In April of the 11th year of Eiroku (1568), Hosokawa Nobumoto left Koga Prefecture and went to the Echizen Asakura family, where he became closely associated with various Koga families for more than a month.

First of all, Koga's pen head Mochizuki Yoshidon, the head of the Mochizuki family, fell down under the crying of his granddaughter Mochizuki Xue.

Of course, this is also the unpopularity of Rokkaku Yoshiharu when he was in power, who made him obviously a courtier of Ashikaga Yoshiaki back then, but he colluded with the Miyoshi family behind his back and betrayed his master.

The so-called predecessors show the way, and future generations follow suit, so it's no wonder that their subordinates are also in the twilight.

Secondly, after taking the pen head Mochizuki's house, Hosokawa Nobumoto visited the Yamanaka family, the Ban family, the Taki family, the Wada family, the Ukai family, and so on.

When Hosokawa Nobumoto held the sports meeting, Yamanaka Toshibo was one of the fanatics who called "Hosokawa Yagatata-sama" three times below, and now he is the head of the Yamanaka family.

The companion family, the Ukai family, and the Takigawa family can also be regarded as sharing the honor and disgrace with the Hosokawa family, and the outstanding talents in their families are all working in the Hosokawa family, including the companion and Shichiro, Ukai Sunroku, Nakamura Kazushi (Takigawa family), Takigawa interests (Takigawa family) and so on.

The rest of the family are also more or less related to the Hosokawa family, and as soon as Hosokawa Nobumoto came out, the half-country power fell to the Oda family.

"My lord! The family reported that Lord Takenaka had been invited back to Oda's house by Lord Kinoshita. Hattori Hanzo appeared next to Hosokawa Nobumoto and reported the details of Kinoshita Hideyoshi's recruitment of Takenaka Hanbei.

"Okay, I got it." Hosokawa Nobumoto nodded, as early as a year ago, with the fall of the Saito family, the Takenaka Hanbei returned to his original residence and went into hiding, Hosokawa Nobumoto also visited many times, but the strange thing was that he was never recruited, which made all the retainers feel inexplicable.

Within a few days, Hosokawa Nobumoto rushed to the outside of the Ichijo Ancient City of the Asakura family.

"Fortunately, it's too late, let's go, go to Anyang Temple." After saying that, Hosokawa Nobumoto was about to leave for Anyang Temple, but was stopped by Sanada Masayuki, and this time he was the only military advisor who went out with the lord.

"Lord, don't you go to visit the Asakura Hall first?" As a military advisor, he has the responsibility to remind the lord of his words and deeds.

"No, although this is the realm of the Asakura family, His Royal Highness Yiqiu is above him in terms of official position and family personality, and besides, this family came here for His Highness Yiqiu this time. If you snub His Royal Highness Yiqiu because of this, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses, because His Royal Highness Yiqiu is a person with a good face. "Hosokawa Nobumoto knows this Ashikaga Yoshiaki's urine too well, and he is a person who takes himself too seriously.

"Aren't you afraid that the Asakura family will be disgusted with this family?" In the eyes of Sanada Masayuki, Ashikaga Yoshiaki is a puppet without any real power, he has always advocated a strong alliance, not to mention that Asakura Yoshikei is Hosokawa Nobumoto's brother-in-law.

"If you are disgusted, you will be disgusted, anyway, there are more allies and there are not many of them, and it doesn't matter if you have less of him." Hosokawa Nobumoto said indifferently, he didn't know that it was because of this neglect that the Asakura family would oppose the Hosokawa family everywhere, and he had to teach him a lesson as a disrespectful madman.

Two kilometers southeast of the castle was the Imperial Palace where Ashikaga Yoshiaki stayed, and he was very happy about Hosokawa Nobumoto's arrival.

"Roar, roar... I didn't expect you to run all the way, and the first thing I thought of was to come to Yu's residence, which is really heartfelt. Before the general's position was sitting, Ashikaga Yoshiaki had already begun to call "Yu".

"This is the duty of the foreign minister, in addition, the lord of the foreign minister learned that the palace of the public palace will hold a ceremony of the Yuan costume in a few days, and the special foreign minister sent a congratulatory gift to add joy." After speaking, Hosokawa Nobumoto pushed the exquisite gift box in front of him forward, and the little surname next to him respectfully took it to Ashikaga Yoshiaki's eyes and opened it, and the eyes were all golden gold ingots.

"What is this?" Ashikaga Yoshiaki picked up one of them and looked at it carefully, he obviously hadn't seen this.

"This is the gold ingot of the Ming Dynasty, which was obtained by the head of my family at his expense, and there are only ten of them in Japan." Hosokawa Nobuyuan lowered his head and said, these are all things he asked Hu Zongxian to get, to put it bluntly, it is a purchasing agent.

"Oh? Roar, roar, roar..."Ashikaga Yoshiaki smiled contrivedly, dressed as a minister, with a white face, shaved eyebrows, painted cicada eyebrows, and blackened his teeth, and laughed so weirdly that Hosokawa Nobumoto's goosebumps fell.

A few days later, Ashikaga Yoshiaki held a motofu ceremony in Echizen, with Asakura Yoshikei as the coronator. At the same time, because the word "autumn" was unlucky, he changed his name to Zhao, and then he was partial to the word "Zhao" as if he didn't want money, and he gave a piece of people, and even Hosokawa Nobumoto was shot while lying down and got a Zhaoyuan. But it doesn't matter what Ashikaga Yoshiaki calls him, anyway, he thinks it's better to call Hosokawa Nobumoto and not change.

After congratulating Ashikaga Yoshiaki, he didn't go to visit the Asakura family, and Hosokawa Nobumoto and his party set off to return home, and did not stay in Echizen Province too much, making the Asakura family even less to see him.

Hosokawa Nobumoto, who returned home, went straight to Sakifu Castle to meet with Oda Nobunaga and report on the results of Echizen Kuni's entourage.

"What? His Royal Highness Yoshiaki didn't even return with you? Hearing that Ashikaga Yoshiaki did not come, Oda Nobunaga asked in surprise.

"This time, His Majesty went to congratulate His Royal Highness Yizhao, and did not invite His Highness Yizhao to come." Hosokawa Nobumoto told the truth, the biggest gain of his trip was actually Koga and his party.

"Why don't you invite His Highness Yoshiaki to come? What an opportunity. Oda Nobunaga asked incomprehensibly, in his eyes this should be a sure thing.

"The lord can't reach it, have you heard of the icing on the cake and charcoal in the snow?" Hosokawa Nobumoto showed off his best again.

"I know these truths, but what does it have to do with this?" Oda Nobunaga is also a well-educated person, and he also knows some about Sinology.

"Your Majesty went here and saw that His Royal Highness Yoshiaki was now bent on relying on the Asakura family, and tried in vain to say that the Asakura family would send troops to regain his position as a general. And if the family throws out an olive branch now, it will be just the icing on the cake for His Royal Highness Yoshiaki, then the family will lose its dominant position and will not be in line with the interests of the family. Therefore, only when His Royal Highness Yizhao is anxious and comes to his own family with his own body, and the family sends troops to help him, it is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow. Hosokawa Nobumoto said what was in his heart.

"But if the Asakura family agrees to send troops, won't the family be empty of bamboo baskets?" Oda Nobunaga frowned, this strategy was too risky, and it turned out to be a bet on whether the Asakura family would not cooperate.

"The lord relaxes, the Asakura family will never send troops to help him, this is just wishful thinking on the part of His Royal Highness Yoshiaki." Hosokawa Nobumoto said categorically.

"Oh? Why is that? Oda Nobunaga appreciates this confidence the most.

"Because the Asakura family was not interested in His Highness Yoshiaki at all, they also wanted to support a puppet of their own, and wanted to put the Ashikaga Shogun's Reneda Kuraya Gong Ashikaga Tsutsuchi (a descendant of Ashikaga Yoshiji) to the position of shogun. So..."At this point, there is no need for Hosokawa Nobumoto to say anything more.

"Hahaha! Each family has its own plan! It's a pity that the Asakura family is treacherous and not slippery, and if it were me, Ashikaga Yoshiaki would be eliminated, and there would be no future troubles, so that no one else would have any hope. But that's fine, otherwise, the family won't get this God-given opportunity. Hahaha! ”