The whole winter was spent in a busy time, and the time flew into the twenty-first year of astronomy, the beginning of 1552.

It was the beginning of the new year again, Kira Yoshitoki took his retainers to Kyoto to meet Ashikaga Yoshito, and in this year Kyoto changed again, the neat streets no longer saw the stinking sewage, the number of poor people in rags gradually decreased, and the director of Kyoto, Mibuchi Harumoto, added a lot of gray hair.

This meeting was attended not only by the shogunate officials of Kyoto, but also by the daimyo of Settsu, Tanba, Kawachi, Kii, Yamato, Omi, Mino, Echizen, Wakasa, and Tango.

Samurai such as Imagawa Yoshimoto of Suruga, Hojo Shiyasu of Sagami, Harunobu Takeda of Kai, and Nagao Keitora of Echigo offered gifts one after another, and the Ouchi family of Nishikoku made a statement for the first time since the Taineji Incident.

The current governor of the family, Ouchi Haruei, sent an envoy to present 2,000 kan of gold, three famous swords, 300 taels of silver and a Nanban mirror, according to the practice of the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshito gave the righteous "righteousness", thus changing the name to Ouchi Yoshinaga, and at the same time from the imperial court to come to the five Shimosakyo doctors to give him, which is also part of the gift.

At the same time, Otomo, Shimazu and other Kyushu daimyo also sent a door, important ministers to Kyoto to present, the Shimazu family sent is the second son of Shimazu Tadaya, the current Shimazu family governor Shimazu Takahisa's younger brother Shimazu Tadashi, and he came with Shimazu Takahisa's second son, at this time also named Shimazu Tadahei Shimazu Yoshihiro, the young Shimazu Tadahei held a bottle of Nanban rum and respectfully presented, Mibuchi Fujiei took it and handed it to Ashikaga Yoshito by careful inspection.

"Shimazu Hall sent tribute thousands of miles away, what a loyal minister of the shogunate! Yu's loyalty to the Shimazu clan is silently remembered, and it's hard work! ”

"Yes! I will thank His Royal Highness on behalf of the head of the family! Shimazu's eyes turned red. Choked and fell to his knees.

"Shimazuden, please." As a deacon of the government office, Settsu Harimon. Speaking on behalf of His Royal Highness.

"Yes!" The uncle and nephew of the Shimazu family stood up gently and slowly withdrew from Ohiroma.

The Shimazu family started in the Gendaira period. The first governor of the family, Yumune Tadahisa, was the Kamakura Shogunate's imperial family, and served as the head of the Shimazuso Prefecture, thus serving as the Kamakura Shogunate's imperial family for generations, and was the native of the southern tip of Kyushu for the Kawachi Genji, who was first subordinate to the Southern Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and then attached to the Northern Dynasty and opposed Imagawa Ryitshi, and then succeeded in ensuring his position.

At the same time, the Shimazu family was also the Muromachi shogunate. Regardless of the decline of the shogunate, the Shimazu family always maintained a deferential attitude towards the shogunate, including the dedication of Tanegashima iron cannon a few years ago, which greatly satisfied the shogun and his ministers.

At this time, Kira Yoshito, who was named after the Ashikaga family, sat in the first position of Ashikaga Yoshito's left hand, and the owner of the first position on his left hand, Hosokawa Harumoto, the leader of Hosokawa Harumoto, was guarding his old father-in-law in Kannonji Castle for the fourth time, so Kira Yoshitoki became the first person below the public side.

Then there was round after round of references, although Kira found it long and uninteresting. But they couldn't stand the excitement of the shogunate's important ministers, who watched everyone who came to see it with great interest. From morning to evening, he was basically not very idle, but fortunately he sat cross-legged, if he sat on his knees, he could lose his legs, for example, when he walked out just now, he saw a guy let his companion carry him out of the big wide room.

Kira Yoshitoki was very interested in the Shimazu family, and he went to find them as soon as the shodan court meeting ended, but unfortunately the Shimazu family left too fast, and it seemed that he simply came to Kyoto to send tribute, and he left Kyoto without waiting for the next day to inquire, and he failed to appreciate the demeanor of the Shimazu family's fierce generals, which made Kira Yoshitoki feel very disappointed.

This year's Imagawa Yoshimoto seems to be very active, not only offering 1,000 kanbun to the shogunate, but also offering gift money to the five mountains of Kinai and Myoshinji Temple of the Honmune, and then obtaining the Mikawa Mamoru he has always wanted from the imperial court, not only defeated Oda Nobuhide on the battlefield, but also took his Mikawa Mamoru from the hands of the rich man Oda Nobuhide, which can be described as a spring breeze.

It's just that Imagawa Yoshimoto earned back this face a little later, Oda Nobuhide was already terminally ill and couldn't see things, and died of illness at Suemori Castle at the beginning of the year, and then at the funeral of Oda Nobuhide in Kamegatake Rinmanshoji Temple, the Oda family invited the monks to do things for the Odari no Tora, and in the ceremony, Mrs. Tsuchida took the second son Nobuyuki and the third son Kirokuro to attend the funeral.

Including Oda Nobuhide's useless eldest son Oda Nobuhiro, and a bunch of large and small children participated, but the eldest son Oda Nobunaga was still missing, when all the retainers thought that the governor would not come to participate in the funeral ceremony, the cold and noble king of killing Matt Oda Nobunaga appeared, he was naked and upright with a cupola broom, his head and face were smeared with strange patterns, and all kinds of strange pendants were hanging on his body, and the waist and crotch were slashed in a very gorgeous shape.

Under the stunned gaze of the ministers, the second emperor of the Warring States Killing Matt walked to his father's spiritual seat with a blank face, grabbed the incense ash in the incense burner and threw it into the air, and in an instant, the pervasive incense ash covered Oda Nobuhide's spiritual position, and walked away under the incredible gaze of everyone, such an absurd and bizarre performance naturally aroused the anger of his mother and important ministers, and the second demon king didn't care what they thought, he just needed to act according to his own thoughts.

Hexagon Dinglai finally hung the point, since the end of last autumn began to get sick, after a series of five critical illness notices, this tenacious old man failed to survive to the sixth critical illness notice and ascended to heaven, the hexagonal family generation of heroes, the management of the generation of the generation of the British lord, the leader of the generation of the family died, at the age of less than sixty, the hexagonal family is shouting angrily, why?

The ghost only knows why, but as soon as this hexagonal retain died, there was also a little change in the hexagonal family, and the retainers who originally had no obvious inclination began to gradually get closer to the shogunate, and some people took advantage of the floating stalls of people's hearts to fill their own pockets, and there were even more important ministers who were ready to expand the authority of the family, and proposed that there was no collegial system of important ministers during the hexagonal relegation period, and I don't know if this hexagonal righteous sage can support the bombardment of the retainers.

A simple ceremony was held at the new house in Kunitome Village, and Kira Yoshitoki, who rushed to the store after hearing the news, went to the store with a retinue to give face to the Ashikakuni Yubei. In addition, he obtained a letter of appointment from the shogunate. It is to the effect that the shogunate designated the iron cannon forging point. The National Friendship Guard has made persistent efforts to create better results.

This kind of encouragement without money is not wasted a few words, Ashikaga Yoshito only needs to cover the monogram, and even the letter of appointment is not written by himself, such as the craftsman of the national friendly guard, this young master said excitedly that he must live up to the trust of His Royal Highness, and then the village of Kuniyu was in full swing into the study of the transformation of the new iron cannon.

The first step was to replace the butt of the cannon with a lighter piece of wood without compromising stability. Then the locking mechanism of the Spanish arquebus was replaced, and later the Kunibei found that there was a problem with the forging of the barrel of the Spanish iron cannon, and he had to talk a lot of things to make Kira Yoshitoki understand the general meaning, to the effect that the thermal expansion coefficient of the barrel of the Spanish iron cannon was too high when forging, that is, there was a problem with the barrel of the iron cannon itself.

He was very annoyed to hear the news, and was pitted by the Dutch, but fortunately he only had three iron cannons, otherwise he would have been really pitted to death, and the National Friendly Guards replaced the barrels of the Spanish iron cannons, and then the National Friendly Guards tried to compare the characteristics of the two iron cannons. In addition, the advantages of the double-leaf rotating disc cover were applied to the improved new iron cannon, while maintaining the advantages of the shoulder butt and powder clip unique to the Spanish iron cannon. Try to incorporate Sakai's specialties as much as possible.

The speed of transformation was easier than expected, and it didn't take a few days to finalize the first improved new iron cannon, and after a few days it was successfully produced, and the transformation process of these three iron cannons was completed in less than half a month.

"Have you ever heard of the assembly line forging process?"

"Nope." Kuniyubei shook his head in disknowledgement.

"Let's talk about it! In many of our commercial houses, this new process has begun to be used, taking your Guoyou Iron Cannon House as an example, first disassemble an iron cannon into several parts, each part is made according to standard specifications, and the individual parts are made by several or more than a dozen people at the same time, only the barrel is used for the barrel, and the gun is only for the gun, and finally the final assembly is carried out, and some additional parts can be produced as spare parts in addition to the planned production of the iron cannon parts, after all, the various parts of the iron cannon are still slightly different. ”

"Is this the assembly line forging process? It turns out that you can also make iron cannons in this way. The problem that has been plaguing the development of the national friendship cannon is the disadvantage of production capacity, and there are only twelve people in the entire national friendship village who can make iron cannons alone, including one famous craftsman and national friendship guard.

In addition, there are three skilled craftsmen, eight ordinary craftsmen with good skills, an iron cannon requires seven or eight days of work by the national friendly guards to make it, a slightly inferior Seiko takes about ten days, and ordinary craftsmen need more than ten days.

In other words, Guoyou Village can make up to 30 iron cannons a month, and the rest of the village can only help to make small parts when the master is too busy.

Replacing the assembly line forging process, the iron cannon manufacturing capacity of Guoyou Village can be doubled several times, and it is by no means a dream to produce 100 iron cannons every month.

In the process of improving the new iron cannon, the national friendship guard also explored some new ideas, through his ideas during the test firing of the improved iron cannon, the data collected and recorded were partially verified, there is still a difference between the shooting stability with and without the support frame, according to the evaluation of Takigawa Yishige and other iron artillery masters, the support frame is more suitable for defensive warfare, and the support frame has become a burden in the field.

Another difficulty is the sight, the Nanban iron cannon has a crosshair and a door, aiming at a distant target according to the three points and one line, but the iron cannon from Japan only learns the style of the sight and does not know how to design the crosshair, and can only be manually changed by each craftsman according to the effect of the test shot, because the national friendly guards have only seen the Tanegashima tube made by the Shimazu family, and have never seen the real Nanban barrel, and of course they do not know the form of the Nanban iron cannon sight, and this problem is also found in the Spanish iron cannon reference.

When Kira Yoshitoshi was busy renovating the iron cannon, Ashikaga Yoshito in Kyoto was also training a new army, with the protection of Kyoto's finance and taxation, he gathered two thousand troops in one go and began to train, it seemed that he wanted to completely get rid of his dependence on Hosokawa Harumoto, and I don't know what Hosokawa Harumoto, who was doing a funeral, would think when he received this news.

At the same time, a major event also happened in the Miyoshi family, the Awa guardian Daihosokawa Mochitaka who was far away on the island of Shikoku was killed by Miyoshi Yoshiken in Miyoshi Temple, and then caused the anger of the Awa Hosokawa family, Miyoshi Yoshiken's father-in-law, Kume Yasui Mamoru Yoshihiro raised troops to defeat Miyoshi Yoshiken to avenge Hosokawa Mochitaka, and then Sano Tango Mamomo, Noda Uchizosuke, Hinata Hinata Mamotaka General, Kokura Mino Morinobu and other Hosokawa Mochitaka faction people also raised troops.

Miyoshi Yoshiken led 3,000 elites by his sister-in-law Ichinomiya Seiyu as the vanguard to launch a counterattack, and the two sides broke out in a joint battle at the gun range, according to rumors, Miyoshi Yoshiken killed Hosokawa Mochitaka The reason was because Hosokawa Mochitaka conspired to support Riyoshi and himself to replace Miyoshi in place of Miyoshi's family, and after the conspiracy was leaked, he was deceived by Miyoshi Yoshiken to Miyoshi Temple to kill.

Entering the beginning of spring sowing in February, the Kira family promoted the high-temperature composting method for more than half a year, and the manure and green manure accumulation method achieved initial results, and was applied to the field for the first time, and the farmers of the two counties did not understand the requirements of the lord.

At the same time, Kira Yoshitoki ordered the people to scatter precious plant seeds from the direct territory of the Kira family, which were potatoes, corn, beets, pumpkins, grapes, peppers, and alfalfa from the Argotic Chamber of Commerce.

Holding a handful of plant seeds, Kira Yoshitoki said, "These seeds are good things I got from the Nanban merchants!" Among them, potatoes, corn, and pumpkin are all high-yield crops, which can be eaten as staple foods or vegetables, and with these crops, you don't have to worry about hunger! ”

Ninagawa asked curiously, "High-yield crops?" How productive? ”

"Probably it's okay to produce ten stones of grain from the land!"

"Ten stones of grain in one reverse?" Kunitsuna Okochi was surprised: "It's not a joke, is it? ”

The followers also shook their heads in disbelief, and it was no wonder that they would not believe it, such a high yield was not sure that Kira Yoshitoki himself was not sure, after all, it was a question of how high the yield of plant seeds was five hundred years ago, and he himself was not good at agriculture.

"I also heard that ......" Kira Yoshishi scratched his head and said with some uncertainty: "Anyway, just plant it and try it!" These seeds should be kept strictly confidential and implemented in accordance with the requirements of the planting process, they are more expensive than the price, you should keep an eye on them carefully! ”

"I'll take care of this later! What about other seeds? Hosokawa asked.

"Hmmm! According to this standard, beets, grapes, peppers, and alfalfa should be planted separately, beets are vegetables that can cultivate sugar, which needs you to study, peppers are condiments that can replace mustard, alfalfa is a very good pasture, and it seems to be a high-yield crop. (To be continued......)

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