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Celebrating 13 years (1608) January Junfu Castle -
Tokugawa Jiayang was biting his thumbnail, staring at Honta Genuine, who lowered his head in front of him.
During the day, he had a soothing time with his eleven men, Chiyomaru Tsuru (later Tokugawa Asking Room), and his toddlers and their mothers.
But as soon as he had finished the evening, and called purity into the room where the book of the night had descended, he turned it into a face that had crushed the bitter worm.
There was only one reason for this.
- I failed to assassinate Hideyoshi Toyotomi...
"Next time, I'll make sure you finish it."
"Enough! If you move any further, your Lord is not the only one. I can see my suspicions too."
"Excuse me......"
Purity pulling back with a regrettable bite on her lips. I guess my eyes are bleeding bright red and I can't sleep well from the fact that I have bears. I can't help hunting him down any more.
Jia Kang, who thought so, exhaled one thing, and said blush.
"If the Osaka case is cleared, my role is over. I'm going to leave everything to Edo's general and relax for the rest of my life."
Purity kept his head down and glanced into Jiayang's eyes.
Jiayang continued while still taking his gaze.
"Let Kyo and Odawara take care of the west, and the Lord will ask you to take care of the east at Utsunomiya. Okay?"
"... west is Odawara..."
The west refers to the west over Edo.
There are Kyoto and Osaka, as well as Kyushu in the distance. It is a region that has been at the centre of politics and economics in Japanese history.
To keep Tokugawa alive, suppressing the west is the most important thing.
Leaving that to "Kyou" and "Odawara," Jiayang remarked.
"Kyou" refers to Katsushi Itakura as the main director of Kyoto, as well as Daikubo Nagaan, who serves in Sakaki.
"Odawara" is Tadashi Okubo (Okubo-chachi) and his son Tadashi Okubo, who now realize a firm place in the belly of General Hideyoshi Tokugawa.
Both have the name 'Okubo'.
In other words, Jia Kang said that he would leave the matter of the west to 'Okubo'.
But purity wasn't exactly the kind of face I was convinced of.
Because no other, genuine Hondo, was committed to subjugating the Great Names of the West to the Tokugawa family. I am also very aware of that.
But because I know it, I decided to leave it to Tadashi Okubo.
It was because Jiayang knew better than anyone the limitations of a man named Honta Genuine, who had always kept him on his side,
- In purity, it's hard to see the great names of the West.
That was the conclusion of Jia Kang.
He's better at affairs than he is in the military.
Instead of standing on the table and binding the generals, it is better to let them work on the back.
In this respect, Tadashi Okubo, who has traveled more battlefields than he did when he was younger, has the qualities.
That never means superiority or inferiority.
Propriety is just different.
But Jia Kang dared not speak of it.
I am aware that it is both his kindness and his sweetness. He feared that the purity he had come to adore would cause him strong pain in being cut off from his abilities.
But for purity, which has been a habit of behind-the-scenes people's words since birth, his intentions were well understood, even if they were not told by Jiayang.
Long silence persists......
I accidentally opened my mouth from Jia Kang.
"When I have left this world, my body shall be delivered to Kunen, and the temple shall stand in the sunlight. Yes, I told the general."
"Seems..."
"Utsunomiya is a fortress that protects my soul. And if the LORD shall call himself a loyal minister, then protect me in the land.
"Thank you..."
The kind of pretext I put on.
But that's about all I could find a reason to keep him away from the west in my current household.
"Then I beg your pardon for that."
Jia Kang was hurting her chest as she stared at her genuine back exiting amazingly.
The loneliness on his chest combined with the coolness of the winter air made him tremble and mouth the water he was burning to warm his core -
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Kyoto-
"Hey, that sounds like a disaster, Zong-yong."
"Hehe, Lord Chang 'an seems to be doing well, above all."
Souyoshi Ishida and Chang 'an Okubo, who were alone in the dean's office, took a short distance and sat down in a western-style chair.
They grin at each other's mouths, but the color of their eyes contrasts.
In response to Souyoshi Ishida, calm as a spring sea, Changan Okubo is burning like a midsummer sun.
And the skin color is always indoors. Zong Yong is white, whereas Chang 'an, who is always out and working, was tanned black even in the winter.
They were two as if they were irregular, but the wonder and the horse fit.
We've only met once in the past, but it's obvious that what we can't care about is how to sit cheaply with our legs stretched wide apart.
And there's another thing we have in common.
It is a character that I regret to waste even a few moments.
As I showed it, I cut it out of Soo-yong as soon as I sat down.
"Actually, there was a painting you wanted to see..."
"Well, now I don't need Spring Painting. Most importantly, my Lord Zhonghui seems to like the" Spring Painting "that you have received from Hideyoshi."
"Hehe, don't worry. But it's what the" Spring Painting "painter made me paint."
- Para...
A piece of paper can be thrown from Soyong before Changan.
Changan picked it up and quickly spread it in front of him.
Then his face was dyed with astonishing colour by what had popped into his eyes.
"Hey... what is this guy?
Soo-yong's mouth grins only slightly louder.
And he opened his mouth again.
The tone was clearly different from earlier, and it made me feel like a secret fireworks.
"It's a sketch of someone who was feeding a peasant man to a certain ninja."
"A certain ninja...? How could he have 'this guy'?
"Come on......? I don't know that far. But there's only one thing that's clear."
"What's that?
Zong Ying, who places one breath.
And the next moment, his eyes turned to something ruthless.
"The Shinobu is the fact that Lord Echimae and Hideyoshi sprayed 'water' on the verge of developing the disease."
- Zowa!!
Changan had goosebumps all over his body because of Soo-yong's words, or because of his killing, and Changan himself could not make a decision.
But as soon as he regained his feelings, he asked quietly.
"So that ninja has something to do with your two illnesses... is that what you're trying to say?
"Hehe, that doesn't sound like Lord Chang 'an"
"What do you mean?
Soo-yong stood up slowly, trying to look down at Chang 'an and said away.
"Speak clearly." I tried to assassinate you two, "he said."
"Bye, silly......"
"Most of all... Hideyoshi has been on our side."
"No way......"
Chang 'an drinks gokuri and spit. He rarely moves, but he couldn't even get up too stunned.
And I told him to spit it out.
"Are you telling me that 'Honta Genuine' planned the assassination..."
Chang 'an is still losing his hips.
Zong Yong, so close to the side of him, whispered in his ear as he placed his hand on his shoulder with Pong.
"Kicking down Hondo Genuine... isn't that a bad story?
Chang 'an opened his eyes wide to words with the huge shock of his back that seemed to disappear.
But he is also quite an ambitious man.
Immediately reverting to his original expression, he answered with a nitwit and an invincible grin on his mouth.
"A match of interest...... right"
And...