Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 203 The Chief Engineer is Here
The alliance of Oda, Matsudaira and Nohara was formally established. After Nohara dealt with the hunting, the Matsudaira family took first place in the hunting. Matsudaira Motoyasu looked honest, but he showed his strength without making a sound, which made the Oda family dare not underestimate him.

Well, the overall military level of Japan in the Warring States Period was relatively backward. Japan was isolated on the island for many years, and its military technology and organizational ability were not very good. But in terms of individual skills and tactics of the samurai, there are records in "Ming Shilu" that the Japanese pirates "plundered like flying, leaped several feet at a time", "all caught arrows with their hands, and the troops looked at each other in shock and then all fled".

Many of these Japanese pirates were wandering warriors who had fled after being defeated in battle. These warriors had done nothing but practice martial arts and learned how to chop people since they were young. They had been living in fighting all year round since they were in their teens. When it came to cold weapon combat, they should never be underestimated. The Japanese pirates liked to use wandering warriors to break the enemy's formation first, which caused great losses to the military and civilians in the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the Mikawa Samurai were a well-known samurai group during the Warring States Period in Japan. Their individual martial arts were extremely superb and they were extremely daring and combative, which was completely different from the peasant soldiers who would collapse at the first touch.

However, he did not take these weapons too seriously. The decline of cold weapons was an inevitable historical trend. Nowadays, personal martial arts alone could no longer make a living.

After finishing the hunting, he went straight to the territory of the Maeda family in Xiayishiki to visit his stupid son Meng Ziqi.

Well, after the Battle of Okehazama, his relationship with Oda Nobunaga became strained, and he dared not leave his stupid son in Hibizunaga any longer, so he colluded with Maeda Toshiharu in private and moved Meng Ziqi to the seaside on the south side of Shimo-Isshiki Castle, not far from Okinoshima Island. This made it convenient for him to visit him, and someone could take Meng Ziqi and escape to the sea at any time.

The main thing is that Meng Ziqi cannot be too far away from the Ise Mountains, otherwise his body will gradually weaken. So even if there is some risk, he cannot be moved back to Xinwanjin, otherwise he will still die.

Oda Nobunaga should have known about this, but he had some heroic spirit, at least more heroic than Harano, and was not a mean person. He had no intention of doing anything to a "vegetable person", or he felt that kidnapping a "vegetable person" would have no meaning other than to completely enrage Harano and make him go all out to burn down Atsuta Port, so he just pretended not to see it.

Of course, it may also be related to the fact that the alliance was not completely broken. Oda Nobunaga also did not touch the large and small manors in Kasugai County and Niwa County that Hara had obtained during the Owari Unification War. The grain and cash crops grown were also released and allowed to be transported to Shinwantsu.

Now that the relationship between the Oda and Nohara families has been restored, Yuanye naturally has to make a trip and transfer Meng Ziqi to Hibitsu Village, and by the way, arrange for people to resume the exploration of the original crossing place.

After these things were rearranged, he rushed to Jiuwanjin to take the boat home. There was already a large group of people waiting for him at the Jiuwanjin pier.

The leader was a man who looked to be in his forties, a little over 1.5 meters tall, with a stocky build. He wore a grey coarse cloth kosode and large hakama, and his head looked very big - his head was already very round and big, and he had a bald head, which made his head look even bigger.

His hands were also very big, very much like the "big hands like a cattail leaf fan" described in martial arts novels. They were covered with calluses and very rough, and there were many small scars on the back of his hands. At first glance, it looked like he had practiced some external martial arts such as the "Iron Sand Palm".

This person was none other than the future "chief engineer" of the Oda clan, Okabe Ishin, a famous architect of Owari and Atsuta Shrine.

At the same time, he was also one of the compensations for Harano to give up entering Mikawa. Oda Nobunaga and Matsudaira Motoyasu promised to support Harano in developing and building the navy. Okabe Ikenori and the entire Okabe family were one of the supports given by Oda Nobunaga - the craftsmen given by Matsudaira Motoyasu would go directly to Odaka Castle by land, and then turn south to Shinwantsu.

As soon as Ah Man saw Okabe Yiyan, he was delighted. He went up to him and slapped him three times on the back without saying a word. His eyebrows fluttered as he laughed, "Okabe, look at you! You didn't come when I gave you money before, but now you come when I don't give you money. You are such a fool!"

She did it on purpose. She had been turned down and rejected many times by Okabe Yiyan in the past year. Now of course she wanted to take revenge and disgust him.

Okabe Yiyan's face looked as ugly as if he had eaten shit. Harano had a very bad reputation in Owari. He was greedy and lustful, and now he was extremely bloodthirsty. He forcibly seized the territories of more than ten powerful families, of which three or four resisted, and the whole family was killed by Harano. He did not dare to serve such a "tyrant" unless Harano gave him benefits that he could not refuse - a samurai status, and the Zhixing territory of no less than 500 stones that came with the samurai status, and by the way, cater to his religious beliefs and become a believer of Atsuta Shrine.

Well, becoming a believer of Atsuta Shrine is mainly for his personal safety. His status in the secular world is not high, just slightly better than Langdang, but his status in the religious world is okay. Yuanye wants to become a believer of Atsuta Shrine, even if he is cruel by nature, it is impossible for him to kill him.

As a result, Yuanye was very stingy and refused to agree. He only sent the bean-browed concubine in front of him to pester him endlessly, trying every means to trick him into going to Shinwanjin, so he was too lazy to show his good face and kept avoiding him. If it weren't for Yuanye's bad reputation, he was a little afraid that Yuanye would send someone to secretly kill him at night, and he would have told Aman, the little bastard, to get out. Now, Oda Nobunaga directly sent a "Black Seal Judgment" to the Matsuoka family, the priest family of Atsuta Shrine. The head of the Matsuoka family, Matsuoka Sukenaga, directly packed him, his wife, children, and apprentices and hired workers and sent them here, asking them to work for Yuanye for free for a few years, and the work must be done well, otherwise the entire Matsuoka family will be implicated, and he has no room to refuse.

If he had known this would happen, he would have agreed to Yuanye early on. Even if he failed to get the land and the status of a samurai, at least he could get a thousand strings of cash every year. If he, his son, his apprentices, and the hired workers shared it, everyone would get a high salary.

As a result, I can only eat a bite of food now, and I don’t know if I can get enough.

He felt very uncomfortable just thinking about these things. It was even more uncomfortable to be slapped by Aman and ridiculed. However, he could not resist and could only look sour.

I think this is just the appetizer. This concubine of Nohara Saburo with a big eyebrows has suffered so much contempt and insults before, she will definitely take revenge tenfold.

His future is worrying, and that Nohara Saburo is also very lustful, and his first wife, second wife and little daughter are all pretty...

It's over, it's all over. He worked diligently for the Matsuoka and Oda families, but he didn't expect to end up like this!
Yuanye still respected technical talents. He didn't expect that Okabe Yiyan was already imagining being treated like a pig and a dog. When he got off the horse, he found that Aman was using him as a drum. He quickly stopped Aman's rude behavior and said to him politely: "Mr. Okabe, thank you for coming to help. When you arrive in Xinwanjin, you will treat it as your own home. If you need anything, just tell me. As long as I can do it, I will do my best to meet your needs."

This was the first time that Okabe Igen saw Harano in person.

Harano had never had much dealings with the Matsuoka family before. Later, he had a falling out with Oda Nobunaga and it was not convenient for him to go to Atsuta Port. The only way to contact him was to send a personal letter and send the doe-browed concubine to run back and forth. The main way he knew about Harano was to hear street rumors - few people in the Owari nobles liked Harano, and they looked down on him and slandered him in private, and the rumors became more and more outrageous. In a few years, Harano would probably eat three children for every meal.

Okabe Yiyan raised his head and secretly looked at Yuanye. Perhaps it was because of his preconceived notion, he always felt that Yuanye looked quite sinister and cunning. He hesitated for a moment, and felt that he had to bow his head when he was under someone's roof. He knelt on the ground and showed great respect, saying aggrievedly: "I don't dare to be addressed as such by Your Highness. You can just call me Konosuke. It is my... my honor to serve Your Highness."

Ah Man's eyebrows jumped up and he laughed strangely. He originally wanted to find an opportunity to kick him in the ass to vent his anger, but now that he was so frustrated, he could give up. Yuan Ye quickly helped Okabe Yiyan up, still very politely: "No need to do this, Lord Okabe, it should be an honor for us to have someone like you willing to lend a hand to us."

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it, I really don't deserve it..." Okabe Yiyan was now keeping a very humble attitude, for fear of angering Yuanye and getting his whole family into trouble.

"Then... Lord Okabe, if you are all ready, shall we get on board now? Once we arrive at Shinwanjin and you are settled, we can talk about other things."

Yuanye felt that Okabe Yiyan seemed a little bad at communication and seemed very shy, but he didn't take it too seriously. As a tech geek, it was normal for him to be bad at communicating with strangers. It would be fine once both sides got familiar with each other - he was also half a tech geek. He didn't like chatting with others, except Qing... and Inu Princess and Aman.

Well, he prefers to speak directly to the point and hates it when people beat around the bush. Maybe all engineering students are like this, right?

Okabe Yiyan was still a little nervous. Seeing Yuanye turning his head to look at his family, most likely his first wife, second wife, and youngest daughter, he suddenly felt nervous and quickly moved his body to block Yuanye's sight (he was only 1.5 meters tall, so it was impossible to block it), and stretched out his hand first, saying, "Your Highness, please go first."

"Then let's sleep together!" Yuan Ye was still acting like Yuan Xuande, still being courteous to the wise. If Okabe Yiyan wasn't so ugly, he would be willing to sleep on the same bed with him tonight.

With this person around, he felt relieved, thinking that the "Nohara Fleet" would be able to roam the world in the near future!

(End of this chapter)