On February 4, 1563, inside the castle tower of Kuroda Castle. Yu Qiuping went to preside over the wedding banquet for Naoe Tadahei today, and came back after dark. Previously, due to his own reasons, Naoe Tadahei was exiled in order to follow Yu Qiuping and separated from his sweetheart. So Yu Qiuping has been helping Naoe Zhongping find a suitable marriage partner for the past few years, and finally found a suitable one, hoping to make up for Naoe Tadahei. However, after seeing that Naoe Tadahei had been carrying the sachet that his former fiancée had embroidered for him, Yu Qiuping also understood that the psychological trauma may not be repaired for the rest of his life.

After nightfall, Akihei returned to his bedroom on the top floor of the castle tower. However, while he was still on the second floor, he heard a low sobbing sound on the third floor—it was the sound of Yu Qiu.

Yu Qiuping opened the door, only to find that Imagawa Kaede was holding Yu Qiuyan and softly talking to him, while Yu Qiuping kept wiping his tears with his only remaining left hand and sobbing in a low voice.

"Daddy, Daddy!" After seeing Yu Qiuping come back, Yu Qiuping suddenly struggled to poke his head out of his mother's arms.

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Yu Qiuping clearly remembers what Yu Qiuping looked like when he first called him dad - that was a few months ago, and it was also when he just found out that Kaede Imagawa was pregnant.

Yu Qiuyou, who grows up quickly and is very smart at a glance, has long been able to call Yu Qiuping and Imagawa Kaede's parents, and can even speak some simple Chinese and Japanese phrases. Yu Qiuping often speaks Chinese with Imagawa Kaede at home, and Imagawa Kaede, who is proficient in Chinese, will also respond very naturally - this makes Yu Qiuping feel like he is home, and Imagawa Kaede will try to speak Chinese as much as possible at home, so that Yu Qiuping is a little happier. Therefore, Yu Qiuyou sometimes suffers from the fact that he can't distinguish between Japanese and Chinese.

That evening, Yu Qiuyu and Yu Qiuyu were playing on tatami mats, and Yu Qiuping and Imagawa Kaede were sitting beside them kindly. Suddenly, Yu Qiuyan didn't know what was wrong, suddenly turned his head and shouted vaguely: "Dad!" ”

Yu Qiuhei and Imagawa Kaede were directly stunned in place at that time. After a while, I realized that this was the first time Yu Qiuyan called her father!

Yu Qiuping directly threw down the rattle in his hand, rubbed it next to Yu Qiuping with three steps and two steps on his knee, hugged his young son, kissed him a few times, and kept rubbing his bright little face.

"Watch your beard!" Imagawa Kaede patted Yu Qiuping dissatisfied, "I didn't shave my beard yesterday, be careful to prick the child!" ”

"I don't care!" Yu Qiuping hugged Yu Qiuping in his arms and kissed him on the forehead excitedly: "It's really worthy of my son!" ”

Yu Qiuping's arms didn't seem to understand why his father was so excited, and looked at Yu Qiuping with big ignorant eyes. The appearance of the two brothers inherited the advantages of Yu Qiuhei and Imagawa Kaede, and they looked very handsome.

Just when Yu Qiuping was happily holding Yu Qiuping, Yu Qiuyou on the side stood up with a small mouth, opened his arms in the direction of Yu Qiuping, and shouted crisply: "Dad! ”

"You'er, what's wrong?" Yu Qiuping's eyes were still staring at Yu Qiuping's small mouth that had just uttered the two syllables of "Dad", and asked casually.

"I'm going to hug too! Why don't you hug me! Yu Qiuyou pouted and whispered.

"You'er is good, didn't You'er call Dad a long time ago, this is the first time my brother has called Dad." Imagawa Kaede smiled and touched Yu Qiuyou's head, and then hugged him into his arms, "Come on, mom hug." ”

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His thoughts gradually pulled back, and Yu Qiuping looked at Yu Qiuping who was sobbing in a low voice suspiciously.

"Yan'er, what's wrong?" Yu Qiuping asked as he set his eyes on Kaede Imagawa. The latter's eyes were full of sadness and loneliness, and he shook his head slightly.

"Daddy! Father! Yu Qiuyu broke free from Imagawa Kaede's arms, staggered to Yu Qiuping's side, grabbed the empty sleeve of his right arm with his left hand, and asked blankly:

"Why don't I have a hand in this sleeve?"

The corners of Yu Qiuping's mouth twitched violently, and he swallowed. He knew for a long time that he would have to face this day. He has long known that Yu Qiu, who is happy and innocent for the time being, will one day realize his flawedness and realize that he has no right hand.

"Everyone is born different," Yu Qiuping tried to find an excuse to comfort, "So Yan'er is different from everyone!" ”

"But, but!" Yu Qiuyan bit his lip and looked up at Yu Qiuping. "My brother has an arm in his right sleeve, his parents also have an arm in his right sleeve, Sister Longzi has an arm in his right sleeve, Sister Ah Ling has an arm in his right sleeve, everyone has an arm in his right sleeve, why is it only Yan'er's right sleeve that has no arm?"

Yuqiu's heart sank, but he still tried to smile on his lips. He squatted down, touched Yu Qiuyan's head dotingly, and said in a low voice: "Good girl, don't think about it." You see, there are so many girls in the world, but everyone is different. Among them, there are many who are as beautiful as your mother, and I can't find a few in the whole world! Mom didn't always worry about why she was the only one who was beautiful! ”

Although this reason was very far-fetched, Yu Qiuyan still nodded as if he didn't understand and didn't ask much. It's just that Yu Qiuping can see from his simple eyes that he is deeply worried and troubled in his heart.

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After this incident, the second thing that annoyed Yu Qiuping also followed. As soon as the spring ploughing was over, Oda Nobunaga ordered to summon the funds used for conscription and general demand to all the lords to build a castle on Komaki Mountain! Although there was a lot of opposition in the family, Oda Nobunaga seemed to have made up his mind, and threatened that whoever dared to question Komakiyama's plan to build the castle again was Oda Nobukiyo. At this time, even Niwa Nagahide and others didn't know how to advise.

However, Komaki Mountain Castle will indeed play an extremely important role. According to theoretical calculations, standing on a ten-meter-high city, one's field of vision will be nearly 10 miles away. If it is really possible to build a castle in Komakiyama Castle, then almost the entire movement in Niwa County will be under the eyes of Oda Nobunaga.

On March 14, Oda Nobunaga ordered the various lords to send conscripts and funds to Komaki Mountain. As a lord of 10,000 stones, Yu Qiuping needs to send 150 people to serve and 500 yuan in funds. For ordinary lords, this is not a small amount, but for Yu Qiuping, it is fine. Yu Qiuping asked Naoe Tadahei to be his acting officer, and led the 150 people recruited from the territory to serve in Komaki Mountain.

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The real trouble is the third thing.

At the end of the first month of this year, an uprising broke out in Mikawa composed of followers of the Ichijo sect. The Ichijo sect, also known as the Pure Land Shinshu, is a sect of Buddhism in Japan, but it is very different from Buddhism in China. In the Sect, monks are no longer practitioners who are devoted to reciting Buddha and eating fasting and celibacy. Not only can they drink wine and eat meat freely, but they can also marry wives and have children, and reproduce offspring. The teachings of the Yizong sect are also very simple, and those who believe in the Yizong sect do not need to go through any hard practice, they only need to have sincerity in their hearts to ascend to heaven. Relying on this simple and popular doctrine, the Ichō sect has captured the hearts of a large number of people in Japan, and has hundreds of thousands of followers, becoming the most influential religion.

In Japan, there has always been a tradition of respecting temples. Among the three commissions of the Edo shogunate, there was a temple shrine that specialized in the management of temple affairs. Most of the temples have the power to protect the inaccessibility, and they are like an earthly kingdom independent of the samurai regime. Not only did the temple own a large amount of land attached to it that could collect taxes, but it also recruited its own monks, not unlike the samurai regime controlled by the daimyo. Whether it was in Ishiyama Honganji Temple (present-day Osaka), Nagashima Castle southwest of Owari, or in the Kaga region of Hokuriku, the government was controlled by Ichimune.

What's even more terrifying is that the strength of Yixiang Sect far exceeds the number of Shi Gao and the number of troops on his books. In this very feudal and superstitious era, believers trusted the Dharma master of the religious leader beyond ordinary people's imagination. As long as the Dharma Master of the Sect raised his arms and shouted, countless peasant believers would rise up and wreak havoc in the territory of the martial arts.

And Matsudaira Ieyasu encountered such trouble.

In the first month of this year, the retainers of the Matsudaira clan rushed into the temple controlled by the Ichijo Honganji Temple in pursuit of the thieves, which violated the temple's right to "guard and not enter" and angered the local Ichijo clan leaders. However, Matsudaira Ieyasu, who was working to unify Mikawa, was reluctant to give in to these temples, which occupied a large amount of land, which further exacerbated the conflict between the two families. Finally, at the beginning of February, the three Honganji temples in Mikawa, Honshoji, Kaminomiya-ji and Katsuku-ji announced the launch of a rebellion against the Matsudaira family. The Honganji cultists in the Mikawa territory also heard the news and began to rise up one after another, and the number far exceeded Matsudaira Ieyasu's imagination.

The peasants sabotaged the lines of communication and killed the deputy officials who had driven out the Matsudaira family in the countryside. Armed with hoes and sickles, they flocked to the three temples from various areas of Mikawa to join the rebels in their crusade against Matsudaira Ieyasu, the enemy of the Buddha.

Matsudaira Ieyasu clearly underestimated the influence of religion and was caught off guard by the sudden outbreak of the uprising. He hastily sent a small force led by Tadaji Sakai to attack Hongshoji Temple, the stronghold of Honganji's forces, but was defeated by an enemy who was nearly ten times his number, and fled back to Okazaki Castle in disarray. And many of the retainers of the Matsudaira family were also believers in the Ichidaira sect, and after hearing the call of the owner, they actually rebelled one after another, including Natsume Yoshinobu and others, who were loyal ministers who died after the original Matsudaira Ieyasu Hall in the three parties - it can be seen that the Ichidaira sect is deeply poisonous to people's thoughts.

Now, almost all of the south-western Mikawa, which was populated with believers, had fallen, and Matsudaira Ieyasu had gathered all his troops at Okazaki Castle to barely keep the rebels at the southwest of the Yasaka River and Otogawa River. However, at the border between Mikawa and Owari, the three most important castles, Kariya Castle, Ansho Castle, and Chiryu Castle, were almost empty. Matsudaira Ieyasu was extremely worried that the situation would deteriorate further by the defeat of these three important castles by the army that had always been one-size-fits-all, so he asked the Oda family of his allies for reinforcements.

And this errand was thrown to Yu Qiuping.

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"Your Highness, the troops below dare not leave the front line," Yu Qiuhei said to Oda Nobunaga, "I still have to guard against the direction of Mino!" ”

"Mino is fighting like this, and she won't fight," Oda Nobunaga said with a nonchalant wave of his hand, "If you're really worried, let Sanzaemon lead his troops to Kuroda Castle and help you bear some of the pressure." ”

Although it was learned that Sen Kecheng would come to take over the defense area, Yuqiu felt a lot of peace - but this meant that the smuggling of the caravan had to stop for a few days, and Sen Kecheng could not be discovered.

"You have an old relationship with the Matsudaira family, and the fief used to be in Mikawa, so it's the best place for you to go this time," Oda Nobunaga knocked on Yu Qiuping's head with a folding fan and drove him out: "Don't shirk it, let's leave tomorrow!" ”

Seeing that Yu Qiuping was still looking at him, Oda Nobunaga scolded angrily and funny in a low voice: "Yu will lend you another 800 auxiliaries!" How's that, satisfied? ”