"The lord has arrived!" After half a year, in the Cheongju assessment room, Oda Nobunaga convened a year-end meeting of all the retainers.

Since Inuyama Castle was conquered, Oda Nobunaga obviously felt that this method of adjustment was both worry-free and labor-saving, and he was addicted to it, and he directly ordered Niwa Nagahide to continue to adjust Higashimino, and he himself practiced the newly formed 1,000 standing units day and night.

"See the lord!" Oda Nobunaga walked to the main seat and sat down in high spirits, as if he was in a good mood.

"Hmmm! This year, the development trend of the family is good, not only completely unified Owari, but also laid a nail in Mino. I have gathered everyone here today to arrange the development strategy of the Oda family for next year. Migoro! You have done a good job this time, and you have been promoted to the general of the family, and I hope you will still be able to fulfill your duties for the family in the future. Oda Nobunaga first commended Niwa Nagahide's exploits.

Huzzing, all the retainers of the Oda family looked at their lord and Niwa Nagahide in surprise, he had just been promoted to Hosokawa Nobumoto's subordinate general a few days ago, and today Niwa Nagahide followed closely behind him and stepped into the ranks of important ministers.

If you want to say that Hosokawa Nobumoto is a real military feat, when can it be used as a merit? You must know that last year, Niwa Nagahide was promoted to a general because of his meritorious service in building Komaki Mountain Castle, and this is only a year closer, and he is still in the ranks of important ministers.

"Humph! Look at your virtues! Oda Nobunaga was furious and suppressed his subordinates' discussions. It is also a great military achievement to conquer cities without blood, and in the future, don't blindly only know how to attack, but use your brains! ”

Hosokawa Nobumoto turned his head and looked left and right, and now the ranks of the Oda family's important ministers include the old family Lin Hidesada and Sakuma Nobumori, the generals Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide and himself, I believe that when the Mino strategy is completed, these two people will also be promoted to the old family style.

"In addition, I decided to form an alliance with the Asai family and divide the foreign aid of the Saito family, and the Toyama family of Higashimino is also the in-law of the main family, so that the Saito family will be completely isolated." Oda Nobunaga seems to be about to launch a strategic offensive.

"My lord, I'm afraid it will be difficult to succeed in the alliance with the Asai family, the Asai family is Saito Ryuko's mother family, how can it be possible to form an alliance with the main family?" Lin Tongsheng said what many people were thinking.

"It's better to ally with the Hexagon family, first, the Hexagonal family and the Asai family are feuding; Second, the head of the Rokkaku family is Hosokawa-sama's cousin. ”

"Hmm~~ Rokuro, what do you think?" Oda Nobunaga looked at Hosokawa Nobunaga, after all, he also had to take his opinion into account.

"Back to the lord! His Majesty agreed to an alliance with the Asai family. ”

"Huh?" Everyone else was surprised that Hosokawa Nobumoto would choose the Asai family, which didn't make sense.

"Oh? Let's talk about it, why are you so sure of choosing the Asai family? Oda Nobunaga was also very surprised, knowing that the Hosokawa family and the Rokkaku family were very close to each other.

Hosokawa Nobumoto grinned and thought to himself: I can't tell you that history proves that the alliance with the Asai family is correct.

But there was no way, so many eyes stared at him, waiting for a reply, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Back to the lord, my subordinates heard that Asai Nagamasa is a very wise head of the family, and he has a good relationship with the local wealthy family externally, and he has the reputation of "Omi Eagle". It is also quite successful in military affairs, and the battle of Arino Rada won more with less. ”

On the other hand, the head of the family, Rokkaku Yoshiharu, was even more incompetent than his father, and he never won a war, and he was loyal to the traitor, and killed Goto Kento's father and son in vain, causing the chaos of the "Guanyin Temple Riot". Nagata, Mikami, Ikeda, Shinto and Hirai rebelled, and Rokkaku Yoshiharu was expelled from Kannonji Castle, and the Rokkaku clan, which once dominated Omi, is now in the twilight of the Nishiyama. I saw that all the retainers of the Oda family nodded in approval, and these are indeed facts.

"As the saying goes, 'If you are not afraid of a god-like enemy, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate.'" I have learned in the battle of the general's mountain city, and I believe you have heard of it. If you can come back alive, it's all the blessing of the lord. Speaking of this, Hosokawa Nobumoto burst into tears, which caused others to sigh for a while.

"Well, what Rokuro said is very reasonable, but comparing the Hexagonal family to pigs is too high to think of them, but you must have understood, do others have any objections?" Oda Nobunaga nodded, agreeing with Hosokawa Nobumoto's statement, but also corrected the definition of pig in due course.

"Well, it's Your Majesty's gaffe." Hosokawa Nobugen suddenly had a black line, he forgot that in this era, there are no fierce beasts in Japan at all, so wild boars are the most ferocious existence in the whole of Japan, such as "pig fighting heroes", which is the same meaning as "tiger fighting heroes".

"My lord, but even so, it is not easy for the Asai family to abandon the Saito family and turn to the main family, and I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve the will without tangible benefits." Niwa Nagahide frowned and said, he is a master of tweaking and knows the difficulty of this matter.

"It is precisely because of this that in order to show the sincerity of my family, I decided to marry Aichi Xu to Asai Nagamasa, and the two sides reached an equal treaty of offensive and defensive alliances." Oda Nobunaga finally said the plan he had been thinking about for a long time, this is the marriage strategy he learned from the Hosokawa family, a strong alliance!

"Your lord, no! Don't marry Princess Ashi to the Asai family! As soon as Shibata Katsuya heard this, he hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him, he had a crush on Oda City for a long time.

"Huh? Right six? Why is that? Oda Nobunaga, who didn't know why, asked suspiciously, he didn't expect Oda City to be the object of these old men, all day long.

"Uh~~This~~" Shibata Katsuya was speechless, he couldn't tell the lord that he liked Oda City, it was really a toad who wanted to eat swan meat.

"Lord, Lord Shibata must mean that he thinks that the Asai family is a weak daimyo, and marrying Princess Ashi to the Asai family is indeed a bit of a marriage." Hosokawa Nobumoto relieved Shibata Katsuya in time, and the latter smiled gratefully at him.

"You don't understand this, I think he is also a person with great ambitions, and his future achievements are by no means ordinary, and he will not be wronged by Ah Shi." Oda Nobunaga waved his hand and said, "Nothing he thought would be able to pull back a cow."

As soon as Hosokawa Nobumoto heard this, he thought in his heart, he will not be an ordinary character in the future, and he will let you suppress it without any room for development.

"Then it's decided, as for the candidate for the envoy~~" Oda Nobunaga glanced at everyone, his eyes stayed on the only few important ministers of the Oda family, and muttered to himself: "Hmm~~ It stands to reason that Yonegoro should be the most suitable, but he is now burdened with heavy responsibilities, and he can't do without him to adjust the Mino wealthy family, and Nobumori and Gonroku are not good at words, and Tongsheng's character is too cowardly, and it is easy to fall into the prestige of his family." ”

In the end, he saw Hosokawa Nobumoto, who had nothing to do, and nodded and said, "Rokuro! This alliance is up to you, so let's leave for Omi Kotani Castle immediately! ”