Chapter 60: The Mountain City
"Counterblade?"
Yukino looked at the proprietress suspiciously.
"You wait for me."
The proprietress motioned for her to wait and walked inside. When he came out, he had a sheathed knife in his hand.
"Please."
Pulling out the knife, Yukino found that the blade of the knife was on the back of the knife.
"It's the back-edged knife, and not many people are going to make it anymore."
The proprietress handed the knife to Yukino, who observed it carefully.
"After the back of the knife is opened, the thickness of the knife will be thin and it will be easier to break."
"Takeshi-sama Hime-sama is a person who understands."
The proprietress said with a thumbs up.
"The back-bladed knife is generally a ritual knife used by shrines to worship the gods, and in order to show the benevolence of the gods, the blade is opened on the back of the knife to indicate the will not to hurt people."
The proprietress didn't say the next words, and Xue Nai probably understood.
Since the slaughter of the Emperor by the three generations of Ashikaga Shogun Yoshimitsu, Shintoism, which had close ties with the Emperor, also perished.
Then the Shinto shrine naturally ceased to exist, and who would build such a reverse-edged sword.
"And what is this knife?"
"This is the work of my teacher. As you said, the back of a backlash knife is too thin and easy to break, but it is a good way to practice the art of sword forging. ”
The proprietress looked at the knife with a look of memories of the past.
"It's been with me for a long time, but I think as long as it's a katana, I think I can use it. It is also a kind of sadness to be dusted in the years.
If you want to use it, then I will give it to you. But if you just want to buy a furnishing, forget it. ”
The proprietress looked at Yukino, and Yukino pondered.
"Will you kill someone if you use this knife to fight?"
"The reverse blade is also a blade, and of course it will kill people. However, if you use it in a normal way, you will not be able to cut the wound without opening the blade, which is similar to the blow of a blunt object. ”
The proprietress told the truth, and Yukino nodded with satisfaction.
"I'm going to have this knife."
It took Yiyin and Profit more than ten days to climb over the mountainous area. It seems that the distance on the map is not far, but the mountain road has nine twists and eighteen bends.
Except for the first three or five days, there was no attack from the evil party later.
The wild warriors in the mountains are also related to each other, and the evil party groups in front of them have lost contact, and the fool also knows that he has encountered a hard stubble, and this reward is not easy to take.
Fifty times is very tempting, but why do you need money if you lose your life. The really powerful Iga people are busy spying around Omi Province, desperately earning a lot of money from various samurai families.
Fighting a war is the most expensive and profitable business. Just survived the cold winter, the family is very poor, and when they catch the opportunity, they have to fight the wool of the martial arts.
In this way, Yoshigin, which was only worth 50 times, smoothly entered the Yamashiro Province where Kyoto is located.
Yamashiro Province is not large, and the entire country is the Imperial Residence of the Ashikaga family, with a total stone height of 230,000 stones. The Ashikaga family had no other territory other than Yamashiro Province.
At the beginning, the Ashikaga generation of generals raised troops and swore an oath with the family and relatives. Sisters are of the same heart, share the world, guard the Quartet, and never lose each other.
Having learned the lessons of the Kamakura shogunate being usurped by outsiders, the Ashikaga shogunate's rule was based on the separation of power among the clans.
Divided into countries to protect them, and then set up the Ashikaga family's imperial food office in the country. On the one hand, each family enjoys the knowledge and action of the national domain, and on the other hand, it is also the caretaker of the imperial food house to ensure the income of the Ashikaga family.
This system enabled the three generations of shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to have enough capital to build a horse circle of 3,000 people.
Moreover, the horses were all carefully selected warriors from various countries, and for a while, the warriors were silent, and they did not dare to slack off on the general's orders.
Oda Nobunaga smashed pots and sold iron to save the horses, only fifty Ji samurai, and the martial arts are still uneven, and they are already the most famous samurai regiment in Owari Province.
Thinking that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was full of spirit back then, he was able to make Nobunaga jealous to death.
Originally, this system was very suitable for the samurai society, but the bad thing was the Yashiro shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa had no daughters in his early years, and established his sister Ashikaga Yoshinora as his heir. I never thought that she was born again!
Yoshimasa's idea of having his own daughter has changed, but Ashikaga Yoshihiro has been recognized by various families and is already a veritable heir.
You, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, talk to yourself about changing the heir, which challenges the Ashikaga tradition, and the families negotiate to share the world.
As a result, the samurai who supported Ashikaga Yoshimasa and the samurai who supported Ashikaga Yoshimasa fought, and this fight was ten years.
The participants are all relatives and relatives of the Ashikaga family, and the relatives of the family are divided, and it is the pillars of the Ashikaga world who die, and it is the heart of the family that is cold.
From then on, the sisters were no longer single-minded, and the Ashikaga family was also wary of each family and began to check and balance each family.
With three pipes and four positions, the Ashikaga Ichigoyaka has fallen in less than fifty years. The Ashikaga family itself did not benefit, and the samurai of Shimokami reached out to the imperial food offices of various countries.
The Ashikaga family's income is declining, their strength is weakening, and the world has been in chaos since then.
This mountain castle province is a large Kyoto, and it has been a thriving place since ancient times. Merchants from all over the world would come here to do business and bring goods from all over the world here for exchange.
As a modern person, Yiyin is most interested in iron cannons. The iron cannon is the musket, as it is called here.
"One 100."
Taken aback by the price of the iron cannon, judging from the bounty, Yiyin's head is worth half an iron cannon. Out of the market, Yiyin still felt shocked.
"Lord, don't listen to the nonsense of those profiteers, the iron cannon was indeed ridiculously expensive when it was first brought by the Southern Barbarians.
But now that the Kyushu Tanegashima side has mastered the method of making iron cannons, the price has long been reduced.
Over the years, Kii Province has gotten the manufacturing method from Tanegashima again, and the price of the iron cannon is not so high, and it should be possible to buy one for sixty kan. ”
"That's sixty times."
Toshihisa is an aspiring Ji samurai, who has also traveled to Beijing before, and has told many things about interests.
Owari countryside news is closed, if it weren't for the interests, Yiyin's local buns could be made fools.
"Lord, the account cannot be counted like this. You think, it takes ten years to train a qualified Wakuji samurai, and you need a Wabow of the best materials to be effective on the battlefield. ”
Yiyin nodded, he almost died at the hands of a bow warrior in the previous battle of Inayu.
Aside from her arrows, other lightweight bamboo bows were of little use. If he had been fully dressed, he would not have left thirteen arrow wounds on his body.
"But if it's an iron cannon, an ordinary person can kill a warrior Ji on the battlefield after a few months of training, and the cost is much cheaper than a bow warrior.
In recent years, there have been several wars, and all kinds of new tactics have emerged one after another, and if Owari's rural style of play is not improved, it will suffer a great loss. ”
Seeing the interests talking, Yiyin was very pleased. As long as it's not the benefit of the brain pumping stage, it's really a very good and reliable Ji warrior. Strong martial arts and splendid mind.
On the way to Kyoto, Yiyin suddenly saw a familiar figure.
"That's. . . Hideyoshi? ”
The temptation screamed, and the petite back stopped. Turning around to see Yoshigin, Kinoshita Hideyoshi bowed happily.
"Spo is well, you have arrived in the country of Yamashiro."