The higher a person stands on the social ladder, the more people he has a relationship with, the greater his power over others, and the more obvious his destiny and inevitability in every action.

- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature)

After Nams hurried all the way to Sannohe Castle, Bai Feng did not immediately meet him, because there happened to be a big problem on the side of the military police, and the three military police squadrons responsible for rectifying the discipline of the Sanada Standing Army broke out into a fierce conflict with the veterans of the Sanada Standing Army.

Squadron Leader Minami Toshinao of the 1st Military Police Squadron, Squadron Leader Izumiyama Masayoshi of the 2nd Military Police Squadron, and Squadron Leader Heiji Hattori of the 3rd Military Police Squadron have no close ties with the Sanada family; even, to a certain extent, there are still some disagreements between Minami Toshinao, who was born in the Nanbu family, and Izumiyama Masayoshi, who was a former member of the Nanbu family, and the Sanada family.

When the Sanada family was exiled to the territory of the southern family, the southern family also sent troops to intercept and kill the remnants of the Sanada family, if it wasn't for Bai Feng catching up with this battle and saving the remnants of the Sanada family, maybe the Sanada family would have been destroyed by the southern family.

At that time, the southern family and the current southern family were no longer the same family, but the little bit of discord between the Sanada family and the southern family has never disappeared; even a smart person like Sanada Masayuki can't let go of the dissatisfaction with the southern family in his heart, not to mention the brave and unscrupulous generals of the Sanada family, each of them has a strong dissatisfaction with the southern family in their hearts.

This kind of Sanada family's special affection for the southern family is nominally dissatisfied, but in fact it is more intense resentment, which can be clearly felt by Bai Feng from the eyes of the Sanada family generals in the Yanhuang Standing Army looking at the southern family generals.

If it was just that the Sanada family was dissatisfied with the southern family, then Bai Feng might not care too much about this matter; the retainer family of the Yanhuang family, the Sanada family and the southern family maintained a not very harmonious competitive relationship, which was more beneficial than disadvantageous for Bai Feng.

No ruler would want the relationship between the civil and military generals under his command to be too harmonious, moderate competition is conducive to the improvement of the civil and military generals, and not too much hostility is conducive to Bai Feng's easier rule of the ministers, this is politics.

But what is now in front of Bai Feng is that the people of the Sanada family have resentment against the people of the southern family, and the people of the southern family are also full of resentment towards the people of the Sanada family;

Although the Yanhuang Standing Army was formed by Bai Feng himself, it was always commanded by the two brothers Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi of the Sanada family;

Bai Feng knew in advance about Sanada Masayuki's transfer of the Sanada family's generals to the Yanhuang Standing Army, and acquiesced in the fact that this incident happened; because the newly established Yanhuang Standing Army really needed the experienced generals of the Sanada family to improve its combat effectiveness, Bai Feng never objected to this matter, and afterwards gave Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyo the right to appoint the generals of the Yanhuang Standing Army.

The Yanhuang Standing Army, which was led entirely by the old Sanada family, was under the command of Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyhiro for a long time; it is self-evident how close the relationship between the Yanhuang Standing Army and the Sanada family is, and the people of the Shiramine and Sanada families are well aware of this.

It is precisely because of this that Sanada Nobuyoshi took the initiative to return the appointment of all generals to Bai Feng after the expansion of the Yanhuang Standing Army; out of consideration for the balance of power within the Yanhuang family, Bai Feng did not refuse Sanada Nobuyoshi to take the initiative to return the power to his own hands.

However, the Sanada family's superiority in generals is indeed far from being comparable to other families, and none of the various retainer families of the Yanhuang family, including the southern family, has a large number of experienced generals and officers at all levels like the Sanada family.

Therefore, even if Sanada Nobuyoshi took the initiative to return the right to appoint the generals of the Yanhuang Standing Army, Bai Feng still had to appoint the generals of the Sanada family as the generals of the Yanhuang Standing Army; otherwise, the combat effectiveness of the expanded Yanhuang Standing Army would inevitably drop to a very lethal level.

Although the Yanhuang Standing Army was still the old general of the Sanada family, the middle-level officers who specifically commanded the army, Bai Feng, promoted thirty-four from the middle-level samurai of the Nanbu family, the Izumiyama family, and the Hattori family, and ten from the high-ranking samurai.

In addition, among the three combat divisions after the expansion of the Yanhuang Standing Army, only two divisions continued to be led by Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi, and the remaining third division, whose division commander Bai Feng was already ready to be selected among suitable non-Sanada family generals.

But what Bai Feng didn't expect was that the candidate for his division commander had not yet been selected here, and an unbelievable scandal of infighting broke out in the Yanhuang Standing Army over there; Bai Feng sent three military police squadrons to the Yanhuang Standing Army to rectify military discipline had a big fight with hundreds of middle and high-ranking officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army in the barracks, resulting in the death of three soldiers of the military police squadron and two squadron leaders of the Yanhuang Standing Army on the spot!

When Sanada Nobuyoshi reported this matter to Bai Feng, he did not cover up anything for the old Sanada family under his command, nor did he mention that he was the military police squadron of Bai Feng's lineage, but explained the ins and outs of the matter clearly in a way that was not mixed with personal feelings.

The cause and effect of this incident were as follows: Nanbu Toshinao, Izumiyama Masayoshi, and Hattori Heiji, who were ordered by Bai Feng to go to the Yanhuang Standing Army to rectify military discipline, had a somewhat strict attitude towards those recruits who did not know what military discipline was; over time, even the gendarmes of the gendarmerie squadron under their command had a cold-faced appearance, and they either scolded and punished the recruits who violated military discipline.

Those recruits who had just joined the army had no complaints about the punishment of the gendarmes from the beginning to the end on the premise that they were paid a high salary by the Yanhuang family, but the commanders of the recruits, that is, veterans of the Yanhuang Standing Army and the old Sanada family, were very dissatisfied with the gendarmes' frequent punishments, because in their view, the gendarmes punished their officers and men was tantamount to slapping them in the face.

It just so happens that two of the squadron leaders of the three gendarmerie squadrons have a southern family background, and the generals of the old Sanada family, who have never been embarrassed by the military police in military discipline before, take it for granted that the so-called rectification of military discipline is simply a personal vendetta of the southern family!

The conclusions reached by the generals of the old Sanada clan on the basis of this obviously erroneous way of thinking caused the officers at all levels of the Yanhuang Standing Army to feel strongly hostile to the gendarmes of the gendarmerie squadron; as this hostility became stronger and stronger, a captain of the Yanhuang Standing Army could not help but curse a few words at the gendarmes who carried out military discipline yesterday when the gendarmes punished his officers for committing mistakes.

How could the gendarmes, who defined themselves as the confidants of the family governors, tolerate the insults being insulted by this captain? When they took down the captain for violating military discipline, the other middle- and high-ranking officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army, who were enraged, took the lead in attacking the gendarmes.

The gendarmes, who had never beaten people by themselves, would not have been beaten passively like this, and the young and vigorous Minami Toshinao and Izumiyama Masayoshi even thought that this was a deliberate provocation by the Sanada family, so a fierce weapon fight broke out so suddenly.