The loan of 100,000 yuan is enough for Li Xiao to start running everything.

After Noto was settled, Li Xiao left Kano Hideji to lead 2,000 troops to garrison Nanao Castle to stabilize the local situation, and he led his army back to Yuezhong.

After disbanding the army, Li Xiao took Shigang Yiyu and dozens of people to Iwase Minato, at this time Li Xiao's old acquaintance Catholic Father Torres, who had just completed the preaching of the Diocese of Kyushu, had just arrived in Vietaka with the Portuguese gold ship.

Li Xiao and Torres met on the same day.

In the Portuguese concession area of Iwaseminato, the construction of the newest Catholic church has been completed and the construction has been officially completed.

The church has a Gothic structure typical of Europe at the time, with a towering minaret.

Li Xiao and Torres walked side by side, and outside the church door, the black-robed missionaries were practicing half-familiar Japanese, and walked loudly to the crowd around them to read the gospel.

In the other corner, a bearded missionary teacher in his thirties was surrounded by a group of children.

From time to time, the teacher magically took out a shiny flat golden candy from his robe, and was then coaxed by the group of children.

Torres smiled at Li Xiao and said, "Thank you Lord for your care, over the past few years, many people in Vietnam have converted to our lord. ”

Li Xiao smiled and said, "To be precise, there are more than 1,400 people, and the speed of your church's development is very fast. ”

Torres' face froze, and he looked at Li Xiao, but he didn't know that Li Xiao had been monitoring the spread of his Catholicism in Japan.

Li Xiao looked at Torres's expression and said: "Father Torres, don't worry, there is no opposition to Your Excellency's preaching, your principle is clear to you, in the words of your Tessians, that is, theocracy must not interfere with the regime." If nothing is touched, everything can be forgiven. ”

Torres listened, bowed down respectfully, and said, "Your lord, rest assured, that all that is God is to God, and to Caesar is to Caesar." We will keep our agreement with each other. ”

During this era, there was a lack of religious beliefs in Japan, such as the Ichijo sect, Nichiren sect, Hokke sect, Shinto, and various local mountain cults.

Without the guidance of the creation of a scientific outlook, blocking the endless local beliefs in Japan is undoubtedly the most stupid method.

Rather than doing this, it is better to dredge it, and then a hundred schools of thought will contend and restrain each other.

Li Xiao smiled when he heard this, his religious policy has always been to block it and not to acquiesce to it, so that all his actions are exposed to the sun and restricted by himself.

As God to God and Caesar to Caesar, the establishment of any religion is based on a description of the afterlife.

If they don't influence Li Xiao's power in the real world, Li Xiao is willing to let them toss, but supervision is absolutely necessary within his sight.

Under Li Xiao's restrictions, the Portuguese and their missionaries were only allowed to operate in Iwase Minato, and were not allowed to open churches in other regions.

The Portuguese have maintained a tacit understanding with Li Xiao and have always complied with it very well.

Seeing that Torres was so knowledgeable, Li Xiao said with a smile: "Father Torres, I am very satisfied with the cooperation of your church, and I am planning to make a meeting in Noto Kokuwajima and allow your church to open another church. ”

Torres said happily, "Thank you so much, Lord Lord. ”

Li Xiao paused and said, "However, in exchange, I hope to import large cylinders from your church this time, hoping that the price can be a little cheaper, and I also want two galleons." ”

“galleon！ Where did you find out? ”

When Torres heard that Li Xiao had made this condition, he immediately refused, saying: "This is the latest warship, and our Portuguese have not equipped it in the West Indies at all. ”…,

The galleon is a Spanish galleon, Miura Isada built a 120-ton ship of the same kind to Tokugawa Ieyasu in history, and later Date Masamune also built the 500-ton Date Maru with the help of Nanban Nobu Teacher.

He sent his retainer Tsunecho Shikura to travel through Europe on this ship.

Li Xiao saw that Torres refused very clearly, knowing that it was impossible, but his goal was not here, he knew that it was true that there were not many Spanish galleons in the fleet of Portuguese trade in the West Indies at the moment.

So Li Xiao retreated, and turned to Torres to ask for another kind of sailing boat, the Caravel Sailing.

Torres thought about this again and again, and finally took into account Li Xiao's face and the establishment of a new Catholic diocese, and agreed, but only gave Li Xiao one, and it was still an old ship.

In fact, Li Xiao needed the construction skills of Caravel sailing ships more than ships.

Compared to the large-tonnage Clark sailing ships that Portugal also equipped at the time, the Caravel sailing ships were smaller tonnage and faster, making them more suitable for regional navigation in the Sea of Japan.

He was going to ask Torres for the Caravel sailboat, which was to improve his ship and imitate it.

Historically, in the late Japanese vermilion ship trade, at first they were similar to Chinese fortune ships, about 800 to 1,000 koku, and later, for the needs of the ocean, the Japanese merchant Suezo Heiji began to imitate the Spanish sailing ship and began to design, and improved the two eclectic vermilion ships.

In this way, the tonnage of the Zhuyin ship has approached about 500 tons, which is far better than the early thousand-stone ship.

For the Portuguese, an old ship is nothing, but for Li Xiao it is a good imitation.

As for the Portuguese who are familiar with shipbuilding, Li Xiao believes that if there is the first Miura press, there must be a second, as long as there is money, it can be found among so many Portuguese in Wajima Minato and Iwase Minato.

After having its own fleet, Li Xiao's Li family's ocean-going fleet can be achieved.

As a result, the fleet was more than enough to protect the Sado Gold Son and the coast of Noto in Vietnam, and the ocean-going trade could also be attempted.

As long as Sado Jinshan is here, it is not a big problem to support a huge fleet, and the benefits of sea trade to Li Xiao in the future will be even more geometric.

Immediately, for Li Xiao, the financial problems that plagued him could be solved.

Just when Li Xiao was rectifying the interior of Vietnam and accumulating troops.

November of the first year of Tensho.

After the destruction of Asakura and Asai, the sad Hokuriku Ichijomune, beware of the next opponent of Nobunaga, began to attack the Oda family like waking up from a dream.

Two retainers of the Echizen Asakura family, Katsura Nagatoshi and Tomita Nagashi, who subdued the Oda family, had a dispute.

Tomita Nagashiro is a young famous general of the Asakura family, known as a pig warrior (pig means wild boar in Japan, and is often used to describe fierce generals).

In the house of Chaocang, it is also known as the fierce general of the Han Dynasty.

Tomita Nagashige, as the inner response of the Kaga Honganji Temple's guide to the Seven Mile Shuyori, launched the Tsuchichi Sho and dispatched 33,000 forces to attack Ichijo Valley Castle and kill Katsura Nagatoshi.

After the death of Katsura Nagatoshi, Tomita Nagashige had independent ambitions and fell out with Honganji Temple, who wanted to control Echizen.

Echizen was the place where Hokuriku Honganji had been enterprising for decades, and naturally it would never give up, so the chief director of Hokuriku Honganji Temple, Shichiri Shurai, Shimoma Yorito, issued an order to the believers to march into Echizen.

Hokuriku Yixiang Zong sent a large number of troops at this time, and united with the followers of Yuezhong and Echizen, and the momentum was huge.

The Honganji Temple of the two royal mountains of the Yuezhong Sect was honored, and Lianchen also sent the followers of the Yuezhong to the battle.

According to historical records, Qili Zhoulai dispatched 140,000 troops to Echizen, and its momentum swept the entire Echizen.

The former retainer of the Asakura family, Tosa Morikan Moya Inosuke, and Masui Shinnasuke of Katayamakan, were attacked by a force, and the castle fell, and he was also killed. …,

In the face of the huge Honganji army, Tomita Nagashige followed the actions of Asakura Sodra and led 700 horsemen to launch a frontal counterattack against the 33,000 Honganji army that divided the troops into Kawahara.

In this battle, Tomita Nagashige defeated the 33,000 Honganji army with 700 people, pursued the land of Sanli, and won more than 3,000 heads, which is called a miracle shengli.

However, a few days later, the main force of 50,000 Honganji Temple of Nanchiri Shuyori arrived, and Tomita Nagashige fought again, and finally was outnumbered, and he was assassinated by his men, and his dream of dominating Echizen was shattered.

The army of Honganji Temple did not stop for a moment and continued to attack.

The former Asakura family's Ono County Commander, who had previously killed Asakura Yoshikei, the last head of the Asakura family, in order to subdue the Oda family's Asakura Keigami's residence city, was besieged and fell by Honganji.

Asakura Jingjing was taken, and the entire territory of the Oda family Echizen fell.

Hokuriku has always won great victories, and Echizen has become the second Kaga and a country of the people.

The news immediately reached Gifu Castle and Nobunaga's ears.

The first year of Tensho, December 15.

Snow is falling in Gifu Castle.

Not far from the castle town, Nobunaga, dressed as a nanban, was holding a monocular chisato and observing several open spaces in the distance of about 300 rooms.

Behind Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, Hashiba Hideyoshi, Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide, Ikeda Tsuneko and other important generals of the Oda family gathered behind Nobunaga and looked into the distance with Nobunaga.

On the other side, a brown-haired Southern Barbarian, armed with a saber, shouted orders there.

An Ashigaru soldier with a strip of white cloth tied to his head was following the orders of the Nanban, after filling a black cannonball into the chamber.

This is a large cylinder newly imported by the Oda family from the Portuguese, and it is currently being reloaded.

The target of the big cylinder is exactly a few houses three hundred miles away.

After correcting the target, the Nanban gave an order, only to hear the sound of a cannon on the ground, and the roof of the house made of hardwood collapsed with a bang.

Dust in the distance.

When the Oda family saw this scene, they all looked dumbfounded.

Nobunaga pointed to the distance with a horsewhip and said to the generals: "If we hadn't also purchased large cylinders from the Southern Barbarians, then we would have suffered a great loss in the battle against Li Xiao's Hida Echichu Legion. ”

After hearing this, all the generals had a look of deep approval.

Oda Nobunaga said decisively: "If you want to buy it, you have to buy it even if you are bankrupt, and say to the Southern Barbarians that such a cannon, we want fifteen guns, right six, such a big cylinder team, you will train me immediately, this time to conquer the Hokuriku Sect, I want to use this big tube, and I want this group of monks who have repeatedly opposed me to look good!" ”

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