"This is Kyoto!" Looking at the dilapidated streets, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional. "In addition to being bigger, how do I feel inferior to Cheongju!" It was February of the 5th year of Eiroku (1562), and I was standing on the widest street in Kyoto, looking at the ruined scene around me.

"I feel good!" Xianzhi comforted me softly on the side. "This is the first time we've traveled together! I'm so happy! "She's still so gentle and considerate. Here's the thing, after putting down Oda Nobukiyo's rebellion last year, Oda Nobunaga accelerated the pace of preparations for an attack on Mino! As a result of his large-scale land seizure and conscription work throughout the country, he firmly controlled 95% of the land and nearly 30,000 soldiers in his own hands, but at the same time, he also sharply deepened the contradictions with the temples and local tyrants. As we all know, he is a person who rarely considers the feelings of others, and does not do much introspection. Because the focus of this year's work is to fight directly against the Saito family, it is particularly important to obtain the title of "great righteousness"! Before Saito Michizo was attacked and killed by his "son" and was dying, he sent someone to secretly send a handwritten letter to Nobunaga. Inside gave Minong's big inheritance and guardian position to the "fool" son-in-law. In order to make this gift look more convincing, it is necessary to confirm it with the Ashikaga Shogun, who is already about the same as a puppet! In fact, it is not difficult, just pay the visa fee for the two children. It occurred to me that I hadn't had my honeymoon with Senzhi yet, so I applied for this assignment. But don't get me wrong, it's Niwa Nagahide! A samurai of my status who has no birth, no official position, and no reputation is not qualified to meet alone. I'm just going to stand in the front, prepare some gifts, submit a name post or something! But when I came here with Xianzhi to take a look, it was really ...... Ay!

"Sister Xianzhi is right!" The warbler picked up. "That's because you haven't seen Kyoto a few years ago! At that time, it could not be described as ten rooms and nine emptiness, and it would be nice to have two or three people living in 100 households! But look now......" she gestured to a block of houses in front of her. "Not only is it full of people, but it's obviously just been repaired and painted! Look at it again......" she pointed to a few more soldiers and said, "I was lucky not to encounter thieves on the street at that time, and there will be soldiers patrolling!" ”

"You were here then?" I wonder why I haven't heard her talk about it.

"Hmm!" Ying nodded and said, "Uncle Duan Zang brought me and my brother here three years ago!" At that time, Ashikaga Shogun had already returned to Kyoto, but because the war with the Miyoshi family had just ended, it was still very dilapidated everywhere! ”

"That's right......" I turned my gaze back to the street. Looking at the shops that were open and the soldiers who were still loyal to their duties, I slowly felt less bad. To be fair, although Ashikaga Yoshiki can't say that he has any ability to survive the heavens and the earth, he must not be regarded as a wreck, at least he has done it with his conscientious efforts! If he was just a nobody, he might be able to hold up a world if he couldn't prepare for it. But he is the great general of the Muromachi shogunate, and the slightest move will be suppressed by the powerful forces around him. His ambition has become a source of suffering, because the world cannot do it! He's kind of like ...... It's a bit like that Emperor Chongzhen.

"What are you thinking?" Seeing that I was in a daze, Xianzhi pulled me.

"Oh...... It's nothing! "I fixed my mind." I was thinking about the ...... How those 'noble' people live! ”

"How to live? It's not the same to dress and eat! "The warbler habitually rolled her eyes over me, as if I had said something stupid. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something. "The last time I came! At the back of the palace, Uncle Duan Zang bought a piece of writing from an uncle for a tael of silver. Guess who that word seller is? She asked, staring at me mysteriously.

"Who? Oh......" I thought for a moment in her voice and said, "Is it a Confucian scholar, or is it a certain eunuch?" ”

"Hah! Ha! You wouldn't have guessed! Ying said triumphantly: "He is actually His Majesty the Emperor who has just succeeded to the throne!" ”

"How...... How...... Will it be like this...... I didn't think ......" Before I could answer, Katsu Shima on the side let out a dreamlike murmur. He is not deeply involved in the world and is loyal, but it is really difficult for him to accept this kind of thing. This time, for the sake of fairness, I brought all the retainers out, but as soon as I arrived in Kyoto, Keiji Maeda, Keizo, and Yamanaka Kanosuke were in a hurry to go out and do their own business! It's not hard to guess that Keiji and Caizo must have played by themselves, Kanosuke...... Ay! He is also a man who is attached to his beliefs!

"Madam, please have mercy on you!" Just as we were each sighing, a dirty hand reached out in front of Xianzhi. Its owner was a middle-aged woman with a vegetable-looking face, accompanied by a skinny little girl. Probably out of fear, they didn't dare to stand too close to us samurai.

"It's pathetic!" Xianzhi's big eyes immediately filled with tears. She crouched down and touched the little girl's head, and shoved the pastry I had just bought for her into her hand.

"Please, okay!" At this time, another voice rang out next to him.

Noticing that the situation was expanding rapidly, I hurriedly grabbed two handfuls of copper coins from my waist and threw them at the crowd, then pulled up Xianzhi and fled from this "place of right and wrong".

"My lord! Yes...... Is there any way to help them? I hadn't taken a few steps when Katsutoshi Shima, who was following me, suddenly asked. At the same time, I felt that Xianzhi also cast a hopeful gaze at me.

"Yes!" I didn't slow down.

"Really !!" Several excited voices rang out in unison.

"The only way to end this troubled world is to end it!" I didn't look back at the answer.

After walking a few more streets, we came to the front of a grocery store. After buying a few humble gadgets, I struck up a conversation with my boss.

"Is business okay?" I asked, rummaging through the goods.

"What's so good or bad! It is a great blessing to be able to survive in this world and have something to eat. "The boss is an old man in his sixties, and he seems to have understood life." When it comes to doing business, it's a far worse place than Sakai, Ishiyama and Hakata! ”

"Huh? You've been to a lot of places! "I was a little surprised." Then you still ......"

"It's hard to leave the homeland, and the leaves fall back to the roots!" The boss shook his head helplessly. "Besides, the current Ashikaga Yoshiteru is still good to the people, and there is no guarantee that there will never be a war anywhere else!"

"That's just as well!" The boss's words struck a chord with me. Now it's the incapable daimyo being beaten, and the capable daimyo beating people, no one can dodge!

"Are you here to meet the general, or do you want to ask the court for an official position?" The boss said suddenly.

"You see that?"

"Yes! Many samurai like you come to Kyoto every year, and a few years ago, I saw the 'Dragon of Echigo', Nagao Keitora! The old man was a little proud, and it seemed that experience was also a kind of wisdom.

"Then I have something I'd like to ask you about!" I remembered my assignment this time. "I don't know where Kyoto is where I can buy precious gifts?"