Yiyin acted coyly in front of Pu Sheng's village, tricking this innocent child into continuing to look after him.
Although Kamojigo was smart, she was still young when she first started to fall in love. No matter how smart her head was, she would be dazzled by love. Yoshigan deceived her with just a few words.
Yiyin's pitiful words are 30% true and 70% false.
To say that Takeda Uesugi used him was to use each other and to complement each other. It was said that Yamanakajima was not loyal to him, but Yoshigami actually believed in their loyalty, and Rena's incident was an accident.
Emotional matters are emotional matters. Politically, Yoshigami is already the leader of the conservative samurai family. His power, prestige, and status have surpassed the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Kyoto who is not worthy of his name.
Yiyin said that he was pitiful, but in fact, most of the time, others relied on him to live their lives, so how could they dare to despise him and disobey him.
But even so, the co-leader of the Wu family is not a centralized monarch, and Yoshigan's camp is still full of hidden dangers. Whether he can successfully mobilize a hundred thousand troops to confront the Oda family is still unknown.
Because of this, while Yoshigan went to Sakai Port to raise military expenditures and swindle artillery, Akechi Mitsuhide left the capital again and took Saito Ryuuki to Azuchi Castle to meet Nogun's cheap cousin.
It was a lie that Mitsuhide Akechi visited relatives, but it was true that he infiltrated the Oda camp to manipulate public opinion. She always believed that the key to defeating the Oda family was not military strength, but starting from within the Oda family.
There are many hidden dangers in Yiyin. Oda Nobunaga's command is just a piece of iron. If it is really a piece of iron, why do the old Owari warriors send so much money to Takada Yono to find a way out?
In these troubled times of the Wu family, who is not on both ends of the spectrum, always thinking about their own interests?
The conflict between Shiba and Oda has not yet reached the point of irreconcilable sharp opposition. Mitsuhide Akechi wants to join the Oda camp to promote her idea of ​​the Genpei Convergence.
The battle between the two lords is just a battle of spirits. Why can't a man and a woman join forces to conquer the world? This argument is very attractive to the Oda camp.
Especially when the war is in a stalemate and there are heavy casualties, I believe many people will take the initiative to come forward and persuade Oda Nobunaga to give up the idea of ​​​​destroying everything.
Perhaps this decisive battle, which was said to involve hundreds of thousands of people and decide the fate of the world, ended up being an anticlimax. With the military families on both sides holding back, they had no choice but to compromise.
If this result can be achieved, Akechi Mitsuhide would be happy to hear it.
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Azuchi Castle, castle tower.
Oda Nobunaga was talking to Niwa Nagahide when suddenly there was a loud noise coming from the direction of the inner courtyard, which even affected them.
Niwa Nagahide didn't know why and looked at Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga waved his hand and said without caring.
"It's the mayor who is chasing people away.
Akechi Mitsuhide brought Saito Ryuuki over to see No-kun. You know that since the death of Asai Nagamasa, Ichi-kun has hated Tsutado-don and Hideyoshi, and is also extremely disgusted with Akechi Mitsuhide."
Niwa Nagahide nodded.
Speaking of which, Akechi Mitsuhide is also a powerful person. Seeing that the Shiba and Oda families are at war with each other, a war is about to break out.
Akechi Mitsuhide, however, had both sides, and was reused in front of Shiba Yi Ginza. Oda Nobunaga also valued her.
Saito Ryuuki is the daughter of Saito Yoshiryu. At that time, Saito Yoshiryu killed his mother to seize the throne, occupied Mino Country, and fought life and death with Oda Nobunaga, but the two families were actually related.
No-kun is the younger brother of Saito Yoshiryu, and Saito Ryuuki, the escaped heir of the Saito family, is No-kun's biological niece.
Oda Nobunaga has now completely engulfed Mino Country, the Saito family's foundation in Higashi Mino has been uprooted, and Saito Ryuuki is no longer a threat to Oda Nobunaga.
Therefore, Akechi Mitsuhide used Saito Ryuuki's niece as a link and claimed to be No-kun's cousin. He had a very close relationship with No-kun, and Oda Nobunaga didn't care.
For No-kun, a man from the samurai family whose husband's family power has been destroyed and who has no one to rely on, Akechi Mitsuhide and Saito Ryuuki are indeed her support and foreign aid, so they are naturally close to her.
Oda Nobunaga also needed a sensible person like Akechi Mitsuhide to influence No-kun, hoping that No-kun would take the initiative to make way for the future Genpei merger.
After the death of his wife, Ichi-kun hated Shiba Yoshigan and Hashiba Hideyoshi, so he lived with No-kun.
How could he not be angry when he saw that Akechi Mitsuhide, an important minister of the Shiba family, had been speaking for the merger of the Shiba and Oda families in front of Lord No?
His own wife was obsessed with Shiba Yiyin until her death. Now her sister wanted to break up with Nong Jun, a good friend, for Shiba Yiyin, leaving the vacant position for Shiba Yiyin.
Ichikun's temper is very similar to that of Oda Nobunaga. If she hadn't been powerless, she would have had Mitsuhide Akechi's head cut off and played as a ball.
Niwa Nagahide was actually very aware of these internal affairs of Oda, but as a foreign minister she couldn't say anything, so she could only sigh.
Oda Nobunaga glanced at her.
"Why are you sighing? Do you have a good relationship with Akechi Mitsuhide?"
Niwa Nagahide shook his head and said.
"It's just a nod of acquaintance, I can't say whether it's a good relationship or not.
I just think that if Mitsuhide Akechi can enter Kyoto for the first time without any problems, it must be because Tsutado-den is not opposed to the merger of Genpei.
Since the merger of the Shiba and Oda families is not out of the question, what’s the point of us working so hard to plan this war now?”
Oda Nobunaga shook his head.
"You are smart all your life, confused for a while, and worried about spending money and food, right?
Tsudoden is not an easy person to get along with. He has always been independent, perseverant, and self-reliant.
Akechi Mitsuhide is just a chess piece that he acquiesced to destabilize my retainers. If I don't give him some clues, do you really think he will come to me to negotiate peace and make a bed?
If we can't win this battle, how can Tsutado-don be willing to bow his head easily? Only if I let him know how powerful I am, will he take the initiative to come to my side and let me do what I did like he did at Owari."
Oda Nobunaga's words were a bit frivolous and resentful. Niwa Nagahide knew that she had always been worried about the past when Shiba Yoshigan decided to go to Luo and soared into the sky.
However, if it were not for Shiba Kamoraku, there would be no Shiba Tsudo-den that is famous all over the world today. Oda Nobunaga was haunted by his dreams and could not let go of Shiba Yoshigan, who wanted to conquer again with all his heart.
Therefore, human nature is full of contradictions.
Niwa Nagahide smiled bitterly.
"Since the main palace knows that Akechi Mitsuhide's promotion of the Genpei Convergence at home will shake the hearts of the family, why do they allow her to show off everywhere?"
Oda Nobunaga was silent for a while and sighed.
"Mi Wu Niang, do you know how the Shiba family was reduced from Ashikaga's direct descendants to common people?"
Niwa Nagahide nodded.
"I probably know a little bit.
The Kamakura shogunate had no heirs. As the powerful imperial family of the Kamakura shogunate, the Ashikaga family was also the closest branch of the direct line of the Genji family in Kawachi. It posed a great threat to the Hojo family before the shogunate came to power.
In order to resolve the hostility of the former Hojo family, the governor of the Ashikaga family took the initiative to divorce her husband and married the son of the former Hojo family. The divorced husband and his children were reduced to commoners, and they are the ancestors of the Shiba family."
Oda Nobunaga looked at Niwa Nagahide without speaking, and Niwa Nagahide suddenly nodded, somewhat understanding Oda Nobunaga's complicated mentality.
You know, Oda Nobunaga longed to conquer Yoshigami Shiba, to use force to convince him, and to make him marry him willingly.
The origin of the Shiba family is extraordinary. Looking back at history, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Shiba family is the true direct descendant of the Kawachi Genji family, and the Ashikaga shogunate has always established the Shiba family as the first direct branch of the Ashikaga family.
The background of the Isehei clan of the Oda family was made up by Oda Nobunaga himself, but the background of the Kawachi Genji clan of the Shiba family is true. The political significance of the merger of the Genpei clan is very important to Oda Nobunaga.
On the one hand, Oda Nobunaga can legitimately replace Ashikaga Shogun and become a member of the new world.
On the other hand, she was able to reduce the hostility and resistance of the traditional samurai towards her by marrying the most powerful leader among the traditional samurai, Shiba Yoshigan.
To put it bluntly, Oda Nobunaga is trying to reach a higher level and is a toad trying to eat swan meat.
There are so many benefits to winning Yoshigoshi Shiba, so much so that even if Oda Nobunaga's hidden love for him is removed, it is still a huge benefit that Oda Nobunaga cannot give up.
Oda Nobunaga's current position is just like that of the Hojo family before the shogunate came to power. They have strength, but their background is too low, and they are anxious about the existence of the famous Ashikaga family.
At this time, marriage is the best way.
But back then, the Ashikaga family governor took the initiative to divorce and separated from her husband, leaving room for the Hojo family. So what about the Oda family today?
Oda Nobunaga is already married to a husband, and this husband is also a political bargaining chip for her to occupy Mino Country.
Without marrying a son of the Saito family, and without a reason to avenge her mother-in-law, why did she, Oda Nobunaga, take over Mino Country?
Now, Mino Country has been completely digested by the Oda family. Oda Nobunaga wants to kill the donkey, divorce Nobu-kun and marry Yoshigan Shiba. Isn't this too ugly?
Akechi Mitsuhide's identity is very important to Oda Nobunaga. She is an important minister of the Shiba family, Noun-kun's cousin, and an advocate of the Genpei fusion.
If Akechi Mitsuhide came forward to promote the Minaipei merger and forced Nogo to voluntarily join forces, the political damage to Oda Nobunaga would be minimal.
As for the uneasiness at home that Niwa Nagahide mentioned, that was the price Oda Nobunaga had to pay for his separation from Nokun.
Niwa Nagahide sighed.
"No wonder those people in Simion insist on fighting the Shiba family. They are worried that after Mr. Nong leaves..., the status of the people in Simion will be suppressed."
Oda Nobunaga sneered.
"Before the war between Jindo Hall and me officially started, all the monsters and monsters were so impatient that they all jumped out.
Shibata, Takigawa, Sakuma, those guys, do they think I don’t know that they are buying real estate in nearby Shiba Territory?
To be continued...