Tanba Province is a mountain**, with a total stone height of about 264,000 stones, and it is the easternmost mountain ** country connecting. It connects Wakasa and Tango provinces to the northeast and northwest, Yamashiro Province to the east, a small part to the north near the border of E, and Tajima, Harima, and Settsu provinces from west to south.

It is a landlocked country that is not close to the coast, and the Tamba Highlands occupy a large part of the country's land, so there is less arable land. In a relatively flat part, only the Kameoka Basin in the Katsura River Basin and the Fukuchiyama Basin in the Yuragawa River Basin have some arable land. Although productivity is not ideal due to the topography, it is also an important area due to its proximity to Kyoto.

At this time, Hosokawa Nobumoto was ready to take advantage of the internal strife between the northern and southern Oda systems to seize the time to expand outward, and his first preferred target was Tanba Province.

"My lord, Lord Hosokawa Fujitaka, Lord Hosokawa Fujiken, and Lord Mibuchi Fujiei have arrived." Outside the door, there was a voice with the surname Benmaru, who was the second son of Masayuki Sanada.

"Okay, let them in." Hosokawa Nobumoto commanded without replying, and in front of him, there was a sand table, which could be clearly seen to be a mountainous sand table map.

"Hahaha, Rokuro, why did you remember to summon a few of us today? Originally, we were still speculating about where you were hiding in the clean, but I didn't expect that a while ago I actually helped that kid from Zhenzhi to take back the country of Awa, it's really you! Hosokawa Fujiken's hearty laughter came in, and his eyes were full of approval.

"Uncle, look at what you said, what kind of summoning, obviously please. Hehe... Come on, come on, come here, please. Benmaru! Serve tea! Hosokawa Nobugen greeted him with a smile and helped Hosokawa Fujiken to sit down, his own uncle was also nearly sixty years old, which could be regarded as a long life in the Warring States Period.

"Huh? Rokuro told me to wait for tea? Hosokawa Fujitaka looked at the hot tea brought to him, his brows furrowed, and he didn't mean to drink it at all.

"Of course not, I called everyone here to discuss the future of the Hosokawa family." Hosokawa Nobugen didn't care either, he knew that the source of Hosokawa's dissatisfaction was not because of him, but because...

"Then since it's not a tea tasting, let's take the tea down. Rokuro, you should also practice the tea ceremony, this tea ceremony is..."It turns out that the attitude towards drinking tea, Hosokawa Fujitaka, the "tea ceremony master", is very particular, which is like Hosokawa Nobugen just to quench his thirst.

"Okay, definitely, definitely, I will definitely ask Fujitaka for tea ceremony in the future, let's talk about business." Hosokawa Nobumoto hurriedly interrupted Fujitaka's words and asked him to talk about the tea ceremony, which he couldn't finish for three days and three nights.

"Huh? This sand table? Could it be? Tanba country? Mibuchi Fujiei looked at the sand table in front of him, vividly showing the mountains and the long river.

"That's right, Fuji Ying has good eyesight." Hosokawa Nobumoto also came over, and today's sand table is the point.

"Far away as the great rivers and mountains, the wild road is tossed and turned, the overpass stands up, and the letter has never been transmitted. Good! Good! Hosokawa Fujitaka also wrote an impromptu waka song about a singer in Kyoto who was married to Tango's biological mother, who was prevented from seeing each other in the mountains of Tanba, and even letters could not be sent for a long time.

"You..."Hosokawa Nobumoto was speechless for a while, and together with this group of elegant people, he seemed so vulgar.

"Hehe... On a whim, on a whim. But then again, the craftsmanship of your sand table is becoming more and more refined, almost like a bird's-eye view from the air, how did you do it? Hosokawa Fujitaka was amazed by the production of this sand table model, which is simply a work of art.

"Hehe... Of course, this is the family's thing that took more than half a year to measure, a mountain and a river. Hosokawa Nobumotoichi raised his head and proudly said that since the last time he admonished the roughness of the map of Koyasan, Monomiban spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and finally discovered a complete drawing system for himself, so that he has today's high-precision sand table model map.

"You want to take the country of Tamba?" Hosokawa Fujiken also came over to watch together, and the four of them all surrounded this sand table.

"Yes! This is the first step! Hosokawa Nobumoto nodded, all the people present were his relatives of the Hosokawa clan, and there was nothing to hide.

"That's... When will we return to the tent of the clan? Hosokawa Fujiken asked the words that had been pressed in his heart for a long time, and it was obvious that he felt that the time had come for the Hosokawa family to stand on their own. The other two also looked at Hosokawa Nobumoto with solemn faces, and it can be seen from Nobugen that he began to control Sanuki Province and support the Awa Hosokawa family, and he has been accumulating strength for self-reliance.

"Now is not the time, when the Oda clan is a pot of porridge, it will be the time for my Hosokawa clan to rise again. What we need to do now is to develop and grow ourselves, and maintain a good relationship with the North and South Oda system. Hosokawa shook his head, he still needed a stable rear now.

"Do we need to create some contradictions for them? Let them break out faster? Mibuchi Fujiei thought for a moment and made a suggestion.

"No, the contradictions will naturally find them, let's not get involved, the cleaner the better, first of all, Princess Ashi will not let go of Yushiba Hideyoshi." Hosokawa Fujitaka knew that what Hashiba Hideyoshi did back then made Oda City hate it to the core.

"Fujitaka is right, okay, let's not talk about anything else, please look at the sand table. There are many mountainous areas in Tanba country, and even if you have a map in hand, it is easy to get lost in it. So, I found a good guide and from here, into the country of Tamba. Hosokawa Nobumoto pointed to the northeast corner of the sand table, and everyone's attention was focused again, this was Kuwata County in Tanba Province, and it could only be accessed from the back of Mt. Hiei in Omi Province.

"But that Naito Ruan?" Hosokawa Fujitaka obviously remembered someone, as the general who had previously exterminated the Shogunate Army, he naturally remembered this Tamba native born and later surrendered to Naito Ruan.

"No, it's not him." Hosokawa Nobumoto knew that this person was one of the "Three Evildoers of the Warring States": the nephew of Matsunaga Hide, and he didn't want to have anything to do with this kind of person.

"Who could that be?" Mibuchi Fujiei asked strangely, not understanding why there were ready-made people who didn't use it, and had to use someone else.

"It's Katsutsushi Chuan!" Hosokawa Nobumoto said the man's name.

"Who is this person? Listening to this seedling seems to be a little impressed. Hosokawa Fujiken frowned and thought, always feeling that he had heard it somewhere.

"His Chuan Sheng family was originally a first-class wealthy family in the Danba country, and it can be said that it was not inferior to the Hatano family when it was brilliant, but now it has declined into a small wealthy family, and it is not surprising that I don't know, it is said that this Chuan Sheng's family is surnamed Qin." At the beginning, this person actually came to the door by himself, hoping to invest in the Hosokawa family and revive the glory of the Katsu family. In order to show his loyalty, he specially sent his son-in-law Katsuhide Kawa to the Hosokawa family as a closer.

"Surname Qin? Is it a ferryman? Hosokawa Fujitaka was slightly surprised.

"Yes, it is said that he is the descendant of Qin Hesheng." Unconsciously, Nobumoto Hosokawa felt a sense of kindness.

Legend has it that the ancestor was Gongyuejun (King Rongtong), a descendant of the first emperor of the Chinese Qin Dynasty, and according to the records of the "Chronicle of the Hon" of the Emperor, it was from Baekje who crossed the sea to the Honhon.

The time of arrival is about the 3rd century, which is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the time of the Three Kingdoms dispute. They served in the imperial court, engaged in silkworm raising, weaving, finance, and were skilled in civil engineering, agriculture, wine-making and other techniques.

In the 5th century, the Japanese aristocracy was already able to make good use of Chinese characters, and established the Five Classics (Yi, Poetry, Shu, Li, Spring and Autumn) doctoral confession system, the emergence of sinologists who were familiar with Confucian classics, and later added doctors of medicine, doctors of calendar, astronomy, geography, and the five elements of yin and yang.

During the reign of Prince Shotoku (593-621), he directly sent students to China to fully absorb the Chinese civilization system, laying the foundation for the development of Japanese culture.

Qin Hesheng is the most famous figure of the Qin clan, a favorite of Prince Shotoku, who was in charge of state finances for a long time, established an accounting system, and founded Taiqin Guangryuji Temple, and is regarded as the founder of Shinto Kagura and the ancestor of Sarugaku and Noh. After his death, he was given the highest rank of god by the imperial court, and was revered as the god of Daido, the main god of Daido shrines in various parts of the country, and was considered to be the guardian deity of blessing navigation safety and warding off calamities.

The Qin clan can be called the first wealthy family in ancient Japan, and its foundation is centered on Kyushu and, and it is all over Japan. In the Heian period, some people began to take the name of the Weizong clan, and the Shimazu clan also called themselves the Qin clan as their ancestors. In addition, the Changzong Ibe clan and the Xiangzong Ibe clan of Shikoku also claimed to be descendants of the Qin clan.