In the early morning of June 4th, the army of the Changzong family returned to the mountain fields and continued to retreat. Yu Qiuping personally led the Liaoyuanbei to cut off their rear. At noon on June 4, the pursuers of the Miyoshi family also arrived. Yu Qiuping led his troops.
Fighting and retreating, they finally withdrew to Okafeng Castle on the evening of June 4.
In accordance with Yu Qiupei's request, Kira Chisada had set up camps outside the east gate, south gate, and west gate of Oka Toyo Castle. After Yu Qiuping led his army to retreat into the east gate camp, Miyoshi Nagakei did not continue the pursuit.
The remnants of Awa who gathered with Miyoshi Yoshihide set up a joint camp outside Okatoyo Castle and firmly blocked Okatoyo Castle. Looking from a distance, the auxiliary soldiers of the Miyoshi Army seemed to have begun to salvage food and excrement from the Monobu River. Look.
It seems they are really not afraid of the epidemic.
When Yu Qiu calmed down his troops and personally led the guards back to Okatoyo Castle, what greeted him was the tsunami-like cheers of the soldiers and civilians of Okatoyo Castle, as well as the Changsonggabe family who lined up from Sannomaru to the entrance of Honmaru.
Samurai. Everyone does not hesitate to use the most beautiful words they can think of to praise the righteous deeds of Yu Qiuping and the Hongye Army. They repay evil with kindness.
When Yu Qiupei stepped into the main hall of the castle tower under the guidance of the Chosonggabe family flag, all the high-ranking warriors in Tosa gathered together and bowed respectfully to Yu Qiupei, showing the etiquette that would only be used to their lord.
And Chang Zong Gabu Yuanqin personally walked up to Yu Qiuping and led him to the main seat in the hall. Before Chang Zong Gabu Yuanqin received Yu Qiu, he usually occupied the seat, and he himself sat on it.
Ciyu Qiuping sat in the first place on the side seat.
After Yu Qiuping sat down, the Tosa ministers once again bowed to Yu Qiu under the leadership of Changzonggabu Motochin. Yu Qiuping accepted it calmly with a smile. This is what he deserves, and this is what the Red Leaf Army deserves.
Yes, this is what those retainers of the Chosomegabu family who risked their lives and fought for Tosa deserved.
"His Royal Highness, the Governor, has a high moral integrity. I used to treat a gentleman with a villain's heart and criticized and slandered His Highness. His crime deserves death. I have come here to apologize to His Highness." After the ceremony, Fuliu, the Prime Minister, strode out of the queue, in the rain.
Qiuping knelt down with a plop in front of him. Only then did Yu Qiuping notice that Fuliu was not wearing a samurai uniform, but was wearing a white suit with a thorn stick on his back. This was to apologize to Yu Qiuping for bearing the thorn.
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"Lord Fuliu, you don't have to be like this. My previous behavior was very inappropriate, which gave the Miyoshi family an opportunity to drive a wedge between the two families." Yu Qiuping also felt a little guilty in his heart. He had also thought of abandoning the Changzonggabe family before.
Yu Qiuping walked forward quickly and wanted to help Fuliu Qinzheng, but the sturdy warrior was stuck in place, and Yu Qiuping could not help him up. At this time, more and more Chang Zongwa's troops
The family warriors also knelt down to Yu Qiuping and apologized to Yu Qiuping for their previous actions.
"We, the country people, do not know the virtues of His Highness, who is governing the Ministry. We are arrogantly criticizing His Highness, suspecting that His Highness is a good person, and intending to abandon us and withdraw our troops. We, with the heart of a villain, have repeatedly plotted against His Majesty the Ministry.
Your Highness, you even used force against His Highness Jibu." Chosogabu Motochin walked to Yu Qiuping, saluted him again, and said loudly, "We originally thought that His Highness Jibu went to Urato, and his intention to go was already decided.
.Who would have ever thought that His Highness Zhibu would ignore past grudges and retaliate with kindness? Instead of caring about our rudeness, hostility and suspicion towards His Highness Zhibu, he would travel thousands of miles away.
We have saved our family from the fire and water. Today we know that His Highness Zhibu's name as a "benevolent man" is not false. I am afraid that there has never been a kind person like His Highness Zhibu in ancient and modern times who repaid kindness with hatred. The whole family of Changzong all depends on Zhibu.
Your Highness is able to survive. On behalf of the entire family of Changzong, I would like to express my gratitude to His Highness the Governor!"
"Thank you, Your Highness, Jibu!" The retainers of the Chozonggabu family followed their lord and expressed their sincere thanks in unison.
This is the second time Yu Qiuping has had a meal with the retainers of the Chosogabe family in the castle tower of Oka Toyo Castle. This time, the atmosphere was obviously much more lively than the last time. The retainers of the Chosogabe family came one after another.
I came to Yu Qiuping's table and wanted to toast Yu Qiuping, but Yu Qiuping refused on the grounds that he was on military duty. Although Miyoshi Changqing came from afar, Miyoshi Yixian had not recovered his strength, and the Sanqi people were still there.
Uradō Castle and Shoshubei are entangled, and there is a high probability that there will be no battle tonight, but Yu Qiuping still can't rest assured, which only makes the warriors of the Chosougabe family more respectful.
After the banquet, Chozong Gabu Yuanqin invited Yu Qiuping to go to the secret room on the third floor of the castle tower to have a talk. Yu Qiuping happily agreed, secretly guessing what Changzong Gabu Yuanqin wanted to say to him.
"I have been very strong since I was a child, and I don't like to thank people. But this time, I really thank you." Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin got straight to the point. Although he did not express his gratitude to Yu Qiuping with a big salute like in the hall, Yu Qiuping
I can feel that this sentence is much more sincere than the previous words of thanks in public.
"Those words just now were just for show, and the reason why he was just showing off in front of the retainers must have been noticed by His Majesty the Imperial Highness." Chozong Gabu Yuanqin picked up the jug, poured himself a glass of wine, and drank it all in one gulp.
He poured another glass into the wine glass he had just drank and handed it to Yu Qiuping, "But this time I really appreciate it."
"Although you will also consider the interests of the Yu Qiu family, but generally speaking, you are a good person." Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin put down the wine bottle, looked into Yu Qiuping's eyes, and said coldly: "I really really
I'm very surprised that you are a good person who doesn't hold grudges and will hurt others. The choice you made this time seems to me to be stupid. For the so-called favor, you risked your life and your family's fortune.
To save an ally who has betrayed and betrayed his own interests, no fool, no matter how stupid, would do such a thing. I thought these things only appeared in novels and operas."
"Why, my righteous deed has caused me to be looked down upon by His Highness the Changzong?" Yu Qiuping laughed loudly after hearing this, and took a gentle sip of the wine in the glass.
"No, on the contrary, you make me feel scared, very, very scared." Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin did not show any expression because of Yu Qiuping's laughter, but said in a serious voice with a solemn face.
"Why? Is anyone afraid of fools?" Yu Qiuping tilted his head in confusion, holding the wine glass and shaking it towards Chang Zong Gabu Yuanqin.
"Your Highness's lord, His Highness Oda was also called 'Owari's big fool' before. Your Highness doesn't know about it, right? Now, what does that fool do now? His Highness doesn't know about it? He took the Oda family with him,
From a small wealthy family in Owari, it has become Japan's most powerful family in more than 20 years." Choso Gabe Motochin sneered and took the wine glass from Yu Qiupei's hand.
, raised his neck and drank it all in one gulp, "Never underestimate a fool. The reason why a fool is called a fool is because people can't understand his behavior. A person who can't understand is always in danger."
"I now realize that I can't see through you at all." Yuanqin, the head of the Changzong Division, filled the wine glass again and pushed it in front of Yu Qiuping, "I thought before that your title of 'good guy' was just because you hid it well.
You're just good at scheming and packaging. Because in this dark and troubled world, no good person can continue the family, let alone be the lintel of the family. But now I find that you are really a good person, a 'bad good person'. But like you
Such a person should have died in troubled times long ago. I don't understand how you got to where you are today? How can a normal daimyo return from a safe place to rescue an ally who has betrayed him and fight to the death?
Fighting?"
"Benevolent people love others, and people will always love them. It's that simple." Yu Qiuping smiled, raised the glass of wine to his mouth, and prepared to drink it all in one gulp, "I am good to others, and others are good to me.
Friends are made with care. Just like now, Your Highness, even if you had ill intentions towards me before, after I helped you once, would you betray me again?"
"Yes." Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin replied decisively, without even a moment's hesitation, which made Yu Qiuping who was drinking choked.
"Farewell, Your Highness, you're not going to do that, are you?" Yu Qiuping used a sarcastic address to Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin and smiled, "It's just a show at least? As for being so undisguised?"
"But you are right in what you said. 'The benevolent love others, and others will always love them.'" Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin did not directly answer Yu Qiuping's words, but said to himself: "I am a dirty person."
I am willing to sell everything for the benefit of the family. But my retainers are different. Many of them are simple and passionate warriors. Your act of righteousness and kindness this time has deeply moved them. Not to mention your loyalty.
, Qin Zheng and the lower-level samurai, they all believe that you are a lifelong ally of the Changzong family, and they will risk their lives for you; even Qin Tai and others are greatly moved by you. If I want to
If they betray the interests of the Yuqiu family, I'm afraid they will be the first to give up. Maybe they will be like the retainers of the Asai family, remembering the kindness of the Asakura family in their hearts, and unite to banish the family head in order to continue the fight. After all,
My eldest son Nobuchika is still in your hands. When the time comes for you to support Nobuchika to inherit the eldest clan of my family, I am afraid that everyone will betray me and leave."
"What a trick to attack people's minds. You have the heart of a Tosa samurai, and the whole Chosong family has been firmly tied to the Yuqiu family. If I don't obey a little, the position of the family governor will
There will be a replacement soon." The more Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin said, the more amazed he became. He couldn't help but admired, "Fool, fool, good people, good people, it's really hard to see through."
"Honestly, I didn't think much about it at all." Yu Qiuping was a little embarrassed by being blown away by Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin, and smiled sheepishly, "I'm not as sophisticated as you think."
"Then why did you come to the rescue?" Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin sneered again, took the wine glass from Yu Qiuping's hand, and drank it down again.
"To make a choice without regrets, that's all."
Chapter completed!