How to deal with the relationship with Ise Sadako, a retainer, is one of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's current headaches.

Although this person has some problems with the details and positions, the overall situation is still bearable. What's more, it has always been "rare talents", which is very prominent among the ministers. Mibuchi Fujiei and Isshiki Fujicho and the like are certainly more trustworthy, but they are all old antiques that are out of the times, and they are good at those methods of winning over and dividing only a hundred years ago, and they are not very useful now.

Now in this era of decayed etiquette, what is needed is a retainer who can fight or make money. Although Ise Sadako is a young man who has not achieved much in these two aspects for the time being, he has a very practical spirit and personally goes to the front line to train and collect taxes, showing good potential. This is obviously far stronger than those flashy people who do not get involved in "general affairs" and do not talk about it. For this, the current Gongfang Lord is well aware. (Although he himself is not good at practice at all...... ）

The shogunate also used to have talents, but Akechi Mitsuhide almost openly defected to Oda, Hosokawa Fujitaka made no difference except that he didn't make it public, and even Wada Yumasa's attitude was very ambiguous......

Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshiaki originally wanted to do a good "carrot and stick" posture, and play a drama with Ise Sadako of "the monarch and the minister get along, and the mustard is all gone".

He just wanted to beat it up, but he didn't mean to abandon it at all.

At first, I was only going to dry him for half an hour.

Encouraged by the rare tough posture of the Princes, Ichishiki Fujinaga and Mibuchi Fujiei, they began to unscrupulously unscrupulously and said things like "the Miyoshi family has always been disobedient", "the Oda family is unruly", and "the Asakura family knows no kindness at all", as if they were about to revive the old glory of the Ashikaga family and teach this group of disobedient courtiers a lesson.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki couldn't laugh or cry about this, but it was not easy to suppress it directly, and it was inconvenient to interrupt the tea party process for no reason, so he could only let it go. In this atmosphere, he simply ordered his subordinates to ask Ise Sadako to go back first and meet again later. It's just that the latter has always refused to listen to the persuasion to leave......

Finally waited until the tea party was over, Ashikaga Yoshiaki came to the study, intending to make up for the relationship with Ise Sadako in private, but who knows, between the front and back feet, he first waited for the news of "Izumi chaos".

Izumi's group of bald donkeys, dissatisfied with the strict management of the new shogunate, actually colluded with Kii's group of lawless people to rebel?

It's really shocking and angry—though when you think about it, it's not too shocking and angry.

If you want to devour the interests of the monks and priests, you will naturally provoke a rebellion. Although it has the signboard of the shogunate, are there still few cases of openly rebelling against the shogunate in these years? The soldiers will come to block the water and cover the earth, and it is expected that the religious forces in the place of Hequan will not be very powerful.

It's just that I didn't expect to involve the people of Kii......

After thinking about it, Ashikaga Yoshiaki saw Ise Sadako walking in respectfully, bowing down and giving a big salute.

"It's with Saburo (Ise Sadako's common character) that is here, so I've kept you waiting, so please do your best."

At this time, Yoshiaki didn't think that there was anything big going on in Izumi, so he put it aside, and instead focused on comforting the young retainer in front of him who was "unstable but quite talented".

However, Ise Zhenxing didn't take this to heart at all, only bowed down and answered gently, immediately raised his head, and said in a solemn voice:

"Please forgive your sins! The subordinate was passing by unintentionally and heard about the chaos in Hequan, may I ask if this matter is true? ”

This anti-guest made Ashikaga Yoshiaki unhappy and frowned slightly. But his city is very deep, but his personality is soft, and he only thinks that the other party is expressing his dissatisfaction for a while, so he was stunned for a moment, and then didn't care about it anymore, but replied according to the other party's words: "Izumi did have some incidents, and it is said that some bold temples colluded with the people of Kii. However, Miki and Iio (the acting officials of Izumi appointed by the shogunate) have not yet sent back a message asking for help, so I don't think the situation is too bad. ”

When the words landed, Ise Sadako's heart turned sharply, and he didn't have time to think about it, and before Ashikaga Yoshiaki came to the next topic, he immediately rushed to reply: "I didn't send back a message asking for help, but this may not be good news, maybe the two of them have been besieged, and even the messenger has been intercepted halfway?" His Majesty thought that this matter should not be taken lightly. ”

His careless attitude made Ashikaga Yoshiaki a little dissatisfied, but he couldn't ignore it, and he couldn't take care of the original topic for a while, but his mind really focused.

Then after thinking about the cause and effect, Yoshiaki reacted - before the flat hand Tsunohide suddenly sent a letter without warning to say "wary of the monks taking risks" Yunyun, at that time, everyone in the shogunate, including Yoshiaki himself, did not think so, only Ise Sadako desperately helped, and Yoshiaki made a gesture of alienation precisely because of this.

So what's going on right now? Did the monks really take a risk? So this guy just ran over and showed off his foresight?

Originally, I was going to let this kid be soft, regardless of the previous suspicions, but I didn't expect it to be this attitude! The leader hangs you, that's called thunder and rain, you dare to show your teeth with the leader, that's called a big rebellion - don't you even understand this truth?

Ashikaga Yoshiaki couldn't help frowning, and rarely expressed his displeasure clearly, and asked: "Zhenxing, your words are too underestimated by Miki and Iio, right?" Or is it too high a view of the power of Izumi's temples? ”

Just now, it was still "Yo Saburo", but now it has been changed to "Zhenxing". Instead of using the word to call it by its real name, it is clearly angry.

On the other side, Ise Sadako still didn't hear it, he still made an expression full of enthusiasm and worried about the country and the people, and bowed down earnestly with a serious face and said: "Lord Gongfang doesn't know, the people of Kii have always been strong, and when Hosokawa and Miyoshi were hegemonic in the past, there was still nothing they could do about them. The shogunate has only just turned the corner, so don't ignore it! ”

Ise Sadako's words made Ashikaga Yoshiaki suspicious.

As we all know, today's Gongfang Lord, because he is not the eldest son, was sent to be a monk when he was young, and has never been exposed to too many samurai affairs, and he has only heard of the matter of "the people of Kii are brave and difficult to control". He always had a vague disbelief in his heart that a group of rabble could be so powerful.

However, even if the enemy may not be strong, the weakness of the shogunate army, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, has already experienced it deeply.

At that time, more than 10,000 combined troops attacked Wuji Nu City, and the other side only had 1,000 troops. As a result, the troops of the Hatakeyama family in South Kawachi were stunned and were killed by hundreds of enemy troops and were about to collapse, and the shogunate army did not suffer much impact but immediately followed the chaos, and the Miyoshi Yoshiji Department of North Kawachi was not much better, and could only protect itself. If it weren't for the fact that the shogunate would have been able to hold the scene, the shogunate would have made a big joke.

Thinking of the name "Hirate Hinohide", Ashikaga Yoshiaki could not suppress very complicated emotions rising in his heart.

Such a young talent would have been enough to become a candidate for the king of the Muromachi shogunate in Nakyo. It's a pity that the heroes of the world, why are they all in Oda's hub?

Even the inferior Akechi Mitsuhide and Hosokawa Fujitaka were no longer used by the shogunate......

Ashikaga Yoshiaki lost his mind for a moment and was speechless, while Ise Sadako became more and more confident. After thinking about it, he felt that his guess was very reasonable. As one of the few "doers" in the shogunate, he traveled to participate in "grassroots work" far more often than others, so he had a much deeper understanding of the situation in and was more predictable of possible changes.

The people of Kii are not ordinary people, they are mixed together because of religion, forming several well-known mercenary groups. Unlike other rabble, although the Saga Party is loosely organized, it also has a leading body and a plan for doing things. Once they make a move, there must be a premeditated plan behind it, and it is not something that the shogunate can send two acting officials to send at random.

If the defeat of those two acting officials is doomed to be unchangeable, and it is futile to find a way to help them, then it is better to take this opportunity to consolidate their authority. In the long run, this is not a loss to the public and private interests.

Ise Sataka thought to himself.

Now it is only necessary to wait for the bad news from the front to arrive, and the shogunate is helpless, and then come out to solve the problem, which is enough to prove his worth, and to establish the prestige that Ashikaga Yoshiaki does not dare to ignore.

As for the faint smell of conspiracy behind the matter, he had no time to care about it for the time being.

The only thing Ise Sadako can do now is to insist on expressing the view that "Izumi is in danger" to Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and at the same time keep his eyes on the direction of the main gate of Nijo Castle, hoping to hear the bad news of the defeat as soon as possible.