A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After Nanosuke had enough food and clothing for more than half a year, he also grew a little taller, and his thin body became stronger.

Well, although Nanosuke is still a short and stocky child, I hope he can continue to grow in this state.

"Nanosuke, this time you are going to Luo with me. You may have to pay homage to His Highness Kōkata. Remember to ask your mother to prepare a set of decent clothes for you."

"Your Highness Kokata? Are you the Ashikaga General?" Although Nanosuke is a descendant of the samurai family, unfortunately his father died many years ago and his uncle lost power, so he lived a completely peasant life. Until now, I don't even know a few words, and my knowledge of the Wu family is even thinner.

"Yes, that's the general of His Highness Kitayama Rokuenin." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was famous enough that even a kid like Nanosuke knew about it.

Hearing Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Nanosuke's eyes were full of yearning and expectation. Maybe he thought that Lord Ashikaga Yoshiteru of Kyoto was just like his ancestor Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, a powerful general who ruled the sixty-six countries in the world.

He coaxed Nanosuke away, told Chen San to pack his luggage, and asked Aji and Nangui to choose the soldiers to guard and guard the flags. Imagawa Yoshiuchi also sent Pegasus to Gaotian Castle, and asked Iwase Motomasa to bring the guards and festival gifts to Ejiri.

The Yamauchi family's etiquette and contribution to the Shogun's Four Seasons is a large expense every year, and I don't know how the Yamauchi family has persisted for so many years.

Anyway, it was Yamauchi Yoshiharu's money, so Koheta didn't feel sorry for him, he spent it however he liked.

Before leaving, Koheita gave Heiroku a full 2,500 kan and asked him to try to buy 200 iron cannons from Yamauchi and Echigo. The other thing is to get another 1,500 guan to recruit people for Xiao Ping Tai and increase the number of Tiepao Ashigaru to 200 people.

Money is really not spent!

When the group arrived at Ejiri, Imagawa Yoshitsune joined Iwase Motomasa's team, and Koheita opened another Naya Yuza of 1,500 gu and sent it to Uncle Tsunara in Futamata Castle. His coffin had also been emptied by Xiao Pingtai, and now he was working as a city agent outside, and he couldn't survive without any money.

The remaining 9,000 kan were given to Sukezaemon so that Koheita could withdraw them at Natsuya's main store in Sakai.

In addition, Xiaopingta also withdrew some money and bought some local silk cloth, which she also prepared to give to Uncle Tsunari as a gift.

Xiaoping, who was originally full of confidence and prepared to build a horse-drawn artillery team, gave up completely. The remaining money still needs to be prepared for the betrothal gift and wedding expenses, as well as building a mansion. It is unclear whether the remaining money will be enough to buy two Buddhist temples.

It's hard to make money, and money is like running water.

Change boats at Ejiri and go directly to Sakai Town this time. On the one hand, there are many things, many people and horses, and water transportation is convenient. On the one hand, it saves time. In fact, May Day has already passed, and it is purely for fame.

Entering Kyoto smoothly, I was supposed to stay at Yamauchi Residence, but Imagawa Yoshiuchi and his sister were very close, so he went to live with Mibuchi Fujitaka's house.

Xiaoping Tai is going to live at Uncle Tsunari's house. After all, Uncle Tsunari's house has a better environment and is also conveniently located.

Today's Zixiaolu House is a large and high-end house. The original rotten wooden door was turned into a painted door, but now it has been transformed into a long house door with tube-tile eaves, eight concierges, and plaster walls that are half as high as a person. Koheita gave uncle Tsunari one thousand two hundred kusen per year, and it seemed that he definitely spent a lot on himself.

When Xiaopingtai and his party entered the door, the laughter and laughter inside could not be covered at all. After I put down my things and entered the courtyard, the waterside pavilion was full of people. The high-ranking ministers, all of whom were weavers of gauze and hair, were having a party over wine in front of a pond full of lotus flowers.

Xiaoping Taiyi sat down. Even though the ministers here looked down on him as a country samurai who pretended to be a surname, they showed no lack of enthusiasm on the surface.

Especially the one I met before who got gold from Xiaoping Tai. When he saw the God of Wealth coming, he showed great courtesy. No matter what, Xiao Pingtai's gold is always real, allowing them to eat and stuff here every day.

Uncle Tsunari was very proud to introduce Heita. His servants also washed and cut the melons that Heita had brought from Beijing, and brought them up one by one on a lacquer plate.

This is not over yet, there are also wagashi and chestnut flour bean paste steamed buns. Although each person can only eat one, the snacks are constantly being served, which still surprises the ministers who originally only had rice cake dumplings for snacks.

Xiaopingta thought the results were good, so he decided to join them in singing. This shocked the ministers. Xiaopingtai had such a high level of education?

Of course it was impossible. He knew exactly how much goods Xiao Pingtai had in his belly.

But now that Xiao Pingtai is the center of attention today, everyone has to give in to him. Naturally, it is Xiao Pingtai who takes the lead in the first sentence.

Xiaopingta wants to cooperate with you. I don’t know how to sing songs, but it’s definitely not a big problem to start making up lies.

So I took the wine plate and drank it all in one gulp, pretending to appreciate the beautiful scenery of the fragrant flowers in the garden. Then, with a graceful and unconventional look, he sang songs.

“The garden is filled with the fragrance of flowers, and the garden is filled with fragrant flowers.”

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It is in harmony with the mood and the scenery, and the tune is gentle and elegant. The key point is that the first five characters and the last five characters are exactly opposite, but they each form a sentence, highlighting the subtlety in the plainness.

Now all the ministers in the room did not dare to underestimate Xiao Pingtai's cultural level. As soon as this sentence came out, Xiao Pingtai's level was definitely not bad, at least not much lower than those of them.

How did they know that Xiao Pingtai only knew this sentence? They only saw it from watching the Dahe drama.

One by one, they expressed their feelings and composed songs. They had wine and snacks. After more than ten sentences in a row, the maid next to them immediately started playing the flute, drums and pipa, singing and dancing.

Uncle Tsunari didn't expect that Xiaopingta actually had some ink in his stomach, so he immediately took out a pen and paper, and the person with the best calligraphy here copied it down.

Looking up, I saw that in May of a certain year in Eiroku, several of us met at the Dew Garden of the Yellow Gate of Fujiwara. Fujiwara Tanzheng was there, and who was present at the meeting. It describes Xiao Pingtai's generosity and romantic style, as well as his literary thoughts and brilliance.

From then on, rumors began to spread in various cultural circles in Kyoto that Zikojibang from the Shinano countryside was a rich and well-educated man. He was not a simple nouveau riche, but had a very high level of Sinology accomplishments.

Xiaoping was naturally happy that all the princes and ministers spread the word for him. This was one of the reasons why Xiaoping was willing to spend money in Kyoto. After everyone returned home after enjoying themselves, they all got on the bullock cart. Xiao Pingtai immediately asked Chen San to hand over twenty taels of gold to each servant as Cheng Yi.

How can the people in the Gongqing Palace take gold and other ordinary money? It's not just their servants who can collect it. The gold was also wrapped with a post inviting them to come back for a tea party in two days, and continued to invite them over to eat and drink for free.

After eating and holding it, Xiaoping Tai estimated that at least he would have a very positive image in the diaries and conversation records of several ministers.