Everything in the world is related to sex, and sex is related to power.
Yiyin once didn't quite understand the meaning of the philosopher's words, but at this moment, he understood it deeply, and it could even be said that it was too late for him to regret it.
When he chose to use the tactic of occupying the magpie's nest to consolidate his power base, he was already on a path of no return.
And when he raised his divine power and linked his bloodline with the most noble group of people in the future of the island country, he stepped on the accelerator again on this road of no return.
No Samurai Hime would refuse a handsome man like him, and no Samurai Hime would refuse to let his descendants become one of the noblest people in the island nation.
When Yiyin's body, emotions, and power were intertwined and inseparable, he was completely confused.
Those Ji warriors who admire themselves, do their love for themselves covet their appearance, cherish their feelings, or is it to compete for more power?
Maybe all three? Or just two? Or just for power?
Even when it comes to the Kamo clan around him, Yoshigan's mentality has become worrying about gains and losses.
He has been telling himself that human nature cannot withstand the test, so he has to face reality. It is rare to be confused, so it is good not to delve into it.
But Yiyin knew very well that the love that was once as pure and precious as gold no longer existed for him.
Even Ryo Maeda and Ryo Takada, who were the first to follow him, would have selfish motives. Why should he bother everyone? He must clearly distinguish between practical interests and personal feelings.
This is the price of reaching the pinnacle of life. Sex and power are one and the same, and he still insists on rubbing his personal emotions into it. He deserves to suffer this for the rest of his life.
This is like a little girl tearing off rose petals, he loves me, he doesn't love me, he loves me, he doesn't love me... Apart from mutilating the poor flowers, it actually does nothing.
Even if the last petal is not love, the little girl will pick up another rose and start tearing it apart again, hoping that the last petal of this rose is love for me.
But apart from deceiving oneself and others, what’s the point of doing so?
And Yiyin is now the little girl tearing off the petals. He doesn't dare to delve into it, doesn't dare to think about it, he only dares to hide in the safe house he created with his power and tear off his own emotional rose.
Every petal is love for me, and I don’t know if I am lying to others or myself.
After separating from Oda Nobunaga before breaking through the border, Yoshigan rode all the way across the Nobi Plain.
With Oda Nobunaga's instruction, samurai families from all over the world showed no scruples in complimenting Yoshigami, and showed their greatest hospitality to the patron saint of the passing samurai family.
In a sense, the Oda family's Hime warriors are very envious of the Shiba family's Hime warriors.
Although the Oda family has a great business, everyone tightens their belts for the ambition of the family governor. The harvest of the land, the heavy labor, and the heavy taxes of the merchant town make everyone suffocated.
Originally, this was nothing. All martial arts families in the world had the same virtue. All their income was used to prepare for war and was wasted in the war. Everyone was used to it.
But the appearance of the Sibo family shocked all the martial arts families in the world. It was like a person who ate steamed buns every day, and suddenly found that someone had cut the steamed buns into two and added meat. He ate them wildly and his mouth was full of oil.
It turns out that steamed buns can also be eaten with a sandwich? Turns out meat can be added to steamed buns?
The emergence of Shiba's system gave the Shiba family Ji samurai a guaranteed income, enough for a family of three to five people to sleep on and drink.
The high turnover of Spo's food stamps and the high premium of Spo's real estate have given the quick-thinking Spo Ji warrior many additional opportunities to earn income.
In addition, the Shiba family's finances mainly rely on the Hokurikudo trade route system and Shiba's food stamp financial system, and they do not care about the little income from the fields.
Almost all land taxes and labor are used for local infrastructure construction, repairing bridges and roads, and constructing water conservancy projects. It can be said that they are taken from the people and used for the people.
As long as you are not a lazy and delicious Spocky warrior, you can do well. Even if you are really a lazy and delicious warrior, as long as there is smoke from the ancestral grave and you are allowed to sneak into the Spocky army, no one will care about you even if you lie down.
The sage himself said that the Sibo family wanted to support idle people. The predecessors planted trees just to let future generations enjoy the shade. It is wrong to think that people will not enjoy the blessings.
The Shiba territory was like a paradise that did not belong to the troubled times. It was very separated from the situation in the surrounding samurai territories, which made the middle and lower-class samurai families around it feel jealous.
It turns out that steamed buns can really be eaten with a sandwich, so why can’t I eat them myself?
The most fearful thing in life is comparison, and the most painful thing is to start thinking about life. When human beings think about it, many things that they originally took for granted suddenly change their taste.
The Shiba territory was like a lighthouse, illuminating the surrounding samurai territories and making people restless. Especially since Yoshihiro, a wicked man, had created the title of Shiba's martyr, and expanded the Shiba organization in a different way.
As long as you fight for the sake of the samurai family, the saints of the Shiba family will recognize you as a righteous man and give you a treatment equivalent to that of a warrior of the Shiba family.
So, what can we do to fight for justice?
Yiyin used this to monopolize the power to define the Wu family's righteousness, and effortlessly cultivated countless passionate leaders, crying and shouting to defect to the Sibo family's righteousness.
Oda Nobunaga is full of confidence. Oda's core territory is a piece of iron. He only needs to drive the threatening retainers to the front lines to continue to work for him, and he will continue to digest the territory behind the scenes.
But where Oda Nobunaga couldn't see, the direction of people's hearts had completely changed without even realizing it.
The core territory of the Oda family, Mino, Owari, Ise, and Omi Shikoku, is adjacent to the Kinki Shiba Territory in the west, and there is also an Owari Shiba Territory across its belly.
Compared with the envy of the peripheral samurai for the Shiba Kahime samurai, the samurai in Oda's core territory were actually the most shocked and shocked as they watched Shiba leading the samurai get better and better.
I don't know since when, a consensus has been reached among the Hime samurai in the core territory of the Oda family that they would rather be Shiba dogs than Oda people.
Compared to the Oda family who only had three to four million koku in their territory but only resorted to militarism to eat rice bran, who wouldn't want to go to the Shiba family's territory to eat well and have the pleasure of marrying an iconic young master later.
Especially the Hime warriors from the four counties of Owari who followed the Ryomaeda family to the Shiba family. When they came back to pick husbands, they all had raised eyebrows and raised nostrils, which made the girls of the Oda family jealous to death.
Don't tell me, Owari's father-in-law is just like them.
She would rather marry her son to an ordinary Shiba family warrior with Shiba's rank than to have her son suffer the hardships of a middle-level warrior from the Oda family, Hyakoseki Tomoyuki.
This is not only a difference in living standards, but also a difference in social status.
Although Oda Nobunaga said that he knew his mistakes and wanted to correct them, the military system of the Oda Army remained unchanged, and he still promoted the status of the Ashigaru and increased the enthusiasm of the soldiers.
Compared to the Shiba family's approach of attaching importance to the samurai family and stabilizing the status and dignity of the Hime samurai, which father-in-law would like his son to stand on the same starting line as the Ashigaru children in the Oda family?
To marry a son, one has to marry Sibo's mother, and to become an official, one has to go through Sibo's family.
Once this kind of social atmosphere among the middle and lower classes is formed, the upper class may not realize anything, but the Oda family's Hime Samurai himself feels that he is inferior.
Especially in the Battle of Yuwu Lake, the Shiba Allied Forces defeated the main force of the Oda family in one fell swoop, and brought Oda Nobunaga back to the negotiating table. He personally went to Fushimi Castle to kowtow and admit his mistake, and begged to become the saint's lackey.
In Oda Nobunaga's opinion, this was a stopgap measure to unify the world in the future and then compete for the majesty of the head of the family.
But in the opinion of the Oda family's Hime Samurai, his spirit was broken, and rickets had completely taken over. The main hall himself went to kneel down and lick Shiba, so what if we follow suit? Is it illegal?
It's fine if the economic level and social status have been lost, but now even the samurai family's most fundamental force, military force, has been lost. What else can the Oda family's samurai warriors be proud of?
Once the backbone is broken, the speed of kneeling will be astonishing, and the number of people kneeling down will be even more astonishing.
As a result, Yoshigan passed through the Nobi Plain and received a warm welcome. Oda Nobunaga just raised his hand, and the Oda family warriors almost demolished the threshold of their house for fear of tripping Yoshigan.
This scene also frightened Yoshigan. He originally wanted to go back to Kishmura's ancestral home to visit, but the Oda family's Hime Samurai was too enthusiastic, and the Bispo retainers looked more like retainers, which was not appropriate.
It would be bad if Oda Nobunaga has any doubts and causes any setbacks.
In desperation, Yiyin could only use the excuse of urgency and gallop all the way through the Nongwei Plain and enter the Three Rivers Country.
I originally thought I could breathe a sigh of relief when I arrived here, but who knew that Tokugawa Ieyasu had been waiting for him at the border and had prepared a big surprise for him.