The moon was bright and the stars were scarce in the sky, and the two walked silently on the rural road back to the customs station by the bright moonlight.

Just a few words made Gao Shisheng very melancholy and unspeakable, and what he had thought in his heart over the years was really hard to say.

At the beginning of the year, the imperial court once again announced the change of the yuan, and also announced another amnesty to the world, praying for good fortune.

It's just that it doesn't seem to have any effect, and the wars and disasters everywhere in the world are getting worse and worse.

This year's "first year of Yonglu", is it the year of the Western calendar? Gao Shisheng still doesn't know at all, even if he knows, what to do, the palace of Junfu Imagawa Yoshimoto announced that year Shangluo, he still doesn't know.

However, in the past ten years, several major events have occurred that have made Gao Shisheng remember vividly.

In December of the seventeenth year of Astronomy, Nagao Jinghu inherited the position of family governor and guardian as the adopted son of Nagao Harukei. In the 21st year of Astronomy, Nagao Keitora began to march into Kanto, and the following year the first battle against the Takeda clan broke out in the Kawanakajima battle, and this year he went out to Kawanakajima for the second time, and once again began a long-term confrontation with Takeda Harunobu.

In the twentieth year of astronomy, Oda Nobuhide was not yet unified in Owari, and there were internal and external troubles of the strong enemy Imagawa Yoshimoto, and finally died of a stroke due to excessive drinking, and Oda Nobunaga, who was the eldest son, succeeded to the family governor.

In October of the first year of Hongzhi, Taiyuan Xuezhai passed away at the age of 60. After his death, he was given the nickname of "Zen Master of the Treasure Bead Protector". The death of the black-clothed prime minister of Tokaido, who has been supporting Imagawa Yoshimoto all his life from the "Hanakura Rebellion" to the end of the "Triple Alliance", makes people feel more anxious and uneasy than the future sixth day demon king ascending to the throne.

In the third year of Hongzhi, Imagawa Osamu Daisuke Yoshimoto adopted Sena Hime, the daughter of a gate gate and kinaga, as his adopted daughter, and married Matsudaira Motoyasu, who had just served in the first place.

In July of the first year of Yongroku, that is, this year. The thirteenth prince of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and the governor Hosokawa Harumoto once again sent troops to Shangluo to defeat the traitor Miyoshi Chokei. The two sides clashed at Katagani in Kyoto, and Miyoshi Chokei ordered Matsunaga Nagayori and Miyoshi Nagaitsu to lead 15,000 troops to deploy at Kichijoji, Umekoji, Shichijo Senjo-ji Temple, and Rokujo-Chudoji Temple, and the two armies fought fiercely at Shirakawaguchi, with numerous casualties on both sides.

In the end, it ended in another crushing defeat of the shogunate's crusading army, and Miyoshi Nagakei coerced the shogun to return to Kyoto, served as the governor of Kyoto, and levied 600,000 "land money" from the Kyoto region, formally establishing the hegemony of control over the region.

In addition to these things, he also heard some familiar names one after another, without exception, all of them were Warring States celebrities.

Based on the above information, Gao Shisheng roughly concluded that Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu were not very old and should be the same as himself.

The Miyoshi family, under the leadership of the "deputy general" Miyoshi Chokei, is now in full swing, and is a powerful daimyo with more than 2 million stone in the land of Awa, Zanki, Awaji, Izumi, and Yamashiro, and the land of the six countries of Settsu, and is worthy of the name of the overlord.

After the alliance with the first shogun, the Imagawa family would send troops to Kamiraku in a few years, and raise the troops of the three kingdoms of Tokaido to conquer Owari.

These historical events proceeded in an orderly manner according to the original trajectory, and there was no sign of change, and Gao Shisheng had reason to believe that the battle of the barrel was bound to happen.

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What is the scariest thing in the world? Not danger, not death. It's that you know that danger and death are around you, but you can't do anything about it, you can only walk on thin ice there, trembling all the time.

It's not that Gao Shisheng didn't think about delusions, such as running to Owari to join Oda Nobunaga, marrying Ichihime, and finally receiving the title of Kaga Million Stone, becoming one of the five bigwigs, but when he learned more about the feudal order of the Warring States Period, he didn't have any expectations for this delusion.

First of all, he himself was born in the Toe Gao clan, and the Toe Gao clan, as a genealogical retainer of the Imagawa clan, has been serving the public for generations for 200 years. Whether it is personal criticism or family interests, it is closely linked to the rise and fall of the Imagawa clan.

Defecting to the Imagawa family will only make him fall into the notoriety of betraying his lord and affect his parents' clan.

Secondly, even if he can really be ruthless and abandon his family and business, abandon the safety of his parents, and go to Owari to join the Oda family, he will definitely not be credited in the end, not to mention that Oda Nobunaga employs people like a pile of salaries, and the latecomers are on top, and he will be squeezed out to death by the Owari people just because of his background as a Yuanjiang person.

This kind of thing, he has seen too much in Junfu City, the people of the Yuanjiang Kingdom are always inferior when facing the Suruga people, and as for the Sanhe people who come to visit the pilgrimage, they are not even as good as the treatment of the Yuanjiang people.

People are self-aware, the talents of the master are mediocre, the martial arts are no more than the enemy of one person, and Wen is only a talent of a Chinese person, let alone an old friend of the township party, so why should Oda Nobunaga look at him differently.

In the same way, he couldn't help it, so he ran to remind Imagawa Yoshimoto, the main hall of Sunfu, and told him that you will die in the hands of the Oda Army in a few years.

Not to mention that after he was removed from the list of the consignees, he was not even qualified to enter the Junfu Pavilion. When he said this, it was a big joke, and the world would only think that he was cursing Imagawa Yoshimoto for not dying well.

Since Imagawa Jibu Daisuke succeeded to the governor, in the past 20 years, he has successively annexed nearly 500,000 koku in Enoe and Mikawa countries, and is known as "the first bow to take the Tokaido".

"Owari no Tiger" Oda Nobuhide is not an opponent yet, his son Oda Nobunaga is now not to mention the killing of Imagawa Yoshimoto, even if he has not been able to unify the family internally, even if he is now overthrown by other families and retainers, no one will think it is too strange.

Gao Shisheng is not a person who likes to sit still, the matter has come to this point, since it can't be changed, then he can only find a way to deal with it.

The most reliable way I can think of is to go to the county and township officials and recruit enough samurai to be able to protect myself on the battlefield in the future, but this is easier said than done.

If it was a simple official, it would be simple, he would have been a concentric member of the Junfu Mansion, but he didn't feel any benefit after five or six years of work.

Not only are they busy with affairs, but they are also not allowed to go out at will after retiring, and they must always live in the kimono house of the commission and be on call at any time. I can't get in touch with outsiders at all, and I work hard all day long, what can I do? It's better to simply go to the village village and become a village official.

In addition, the acting officials at this time were not inferior to those in the Edo period, and a large number of samurai families started by serving as the acting officials of the guardian families of various countries, and then went down to the top.

Wasn't the samurai family the acting official sent by the Fujiwara family to manage the estates in various places in the beginning?

Owari Oda and Echizen Asakura are the acting officials of the Shiba family in the three management and four positions, and the Niko family of Yin and Yang Ichi Taishou was also the acting official of their own Kyogoku family in Izumo, and just served as the deputy general of the world this year, Miyoshi Chokei, who is known as the deputy general of the world, is also the acting official of the Kyosho Hosokawa family in Shikoku.

It is not so easy to become a county and township official.

The acting officer must be familiar with the law and the law and be proficient in the art of war, and the law is the Gao family's learning, which is not difficult.

But the master of the art of war is really not proficient, since the age of eight he has lived in Junfu for a long time, where has someone come to teach him martial arts, until now he can only say a little about swords, not even a rough understanding, if it were not for the fact that the Tongxin people sometimes need to pass documents to the counties, he may not even be able to ride a horse.

After several exams, he failed to pass any of the art of war, and in the end, he relied on the connections he received when he was a member of the same heart, and spent money to ask for help from the son of the princess who lived in Junfu, Xiaolu Gongchang, to ask for help and bribe the election officer, so that he could get his wish. After the news spread, he was pointed at and ridiculed by his former colleagues behind his back.

Because he was born on February 14, his father and ancestors were also very cold to him, otherwise he would not have served as a "sensitivator" for his son-in-law in Junfu, and wanted to send him to become a monk, not to mention seeking a future for him, but Suruga Fadu, the eldest son can also get a share of the territory, and becoming a monk can reduce the division of the family territory by the Fadu.

Since the Pingshomen, on February 14, the third year of Tiankei, after his defeat in the Kanto region, his evil spirits have often appeared to cause chaos.

Since the Kamakura period, the Genhei samurai family has regarded the baby boy born on this day as unlucky, believing that it is the reincarnation of the soul of the Taira Shomen and can corrupt the martial arts.

Even later, there were rumors that the longbow killer appeared, which could deter the evil spirits of the Pingjiangmen.

Gao Shisheng was born in the Sakurai Matsudaira clan in Mikawa Country, and considering the attitude of his mother's family, he was lucky enough to pick up a life, and he was not directly regarded as the reincarnation of the evil spirit of the Taira Shomen and was shot to death with a bow and arrow.

As the eldest son of a concubine, he was not even allowed to use his family's common name, and in the end, his mother gave him a common name of Shinkuro, and earnestly hoped that he could become the lord of a country like Saito Shinkuro and Ise Shinkuro, and raise his eyebrows.

After refusing to become a monk, he nominally obtained a land of three hundred and thirty-seven stone from his family, and became an independent countryman in the military service of Sunfu, but in fact he was never allowed to go to Wanxing and was sealed, and he could only pay a symbolic amount of money a few dozen times a year.

If it weren't for these three hundred and thirty-seven stones, there would be no need to worry about the fact that one of the people would be requisitioned by the Junfu and lead the troops out of the battle together.

Gao Shisheng is so deliberate, endurs humiliation, and seeks to be released as an acting official, what is he doing? It was not for the sake of accumulating fame and money, so as to recruit samurai and prepare for the battle of Barrel Sasama in the near future.

This is the ambition that he has been trying to achieve for so many years.

On the first day of his tenure, he didn't even recognize all the people sent by the village, and there was an incident of a monk killing people because of the "sectarian theory". Gao Shisheng did not hesitate to open up to Hasegawa Hayato, and also wanted to attract him to his door, so he had the act of visiting and giving money before leaving, but he was self-inflicted.

If you think about it, it makes sense to be rejected.

At present, he has neither fame nor money, he is weak in age, and he does not know the country, so that even Hasegawa Hayato, a member of the ashigaru who has four walls, is not willing to express his position easily and take refuge in him.

However, Gao Shisheng is not discouraged, he believes that as long as he shows favor for a long time, there will always be a day to impress the other party, even if he is really indifferent, he will not matter. The entire Pingshan Township is so big, and there should always be a few ronin warriors who are still alive and light, willing to accept their own solicitation.

Note 1: The practice of killing sons with a bow on February 14 of the martial arts family is taken from the ancient custom of killing fathers and sons on the fifth day of May.

Meng Weijun of Qi State and Wang Zhenxi, the general of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, were almost killed by their fathers, and the reason why there is a record is not that the two of them lived, but because the two of them happened to be famous for thousands of years, and both families were big nobles, and they were lucky to survive.

And there is no record, and the babies who died from bad habits are probably really uncountable.