After that night, Ah Shi's attitude towards Yu Qiuping became a little subtle. However, Yu Qiuping, who was not sensitive to this, did not notice it and simply understood that the relationship between brother and sister was more harmonious. Only he understood the feelings in Ah Shi's heart.
She had no intention of telling the truth. For her, the happiness behind that layer of window paper was out of reach.
One morning, when Yu Qiuping woke up, he suddenly found that the red leaf shawl he had kept beside his pillow was missing. Ever since Imagawa Kaede gave Yu Qiuping this red leaf shawl on Yu Qiuping's 17th birthday, he has been Yu Qiuping.
The treasure that never leaves his body has become Yu Qiuping's iconic accessory. On the battlefield, once the soldiers of the Hongye Army see the maple bird horse print and the red leaf shawl, they can immediately recognize that it is their commander.
Yu Qiuping got up anxiously to look for it, only to find that the red leaf shawl was in Ashi's hand. Ashi was sitting in front of the dressing table beside the bed, with Yu Qiuping's sewing kit beside it. Yu Qiuping walked over unexpectedly and looked at
He turned to Ah Shi. Ah Shi's back was turned to him, but he could see the happy smile on Ah Shi's face from the bronze mirror on the dressing table. This charming face coupled with a smile instantly made people feel...
Yu Qiuping felt his heart melt.
Ah Shi noticed the movement behind her, looked up, and saw Yu Qiuping in the mirror. Her smile grew stronger, and she raised the red leaf shawl in her hand, so that Yu Qiuping could see what she was doing in the mirror.
What—Ashi is mending the shawl with needle and thread.
"It's old, and many of the threads have come apart." Ah Shi saw the confusion in Yu Qiuping's eyes, and explained with a smile, "But Sister Feng's needlework is really good. It's been 20 years, and this shawl still doesn't exist."
bad."
"Feng'er pricked a lot of holes in her hands in order to knit this for me." Yu Qiuping thought of Imagawa Feng's clumsy appearance and giggled unconsciously. Ashi looked at Yu Qiuping's smile in the mirror and felt in his heart
There was a bit of sourness underneath. There was a thin layer of fog on the mirror, making the man behind the mirror look a little unreal, as if he was always the person in the mirror and was not in the same world as himself.
"Sister Feng'er is so lucky to meet Brother Hongye. Women from the martial arts family in troubled times are as powerless as duckweed in the wind, unable to control their own destiny. How many people can be happy?" Ah Shi sighed with some loneliness.
Take a breath.
"That's why we have to work hard to protect Shang'er and Chacha's hard-won happiness." Yu Qiuping stretched his waist and changed the sad topic brought up by Ah Shi, "We have been locked up here for more than half a year, and
I wonder if the two of them are married."
"Given Chacha's child's temperament, I'm afraid he will wait until we return before getting married." Ah Shi replied without thinking, "That child has cared about his family since he was a child. He can't bear to leave his family and is unwilling to leave us for a moment."
"By the way..." Ah Shi mentioned Chacha and suddenly asked worriedly, "Um..."
"Let's not discuss it here." Yu Qiuping knew that what Ashi wanted to ask about was about her and Asai Nagamasa's son. After Xiaotani City was destroyed, Yu Qiuping transferred Asai Nagamasa's son out and secretly
Hidden and moved to many places in the past few years. Oda Nobunaga's ninjas have been pursuing the matter, and Yu Qiuping did not dare to be careless for a moment. To be on the safe side, he did not even tell Aichi the location of her child.
"Yeah." Aichi nodded - God knows if there are any ninjas from Oda Nobunaga in this temple.
"But, speaking of marriage... I don't know how long we will be detained before we have time to go out and host the wedding for them." Yu Qiuping walked to the window with some troubles, opened the window, and the cool breeze blew in. In the blink of an eye,
, it was already late autumn. He and Ah Shi were imprisoned in early spring, and it seemed like it would be a year later.
"Today is September 3rd..." Yu Qiuping looked at the date he recorded in his notebook, "It's been eight months...I don't know what the situation is like outside."
Just as Yu Qiuping was muttering quietly, a burst of footsteps suddenly came from the courtyard.
"So many people?" The chaotic and dense footsteps showed that there were many people, and Yu Qiuping couldn't help but ask, "Could it be..."
As expected, the person who knocked on the door was not the maid and guard who usually delivered daily necessities to Yu Qiupei and Aichi, but the Kamao clan. Behind him, there were also a group of Oda Nobunaga's close confidants.
"Lord Kamou, what's the important thing you're here for?" Yu Qiuping bowed towards Kamou's village, while Aichi closed the door and returned to the inner room. He had always been very cold to Oda Nobunaga, so naturally he wouldn't give Oda the favor.
Nobunaga's bodyguard has a good face.
"Your Highness Hongye is too polite. There is no important business. Naturally, I don't dare to disturb His Highness Hongye's leisure." The village of Kasheng smiled at Yu Qiuping, and then bowed respectfully, "The Lord has ordered that the house arrest of His Highness and the Princess has ended. Today,
Your Highness, please take the princess back to your territory immediately."
"Something happened?" Yu Qiuping noticed something was wrong when he heard the news.
"Your Highness Ming Jian." Pu Shengshi Xiang did not come empty-handed. He waved to the guard behind him, who immediately handed him a map. Pu Shengshi Xiang opened the map in front of Yuqiu Ping and also handed over a stack of documents.
He handed it to Yu Qiuping, and then whispered, "To be honest, the situation is a bit bad."
"If the situation is not bad, my lord will not let me out." Yu Qiuping chuckled, and then sat down, "Master Pu Sheng, please speak."
However, the news brought by Pu Sheng's Township was worse than the worst situation Yu Qiuping had imagined.
"Ashikaga Yoshinishi?" Yu Qiuping looked at a series of events related to this person, his face a little hesitant.
"This man is the son of the puppet general Ashikaga Yosei and Ashikaga Yoshiteru. He previously succeeded the puppet general Ashikaga Yoshiaki. He went to Kyushu at the beginning of the year and changed the name of Ashikaga Yoshii to Ashikaga Yoshinishi, intending to imitate his ancestor Ashikaga
Takauji, after being defeated, fled to the land of the Western Kingdom, regrouped, and fought his way back to Kyoto."
As the first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji's story is known to everyone in the samurai family. When he fought against Emperor Go-Daigo, he was defeated miserably in Kinki and fled to Kyushu with only the remnants of his troops. However, he
In Kyushu, he successfully integrated a large number of local noble samurai, led the Western Allied Forces to make a comeback, and captured Kyoto in one fell swoop. Ashikaga Gisei was renamed Ashikaga Gisei, as if to get this chance.
"How did he succeed?" Yu Qiuping frowned and looked at the situation on the map.
"I don't know. It seems that he has a smooth tongue just through lobbying." Talking about Ashikaga Yoshinishi, the Kamao clan couldn't help but admired, "The puppet generals have no soldiers and no power. The Uesugi family and the Hojo family have no power."
After the Miyoshi family, the Miyoshi family, and the Mori family were defeated, the second Oda siege was only in name only. However, this pseudo-shogun took the name of shogun and relied on Akatsuki to use his interests to warn the daimyo that the Oda family was currently unstoppable.
Without unity, the whole world will fall into the hands of the Oda family sooner or later. It seems that the successive failures of the Uesugi family, the Hojo family, the Miyoshi family, and the Mori family have greatly touched these Kyushu daimyo, so the puppet general successfully persuaded the daimyo in the entire Kyushu region to stop
He started a private fight and formed a huge Western alliance with the Maori family and the Miyoshi family to jointly fight against the Oda family."
This alliance is not an alliance in name only, but in reality. The participating daimyo include the Mori family, the Miyoshi family, the Uki family, and the Ura family.
The Kame family, the Yamana family, the Otomo family, the Ryuzouji family, the Shimazu family, the Aso family, the Ito family, the Sagara family, the Arima family, etc., almost all the famous daimyo in the Western Kingdom, except for the Nagas who are allied with the Uaki family.
All members of the Zongga tribe have joined this grand alliance.
"This is simply a great alliance that can only be seen in Nobunaga's Ambition..." Yu Qiuping couldn't help but secretly complained after hearing this.
With no worries, the Mori family was able to devote all their land and naval forces to the front line to confront the Oda family. The Shimazu family, the Otomo family, and the Ryuzouji family, the three strongest Kyushu families, even sent troops on expeditions to support the front line.
The Mouri family and the Miyoshi family. The food and salary for their army were shared by the Moori family and the Honganji family. The entire Western country joined hands to attack the Oda family with the respect of Ashikaga Yoshinishi.
Among them, the Otomo Army and the Ryuzosei Army entered Sanyo Road and Sanyo respectively, and cooperated with the Maori Army, Yamana Army, Urakami Army and Ukita Army to launch a fierce attack on Hashiba Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide, which was difficult for them to cope with. The Shimazu Army
He also landed on Shikoku Island, and together with the Miyoshi family, attacked the Chosogabe family. Chosogabe Motochichi urgently asked for help from the Oda family.
Oda Nobunaga himself initially led the army to Settsu Province to supervise the formation. While continuing to besiege the Ishiyama Gobo of Honganji Temple, he sent troops directly under him to fight on Sanyo Road. The Yu Qiu family was also mobilized, and Yu Qiu Shang had already led
Meibei Bei, Nirvana Bei, Tongqiang Bei, and Jingzhe Bei entered the mountain cave and fought side by side with Akechi Mitsuhide. And Takenaka Shigeharu led Tokiwa Bei, Rakihara Bei, and Wanjun Bei to land in Tosa to support the Choso Gabe family.
Battle of Tosa.
However, in response to Ashikaga Yoshinishi's call, the Tokoku daimyo also took action. The Hojo family and Uesugi Kagetora went to war against Uesugi Kagekatsu, and the Takeda family and the Hojo family also formed a coalition to invade the Tokugawa family's territory. Oda Nobu
Nagasaki had no choice but to withdraw part of his troops to assist Hokuriku and Tokugawa Ieyasu respectively. The Oda family went to war with the enemy on all fronts including Sanyo Road, Sanyo Road, Nankaido, Hokuriku Road, and Tokaido, and for a while
There will be no hope of victory.
What was even worse was the crisis that Yu Qiu's family encountered. Kobayakawa Takakage was keenly aware that Yu Qiupei was able to continuously supply and train a powerful navy because of the sea trade of Sakai Town, Ishiyama Town, and Kishiwada Port.
After the Daimyos of the Western Kingdom united, they launched an embargo on the Uaki family at the initiative of Kobayakawa Takakage. The navies of the various daimyo began to attack merchant ships from the Uaki family ports such as Sakai Town, Ishiyama Town, Kishiwada Port, etc., and banned the Uaki family.
Merchants were trading in their ports and territories. Such an embargo was unprecedented in Japan, and it immediately caught the merchants off guard. Businessmen in Congress passed resolutions many times, requiring the Yuqiu family to protect merchant ships and open up trade.
, but the tight situation of the Yuqiu family was also beyond their capabilities. Due to the sudden loss of a large number of trade contacts with the Western Kingdom, the merchants of the Yuqiu family suddenly faced a crisis of bankruptcy and had to temporarily open trade routes to the Eastern Kingdom. However, the production in those factories
How could the huge amount of goods exported be digested by the hastily opened trade routes? A large number of products were piled up at the port and were unsalable. Sakai Town suffered countless losses every day, and the Yuqiu family also had a big gap in tax revenue.
In a critical situation, Oda Nobunaga could no longer place his most important minister under house arrest, so he released Yu Qiuping and asked him to find a way to break the deadlock. Yu Qiuping himself was also a little unsure, because this time the enemy was a historical figure.
There is no record - Ashikaga Yoshiki. In the original history of Uakihara, this child may have been buried in the sea of ​​​​fire together with Ashikaga Yoshiki. But in this life, he survived. The genes of his ancestors seem to be in him
His body awakened, and he actually had the power to unite people's hearts.
Chapter completed!