"What are you doing in the hall just now?" The first thing Oda Nobunaga said when he sat down was to ask what had just happened. He glanced at everyone in the room, waiting for an answer. Everyone looked at each other, and no one spoke, while some people turned their eyes to Shibata Katsuie and Yu Qiuping. Yu Qiuping chuckled in his heart, worried that Shibata Katsuya would take advantage of the situation to hit his own little report - Yu Qiuping had just met Oda Nobunaga with his front foot and said that he would be loyal to the Oda family. If a conflict breaks out with his colleagues on the back foot and the big basket is stabbed, Oda Nobunaga will probably be furious.

Yu Qiuping looked at Shibata Katsuya a little nervously, and the latter also looked at Yu Qiuping, glared at him fiercely, frowned as if disdainfully, and lowered his head and stopped talking.

"Although Shibata is a little angry, he is not a person who likes to make small reports." Sitting behind Yu Qiuping, Maeda Toshi, who was in charge of maintaining order at the scene, whispered in a voice that only Yu Qiuping could hear, "Little brother, you don't have to worry. ”

"That's right." Yu Qiuping let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh? Does no one know what's going on? Oda Nobunaga jumped on his sword, pulled out the folding fan on his waist, and tapped rhythmically on the tatami mat.

Shibata Katsuie doesn't plan to make a small report, it doesn't mean that everyone thinks so.

At least Sazuo Chengzheng, who has a blood feud with Yu Qiuping, doesn't think so.

As a member of the Black Mother's Cloth, he was also one of the first to learn that Yu Qiuping would join the Oda family. At that time, in front of Oda Nobunaga, Sasa Narumasa scolded Yu Qiuhei uncontrollably. He really couldn't accept it, let Yu Qiuping, who killed his own brother and killed countless retainers in his family, join the Oda family - and directly obtained a fief far beyond the Sasa family - what did the Sasa family want to live and die for the Oda family for so many years?

Gotta kill that guy...

Oda Nobunaga's mother's cloth was not only responsible for following Oda Nobunaga in the first battle, but also responsible for maintaining a series of meeting orders and rules in Kiyoshu Castle. And Sasa Chengzheng has always been called "Asura" because of his unkindness in disciplinary punishment. In the past, when encountering some small disciplinary incidents, most of the mother-clothed people like the Maeda Toshiya family let go of the violators with a haha, but if Sasa Narumasa saw it, he would definitely report it unrelentingly.

What's more, this time it was Yu Qiuping, who had a big enmity with him, who violated discipline.

"Lord's grace!" After seeing that everyone was silent, Sasa Chengzheng stepped forward and prepared to expose Yu Qiuping's collision with his colleagues just now. However, before he could say anything, a samurai sitting behind Yu Qiuping's side said in a loud voice: "Don't report it by Asura, I admit it myself!" ”

Yu Qiuping glanced back with some surprise, he was a young man who was not tall but very bold, about the same age as Maeda Toshiya. However, the young man spoke in a very funny tone, as if he was born to be a comedian.

"I'm sorry, lord. Just now," the young man scratched his hair with his left hand embarrassedly, and as he spoke, he looked at the Maeda Toshiya, "I let out a fart at Inuchiyo!" He was so angry that he wanted to hit me, and he started a fuss! ”

As soon as these words came out, the lobby, which was still a little nervous just now, immediately burst into laughter, and even Oda Nobunaga couldn't help laughing. Sasa Seimasa's face tightened, and he raised his voice and wanted to speak again, but he was immediately overshadowed by the higher voice of Maeda Toshiie, who understood it: "Your Highness Ikeda, you are really embarrassed to say it!" It stinks to me! ”

Maeda Toshiie's funny words caused the crowd to burst into laughter again, and Oda Nobunaga also laughed from ear to ear, waving his hand to signal Sasa Narumasa to step back and say no more. Sasa Chengzheng suffered a dumb loss, but he didn't say much, so he had to step aside with a blank face.

"Hengxing, next time you work, pay attention to Yu!" Oda Nobunaga waved his folding fan casually, "Okay, this matter is over, no more need to say more." ”

Yu Qiuping cast a grateful glance at Ikeda Hengxing, who had the temperament of a buddy in later generations, and raised his eyebrows at him, which was not polite.

·

The chatter was almost over, and Oda Nobunaga immediately began to get down to business.

"Yu is not too polite," Oda Nobunaga said quickly, obviously discussing the second topic very urgently, not very concerned about the first matter, he pointed to the place where Yuqiu was sitting with a folding fan and said, "This is Yuqiu Moji." He used to be a samurai of the Imagawa family, but now he is a member of our Oda family. Rainy autumn and red leaves, let's say hello to everyone. ”

"In the rainy autumn flat, the word red leaves, the Ming country comes." Yu Qiuping stood up and said respectfully to the people around him, "It's an honor to join the Oda family, please advise." ”

With that, he bowed in the direction of Oda Nobunaga. Behind him, Maeda Toshiie and Ikeda Hengxing shouted and applauded. Yu Qiuping glanced at it with his peripheral vision, and it seemed that Hayashi Xiuzhen, Niwa Nagahide, Takigawa Kazuyi, Mori Kesei, and a group of samurai and horses from Oda Nobunaga's recent training all applauded and welcomed. And Owari's important ministers of the spectrum, such as Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori, Sasa Narumasa, Kawajiri Hidetaka and others were indifferent, but only made a slight appearance.

"Okay, please be loyal to Yu in the future." Oda Nobunaga was very easy-going at the meeting, and there was no strong sense of oppression when meeting in private. After understating the meeting of Yu Qiuping, he began the main topic of the meeting.

"After defeating the Imagawa family, the family now faces an important choice." After Lin Xiuzhen, who understood it, received Oda Nobunaga's eyes, she began to say the words she had prepared before, "The Oda family will never stand still, but will continue to work hard to grow itself." The question is, in which direction should the family develop? Please feel free to speak. ”

As soon as Lin Xiuzhen's words fell, Shibata Katsuya waved his fist and said angrily: "Sanhe! Naturally, it's Mikawa! What the old lord never forgot every year before his death was to lay down the three rivers! Now that the Imagawa family has been newly defeated, the administration department is gone, and there is no power to intervene in Mikawa. And the small hairy head of the Matsudaira family in Mikawa has not dried up, the foothold is unstable, the strength is weak, and the people are panicked, which is a good opportunity for us to win Mikawa in one fell swoop! But the old lord's last wish before his death! ”

"His Royal Highness Shibata is right," Sakuma Nobumori also agreed. His territory is close to the border between Owari and Mikawa, and if the next development goal of the Oda family is Mikawa, it is obvious that he can get a lot of the territory he lays down in the future," he seconded. ”

Oda Nobunaga didn't comment much on the words of the two, just bowed slightly, and looked back into the hall, "Any other opinions?" ”

"I don't think so," said Takigawa Kazuyi after being encouraged by Oda Nobunaga, "The Samurai of Mikawa have been known for their perseverance since ancient times. The old lord had already fought under Anxiang Castle before his death, and took Matsudaira Motoyasu hostage, but the Matsudaira family still refused to give in to us, but fell directly to the Imagawa family. ”

"At present, the Matsudaira family finally took advantage of the Imagawa family's civil war to break away and have a gap with the Imagawa family. If we attack Mikawa, they may turn to the Imagawa family again as they did more than ten years ago, and the two will become monolithic. Takigawa Kazuyi analyzed, "We might as well sit and watch the changes, secretly provoke the relationship between the Matsudaira family and the Imagawa family, and reap the benefits of the fisherman." ”

"Hikoemon, according to your meaning, if you don't develop towards Mikawa," Oda Nobunaga curled the corners of his mouth, "then where should it go?" ”

"In my opinion, Ise is the most suitable," Takigawa Kazuyi said in a deep voice, "The Northern Ise Hao clan alliance looks like a god, and after many years of strategy, there are many internal contradictions. Now that the family doesn't have to worry about the threat from the east, they can concentrate on attacking Ise and will definitely make a breakthrough. ”

"His Royal Highness Takikawa said this, I'm afraid it's not selfish?" Sasa Seimasa unceremoniously asked, "As far as I know, His Highness Takigawa's territory is close to Ise." ”

"Otherwise, His Highness Sasa should not speculate about His Highness Takigawa like this," Niwa Nagahide continued, "I believe that all of you here are dedicated to the good of the Oda family. Even though His Royal Highness Sakuma's territory was close to Mikawa just now, didn't he also risk being misunderstood by everyone and proposed to attack Mikawa? ”

Niwa Nagahide's words suddenly made Sasa Naruma dumbfounded, and if he attacked Takigawa Ichiyi again, it would be equivalent to offending Sakuma Nobumori of his own faction.

"Yonegoro, what do you think?" Oda Nobunaga looked at Niwa Nagahide.

"The next suggestion is Mino." Niwa Nagahide bowed slightly, and said, "I agree with His Royal Highness Takigawa's point of view, and I shouldn't do anything to Mikawa immediately. However, if you attack Ise, the attitude and power of Nagashima Castle may be a big trouble, and I don't know how to solve it yet, so I don't want to do it. ”

"As for Mino, the family holds the name of righteousness in their hands," Niwa Nagahide smiled, "His Royal Highness Saito gave His Highness the 'Rang Guo' of Mino as a dowry before his death, which is the reason why His Highness sent troops." ”

"As for the others, let's talk about it." Oda Nobunaga smiled, still noncommittal, but opened the folding fan with a "swish", allowing everyone who came to speak freely. Everyone spoke word by word, and the scene was very lively, but in fact, most of the policies proposed by everyone were related to the interests of their own territory. A samurai like Mori Kecheng from Mino, naturally hopes to be able to fight back to Mino as soon as possible. And like Maeda Toshiya and Ikeda Hengxing, Oda Nobunaga's direct subordinates, they don't think so much, and they think that the one is easy to fight and the one can make meritorious contributions, so they support fighting that.

·

After everyone discussed passionately for most of the day, Lin Xiuzhen coughed heavily and motioned for everyone to stop. Everyone willingly stopped the discussion and turned their eyes to Oda Nobunaga, waiting for him to make a decision.

Oda Nobunaga put the folding fan away again, turned it around his fingers a few times, and held it in his hand with a "snap". A wicked smile suddenly appeared on his mouth, he looked at Yu Qiuping, and said, "Yuqiu and red leaves, why don't you say a word!" ”

"I'm new to the next and I'm not familiar with the situation," Yu Qiuhei didn't expect Oda Nobunaga to suddenly point to him, and hurriedly explained, "And I'm an old minister of Imagawa, so it's inevitable that the answer will be partial, and I don't want to interfere with your judgment." ”

"Leave that nonsense ablaze." Oda Nobunaga snorted disdainfully, and pointed at Yu Qiuping's head with a folding fan, "On the first day of Yu Hire's employment, do you want to be passive and slack off?" Honestly say your opinion, if you can't say new insights, just fuck off! ”

Yu Qiuping swallowed his saliva, and quickly thought about how to satisfy Oda Nobunaga. This was the first time he had put forward his opinion at the Oda family, and how to make a good first impression was crucial. It's really troublesome not to talk about those clichés, and not to mention the opinions that have been made before.

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