On nine cold days, the north wind was biting, the snow was not melting, and as I walked along the frozen riverbank, I felt that the clammy cold air seemed to have some kind of magic, which could easily penetrate all cotton cloth and walls, and no matter how many thick clothes were added, it was completely useless. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

As a court official from the bottom of the five, as well as a retired guardian generation, Pingshou Fanxiu is certainly qualified to travel in a sedan chair or an ox cart, but it is too "detached from the masses" and is not conducive to creating a correct "samurai family values". Therefore, he generally does not use that kind of outfit, unless it is a diplomatic occasion where he must show his status.

This brings another problem - if you ride a horse or walk, you can't use the hand stove at the same time, and you can only share the weal and woe with the ordinary soldiers. Over the years, the winter has become colder and colder, and it has become more and more unbearable.

At first, the tie was on a horse.

His first horse was the "Xiue" given by Katsuie Shibata, a black horse of Iberian descent, who was now fifteen years old and had long since retired peacefully. After this experience, he had a soft spot for Iberian horses, so he took advantage of the opportunity to trade with Portuguese merchants and introduced them by the way, but the breeding process was not very smooth, and so far he could only satisfy his own use and was difficult to promote.

The horse is a good horse, maintaining the physical advantage and more adapted to the local environment and weather, but riding in the saddle, sitting still, facing the north wind in the chest, the cold is constantly pouring in, and the cold is shivering.

Later, Pingshou Fan Xiu simply came down and walked, his physical activity expanded, his blood flowed, and he gradually felt better. But when his feet stepped on the snow, the cold water invaded the hair, and his feet were uncomfortably cold.

So he walked for most of the hour, and then quietly became a horse, and repeated this several times, always barely getting through. Looking at the entourage and guards around him, Fan Xiu began to wonder if he had been pampered too much recently.

In fact, not only himself, but also Sugaya Naga, who was beside him, was struggling in the ice and snow.

However, left and right, the courtiers of the Heite family seemed to not feel the biting chill, and their faces were filled with excitement and happiness.

Because this is not to go on the march to fight, there is no danger, but to accompany the lord to Gifu Castle and see the Oda Hall.

Moreover, it was not that he reported on his work with other important ministers stationed abroad, but that Oda Nobunaga personally named him and sent Sugaya Naga, a close confidant, as a special envoy to summon Hirate Honhide back to discuss state affairs.

This is very remarkable, Nobunaga has always been arbitrary, and there is no mastermind. Even if it is an occasional admonition, the retainer who made the suggestion will personally implement it before he will be rewarded. A person who simply strategizes and comes up with ideas has no place in the Oda family. This is also the reason why people like Takenaka Hanbei hide and wait for the time.

Now that Izumi was called back as a staff officer alone, it was an unprecedented thing, and it undoubtedly reflected a very deep level of trust and reuse, which was enough to make those who wanted to hug their thighs and be lackeys to go crazy with jealousy.

At the same time, outsiders also feel that after the tie Fan Xiu got the official position of "from the fifth to the middle affairs of the young man", his fortune is still very prosperous, and the resignation of the Hequan guardian is only a temporary adjustment, which does not mean that he is degraded.

Of course, the entourage guards present were very happy to see this. Pingshou is rich in wealth, and the bounty has always been not small, and he is not stingy in promoting and cultivating grassroots personnel, so his prestige among the soldiers is very high.

Wouldn't it be a good opportunity for the lower class samurai to accumulate political capital by accompanying the lord on a journey through the snow? What is the bitter cold?

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When Hirate Honhide walked to Gifu Castle, it was the winter solstice, three days later than scheduled. There are no important celebrations worth mentioning on this day, but it is more or less a Boxing Day, so the city is holding rituals that are better than nothing, and some traditional food is made that is not very special.

It is said that the Esoteric sects such as the Tendai sect and the Shingon sect have very unique "star festivals", and Honshu sometimes wonders about what the "Taimi" and "Eastern Secret" are all about, but unfortunately the Rinzai sect and the Nichiren sect are popular in the Oda family.

However, even if there were indeed mysterious rituals in the city, he would not have the opportunity to visit them. Nobunaga didn't even give a break, so he immediately sent someone to summon him.

Of course, Hiseki knows what happened.

The reason is that Oda Nobunaga showed continuous oppression of the shogunate some time ago, and Hirate Honhide, who was a key figure in it, knew that he could not be convinced, so he used the method of "retreating as advance", and took the initiative to resign from the substitute service of Izumi Guardian, and suggested that Ashikaga Yoshiaki convene the group to discuss the replacement candidate.

As a result, the group of people who were regarded as ministers and servants of Nobunaga, led by Tanba Hatano and Akai, Settsu Ikeda, Wada, Itami, Kawachi Hatakeyama, Yusa, and others, all showed their support for the shogunate and supported three retainers of the shogunate, Iio Sadaharu, Mimaki Masakai, and Nomura Jotsune, to take over the affairs of Izumi.

This made Nobunaga, who thought highly of himself, feel like he had been slapped in the face.

If Ashikaga Yoshiaki took the initiative to jump out and confront Oda, it wouldn't be terrible, it would be a big deal to suppress it with force, similar things have been done several times. However, the attitude of the "heroes" of had to be vigilant, and none of these people could come up with more than 3,000 troops individually, but it would be difficult to say if they were pinched together by the shogunate.

Fortunately, Nobunaga has always sought truth from facts, not blindly seeking face, but pragmatically thinking about solutions to problems.

Therefore, he hurriedly called the flat hand back from hundreds of kilometers away, and the question was to split his head and cover his face:

"For example, Manchiyo (Niwa Nagahide), Gonroku (Shibata Katsuie), Yoshibei (Murai Sadakatsu), etc., all say that has only my Oda horse head is the first to see, why do you have a unique eye to see the hidden dangers?"

That's a hard question to answer.

Hirate Hoshu was stunned for a while, and he didn't even have time to observe the new decoration of Gifu Castle Honmaru.

It's true that Nobunaga's self-confidence has always been a bit blind and exaggerated, but it's not like something out of nothing. He also got the wrong impression, so he was overly optimistic about the situation and lost his accurate judgment.

Judging from this sentence, this "wrong impression" came from Niwa, Shibata, Murai and others. With the exception of the Oda retainers, it seems that they all underestimated the appeal of the shogunate at the same time, and overestimated the popularity of the Oda family.

Then the question arises, why do others look away and avoid it alone?

It seems that there can only be two explanations, either that his own intelligence is far superior to that of his colleagues, or that other people have loyalty problems and deliberately report good news but not bad news. No matter how you answer, you can't help but have the taste of selling yourself and boasting and belittling the ministers.

If it was Akechi Mitsuhide or Takigawa Kazuyi, perhaps it would have been true, Nobunaga has always admired confident people, which is one of the reasons why they can be blue-eyed as foreigners.

But this is not the style of the draw.

So he pondered for a while, then bowed down and replied, "This is because Niwa, Shibata, and Murai are all unborn heroes and heroes, and they can't understand the thoughts of the little people.

Nobunaga laughed at this remark, which he didn't know whether it was positive or negative: "What about you?" ”

"Under ...... Although there are some insignificant wisdom, there is half of the element of a small person in his bones......" Fan Xiu pretended to be modest and said something that he might not believe.

"Please explain!" Nobunaga was still half as concise as ever, but in recent times he has been more polite than before. Is this because of the relationship between the official positions of the imperial court? However, with such an official position of sesame mung beans, wasn't it Nobunaga who asked for his old man's help?

Hitetsu didn't understand a little, but the words in his mouth didn't stop: "In the past few years, the family has swept through like a raging wind and waves, shaking the world. In such a situation, the aspiring heroes either take the initiative to vote, hoping to get the opportunity to make contributions, or they stand on the enemy side of their own family, trying to reverse the general trend and replace them. But the heroes of the world are a minority after all, and more are ordinary people who lack long-term vision. ”

"What will happen to medieva?" Nobunaga asked with interest.

Fan Xiu replied calmly: "Most of them are small forces that took advantage of the turmoil in the past few years to earn a little bit of industry. They didn't think about the situation in the whole world at all, and their hearts were full of their own 'one town and three antifields', and they lost the courage to expand their territory, but they were lucky and hoped that this kind of life would continue...... Therefore, the more the shogunate was weakened and powerless, and the more powerful the Oda family became, the more unreliable the position of such a person became. ”

In a word, it is the old and young who cannot see the situation clearly. I don't want to take the risk of expansion and I don't want to be a retainer, I just want to be a free and easy emperor all the time. "One town and three fields" is a transformation of "one acre and three points of land", which is a good description of this unrealistic localist thinking.

Hearing this, Nobunaga closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then nodded slightly, "There is some truth. ”

Then he asked with deep meaning: "What would happen if there were heroes who didn't want to work for me Oda and were powerless to fight me?" ”

"In that case...... Maybe you will pretend to be a member of the mediocre generation, incite them to fight against your own family, and profit from it. Hirate Honshu immediately understood what Nobunaga meant.

After a long silence, Nobunaga finally came to the conclusion: "It seems that before cutting off these ghosts in, we will have to rely on the name of the shogunate." ”

"Your Highness." Tieshou Fan Xiuxin said that it was not in vain, and it was not easy for your old man to understand this matter.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Fan Xiu admonished again: "These 'ghosts' are not worth mentioning in front of you at all. However, the monks who secretly eat fast and pray Buddha may be more troublesome. ”

"Yes......" Nobunaga replied, not knowing whether he had heard it or not, and then asked rhetorically, "What should you do?" ”

Pingshou Fanxiu knew that this uncle had never liked red tape, so he first said three general outlines: "In the past, Ming Taizu had an incident, and the strategist Zhu Shengyou suggested that 'build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slow down the king', which is the foundation of the Dameng Dynasty." ”

Most of the Fuso people's understanding of the history books of Middle-earth in this generation is limited to the first four histories, and they generally have little understanding of the things after the Jin Dynasty, so Fanxiu took out allusions from the early Ming Dynasty as an example to make Nobunaga show a novel look.

But the phrase "slow to become king" made Nobunaga frown heavily.