After all, Suemori Castle is the current base of the Katsuhata Oda family, and the banquet held to welcome the arrival of Tsugawa Soji is much larger than the one held yesterday at Nakono Castle.

The retainers of the Oda family were almost all present, and there were forty or fifty people sitting in the castle tower of Suemori Castle.

Even the head of the Iwakura Oda family next door, Oda Ise Morishinyasu, brought a few retainers to join in the fun, and like the other retainers of the Oda family, they all came to pay homage to the famous Tsugawa Soji.

In fact, if Tsugawa Soji was simply the head of the Izugawa family, he would not be so popular.

After all, although the Tsugawa family's current stone height is nearly a million stones, the distance between Dewa and Owari is too far, and it can be said that these people may have nothing to do with the Tsugawa family in their lives.

But who made the Tsugawa family's economy unusually prosperous today? Not only is kimchi popular in RB, but all kinds of rare Nanban and Tang things are also hot goods. The most important thing is that Owari is located in the Nobi Plain, and there is basically no danger to defend in the fertile fields.

Cavalry is extremely popular here.

The Tsugawa family now controls 70% of the horse farms in the Ou area, and the war horse resources are abundant. With the current strength of the Tsugawa family, it can only maintain the scale of 500 horses, and it can't afford to raise more. And the remaining war horse resources can only be sold, and what Oda Nobuhide values most is actually the war horse resources of the Tsugawa family.

Of course, by the way, I also hope to reach a trade agreement with the Tsugawa family, so that the Oda family can also make a fortune.

The war horses of Kyushu and Saikoku generally do not reach Owari, and Shinano's horses are not exported, so there is no other way to have a high-quality good horse than to kneel and lick the Tsugawa family at this time.

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Sitting in the castle tower of Suemori City, looking at the people around him under the pressure of darkness, and everyone cast all kinds of eyes on him, Tsugawa Soji felt a little restrained.

Under the repeated invitation of Oda Nobuhide, Tsugawa Soji sat on the right side of Oda Nobuhide, giving the Tsugawa family enough face.

Sitting at the front of the bottom is Oda Nobuyan, the head of the Iwakura Oda family, and behind Oda Nobuyan there are also several retainers of the Iwakura Oda family.

The one who started was called Yamauchi Morito, the lord of Kuroda Castle of the Iwakura Oda family. This name is not too famous, but Yamauchi Moritoyo's son Yamauchi Kazutoyo is familiar to him, after all, he is a man who has been the protagonist of Taiga dramas, and he still has some impressions of his father Yamauchi Moritoyo Tsugawa Soji.

The person sitting next to Yamauchi Moritoyo is called Maeno Nagayasu, who historically served as Kinoshita Hideyoshi's retainer, and can be regarded as a figure. For the Iwakura Oda family, Yamauchi Moritoyo and Maeno Nagayasu are already the pillars of the family.

At this point, the retainers of the Katsuhata Oda family are much more luxurious.

Lin Xiuzhen and Oda Nobumitsu don't talk about it first, they had met when they were in Kyoto before. What interested Soji Tsugawa the most was Masahide Katsuhata, the second seat of the Oda family, and the old Hirate Masahide who sat on the sidelines with a blank face.

Hirate Masahide is very famous, and of course the most impressive thing is the rumored case of Oda Nobunaga, the lord of "bohemian and freedom-loving", who died by seppuku.

However, Masahide Hirate is indeed the humerus retainer of the Katsuhata Oda family in the Nobuhide and Nobunaga eras.

The 55-year-old Hirate Masahide looks like a bad old man, unkempt and shabby, and the kind that is so inconspicuous when thrown into the crowd. It's hard to be like such a person, but he has the talent of Wang Zuozhi.

Hirate Masahide can be described as an "all-rounder", and he is extremely good at waka and tea ceremony, and when the Minister Yamashin came to Owari, he also admired Hirate Masahide. As a retainer of the Oda family, Masahide Hirate can be said to have contributed a lot. In particular, the performance in the financial and diplomatic fields is particularly outstanding.

In the twelfth year of Astronomy, he was in charge of the Oda family and the imperial court, and personally sent 4,000 yuan to the imperial court as the cost of repairing the imperial palace, which also made Oda Nobuhide, a hillbilly in Owari, very popular.

At that time, the imperial court was very grateful to the Oda family, but after thinking about it, they couldn't come up with anything in return, so they finally sent several masters who were good at waka to Nakono Castle to hold a waka party in person. It was a long insight into the hillbillies of Owari, and by the way, it also gave the Oda family a wave of prestige.

Moreover, Hirate Masahide also held high the "banner of money", making friends with ministers and daimyo along the way, and it can be said that what Tsugawa Soji played in Shangluo this time was all left over from Hitete Masahide. Of course, in terms of the amount of money thrown, Soji Tsugawa can still find some sense of existence.

Needless to say, the Oda family was able to gain a foothold in the area of the Owari War and was not attacked by the surrounding daimyos. And from time to time, he also unites other forces to do things, and from here alone, it can reflect the diplomatic means of the tie and the political show.

Moreover, at this time, Hirate Masahide was already working to promote the marriage of Owari and Mino, completely eliminating Owari's worries.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Oda family can be as strong as it is today, and the tie Masahide should be the first credit.

And with the introduction of Oda Nobuhide, more and more "cow people" appeared in front of Tsugawa Soji.

Tsugawa Soji alone has an impression of Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori, Sakuma Moriya, Sakuma Sadakiyo and others, and even the figure of Yamaguchi Kyotsugu, the father of Yamaguchi Kyotsugu, the Tsugawa family's foreign affairs liao, also appeared in it, which can be said to be full of talents. Of course, compared to the current retainers of the Tsugawa family, it looks a little shabby.

The more he learned about this world, the more he understood that the so-called "talents" were actually blown out. And those fierce generals who have data against the sky in the game, can they still resist a few iron cannons without dying?

After all, fighting a war depends on the overall strength of Ashigaru and its own financial resources, and there are various factors. Fierce generals and the like can only be icing on the cake, and they are completely dispensable.

100 Honda Tadashi won't necessarily be able to withstand a salvo of 500 iron cannons, after all, "that man's preparation" is not in vain.

Just a little amazed at the celebrities of Owari Kuni, and fulfilled the dream of the year, Tsugawa Soji quickly came back to his senses.

Today's banquet, in addition to welcoming Tsugawa Soji, is more appropriate to discuss various agreements that the Tsugawa family and the Oda family may reach in the future. First of all, there is the trade agreement that Oda Nobuhide values the most.

After finishing the meal, a bunch of unrelated people left consciously, while a few people such as Oda Nobuhide and Hirate Masahide stayed.

"Tsugawa Hall, this is the family's various accounts, and the top one is Tsushima Minato, an important source of income for the family, and please look at Tsugawa Hall!" Hirate Masahide placed a thick stack of accounts in front of Tsugawa Soharu and continued, "Dewa is far from Owari, and it is extremely inconvenient to travel by land. ”

"In the past, there have been merchant ships from the Mutsu area that have visited Ise Bay, and Tsugaru Juso has the most of them, but recently it has become rarer. Therefore, I think that if you and we can conclude a trade agreement, we can mainly trade by sea! ”

When it comes to business, Soji Tsugawa also gets serious. After carefully pondering Masahide Hirate's words, Soji Tsugawa spoke.........