Among the servants of the Kira family, there are not many people who don't know him, and they still have a good impression of this interesting little surname, so they smiled and said, "My name is Hattori Masanari, and I am a ninja." ”

"Ahh You're Hattori Koshiroden! I heard that you are very powerful, you can fly the eaves and walk the wall, and you can also be invulnerable, killing people invisibly, isn't that so! Masuda Shinzaburo looked at him adoringly.

"Actually, it's not ......" Hattori was about to explain, when he suddenly heard a burst of angry shouts from the room: "Tell me what you did?" Well? How much time do you have to perfect Echigo's intelligence system? Three whole years! You can't even control Echigo for three years, how can the family believe you? ”

"Yes! It's your subordinate's fault! A faint familiar voice made him realize something immediately.

"Shh Hattori made a gesture to Masuda Shinzaburo, quietly approached the paper door and knelt down to listen carefully.

"Is it all about admitting mistakes? Tell me what exactly did you Hattori ninjas do? Since coming to the Echigo intelligence agency, the establishment has been progressing slowly, and this family can understand and don't blame you, but now the Echigo samurai family has been subdued by the family one by one, why are you still not perfecting the intelligence system? Because thou art incompetent and my eyes are incompetent? ”

The conversation in the room fell into a long silence, and Hattori Masanari's heart was beating in horror when he heard it, and suddenly he felt a burst of light rush from the tail vertebrae to the Tianling Gai, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble.

"If you don't talk about your family, I'll say it for you! It's all because your son, Taro Jiro Saburo, is more capable than the other! Taro mingles with the samurai all day long, drinks and fights, and makes trouble, and treats the family's great business as a child's play! Jiro is a good gambler. If you don't gamble, you can't eat for a day. I can't sleep if I don't gamble for three days. It's just that gambling is not good, and most of your family's money is lost by him, I heard that you still find colleagues to settle accounts and pay debts, you see your father!

Saburo likes a married man, and he is still the daughter-in-law of a certain important minister and elder in Echigo, and he used ninjutsu to infiltrate people's homes and repeatedly do unscrupulous things, and he was bumped into and fled in embarrassment, and as a result, he sued his own family or his family to cover it up for you. The entire Hattori ninja crowd was brought up by your three sons to stir up a crooked atmosphere, and you, the father and godson, were not strict and indulged excessively, which made the Iga ninja complain a lot, and many missions were resisted so that the family was almost killed by your incompetence, what do you think you should be guilty of? ”

"Seppuku suicide!"

"Suicide? Is suicide over? Can you die to atone for your sins? No! The samurai who hate seppuku at every turn in the family the most.,No responsibility, no backbone.,I don't even have the courage to get up from where I fall.,Can you be called a samurai? You answer me, what should I do with you? ”

The room fell silent again, this time for short. I heard the deep voice of the middle-aged man say: "Your subordinates are incompetent, so much so that they have ruined the great cause of the hall master. No complaints at the mercy of punishment! ”

"You have served the family for many years, and you have a lot of hard work, and the family is not a ruthless person and will not let you die, but it is really not suitable for the position of the monomi to be done, and the family will hand him over to Mochizuki Yoshicho to do, do you have any opinions?"

"No comments! Mochizuki Anyun's ability to guard the palace is on par with his subordinates, and he also has an advantage in age, and his subordinates support the decision of the hall master! ”

"Hmmm! As punishment, the family decided to transfer Hattori Masaaki to Echigo to take over the helm of Hattori Hanzo, and you take your three sons to Kyoto to dismantle Hattori Masakiyo's work! Koshiro Masanari will be adopted by Masaaki as an adopted son, as the heir of the next generation of Hattori Hanzo, do you have any opinions? ”

"There are no objections! Thank you for your magnanimity, your subordinates will definitely protect the two counties of Omi, and if the two counties are there, the ministers will be there, and if the two counties are lost, the ministers will die! ”

"Koshiro should be outside the door, you go meet him before leaving!"

"Yes!" After a moment of silence, the paper door was slowly opened, and Hattori Baocho walked out with a sad expression.

"Shiro, follow the Pavilion Master to work hard, you must take your three brothers as a warning, and you must not do perverse things, otherwise the Pavilion Master will be able to bypass you, and my Hattori family's family law will not be able to bypass you! If you want to listen to your uncle, he will be your father in the future, you must remember your duty and the law of the samurai, love it wholeheartedly, and do your best to maintain it, this is the duty of our samurai family and the duty of my Hattori family! Hattori's tone was firm and powerful, and if it weren't for the gray hair fluttering in the wind, he would have thought it was like more than ten years ago.

"Yes! Father! I'm sure to keep it in mind! Hattori was crying silently, and bean-sized tears kept falling.

"Don't cry! If you do something wrong, you have to bear and face it, and if you do a lot of wrong things for your father, it's time to atone for your sins, you are the man of my Hattori family, the future Hattori Hanzo, the family business depends on you to maintain, you must remember the word loyalty! All right! I've said everything that needs to be said, and it's up to you to perform in the future. Hattori patted his son on the shoulder and slowly left.

"Father!" Hattori Masanari looked at his father's lonely back when he left, knelt down in pain and wept bitterly.

Ten days later, Hattori Masaaki led dozens of powerful men down to Kasuga Mountain Castle, adversely affected by the refrigeration of Hattori Baochang, the influence of the Iga people in the Kira Shinobi Army was greatly weakened, and several powerful shinobi personally promoted by Hattori Baochang were either demoted to punishment, or followed Hattori Baochang to Omi Sakamoto to guard the lair.

From a political point of view, the debasement of the center was a very severe punishment, but considering Sakamoto's mature business system and the warm, humid climate was more livable, it was also a very generous punishment to demote Hattori Baocho there to retire, neither dead nor to throw him out of the Kira family as a ronin, or to gain the unanimous understanding and gratitude of the Iga ninjas.

Hattori Masaaki got started very quickly, a few troublemakers who used to follow the three boys of the Hattori family to cause trouble were arrested and locked up in a small black room for fifteen days, and when they came out, they were almost invisible, crying and saying that they would never dare to make mistakes again, and successfully completed the transfer of power with this relatively gentle and non-murderous and exiled means, and basically achieved the goal of leaving a few small tails before Hattori Baochang left.

Mochizuki Yasuki Shoukicho was promoted to the post of monomi and commanded the eight hundred ninja army is still very difficult, and the reason for his struggle is not that ninjutsu is not good and his prestige is too low, but that the Koga ninja under his command is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers.

However, the eighty Mochizuki ninjas plus the Koga ninjas collected over the years add up to only two hundred. The difference in numbers makes the Koga ninja and the Iga ninja have a power difference. This surprise is likely to cause unnecessary trouble.

After thinking about it, Mochizuki Yoshicho asked Kira Yoshitoki for approval, so he wrote to his brother Mochizuki Yoshito for assistance, and soon the Koga fifty-three families sent a group of 600 Koga ninja army, on average, each family sent more than ten ninjas, and several of the big families took out fifty clansmen to send them to Echigo, and the Koga ninja would be so decisive or slightly unexpected by Kira Yoshito.

He had long expected that the appointment of Mochizuki Yoshicho would have a great impact on the Koga ninjas, but he took out four hundred ninjas in one go. Moreover, the elite team of as many as thirty-five people in the middle of the ninja is definitely a decision beyond imagination, and I think that the hexagonal Yixian will definitely go crazy with anger! It's a pity that the local tyrants in Koga County are not easy to mess with, even if he is angry again, he can only endure it.

It's not surprising that the Koga ninja would do this, since Rokkaku Jorai died of illness, the development of the Rokkaku family has fallen into a bottleneck period in recent years, and the scale of Kannonji Town has not expanded at all, and no matter how hard Rokkaku Yoshiken tries, he can't stop Omi and even the entire Kinai from converging commercial resources to Sakamoto.

For the wealthy merchants of Kinai, it was enough to have Kyoto, Sakai Town, and Sakamoto as a commercial center, and it was a castle town where daimyo lived in the castle. Kannonji Town's scale is sound enough, and it would be foolish to expect more. Rokkaku didn't think he was stupid, so he didn't do anything stupid to challenge the three major business centers.

When the development of Kinai fell into a bottleneck and made no progress, Rokkaku Yoshiken set his sights on the spheres of influence such as Iga, Kitaise, Kita-Washa, and Kita-Omi Asai Prefecture, and tried to gradually consolidate the influence of the Rokkaku family on these spheres of influence.

This worry is not enough for them to betray the Rokkaku family, they are the indigenous nobles of Koga do not have the strength to betray the Rokkaku family and stand on their own, lack a strong leader and strong foreign aid, and the arable land in the county is very scarce, so that the Koga ninjas are born to become vassals who are dependent on the strong, and the Iga ninjas, who are better than them, can barely stand on their own, and the price of self-reliance is to be dominated by the samurai daimyo of Ise and Omi, in fact, the political status is not much better.

Since the departure of Yoshitoki Kira, Omi Sakamoto has continued to develop in an orderly manner in the past three years, and has not been affected by the decline of public opinion in Kinai, and the population has steadily increased in the past three years, especially after the formation of business districts with their own commercial characteristics in Sakamoto, Katata, and Otsu, the status of the economic center has steadily risen, and the gap between Sakai Town has gradually stabilized within a small range.

Although the purpose of Miyoshi Chokei is to squeeze more profits from Sakai Town and collect more money in proportion to it, it is still a great help to the objective development of Sakai Town.

On the one hand, it strengthened the development speed of Katata's handicraft industry, and on the other hand, it loosened the restrictions on Sakamoto's environmental protection.

The problem of affecting the business atmosphere was also solved with the migration of the workshop, and at the same time freed up enough land for Sakamoto to attract more business population and ordinary craftsmen to move in, and the safe use of biogas in Katata's Kokata Town was also completed after three years of hard testing, and after countless failures, the newly developed alloy globe ball valve perfectly solved the problem of air leakage, and the installation of a simple tempering device can also effectively prevent the violent explosion of the biogas digester caused by tempering.

The so-called alloy is not unusual, copper money is a copper-lead alloy, bronze itself is also a copper-tin alloy, the ancient alloy technology has existed since the Shang Dynasty thousands of years ago, and the invention of a simple alloy ratio to create a more suitable alloy is not too high technical content.

On the other hand, Takashima-gun has been focusing on the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and the commercial towns in the Azumigawa area have become the downstream industrial development areas of Shiga's three business districts, and many craftsmen are used to working in Katada during the day and returning to Azumi-cho in Takashima-gun at night to rest, and high-quality rice and livestock breeding have become the pillar industries of Takashima-gun. The large amount of livestock manure produced by livestock farming is used as a major source of biogas and fertilizer. Ninety percent of them are transported to the hard field as a source of fermentation for the digesters.

A circle of handicraft workshops for firing ceramics is formed in Katata. The process of ceramic firing comes from the potters in Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty, and the high-quality clay from the Jiantian Mountains comes from the high-quality clay in the Jiantian Mountains, and the celadon fired is several grades better than the poor clay pots.

As soon as it appeared in the piwa house, it was popular among many merchants in Kinai, and the Tokonamei, Igayaki, and Shigaraki ware, which were originally popular in Kinai, were affected to varying degrees, but fortunately, the high-end porcelain products that were named "Kata-yaki" were handled, and they worked hard to find their own firing style and technology, and the impact on the major production areas of ordinary household pottery was not too great.

In addition, there is a gradual rise in the textile industry, and the high-quality green silk woven jo linen cloth provided by Echigo is in short supply in the market. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are closely related to everyone, even the peasants in the countryside have a few shabby linen clothes, so this kind of cheap linen cloth is very popular, for which the pipa house also opened a ready-to-wear house, according to the style of clothing manual fee to accept orders for pre-ordered clothes.

Naturally, the textile industry was indispensable, and the finer high-end fabrics, together with the large quantities of indigo purchased from Shikoku by the pipaya and the madder purchased from Kyoto, developed the printing and dyeing industry, and the red, blue, and light yellow clothes were two or three times more expensive than ordinary linen. However, it was acceptable to the townspeople and small merchants who were getting richer in Kinai.

The rise of the textile industry, pottery industry, wood processing, shipbuilding, civil engineering and construction industries has greatly contributed to Shiga Prefecture, and the number of handicraft workers in Shiga Prefecture has exceeded 70,000. The number of people engaged in commerce and fishing is also rising, and the non-agricultural population has exceeded 150,000.

Since the success of cage fish farming in Omi and Echigo, the fishermen have also been freed from the sunrise and sunset fishing life, and most of the fishermen take advantage of the three-month fishing moratorium every summer to engage in handicraft activities, and even accept employment from the Kira family to do weeding, pest control, harvesting and drying during the busy farming season.

Otsu has become another cultural circle in Kinai due to its excellent role as a transportation hub and its proximity to Kyoto, Yamato, and Minami-Omi, and many cultural people who hate the noisy atmosphere of Sakai Town and the artistic atmosphere of Sakai Town come to live in Otsu by boat.

Of course, the wealthy merchants of Kyoto and Sakai Town do not seem to realize how much deterrence the two little brothers next to Sakamoto are, because these two are cultural meccas, and there are also sound workshop facilities that are not afraid of your development at all, and the development of that bit of land in Shiga County will not exceed Sakai Town in the end.

It makes sense for them to think so, but there is one thing that these wealthy businessmen still don't realize that with a sound business system and developed facilities, a relatively stable and perfect police and concentric system, and a perfect water supply and drainage system, etc., the two micro cities near Sakamoto have great potential, and their reputation has slowly grown over time, and no one knows where it will go.

As for the small number of opponents in Takashima Prefecture, there is no need to worry, the remaining military police power is controlled by the general of the Kira family, who was born in Mikawa, and the power of administrative judgment is held by the officials who were born in the shogunate.

In June, I received a letter from Owari Oda Nobunaga, and it can be seen between the lines that the former master of killing Matt has disappeared forever, and both the tone and the style of behavior are countless times more stable than in previous years, and after the battle of Muraki two years ago, Oda Yamato Nobutomo of Kiyoshu Castle suddenly killed Spo Yoshitoshi who was hunting, which caused anger within Owari.

Oda Nobunaga took the opportunity to lead the army to kill Oda Nobunaga and his family to obtain Kiyoshu City, according to the investigation after the fact, Oda Nobunaga was preparing to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, and the big puppet Spo Yoshito, who had been a mascot for decades, suddenly thought of telling Oda Nobunaga the news, but as soon as he ran out of the city, he was brutally killed by Oda Nobuntomo's pursuers, of course, most people don't believe this statement, and no one knows the specific true situation.

The letter only briefly mentioned this incident, indicating that he had already entered Cheongju City and mastered more than half of the country's strength, and was not considered a small wealthy family, and at the same time focused on another thing that made him show off, which was in April of the 24th year of astronomy last year. He had only 1,200 troops in the Battle of Inayu. Among them, there were three hundred iron cannons. With 800 ashigaru and an absolute disadvantage of 100 cavalry troops, they easily defeated the 4,500 army of Oda Nobuyuki, Shibata Katsuie, and Hayashi Xiuzhen.

In this battle, Sakuma Nobuyomori, Maeda Toshiie, Niwa Nagahide, and Mori Kosei, who were famous all over the world, performed well, and the defeated Oda Nobuyuki retreated to Suemori Castle and held out, and finally under the mediation of his mother, Mrs. Tsuchida, Oda Nobuyuki and Shibata Katsuke were exempted from their faults, and the victory of this war also announced the division of the four prefectures of Owari Shimo.

At the beginning of this year, Oda Nobunaga decisively invited his mother, Mrs. Tsuchida, to Kiyoshu Castle for the holiday. At the banquet, Oda Nobunaga suddenly fell ill, and then his condition took a turn for the worse that night, and Oda Nobunaga on the sickbed proposed to give up the position of governor to Oda Nobuyuki, and personally wrote a letter asking Oda Nobuyuki to invite him to Qingshu Castle.

Then Kawajiri Hidetaka and Ikeda Hengxing, who were in ambush in the castle tower, decisively jumped out to kill the defenseless Oda Nobuyuki, so the only hidden danger in the four counties was solved, Shibata Katsuya with excellent performance, betrayed Oda Nobuyuki at a critical moment, and instigated the young lord to go to Kiyoshu City to die, such undisciplined behavior was also paid special attention by Oda Nobunaga, so he also began his career of sitting on the cold bench for a long time.

His letter was full of words. Among them, he mentioned that he once sent people to Sakamoto, Sakai Town, and Kyoto to go around a few times, and felt that his Sakamoto Castle was the best commercial city. In the future, he will gradually implement Sakamoto's regulations in Cheongju and strive to develop a "Sakamoto" of his own.

Kira Yoshitoki took the letter and smiled, it was quite interesting to watch the mental journey of Owari Big Fool becoming a Warring States Hero, as a bystander and an influencer, it seemed to have some strange chemical effects on him, and he muttered to himself: "Could it be that I also affect his life?" I don't know if this effect is good or bad. ”

When he received the letter, he naturally wanted to write a reply, but Kira Yoshishi was not as sassy as him, but briefly mentioned the situation in the past few years, including the bloody battle against Kawanakajima, the big wedding, and a brief description of some of the governance strategies for the development of Xintian, these things he is not afraid of being known, knowing is not equal to in-depth understanding, not to mention how difficult and resistant it is to learn to use it.

With the arrival of summer, Kira Yoshitoki's size is also jumping upward, in the words of Nagata Tokumoto, the cold in winter makes the bones shrink and grow slowly, and as long as the nutrition can keep up in the summer, it is relatively normal to be longer with his age.

When he first arrived in Echigo a few years ago, in order to consolidate his long advantage, Kira Yoshitoki's meal began to be replaced with soy milk, milk, beef, and a special meal composed of various green vegetables, Saito Asanobu replaced the Teutonic knight who left, and presided over the intensive training of each summer, this kind of perverted walking, running and jumping, strengthening his strength, agility, flexibility, bounce power, physical strength and slightly reducing IQ, the latter sentence was added by himself, because he felt that after practicing for a long time, people would practice stupidity.

No one knows whether he will practice stupidity, but at present, it is no problem to toss him to death or live, every day when he returns to the pavilion, he is so tired that he can't lift his arms, and it is Tiger Ji who personally comes to massage his body to recover tired joints, and in a few years, people have not practiced stupid and strong body shape to be trained, and the six muscles of Hattori are faintly formed, so that he has to pose a few poses in front of the Nanban mirror every day when he gets up.

The long-haired girl stood in the Nanban mirror and compared her height, and said happily: "Your Highness! Tiger Ji has grown much taller again! ”

"Tiger Queen!" Princess Ayahime walked over slowly with broken steps, and Tiger Ji hurriedly stood up with a reserved and gentle smile, and saluted respectfully to Kira Yoshitoki: "Your Highness, the concubine greets you!" ”

"Ah Hu is exempt!" Kira Yoshitoki also smiled and nodded, the movements of the two did not make the slightest mistake under the gaze of Nagao Aya, Princess Ayahime nodded with satisfaction and said: "The women of the samurai family should be like this, from the tone of wording, manners and expressions, to the posture of sitting and lying, there can be no mistakes in wearing accessories!"

The more famous the family, the more you have to pay attention, in the future, Tiger Ji will have to deal with the daughter of the Gongqing family sooner or later, now it is good for you to learn more, so as not to be ridiculed by the wife of the Gongqing family when you don't understand the rules, which will make Yoshitoki and even the Ashikaga family follow the shame, always remember that the daughter of my samurai family represents the identity of the husband's family, remember? ”

Princess Ayahime is a very gentle woman, even when she teaches Tiger Hime, her tone is so gentle, as if the gentle spring breeze in March blows warm on her face, even if she feels a little embarrassed and embarrassed, it gradually dissipates with the spring breeze.

"Yes! Tiger Ji got it. The girl nodded her head sneeringly, this little sister was still too immature in front of her sister,

Since she was a child, she knew that she had a very powerful sister, protecting her very little brother from being bullied by several other brothers, and later that sister married the Ueda Nagao family when she was very young, and the girl who lived under the shadow of her brother since she was a child has a worship for this legendary sister.

In the words of this elder sister: "It is the duty of a samurai woman to be perfect and blameless, and it is the duty of a samurai woman to help manage the housekeeping and even make decisions when her husband is away, and to contribute to the revitalization of the family." ”

The red cheeks were full of shyness, and it was nothing to be taught by her sister in person, but it was the first time in front of Kira Yoshi, she was a little worried about the attitude of her Royal Highness, so Tiger Ji was caught by her sister who had just given birth to a child and had nothing to do.

Not as naughty and coquettish as before, learn to take care of Ji Liangyi's daily life gently and considerately, the two agreed not to touch the body, it doesn't mean that they can't share the same bed, they used to get up and wash themselves, and now they have become Tiger Ji serving her husband's life, enjoying a corrupt and luxurious life that makes him really happy in his letter for a long time.

"My sister's teaching is very good! Even those female officials in Kyoto are not as meticulous as my sister's teaching! Kira Yoshitoki followed Princess Ayahime's words and argued for Tiger Hime: "Actually, Tiger Ji is doing very well, now we don't have children to be lively, and a healthy main room can give birth to a healthy son-in-law, so sister, please rest assured, one piece is better for my martial artist!" ”

"Hmmm! Righteousness is right! After that, let's change the training standard to afternoon etiquette training! Princess Ayahime smiled and nodded at them before gently leaving.

"Your Highness is wonderful! Thank you, Your Highness! Torahime took the initiative to put her arms around Kira Yoshitoki's shoulder, kissed him lightly on the mouth, and then ran away with a red face.

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Echigo's preparations for war were carried out in an orderly manner, from the beginning of April to the beginning of April to complete the assembly of troops, at this time it was the flood season, the swelling river water caused trouble to the troops, Ueno Province received 50,000 stone rice grain to successfully survive the famine, but the damage to the national strength could not be solved in a day or two, Hojo Shiyasu saw the opportunity to send troops to Ueno Province again, and it seemed that he was determined to pursue and fight.

In Nishi-Ueno Minowa Castle, hundreds of people from Nishi-Ueno Province gathered, and Nagano Ye, the military leader of the Minowa people, waved his military equipment and shouted angrily: "It is the belief of our people to fight for the sake of protecting the hot land that has been passed down from generation to generation in Ueno Province, my lords!" We are determined to fight until we defeat the invaders and expel the Hojo Army! ”

"Do your bidding!" A large group of sons-in-law of Nagano Yoshimasa responded in a deep voice, and the evil consequences of taking away Sugi Xianzheng were swallowed by them in one bite, and only they knew how much the specific ups and downs were clear, and now they were gearing up for more than half a year in order to get back to the field, and get 50,000 stone food aid from the Nagao family to restore the lost morale, so that they had more confidence to fight against the Hojo family.

Nagano Yezheng looked at his junior talent, and instructed with a stern expression: "Ye Gu, immediately write a letter to the lord and the main hall for help!" Remember to bring in enough reinforcements, you know what I mean? ”

"Yes! I understand it under it! Nagano Ye agreed awe-inspiringly, and when he caught a glimpse of Nobusada Kohata, who was sitting opposite, he also happened to send his gaze over, and the two looked at each other and smiled. (To be continued......)