In Akutagawa Castle in Settsu Province, Ashikaga Yoshiaki is selflessly dividing up the five kingdoms of Kinai and wantonly installing his cronies, while Oda Nobunaga is watching coldly from the side, and laughs secretly in his heart: What a clown.

"Well, why does he have the entire mountain city country? was originally a traitor, and he should have been canceled as a guardian, but because of the intercession of Lord Danzheng, he was deprived of the knowledge and deeds of Shenglong Temple City. As for the guardian of the Kawachi Kingdom of Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, let him and Tayama Takamasa share the Kawachi Kingdom, and the Settsu Kingdom will be divided into three..."Ashikaga Yoshiaki didn't know that he was really a big villain, and the natural resentment of the reduction of the seal was not necessarily appreciated.

In the end, it was decided that Tayama Takamasa would lead Takaya Castle, and Miyoshi Yoshiki would lead Ruojiang Castle, and the two would be in charge of half of Hanoi; The Shigui Castles of Yamato Province and Izumi Province are still handed over to Matsunaga Hide;

As the imperial leader of the general's family, the entire Yamashiro Province was led by the guardian of Kamiyama Castle, Daihosokawa Fujitaka, and the guardian of Shimoyama Castle, Daishi Makijima Akimitsu, completely overriding the guardian Iwanari Yutong;

The Settsu Kingdom was divided into three, and his confidant Wada Yumasa was promoted to be the lord of Akutagawa Castle, and together with Itami Castle Lord Itami and Ikeda Katsumasa, the Ikeda Castle Lord, were in charge of Settsu Province, known as the Three Guardians of Settsu;

Hosokawa Fujiken served as the guardian of Omi Province, and Hosokawa Fujitaka led Katsutakaji Castle...

On October 18, the imperial court officially announced that Ashikaga Yoshiaki was promoted to the general of the expedition.

He took over as the fifteenth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, and at the same time continued to serve as an official of the imperial court from the four lower senators and lieutenant general of the left guard, which was an inevitable official position when the previous shoguns first took office.

The first thing Ashikaga Yoshiaki did when he took office was to announce the personnel arrangements of the five countries in Kinai, and there was an uproar in the court.

Iwanari Tomotsu's face turned red, Miyoshi Yoshitsugu's face was displeased, and Asai Nagamasa and Tokugawa Ieyasu came from afar without any reward.

The biggest profit turned out to be Matsunaga Hide, who obtained the ability of Yamato Ichikoku and the dominance of Izumi Bankoku, but as a price he had to submit to the Oda family.

On October 20, the Imperial Palace of Ashikaga Yoshiaki of Kyoto's National Temple was full of joy, and today was the day when General Yoshiaki hosted a banquet for Oda Nobunaga, a great hero. For this reason, Ashikaga Yoshiaki specially invited the "Kanse-ryu" to participate in the Kannoh meeting to entertain everyone who did their best in this battle.

Kanse-ryu is a school of Japanese Noh music that is known for its emphasis on beauty and elegance. This school was founded in the 14th century by Kanami, who was the head of one of the four Yamato Yamato shrines of Sarugaku (the prototype of Noh).

Under the protection of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the second generation of the Emperor Motokiyoshi perfected the basic forms of this school of art. Since the Muromachi period (1338-1573), Kanse-ryu has become the largest Noh group in Japan.

According to the auspicious convention, the banquet program combines the bow Hachiman and the opening scene into 13 programs, but Oda Nobunaga looked at the performance program and said, "Now is a tense time to pacify the Yamato Kingdom." It's really not worth storing the bow for this. So the program was changed to five. The program is as follows:

Opening scene: Takasago ??; Drama No. 2: Hachishima??; Drama No. 3: Dingjia??; Drama No. 4: Daocheng Temple??; Play No. 5; Kureyu.

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The invited people first met with General Yoshiaki, and then sat down as the host. Ashikaga Yoshiaki sat on the main seat in the center, and the deputy seat in the right hand was Oda Nobunaga, and Oda Nobunaga was the retainers of the Oda family, and the retainers of the Oda family sat opposite the retainers of General Yoshiaki.

The first ballad to be played is "Takasago", which is a famous Noh dance in Japan. It mainly tells the story of a "Xiangsheng pine" - according to legend, an ancient pine in Takasago and an ancient pine in Sumiyoshi are a husband and wife. However, Takasago and Sumiyoshi are far apart, so many people are puzzled by this.

Once, when Tomonari the deity of Aso Shrine in Higo Province was visiting Takasago, he met an elderly couple who were cleaning up the clutter under the shade of the trees while enjoying the scenery, so he came up to inquire about it.

The old man replied that it was the tacit love understanding of the husband and wife, which crossed the boundaries of the region, and these two old men were none other than the pine spirits of Takasago and Sumiyoshi.

To this day, there is still a custom of singing the ballad "Takasago" at weddings in Japan, which is intended to bless the husband and wife to grow old together.

After the opening scene, Ashikaga Yoshiaki summoned Oda Nobunaga to his side, personally poured wine for Oda Nobunaga beside him, and gave him an eagle and armor.

There has never been another samurai family that can receive such an honor, and it seems that Ashikaga Yoshiaki is still grateful to Oda Nobunaga in general.

Hosokawa Nobumoto sat down, looking at the appearance of the monarch and the minister in front of him, he couldn't help but want to laugh, and quickly looked around to distract himself.

Except for Sakuma Nobumori, who was still fighting in the Yamato Kingdom, the rest of the Oda family ministers were all present.

And Hosokawa Nobumoto has a special identity, that is, he is the one with the highest family personality and the one who has made the greatest contributions, so the seat is the first place of the Oda retainers, followed by Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide, Mori Kosei, Takigawa Ichiyi, etc.

On the opposite side, Hosokawa Fujitaka and Wada Yumasa were also fighting in Yamato and did not show up. And the first one to sit was Akechi Mitsuhide, who was now reused by General Yoshiaki because he achieved the Oda family's Kamirako merit.

Below him is Hosokawa Fujiken, who is one of the Hosokawa Norikawa stables, one of the Hosokawa clan (Kyozhao family) clan. His elder brother was Hosokawa Tsuna, who took over the position of puppet leader after Hosokawa Nobumoto fled from Kyoto, and took over as the head of the stable family after the death of the clan.

At this time, Hosokawa Fujiken was restless, he felt Hosokawa Nobumoto's gaze, but he didn't dare to look up, and lowered his head as if thinking about things.

He is very distressed now, because he was arranged by General Yoshiaki to do a chore, the guardian of Omi Province. However, he was nominally Omi's guardian, but he couldn't command anyone at all.

First of all, Asai Nagamasa of Kita-Omi went out this time, not only did he not get benefits, but on the contrary, he also got an airborne boss? If you don't give him face, it will give him face.

As for Minami Omi, he has long secretly surrendered to the Oda family, and the Koga faction is the only one who is the head of Hosokawa Nobumoto, and Hosokawa Nobumoto is his own clan. I remember that when I appointed myself at that time, Mibuchi Fujiei showed a look of your bad luck, thinking of this, Hosokawa Fuji Ken broke out in a cold sweat, and his back was soaked.

"Uncle, what's wrong with you? Where is it uncomfortable? Mibuchi Fujiei asked, and from just now he noticed that Hosokawa Fujiken was restless.

"Huh? It's okay, it's okay. Thank you Mibuchi-sama for your concern. Hosokawa Fujiken wiped the sweat from his forehead, although according to his generation, he was the uncle of Hosokawa Nobumoto's generation, but now he was walking on thin ice, and he didn't dare to call them by their nicknames.

"It's okay, huh? Rokuro seems to be greeting us on the other side, hehe. Mibuchi Fujiei said happily when he saw Hosokawa Nobumoto looking here.

Hosokawa Fujiken's body trembled violently, and when he looked up, he saw Hosokawa Nobumoto's breathtaking gaze.