Sakai Port - Since the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period, Sakai Port has attracted a large number of merchants from the three countries of Settsu Province, Kawachi Province and Izumi Province to do business here, and it has gradually become a large commercial city. At the same time, because it belongs to the coastal area, with the development of commercial activities, it has gradually become one of the important ports of Yuben to the outside world.

Because of the abundance of free traders who fished a lot and merchants who went to the sea to do business, the area was crowded with merchants from all over the South Seas. Even before the Ming Kingdom on the other side of the sea promulgated the policy of closing the country, there would be many merchant ships from the Ming Kingdom to conduct free trade, purchase goods, and become an autonomous city.

Having said that, during the Azuchi-Momoyama period, it was suppressed because it was a self-governing city, and many people were forced to move to Osaka, which was ruled by the central government, and in the Edo period, the commercial center function was moved to Osaka, leaving only the port function. After the Meiji era, the textile and brick industries turned Sakai City into an industrial city. Due to the development of Osaka City, it has now become one of Osaka's satellite cities. To the west is the coastal plain, which is also the main center of heavy industry in the region. The central and eastern parts of the country are dominated by residential buildings, while the hilly areas of the south are developing into new towns.

Of course, most of this is an afterthought, and the current Sakai Port is still a bustling city that attracts countless merchants to come and do business freely.

In July of 1543, a large Three Luzon merchant ship sailed into the port.

While the sailors on the ship were busy carrying their goods, two small figures secretly jumped from the side of the ship into the sea and secretly swam ashore without attracting anyone's attention.

The two figures were clearly children, one of them was Xiao Zhengtai, who looked to be about ten years old, but his small body was obviously much taller than the average child. At a young age, he is already about 1.4 meters tall, and he has a 100-centimeter-long wild knife diagonally stuck in his waist. Although he is obviously still a child, his body is very strong, and two small muscles can be clearly seen on his small arms, and he knows at a glance that he is a good child who exercises regularly.

Held by this little Zhengtai, it was a very cute little Lori, who looked like she was about seven or eight years old, staring at a pair of big eyes, looking here and there for a while, as if she had discovered a new world, looking around very curiously. Speaking of which, this is indeed the first time that little Lori has gone far away, so little Lori feels very novel about everything and things she sees.

These two children secretly ran onto the Luzon merchant ship anchored in the port of Kota Batu and had just waited for the monsoon to go to Yuben to do business, and secretly hid in the cabin of the nine-year-old Xiaozheng Tai Wang Tianxie and the seven-year-old Lori Wang Tianling.

"Stupid brother, what should we do now?" Xiao Lori stared at a pair of big eyes full of curiosity, admiring the new things around her, and asked her brother Wang Tianxie beside her.

"Let's go find a place to stay and eat and rest. Then see if you have a chance to hear from your father. Xiao Zheng Taiwang Tianxie said while holding his sister's hand and walking forward.

It turns out that this is Sakai Port.,I remember that in the last life, when I played the Nobu-nono-nobo computer game developed by Dark Ei, in order to prevent the Hosokawa family on the west side of the map from landing in Sakai Port from Saki Tokawa Castle through Utatsu Port across the Awaji Sea Sea and attacking their own Kishiwada Castle, I deliberately built a Sakai Castle next to Sakai Port, and deployed 80% of the troops in Kishiwada Castle in Sakai Castle to contain the Hosokawa family.

Immediately after that, he divided his army to the north, separated his territory like a sharp sword, and then swung his army westward, all the way to the westernmost part of the map, the mountain castle of Yoshida County, owned by the head of the Mori family, Mori Moto, and crossed the Aki Beach from Kusatsu Port behind Akibei. In the end, I entered Kita-Iyu from Imabari Port and made dumplings from the Hosokawa family smoothly...... I miss it so much!

Now, walking on the streets of Sakai Port, it is impossible to see Sakai Castle, but you can see a lot of scenery that is very different from that of Kota Ba, the capital of Brunei.

Since Sakai Port is now mainly occupied by fishing and tea, there are not many commercial goods from Nanban and Nanyang. From time to time, you can see rows of vertical stands on the wide streets, which are hung with dried and dried fish, and the whole street is filled with the smell of the sea. From time to time, there was a sound of bargaining in the streets, as well as the noise in the roadside food bars.

The two brothers and sisters walked on the street hand in hand, and in the hands of little Lori, she held a string of three-color balls bought at a roadside stall, eating very happily, and at the same time, she kept directing her brother to buy this, that, all kinds of different snacks,.

A little Zhengtai pulled a little Lori, and walked to the door of an inn called "Red Lantern".

Probably because it was evening, there were a lot of guests in the inn, and the entire rectangular hall was bustling with diners. An older Lori, who is about fifteen or sixteen years old, is busy greeting guests. At the very bottom of the inn, there is a couple who are more than half a year old, probably the parents of the older Lori, who are busy.

The middle-aged uncle kept putting all kinds of ingredients on the long stove with a roaring charcoal fire, and then put the ingredients that had been baked on a plate and waited for the older Lori to serve them to the guests. The middle-aged aunt, while constantly fanning the charcoal fire, turned over and over the ingredients on the stove, and was very busy, concocting all kinds of stove dishes for everyone.

"This big sister, my sister and I followed my father from Nanyang to Sakai Port to see the world, but our two siblings accidentally got lost, can we stay with you for a day or two first, and wait for our father to come back by the way? Rest assured, we'll pay. ”

Although his body is still a child, Wang Tianxie, who is a human being in two lives, of course knows the truth that wealth cannot be exposed, so he just whispered to the side of the older Lori.

The older Lori first looked at the two siblings, then smiled very gently and agreed.

"Little brother, little sister, my name is Haruko, and my mother is the lady of this inn (*Note). For the next two days, you can sleep here, and it will be 300 yuan a day. By the way, what are you going to eat? The eldest Lori Haruko led the two siblings to a guest room in the inner room, and smiled at Wang Tianxie.

(*Note: The female general is a unique title to the izakaya and inn of the book, and she is also the proprietress we are accustomed to.) In the hot spring inn, the female general is the main soul, responsible for the coordination of various departments, the welcome lineup when guests enter the hotel, or the greeting and speech at a large banquet table. ）

Wang Tianxie ordered a grilled fish with miso for little Lori, and he asked for a bowl of cold noodles and fried shrimp tempura. Maybe because I think the two of them are very young, and the little Lori Wang Tianling looks very cute, the older Lori Haruko will take a break from time to time, enter the guest room to talk to the two brothers and sisters, after the inn closes, he directly holds a lot of unsold ingredients, and accompanies the two brothers and sisters in the guest room while adding meals and chatting.

After eating the grilled mackerel and eating some snacks, the little Lori Wang Tianling soon fell asleep on the futon next to her, but this gluttonous little Lori, even if she fell asleep, the little mouth was still chewing there, and from time to time she could hear the clatter of her teeth in the air and then bumping into each other...... It's a foodie Lori!

This is the advantage of this house, as long as you put the futon on the floor covered with tatami mats, you can fall asleep directly, which is very convenient. In winter, they will put a quilt around the table, spread a futon on the floor, sit on the futon, and put their feet into the table to keep warm. (Wang Tianxie: "This is simply the highest enjoyment of lazy people, after eating, put the bowl on the table, lean back, and lie down directly to sleep!") ”）

Xiaozheng Taiwang Tianxie was not in a hurry to sleep, but chatted with Haruko while eating and cooking, and the more they talked, the more energetic they became. Two people, you talk about the terroir of Ben, and I talk about the scenery of the South Seas...... At the same time, while chatting with Haruko, he told his father's appearance little by little, but Haruko said that he hadn't seen it.

In this way, the two siblings temporarily stayed in this inn called "Red Lantern". Every morning, Wang Tianxie will take little Lori to run around the street to see if he can inquire about some news of his father, and at night, when the lights are on, he will return to the red lantern and chat with Haruko while resting.

To everyone's surprise, this inn called "Red Lantern" became famous for hosting ghosts five hundred years later, and many tourists from all over the world would come here, making the inn's business very popular!

In the 2000th year, with the special approval of the emperor and the strong support of the shogun's descendants, the inn underwent a comprehensive renovation and super-large-scale expansion, and a large flat castle in the style of the Sengoku period and a large castle tower with five floors on the outside and seven floors on the inside! Then with Honmaru, Ninomaru and Sannomaru, it perfectly reproduces a giant castle from the Sengoku period.

This castle was personally nominated as the "Red Lantern Ghost Residence" by the descendants of the general, and marked it as a landmark! Of course, that's all for later......