In March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the long embankment on the Edo River is full of flowers, just like a passionate and romantic girl showing her bewitching figure, walking on the streets of Edo you can feel the breath of spring everywhere, and every spring is a good time to enjoy the flowers.

On this bright spring day, as usual, wearing a hunting water dry set and a cage hand in the Edo River eagle hunting, followed by hundreds of silver-armored horseback warriors far behind him, three hundred young samurai wearing splendid robes and riding high-headed horses whistling past, passers-by saw the white flag mark symbolizing the descendants of Genji and quickly knelt on the ground, looking in awe at the proud young samurai surrounded the young man who seemed to be a king galloped away, until the smoke and dust covered the distant sight before slowly standing up.

"See! That is my future public highness in Kanto, it is said that the young hall was born with extraordinary divine power and bravery, left and right bow hundreds of shots, without stirrups can jump on a seven-foot horse, its martial courage is not inferior to His Royal Highness. ”

"Of course, you don't look at what kind of people the masters of the young hall are, Uesugi Dan Masako, Sanada Dan Main Hall, Yamamoto Road Ghost Hall, Hosokawa War Department Hall, Sword Master is Kashima Sword Saint Tsukahara Bu Tong Hall, and Gun Master is Takigawa Hall ......"

"Eh! It's wrong, it can't be called Takigawa Hall, it should be called Wada Hall......"

More than 300 young samurai rode north along Edo Castle, and a few bold young men took out strong bows and arbitrarily aimed at the birds in the sky and released arrows. ”

"No, you don't! It would be a shame for us to be overtaken by heavy riders while we were in light armor. Especially Heizaburo's kid can't admit defeat. Ashikaga Zhenomaru wielded a horsewhip. Looking back and shouting: "Sons and daughters listen to orders!" That is, you can drive away the dragon cavalry in a sharp formation! ”

"Hah!" The bloody nature of the three hundred teenagers was immediately aroused. After a little team, the horses were urged to speed up with all their might, and in a moment the people and horses on the streets of Musashi neighed and rumbled, and the merchants who came and went saw it and avoided it in horror, but if it was not blind and deaf, it would be necessary to recognize the bright blood of the five seven tongs, and everyone in the world knew that the blood tung pattern flag seal was the royal secondary pattern of the Kanto General's Palace.

Hanging far behind the team were 500 heavy cavalry, this cavalry was the Ryusho cavalry of Megatron Oshu during the Battle of Oshu, and Kenshin Uesugi sat down as an assault knife to cut through the butter and shatter the tight formation of the Oshu coalition forces during the Battle of Shirasaka. The fighting Oshu coalition army lost their armor and fled in embarrassment, this battle killed the supreme prestige of the Kanto Ashikaga family, and the Oshu samurai who killed were frightened and heard the word dragon and had leg cramps.

The eldest son of the Kakizaki Keijia died of illness, and the second son, Heizaburo, was in Edo Castle Motofu, and the name of the last word was called Kakizaki Yoshiya, and the battle of Shirasaka was the first battle of Kakizaki Heizaburo, and the young man who was only fourteen years old had extraordinary courage, and he broke into the main formation of the Shirakawa Yuki Army in the midst of ten thousand troops, and killed the head of Yuki Haruzuna with a large gun.

"Shaodian is playing a game of hide and seek with us again." Kakizaki Yoshiya laughed and said, "Sons, listen to the order, and the army that cinches the young hall cannot be surpassed. Let Shaodian know that Kisoma is not an opponent for us and other dragons. ”

Five hundred cavalry brushed the promise, and the war horses whipped by the horses galloped in pain and died. Long Xiangbei only has the power of five hundred formations but the top five thousand cavalry team, and the conditions for joining this are extremely harsh, and it must be a young man who is tall and strong, hard-working and law-abiding to enter, as long as he joins regardless of his background, he will automatically become a samurai, and he is also a samurai directly under the Kwantung General's Mansion.

But after a while, Ashikaga Zhenomaru heard a rumbling sound behind him, and his face changed and he shouted: "What a cunning Heizaburo! He didn't even come out with heavy armor! ”

"Our war horses can't compare to them, only His Highness has a divine horse, what can I do!" Yashiro Nagao said.

"Don't be afraid! Give him the courage not to overtake us, continue to accelerate! "The Ashikaga Zhenomaru mount is a pure-blooded Trekena horse, not cultivated at home but a birthday gift from his father, this horse is very popular with him as soon as it arrives in the hands of Ashikaga Zhenomaru, and he must ride it out every time he travels, and it is also a famous horse in Edo.

Kakizaki Yoshika's cunning Jean Ryukashi did not travel with heavy armor, but only wore light plate armor and burqa with light weapons such as tomahawks and strong bows, including fan-shaped shields, cavalry and spear cuirass, and these five hundred horses were all transferred to the famous mixed-breed BMW in Kanto, and the three hundred retinue of Ashikaga Zhenomaru were only excellent Kiso horses in Japan, and the gap was still very large.

Running all the way gradually getting closer and closer, Kakizaki Yoshiya really slowed down and followed behind, running left and right without daring to exceed half a minute, the good Eagle Hunt turned into a horse race, Ashikaga Zhenomaru shouted angrily: "Don't hide from Heizaburo, dare to go to the racecourse with me to compete." ”

"Haha, your subordinates don't dare to compete with Shaodian in horse racing, if you lose, you will be on the headlines of tomorrow's horse newspaper." Kakizaki Yoshika dodged the battle on the sly, and it was absolutely humiliating to compare his half-blood mount with a pure-blooded divine horse, and he would never do a deal that he would lose or lose, of course, the opponent was Ashikaga Zhenomaru, and he would not dare to do it.

Newcomers to Edo will find a lot of different things, and the cultural circle of this new city is very different from that of Kyoto, and Kanto is an area rich in war horses, and since the accession of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, who emphasized horse administration, the trend of private horse breeding has become stronger and stronger, and there is a well-established granite in Edo Castle Nerima Town, where Soma masters from all over the Kanto region gather to test horses sent to farmers from all over the country.

Three-year-old horses are identified and divided into three, six, nine and so on as for sale, the lowest class of horses as pack horses for farming livestock, higher inferior horses can pull carts to ride, and then a higher grade of good horses is the most popular means of transportation in the market, and a higher grade of famous horses can often be sold for hundreds to thousands of pieces of sky-high prices.

Arima City also gave birth to simple horse races, initially just a small race in the Setsubun Festival in which some samurai spontaneously competed against their horses, and then more and more people participated, and somehow Ashikaga Yoshitoki learned about it, so he set up a racecourse in Nerima Town. Dedicated to regular horse racing. And gradually establish a perfect league system.

The Horse Racing Championship runs from the spring of March to the end of autumn. Each round of the competition will be given a certain amount of bonuses and points according to the top few, after several rounds of points to get the top 20 will be able to participate in the finals at the end of autumn, and finally determine the champion, runner-up and third runner-up respectively to get the Kwantung Shogun's personal award, the first prize is Yongle money 10,000 Guanwen, the second 5,000 Guanwen, the third 2,000 Guanwen.

In the face of a staggering fortune, not only the common people were impressed, but even the valuable samurai were attracted to the racecourse. It also attracts the attention of idle townspeople, and the cost of watching a game can range from a few pennies to a few tens of tens, depending on the seat, which is not expensive for the increasingly affluent townspeople, but just a light breakfast or a hearty dinner.

With more and more people watching the race, the racecourse has always maintained an attendance rate of about 6,000 to 7,000, and the corresponding horse ticket betting game has been launched, and the audience can spend a few pennies to bet on guessing the winner, the number of consecutive wins, the top three positions and other ways to play.

Some smart people learn to figure out the strength and weakness of players according to different odds changes. And then according to the odds of the horse ticket bet to get a lot of money, a lucky guy once won a huge prize of 5,000 yuan with five cents. From an ordinary townsman to a wealthy man, the ensuing gambling boom has skyrocketed the attendance of horse races, and the more people who watch it, the more they invest, and the more money the Kanto Shogun's Mansion will make.

Kakizaki Yoshiie also tried to participate in horse races, but was denied participation because his mounts were not local horses, citing the fairness of the limited horses of the Kanto Shogunate, and he angrily scolded the racecourse for its pedantic practices, a ban that blocked the Ashikaga samurai's access to extra money.

Edo Castle Kendo Hall, a group of teenagers with special protective gear holding bamboo swords in pairs practice, the old Tsukahara Bu Ling supervised the children to practice swords with both hands behind his back, the old man's cloudy eyes stared at the figures of several children without moving, it was several young highnesses of the Ashikaga family, the youngest Yoshichiyo was only eight years old, and the oldest Tiger Chiyo and Matsuchiyo were only ten years old.

Kamiizumi Ise Mamoru Hidetsuna invented a kendo protector that uses bamboo more than three feet long as the prototype of the bamboo sword, and then reserves the part of the lower handle to cut into four, eight, sixteen or thirty-two pieces in the direction of the tip of the knife, and then makes a bag of thick kapok cloth to cover it up, and makes a bamboo knife that can be directly hit with each other in small hands.

"The way of using the sword lies in the heart, the beginning of the way of the sword is to defeat the enemy, and the strong enemy if you don't have the heart to fight the skills will be defeated, the second is to strengthen the body, the perseverance of perseverance in the three twilight and four days, in this small hall to waste the years, it is better to return home to enjoy the comfort of brocade clothes and jade food." Tsukahara Bu Ling's voice was loud and full of energy, his eyes were like sharp swords scanning the young men holding the sword, and no one dared to look at him around the left and right.

But the teenagers were not convinced, they had a big dream in their hearts, to become the greatest samurai, with super swordsmanship, and to make a great reputation, seven or eight of the ten teenagers wanted to be a famous general, and a few wanted to be a peerless general with both wisdom and bravery.

Tsukahara Bu Ling keenly understood some of the young people's thoughts, and said seriously: "The old man has been practicing swords for more than 70 years, and he has seen countless geniuses and heroes like carp crossing the river, and talented Miao characters like you emerge every year, and the old man's students can often see this kind of person with the talent of sword training, but many of them have failed, do you know the reason?" ”

"Why, exactly?" The teenagers looked up in confusion.

"Because they lack this." Tsukahara pointed to his chest and said, "No heart! Practice without care, don't care about skills, don't care about cultivation and understanding, play more than people every day, practice less than people, practice kendo is like being a person, if you don't care about it, you don't care about it everywhere, how can a so-so person become a generation of famous generals, you must know that the gods and Buddhas only care for the diligent and heartfelt, and the people who are easy and hard work are spurned by the gods and Buddhas, and they can't enter the high heaven after death.

Think that your life has just begun, for the pleasure of a moment to make the next few decades miserable, if you want to be a famous general in the world, you must have great perseverance and perseverance, and the geniuses and heroes who have emerged through the generations have a fame for a while, but because they have no perseverance and perseverance, they will not achieve anything, and finally fall into an unknown place and disappear. Don't be like this kind of loser. None of the world's biggest names are losers. ”

The teenagers were stunned by these words. At a young age, he couldn't tell that there would be such a profound knowledge in practicing swordsmanship, so he was stunned for a while and saluted respectfully with an expression of awe: "We must remember the teachings of the teacher, practice with our hearts, dare not slack off, and never be the unintentional person who fails." ”

Tsukahara Bu Ling nodded approvingly, and slowly walked out of the hall with his hands behind his back, he has been dealing with swordsmanship all his life, and the students he has taught before and after are all over the sixty-six countries, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a peach and plum all over the world. Over the years, the disciples have gradually accumulated rich teaching experience, and it is not easy to deal with this group of children.

As soon as he walked to the hall, he saw Ashikaga Yoshitoki standing in the courtyard and watching the children practice martial arts, Tsukahara Bu Ling was slightly stunned and bowed and said, "I don't know that His Royal Highness is coming, I'm sorry for being lazy!" ”

Ashikaga Yoshitoki quickly stepped forward to support the old sword saint, and said with a smile: "Sword saint, don't be polite, speaking of which, Yu Qiang is a little embarrassed to invite the sword saint to go out of the mountain to teach the dog at his old age!" ”

"Your Royal Highness is the lord of the Kanto region and leads the samurai of the Eastern Kingdom, and I, as a samurai of the Kanto region, should also contribute to His Royal Highness." Tsukahara Bu Ling still politely insisted.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki said respectfully: "The sword saint does not have to be formal, speaking of which Yu and the sword saint have long known each other, Yu's teacher Yamamoto Sado Shou entered the Taoist ghost and has a deep relationship with the sword saint. Nakajo Dewa Mamoru also worships under the door of the Sword Saint, and there are also sword heroes such as Shioka Kazuha, Hayashi Shisuke, etc. Speaking of which, the bond between the Sword Master and Yu is quite deep.

As early as the first meeting with Sakamoto in the astronomical years, I still remember vividly, the demeanor of the sword master impressed the Kinai samurai, and now after more than ten years, the sword master is still old and strong, and it is also very meaningful to be able to teach the future of the Kanto samurai family in Edo Castle the principles of practice and life. ”

"His Royal Highness the Princess's praise, my Bu Ling is just an ordinary man in the mountains, relying on a little attainment in swordsmanship to swagger in the world, and I am very lucky to be favored by His Royal Highness the Princess, and it is very lucky to be cited as a guide to the art of war." Tsukahara Bu Ling still modestly retreated, the old sword saint who was nearly eighty years old had already passed the age of joy and anger, and he would not be praised by a few words of praise and could not find the north.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki just smiled and shook his head, leaned on the railing and looked at the white clouds in the sky, and said: "What the Sword Saint said is quite profound, if you look at the names of the past and the present, you will find that every one of them is a hero with great perseverance and perseverance. ”

"His Royal Highness the Gongfang completely summed up the experience that my Bu Ling has summed up in his life in one sentence......" Tsukahara Bu Ling suddenly felt a little speechless looking at the sky, and after a while, he sighed: "His Royal Highness Gongfang's wisdom is amazing!" It can be seen that His Royal Highness is a heroic man who has risen in today's troubled times. ”

On March 12, the third round of the horse racing league began, Ashikaga Yoshitoki took several wives and children, and a family of dozens of people to the racecourse to watch the race, the eldest son Ashikaga Zhenomaru was very interested in Marseille, and said while applauding and cheering: "The horse race is the most wise decision made by my father, and a group of excellent samurai who are proficient in riding have emerged in the first three years of the race, and the elite are selected from them to be included in the riding equipment, which has extraordinary military significance." ”

Ashikaga Tiger Chiyo pouted and said: "Horse racing is too boring, it's just a group of people running around without their lives, it's so boring!" I think Keju is more interesting, the fists and fists collide and squeeze together to grab a ball, grab the ball and hold it and fly half the court, and then touch the ground to score ......"

"Wait! Are you sure you're talking about Kemari? Ashikaga Zhenomaru looked at the younger siblings sitting next to him with a ridiculous expression, tilted his head and said, "Why do I think this is not Kemari at all?" ”

"Uh...... This is a new Keju game that has become popular recently.,For the time being, I didn't have a name to call him Keju.,You can run with your hands and say! I'm telling you, this game is fun, and the strength will become bigger when you bump around! Ashikaga Tiger Chiyo smiled with a look that you know.

Chiyo Ashikaga Matsu turned his head sideways and said, "I still like the traditional Kemari, and the game of collision is not for me." ”

A few older brothers talk to themselves, the younger brothers and sisters are either dozing off in a daze, or jumping around in the box, it is rare to go out to play collectively to make the children very happy, the mischievous Ashikaga Katsuomaru wants to bully Ashikaga Yoshichiyo, and is glared at by Ashikaga Zhenomaru and immediately honest.

At the beginning of this year. The long-tailed tiger has just given birth to her fourth son, Ashikaga Sarumu. Counting the dragon and phoenix fetuses, a total of four sons and three daughters were born, a total of seven children. If it weren't for Ashikaga Yoshitoki inviting a female doctor from the Holy Hand of Gynecology to straighten her bones, such a high-intensity fertility rhythm would definitely drag down Tiger Ji's body.

These seven children are the eldest son Ashikaga Jinomaru born in the first year of Eiroku (1558), the eldest female daughter Ririn-hime born in the third year of Eiroku, the second son Ashikaga Katsuomaru, the second female daughter Riyae Hime-hime born in the fifth year of Eiroku, the third son Hoomaru born in the seventh year of Eiroku, the third female daughter Richihiro-hime born in the ninth year of Eiroku, and the fourth son Ashikaga Saōomaru who was born this year.

Ii Naohu has one son and four daughters. The eldest son, Ashikaga Tora Chiyo, the eldest women's football team Litora Hime, the second women's football team Ritamaki, the third women's football team Ri Chihime, and the fourth women's football team Ri Aoi Hime, who was just born this year.

Numata Sandalwood has one son and four daughters, the eldest son Ashikaga Matsuchiyo, the eldest female football team Rika Hime, the second female football team Ri Shizuhime, the third female football team Rizuki Hime, and the fourth female football player Rizuki Hime, who was born last year.

Mochizuki Yoshino has one son and three daughters. The eldest son, Ashikaga Yoshichiyo, and the eldest female daughter, Ri Kikuhime. The second women's football team is Li Naohime, and the third women's football team Li Shigehime who was just born this year.

Mogami Yoshihime has a son and a daughter, the eldest son Ashikaga Kumachiyo, who was born in the eighth year of Eiroku, and the eldest daughter, Rimatsuhime, who was born last year.

Oda Inuhime has a son and two daughters, the eldest female football team Riyukihime, the eldest son Ashikaga Komage, born last year the second women's football team Li Haohime.

Oda Ichihime's three daughters, the eldest women's football team Richacha, the second women's football team Rihatsuhime, and the third women's football team born last year, Ria Jiang.

In only ten years, he gave birth to nine sons and twenty daughters with several ladies, and did not marry any more ladies during this period, which meant to learn from Genmanaka and Ashikaga Yasuji, and of course there were many people in this era who had similar strengths, such as Takeda Nobuna, Oda Nobunaga and Matsudaira Ieyasu.

There are many daughters in the Kanto Ashikaga family, but there are not as many sons as imagined, compared to the samurai family who often has more than a dozen sons and twenty sons, his level is still a little worse, and he also wants to work hard to give birth to a few more to see if he can touch the limit.

Several ladies were very unhappy with his paranoid son, and Hu Ji complained many times: "One child in two years is endless, Hu Ji has not ridden a horse and archery for a long time, Your Highness is treating us as a machine to give birth to children!" ”

Every time he encounters this situation, Ashikaga Yoshitoki has to decisively smear oil on the soles of his feet and run away, the child has given birth to a lot of children and doesn't let people complain a few words It's a bit excessive, his attitude is to listen to whatever he says, as long as he doesn't spray the spittle star on my face, pretend not to hear.

There are many things to do when the child is more, and there is often a situation where the gourd is pressed to float up the scoop, and the nurse takes a group of maids to chase the young hall all over the yard like a thief, and a few naughty wild boys take advantage of the father's expedition and the mother's pregnancy to give birth to run all the places that can be drilled in the Edo Imperial Palace, and the secrets that can be hidden are clearly touched, and a map is drawn in an attempt to use the method of cunning rabbits and three holes to fight with the nurses and maids.

But these little fools don't understand that they always have to go home one night when they run crazy, and when they see their mothers, their legs and feet are immediately frightened, and they don't know what to do, and they are taught to be honest for a few days and continue to run wildly, and then the children grow faster and faster, and the maids gradually can't catch up with the naughty Shaodian, so they have to ask the Ji samurai in charge of the garrison to go out to arrest the "suspect", so the Edo Imperial Palace often stages a battle of wits and courage to catch children.

Their good days are basically over.,As soon as Ashikaga Yoshitoki came back, he immediately sent a few boys to their teacher for collective training.,Every day at sunrise and sunset and rest, life is very regular.,The palace re-arranges the maids who are proficient in ninjutsu to follow quietly.,Responsible for focusing on supervising the specific whereabouts of a few troublemakers.,Small mistakes can be ignored and big problems are absolutely not allowed to indulge.。

With this powerful correction method, it is hard to screw back a few naughty little guys, the most obedient Ashikaga Zhenwang Maru seems to have become the leader of the young samurai, and the ignorant Ashikaga Katsuomaru who just wants to play is much worse, and the Ashikaga Tiger Chiyo and Ashikaga Matsuchichi are not bad now, and the remaining few younger sons can't see the signs for the time being. (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank Xiao Zimu for the reward, congratulations on the birth of the first head of this book, Wumei, a niche book, finally has a head, so excited! So Ume made a bold decision to break out again one day at the end of the month (the time is uncertain for the time being), and asked everyone to cheer for the time to come.

PS: At the suggestion of the book friends in the group, all the children of the protagonist born now are deliberately listed, in fact, this data is not too exaggerated, at most it is more dense in a short period of time, there are many dozens of sons in history, both ancient and modern, both Chinese and foreign, more than a dozen well-known sons of Yuan Manzhong, and the unknown Shuliu is known as Luoyin.