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Chapter 1745 Father returns from illness soon

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    The next day, the two parties held a grand engagement ceremony under the witness of Zhao Hao.

    Ajiang is already fourteen years old, but Takechiyo is only nine years old. Should he marry her early to see his little brother?  The eldest nephew who loves his daughter dearly will never agree.

    Therefore, we can only get engaged first and wait until Takechiyo turns fourteen and Ajiang turns nineteen to get married.  Such a cute little daughter could still be with him for five years, and his uncle promised that Chacha and Ah Chu would be left to his own devices, so Zhao Shizhen wasn't so sad anymore.

    During the engagement ceremony, although Ieyasu applied powder on his face, he could not hide the swollen ring under his left eye.  He could only explain that he accidentally fell down because it was dark and rainy and the road was slippery.  As for what happened, he didn't dare to say, and the retainers didn't dare to ask.

    "But seeing that the lord was always smiling from ear to ear, the retainers said to themselves that the lord must have paid a small price.  It¡¯s not the first time anyway¡­

    In fact, Sakai Sho Co., Ltd. also has similar concerns to Ieyasu.  Hideyoshi has super strong business ability, and now he is openly building a city thirty miles away from Sakai City. His purpose of replacing it is obvious!

    Zhao Hao also has the same attitude towards the concerns of Qian Rixiu and others. Instead of being eliminated in the confrontation, it is better to actively embrace the "people of the world" and become his business center, so that he does not have to worry about being replaced.

    But he told Sen no Rikyu not to get too close to Hideyoshi.  Sen no Rikyu agreed wholeheartedly, thinking that the big boss didn't want him to really join Hideyoshi.  Little did he know that Zhao Hao was just worried that he would be clicked by Hideyoshi.

    To appease the panicked Japanese people, Zhao Hao left Sakai Port on July 14th.

    Ieyasu and his son at the dock were still waving goodbye reluctantly, but Zhao Hao on the Jiangnan had already turned his attention to the northeast and stopped at the mouth of a large river.

    That is the Yodogawa River originating from Lake Biwa, the most important inland waterway in Japan.  Twenty miles up the Yodogawa mouth is Osaka Castle, which Toyotomi Hideyoshi is building.

    "It is said that in order to avoid being bombarded, Hideyoshi deliberately chose a site eight miles away from the river bank." Zhang Jian put down the telescope and said: "In this way, even Oda City rockets cannot be hit."

    "Hmph, he doesn't know what a howitzer is" Zhao Shizhen responded with a contemptuous sneer, and then said resentfully: "Well, no one may know it in a hundred years"

    "You solve the fuze problem first and then brag." Zhao Hao rolled his eyes at him, feeling a little regretful.

    In fact, this time Hideyoshi asked him to meet through Sen no Rikyu.  Zhao Hao declined this great opportunity to watch the monkeys, so as not to affect the conclusion of the world line.  Let's meet again when we chop off his monkey head

    Zhao Hao even regretted being too harsh on the Oda Army's armored ship.  I don¡¯t know if the absence of Kuuki Yoshitaka as ¡®Mizumi Hideyoshi¡¯ will not affect Monkey¡¯s plans to invade the country in the future, right?

    But then he thought about it, probably not.

    Because the way Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan was too peaceful, he basically relied on negotiations and alliances to deal with various princes.  As a result, after he had almost arranged the three islands of Japan, he discovered that the professional troops under his command totaled an astonishing more than 200,000 people.

    ¡°Coupled with the armies of various daimyo, the number exceeds 400,000.  With Japan's low productivity level and a population of less than 15 million, continuing to feed so many troops would inevitably cause the Toyotomi regime to collapse.

    In 1591 AD, Hideyoshi followed the example of the Ming Dynasty Taizu and issued the "People's Removal Order", which strictly prohibited the movement of scholars, farmers, workers, merchants, and soldiers among all classes.  And completely blocked the channel for the demobilization of the army.  Therefore, Toyotomi Hideyoshi could only avoid the social explosion in Japan by sending these samurai and ashigaru, who were accustomed to licking blood with their swords, to invade abroad.

    In addition, Japan¡¯s understanding of the outside world is even more closed-minded than the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty.  Zhao Hao believed that as long as Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not overly attacked, the king of Japan, who had made his fortune from a commoner, would never give up on his ambition to use Korea as a stepping stone to conquer the Ming Dynasty and then India.

    If he could fulfill Nobunaga¡¯s ambition and establish unprecedented achievements, who would dare to laugh at his humble background?

    So what should come, will definitely come

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    According to the original plan, after leaving Sakai City, the fleet will sail northward along East Japan to Ainu Island to test 2,500 kilometers of ultra-long-range wireless communications.

    Zhao Hao also plans to inspect Ainu Island by the way.  Although the group no longer relies on the oak of the Ainu Island after acquiring Nanyang, the island is still an excellent pasture for the group During the non-logging season, more than half of the Ainu people herd horses and cattle for the group.  The other half transports the cut wood out of the mountains to Sapporo for shipment.

    After twenty years of continuous struggle, the Ainu have defeated the Oyizaki clan, compressed the scope of Japanese activities to a few cities near the Tsugaru Strait, and recoveredNine-year-old Zhao Xiaoman has been waiting for him all day.

    Although Zhang Xiaojing was delayed for a few years, she had the most children, and she also had a son and a daughter who were too young to take back

    Seeing that Xiao Jing¡¯s beautiful face was extremely haggard and her whole body had lost weight, Zhao Hao couldn¡¯t help but feel deeply apologetic.

    Because she had a 'breakup' with her father-in-law, she hadn't seen her father in eight years.

    ???????????????????? Grand Master Zhang has been in poor health since the beginning of spring this year and has been in bed most of the time. Xiao Jing has been very worried, but she can¡¯t go back until now

    "I'm sorry" Zhao Hao took her into his arms and held her tightly.

    Xiao Jing lay in his arms, her shoulders shaking slightly, and she sobbed softly.

    After a while, he shook his head gently and choked:

    "It's okay, this is what father means. Only in this way can the Zhang family be preserved"

    With Zhang Xiaojing¡¯s wisdom, she can naturally understand the motives of her father and husband.

    ps. Huh, I¡¯m finally going back to Beijing (Remember this website¡¯s website address: www.hlnovel.com
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