"Huh~!" I opened the door, and the golden sunlight sparkled my eyes. Because of my late return last night, I slept until half past nine this morning, but my head was still a little groggy. Although I was very reluctant, I thought that Oda Nobunaga might be looking for me, so I reluctantly got up. "Someone! Prepare ...... for me" suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, and I saw Hideyoshi Hashiba and Mitsuhide Akechi sitting on a stone bench in the courtyard. "Why are you here so early?"

"Is it early?" "Monkey" looked up at the sun. "It's not too early!"

"This island Katsutoshi doesn't know how to call me!" I complained, "Keeping you two waiting for so long!" ”

"Don't blame him! We told him not to quarrel with you......" Akechi Mitsuhide said with a smile, "Actually, it didn't take long......"

"It's not been long, it's been less than an hour!" Hideyoshi Hashiba had a wicked smile on his face. "I heard from the doorman that you didn't come back until after midnight last night! In the end, he is young and energetic! ”

"Look at what you said, as if you are in your seventies and eighties!" I hid my embarrassment with haha, and it was hard to explain to them what happened last night. "I don't know what to see when the two of you come, so you don't necessarily have to come to ridicule you, right?"

"Now that you're in Kyoto, why don't you wander around?" Akechi Mitsuhide stood up. "We're looking for you to take a tour of the city!"

"Let's go after dinner!" I said as I rinsed my mouth with the water that Shimakatsu handed over.

"You haven't eaten enough food in the barracks for so many days! Let's go out into the street to eat! Saying that, the "monkey" couldn't wait to come and pull me.

I put on my shoes and asked, "Won't it be okay for us to go out together?" ”

"No, it won't!" Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head and said: "The lord went to the private banquet of the Taizheng Minister Konoe in the past, and he was accompanied by a room of ministers such as Kikutei Qingji, Persuasion Temple Harutoyo, and Nijo Kaneyo, and it seems that he will definitely not be able to come back until the evening!" ”

"In that case, why didn't you call Maeda-sama and Ikeda-sama?" I asked when I got out on the street.

"Maeda-sama is serving as the palace gate guard today, and he left early in the morning! As for Ikeda Hengxing...... "Hideyoshi Hashiba smiled and said, "He's bigger than your spirit, and he hasn't come back yet!" ”

We walked down the street, followed by Shima Katsu and a few of their henchmen. In the morning, we bought some random sweets such as Ningyoyaki and Koyaki for breakfast, then visited Sanjujugendo, Ryoanji Temple, and Shijo River, and at noon ate Kitano-ryu cuisine at a restaurant called Higashiyama-tei, and in the afternoon we went to the famous Kinkakuji Temple.

"Please stop, three adults!" Around Kinkakuji stood a small group of soldiers, and their captain stopped us in high spirits.

"What's going on?" I asked him, confused.

"Returning to the three adults!" The captain saluted respectfully, but I didn't know him, and he looked like he was just a head of the ashigaru group. "Kinkakuji Temple has always been a place of strict protection because it is full of gold and treasures! The lord will come here to guard it at the end, and those who do not have the lord's warrant will not be allowed to enter, I hope your forgiveness! ”

"So...... It's a pity, but it's only a good idea to see it outside! Akechi Mitsuhide said regretfully.

"Uh-huh......" We stepped back a distance and began to admire the world-famous building.

Although it is named "Temple", it is actually a two-story pavilion about six or seven meters high, with corridors, columns, cornices, partition fans, and bucket arches. As a building, Kinkakuji is neither grand nor complicated, but its wonderful and impressive features lie in its splendor! Even any tiny place, is contained in a lot of gold leaf, although the gold has gone through the wind and rain years is no longer shining, but the dignified color with a slight dark red can't help but make people awe-inspiring! It stood there quietly, as if it still carried the arrogance of its owner, the third Muromachi shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, to dictate to the princes of the world!

"What a spectacular ......" After a long silence, Hideyoshi Hashiba let out a long sigh of relief, then turned to me and Akechi Mitsuhide and said, "Do you feel it?" Look at it closely, and there will be a ...... A sense of oppression! ”

"You're right!" Wise Mitsuhide nodded solemnly. "It's a sense of majesty, but at the end of the day, it's the things that lie behind it, reminiscent of its builders. After all, the deeds that go down in history are abstract, and what can be seen and touched is real! ”

"But the first thing people talk about is often the thing itself, and associating with great people is just an afterthought!" Hideyoshi Hashiba pouted there. "Leaving behind relics is the only way to endure through the ages, and achievements that cannot go down in history are just empty terms! There are many emperors in history who are more brutal than Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Yang of Sui, but people only remember the two of them. Why? One is the Great Wall and the other is the Grand Canal! After a person succeeds, he must leave something behind, he must be famous in the world, otherwise is it just to live a comfortable life for a few days in his old age? ”

"I don't really agree with your idea...... "Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head and said, "Of course, it is necessary to be famous all over the world and be famous for centuries, but the primary goal should be to pursue success!" Only success is the crux of the matter, and then we can talk about anything else. If you blindly take care of false fame, you will definitely be burdened by it in the end! ”

"What do you think, Brother Zhongbei?" Speaking of debates, "Monkey" will not be an opponent of Akechi Mitsuhide, and now he wants to pull me into it too.

"I don't have any special ideas?" I shrugged my shoulders indifferently and pointed to Kinkakuji with my chin. "What do you think of the gold?"

"Huh?" The two of them apparently did not expect that I would ask such a vulgar question in such a serious discussion of the "outlook on life".

"I mean, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu Shogun, who was in charge of the world back then, shouldn't he have only had such a little gold?"

"Of course not!" Akechi Mitsuhide answered my question. "Although there is a lot of gold here, it will not belong to the entire treasury!"

"That's right!" I punched a tree next to me. "What a martial art he was in pacifying the Southern Dynasty back then, and how invincible! But where is he today? A high-spirited life is not as long as this little gold in your hand, what is the meaning of success? ”

The two of them just looked at me puzzled.

"Besides, I want to use such a building to pass on the fame through the ages! It may be like this for the time being, but who can say what it will look like after all eternity? "I asked them." Maybe in a thousand years, gold will not even be as good as iron, and if that is the case, I am afraid that this place will not even be a laughing stock! ”

"You...... Despise gold! Hideyoshi Hashiba asked suspiciously, in his mind, this is absolutely incredible for me as a "money fan".

"That's not right! I revere gold as much as I revere all powerful men! Even if this strength will soon become history! I walked a few steps to the edge of the huge pond, pointed to the carp swimming in the water, and said, "Just talk about these carps!" Back then, he was favored by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and carefully cared for, but now no one pays attention to it for hundreds of years, isn't it good? Therefore, what is for the sake of the common people in the world, for the sake of the society and the people, it is also some! ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Akechi Mitsuhide asked with a frown.

"Actually, I mean to say......" I explained to them, "don't think about any big reason, it's a lie!" Don't think about what will happen in a thousand years, don't think so far before you think about it! Success is not an empty word, you yourself have to understand what you want most? What is most important to you now and in the future, as long as you have all of this, in fact, the false name of 'success' does not matter! ”

"Yes...... What do you mean by success? Hideyoshi Hashiba said.

"Success is just a means to an end, and being recognized by others is just a by-product!" I then added, "Of course, the purpose may be material or spiritual!" ”

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Bear in Winter: This book is my first (and possibly last), so I'm still exploring other ways to write not only the war scenes, but also the others. Judging from the readers' reactions, the attempt to describe the war has obviously failed, but since I have chosen this theme, it is impossible to skip all the war! In the future, I will try to explain only the time, place, characters and time, so as to avoid using those immature writing methods to affect the reader's vision!