Honda Yahachiro has become much more honest since the last blow, and during the day he followed Yamamoto Kansuke to learn castle building and management techniques, and at night when there was moonlight, he ran outside to read by moonlight, and he studied very diligently and hard, much stronger than Kira Manmatsu Maru back then.

"Only this perseverance can make a famous strategist of the Warring States!" Kira Manmatsumu sighed, he only admired this kind of person who was both smart and studious and hardworking, compared with Honda Yahachiro, his younger brother Honda Sanyako was much worse, and he followed Takigawa Keijiro to Saijo Biri all day long, and he had to follow the gun Hanzo Watanabe Takatsuna to learn marksmanship, and saw that the young Nakajo Hidetaka had a wonderful swordsmanship, and ran over to learn the art of war of the Nakajo family.

I don't know if it's because of the appetite for the Mikawa samurai because of his unintentional and grinning personality, Takigawa Keijiro, an outsider, was quickly accepted by everyone, and even his father Takigawa Yishige also benefited, with the two of them who were young and heartless, they really mixed up a familiar face among the Mikawa samurai.

It is said that Takigawa Keijiro just came up and asked Watanabe Takatsuna to try out, Watanabe Takatsuna did not refuse his challenge, the result was of course defeated by a shot every time, every time he stubbornly got up, he would be knocked to the ground again, and finally Watanabe Takatsuna was a little unbearable and told him that although the foundation of marksmanship is good, but this is not enough, he is too young and lacks strength, and he will practice for a few more years.

Watanabe Takatsuna also told him that the Watanabe family's family spearmanship came from Kinai, and that the spearmanship in Kinai was respected by the southern capital Kitaku, and that the best spearmanship should be studied at Kofukuji Temple and Enryakuji Temple, and that the gunnery of the Kofukuji Treasure Temple Yinei was very famous in Kinai, and Takigawa Keijiro quietly hid in Yamaoka Zenjiro's absence, and begged Kira Manmatsumu to take him to Yamato Province to have a look.

"But the family has no plans to go to Yamato!"

"I've heard that the beauty of Heijo-kyo in Nara is no less beautiful than that of Heian-kyo! The lord will go to see it first, and then take Princess Katsu on a tour another day! Takigawa Keijiro looked scheming and didn't expect to say such thoughtful words, but he had to admit that the proposal was really good.

"Alright! Only this once, not for example! Kira Manmatsumu thought about it for a moment, and then readily agreed.

"Thank you, Lord!" Takigawa Keijiro ran away in a hurry, seemingly to inform his little friend Honda Sanya.

The Uji River is a tributary of the Yodo River and the only river that flows out of Lake Biwa, and joins the Kamogawa River, which flows through Kyoto, and the Kamogawa River, which flows downstream, and the Katsura River, which flows downstream with the Sonobe River, and the Kizu River, which flows through Yamato Province.

The Yodo River has many tributaries of various levels and has a large basin, and this first river in flows through the Osaka Plain along a south-westward course and finally flows into Osaka Bay at the end of the plain.

Sakai Town is located in the corner of Osaka Bay, located at the intersection of the three kingdoms of Aizu, Kawachi and Izumi, and the Sakai of the Three Prefectures has become his name.

Later, as the Hosokawa family monopolized the shogunate after the Onin War, Sakaimachi became an important port for the Hosokawa family to control the exploration trade, injecting greater economic incentives into the new city, and gradually transformed into the most important commercial port in the region, almost monopolizing Kyushu, and the western country through the Seto Inland Sea and Kinai's economic activities, and even surpassed Kyoto's Kyomachi in commerce.

As the largest port and a new commercial city in Kinai, Sakai Town is far larger than any castle town in the Warring States period, and the entire city is run by an autonomous organization of chambers of commerce called Naya.

In this era, there were many chambers of commerce similar to Nayago that controlled the city, such as Ujiyamada-cho, Osato, and Kuwana-juku towns in Ise-kuni, Hakata-minato in Chikuzen Province in Kyushu, and Sakatamina-minato in Dewa Kunisou, etc., and they also implemented a similar power structure of chambers to jointly manage self-government, and this kind of organization is also called huiai.

After the collapse of the manor system in the Middle Ages, some rich peasants in the countryside gradually took control of the land, and after the collapse of the manor system, some landowners failed to occupy these villages for various reasons, so the new landowners and villagers united to form a local government, and elected several powerful people among the landowners or peasants as the old underground people to jointly manage the village.

They are also dissatisfied with the management of the shogunate and the lord, in order to seek the power of self-government often instigated or set off a rebellion, such as the first year of the Cargill Tokumasa was this group of Somura trouble, the Somura group soon gathered an army of 30,000, forming a terrible Tuichi force to occupy the major temples in the country, and threatened that if the shogunate did not issue a Tokusho decree, it would burn down all the monasteries and temples, at that time the shogunate happened to catch up with the Cargi Rebellion, and the political situation in Kyoto fell into chaos and was unable to resist, so the Somura group was very easy to get the Tokumasa order, It also fuels the arrogance of the natives.

The same thing that the Guild and Somura have in common is that the internal system is exactly the same, but the relationship between the peasants and the landlords is transformed into the relationship between small merchants and the merchants and wealthy merchants, and of course they will not obey the management of the shogunate and the country, but pay a regular and quantitative amount of "Ya money" as a protection fee every year to obtain the power of independent self-government, and for commercial ports like Sakai Town, they can be called a cash cow, and the lords of various places, including the Hosokawa family, do not dare to push too much, so their status is much higher than that of the Somura group.

Not only does the rendezvous maintain a high degree of autonomy, but it also has its own laws and regulations to deal with various commercial disputes, and they also have their own law enforcement agencies to deal with crimes such as fraud, robbery, theft and even homicide.

The Autonomous Council, composed of these "virtuous people", was responsible for the day-to-day affairs of the entire city and the adjudication of various commercial conflicts and criminal cases, which was probably similar to the famous federal system, and the system and name of the rendezvous were similar in various places, such as Uji Yamada called "Yamada Sankata", Hakata Minato called "Twelve Men Nian Xingji", Shonai Sakata Minato called "Thirty-six Renji", and Ōminato called "Renhuiji".

For example, the name of the meeting in Sakai Town is Naya, and you can hear from the name that Naya is a chamber of commerce organization engaged in industries such as tsuchikura, that is to say, they were originally an organization initiated by warehousing and loan pawnbrokers, but after nearly a hundred years of changes, the members of Naya have changed many times, and there are old families declining and new families rising, and the original Naya 36 people have long been a matter of fact, and today the world knows that Sakai Town is in power with Naya 10 people, as for how there are only 10 people left in the 36 people, no one knows.

Kira Manmatsumu and his entourage of dozens of people disguised themselves as ordinary merchants, and it was not conspicuous among the caravans that came from all over the world, and the caravans of some wealthy merchants shouted hundreds of people before and after, used dozens of ships, and hired a ronin of dozens of people as bodyguards, with bows, sabers, guns and armor, which were more elite than the armament of many daimyos.

"Sure enough, it's Sakai Town, it's really amazing!" Both Kira Manmatsumomaru and the people around him have a deep impression of Sakai Town, and Sakai Town is indeed very powerful, as a typical city around the city, Sakai Town is surrounded by many rivers such as the Doi River, the Uchikawa River, the Furukawa River, the Tsuki River, and the Shin-Hori River.

Many of these rivers were dug up by Sakai merchants in order to increase the speed of trade and freight transportation with the help of a dense network of rivers, and it is said that the fastest way to get from Sakai South to Sakai North is by boat, which shows how dependent the city is on water transportation, and the criss-crossing river network is full of large and small wharves, which is the basis for the vitality of Sakai Town and creates excellent conditions for the development of the city.

Note: This is also the information that Ume can find by consulting the history of Sakai City and related materials, but it is not a false statement.

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