Before the wind demon Kotaro came, the lord had personally instructed him to protect the safety of Yamanaka Shikanosuke, if he really let him seppuku, then how to go to the main bus after he returned, so I heard him hurriedly say: "Yamanaka is slow, if the lord is seppuku, then the Niko family will be revived by no one, so ......"

Before the Wind Demon Kotaro finished speaking, he saw Yamanaka Shikanosuke laugh miserably: "Along the way, the adults also heard that the Niko family not only perished, but also the lord and young master have passed away, even if Shikanosuke continues to live, how can Niko recover?" ”

"Even if the Nizi family can't be revived, haven't you thought about avenging it?"

After listening to Yamanaka Kanosuke, his sloppy eyes became a lot firmer.!

"Lord Yamanaka, sooner or later there will be a war between the Oda family and the Mori family, and my lord as a minister of Oda, once he goes out of the army, why don't he join the war, and this is the best time for adults to take revenge, the words have come to this, if you want to take revenge, it is better to return with you first, if you want to follow Niko-sama to go, you will no longer be hindered in the next, please choose your lord."

Although the wind demon Kotaro said so, how could he watch Yamanaka Kanosuke die, so he was ready, as long as he still had to cut his stomach, then he would pounce directly.

It can be said that the words of the Wind Demon Kotaro completely moved the Yamanaka Kanosuke, and I saw him stand up violently and said, "Thank you for the guidance of the Wind Demon, I wish to return with the Lord and meet Lord Takayama." ”

After hearing this, Wind Demon Kotaro finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he could bring him and the funds back safely, he would have completed the task.

It had been nearly a month, and the clan had already returned to Alpine City when they left, after all, there was still a large group of merchants waiting for them.

Those merchants saw with their own eyes that there would be a town of this magnitude in Hida, surrounded by mountains, and they had to admire the courage of Takayama Lord, and it was not only that. The road leading to Takayama Town has already begun to be built, which shows them that Takayama people are determined to develop their economy, and once the road is completed, this Takayama Town will definitely become another economic center in the world.

After learning about the Takayama family's policy towards this town. Who can refuse such a temptation, those are willing to come here to open a store, after all, this store is for nothing, even if the business is not good, it is a big deal to close the store and then pull the goods back, at most it is to pay a fare, and once it really develops here. Then he will definitely make a lot of money, and there is no fool who can appear here now, who will refuse such a profitable deal.

And I was afraid that I would be late and wouldn't be able to grab the store with the ideal location, so as soon as the clan sect finished the introduction, he hurriedly confessed and left, ready to go back to prepare the goods and immediately come to open the store.

Watch more and more businessmen leave. The clan was finally relieved, as long as they could come and set up shop here, then it would attract more merchants to come. Although the town has not yet been built, the clan has already wanted to see its prosperity, and the Takayama family will prosper forever because of the existence of Takayama Town.

With the departure of the merchants, Kotaro Kazema and Kanosuke Yamanaka have also arrived at Takayama Castle.

Seeing that the clan had worked hard for more than 20 days, Yamanaka Kanosuke lost a lot of weight, and he felt a little unbearable in his heart, and the only thing that the clan could compensate him for was to destroy the Maori family in the future and let him slash the enemy.

"Yamanaka Kanosuke. You've figured out whether or not you've decided to pledge your allegiance to me. ”

"Lord Takayama, I am determined in my heart, and I only hope that if there is a war with the Maori family in the future, my lord can send my son to fight in the lower battle to avenge the Nizi family."

"Good. I promise you, now I officially recruit you as a retainer of the Takayama family, and appoint you as the general of the Ashigaru, and temporarily take charge of the training of the family's newly recruited Ashigaru. ”

"Thank you, Lord."

With the return of Yamanaka Shikanosuke, 1568 passed like this, and 1569 and the most peaceful two years after the crossing of the clan, the Oda family suffered heavy losses in the last war, and was unable to send out the army, and the civil strife of the Takeda family ended, and it also took time to recover, and the Mori family and the Tokugawa family were digesting the newly acquired land, and for a while, the world was calm, except for some small forces during this period, the general forces in the world seemed to be asleep.

However, the samurai did not dare to relax in the slightest, they knew that this was just the calm before the storm, so whether it was the general force or those insignificant small forces, they were seizing all the time to prepare for the war, some wanted to obtain greater benefits in the next melee, and more forces did this just to protect themselves.

The Takayama family is no exception, because the Takayama town has developed in the past two years and has become another economic center in the middle of the world, so that the Takayama family will not fall into a situation of lack of funds, although the current income brought by this town to the Takayama family is less than 100,000 kan per year, and there is still a great distance from the annual income of 200,000 kan set by the clan, but the development prospects of this town are very ideal, especially after the road to the east is repaired, there are a large number of eastern merchants pouring into Hida, ready to open shops in Takayama town.

However, they were not as fortunate as the most advanced merchants in Takayama, and if they wanted to set up shop here, they would have to build their own stores, but even then no one would complain, and the money was nothing compared to the benefits they could get.

And as the scale of Takayama Town is getting bigger and bigger, the funds of the Takayama family are becoming more and more abundant, what should be done with money in this era, the clan knows better than anyone else, that is, to vigorously develop the military, only if the military force is strong, then can you keep everything in front of you.

After two years of expansion, the total number of the Takayama Army has now reached 7,000, of which the 1,005 new group responsible for guarding the territory, the elite armor cavalry and the scimitar cavalry have each expanded to 600, the heavy vine bow ashigaru is 500, and the iron cannon ashigaru is 800, and the ninja army has been expanded to 500 people except for the assault ninja team under the command of Kazema Kotaro, and the number of ninja troops under the command of Wasuka Masakatsu remains at 2,500 people.

The concentration of 7,000 elite troops in the Hida country not only made Kaga Honganji feel a serious threat, but also brought a lot of pressure to the Takeda family, when the Takayama family army was just formed, Takeda Katsuyori and Shichiri Yorishu coincidentally sent a large army to the border to avoid the sudden attack of the Takayama army.

Although there is no war to fight in the past two years, but the clan has not been idle, in this era, if the heirs are not prosperous, then even if the power is strong, it is just a flash in the pan, but this problem is not a problem at all for the clan, in these two years, through the efforts of him and the four wives, he has three more boys, one woman and four children, if you add the previous out, then now the Gaoshan clan has six sons, three daughters, at the age of twenty-seven years old, if it is placed in modern times, has nine children, Absolutely unimaginable.

But in Japan's Warring States Period, it was a very common thing, after all, he had four wives, not one.

Compared with the clan, Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro is much more miserable, in the past two years, although he has had nearly ten wives and concubines, including Ning Ning, but there is no harvest, which makes his temper become more and more irritable, although since he has ten thousand stone Zhixing, there are many samurai to defect, but he knows that if he has no descendants, then all this in front of him will definitely not last long, but in addition to hard work, what can he do.

With the peace of the world and the stability of the territory, the clan wanted to have more comfortable days, but who knew that just after a while, Oda Nobunaga, who had always been idle, came to the trouble again.

The territory of the Oda family is huge, and the income is really a lot, but it also has to raise tens of thousands of troops, and the annual cost is also very considerable, if Nobunaga is down-to-earth, the annual income is enough, but although the Oda family has not expanded externally in the last year or two, but this construction territory is not cheaper than going out to fight, and the four sides can also be supplemented by fighting and raising wars, but this construction territory, whether it is to open the land or develop the economy, is to be invested in advance, so that the funds of the Oda family are a little stretched.

Although Nobunaga has given tasks such as raising funds to the middle and lower class samurai in the family in the past few years, the funds raised by the retainers can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for the construction of the Oda family, and it has no effect at all.

He didn't want to fight Takayama Town, after all, although the Takayama clan is a retainer under his command, but it is also a daimyo with tens of thousands of stones, if he takes it by skill, he will not only be laughed at by the world, but also make the retainers feel seriously dissatisfied, and Nobunaga, who has the best face, disdains to do this, and what he thinks now is that since Takayama Town can develop to such a scale in a poor place like Hida, then the land in his own territory is worse than there?

When he thought of this, he decided to build a large town in his territory that was larger than Takayama Town.

At first, Nobunaga wanted to renovate the existing Iguchi Town, but soon Nobunaga rejected this idea, firstly, because although it was easy to renovate the scale of Iguchi Town, it was very difficult to disrupt the system in it, especially since the Zatotou in the town had already become large, and he was still the royal merchant of his family, and it was impossible to change their current position, and he could solve it by force, but in this way, everyone would be in danger, and no merchant would dare to come and open a shop at that time. Not only do you not earn any money from them, but the initial investment is also wasted......)

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