"They're coming! Where are you now? After reading the letter, I asked excitedly. This is a letter I sent to Nara two years ago to Shinhachiro, to the effect that if he has any problems outside, he can go to Sakai Town and ask someone from Mitsugaku to help. This is actually a letter of introduction that can be forwarded to Masuda Nagamori, and since the letter is in Masuda's hands, Shinhachiro should also be here, but I notified me a few days ago that I was coming, why didn't he come out to see me?

"They're not here......" Masuda Nagamori shook his head in embarrassment. Shihachiro and his master, Master Treasure Temple, came two months ago and took out this letter to ask us for some help, and last month they said that they had made an appointment with someone else and left. ”

"Oh, yes......" My mood suddenly fell again. It's been six years since Shinhachiro left home to study with Yinei in the Treasure Temple, and he hasn't come back once. Although Xianzhi doesn't often mention it, I know that she misses this younger brother who has been taken care of by her since she was a child, and she has cried more than ten or eight times in private about it! I sent many letters to Shinhachiro, but not only did he not come back, but he didn't even reply to the letter, and according to the person who sent the letter, he was always traveling around and was not in Nara. I'm willing to bet he must have passed by Owari and Mino more than once, and he didn't even come back to take a look, I wonder if he was a little heartless from learning from that master who didn't know what to do! "Does he have any difficulties? Are you okay? I stood up as I said this. Since I can't see Shinhachiro, I still want to go and take a break, and since they can go on their own, it doesn't matter if they can.

"Shinhachiro is very good physically and mentally, you don't have to worry about it at all!" Masuda Nagamori said so. "He just ordered a set of armor here, and took another 10,000 yuan, saying that he was going to buy a weapon......"

"What?!" I had just stood up and sat back on my feet. It's not that I feel sorry for this 10,000 yuan, it's just that I didn't expect him to be so good at spending money at a young age. "Didn't he say what kind of weapon it was?" I'm also an ordinary person, and it's impossible not to be curious about a weapon worth a thousand dollars.

"Nope!" Masuda Nagamori shook his head. "He only mentioned that it was a spear, but he didn't say what it was."

"Where...... Is that suit of armor ready? "The armor is custom-made, I think it's a reference to Shinhachiro's size, and since I can't see me for a while, I'd like to take a look at this first.

"It should be almost!" Masuda Nagamori said: "Fortunately, the scope of our transaction with Nanban is very extensive, otherwise the materials are really not so handy, and the cost of this alone also cost 3,000 kan......"

"What?!" I was stunned for the second time. "A set of armor costs 3,000? What is it made of? Gold? ”

"I don't know the specific situation, you can ask the master of Mingguo who made it for him. He was originally recruited by us to be in charge of the production technology of the fire, and now he is in charge of the overall production of various ordnance. Oh! By the way...... "He seemed to suddenly remember something. "He seems to know Shinhachiro Childi, and they talked together for a long time!"

"Let's go, you take me to him!" I stood up again.

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"It's here, please come in!" Masuda Nagamori took me to a large courtyard on the edge of the town, where there were many small houses with various equipment installed in the town, and although there were no fancy buildings, there were many small houses with various equipment, and it was supposed to be a processing plant as a whole. We walked into a separate courtyard, where there was only one room full of weapons, tools, and materials. "Mr. Song, there is a customer who wants to come and meet you!" When he entered the house, he said to a tall, dark-faced man.

"You're Lord Stars, aren't you?" He recognized me at once and hugged me with a fist. "In the Ming Dynasty Song Haitian, I have admired your name for a long time!"

"You're so kind!" I glanced at Masuda Nagamori, and he shook his head at me, it didn't seem like he was talking about it. I looked him up and down again, but I didn't know him! Not at all impressive! It's just that...... The name may sound familiar! Song Haitian ......, "Mr. Song, have we met before?" Since I couldn't think of it, I just asked directly.

"I haven't had the privilege of being honored!" He confirmed what I had thought, but suddenly smiled again. "Although I have never met, I have heard of Lord Zhuxing for a long time, and I am not a stranger to the contemptible and famous adults, right?"

"Yes......" I struggled to remember.

He continued to remind, "My lord doesn't want to forget the bow in Shinhachiro's hand, right? ”

"Ahh It's you! "I suddenly realized that he was the one who was saved by the old man Miaole Zhai and made the magic arm bow for Shinhachiro." How did you get here? I asked him.

"Hey! That's a long story......" he sighed and recounted his experience. It turned out that his family lived in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, because the martial arts were extremely strong there, so the demand for weapons has always been great, and his family's ancestral inheritance is the craft of manufacturing various ordnance. In his generation, because of his high sonic skills, he was recruited into Beijing to work in the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of War, specializing in the ordnance manufacturing supervision of the three major battalions of the forbidden army and the five cities of the Terracotta Division. Ten years ago, he stumbled upon someone misappropriating a large number of well-stocked weapons specially equipped for the Imperial Guards, and replenishing them with inferior and inferior products, so he reported the matter to his immediate superiors, but he did not want to cause a catastrophe. It turned out that Yan Song, the minister of Emperor Jiajing at that time, ordered his close confidant Jinyi Wei to command Lu Shan, and secretly set up a secret private army inside Jinyi Wei, which embezzled the inventory of the military department due to the lack of weapons. As soon as this matter was raised, there was an immediate uproar in the government and the opposition, and Yan Song set him up on the charge of "stealing weapons privately" in order to kill people and kill him, and he escaped from the capital thanks to the help of his friends in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses. Due to the strict pursuit of Jinyiwei, Daming couldn't stay any longer, anyway, he was alone, so he simply got on an Arab merchant ship in Quanzhou and wanted to see and learn in Nanyang. I didn't want to encounter continuous winds and waves at sea, but I went all the way to Japan via Ryukyu and ended up near Uozu Castle in Echichu. There he had a serious illness, but thanks to the rescue of the old man Miao Lezhai, he was able to survive. After leaving there, he wandered around Japan for another two years until he was hired at Mitsugatakeya.

"I wonder if you're happy with your life now?" I can't help but feel a sense of intimacy with the man who came from my homeland, even though it is not convenient for me to explain my own affairs to him now.

"For an outlaw like me, life here is so good!" He gave birth to a wry smile. "There's no one left in my hometown! I think I'll stay here forever and get married and have children. ”

"You're a little pessimistic, aren't you?" I excused him. "Yan Song's momentum is only for a while, but I am afraid that he will fall soon. Daming is the **** gang, a big country! ”

"It turns out that I've always thought like this, but after going out and walking around some places, I gradually have some new ideas!" His eyes fell on the small table in the corner of the room, and I looked over and saw that there were many books piled up, not only in Chinese, but also in Japanese and in Europe and Arabic. "Since Emperor Yongle, the Ming court has become weaker and weaker, and eunuchs and traitors have alternately held power, I thought this was the reason for the decline of the Ming Dynasty, but now it seems that this is not necessarily the case. On the contrary, it is those Zhongliang and those Confucians who I admire very much, and those great Confucians of Cheng Zhu Lixue, who have restrained everyone in the Ming Dynasty ideologically, and now no one in the entire Ming Dynasty wants to move forward......"

"Hey~~~!" I also sighed, I didn't think clearly about this "major historical issue" myself. "What do you think of Japan? Do you have any insights? ”

"I thought Japan was just a ...... A ......," he said at this point, abruptly stopped.

"A country of pirates?" I spoke for him. "It's okay! You say it directly, I don't shy away from it. ”

"When I was in Fujian and the Ryukyus, I saw some different problems......" he smiled. The so-called 'Japanese Woko' is only 12 out of 10! The Ministry of War reported at every turn that '100,000 Japanese invaded the coast', 100,000?! Even if you want to raise 100,000 in Japan, it is also an unimaginable thing, let alone in the sea outside the Ming Dynasty! In fact, most of the 'Japanese pirates' caused great changes because of the sea people who were forbidden to the sea and had not been resettled, and because Wang Zhi and other shameless people participated in it! As long as the Ming Dynasty is sympathetic to the people's livelihood and reorganizes the army, it is not too difficult to eradicate it! In fact, after Emperor Taizu founded the country, many of Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen's subordinates went into exile and became pirates and horse bandits. After coming to Japan, I saw that this place was much more open than the Ming Dynasty, but this may just be due to the war, after all, it is too heavily influenced by China, and it is difficult to say whether it will be closed again after the pacification! ”

"That'......" I took his words to heart. Sir walks everywhere, with your ability, there is no one who wants to solicit? ”

"I've had two ......," he didn't want to say right away, "but it's too restrictive for them to suit my character!" It's better here, the boss doesn't restrain me, and he can also find me a lot of rare materials, even those novel weapons in Nanban can often be seen, which has broadened my mind a lot! ”

"Speaking of equipment, I was about to ask you, how is Shinhachiro doing?" I remembered the purpose of being here. "Is that armor of his ready?"

"Shinhachiro is now a good man, he is really brave and mighty! As for the armor...... he said, gesturing his hand to the corner. "Right there!"

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Bear in Winter: To explain the big questions of several readers, the reason why I use the name "Hokuriku" here is because I haven't thought about some future plot developments, so I set the scope of this business on the concept of "northern section of Hokuriku Province", which should actually include some areas of Echigo, Tohoku, southern Ezo, and northern Yashu, Kanto Yassu. Revealing a little bit of the content in the future, the protagonist may travel to some of these places in micro-service......