A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiaopingtai has a question, which is also a question of many people. It felt like half of the Warring States Period was surrounding him. Whatever happened, it felt like it was all related to him.

Logically speaking, the old society in the feudal era was from Mino to Musashi, from Echigo to Suruga. Of course, the distance is not that far now. Taking the high-speed rail from Songjiang to Jinling can take ten round trips a day.

A little further, from Songjiang to Beitongzhou, it would be more than three months on ancient legs. But now, as long as you can get on a plane, you can make three round trips a day.

In ancient times, there were few means of transportation and the speed was slow. Information transmission almost relied on shouting. It seems like a fantasy that Tokichiro of Owari Province went to Mino Province to build a city and came to seek Yoshiharu Yamauchi of Shinano Province.

But there is a saying that a single move affects the whole body. Japan is a small country, but anything that happens at the level of a sub-country will definitely affect other surrounding sub-countries.

And the Eastern Kingdom is full of these sub-states, and there are only a few powerful and powerful daimyo. If anything happens to anyone, Yamauchi Yoshiharu will definitely be involved. No matter how bad the Yamauchi family is, Koheita is still a mid-level and high-level retainer. He can know about big and small matters even if he doesn't personally participate in them.

In this way, if something happens in Dongguo, Xiao Pingtai will definitely be involved.

It was not that Xiao Pingtai took the initiative to participate in those historical events, but that the historical events happened around Xiao Pingtai. This is what it means when a person sits at home and the pot comes from heaven.

That's right!

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Because they had experienced this personally, the Yamauchi family also cared about Tokichiro's construction of the city in Mogu. News came within a few days of the hidden stake arranged by Yamauchi Yoshiharu in Mino Country.

Tokichiro mobilized thousands of soldiers and civilians with great fanfare and suddenly entered the Mogu area in the evening. The Saito family's retainers such as Takekashi Naomitsu, Nagai Michuri, and Takei Yuan soon found out.

They were not in a hurry at all. Even if Tokichiro was given one night, they would not be able to build a city at all. So one by one they just mobilized the soldiers, waited for dawn, and brought superior troops to give the tired Oda army a head-on attack.

However, Fujiyoshiro had already ordered countless fences and wooden boards, and had the cooperation of hundreds of people from the Kiso River and the Sumine Suga party. When the sun rose the next day, a hastily built "city" was already complete.

They even used long spears to make a large number of horse-rejecting guns and lined them up outside Mogu City. Now Saito Jun was dumbfounded. Tokichiro actually built a Mogu City overnight.

Oda Nobunaga also mobilized soldiers to support as promised, and the two sides fought fiercely between the Kiso River and Nagara River. The Oda army relied on the city and clashed and fought with the Saito army. After sunset, Saito's army retreated with hatred without achieving any success.

This battle established the Oda clan's dominant position in Simino in one fell swoop, and the people of Simino became more aware of the weakness of the Saito clan and the rise of the Oda clan.

Because of this achievement, Kinoshita Tokichiro officially joined the ranks of the middle and high-ranking retainers of the Oda clan. He was awarded the title of 500-Ken intellectuals and was promoted to Mogu Castle Dai and served as the general attendant of the Oda clan.

Another point is that after Oda Nobunaga gave him his name, Kinoshita Tokichiro changed his name to Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

The name of Kinoshita Hideyoshi officially appears!

Gold can shine wherever it goes. For example, this Tokichiro took a big step in his life.

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Since they had already anticipated the outcome, the senior samurai of the Yamauchi clan, including Koheita, all looked calm. But in fact, everyone was feeling a little anxious. After all, if Nobunaga really suppressed the Mino Kingdom, with an army of 50,000 in hand, he could really defeat the Eastern Kingdom.

Only Uesugi Teruhora can be completely honest, but the others are afraid to pull out twenty or thirty thousand people against the sky. Especially Yoshiharu Yamauchi of Shinano Country, which directly borders Mino Country, is self-evidently urgent.

This also led him to pay more attention to the casting of Franco's gun. Like the iron cannon, the barrels of cannons have a service life. It doesn't mean that a cannon will be used for a lifetime, no matter how many times it is fired, it must be scrapped and refurbished. Otherwise, it will not be able to hit others, and it will be fun to blow up the barrel yourself.

Although brothers Hess and William have not yet realized that they were being tricked by Uesugi Teruhu and Yamauchi Yoshiharu, they are still very thoughtful. He refused to stay in Yamauchi Fuchu Castle or Kasugayama Castle, so he made it clear that he would build a furnace in Ejiri Castle and start the furnace to cast cannons.

Not only did it reveal that they wanted the Yamauchi family to open the port quickly and allow trade, so that their subsequent trading ships and missionaries could continuously enter the East Kingdom.

In return, he mocked Japan's lack of iron. If the cannon made from local iron could not fire many times, it would not be their fault at all. It would all be down to Japan's own iron.

"Ha!" Xiaopingtai secretly laughed in his heart. Japanese iron is indeed average, but if you can find a place in the world where the quality of copper is higher than that of Japan and the price is cheaper, Xiaopingtai will kneel down and kowtow to you three times.

What about cast iron cannons in Japan? Let’s go straight to bronze cannons. One thousand catties of copper is a huge sum of money in foreign countries. Da Meng can be sold for one hundred and seventy-five taels of silver, but it's not much different in Europe.

But in Japan, sorry, it only costs fifty-five guanwen, which is still the market price. Uesugi Teruhora now occupied the Ashio Copper Mountain, and he didn't even want fifty-five kilograms of one thousand kilograms of copper.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu listened to Koheta's lie about how bronze cannons were stronger and more durable than iron cannons, and he started to salivate like "Long live the bronze cannon." The direct decision to launch the bronze cannon blocked all the possible excuses for the two of them, a businessman and a priest, who were now part-time cannon-casters, to pass the blame in the future.

Originally, Xiao Pingtai thought that since the Nanman brothers were going to Ejiri to forge cannons, they would definitely send themselves to supervise them, so Xiao Pingtai could do some private work. He didn't dare to think about that kind of six-pounder or nine-pounder cannon, so he could get himself a three-pounder. It is not a matter of words to follow one's own reserve team with a small artillery of several hundred kilograms.

However, Yamauchi Yoshiharu dropped a bombshell news. He would live in seclusion in Ejiri Castle and hand over all of Yamauchi's family property to Yamauchi Yoshikatsu slowly to ensure that his sudden death, civil strife among his retainers, and brotherly feud would not happen. .

At the same time as the news was released, all the samurai retainers of the Yamauchi family re-submitted their oaths to Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. The most exciting thing is Kiso Yoshimasa, who suddenly became the brother-in-law of the Yamauchi family governor. He originally reluctantly refused to come to Yamauchi to serve as official. Now he comes uninvited and is always ready to wait for his sister to give birth to a son so that he can plan and gain power.

With the transfer of the title of family governor, the Yamauchi clan also officially entered the era of Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. From now on, all official documents of the Yamauchi clan will be stamped with Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's seal.

In order to provide good care for Yamauchi Yoshiharu in his old age, the first thing Yamauchi Yoshikatsu did when he came to power was to expand Ejiri Castle and rename the city Hamamatsu!