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"These traitors, just like using the name of the royal family, use the name of your Toyotomi family to achieve their ambitions, and throw them away like waste paper after use. The Oda family, your Toyotomi family, and the Tokugawa family are all ugly. The people who say the same big things, just watch, before long, that Mao will have to depose you!"

Still so aggrieved, Mingzheng's spoon stirred in and out of the tea pot, as if trying to tear someone's face apart, and Kunimatsu Maru also stood there dumbfounded, time was silent as if frozen.

But history is often full of what-ifs. After a few minutes of silence, when this day seems to be spent in such an embarrassing ceremony, the official historian will write hastily, a certain month, a certain day, While His Majesty was drinking tea with Patriarch Toyotomi, and talking happily, Kunimatsumaru suddenly accumulated pitiful courage out of nowhere.

"Actually, in fact, General Mao, he is not bad."

"Why isn't he broken?"

The little emperor hummed disdainfully and almost held back the dull young man. Fortunately, that poor courage shrank a little, but it still popped up, and Patriarch Toyotomi still stammered.

"When I was young, I, Kai Basang, and Chiyohime hid in Wangjing. I, I grew up to more than ten years old, and I never went out, and I never saw outsiders. Obasan said, there are people chasing us outside!" If you go out, you will die!"

"But, after General Mao came, he moved to the village, and finally he was able to go out, plant tobacco, go fishing with some friends in the village, and Mr. Yuan taught us to read."

"Going down the river to fish?"

The little emperor's voice suddenly became sharper, his face was full of surprise, and Mingzheng asked curiously.

"Isn't the fish planted in the fields, then harvested by the farmers and handed over to the royal family? What is fishing? Is it harvesting? And what is tobacco?"

In the bright eyes of the little emperor, Kunimatsumaru's head seemed to be a little bigger, and his voice became more stuttering.

"Tobacco, what is tobacco, I, I, I don't know. I heard from the villagers that it is something that makes men feel ecstatic, but, but General Mao never smokes again! But Kai Basang smokes a Big cigarette bags, and fish. Fish are animals like pigs, cows, and sheep. They are born in the water. Cook it in an iron pot, it’s hot, it’s very delicious”

"Isn't it a woman who makes a man so ecstatic? Also, isn't fish poisonous to eat while it's hot? What are pigs and sheep?"

The little emperor's bright eyes widened curiously, and the atmosphere of embarrassment and unwillingness just now disappeared completely, but looking at Mingzheng's small face like a porcelain doll, Kunimatsumaru's head seemed to hurt more than just now.

"This pig is a pig"

"Great Pursuit, His Majesty the Emperor and the House Governor have been traveling very closely recently!"

The corner of his mouth twitched, and Tsuno's mother bent her waist low, talking anxiously and hurriedly.

"After all, the current emperor is the niece of the Tokugawa family. If she is allowed to be by the side of the house governor, will there be any conspiracy? And now the house governor inherits the position of the Taige, is the Yuanfu, and married. After all, the house governor and the emperor are young and ignorant. one"

"okay!"

Mao Jue waved his hand impatiently: "Toyotomi Sheguan doesn't come from the samurai family like the shogun. The emperor and the Taige are friendly. Isn't it good to stay together more? Besides, it's just two children together. What can happen?"

He watched intently hundreds of workers burying fired tile pipes in the ground. When the last tile pipe that could only be used in the palace was buried, the craftsmen below waved their flags violently, and connected several Inside, the flags were shaken one by one. Under Mao Jue's gaze, a stream of hot water slowly gushed out of the tile pipe and poured into the hot spring pool with porcelain bottoms. , Mao Jue finally breathed out comfortably.

Whether it's in Japanese comics or Japanese TV dramas, the place where the romance happens is the highest, the favorite of the lecherous fairy, the representative scenery hot spring hotel in Japan in the traditional impression, it can be regarded as being built by him, from Arashiyama, Xiongqin leads the hot spring water, this On the side of the mountain in the southwest of Kyoto, he will build a large hot spring hotel, restaurant, and Qinlou Chu Pavilion. Such a picture seems to have appeared in Mao Jue's mind. The female open-air hot spring on the opposite side is full of laughter , In front of a few holes in the wall of the courtyard, rich men from the south of the Yangtze River were lying there drooling, with perverted and wretched smiles on their old faces, and obediently handed over all their wallets.

Waiting for this place to become the second Qinhuai River, tens of thousands of Ming people will come here to pay for consumption, feeding thousands of people from many aristocratic families in Kyoto, who will dare to show their teeth to the Central Plains at that time?Dishonest?I won't be traveling anymore! Let's see how you drink the northwest wind!

But before realizing this economic control strategy, I have to be fooled! The workers at this end have already begun to carefully refill the pipes, and Adelena and Yu Leer are probably arriving soon at the other end. Impatient, Mao Jue simply slapped Tsuno's parents like chasing flies away.

"You just go and keep watching, I know it well!"

He was kicked out of the backyard of the hot spring hotel full of grief. Hearing the laughter inside, the retainers of the Toyotomi family from several generations shook their heads sadly. They just reminded Mao Jue Yuanfu that it was not Just talking casually, but to mention him, either you always hurry up and marry Chiyohime, give birth to a baby under the name of Kunimatsumaru, and then let the head of the family take care of him, or let the head of the house get married quickly, after all, the Toyotomi family of this generation The male is just such a single seedling. Once he has a mistake, who will the millions of people in the Toyotomi family count on?

But before he walked into his sedan chair, he shook his head helplessly. Suddenly, there was a burst of smoke and dust on the street. Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen cavalry rushed towards the newly built hot spring hotel at the end of Jiutiao Street. Wearing a long gown and a majestic middle-aged man with a cloak fluttering in the wind, Tsuno's father was suddenly overjoyed, and hurriedly waved his hands at the bearers.

"Lift the sedan chair, let's go! It's going to be lively!"

Sure enough, the sedan chair hadn't walked more than 100 meters, and the sound of exasperation had already sounded in the yard.

"Mr. Yuan, you, you, you, why are you here?"

"Is this what the general said, being friendly with the imperial family? There are still 10,000+ Tokugawa family remnants in the north, and the war can reach Kyoto at any time, but the general recruits the front-line builders of the Great Wall to enjoy themselves here. Hasn't the general heard of Xia? Jie, Shang, Zhou, Zhou Youwang?"

In the country of Japan, the only thing that could make the famous Mao regent feel suffocated is Yuan Fengxing, who ran up and down and conscientiously managed the Toyotomi family. Listening to the angry and shameless voice, on the sedan chair, the old retainer Tsuno's parents couldn't help laughing out loud.

You two big brothers, hurry up and create a new generation for the Toyotomi family!

Chapter 3 and One. Aftermath

The renovation of the capital city is still in progress, and the famous Rashomon gate is only one meter long, but the street in Kyoto in Mao Jue's mind has already taken shape.

It is built in the best location near the Jiutiao block where the family of the third generation of Sheguan Sanshi lived. It is as densely packed as the tourist attractions of the later generations. Santiao Street, restaurants, hot spring hotels, restaurants, brothels, row upon row, and many nobles who are descendants of officials The girl and the Hachisuka family, Qiuyue family, and even some female family members of the Kishu Tokugawa family who were destroyed in the Beishang War were sent there as maids and slaves respectively. It is also in line with the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

The cherry blossom trees cut out from the back of the dignified imperial garden are planted in the streets and alleys. Although it is not the time for the cherry blossoms to bloom at this time, there are rows of shops and karaoke halls along the street. The most prosperous scene seems to be re-displayed.

And the first batch of people who took care of Mao Jue's business were his Dongjiang subordinates.

The harvest of this war is too great, the gold and silver are no less than five or six million taels, and the grain is as much as two or three million shi. I don’t know how many big families fell under Mao Jue’s bayonet. They have been stored for hundreds of years, and they are all cheap for him. , transporting these silver back will also take up a considerable amount of transportation costs in Dongjiang. Anyway, the war will not start this year. Yuan Chonghuan’s Great Wall of Japan has been built more than half, and it was trained by ronin and defected retainers. People can almost form combat effectiveness, so Mao Jue simply changed the tradition and directly distributed the silver military salary.

With the expansion of the Dongjiang Army, Mao Jue's beloved father, son, and husband did not have so many soldiers. On the contrary, there were more and more bachelors. One person can feed the whole family without hunger. With money, there is no long-term plan. It just so happens that there is such a golden cave in Kyoto, so it’s better to just spend it. The Dongjiang army who took turns to take vacations in the streets and alleys showed the residents of Kyoto what it means to spend money like dirt. Those hot spring hotels are full every day, and the Japanese specialty is also sold. I bought everything, and Dongjiang soldiers with cigarettes in their arms and girls in kimonos can be seen everywhere, and they are about to catch up with the US troops stationed in later generations.

Especially those from the Dongjiang Cavalry Team, the newly recruited soldiers from Hamgyong Douzhen, who have made great contributions this time, the Han people are still careful and know how to save some money for their families, but these nomadic tribes have never earned so much money , 30 taels for one head, and 150 taels for five. After getting the silver reward, I had no plans for the future, so I simply pushed it directly on the wine table, in the warm embrace of the Japanese girl.

In the past two months, from September to October, the prodigal Dongjiang army almost sprinkled more than 80 taels of silver here, and more than 60 taels were distributed to Mao Jue, Yu Dacheng, Cao Xi, and the remaining [-] taels. Lai Wanliang's leftovers were distributed to several big families in Kyoto. Even so, the income almost caught up with the entire income of the dilapidated public officials for several years, so that Mao Jue was almost offered to the shrine as the God of Wealth.

The only complaint is that the food here is really unpalatable. The shops of the Japanese people are almost ruined. The officers and soldiers who came out for vacation either had to go back to the barracks hungry or went to a nearby temple. Eat, the fried tofu made by the monk, the vegetarian food is better than the restaurant under the warrior, but it also reminded Mao Jue that there is a long way to go to create a tourism industry in the Japanese country!First of all, you have to satisfy the mouths of wealthy businessmen who are not tired of food and fine cooking. If you want to capture a man's heart, you must first grasp their stomach!

Driven by interests, this country really began to change. Near Kyoto, more farmers raised chickens and geese. Even the pigs that had disappeared since Prince Shotoku’s mercy order 1000 years ago reappeared in the In the farmer's yard, because the masters of Dongjiang are willing to eat something called pork stewed vermicelli.

It's just that the fierce sparks generated by the collision of the two civilizations and economies gradually calmed down when heavy snow fell in Kyoto in October.

The Dongjiang army began to withdraw slowly.

Regardless of this year, Mao Jue's Dongjiang army was invincible across the country. In fact, this was a considerable military adventure for him. He mobilized all the main forces of the Dongjiang army to move eastward, and all the guards on the border were second-line corps. Scouts patrol.Although in recent years, even the farmers and soldiers of the second-line corps are stronger than not weaker than Mao Wenlong's era, but the things they have to protect are many times more complicated and difficult than Mao Wenlong's era.

Before Mao Jue came to power, there was only Phi Island and Shenmi Island in the Dongjiang River. If Jiannu wanted to go eastward, he would hide on the island at worst. The main military pressure was still the Lee Dynasty. The narrow border zone that looks like an earthworm completely belongs to Dongjiang. This is also Mao Jue's painstaking effort. The pride of Dongjiang people is enough to sacrifice their lives to protect the land. We can only fight to the death on the spot.

It’s October, and the border market along the Yalu River has become prosperous again. Many Mongolians and Jurchens come back to the border market with bulging pockets and start exchanging money for wine. This marks the conquest of Mongolia and the invasion of Shanxi. , The Eight Banners Legion, which pierced the three-sided paper that Daming has operated for more than 200 years, has returned to Liaodong.

Then correspondingly, Mao Jue has to go back to defend, and although Jin will go to the Mongolia League after next year, he will not make such a big move this year, which means that next year Mao Jue will also have to resume small troubles In such a situation, it is impossible to put all the power into the Japanese battlefield like this year.

The snow was very thick. After several consecutive heavy snowfalls, the entire Kyoto wilderness was covered by heavy snow as if it was a layer higher. Dongjiang’s leather boots were immediately sunk to the ankle bone, and the snow made a crunching sound under the boots. .

It is no wonder that the feudal regime of the Wa Kingdom is so thorough. It was originally mountainous and rugged, and the mountains were covered by such heavy snow. The Toyotomi family lost contact with many lower territories directly, and communication with the Maori family became extremely difficult. Wanting to recover, It will have to wait until March of the next year, and it will not be under control for more than half a year. In the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the territory directly controlled was only 260 six stones. The reason is easy to understand, and it is really impossible to control.

This geographical barrier has been pushed to a new peak politically this year. Originally, the location of Kyoto was chosen here because it is on the island of Honshu. Wakasa and Omi can connect the east and west countries. But now, a road The dark and narrow wall cut off Honshu Island out of thin air, completely separating the East and West.

Although some civilians were transferred to Kyoto by Mao Jue to build a new Chiyoda Economic Zone for him, before the snow fell, the Great Wall of Japan designed by Yuan Chonghuan was still completed, and it was smashed out by the Dongjiang reinforced concrete that came across the sea regardless of the cost.

In appearance, this Great Wall is very similar to Hadrian's Great Wall in ancient Rome. It is four meters wide and five meters high. There are archery towers every few tens of meters. Some of the old guns were also brought over one after another. On the side facing the Eastern Kingdom, you can see the old naval guns mounted directly on the gun mounts, pointing in the direction of Kanto. The gun coats were covered with a thick layer of snow. Trembling, the Shangfan warrior in coir raincoat tremblingly swept the snow with a broom, and just when he saw it was clean, he ran back to the watchtower of the garrison at a very fast speed, and shrank in front of the hearth of the fire.

I have to admit that people in this era are really anti-freeze. Mao Jue is wrapped in a mink fur coat with thick cotton armor inside, and he still feels cold. It’s almost minus 30 degrees. These Japanese warriors still wear similar clothes in summer. It's just that there is an extra layer of straw stuffed in the armor, and it's so tough that even Mao Jue can't help admiring it.

Mao Jue tried his best to win over Yuan Chonghuan, who came out of the mountain, and this was also used here. Under Mao Jue's command, there are really very few talents, especially the handsome talents who stand alone. It can be said that there are no such talents. It's more than fierce, but not enough strategy. Song Xiance is a character, but he is also similar to Mao Sui in Mao Sui's self-recommendation. He is a talent with a three-inch tongue. He is finished when he really goes to the battlefield. Governing the local area and balancing power Very ordinary, if Mao Jue left, it would be difficult for these three melons to maintain the situation in the West Country. In the heart of Kuroda Tadayuki, he was not a good stubbler, and he was obsessed with repairing clocks, but he didn't like it. Jia Feiji, who knew how to think, got the benefits. In the entire Dongjiang, except for Mao Jue himself, it seemed that only Yuan Chonghuan had the ability to control the overall situation reassuringly.

He really deserved Mao Jue's trust, and while walking on the fort, he introduced it with some pride.