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Celebration 11 (1606) March 21 -
Kyou's two joints are still sunny on this day. In the spring raucous sunshine, Tokugawa Jiayang and Atcha's Bureau returned to the mansion when they dropped off Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who left on this day.
"Until the end, I went dressed like a boy and refreshed myself."
Jia Kang went back inside the mansion and leaked to the bureau of the so-called Tea.
"Hehe, is there a problem with that?
"No... but..."
I told him to have a bureau of tea flowing through how Jiayang looked like something was caught in his back teeth.
"As Lord Yurasai said, do not look sweetly with a foolish general with a father too great, for straw did not seem so."
"Hmm! It's like, 'I don't really care. Thousands and Lord Hideyoshi were childish, weren't they cute?' I thought you would treat me like...
Even if you want to immerse yourself in the aftermath of having a great time with your granddaughter, thanks to the Lord's words. "
"Heh heh, a man is a troublesome creature, even if he's a great lord."
"Enough... say what the Lord said earlier."
and Jiayang sighed, urging the Acha bureau, her eyes narrowed.
"Hehe, you already know the great lord... don't mess with him as usual...
Let's have a meal on the contrary.
If Lord Hideyoshi were to come to the Mansion of Two Articles with a large number of offerings, what would he do? "
"Thank you for your hospitality. But with a hundred or two people, you think I'm gonna notice?
"No, it's not.
Perhaps even if you weren't the great lord, you'd be caught off guard. "
"i.e. Hideyoshi alarmed you with 'no amount of instruments to rule under heaven' by showing recklessness in trying to get to Edo with only a small offering..."
Against Jiayang, who was so smudged and crushed, Atcha's bureau gave him a slightly cooler glance.
"Haven't you really been caught off guard?
"Then don't call me an idiot! You're going to be alarmed!
"Ha... when there are no enemies around, a man will be busy, even in the great lord..."
"Guru... seeing my lovely granddaughter and her son-in-law bowing her head healthy, it's nothing to be ashamed of anyone getting alarmed!
Jia Kang protested so with his face bright red, but the Bureau of Tea smiled with a loving eye for such Jia Kang.
"Well, maybe what you say honestly is because the great lord is the great lord."
"I don't know one thing about what you're trying to say right now... okay. Go on."
"Yes, that means Lord Hideyoshi intended to borrow more from you from the beginning…"
"What!?
"Hehe, think about it.
For Lord Hideyoshi, it is only advantageous to borrow a gift from the Lord. "
"Doesn't that mean... there's more to it than 'safety on the road'?
"Hehe, of course.
For starters, 'Bill of Passage'.
If it means going to Edo, most of the way is on the territory of the Daimyo of Tokugawa's Spectrum. Therefore, the presence of those who borrowed directly from the Lord shall be above all the bills that pass through their land without being alerted by each great name. "
"Hmm... if it's just the rich ministers, they're all the ones who can help but stop to make a mistake on me..."
"Yeah, I guess that's the temperament of the Mikawa samurai, but that's a little troublesome when it passes..."
"Fair enough. There will still be a continuation. Tell me."
"Yes, next, 'a sign that you are not hostile to the Great and General'.
Let us also say that the offerings borrowed from the Lord Hideyoshi are in the name of the Lord Hideyoshi. If there is any suspicious movement in Lord Hideyoshi, it will happen to be lost to Tokugawa. Allowing it is a sign that there is no hostility. "
"And one more thing... would it be?
"Oh! You still know the lord!
and Jiayang frowned against the bureau of Tea, which joyfully joins his hands.
"Your Lord would have woken my sleeping mind of suspicion...
Well, I'll tell you the end of the day… "
"Yes, please"
"It would just be 'Refusal of Subordination'"
To this word, the Bureau of Tea was silently staring at Jiayang.
Watch how it goes, Jiayang keeps slowly choosing words.
"Though only in form, the offerings borrowed from me will have gone to Edo as' accompanied ', in Hideyoshi's words.
Seeing how it goes, you'd think in every great name, 'The Great Lord still treats Toyotomi politely'...
In other words, Hideyoshi will not speak to the great names of the Eastern countries, but he said that he had borrowed a gift from me to go to Edo to promote it... "
"But will doing so benefit Lord Hideyoshi?
"Hmm! That would be what the Lord said on his own! Fair enough...
That would be an advantage.
Tokugawa can't treat Daimyo politely in the future.
Let's be more restrained than anything else in future diplomacy. "
"I mean..."
"Hmm! Let me just say that!
In other words, it would be a preemption for diplomacy looking ahead. "
So once we cut the conversation, Jiayang and Tea's Bureau look at each other's expressions in a face-to-face fashion.
Tea's bureau has a serene look as usual.
But...
Tokugawa Jiayang was different...
Until yesterday, a youthful flame is beginning to burn in its crushed eyes.
And it is strange because it seems that some skin tension has also appeared.
In other words, he was clearly young.
"My lord. Apparently, you don't have time to be busy."
"Hmm! I'm not more busy than I was!
The bureau of tea, slightly red-dyed cheeks, said in a quiet voice to dampen his own excitement against Jiayang, who turned that way.
"Hehe... but for Lord Hideyoshi, there was one great 'disadvantage' in this case"
Jia Kang frowns at the state of the Tea Bureau.
"What do you mean?
In the inquiry, Atcha's bureau narrowed his eyes to see the dazzling things.
"Your Majesty, Lord Tokugawa has woken up… to the great detriment of gathering all the advantages."
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Same day...
A short distance from Kyo, behind the mountain...
There were two old men confronting each other via an Acer board as usual.
But that Acer battle can no longer be described as a battle, nor can I feel a piece of hostility.
No longer from the side, it must seem like a mere stone-beating task, with no motivational "ya" lettering.
Behind that mountain is Kudu Mountain in the Kii Country.
The two hitting Acer were the masters of Shouyuki Maida Yasukama and Uchi Takani.
Busy...
Maybe that's exactly what this word is for these two people right now.
It then moved on to a topic that had been decided upon in this counterpart.
"My lord... for one thing now, I suffer from understanding...
Why didn't the lord move 'then'...?
In response to the internal note that asked, Chang Xiao turned a frightened eye. In the last two or so years the light in its eyes has diminished and the carving has deepened on its face. And above all, the hair dyed white was symbolic of him being completely old.
He replied blushing like that.
"How many times now? Is that question... finally coming up? Remember..."
To that question of Chang Yue, the inner note waved desperately to deny it.
"My lord! I don't want my lord to tell me!
I'm right, I'm pimping!
"Ha! Then why do you ask the same thing so many times?
"No... it doesn't surprise me how many times I want to.
If it were moved then, I still wonder if it would have been the hall, not the housekeeping, sitting in the castle of Fushimi by now... "
What do you mean by 'then' in the notes...
Needless to say, it was at a time of turmoil in Kyushu earlier.
Chang Yuki Maida, along with Rushui Kuroda and Hidekang Nobushiro, has worked out a gauge of Heavenly Overthrow around.
And where Rushui Kuroda caused chaos in Kyushu, attracting Hideyoshi Tokugawa's army to Kyushu, and Hideyokang Noboru stopped Jiayang Tokugawa at Kyushu's mansion, Chang Yuki Maida rebels in the East...
A magnificent total involving Kyushu, Kichinai, Kanto and Japan as a whole had the full potential to be achieved depending on the work of Chang Happy.
However, Chang Xiao did not move at all as soon as he sent a letter with no other love to Nobuyuki Maida, his son.
In doing so, the turmoil in Kyushu, where Rushui pulled the thread behind him, drew the curtain with the victory of the Tokugawa army, and the army of Jiayang, which knew it, was dissolved, and part of it remained within the temple.
In spite of all the enthusiasm for consultation, it was not surprising that Chang Xiao had done nothing.
"Then just tell me one thing!
"If you promise not to stop hitting Acer, I won't tell you."
and Chang Xiao said without taking his eyes off the Acer board, putting down his patchouli and stone.
"Yes, I did. Then thank you."
That's what I said. The note put the stone down with the patchouli. And I inquired.
"Since when was my lord unwilling to move?
"From the beginning… Bye"
"What!?
The inner note stops too much of a surprise.
Chang Xiao glanced at the situation.
"Whoa! You hit it fast!
"Su... sorry...!
So hastily the inner note apologized, he struck a stone with patchouli.
And he continued to ask.
"What is the first… is there one day for them!?
"What was the first... New Year that year"
"Holy shit!? Was it that time when Lord Rushui came here to Jiudushan and had his first pleasant drink in a long time!?
"So my hands are stopping!
- Patchouli!
"How did you decide that?
To that inquiry, Chang Xiao's hand stopped this time.
"Your Highness...? How did it go...?
Worryingly, the inner note peeks into Chang Xiao's face. In response to that gaze, Chang Yue frowned,
- Patchy!
And when I put the stone down forcefully, I said it a little louder.
"Don't stare at me! It's not just disgusting when a man sees you!
"This, do!
But you haven't answered that question yet!
"Ha! I'm already short ahead of me. All my curiosity doesn't seem to fade, I'm just jealous!
- Patchouli.
"My lord... I have served my lord for a long time.
In contrast to that, did you say that the lord would hide...
It's a tough world. "
- Patchouli.
"Ha! There's nothing to hide! Just..."
- Patchouli.
"Just what should we do?
- Patchouli.
"It's not just hard to say..."
- Patchy!
Striking the stone hard, the inner note put a lot of effort into his eyes.
"You say it! For your lord's sake!
- Patchouli...
"For me...?
- Patchy!
"That's right! It's for your lord!
- Patchouli...
"Ha! I don't know... okay...
As the Lord knows, I have seen the death of many men with these eyes.
It's not that I've seen them in person, it's that I've seen them on the verge of death.
In ancient times, Shingen Takeda, the heavy ministers of the Takeda family tree bill, such as Yamagata Prefecture, Horse Farm, and Hideyoshi Toyotomi scattered in the battle of Nagashiro, the Kitajo Tsuneji Temple, and... "
- Patchouli.
"You're absolutely right..."
- Patchouli...
"I've seen so many deaths that I've come to understand..."
- Patchouli...
"No way... it's..."
- Patchouli...
I have weak eyes staring at Chang Hao's Acer board.
He said in a more humid, sinking voice.
"Dead minister..."
My inner hand stopped three times...
"Oh my..."
But all this time, Chang Xiao didn't blame it, and he kept blurring.
"That's when I found out the moment I saw Lord Rushui's face...
'This one will die soon...'.
And Lord Rushui knew it.
That his own death is near.
I'd have lived another two years if I hadn't.
But Lord Rushui did not.
He chose to burn his own life. "
A dark shadow falls on Chang Xiao's face. That is yet like the color of the sky on the verge of the sunset falling, with sadness.
"My lord... did you mean that my lord abandoned Lord Rushui, who had set such a tragic readiness..."
"Forget it? Don't say bad things about people!
Lord Rushui was overlooked for his luck in heaven and time.
With a little more time, things might have changed. "
- Patchouli.
The inner note struck a stone, as if I remembered.
And he told him to crush himself.
"In other words, Lord Rushui was challenged from the beginning by a battle he had no chance of winning..."
- Patchouli.
"Don't be like that."
- Patchouli.
"Then why... were you challenged to fight, knowing you would lose..."
- Patchouli.
"Ha! You don't know that! Just..."
- Patchouli.
"Just...?
- Patchy!
Now Chang Xiao strikes the stone forcefully.
And...
"Because he was a samurai of things..."
And I said with my face up and a low voice.
- Patchouli...
"Because I am a samurai..."
- Patchy!
"It's not easy to mourn your life when you decide you can't win anymore. It's easy to be stupid if you don't stay.
But never mourn, never say stupidity, tie your mouth to a single letter, challenge your unwinnable opponent to fight and scatter gloriously is the samurai way of things. "
- Patchouli.
"The samurai path… can you walk to it..."
- Patchy!
"Ha! Don't worry! Isn't the Lord already walking! Ha ha!
When he laughed off, Chang Xiao shifted his gaze toward Acer Board. Understanding its meaning, the inner note slapped his forehead numbingly and made his mouth a letter to.
"This, do! I lost again!
"Ha ha! I know I'm going to lose, and I challenge you so many times, your lord is walking the path of a samurai splendidly!
And the note was the last.
"So the reason the lord didn't move with the lord Rushui is because we knew the lord would lose... right?
"Ha! I don't mind losing anything, but I definitely didn't want to just lose to Tokugawa Jiayang, that's all!
And... "
"And?"
So Chang Xiao, once he had cut the conversation, stared at the inner note.
His eyes have been stained with the colors of "The Bee Hingers", which have stirred shadows in recent times. I was delighted with it.
And Chang Xiao said in a strong tone.
"Besides, I don't have a dead minister yet!
"That's my lord!
But how are you going to be moved after this?
The inner note asked the obvious subtly.
"Ha! That's what I know!
"What... what...!?
"Ha ha! Heavenly luck stands like mountains and woods, sitting and waiting!
Don't panic, don't make a scene, carefully determine when to move, don't hesitate to move like a disease in the scene here, attack like a fiery fire!
This is what I learned as a samurai of the Takeda family!
… and it was then…
Heavenly luck for Chang Yuki Maida has come down to Kodoyama...
But that never meant that he would go out into the world again and fight against Tokugawa Jiayang.
It seems that heaven did not want it.
The person who was to entrust him with everything, however, came to visit regardless of his will.
Chang Xiao spoke up when he noticed signs of someone outside the room.
"Who is it? What gets in the way of people laughing in a good mood!
"It's in Sasuke"
"Oh... the use of Yuanjiro...
Hey, what's up? Even Yuanjiro's writ came to see you?
"Yes... and one more thing..."
Chang Xiao said in frustration to a man named Sasuke who was only a little bored by the words.
"What? Go into your room and tell them!
"Ha!"
And when Sasuke replied briefly, he opened his tongue softly.
There...
In addition to the man dressed in a sneaky costume called Sasuke, another figure stood.
"What? What about the Lord...?
The question was answered not by his mouth, but by Sasuke's mouth.
"Master Yuanjiro told me to send you here..."
Chang Xiao takes a closer look at the person once again.
It's a girl with a thin line. Obviously it doesn't seem nutritious enough. And he said it out cold.
"Oh... as you can see, with a flushed body.
I can't afford to hire a samurai.
I'm sorry for Yuanjiro's favor, but spending time in Osaka Castle would be better for a good life. "
It was like saying "go home" in the dark.
But...
The girl pleaded with such a loud thrusting voice that she didn't know where she was coming from in that thin body.
"Please!! Please tell us everything about this Yoshioka Apricot, Shinto Yasuo Maida!!
You are on this street!!
To that much impatience, Chang Xiao opened his eyes unexpectedly when he was overwhelmed.
And he inquired about one thing.
"Why not? Why are you telling me this?
Tell me everything about me. Who are you going to fight?
And when the apricot lifted up his face, he answered with a flame in his eyes.
"Yoshio Otomo... and... Jiayang Tokugawa!!
The moment he heard the word, Chang Happy understood.
- This is my luck!
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