When Yu Qiuping hurried back to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, preparing to immediately order Crow to launch an investigation into Maori's new assistant, Hattori Koheita, he found that Imagawa Kaede was waiting at the gate of the city early - instead of at the castle tower as usual
Waiting for Yu Qiuping to come back.
"Feng'er?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment when he saw this. He thought something major had happened and hurriedly dismissed the guards. Then he stepped forward and asked, "What happened?"
"Did you go to Mount Koya to ask Lin Xiuzhen about what happened back then?" Imagawa Feng's face was not very good, and he bit his lip and asked Yu Qiuping in a low voice.
"How...how did you know?" Yu Qiuping lowered his head like a student caught by the teacher doing bad things.
"Since you came back before, you have been talking about the map that His Highness Shibata told you. I know that you must be thinking about that matter again, and you must want to ask clearly." Imagawa Kaede said.
He took a step forward and came to Yu Qiuping's side, "I guessed it right."
"I…"
"Didn't you promise me before that you wouldn't continue to investigate?" Imagawa Feng stared into Yu Qiuping's eyes, but Yu Qiuping avoided looking at her, so Imagawa Feng continued to ask, "Didn't you always say
Did you do it? Why did you deceive me about this matter?"
"Because I don't know why Feng'er wants to stop me." Yu Qiuping simply said directly, "I have been searching for the cause of death of His Highness the Family Governor for twenty years, and I am about to get the answer. Why did you
Want to stop me?"
"Didn't I say it before? Because I'm afraid that the murderer found in the end is the person I used to be close to. I'm afraid of knowing the answer. There's no point in knowing the answer anyway..." Imagawa Kaede spread his hands to explain, but was interrupted.
Yu Qiuping grabbed his hand.
"But don't you already know that there is no traitor at all? You don't have to worry about those close people who did it! Now you only need to check Mouri Shinsuke and Hattori Koheita, two little people who have nothing to do with us.
, what is there to worry about?" Yu Qiuping said before Imagawa Kaede finished speaking - he rarely interrupts Imagawa Kaede so rudely, which shows that he is also very anxious now, "At that time
The reason is no longer valid, why don't you let me investigate this matter?"
Imagawa Kaede was left speechless by Yu Qiuping's questioning. She also knew that her reasons for the past were no longer tenable, so she just lowered her head in silence. The guards who were dismissed by Yu Qiuping and Imagawa Kaede stayed behind.
The maids at the office looked at each other in confusion, wondering why their Royal Highness and Madam had quarreled, and the situation seemed a bit solemn.
Yu Qiuping looked at the silent Imakawa Kaede in front of him, and felt that her little hand held by him was gradually getting colder, and suddenly felt a sense of grievance and distress. He took the reins and leaned towards Imakawa Kaede, and then stretched out his hand
Lai took Kaede Imakawa into his arms and apologized in a low voice, "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have been so cruel to you just now. I just really want to find out the cause of death of His Highness the Governor. This is a regret in my life..."
"If you get rid of all your regrets, can you return to your world without regrets?" Imagawa Kaede still lowered his head, hiding his face in the shadows, and whispered in Yu Qiuping's ear.
"Eh..." Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and looked down at Imagawa Feng with some surprise, but could only see her long satin-like hair, "Is it because of... this reason that Feng'er doesn't want me to investigate? Then what about you?
Why didn’t you tell me before?”
Imagawa Kaede did not directly answer Yu Qiuping's question, but after hesitating for a moment, he asked again: "Then can you promise me this time not to pursue it any further?"
Yu Qiuping swallowed, not knowing how to reply.
"I won't go back. Didn't I promise you?" Yu Qiuping patted Imagawa Feng on the back and comforted softly, "I will stay with you, Shang'er, You'er, Cen'er and Guang'er.
. Besides, I may not be able to master the method of going back."
"Didn't you promise me before that you wouldn't pursue it any further? But after you saw further clues, didn't you still do it?" Imagawa Kaede raised his head, his reddish eyes like little rabbits, "Human
It will change, and there will always be various things that disrupt your original arrangements. The reason why you say you won't go back now is because you still have a lot of regrets and unfinished business here. If you do them all
It's over, who knows if you will change?"
Yu Qiuping was silent for a long time, feeling the warmth and determination of the person in his arms, and feeling the loss of time. Finally, he chose to nod, and at the same time loosened the hand holding Imagawa Kaede's wrist, and seemed to let go of himself 20
It took years of hard work to get hold of the clues in my hand, only to let them drift away like dust in the wind.
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After temporarily putting aside the investigation of the cause of Imagawa Yoshimoto's death, Yu Qiupei immediately devoted himself to the most urgent matter at the moment - how to deal with Oda Nobunaga's request to close Congress and the court. Yu Qiupei himself
In fact, he is very resistant to this proposal. Although the three-legged cat system he constructed is not very superior, it is at least developing in the direction of "good governance" and is also an exploration of political order. Those who want to truly maintain the world
Long-term peace and stability definitely depends not on force, but on political order - Yu Qiuping hopes that his reforms can make a good start, leading people to continue to move forward and continue to search for a more ideal and suitable political order - ending the progress of the political order.
Returning to the previous era is something Yu Qiuping cannot accept.
Although Yu Qiuping attached great importance to his reform, Yu Qiuping had a stalemate in his relationship with Oda Nobunaga in order to preserve this system, and even made Oda Nobunaga so angry that he forcibly interfered in the internal affairs of the Yu Qiu family.
——This is what Yu Qiuping does not want to see. After all, there is a long way to go. Now, it is abolished according to Oda Nobunaga's wishes, and it is not a bad idea to reform it in the future. To take a step back, Yu Qiuping's parliamentary system is a hybrid product of the presidential system.
It is true that it is not perfect yet, and there is nothing to be reluctant to do even if it is abolished.
It’s just that Yu Qiuping is worried that once this starts, will political reform be impossible in the future? The reason why Oda Nobunaga allowed Yu Qiuping to carry out reforms more than ten years ago was because of the critical situation in Hanoi and Kinki. If
There was no way to gain a foothold in Maple Leaf Mountain Castle without the help of the merchants of Sakai Town and Takamasa Hatakeyama, so he made an exception and agreed. But now that the world has been settled, Amakihei can no longer find suitable external pressure to convince Oda Nobunaga.
Agreeing that he has reformed - from this perspective, Yu Qiuping must do everything he can to preserve the fait accompli of the current political reform before he has the opportunity to continue to further explore the political order. If Oda Nobunaga's request is followed, the political
The order has returned to the original territorial enfeoffment system, and if you want to start reform again, you will face a hundred times more resistance.
After Yu Qiuping told this idea to Imagawa Kaede, he immediately got the latter's approval.
"I think your concerns are reasonable.
." Imagawa Kaede, who was reviewing the files, put down his pen when he heard this and looked at Yu Qiuping seriously, "I don't think General Oda has any leisure at all. I will give you more than ten years, decades or even hundreds of years.
What kind of reforms should be implemented within the territory, he is thinking about North Korea and the Ming Dynasty now. The reforms he pursues are those that can immediately bring about military and financial strength in the short term, rather than those orders that will tie him up."
"But... now I have no other excuse to use, how should I convince the lord? I don't necessarily have to show him the future history to convince him to agree with my reforms." A somewhat embarrassed Yu Qiuping sighed helplessly.
He took a breath and said, "It's too difficult... I really don't know how to deal with it this time?"
"No matter how difficult it is, can it be more difficult than when you first came to Maple Leaf Mountain City? Didn't you survive such a desperate situation at that time? Now these difficulties that can be overcome with negotiation and patience are nothing." Imagawa Kaede stood up from his seat.
He stood up, walked to Yu Qiuping and sat down, "Don't forget why you came to this era, and don't forget your dreams. Do you just want a harmonious relationship between monarch and ministers? Do you want to
Do you just want the territory of a few countries? Do you just want glory and wealth? Do you just want a stable family fortune that can be passed on to your children and grandchildren?"
"Isn't your dream to completely end the troubled times and the cycle of chaos, so that countless people don't have to experience the pain of war? Don't you want to create a world of long-term peace and stability? Isn't that based on the reforms you are currently carrying out?
Can you do it? Is there anything more important than this dream? Then how can you compromise? Even if you try every means, you have to persevere, otherwise all your efforts since you came to this world will be wasted by so many people.
Aren’t all the sacrifices you made for your dream in vain?”
Imagawa Kaede's continuous questioning made Yu Qiuping close his eyes and fall into silence. However, in the silence, he rediscovered the dream that he had forgotten and even gradually forgotten. Yes, what he wanted was always more than just
After the world was pacified, his wife Yinzi became an important minister. The dream he and his companions shared was to end the damn cycle of chaos. Although I was so naive and naive at the time, if the so-called maturity meant abandoning these precious
If you have a dream, what’s the point of maturity?
"I understand." Yu Qiuping slowly opened his eyes, revealing a firm look that made Imagawa Feng familiar and reassuring.
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In the evening, Yu Qiuping came to Crow's headquarters and found Amano Jingtoku.
"Konbei, you must blame me again, but even so I still have to say it." Yu Qiuping, who had already made up his mind, said to Amano Keitoku quite easily, "I want to refuse the Lord's request to close Congress and the courts.
requirements.”
"Why do you think Your Highness would be dissatisfied with this?" To Yu Qiuping's surprise, Amano Jingde actually asked him.
"Don't you think this is childish? For reasons such as 'ending the cycle of chaos' and 'prolonging peace and stability', you would rather get into trouble with the lord and cause the lord to take revenge on the Yuqiu family... You wouldn't
Do you think I haven’t made any progress in these decades?” Yu Qiuping vaguely repeated Amano Keide’s previous condemnation of him, and at the same time looked at Amano Keide in confusion.
Chapter completed!