Chapter 31: The True Dragon Returns to the Sea (700 Recommendations and Updates)
Because of the relationship between the entire sect of Enryakuji Temple, Enryakuji Temple sent some monks to Kuroda's house and established a temple of the Tendai sect outside Kuroda Castle and Himeji Castle, but the Kuroda family demanded that the two temples have no direct collar, and the Kuroda family is responsible for all expenses. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info repeatedly negotiated on both sides of this article for three years.
In the end, it was the monks of the whole sect who tried their best to persuade Enryakuji to agree, after all, the Tiantai sect and the Pure Land Shinshu were old enemies, and both sides had burned each other's temples, such as Yamashina Honganji, which could go to the range of the power of the Pure Land Shinshu to preach, and with the help of the Kuroda family, completely suppressing the Pure Land Shinshu would have been a great victory for them. As for money, the Kuroda family doesn't want sesame oil money, and they pay a large amount of subsidies every year, which is good.
For the Kuroda family, the role of the Tiantai sect is to spread the Buddhism of the Tiantai sect in the territory, and the Kuroda family has an interesting suppression of the Pure Land Shinshu, such as not allowing the Pure Land Shinshu monks or believers to enter the country, etc., so although it is not far from the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, there are basically no believers in the Kuroda family's territory, which basically eliminates the possibility of the occurrence of the soil and the past.
In the past few years that Wanji has been in the imperial book, the sister-in-law of the small temple political position, Saimaru has grown to five years old, lively and active, very smart, and Wanji feels that as long as this child grows up, it is definitely not comparable to his indecisive father Xiaoji political position, and he should be an excellent lord, at least it is not a problem to defend the land.
But Wanji has a hurdle in his heart, that is, no matter what the future holds, whether the Kuroda family becomes an independent master of the family and becomes a daimyo, or Xia Keshang seizes the inheritance of the main family, the final result must be to be an enemy of the Kodera family, will grandfather and father agree? After all, the direct line of the Kuroda family has always been grateful to the Kodera family from top to bottom.
It is impossible for Wanji to know about the future, so it is useless to worry. After Saimaru listened to the story told by Wanji once, he liked to listen to the story, after all, staying in a small space all the year round and having no entertainment activities was a life-threatening thing. At first, I listened to stories, but when I grew up a little, I began to practice martial arts with Wanji, wherever Wanji went, he would follow him, just like Wanji's little heel, Wanji really had no choice but to go with him.
Because he knew in advance that Wanji was going back to Kuroda City after the New Year, the little guy also made a big fuss, and Wanji was afraid that he would not be able to go back because of Saimaru, so he could only try his best to appease Saimaru, promising to come to see him often, and would tell him a lot of stories and make fun toys, so that Saimaru could be reassured. Wanji felt guilty in his heart, because he knew that once he was subdued and returned to the Kuroda family, he would try to stay away from the Kodera family in order to achieve hegemony, and all the promises he made to Saimaru would be difficult to fulfill! Maybe it's a good idea to write some storybooks and make some toys to send to Gosho Castle.
In 1560, after the end of the New Year's Eve at Gosho Castle, Manyoshi, now Kodera Vocational High School, was allowed to return to the Kuroda family, along with the two princesses of the Kushibashi family, Ali and Ako, who would officially marry into the Kuroda family. Of course, there are also Muri Takebei and Hattori Masanari. Kuroda Vocational High School, the true dragon that disturbed the Warring States has finally returned to the sea, and the Kuroda family will officially embark on the path of the Warring States.
Originally, according to the rules, Ali and Ah Guang should have returned to Kushihashi's house first, and then came to Kuroda's house. However, Kushihashi Itada considered that there were dozens of miles from Kushibashi's house in Katama County to Kuroda Castle in Iho County, and the Kushihashi family's force was poor, so it was difficult to keep it, so after weighing it, it was safer for the two daughters to go to Kuroda Castle with Koji Vocational High School. The Kuroda family married the two princesses of the Kushiqiao family this time, so the dowry was also full of blood, 50 gold and 500 silver, two of the best Kuroda and 20 pieces of Ming silk. In addition to these belongings, there were also 20 crossbows and 300 crossbows, 50 sets of weapons and armor, and 5 horses.
The Kuroda family's gold and silver alone this time was almost one-tenth of the Kushibashi family's annual tax revenue, and Kuroda ware can now be easily sold for more than fifteen yuan in Kyoto and Sakai Town, and the demand is still in short supply. What's more, the Kuroda family gave the best Kuroda ware, and it is said that even the famous tea man Sen no Rikyu was full of praise. There are definitely no more than five Kuroda ware products on the market, and each of them is considered to be a priceless treasure, and the price in the store is more than 100 kan.
The silk of the Ming Kingdom is extremely expensive because it is the product of overseas trade, at least the Kuroda family itself is reluctant to use silk, but the gift is indeed high-end and face-saving.
The hand crossbow is still a secret of the Kuroda family, and the Kuroda family itself is only equipped with two hundred people to use, of course, there must still be a lot of inventory in the warehouse. As a traditional samurai, Kushihashi Yiding doesn't look down on the crooked way of the crossbow, but in the Kushihashi Sakyo near Yize, who has been subdued, he is very interested in the crossbow, and after he tried it, he excitedly told Kushihashi Yiding that the Kushihashi family has these twenty crossbows, as long as there are enough crossbow arrows, even if they are besieged by 5,000 people, they are confident to hold Shifang City.
Kushihashi Yiding didn't expect that in his son's mouth, this small hand crossbow would have such a high evaluation, and Kushihashi Yi told his father that a well-made, powerful longbow is definitely sold for more than ten times on the market, and the hand crossbow is easy to aim, does not require perennial training, and is extremely powerful when attacking at short range, it can basically kill with a crossbow, and the value of a crossbow is definitely more than double that of a longbow, he feels that the actual value is more than twenty times, and the current cost of the Kuroda family to produce this kind of crossbow is less than the usual money. You must know that at this time in Sakai Town, the price of an iron cannon ranged from 100 to 300 koko, but the effect of the two weapons was the same, and the cost of the iron cannon was at least twenty or thirty koko.
In fact, the crossbow is not uncommon in Japan, but traditional samurai like swords and bows, just like the previous Imate Tomoshi believes that the crossbow is not in line with the spirit of bushido and samurai traditions, so although it is powerful, there is basically no crossbow in the history of Japan's Warring States period. Although Kushihashi approved of the crossbow, he would not use it himself, and although he was young, he himself was definitely a typical example of a traditional samurai.
As for the value of other weapons and armor and horses, not to mention, Kushiqiao Yiding looked at this generous gift, probably calculated it, and found that these gifts were basically equivalent to a year's income of Kushihashi's family.
Kushihashi Yi was thinking about how to get more crossbows from Wanyoshi, and if there were enough crossbows, maybe the Kushihashi family could expand outward like the Kuroda family.
Because there are more female dependents in the team, on the day of departure back to Kuroda Castle, I can only enter the castle to rest just by walking to Himeji Castle. Because he was notified by Koji Takahisa, Kuroda Shigetaka also came from Kuriyama Village.
"Is this the princess of the Kushibashi family? It's so beautiful! It feels like Kushihashi Itudin is still a young man, but his daughters are so old. As soon as Kuroda Shigetaka arrived at Himeji Castle, he didn't care about anything, and went directly to the palace to see his two granddaughters-in-law. As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Ah Li and Ah Guang, and I didn't have time to say hello, so I smiled very satisfied.
"Father, what do you say?" Koji Takahisa said with a wry smile; "Kushihashi-sama is older than my brother! And Wanji has reached the age of marriage, when did you say it! ”
"Look at me so old and confused, I still remember that year when I sent Zhilong to be the companion of the lord, but I was bullied by this bastard of Kushihashi!" After Kuroda Shigetaka finished speaking, Ali and Hikari immediately became nervous, they didn't know that their father had bullied Kuroda Zhitaka.