Struggle and compromise have always been in a spiral in the history of human politics. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info is just like the current situation of the Oda family and the Ashikaga family.

In June of the 10th year of Eiroku, Oda Nobunaga once again led his soldiers to Kyoto after a year. Last year, he gathered the power of several daimyo to go to Luo, and Kinai was naturally invincible. However, as soon as the army goes, there are not a few small forces that fall to the Miyoshi family or the Hexagonal family, but unfortunately the counterattack of the three good ones has not succeeded, looking at the situation of this year, this group of people will probably not have good luck, and some turmoil is inevitable.

Under the repeated mediation of Settsu Harimon, Ashikaga Yoshiaki finally reluctantly accepted the nine laws proposed by Oda Nobunaga, and even after Nobunaga himself arrived in Kyoto, he put forward six additional suggestions, which Ashikaga Yoshiaki gritted his teeth and accepted.

In exchange, Kyoto, which was in the hands of the Oda family, was officially returned to the shogunate. The Hirate Hidebu stationed at Yamazaki Castle will also be withdrawn after the handover of defense. Murai Sadakatsu would return to Gifu Castle, leaving behind the Oda family, the representative of Naomasa who was in charge of liaison with the imperial court.

After that, Nobunaga went on a large construction project, spilling thousands of dollars to recruit people, and built a new city on the site of the old imperial palace for the shogun to live in. This flat castle with a radius of several hundred meters and a double water hori is called "Nijo Castle".

During the construction of the castle, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, with the assistance of Oda Nobunaga, determined the candidates for the guardianship of the Kinai countries. First of all, the Yamashiro country, which was directly led by the shogunate, did not have a guardian position, and Hosokawa Fujitaka and Makijima Akimitsu served as the guardians of the north and south respectively. The Settsu Kingdom was divided between Katsumasa Ikeda, Itami Shinko, and Yumasa Wada. Kawachi Province is the Miyoshi Yoshitsugu who "abandoned the darkness and turned to the light", and Nobunaga's brother-in-law Hatakeyama Akitaka co-leaded. Kii Province was also served by this noble man who was a son of a famous family and a relative of Nobunaga. Omi Guardian replaced the "traitor" Rokkaku Yoshiken by Hosokawa Fujiken. Of course, how many areas these guardians can actually govern depends on their personal ability.

As for Nobunaga's special offer to serve as the guardian of Izumi, it is obvious that he wants to obtain the title of ruling kaicho. But now it's just a name.

The most surprising thing was that Matsunaga Hide, who not only received the position of guardian of Yamato Province, but also received a promise from Nobunaga to send troops to help unify the country.

From these names alone, some are the sons of prominent families, some are old ministers who have followed the Ashikaga family for many years, and some are local powerful factions who have just surrendered. For the sake of these titles, the deacon of the shogunate office, Settsu Harumon, worked hard again and again, lest he offend any big man or even get sick from exhaustion.

The hard work of the tie is no less than his. He was not with the big guys for the time being, but continued to take the soldiers in charge of the guard. However, the Miyoshi Army had just been repulsed, and there was no enemy for a while, so there was actually no business at all. Many people who are not strong enough to speak to Yoshiaki and Nobunaga find Yamazaki Castle's Honhide through roundabouts. Shibata, Niwa and others on Oda's side also wanted to get in touch with various forces in.

For more than a month, she was in Kyoto every day, helping to introduce friends from all walks of life. Sometimes I just got out of the tea party in the morning, and I had to go to the banquet in the afternoon. Fortunately, Nobunaga spent every day in the imperial court or shogunate during this time, and it was too late to give orders to him.

During this period, he also took time to communicate briefly with Iwanari Tomotsu in prison, and learned that his family was separated and missing, and entrusted Ishikawa Goemon and others to find him.

There are also ronins who have had a relationship with each other before, and even Yamashina Yan came to visit such ministers, hoping to use the mouth of Tsuhide to make various appeals to Nobunaga or Yoshiaki.

Friends visit respectfully, speak earnestly, and often can't bear to turn them away. It's a lot of anxiety, but it's no less than a battle.

It wasn't until Nobunaga pulled out and sent someone to summon him that he closed his door and got up to enter Beijing.

……

The meeting with Oda Nobunaga was still in a small temple. The latter was wearing a new type of Nanban armor, dusty but full of energy, and he praised it directly when he met:

"Well done! Be rewarded. ”

His Highness's instructions have always been concise and to the point. Whether the "good" here refers to defeating the Miyoshi family, or dealing with other things, it is up to you to comprehend.

Fan Xiu just bowed down and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your praise!" Then he said no more, and arose as a standby.

Then Nobunaga asked:

"It's good to catch Iwacheng Youtong. Is this person willing to surrender? ”

"Returning to His Royal Highness, although he is still reluctant to surrender, he has no loyalty to the Miyoshi family in his words. The subordinate is asking people to find his family, and if he succeeds, he must be persuaded to join him. ”

"If you refuse to live under my Oda, you will hand it over to the shogunate, and nominally let him surrender to the Ashikaga family, and the same is true." Nobunaga, who had always focused on reality over reputation, was keenly aware of the key problem of Iwanari Tomoto's refusal to surrender, and quickly took a calm response.

"Yes."

Honhide bowed down to receive the order, and he was quite impressed by Nobunaga's decisiveness. It's just that listening to what Fang just said, isn't this highness actually worried about Ashikaga Yoshiaki sitting big at all? Now the forces that are nominally under the shogunate add up to a lot!

Of course, this kind of thing will not be said in person. Fan Xiu just sat upright, indicating complete obedience to the leader's instructions.

Nobunaga didn't give him a chance to speak, but immediately went on to order:

"Zhizuo, you still need to stay in Jinnai."

"At your disposal."

Fan Xiu was a little surprised by this, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

However, the next sentence is a little surprising.

"Lord Gongfang...... Lend me something for you. ”

"This ......"

Fan Xiu couldn't figure out the meaning of this "borrowing" for a while. Looking up, Nobunaga's face also flashed with a complicated expression.

Fortunately, he still added a note:

"Lord Gongfang, I want you to lead troops to fight against a few stubborn people, and I have promised. From now on, in addition to being a retainer of the Oda family, you will also have to serve the shogunate. ”

It took a while for the tie to react.

Isn't it true that Oda is the only one in history who dug up the corners of Akechi Mitsuhide and Hosokawa Fujitaka from Ashikaga? How did it turn the other way around? And, why am I the object? Could it be that the battle just now, the limelight is too big?

Honshu looked up in amazement, but saw Nobunaga's grim face, and he didn't mean to speak again.

He began to recall the conversation.

Before saying this news, Nobunaga first mentioned the matter of recruiting Iwanari Yutong.

At that time, he commanded: "If you refuse to live under my Oda, you will hand it over to the shogunate, and nominally let him surrender to the Ashikaga family, and the same is true." ”

After pondering for a while, Fan Xiu knew it in his heart.

Nobunaga has always been a pragmatist. In his opinion, as long as the Oda family maintained a stronger and stronger momentum, these forces that ostensibly belonged to the shogunate could eventually be swallowed up. On the other hand, if Oda Takeshi falls in the middle of the martial arts, then a title may not be able to restrain his subordinates. So Ashikaga Yoshiaki wanted to win over the Oda retainers, but he didn't take it to heart.

After thinking for a while, Fan Xiu carefully replied:

"Even the Lord of the Princesses must follow the nine laws established by His Highness, and we are temporarily under him, and we are also working for you."

"Mouthy!"

"Yes, yes, the minister lost his words."

Although he was reprimanded, judging from the tone, Nobunaga was still very satisfied.

"It's just...... The subordinate has another matter to report. ”

"Oh? Let's hear about it. ”

"I haven't been back to Owari for more than half a year, can I visit my family before returning to Kyoto to work for Lord Gongkata?"

"Haha......" Nobunaga couldn't help laughing, and then agreed, "Give you a month to take people to Gifu Castle to live in." In the future, if you have a firm foothold in Kinai, you can take all your family members over! ”

"Thank you, my lord!"

For not forcing the retainers to keep the protons, Honhide is really grateful to Nobunaga.

Seeing that the business was decided, Hohide breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly Nobunaga said:

"Matsui Yukan is very good, how about making him a direct minister?"

Although the tone was politely inquiring, and the demeanor was very calm, it was obviously inconvenient to refuse such a request.

It was not uncommon for outstanding courtiers to be cited as direct ministers, and in recent years, Matsui Tomotoshi was invited by Hirate Honhide to participate in administrative work such as Owari Mino's Rakuchi and land inspection, and was very popular among merchants and monks, so his reputation gradually grew, and he was also Oda Nobunaga's favorite domestic and foreign talent, so it is not surprising that he received blue eyes. In contrast, the fame of Kawada Nagakina and Honda Masanobu is far behind.

In the world of chaos, it is not the king who chooses the minister, but the minister who also chooses the king. Sometimes the retainer will recommend the courtier, and sometimes the lord will invite the courtier. Although Fan Xiu felt a little pity, he replied without hesitation:

"Yes."

He reacted quickly, answered decisively, and did not hear the slightest reluctance, not even a gesture of pretending to be honored, as if he had only carried out a task that he had taken for granted.

Nobunaga nodded, and asked again:

"From today onwards, I want to send people to defend the line from Gifu Castle to Kyoto, and there is a shortage of brave generals around me for a while, I heard that Shizuo (the common name of Hitetsu Hide) has a lot of talents under you, so you might as well recommend one or two."

Fan Xiu was unclear for a moment, and was stunned for a moment. If it is said that Matsui Yukan showed his talent by chance, it is still reasonable to add up the blue eyes of the "Oda Palace". And the subordinate generals, although a few of them are also handsome, they will not reach this level.

Without waiting for him to reply, Nobunaga seemed to remember something, shook his head and added:

"The people of the Three Rivers don't need it. The Pure Land True Sect is all troublesome. ”

Thinking about it, I didn't understand what the meaning was. Maybe it's just that Nobunaga is really short of people around him for a while.

His subordinates were promoted to direct ministers, and although they lost talents, they also gained a lot of favors. On the other hand, isn't it equivalent to sending your old ministry to Nobunaga? And the people who recommend it don't have to take advantage of it anymore, which is equivalent to increasing their knowledge and deeds.

Fan Xiu thought about the best people under his command one by one.

Kawada Changqin, Honda Masanobu, Nakamura Kazushi are not good at martial arts, worship the village Jia, Honda Masashige is too low. Then, in addition to the Mikawa people, who Nobunaga explicitly refused, the most suitable one was Tokuyama Norihide. He is also a slightly well-born martial artist in Mino, and his wisdom and knowledge are also extraordinary. It was because of the lack of an opportunity to show his face as a general that he succumbed to the courtiers. He was a very sociable man, and if he had a better opportunity elsewhere, he probably wouldn't hesitate to do so.

Because of this, he can't be used as a humerus like Hattori, and he won't get the same appointment as Kawada. Now he recommends this person to be a direct minister of Oda Nobunaga, but he also takes what he needs.

After thinking about it, Fan Xiu replied:

"There is a beautiful person Deshan Zexiu, solid and decisive, both civil and military, I think he must be looking forward to serving you."

"Mino Tokuyama family? I've heard of it. Since you recommend it, let's compile it into the flag book for the time being, and any group leader! ”

"The minister thanked His Highness for his appreciation."

"Hmm."

Now it's time to settle the matter!

Hohide got up and was about to retire, but he saw Nobunaga with his hair on his side in a daze, with a complicated expression on his face, as if he was distracted.

Is there anything else that has not been said?

Seeing that Nobunaga's expression was not belonging, he hesitated for a few moments before he spoke:

"There's one thing you need to be prepared for. Don't be scornful. ”

"Yes." Fan Xiu agreed as usual, but she was very puzzled in her heart. What a big deal is it to make Nobunaga look like this?

"Very left (flat hand), you can remember ......"

"No matter what official position you have entrusted to you, don't forget that the shogunate can only be revitalized by my Owari Oda family."

“…… The minister remembered. ”

Fan Xiu replied calmly, but he thought disapprovingly: Could it be that Ashikaga Yoshiaki will give some high-ranking official a generous gift? Is it worth Oda Nobunaga to be so careful?

He didn't take it to heart. After all, in troubled times, force is the fundamental, and just an official position cannot buy people.