Yu Qiupei's work was still arranged in Sunfu. He and Sena Ujitoshi were responsible for settling the Imagawa family's income and expenditure accounts and making some daily expenditure arrangements.
As soon as noon arrived, Yu Qiupei rushed back to Sunfu Castle. When Yu Qiupei saw Imagawa Yoshimoto's attendants moving piles of files piled up into the office rooms of Yu Qiupei and Sena Ujitoshi, he was so excited.
An urge to quit.
"Well, I've owed a lot recently," Imagawa Yoshimoto saw the resentful looks in Yu Qiupei and Sena Shitoshi's eyes, and smiled, "I was supposed to do all these jobs in the afternoon, and it's been almost a year.
Have you done it?"
"Then what did you do in the main hall in the afternoon?" Yu Qiuping asked.
"Kicking Cuju! Don't you know that?" Imagawa Yoshimoto's natural expression made Yu Qiuping almost vomit blood, "Anyway, if I haven't taken care of it for a year, the Imagawa family is still doing well."
As a result, Yu Qiuping and Sena Ujitoshi were forced to start the extremely bleak task of cleaning up the mess. Sena Ujitoshi quickly learned vertical calculations and Arabic numerals under tremendous pressure.
"There is also the issue of the training of your army, Yuqiu, please take it to heart." Imagawa Yoshimoto warned before leaving, "I am very curious about what your army can grow into in the end. If it is also good in actual combat,
I plan to imitate it in the flag team."
The training issue made Yu Qiuping a little worried. His office was in Sunfu, and the families of the Ashigaru people were all in Ejiri. They preferred to go home at night. It was impossible for Yu Qiuping to go back and forth between Ejiri and Sunfu every day.
Later, he came up with a clever idea. Let Amano Keitoku and Chibei take turns to be on duty in the territory. In the morning, they would take the Ashigaru from the territory and run back. At night, someone else would take them and run back again. During the day, they would be in the Sunfu Castle barracks.
train.
In the morning, Yu Qiuping will take time to help them continue to train the team, but now he no longer has to do everything personally. The discipline and obedience of the ashigaru have been trained well. Among the five team captains, except for Charlie who insists on practicing archery by himself, all of them can
He has good control over the troops. The troops are also training under the supervision of General Ashigaru. And Yu Qiupei also found that Amano Keitoku is a very good instructor. He is extremely strict and cold. He is unreasonable and is more grasping than Yu Qiuping.
He was also fierce, and push-ups were also punished in units of 30. Under his more devilish supervision, the discipline of the ashigaru became stricter. The last time Yu Qiupei visited, Amano Keitoku was asking the ashigaru to stand in a row, and he
He took a handful of dirt and threw it on their faces. Anyone who dared to hide or rub it was forced to do push-ups. As a result, the two hundred ashiqing were stunned and stood motionless.
In the afternoon, Asahina Taehiro will bring more than a dozen spearmanship instructors to help train Ame Qiupei's Ashigaru team to help them improve their personal martial arts. Although Asahina Taehiro himself is not a qualified instructor, his main teaching method is to use and
Students mainly compete in single combat, or one person challenges multiple students - this is mainly to satisfy his personal pleasure. However, the level of the more than a dozen spearmanship instructors is still quite good, and they teach in a precise and orderly manner.
The coaches also marveled at the high quality of Yu Qiupei's Ashugaru team. They said they had never seen such obedient students. They never dared to say one or two. When the coach spoke, no one even whispered to each other. They stood upright one by one.
Of course the instructors didn't know that Amano Keitoku, who was patrolling on the side, was carefully searching for every little move by the Ashigaru, looking for an opportunity to punish them with push-ups.
Moreover, due to the unity and high coordination of Yu Qiuping's men, they can even practice gun formations.
"Everyone lined up in a tight square formation, shot out guns at the same time, turned back and forth, changed formations, and the troops marched like a duck to water." The most senior instructor, Yu Qiupei, said with emotion, "I have been fortunate enough to see the Takeda family's gunman.
The pikemen, in terms of order and coordination alone, are not as good as your lord's new recruits."
Later, in order to increase the amount of training, Yu Qiuping asked the ashigaru to wear armor during morning jogging, which made everyone complain. However, after the first few people were punished with push-ups, the rest immediately became silent.
"The more you shed a drop of sweat during training, the less you will shed a drop of blood in battle. You must know this in your own mind." Yu Qiuping said to them sincerely.
In the evening, Ame Qiupei would always be called to Imagawa Yoshimoto's place with several senior officials such as Sena Ujitoshi. It is a traditional Japanese art and is generally the favorite of elegant people. Ame Qiupei also met there
Now comes the eldest son of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Uzuma. The latter looks very similar to Imagawa Yoshimoto, but he lacks the tempering of years and is more elegant.
Yu Qiuping had heard Imagawa Yoshimoto explain how to pick up Waka before, but compared with these masters, Imagawa Yoshimoto was still far behind. Seeing Yu Qiuping's clumsiness, Imagawa Yoshimoto laughed and said, "Yu Qiu, don't underestimate this. These
Culture and elegance are still very important for self-cultivation and for you to integrate into us."
"What's the secret to the main hall and this song?" Yu Qiuping asked.
"Just practice more and it will be better. We practice like this every day, and your level will improve quickly." Imagawa Yoshimoto said, "I can't tell you the secret... I think it's just to catch the flash of inspiration in your heart."
Seeing the knowing smile on Imagawajima's lips, Imagawa Yoshimoto pointed at Imagawajima and said, "Goro, tell me."
"Father, let me tell you." Imagawa, who is usually arrogant, will be particularly humble whenever he encounters problems in literature and art, "I have little talent and little knowledge."
"Then I'm welcome." Imagawa Yoshimoto snapped his fingers, "The most important thing about a waka is the artistic conception! Once the artistic conception is in place, the rhyme, the format, it doesn't matter if it's a little bit different."
"Whatever you want to write, just try to imagine the artistic conception. Then a few inspirations will suddenly flash in your mind. Just try to catch whatever flashes through your mind, string it together, and the next sentence will naturally come out of your mouth."
"This..." Yu Qiuping looked confused.
"Practice more, practice more." Imagawa Yoshimoto said with a smile.
Every afternoon, Yu Qiuping would still run to the back mountain and spend the afternoon with the girl. When he rushed there in the afternoon of the first day, the girl specifically asked Yu Qiuping if the name of the reserve team was Tokiwa Bei. Yu Qiuping got it
After answering in the affirmative, the girl was silent for a long time, and she didn't know why.
Recently, the girl was teaching Yu Qiuping archery. However, every time Yu Qiuping saw the withering maple trees and thought of the girl's words "come back before all the maple leaves fall", he would sigh absently and think about the red leaves he had folded.
How long will it take before these hundreds of maple trees are covered with trees? Several arrows were shot ridiculously crooked.
"Ping-kun, are you practicing seriously?" The girl was a little angry, "If you continue to be so absent-minded, I'm going to leave."
"No, miss, I'll practice hard!" Yu Qiuping said hurriedly, but he knew in his heart that it was no longer realistic to hang hundreds of maple trees. He probably could only choose a certain small mountain stream and hang all the maple trees there.
As a result, Yu Qiuping, who was still not concentrating, failed to hit the target again.
"Why are you so inattentive, Mr. Ping!" The girl threw the bow and arrow to the ground angrily, and said angrily, "I won't come here every day. Mr. Ping, you can practice by yourself!"
"No! Miss!" Yu Qiuping suddenly panicked and blurted out, "Didn't I say that the maple tree will come every day before it falls?"
The girl glanced at Yu Qiuping's anxious look, then at the withering maple forest, and suddenly understood what Yu Qiuping was worried about just now. She felt sweet in her heart, but muttered, "It's going to be over soon anyway."
, I won’t come then.”
This frightened Yu Qiuping to death, and he realized that no matter how hard he folded, he could not cover the whole maple forest, and he would not be satisfied even with that small mountain stream.
When he thought that he might never see his sweetheart again, Yu Qiuping, whose IQ dropped during the love period, did not consider the possibility that this was an angry talk.
After returning home in the evening, he asked all the Ashugaru who were preparing to go home to stop and assigned them the task of folding red leaves.
"Sir, why are we folding these?" Yoshioka Shengzheng, an old man, tried several times but couldn't break them. He asked Yu Qiuping in confusion.
Charlie and Chibei smiled at each other behind Yu Qiuping's back. No one said anything, and they planned to see how Yu Qiuping would explain.
"I have my own use! Don't ask, just fold it!" Yu Qiuping said with a blush.
"No, sir, if you don't tell me why, I won't do it!" Nakahide Omaezaki threw down the red paper in his hand, "This thing is too difficult! It's impossible to do it. How can I do it without any motivation!"
"Yes, sir, tell me!" "Sir, do you have something to hide from us?" "We won't give up if you don't tell us!" Everyone then shouted and booed together. Yu Qiuping, who was riding a tiger, was in urgent need of their help, so he
I had no choice but to grit my teeth and prepare to speak, "This is my private matter! Don't tell others!"
"Okay! No problem!" Nakahide Omaezaki assured, patting his chest.
"Sir, think twice." Before Yu Qiuping was about to speak, Ogawa Yudong suddenly put down the wine bottle beside his mouth, "Telling Zhongxiu that big mouth means telling everyone in Junfu City and those four villages.
, Sir, are you ready?"
"Yutong! What do you mean!" Nakahide Omaezaki stood up and pointed at Ogawa Yutong. The latter looked indifferent, took a sip of wine and ignored him at all.
"Sir, how much do you want to fold? You need so many of us." Fukushima Yasunari asked.
"I think... there are maple trees hanging all over the back hill." Yu Qiuping said hesitantly.
What he feared most was the sudden silence in the air. Everyone looked at Yu Qiuping as if he were a freak.
The scene was very embarrassing for a time.
"My lord, have you lost your mind and gone crazy?" Nakahide Omaezaki burst into laughter, "How is this possible? You can ask everyone in Suruga to help you fold it, and it's not too bad!"
"My lord doesn't want to say it, so let's not ask." Senbing Wei saw Yu Qiuping's dilemma and spoke to help.
"No! Forget it! Let's fight!" Yu Qiuping interrupted Chibei, "I'll tell you what to do!" Yu Qiuping took a deep breath and stared at Omaezaki Nakahide, "If we let Sunfu Castle
If anyone here knows even a little bit about it, you can do 1,000 push-ups for me!"
"Hey! Sir!" Nakahide Omaezaki quit, "It's not necessarily me who said it!"
"Then you go and supervise!" Yu Qiuping interrupted, "I've identified you anyway!"
"That's it..." Yu Qiuping, under the pressure of everyone's subtle smile unique to men, quickly skipped over his admiration and relationship with the girl, "Anyway, if you adults don't cover the maple forest with red leaves! I'll see you again.
She’s gone! Do you understand?”
"Sir, let's do something more realistic." Charlie suddenly said, "I often go to the back mountain. There is a small mountain stream there. The canyon is surrounded by maple trees, and you can't see the outside scenery. Just put the maple trees in the canyon.
The trees are all tied with thin strings and the leaves are hanging all over. It means that the maple leaves have not fallen yet, right? There are so many maple leaves in the back mountain that we can’t make it in time.”
"Yes!" Yu Qiuping had also considered the small mountain stream before, so he nodded in approval. Seeing everyone looking at Yu Qiuping in love with a smirk on their faces, Yu Qiuping suddenly shouted: "Then you guys are stunned.
What are you doing! Get up and fold it for me!"
After everyone was busy for two days, they discovered that the leaves they folded were only enough to hang three trees. In desperation, Yu Qiuping mobilized these ashigaru family members to help fold the leaves. When they found that it was still too late, they mobilized all the residents to do it when nothing happened.
Let's help fold them together. These days, low-status citizens rarely have the opportunity to participate in the affairs of important people. When they think that the red leaves they folded can actually help their lord's emotional problems, everyone is very motivated. In Sunfu City
The red paper was swept away at once, and soon even the dyeing workshop and white paper were collected by Yu Qiuping. For a time, Junfu paper was so expensive that even paper could not be bought. So Yu Qiuping sent people to surrounding cities and towns.
For purchasing, truckloads of red paper were sent to Yu Qiuping's territory, surprising the merchants who came and went.