata to kill you.

He hurriedly grabbed Ogasawara Nataka and shouted, "Nataka! It's just a pinch of dirt, it's fine! ”

Ogasawara Nataka grabbed Usami Dingman's arm tightly, and said with a sad face: "Usamizu, you can't leave it behind, Ueda Nobukata is a wolf." ”

Usami Dingman grabbed Ogasawara Chitaka tightly, stared at his eyes and said: "Chitaka was overly frightened just now to talk nonsense, this is just a pinch of soil, and it has nothing to do with Ueda Temple, understand!" ”

Usami Dingmitsu could see Ueda Nobukata's ambitions, but he didn't tell Nagao Keitora about this, Echigo didn't need to face Ueda Nobuka now, as long as Ueda Nobukata didn't get Takeda Harunobu, it would be impossible to reach out to Echigo.

Therefore, he didn't tell Nagao Jinghu because he was afraid that Nagao Jinghu's temper would come, so he killed Ueda Nobukata with his soldiers, and then threw it to Ogasawara Nagasa.

Ogasawara has been unpopular for a long time, and it is a problem that he Usami Dingmitsu can see at a glance, and when the time comes, Ogasawara will be defeated by the Takeda family again, and the Takeda family is likely to beat Echigo and Ueno.

In short, he couldn't let Shinano lose, he had to let Shinano become a barrier to Echigo.

At this time, Ogasawara Chitaka was also a little calmer, and nodded along with Usami's eyes.

They were then rescued by the samurai who arrived in the field, and then left all the way to Echigo.

When the news came back to Katsuo Castle, Ueda Nobukata smiled disdainfully, "Is this the son of the Ogasawara family?" It's really useless, I was scared by Tuyi.

Tell Osuka that they can go to Echigo to put pressure, and by the way, let someone send a sum of money to Nanhiro, so that he can comfort and comfort my father-in-law, and don't push him to be in a hurry. ”

Izuura Kiyoshi hurriedly agreed and left.

Ueda Nobukata stretched out and went to the backyard with a smile.