A few days passed, and every day Burning Sky repeated the visit to friends in Gifu City with gifts, sorting out his network. Burning Sky visited Akechi Mitsuhide, Niwa Nagahide, and Shibata Katsuie, as well as Hasegawa Shuichi and Murai Sadakatsu, among others.

Akechi Mitsuhide welcomes Burning Sky and warmly entertains him, but Burning Sky is now suspicious of Akechi Mitsuhide and has no intention of enjoying Akechi Mitsuhide's hospitality. Niwa Nagahide painstakingly educated Kinkor, and told Kinku that although Azuchi Aemon was taken in the melee, the destruction of his family must be thoroughly investigated, and after listening to Niwa Nagahide's words, Pynori patted his chest and promised that he would arrest the thief who killed the Azuchi Aemon family.

When I arrived at the Shibata Katsu family's house, it was naturally indispensable to learn martial arts with several adopted sons and nephews of the Shibata family, and the adopted sons and nephews of the Shibata Katsu family were all samurai with superb martial arts. As for visiting other people, I won't go into details.

By the time it was already the ninth day of January in the fourth year of Motokame, that is, seven days after the burning sky arrived at Gifu Castle, Oda Nobunaga finally held an assessment in the castle hall again. Incineration was naturally notified to participate in the assessment. Suzuki Heavy Industries, who had been huddled in the town for several days, learned the news that Burning Sky was going to participate in the assessment, and said to Yamashita Shinsuke, "Yamashita Shinsuke, are we going home soon?" ”

After listening to Suzuki Heavy Industries' words, Shisuke Yamashita said with a smile, "It seems like this. The right Ichisuke on the side listened to the conversation between the two, and said with a smile: "I finally know what reward my senior brother will get, and I still have a little expectation in my heart." ”

The assessment was set for the 10th, and early in the morning of the 10th, he got up to wash and wash, tidied up the monk's robe and turban, tied the sword, and walked quickly out of the lodging and towards the Gifu Castle Honmaru.

After some interrogation and inspection, Burning Sky sat down again in the position of the last assessment. Burning Sky looked at the people in the assessment room with some excitement, and saw that Oda Nobutada was leaning over and whispering something in Oda Nobunaga's ear, and Shibata Katsuie was also discussing something with Niwa Nagahide. Akechi Mitsuhide and Hashiba Hideyoshi were sitting in the assessment room thinking about something. Burning Sky wanted to look at it again, but was blocked by the person in front of him, so he had no choice but to wait patiently for Oda Nobunaga to start assessing.

After a short while, the samurai who had come to participate in the assessment arrived. Oda Nobunaga was also in the spotlight and began to evaluate. Oda Nobunaga first evaluated the merits of the past year one by one, starting with Shibata Katsuie. As he listened to Oda Nobunaga's rewards and punishments, he wondered what kind of reward he would have.

As name after name was spoken, Incinerate felt closer and closer to his own name. But seeing that many samurai were reprimanded for their inconspicuous merits, and even cut down on the place of knowledge and action, there was also a little hairiness in the burning hollow.

After a few more names, the Burning Sky was finally called. When he heard his name, he got up suddenly, quickly opened his numb legs, walked to the bottom of the corridor where he was assessed, took off his shoes, stood on the porch and bowed his head to Oda Nobunaga and said, "Mt. Hiei Mingshamon Burning Sky enters the road to meet the lord and all the lords!" ”

After Oda Nobunaga saw the burning sky, his face showed a hint of playfulness, and he waved his hand to Akechi Mitsuhide beside him. Akechi Mitsuhide found the judgment of the burning sky from the book in front of him, and read aloud to the burning sky: "Hiei Mountain Ming Shamen burned the sky to enter the road, at the beginning of the third year of Motogui, with Kinoshita Toyoshiro Hideyoshi to defend Yokoyama Castle, repelled the enemy army and beheaded several levels and made meritorious achievements; Later, he besieged Xiaogu City with the lord and rescued the princess of the city with the young lord; Acquired the title of Anyangji Temple, and developed the town of Anyangji into the town of Azuchi; At the beginning of November, he accompanied Sakuma Captain Nobumori to support Hamamatsu Castle Mikawaden, and in the battle with the Takeda Army, he led 50 cavalry (not cavalry, but soldiers) to raid the Takeda Army, rescued Mikawaden, and made a meritorious achievement; In December, he led 21 people to support Tsuda Shichibei Nobusumi, and successfully resisted the traitor Isono Yuanchang's nearly 1,000-strong army attacking the city, and made a contribution to this battle; Later, he besieged Imagata Castle with Niwa Goro Saemon Captain Nagahide, and led his troops to behead 100 ranks, and personally beheaded 7 ranks. ”

After reciting, Akechi Mitsuhide took a breath and continued to recite to the burning sky: "The current lord remembers his merits to his own family, and bestows the Mt. Hiei Ming Shamen Burning Sky Entrance Road, 810 stone in Azuchi-cho, Gamo County, Omi Province, 480 stone in Watai-mura, Shiga County, Omi Province, 20 small awards (in fact, it is only exchanged and used in the Oda Collar and has not yet been circulated), and 200 Yongle Tongbao (this is a hard commodity). ”

After listening to Akechi Mitsuhide's words, Burning Sky stepped forward to take the Wanxing form and the general record, bowed his head and said to Oda Nobunaga: "Thank you Lord for the reward!" After hearing Ozor's words, Oda Nobunaga smiled and waved his hand at Ashor, signaling Burnora to go down. After the Burning Sky understood, he bowed his head again to Oda Nobunaga, and then returned to his seat with the Wanxing and the general record.

Returning to the seat, the burning air looked at the shape in his hand, and also relieved. I began to think about my future plans, what kind of separation of peasants and soldiers, military reform, and strengthening the defense of Shinki were financially supported and implemented, and Azuchi Town gave it to the burned air, so the commercial income of Azuchi Town no longer had to be handed over to Gifu, but went to the burned warehouse. The first thing Burning Sky plans to do when he returns is to expand the warehouse in Xinqi.

The surrounding samurai watched the samurai who had leapt from a few hundred stones to a samurai of more than a thousand stones with their combat exploits, and they had mixed feelings in their hearts, and they watched the sneering sitting.

After all the samurai had been judged, Oda Nobunaga walked out of the assessment room, encouraged the samurai, and then asked the mother and horse to guide the samurai out of the castle hall.

After leaving the castle hall, Burning Sky stuffed Wanxing and the general record into his arms, and strode towards the lodging ground in the castle town. At this time, Tsuda Nobusumi stopped the burning sky who was striding forward, and said to the burning sky: "Ming Shamen, when will you leave Gifu and return to Azuchi Town?" After hearing Tsuda Nobusumi's question, Burning Sky was confused for a while, and then immediately understood why he asked this question, so he said to Tsuda Nobusumi: "Let's leave tomorrow, it's been a long time since I left Azuchi, and the samurai under the sect want to go back early." ”

After Tsuda Nobusumi heard the date that Burning Sky said, he patted Burning Sky and said, "Mingshamen continues to serve the Lord!" Spell out the fame sooner, okay..."

Tsuda Nobusumi stopped his words after saying halfway, and looked at Tsuda Nobusumi who was a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Seven soldiers, don't worry!" I'll go back first! After that, he ran out as if he was in the air, and his subordinates were still waiting for the situation of their own reward, so he should tell them quickly, so as to consolidate his team.