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Chapter 87
"With regard to the issue of the tribute in May, everyone has basically made a decision after these few days of discussion, so this general decided to go to the Kingdom of Meng for a tribute survey and cooperation, with Mr. Song Yongxiu as the ambassador, and with..."

Before Yihui finished speaking, the actual controller of the external power of the general's mansion, the current head of the Miyoshi family, and the old man of Matsunaga Hideo, Miyoshi Changqing, directly interrupted Yihui's words without saving any face for the general in name.He said to Yihui with an attitude that seemed humble, but actually did not tolerate any doubts from others:

"This subject thinks that the General's actions are inappropriate. It is enough honor for my Miyoshi family to be favored by the General. I also ask the General not to think about my Miyoshi's family in such honorable matters. The subject thinks that the Hosokawa family can do it." Fujitaka is the main envoy, the eloquent Ryoma Sakamoto is the deputy envoy, and Yui Kujo, who is proficient in Sinology, is the interpreter. With the three of them as the core, the mission will be smooth and smooth. .”

"Eh..." Yihui hesitated.

"Look, my lord, let's make a decision like this!"

Miyoshi Changqing immediately made a decision, and no one in the council hall dared to speak out against it.So the beautiful mission to Damengchao fell on Bao'er so easily, even though he was just a translator.

But here lies the problem, why are the Miyoshi family, who have always seen no rabbits and no eagles, so magnanimously giving up the good opportunity to make money to Hosokawa and Bao'er this time?You must know that the Miyoshi family is the actual controller of Sakai Port, and a large amount of tax money will flow into the treasury of the Miyoshi family every year.What's more, the last tribute trade was monopolized by the Miyoshi family, and that trade alone made the Miyoshi family a net profit of hundreds of thousands.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." After the meeting, Ryoma pulled Bao'er and whispered, "I'm afraid our activities around Mr. General in the past few years have already made the Miyoshi family feel a sense of crisis."

"Us?" Bao'er pointed to his nose and asked, "What sense of crisis can he feel? Ashikaga Yoshiki himself doesn't care about political affairs, he only knows how to practice swords and sell officials all day long!"

"As the saying goes, money is a hero's courage. It is precisely because of our appearance that in recent years, the financial situation that Miyoshi's family deliberately created for Mr. General has been greatly alleviated. They are very afraid that Mr. General will take back the old man little by little. The military and political power occupied by the Miyoshi family."

"How?"

"How?" Ryoma said with a smile, "Unless Master Yihui can move the rescuers and invite Shangluo, the daimyo from the northern part of Honshu, to defeat the Miyoshi family who besieged Kyoto. It did, but…”

"but?"

"Do you remember the scene that the adults saw in the illusion of the demon sword?"

Bao'er nodded and said: "Remember, he said that he was besieged by many people in the imperial palace that was on fire."

"That's right! In the history of my world, Lord Yoshiki died at the hands of the Miyoshi."

"So..." Bao'er sneered and said with a dark face, "I'm afraid there will be many accidents during our tribute trip this time?"

Long Ma also let out a long sigh, and said in a restless mood, "I'm afraid that we won't be the only ones with accidents..."

It was only April at this time, and there were at least 20 days before the departure time of the May tribute.Moreover, the tribute ship was rented from Dongbao, and this ship had already parked at the pier of Sakai Port.This is not Raphael's own initiative to let the ship arrive at Sakai Port early, but the request of the General's Mansion.As a tribute ship also has decoration requirements, the ship sent by Raphael is being refitted by a group of craftsmen in the port.

At the same time, the sailors on board unloaded the largest piece of canvas above the foremast, and left it there empty.Boa didn't know what it was for at first, but after Ryoma explained it, he realized that the reason why the sailors would remove the blue sail with the logo of the Toho anchor of the Federation (crossed out) was to bring the Ashikaga crest to the sailors. empty space for the sails.But the embarrassing thing is that they couldn't find a piece of canvas big enough to make a sail for this sea-going ship in the whole port of Sakai.

So the result is like now, the captain of the new sail who couldn't wait for two days ordered the sailors to reinstall the removed sail within an hour according to the "crisis prevention" regulations in the naval maneuver code.Then Bao'er saw that the sailors on the ship spoke Shandong dialect, Zhejiang dialect, Jurchen dialect and Korean dialect, and greeted the elders who didn't know who they were in the simplest language of their respective hometowns.

Of course, Boa and Ryoma couldn't stay by the boat all day, and they still had to meet with the top leader of the mission, Hosokawa Fujitaka.Fortunately, Hosokawa Fujitaka also came to Sakai Port early, so there was no need for Boa and Ryoma to toss back and forth between Sakai Port and Kyoto.But when the two of them saw Fujitaka Hosokawa, they found that this person's face was green, and he was still in a state of extreme confusion.

"Would the Sanhao old dog kindly appoint me as an envoy? What kind of medicine is sold in this bastard's gourd? I'm afraid this trip will be full of bad luck, bad luck and bad luck!"

"Hey! Master Ambassador!" Bao'er suddenly frightened Xi Chuan from behind him: "Why are you talking about what's on your mind? Aren't you afraid that someone will attack you before you get on the boat?"

"You..." Hosokawa Fujitaka pointed to Boa and Ryoma and asked, "Have the same thoughts as me?"

"Probably only a fool would think that Miyoshi and those bastards would kindly give us free money!" After speaking, Ryoma suddenly patted Hosokawa on the shoulder and asked him, "Are you stupid?"

Hosokawa Fujitaka shook his head decisively.

"So, everyone understands that Miyoshi Changqing is a weasel giving New Year greetings to chickens... What do you say later?" Long Ma suddenly forgot the words, and it seemed that Bao'er asked for help.

"The weasel pays New Year greetings to the chicken - no money for whoring... No, it's out of good intentions."

"Look!" Ryoma shrugged his shoulders and showed Hosokawa as if "I'll just say it".

Speaking of Hosokawa Fujitaka, he is four or five years older than Baoer, but he has been an official in the court for about the same time as Baoer.Ryoma and Bao'er are very familiar with him. Although they are not close to the level of friends, they are by no means a general relationship of nodding acquaintances.Generally speaking, everyone was an official in the same dynasty, and they were all dispensable officials under the name of a general who had no real power. They walked around more or less on weekdays.

What's more, with Bao'erhao's (earth) cool (hao) style, when he lives in Kyoto in winter, he will often invite some colleagues to his home to improve the food, and he will often eat some weird things.Although Hosokawa Fujitaka's family is fairly well-to-do, he still ate boiled white meat, pot-packed meat, sweet-and-sour pork section, tender pork section, braised pork, braised partial mouth, braised octopus, braised large yellow croaker at Bao'er's house several times .

Well, Ryoma and Boa are not very familiar with Hosokawa Fujitaka...

Hosokawa Fujitaka asked anxiously: "Then, wouldn't it be cool for us to pay tribute to Moe Country this time?"

"So I see..." Ryoma put his hands behind his head and said half-jokingly: "Let's go home and make arrangements for the funeral!"

"Funeral matter?" Hosokawa smiled wryly, "Brother Ryoma, stop joking, okay?"

"I'm not joking. I won't say in advance whether we will go out, but there may be some unexpected 'accidents' in the family during the few months we have been away. So before we go, we must Don’t make good arrangements for your family!” After finishing speaking, Ryoma put his arms around Hosokawa’s neck and whispered in his ear, “Especially the thorn in the side of people like us, in case we survived by luck, but when we got home, we found The whole family is dead, and by then..."

"Hey, I think my Hosokawa family was very prosperous back then, and the Miyoshi family was just my Hosokawa's lackeys, but now things have changed, things are different..."

"You don't want to reminisce about the glorious years there." Baoer scolded with a smile: "It can only be said that the Miyoshi family will seize opportunities better than your Hosokawa family. If you still want to revive your Hosokawa family, you might as well secretly and others Let's learn from Miyoshi's family!"

At this time, Ryoma on the side suddenly realized that this Hosokawa Fujitaka was able to firmly grasp the opportunity before each major change later, and successfully stood in the team three times in a row.Not only did it revive the Hosokawa family, it even allowed the Hosokawa family to last until the end of the curtain!

If Bao'er knew what Ryoma was thinking at this time, he would have to make another addition for him:
"The Hosokawa family even produced a prime minister in later generations!"

(Author: Hosokawa Mori, served as Prime Minister of Japan from August 1993 to April 8.)
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