The dinner was held around 8 o'clock, and a European-style table was set up at the request of Shokincho Jixiu. Duck legs soaked in oil, foie gras with truffle, Philip steak, oysters in orange juice (you can't find lemons in Japan), and braised hali、......,but in red wine are served in the same order as is customary, with chopsticks and cutlery on the table, and mushroom soup at the end.

"Brother Zhuxing, I didn't expect Nanban dishes to be so delicious!" Ji Xiu said with emotion, and after a bit of wine and meat, he called me "brother". He slowly picked up a small snack and chewed it in his mouth, and at the moment we were enjoying the sweets after the meal, and since I didn't prepare the coffee I didn't like very much, we drank a very strong black tea. "What is this?"

"Walnut sticky!" I looked at it and said. "It is made by frying walnuts in oil, drizzling them with honey, and then drying them."

"It's really ingenious, and it's really extravagant! Compared with the court of the prosperous era, there is no need to give more. He sighed with envy. …… So I've always thought that although I don't have to be as obsessed with Nanban items as the Kikutei Qing Season, I shouldn't be as old-fashioned as Yamashina Yanji, and see the Nanban people as monsters who drink blood! By the way, do you usually feast like this? ”

"How is that possible!" I replied with a smile.

"Not bad!" He nodded and said, "I think that's the case too." ”

"That's it!" I agreed: "My stomach is already weak, how can I stand such a greasy thing to eat often, I can come once in ten days and a half months!" As far as I am concerned, I still like Ming cuisine, especially the styles of Huaiyang and Qilu schools, such as: steamed osmanthus fish, called Huazi chicken, braised sea cucumber with green onions, crab roe lion head, Yipin swallow wings、...... You~ Are you okay? As he spoke, I suddenly noticed that he was in a state of lightning strike. Stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, it's hard to explain what happened to me at the chincha.

"Otherwise...... "Shokincho Jixiu finally got out of the shock, but said something that made me fall into it." Shall I resign from my official position and come to you as a guest? ”

"How could you have such a ridiculous idea?" I asked, stunned. "You are a descendant of the famous Fujiwara clan, a high-ranking minister from the Yulin Gate, and the court is ...... from the three."

"'In troubled times, the minister is not as good as a chicken, and no one cares about the emperor's funeral.'" Hmph, hum, don't talk about Yulin, what can you do if it's the Regent family? He snorted helplessly. Do you know why I was upset when I first arrived? ”

I shook my head silently.

"Tell you, I really thought I was busy this time!" He said solemnly. "Last time, when the Nakayumen mission came back, we were all shocked when we talked about the situation of going to Changguang Temple Castle, thinking that your Oda family was just some country warriors who gained power by force, if this is the case, then it will not be much good for us to come out and pass the decree! However, the recent activities have been around the Oda family, which will directly affect everyone's livelihood, and many people start to have a headache when they think about it. This time I got ...... after I got an errand by lot."

"Draw lots?!" I cried out in amazement.

"Of course it was a lot, otherwise how do you think the errands are distributed?" Ji Xiu, who is in the town, asked confidently. "If all the errands were to one man, everyone else would starve to death! Unless it is something particularly important, other errands are decided by everyone by drawing lots, and after getting one time, the next three times cannot participate in the lot. Now you get the idea! I thought that this time it was such a small job to catch up with the edict, and your position in the Oda family was not as good as that Shibata Katsuya, so naturally this trip was delayed once, and I was afraid that I would have to tighten my belt in a year! ”

"You're so honest!" I smiled wryly and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will understand the actual 'market' and lower the specifications of the gift?" ”

"Naturally not!" He didn't think about it. "Anyone has a certain number of paths, just as a stingy person does not suddenly become generous, a generous person cannot get used to being stingy all at once! If I can't master this now, then wouldn't my ministers for so many years be in vain? ”

"So you think expatriate should be a very oily job?" Something suddenly occurred to me. “…… Then why were there so few Qincha released in previous years? ”

"There's no travel fee!" He took a glass of red wine and drank it down, licking his lips when he was done. "When the world is chaotic, there is no one to receive you on the road, and I am afraid that if you can't get to the place, you will starve to death!"

When I heard this, I asked curiously, "Don't you have a fortune?" ”

"Not in previous years, but in the past five or six years, it has begun to recover!" Masaki nodded in acknowledgement. "But it's no match for you warriors, as long as you move your swords, guns, gold and silver will roll in!"

"Your Excellency, you can't say that!" I hurriedly discerned. "Fighting a war is a matter of carrying your head, and defeating it is naturally shattered. Even if you win, it doesn't rely on the force in your hands? But who will play for you without a reward? You have to lay a piece of land to eat! Once you have this territory, someone will always calculate you, so you have to spend more money, raise more subordinates, and build a bigger territory! How can you compare to your minister, with an ancestral surname, you will have food! ”

"If you talk like this again, I'll nourish you with tears!" When Ji Xiu said this, it seemed as if tears were really about to gush out. "Do you want to know how much our minister has? What the? Don't want to?! I don't want to tell you too! "He was shouting to buy and sell." The minister of the first is 10 stone a year, do you understand what this concept is? That is to say, the Minister of Imperial Affairs, the regent Guan Bai and your personal soldiers take a price, and as for me, it is only 3 stone a year! This time it's clear, right? The ministers can't live without taking bribes, and no one who has a grade or no official position will ignore him, which is why so many people go to serve as diners for the daimyo! ”

"Then you don't have to pick on me!" I joked: "I'm just a subordinate general in the Oda family, and all the knowledge and deeds are less than 8,000 stones, and I am a petty official who has no right to go to the palace in terms of rank, so you will be a guest for me?" That's too low! ”

"Brother, you're too unkind!" He shook his head. "Just as His Highness Oda will not stop at Kyoto, you will not stop at the generals; Speaking of territory, do you really mean this mere 8,000 stones? Can 8,000 stones sustain such a luxurious life? I'm afraid you won't be able to fool yourself when you say this! What does it matter if you exchange your current life, Konoe may not be stingy with that minister of the Imperial Politics for a long time! ”

"Come on! You'd better spare me! I said hurriedly. Now I'm eye-catching enough, will you come again? I'm afraid Your Highness Nobunaga will have to give me a caesarean section right away! ”

"It's true!" Ji Xiu nodded thoughtfully. "His Highness Oda is indeed an extraordinary person! I thought he would be like others, applying for an official position for himself as soon as he entered Beijing, but there has been no movement so far! Later, I realized that just as he was unwilling to accept the commander and deputy general, he would not succumb to the official position under Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and now such conditions are not ripe! On the contrary, it seems that it is unselfish! ”

"Huh?" I was amazed at how politically sensitive he was.

"Or else...... Shall I marry you my eldest daughter? ”

"Poof...... cough, cough 、......" his sudden words scared me into choking on my windpipe.

"You don't have to be so excited, do you?" He said happily. "My wife was born in the famous Kujo family, and she looks like a flower and a moon. My eldest daughter got her genetic ...... completely."

"Can you wait?" I stopped him from describing the bright future. "You may not know that I have a wife, and now I have a son!"

"Oh!" He looked me up and down in amazement. "Do you believe in the Southern Barbarian Sect? Is it 'Kishitan'? ”

"How so!" I wonder why he would ask.

"So what does it matter?" Masaki Machi-ji Xiu became excited again. "I didn't say I wanted her to be your main room! You two ......."

"Don't worry! Don't worry! I interrupted him again. Let your eldest daughter be my concubine? This is absolutely not a no-no! "I firmly deny it.

"Alright then!" After some effort, he finally stopped insisting. "Let's wait until you figure it out, or if your status improves!"

"Won't that delay your daughter?"

"Out of the way!" He said unconcernedly. "I have 8 daughters!"

"Ahh I can see why he always can't make ends meet!

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Three days later, Masaki left with a generous gift.

"What an interesting person!" Looking at the departing palace car, I thought. As soon as I turned around, I said to Murai Sadakatsu next to me, "Every year in the first month of the year, remember to send a festival gift to His Royal Highness Masajincho, and ...... Fifty stone of japonica rice, two quintals of soybean oil, and 100 bunches of candles, um...... Put another golden judge in each bag of rice! ”

"Yes!" He bowed down.