In the first month of the third year of Eiroku, Kasuga Yamajo Castle gathered from the retainers to celebrate the most important festival of the year, and at the Shodan Dynasty Yoshitoshi Kira announced the shogunate's reward to Uesugi Terutora in high spirits, and the four Shoji Daibi were moved to the left, becoming another of the four high-ranking samurai in the Kami-Ashikaga family, and his official position at home ranked fourth after the family governor and Murakami Yoshikiyo, who was already the fourth major general of the upper left guard thirty years ago.

In addition, there is also Langoka Yuanfang, because he is born in the minister's system, so this time his official position was promoted very quickly, directly from the five lower attendants, promoted to the four lower right guard major generals, becoming the fourth retainer to obtain the four-rank format, from the level of the retainer group, except for the shogunate, there is no longer the existence of the opponent of the Ashikaga family.

Mogami Yoshimitsu's official position also announced,Unsurprisingly, he obtained the hereditary service position of the Izuwa Exploration Question.,There are also five Shangyoukyo doctors given by the imperial court.,Although the imperial court has a bit of abuse of the left and right Beijing doctors so that this official position is seriously depreciated.,But it's better to have this name than nothing.,The penniless wealthy family gets the right Beijing doctor and the effect he gets from this Izuwa exploration topic are completely different things.,The former is still a penniless wealthy family.,And the latter can use this name to rule over the people of the country.。

Mogami Yoshimitsu has had a very pleasant time in the past few months, although Kasuga Mountain is not half as high as Mt. Kazuoka in Dewa Province, but Kasuga Mountain Castle is bigger than he imagined, and it is grander than all the castles in Dewa Country, and the entire mountain is shrouded in this majestic city, and the five-story castle tower is unique in Kanto, and Mogami Yoshimitsu can unceremoniously call Kasuga Mountain Castle the first male castle in the world.

Here he first understood the difference between earthen ramparts, stone walls and city walls, and for the first time saw arrowheads with a composite structure of earth and stone. For the first time, I saw the change of guard of the samurai on duty, and there was a strict handover process. Each changing of the guard requires a signature. The novelty of the buildings and the neat and tall walls gave him his first glimpse of how a fortified city could be built in this way.

He had never been to Kyoto and didn't know what the so-called city should look like, but when he first set foot on the land of Naoetsu Port, he was deeply shocked by the rush of people, which has dozens of wharves of all sizes, and thousands of ships of various sizes are moored in them.

The entire coast of Naoetsu is surrounded by this large port, and the long journey from the port to Kasuga Yamajo Castle is flanked by countless towns, and the astonishing rate of urbanization is an eye-opener for Mogami Yoshimitsu. He could easily come to the conclusion that the towns of all the cities and ports in Dewa Province did not add up to as many as the towns of Naoetsu.

Later, he learned that Naoetsu was not just a town, but was seamlessly connected to Kasugayama Castle Town, becoming a super urban agglomeration that stretched from the lower reaches of the Sekigawa River to Naoetsu, and that the city area was comparable to that of Kyono-cho in Rakuchu, which was about the same size as Sakamoto Town, Katata Town, and Otsu Town combined, and that the city had a resident population of more than 200,000 people.

The urban agglomeration is very large and large, but because of its geographical location, it does not have the strong appeal of Sakai, Kyonomachi, and Sakamoto Town, and the economic level is much worse than that of these relatively more mature cities. However, as a relatively second-class maritime transportation hub in the eastern country, its status is many times higher than that of the previous Hokuriku port, which was only one of several Hokuriku ports.

It is said that the ships that stopped broadcasting in the port were from various trade trips from Kyushu, Saikoku, Kinai, Hokuriku, Ha-Oku, and even Kanto. Benefiting from the abolition of customs taxes and taxes and the elimination of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes during the Kira Yoshishi, business travelers from all over the world liked to dock at this new port, and many large goods would be traded here for transit.

All legitimate trade activities will be guaranteed by the armed forces of the Kira family, and there is no need to pay any compensation to Kira Jehoi, and the Kira Navy will also maintain the safety of maritime traffic in Hokuriku and Tohoku free of charge, and the ships on this route will often be escorted by the Kira Navy during patrols, and will be rescued free of charge in the event of a shipwreck.

The good reputation of the Kira family ensures that free trade can be greatly supported here, and Biwa is the general agent of the monopoly Hokuriku and Haku, but anyone who wants to walk this route will be a customer of Bikaya, and I heard that a Niigata Town is being built in Shimoetsu that is no less than Naoetsu, and that Niigata Town has quietly gathered 50,000 residents, and it may be another ten years to catch up with Naoetsu's status.

Mogami Yoshimitsu somewhat understood why Echigo was so developed, a territory with a permanent population of nearly 800,000, a business trip that stayed in Echigo for a short time every day was stable between 70,000 and 100,000 people, and it also had vast farmland and more industrious farmers, but he still didn't understand how to do this, and what kind of legendary person would be the person who created a miracle in Echigo in less than ten years.

Here he met several peers who had a good relationship, they were Nagano Yegu, the lord of Ueno Kunitaka Castle, Kohata Nobutada, the lord of Kohata Castle, and the slightly older Wada Castle lord Wada Yefan, and Anaka Castle Lord Anaka Tadanari, this group of young people wandered outside Kasuga Mountain Castle all day long eagle hunting, and did not forget to take hunting dogs to catch prey on heavy snowy days, and Mogami Yoshimitsu met them during eagle hunting.

When I met the same young samurai in the wilderness, I always couldn't help but become companions, and my peers could always find similar topics, especially since most of them were lively and active young people, talking about Eagle Hunting and boasting about the joint battles they had participated in, and slowly seduced Mogami Yoshimitsu to discuss, and from their mouths, Mogami Yoshimitsu learned many legendary stories about the generals of the family.

For example, Saito Asanobu, known as the Ghost King and Zhong Kui, not only has an amazing level of command of the three armies, but also has an amazing level of command, and for example, the Kakizaki Keijia, the first fierce general of the previous generation of Echigo Seven Counties, is not reluctant to let Saito Asanobu in the level of martial arts and command, and the two joined forces in Echichu and Kaga to kill the ghost crying god howl, and the people who died directly or indirectly at the hands of the two were as many as 10,000 people, and the Echigo cavalry led by the two was called the invincible black dragoon.

Another example is the unparalleled military strategy of Echigo's dragon Uesugi Hui Tiger, who has not been defeated for fifteen years since the beginning of the army, and can be called the god of the Northern Army. It is also a samurai model admired by countless samurai of the entire Kira family. There is also a military strategy, wisdom and political strategy of attacking Masada, and Yukitaka Sanada, who can be called the top general in the eastern country.

In his hands, 17,000 Shinano people's army of the lower level became comparable to the first-class army of the eastern country. It can simply overwhelm the same number of elites of the Takeda Army, if it weren't for Takeda Nobuyoshi, who is also a heroic figure commensurate with Sanada Yukitaka, maybe Kai's country has been easily broken by Sanada Yukitaka.

and Murakami Yoshikiyo, who defeated Takeda Shingen twice in a row and brought great disasters to the Takeda family, this Shinano general has a very high level of military strategy, and not long after he joined the Kira family, he took on the front line of attacking the Takeda family, and withstood the fierce attacks of the Takeda army in the two battles of Kawanakajima, showing the world that he is not only good at attacking but also good at defending.

Of course, they also boasted about the martial arts of the Ueno people, and Nagano Yoshimasa's army was slightly no less than that of Murakami Yoshikiyo. In terms of wisdom and strategy, it is even higher, and the martial arts of Kamiizumi Hidetsuna can be compared with Kakizaki Keike and Saito Asanobu, and it may be better in foot combat, but the difference is nothing more than the military strategy of the unified army.

In addition, there are the strongest generals of the younger generation who have to be mentioned, Takigawa Tokiyoshi, Shima Tokikatsu, Honjo Shienaga, Nagasaka Nobumasa, who are known as the Four Heavenly Kings of Kira, and Watanabe Morunsuna, Nagao Dingharu, Honda Masashige and others who have not been sent to the number, Kohata Nobutada also boasted that he had the martial arts of the next few people, and called Nagano Yegu to have the military strategy and resourcefulness of Shikatsu who could not go to Shijima and so on.

Mogami Yoshimitsu was very interested in these new partners, and took the initiative to mention several samurai warriors and wisdom in Dewa Province, but there were too few celebrities in Dewa Province. Most of the samurai were general, and they were still a cut short of the starry Echigo, Shinano, and Ueno Kuni. Of course, they also talked about the most legendary and admired person by everyone, Ashikaga Kamisaburo Yoshitoki.

His legendary story was compiled into a story by the ape musician and widely circulated among the people, north to Yu Ao Nan to Kyushu, up to the high gate nobles down to the dawn of the people, old as old as the elderly, as young as three feet of children know his name and his life energy, his career of more than ten years is more bizarre than the source of the Yoshijing, higher than the source of the Lai Dynasty's martial arts, from the age of nine into Luo for more than ten years since the experience of dozens of times in the large and small battles have not met a defeat, and many times staged to win less and more to defeat the weak to defeat the strong shocking reversal, military strategy, martial arts, wisdom, strategy and political strategy are the world's top level.

What's even more rare is that he loves Kyoto culture, has received a standard minister-style education since he was a child, has a standard Kyoto accent, wears a hunting clothes, a black hat and holds a bat fan, and is handsome, chic, erudite, and talented, just like the light source recorded in "The Tale of Genji", a perfect male template for countless girls.

It is said that there are many young women in Echigo who are fascinated by the story of Kira Yoshitoki, but it seems that the person concerned has no idea that it will have such a big impact, and Mogami Yoshimitsu listens to it and thinks it is very interesting to talk with them, chatting and chatting A few people figure out that Mogami Yoshimitsu's identity is actually a freshly baked pedigree family elder, and immediately stop frolicking and worship Mogami Yoshimitsu is very disappointed.

Several young people said that they didn't think of his identity, thinking that this was the son-in-law of an ordinary Echigo samurai family who came out to hunt with horses, and they were not born as samurai in Echigo's own country, and the Echigo samurai are now divided into several major generals, and only in the first month of each year will they gather in Kasuga Mountain Castle to celebrate the festival, so so far they have not been able to recognize all the samurai of Echigo, and they are really sorry for mistaking Mogami Yoshimitsu.

Because of the special identity of Yoshimitsu Mogami, the last few partners who are very likely to become close friends are still gone, since ancient times, it has been said that there is a difference between respect and inferiority, this group of young people in Ueno Province can really be called rich and handsome in the eyes of ordinary samurai, and walking on the streets of Kasuga Mountain Castle always welcomes the envious eyes of countless people.

But in front of the real nobles, there is still a step behind, it is impossible to maintain the previous calm practice, they are not in awe of Mogami Yoshimitsu himself, but in awe of the samurai order of this era, and the source of the samurai order can be traced back to the Heian period, the Nara period, and the court rules of the Asuka era in the earlier era.

The feudal system is not the original creation of the samurai, what the Yuan Yoritomo did was nothing more than to raise the status of the samurai from the lackeys of the emperor and the minister, to the aristocratic class that can really be compared with the public family, the feudal system changed from the tribal clan system to that is the thing of the Asuka era, and the introduction of advanced and perfect Tang Empire culture through Dahua innovation has made this country that has just come out of the clan tribal system seem to have stepped into the model of an autocratic dynasty.

In fact, this is not the case, the remnants of the clan tribal system still remain, in order to appease the leaders of the big clans in the Asuka period, Emperor Tenmu initially set up the eight-color surname to be divided into rewards for merit, with the imperial family as the real person, and the leaders of the big tribes in various places as courtiers, Suyou, and taboos, and the smaller tribes were Taoist masters, ministers, lian, and rice surnames.

Later, after the Nara period when the imperial court became stronger and stronger, the eight-color surname system was gradually abolished until the early Heian period, and gradually formed a system of four courtiers' surnames based on the courtier's surname, among which the courtiers of the two clans of the Genpei clan descended from the courtiers, and the Fuji clan was descended from the descendants of Kamazu, who controlled the government, and the Tachibana clan came from a wide range of sources, mainly the emperor's fortunate ministers.

After the prosperous and splendid Heian period, the civilization of Kyoto has been able to keep up with the first-line level of the Upper Central Plains Dynasty, but leaving Kyoto is still a wild and ignorant clan and tribal era, so it will appear that the "Tale of Genji" mentioned by the minister to the distant country is the exile of the loser of the political struggle, such as Fujiwara Maxia in the Yakuko Change.

Completely get rid of the shadow of the clan tribal system or after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Genpei era is actually a cake sharing behavior of the emerging aristocratic group challenging the old aristocratic group, the Genji noble race that has been popular with the samurai in the world for hundreds of years, is actually the supreme leader who protects their interests, Taira Kiyomori is unwilling to do so he was abandoned by the samurai family to end up in extermination, and the source Yoritomo is willing to do it and become the general of the expedition, and the same is true of the Ashikaga clan.

Nagano Yoshimsu pulled the reluctant Kohata Nobusada away, a friendship that was destined to have no result ended early, Mogami Yoshimitsu returned to Kasuga Mountain Castle with some regrets, when he walked halfway up the mountain to look at the twilight of the evening, the bustling city below the mountain has been quietly lit with thousands of lights, bright lights illuminate the faint night, this moment will find out how powerful Echigo is.

Looking at the brightly lit night scene and the sound of firecrackers that sometimes came to mind, Yoshimitsu Mogami said hesitantly: "How did His Highness make this small port on the border of the Northern Continent quietly become one of the world's most famous maritime transportation hubs in just a few years?" Just saying that there are 200,000 non-agricultural people in this territory is extremely staggering, almost catching up with most of the total population of Yuzen, but Echigo has been covering this amazing news and making a fortune, what is the ambition of His Royal Highness? (To be continued......)

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