"But if you stay at the Takeda family, you can immediately apply what you have learned, but you can't do anything with me." Yu Qiuping scratched his hair with some guilt, and said embarrassedly: "I can't even rely on the sea now, only a few small broken boats in the Kiso River, you are not wasting time with me." ”

"Momiji doesn't have to worry, there's no rush for this." When Idankang Qing heard this, he shook his head nonchalantly and said, "We have brought back a lot of drawings and models from Europa, and we need to study them for a long time. No matter how bad it is, I can use the boats on the Kiso River to help Momiji train a sailor, and I will use it in the future. In addition, we also brought a cannon from Europa, that is, the technology of forging large cylinders, which will definitely help Momiji. ”

"Cast cannons? That's good! When the time comes, you can show them this set of techniques, and it would be great if you could forge your own cannon! Yu Qiuping smiled a little excitedly, "Hanamaru, they just copied the iron cannon a few days ago, and now they have new work to do." ”

"There's one more important thing to tell you than that." Itami Kangqing didn't seem to be infected by Yu Qiuping's joy at all, and his face was still very gloomy. He waved his hand, and a brother who was waiting on the side of the road took a child with a gloomy face and walked towards Yu Qiuping. The child is not big, estimated to be 2 or 3 years old, and his eyebrows are particularly thick.

"What is this?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment after looking at the child, and looked at Itan Kangqing suspiciously.

"This is the orphan of the second son of Asahina." After being silent for a moment, Itami said in a solemn voice.

"What about my eldest brother?" When Yu Qiuping heard the name of Asahina Taehyung, he subconsciously blurted out and asked. Then, he froze.

Because he suddenly realized what the word "orphan" meant.

It was as if the heart was suddenly grasped tightly by a hand, and it was pulled down fiercely, until it reached the bottomless abyss.

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Half an hour later, Yu Qiuhei was sitting on the tatami mat on the third floor of the castle tower, his arms tightly wrapped around his knees, and he was sobbing quietly. Itan Kangqing leaned against the table, also with tears in his eyes. And the orphan of Asahina Taehyung, who doesn't seem to be very sensible, sits uneasily on the tatami mat in ignorance. The door of the room was quietly left a small opening by the dragon. Her big watery eyes were looking through the gap, carefully looking at Yu Qiuping's appearance—the way he was suddenly crying at the gate of the city just now, but he frightened Ryuko.

"My eldest brother he... So heroically loyal to the Imagawa family... That fool... He was the only one who could do such a stupid thing. Yu Qiuping wiped his tears and choked up in a low voice: "One person challenges tens of thousands of troops... It's also thanks to the eldest brother, he can do it. ”

"Igayan told me that Takeda Shingen ordered no one to divulge the feat of the second son of Asahina that day. Even for this reason, even the guns and bullets that died heroically were kept secret," Itan Kangqing shook his head in confusion and said, "I heard Jia Yan say that Junfu City was also burned. And Takeda Shingen sent people to search in many ways, destroying all the records and things related to the second son of Asahina during his lifetime, as if he wanted to completely eliminate the evidence of his existence. And the Tokugawa family seems to have a tacit understanding with him, and they also avoid talking about the matter of the second son of Asahina. ”

"And the reason why the orphan of the second son of Asahina came to my hands... It's also a gift from the Tokugawa family. Itami Yasukiyo whispered heavily in extremely sarcastic words: "When the Tokugawa family released the prisoners of war from Kakegawa Castle, they asked His Royal Highness Asahina to leave behind the orphans and widows of the second son of Asahina. His Royal Highness Asahina knew that something was wrong, and suspected that the Tokugawa family wanted to make the second son of Asahina completely extinguished and then let him disappear. So he casually found a child of school age from the city and handed it over to the widow of the second son of Asahina to take out, and now the two have not been heard from. And this child was secretly brought to Ejiri by His Royal Highness Asahina, and he happened to meet me, so I took it to Momijiro. His Royal Highness Asahina said that even if everyone in the world wanted to hunt down and kill this child, Momiji would definitely protect him. ”

"Takechiyoya..."Yu Qiuhei heard that the Tokugawa family actually cooperated with such an action, and his heart ached for no reason. Takeda Shingen may not be related to Asahina Taiheng, but Tokugawa Ieyasu has been with Asahina Taiheng for so long! Is he so ruthless? That's just a kid! In order to kill all traces of my eldest brother's survival, did you not even spare the child?

"I don't understand why the Takeda family and the Tokugawa family did this." Itami Yasukiyo shook his head heavily, resentment and resentment overflowing, "Shouldn't a feat like the second son of Asahina be praised by the samurai?" ”

"Kangqing, you don't understand these twists and turns in politics." Yu Qiuping sighed, as clear as a mirror in his heart, "They will not only physically destroy the Imagawa family, but also psychologically destroy the remnants of the Imagawa family and the people under the rule of the Imagawa family. They will publicize the perverse behavior of the Imagawa family, and they will naturally erase such loyal and brave deeds, so as to stabilize the rule of the old leader of the Imagawa family... In all dynasties, every time the city changes the banner of the king, isn't it all like this? ”

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After Yu Qiuping finished saying this, Itami Kangqing suddenly realized. The two looked at each other for a moment, but they were speechless. Yu Qiuping was silent for a long time, then suddenly straightened up and walked to the orphan of Asahina Taehyung.

"What's your name, kid?" Yu Qiuping said in the gentlest voice as much as possible to this child who is not yet sensible but has lost his father and mother.

"My name is Chiyo Matsu." Although the child's words were not so clear, he did not seem to be afraid of life at all, and said his name generously.

"Matsuchiyo is it?" Yu Qiuping squatted in front of the child with a smile and gently rubbed his hair with his hands. But when Yu Qiuping's eyes focused on Matsuchiyo's face, Asahina's voice and smile seemed to suddenly appear in front of him! The thick eyebrows and the big eyes are almost carved out of the same mold as Asahina Taehyung.

Yu Qiuping, who finally managed to control his emotions, suddenly cried loudly and held the child tightly in his arms.

Big Brother was the first person I met in this world and the first person to lend a helping hand to me.

If it weren't for my eldest brother, I would have starved to death on the streets, and where did I get to live now. He cared for me who was homeless, and sheltered me from the wind and rain who didn't know anything, where could this kindness be repaid? Who would have thought that 8 years ago, the ferry would be goodbye.

Suddenly, the back of Yu Qiuping's head suddenly had a soft touch. He was stunned for a moment, then opened his eyes to find that Matsuchiyo was actually caressing the back of his head with his small hand, as if trying to comfort him.

Just like his big brother did back then.

"Matsuchiyo, my name is Yu Qiuping, Yu Qiu Moji." Yu Qiuping held back his crying and whimpered and said to the little child with a smile on his face, "I am your father's younger brother, you can call me uncle." During your father's absence, you stayed at your uncle's house, okay? ”

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June 9, 1568, Kuroda Castle Tower.

Yu Qiuhei was sitting at the table and correcting official documents, raising his head from time to time, smiling and watching Kaede Imagawa play there with Asahinamatsu Chiyo and Yu Qiuguang. Yu Qiuyan and Yu Qiuyou seem to have passed the age of playfulness lately - obviously in Yu Qiuping's era, 8 and 9-year-old children were still playing carefree. However, as the children of the samurai family, they still followed Shigeharu Takenaka and Amano Keitoku to intern in the staff headquarters and the court respectively. And Yuqiu Cen also ran out and played in the garden with a group of children of the same age such as Naoe Narumu.

Due to Matsuchiyo's young age and ignorance, he was able to quickly emerge from the shadows of displacement. He and Yu Qiuguang, who is more than a year younger than him, are having fun at the moment.

Just when Yu Qiuping was in a daze, the guard at the door brought news that Lan Xianghuadu's Military Industry Department needed him to go.

Yu Qiuping settled the brothers brought by Itami Kangqing a few days ago. Some of them began to sort out the models and drawings of the Western schooners brought back from Europa, as well as the maneuvering skills and combat methods of the Western schooners, and turned them into naval regulations according to Yu Qiuping's request, so that they could be used in the future. The other part of them were sent by Yu Qiuping to be instructors, using the boats in the waters of the Kiso River to give good lessons to the sailors who were born in the wild road.

And what Yu Qiuping attaches the most importance to at the moment is the cannon casting skills that Itami Yasukiyo and the others brought back - this is a product of several eras ahead of Japan's Warring States! Artillery, known as the large barrel during the Warring States period in Japan, was a product that did not appear until the late Warring States period. In Yu Qiuping's previous life, the Otomo family on Kyushu Island relied on a large barrel to block the attack of the Shimazu family, and Tokugawa Ieyasu also relied on a large barrel to bombard the castle tower with a large barrel to force the Toyotomi family to give in during the Osaka Winter Battle, which can be said to be a powerful weapon.

However, the brothers of Itami Kangqing did not have specific experience in cannon casting, and most of them watched Western craftsmen cast cannons in the shipyard, or inquired with cannon casting masters. Those fragmented and contradictory experiences and processes still require a huge amount of effort to become a real method of cannon casting.

After Yu Qiuping came to the Military Industry Division, Lan Xiang Huadug immediately greeted him. This skilled craftsman who has been following Yu Qiuping for ten years is worried because of the casting cannon. On the one hand, the cost of trial and error is too high. The cannon body is made of bronze, and it costs a lot to smelt it, make grinding tools, etc. The size of the grinding tool, the proportion of the various components when casting the gun, and the polishing of the gun chamber are very difficult, and the slightest carelessness is to waste all the previous efforts. On the other hand, the Department of Military Industry is now responsible for casting cannons and mass production of iron cannons, which is really too busy. Simply, Chang Panbei only expanded to 850 people this time, and there was not much gap in armor and ordnance that needed to be filled.

To this end, Lanxiang Huadu has expanded the military industry department several times, and is now a large factory with hundreds of employees - but it takes a lot of effort to train new employees.

Moreover, Lan Xiang also pointed out that many of the experiences brought back by those Itan Kangqing brothers were fallacious. Even if there is no fallacy, they are all learning how to cast naval guns, not the army field guns that Yu Qiuping needs most at the moment, and there is still a difference between the two.

"You don't have to be too anxious for the time being, let's get the iron cannon in order first. When the quality of the iron cannon goes up and the price goes down, it can be mass-produced. Yu Qiuping found that Lan Xianghua was so tired that his white hair came out, and he was a little distressed.

However, when Lan Xiang Huadi took Yu Qiuping to inspect the factory of the Military Industry Division, Yu Qiuping suddenly found a familiar figure.