After several clouds and rains, Imagawa Kaede, whose pretty face was crimson, gasped slightly, snuggled into Yu Qiuping's arms, and raised his mouth a little unhappily.

"What's the matter, Feng'er, isn't today enough?" Yu Qiuping saw Imagawa Kaede's thoughts, but deliberately joked, and his left hand gently stroked the graceful curves of her delicate body.

"Hmph..."Imagawa Kaede snorted, squeezed himself into Yu Qiuping's arms again, took a light bite on his shoulder, and said dissatisfiedly, "You don't usually be so enthusiastic... It must be because I'm wearing this dress today... You're just..."

"Okay, silly girl, don't guess what a man thinks." Yu Qiuping suddenly tightened his hands, held Imagawa Kaede firmly in his arms, and interrupted her, "Tell me quickly, what's going on with you and Suiko?" ”

"Didn't I tell you!" Imagawa Kaede whispered with some shame, "Hoko said she wanted to draw..."

"No, no, no, didn't you suspect that I had thoughts about Suizi before, so why are you two so close?" Yu Qiuping shook his head and asked, a little curious.

"Hmm... How to say it, Suizi is a good child, very simple and kind, and unsuspecting. Who wouldn't love such a little girl. Imagawa Kaede turned over slightly in Yu Qiuping's arms, stretched her waist, and the contact between her skin and her charming look once again made Yu Qiuping's heart feel hot. The years have not left too many marks on her, her skin is still as soft as a girl more than ten years ago, but her gestures and smiles have added a touch of mature charm that only young women have, and her figure is more attractive.

Just when Yu Qiuping wanted to press down again and plunder the beauty in his arms, Imagawa Kaede's next sentence made Yu Qiuping stunned for a moment.

"And I don't know why... Talking to her always makes me happy. Kaede Imagawa shook his head a little puzzled, "It's obviously someone else's story, and the people in the story are strangers I've never met, but I always feel so familiar... Ah, what a strange feeling. ”

Just when Kaede Imagawa wanted to continue reminiscing, Yu Qiuping's two hands restlessly burrowed into her obscene clothes and demanded them arbitrarily on her plump body. Imagawa Kaede gasped inadvertently, but it made the man next to him even more obsessed.

"Hey... It's been four times in the morning, what are you going to do today? Imagawa Kaede only felt that his body was slightly hot, and complained in a low voice.

"You."

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At the same time, Suiko Hatani, who fled with the painting in the wilderness, has unknowingly run to the castle town of Maple Mountain Castle.

"Ah, Madame is such a beauty, she is even more beautiful than the most beautiful woman I imagined, no wonder she is called the first beauty in the world." Hatani Suiko wanted to open her painting on the street and take a closer look, but she found that there were many people around, so she had to give up.

"I was going to paint for my wife for a day, but now I've been kicked out, so what are you doing today..."Haya Suizi bit her finger with some hesitation, tilted her head and thought, "Why don't you go sketching!" Maple Leaf Mountain Castle is the most prosperous city in outside of Sakai Town, so there are definitely a lot of things to draw! ”

Walking through the streets of Maple Mountain City, in the busy and vibrant market, the enthusiasm of those ordinary people to fight for life has also infected Hatani Suizi, making her face also appear with the same smile as these small people in the market. Today, there are nearly 200,000 people living around the castle town of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, making it one of the largest cities in Japan.

When Ye Gu Suizi was like an old man selling melons and fruits on the side of the road, and asked why Maple Mountain City was so prosperous, the old man was really stunned for a while and said, as if he remembered something to forget.

"It's all thanks to His Royal Highness Momiji." The old man shook his head, as if he wanted to leave the painful memories of the past behind, and looked at the towering castle tower in Maple Leaf Mountain Castle with pious eyes. "Girl, you're a foreigner, aren't you? New to the scene? ”

"yes, not long after I first came here."

"Then you must have come for the name of our Highness Momiji! I'm telling you, you're not wrong! Our Highness Hongye is the best Highness in the whole world, and it is also the best Highness for us ordinary people! No matter what you do, farming, doing crafts, singing and dancing, telling stories, trading, or even painting, as long as you have a skill, you can live a good life in the kingdom of His Highness Momiji. ”

"Why is that?" Haya Hoko blinked, not knowing where the easy-going and humorous, sometimes a little silly His Highness in his eyes got such magic.

"Our Royal Highness is sympathetic to the people, and other samurai masters who are tyrannical and extortive, beat and scold the people at every turn, and rob the people's property are not all the way." The old man said as he said sincerely, "In other places, there are four dukes and six people, and the ruthless lords even five dukes and five people, six dukes and four people." The common people worked hard all year round, and in the end they couldn't even eat food or add clothes, so they were all taken away by those samurai masters. ”

"But do you know how much our Highness collects taxes every year!" The old man stretched out two fingers violently and made an exaggerated gesture in front of Suizi, "Twenty!" Every year, eighty percent of our people are left! Here, as long as you are willing to work and have enough food, you can buy a lot of things a year! So over the years, many people from Yamato, Settsu and the mountain castle have dragged their families to run here, just like this! And our Highness has never robbed money, nor has he ever levied conscription! But if there is anything to be repaired, it will be clearly priced and recruited to repair it! And it's all canals, and the market is for our people. ”

"His Royal Highness only collects such a small amount of money, how can the Yuqiu family's expenses be maintained?" Hatani Hoko frowned curiously.

"Our Highness Province, it is said that His Highness was also born in the past! I never spend a lot of money on big fish and meat, so I don't need so much money! The old man replied as a matter of course.

Of course, they civilians wouldn't know that the financial expenses of the Yuqiu family might be several times that of a martial artist of the same specification. Because of the maintenance fee of the Yuqiu family's large number of standing soldiers, I don't know how much it costs. However, Yu Qiuping has the cash cow of Sakai Town, the Mitsubishi caravan, and the People's Bank of China. Compared with the huge trade taxes and customs duties paid by those big bosses every year, Yu Qiuping really doesn't care about the little agricultural tax of the people, so he is also happy to reduce taxes for the people.

"And our Highness still loves the people, and every time the year is bad, he will send many people and a lot of food to relieve the disaster. The samurai and ashigaru of our Yuqiu family are usually brave on the battlefield, and even Takeda Shingen is not an opponent! But for our people, we have always been kind, and it is said that it was all repeatedly ordered by His Royal Highness Momiji! Even His Royal Highness Hongye himself, every time he comes to the people to visit, he doesn't have the slightest shelf, and he shushs us and asks for warmth! Is there such a good samurai master in the world? The more the old man spoke, the more excited he became, and his eyes looking at the castle tower of Maple Mountain Castle were also full of gratitude, "Our Highness has also recruited a lot of security guards to maintain law and order in the territory together with the Hanoi garrison. Since our Highness came down, there have been fewer and fewer thieves and robbers every year, and you may not be able to find 100 thieves in the whole of Hanoi. I don't have to lock the door when I go out, I don't have to worry about anything, I just work hard. ”

"Is this the case in the whole of Hanoi?" Ye Gu Suizi couldn't help but be a little surprised when she heard this.

"It's hard for me to say about the whole of Hanoi, after all, I don't have much knowledge. But I've lived in this Maple Mountain City all my life, and I can still get things done here. Recalling the past, the old man's face once again brushed the haze, "A few decades ago, this was not a good place. The samurai lords of are fighting around here. Every time the city changes hands, it is followed by a random hunt, and many people die every time. If you encounter a famine or something, don't expect the samurai master to take care of you. They raise taxes and levy strong men at every turn, making people angry and resentful, and if they don't obey, they will stab you in the neck, how dare the grass people say anything? ”

"About five or six years ago, the Matsunaga family built this castle, and it was still called Iimoriyama Castle at the time. The brutes of the Miyoshi family didn't think of the love of so many of us people who have been paying taxes honestly for so many years, and ransacked us before leaving. Even now, the old man shuddered when he remembered the catastrophe of that day, "Then the Matsunaga family entered the city, and it was another big hunt for the whole city." After grabbing things, they didn't stop, and they burned the mountain castle of Iimori, which had been robbed twice. There were more than 50,000 people in our castle town at that time, and almost all of them couldn't survive. There is no food at home, and the villagers will fight for a handful of wild vegetables on weekdays..."

"Later, His Royal Highness Momiji came down, and His Highness lent money to buy food for our people, and lent money to build a new home for our people, so that we survived the cold winter. Without His Royal Highness Momiji, none of our more than 50,000 people would have survived that winter. His Royal Highness Momiji is the reborn parent of men, women and children all over the city! Like me, the more than 50,000 people back then, every family had an immortality monument for His Royal Highness Red Leaves, bless His Royal Highness Red Leaves with a long life! ”

"Girl, come here, I'll show you what His Royal Highness Red Leaf has done for our people." It seems to have touched the heartstrings, and the old man can't even do business anymore, so he shuttles inside and outside the castle town of Maple Mountain Castle with Hatani Suiko.

"This is the canal that His Royal Highness Momiji built for us, and those farmlands rely on this canal."

"This house was built by His Royal Highness Hongye who lent us money to repair it back then."

"This place is a law and order office, people can come here to security if they lose anything at home, and the law and order officials will work hard to find things for us. You see, those patrols over there are law and order enforcement! ”

"It's just a market repaired by His Royal Highness Momiji."

"This is a porridge field opened by His Royal Highness Momiji, and hungry people who can't eat can come here to spend their days."

"That's the school opened by His Highness Momiji! When I have saved enough money, I will also send my baby to learn skills. It is said that after completing the study, not only can you understand Chinese, but you can also directly go to work for His Royal Highness Momiji and become a samurai! ”

"That's the barracks of His Royal Highness Momiji, and the soldiers in it train hard every day, and they're also very good to our people!"

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In this way, when night fell, the tearful Hatani Suizi had already visited countless corners of Maple Mountain City. Only then did she realize what a kind and kind person His Highness was.

So, she picked up her paintbrush and began to sketch on the paper. After a while, she seemed to feel that this small piece of drawing paper was not enough to draw the people's gratitude to Yu Qiuping and Yu Qiuping's kindness, so she replaced it with a larger piece of paper, but found that it was still too small. In this way, it became bigger and bigger, until finally, she simply bought a five-meter-long scroll, wanting to draw every detail in Maple Mountain City.

Her masterpiece "Maple Mountain City Map" has been passed down to future generations and has become a national treasure, which is treasured in the Shanghai National Museum, and is one of the most important historical sources for later historians to understand the life of the city during the Warring States Period.