Eight hundred and eighty-eighth chapter his first time
Oda Nobunaga raised the corners of his mouth and understood Maeda Toshiie's thoughts.
She wanted to relieve the Takeda family, divert the Hojo family's military strength, and let Takeda Harunobu suppress Matsudaira Motoyasu's expansion.
When the Takeda family wants to break out of the Koshishin Mountains, Kitakamisugi and Nanhojo are powerful enemies, and the soft persimmon of the Imagawa clan is her must-win target.
Matsudaira Motoyasu wanted to develop, but was blocked by the Oda family in the west, so he could only go eastward with all his strength to capture the Toe Kingdom and Suruga Kingdom of the Imagawa family.
Both of them have no choice but to overwhelm the other in order to achieve their strategic goals.
Oda Nobunaga couldn't help but applaud and said.
"Inuchiyo, what you said makes sense.
This expedition to East Meinong went smoothly beyond my expectation, and the changes I mentioned to you before can already be put on the agenda."
Maeda Toshiie's expression did not change, and he kowtowed to the ground.
"It all depends on His Majesty Oda's orders."
Maeda Toshiie was in a very embarrassing situation. She was a retainer of Shiba, but she turned to Oda Nobunaga for development.
Oda Nobunaga was always testing her loyalty and wanted her to maintain her influence in the Shiba family, which made it very difficult for Maeda Toshiie.
She must improve her status in the Shiba family and ensure that she is valuable to be used.
At the same time, he must show his sincere devotion to Oda Nobunaga, so that the ambitious female protagonist can use her with peace of mind and give her benefits to strengthen herself.
If the scale is not carefully grasped, all previous efforts will be wasted.
This time, Oda Nobunaga was obviously tempted and willing to sell grain. However, he was thinking about it and brought up the matter of changing the situation again.
Maeda Toshiie remained calm and expressed her submissive attitude. Oda Nobunaga looked at her for a while and said.
"I hope you will go to Junshang County and help me watch over those Higashi Meino warriors so that they don't cause trouble."
"Hi!"
"Since you are willing, then change the 20,000 koku of Mount Hachiman. Take back the 11,500 koku you had in Okezama..."
Oda Nobunaga was stunned for a moment, then finally shook his head and said no more.
Maeda Toshiie's eyes moved.
Maeda Toshiie controlled 13,000 koku territory in the southern part of Owari, including 1,500 koku Shiba ancestral land and 11,500 koku Hashirama territory.
Twenty thousand koku is not too much, but it is a lot less. It is equivalent to adding her eight thousand five hundred koku tomoyo, and conveniently kicked the Maeda Toshiie out of Owari's core area of Oda.
The county where the reform is located is the mountainous area adjacent to Echizen Kingdom and Hida Kingdom. The Oda family is busy grabbing the land in the southern Noo Plain, and the Mino samurai family, who are trembling in the mountains, pays no attention to it for the time being.
Oda Nobunaga sent Maeda Toshiie here not only to let her guard against external forces in the north, but also to subdue the old Mino party inside. There was no need to worry about her collaborating in the Noo Plains.
This is killing three birds with one stone.
The stone height of the territory has increased a lot, but it is really not a good thing. It is both useful and defensive for the Maeda Toshi family.
Moreover, Oda Nobunaga's changes were very interesting. She took away the Okehazama territory, but she hesitated to talk about the 1,500 koku Shiba ancestral land.
Originally, Maeda Toshiie knew very well that Oda Nobunaga was declaring her power through changes. But the immovement of 1,500 koku made her a little confused.
Yoshigan Shiba handed over the Owari Shiba Territory to Maeda Toshiie for management, of which three thousand koku was Maeda Toshiie's place of knowledge and practice, and ten thousand koku was Shiba's laboratory.
Oda Nobunaga's arbitrarily changing of these lands was an act of dominance in itself, but she did it in an anticlimactic manner.
Of the thirteen thousand koku taken over by Maeda Toshiie, three thousand koku were given by Nobunaga Oda to Yoshihiro Shiba.
She moved the fifteen hundred stones in the bucket, which were obtained by Siba Yiyin's military exploits. The other fifteen hundred stones were the Sibo ancestral land that was preserved because Sibo Yiyin slept with her.
Oda Nobunaga could simply change all three thousand koku, which would be tantamount to declaring that he could move the territory entrusted to Yoshigan Saba at will, thus establishing a firm political stance.
Either the three thousand koku should be left untouched, and only the ten thousand koku obtained by Maeda Toshiie's military service should be used to differentiate between the two to show respect and goodwill to Yoshigashi Shiba.
But now she has converted the land that Sibo Yiyin received from his military exploits, but she has left the fifteen hundred dan that he got to sleep with her untouched.
What does this mean?
There was a wave of excitement in Maeda Toshiie's heart, and Oda Nobunaga said with a half-smile.
"I agree to buy grain. Your changes will be completed this winter."
Maeda Toshiie fell to the ground to thank him and was about to resign, but Oda Nobunaga suddenly spoke again.
"Inuchiyo, do you know why I didn't move the fifteen hundred stones?"
Maeda Toshiie shook his head silently.
Oda Nobunaga rubbed his slender fingers, glanced at Maeda Toshiie, and said slowly.
“Signs of great chaos have been looming in recent times.
The Rokkaku Miyoshi family is in civil strife, which is a God-given opportunity. However, the generals in Kyoto are tough and easy to break, but their abilities are really hard to praise.
The ministers and local powerful factions are all frightened by her, but she is still struggling. The water in the shogunate is too deep, and she cannot control it."
Oda Nobunaga was silent for a moment and continued.
"I will go to Luo. Sooner or later, I will definitely go. This time, I won't let him run away again.
I won't move these fifteen hundred stones. This is the territory he got in exchange for sleeping with me. It must be his first time.
He was very attentive at that time, and I was very satisfied.
I will go to Kyoto, sleep with his body, and conquer his heart so that he will never escape my control."
Maeda Toshiie was silent for a while and asked.
"Why are you telling me this?"
Oda Nobunaga looked at her with deep eyes.
"Just give up, he belongs to me and will always belong to me."
Maeda Toshiie smiled softly.
"Isn't His Majesty Oda's ambition to become a member of the world?"
Oda Nobunaga sneered.
"I want to be a man of the world, and I want to sleep with Sibo Yiyin.
I still say the same thing, if you do a good job for me, your reputation will be worth millions of dollars, and you can expect it in this life.
As for the things you shouldn’t think about, just forget them completely so you can take care of yourself.”
Maeda Toshiie kowtowed to the ground and resigned. Oda Nobunaga looked at her back and didn't know what he was thinking.
After taking a few steps out of the castle tower, Maeda Toshiie suddenly stopped and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth. The people following her were shocked and were silenced by her.
Maeda Toshiie wiped the blood stains from the corner of his mouth with his thumb, looked at the blood stains on his fingers, and suddenly smiled.
"Sure enough, the city government is not enough. It really makes me feel uncomfortable."
She said calmly to Hatamoto behind her.
"I just bit my lower lip, don't make a fuss."
Maeda Toshiie opened his mouth, put his thumb in his mouth, and licked the blood stains on it, carefully licking it clean.
Tasting the taste of her own blood, she recalled in her mind the scene when she sent Yoshigan Shiba to Oda Nobunaga's room.
"Yes, it's the first time. I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, it's all my fault."
She murmured not knowing who she was apologizing to, with a hint of crying in her voice, and continued walking forward step by step.
Everyone behind Hatamoto looked at each other in confusion, not daring not to follow, but not daring to follow her too closely, so they followed her forward slowly.