According to the practice of the imperial court, November and the first month of the following year are the main months for the imperial court to confer and promote the official rank, and occasionally there will be March, April or other months of the secretary to fill the appointment, but usually this situation is rare.

This time the ministers of the Shogunate, there are several ministers who have a deep relationship with the Kira family to get the Ministers, first of all, the Konoe Haruhi who has just gotten married, resigned from the left guard general, and the two right ministers of the Shogunate, which should be the imperial court's high psychological expectations for the gradual strengthening of the shogunate, and at the same time succeeded Hirohashi Kunimitsu as the samurai leader.

Then there is the uncle of Konoe Haruhi, the father-in-law of the middle court, and the two right guard generals of the long I Harutsu Sheng, and the big man is like a yuan.

Ji Liang Yoshishi's uncle in the Intermediate Yuan Tongwei, also raised the official rank to the two of the Great Commanders, the Intermediate Yuan Tong Mi Sheng Xuzheng four lower right guard major generals, with the full support of his father-in-law Kuga Harumi, as well as Kira Yoshitoki's strong performance in the past year, one step over the threshold of the four positions, the promotion speed is also very fast.

In late November, the training of Kira's new army was basically completed, and in the new round of small competition, the 500 red cavalry played an outstanding role, and in the simulated confrontation of the same number, they were able to repel the foot battle every time, and with the cooperation of the impact of the horses, the effect of the cavalry spear and scimitar combined with the assault was good, and even the gun and shield team could not stop their frontal assault.

At the same time, the Red Reserve Cavalry and the Horse Rider also changed their horses in the same period, and after half a year of operation, the Oshu and Hokuriku high-quality war horses mastered by the Biwa House were as large as hundreds. This replacement is expected to cost 10,000 yuan of Yongle money.

The armor of the war horse was also carried out at the same time. Taking into account the combat power of the load of the war horse. The horse armor of the 700 cavalry is light and has a cowhide armor to resist swords, guns and guns, mainly draped on the horse's head and chest, in the process of catching up with the horse armor, Kira Yoshishi also ordered someone to create a blindfold, controlling the horse's vision can effectively improve combat effectiveness.

Sakamoto, a large construction site in the winter moon, was full of new towns under construction and busy moving in, and the development of Sakamoto Town has been booming since Enryakuji Temple bowed under pressure from the imperial shogunate. Even the head snake of Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple bows its head rarely, and the townspeople have nothing to worry about.

The influence of the rapprochement between Enryakuji Temple and the Kira family quickly turned into a centripetal force, including the management of the Biwa House was also recognized by many merchants, and the Biwa House successively set up branches in Otsu, Kata, and Imahama, and basically grasped the sales problem of half of Lake Biwa.

Usayama Castle is the first castle in Otsu, located on Mt. Usa at an altitude of 336 meters, and the street leading to Kyoto is located at the bottom of the mountain. It also overlooks the Ujigawa waterway and is only 1 km from Lake Biwa. It is one of the most fortified castles in Omi.

Before that, it had been in the hands of Yamaoka Keiyuki, and with the Otsu Ichikuchi incident, the Yamaoka family lost all their money, and all the territories in the Otsu area were compensated to the Kira family, and it has become the new territory of the Kira family, and the Kira family has been arguing for many days about the appointment of the castle generation, and Kira Yoshitoki is not sure who should be appointed as the castle generation.

"Your Excellency! Usayama Castle Castle's question, please make a decision as soon as possible? This is the first time Hosokawa Fujitaka has said this, his attitude is understandable, the entourage has been fighting for this position, especially Hosokawa Fujitaka himself, who was Sakamoto Joyo when the Kira family was out of battle, and this time Usayama Castle Joyo's voice is also his highest.

Kira Yoshitoki said softly: "Does Fujitaka want to go to Usayama Castle to be a castle generation?" But the big politics of this family still need you to deal with, and you can't do without capable people! ”

He knew very well why Hosokawa Fujitaka was in a hurry, some people didn't want the priests to come forward, and thought that the position of this castle was best done by samurai from Mikawa, and even spread very unpleasant rumors, which made the priests feel very anxious.

"Your Majesty recommended Matsui Hall to be the city generation, I don't know what the hall owner thinks?" Hosokawa Fujitaka proposed again.

Kira Yoshitoki shook his head in denial without hesitation, not to mention how big the role of Matsui Yukan is, even his desire for power must not be taken outside to be the lord of the city, this person is a large Kubo Changan-style character, both in terms of talent and personality are very similar, only under his nose can he see it, once he is released, I don't know how many moths will be provoked.

Hosokawa Fujitaka left in a huff, and in the end he couldn't find out what Kira really thought, he had already anticipated the difficulties he might encounter, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

"Or, let the master craftsman be the city generation, right?" Kira Yoshitoki hesitated for a moment, but still rejected this idea, "Shijiang is the right-hand man of the family, and it is all thanks to him that the Samurai of Mikawa and the Samurai of Omi can produce a good bond, if I go to Usayama Castle and there is a problem in the family, what should I do?" ”

In addition to insisting on military reform, using small competitions to improve the skills and combat effectiveness of the samurai, and at the same time changing weapons and equipment, and spending a large amount of money on training elites, among which the 700 cavalry spent him 13,000 kan Yongle money, which was almost equal to the total income of the Kira family in a month.

At the same time, he frequently appeared in the training ground to encourage training, and the Samurai of Mikawa felt extremely grateful to him, coupled with the two years of time with the Omi samurai, most of the people's first children had been born a few months ago, including the samurai from Mikawa in the past few months, under the mediation of Yamamoto Tokiyuki, they have combined with the widows living in the county, the contradiction between the two sides is not prominent, and the only doubt is that the senior samurai have doubts about the mastery of the right to speak.

Kira Yoshitoki showed that his handling was immaculate with practical actions, and whether it was the Mikawa samurai or the Omi samurai, they changed to new weapons and received new training without discrimination, which also made some people's selfish thoughts no longer on the table.

The two children on the teaching field each wielded a plain gun that covered the head of the gun and exchanged fires with each other, and the hardwood weapon did not have the strength of the Chinese big gun, relying entirely on personal arm strength, strength and skill. This is very similar to the situation before the Great Song Dynasty. This time, Kira's opponent was replaced by Shimasa, who was a year older than him. The two have been fighting for fifteen years.

The situation of Shima Zuo is slightly better and only a little panting, Kira Yoshishi is almost a little tired and sweating, this is the difference between long-term training and short-term training, Shima Zuojin has been running around in the field since he was a child, in order to eat some nutritious food to support his practice, he can only hunt wild beasts with real knives, real guns and real bows, and sometimes he has to find a way to deal with animals such as mountain boars, for him, training is the instinct to survive. The stronger the skill, the more prey you will catch.

Kira Yoshishi has been pampered since he was a child.,Live a corrupt life of eating to open your mouth and clothes to stretch your hands.,Training is just to hone your will and strengthen your physical fitness.,When I was a child, I couldn't practice much at all with a wooden sword and practiced for an hour every day.,This is more than half a year to receive professional spear training to make strength、Strength and strength grow rapidly.,But this is worse than Shimazuojin.。

The two held each other for a moment, waiting for the moment when the two of them were gasping for breath, and almost at the same time they stabbed with their guns, and the huge rebound force of the moment when the two spears exchanged made the two of them take a step back, and Kira Yoshishi only felt that his hands were sore, and he couldn't lift his strength. But he gritted his teeth, grabbed the sweat-stained spear, and thrust with all his might.

In the face of the spear's thrust, Shima retreated calmly and backwards. At the same time, he staggered his thrust with the outstretched spear, and suddenly swept his spear away with a sudden and jerk, like a snake out of a hole and stabbed his arm into the shoulder, this series of strains was only completed in the blink of an eye, and Kira Yoshitoki, who had exhausted all his strength, could not make an effective change at all.

"Poof!" Under the action of the huge force, he threw one of the backs that Kira Yoshitoki directly hit and threw out, and the plain gun in his hand could no longer hold it and flew away.

"Your Excellency!" A few people with the surname trotted over to help Kira Yoshi.

"Shimazuo's performance is good, pay attention to the strength next time!" Watanabe seems to have gotten used to this result, and no one complained that the island was too heavy.

"Zuo Jin's gun just now, right? That's a lot of energy! Shaking and falling a little dizzy head, Kira Yoshishi pushed away the little surname who was supporting him, rubbed his sore shoulder and said with a smile: "You still kept your hand just now, otherwise I won't want to exert my arm within two days." ”

"Your subordinates also have the advantage of being a long gun, and you may not be able to use the short gun to roll the gun." Shima Shikatsu said modestly.

"Not to mention the gun captain, the resume and strength of this family are a lot worse than you, but this family is going all out, how much strength did you show just now? Seven or eight? ”

"Seven points."

"I'll have to practice for another half a year." Ji Liang shook his head, systematic training can not have the slightest relaxation, this truth in the Ming Dynasty is called "one day do not practice hands and feet slowly, two days do not practice half of the loss, three days do not practice layman", before he practiced swordsmanship is so-so, came to Sakamoto and three days of fishing and two days of drying nets.

Since last summer, he has gradually gotten on the right track, and this year has really done a lot of hard work from practicing swords to practicing guns, compared to the perennial practice of Shima Shikatsu, Takigawa Shiyi and others, it is far from enough to work hard for a year, even if he is talented and has not been honed for three or two years, no one can see how high the future achievements will be.

In the soup tub, Aju added hot water to Kira Yoshi, and every day the water bath was done by ordinary maids, Ah Ju usually didn't come much, of course, this was also Kirayoshi's request, her status was different from ordinary maids, this kind of rough work was left to the maids to do, today's luck was not very good, Ah Ju just came over to serve him in the bath.

Looking at Aju's quiet and gentle smile, Kira Yoshitoki said with an uncomfortable face: "That...... Ah Ju must be tired, right? Why don't you go to rest first? ”

Ah Ju saw the bruise on his shoulder, and when he touched it lightly, Ji Liangyi grinned when he touched it, and asked, "Your Highness is injured again?" Is it still close to the left this time? ”

“…… Well, my family can't beat him, that kid is really perverted with brute force! Kira Yoshitoki pouted.

When there are no outsiders, Kira Yoshishi always habitually reveals his true nature, and some strange words are also used to by Ah Ju, and he smiled and said: "Your Highness has just started practicing, don't be too careful, it's not good to hurt your body." ”

"Hmm! Got it. Kira Yoshitoki raised his eyebrows and smiled and said, "Is the game of the big merchant fun?" Recently, I often see a group of maids and small surnames playing there under the porch, but it's a pity that the identity of this family is really not suitable to play with everyone, it's really lonely! ”

Ah Ju smiled and said, "If Your Highness wants to play, Ah Ju will play with you!" Ah Ju is very powerful at playing a big businessman! I haven't lost until now! ”

"Oh? I just came up with some new settings to improve the game, and I don't believe you can still win! (To be continued......)

PS: I have to admit it, I got the number of chapters wrong, two 188 chapters are really dizzy, I have to say that the head of the code word has become sluggish in the middle of the night, please understand!