Chapter 7 Returning to the Teacher

In front of everyone, Oda Nobunaga had all the women and children captured from the temple executed. Because the burning of the sky used the first sword, the burning of the sky was also a small contribution in the post-war evaluation, and was praised by Nobunaga, and he was given three silver ingots, and he also received a certificate of appreciation from his family. After the assessment, Zhizhi Guangxiu sent someone to give a string of sandalwood Buddhist beads to Burning Sky when he attacked Yanqing Temple, and after receiving the Buddha beads, Burning Kong thought about it, and immediately replied with a letter of thanks, and sent Minghai to send the letter to Wise Guangxiu.

Later, Akechi Mitsuhide was given the opportunity to build a new castle on the west bank of Lake Biwa because of his exploits in attacking Mt. Hiei, and a total of 50,000 koku in Shiga County and its surroundings were given as the land of Zhixing. And Sakuma Nobumori was given 30,000 koku in Okuri Taigun as the place of knowledge and practice with his second work. The rest of the people also have different rewards.

Oda Nobunaga also became wealthy because of the countless treasures, copper and silver he plundered from the Enkei Temple of Mt. Hiei, and held a banquet at the foot of Mt. Hiei for five days in a row, and then arranged for Murai Sadakatsu and others to continue to arrange in Kyoto to serve as a liaison between the family and the imperial court.

Oda Nobunaga, feared by the Ashikaga shogunate, then returned to Gifu Castle with a large army. And this also made the Ashikaga shogunate was greatly shocked, and for a time fell into a dilemma in the encirclement policy of the Oda family.

The leader of Ishiyama Honganji, Honganji Xianru, also learned that Oda Nobunaga had burned Mt. Hiei, and denounced Nobunaga as an "enemy of the Buddha" and called on the princes (daimyos) of the world to besiege the Oda family, but due to the strength of the Oda family and the fact that Honganji repeatedly set off riots in other daimyo domains, some daimyo who were far away from the Gyeonggi area did not react much to this. For a time, the Oda family and the shogunate's encirclement network forces fell into a stalemate stage.

As a member of the Ma Hui people, Burning Sky followed Oda Nobunaga back to Gifu. Oda Nobunaga also summoned Yakora several times in his spare time and asked him some questions about the management of the people and the cultivation of the land. Although Burning's answer was decent, it was affirmed by Oda Nobunaga. This made the incineration a little strange, but it didn't think about anything else.

When Oda Nobunaga led his army through a fishing village called Azuchi, he stayed at the nearby Anyang Temple. Oda Nobunaga was impressed by the beautiful scenery of nearby Lake Biwa, and with his important ministers, he sat on the shore of Lake Biwa and enjoyed the surrounding scenery while sipping tea. According to other Ma Hui people, this is not the first time that Oda Nobunaga has lamented the beauty of the vicinity of Azuchi, and every time he stays at Anyangji Temple, he holds a tea party nearby.

Perhaps only Sakaku knew that this place would become the famous "Azuchi Castle" in the future, and Azuchi Castle, which had flourished for a time, was eventually reduced to ashes with the decline of the Oda family.

After resting for the night in Azuchi, the Oda army set out on the road back to Gifu again. Burning Sky was also sent by Oda Nobunaga to the cities and villages along the way to spread the news of the Oda family's victory over Mt. Hiei's Enkei Temple. After all, in this era of backward information exchange, even if nearly half a month has passed since the word of mouth alone, people living in the Owari and Mino areas do not necessarily know the news of the return of the Oda army's victory.

After receiving the order, after a little preparation, he took Minghai, Mingshan and a team of thirty people to Ashigaru ahead of the army. Along the way, Kinkora inserted a wooden notice board he had prepared into the castle town, and found the town of the town with a good reputation and belonged to the Oda family, and asked him to read the contents of the notice board. Then he handed over the letters written by Oda Nobunaga to the lords or generations of the castles.

Along the way, the notice boards of the burning sky have been used up in each town, and in the face of the small village where the rule is not very secure, the burning sky can only launch a money offensive, exchange the silver ingots in his hands for copper coins, and pull out fifteen people from his ashigaru, each group of three, holding two runs, and hire one person for 100 wen in each village along the way to be responsible for distributing news to the village. In this way, even if someone takes money and does not work, they can spread the information more or less quickly.

In this way, the news of the victory of the Oda army over Enkeiji Temple on Mt. Hiei reached Owari, Mino, and most of Minami-Omi.

After Oda Nobunaga returned to Gifu, he praised the Burning Sky, raised the annual salary of the Burning Sky by ten times, and gave the Burning Sky a gold ingot. Burning Sky also successfully moved into the samurai longhouse under Gifu Castle, and officially integrated into the Oda family.

A few days later, Yakoru went to visit the Kawajiri family who had helped him, and went to inform the Makai people who wanted to send their children to study with him. Later, in addition to his own work and study, he taught the children of his colleagues. And it was not for nothing that these children were taught, and each of these samurai families gave some rice grains as tuition as if they had agreed to do so.

So after the burning of the sky crossed over to the Warring States, the first side hustle began. Since these children came from samurai families, and martial arts were basically taught at home, so Burning Sky mainly taught these children Chinese and arithmetic, as well as some basic knowledge of etiquette and tea ceremony.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is October, during which the burning sky is ordered to go to Akechi Mitsuhide to announce Oda Nobunaga's password urging him to complete the construction of the castle as soon as possible, and Akechi Mitsuhide also feasts the herald who came to burn the sky as a friend.

And it was the first time to see Kinoshita Hideyoshi who was a guard in Omi Yokoyama Castle, Kinoshita Hideyoshi was very curious about this young man who had made great achievements around Oda Nobunaga in recent days, and wanted to entertain Ozora well, but it happened to encounter the attack of the Asakura and Asai coalition forces on the front line, Kinoshita Hideyoshi hurriedly led the army out of the battle, and Ozora immediately returned to Oda Nobunaga to convey the news of the attack of the Asakura and Asai coalition forces, but fortunately it was only a local small-scale conflict.

Oda Nobunaga also summoned the Burning Sky three times, all of which were to encourage the Burning Void, and in a recent summons, he promised the Burning Sky that after pacifying the Asakura and Asai coalition forces, he would grant the Burning of Omi 300 koku Zhixing. After hearing this, Ozora thanked Oda Nobunaga and showed his loyalty to Oda Nobunaga.

Seeing that the weather is getting colder, the activities of the various forces around the Oda family are not as active as they were in the previous days, and all the forces are recuperating and waiting for the next year's battle. Even the mission of burning the sky gradually changed to investigating the harvest in the domain, transporting the grain handed in by the people of the domain with Ashigaru, and transporting military rations and ordnance to the Omi front line with Hidetaka Kawajiri.

Time gradually entered November of the second year of the Motokame, and the performance of several missions of the burning sky was recognized by the boss Kawajiri Hidetaka and Sasa Narumasa and others, and the burning sky also became closer to Sasa Narumasa through the exchange of Sinology.