Chapter 163: The Battle of National Policies (Part II)

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This is the end of the dispute between Austria and between the tables. For the next period of time, I paid special attention to it for a while, and found that the attitude between the two parties was very relaxed, so I put my mind at ease. And this matter, I also feel quite a lot, maybe I shouldn't be rash to interfere in the affairs of the shogunate, otherwise for Xinjing, it will be a statue of a god who has to be on his head at all times, and occasionally open his eyes to scrutinize him severely, and after such a long time, anyone will definitely feel tired.

Then I'll be completely idle and spend my old age here. Anyway, I have my own interests and pleasures.

I don't know if it's a fact or a delusion, I found that Xia Jin looks more and more like her grandmother Xiao Xia, although she is very young, but in terms of hobbies, she is very much like Xiao Xia's signs of getting closer, just like the same frank and cute, and I am also very reluctant to keep Kyoto, I like it the most, I take her to play in the mountains, or follow the shì servants to catch hares, wild jī and the like. I occasionally got her up and had a little bow and arrow made for her, and she soon became familiar with it, and showed great talent.

All this, so that I, a person who actually doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, can't help but think, she is so like Xiao Xia, and so close to me, everything is acceptable, could it be that Xiao Xia saw me lonely and specially reincarnated to come to Cheng Huan's knees and entertain me in old age?

Calculating the time, it has been four or five years since I retired, and now I am nearly fifty years old, and according to the high life expectancy of this era, there are probably ten or twenty years to live. In this life, I have experienced and presided over many major events, and I have also met and created many famous people, among which there are not only great achievements, life and death, but also the sorrow of losing loved ones and losing loved ones. Perhaps, this is the real life of Luàn, and I have experienced so much, I can say that I have seen it thoroughly, so unlike ordinary people who are attached to power, I do not expect to live a long life, but only hope to be able to leave as naturally as autumn leaves.

As long as I am given another ten years, let me see Xia Jin grow up as a chéng person, and get a happy home, then I can be completely blinded...... Looking at the lively Xia Jin in the martial arts training ground, I couldn't help but think like this.

Natsutsu is playing with Naotora in the feather ball, a popular game that originated as a festival in the Heian period and has been passed down to modern times. The board used in the game, called the feather board, is painted with standing dragonflies, and when it is waved, it symbolizes that it is repelling mosquitoes (feather root means mosquito), so as to expel the diseases brought by mosquitoes; The balls used in the game are called "soap guns", which means praying that the children of the NV will grow up free from illness and disaster, and like the men's kemari, they are very popular in public homes (a custom of the Muromachi period).

When Natsu was two or three years old, I occasionally went back to Kyoto and saw Hino Teruko, the second NV of the Hino family (historically, I was supposed to marry Emperor Goyosei as the power of the shì, but now Emperor Shokincho and Prince Seihito are both there, and because the name of Yongzhen was established by me, it is not good to rashly give up the throne and change the yuan) playing, and out of the idea of good wishes and good prayers, I also prepared a set for Natsu. As a result, I don't know how this matter spread, but it became a kind of wind in the samurai family, where anyone whose family had a child born would prepare a "soap no" for her, and relatives and friends would give it a feather board (a custom of the samurai family in the Edo period).

Xia Jin occasionally turned around and found that I was watching with a smile under the porch, and immediately cheered and shouted, "Father is also coming to play."

"Ah, yes, it's a game for NV kids," I smiled and shook my head, "so I won't play anymore, you can play with your mother."

"What's the matter, there are no outsiders here, since Xia Jin invited, His Royal Highness will accompany her for a while" Zhihu also laughed, "To put it disrespectfully, His Highness is not necessarily Xia Jin's opponent."

"How is that possible," I quickly widened my eyes. Actually, I also wanted to play with Xia Jin for a while, but I didn't take action because I couldn't pull the bottom, and Zhihu's ridicule just gave me a step: "Then I'll play hard for a while, so you don't have to say that I'm not as good as a four or five-year-old little NV child."

"Then Your Highness should be careful" Zhihu handed me the feather board, and at the same time cheered for Xia Jin, "Xia Jin has to work hard, defeat your father, you are the most powerful person in the world"

"Oh oh" Xia Jin waved his little hand, "I will definitely try"

In fact, she almost did. Among the five games agreed, she won two of the first four games, and the fifth game also played smoothly, I saw that the situation was not good, and quickly made a trick, and secretly put the soapberry ball into the sleeve, and then looked around, and said in a very regretful tone: "Oh, Xia Jin, look, you have beaten the ball away, right?" …… It's a pity, you might be able to win this game."

"No" Xia Jin stared at me with wide eyes, his eyes full of suspicion, "I only used a small amount of force, it is impossible to hit the ball and I haven't hit it before"

"Maybe when you grow up, your strength will also increase?" I continued to deny it.

"That's good," Xia Jin pouted unconvinced, "Then take another ball, play one more game, I will definitely be able to win"

"Next time, my feet hurt a little," I slowly walked to the porch and sat down, pretending to sigh helplessly, "After all, it's an old man."

"Really?" Xia Jin believed it and ran over very considerately, "Let me give you róuróu"

"No need, you can play with your mother," I looked at Naoto, who was smiling and silent, and then at Xia Jin, who looked concerned, and decided to continue the performance, so I moved my right foot to my left tuǐ knee, raised my fist and thrashed it. Who knows, an accidental, hidden soapberry ball came out on the cuff side, just in time to be seen by Xia Jin.

"Ahh

"This ......," I rolled my eyes, "I didn't expect the ball to fall into my sleeve, and I said why is it gone...... Being able to put the ball in his sleeve is really amazing, and it's even more difficult than beating his father."

"That's right," Xia Jin was a little embarrassed when he heard me say this, "Actually, it's not very powerful, but it just happened to hit it...... Okay, I'll continue to play with my mother, you can rest for a while."

With that, she ran back to the middle of the field and waited for the straight tiger to start.

I breathed a sigh of relief, as if I had just won a battle, and returned the feather board jiāo to Naoto. Zhihu took it and laughed quietly: "Your Highness is really, not to mention bullying the small, he still plays this kind of trick." If this spreads, it will be even more embarrassing than losing to NV."

"What's so embarrassing, playing with children, naturally you have to have a childlike heart," I smiled and stretched out my arm, "To be honest, with Xia Jin, I feel twenty or thirty years younger, and I have also regained some of the mood I had when I took care of Mijin in Cheongju." ”

"Really? That's really gratifying," Naotora replied with a smile.

At this moment, a shìnv came over and knelt down on the porch to inform me: "Your Highness, Lord Fukue Domain of Kyushu has asked to see Lord Fukue Fukumi, and Lord Katsugano Shushin has arranged for him to wait in the front hall. ”

Second sight of Guangcheng coming? This is a rarity, his sister-in-law, Futami Jingguang, has already stayed in Kyoto as the family's agent, and it stands to reason that he is not needed to come...... Perhaps, I received a call from the Kanto region and passed through Kyoto on the way, right?

Thinking like this, I casually took off the outer layer of my regular clothes, the shìnv that Jiāo gave to the notification, and the gown that I had shìnv Zhiji brought and put on my body for me.

When he walked into the front hall, Mitsunari Futami had already heard footsteps and bowed to the floor. I laughed, and directly stepped forward and pulled him up: "Guangcheng, I have been retired for a long time, and you are the one who has followed me for more than 20 years, it is rare to come to see me, I am already very happy, I really don't have to be so restrained." ”

"In front of the Taizheng Gong, how dare your subordinates be disrespectful?" Seeing that Guangcheng stood up obediently, he bowed deeply before he stepped aside and sat down, looked at me and said, "Your jīng god is very good, his face is ruddy, he just came from the martial arts training ground, right?" ”

"Hehe, yes," I replied with a smile. It's true that I just came from the martial arts training ground, but the second sight of Guangcheng will definitely not know that the current martial arts training ground has actually become Xia Jin's playground.

"It's rare for the Taimasa to be so tough, and the subordinates feel very comforted when they look at it," Futami Mitsunari took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and raised his hand to wipe his eyes, "His Majesty is in Karatsu Castle (the predecessor of the Nagoya Castle built by Hideyoshi in history), and he often misses the heroic appearance of the Taimasa Prince, and hopes to listen to the teachings of the Taimasa Prince, but unfortunately the distance is far away, and there is the shogunate system set by the Taimasa Prince, so he can't come to visit him from time to time." ”

"I can understand your intentions, but after all, it is the responsibility of defending the land" I smiled and shook my head, this second sight of Mitsuri, ah...... "So, why did you come to Kyoto this time?" ”

"Back to Taimasa, His Majesty received a summons from the Gongfang Hall and the elders to go to Kanto to report on his work," Futami Mitsunari replied, confirming my previous suspicions, "Thinking that I could meet Taimasa Gong halfway, after receiving the call, His Majesty immediately set off to come, and he traveled all the way, saving several days of leisure so that he could stay in Kyoto for a few more days and wait for a while in front of Taimasa." ”

Hearing him say so earnestly, I couldn't help but be a little moved, after all, it was still the person I single-handedly promoted from the civilians: "Well, that's really hard for you." In the next few days, you will stay in Togudo Uyo near the Imperial Palace."

Tokyudo is the Buddhist hall of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, and it is currently the retreat of the former Sekihaku Konoe Maehisa, and the right is the former study of Yoshimasa. Such a place is used to house Futami Mitsunari, which is a very high specification.

"Yes, thank you for your kindness," Mitsunari Futami hurriedly replied.

"So, what exactly is the matter with this Kanto summoning?" I asked him casually.

"Hui Tai Zhenggong," Mitsunari Futami replied with a bow, "It's about the dispute with the North Korean side." ”

North Korea? I couldn't help but be shocked, but I asked as calmly as possible, "What's going on?" How did you get into a dispute with the North Korean side? ”

"It's a problem left over from when the Haikou were luàn," Mitsusung replied calmly, obviously making extremely thoughtful preparations, "At that time, the Ming court ordered the Korean naval army to cooperate with the suppression of the Kou, and Kyushu was in the middle of the war, so the Korean Jeolla Provincial Water Mission and the Chungcheong Provincial Water Mission were involved in our territorial waters to varying degrees, and even occupied several islands and reefs. His Majesty was able to protect the waters of Kyushu, so he naturally wanted to take it back, but the Korean navy refused to return it, and still adhered to the previous sea patrol route, and also accused his subordinates of taking in the remnants of the Haikou and having bad intentions for the Ming Dynasty...... His Majesty led the naval army of his headquarters to attack and forcibly recover the occupied islands and reefs, but His Highness decided to think it was inappropriate and informed the Kanto of the matter, and the Kanto side did not reach an agreement, so he summoned his subordinates to the Kanto region to report on his work. ”

He snorted noncommittally, and roughly guessed what was going on. Futami Mitsunari is a person, I know very well, the completion of the task is never discounted, but there will be some surplus, and he is very jīng Ming, since the battle of Futamiura, basically only he calculates other people's share, the only time he suffers, or when I was on an expedition to the Ryukyus, I was taken by the Ukita Naojia Kojima Navy. Therefore, he has absolutely taken back all the islands I gave him, and I am completely sure of this, and now he has a dispute with the North Korean navy, probably because he has extended his claws into the neutral sea.

After a moment of silence, I didn't expose him, but asked another question: "The North Korean side, why do you accuse you of taking in the remnants of the Haikou Army?" Is this true? ”

"Taizheng Gong, this is completely slanderous from the Korean side, and I am about to ask Taizheng Gong and Gongfang Hall to make decisions for his subordinates" Mitsusei Fujimi bowed deeply to the floor.

"You first," I waved my hand, "if there is a misunderstanding on the Korean side, I, as the king of Japan who was appointed by the Ming Dynasty, will send a letter to them to clarify for you." ”

"Taizheng Gong's support, your subordinates are really feeling jī tears" Mitsushi straightened up when he saw it, "Taizheng Gong must still remember that when you divided the feudal domains, the additional territories for your subordinates were the Karatsu region of Kyushu, the Iki Islands and the Goto Islands west of Heido, of which the Goto Islands were 15,000 stone high, and the Ukudai family served as the lord...... This point was confirmed by the public palace when it inspected the land. ”

"Well, that's true," I nodded, "The Uku family is from the Taira clan, and it is the name of the family that was passed down after the battle between the two Tanura of Genpei and the Hei family after they ascended to Ukushima, and the Goto Islands were also attributed to the Uku family. There is nothing wrong with their family names and titles. ”

"But the North Korean side doesn't think so," said Kotsusei, who had a hint of anger on his face, "Ujiu Junyao, the head of the Uku family, is currently one of the four elders of the subordinate domain, but the Korean navy saw the family crest and flag seal on his family's patrol boat, but insisted that they were the Haikou who invaded the Ming Kingdom, and asked his subordinates to deal with them publicly. Otherwise, the Korean side will go to the Ming State and let the Ming court issue an edict to the Taizheng Gong to bring his subordinates and the Yujiu family to justice."

"Really?" I nodded slightly. Of course, that doesn't mean I agree with him. To be honest, I am more inclined to believe the North Korean side than Mitsunari Futami, after all, their current national strength is far inferior to Japan's, and it is impossible to rashly provoke. It's just that the Yujiu family, as a medium-sized wealthy family of 15,000 stones, could be involved in the Ming Kingdom?

Thinking about the Goto Islands where they are located, I suddenly thought of a possibility in my heart: Goto Islands can also be called Wufeng, so is the Ukuya family of the Goto Islands related to the Dahai Kouwang, who hangs the "Wufeng" flag and is known as the "Wufeng Ship Owner"?