Chapter 311 1. One Song and One Cross Move the Capital

After more than half a year of being well fed and well clothed, Nabenosuke has grown a little taller, and his thin body has become stronger.

Well, although Nabenosuke is still a short and strong child, I hope he can continue to grow in this state.

"Nabanosuke, this time you will go to Kyoto with me, and you may have to pay homage to His Majesty the Lord of the Kufang. Remember to ask your mother to prepare a decent set of clothes for you."

"His Majesty the Lord of the Kufang? Is that the Ashikaga Shogun?" Although Nabenosuke is a son of a samurai family, unfortunately his father died many years ago, and his uncle lost power, and he lived a completely peasant life. Until now, he can't even recognize a few words, and his knowledge of samurai is even more scarce.

"Yes, it's the great general of His Majesty the Kitayama Rokuen-in." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is famous enough, and even a child like Nabenosuke knows it.

When he heard Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Nabenosuke's eyes were full of yearning and expectation. Maybe he thought that the Kyoto Lord of the Kufang Ashikaga Yoshiteru was also a powerful general who ruled 66 countries in the world like his ancestor Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

After coaxing Nabenosuke away, he ordered Tatsuzo to pack his luggage and asked Aki and Nanaki to select the guards of the hatamoto. Imagawa Yoshichika also sent someone to Takatenjin Castle and asked Iwase Motomasa to bring the guards and festival gifts to meet at Ejiri.

The Yamauchi family's four-season festival gifts and contributions to the shogun are a considerable expense every year, and I don't know how the Yamauchi family has persisted for so many years.

Anyway, it's Yamauchi Yoshiharu's money, and Kobayata doesn't feel sorry for him, he spends it however he likes.

Before leaving, Kobayata took a full 2,500 kan to Heiroku and asked him to try to buy 200 iron cannons from Yamauchi and Echigo. In addition, he took another 1,500 kan to recruit people for Kobayata and supplement the iron cannon foot soldiers to 200 people.

Money really doesn't last!

The group arrived at Ejiri, and Imagawa Yoshichika joined Iwase Motomasa's team. Kobayata opened another 1,500-kan noya hazasa to send to his uncle Tsunayoshi in Futamata Castle. His coffin fund was also emptied by Kobayata, and now he was working as a castle lord outside, and he couldn't stand it without money.

The remaining 9,000 kan were all issued by Sukezaemon, so that Kobayata could withdraw money from the main store of the noya in Sakai.

In addition, Kobayata also took out some money and bought some local silk cloth, which he also prepared to give to his uncle Tsunayoshi as a festival gift.

Kobayata, who was originally full of confidence and was preparing to set up a horse-drawn artillery team, completely gave up. The remaining money had to be prepared for the betrothal gifts and wedding expenses, and a mansion had to be built. It was a mystery whether the remaining money was enough to buy two Portuguese arquebuses.

It was difficult to make money, but spending money was like water.

Changing boats in Ejiri, this time going directly to Sakaimachi. On the one hand, there were many things, many people and horses, and water transportation was convenient. On the one hand, it saves time. In fact, May Festival has passed. It is purely for the sake of reputation.

After entering Kyoto smoothly, they should have stayed in the Yamanouchi Residence, but Imagawa Yoshichika and his sister were very close, so they ran to live in Mitsugu Fujitaka's house.

Kobayata planned to live in Uncle Tsunayoshi's house. After all, Uncle Tsunayoshi's house has a better environment and is more spacious.

The current Zixiaolu residence is a high-ranking family. The original rotten wooden door was originally turned into a painted door. Now it has been converted into a long house door, with a barrel tile eaves, eight gatehouses, and lime walls half a person high. Kobayata gave Uncle Tsunayoshi 1,200 kan every year. It seems that he definitely spent a lot on himself.

When Kobayata and his group entered the door, the laughter inside could not be concealed at all. After putting down the things and entering the courtyard, the pavilion was full of people. They were all nobles with silk weaving and black tops, and now they were having a wine party facing the lotus pond.

As soon as Kobayata sat down, the nobles present looked down on him as a country warrior who pretended to be a samurai, but on the surface they were still enthusiastic.

Especially those who had met Kobayata before and had received gold from him, they were very attentive when they saw the God of Wealth coming. No matter what, Kobayata's gold was always real, so they could eat and drink here every other day.

Uncle Tsunayoshi proudly introduced Kobayata, and the servants washed and cut the melons that Kobayata brought to the capital, and served them one by one on a lacquer tray.

This was not over yet, there were also Japanese fruit and chestnut flour bean paste buns. Although each person only ate one, the snacks kept coming up like water, which still surprised the nobles who originally only had rice cakes and dumplings as snacks.

Kobayata saw that the effect was good, so he wanted to sing with them. This surprised the nobles. Kobayata was so educated?

Of course it was impossible, Kobayata knew how much he could have in his stomach.

But now Xiao Pingtai is the center of attention today, and everyone has to give way to him, so naturally Xiao Pingtai started to sing the first sentence.

Xiao Pingtai thought that I can't sing with you, but it's no problem to make up a lie at the beginning.

So he took the wine dish, drank it all, and pretended to appreciate the beautiful scenery of the flowers in the garden. Then he sang with a romantic and unrestrained look.

"The garden is full of flowers, and the garden is full of fragrant flowers."

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It fits the situation and the scene, and the melody is plain and elegant. The key point is that the first five words and the last five words are exactly opposite, but they form a sentence, highlighting the exquisiteness in the plainness.

Now the nobles in the room dare not underestimate Xiao Pingtai's cultural level at all. When this sentence comes out, Xiao Pingtai's level must be not bad, at least not much lower than them.

How could they know that Xiao Pingtai only knows this sentence, or he learned it from watching the Taiga drama.

One by one, they composed songs to express their feelings, and had wine and snacks. After more than ten sentences, the maids beside them immediately played the flute, beat the drum, and played the pipa, and started singing and dancing.

Uncle Tsunayoshi didn't expect that Koyata was really good at writing. He immediately took out a pen and paper and asked the person with the best calligraphy to write it down.

It was about the 15th day of the fifth month of a certain year in the Eiroku era. Several of us met at the Rokuen of Fujiwara no Komon. We talked about Fujiwara no Danjo and who was present. It described Koyata's generosity and his brilliant literary talent.

From then on, the cultural circles in Kyoto began to spread the rumor that Danjo from Zixiaoji in Shinano countryside was a wealthy and educated man, not a simple nouveau riche, and had a very high level of Chinese studies.

Koyata was naturally happy that the nobles in the palace spread the word about him. This was one of the reasons why Koyata was willing to spend money in Kyoto. After everyone had a good time and got on the ox cart, Koyata immediately asked Tatsuzo to hand over 20 taels of gold to each servant as a gift.

How could people in the palace of the nobles take gold and other mundane things? Only their servants could take them. The gold was wrapped with an invitation to come to the tea party in two days, and continue to invite them to come and eat and drink for free.

Xiao Pingtai thought that at least he would have a very positive image in the diaries and conversation records of several nobles.