Chapter 196: Zhong Dao and His Wife
"It is said that the general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be ......divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time." In the castle town of Edo Castle, a middle-aged man dressed as a storyteller of the Ming Kingdom was chatting in the newly built square, and countless passers-by stopped to watch, including Ming people who fled and settled here, as well as samurai in Chinese costumes, and even Nanban people. The samurai of the ministers with good family conditions are actually very keen to learn Chinese characters, just like later generations once used speaking English as a status symbol, and being able to drag a few sentences of Chinese is also a sign of being well-educated. But at this time, the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms had just taken shape in the Ming Kingdom, and of course the stories of each chapter had already been circulated, but Luo Guanzhong sorted it out. For this kind of deductive fiction mixed with power and history, it can be said that it is extremely popular in the Wa Kingdom, and until today, the Wa people greatly respect Zhuge Liang and have always deified him. However, due to the education level and the deliberate actions of the ruling class, the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms was not widely circulated in Japan during the Warring States Period, and was more often circulated among many small wealthy families as a secret legend of the art of war. Like Ashikaga Molong, who specially arranges people to come to the square to tell stories, there is no such thing as a storyteller.
"Alas, I have heard that Kanto is a bitter cold land, a country of samurai, and the people are fierce and good at fighting, but I didn't expect that the culture would be so prosperous under the Molong Gong." A handsome but pale young man looked at the scene in front of him silently for a long time before he spoke.
"Mo Long Gong is a person who wants to take the world, so he is naturally different." A tall and burly samurai beside him smiled and patted the young man on the shoulder, and the "Heavenly Dao" symbol written on Bai Juan on his body indicated his identity: Ashikaga family ashigaru general. "In recent years, Molonggong has vigorously promoted land inspection and introduced a large number of Ming people, who have brought many advanced technologies and prosperous culture, like the kind of storytellers on the stage, which abound in the Ming Dynasty."
"I heard that the Ming Dynasty has been taking the imperial examination since hundreds of years ago, so the literary style is prosperous, and it is naturally difficult for us to compare, but will Molonggong's move not cause a conflict between the Ming and the Kwantung people?" The boy continued.
"The half-soldiers are too worried, Molonggong has long considered this kind of problem, and now the Mengxue taught all the language and writing of the Ming Kingdom, and the people of the Ming Kingdom who are willing to cultivate the land will be moved by the Molonggong to various places to reclaim wasteland, and those who dare to provoke trouble will be severely punished, so there has been nothing wrong with each other all these years. Lord Zhou Dingguo, one of the Sun and Moon Double Dragon generals of the family, is a native of the Ming Kingdom, so naturally there is no chaos. This samurai looked at the young man next to him with some doting, his name is Takenaka Shinyasu, he is a member of the Takenaka family of the Mino wealthy family, as the second son of the family, he has no right to inherit, so he was called by the Ashikaga Molong recruitment order very early, and came to Kanto to find a way out, all these years of bloody battles, and also reached the position of Ashigaru general, but the longing for his hometown still can't be resolved. It happened that his hometown had changed drastically, and Oda Nobunaga took Mino Province, and the family was worried that there would be any accidents, so they simply sent the ten-year-old Takenaka Hanbei to Kanto to join him.
Takenaka Hanbei didn't answer this time, Ashikaga Molong promoted the Ming Kingdom on a large scale among the people, which still made him have some thoughts: Is the goal of Ashikaga Molong no longer the world, but the other side of the sea?
Nobuyasu Takenaka smiled and bought a few fruits from the merchants on the side of the road, wiped them casually, picked up a large one and stuffed it into the hands of the Takenaka half-guard, and ate the small fruit himself. "But you came a little late, I didn't see with your own eyes the grand occasion of Echigo's long-tailed Jinghu marrying Mo Longgong not long ago, that is really ten miles of red makeup, ten thousand empty alleys, I heard that Mo Longgong in order to marry her, she was transferred to Echigo's subordinates and transferred to Kanto, that's 200,000 stones!"
"Two hundred thousand stones! It is almost equivalent to the land of half the country of Meinong, and Mo Longgong's move is really shocking. The half-soldier guard in Takenaka was also dumbfounded, he had never seen this meeting when he had been living in the Xiaohao clan, and suddenly had the idea of simply following Molong's business.
"How? Why don't you just stay? I had just been promoted to the rank of Ashigaru Shogun, and I was given a bigger mansion where you could live with me. Takenaka Shintai thought about it, but still didn't directly ask Takenaka Hanbei to come out of the guard. In the final analysis, although he is also a member of the Takenaka family, he was a small role with a bamboo gun before, and the Takenaka half-guard is the real young master of the Takenaka family, although now the entire Takenaka family is desperate and estimates that he can't beat those under Takenaka Shintai, but he still faintly cares about the difference in identity.
"Then I'll bother my uncle!" Takenaka Hanbei is too young, after all, there are still not so many flowers, and he originally came to defect to Takenaka Shinyasu, so it is normal to live in his house.
Just as the two were walking and chatting, a powerful big hand picked up the Takenaka half-guard, and the two of them were suddenly startled: "Xintai, when did you start to be interested in the Dao?" Takenaka Nobuyasu looked at it, and it was actually his old boss Honda Tadashian! At that time, Honda Tadayan led the army to defend Edo Castle, and with the help of Ota Shimasa, he almost killed Hojo Tsunari and his son on the spot, and his reputation was greatly enhanced, and he was promoted to a general after the unification of Kanto, but he only had two thousand stones, although there was still a gap with the highest honor of the Ashikaga family: the general of the Ten Thousand Stones, but it was already a proof of strength.
"Ahhh My lord, this is the young master of my Takenaka clan, please let him go! Nobuyasu Takenaka begged for mercy in fear.
Honda Tadaan smiled and looked at the handsome Takenaka Hanbei who was as handsome as a woman, "It's really pitiful for me, and I don't know whose daughter it will be cheaper in the future." With that, he put down the half-guard of Takenaka. Different people look at the Tao from different starting points, and their views are naturally different. People like Harunobu Takeda and Yoshimoto Imagawa who have become famous and have already married their wives certainly don't care about playing with the way, but Honda Tadayasu, who is in the period of rapid rise in his career, naturally can't affect his reputation for this kind of thing. He is also not the eldest son, but now he has the qualifications to choose, and finding a daughter from a powerful wealthy family to marry home will be of great help to his further development in the future. In fact, he is currently fighting for the daughter of Ota Zimasa, after all, the Ota family is also a famous family with a long history, and with Ota Zimasa being reused by Ashikaga Molong, he has become one of the old ministers of the family, especially the old ministers of the family who hold real power, if he can climb the high branch of the Ota family, he is estimated to be able to fight for 20 years less. However, the daughter of the Ota Shimasa family is very sought-after, because Ashikaga Molong likes to use the style of young people, many wealthy families with school-age daughters in the family have declined, this type is naturally not very attractive, and at present, the daughters of the three families of Ota Shimasa, Nagano Yoshimasa, and Toki are the highest level, and they are also the most sought after by young samurai. Originally, Hojo Tsusunari was also a good choice, but the identity of the Hojo family is more sensitive, so no one dares to do it now. Of course, this is limited to the situation within the Ashikaga family, and in fact, many wealthy families outside are rushing to marry their daughters to the middle and high-ranking samurai of the Ashikaga family. Blind people can see that as long as there is no big accident, Ashikaga Molong will definitely be able to take the world, so marrying his daughter is of course a sure profit, if he is unfortunate to be against Ashikaga Molong in the future, it is good to surrender to Ashikaga Molong through his son-in-law.