At the beginning of November, the cold winter had arrived, and a heavy snowfall fell in the Sekigahara area, which postponed the eastward advance of the Ming army.

In Hikone Castle, a young man in a black kimono was escorted by a team of Ming soldiers to the castle tower where Zhu Cihong was staying.

As soon as he entered the hall on the second floor of the pavilion, the young man looked at the man on the first seat in a daze, and didn't say a word for a while.

Xu Sheng scolded: "Ignorant child, when you see Your Majesty, you still don't kneel down and kowtow!" ”

The sound of the flood sounded in his ears like thunder, and the young man was frightened and trembled, and immediately trotted a few steps forward, knelt on the ground and bowed to worship, shouting: "Your Majesty Tokugawa Iezuna, long live your majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Get up and speak."

Zhu Cihong let him get up with a smile, glanced at Xu Sheng again, and said, "Don't scare other people's children." ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna is the current shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the fourth shogun of the shogunate, fourteen years old this year, not tall, with a simple face, as rumored to be the image of the mentally handicapped.

Frightened by Xu Sheng like this, Tokugawa Ietsuna didn't dare to look directly at Zhu Cihong after he got up, and stood there with his head down, pinching his cuffs very stiffly and repeatedly, as if he had obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Zhu Cihong was a little interested, walked up to him with a smile, and asked, "Let me test you: a coachman, driving a carriage, there are five people sitting in the carriage, each carrying five bags, each bag has five pieces of clothing, how many sleeves are there in the carriage?" ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna raised his head, looked at Zhu Cihong with a confused expression, and quickly dodged away.

He lowered his head and counted his fingers, counting back and forth, and the more he counted, the more chaotic he became, and it took a long time to reply: "I...... I can't count ......."

Zhu Cihong raised his eyebrows and continued to ask: "Then I will ask a simple one, do you know elephants?" ”

At this time, Tokugawa Ietsuna came to his strength, and a rare smile appeared on his originally nervous face, and he replied with a sincere face: "I know! ”

Zhu Cihong nodded slightly, and said, "If I give you an elephant and ask you to weigh it, what will you do?" ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna thought for a while, and replied with a smile: "This is simple, the elephant is too big, and there is no such big scale in the world, so the elephant should be slaughtered first, and then weighed little by little." ”

Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, and almost laughed, when he suddenly heard Xu Sheng's thunderous voice beside him again.

"Presumptuous! Your Majesty gave you an elephant, you dare to slaughter it, Lao Tzu slaughtered your boy first! ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna was so frightened that he rolled his eyes, and his body staggered and almost died suddenly on the spot.

Fortunately, Wu Zhong was quick to see him, put him to the ground, pressed his chest and slapped his face, and finally rescued the person.

Zhu Cihong was speechless and ordered: "Title him as An Lebo and bring him back to Daming in captivity." ”

After Tokugawa Ietsuna was taken down, Zhu Cihong suddenly said to Wu Zhong: "Give him an elephant, and when he comes up with a way to weigh it, kill it!" ”

Wu Zhong lowered his head and answered, knowing it in his heart.

It's good that this fool's IQ has always been like this, if he has a smart mind, that is, when he dies, unless he endures humiliation and lives, and pretends to be wise and foolish all his life.

At this time, someone suddenly came to report that Date Tadamune, the daimyo of the Sendai Domain, had united more than 20 daimyo from the northern part of the Kanto Plain and announced that he would raise an army and bring down the curtain and send an envoy to meet him.

Zhu Cihong nodded slightly, and said, "It is rumored that the generals of our army and all the big names of the Jin Sui Army will meet together!" ”

The Sendai Domain, the largest feudal state in the Tohoku region of Japan, was a daimyo of the country who enjoyed the seat of Edo Castle Daihiroma, and was allowed to use the surname Matsudaira by the Edo Shogunate.

Seeing the situation, Date Tadamune raised his arms and immediately won the support of the surrounding daimyos, and they gathered an army of 50,000 and marched towards Edo, hoping to get a piece of the Ming army.

Originally, the Sendai clan wanted to gather a group of people, hold their own troops, sit and watch the success or failure of both sides, and then take the opportunity to come forward to clean up the mess and pick the last fruits.

Therefore, after the decisive battle of Sekigahara, Date Tadamune immediately sent a henchman envoy to Sekigahara to pay homage to the Ming Emperor and the Emperor of Japan in the name of finding out how much strength the Ming army still had.

In the hall, the generals of the Ming army and the daimyo of the feudal clans soon arrived, and the envoys of the Sendai clan also arrived.

As soon as the envoy came, he bowed three times and bowed to Zhu Cihong, congratulated the Ming army on its victory in the Battle of Sekigahara, and said some compliments.

Under the watchful eye of a great man, the envoy finally got to the point, and praised loudly with a smile on his face: "His Majesty the Great Emperor hangs the people and kills the people for Japan, which is really a blessing for Japan, and I, the Sendai Domain, am willing to follow the Ming Dynasty and crusade against the Tokugawa shogunate together with the Heavenly Army!" ”

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the daimyo who had surrendered to the Ming army early, and the Maori Outline rushed directly to the court and beat the envoy of the Sendai Domain, beating and scolding at the same time, how ugly it was to hear and how ugly it was.

At the beginning of the Maori Outline, he sent people to contact the Sendai Domain many times to do things together.

However, Date Tadamune only supported him spiritually, and did not even say a word about the scene.

Later, the Ming army conquered Kyoto, and the Maori Tsunade sent someone to persuade the Sendai Domain again in order to make meritorious service, but the old guy of Date Tadamune was like a fart, and he only made a verbal promise, and he didn't even see a ghost during the Sekigahara War.

Maori outline has been hot face and cold ass many times, how not to be angry?

Now that he has been given the title of "General Xiu" by the Ming Emperor, he feels that his status is even more noble, and he doesn't take the Sendai Domain in his eyes at all.

Maori slammed the envoy and scolded, "What the hell did you do?" Only when we have destroyed the main force of the shogunate army will you jump out and defect and pick ready-made peaches to eat? Date old puff is so shameless! ”

"General Xiu misunderstood...... the messenger hugged his head and said to forgive.

"Get out of here!"

The Maori outline is grumpy.

A daimyo tactfully reminded: "General Xiu is angry, this matter still needs to be decided by His Majesty the Great Emperor." ”

Maori Outline then remembered that the master was still here, and he hurriedly asked for sin: "Your Majesty forgives me, just now the minister was too impulsive." ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you step back!" ”

When the envoy heard this, he secretly said that this matter was not good, and the Ming Emperor allowed this Maori dog to beat him, and he had already expressed a certain attitude.......

Zhu Cihong said: "Sendai envoy, I have issued an order to your master, let him make a decision early, not snakes and rats at both ends, since your master has promised to send troops to the end, why don't you Sendai Domain send a soldier to help the battle on the battlefield of Sekigahara!" ”

The envoy hurriedly said: "Returning to His Majesty the Great Emperor, the lord really wants to lead the army to come to Sekigahara to help in the battle, but the weather is suddenly cold, and our army needs time to prepare winter clothes, and the distance between Sendai and Sekigahara is thousands of miles, so I couldn't get to Sekigahara in time......"

He added, "However, the lord has gathered twenty-five daimyo from the northeast and gathered 100,000 troops to fall to the curtain, and is now heading to Edo in the hope of making up for ......"

Zhu Cihong scoffed at the little tricks of the Sendai Domain, and said a little impatiently: "There is no need to explain, your master's mind even understands a three-year-old child, go back and tell Date Tadamune that I will take Edo in a few days, and if his army dares to step into the Kanto Plain half a step, it will be an enemy of me and my Ming Dynasty!" ”