In the sixth year of Tensho (1578), Kyoto was lit up with lights and beaming, and Hosokawa Nobumoto held a grand ceremony to celebrate the New Year.

The streets are filled with joyful crowds, and shrine maidens from Izumo Taisha Shrine sing and dance to enhance the atmosphere. The Hosokawa garrison did not return to its garrison, but was stationed around Kyoto to carry out rotational policing duties and holiday rewards.

Those standing armies who arrange vacations wander around all day with nothing to do, and want to buy everything they see back to give to their families as New Year's gifts.

The abundance of consumption once again contributed to the prosperity of Kyoto, and the wealthy merchant Kakukura was happily counting the money in the merchant house, a standard greedy miser. But except for Honda Masanobu's group of small surnames in the same period, no one knew that he was actually the son of the head of the Hosokawa family, the elder Yoshida Munegui.

Kakukura looked up at the outside of the house, and a group of geisha who had just passed by were playing and singing, and the most conspicuous of them was a woman who had captivated the country and the city.

"According to the intelligence, that is the Ninja Akoku of the Ayaya!" The eyes that were originally like a wealth fan suddenly became sharp, and Kakukura had another unknown identity: a member of the Thousand Words of the Mochizuki Organization.

"My lord, Konishi-sama has come from Kaimachi, and Nakajima-sama asked you to go to the teahouse." At this time, an apprentice came in at the door, close to Kakukura's ear, and whispered.

"Got it, I'll leave it to you for the time being." Kakukura threw down the copper coin in his hand and walked out.

Soon, he came to the trading house of Shiro Jiro, the richest man in Kyoto, Chaya, which was the official residence of Nakajima Akinobu of the Hosokawa family in Kyoto.

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"Lord... Lord! The subordinates don't know that the lord has arrived! It's long overdue, and I hope the Lord will punish him! As soon as he entered the gorgeous living room, he saw Hosokawa Nobumoto on the main seat, and he was so frightened that he trotted in all the way, fell to his knees with a thud, and touched the ground with his head.

"Ah, it's a good mix, it's one of the three wealthy merchants in Kyoto." Nobumoto Hosokawa put his hand on his cheek and looked at him with amusement.

"This is all the cultivation of the lord and the support of the family, so that there can be a subordinate today! Oh no, everything under his command belongs to the lord, and all the property in the Kakukura house belongs to the lord! Kakukura was covered in a cold sweat, and after so many years of wandering, today he relived the sense of coercion that made his cold body invade.

"Hehe... That's it, that's it, just raise your head and talk back. I haven't seen you for so many years, and I wonder I miss you, come, let me see if you have made a fortune? Hosokawa Nobumoto withdrew the coercion and said mildly. He is here, and he has spurred everyone who comes in, both soft and hard.

"Thank you, my lord!" Kakukura let out a sigh of relief and raised his head excitedly, he had followed Hosokawa Nobumoto since he was a child, and his feelings were also deep.

"Yes, yes, I heard that your child is also seven years old this year, and when the New Year is over, come to me." Hosokawa Nobumoto said in an unquestioning tone.

"Yes! The subordinate generation of dogs is cultivated by the lord of thanks! "Kakukura went down to the big bow again.

"Hehe, okay, let's wait on the side for a while, the people are not even, let's wait for everyone to be together." Hosokawa Nobumoto waved his hand casually and motioned for Kakukura to wait on the left.

"Yes!" Kakukura lowered the leader's order, then got up and sat cross-legged on the left side in broken steps.

Peeking around, the two people he started with were Nakajima Akinobu of Kyoto Town and Konishi Ryoza of Kai Town. There were also three people sitting opposite, namely Nakajima Kiyonobu, the financial director of the Hosokawa family, Tadaji Kagawa, and Okubo Changsu, the mine director.

Obviously, on the left are the merchant samurai of the Hosokawa family, who are in charge of private business dealings. On the right side are the internal affairs of the Hosokawa family, responsible for handling various affairs in the family, but the first person on the right has been absent, presumably waiting for him.

"Ming Yan, Qing Yan is now the master of the family, the mountains of numbers can be counted clearly and clearly in half a day, there is really a father and a son." Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at Nakajima and his son, who were his first retainers. I think that when I fled from Kyoto, I always followed myself.

"The lord praised it." Nakajima and his son saluted excitedly, and now one of them is a noble in front of people, and the other is rich in the future.

"Ronzo! Your son is not bad, and he also has a hand in commanding the army, and I am ready to promote him to the standing commander in a while. "Hosokawa Nobumoto is also very satisfied with the recent performance of President Konishi, who is about to expand the army recently, and the president is one of the people on the list of personnel considerations.

"Thank you, my lord! Thank you, Lord! Konishi Ryuza kowtowed again and again, and tears of excitement came out, and his Konishi family went from a merchant to a samurai class. If Governor Konishi is promoted to a general, he will enter the ranks of important ministers!

Hosokawa Nobumoto chatted with them for a few more words, and finally the door opened again, and the two of them entered from the outside. The person at the head is Honda Masanobu, followed by Goto Mitsushi.

Nakajima Akinobu and Kakukura glanced at each other in surprise, this Goto Mitsunori didn't know anyone else, but both of them were too familiar. Because they are called the three wealthy merchants of Kyoto, it means that they are the three of them. When did this Goto Mitsunori also belong to the Hosokawa family? I've never heard of it.

"My lord, this is the Kyoto wealthy merchant Goto Mitsushi, and he is also a master carver for the royal family!" Honda Masanobu first saluted Hosokawa Nobumoto and introduced the person behind him, who turned out to be not from the Hosokawa family.

"Little... After the villain... Hikaru Goto... Light... Meet the Yamagata of Hikarata! Meet Yagatata-sama! Although he was told early to come to see Hosokawa Nobuyuan, the huge gap in identity still made him unable to restrain the horror in his heart.

"Well, have you done everything you made?" Hosokawa Nobumoto asked solemnly with a straight face.

"It's done, it's done, please review it!" As he spoke, Mitsunori Goto pushed out a wooden box, and everyone looked at it curiously.

The little surname on the side took it and opened it respectfully, only to see that there was a golden ingot inside.

"Yagata-sama! According to your requirements, the large judgment, small judgment and sub-judgment are all completed by engraving. Mitsunori Goto swallowed dryly, not knowing whether his work would suit Hosokawa Nobumoto's taste, and his heart was uneasy.

"Well, it's good, it's good, it's worthy of being a royal master carver." Hosokawa Nobumoto praised twice, and he really didn't find the wrong person.

The Goto family in Kyoto is a family of carvers, starting with his great-grandfather Goto Yushi, who has been the royal goldsmith of the Ashikaga shogun's family for nearly 100 years.

Historically, the large summons issued by the Oda family and the Tokugawa family were all masterpieces of the Goto family, and on the back of the book "Pick up two Goto" monograms of the head of the Goto family.