The wealthy clans in the city listened to Sabei's words, looked up at the standing guards gathered around them, and then bowed their heads to Sabei and said, "I'll obey the orders of the Commander!" ”

When Sabei heard this, he said to them, "If there are only two sons, only sons, or no children in the family, it is permissible to choose one of the people, but if anyone deceives me, my sword will drink his blood!" He said to them again, "Give you three days, and you will go back and discuss with your family, and after three days, you will send the chosen person to Momoyama Castle!" ”

After all the wealthy families in the city agreed to their promise, Sabei shouted to the standing guards guarding the gate: "Open the door and let them out!" ”

The gate of Momoyama Castle was opened with a "squeak", and when Minami Teruaki outside the city saw this, he immediately said to the wealthy clan behind him: "My lord, I may be summoning you soon!" After listening to Nanjo Teruaki's words, the wealthy people outside the castle immediately dusted off the dust on their bodies and stared at the open gate of Momoyama Castle.

After the gate of Momoyama Castle was opened, the wealthy families in the city walked out of the city talking to each other, their faces not happy but not bad. Seeing this, the wealthy people outside the city wanted to go up and get close, but they were perfunctory, and their faces gradually became a little gloomy.

Seeing that Sabei also walked out with the wealthy clans in the city, Nanjo Teruaki immediately stepped forward and bowed his head and said, "My lord, what are your orders?" ’

Sabei glanced at these relatively calm nobles, and said to them: "I am about to write to ask the lord what you know, but you still need to wait for some time, and I will tell you when the lord has read my letter, how about it?" ”

After listening to Sabei's words, the wealthy clan outside the city fell silent. Soon after, some of these wealthy clans stepped forward and said to Sabei: "Lord Commander, there are some things that we can't control, the peasants in the territory believe in the Pure Land True Sect, and we can't help it, and we can only try our best to stop them from escaping, but we will inevitably get involved in the fleeing crowd, I hope your lord can understand!" ”

After the man said that, he said to the people around him, "Since the Lord Commander has promised me to wait, I will come back to disturb the Lord Lord after a while." The man bowed to Sabei and then turned and left in front of Momoyama Castle. Seeing this, the other wealthy clans also paused for a few breaths, and bowed their heads to Sabei one by one, and Sabei also nodded his head one by one.

Sabei looked at the back of the person who had just spoken, and said to Sukeemon, who was quietly following him, "Follow him and find out his identity!" Sukeemon bowed his head and quietly left Sabei's side.

After the wealthy families left, Minajo Teruaki bowed his head and said to Sabei, "My lord, can you enter the city below?" ”

After listening to Nanjo Teruaki's words, Sabei who was originally thinking about it nodded and said, "You are indeed loyal to your family, and when you wait for the call to be prepared, I will promote you to be the head of the group, so you can go back first!" Hearing this, Minami Teruaki said a few words of gratitude and loyalty to Sabei, and then walked quickly into Momoyama Castle.

"Lord, I'll go back first!" Seeing the Haima Yijia who had dispersed from the wealthy clan outside the city, he shouted to the Sabei under the city.

After listening to the words of the Haima Yijia, Sabei raised his head and said, "You let your clansmen go back first, I still have some things to discuss with you!" ”

Sabei, who was sitting in the house, removed the sword from his waist, put it aside casually, and then said to the Haima Yijia: "Yijia, although you have brought sixteen clansmen to serve me in Momoyama City, Jiashan Village still needs someone to manage it, don't you need to go back and make arrangements?" ”

After hearing this, the Haima Yijia smiled and said, "I was about to discuss this matter with the lord, but I didn't expect the lord to make it clear; Now the situation in the Omi area is stable, there is Niwa Lord sitting in the town of Sawa Mountain Castle, and Lord Yuchai is also constantly searching for bandits and robbers on the east bank of the Omi, and there is no need to stay too many clansmen in the village, and I intend to bring all the clansmen in the village who are more than fifteen and fifty to serve the lord, and leave seven or eight people in the village to guard the family! ”

After hearing this, Sabei said to the Seahorse Yijia: "How many people are there in the Yijia who can fight now? ”

After hearing this, the Haima Yijia said without pause: "Fifty-seven people, excluding the eight people who are left behind, you can bring forty-nine people to the lord below!" ”

After hearing this, Sabei pondered for a few breaths and said, "You can go back tomorrow!" By the way, I'll give you another 20 kan, and when you pass by Tsuruga Town, buy some things for the people in the village! With that, Sabei said to the Kaima Yoshiya, "Come with me!" Then the two got up and walked outside, stopping in a nearby warehouse.

After opening the door of the warehouse with the key he carried, Sabei took out 20 pieces from the large box containing copper coins, then took a small box from the side and put 20 pieces of copper coins into it, picked it up and handed it to the Kaima family, who thanked the Sabei and returned to his house with the box.

The next day, the Haima family left Momoyama Castle early in the morning with four or five clansmen and walked towards Omi's Jiashan Village. At noon, Sabei, who had written a good report, met with Ma Hui who had come from Gifu to deliver the letter in the house. Sabei looked at the simple four words on the letter, silently put the letter in his arms, and after sending the horse back, he turned around and walked to the desk, tore up the letter he had written yesterday, and asked Heiji to burn it.

Sabei sat back in the room, looked at the letter he took out of his arms, pondered for a long time, and then instructed Heiji, who was serving outside the door, "Take Goroubei and Youemon (Fujido Takatora's common name has been told to me by Kira Kamisuke, thank you Yoshiyoshi!) ）。 ”

After reading Oda Nobunaga's letter to Sabei, Suzuki Heavy Industries handed it to Fujido Takatora on the side, and then said to Sabei: "Lord, what His Highness Nobunaga means, I already understand very clearly, 'at your disposal', this is His Royal Highness Nobunaga's examination school?" ”

Hearing this, Fujido Takatora first handed the letter to Sabei with both hands, and then said to Sabei: "My lord, I have the same opinion as Suzuki-sama, and my lord summoned me to come here, so I should discuss how to deal with these wealthy clans, right?" ”

After hearing this, Sabei nodded, and then said to the two people below: "Some of the wealthy clans in Nanjo County have not yet belonged to the lord, although I have the intention of severely punishing them, I am afraid that too harsh will lead to the defection of some wealthy clans, but if these pre-Nanyue wealthy clans are not severely punished, how can I explain to Shibata-sama and Niwa-sama and those who died in battle!" ”

Suzuki Heavy Industries listened to Sabei's words, looked up at Sabei and said: "Lord, you can ensure the safety of these wealthy clans, as for their private retreat, the lord doesn't have to pursue it anymore, after all, they later gathered part of the army to help Lord Niwa counterattack Asakura's military situation, which is also considered some merit, and some things the lord still has to figure it out slowly, after all, there are countless wealthy families and land servants in Nanjo County; Moreover, the lord is only in charge of the three cities, but the Nanjo family is a wealthy family that has been entrenched in Nanjo County for a hundred years, and Nanjo-sama seems to be subservient to the lord, but he just inadvertently threw his burden to the lord, and the lord has been calculated by him! ”