"His Royal Highness,...... You...... Do you want me to go to Nanban?" Naomasa Ii asked dumbfounded, his tongue seemed to be shortened.

"Oh, not that far!" I laughed myself, apparently ignoring the stress it was putting on him. "Now that there is His Royal Highness Tokugawa, then it is also to relieve you of your responsibility to the Tokugawa family, which is at least much better than running away privately, and it can be regarded as a justifiable basis. With an outstanding military general with such a reputation as you, I believe that many famous people are very happy to accept it, if it weren't for the fear that you would be stigmatized, I would even make arrangements by my side personally!"

"Yes, that's a good idea!" Hearing me say this, Qingman immediately opened his mouth and snapped the folding fan in his hand together.

"His Royal Highness is really looking down on him, I'm afraid that things are not so simple!" Naomasa Ii's mood didn't get better right away, and he was still frowning. "The Nara incident has spread far and wide, and although His Royal Highness the Great Imperial Palace has been lenient, there are all kinds of speculations about the origins. After that, the Tokugawa family fluctuated again, and even became a laughing stock among the daimyo of various parties. If there was a slight name in the previous decades, then ......"

"Lady Ii is worried about rejection, right? I've got some ideas for this, after all, there's something in there!" I bent my index finger and tapped my temple. "Keiji is my old subordinate, and it's a bit ...... to be a person," I shook my head helplessly when I said this.

"His Royal Highness Lieutenant General Zuo is strong and brave, and the last general admires it in his heart!" Naomasa Ii nodded and continued to listen to what I was saying.

"You think so too? I'm so happy then!" I nodded my head again and again, as if I was deeply relieved. "It's a person who can't be idle, and although he has retired, he still can't help but point fingers, but in general this person is relatively easy to get along with. But on the other hand, he is a man who rarely minds anything, or is not afraid of anything. Kyushu is a nice place to get away from the whirlpool of certain things, if you don't mind the humid and hot climate over there!"

"His Royal Highness the Great Imperial Palace's great grace is high and the sky is high. The last will not forget!" Naomasa Ii once again expressed his gratitude with the vigorous throwing of the five bodies.

I don't usually leave people to spend the night in Yuryūshan Castle, and Ii Naomasa also took his leave with a sense of humor. I sent him to the Tianyi Temple, and instructed him to take care of the hospitality.

"Grandfather, why don't you take Naomasa Ii?" Kiyomitsu didn't seem to understand my decision, and asked suspiciously. "Isn't it a very perfect thing for the Tokugawa injustice to cause the people to disperse, and my star family to recruit wise men and warriors to become more famous?"

"Perfect? There is no real perfection in this world!" I high-fived twice to summon in an attendant. "Is Kusunoki-sama here?" I asked.

"Waiting for your summons!"

"Go and bring him here!" I commanded, then turned to Kiyomitsu and said, "The lords and daimyo who are in roughly the same position will be more sympathetic to the Tokugawa family. The shogunate's wanton recruitment of retainers to lure other families would arouse suspicion. Now the Tokugawa family is worried about internal and external difficulties, and the most important thing is that the retainers are suspicious of each other, but Tokugawa Ieyasu, an old fox, will definitely not be restrained, and I even suspect that the reason why Ii Naomasa came to me was simply his plan!"

"What do you say?" Xinqing was confused by me all of a sudden.

"If we accept Naomasa Ii, then it means that the three of them have a special relationship with the shogunate; And if we ignore it, it just proves that the three of them are innocent. Whatever the outcome, at least one side will be dumbfounded, and the civil strife of the Tokugawa family will be eliminated!" I stretched out my hand to him and said helplessly, "Maybe Tokugawa Ieyasu has always known the truth of the matter." Or he simply doesn't care. He just needs to have a good result, that's politics!"

"This old fox!" Qingman suddenly realized at this time and scolded fiercely. Then he asked, "What are you going to do?"

"So I arranged for him to go to Keiji's, let them continue to think nonsense!" I said with a smug look on my face, as if I had completed another masterpiece. "Ii didn't enter the Shogunate Shogunate Family, but I was recommended by me to enter the Kyushu Maeda Family, which is very close to the Shogunate, so that people from both factions in the Tokugawa family will feel more that their understanding is correct, and they will feel more wronged in the future!"

"Yes...... But what if he sees this and doesn't go to Kyushu?" Kiyoman still can't help but worry.

"Is this important?" I smiled as I heard a knock on the door.

"Humble Nanmu Yoshinari greets His Royal Highness!" At the door opened there was a young man under the age of thirty, who was Yoshinari, the son of Kusunoki Mitsunari.

After the death of Kanzo Kato five years ago, he began to command the Ninja System of the Zhuxing Family. Guangcheng himself had retreated to the territory last year. The person who is now commanding the "Zhuxing Special Reserve" of the ninja army is a man named Kazuo Shimura, who has been gradually promoted from the grassroots level.

"You've done a good job this time, especially with Honda Masanobu. Now that Naomasa Ii is about to leave, you should send someone to keep an eye on it!" I just gave the order. "If he goes to Kyushu honestly, you will protect him from anything along the way. If he has any other plans, then don't let him 'bother' anymore, but wait until he leaves before he does it!"

"Yes!" After hearing clearly, he nodded, and then added: "The Humble Duty has arranged for a few young people with a Trikawa accent, and they will choose a place where there are suitable witnesses to see. What else do you command? Let's go and prepare!"

"That's it!" I nodded and let him out, after all, it was a family education, and this kind of thing was quite familiar.

"Grandfather, there's one thing I still haven't figured out!" After Kusunoki Yoshinari left, Kiyomitsu asked me again: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and it is just right to get rid of the Tokugawa family in one fell swoop." The Tokugawa retainers were implicated in the assassination, and no one in the world could say anything. But you just provoked the Tokugawa family's infighting, which seems ......"

"Doesn't seem worth it, does it?" I smiled and snapped up the rest of the conversation, then shook my head. "It's just a few low-level samurai involved, and it's hard to judge what kind of responsibility the Tokugawa family should bear, and although others may not be able to say anything about Tokugawa severely, they must have other thoughts in their hearts. In fact, there are still many doubts about this incident, but if we let the Tokugawa family go like this, no one will doubt that this has anything to do with us!"

"What if you doubt it, you doubt it, and we are not afraid of them!" Qingman still didn't seem to be convinced.

"Of course, with the power of the shogunate today, I am not afraid of them, but I am not afraid of this and that, and it will be too late when I know that I am afraid!" I immediately became serious, and it was a matter of principle. "The first thing for politicians is to always have a sense of awe, and the monarchs in history who have made the country and society from prosperity to decline are all those who are arrogant and unsympathetic. You must keep this in mind, otherwise the world of my Star Family may not be better than Muromachi!"

"Yes!" Sweat broke out on Qingman's forehead.

"What's more important is that there is no need to eliminate the Tokugawa family, and it is still useful to keep him!" Seeing how nervous he was, I slowed down my tone, after all, the formation of ideas does not happen overnight. "The current Shogunate of the Stars has indeed gained a firm foothold, and I have formulated some policies to change the country for the sake of long-term peace and stability, but it may take hundreds of years for this change to be finalized. Until then, the country had been ruled on the basis of the samurai, who themselves were a product of a violent order. However, there is also a convention for the change of samurai regime, that is, it must be a force with strong influence itself as a banner.

I suppressed the Tokugawa, Mori, and Shimazu families in different ways, and at the same time, these three were used as candles to attract those 'little bugs' at any time, and as long as I caught a batch regularly, I would eliminate the instability of the new generation. In this way, after a hundred years, there will be no more threats from within the samurai class!"

"Grandfather's wisdom is really rare in ancient and modern times, and I can't wait for thousands of miles!" Kiyomitsu seemed to have understood what I was saying.

I looked at him and didn't think he would understand so quickly that many things don't just come by telling the truth. "It's not too early, you should go and rest early!" I said to him.

"Yes!" He replied with a salute, and then asked, "I'll be back to Osaka early tomorrow morning, and I won't come here too early to disturb your rest." If you have anything else to say, I will go back and report to my father!"

"I've done everything I need to do, so there's nothing more to say!" I thought about it, and my mind was empty. "I am also a mortal, and it is impossible to foresee everything that will happen in the future. In short, everything has to be up to you, so do everything yourself!"

After Kiyomitsu left, I was the only one left in the room, and although it was already late at night, I didn't really want to go to sleep. Stood up and walked to the wall, where there was a small cabinet. I pulled out a letter from a small drawer at the bottom, and the envelope had begun to turn a little yellow because of the age.

In the middle of the envelope, seven big characters are written in a pen style that is not very neat but unusually strong - the source of the world's chaos is in Tokugawa!

"Teacher...... Your plan has been accomplished!" Before I knew it, two tears welled up in my eyes and landed on the envelope. I placed the envelope on the candle flame and watched it slowly dissolve to ashes, then opened the door and walked out.

I went to the private bathroom, and the hot water with the scent of flowers in the large tub was slowly bubbling slowly. I sat inside and felt the burning heat on my skin, as if I had never been so tired.

"Hmm~!" I snorted heavily in my nose and leaned back against the wooden wall of the tub with my eyes closed. At this time, I just remember what I did, and yesterday ...... Last year...... There are many things that are much earlier. There are countless others, but most of them have been gone for a long time.

The light in the bathroom became dimmer, and the moisture in the haze became more abundant, gradually diffusing to envelop me in the grogginess......