Knowing that my own navy had won, I was relieved to go back to the camp to rest. By the next morning, Iwamatsu Jingding and Futami Mitsunari had already led the naval army to the port of Kawanoe. After a big battle and a midnight voyage, the two of them looked a little tired on their faces, but they were in a very good mood.

In addition to winning the naval battle, they also told me the news that the Injima naval army had completely perished.

Among the Mishima Naval Army, the Injima Naval Army is a relatively special one. Compared with Kurijima and Nojima, it can be said that it is closer to the wealthy family, and it is somewhat similar to Kobayakawa, who also has a naval army. Therefore, when the Konoya Navy took control of the Seto Inland Sea, both the Kurishima Navy and the Noshima Navy chose to follow, but the Injima Navy remained neutral and was closer to the neighboring Hao clan, the Kobayakawa clan. Later, the Mori family rose and the Kobayakawa family became a branch of the Mori family, and the Injima Navy followed the Mori family with decades of karma, and persuaded Nojima and Kurishima to assist during the Itsukushima War.

This can be seen from the origin of the Mishima Naval Army. The area of Injima occupied by the Injima Navy is almost 34 square kilometers, and the food and water sources in the territory are completely self-sufficient, and it is a good place to live (the later Go master Beninfang Xiuce is a resident of Indojima); The Noh Island, where the Nojima Navy is located, is just a two-and-a-half-square-kilometer wasteland, with no water source or food, and all of it depends on the neighboring Ushima Island for supplies, but Noh Island controls one of the most important shipping routes in the Seto Inland Sea, so it is used by the Noshima Navy as its headquarters; As for the island, it is not so much a place as a stronghold, and the whole island is about 100 meters in circumference, just enough to build a city.

Iwamatsu Jingding and Futami Mitsushi Chengdu knew about this situation, so after defeating the Innoshima and Noshima naval forces, they did not return directly, but led the naval army to directly attack Innoshima, burned all the three small castles in the territory of Innoshima, and killed Murakami Yoshimitsu's second brother Murakami Yoshitada, and swept away the pirates on the island. It's a pity that Murakami Yoshimitsu saw the opportunity early and fled to the castle of Beigo Province on the other side of the east. It was the castle controlled by his third brother Ryo Murakami, and it was also the place where Ashikaga Yoshiaki temporarily lived.

Even so, I'm already very satisfied, especially with Mitsunari Futami, who first proposed to attack Innoshima. From the very beginning of the Battle of Futamiura, he was able to complete his tasks well, and often even better. This is especially important to me and is why he has been promoted so quickly.

The Mori family's navy was based on the three families of Kodama, Iida, and Kuriya of the main family, as well as the three families of Fukui, Yamagu, and Kagawa of the Yasumo Takeda family, and was originally called the Kawauchi Police Solid, and later the Kobayakawa Naval Army and the Kobayakawa Sho Family's Nami Naval Army joined, which was considered to have a preliminary scale, until the Kono family dominated, and gradually destroyed the Ouchi family, and brought the original Ouchi family into the control of the next Zhou Waterproof Army, Iwami Water Army, Police Solid, and Yashiro Shima Clan, and grew into the sea master of the Nishiseto Inland Sea. However, the most powerful of these forces is the Mishima Navy and the Kono Navy as a joint force of the Mori family, neither of which is directly related to the Mori family.

It may sound a little scary, but that's exactly what it is. If I were to describe my navy in the same way, it would probably be even more intimidating than the Maori navy: based on the Tsushima navy, the Hattori party, and the Kawanami army, they united the entire Ise Bay, and then annexed the Kumano navy, the Awaji navy, the Tosa navy, etc., as well as the Shima navy, the Geji navy, the Kizo navy, and the salt saturation navy...... Unlike the Maori family, in my water army system, the main force of the direct line is the most powerful, and my direct water army alone is enough to compete with the Maori water army. It is precisely for this reason that the strength of the Maori family still does not dare to easily provoke my naval forces, but chooses to reach a tacit agreement with me, and the two families divide their respective spheres of influence with the middle of the Seto Inland Sea as the boundary.

All along, I have followed this tacit agreement very well and have not challenged the authority of the Maori Navy in the Nishiseto Inland Sea. But this time in the midst of the military rebellion, the Maori family almost poured out, and Kobayakawa Takakei of the Kobayakawa Water Army and Nami Munekatsu of the Nomi Water Army also went out as the generals of the family. For me, this is a great opportunity, and I can't afford to be completely sorry for their negligence if I don't take the opportunity to attack the Maori navy.

After the destruction of the Injima Navy and the heavy damage to the Nojima Navy, the strength of the Maori Navy was almost lost by 30%, which can be described as a great loss of vitality. From now on, as long as I don't make mistakes, I will always be able to restrain the Maori navy and dominate the entire Seto Inland Sea, and the islands of Shikoku, including Iyo, will be completely controlled by me. Although the Mori army is strong, it cannot cross the sea out of thin air, and if you want to enter Iyo again, you must first defeat my navy.

The Ishikawa family understood this, and after making sure that I had destroyed the Innoshima naval army, they quickly sent hostages, paid an oath of allegiance, and surrendered to me. As a hostage, it is naturally the sister-in-law of the Ishikawa family, who is only two years old this year. Considering his age, and the fact that Keijiro of Mie Castle is an adult and will marry Fuyuhime in a year and a half, I will bring Yuka and Akitsu to Suhonjo and let her take care of the child and tidy up the Honmaru housework that Janet has made a mess of.

For Yujia's arrival, Janet was a little dissatisfied. However, she is now several months pregnant, and Honmaru does need someone to preside over it, and Yu Jia is humble and does not compete with her for favor, so Janet quickly accepted Yu Jia.

Yu Jia is like this, he used to get along well with Nana and Xiao Xia. She has always been very content, her son serves as the guardian of a country, the eldest daughter marries the wealthy family as the adopted daughter of the main family, and the second daughter becomes the main room of the third son of the main family. Compared to her own situation, she spoke for Nana in front of me, and felt that Caicai, as the main room, had been living alone in a different place, which was really pitiful.

On this issue, it involves a tacit understanding between me and the main family, and it is inconvenient for me to explain it to her. Moreover, she still knows too little about the affairs of the martial arts. In a slightly older samurai family, it is very common for husbands and wives to live apart. Sometimes, they are forced to send the main room out as a hostage, especially those who are newly subjugated to the territory of the middle wealthy, their main room, often is the link between two powerful families, sending a main room, is equivalent to the submission of the two families, and even a daimyo like Date Masamune has been forced to send out his main room. For example, Takigawa Kazuki, whose eldest son was born in the 22nd year of Astronomy (1553), took on the role of the family until Nobunaga unified Mino, and when the second son was born the following year, he was thirteen years younger than the eldest son; Hideyoshi in history, from serving as the Kyoto commissioner, to serving as Yokoyama Castle, and then later out of the town of Harima, he was separated from Nene for ten of the fourteen years; Honda Masanobu under my command, because he left the Tokugawa family in history, he also separated from his wife for more than ten years, and the eldest son of the post-60s generation is Masamune, and the second son and third son of the post-80s are completely two generations format.

Of course, there are also those who are not in harmony because of feelings, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tsukiyamaden. However, I am separated from Nana, so naturally it will not be for this reason.

"Anything else?" I asked Yu Jiadao.

Seeing that I didn't want to say more, Yu Jia thoughtfully changed the subject: "Yes...... When the concubine left, the young lord had just received an order from the main hall and went to Enjiang with Lady Tiger to support the Tokugawa family. ”

"Really?" I know about this, and Shigeharu Takenaka's report has been sent. The cause of the incident was that Takeda Katsuyori attacked Takatenjin Castle, and then Nobunaga accepted the Tokugawa family's request for help and sent reinforcements to Enoe.

However, as far as I can vaguely remember, it seems that the people sent by the Oda family did not confront the Takeda family at all, because the retainers of the Tokugawa family took the initiative to sacrifice the castle to Takeda Katsuyori. In this way, this fortified city, which once discouraged Takeda Shingen, was successfully taken by Takeda Katsuyori. Takeda Katsuyori was so proud of this that he thought he had partially surpassed his father, so he attacked the Tokugawa family the following year, but was defeated by Mikatahara.

If that's the case, then I don't have to worry about anything at all. Moreover, taking a step back, even if history has changed, with Naotoka, as well as Asaki and Ii Chibei, Shinkyo will not suffer anything.

What I want to know is actually the situation in Honmaruouchi. These retreatments are unlikely to be clear.

"How is the situation at home? Is my mother still healthy? I continued.

"Oh! His Royal Highness reminded the concubine, "Yu Jia clapped his hands, "Mrs. Tiger asked me to tell His Highness, saying that after I came back, I was going to move to Ninomaru to live, so that it would be convenient to deal with the things at hand...... As for Lord Hoshin-in, he has always been very healthy. It's just that Yujin got married a while ago, and this time Qiujin followed the concubine again, and Lord Baoxinyuan felt that his surroundings were a lot empty, and there was some sighing in his words. ”

"Mother, without the company of a few granddaughters, I must feel very lonely! …… and Ah Hu, I really wronged her. I sighed.

Naohu is a very smart and considerate person. When she saw that I had summoned Yuka to the castle, she must have understood my intentions, so she took the initiative to move out of the Honmaru castle tower and completely gave it to Shinkei alone, so as not to disturb Princess Fuyuhime, who was about to marry into the family.

Among the wives and concubines, Zhihu was the shortest with me. The relationship between her and me can be said to be closer to the relationship between the lord and the minister, and at the same time a good confidant. I understand and understand her state of mind, and she understands my ambitions and my surname. For her, it should be more comfortable to be stationed in the castle, to create a red reserve, and to give full play to her talents than to wear fancy clothes, live in a simple house, and use waka and ikebana as a pastime.

And even if I wanted to spend more time with them, I really couldn't find the time.

Just a few days after Yujia arrived at the main city of Zhou, the mission to the Ming Dynasty also returned to Yuben. This matter was specially explained by Nobunaga, and I could not afford to slack off, so I could only arrange the defense of my home and the expansion of Kawanoe Castle first, and then leave Sumoto Castle for Kyoto.

Busier than me is Niwa Nagahide. He was originally ordered to assist Takeda Nobutaka in attacking Tango Province and opening up a channel to attack Sanin; However, because all the strength of the Mori family was used to prepare for the Chinese raids, Nobunaga was able to go to Hokuriku to pacify Ichisho with peace of mind, and he went to Echizen to join Nobunaga. Not only that, but he should also be indispensable for the exploration trade to be carried out later.

However, because he was now on the expedition with him, Nobunaga sent an order for Hatakeyama Yoshishu to temporarily take his place.

At the end of June last year, Hatakeyama Yoshishu was ordered by Nobunaga to break away from Masamoto Hirohashi Eiko and marry Takaya Palace, the widow of Hatakeyama Akitaka and Nobunaga's sister. It didn't take long for Takayaden to become pregnant, and by the middle of last month, Yoshishu's sister-in-law Yazaburo (Kawachi Hatakeyama family's son-in-law was born in the form of a young name). As Nobunaga's nephew, his position is absolutely stable, and Hatakeyama Yoshishu has also received Nobunaga's extra blue eyes because of this, and he has become a close confidant in the family.

Now that Yi Zhou is able to take on such an important task, in addition to the karma of the main room and his sister-in-law, his own identity and ability are also very important reasons. As the former abbot of Luyuan Temple, he is proficient in Chinese, familiar with the affairs of the entire Zen Buddhism, and is also very familiar with the affairs of the exploration trade. And it is also very appropriate for him to be in charge of the collection of goods, whether as a member of the Ashikaga family or the Hatakeyama family, or as Nobunaga's sister-in-law, he can have considerable authority.

Since it was the first time for him to take on such a heavy responsibility, Hatakeyama Yoshishu was very cautious and humble when dealing with affairs with me, and at the same time he was very dedicated.

On the first day of the cooperative office, he asked about the input of Yongle money.

"The messenger reported that the Ming court had rejected our request for Yongle money...... His Royal Highness Xuanjing thinks, what is the reason for this? ”

"It seems to be because of the lack of raw copper!" I sorted out Li Fangliang's report in my heart, "Ming domestic copper is scarce, and even the use of the country cannot be guaranteed, how can there be room for foreign gifts?" ”

"Then why was the previous exploration trade able to get a large amount of Yongle money in return?" Hatakeyama Yoshishu asked seriously.

Because the Ming court reused copper coins, it began in the eleventh year of Xuande (1516). At that time, the Ming treasure banknotes were seriously depreciated, and the officials, officials and soldiers were unwilling to accept them, so the Ming court re-minted copper coins and issued them as official money, and then gradually replaced the treasure banknotes and circulated them in the country as an auxiliary to silver...... In the previous Yongle years, the Ming Kingdom itself did not need to use copper, so it could naturally be given in large quantities. ”

As I spoke, I took out a document and handed it to Hatakeyama Yoshishu: "In addition to the national letter, this is an official document of the Ming court brought back by the mission, and I hope that our party must include a considerable amount of copper ingots in the tribute." ”

"This doesn't matter," Hatakeyama Yoshishu looked at the Chinese documents, "It's just that there is no Yongle money in return, and it really lives up to the expectations of His Royal Highness the Right General!" ”

I thought about it for a while and decided to reveal a little bit of the inside story to him: "Actually, the lord and I already have a solution to this matter. ”

(To be continued)