Tokushima Castle, located near the mouth of the Yoshino River, is built on a hillside nearly 60 meters high, and it is a terrace-style Hirayama Castle. Please search (product book network) to see the most complete! The fastest update! Of course, with the financial resources of the Wasuka family, the scale of this Hirayama Castle is not as majestic and wide as that of famous castles such as Wakayama Castle.

However, thanks to the abundant rocks and rivers in the area, Tokushima Castle's defenses were not inferior to those of the larger cities. On the periphery of Ishigaki, which is built of light green rocks unique to the area, the Suketo River, Fukushima River, Shinmachi River, and Terashima River, tributaries of the Yoshino River, became a natural moat and a source of water for the castle.

Although the Yoshino River is famous on the island of Shikoku, the Yoshino River is rocky and carries very little sediment, so there has been no large-scale land reclamation in the mouth of the Yoshino River, and the terrain has not changed much over the past 1000 years. The Yoshino River spreads out into several tributaries near the mouth of the sea, dividing the estuary area into sandbars and small islands.

The small islands near Tokushima Castle are connected by wooden bridges, stone bridges, or boats, forming a water town similar to Suzhou. Standing on the bow of the ship and looking at the scenery on both sides of the Yoshino River, Xu Leshan still appreciates the scenery of the Tokushima Domain, but I feel that the popularity here is still too thin, and it is difficult to compare with Suzhou and Taicang.

However, it is no wonder that he does not look at the Tokushima Domain, and there is a plain terrain downstream of the Yoshino River, and most of the rest of the country is mountainous, and most of them are rocky mountains. If such a place wants to support Tokushima Castle to become an economically prosperous place similar to Suzhou, I am afraid that there is still a lack of resources.

Although the Tokushima Domain possessed two countries, the Awa Province was divided in two by Kenzan, and the Awaji Province was barren land, so the Tokushima Domain's greatest specialties were seafood, salt, and fruits. However, in recent years, the Tokushima clan has also begun to grow indigo and sugar cane, and is trying to develop into the dye and sugar industry.

As a cotton cloth merchant, Xu Leshan not only came to discuss cooperation with the Tokushima Domain, but also made a request to the Tokushima Domain on behalf of the Tokukai Patrol Office. It's just that after the other party negotiated with him a few times, he didn't give him a clear answer, but he refused to let him go, and just blindly entertained him to play in the nearby mountains and rivers.

Although the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and the widows are gentle and affectionate, Xu Leshan also began to be a little irritable. When he was thinking about whether to give up this mission and return directly to Tanegashima to report the failure of the mission to Xu Xinsu, the Tokushima clan hurriedly sent a ship to take him back to Tokushima Castle.

When Xu Leshan stepped on the dock, he found that in addition to the officials of the Tokushima Domain waiting for him, his relatives who stayed in Tokushima Castle were also staring at him vigorously, as if they had something to report to him.

Xu Leshan ignored his entourage, and greeted Xuanyin, the old bee of the Tokushima clan who had come to greet him. Although this Bee Suga Xuanyin is only 24 years old, he has been appointed as the elder of the family, and it is said that he is also the grandson of the Bee Suga housekeeper, and his natural identity is prominent.

Speaking of which, this is the first time that the Tokushima Domain has sent someone of the level of the old family to meet him, although it is the younger Bee Suga Xuanyin, but Xu Leshan also felt it, it seems that something happened that he didn't know, which directly made the Tokushima Domain change its attitude towards him.

"Xuanyin Palace, how can I drive you to come and receive me. I don't know if your clan called me back this time, but have you already decided to cooperate with my East China Sea Patrol Office? As if he hadn't noticed anything, Xu Leshan said to Xuan Yin.

He Xuanyin snorted, and did not pick up Xu Leshan's topic, but said with a smile: "The cooperation proposed by the Patrol Mansion has not yet been decided by the feudal lord. I invite you back this time because Venerable Peng'an wants to meet you. ”

Xu Leshan quickly reacted, Master Peng'an was the real head of the Tokushima Domain, and the housekeeper of Wasuka was also. Although he has not been the lord of the Tokushima Domain for a day, he is the soul of the Tokushima Domain, and only he can decide the major policies of the domain. Originally, he wanted to see the person he wanted to see the most on this trip, but he never found a way to meet him, and he didn't expect to go out for a trip, but the other party took the initiative to invite him, and it seems that something did happen.

Xu Leshan's heart turned, and he said to Bee Suhe Xuanyin: "Since it is Master Peng'an who wants to see me, it is not good to go to see the Master in such a dusty manner, it is really too neglectful to Master Xuan, please allow me to go back to my residence to bathe and change clothes, and I have prepared some gifts for Master Mage." ”

Xuan Yin only thought about it for a moment, and then said with a smile on his face: "Xu Jun's respect for the mage, I naturally won't stop it. But please don't let the mage wait longer, why don't we limit it to half a moment, how about it? ”

Xu Leshan agreed, and hurriedly returned to the borrowed courtyard with his relatives. He instructed the maiden in the courtyard to prepare hot water, and then went into the room with his relatives and had a conversation. So he soon learned about the incident in Osaka City, and Xu Leshan was also startled, although he and Li Chenfang's fleet came together, but he really didn't see it all the way to the idea that the cronies sent by the emperor were so bold, with hundreds of people from three boats, and dared to attack Osaka City.

Of course, what surprised him even more was that the other party's adventure was successful, and after he took a deep breath, he said to his entourage: "Osaka Castle captured the night before yesterday, so today is the third day that Lord Li has captured Osaka Castle." Did the messenger sent by Lord Lee have any instructions other than to inform us of the news? ”

The entourage said very cautiously: "Lord Li's messenger said that if you can convince them here, it will be very good, if you can't convince them, please evacuate as soon as possible." Osaka Castle, we and the shogunate are already at war, and since the Wasuka family refuses to cooperate with us, they are enemies of the Patrol Prefecture, so it is useless to stay here..."

While Xu Leshan was talking to his entourage, on the overhead floor below their room, a man dressed as a subordinate was eavesdropping on the movement in the room with a copper pipe. When he heard the conversation stop in the room, he quietly fell back to the ground and crawled out of the overhead floor.

Next door to this courtyard, Bee Suga Xuanyin listened to the eavesdropper's report, and was stunned for a long time before he sighed and said to himself: "Was it really guessed by my grandfather, the matter of Osaka Castle is really related to the Tang people, only a few hundred people were used, how did they do it?" ”

It took a long time for Xuan Yin, who was puzzled, to instruct the eavesdropper: "Convey what you heard to the mage, tell the mage, and in a while I will take the Tang people's messenger mountain..."

Wasuka Housekeeper, dressed as a monk, was sitting under the porch of the Izumiya in the Omogoden Garden, and in front of him was the dry landscape garden built by Tian Soyano, the white sand covered the entire garden, and the stone bridges made of Tsurushima and Kameshima were like big fish jumping out of the water, bringing some life to the dry garden.

Behind the housekee, the three elders of the family, Shikie Inada, Masashige Kajima, and Kazumasa Masuda, sat there with some anxiety, waiting for the spiritual leader of the Tokushima domain to make a decision.

Wasuka housekeeper stretched out his hands to support the wooden floor, leaned back slightly, his eyes were still fixed on the stone bridge in the courtyard, and he couldn't help but say: "Tian Zongyan is really a master, no matter how many times I see this courtyard, every time it can always bring me different feelings."

My Wasuka family was originally just a small wealthy family in Owari, and after my father met Hideyoshi-sama, he made his way to the top and became a daimyo of the party. Of course, this is also indispensable to the efforts of the retainers who supported each other with my Wasuka family at the beginning.

In order to keep the position of this daimyo, we first gave up the Oda family, and then turned our backs on the Toyotomi family, I originally thought that such a choice should not be made again in my life, but the heavens seem to see that I am living too comfortably, and put such a situation in front of me, you can tell me, which side should we choose this time? ”

Inada Shikie looked at his colleagues who were still thinking, and couldn't help but say out loud first: "The fact that the Ming people took Osaka Castle with only a few hundred people does not mean that the Ming people's force is beyond our imagination. I think this may be because Osaka's castle is too incompetent, and the officials and soldiers in the city are too rotten. Daming and my country are thousands of miles apart, isn't it a joke to want to cross the sea to attack? ”

He shook his head and retorted: "Even if Osaka's castle is too incompetent, and the officials and troops in the city are rotten, these Ming people can start a rebellion among the townspeople in the name of His Royal Highness Tadacho, and then successfully take Osaka Castle, does this mean that the shogunate's force does not seem to be as strong as we think?"

A few hundred Ming people can take Osaka Castle, so even if the Ming people only send a few thousand people, they will definitely be able to destroy a few feudal states. Although the domain owned Awa and Awaji, it was divided into three places by straits and mountains, and was located at a critical point leading to the Seto Inland Sea.

If the Ming people don't use force, it's okay, if they do, this domain is obviously the first to bear the brunt. Whether the Akito could defeat the shogunate army in Edo may not be certain. However, with the current force of this domain, I am afraid that it will never be the opponent of the Ming people. ”

As soon as Masashige Kasumasa finished speaking, Masuda Kazumasa gently added: "The Awa Naval Army of this domain has not recovered since it lost most of its elite in the war against Korea. If the Ming people were able to come across the sea, their ships would be taller and stronger than our army. If the shogunate asks us to attack, I am afraid that the defeat of the war against the Ming Kingdom and Korea at sea will be repeated on our doorstep. ”

After listening to the three retainers express their thoughts, the housekeeper did not make any decision immediately, he still looked at the stone bridge in the courtyard in silence, and when the three of them looked at each other, a guard came in to report that the Ming people invited by Master Peng'an had followed the bee to celebrate Xuanyin Mountain.

After sitting up straight, the housekeeper said, "You guys go down, wait for me to talk to this Ming envoy, see what Ming really wants, and then we will make a final decision..."

Xu Leshan's first impression when he saw housekeeping was that the slender old monk in front of him looked kind, and he really looked like a high-ranking monk, not a majestic martial artist.

After Xu Leshan glanced at the other party, he cheered up, opened the package of his hand, revealing a piece of batik blue cloth, and then pushed it in front of the housekeeper.

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