Japan, Settsu country, Ishiyama place, Honganji.

As the suzerain of Honganji Temple with great power, the meaning of this name in Japan is just like that of Chen Mu in Daming, which means promotion and wealth.

Although he is only a monk, he has the most believers in the world, the most believers donations, and a huge amount of money under the correct use of Honganji Xianru, and befriended the ministers and magnates.

Whether it is a powerful daimyo like Hosokawa Harumoto, a famous Buddhist family like the Tendai sect, or Konoe Maehisa who has worked as a Sekihaku, they all have a deep relationship with Honganji Temple, for example, one of them needs money to live, and the other has so much money that they don't know where to spend it.

In addition to spending money, it is also somewhat similar to Chen Mu in terms of making money, for example, in the past few years, as long as maritime merchants can make profits for Nanyang, then Haojing is a rare sea trade tax haven, when a region has this quality, it will suck in most of the wealth around it like a magnet.

In the vicinity of the Japanese king, as long as a wealthy village can find a way to ask Xianru to arrange a local agent for the owner, the owner will arrive with a document issued by Shinano and Owari Guardian exempting them from taxes and miscellaneous labor, and the local people from the lord to the peasants can get such a privilege - such a monk, who doesn't like it?

Even the emperor, who was so poor that he could not afford to hold an enthronement ceremony, was able to ascend the throne thanks to his patronage.

In the past, Shinano and Owari Guardian liked him very much, so eight terera towns were built outside the Ishiyama Honganji Imperial Workshop, and a good harbor made it prosper quickly, but now Oda Nobunaga, who calls himself Shinano and Owari Guardian, disliked him very much.

In particular, Oda Nobunaga did not know how many times he had asked for money from Honganji, but in short, the request failed, and the two sides went to war in order to obtain a good harbor for trade with foreign merchants.

On the triple turret near the sea in the Honganji Temple, a monk-robed figure by the window folded his hands and looked at the sea and complained to the samurai standing beside him.

"Why didn't Nobunaga want to stop fighting, didn't he ask for Ishiyama to get the iron cannon of the Southern Barbarians? Now there are no more Nanban people on the sea, and he will continue to fight for five years. Can't he see that we've just been doing nothing for five years? The Buddha can still keep me waiting for another five years! ”

The samurai standing beside him, dressed in black armor and wearing a robe and wearing Buddhist beads, was named Shimoma Yoriyo, the owner of Honganji Temple, who once served as the general during Oda's siege of Honganji, he stared at his eyes and pursed his lips, his tongue turned around his lips, and he rubbed his eyes in embarrassment and looked at the sea.

Xianru really didn't do anything, he wrote a letter to gather the believers, wrote a letter to unite all over the country, and went around the temple town to boost the morale of those believers who believed that it was easier to die by fighting the Buddha's enemies and dying to achieve blissful death.

It was all of them, the owners, and the believers who rushed from all over the country to stop the Oda army, but the fact is that it is true that if you don't concentrate your forces, Nobunaga will not be able to reach the castle of Honganji at all, and the current situation is obviously impossible to concentrate on Honganji.

"Nobunaga is not an iron cannon, there is no difference between him whether there are Nanbarians overseas or not, how much money the master gave him to support the battle, five thousand kan, five thousand kan, and five thousand kan, Nobunaga Duke wants to dominate Osaka."

"He wants to control Nara, Sakai and Kyoto, and from Yodo and Toba to the entrance to Osaka Castle, they can all be reached by boat, and here are the important places in the four directions, and there are large rivers such as the Kamo River, Shirakawa, Katsura River, Yodo River, and Uji River in the north, and within two or three miles, there are also Nakatsu River, Suita River, Eguchi River, and Kanzaki River, and the temple can build a ferry boat, all of which is what he wants."

Saying that, Lai Lian pouted and said, "Maybe he doesn't want to cross the boat anymore." ”

While the two were chatting, Kizugawa gathered a group of offshore warships, and more than 100 large and small warships with various flags and sails were used together, and quickly sailed towards Osaka Bay, looking for a suitable sea battle formation after leaving the river mouth.

At the same time, on the south bank of the Kizu River, a group of samurai and ashigaru troops gathered at Tsuguchi and led the farmers to build defenses.

It's too far away to see the leader of the army on the triple turret of Honganji Temple, but the golden papaya pattern is unusually recognizable from a distance.

Shimoma Yoriren leaned out from the triple turret, squinted his eyes and looked at it from a distance, and looked back: "It's Oda, they are building fortifications along the coast, in order to make up for the disadvantage of the exhaustion of the Ming Bune Feather Arrows in the naval battle, they want to blockade Osaka Bay by means of sea and land attacks, and cut off the connection between Kizuki and Ishiyama, and cut off our supplies." ”

On the other side of the Kizu River, the Kizu River was guarded by the owner of Honganji Temple, and Oda was unable to besiege Ishiyama on a large scale without uprooting the monks' strongholds in Settsu Province.

"Oda's ship is coming, and the warship of the Ming Kingdom is not far away." Honganji Xianru twisted the rosary on his chest with both hands, looked at the sea as usual, and even had the heart to sigh: "The Maori that was in full swing was defeated by these Ming ships, so let them fight, we don't have to fight." ”

"Don't fight? When the Ming ships come to fight, we will be able to seize the port with all our strength if we attack Sumiyoshi in the middle of the day! ”

"So what?"

Xianru sighed, recited a sentence of Nan Mu Amitabha Buddha in his mouth, and said: "Oda is the enemy of the Buddha, Maori is not, the Maori clan is weak, and the general of the Ming Kingdom still transports grain to us, hoping that we will help him drag Oda and let him control the Japanese trade." ”

"They control Nagasaki, Hakata, and Izumo, and if they take Osaka and Sakai again, the Ming warships will be able to reach Kyoto."

Control the trade, friends, and go straight to Kyoto, friends!

Xianru looked at Shimoma Lai Lian with round eyes: "Do you understand what this means?" ”

Lai Lian blinked, and his big bald head was shining: "The Ming army drove away Nobunaga Gong, and the Dharma Lord Shangluo?" ”

What a monk I went to Luo!

Before Nobunaga went to Luo, the little monk was swaggering around Kyoto all day long, and no one cared!

"Shangluo, I'm afraid that the Ming army is Shangluo, and the Ming Kingdom gathers the princes of Guanxi with King Qin's rebellion, but Nobunaga is not convinced to form an army to resist, Nobunaga wants to exterminate my sect, and the little monk wants to recruit believers from all over the world to reject it, in order to change people to control Gyeonggi." Xianru pursed his lips slightly, revealing a little unwillingness: "In this naval battle, no matter who wins, the little monk is unwilling...... It's a pity for Hui Yuangong! ”

The people of Gyeonggi still don't know why the once powerful Mori clan was cut off by thousands of Ming troops in the decisive battle, and they don't know how the Otomo clan expanded their power to Sanyang Province, and the Warring States Period, which was changing rapidly, became more and more chaotic due to the entry of the Ming Kingdom.

On the boundless sea, the warships of Kohaya and Sekibune roared from the Seto Inland Sea, forming a huge shadow between the sky and the sea, and the heavy war drums of the Ming Kingdom on the Seki ship were beaten, and the dancers with spears and knives responded loudly, and the momentum shook the sky.

The ships were divided into five teams, and the troops were arranged from the sea, and five huge warships with sails and Chinese characters came from the shadows, breaking the waves and protruding in front of the formation.

On the other side of the sea, the Oda naval forces ordered to blockade Osaka Bay were in full array.