Edo Traveler

v3 Chapter 25: Owarato

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Starry night Kane rushed back to Edo, and Chuemon saw a magical scene of Kibmoto samurai buying armor, swords and horses. Because there were too many people buying armor, Luoyang paper was expensive for a while, and the craftsmen who made armor were too busy.

Okay, are you all samurai?

The samurai who has already sent the armor of the ancestral hand to the pawnshop and then bought it again when the matter was about to come?

The inside of Edo Castle is also messy, and many samurai on duty are organizing document files, probably to prepare for the transfer of important documents to Shimono-Nikko Toshogu Shrine. At the time, Ieyasu Tokugawa's life was to build Nikko Toshogu Shrine into a fortress. After the fall of Edo, the shogunate could continue to retreat to Nikko and hold on to the castle, waiting for the opportunity.

The old tortoise still had the foresight at the beginning, knowing that Edo, a city on the seaside plain, would be difficult to maintain for a long time. However, the original Sengoku Daimyo seemed to have such a foresight, such as Date Masamune, in addition to the construction of Sendai Castle, he also built a strong castle on the mountain in the name of building a temple outside the city, which is also a good retreat. Preparation.

Looking at this group of rare samurai who ran in front of him, Chuemon sighed secretly in his heart, that he would only mess around with things in a hurry, without any strategy, just so busy. The group of samurai supported by the shogunate did not have many positive points for the rule of the shogunate.

Chungemon was not in a hurry to buy armor and weapons, because he knew he would definitely not fight, so instead he became a stranger among the panicked people, walking leisurely on the promenade of Omo.

The autumn sun shines on Chungemon's face, and the faint plain face has the style of a celebrity.

The Tokugawa Jiaqing in the city has convened all the elders to discuss issues such as coastal defense and land defense, as well as military preparation. However, the old Chinese ministers were also helpless. The behemoth Qing country was defeated. The small country of Japan, whose national strength is less than one-tenth of that of the Qing country, how can it resist the British with strong ships and guns?

Today Mizuno Zhongbang and a group of elders were introduced to the China Olympic Chamber of Commerce, and they are still discussing in the city and have not yet retired from the city. Chungemon was not in a hurry, so he sat quietly in the office room, waiting for the arrival of Mizuno-sama.

"What is the armament of Kaido? What is the armament of Owari?"

He didn't see him, but first heard his voice, but the voice was full of weakness and exhaustion. It was not Mizuno Tadakuni, who was in charge of the government as the "Emperor Master".

"Everybody has a letter to submit!" Tademon bowed and saluted, passing the letter to Mizuno's attendant.

"Thanks all the way!"

Mizuno Tadabang replied briefly, then picked up the submission and read it, his brows tightened as he looked at it. As the lord of Hamamatsu, he has not been back to Hamamatsu in the past few years. Before he was the lord of Kyushu Karatsu, he didn't mention it. He just had a rough idea of ​​the military situation in Hamamatsu, and he hadn't really summoned nearly a thousand retainers to practice.

As a result, Chuemon’s report directly slashed his skin. The old, weak, sick and disabled accounted for one third of the samurai team. The younger one is eight years old and the old fifty-sixty. It’s impossible to fight with a gun. . The poor samurai even had the knives around his waist were fakes disguised as foil wrapped in bamboo pieces, and the real knives had long been taken to the pawnshop in exchange for money to buy rice.

"It's so!" Mizuno Zhongbang was not confused, but lamented.

In the so-called country of samurai, there are still a few real samurai, but a group of extremely impoverished beggars, using false accounts and arrogant pretense.

"The book written by the next official is less than eleven..." Tademon replied truthfully.

"Oh... I see, you can withdraw." Mizuno is not bad, at least he is not a faint person, and he has not angered the Chuemon who reported the truth to him.

"The next official has one more thing I want to ask, I don't know..."

"you say."

"All the countries in the sea are prepared. If you want to go out, will the Owari Hou command you?" Chuyouemon raised his head slightly and looked at Mizuno.

Upon hearing this, Mizuno's eyes moved slightly, and Chuemon immediately lowered his head. At the beginning of the establishment of the shogunate, the Western countries were basically foreign-like daimyo, and they were not under the command of the shogunate. However, the Toyotomi family of Kinki was flattened, the Oda family of Tokaido had long been defeated, and the Three Kingdoms of Kaido were the nest of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Therefore, in order to facilitate the mobilization of people from all over the world, the Tokugawa sect family, the general himself, commanded the soldiers of Kanto. The Owari family was the soldier who commanded the Tokaido domains under the command of Tokugawa Yoshinao. The Kishu family, that is, the soldiers of Tokugawa Yoshinobu commanded the Kinai feudal clan. The Mito and Aizu families defended and guarded the Ou daimyos, while Echizen Yuki Hideyasu commanded the soldiers of the Hokuriku domains.

Although the situation has changed now, if the British were to fight from Kyushu, then the commander of the soldiers of the Tokaido would be Owari feudal lord Tokugawa Qisho. Will Tokugawa Yoshisho, who is the younger brother of Tokugawa Ikei, be held hostage by the retainers of the Owari clan and do something messy?

Refuge in the British and replace the Tokugawa clan?

It's not easy to say...

It just so happened that Tokugawa Qizhuang was still fighting with the shogunate, and the foreigners were still on the other side of the sea, but the shogunate's vacillation was in sight. Does the shogunate really ignore the affairs of the Owari family at all? Sitting and watching the people of Owari family continue to make trouble like this, and the shogunate become more and more alienated?

"Are you talking about 銈之銈~lightnovelpub.net~ Mizuno did not answer Chuemon's question, but instead asked about Chuemon.

"It's just a bit of doubt from the lower officials, everything must be decided by the general and the adults!" Chuemon just came to add fire, of course he didn't know that in fact Mizuno Chukuni had inherited the permission from the Owari family a long time ago. It was rejected.

However, Chuemon now brought up the fact that the Owari family commanded Tokaido’s soldiers and horses and resisted the British invasion, combined with the fact that the Owari family was unreasonably making trouble. The matter of 銈之銈 into the Jiuo Zhang family is no longer so unacceptable. After all, the status quo is like this. If the Owari family suddenly jumped back when they were at war with the British, it would definitely be enough for the Shogunate to drink a pot.

At this time, I was staying in the house of Takasu Clan at the foot of Edo Castle. Because of the signing of the "Nanjing Treaty", it was supposed to be his turn to go to the castle to meet Tokugawa Ieki. Where does Tokugawa Jiaqing still have time to perfuse his eight- to nine-year-old child? But fortunately, Biao Zhiyun, who grew up in the countryside of Takasu, had a good look at the prosperity of Edo.

Of course he didn't know the original trajectory of life, and the magnificent fate, because a man named Edogawa Chuemon suddenly intervened, and then turned and became confusing. I don't know whether such a change is good or bad for Piao Zhiyun!