In Mito Castle, the fifth-generation lord of the Mito Domain, Tokugawa Munehan, the fifth-generation lord of the Mito Domain, has a headache these days. I'll tell you that the fastest update of the novel is the eye. Hurry? Tokugawa Sohan was born in 1728 to Tsuru Chiyo, and became the lord of the domain at the age of two after the death of his father, Soyao, the fourth lord of the Mito domain, in 1730. Later, the eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, gave the word "Zong" and changed his name to Sohan. Although he was only twenty-two years old now, he had been a feudal lord for nearly twenty years. When Zong Han came of age, he also tried his best to reorganize the troubled feudal government, but the reform had just been established and suddenly encountered a huge blow - several Ming people in the domain who had helped him plan the reform suddenly asked to resign and return to China.

These Ming people are the descendants of Zhu Zhiyu, a great Confucian in the late Ming Dynasty and his mentors and friends Wang Yi, Zhu Yongyou, Wu Zhongluan and others, in the summer of the fifteenth year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan joined the Northern Expedition, recovered Guazhou, conquered Zhenjiang, and Zhu Zhiyu experienced the battle. The Northern Expeditionary Army once marched smoothly, recovering 24 counties in four prefectures and two prefectures, and reached the outskirts of Nanjing, and the military might shook the southeast. However, due to Zheng Chenggong's short-sightedness, he blindly stationed troops under the fortified city of Nanjing, delayed the fighters, and the discipline was not strict. By July, the Northern Expeditionary Army had been defeated outside Nanjing. Zheng Chenggong retreated to the coast of Fujian, and then set sail to the sea, and had no choice but to march to Taiwan, while Zhang Huangyan was arrested and killed a few years later. In view of the hopelessness of regaining his sight, Zhu Zhiyu vowed not to shave his hair, "it is the ambition of the whole festival of the sea", learning from Lu Zhonglian not Emperor Qin, and once again crossing the sun, never returning to his homeland. In the winter of that year, he crossed to Japan and settled in Osaka.

In the 19th year of the Emori era, Tokugawa Mitsuku, the second lord of the Mito Domain, sent the Confucian minister Kotaku Shengshun to Nagasaki to hire Zhu as a national teacher, and asked Zhu to go to Edo to give lectures. He had a profound influence on the Mito Domain, and his disciple Yasuki became the leader of the Mito School in Japan, along with Tokugawa Mitsuki. Some of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty who followed him to Japan also stayed in the Mito Domain to marry wives and have children, but they always maintained the clothes of the Ming people, cut down on food and clothing, and accumulated their fortunes for the needs of the restoration of the country.

Zhu Shunshui talks about learning, taking practicality as the standard. The so-called practical person is said to be beneficial to one's body and mind. Second, it is beneficial to society. These scholars also inherited this view from him, and they studied the handling of real objects, and it was with their help that the reforms of Tokugawa Sohan were slowly carried out.

"Are they still waiting there?" , Tokugawa Sohan stood up with a long sigh. "A hundred years of good encounters can't compare to the old country! I'll go talk to them one last time! ”

The men in the hall with their hair in a bun were particularly conspicuous among the group of yin and yang heads, and when they saw Tokugawa Sohan come out, they bowed deeply, "I hope the lord of the domain will allow us to return to the country!" ”

Tokugawa Sohan walked two steps quickly and helped them up one by one with his own hands, "Gentlemen, hurry up and excuse me, Yu has already ordered someone to fetch the tea leaves of the kingdom." I would like to ask you to sit down for a moment. These people resigned for the restoration of the country, and Tokugawa Sohan was not able to refuse directly, so he had to use procrastination again and again.

"I've made up my mind, and I'll ask Tokugawa to fulfill it!" , Wu Sihua, the leader, once again saluted, since accepting Zhao Banshan's invitation, he persuaded these partners to resign to Tokugawa Sohan with him, but he was delayed again and again, and today he made up his mind to resign successfully.

"My Tokugawa family's hundred-year friendship can't compare to the old country?" Tokugawa Sohan asked in a trembling voice with tears in his eyes, The Mito Tokugawa family is one of the Tokugawa Imperial Three families. It is simply called the Mito family. The ancestor of the family was Tokugawa Yoribo, the eleventh son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and according to Tokugawa Ieyasu's will, the successive feudal lords of the Mito family were "deputy generals of the world" and had to assist the shogun. Ieyasu also stipulated that if the male descendants of Shogun Hidetada were cut off, only men could be selected from the Owari or Kii domains to inherit, not from the Mito family; Tokugawa was deeply dissatisfied with this, and he wanted to reform the Mito Domain, hoping to strengthen the Honkaku in order to be able to go to Rakuro during his lifetime. And Wu Sihua and others are the backbone of his reforms, and this resignation is almost equivalent to cutting off his hope of going to Luo, and he can't help but be sad.

"Adults are ambitious, and we already know it." This favor is indeed a hurdle that they can't cross in their hearts, and Tokugawa Zonghan is also trying to use the guilt in their hearts to keep them again and again, Wu Sihua couldn't refute this, so he turned his head and looked at Zhao Banshan who came with him.

"I don't know who this is?" , Tokugawa Sohan looked at the man's money rat tail hairstyle, and frowned slightly, in his opinion, the current Celestial Empire is no longer the majesty of the Han and Tang Dynasties. It is becoming a barbarian country.

"In Zhao Banshan, the fourth master of the Lower Red Flower Society, I have seen the lord of the domain!" , Zhao Banshan grew up in Wenzhou, and the story of Qi Jiguang's resistance to the Japanese has been circulated everywhere since he was a child, and he reluctantly bowed when he read the merits of the Tokugawa family for sheltering Zhu Shunshui's descendants for a hundred years and the task of his trip.

"It turned out to be the hero of the Red Flower Society, and Mr. Zhao is famous in the Osaka generation!" Osaka is the most developed commercial place in Japan, and Zhao Banshan purchased copper, sulfur and other materials in Japan, and the scale of his handwriting was amazing, and he soon became famous throughout Japan.

"It's just a little thing to do in the meeting!" , Zhao Banshan smiled modestly, and did not continue to greet Tokugawa Zonghan and directly said his intention, "I came to pick up Mr. Wu and his party to return to China this time, and I hope that the lord of the domain will be fulfilled." ”

"This", Wu Sihua and the others are no longer in the Mito Domain, and it may not be beneficial to force them to stay, but they are a little unwilling to let them go like this, and Tokugawa Sohan once again resorted to procrastination, "Mr. Zhao has worked hard, you might as well live in this domain for a few days." ”

"It's good!" Zhao Banshan thought for a moment and agreed, and after the servants of the Tokugawa family took him back to the guest room, he immediately proposed to meet the lord of the domain alone. When he saw Tokugawa Sohan, he opened his mouth and asked, "I wonder if the lord of the feudal domain has ever heard of Baili Xi?" ”

Baili Xi was originally a slave of the Jin State, and was later redeemed by Qin Mugong at the price of five sheepskins, and assisted the Qin State to quickly become the overlord. ”

"Zhao is willing to give one hundred Taixi fire guns per person to redeem Mr. Wu and others to return to China!" , Zhao Banshan directly opened the price code.

"Firebolt?" , Tokugawa Sohan quickly thought of the Oda family's iron artillery team, with these weapons, it must be that the strength of this domain is about to be greatly enhanced, so the loss of Wu Sihua and others is not unacceptable.

After some bargaining, the two determined the price of one hundred and twenty firearms to redeem one person, and these Ming relics who had left their homeland for a hundred years finally had to return to their homeland. (To be continued.) )