"After the new rain in the empty mountains, the weather is late in autumn; The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring stone is upstream...... After the rain, autumn is really a different scenery. "As the trail winds and winds along the secluded mountains in the distance, Manmatsumaru Kira takes Kansuke Yamamoto and stands on the hillside, looking at the beautiful scenery of the lake and mountains.

"Your Excellency, let's hurry up! His Majesty still has important matters to deal with. Yamamoto Kansuke urged with a bitter face, he was already busy and couldn't touch the ground, and he was hard-pulled by Kira Manmatsumaru to visit the Mikawa Nakajo clan, saying that it was in the name of Kamirako to win over the people of Mikawa to make a strong reputation, and set off before dawn in the morning, crossing Bihai County and deep into the mountains of Kamo County.

"Got it! The master craftsman is really a person who lacks interest! Kira Manmatsumu muttered twice and urged his mount to rush down the mountain, Yamamoto Kansuke and the Matsuri samurai quickly followed, only Yamaoka Zenjiro hurriedly drove his horse down the mountain carefully, but he couldn't catch up with the Matsuri samurai.

Yamaoka Zenjiro has suffered a loss from this inferior horse not once or twice, although the level of riding and archery is very high, just because he runs the slowest every time, he is privately ridiculed by the horse samurai, which makes Yamaoka Zenjiro feel very unbearable, so he swears in his heart: "Bastard! I must sell this horse when I go back! No repentance! ”

Not to mention the grievances between Yamaoka Zenjiro and the horse, Kira Manmatsumaru's team soon came to the Fist Mother City, and the Nakajo clan was curious about the visit of the governor of the Kira clan, who had not been in contact for decades, because there was a correspondence a few days ago, and Kira Manmatsumaru's visit was also expected.

In the Muromachi period, Mikawa Province's position in the shogunate was very special, and the shogunate's public organization was basically equivalent to the imperial family system in the Kamakura period, but the authority of the imperial family to participate in politics and discussion was weakened, and it became a simple armed force directly under the shogunate, and the public was enshrined in the samurai families from each leading country and the countrymen who had made great achievements in war.

There are forty families in Mikawa to serve the public, basically the few famous people in Mikawa are from the public, and these families have not gone to the shogunate for generations, and in the last 40 years because of the decline of the shogunate's power, they have gradually cut off the intention of Shangluo, and they are bent on expanding their influence in Mikawa, and then the expansion of the power of the Imagawa family, and the rise and fall of Matsudaira Kiyoyasu like a comet, have caused a lot of blows to the public of Mikawa country.

Speaking of the Mikawa Nakajo clan, it is also a famous samurai, the family is from the famous Ono courtier family, active in history since the Nara period, the most famous Ono girl in the first ancestor, in the Heian period, has been ranked three times into the six kasen, thirty-six kasen, the women's room thirty-six kasen, Ono Komachi and other celebrities such as Ono Huang, who is called the "wild prime minister".

In the Heian period, the son of Ono Huang Musashi Mamoru Ono Takatai Musashi Province downward, and his son Ono Yoshitaka moved to Yokoyama, Minami-Tama County, Musashi Province, because the Miao character was changed to the Yokoyama clan and many branches were transmitted, the famous samurai Nakajo family in the Genpei era was the most famous samurai of the Nakajo family, and the father of the Nakajo family, Nakajo Kanetsuna, led the Lang Party to join the army when Minamoto Rashichao raised troops, and made meritorious contributions in Genpei and Oshu Together.

Nakajo's parents were elected as Saemon Captain because their father's generation followed Minamoto Yoshito, Minamoto Yorishio's army, and in the Seiku Rebellion, he and Oe Hiromoto served as the Kamakura Shogunate's remaining guard and won the position of Obari Guardian and Mikawa Takahashiso, and in the first year of Karo, he served as an assessor and won the fifth place under the Ha Mamoru, and directly participated in the formulation of the Kamakura Shogunate's famous decree "Imperial Defeat Shikimu", and after the destruction of the Yokoyama clan by Wada Wai, the Nakajo clan won the title of the leader of the Yokoyama Party with the support of the Hojo clan, and since then he has been famous all over the world.

The distant ancestor is so brilliant that it can't say anything, but the close ancestor of the Nakajo clan is not bad at all, it is for the creation of the Nakajo-ryu art of war, Nakajo Nagahide once worshiped in the Nenryu Kaishan patriarch Nenami Jien became one of the "Nenryu Fourteen Philosophers", and later combined the swordsmanship of the Nakajo clan with Nenryu to create the Nakajo-ryu, which was very lofty in the Muromachi era and was valued by successive shoguns.

The Nakajo family also had a very famous branch of the Tomita clan, and after combining the essence of several other schools that emerged in the Muromachi period, the Tomita-ryu was created based on the Nakajo-ryu style, which was extremely famous in the Hokuriku and regions, and was also a famous school comparable to the Katori Shinto genus that was famous in the eastern country.

The Nakajo clan has always had a high status in the public in the shogunate, and was called the Nakajo judge because he served as an assessor for generations, and later the Nakajo family was targeted by the Ashikaga Yoshikyo who was called "ten thousand people of terror", and found the wrong punishment for not beating a total of 36,000 Zhixing leaders in the 36 townships of Takahashiso and the family fell in the middle of the road, but his family's luck was good enough to survive until the day of re-emergence, not only to get back the confiscated family leader, but also to re-serve as the shogunate's assessor.

With the decline of the shogunate, their family also fell into irreversible decline, in the second year of the Astronomical Universe (1533), it was also the governor of the Nakajo family, Nakajo Dewa Moritaka, with his own retainer Lang Party, and Matsudaira Kiyoyasu who encroached on his family's territory Zaii Field, fought a joint battle, the results of the battle are self-explanatory, and the Nakajo family, who was severely repaired by Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, almost even exported their pants, and returned to the mother city of the fist and shrank from then on, and the territory of more than 20 townships in Kamo County also said goodbye to the Nakajo clan.

Maybe he was scared by Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, or maybe the governor of the Nakajo family has been scared, this shrinkage is more than ten years, whether it is the Imagawa family or the Oda family, this stubborn Nakajo Dewa Mamoru can't shrink back, like a poor old worm, trying to keep the family business in this way, but is it useful for him to do this? Kira Manmatsu Maru was very skeptical.

After a formulaic politeness, Kira Manmatsumu decisively proposed to invite Nakajo Tsunetaka to jointly go to Luo Fenggong to support the shogunate, as expected, the stubborn Nakajo Dewa Mamoru Tsunetaka refused to go to Luo, since the defeat of the shogun's family, the public of Mikawa Province has not been on Luo Fenggong for decades, no matter how the public urges them, they can't stop their determination to keep the family business, the same is true of this Dewa Mamoru, revitalizing the family business to regain the lost Kamo County territory is his life's biggest dream, Kamilo Fenggong? He never thought about it.

"Stubborn guy! The head is as rigid as marble! No wonder I didn't hear anything about the Nakajo family later! A stupid family governor killed the whole clan! Seeing that his mouth was about to wear out and still had no effect, Kira Manmatsumu decisively decided to get up and say goodbye, and when he was about to walk out of the big wide room with a gloomy face, a voice came from behind him: "Kira Palace, please wait a minute!" ”

"Old stubborn figured it out?" Kira Manmatsu Maru was secretly happy in his heart, and turned to look at the past quietly, this Nakajo Dewa, who was over forty years old and had gray sideburns, sighed and said: "Please understand the hardships of this family who can't follow the Jira Hall Shangluo Fenggong......"

"I understand! If there is anything else to say in the Dewa Palace, just say it! Kira Manmatsumaru got up in a hurry in the morning and only ate two rice balls, rode a bumpy horse and sat all the way for an hour, and his stomach was already hungry, so he simply interrupted his senseless action of going around in circles, which means that the young master is very busy with things and has no time to play in circles with you.