A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Akechi Mitsuhide didn't dare to keep him, and even though he was the best talent in the world, Koheita didn't dare to keep him.

Of course, it was hard to say whether he would stay or not. After all, with Akechi Mitsuhide's Toki Genji origin, even if he really couldn't survive, there would be some arty daimyo asking him to be an imperial concubine and an imperial concubine. The status of the nobles of the Wu family is there, and using it as a vase can also bring out the master's nobility.

As soon as Hosokawa Fujitaka's letter arrived at Komaba, Yamauchi Yoshiharu immediately sent someone back to convey that Akemitsu Hide had an audience.

Originally, Akechi Mitsuhide was still serving as a guard in Shirakawa, and he was regarded as a city gate official in Kyoto. Now that Ashikaga Yoshiteru is dead, the shogunate is in a state of collapse. At this time, he had neither a job nor a salary. I completely became a worker who was suddenly laid off and was at a loss.

But the strong wind knows the strong grass, and the rough wind knows the loyal ministers. Many servants have lost the support of the general and need to make ends meet. So they were all separated for a while, but Akechi Mitsuhide, a foreigner who temporarily took refuge, turned out to be loyal and did not have a dime of salary to run errands for this shogunate that existed in name only.

To some extent, Akechi Mitsuhide's loyalty should be far greater than that of other young men.

Koheita sent Aji to follow Akechi Mitsuhide, which could be regarded as a guide, all the way to Komaba.

According to him, the number of soldiers left behind by the Yamauchi family in Kyoto and Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's entourage totaled only more than forty people. At that time, there were twenty people around Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, and only four survived who were seriously injured. One of them was stabbed by two arrows and is still lying down.

Beijing was in chaos and there was no good doctor to be found, so they could only simply bandage the wound and use some ready-made Chinese patent medicine to treat the wound. Whether they could survive or not all depended on the individual's luck.

The rest of the people who stayed behind at the Yamauchi Residence heard that the Imperial Palace was facing police, and most of them went to support the Imperial Palace. The few people who stayed behind died directly in the fire in Luojing, and even their bodies could not be found.

Most of those who went to support the Imperial Palace were killed by the Miyoshi Army, and only one who followed Hosokawa Fujitaka survived. Now I am guarding the coffin of Yoshikatsu Yamauchi and taking care of it.

Those who can find and identify the remains have been sent to Baihe. Most of them were put into coffins, waiting to be transported back to the mountains.

However, now that the deceased are sleeping in the capital, it is simply difficult to handle it with only the remaining manpower of the shogunate. Even if the town residents were hired to arrange the place day and night, it would be difficult to spare the manpower to help the Yamauchi family return the coffin.

So Hosokawa Fujitaka used Mitsuhide Akechi to tell the Yamauchi family that the problem with the coffin was not a big deal now, but he was too busy to deal with it. If you hear the news, send someone quickly to avoid turmoil in the capital and any unexpected events.

If it was just the coffin of Yamauchi Yoshikatsu alone, send a few strong young men with a few poles to carry it back for him. But for forty coffins, it would take at least a dozen or twenty oxcarts to pull them back.

In the end, it was decided to let Ogasawara Nagamasa, a man who had stayed in Kyoto for several years, bring cattle, horses and vehicles to Kyoto. The group could not take a boat to Sakai Town, because from Sakai Town to Kyoto, they would either go through Katsuryuji Temple or Yoyo, anyway. It's a city where three good people and three people are good, and it's impossible to get through.

You can only take a boat to Owari first, then cross Mino and Omi and go directly to Beijing.

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After arranging carriages, horses and manpower for Ogasawara Nagamasa, and watching him leave, another person came to Xiaoheita's house.

Uncle Tsunley's family looks gray and shabby, and their clothes are in rags. Pingting's maid has long since disappeared, leaving only the familiar old servant and two rough servants.

The customary sedan chair was not available at all, and men and women crowded into an ox cart. There were not many gift packages, and everyone looked like they were sleeping in the open.

Asked again, Koheita's cheap grandfather Tsunakane Zikojiji, there was a chaos in Kyoto, he was getting older, he couldn't breathe, and he closed his eyes for no apparent reason.

However, Zixiaolu's house was hit by fire again, and the original beautiful courtyard house was instantly reduced to ashes. Uncle Tsunari, who didn't have much savings to begin with, didn't even have the money to buy a coffin for his father, so he had to raise money from other poor ministers who were struggling to survive.

There was no funeral ceremony, so I went to the north mountain outside the city, found a monk and read two volumes of scriptures, and that was it.

Uncle Tsunari's family simply didn't have a large family, and his wife died of a plague in Kyoto many years ago, along with Little Heita's cheap father. Later, I had no money to marry again, so I only had a side wife and a son and a daughter.

The son couldn't stand the hardships of Kyoto, so he ate his first meal without finishing his last meal. After talking to any of the five people in a casual manner, he ran to Echizen Asakura's house to have a leisurely meal. However, he never met Xiao Pingtai and escaped this disaster.

There is also a daughter, not the daughter of the first wife, but the daughter of a side wife, so I don’t care too much about it. But after all, she is her biological child and the daughter of a minister. If she hadn't been with Uncle Tsunaliang and Xiaoheita, there was a high probability that she would have been sold to some famous country owner to be his wife after visiting Tiankui.

Uncle Tsunari's party consisted of these six people, and there was no one else.

They fled to Yuanjiang after all the hardships, and knowing that Uncle Tsuna was a Futama castle, they went to seek refuge. As a result, Uncle Tsuna led troops to Suruga Shita County, and there was no one in charge in Futama Castle. After all, the family members were all gathered in Fuchu Castle.

Uncle Tsunari and his family were able to get some money and food from the samurai who stayed behind in the city. After three days of hard work, they finally reached the mountain.

"Uncle is really suffering. When we get to the mountain, I will take care of everything."

Even though he is not related by blood, he is called uncle after all. Just a few more people and more mouths. Uncle Tsunari has also spread a lot of news for Xiaopingta over the years, which has greatly helped Xiaopingta spread his reputation in Kyoto.

"Hei Tai~~" Uncle Tsunari burst into tears and snot from his nose. He had suffered a lot along the way. No matter how miserable their family was in Kyoto, this was their first experience of escaping.

"Chen San, quickly order the kitchen to open fire."

"Nanosuke, go home and invite your mother."

"Yu Gui, the same goes for you."

A female family member suddenly came to the house, and Mrs. Xiaoping's house was full of old men, so she always wanted to avoid suspicion. Invite the mother of two children to come over and temporarily help her take a bath and change clothes. This kind of thing is not easy for a male servant to do.

But a minister is a minister after all, and he will definitely gorge himself on a bowl of hot soup and rice when he excuses others from fleeing. The family arrived slowly and slowly. Although they were fast, they didn't seem to be in a hurry.

Xiaopingta also saw that they had nothing to wear, and all their soft clothes were probably lost in the fire in Kyoto, so he sent someone to invite the clerk from the silk shop to come to his home. One person can make two linings and two coats. Substitution and the like are always necessary.

"Thank you, Heita-chan. It's really..." Uncle Tsunari held Heita-chan's hand and was speechless.

"It's all trivial. If there's anything else necessary, just ask."

"No, no, that's good of you. You don't know that when we passed by Noshu, Inabayama Castle was beaten down. It was such a chaos that we almost couldn't escape."

"Mino Inabayama!"