Chapter 171 Year-end assessment

On January 1, 1564, Owari Kiyosu Castle was overcrowded, and it would have been impossible to accommodate so many people if the year-end assessment meeting had been held at Komakiyama Castle.

Nobunaga was a person who hated trouble, so he finally set the location of the assessment meeting in the assessment room of Kiyosu Castle, but even so, it was still unable to accommodate all the direct ministers of the Shimoda family and the head of the vassal noble family.

And the important officials of the family such as the clan clan will definitely be placed in the higher position in the assessment room, and the large number of samurai with the status of the head of the Oda family can only sit in the corridor outside the assessment room or in the open space outside (Men) to listen to the teachings of the lord.

Before the clan sect entered the assessment room, they saw more than a hundred samurai sitting neatly outside the assessment room, most of them had been out of office for less than a year, and the childishness on their faces had not faded, and they couldn't help but start to get excited when they suddenly saw such a grand scene. And every time a richly dressed samurai walked into the assessment room, they would also envy it. Especially a retainer like the clan who was qualified to enter the assessment room at a young age made them feel even more blushing.

As soon as the clan clan entered the assessment room, he heard many junior samurai behind him start to talk. "Look, the samurai in the assessment room that I just entered is really young, and he doesn't look a few years older than me, so why did he become an important minister in the family?"

Among them, a junior samurai who seemed to be only fourteen or fifteen years old said to the samurai next to him with disdain: "Cut, what's the big deal, if it weren't for the yin virtue of the ancestors, leaving a large piece of knowledge and action, the ghost would believe that he would become an important minister in the family at such a young age, hey, don't be envious, you are not so good Lao Tzu, let's think about how to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions." ”

These new samurai don't know the Takayama clan, and it's not surprising to arrive, after all, the clan has basically been fighting outside for nearly a year, and there are very few opportunities on the Owari road, but they don't know each other, but it doesn't mean that other samurai don't know either, such as Yabe Iedai, who is sitting next to them, he, like the clan, was also in the Oda family in the third year of Yongroku, and even more than a month earlier than the clan, but he hasn't had any decent credit in the past few years, so his status has not been promoted, But he has always regarded the Takayama Clan, who has had a few faces, as the object of transcendence.

When the Takayama clan clan entered the assessment room, Yabe Ieding also saw it clearly, and then heard the samurai next to him talking nonsense there, and his heart was displeased, so he only heard him open his mouth and said: ", the important minister who entered the assessment room just now is the master of the Takayama clan, the fox of Owari, and the daimyo of the red ghost, have you heard of it, and it is he who is talking about it."

I think back then, Takayama came to Owari alone, starting from the head of the ashigaru, where did he get the thousands, tens of thousands of stones? "Although Yabe Iedai is just like them, he is only an insignificant ashigaru, but after all, he joined (Men) earlier, and it is also appropriate to reprimand these new samurai.

After he finished speaking, not only the two retainers who spoke just now, but even the samurai who heard these words around were also shocked, and they couldn't help but raise their eyes to look in the direction of the assessment room, although they had seen it just now, but they were not careful, and now they heard that the samurai who had just entered was the famous Takayama clan, and they had the intention to observe him carefully, at least remember his appearance, so as not to collide with the adults in the future because they didn't know him.

However, now that it was empty, there was not even a shadow to be seen, and among them, there were some young samurai who could be said to have grown up listening to the stories of the Takayama clan, and when they saw the person they had always admired passing by in front of them, they did not see their appearance clearly, and they couldn't help but regret it secretly.

The clan had already arrived in the assessment room, and it was a bit late for him to meet with the Uchijima clan at Hachimanjo Castle in the gun, and even if he arrived immediately after the meeting with him, it was still a little late, but thankfully, although the retainers of the Oda family had almost arrived, Oda Nobunaga had not yet appeared in the assessment room.

Before he could sit down, he saw Nobunaga walking out of the inner room quickly, and when the clan saw this, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if he was a step late, he was afraid that he would not be able to run away from being scolded.

After all, according to the rules of the Oda family, only samurai with the status of the general and above are eligible to enter, and even the general of the ashigaru is only waiting in the corridor, and the Oda family is just starting now, so there are not too many samurai with the status of the general or above, and among them, most of them are the heads of the local wealthy families, and as for the ministers, there are very few. ,

After Oda Nobunaga sat down, he first glanced at all the retainers, and when the year-end evaluation meeting was held this year, there were two more people in the assessment room, namely the Takayama clan and Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro, the original clan was already qualified to enter last year, but in the past, at the time of the New Year, he was assigned to Higashi Minon, so he couldn't catch up, and Kinoshita Tojiro was the fastest promoted samurai in the family in recent years.

Nobunaga's gaze lingered on the two of them for a few more moments, and the performance of the clan clan and Kinoshita Toyoshiro in the past year still made Nobunaga feel very satisfied, and it can be said that most of the reason why the family was able to win hundreds of thousands of stone of land last year was due to the two of them.

After a while, Nobunaga withdrew his gaze and said lightly, "Lin Tongsheng, you can start." ”

In the view of the clan, this year-end assessment event is a very boring thing, in addition to reviewing the past and looking forward to the future, there is really nothing new at the meeting, but most people are still happy to die of this, and Lin Tongsheng is one of the representatives, if in the past year, the Oda family has stopped moving forward, or retreating, then he is not very enthusiastic, but if it is the same as last year, the strength of the Oda family has nearly doubled, then he can't miss this good opportunity to shoot the main man's ass.

I saw that after he finished answering energetically, he picked up the silk codex embroidered with papaya patterns on a blue background about a foot long, half a foot wide, and one inch thick, this codex took Lin Tongsheng more than a month to write, just those sentences that sang the praises of virtue cost him a lot of time and energy, but this was all willing.

In recent years, Lin Tongsheng often thinks that although he is still in the position of the old man of the pen family, he feels a strong sense of crisis, and he knows that his ability is limited, if it is not for the early emergence of the Oda family, there is no possibility of becoming the old man of the pen family.

And in the last few years, in addition to a large number of rising stars in the Oda family, among them, there are no longer a few retainers like the Takayama clan who are too capable of surpassing themselves, and if they continue to develop like this, they will be pulled down from the position of the head of the Oda family in less than five years.

Lin Tongsheng has been following Oda Nobunaga for many years, he knows the character of the lord very well, and the family has always adhered to the principle of the capable and the incompetent, and he will definitely not let a retainer who lacks ability always be in a high position, so since a few years ago, Lin Tongsheng has changed his strategy, since his ability is not good, and he wants to keep the title of the first minister of the Oda family, then he can only do some side (Men) left, before he planned to marry his daughter to the new star of the family Takayama clan, it is out of order to keep the old position of the pen family will have such an idea.

If a retainer like the Takayama clan who is capable and trusted by the lord can stand on the same front as himself, he can not only eliminate his threat to himself, but also help his own words at the evaluation meeting, although the idea is good, but the reality is cruel. His marriage plan failed, if it was just a failure, Lin Tongsheng could accept it, but the most unacceptable thing for him was that in the end, he let the Shibata Katsu family take advantage, which made him feel a little helpless.

The subordinate who married the clan is the main room, and he can't let his daughter go to him as a side room, he can't afford to lose such a big face. Therefore, Lin Tong Katsu saw that there was no hope of winning over the clan, so he had no choice but to push for the second, and marry his daughter to Hattori Kodaira Taiyaharu, who was the first to attack the Imagawa Yoshimoto big tent when he fought in the barrel and narrow room. At the beginning, Lin Tong Katsuben also had high hopes for him, but who knew that since Hattori Koheita obtained the 800 stone Zhixing of Ogawa Castle, he had no credit, and began to fall silent, and even had been forgotten by the lord, such a person, not only will not provide him with any help in the future, but also often need his own help.

Lin Tongsheng saw that he had gradually fallen silent, but the Takayama clan was thriving, not only had his identity been promoted to a general, but even Zhixing already had eight thousand stones, just such an achievement was enough to be impressive, and the Takayama clan sect had become another force that could not be ignored by the Oda family, and most importantly, with his ability, and the lord's trust in him, he still had a lot of room for development, even if he did not support the Shibata Katsu family in the future, he also had the ability to seize the pen head of the family.

For this reason, Lin Tongsheng felt very regretful, if he had abandoned his son and married Aiyuan to him as a side room, he would have been able to get some help in the future, which was much better than marrying his daughter to Hattori Koheita.

In order to keep the position of the old man of the pen family, Lin Tongsheng had to plan in advance, in addition to letting the children under his knees and the new generation of retainers of the Oda family have a good relationship, patting the lord's ass is also a strategy he uses, he thought to himself, not to mention his ability, as long as he can get the favor of the lord, then no one wants to drag himself down from his current position, and this year-end assessment meeting is his chance to show his face.