Eight years of Yonglu.

The beginning of the new year.

Li Xiao, together with Yumi Kohata, Yusada Kohata, and his eldest son Li Zheng, received an invitation to participate in the New Year's ceremony held at the Takeda family's main castle in the Tsukazaki Museum.

Compared to last year's New Year's greeting, this year's New Year's greeting is even grander.

All the retainers of the Takeda family who had more than 1,000 koku were listed in the congratulatory ceremony in the city.

Even Masanobu Takasaka, who had always been stationed at Kaijin Castle to reject Kenshin Uesugi, sent his eldest son, Masumi Takasaka, who had just been in the gento, to participate in this congratulatory ceremony.

Because the marriage with Takeda Shingen's daughter Ju Ji has been decided, Li Xiao is now the elder of the Takeda family and a double identity, so Takeda Shingen specially gave Li Xiao a mansion to live in the castle town of the Takesakikan.

And this mansion is also the new home of Yumi Kohata and Li Zheng from now on.

Li Xiao hugged Li Zheng in his arms, and sat on the ox cart with Yumi Kohata and Yuzhen Kohata, while more than a dozen retainers and samurai in formal costumes rode down the street.

Li Xiao looked at the streets on both sides of the Kusakikan from the ox cart.

This Tsukizaki Pavilion was built by Takeda Shintora, the former governor of the Takeda family.

In the 16th year of Eishō (1519), Takeda Shintora moved the guardianship from Ishiwa, the residence of the Takeda family, to Kofu.

Although the Heishakikan is a flat castle, its defense is naturally inferior to that of the mountain castle, but the advantage of the flat castle is that it is convenient for transportation, can better control the entire Kai, promote the development of the castle town, and the rule of the daimyo over the domain.

Moreover, at that time, Takeda Nobuta, in order to suppress the powerful people of Kai, asked the retainers and hostages of the Kai people to leave their home city and live in the Kusakikan, so as to strengthen their control over them and quickly gather troops for the campaign.

This move was not the initiative of Takeda Shintora, who had a precedent before Shintora in which the fourth generation of the Asakura family, the governor of the Asakura family, built a castle castle, and then Rokkaku Seori relocated his retainers to Kannonji Castle Castle to inherit it.

Such measures enabled Takeda Shingen to control the power of various wealthy clans in the country more effectively, and also helped the Takeda family take a big step forward from protecting the daimyo to the Warring States daimyo.

It has to be said that this measure is similar to the later Tokugawa shogunate's one-country-one-city decree.

Li Xiao looked at it, everything was in order in the castle town of the Castle Town, and from time to time there were columns of standing guards holding vermilion lacquer spears walking through the streets.

At this time, Yumi Kohata said to Li Xiao in the car: "I heard that when the Shintoko built the castle, he imitated the 'Jobo system' in Kyoto. In this way, the samurai buildings, shops, and craftsmen's workshops were divided into streets like a chessboard, so it seems that the castle town was so neat, and it seems that it was the foresight of Shintoka. ”

Yusada Kohata also interjected on the side: "Sister, everyone says that Shintoko is cruel and unprovoked, and it's better not to mention him, but Kofu no Machi is following the example of Kyoto, presumably the scale of Kyoto should be larger, I don't know when my Takeda family can go to Luo, I can also follow my brother-in-law's army to see the style of Kyoto." ”

Li Xiao laughed when she heard this, and said, "You, a little girl, do you know what Shangluo is?" ”

Yuzhen Kohata frowned slightly when she heard this, then glanced at Li Xiao as if complaining, and said to Yumi Kohata: "Sister, brother-in-law laughs at me. ”

Yumi Kohata smiled gently, reached out and patted his sister's wrist, and said, "I heard that Kyoto was built in imitation of the capital of the Tang Dynasty at that time, and it was called Heiankyo after it was completed. ”

"Huh?" Yuzhen Kohata couldn't help but ask in surprise, "It was built after Kyoto in the Tang Dynasty, and the Kyoto of the Tang Dynasty was not Chang'an, why did we go to Kyoto and call it Shangluo?" ”

Yumi Kohata patiently explained: "Because after the completion of the Heian-kyo, Heian-kyo was divided into two parts, Zuojing imitated Luoyang, and Right-kyo imitated Chang'an, and later Youjing was more swampy and unsuitable for habitation, and gradually fell into disuse, so the ministers moved to Zuojing." Later people called Zuojing Luojing, which is the origin of Shangluo's saying. ”

After a pause, Yumi Kohata looked at Li Xiao and asked, "The husband is a native of the Ming Kingdom, presumably the scale of the Jingshi of the Ming Kingdom is even larger, and it is also the same as the specifications of such an orderly chessboard." ”

Li Xiao smiled, he had never been to Kyoto in the Ming Kingdom in this era, but just by looking around the imperial city of the Forbidden City, he knew its scale.

Li Xiao said to Yumi Kohata: "This is not only the case in Kyoto in the Ming Kingdom, but also in the Tang Dynasty. It refers to Chang'an at that time. ”

"Thousands of homes are like a game of Go, and the 12th Street is like a vegetable field." Sister Kohata chanted again, revealing a leisurely expression.

The ox cart that Li Xiao was sitting in was halfway through, and happened to meet the same ox cart on the narrow road.

Since they also ride the ox cart, it means that the other party is also at the level of the elder of the Takeda family like himself.

Li Xiao was humble, so he ordered the ox cart to stop and let the other party pass first, and the other party also thanked Li Xiao when he saw Li Xiao's humility.

After the two sides exchanged names, Li Xiao knew that sitting on the ox cart opposite was the head of the Shinano Azumi County Nishina family, Takeda Shingen's fifth son, Nishina Morinobu.

However, when the other party heard Li Xiao's family name, he refused to go first, and preferred to let Li Xiao's ox cart pass first.

Li Xiao was suddenly surprised, this is inevitably too polite.

At this time, Yumi Kohata said to Li Xiaoyan on the side: "The mother of the head of the Nishina family is Mrs. Yaukawa. ”

Li Xiao listened to Yumi Kohata's words, and suddenly realized, thinking that the Ju Ji married to his son Li Zheng was also from Takeda Shingen's side room, Mrs. Yaukawa.

Li Xiao understands why Renke Shengxin is humble for his sake, and now Li Xiao and Renke Shengxin are both members of the Takeda family and the identity of the elder of the family, but the other party has not yet been subdued and has not yet been given a position.

Li Xiao was at least awarded by the imperial court, so the other party's position was subordinate to Li Xiao, so Li Xiao's ox cart went first.

Li Xiao's ox cart continued to drive towards the Yazuzaki Pavilion, and said to Yumi Kohata on the side: "I remember Mrs. Yaukawa, she is the daughter of the assistant of the Yatsukawa Criminal Department." ”

Yumi Kohata nodded with a hum.

Li Xiao's eyes narrowed, nothing else, he suddenly thought of one of the protagonists of the Takeda family's Yaugawa Rebellion, and Nobue Yaukawa, who was killed by Takeda Shinhu, was the grandfather of Mrs. Yatsukawa.

Mrs. Yatsukawa had four children born to Takeda Shingen, one was Nishina Nobumori, and Matsuhime was the fiancée of Oda Nobutada, and Kikuhime was about to marry her son.

As for the other one, it was Katsuyama Nobutada, who was later succeeded to the Katsuyama family of the Suruga wealthy family, and inherited the Katsuyama family as the adopted son of the powerful Chinese Katsuyama clan.

Katsuyama Nobutada is also a member of the Takeda family, as the general of the leading side.

Li Xiao thought to himself, it seems that the identity of a public can not only help him improve his family personality, but also invisibly, he has added a lot of contacts for himself, which is a political resource in the future, and he is the foundation of his life in the Takeda family.

Thinking of this, at this time, the coachman in front had stopped the ox cart and said to Li Xiaoyan: "My lord, the Hesaki Pavilion has arrived. ”

(To be continued)