After meeting with the captured retainers of the Rokkaku family, Ji Qin didn't say anything about them, but imprisoned them in the castle tower, and their families were all locked up in cells. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info For these people, Ji Qin's supply of two meals a day, except for the lack of freedom, is also fine, when the time comes, whether it is loyalty or disobedience, it has nothing to do with Ji Qin.

Early in the morning, in a small courtyard of Kannonji Castle, Yoshiqin sent someone to call Nishikawa Niemon over, this little fat man has been the owner of Yamagataya in Kannonji Castle for two years, and he is also a little influential in the local merchant circle, and most importantly, he is also Yoshiqin's retainer, and it is the best thing to stabilize the merchants near Kannonji Castle through him.

Nishikawa Nishiemon arrived a little late, Yoshiqin took a sip of tea, Nishikawa wiped the fine sweat on his forehead with his hand, and quickly explained: "My lord, when I received your summons, I was attending a meeting with other merchants, so I came a little late, please forgive my lord." ”

Ji Qin asked him to sit down and poured him a cup of tea, and after Xichuan drank it nervously, Ji Qin said slowly: "It's okay, I'm very interested in this meeting between businessmen, let's talk about it." ”

Xichuan breathed a sigh of relief and settled down: "Lord, when the sky is getting bright today, some businessmen found out that the Guanyin Temple City has changed hands, so they gathered all the merchants together to discuss countermeasures, and the small ones were also invited. At the time of the summons, the merchants were debating whether to close their doors and wait for the war to end. ”

Ji Qin nodded, seeking benefits and avoiding harm, if Ji Qin came to be the boss, if he didn't want to make war money, he would definitely choose to temporarily close his business, and wait until the war was over to come out, but the collective closure of the merchant house had some unfavorable factors for the Qimu family's rule over Guanyin Temple City, and Ji Qin would not let the merchant house close collectively.

"The collective closure of the merchant house is extremely detrimental to the rule of the family, I want you to do your best to persuade them to give up the plan to close the door, if you don't think of any good persuasion method, then you might as well talk to them about the business policy implemented by the Asai family, or if you are not willing to cooperate, it is okay for this Kannonji Castle to only have the Yamagata House family."

Xichuan's wild jump, he didn't care about the front, what he cared about the most was Ji Qin's last sentence, there is only one merchant house, that is a monopoly, isn't it up to him to decide how to sell things. Thinking of this, Nishikawa smiled happily.

Seeing this fat man smiling so obscenely, Ji Qin didn't know what he was thinking, but Ji Qin didn't care. After Nishikawa calmed down his mood, he slammed his head on the ground and said in a loud voice: "Thank you, Lord Xi, Ren Youemon will do his best to earn the wealth of the Qimu family!" ”

Nishikawa Hitoemon walked away with a scroll of the Asai family's preferential policies for merchants, but Yoshiqin sat in the room, a little embarrassed.

The news of the fall of Guanyin Temple City has been spreading around, most of the surrounding cities know the situation of Guanyin Temple City, how to deal with the next war, Ji Qin is a little uncertain, after all, there are only five hundred ninja troops in Guanyin Temple City, once the surrounding cities gather troops, gather a few thousand people, and advance to Guanyin Temple City step by step, then Ji Qin can only stare at them and surround themselves and carry out cage city battles, then the result of the Qimu Army is only one, fall into the city and break through.

After sitting in the room for a long time, Ji Qin called the three of Duoguang over and asked them to set off with all the ninja armies to cut off the connection between the surrounding cities, so that they were isolated, and it was a dream to join forces, and Ji Qin had the possibility of defeating them one by one.

However, what puzzled Ji Qin was that in the middle of the night, the news that came back from the ninja army was that although the cities had gathered troops, they did not move, and it seemed that they had no intention of recapturing Guanyin Temple City. Ji Qin paced around the room and thought for a long time before he figured out why.

Kannon Temple Castle is no longer the Kannon Temple Castle based on the Hexagon, and the retainers only have the idea of a strong castle for the Kannon Temple Castle, and they don't know how much strength the Qimu Army has, and when they can't get in touch with others, it is normal to strengthen their own garrison, and the east and west armies of the Asai family have also entered the territory of the Rokkaku family.

What these city lords or city generations are doing now is to wait and see the city, and they will not choose to send troops if the outcome is unknown, I have to say, it is really in line with the style of this era.

The next day, Sugitani Zenjubo drove into Kannonji Castle with 300 iron cannon ashigaru in front of the townspeople of the castle, causing a lot of sensation, and Nishikawa Nishiemon also took advantage of this wind to successfully convince several merchant houses that were not of the same type as each other, including Yamagata House, the goods of several merchant houses did not interfere with each other, and basically represented all the merchant houses in Kannonyama Castle Town, which could basically achieve the effect required by Yoshiqin. So when Nishikawa Nishiemon brought them to Yoshiko, Yoshiqin smiled and nodded, telling them to work hard, businessmen are a good industry.

As for their relationship with Nishikawa, and whether Nishikawa only communicated with these bosses, and the rest of them didn't even say anything, Ji Qin didn't want to know, Ji Qin just needed to know that there was a merchant house in Kannonji City that accepted the rule of the Qimu family and was able to stabilize the situation in the castle town.

And Inutaro was also under the guidance of a few people in Xichuan, and copied the remaining ten merchants' houses, harvesting a total of 50,000 yuan, and the rest of the goods were divided by Xichuan and several people at half price, and another 60,000 yuan was harvested, which made up for the crazy expenses of the Qimu family in the past year, and even had a lot of surpluses.

Looking at the money piled up in the warehouse, Ji Qin suddenly thought of a sentence in his heart, "Murder and arson gold belt". Most of these treasures will be transported back to Qimuzhuang when the naval warships come again, and the rest of the small part will be kept as trophies to be rewarded to those who have merit.

Two days later, Maeda Keiji entered the Guanyin Temple Castle with the remaining two hundred ashigaru, and Yoshiqin's hands had enough troops to spread around, if Maeda Keiji came a few days later, there might not be a need for the Qimu family to take the Kannonji Temple City as the center point, and spread around, because in just three days, the Western Route Army has basically occupied the entire Shiga County, and the East Route Army has also occupied the southern part of Kanzaki County, where the Kannonji Temple Castle is located. The Eastern Route Army had already converged with Qimu Jiqin.

And now that Maeda Keiji has arrived at Kannonji Castle, Kanzaki County has no surplus of five castles around Kannonji Castle, and Yoshiqin has no desire to attack them, but in the north of Gamo County, there is a lot of room for Yoshiqin to exert himself.

On the evening of 25 May, the Eastern Route Army rushed to Guanyin Temple City and joined the Qimu Army. From the day of the dispatch of troops, in just five days, the Asai family went to the three counties of Minami Omi in an instant.

In the early morning of the next day, Yoshiqin rode alone to Hino Castle in Minamigaso-gun, and the Eastern Route Army continued to march towards Kita-Gaso under the command of Asai Nagamasa.

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