In life, all the beautiful things we encounter in our lives are measured in seconds.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

Because the two groups of envoys returned at about the same time, Hakumine only received the more important group of envoys, the envoys to the Oda clan, and the envoys who were responsible for making offerings to the emperor and asking for officials were reported by Nanbu Nobunao.

Oda Nobunaga, the governor of the Oda family, was one of the most valued heroes of the Yamato Empire by Bai Feng; in Bai Feng's view, the huge Yamato Empire, the male lords who can be compared with Oda Nobunaga, are Mori Motosa, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Yushiba Hideyoshi.

The prestige of the Mori Moto, the governor of the Mori family, had reached a point where everyone knew about it in the Yamato Empire, and there was no need for Hakumine to tell more; compared to the rapidly rising Oda Nobunaga, the steady and steady Mori Mototo seemed to be more feared by the world.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the governor of the Tokugawa family, and Hideyoshi, the general of the Oda family, have not been taken seriously by anyone; because of the special relationship between the Tokugawa family and the Oda family, Tokugawa Ieyasu is nothing more than a puppet of the Oda family in the eyes of the other overlord family governors, and is not qualified to be the overlord family governor of the same status as them.

Aside from the striking similarities between the Yamato Empire and Japan's Warring States, the current status of the Tokugawa family alone is enough to attract the attention of Bai Feng, after all, how can a person who can develop his family as a puppet into one of the ten major families of the empire be lightly treated?

The last Yushiba Hideyoshi, although he is not a high-ranking general-level retainer in the Oda family, but his growth rate is extremely amazing; five years ago, Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro was still a small surname who was not even a samurai, and five years later, Yushiba Hideyoshi was already a minister with a lot of power and a high status, such a terrifying growth rate, isn't it enough to shock?

What made Bai Feng even more curious was that Takigawa Kazuki, an important minister of the Oda family, had recruited the Nine Demons Yoshitaka and his Kumano Navy to join the Oda family on behalf of the Oda family, and later Hideyoshi Hashiba recruited Kurishima Tsutsuji and his Kurimama Navy to join the Oda family on behalf of the Oda family.

There may not be any inevitable connection between this, and the Kurimama Tsunami is not as good as the Kumano Tsunamu Navy, but just these two seemingly unrelated things make Bai Feng, who has always had a keen sense of smell, feel a trace of unusualness.

However, what Bai Feng could feel was only a trace of unusualness, and he couldn't verify anything at all, because Oda Nobunaga was a person that outsiders could never see, and no one, including his mother, could understand him, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Oda Nobunaga, who became the lord of Nakono Castle at the age of six, did not follow the rules since he was a child, he didn't even pay attention to any etiquette and behavior, and he was even more disdainful of schoolwork such as reading, and often idle, picking quarrels and provoking troubles and fighting everywhere.

The locals, including his relatives, frowned at the sight of this mischievous child, and even his biological mother, Mrs. Tsuchida, did not like him very much, but liked his younger brother Oda Nobuyuki, which was the most important thing for a child, and he did not care.

Because of Oda Nobunaga's restlessness, it was intolerable to the nobles of the Yamato Empire, who had always paid attention to traditional etiquette, so that his father, Oda Nobuhide, was often so angry with his stubborn nature that he lamented his own family's misfortune.

Although Oda Nobuhide doesn't like Oda Nobunaga on the surface, his doting on Oda Nobunaga behind his back seems to have never weakened, so this has become an important reason why Oda Nobunaga has always been fearless.

When he was still the young head of the Oda family, his father Oda Nobuhide ostensibly submitted to the Kiyoshu Oda family, but Oda Nobunaga dared to take only a few people to the Kiyoshu Oda Castle under the control of the Kiyoshu Oda family and wantonly set fires, which surprised his father Oda Nobuhide.

Later, when Yasumitsu Toda of Mikawa Province betrayed the Imagawa family and defected to the Oda family, Yasumitsu Toda sold Matsudaira Takechiyo (later Tokugawa Ieyasu) to the Oda family, and the young Oda Nobunaga and Matsudaira Takechiyo, who became hostages, spent their teenage years together.

Bai Feng, who didn't know much about Oda Nobunaga's childhood history, learned about this incident from the mouth of the envoy, and then understood why Tokugawa Ieyasu was able to grow up as a puppet to this point, it turned out that he actually accompanied Oda Nobunaga to play from childhood to adulthood!

Bai Feng, who smiled helplessly, after knowing the close relationship between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, had to temporarily dispel his heart to test the future strategic idea of the Oda family by attacking the Tokugawa family, who made Oda Nobunaga an extremely emotional person?

Oda Nobunaga, who succeeded him as the governor of the Oda family, became famous by defeating the army of Imagawa Yoshimoto in the Battle of Tsubashima, first gradually taking control of Kyoto in the name of supporting the emperor, and then formally putting forward the program of "the whole world to take the army" with the goal of unifying the Yamato Empire; and twice breaking the "Nobunaga encirclement network" and smashing all the powerful and hostile daimyo in the surrounding area one by one, and mastering a quarter of the territory of the Yamato Empire!

How could Oda Nobunaga, who had achieved unprecedented success with his own way of thinking that was very different from ordinary people, and made his Oda family the most powerful family in the Yamato Empire, how could such a legendary man of great talent refuse the temptation to become a shogun?

Not only that, Oda Nobunaga, who has always been generous to his own people, shocked the envoys of the Yanhuang family with the magnitude of his actions in granting Bai Feng an official position!

Bai Feng's request was to obtain the position of Mutsu Mori from the five positions and the position of vice official of one of the six guard prefectures, and because the vice ministers of the six guard mansions had both major generals under the main five rank and lieutenant generals from the fourth rank, everyone took it for granted that Oda Nobunaga could agree to give the Yanhuang family governor at most a major general under the main five ranks, and could not be a lieutenant general with a higher rank.

As a result, Oda Nobunaga, in front of the envoy of the Yanhuang family, sent someone to the imperial palace where the emperor of Shokincho was located, and asked the emperor to grant the governor of the Yanhuang family, Hakunokumori, from the fifth rank of Mutsunoku Mamoru and from the fourth rank of the left guard lieutenant general!

It seems that there is only one step between the left guard lieutenant general in the fourth rank and the left guard major general in the fifth rank, but in fact the gap is far more than a star and a half, and this is a gap determined by the official system of the Yamato Empire, not an artificial difference in official positions.

In the official ranks of the Yamato Empire, from seven to six is the first hurdle, which can be regarded as the hurdle between officials and officials; from the fifth to the fourth is the second hurdle, which can be regarded as the hurdle between ordinary officials and really high-ranking officials; and from three to two is the third hurdle, which can be regarded as the hurdle between high-ranking officials and powerful ministers; it can be seen from this that the difference between Lieutenant General Zuo Konoe and Major General Left Guard, who are both deputy officials of the Left Guards Office!