In Hidebo's impression, Tokugawa Ieyasu was Oda Nobunaga's most solid ally from beginning to end, even during the two Nobunaga sieges, how could such a strong friendship collapse because of a few words from the minister. :net

Presumably lying down for a long time, Hideyoshi tried to move his body, but he was so weak that he couldn't make any big movements, but fortunately, Hideho was careful to serve and could barely sit up against the edge of the bed.

"Do you know who the person Neifu admires the most in this life?" Hideyoshi asked.

"It should be Nobunaga, after all, he is the hero who is closest to the throne of the world before you, and he has saved the Tokugawa family in danger many times." Xiubao blurted out.

But Hideyoshi shook his head: "You only know one and you don't know the other, but you don't know that what he admires most is not Nobunaga Gong as a righteous brother, but the old enemy of the Tokugawa family, Takeda Daizen Doctor Shin Genna, who is known as the 'Kai Tiger' of the Eastern Kingdom." ”

"Shingen Takeda?!" Hideho was surprised, "That's the hero who has repeatedly wanted to annex the Tokugawa family and complete the great cause of Shangluo, the two have been intriguing and fighting endlessly for decades, and they are simply rivals who are bound to become fire and water, with such a relationship, how can the inner government admire him?" ”

"This is the charm of Xin Xuangong, and it is also one of the places that I admire the most in the inner house." Hideyoshi sighed, "Shingenko started with less than 300,000 kokutachi in Kai alone, and it took less than 30 years to conquer Shinano, which was full of wealthy families, and conquered the coveted Suruga, and became involved in Echichu, Hida, Enoe, Mikawa, Mino, Ueno, and Musashi, and achieved a hegemony that the ancestors of the Takeda family had never achieved. Not to mention the Inner House.

The inner house has been separated from the Imagawa family since then. It was determined to revive the hegemony of the Mikawa Matsudaira family. Then he knotted Oda in the west and Takeda in the east, sought to capture the Enoe and covet Suruga. The intention was to encroach on the territory of the Imagawa family as the capital for further expansion of their territory, but this plan was soon seen through by the Takeda family and the Oda family.

In terms of going it alone, the Uchifu has never defeated Takeda. On the contrary, under the repeated invasion and adjustment of the two generations of Xinxuan and Shenglai, the city was lost and lost, and the three square plains and the high heavenly gods are not all good examples. But to my surprise, although he was so frightened that he pulled his pants (Tokugawa Ieyasu was defeated by Takeda Shingen during the Battle of Mikatahara, and when he fled in the wilderness, the pursuers approached several times, so he was so frightened that he pulled his pants on the horse), but the Uchifu was not ashamed, and ordered someone to draw a picture of his embarrassment at that time to remind himself.

From then on, the Tokugawa family secretly took Takeda as a teacher and learned Takeda's art of war and strategy. Combined with the loyalty and bravery of the Samurai of the Three Rivers, a brave army of tigers and wolves was created. Do you think such a person is ashamed and courageous? Will the humble Daimyo of Ruogu be willing to be in the hundreds of thousands of territories of Sanhe and Yuanjiang? ”

"According to what you mean, the inner government is also a person who has the hegemony of the world, so he wants to get rid of Nobunaga and replace him?" Hideho asked.

Hideyoshi did not agree with Hideho's statement: "It was Nobunaga who was the first to kill, and the inner government had no choice but to do it." ”

"Could it be that Nobunaga has already discovered the ambitions of the Inner Palace?"

"That's right," Hideyoshi nodded, "The reason why he ordered Matsudaira Nobuyasu to commit suicide and colluded with the Takeda family was fake, but in fact, he knew that his son's ability was not as good as Nobuyasu, and he was worried that his hegemony would not be guaranteed after a hundred years, so he moved to kill." It was from this incident that the inner government and Nobunaga began to look like they were separated.

After the destruction of the Takeda clan, although the Uchifu got Suruga, Ueno's Takigawa Kazuki, Kai's Kawajiri Hidetaka, Kita-Shinano's Mori Nagako, and Minami-Shinano's Mori Hideyori were all Nobunaga's direct ministers, and it is not difficult to see from the map that in addition to the Hojo clan in the east, the north and west sides of the Tokugawa domain were surrounded by the Oda army. ”

"Do you mean that if there was no change in Honnoji, Nobunaga planned to wipe out the Tokugawa family as well?" Hideho was a little surprised, "The two have been in alliance for nearly twenty years, how could it..."

"Twenty years? Even if it's two hundred years, what's the matter, to tell you the truth, since the Asai family betrayed Nobunaga Gong (Asai Nagamasa is also Nobunaga's righteous brother, and married Nobunaga's sister City), his xìng feelings have changed greatly, not to mention the righteous brother, even the genealogy of the retainers, the Shu brothers, he always said that exile will be exiled, mercilessly, as long as he is willing, he can move at any time to attack the Tokugawa family, and there can even be no reason, this is strength. Hideyoshi paused and continued: "However, judging from the situation at that time, although Nobunaga had a jǐng ti for the inner government, he did not take immediate action, and the reason why the inner government accepted the invitation was completely because of a ghost in his heart. ”

"Ghosts?"

"That's right, after the demise of the Takeda family, some Takeda retainers expressed their obedience to Nobunaga, but they were still ordered to be completely eradicated ('Hunting Takeda Order'), but the inner government felt that this was a good time to recruit talents, and desperately recruited Takeda's retainers (according to the leaflet, Ii Naomasa recruited more than 1,700 people), although this was done secretly, it was inevitable that Nobunaga would find out, especially the sentence in the prospectus, 'The Takeda Shingen family law will be inherited by the Tokugawa clan', isn't the subtext 'I, Tokugawa Ieyasu, will also be as ambitious as Takeda Shingen'? As you can imagine, this is a naked betrayal in the eyes of Nobunaga. The Uchifu firmly believes that the reason why Nobunaga didn't do it was because he was still useful, and once he eliminated Mori and Hojo, it would be time to settle accounts after the autumn. ”

"I'm also worried about the footsteps of Nobumori and Lin Xiuzhen, right?" Hideho understood, just because of the exile of those two, the best retainers and the closest allies all had murderous intentions, it was really better to be a human being, of course, this is only one of the many incentives, the most important thing is their own interests.

"This is only a superficial reason, in fact, the inner government is determined to cooperate with us to assassinate Nobunaga in order to realize its own ambitions, but..."

"But you're getting the first step." Xiubao said bluntly.

"Haha, exactly, if I hadn't moved fast, I'm afraid the world would be the Tokugawa family." Hideyoshi smiled heartily, like an athlete who rushed to the finish line during the 100-meter race, although he left Ieyasu, who was honestly waiting for the starting gun to go off, but he would not have thought that it was this opponent who had been cheated by himself for more than ten years, and after a hundred years, he completely cut off the Toyotomi family.

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of the ministers, they're all done, isn't it time to talk about yourself?" Hideho asked boldly, although he didn't know why Hideyoshi was talking to him about this at this time, but he vaguely felt that it must have something to do with Ieyasu.

Hideyoshi was stunned for a moment, and said blankly: "Me? What do I have to say, how can the 'people of the world' be willing to live under others, and there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, why not take a gamble? ”

Xiubao frowned and said in a low voice: "You are ambitious, this is understandable, but why should you break the agreement and turn against each other?" ”

"Why?" Xiujia smiled, "Harima and Settsu only have a total of more than 500,000 stone heights, if it were you, would you be willing to give up the hegemony for thousands of years?" ”

"If you don't want to, why did you swear an oath with the other three in the first place?" Hideho asked.

"It's easy to understand," Hideyoshi explained, "in terms of strength, Mori and Tokugawa are both above me, and in terms of fame, the imperial court is the first to recommend Rì Xiangmori, if not him, it will be the other two daimyos, but it will never be me from a peasant background." Among the four forces, my strength is the weakest, and the allocation of 500,000 Zhixing seems reasonable, even if I fight for it again, it will not change much; But it is precisely because I am the weakest that I will not make other daimyo suspicious, and I can carry out my own plans under their noses.

In other words, this secret agreement is just an expedient measure on my part, just a trick to confuse them. ”

"What you say makes me curious," Hidebo asked, "Since the three of them are either powerful or have the support of the imperial court, why do they want to bring in the commander of a small Oda family like you?" ”

"Because I have one thing that they don't have." Hideyoshi replied, "That's Nobunaga's trust in me. ”

"Trust?"

"That's right, I just told you, since the betrayal of Nobunaga Gong by Asai Nagamasa, the queen of the Kanesaki Palace, he no longer trusts anyone easily, and he is suspicious of Rì Xiangshou and Neifu, only I, this confidant general he picked up with one hand, has always been deeply respected, that is, they took a fancy to this, so they secretly contacted me, hoping that I would lead Nobunaga to Kyoto on the grounds of China's lack of troops and low morale, and then he started by Rì Xiangshou and quickly surrounded the Honnoji Temple, which was only stationed by more than 100 guards, and eliminated it in one fell swoop."

"Nobunaga has taken you well, why do you want to take revenge?" Hideho was already full of disgust and resentment towards the former idol in front of him, and if it weren't for his death, there would really be an urge to kill him with a knife.

"After hearing so much, don't you understand that even if I don't kill him, there will be other people who will kill him, and the Shibata Katsuya of Hokuriku, who is also an old minister, will have the same worries as Rì Xiangshou, right? Do you know what Oda Yurakusai (Nobunaga's brother), who persuaded Lieutenant General Gifu (i.e., Oda Nobutada, Nobunaga's son) to be martyred, but escaped from the castle himself? Do you know what Lieutenant General Ise (i.e., Oda Nobuo, Nobunaga's third son), who was in Ise but watched the fire from the other side and refused to advance into Omi for a long time? ”

Listening to Hideyoshi's series of questions, Hideho was silent, yes, many people behaved abnormally during the change of Honnoji, and some were even happy to see it, I have to say that there are too many people who want Nobunaga to die, and I don't want him to die, and I am afraid that there are very few people who support the new era he created.

"The authority of the imperial court has been lost, but how easy is it to overthrow it? Six hundred years ago, the Heishomon, and today's Nobunaga Gong are all grasshoppers shaking trees, and it is impossible to escape death, and I am just letting his death be used by me. Hideyoshi said it so logically that one could not feel a trace of remorse and regret.

"Is this still the same Kinoshita Tojiro?" Hideho muttered. (To be continued.)