After coming out of the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle, Hoshina Masayuki went back to his Aizu Domain House without going anywhere.
The lord of the Aizu Domain, Masayuki Hoshina, like most of the lords in Japan, did not live in the domain for a long time, but lived in the feudal residence in Edo for a long time. However, in order to show that he valued Aizu, he still allowed some of his family members to live in Wakamatsu Castle where the Aizu domain was located for a long time. Among them was his daughter Takako Hoshina, born to one of his concubines, who is now Tokugawa Takako. As the daughter of the feudal lord, Takako lived in Wakamatsu Castle from the day she was born. It was not until the year before last, when she turned 15, that she came to the feudal residence in Edo Castle.
And as soon as she entered Edo, she attracted the attention of countless people because of her beauty and tallness.
Yasukina Masayuki had many children, and most of them had outstanding looks - he himself was tall and handsome, and several of his concubines were all outstanding northern beauties. Of course, the children he gave birth to had outstanding looks. Therefore, in Edo today, there is a saying that "the intelligence of Mito is the beauty of Aizu".
And Takako is the most outstanding among the "beauties of Aizu", and the one who embarrasses Hoshina Masayuki the most... Takako is very beautiful, with eyebrows like distant mountains, a nose like grease, and lips like flowers. She has charming eyes, fair skin, and a tall and plump figure. At such a young age, his "mind" is already quite impressive!
But once such an outstanding beauty stood up, it was a bit embarrassing.
Because this girl is so tall, so tall that the samurai boys in Edo were put off... This matter is actually all blamed on Masayuki Hoshina, he is tall himself, and he also likes to eat meat secretly! He also passed on these two points to Gao Zi, which resulted in Gao Zi's height getting out of control.
Now Masayuki Hoshina can find young men from the Wu family who are on the same level as Gao Zi, and they are all at least half a head shorter than Gao Zi, and some are even a head shorter!
The people who could marry Takako were all well-known high-level samurai, so how could he be shorter than his wife in every aspect?
Moreover, this tall boy is not only tall, but he also likes to wield swords and guns, and ride horses and shoot arrows - these are all the consequences of living in the countryside of Aizu for a long time!
The whole wild girl!
It wouldn't matter if the warring states were now in turmoil. A daimyo's daughter could not only protect herself with some martial arts skills, but it would also help teach her son.
But now is the peaceful age. How can the wife of a high-ranking warrior in the peaceful age be a "Ji Wuji"?
So since the year before last, Masayuki Hoshina has been worrying about his daughter's marriage... but that boy Tokugawa Mitsukuni actually came up with the bad idea of sending Takako to Nanjing to present to the Ming Emperor!
Masayuki Hoshina actually disapproved of this matter, but he couldn't say no openly - didn't the Aizu Domain exist for the Shogun's family? Are you reluctant to part with a daughter now?
Therefore, while agreeing to this matter, Masayuki Yasukina also had a little illusion - this matter should not be so easy to accomplish, and it might be settled due to some differences between the two parties.
Therefore, he never mentioned this matter to his daughter Gaozi...
But I have to say it today!
Because Mitsukuni, a smart man from the Mito family, planned to go to the Ming Dynasty in the name of escorting Takako to the Nanjing court. The purpose should be to find out the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty navy... If the Ming Dynasty navy was defeated by the Spanish If this happens, then Japan may be able to return to the stable life of living in isolation.
If the Ming Navy can continue to fight, then the Tokugawa Shogunate will have to fight with it!
No matter what, the Satsuma clan with ulterior motives must be destroyed!
But for Gao Zi, it is inevitable to stay away from his hometown in Japan and enter the harem of the Chinese emperor alone, which is like a dragon pool and a tiger's den... The palace battles in the Chinese dynasty are very powerful, and a man like Gao Zi has no scheming. , and the little girl who is "very weak", can she bear it?
When the worried Hoshina Masayuki got out of a small, ugly sedan, he saw a tall girl wearing a kyudo uniform jumping up to meet him.
"Takako!" Masayuki Hoshina couldn't help but roared when he saw this wild girl.
"Father." Gao Zi stuck out his tongue playfully, and then bowed properly.
"Come into the house with me!" Masayuki Hoshina ordered and walked into the house.
Takako and Masayuki quickly followed. A maid was already kneeling in front of the sliding door, opened the sliding door for His Highness Aizu, and then bowed to the ground. Baoshi stopped at the door and said to his nickname: "You stay here, no one can come near without my order!"
"Hai!" Xiao surname responded, and then half-kneeling at the door.
Masayuki Hoshina and Takako entered the room, and then the father and daughter knelt down facing each other. Masayuki Hoshina frowned and said, "Takako...my father is going to send you to the palace to serve the emperor."
"Ah? Me?" Gao Zi was startled and looked at his father blankly, "Father, can my daughter serve His Majesty the Emperor even if she is not from a public family?"
"Emperor, hum! There are almost none!"
"The Emperor is going to die..." Gao Zi was completely shocked. What happened to his father? Are you confused by the stupid Gongfang?
"Takako!" Masayuki Hoshina looked at his daughter with a gloomy and terrifying face, "I'll tell you a secret, the Tokugawa family is preparing to become traitors!"
"Father, what did you say?" Gao Zi looked at his father with a surprised expression, "How could the Tokugawa family be rebellious officials and traitors? The whole world belongs to the Tokugawa family!"
yes! The whole world belongs to the Tokugawa family, how can the Tokugawa family be regarded as rebellious officials and traitors?
"That's why my father said that the emperor will be gone!" Yasukuni Masamichi said, "The old and the Chinese have jointly decided to abolish the emperor and respect the emperor as the king of Japan!"
"This..." Gao Zi was so surprised today. He looked at his father with great confusion, thinking: What's going on? You are good as a general, why should you be a king? And becoming a king doesn’t necessarily mean deposing the emperor!
And...why do you say this to yourself? I am not the successor, nor am I about to marry the general and become the royal palace.
Hoshina Masaichi looked serious: "Takako, do you know why Japan has an emperor?"
"I know! Because the emperor is a descendant of Amaterasu..."
"Nonsense!" Masayuki Hoshina glared at his daughter, "The reason why Japan has an emperor is to make Japan independent from the sea and not become a vassal of China. But now the general trend of the world has changed, and the sea of waves can no longer Barriers between China and Japan... around the Japanese archipelago, strong ships from China and the West have long been roaming. And Japan's hundreds of years of seclusion is about to end! And once the seclusion ends, Japan must enter the summer and Make a choice between joining the barbarians!
If Japan wants to enter the Xia Dynasty, it must surrender to the Celestial Empire, but the emperor's status is too high and it is impossible to surrender. Therefore, the Lao-China Conference decided to abolish the emperor!
At the same time, the Lao-Chinese meeting also decided to send you to the Ming Dynasty to enter the palace as a concubine! From now on, you will work hard for the safety of the Tokugawa family in the harem of the Great Tomorrow! "
"Father..." Gao Zi was a little dizzy, "Daughter, how should my daughter work hard?"
Baoshi was stunned, how can you work hard at this? I don’t seem to know how to...
"Ah, this," Hoshina thought for a while, "My father will arrange for someone to teach you!" He paused and then said, "My father will probably ask you about the situation of Japan's civil war tomorrow... ...You must let the Ming Dynasty know that only by letting the Tokugawa family win the war can Japan become a kingdom! If the Tokugawa family loses the war, then Japan will most likely become an empire that is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty!
Moreover, the enemy of the Tokugawa family is not Satsuma Shimazu or Nagasu Mori, but countless impoverished Western samurai... Once the war begins, they will inevitably gather under the banner of collapse! If the shogunate cannot win, then there will be more and more poor samurai who oppose the shogunate. Since they have the support of the Spanish and Catholics behind them, they will eventually raise the flag of open opposition to the Chinese Empire in Japan, the country of Kaidong! "
