Generally speaking, it takes at least ten years for a city to thrive. However, there are exceptions, and it is also possible to achieve this goal through the forceful means of the regime, in ancient times, there were 100,000 wealthy people of the Han Dynasty, and today Oda Nobunaga forcibly conscripted 2,000 merchants to move to Azuchi.

The government expenditure on capital construction due to the construction of Azuchi Castle led to the rapid development of a new commercial city, and the merchants and craftsmen who moved from here quickly dissolved into this atmosphere, and Azuchi, which became a commercial center due to the political center, was not the first, and certainly not the last.

Walking on the newly paved stone road, I felt relaxed and happy, and I did not feel tired from the busy day in the slightest. This afternoon, I met with Oda Nobunaga with Kohiro Saionji, and the practical minister said very frankly that he had no intention of returning to Shikoku and was willing to take concrete actions to support the executive organs of the central government under the leadership of General You, and to resume all legitimate actions to exercise sovereignty over the Shikoku region. Oda Nobunaga fully recognized his open-mindedness and generously gifted him twenty stone of land near Kyoto. You read that right, it's twenty stones, and he threw me all the money paid to the imperial court!

When I returned in the afternoon, I hurriedly changed my clothes and immediately went out to the castle town. The wooden bird house of the owner of Sanlyemon was also moved to Azuchi, so since he came, he had to visit it once. Xianzhi originally wanted to go, but then he thought that if he really did this, the boss of Sanliweimen would be too uncomfortable, so it would be better to invite him to his house in two days.

By the time I left the Wooden Bird House, it was already completely dark, and I still had a date to go. At this time, it was only two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, so although it was already night, the streets were still bustling. If you look closely, you will find many samurai in gorgeous costumes but not very obvious in the crowd. But even if I occasionally see a half-familiar face, I always nod and pass, first, this is not a place to chat, and second, everyone has their own things.

"Your Highness!" But it doesn't have to be the case, I was stopped at this moment, and I looked back at the wise light show that followed three or four people.

"Your Highness!" I stood still, and there were only Shinhachiro and four guards around me at the moment. "You're so uninteresting, you embarrassed me so much yesterday!" As soon as he arrived, I complained.

"I can't help it, I just heard about it from a lady's maid before I entered the house!" Akechi Mitsuhide looked sorry, but he was also helpless. “…… And I was admonished: My lord mainly wants to see your attitude, and I am just a foil! If you initiated it, I will second, so that it can create a group effect. If I had to say this first, it wouldn't have been enough, so I had to watch at the time! ”

"Actually, the lord can just say what he wants to do, why bother doing these things again!" I'm really a little aggrieved now, what Oda Nobunaga wants to do, when did I not give it all my might? To put it mildly, sometimes I'm more attentive than he is!

"The lord is also worried about the young master, human nature!" He suddenly smiled again and said, "Fortunately, Mrs. Zun is both wise and brave, which is really rare in the world!" ”

"If there is a good wife in the family, the husband will not suffer misfortune!" I'm not in a position to do that. "Come with me for a drink, shall you? It's all acquaintances! "I invited.

"I also have a party, all of them are old people from the past!" He smiled and shook his head, but suddenly said, "I'm afraid it's going to be late tonight, so don't sleep at all." When you're done, come to me and have something very important to talk to you about! ”

"Definitely!" I nodded yes and broke up with him.

"Please stay, my lord! I'm very sorry, but the shop was taken over today! "At the door of a high-class whale house called "Juan Ming", a servant stopped us in fear.

"I'm a guest invited by Lord Ikeda!" I looked left and right and didn't find any of my attendants, wondering if I was in the wrong place.

"Then please come in! Your Excellency is already here......" He immediately stepped out of the way when he heard Ikeda's name, and bowed to open the door for me.

"Your shelf is so big, you only came here at this time!" Entering the hall inside, Ikeda immediately jumped over and grabbed my sleeve. At this time, the room was almost full, and most of them were new generations from Owari.

"You don't arrange someone at the door, it's so hard for me to find!" I complained to him as I greeted the crowd.

"Let the samurai with the coat of arms of His Highness Ikeda stand in front of the whale house and guard the door? I'm sorry for what you think! The corners of his mouth twitched with a haughty look.

"Not bad! You know you want to be faced, so you still come to this kind of place? "And Ikeda Hengxing didn't go up and down, and I saw Maeda Toshiya sitting inside. Because of his affiliation with the Shibata Katsu family, his former brother Kanamori Naga has not come recently, but Maeda Toshiya has a detached status because of his older qualifications, and he, a "good old man", has a good relationship with all aspects. "Maeda-senpai, long time no see!" I took the initiative to go over and say hello.

"Your Highness Zhuxing, that kid hasn't caused you any trouble lately, has he?" Toshiya Maeda stood up and returned the salute. He was a very detained man, and although I repeatedly asked him to change his name, his wife Atsune still called me Tadabei.

"You don't have to underestimate him so much, his temper has its own use!" I dragged him back to his place. "A lot of times I leave things that are inconvenient to him, and it's really good to have a black face with his temper. I also have such a person around me, otherwise those guys who don't know it will be turned upside down sooner or later! ”

"Hey, you!" He didn't know what to say. "You have only been grateful for cultivating him and my uncle, but this wild horse must have a hitch. You made him the guardian of a country all of a sudden, I always feel that this matter is too hasty! ”

"It's up to him to deal with those grass cobs......"

"I also think it's too inappropriate for you to do this!" Ikeda Hengxing, who had just left, turned out of nowhere and pushed a young and beautiful woman in his hand into my arms. It's just a joke, and I didn't refuse. "I think I'm an old and important minister of the Oda family, and I haven't mixed up with a guardian generation so far, why is that kid in Keiji?" He said angrily.

"If you want to be a big feudal country, how can you look down on such a remote and chaotic poor place as Kii!" Although the woman was gorgeously dressed, she was still slightly green, and the fragrance on her body was not fat powder. I sniffled with my eyes closed, and it smelled very good. "Just rely on your Highness Ikeda's ability! Squeeze out Araki Murashige a little harder, and the lack of Settsu's guardianship must be yours! "I deliberately got angry with him.

"You really don't have a backache when you stand and talk, a full man doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry!" He pinched his waist and raised an eyebrow. "You have beaten Miyoshi and Mori away, and the thieves of Honganji don't dare to come out again, and Settsu hasn't fought for more than two years, at most it is to catch thieves. Now I am really angry to say such cool words! Speaking of this, he really snorted and pulled a girl over, and "rubbed" it fiercely as if venting.

"Beware of Princess Ashi kicking you out!" I laughed.

In fact, Ikeda Hengxing just loves to play and make trouble, and since he and Ah Shi got married, the couple has a very good relationship, not only never staying outside for no reason, but also never taking a new concubine, even treating Ah Shi's three daughters as his own. However, it needs to be reminded that the seven or eight-year-old beauties should also attract the attention of others in two years!

Hidemasa Hori and Kazushi Nakamura also came to pay their respects, as they are now my subordinates, so they are a little reserved.

"Why hasn't His Highness Yuchai come yet?" I didn't see the "monkey" in the room, and he was quite positive about this kind of thing. Although his status has risen sharply recently, he always feels that he lacks prestige. Although I have basically the same background as him, he doesn't have the strength to buy fame as much as I do.

"He only entered the city in the afternoon, and as soon as he came, he was summoned to the city by the lord!" Ikeda Hengxing sat down beside me with the girl in his arms and said unconvinced: "The lord is really impersonal, I went to see him with Ah Shi, but I got up and left by myself in less than a cup of tea, but Mrs. Nohime still kept us for a meal." On the contrary, it is to protect you feudal states, at least everyone has officially met. I still don't understand, is power really more important than family affection? ”

"The lord can't abolish his official business because of personal feelings!" And they all persuaded him so, and only he could say it.

"Maeda-senpai's days in Echizen, how are you doing?" I drank the sake handed over from a small pink hand and asked Maeda Toshiya very "casually".

"Also...... All right! "His mood was not very high, but he seemed a little worried.

"Is it because you don't have enough money on hand? If there's anything I can do my best for...... "Actually, I know that Hokuriku Province hasn't been very peaceful lately, and Shibata Katsuie is having a hard time coping with it. However, I am not sure if Oda Nobunaga has other ideas in this area, so I deliberately interrupt to misunderstand what he means.

"Don't bother, it's not about money!" As if afraid that I would really have to lend him money, Maeda Toshiya really followed my thoughts and said it himself. "Recently, there have been disturbances in eastern Echizen and Kaga's new territory, and although several cases have been suppressed, it is not known who is behind them. Now it's like a fist in the air, and if you can't use it, things are showing signs of getting worse. There was no clear instruction from the lord, and His Royal Highness Shibata was in a hurry. That's why it's not so easy to guard......"

"Maeda-sama, you're not right, a manly man always has to have some ambition!" Ikeda took the full glass from the girl's hand and poured it back into her cherry mouth, choking her cough. "It's not the same as when you were in Owari, who cares about you as a bullshit city lord? At least be a guardian, can't you do it badly! Anyway, the foundation is the ...... of his Oda family."

"Well said!" At this time, Hideyoshi Hashiba walked in from outside, followed by Hidenaga Hashiba and Asano Nagamasa.