"Manfukumaru... Are you really leaving? Didn't you say that you should always be by your mother's side? Outside Kitanoso Castle, Oda City reluctantly looked at the departing Manfukumaru.

"I beg your pardon, Mother, if you want to grow up to be a samurai like your father, you can't be by your side." After returning home for a few days, Manfukumaru suddenly decided to go back to Hosokawa's house, which made Oda City a little at a loss.

"Can't you grow up when you're by your mother's side?" Oda still didn't give up and actively persuaded Manfukumaru to change his mind.

"It's... I beg your pardon... You're too doting..."Manfukumaru looked at Kihachiro beside Oda, this child has been spoiled, he doesn't have to worry about anything, his own mother has done it all.

"Uh..."Oda City was suddenly speechless, isn't it right to pamper his own children?

"How can an eagle who has never experienced wind and rain fight in the sky!" When this sentence came out of this child's mouth, even Oda City was surprised.

"It seems... Or is Rokuro more qualified than a concubine..."Oda City finally let go, very pleased with Manfukumaru's performance, looking at his stubborn little eyes, his figure gradually overlapped with Asai Nagamasa, and his eyes moistened...

"Mother doesn't cry... The child will write to you often, and when I am older, I will take you over. From the last sentence of Manfukumaru, it can be seen that he is dissatisfied with Shibata Katsuie.

"It's better to... Take your brother with you..."Oda City hesitated for a moment, looked at Kihachiro and said, the two have long been like mother and son, and they have a deep relationship. But as Wanfukumaru said, she dotes on her children too much, and originally Kihachiro still had a ruthless energy when she first came, and she kept saying that she wanted to find a monkey for revenge. Now... But he was as comfortable as a little sheep.

"Good! The children are worried about the lack of retainers around them, and I heard them say that the lord has been building a retainer group since he was very young. That's why the Hosokawa family can have such achievements today. Manfukumaru looked at Kihachiro in front of him, although the other party was a little spoiled, but it didn't matter, when he arrived at Hosokawa's house, he taught him to be a man in minutes, so that he knew what the spirit of competition was.

"Mother! Here we go. With that, Manfukumaru and his party walked towards the avenue in the distance, where there was something that attracted him.

With the return of Manfukumaru, Hosokawa Nobumoto also learned from Akao Kiyoto about Shibata Katsuie's decision, which is... There is no decision...

Shibata Katsuya has never been able to bow to Hosokawa Nobumoto, a junior, he is not as bold as Niwa Nagahide, so he is not far away and still stays in his Echizen and Kaga countries.

Hosokawa Nobugen doesn't care, now is the time for him to accumulate strength and explode again, as long as it doesn't touch his interests, the rest doesn't matter.

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"Gongfang Palace! Are you really leaving? Big brother has never meant to embarrass you. "Outside the Castle of Hanoi Province, Miyoshi Yoshitsugu is seeing off Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

"Needless to say, treat my sister well." Ashikaga Yoshiaki left without looking back, originally he thought that once Oda Nobunaga died, Akechi Mitsuhide would be able to support him to go back, but he was disappointed. Later, Hosokawa Nobumoto eliminated the Oda system and dominated Gyeonggi, and he once again proposed to Hosokawa Nobugen to return to Kyoto, but was again refused.

He now understands that Kinai is already the world of the Hosokawa clan, and no one will listen to him anymore. Only when he went out, with the exception of the Hosokawa sphere of influence around (Hokuriku region, Chugoku region, Kyushu region), he still maintained his authority before his exile, and even had the right to appoint the abbot of Kyoto Gozan.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki's departure, Hosokawa Nobumoto did not stop it, there is no need to kill an exiled general to increase his notoriety. Oda Nobunaga could not kill him, and it was even more impossible for him to kill the shogun himself.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki thus unhindered and moved to Toga, which was under the jurisdiction of Mori Terumoto, in the province of Bigo. It was the place where the Ashikaga clan accepted the Emperor Kogan to pursue the Nitta Yosada-in Declaration, and it can be said that it is a place with roots for the Ashikaga Shogun's family.

The 10th shogun, Ashikaga Yoshisai, was also supported by the Ouchi clan here, and thus returned to Kyoto. Therefore, it was regarded as an auspicious place by the Ashikaga shogun's family.

After Ashikaga Yoshiaki came to this place, he opened the Shogunate in exile, also known as the "Tobu Shogunate". In the same year, he issued an imperial letter to the daimyo of the whole country to crusade against Hosokawa Nobumoto, and the Takeda family of Kai, the Hojo family of Sagami, the Uesugi family of Echigo, and the Mori family of Aki formed an alliance and agreed to discuss the Hosokawa family.

Not only these daimyo who dominated the side, but also daimyo of one country, such as Ukita Naoke of Bizen, Kono Tsunobu of Iyo, Toyohiro Yamana of Inaba, Yutoyo Yamana of Tajima, and Yoritsuna Koji of Hida.

Kenshin Uesugi, who had been loyal to the shogun all his life, took the lead in raising troops in Kamiraku, and decided that Hosokawa Nobumoto was the culprit of the turmoil in the world, and prepared to enter Beijing to rebuild the Ashikaga family. The road from Echigo to Beijing is along the Hokuriku Province via Echichu, Noto, Kaga, and Echizen to. To this end, Uesugi Kenshin's military front was first directed at Echichu and Noto.

Echichu and Noto were originally the guardians of the Tayama clan, but the real power of Noto had already fallen into the hands of the important ministers Yusa, Onei, Naga, and Miyake, forming the so-called collegial system of heavy ministers. Although there has been open and secret fighting between the important ministers, the puppet style of the Tayama clan is the same.

In the 9th year of Eiroku (1566), Tayama Yoshisuke and Tayama Yoshitsuna, who wanted to regain power, were expelled from Noto by the retainers, and Tayama Yoshikei (Yoshitsuna's eldest son), who inherited the guardian position, was just a doll and died in turmoil in the second year of Tensho (1574). Two years after his brother Yoshitaka came to power, he suddenly died of illness on the New Year of this year (most of them were murdered), and the most powerful of the ministers, Nagasunyo, simply supported a two-year-old child. Noto is in fact in a state of extreme chaos and no owner.

As for Echichu, it was already the sphere of influence of the wealthy clans and the Ichijo clan, among which the Ichijo clan and the Shiina clan were backed by the Takeda family, and the Saito, Jimbome, Tohi, and Ishiguro families were relied on by the Uesugi family. When the Takeda family and the Uesugi family competed for power, they survived in the cracks, and now that the two overlords have formed an alliance, they naturally opened the passage to Kamiluo for the Uesugi family.

With an army of 20,000 men, Uesugi Kenshin successfully passed through most of Echichu and entered Noto Province instead. They successively captured Kumagi Castle, Anasui Castle, Kozan Castle, Shoin Kawajiri Castle, and Furai Castle, and then besieged Nanao Castle.

Nagatsuna Ren, the head of the ministers in the Seven Tails Castle, had a close relationship with the Shibata Katsuya, and while closing the city and holding on, he sent his younger brother Nagaren Ryu to ask for help from the Katsuya. Shibata Katsuya also wanted to develop in the Hokuriku region, and also pulled up 20,000 troops from Kaga to support the Notoyama family.