Chapter 166: Foreplay

The obedient official is so impatient, of course, it can also be said to be brave and diligent, this has his own ideas, there are many cities in Fusang, and it must be unrealistic to fight them one by one. It's like playing a game of Three Kingdoms, the early stage is small, there are two or three kittens, you can still do everything, but when the middle starts, the player himself can't do it anyway, at this time you must appoint Taishou, and in the later stage, you will have to bring a million armor, the ministers are like rain, and the fierce generals are like clouds, at this time you must appoint a corps commander to command the offensive in a certain direction.

Similarly, the reality is the same, if he wants to fight from one city to another in Kyushu, it is not impossible, but in two or three years, basically don't think about doing anything else, as the so-called upper army and plan, and the lower one will attack the city.

At this time, the heavy snow in the Hokuriku place is like a quilt, at a glance the surrounding white expanse, the leader of the Hokuriku wants to go out to fight, it is necessary to shovel the snow forward, Shibata finally took the army out of the Hokuriku, at the moment is in the confrontation with the monkeys, in this war with more than 100,000 troops on both sides, there are many characters who are talked about in the history books of Fuso in later generations, but the obedient officials are to take the chestnuts in the fire, there is a so-called, the heavens give the Buddha, but suffer from it, and sometimes it does not work, but suffers from it.

If the monkey wins this battle, then there will be nothing for him Zheng Guofan to do in the future, maybe he can continue to toss on Kyushu Island, but is he just tossing on Kyushu Island!

Therefore, he must appear in Kitanosho City at this just right time, Shibata Katsuya and Yushiba Hideyoshi are like two ends of the balance at the moment, and the center of gravity of the balance is gradually pressing towards Yushiba Hideyoshi, but now that he Zheng Guofan's weight is pressed on Shibata Katsuya's side, the situation will suddenly be different.

After he probably told Ah Shi about the alliance, luring the enemy, and annihilation, Ah Shi was actually a little puzzled by many of these statements, but she was a samurai woman, not like the kind of young woman who was born in a peaceful and prosperous world.

Therefore, she did not dwell on the details, smiled and asked His Royal Highness Fengzhang to taste the tea she made with her own hands, and ordered her to go down and let her subordinates prepare the banquet.

At this time, there was Bao Yiman who said in a very awkward Fusang dialect, My Royal Highness has a fine diet, and he is not used to the banquets prepared by others, and he has his own chefs, and his wife still accompanies His Royal Highness to talk, and the banquet is still organized by the people under my Royal Highness!

She spoke with a very strange accent, but everyone present understood it, and some retainers, such as Okumura Yongfuku, felt a great insult and couldn't help but say loudly: "This young highness, don't you know the truth that guests follow the master!" I heard that the Ming Dynasty was a state of etiquette in the Celestial Empire, but I didn't feel it at all. ”

The obedient official looked at him in surprise, then turned his head and asked Cha Cha in a low voice, "Who is this person?" Chacha suddenly heard him talking to himself, angry that he had let himself lose face in front of his retainers, and turned his head to ignore him at the moment, still sitting on the other side of him, Ah Chuchu, who was still sitting on the other side of him, remembered this idol Yusanren, and couldn't help but say: "This is Okumurasuke Uemon, the lord of Suemori Castle, a retainer of the Maeda family tree, and the leading general in the family." ”

When the good official heard this name, he suddenly realized, oh! It's this guy, it's said that he, like Keiji Maeda, has been obsessed with Mrs. Matsu since he was a child, but now it seems that it's not groundless!

However, take a closer look at this person, it's just a guy in his early thirties who looks barely handsome, and sure enough, the legendary characters are just like online dating, belonging to the light of death, and later generations of painters painted him with Kenjiro, who can make the ancient Chinese murder boxing method of the Beidou God Fist, and it can't change that this guy is a third-class cripple of less than 1.7 meters.

Therefore, he pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "Do lions talk about etiquette with sheep?" Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement. People will help themselves, and God will help them. However, forgive me, I don't understand this truth. As he spoke, he turned his head and didn't look at the other party, but just asked Bao Yiman to prepare the banquet, and said that Chef Jing should just pick up the dishes he was good at and cook them, not meat and vegetables, but the speed should be fast, and don't let everyone wait for a long time.

Now the obedient official is also regarded as a group of retainers and many servants, as soon as they go out, all kinds of people who serve must have, such as this Jing cook, who was inadvertently taken in when he was in Hakata, this guy was originally a person in the south of the Ming Dynasty, the head of the Cao Gang, because at this time the Cao Gang basically believed in the Luo Sect of [no old mother, vacuum hometown], so this guy is still the secretary of the Luo Sect Zhaitang, the common family name is Ma, and later made the head of the Luo Sect, became the secretary, and he is also a person with an identity, taking the true meaning of the Luo Sect, so he calls himself a Jing Guan.

Luojiao was founded in the Jiajing year, and it has been nearly a hundred years so far, due to the characteristics of Luojiao's secret society, most of the believers are sailors on both sides of the canal, so it is regarded as a cult by the imperial court and vigorously suppressed, but Luojiao is still flourishing, slowly infiltrating the entire Jiangnan military guard, and even some officials and eunuchs have begun to believe in Luojiao, Luojiao's teachings are similar to Zen Buddhism, and the founder also claims to be a branch of Zen Buddhism, but because of this secret society, it is inevitable that it is not a serious way.

This Luo Jiao Cao Gang Caitou Secretary Jing Guanren was originally in Nanzhili was also fragrant and spicy, but because of the pursuit of the Cao Gang leader's daughter was exiled to Fusang, the beautiful name is the development of believers, in fact, it is the failure of the struggle on the love field, and was sent thousands of miles away by the opponent with a bad idea, he went to Fusang Kyushu Island, all thoughts were lost, this mud horse Fusang didn't even eat meat, so how could Lao Tzu live.

Luojiao is thriving among the people, not in the doctrine, the key is the secret society four words, to put it bluntly, there is meat for everyone to eat, there is wine for everyone to drink, Luojiao nine ranks, Hinayana, Mahayana, three vehicles, small introduction, big introduction, secretary, clear void, space, emptiness, including the secretary of the following six levels, that is how to live and how to live, what to do to marry a wife and have children, this Jingguan has been a foodie since he was a child, once he arrives in Fusang without meat to eat, it is really going to die.

The so-called endless road, should also have meat to eat, he relied on a once secretary's mouth, in Hakata successfully fooled a woman, the ancestor is the imperial chef of the Ming Dynasty, and later committed an accident in the palace, after being driven out, afraid of being framed, the family moved to Fusang, in Fusang for a hundred years, passed down for six generations, as if it is also Fusang, this imperial chef ancestor surnamed Fan, after arriving on Kyushu Island, renamed Iijima, the woman's name is called Aiko.

Jingguan became the son-in-law of the Iijima family, this guy is really a natural foodie, and he actually learned all the skills of the old man, that is really a bird in the sky, cooking a dragon in the sea, but the Iijima family is low-key, and there is a ramen restaurant in Hakata, this Jingguan is happy to run ramen in the store every day, Iijima loves to roll up his sleeves and take care of chores, but no one knows that the ancestor is the imperial chef of the Ming Dynasty.

Waiting for the obedient officials to bombard Hirado, march into Hakata, and then begin to collect taxes with great fanfare, this Jingguan learned that Uncle Guo was now on Kyushu Island, and his heart suddenly became hot.

Who loves to stay in Fuso! With such an opportunity, this thick thigh, wouldn't it be stupid if you didn't go up and hug it? He discussed it with Iijima Ai, Aiko had no opinion on her husband's words, and the Jingguan people had the courage to run to Tachibana Mountain Castle to recommend themselves, and the obedient officials didn't believe it at first, and they could meet the Ming Imperial Chef in Fuso? I thought it was when I was a turtle and wanted to coax two money, but I never thought that the two in-laws were actually very good, one was the main and the other was a deputy, and they could make a good table in just half an hour, and almost swallowed the tongues of the samurai retainers who tasted it.

The obedient official was immediately overjoyed, this is a treasure, a wave of his hand, thirty taels of silver per person per month, you will be the uncle of the country in the future, good job, I will take you back to Yanjing City later, and also see where the scenery of your ancestors is.

Therefore, Jingguan and Ai Iijima are now serving by the side of the obedient official, and they are his full-time cooks, which can be regarded as enjoying the treatment of the emperor in advance.

This Bao Iman turned around and instructed Jingguan and Ai Iijima to prepare for the banquet, while Okumura Yongfuku was flushed, he was also a well-read all-rounder, and at the age of fifteen, he became the acting official of the Maeda family's barren city, and he was also proud, but compared with Zheng Chengguan, it was nothing.

Seeing that Okumura Yongfuku's face was red and his fists were clenched tightly, Mrs. Matsu grew up with him since she was a child, and she had this feeling, so she took care of him, and deliberately scolded, "Help Youemon, it's too rude, hurry up and apologize to His Royal Highness." ”

Hearing Mrs. Matsu speak, Okumura Yongfu gasped a few times like a beast, then took a deep breath, calmed his breath, pressed his hands on the floor, touched the ground with his forehead, and prostrated deeply, "It's rude, please forgive Your Highness." ”

The obedient official snorted out of his nostrils, and said in his heart that you will endure it, otherwise, I call you a good friend of Maeda Keiji, and chop you first, anyway, I don't plan to recruit Maeda Keiji, that unruly guy, and Furuta Shigeran learned marksmanship, although Furuta Shigeran is one of the seven sages of Rikyu, but to put it bluntly, he is still a tea maker, how much ability he can have, it is nothing more than relying on being taller, more powerful, and more courageous, this kind of beast faction is not easy to find in Fusang, but the Ming Dynasty is tall and powerful.

If it is a real master with skills and inheritance, the obedient official will naturally receive it, no matter who he is, put it away first, otherwise it will be difficult to find talents in the Ming Dynasty, if he collects talents casually, not to mention that the imperial historian wants to participate in a book, in fact, the talents are afraid that they will not follow him, such as Li Chengliang, the chief soldier of the Tieling Guard, he Zheng Guofan ran to tell others, Lao Li, you will mess with me in the future! It's strange that Li Chengliang will take care of him, maybe it's possible not to humiliate him, anyway, you can't take charge of the army even if you have a relative, I'm afraid of you.

The so-called retreat is secondary, and the obedient official has to find someone in Fusang, but, to find his subordinates, he has to find an obedient person, and the thorn head is resolutely not wanted, and Maeda Keiji is a pervert, always boasting in front of women that his little ** is as thick as a child's arm, and he is really an unreliable guy, so the good official thinks, such a talent, forget it, keep it for the Fusang people to use for themselves!

didn't bother with Omura Yongfu, and the obedient official said directly to Zhongli: "Big brother, just call Ryan Stard and Kan Naoto in!" Zhongli agreed when he heard this, and turned away, at this time, Ah Chu saw that Okumura Yongfuku, who was crawling on the ground, had been burying his head on the floor, and felt quite pitiful, so he reached out and secretly dragged him, "Let Lord Suemon get up!" ”

On the other side, Mrs. Song didn't open her mouth when she saw Zheng Guofan, and then looked at Okumura Yongfu, prostrate on the ground, but her face was very ugly, she sighed in her heart, and deliberately scolded: "Help Youemon, don't retreat." ”

scolded Okumura Yongfu away, and the obedient official looked at her and smiled: "Mrs. Song, I heard that you and that Okumura Yongfu are childhood sweethearts, I don't know if it's true!" ”

Ah Song's face changed, and the obedient official laughed twice, he didn't want Mrs. Song to answer this question, but it was just pure teasing, this sentence is actually equivalent to the meaning of later generations saying [I heard that your family is all petty bourgeoisie], in fact, it is ironic, but it is not obvious.

After he finished talking to Mrs. Song, he turned his head to look at Cha Cha, and he didn't speak, he just looked at it, Cha Cha was angry with him, and couldn't help but glared back at him, but he stuck out the tip of his tongue but made a grimace, making Cha Cha cry and laugh, and then I thought, this guy is only fourteen years old, why should I be angry with him.

Suddenly, the retainers under the good official entered, including Naoto Kan, who was shot with an arrow in the shoulder, and the wound on his arm was also healed and tied up, and his hanging arm was also among them.

He has a complex number of personnel, and even has Ryan Tower and a few white bows, these white men were deliberately promoted by good officials, in order to make all the Spanish mercenaries in the hands of Ryanstein, although these Spanish mercenaries are only a few hundred, but the superior can act, as the so-called success or failure from the subtleties, although there are not many of these people, but they must also be firmly in their hands, and if the power is in the hands of Ryanstein, it is not good for both sides, Therefore, Ryanstein was also willing to promote a few people under his command to directly obey the orders of His Excellency Zheng Fengzhang.

These dozens of mermaids rushed in, took off their boots under the porch, and after coming in, they bowed to the lord, and the etiquette was in order, which fell in the eyes of those people in the Shibata family, and their pupils shrank, it turned out that the general of the Ming Kingdom did not understand the etiquette of Fusang...... As soon as these people slipped away, they all sat on the side of the good official, and opposite were the female relatives of the Shibata family and the family before yesterday, including some retainers and samurai, but the three sisters of Chacha were sitting next to the good official.

Everyone didn't need to go into detail about the banquet, but said that in the evening, the three sisters of Cha Cha returned to the room, sat together and talked, Xiao Du held the lacquerware box and kept eating the candied fruit in the box, she knew that the more she ate, the less she ate, but she was really reluctant to give up this delicious taste, at this time there were not a few pieces in the box, so she pitifully looked at the second sister Ah Chu, Ah Chu was not angry at her, so she handed her the candied fruit in the cloisonnΓ© box. Xiao Du's little face was suddenly full of joy, and he hugged the second sister and kissed her twice on the cheek.

gave the candied fruit to the third sister, and Ah Chu asked Cha Cha, "Eldest sister, do you really want to marry this His Royal Highness!" ”

Cha Cha's face was slightly red, and she said with a little anger: "Who marries him......" In order to prove himself, he even wanted to make an oath, but deep down he felt that he didn't dare.

The two sisters didn't say anything for a while, only the little governor ate the candied fruit with great interest.

And in the dead of night, the obedient official quietly slipped into Ah Shi's room, and was about to be good, and was seen by Ah Chu, the second of the three sisters, she was immediately surprised, is it ...... Immediately, she was frightened by her own thoughts, her face suddenly turned pale, she covered her mouth and didn't dare to make a sound, she wanted to follow and see, but she was afraid, hesitated for a long time, and finally didn't dare to follow, covered her face and stood in the corner for a while, and then slowly returned to the room.

The obedient official said in Beizhizhuang City for a few days, and he relied on Chacha to laugh during the day, and Ah Chu didn't dare to tell the eldest sister what he saw that night, and saw that the eldest sister's originally calm face gradually relaxed under the sweet words of this Yusan person, and even smiled from time to time, although she would soon cover her mouth and make a serious face, but Ah Chu knew that her sister was afraid that she was a little tempted, and sometimes she was also thinking that if he was by her side all day long and said these words, then she would die happily, Isn't it similar to Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying in the West Chamber!

However, the shadow of that night was always hovering in Ah Chu's mind, did he go to his mother's room that night?

At this time, it was already the beginning of April, Shibata Katsuie and Hashiba Hideyoshi had been facing each other at Mt. Tenjin in Omi for almost a month, Takagawa Kazuki led a large army from Ise and went straight to Mino, Hashiba Hideyoshi had to hand over the command to his younger brother Hashiba Hidenaga, and he turned around with 15,000 soldiers to come to the rescue, but on the way he encountered a large flood of the Ihi River, and the army was blocked by the river, and the march was extremely slow.

And Sakuma Moshimasa, the nephew of Shibata Katsuie, took advantage of Hideyoshi's return to the army, bypassed Hideyoshi's base camp and defeated Hideyoshi's general Nakagawa Kiyohide, and Nakagawa Kiyohide was killed in this battle.

In short, this battle is not much different from the battle of Mt. Oza in history, those people, those things, still hasn't changed much, Niwa Nagahide set off from the other side of Lake Biwa to join the battlefield, Katsuyama Castle Lord Shibata Katsuyasu attacked the main camp of Hashiba Hideyoshi who turned back from Mino, and the two sides fought a battle, that is, this battle, seven young people emerged, that is, the seven guns of Mt. Einodake.

And just like in history, Maeda Toshiya didn't know what nerves to have, and his son Maeda Toshinaga left the battlefield alone for no reason, and then, Fupo Mitsuji and Kanamori Nagaku saw Maeda Toshiya lead the army to withdraw, and immediately began to retreat with their own troops.

This really can't help but make people wonder, Maeda Toshiya and the monkey this pair of good friends is not colluded in advance, in short, the retreat of Maeda Toshiya led to the collapse of Shibata army morale, this is really a characteristic of the cold weapon era, once the morale is gone, let you have a million army, but also scattered, and Shibata Katsuya is at most only thirty or forty thousand people, after more than a month of fighting, morale has fallen to the extreme, Maeda Toshiya retreated again, and suddenly most of the soldiers of the Shibata family spread their feet and ran to their own homes, I don't need weapons or anything, and it only takes half a day to run home anyway.

And at this time, Zheng Guofan, Ah Shi and Ah Song, with the three sisters of Chacha, set off from Kitanozhuang Castle with great fanfare and went to the hot springs near Kanegasaki.

When Shibata Katsuya fled back to Kitanosho Castle, there were only 3,000 soldiers left around him, and then, in the middle of the day, Yushiba Hideyoshi's army arrived at the castle of Maeda Toshika's residence, and sent Hidemasa to enter the city to persuade Maeda Toshiya and Maeda Toshike to open the castle.

Immediately, Maeda Toshiya and Hidemasa as the vanguard, the army turned around and headed for Kitanosho Castle, at this time Hideyoshi's soldiers were fighting more and more, and they were already known as 100,000.

After the army arrived at the castle of Kitanosau, Hideyoshi wore a gorgeous and perverted armor covered with gold leaf, surrounded by everyone, and said to the Maeda Toshiya next to him with a smile: "Left, there is a saying in the Ming Kingdom, it is called losing the lady and breaking the army, your family Amatsu is now running to Kanesaki with the city princess to take a hot spring, I originally meant to let Mrs. Matsu persuade the city princess to stay out of the matter......"

Maeda Toshiya wears a silver-white high hat with white oxtail hair on the back of the hat, and his face is inevitably a little ugly.

The relationship between the two has always been very close, the monkey and the Li family have been neighbors for many years, the history books of Fuso say that the monkey is not yet developed when he often eats in the Li family's house, and the relationship between the wives of the two families is also extremely close, this is the reason why Mrs. Matsu is in the city of Kitanozhuang, Maeda Toshiya as the leading general under the Shibata Katsuya, there is really no need to send his wife as a hostage, Mrs. Matsu went to Kitanozhuang, just because of the monkey's request, I hope she can persuade the princess of the city to stay out of the matter.

The monkey's face can be said to be very clear, he is coveting the bloodline and beauty of Achi, as the sister of the lord Nobunaga, what can be better than marrying the sister of the lord to say that he has inherited the orthodox status of the lord Nobunaga!

It's a pity that a person who knows this history well mixed in and directly robbed the two ladies and the three sisters of Chacha, which is called robbing Hu in the terminology of playing mahjong.

In fact, this war is also quite similar to playing mahjong, Shibata Katsuya belongs to playing and becoming a small minister, because there is a card named Maeda Toshiya ran away, and Yushiba Hideyoshi looked at it to touch himself, as a result, Zheng obedient official grabbed the bar, and directly opened the bar to snatch a card called Ashi or the name of righteousness, and it is likely to blossom on the bar.

At this time, the monkey has learned that the uncle of the Ming Kingdom who tossed upside down on Kyushu Island entered the North Village Castle a few days ago, however, the monkey, a guy from the Owari peasant, was quite bold, and when he served Nobunaga, he suddenly pounced on Nobunaga's horse on the way, and was almost trampled to death by the horse, and then Nobunaga looked at this guy like a monkey, and simply let him be a groom.

Therefore, he is very disdainful or very indifferent to the uncle of the Ming Dynasty who is said to be only thirteen years old, thirteen years old, what can he do, although he has some ironclad ships in his hands, but I now have 100,000 troops in my hands.

Arrogant people are always punished, and he didn't know it at this time, but the good official had calculated correctly, and left two hundred Franc cannons in Kitanozhuang.

(To be continued)