With the fall of Katsuyama Castle, the wealthy clans of the former Suruga Imagawa family within the entire Suruga Province were immediately shaken violently, and they all hurriedly sent hostages to Sunpu Castle to show their loyalty to the reunified Imagawa family.

As for the Hojo family, after the Imagawa family suddenly invaded the Izu Province region, because it was necessary to send troops to rescue the Hojo clan, the heir to the family governor who was besieged in Edo Castle, and to ensure the safety of Odawara Castle, they could only send envoys to the Imagawa family to protest and organize the local wealthy clans of Izu Province to jointly resist the invasion of the Imagawa family, but they could no longer send a large army to support. As for the envoy sent by the Hojo family, Masara and the others simply didn't see it, and sent it away.

And in such a special period, as the news of the reunification of the Imagawa family spread, the surrounding forces also began to send envoys to ask for a meeting with the Imagawa family.

On this day, the big businessman Imai Munehisa came to visit. Masarashi remembered that some time ago he asked the retainers of the Imagawa family to send gifts to introduce him, although Masarashi knew this guy, but at this time it was inconvenient for Masarashi and others to show up to meet, so Masarashi sent the Imagawa family's governor Imagawa to meet this big businessman.

After the former Suruga Imagawa family governor Imagawa clan and his wife and others were sent to Kyushu to live in seclusion by the Luo family's navy, Imagawa burial quickly inherited the position of the reunified Imagawa clan governor and officially changed his name to Imagawa clan at the same time.

At present, on the one hand, the Imagawa clan represents the Luo family as the controller of the Imagawa family, and obeys the Luo family's arrangement to handle the affairs of the Imagawa family, and on the other hand, he also serves as the guardian of the Luo family in the Tokaido region. Responsible for the overall control of the internal affairs of these regions. So. This time, I met with the big businessman Imai Munehisa. That's exactly what he's responsible for.

This time, the Imagawa clan really received Imai Munehisa in a tea room in Sunfu Castle.

During the Warring States period, the tea ceremony was not only a cultural culture, but also a means of socializing and entertaining. Imagawa Shin has been ordering tea since elementary school, and his skills are above that of amateurism. In order to entertain this big businessman, the Imagawa clan really took out the precious tea utensils at home to entertain them.

The two sat down opposite each other, and Imagawa really prepared the tools for ordering tea, and added tea foam and water to the tea kettle. Then wait for the water to boil. Imai Munehisa, as a big tea man, has a much higher quality than Imagawa Shin. After the water is put on the stove, I close my eyes, listen to the wind outside, and feel the changes of the four seasons. The sound of boiling water became the only sound in the room.

Imagawa is actually an amateur tea man, and he doesn't have a deep understanding of this quiet atmosphere. Calculating that the time was almost up, he took down the tea kettle and brewed the tea from the tea bowl. Sitting leisurely in the quiet tea room, listening to the sound of boiling water on the stove, Imagawa really didn't understand.

"Please!" Imagawa Shin launched a tea bowl.

Imai Munehisa took a sip and put down the tea bowl, looked at Imagawa Shin and said, "Daisuke Daisuke of the Governing Department is both civil and military, but unfortunately he is not deep in Ya affairs." "The Imagawa clan is really after inheriting the family governor. Under the operation of the Luo family and the Imagawa family in Kyoto, the original official position of Yoshimoto Kinkawa was inherited from the four Daisuke Shimoto.

That's a tact. Imagawa Shin was not angry, he also knew what level he was, so he took the words he learned in the Luo Academy and said: "The people of the world, each with his own duties." Farmers farm, monks worship Buddha, merchants do business, and workers make tools. It is the duty of the people to ensure that they are able to carry out their responsibilities. I'll leave this matter to the Yaren to study. ”

Imai Munehisa listened to the bow: "Daisuke-sama Jibe is broad-minded, and I admire it. He picked up the tea bowl and drank it all, then said, "Let me go down and help the adults order tea to apologize." ”

Imagawa really drank a sip of Imai Munehisa's tea, and it was really more fragrant than the one he brewed. Putting down the tea bowl, he felt that the time was just right, and asked, "I don't know what happened to Imai-sama when he came?" ”

"I'm just here to meet Daisuke-sama Jibe. I know that it is abrupt, please forgive me. He bowed and apologized.

"What about the senses." Imagawa asked.

"With all due respect, I think I won't lose money doing business with Daisuke-sama Jibu."

The principle of doing business in Imai Munehisa is not to look at the deal, but only to see whether the other party can cooperate. When I visited the Imagawa clan today, I felt that it was not the kind of fleeting and troubled daimyo that could be invested for a long time. Thinking about saying what he really meant: "There are some gifts for Daisuke-sama Jibe, please send someone and the servants below to fetch them." ”

The attendant took the order, and after a while carried a large box to the teahouse. Imai Munehisa personally opened the box, and the iron cannon was dedicated to Imagawa Shin: "Thirty iron cannons are dedicated to Daisuke-sama Jibe, please smile." ”

Imagawa picked up the iron cannon and looked up and down. The barrel and body are all brand new. With his hand stretched out, the attendant handed the powder jug. Imagawa shook his wrist and poured a little gunpowder, put in the projectile, and then used a brush to top it. Aim for the pool in the courtyard.

An attendant ran into a small wooden boat with an open folding fan on it. The boat swaying in the water is very difficult to delineate. But for Imagawa, it's simple. I didn't need to adjust my breath to shoot it, and the folding fan was torn apart.

"Daisuke-sama Jibu is good marksmanship." After all, Imai didn't expect that there would be iron cannon masters in a rural place like Mikawa.

"It's nothing." Imagawa really threw away the iron cannon, afraid of his hands, and shook off the smell of gunpowder: "Thank you, Lord Imai." Nothing is limited to hospitality, say, what do you want? ”

In fact, compared to the Roche barrel, this iron cannon cannot be compared in terms of workmanship quality or operating range, but the Imagawa family also knows that in order to avoid suspicion, the Imagawa family is not able to use a large number of Roche barrels produced by the Luo family and only for the internal use of the Luo family, so the Imagawa family can only purchase a large number of various iron cannons popular in the Warring States period to form the Imagawa family's iron cannon team.

"Daisuke-sama Jibu is wise." Imai Munehisa bowed and said, "I would like to ask Daisuke-sama Jibu to make Naya the royal merchant of the Imagawa family." ”

Becoming a royal merchant meant that the Imagawa family's business activities were to be carried out by Naya. For example, if you buy as many pairs of armor as you want, you just need to give the money to the house and let them buy it on your behalf. The Imagawa family and Itoya had a similar relationship before. However, in fact, Luo's house has already become the royal merchant of the Imagawa family, but one more royal merchant is also good for the Imagawa family, and presumably the lord will agree. After all, the most important support for the Roche House is the Roche family in the Kyushu area.

"Yes." Immediately, Imagawa Shin nodded and agreed, reminding emphatically, "But in the salt business, this family has been cooperating with the Ro's house, and this can't be handed over to you." The rest is negotiable. ”

"I understand that as long as Daisuke-sama Jibu buys weapons, armor, iron cannons, and gunpowder and gives them to Naya, I'll be satisfied. The cotton weaving industry of the distant river can be supported in the next, and please give the right to buy and sell the cotton fabrics in the next place. Imai said.

"I can agree to this request, but only if there are conditions." The Imagawa clan calculated sincerely, "Naya will have to give me another ten stones of gunpowder before I can give it to you." ”

Imai Munehisa also calculated, and replied: "If Daisuke-sama Jibe buys another thirty iron cannons, Naya is willing to send fifteen stone gunpowder." ”

Forty pieces of iron cannon, thirty pieces of iron is one thousand two hundred. In fact, it is not necessary to have so many twenty-five times to be the most suitable price, and the maximum is thirty times if you count the shipping cost. Imagawa really quoted this price.

Imai Munehisa summed it up again and agreed: "Give me five days to ensure that thirty iron cannons will be delivered." ”

"Please discuss the details with my commissioner."

The Imagawa clan received sixty iron cannons from Naya, plus the previous one hundred and forty, to form an iron cannon team of 200 people (this does not include the iron cannon team that followed Masara).

And just when the Imagawa clan met with the big businessman Imai Munehisa, Masarashi also got a report that someone from Mikawa Honden Temple had visited.

When he heard that someone from Honden Temple was visiting, Masashi almost jumped up, and said in surprise on the spot: "What are you doing to come to me for Honganji Temple?" ”

Yixiang Zong, whose real name is Pure Land Zhenzong. During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate changed its name to Ichijo for the sake of honoring His Holiness. The reason was that Tokugawa Ieyasu, who believed in the Pure Land Shinshu at that time, later suppressed the local Ichijo, so the shogunate forcibly changed the name of the Jodo Shinshu to Ichijomune.

The name of the Iljangsu Sect comes from the high monks of the Pure Land True Sect, and has always been a handsome and holy monk. At that time, Honganji had established four strongholds in Hokuriku, Settsu, Mikawa, and Ise Nagashima, and its power was extremely large, and its followers were numerous.

If this force is united, it will be more than any of the Warring States daimyo at that time, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin will be willing to bow down to everything.

Hontoji Temple is also the mountain gate of Honganji Temple in Mikawa Province, and its influence in Mikawa, Enoe and other places is not at all.

As for the situation of the Ichisho sect and the shrine and other forces in the territory of the Imagawa family in Tokaido, Masara, who has always been very concerned about these forces, actually looked at the report compiled by the second son, Luo Shishira.

On the whole, regardless of the power of the temples of the Three Kingdoms of the East China Sea, there are more than a dozen types of shrines alone, and it is indeed worthy of Fuso, which is known as eight million gods, and there are all kinds of gods and ghosts. There are more than 20 shrines with farm products. Most of them only have a few dozen to a hundred stones, and the larger ones are only about 500 stones. There is no record of a shrine without a field. The temple is even more frightening everywhere, build a high wall to raise monks and soldiers, in the Sanhe area, the power of the sect is the largest, the field property, the temple wealth is innumerable.

It is estimated that Imagawa Yoshimoto saw their power and finally let it go. The temple can't be touched, at least not now. Although Masara has always been uninterested in the power of temples and shrines, and even hostile, Masara also agreed with his second son, Nobuya Rashi, and the Imagawa clan, who was born as his small surname, and determined that the top priority at present was to stabilize the Suruga, Enoe, and parts of Mikawa, and bring those wealthy clans into the system. On the side of the shrine, slowly, step by step.

However, now, Zhengliang no longer looks for these guys, and as a result, these guys take the initiative to come to the door. Although Zhengliang was called the "enemy of the Buddha" by the Sect. But this was only called so in the Kyushu region, and he didn't believe that even the Ichijo sect in the Tokai region would recognize him.

So, Masarashi met with the envoy of Hontoji Temple at the Honmaru Castle Tower of Sunpu Castle.

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