Civilization Guardian Front

"Master Zhensheng is too, too bold, I... I lost."

Kawajiri Hidetaka left dejectedly.

"Next time... same as Hengxing, treat you to dinner."

Narumasa Sasao said in a flat tone without any ups and downs, and left.

"Tsk tsk... I was delayed for a while in the Royal Palace, but I didn't expect to see a very exciting scene, 99 points."

"Qios... I, I, I misread you, and you have stepped on so many boats!"

The two elders, Niwa Chohide and Shibata Katsuie, came out of the palace.It's just that Chang Xiusu put his hand on his chin, looking like he was watching the show, while Sheng Jia looked indignant and his eyes were like knives. The reactions of the two were quite different.

"I'm lazy to explain...Leave first." Seeing Changxiu blinking and smiling, Chios had no intention of explaining at all, and was about to leave after a simple salute.

"Wait!" Singer hurriedly called Chios to a stop.

"What's the matter, Master Singer?"

Sheng Jia was still thinking about how to speak, Changxiu first said for her:

"Six, she is worried that you will have trouble handling the territory by yourself, and she said she would help you, eighty points."

"Manchiyo, don't talk nonsense!" Singer waved his hands on his chest in a panic.

The ponytail girl looked at Chios with some embarrassment. When she said "I misunderstood you" just now, the expression of wanting to crusade against evil spirits obviously couldn't be maintained.The rosy color of her cheeks did not decrease in the slightest, and the shame of being exposed by her friends was fully reflected on her face.

"Don't get me wrong! I only did this because I felt that I had taken credit for you and that I had to compensate you."

"...That's it." Chios, who felt that Singer would become angry if he said something more, had no choice but to respond as flatly as possible.

"Let's get straight to the point..." Changxiu snapped the folding fan shut, as if turning on some kind of switch, and his teasing expression suddenly subsided.

"The Kuroki family, a small wealthy family in the territory of Mr. Chios, has ruled Nanwakari for more than a hundred years..."

"The Kuroki family still has some ability to improve the farming conditions of Nan Ruoli, and secretly develop the hillside land. On the surface, it is only the territory of three hundred stones, but in fact it may reach five hundred stones. Such a stone height , if you use your military strength regardless of the cost, you can probably gather thirty soldiers."

"Well, please tell me more details." Chios also corrected his expression.

"As one of the people of the country, the Kuroki family has sworn allegiance to His Highness Nobuna, but they have not offered hostages, and have never handed over rice for offerings on time...Loyalty is weak, and every time the family recruits soldiers, they send old, weak and remnant soldiers Perfunctory."

Niwa Chohide mentioned the evidence of the Kuroki family's lack of loyalty, and frowned in disgust, before going on to bring up the focus of this discussion:

"This has been the case since His Majesty Nobuna's previous generations of Owari guardian rule. Therefore, Mr. Chios suddenly became the lord of Minami Wakuri this time, and he will definitely be resisted by the Kuroki family."

"..." Chios closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and quickly found an appropriate conclusion from the information given by Changxiu.

"I think Master Changxiu will tell me this specifically, suggesting that I outwit the Kuroki family?"

"Sure enough, ninety percent." Changxiu looked approvingly, and patted the palm of his hand with the folding fan.

"The Kuroki family has ruled Minami Wakaguri for too long, and they have firmly controlled Minami Wakaguri Town. Unless you, Chios, destroy the Kuroki family, it will be difficult to truly rule there."

"Although Her Royal Highness fully supports you, but if you want to destroy the Kuroki family, it is very difficult for you not to kill the citizens of Minami Wakuri. Once Mr. Chios kills too many civilians, your reputation will become bad. Maybe someone will follow the law. I will reprimand you. This will also damage the reputation of Her Highness the Princess who reuses you."

Changxiu looked solemn, staring at Chios's eyes closely, as if he wanted to see something from the deep purple pupils of the other party.

"So what Manchiyo and I think is that each of our Shibata family and the Niwa family will lend you 20 soldiers, and you lead the soldiers to receive Minami Wakaguri, and the Kuroki family will definitely be scruples seeing that you bring soldiers with you!"

Sheng Jia punched the palm of his hand, and made a conclusion directly.

"It's not as simple as you think." Chios patted Singer's shoulder lightly, letting the girl relax.

"How about borrowing troops... How long does Master Changxiu plan to borrow troops? How do you count the military funds?" Chios didn't agree immediately, but asked Changxiu while looking at him.

"Qi, Ou, Si! Are you looking down on my friend?" Sheng Jia, who had just been appeased, couldn't help gritting his teeth when he heard Chios' tone of calculation.

"Ah, ah, sure enough, people are too smart and have some headaches, so it's hard to build friendship and trust..." Changxiu pinched his brows, showing a somewhat weak appearance.

"Borrowing troops is free, and the period is three months. This period of time should be enough for Mr. Chios to recruit a manpower?"

"I'm sorry, both of you know my past experience, including the reason why I came to Japan... It's not a deliberate suspicion, but sometimes I explain the details clearly so that there will be no cracks in mutual trust. I'm sorry for bothering you two, Sheng Master, Changxiu-sama."

Chios explained to the two old masters with a bitter tone, his attitude was sincere, and the gloomy look in his eyes did not seem to be fake, making it unbearable to continue to be harsh.

"I still appreciate your straightforwardness on the battlefield, don't say such things next time." Sheng Jia turned his head with a straight face, and snorted heavily.

"Honestly, I'm kind of annoyed!"

Changxiu tapped her lips with her slender index finger, narrowed her eyes and lingered on Chios, wondering what she was thinking about.

"The Hanami Brewery on Geyue Street in the castle town recently bought a new batch of high-quality wine..." she mentioned intentionally or unintentionally.

Chios touched the money bag at his waist, there were a few small gold coins and a lot of Yongle money inside, which was heavy.

With this little money, I can pay two people who are both beautiful girls and elders, so why not do it.

"As compensation, may I have the honor to invite the two of you to Hanami Brewery for a few glasses of beer?" Chios followed Changxiu's words and extended the invitation.

"Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

There was a mischievous look in the soft and gentle eyes, Niwa Chohide spread out the folding fan to cover his smiling face, and the half-covered gesture made people feel a little itchy.

In the past, it was just to take advantage of words, but today's Changxiu is full of aggressiveness.

(The Oda family's writer and military adviser, do you have any doubts about me...), Chios secretly speculated in his heart.

"We don't drink turbid sake, but only high-quality sake from Echigo."

Singer also patted Chios on the shoulder heavily, and said:

"A jug of wine costs three hundred renminbi, Chios, you shouldn't refuse to invite me, right?"

"It turns out that you have colluded with each other a long time ago, and the winner will cheat, so it's not cute." Chios pretended to shake his head, and his tone was full of regret.

"Cocoa, cute? You, you actually teased me, rude person!"

When Singer became emotional, he reflexively put his right hand on the handle of the Taidao, and Changxiu knocked the back of his hand with a folding fan before stopping.

"Could it be that Mr. Chios just understands now? It's a pity it's too late... We won't go home until we drink up all your bounty money today!" Changxiu blinked at Chios.

Chios shrugged, not flinching.

"I admit it. It's an opportunity that no one can wait to invite two beautiful family elders to drink. I will pay today's bill."

Oh! !Shengjia and Changxiu jumped and cheered like young girls.

Chapter 24? Two or three things about Hanami Brewery

Cheongju Castle Honmaru Castle Tower.

This is where Nobuna works. Originally, the study was located in the Royal Palace, but Nobuna, who likes to overlook the scenery from a high place, moved the study to the castle tower.

Nobuna lay sideways on the cushion, flipping through the official documents in his collar boredly.

After the meeting at Zhengde Temple, she resumed her yukata-clad attire with a tiger skin around her waist.I still don't catch a cold for gorgeous kimonos.

After being away from Qingzhou for a few days, Xinnai had dozens of government affairs to deal with on her desk, but most of them were trivial matters, such as the dispute over the location of the store between merchants, which two villages were fighting, and so on. irritable.

"Really, this kind of trivial matter should be dealt with by thousands of generations, but she suddenly asked me for leave today..." Nobuna complained, using a brush to roughly write the conclusion of Chen Qing's official document.

After spending an hour, Nobuna finally dealt with half of Chen's request.Inu Chiyo, who was waiting quietly, handed over a cup of tea at the right time.

"Thank you, Inuchiyo."

"…(nod)"

While drinking tea, Nobuna looked at Inuchiyo and suddenly remembered someone.

"Inuchiyo, do you know where Chios is now?"

Facing Nobuna's question, Inuchiyo's eyes flashed a rare hesitation.

The girl recalled in her mind that after the evaluation was completed earlier, she had a short rest time. She wanted to go back to the Wuga Courtyard to prepare dinner for Chios. picture.

(It turned out that Chios had already made arrangements for the night...) Inuchiyo, who was standing quietly in the dark behind the door, thought so, feeling a sense of loss in his heart for no reason.

She knew that her lord, His Highness Nobuna, had feelings for Chios beyond friendship.Because of this, for Inu Chiyo, whether or not to tell the story of Shibata Katsuya, Niwa Nagahide and Chios going to the winery together has become a tug of war of loyalty and friendship.

Chios is a friend, and Her Royal Highness is the lord...

After a little hesitation, loyalty to the lord still prevailed, and perhaps a little girl's personal thoughts intervened in this choice, Inuchiyo nodded to Nobuna.

"Hmm~" Inuchiyo's unusual pause did not escape Nobuna's observation, and the delicate little nose snorted softly before saying:

"Looking at Inuchiyo's performance, Chios probably hasn't come home, right?"

"...Yes, Chios seems to have gone drinking with Katsuka-sama and Nagasu-sama."

"Huh!?" Nobuna jumped up from the cushion.

"He actually went drinking with those two women?"

"...Yes." Inuchiyo replied obediently.

"Which restaurant?" Nobuna asked anxiously, although she didn't know what she was anxious about.

"...Song Moon Street, Huajian Winery."

"Isn't that the most exclusive wine shop in the city with private rooms? Chios took my bounty and went..."

Nobuna's face darkened, and he went to the castle tower terrace and looked down.

Kiyosu Castle Town, as the largest town next to Tsushima Port, is relatively prosperous and prosperous, and there is no curfew. Even at night, it is still brightly lit, and the bustling noise can be faintly heard even here in Shinnai.

But today, Nobuna was not happy looking at his affluent castle town. Thinking of Shibata Katsuya's poor drinking capacity and wine quality, as well as Nagahide's naughty and mischievous nature, cold sweat dripped down.

Liuhe Manchiyo is simply the most vicious combination in the world...

Walking back and forth in the castle tower, Nobuna finally made up his mind.

"Let's go! Inuchiyo, go save Chios from those two drunks!"

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Songyue Street, Huajian Winery, Between Cherry Blossoms

Chios felt that today was really a day to fully experience life.

More than a dozen empty sake jugs and dishes containing appetizers were swept from the low table to the floor.

The number one general of the Oda family, Katsuya's face was blushing, he hooked Chios's neck affectionately, and half-forced him to drink with his own wine cup; Xiuchang poured wine beside him with a smile on his face, while He also drank quickly.Around the three of them, five waitresses who accompanied the wine fell to the ground in disheveled clothes.

How did all this happen?

two hours ago...

After arriving in Japan, Chios, who was either inquiring about restaurants in the castle town of Kiyosu or running around with Nobuna, only knew well-informed restaurants with cheap prices and frequent customers.

The truly expensive and luxurious stores do a good job of keeping secrets, and the customers are separated by doors and walls, which is not conducive to intelligence collection.

Niwa Nagahide, who was in charge of the appointment, was very familiar with this, and soon took him to Hanami Brewery, which was said to be the most high-end brewery in the town of Qingzhou.

Entering the winery, the proprietress saw Changxiu and Shengjia and greeted them cordially.Changxiu's folding fan pointed to the private room on the second floor of the winery:

"Give us ten buckets of the best Echigo sake between the cherry blossoms, and a few wine companions by the way."

A pot of top-notch Echigo sake of [-] ren and a bucket of [-] vin, Changxiu ordered ten dou once!

In this day and age, ordinary people can easily support their families for a month or two with just one penny, and with the addition of five pennies for Luoying Private Room, a single business of twenty pennies stunned everyone in Huajian Winery in an instant.Although the guests of Huajian Winery are mainly warriors and merchants, it is rare to see such a generous one!

Before going upstairs, Changxiu seemed to think that the commotion was not big enough, so he turned around and said with a smile:

"Treat our Lord Chios well. He is currently the most important retainer under His Royal Highness Nobuna. He looks very handsome as you can see, and he was only promoted to General Attendant today, and he also received three hundred stones from Nan Ruoli..."

Changxiu's words ignited the competitive hearts of the women present, and then added with a wink:

"The most important thing is that Mr. Chios is not yet married or married, at least 99 points."

So, the waitresses in the winery scrambled to enter the falling cherry blossom room, and the smell of rouge filled the whole private room. In the end, it was too crowded, so Changxiu chose the one with the better looks to stay.

At first, Singer said with a straight face, "It's a shameless wife." But soon she lost her critical position...

The brave and unparalleled winner on the battlefield, but only the old, the weak, and the disabled in the wine field. After drinking a pot of refreshing and sweet Echigo sake, his face flushed and he started talking nonsense. The waiters drank, and the quality of the wine was extremely poor.

On the contrary, it was the soft and charming Changxiu, who not only did not blush when drinking, but also deliberately pulled the drunk Singer and the waitresses to eat Chios tofu together.

Chios is being taken advantage of if he doesn't fight back anyway, and he's being taken advantage of if he fights back, so let's just ignore their actions and drink up...

Although he tried to retaliate against Changxiu for the loss he suffered, but Changxiu just smiled and didn't mind the expression of gaining instead, so Chios gave up fighting back.

What's more, while Jang Soo was extraordinarily charming today, it wasn't love or friendliness that drove her to do it.

When Chios touched Changxiu's soft little hand, he could feel a moment of stiffness, and the faintly visible blood vessels under the white and tender skin flowed like a glacier, unable to convey any warmth.

The girl's heart was once open, but at some point it quietly closed...