Gao Xianda's master and apprentice four, ah no, a group of four people went all the way west, to Kyoto. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Along the way, Gao Xianda inevitably passed through the territories of Saito, Asai, Asakura, and Rokkaku.

Because these four are inland, most of the areas under their jurisdiction are mountainous, and the level of grain cultivation is also very average, which is far worse than the natural granary in the Yuanjiang area.

The prosperity of castle towns is not as good as that of Sunfu towns. It is not for nothing that Sunfu Town has been called the Little Kyoto of the East China Sea, and it has already taken the form of a modern city. These ordinary castle towns, even those under the main castle, are far less prosperous, and compared to Sunfu Town, they are like Datunzi.

As for military capabilities, Gao Xianda did not go to their training ground to take a peek, but the people here have neither fish nor meat, and their long-term protein intake is insufficient. Seeing the physical fitness of ordinary people, they all look like they can't get enough to eat, and they shouldn't be very strong.

And the relationship between these four families is not as Gao Xianda thought in advance.

Based on Gao Xianda's previous understanding of the Warring States, because these four daimyo were all pushed over by the Oda Nobunaga family after the rise, Gao Xianda mistakenly thought that the four of them were allies.

But in fact, they were united because Oda Nobunaga's power was too strong, and the then shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki issued an order to form a Nobunaga siege network.

And before Oda Nobunaga's power rose, the strength of these four families was stronger than that of the Oda family. Oda Nobunaga's rise is also due to the battle of Tsubazama that Imagawa Yoshimoto gave him.

Before that, the four daimyo next to each other would inevitably intrigue with each other and compete for territory for the development of their own family's power.

The Saito family, as the daimyo of Mino, is actually the strongest. The head of the previous generation, Michizo Saito, known as Mino's pit viper, started as an oil seller, infiltrated Mino step by step into Minono's circle of power, exiled Mino to protect Toki Yoriyi, and became the actual controller of Mino, who is very good at scheming.

His subordinates have the support of the three elders of the family, known as the Mino Three, and consolidate Minono's power like an iron bucket.

Michizo Saito also joined forces with the Oda family and married his daughter Nohime to Oda Nobunaga. Because of Oda Nobunaga's later rise, there are also many legendary stories about Nohime.

But just as every conspirator can die from a conspiracy. Michizo Saito was eventually killed by his own son, Yoshimyu Saito.

When Michizo Saito exiled Mino to protect Toki Yoriyi, he also received his wife as his subordinate. And within a few months, a child was born, that is, Saito Yoshiryu.

Because this child was born less than a month old, Saito Yoshiryu suspected that he was not Saito Michizo's biological son, but the blood of the Toki family. So he finally decided to avenge his biological father......

Anyway, it is a family ethics drama that loves and kills each other.

And it turns out that Saito Yoshiryu is likely to be Saito Michizo's biological son, because he is also very powerful in scheming and is a character. After winning the governor, the means were very tough, and the surrounding daimyo was beaten to pieces, becoming the most powerful daimyo in Mino and the surrounding area.

Unfortunately, Saito Yoshiryu is now sick and dead, and the new successor to the family governor is his son Saito Ryuko. And this Saito Ryuxing may be the real heir of the Toki family, and he is indeed a gentleman.

How do you describe it? Well, it's the Imagawa clan of the Saito family.

Fortunately, the current Imagawa clan is really different from history, he is Gao Xianda.

The generals at all levels of the Saito family did not trust Saito Ryuxing very much, and even rumors believed that Saito Ryuxing was the lord of a defeated family.

The top and bottom are not in harmony, which is probably the reason for the defeat of the Saito family. Gao Xianda didn't even need to go to the city to meet him in person.

However, Inabayama Castle, the main city of the Saito family, is really a majestic main city, and the geographical location is very dangerous. After Oda Nobunaga captured it in the official history, he built a castle here, using it as a base, and officially started the footsteps of the world's Buwu.

Gao Xianda and the four of them walked all the way, although they did not enter the city, but they also recorded the local roads, mountains, forests, and water and grass conditions, paving the way for the future attack on Saito's house.

As an intermediate country between Kyoto and Tokaido, Mino wanted to trade from Kyoto to Sunfu, and although there were many roads, they were all within the sphere of influence of Mino Province. So it's inevitable that there will be some bandits here.

However, the retainers of the Saito family don't seem to have as many ghost eyes as those old guys in Mikawa, and they don't have the idea of breeding bandits. Therefore, the power of the bandits is not very strong, and they are not large-scale.

There are just a dozen or twenty bandits, and they don't need to be a few of them to make a move, but after the skills are evolved, the Maeda Toshiya with a spear in his hand can easily eliminate them.

Because of the death of the bandit leader, Maeda Toshiie's mutated marksmanship is very powerful. And as Maeda Toshiya gradually became familiar with his martial arts, he became more and more powerful.

"I feel that the upper limit of my marksmanship is the sky!" Maeda Toshiya once said it after exterminating the bandits.

Although Gao Xianda couldn't evaluate whether his words were suspected of bragging, Maeda Toshi's martial arts advancement was a fact. When he was now wielding the big gun, there was a faint wind and thunder on the gun.

This is no longer something that can be explained by internal forces. Gao Xianda suspected that he had cultivated his fighting spirit......

However, one thing is very strange, although these bandits are not large-scale, their martial arts are also very poor. But the weapons in their hands are much stronger than those bandits in Mikawa.

Most of the bandits in Mikawa were armed with hoes, sickles, and other agricultural equipment. However, many of Mino's bandits are armed with katanas.

This may not make any difference to the combat effectiveness of Gao Xianda and others. But for an ordinary caravan, the difference is still significant.

"Where did they get so many katanas?" Gao Xianda said a little strangely, "Do they dare to attack a large-scale samurai group and then rob it?" With their ability, they shouldn't dare, right? ”

"Your Excellency, you don't know." Maeda Toshiya, as Oda Nobunaga's naked mother, has traveled to Mino with Oda Nobunaga several times, and he has a little understanding of the situation here. He was the guide along the way.

"My lord, because of the superior geographical environment and high-quality iron ore in the Mino area, there are many swordsmiths here. In addition to providing high-quality high-quality katana swords to the samurai, it also provides ordinary people with a kind of 'counting things' that only focus on practicality and not aesthetics, which is probably the reason why these bandits can be equipped with knives. Toshiie Maeda said.

"So, there are a lot of swordsmiths here?" Gao Xianda asked.

"Of course, Mino is one of the birthplaces of swords, and you may have heard the name of Muramasa?" Maeda Toshiie said.