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Chapter 1 Prelude

On May 19, the third year of Yonglu (156o), the beginning of the morning, the country was at the end of Zhang Guo and the drum.

"Sir!" A messenger hurriedly ran to a young man with a cloak covered with red leaves on his shoulder. "The Oda Army began to leave Nakajima Village."

The young man looked up and looked at the dark clouds gathered and dispersed in the sky and the increasingly gloomy sky.

"I can't remember it wrong, May 19th, I can't be wrong." The young man murmured.

"Pu" A dark yellow soil on the ground in front of your feet suddenly had a black spot.

Immediately afterwards, there were more and more black spots around. The drizzle wet the armor of Xiaoguang, and it became heavier and heavier, gradually turning into a downpour. The young man looked at the sky and let the rain fall on his face, but he could not hide the excitement curve of the corners of his mouth.

"It's raining, no problem. Send a messenger to Asahina, Uetan, Sena, and Lord Katsuyama, saying that everything will be as planned!" said the young man in the cloak.

"The master is like a god," said another black-armored warrior next to him. The other young man next to him picked up a rain poncho and gently draped it on the young man wearing a red leaf cloak.

The young man in a cloak returned proudly, and neatly lined up six hundred soldiers behind him. Each of them had a red leaf inserted into his helmet. He raised the flag that was originally inserted on the ground in his hand and waved excitedly.

"On the afternoon of the 19th, heavy rain came!" the young man shouted, "Can Oda attack!"

"Absolute defense! Climb the high ground and face the northwest! Arrange the array!"

"Hey! Hey! Oh!" After three neat shouts from Liu Hundred Foot, he immediately became silent, braved the heavy rain and rushed to various dangerous places on the high ground. The young man in the cloak will thrust the flag to the ground and look confidently towards the southwest, where the heaven and earth meet.

On the hillside between the buckets, there was an army that seemed to be unprepared. The flag of the Imakawa family's governor, the Akano Military Flag, stood listlessly in the rain. The soldiers around them hid in groups of three or three under trees or tents that sheltered from rain, and they didn't even set up basic posts.

At the foot of the mountain on the east side of this hillside, there is also a tent erected. The red bird military flag fluttering high in the wind on the other side is erected here. Two thousand soldiers look solemn, line up neatly and are ready. Behind them are tens of thousands of baggage soldiers back and forth to repair the fortifications of the tent.

The southwest of the hillside is the troops where the young people are located. They have almost completed the formation.

In the heavy rain, two thousand troops wearing red papaya flags were waiting for their still traps to the east and quickly advance. Under the generals in the formation, they saw a man in black clothes and black armor, with two extremely sharp beards on the corner of his mouth. Under his strong sword eyebrows, an indescribable excitement flashed in his eyes like an eagle-like falcon. He ignored the two military flags of the Imakawa family appearing on both sides of the road next to him, and rushed straight into the bucket, the life and death field that was about to determine the fate of the world.

The fate of fate is about to unfold, and the wheel of history is slowly rolling forward.

Time goes back to the first year of Yonglu two years ago (1558).

Yu Qiuping has a secret, a secret about his own life experience. He didn't know where to start with this secret, and no one told him. This is the inevitable sorrow and loneliness of a time traveler.

The coordinates he is in are the spring season of the first year of Echonro (1558), Suzuki, Suzuki, Tokaido, Japan. In other words, it is the most magnificent Warring States Period in Japan. As the main castle of the Imakawa family, the strategic focus of Tokaido. As a commercial city, it also gathers a large number of farmers and craftsmen, with a population of up to 25ooo.

Yu Qiuping couldn't be energetic about these things.

He came from the 21st century and was a Chinese high school student before traveling through time. He has not yet figured out why he would sleep in the wilderness after sleeping, or more than 400 years ago. In the wilderness of Japan - that was more than a month ago.

He spent the first two days in panic and random thoughts, and ate all the beef jerky he carried. He began to realize that how to avoid starving to death is a more realistic problem now than the anxiety he was worried about his parents' anxiety.

Yu Qiuping thought that with his rich historical knowledge in the Internet information age, reading and literacy ability, he could easily get a job without worries in ancient times with less than 5% of the literacy rate. No matter how bad it is, he could rely on his strong body of nearly 1.8 meters.

But he was indeed forced to live on the streets and become a beggar.

The reason is very simple, he can't speak Japanese.

A strange man dressed in weird clothes, tall and big, and spoke a language that others could not understand, naturally could not find a job. In fact, in Japan at that time, Chinese was still a very important language, especially in upper-level groups such as Samurai Gongqing. However, the problem was that the Chinese in Japan or the southern accent of China at that time, seemed unable to communicate with Yu Qiuping's Mandarin.

Without a job, there is no source of income, there is no food to eat, and you will be dying.

However, Yu Qiuping, who grew up in a family that attaches great importance to legal education, has never been determined to make a living by illegal stealing. His only property was a maple leaf pendant made of ruby ​​hanging around his neck, which was a token of love for his father to his mother. It was also passed on to Yu Qiuping and given to their future daughter-in-law in the near future. Yu Qiuping had not thought of pawning, but when he thought of the special significance of this pendant that had been with him for more than ten years - this was the only connection between him and his parents who had been separated by heaven and man. When he was just born, his mother hung the pendant on his neck, so he was particularly interested in red leaves since he was a child. When he was old, he would go to Xiangshan, Beijing to see red leaves every year. The various books and decorations at home also took red leaves as patterns. He was reluctant to let this pendant, so he chose to live on the streets and beggars.

Fortunately, his first begging client knows Chinese characters.

The noble son named Asabena Taehyung was really a kind and kind man. After learning through Chinese characters that Yu Qiuping was a homeless man from Ming Dynasty, he took the initiative to invite him as a servant to ensure that he had enough food and drink. His reason was, "I have never recruited a servant from Ming Dynasty, I feel that you are very interesting."

Although Yu Qiuhei didn't know much about the history of the Warring States Period in Japan, he vaguely remembered that the Imakawa family, the ruler of the Suruga region, seemed to have two pillars: the Okabe family and the Asahina family. The son of the Asahina family in front of him was probably one of the big family. It was proved that he guessed correctly afterwards that Taehyung of Asahina family was the son of Taino, the former head of the Asahina family, and the younger brother of the current head of the Asahina family. In the increasingly degenerate Suruga, the son of the Asahina family, who is powerful and wealthy, is naturally qualified to recruit a large number of servants to accompany him to have fun.

However, Yu Qiuping, who was born in an equal and free society, felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart about living under others' roofs and hiding others' noses, and did not want to become a slave to others and lose the freedom of life.

"Thank you for your kindness," Yu Qiuping bowed, but hesitated and refused without hesitation, and wrote on the paper: "But I have no intention of selling myself, so I can only let the young master down."

Yu Qiuhei still clearly remembers that when he refused to be Akihito, the followers around him were first stunned, then glared at him, and even looked at him with a few holding their hands on the hilt. That posture really scared Yu Qiuhei. When he first came to Japan, he didn't know that his etiquette, behavior, and words just now were extremely disrespectful to Akihito. And during the samurai period when the concept of humiliation and death of the Lord's minister was prevalent, the samurai of the Lord's family had every reason to kill a civilian on the spot.

Fortunately, Asahina Taehyung is also a weirdo. It can be seen from his reaction to Yu Akihei's disrespectful behavior.

"Hehe," he turned around and smiled at the servants on both sides with a self-deprecating look. "I am willing to be a beggar but not a servant for me. Is this young master so miserable?"

He turned his head and stared at Yu Qiuping, "I also have that kind of attitude that is neither humble nor arrogant. Those who don't know thought I had met the young master of our Imagawa family." As he said that, he almost didn't know that he would pull Yu Qiuping, who weighed nearly 160 pounds, and pulled up the collar with one hand, and easily put Yu Qiuping, who was frightened, back to the ground. "I recognize you little brother!" He patted his chest boldly and pounded Yu Qiuping's chest hard, "Who dares to bully you in this Junfu City in the future? Just ask your brother to deal with him!" "Hurry, call me brother!"

"Young man, don't be afraid, our young master is so rude." Another follower next to him added with a deep heart.

So Yu Qiuping inexplicably recognized a big brother, and his big brother helped him open a shop on the South Street of Junfu Castle, specifically to settle accounts for each shop. Not only that, Asabi Nataehyung, who spent money, also installed a set of furniture for Yu Qiuping in the inner room of the shop, which gave Yu Qiuping a place to settle in Japan. In order to allow Yu Qiuping to adapt to Japanese as soon as possible and to communicate with the merchants who came to settle accounts, he also arranged a young servant named Yasso Kondo who knew Chinese to be a translator for him.

After probably learning Japanese, Yu Qiuhei also came up with an explanation for his origin. He was the son of an overseas Chinese businessman. He encountered a shipwreck when he went to sea and drifted to Japan. As for his strange clothes and lack of bundles, Asahina Taehyung did not ask too much, so he didn't say much.

Everything seemed to settle down, and life was calm again. Although I still dreamed of the past world when it was late at night, the helplessness and sadness when I woke up still made him gradually calm and accept the reality of his time travel, no longer bothering him with the endless longing for his parents, relatives and friends.
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