Chapter 1889 Contest with God to Win Half the World
Takaka Kuroda analyzed.
"On the San'in front in the north, although Nishi Katsuhisa has been defeated, the famous mountain masters of both Tajima and Tajima have turned to the Shiba family. The power of the Shiba family is at its peak, and they will not be easily shaken.
The threat on the front line of San'in is still there, but the Maori army of Izumo country does not dare to move arbitrarily and threatens us from the flanks, so the peace of the United States can be maintained.
In the Seto Inland Sea to the south, our navy has defeated the Maori navy and has taken control of the sea. The Maori can no longer harass our coastline.
Both the north and south lines are stable, and our army can penetrate directly from the Sanyang line to prepare for China. The Maori family has no choice but to send the main force to help and fight a decisive battle with us.
As long as this victory is successful, the Maori family will definitely negotiate peace with us to prevent you from taking advantage of the situation to invade Bingo country and completely shake the foundation of the Maori family."
Hideyoshi Hashiba nodded.
Kuroda Takaka is right, the Maori family has no choice, they have to fight even if they don't fight, otherwise the Maori samurai alliance will lose their support and the team will be difficult to lead.
But the main force of the Maori family is out in force. If they lose, it will be even more troublesome. The Maori family's dominance of the Western Warriors Alliance will immediately be shaken.
Therefore, as long as we can win a good victory in China, it is not an unachievable goal to win the Maori family to seek peace in the spring and summer.
After taking care of the Mori family, Hideyoshi Hashiba can turn his attention to Kinki and solve his other two problems.
Hashiba Hideyoshi was satisfied. Kuroda Takaka answered the first difficulty in her mind in a few words and gave her a clear direction for her efforts.
But when he thought of Oda Nobunaga, Hashiba Hideyoshi inevitably felt a little hesitant. Is Akechi Mitsuhide really capable of killing Oda Nobunaga?
That was Oda Nobunaga. Hideyoshi Hashiba lived under the light of Oda Nobunaga for the first half of his life. The image of Oda Nobunaga that he could not defeat was already engraved in her heart.
This makes it hard for Hashiba Hideyoshi to believe that that invincible woman will really die at the hands of Akechi Mitsuhide?
Even though Hashiba Hideyoshi already had ambitions and rebellion in her heart, she still couldn't get rid of the inertia of fearing Oda Nobunaga. She couldn't imagine that Oda Nobunaga would be easily killed.
Kuroda Takataka looked optimistic that Mitsuhide Akechi would succeed, which made Hideyoshi feel a little guilty and asked.
"Akechi Mitsuhide...can she really kill Oda-sama?"
Kuroda Takaka glanced at the uneasy master and said decisively.
"It is difficult for Mitsuhide Akechi to fail, because Lord Oda has his own way of death.
The world's samurai regard Her Majesty Oda as a destroyer, fearing that her innovations will tear the samurai's traditional order to pieces.
The Oda retainers were even more worried about His Highness Oda's unrestricted power and his tyranny of taking whatever he wanted.
Akechi Mitsuhide's approach was not clever. I could see the clues from the clues even in the Western Kingdom. Couldn't others be able to see it?
But so what if you see it? Has anyone warned His Highness Oda? Has anyone warned Akechi Mitsuhide? None, right?
The world's samurai have been suffering from Oda-sama for a long time, and Akechi Mitsuhide is willing to kill people. Both the Oda retainers and the Kinki samurai will pretend to be stupid, and even secretly assist, helping Akechi Mitsuhide succeed.
After Akechi Mitsuhide succeeded, no one cared about her own fate. What everyone cared about was that His Highness Oda must die. Only when His Highness Oda dies can everyone feel at ease.
So you don't have to worry too much. Akechi Mitsuhide will definitely take action, the people in Kinki will definitely react strangely, and His Highness Oda will undoubtedly die.
This is retribution for His Highness Oda's subversion of the tradition of the samurai family. No samurai family can accept His Highness Oda's reforms, centralization of power, and the intolerable slave clan.
Give civilians a channel to rise in military merit, let ashigaru and Hime warriors stand side by side, and create a clan out of thin air to share military privileges with the samurai family.
His Highness Oda should have died long ago. It is strange that she can survive to this day.
You can determine the profit in one battle, wait for Akechi to kill Oda and then return to Kinki with all your strength, and the two difficulties between the Maori family and the Oda family will be over."
Hideyoshi Hashiba nodded.
The death of Oda Nobunaga was not just the thought of Mitsuhide Akechi, but the desire of countless samurai in the world.
Just like Ashikaga Yoshiteru back then, even if he is a general, he cannot do whatever he wants and is greedy for the territory of his subordinates. Otherwise, the final result will be that he will be betrayed by internal and external collusion and die a tragic death.
If Akechi Mitsuhide succeeds once, he can succeed a second time. As Kuroda Takataka said, it is not that Akechi Mitsuhide has a clever plan, but that Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Oda Nobunaga themselves have a way to kill themselves.
For a person who all the martial arts families want her to die, does it make sense to care about how she dies and in whose hands she dies? All the martial arts families are happy to see her die, and this is the final result.
Oda Nobunaga didn't have the ability to fight against the sky, the earth, or people, but even if she really had the ability to fight everyone to death, she wouldn't be able to survive.
If you are a human being, you will definitely die.
No matter how great a person is, as long as he dies, everything he does cannot be decided by himself.
Whether it is his achievements or his thoughts, they will become the inheritance of others, and they can be fiddled with, carved, and used by others.
Hashiba Hideyoshi now wishes that Oda Nobunaga would die immediately, but if Oda Nobunaga is really dead, Hashiba Hideyoshi will try his best to become her most loyal follower and try his best to inherit everything from her.
The Oda territory of four million koku is a powerful domain occupying one-fifth of the world's koku. Whoever inherits Oda Nobunaga's legacy is the one who has the best chance of unifying the world...right?
Just when Hideyoshi Hashiba was feeling excited, Shiba Yoshigami's handsome face appeared in her mind, like a basin of cold water dousing the wild fire in her heart.
This is her third problem and the most difficult one to overcome.
Kuroda Takaka looked at Hashiba Hideyoshi's uncertain expression and asked calmly.
"Is the Lord afraid of the saint?"
Hideyoshi Hashiba admitted calmly.
"Of course I'm afraid. I'm extremely afraid. I want to ask all the martial artists in the world, who doesn't respect the saint? How can I be an exception?"
Kuroda Takaka nodded.
"I deeply admire your Lord's magnanimity.
Saints are gods in heaven, and we mortals are naturally in awe of them.
But since the gods have descended to earth and joined in this chaos, they will give me the opportunity to compete with gods on the same stage and beat the gods."
Hashiba Hideyoshi asked subconsciously.
"Can I really defeat the Saint?"
Kuroda Takataka looked at Hideyoshi Hashiba and said slowly.
"When I was worshiping at Sakai Port Nanman Church, the priest once talked to me about an interesting philosophical question, about whether to believe in the existence of the Lord.
If you choose to believe that the Lord really exists, then the believer can go to heaven after death. If the Lord does not exist, then the believer will have no loss after death.
If you choose not to believe, if the Lord really exists, then the believer will go to hell after death. Only if the Lord does not exist, then the believer will have no loss.