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Chapter 20 The Miracle in the East of Mogu City

In the summer of 1557, the Mogu City, which lasted a year, was finally completed. In order to make Mogu City more European, I even spared no expense to cast a pair of big bells and installed on the bell towers on both sides above the Tianshou Pavilion of the Mogu City Lord's building. It is said that when Daoye Mountain City was particularly quiet, you can hear the crisp bells from Tianshou on the top of Mogu City from the far away at an hour.

If Europeans come here and see the high spire and bell tower unique to the Gothic style, they will exclaim, "Ou, Mai Ka. Notre Dame Cathedral in the East." You must know that in order to ensure this effect, the budget has increased by 30,000 jin.

The Lord Tianshou Pavilion is divided into three levels. The first floor is an empty hall and a Roman column made of stone. In the middle, a human-shaped fountain was made with natural spring water. Of course, I am not as perverted as Europeans, so I have some fountains for peeing with little boys with long wings. The European craftsmen I asked for a high salary to create a more elegant Venus fountain with broken arm. The spring water flows from the three points exposed by Venus to the small pool in the center of the hall. Even Oda Nobunaga and a group of important officials who came to visit were stunned. Of course, we all admired this work of art with an artistic perspective.

The second floor is a living area, mainly composed of various Japanese-style small compartments, divided into different bedrooms, restaurants, and study rooms. The third floor is a huge bell tower on both sides of the left and right. Behind the Tianshou Pavilion is a huge warehouse, which can store up to 100,000 stones of rice. It is enough for 10,000 people to eat for more than five years. The warehouse is surrounded by retainers and sapling residences.

In order to strengthen defense, there are twelve Japanese-style Xiaotianshou in the two four-meter-high granite walls inside and outside, which are dangerously located in the fortress. I named these Tianshou according to the zodiac sign of the Nanman Star Map. Each Xiaotianshou has a constellation icon on the front, and the twelve small team leaders guarding Xiaotianshou also wear all gilded armor. I believe that except for Saint Seiya Xiaoqiang, the vitality of ordinary people cannot be killed.

Each Xiaotianshou carefully designed by Dodon Yasui can accommodate 300 people for defense. Of course, this kind of defense does not guarantee that the city will not be captured. In fact, there will be no castle that will never fall before and will not be there in the future. The greatest effort we can do is to constantly cause trouble to the attackers during construction, so that they can know that this is a city that cannot be captured without spending huge sacrifices.

The reason why I dare to play innovation with confidence is because my lord, His Highness Oda Nobunaga, is also a guy who is not bound by secular traditions. Doing so will only arouse his interest, not rebuke or disgust. In the past two years, the gifts I gave to Oda Nobunaga every year during the Chinese New Year have one or two imported products collected from the Southern Barbarians. Last year it was a two-meter-high dressing mirror. This year, in addition to a single-node telescope, there are also several bottles of perfume from France.

With the efforts of Masuda Changsheng, the land in the entire area of ​​Mogu has been liquidated, and the top paddy fields that can be cultivated directly have been cultivated. Most of the nineteen thousand stones have been cultivated. Because I released ten years of unconditional land at the beginning of my successor to the city lord, the enthusiasm of farmers under Mogucheng to pioneer the territory has increased, but the taxes are still the 14,000 stones.

The current waste of the Mogu is 20,000 stones of medium-sized dry land and 8,000 stones of land, and almost no one cultivates it. However, Nagato Matsuda made a project and spent 35,000 kilograms of watering. It will directly water 20,000 stones of dry land and land, and improve it into paddy fields. I distributed 10,000 stones to my retainers and soldiers. Of course, I can only rely on their families or hired people to cultivate. Professional soldiers in my family cannot farm. The other 10,000 stones will be managed by Nagato Matsuda on my behalf. In any case, the land that has ten years of tax exemption is still very important.

In September of that year, the Oda family was in the gate. First, after the rebellious Yamaguchi Seiyaki's father and son were used by Imaguchi Yoshimoto, Imaguchi Yoshimoto, who lost the value of reuse, he was summoned to the Junfu Mansion to commit suicide by cesarean section. Nakaguchi Yoshimoto was the confidant of Imaguchi Yoshimoto and Okabe Motonobu served as the lord. Due to the innocent death of Yamaguchi's father and son, the local tyrants near Nakaguchi were disheartened by the Imaguchi family, and no one dared to sell food to Nakaguchi. Nakaguchi and Ogao Castle were the lords. The generals of the Oda family villages stationed outside attacked one after another, burning down the rice that was about to mature outside Minghai City. Since Minghai City and Dagao City have been besieged for several years, the stored food and grass have long been exhausted. At this point, Minghai City and Dagao City have lived a life of Zhang Xunluo catching rats. Now, all the people in the city starve to death, and then the Oda family goes in and takes over. This is just like the book says, the people in the city want to come out, and the people outside the city want to go in.

Another happy event was that Oda Nobunaga's Sidemuro Yoshino gave birth to Oda Nobunaga's first son - Qimimaru. Oda Nobunaga finally had his own heir.

All the retainers, 'Your Highness will unify the world for thousands of years.' Since then, the unity of the Oda family has reached a new level.

Of course, I can't escape a generous gift for such a big event. Let Maeda Gen first give him five thousand guan.

In the past year, although the Oda family has developed Mino's country in a leapfrog manner, there are more and more enemies to worry about. Needless to say, the Imakawa family. First, the Asakura family of Echizen, this is the old rival of Saito Domisan. For the sake of territory disputes, it has to be fought once or twice a year on the border. After Saito Domisan retired, this task was left to Oda Nobunaga. As for the harassment of Ohashiro from his old rival Ise and the stronghold of Honanji Temple in Nagashima Castle, Ise, the stronghold of Nagashima. Fortunately, the new neighbors Akai Himasa and Takeda Shingen were fighting against the Uesugi family respectively, and their attitude towards the Oda family was slightly alleviated.

After being promoted to the city lord, except for fighting with the lord, I was asked to defend the territory and train soldiers during the rest of the time. I took the opportunity to expand the number of Iron Cannon Football Light. Now Iron Cannon Football Light has reached 600 people. According to the regulations of the Oda family, one person was sent to the 50-stone territory. Of course, this refers to peasant soldiers for ordinary local tyrants. I am now the general who guards the territory of Mogucheng City. According to this number, I should send 600 troops during the battle, but private soldiers and retainers are not included. My flagship guard team has always maintained around 100 people, and Ishikawa Wuyoumon also has 100 people in the ninja army, and 800 iron artillery soldiers, except for His Highness Oda Nobunaga, were also considered the best in the Warring States Period.

Although merchants and non-hostile Daming from all over the country also sent people to buy iron cannons at Weizhang Whale House, their biggest weakness is that they are reluctant to train and use them in a dispersed manner. These two points are undoubtedly caused by the price of fifty iron cannons per one and the lifespan of scrapped thirty rounds. I don’t have these two problems. The iron cannons used by iron artillery are produced by whale houses, and the cost is negligible. After the training iron cannons are broken, the scrapped parts will be replaced and re-furnished.

After processing the gift for the birth of Qimiaomaru, Sakura and I prepared another gift to Inayayama Castle for the wedding. The gift was 25 taels of gold and 200 guan a year old IOU. I remember it, yes, it was a monkey's IOU. This time I was going to attend the wedding of Monkey Kinisho Fujiro.

Originally, the monkey didn't plan to have a big fuss, so he only invited his old boss, Maeda Taki family to host the wedding and be the witness. But who asked the Maeda Taki family's nephew to be a job here? Maeda Kiyoji is a guy who is used to spoofing. After hearing the news, he immediately reported to me and made suggestions that I was very satisfied with.

I still want to meet the North Master Institute. Maeda Keiji paid a special fee and made dozens of invitations with several retainers overnight. In the past, the Tari family sent all the people who could speak a little by little.

So, after the Maeda Taki family and Mrs. Asong held a simple wedding for the monkey, a group of He Ke broke into the monkey's house under the leadership of Niba Nagahide, who had been promoted to general.

The monkey and the bride saluted and greeted each other, "Mr. Ninoha, Kudo, Kawajiri, I didn't expect you to come. It's really a problem for you."

‘Where is, my subordinates are overjoyed, you must not ignore them.’ Ninoha Nagahide stretched out his thumb, ‘In terms of diligence and care, Fujiko is the one we follow. This is my gift, and a gift from my lord has also asked me to bring it to me.’

Kishita Fujiro took the gift and his eyes turned red with excitement. "The lord is busy with everything and still cares about small worldly affairs like me. It's so touching."

I handed the gift, 'Brother Fujiro, there is nothing to give on a happy day.' Everyone knows that the Kudo family likes to give cash. But Fujiro unconsciously sank when buying the gift, and everyone knows that the weight is not light.
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