Outside Kogan Castle, due to the vigorous construction and the support of the merchants in these years, a huge city comparable to the size of Kiyoshu Castle has been built, and with the continuous expansion of the power of Ashikaga Molong, this small rural town that was inconspicuous in the past has increasingly become the political and economic center of the entire Kanto and even the eastern country, and tens of thousands of standing troops and their families outside the city constitute a very stable consumer group, supporting its fission-like expansion.

Looking at the incomparably prosperous and vibrant city, all the samurai dressed in gorgeous costumes came and went here, and Miyoshi Dongyasu, who was ordered to send an envoy to Kanto, sighed: "The talent of Molong Gong is unparalleled in the world, and even if this family suppresses the land of, it will be difficult to compete with it." ”

The powerful young man on the side shook his head and said with high morale: "The foundation of Kanto is too thin after all, even if Molonggong dominates the eight states of Kanto, in terms of manpower and material resources, he will not be able to compete with." "It turns out that this young man is the most powerful general of the Miyoshi family who is famous in, Miyoshi Ichicun, since the age of fourteen with his brother Miyoshi Changqing to raise the army, the battle must be won and the attack must be won, and the name of courage is the crown of! When he is about to make great achievements, how can he admit that it may be difficult for the Miyoshi family to seize the world?

Miyoshi Dongkang didn't answer Miyoshi Ichiku, but looked at Matsunaga Xiu, who was chatting with the vendor interestingly, and realized that Miyoshi Dongyasu was looking at him, Matsunaga showed a flattering expression, but was met with Miyoshi Ichiku's eyes. "This guy is still as keen as ever." Miyoshi said with disgust.

"Don't underestimate him, this bastard Matsunaga is very accomplished in the economy, and my brother also relies on him very much in the governance of the territory." Although Miyoshi Dongkang doesn't like Matsunaga Shu as an outsider, he still admires Matsunaga Hide's ability.

At this time, although the Miyoshi family advanced into the region, they were met with stubborn resistance from local powers, and the main army of the front line fought for a long time in Omi and Tanba with the Rokkaku family and the Hatano family, although recently the two sides reached a temporary armistice. However, as soon as the external troubles were eliminated, the internal troubles became apparent, especially the contradiction between the military shogun faction and the Bunji faction was almost unavoidable, which can be said to be insoluble, and the Sekigahara battle, which exhausted the last trace of vitality of the Toyotomi family in history, was a typical example of the complete intensification of the contradiction between the Bunji faction and the military shogun faction, and was used by Tokugawa Ieyasu and other foreign feudal clans. Now the Miyoshi family controls the land of the Seven Kingdoms, the stone height is nearly two million stones, and most of them are densely populated areas with prosperous commerce, and the internal affairs problem is no longer the kind of grass platform team that can be dealt with before, there must be a set of systematic and efficient system, and it is the businessman Matsunaga Xiu who assisted Miyoshi to create this system for a long time. Therefore, Matsunaga Shu naturally became the leader of the Miyoshi family's Wenji faction, and generals like Miyoshi Ichicun and Miyoshi Dongyasu who led the troops to fight became more and more alienated from Matsunaga Hide.

In the final analysis, generals like Miyoshi Yicun and Miyoshi Dongyasu naturally hope to continue to fight externally to establish meritorious deeds, so as to get more fiefs and higher status, while the Wenji faction like Matsunaga Shu hopes for internal stability and recuperation, and moderate external warfare is naturally good, but the long-term tug-of-war is also extremely heavy on the burden on the territory, so the civil officials and military generals are almost inherently opposed. Fortunately, Miyoshi Changqing is also a generation of heroes, and under his central scheduling, the contradiction between the Wenzhi faction and the military general faction can still be suppressed.

Matsunaga Shu, who was chatting with the vendor for a while, bought a pocket watch from the store and walked up to Miyoshi Dongyasu and Miyoshi Ichikun with a smile. Miyoshi Yicun immediately sarcastically said: "Hasn't Lord Matsunaga always been very frugal in military spending? How can you buy luxury goods so generously? ”

Matsunaga Xiu didn't seem to hear the voiceover of Miyoshi Ichicun, and still played with the exquisite pocket watch, "This is a pocket watch made in Nanban, and it can be bought in the world, but ...... The pocket watch here is even cheaper than the world. ”

"What do you mean?" Miyoshi Dongkang frowned slightly and asked.

"Meaning...... Mo Longgong should also have direct contact with the Nanban, and may even have a deeper cooperation with the Nanban than we do, so he can get a suffocating number of iron cannons, and he can also get the tactics of the Nanban: the Western Phalanx. ”

"The Western Phalanx? Wouldn't that require a huge amount of iron cannons and gunpowder? "Three good and one cun are extremely sensitive and sensitive to the things of war, and they immediately spoke.

"If my expectations are correct, Molong Gong should have a deep cooperation with the Southern Barbarians and the people of Kii, and this time he conquered Hojo and obtained Sagami Country, where iron smelting is very developed, and I am afraid that it is also producing iron cannons in large quantities. And we are still entangled with the enemy on all fronts......" Matsunaga Shu glanced at Miyoshi Ichicun and Miyoshi Dongyasu, and stopped talking. And the two also knew that the situation was not optimistic, and they also did not reply.

In the castle tower of Koganeshiro, it was a festive scene, representatives of various forces came to congratulate Ashikaga Molong on the unification of Kanto, so Ashikaga Molong held a grand banquet, countless stomped feet, the whole world will tremble the giants gathered here, jointly to Ashikaga Molong to show respect.

Kneeling at the dining table of Ashikaga Molong sat a beautiful and refined maid, who was constantly pouring wine for Ashikaga Molong, but Ashikaga Molong, who was really talking and laughing with the Imagawa clan, suddenly pinched the maid's chin, and just when everyone wanted to pretend not to see this scene, Ashikaga Molong asked with a smile: "Ame, when did you become the maid of Xiaojincheng?" ”

"Lord Hui Guanling, I have been serving you in this city since you raised an army to fight against the Chiba family." Amei replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, but her attitude made the long-tail Aya who was sitting in the lower hand was quite dissatisfied, that is, the historical Xiantaoyuan, although a maid is nothing, but Ashikaga Molong has become the lord of Kanto, the strongest daimyo in the world, I don't know how many girls with dreams of palace fighting are lining up to squeeze up, in her eyes, this maid named Ame is obviously one of them.

Ashikaga Molong nodded, picked up the wine glass, and said something that shocked Shiza: "Then why did you poison the rim of the wine glass?" ”

Amei was also stunned, and before she could react, a figure falling from the sky pressed her to the ground, and it was Kato Duanzang who was still drinking and chatting just now!

"Drag it down and interrogate it severely," Ashikaga Molong nodded to Kato Danzo, turned to everyone and said, "Come, keep drinking!" Although he was shocked by the scene in front of him, Ashikaga Molong was so powerful that he opened his mouth to let everyone continue drinking, and no one dared to disobey. Only Taiyuan Xuezhai, who accompanied the Imagawa clan here, his sallow face due to illness became worse at this time.

That night, Taiyuan Yukisai took Imagawa Shin to ask to see Ashikaga Molong alone, but Ashikaga Molong did not refuse, but met the two in his bedroom, and instructed the kitchen to bring broth to the two.

Taiyuan Xuezhai looked at the broth in front of him and excused himself: "Molonggong, I'm afraid eating late at night is not good for the stomach." ”

Ashikaga Molong waved his hand and continued to speak: "Please, let's talk after drinking." ”

Seeing that the excuse was not enough, Imagawa Shin and Taiyuan Yukisai had to drink the broth, both of them had a good samurai education since childhood, so the etiquette was impeccable, but they had just put down the dishes and chopsticks, and Ashikaga Molong's words made the two almost vomit the soup again.

"How does Ame's broth taste?" Seeing the drastic change in the faces of the two, the corners of Ashikaga Molong's mouth raised a strange arc, and he couldn't help laughing, but this night owl-like laughter made Taiyuan Xuezhai and Imagawa really cold all over their bodies.