Osaka, Japan.

The sky is about to brighten, and the morning sun slowly rises over the eastern horizon, like a giant red ball. The clouds in the sky were also dazzlingly red by the morning glow.

In July, the bay is calm and calm, with layers of waves crashing against the shore, stirring up layers of white spray, and the screams of seagulls and the sound of the waves crashing against the shore are intertwined, forming a quiet picture.

The word Osaka first appeared in the Muromachi period in Japan.

Since the Nara period, Osaka has been a trading port due to its seaside location. Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi built Osaka Castle and made Osaka the core city of the Toyotomi regime.

At this time, the sky was rising and faintly bright, and a large number of Japanese samurai began to gather towards Osaka Castle, shuttling continuously, and finally stopped outside the castle 500 meters away from Osaka Castle.

The cavalry and a large number of musket infantry waited for each other, and the air seemed to be condensing, because the Warring States period of Japan, which had been chaotic for a hundred years, was coming to an end, and Oda Nobunaga's unfinished business would be realized in the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Now that Japan's Kyushu, central, and western regions have been unified, Tokugawa Ieyasu has returned to obedience, Konishi Yukinaga has submitted, and Japan's two hundred daimyo are trembling and kneeling under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's butcher's knife, and even the emperor has to bow down to the ambitious Daimyo Toyotomi clan and let it go.

At this time, in the middle of the noblest courtyard of Osaka Castle, a winding stone path leads to a wooden house in the center of the courtyard, and some thin bamboo, cherry blossoms are planted on both sides of the house, and there is a shallow pond next to the flowers.

The melodious sound of the piano continues to waft in the courtyard, and this song is China's "Yangchun White Snow", which describes the beautiful scenery of early spring when winter goes to spring, the earth recovers, and everything flourishes. The melody is fresh and smooth, and the rhythm is light and bright. According to legend, this was composed by Shi Kuang, a musician of the Jin Kingdom or Liu Juanzi of the Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period.

This song is originally a light music, but when it is played by the people in the house, it has a certain sense of decisiveness.

The wooden house is simply furnished, with a screen behind it, and a fifty-year-old man kneeling on the floor in front of the screen.

Beside the man hung a typical battle armor of keto pills, a long knife that was bright and cold, and was perfectly enshrined under the portrait of the god Amaterasu of Japan.

The man admires the long knife and strokes the harp, while a middle-aged woman in a cherry blossom kimono kneels, holding her hair in a bun and burying her face deep in her legs.

On the left side is a small bronze furnace, in which some kind of spice is placed, and cigarettes are curled, and the portrait of Lao Tzu hanging on the screen is full of smoke, only to see that Lao Tzu on the portrait of Lao Tzu has a calm and peaceful gaze, squinting at the samurai long sword of the Japanese Amaterasu Okami portrait Xia on the right.

At this moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was wearing a battle armor outside the house, walked slowly with Konishi Yukinaga.

Guarding the outside of the house was an old man with his eyes closed and contemplative, with a majestic face. The old man seemed to be silent, but in fact, his whole body was full of murderous intent, and a cold katana in his hand was put in the palm of his hand, and he saw that on the handle of the katana, there was a simple Japanese written on the blade - Beichen Yidaoliu.

The old man is the most prestigious ninja school in Hokkaido, Japan today, the suzerain of the Beichen Sword, and the retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the leader of tens of thousands of ninjas under him.

At this time, the old man's closed eyes opened suddenly, and the sharp light shone directly on Tokugawa Ieyasu's face, and then slowly converged, and said respectfully to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the house: "My lord, they are here." ”

Before the words fell, the sound of the piano in the room stopped abruptly, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was stroking the piano, raised his head and looked at Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was in his thirties, standing outside the house, and smiled.

"Tokugawa-kun, I'm so glad to see you, sit down." Toyotomi Hideyoshi smiled and invited the two in.

Tokugawa Ieyasu nodded respectfully to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and sat down across from Kototo, with Konishi Yukinaga sitting aside.

At this time, the sun was shining high, rising from the east, quietly watching this scene of the sunrise in the east, and said to Tokugawa Ieyasu and Konishi Yukinaga: "Tokugawa-kun, Konishi-kun, you see, how much Anameasu favors our people of Japan!" ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi stretched out his hand and pointed to the rising sun in the sky, and said with some pride, "He makes the sun rise first from our land every day, so that we can be the first to get his spiritual light every day." What a privilege we are to be his people! In the future, I will rule all the places where the sun rises! ”

"yes!" Konishi nodded in agreement and nodded to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He set his eyes in the direction of the Ming Empire to the west, and his face changed slightly.

"What? What's the matter? Toyotomi Hideyoshi keenly captured the emotional change of Konishi Yukicho at this moment, and his face became gloomy.

"A month ago, news came from Hattori-kun's 'eyeliner' in the Ming Kingdom, claiming that the situation in the southeast of the Ming Kingdom has been calmed down, and Hu Zongxian continues to be the governor, and all of this is the mastermind of Ning Yuan Bo Xia Mu of the Ming Empire, and we insert the eyeliner of the capital city of the Ming Empire, and it has also been eradicated!"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi suddenly stood up from the couch, and with a "zheng" sound, the knife was unsheathed, and the cold light flashed, and a piece of wooden corner on the coffee table in front of him was slashed off! Then, his extremely cold gaze was fixed on the wooden corner on the floor, motionless, but he said word by word: "Xia Mu? Ning Yuanbo? Let Beichen send the most elite ninja to kill this person at all costs, and the people we go to talk to in secret with Yuan Guo will not be discovered. When the time is ripe, we will send troops to Korea, the Yuan Kingdom will go south to the Ming Dynasty, and we will attack from the north and the south, and the Ming Empire will surely fall under the divine light of our great Japan! ”

When Tokugawa Ieyasu heard this, he couldn't help but be faintly worried: "The Ming Dynasty imposed a sea ban on our country, and it was very troublesome for our spies to go back and forth, so we could only make a detour to North Korea. It is also an opportunity for our Great Japanese Empire to unify Southeast Asia! ”

"Hahaha!" Toyotomi Hideyoshi laughed loudly, "Now we will secretly prepare, and after clearing the group of traitors in Tokyo Hachido, we will go out of North Korea, destroy Korea within half a year, destroy the Ming Dynasty within a year, and our emperor will be able to celebrate the New Year in the capital of the Ming Empire in the next year!" ”

The cold wind raised layers of waves, shattered on the endless sand, splashed droplets, and people's vision was foggy.

Looking straight along the waves, a few black dots loomed at the meeting of the sea and the sky far, far away. Many Japanese people know that those black spots are the islands of Korea on the other side. But they only know it from the rumors of others - they have never set foot on the soil of this neighbouring country across the sea, and they are very unfamiliar with its customs.

In the wilderness three or four miles away from the beach, the sound of "clanging" comes and goes, and groups of Japanese soldiers in tight suits and pointed hats are holding drills and hammers, sweating and polishing pieces of black and lacquered granite.

They sweated hard to build Osaka, Japan's first capital, which was built by their Sekihaku Taiko, and will be the most prosperous city in Japan in the future!

At this moment, a deafening noise of carriages and horses roared in the distance, startling the soldiers who were polishing the granite city bricks and couldn't help but stop what they were doing and turned their heads to look.

I saw that the loess avenue in the east was dusty, and the flags embroidered with the pattern of "three tongs" were hunting in the wind. And under those flags, columns of vehicles and troops of cavalry galloped in.

As soon as they saw the "Three Tung Trees" patterned flag, the soldiers hurriedly dropped the hammers and steel drills in their hands, and one by one they buried their heads on the spot, and they didn't care about the pain on the rubble on the ground, and they couldn't afford to greet these carriages and cavalry.

Just because this is the family crest of Toyotomi Hideyoshi!

In the distance, the warriors of the broadsword team stepped up, and countless carriages and cavalry galloped to the perimeter of the city brick grinding yard before stopping.

Surrounded by their stars and moons, a carriage with a multicolored peacock feather fan on top drove to the center of the field. Then, the beaded curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dressed in a golden satin robe, walked down leisurely on the backs of eight samurai who were prostrate on the ground, supported by two beautiful acolytes.

I saw Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a pair of eyes as scorching and shining as cold stars in the night sky, looking at the Ming Empire on the distant coast, and his eyes were so fierce that people didn't dare to look at each other.

An aggressive momentum overwhelmed everyone.

The two beautiful women hurriedly tidied up the placket of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's clothes that were blown away by the sea breeze.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi stood with his hands in his hands like this, his sharp eyes looking around, like an awe-inspiring and unapproachable overlord, so arrogant and so majestic.

But who would have thought that thirty-seven years ago, twenty-year-old Toyotomi Hideyoshi was just a humble slave in Oda Nobunaga's mansion!

He was just like them, humble as a dog under the pressure of Oda Nobunaga, but in the battle of Honnoji, Oda Nobunaga was killed, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had succumbed for thirty-seven years, suddenly rose up, and successively defeated Shibata Katsuie, Takigawa Ichiyi, Date Masamune, Hojo Clan and other powerful clans, and subdued Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Kobayakawa Takakei and other tyrants, and finally soared into the sky and became the "Sekihaku" who controlled the princes and unified Japan!

Since ancient times, "Sekihaku" can only be held by members of the so-called "five regents" family such as Konoe, Takaji, Ichijo, Nijo, and Kujo from the ancient Fujiwara clan.

However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's great feat of subjugating the princes and purging Japan broke the tradition of monopolizing the position of "Sekihaku" by the "five regents" for thousands of years, and was above the princes and hundreds of officials, and was named the first commoner-born "Sekihaku" in the history of Japan by Emperor Shokincho.

For Guan Bai, who was born as a civilian, the Japanese people all respected and surrendered to him, and worshiped him like a god.

I saw Toyotomi Hideyoshi looking at the east, suddenly pulled out the samurai long knife in his hand, and roared to the sky: "Rank samurai, after we conquered the whole of Japan and dominated the world, our pace has not stopped, do you see the vast land on the other side of the sea, there will be our next target, the stupid Ming people, will be buried in the Great Japanese Samurai Broadsword, we are the masters of this world!" ”

"Long live the Emperor, long live Sekibai Taiko!"

"Long live Great Japan, long live Sekibai Taiko!"

The samurai cheered enthusiastically, kneeling down in front of Toyotomi Hideyoshi like the stars holding the moon, and the soldiers were ecstatic in their hearts, they were able to witness the extraordinary power and demeanor of Lord Sekihaku!

"The Ming Kingdom will perish, and the Great Japanese Empire is the real master of that land!"