Pillars of the Wu family

() On August 22, the first carriage was built by Shioya Chubei. Kira Manmatsumaru went to ride it and it felt good. He praised him and rewarded him with consistent money. He ordered him to build it like this. In August Before the 28th, rush to make no less than [-] carriages as soon as possible, Shioya Chubingwei staggered and almost fell down when he heard this number.

"Miss Miyakata! The villain really doesn't have the ability to make so many carriages! One car in two days is already a day and night rush! Even if the craftsman of the villain is familiar with the production process, he can only compress it to one car a day. Twenty I really can't do anything!" Shioya Zhongbingwei knelt on the ground begging with a sad face, all the guys he accepted stopped working and knelt down, and he saw gray-haired old people, middle-aged women and children in the crowd, Slightly counted about three or 40 people.

Kira Manmatsumaru waved his hand to let all the horses disperse, and prohibited the nearby townspeople from approaching. Then he sat on the horse tie prepared by Yamaoka Zenjiro and looked at the Hida craftsman who was kneeling on the ground. He suddenly said: "So many of you use It took two days to build a carriage? This speed is absolutely impossible!"

"But the villain is really powerless..." Shioya Chubei knelt down and huddled into a ball, it was very pitiful. The Hida workers under him were full of despair, and the young woman held the child and covered her mouth, as if As if he was afraid that he would cry out in pain, Kira Wansongmaru opened the iconic bat fan, and the beautiful fan fluttered gently like a flying butterfly, which stunned everyone.

"You are wrong! You are doing everything wrong!"

"Wrong?" Shioya Chubei was a little dazed, not understanding what this nobleman meant.

"Yes! It's wrong! And it's outrageously wrong!" Kira Wansongmaru got up and walked to the newly made carriage and pointed at the carriage with the fan bone, "Why can't you separate the axles, wheels, carriages, shafts, reins, and harnesses?" Come and do it alone? Everyone has their own duties. Those who make the axles don’t care about the wheels, and those who make the carriages don’t worry about how well the shafts are made. Make twenty sets of carriage parts at a time, and then participate in the assembly together, so that your How much can the speed be increased?"

"If there are enough materials, six days, no! In five days, the villain can make twenty carriages!" Chubei Shiotaya counted with his fingers for a long time, and gritted his teeth to announce his limit number.

Kira Wansongmaru had an idea and put forward a new request: "If my family pays for you to hire helpers, divide them into two groups, and each group will work for six hours, day and night, how many carriages can you make in these six days? "

"This... the helper's skills cannot be guaranteed, and the speed may not be improved much." Shiotaya Chubingwei wept, tired of coping with the nobleman's weird ideas.

"Then what if we let them do some simple work? For example, things like reins, carriages, shafts, reins, harnesses, etc., as long as you teach them carefully, they can be made quickly!" Jiliang Wansongmaru quickly got along with him. , now Shioya Zhongbingwei has no choice but to respond.

"You do the job of recruiting artisans yourself. They won't let you suffer from the skills they learned from you. After this time, you will hire them all!" By the way, he also helped him recruit a carpentry team of no less than 30 people.

"But……"

"Oh! By the way, my family will pay double wages after the matter is completed! Also, you should be more prepared, and follow my family to Los Angeles on August 28." After Kira Wanmatsumaru said this, he didn't care about the stunned group of Hida craftsmen. expression, and returned to Saijo Castle with the brigade.

On the evening of August 27th, 35 carriages were delivered as scheduled. In addition to deducting the material cost forty guanwen, the wages of each carriage were [-] guan. It is equivalent to rewarding money, making these Hida craftsmen happy like a festival, and shouting that Oyagata-sama of the Kira family is really a kind person.

On the evening of the 27th, accompanied by Kansuke Yamamoto, Kira Manmatsumaru paid homage to the Goku Hachiman Shrine of the Kira family. As a shrine, it is actually a place to worship the gods.

The style of the building is Liuzao School, which is characterized by the twists and turns of the eaves extending outwards to form a curvature. The internal structure is five trusses and three girders. The root technique that came out is also an original technique. In short, this shrine is a model of Japanese culture from top to bottom.

It doesn't matter whether Kira Manmatsumaru agrees with it or not, but the branch of the Kira Isse family, the palace priest Yukichi Yongkichi of the Goku Hachimangu Shrine, said so. In the end, Kira Manmatsumaru got a little impatient and drove this guy away.

"Really! Yongkichi Youguang will repeat it every time I come here, as if I am afraid that I will forget!" Kira Wansongmaru was very speechless to this guy, bypassing the hall where the Hachiman Bodhisattva is enshrined, and came to today's destination, the Imperial Hachiman Palace main hall.

"Master, come and have a look! This is the great treasure of my Hanoi Genji! It is also the great treasure of my Kira clan! Hikakiri! And the imperial white flag!" Kira Wansongmaru stands in the main hall to enshrine Genji Shoden's famous sword Hikakiri, as well as the Hachiman Hall The royal white flag used by Minamoto Yoshika in the latter three years' war.

Higiri, also known as Onikiri, Lion’s Son, Kotori, Yukiri, etc., was forged by Minamanaka, the first ancestor of Qinghe Minamoto Clan, passed on to Minamoto Yorimitsu, Minamoto’s descendant, Minagiri, and then became Hanoi Genji’s The famous sword handed down in the family has been held by the second-generation Pillar Gen Yoshito, the third-generation Yoshika, the fifth-generation Yoshito, the sixth-generation Yoshitomo, and the seventh-generation Yoritomo.

It has been rumored among the people that when Minamoto Lai Chao raised his army, he used the white cloth issued by King Ni to crusade against the Taira family more than 20 years ago to make the military flag, and this became the origin of the Minamoto White Flag, but this is not the case. As early as the first nine years of the battle During this period, Yuan Laiyi, Minamoto's father and son set up a white flag in front of the Shiqingshui Hachiman Palace, and entered the Shiqingshui Hachiman Palace to pray for long-term martial arts.

In the battle of the next three years, the Minamoto family held a white flag to attack the Oshu floating prisoner Kiyomoto. When the Minamoto family crossed the Sumida River with their brothers and nephews, the white flags on both sides of the bank were erected like a forest of Kanto warriors. , and also gave the white flag to Ping Jiangmen's great-great-grandson, Chichibu should not be Ping Wu Gang, let him be the first to attack Qingyuan Wuheng,

During the Chengjiu period, Ashikaga Yoshishi, the pillar of the three generations of the Ashikaga family, served as the guardian of the morale of the Mikawa Kingdom. When building the city of Saijozhuang, he built the Imperial Hachiman Palace, and cut the mustache symbolizing the descendant of the Minamoto family in Hanoi, as well as the one used by the Yoshika Minamoto family in the next three years. It has been 330 years since the imperial white flag was enshrined in the main hall of the Imperial Hachimangu Shrine.

Kira Wansongmaru first knelt on the spot and clapped his hands three times and prayed silently: "Namo Hachiman Bodhisattva!"

Then he got up, picked up the mustache and lightly stroked the handle and pulled it out, "Clang!" He pulled out the two-foot-seven-inch mustache. Although it has been baptized by wind and frost for more than 600 years, it is still shining with coldness and vigor. .

"Excellent sword! It is indeed a treasure of my Genji family! With this sword and the imperial white flag used in Hachiman-den, why worry about the family's prosperity?" Kira Wansongmaru admired this famous sword.

"Is it just to revive the family business?" Yamamoto Kansuke showed a meaningful smile, pretending not to see the fanatical expression on Kira Manmatsumaru's face, and went back to the shrine to pay homage to Hachiman Bodhisattva, which is Genji's family shrine, Nakagozen The enshrined gods are the three gods, the God of God, the God of God, and the Empress of Jingu. These three great gods are very famous. The Emperor of God does not need to go into details. The bit is closest to Himiko recorded in "Three Kingdoms".

Kira Manmatsumaru stayed in the main hall for a while, then came out holding the imperial white flag and Hikakiri, and greeted Yamamoto Kansuke: "Master! It's time to go!"

The two went down the mountain silently. Kansuke Yamamoto turned around and glanced at the familiar shrine, and said with a smile: "If you steal the famous objects in the Hachiman Shrine in this way, Nagakichi Yumitsu will be very troubled!"

"That's right! I came here tonight just to trouble him for a while!" Kira Manmatsumaru smiled happily while holding the mustache and the imperial white flag in his arms.