After the Uaki family's troops passed Kawaramachi Street, the Oda family's grand military parade came to an end. The emperor's honor guard escorted the emperor back to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and the people of Kyoto once again knelt down and shouted long live. Everyone onlookers thought that the military parade was in progress.
It was over, so they left in groups one after another, and the crowds gathered near Kawaramachi Street gradually dispersed. However, there were also some smart people who paid more attention and noticed the strangeness of the matter - Oda Nobunaga and
The messengers never left.
To be precise, Oda Nobunaga did not leave. When the envoys saw that Oda Nobunaga had not left, they were naturally embarrassed to leave. Soon after, they received an order from Oda Nobunaga to all come to the high platform. Although they were
Being treated in such a condescending manner made them a little uncomfortable, but people had to bow their heads under the roof, so they had no choice but to do so.
Before they could gain a foothold, Oda Nobunaga pointed at the nose of the Hojo family envoy Matsuda Kenhide and cursed: "You are still pretending to know nothing here? Huh? Why don't you hurry up and kill eight?"
Will you return the ruler mirror to me?"
Oda Nobunaga's words made Matsuda Kenhide froze on the spot, while other envoys turned their surprised eyes to Matsuda Kenhide - could this series of assassinations and disturbing public security incidents be planned by the Hojo family?
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"Why did General Right say this?" Matsuda Kenhide asked innocently, "Does this matter have anything to do with the Hojo family?"
"Don't you dare to admit what you have done?" Oda Nobunaga snorted twice, and then waved his hand. After a while, Kamao Clan commanded several guards to carry a coffin and delivered it to Matsuda Ken
Xiu opened it in front of him. He saw a pickled corpse inside, and the clothes on his body were those from Fuma Ninja. "This is what we found at the Ise Jingu Shrine, the corpse of the ninja who attacked Ise Jingu Shrine.
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"This..." Matsuda Kenhide was stunned for a moment. He had also participated in the management of Fuma Ninja League and recognized that these clothes were the clothes of Hojo Genan's personal ninja - Hojo Genan was killed by a runaway not long ago.
Is this the person who was assassinated by the personal ninja?
However, others did not know what Matsuda Kenhide was thinking. In the eyes of Oda Nobunaga, this was why Matsuda Kenhide was stunned when faced with a mountain of irrefutable evidence.
"Tell me, why did you steal the eight-foot mirror? What was the purpose of attacking Ise Shrine? Why are you pretending to be ignorant here now?" Oda Nobunaga asked in a rapid-fire manner, which made people wonder.
The overwhelmed Matsuda Kenhide suddenly broke out in sweat.
"General Right, you are wronged... This person is a ninja from our Hojo family's Fuuma ninja. However, he ran away a long time ago and became a traitorous ninja. He has nothing to do with the Hojo family anymore!" Matsuda Kenhide hurriedly leaned over to plead guilty, "
The lax discipline of the Hojo family caused the ninjas to run away, and we should apologize to General Oda! It's just the matter of Ise Shrine, we really don't know anything about it!"
"I care about you so much? I don't want to listen to your explanation." Oda Nobunaga stood on the high platform and reprimanded condescendingly, "Either hand over the eight-foot mirror! Or let Hojo Ujimasa come to Kyoto to apologize!"
"And you!" Oda Nobunaga raised his hand, pointed at the other envoys from Kanto in the audience, and said, "Either let the heads of each family come to Kyoto to see me and clarify that they have nothing to do with this matter.
! Or I can treat him as an ally of the Hojo family!"
"It will last for one month! You can figure it out yourself!"
After saying these words, Oda Nobunaga walked away without looking back. Surrounded by his guards, he left Kawaramachi Street, leaving only the envoys of various Kanto daimyo looking at each other in confusion in the wind.
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"Good fellow, my lord is going to directly declare war on the entire Kanto region?" The important ministers of the Oda family who had witnessed everything on the side were also extremely surprised when they saw this. Ikeda Tsuneaki was the first one who couldn't help but sigh.
"After all, Kansai has been pacified, so my lord's appetite will inevitably increase." Ryoyuki Sawaki said casually, and then said disdainfully, "It's all the same anyway, can all Kanto together be able to defeat us?"
"Then you shouldn't be so reckless and act so arrogantly. How will the surrendered Kansai daimyo view the Oda family?" Akechi Mitsuhide was obviously very dissatisfied with Oda Nobunaga's decision. He frowned and said, "Obviously and the Oda family
There is no hatred, but they are designated as enemies... If all the non-Oda daimyo in the world are saddened by death, the peace that was finally won will be destroyed."
"That is to say, why rush at this moment?" Niwa Nagahide also shook his head and said, "My lord is still the same as before... always rushing to the front alone, regardless of whether we, the writers, can keep up."
"Why is my lord so anxious? It's only a matter of time before the world is peaceful. Once we have calmed down the chaos caused by this commotion and marched eastward, we can send a message to the Eastern Kingdom..." Akechi Mitsuhide became more and more confused as he thought about it.
, “Why fight for this moment?”
"Hey, you don't understand this. My lord is almost fifty, and his time is very tight. How can he waste time on a small island in Japan?" Hideyoshi smiled and waved his hand.
Guanzi explained to everyone, "My lord's vision is very far-reaching. It's not just Japan, but also North Korea across the sea, the Ming Dynasty, and Europa on the horizon! The world in my lord's eyes is not just this.
A corner, but the globe that my lord has always kept in the house!"
"That's a really ambitious goal." Yu Qiu responded calmly.
After Yu Qiupei spoke out, everyone realized that Oda Nobunaga's lofty goals would have inevitable entanglements with Yu Qiupei's hometown. Not to mention the mainland China that Oda Nobunaga longed for, even Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
If Japan attacks Korea, Ming Dynasty will definitely not stand idly by.
"If that time comes, Hongye, will you help us or Mingguo?" The reckless Ikeda Hengxing asked the topic that everyone wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask without hesitation.
"If the opponent is Mingguo, no one I can help can change the result of our disastrous defeat." Yu Qiuping gave his judgment without hesitation and responded to the question relatively mildly, "So I will definitely do my best.
Prevent this losing battle from happening."
"How can it be that exaggerated?" Hideyoshi Hashiba laughed twice, then spread his hands and said, "Do you know that many ronin from the Western Kingdom who could not survive and had no place to live have gone to the coast of the Ming Kingdom to become pirates. I heard
The news from over there said that those pirates were causing great trouble along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. They marched for hundreds of miles and no one could stop them. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not even the enemy of Yihe. There were just a few pirates.
After so many years of suppression, we still can’t get it done.”
"Is this fighting power?" In order to enhance his persuasiveness, Hashiba Hideyoshi added a few words, "The ronin who were beaten by the Daimyos of the Western Kingdom and couldn't survive ran to the Ming Kingdom and chased the Ming Kingdom officers and soldiers to fight; and now those Western Kingdom
The daimyo was beaten to pieces by us. Then what do you think would be the result if we faced the Ming Dynasty army? Hahahaha..."
"I finally understand." Yu Qiuping also laughed twice, and then looked at Hideyoshi Hashiba with a look that looked like a fool, "It turns out that you were deceived and became lame... No wonder, I have always been curious about why you are lame.
So I'm sure...if you become a powerful person in the future, you might actually be able to attack North Korea and start a fight with the Ming Dynasty."
"What do you mean by that look?" Hashiba Hideyoshi was frightened by Yu Qiupei's very sincere "caring for fools" look. He patted his sleeves as if to sweep away the bad luck, "What did I say?
Wrong?"
"It's nothing, don't take it to heart." Yu Qiuping laughed, and then explained to everyone's puzzled eyes, "Do you believe some hearsay, or do you believe me, a person who grew up in the Ming Dynasty?
What do the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers look like when they arrive?"
"Well..." Hashiba Hideyoshi was obviously not persuaded by Yu Qiuping. He reluctantly nodded, and then asked deliberately, "Do you think the Ming Dynasty's army was very strong?"
"That's not the case? Otherwise, who do you think drove the Mongols back to the grassland?" Yu Qiuping patted the Chidori saber on his waist and replied matter-of-factly.
"What are the Mongols? Our ancestors also fought against them?" Hashiba Hideyoshi did not take a step back and immediately retorted, bringing up the story of the Hojo family leading samurai to fight against the invasion of the Yuan army in Kyushu during the Kamakura shogunate period.
"Is winning by relying on kamikaze the same as winning with swords and guns? If there was no kamikaze at that time, you would have lost badly in the land battle." When the historical issue was raised, Yu Qiuping, who had always been generous, became unusually mean and said to the point.
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"Then what our ancestors fought was the Mongolian army that was in its heyday after the founding of the country. What you fought was the Mongolian army that had become corrupted at sunset. And what we fought at that time were also the corrupted samurai of the middle and late shogunate. You drove away the Tartars.
Can the elite army of the Ming Dynasty be the same when it was first founded?" Hideyoshi Hashiba bluntly pointed out the vertical time mismatch in Yu Qiupei's argument, and at the same time further pursued, "And your Ming Dynasty is now 200 years old.
It’s almost corrupted, do you still think it can have the fighting power it had when the country was founded?”
"The places where Japanese pirates roam are stable inland areas. There has been no war for 200 years. The local garrison troops will be defeated if they neglect their battle formations. But if the Lord wants to attack Korea, he will encounter the Liaodong Frontier Army, which is on par with the Ming Dynasty's Northwest Frontier Army.
They are called elites. The war with the Mongols has not stopped for 200 years. Do you think it will be like the garrison in the southeast?" Yu Qiuping reported the elites of the Ming Dynasty in detail, and also asked without retreating, "
Besides, after decades of fighting against the Japanese, Southeast has also developed a strong army, have you heard of the Qi Family Army?"
"Then we have been fighting for more than a hundred years during the Warring States Period. Who is afraid of who? And we have so many iron cannons..." Seeing that Hashiba Hideyoshi still refused to admit his fault and continued to pester, Yu Qiuping simply gave up.
He waved his hand and said with an angry smile: "Forget it, if you don't believe me, then you can find out for yourself and you will know after suffering."
Chapter completed!