After more than two days of sailing, breaking through the obstruction of several shogunate sentry ships, well, it was Huo Quai's who sank it in the vast sea, and the four boats unknowingly approached the coast of Nagato in Choshu Domain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Here, Huo Qubing and the two clippers began to turn back, the reason why Zhao Lie sent a battleship to escort was that he took a fancy to the Chōshū Domain's serious reduction of seals after the Battle of Sekigahara, and he must have been extremely dissatisfied in his heart, which was the seed of splitting Japan.

Instead of landing at Nagato, Yamauchi Nobumasa sailed northeast along the coast, disembarked off the coast, landed in a dinghy, and traveled with his attendants along the Abu River to Ogijo, the seat of the Choshu Domain.

It can be said that he traveled cautiously day and night, and finally arrived at the castle town in the east of Ogijo in the middle of the next day, and in the cold winter night he waited for the dawn of the castle gate to open.

The reason why Yamauchi is so careful is because he has been away from home for two years, and he doesn't know what happened in the clan or at home, so he can only investigate first.

In the middle of the day, in the midst of hunger and cold, Nobuyasa Namanouchi and others waited for the opening of the city gate, and after spending a small gold sentence, a group of eight people entered the outer city of Hagijo, that is, the place where the samurai ministers lived, and the residence of the Yamauchi family was also here.

When Yamauchi knocked on the door of his house, the doorman's own servant Miyamoto was surprised, Yamauchi Nobumasa experienced a life and death parting reunion on the morning of this day, his wife Yoshiko, Shizuko in the side room, and three sons and two daughters, crying together, after all, he has not returned from the sea for two years, and he has basically been sentenced to death, which is really surprised and happy.

When Yamauchi Nobumasa learned that his sister-in-law's eldest son, the twenty-two-year-old Masashi, had been appointed as the head of the lord Gongxiu, and his own fiefdom had not been reduced, he was relieved. It is not a loss to the Maori family who has always been kind to his subordinates. He should also go and apologize.

Maori Xiu is more than 30 years old this Chinese New Year's Eve. However, the temples have turned white, leaving the Chinese ancestral home, abandoning the ancestral tomb, and coming to this barren land facing the sea on three sides.

The indomitable Maori family would reorganize their armours and internal affairs with the help of loyal retainers. However, the most stressful thing is that the Tokugawa family is constantly taking the opportunity to suppress, always trying to find various excuses to cut the feudal domain.

Maori Xiu's thin body of less than 1.6 meters bears the burden of the Maori clan and hundreds of vassals, and he really does his best, painstakingly, without the chic of his father Maori Huiyuan's relaxed freehand Chinese millions of stones.

Fortunately, under the auspices of the old Fukuhara family and the old Masuda Motosho, the Maori family's financial reform finally came to an end, and in a few years, a large number of terraced rice fields were opened, a number of salt pans were renovated, and sea trade was opened. Raise the merchant tax and cut the retainers stone high. Under a series of changes such as strict frugality, the Maori family repaid most of its foreign debts, and there was some grain, rice, and silver money in the treasury, so it can be said that the internal affairs could finally be rebuilt, and the Maori family finally established itself in the barren Nagato.

However, this also disappointed the Tokugawa family, and the idea of the Mori family being trapped in a barren land was shattered, and the Great Imperial Palace and the general of the Seiyi would definitely not be reconciled, and there would definitely be the next move, which was the price paid by the general of the Western Army back then.

Maori Xiu can only respond to changes with the same now, as the saying goes, just stand up, wait for the shogunate to make a move, and deal with it passively.

On a winter morning, Mori Shu had breakfast and came to the study, Xiu wanted to see the writing and writing to rest, and in a month he was going to Beijing to pay homage, which was another terrifying trip, and I don't know what kind of problems the Tokugawa father and son would give him. Before that, he wanted to relax.

"My lord, Yamauchi is asking to see you." The small surname Konishi next to him reported again.

"Let him in." Mao Lixiu put down the brush, handed the handkerchief to the little surname next to him, Xiu wiped his hands, and looked at the four big characters on the paper where the ink had not dried, China Ten Kingdoms. It's a touch of nostalgia, nostalgia for hometown and nostalgia for the heyday of the Maori family. At its peak, the Maori family was one million stones in the ten countries of China.

"Burned it." Words can be written, but they cannot be kept, and if they reach the shogunate, it will be evidence of the crime.

"The subordinates are honest in the mountain to meet the lord." The tall but sturdy Yamauchi is upright and worshippers.

"Integrity, diligence and prudence in the first year of the last year, there is a great father's style." Maori Xiu said with a smile.

Yamauchi is not a talented person, he acts very much like his father, loyal and hardworking, as a lord needs to learn from the military and manage the government, but there must be no lack of loyal ministers like Yamauchi's father and son, otherwise the Maori has been removed in the past 20 years.

"The subordinate father and son will never dare to be, and our father and son are willing to go into battle to kill the enemy and ask for it." Thank you again for your integrity.

"Get up and tell me what you are doing here today." Maori Xiu asked.

"Lord, this... Integrity looked around, hesitating.

"Stand down for now." Maori Xiu commanded. The two little surnames bowed and retreated when they heard the sound.

"My lord, my subordinates will sue my father on behalf of my family." Yamauchi prostrated himself upright.

"Oh," Mori Shu was slightly distracted, what does it have to do with Yamauchi Nobumasa.

"My father was plundered by the Ming people for two years, and he just returned home today, and my father did not keep the lord's property, and he deserved to die." Yamauchi didn't dare to get up. "My father is now outside the door, waiting to personally apologize to the lord."

"Uh," this is a bit of a lot of information, and Maori Xiu hurriedly stroked his head, well, this has to be brushed, brushed.

"Someone is coming. Integrity brings your father in. ”

As a meritorious hero who dedicated himself to the head of the family, Mao Lixiu took this cronie as an example of reward, not only did not investigate the responsibility for the loss of the owner's property and sea boats, but also did not reduce the seal of his knowledge and deeds, that is, let other retainers see that they are dedicated to the main family, loyal to the Lord, and have their own main family responsible for him after his death.

It's just that this example didn't die of loyalty and came back alive, which is embarrassing, and it will damage the face of Maori Xiu, so he still let his son bring him in and ask clearly before deciding.

"Yes." Get up straight and go out.

Suddenly, I saw Yamauchi Nobumasa enter the room under the escort of Yamauchi Masa, and as soon as Yamauchi entered the study, he immediately got on all fours and confessed, "The criminal minister Yamauchi Nobumasa failed to protect the main fleet. He has come to declare his guilt to the Lord. I hope that the lord will punish him more. ”

"This one isn't busy." Maori Xiu is awkward about this, looking at Yamauchi Nobu's face, his face is much older, his hair is beginning to turn gray, and his back is slightly hunched, obviously he has also suffered.

But why did you come back, this, you might as well die outside, you come back. Maori Xiu can only punish the Yamauchi family, and both father and son will be punished, and they will not even have face with themselves.

"Let's talk about what happened in the past two years." You have to look at Yamauchi's rhetoric before punishing him.

"Integrity, you step back first." Nobumasa Yamauchi said.

Bow straight and exit.

"My lord, what your ministers have encountered in the past two years is not unusual, but... Nobusho Yamauchi will encounter one by one in the past two years.

"My lord, the general of the Ming army said that he would fight against the general one after another in the future, and said that my Maori family does not need to make an alliance with him. Just wait, wait for the results. If the shogunate is defeated, my Maori family will know how to move, and if he is defeated, everything will be suspended. "Nobubu Yamauchi is going through the matter one by one.

"No wonder, no wonder," Mori Shu believed most of the time, and just a few days ago, the shogunate issued an edict ordering the Mori family to arm the army, but did not explain the purpose of the preparation.

The elders of the Maori family thought that this was a means for the shogunate to exhaust the Maori family, but if what Yamauchi said was true, then it was not the Maori family that was mobilized, but the mobilization order of the navy army of all Japan, and even the most powerful shogunate navy and Satsuma navy army at the moment were ready for war, which is very easy to judge, and there will be news in the next few days.

Maori Xiu said the events of the previous days, Yamauchi Shin is in a hurry,

"My lord, if you attack the Jeju Ming army, my Maori navy must not rush to the front." Yamauchi Shinmasa said prostrately, "Most of the naval forces of the Luzon Ming Army are Nanban giant ships, the ships are strong and the guns are huge, the ships are fast and flexible, and the naval divisions of our army are definitely not opponents. ”

"Yamauchi Shinmasa, I'm afraid that the Maori family will not be able to help themselves by then." Maori Xiu sighed.

Well, when Yamauchi Nobumasa thought of the Tokugawa family, he hated it in his heart, and I was afraid that the Tokugawa family would definitely let the Mori family and the Satsuma clan and other foreign daimyo take the lead in charging into battle, so as to consume these daimyo who still had a certain amount of strength.

"Yamauchi Nobunmasa, you go back to the house to live in seclusion first, don't talk to anyone about this matter, and make a decision after the situation is clear in the future, as for your disposal, you must consult with the elders. Of course, the subordinate you bring back will be checked. "The Maori Show has tentatively set the rules for the first time.

"Yamanuchi has lived up to the expectations of his lord and is willing to receive all punishments." Yamanuchi bowed to the ground and thanked him.

After Yamauchi left, Maori Xiu pondered for a long time,

"Someone is coming, the heirloom Yitian Yuanxiang." The little surname has to be ordered to go.

For the rest of the day, Maori Xiu was pacing around the study, weighing left and right.

"Masuda-sama has arrived." The report of the little surname interrupted Xiu's thoughts.

"Come on in." Mao Lixiu walked to the door, only to see a thin old man with a white beard and hair walking in, bowing to the worship, and Maori Xiu put his arm inside.

After the Battle of Sekigahara, when the Maori family was reduced, in order to crack down on the Maori family, he also attached importance to Masuda Motosho's talents, and Tokugawa Ieyasu sent the traitor Maori Hidemoto to send a message to Masuda, if he broke away from the Maori family, the territory of 80,000 koku in China could be retained, and the Masuda family could also go out of the Tokugawa family.

However, Masuda Motosho, who has always been loyal, gave up the identity of the 80,000-stone daimyo and led the whole family to move to Nagato with the old lord Maori and only received the knowledge of 10,000 stones, which can be described as unparalleled loyalty.

In the face of the Maori family's fatigue, three years ago, he did not hesitate to offend other samurai and personally led the financial reform, and in the past three years, the Maori family's foreign debts have been basically repaid, and the financial surplus is a small margin.

Masuda Yuanxiang is the pen head of the Maori family in the heart of Maori Xiu, but because of the current pen head Fukuhara family is highly qualified, and has been subordinate to the Maori family for decades, he can only issue a certificate of appreciation to the Masuda family as the genealogy family elder.

However, if you talk about the first confidant, no one can do it, Masuda Yuanxiang is the first person in Xiu's heart. Today's matter is extremely tricky, and Maori Xiu can only ask for advice from this loyal and wise old man.

"Yitian, this time the governor has an important matter to ask for advice, and I hope the old gentleman will give advice." Xiu said very humbly. Xiu has been the family governor for several years, and Yitian Yuanxiang has been a great helper, and his hard work is high, and Xiu has always respected him.

"The lord is too modest, and the old minister must do his best." Yuanxiang is as respectful and cautious as ever. (To be continued.) )