Chapter 007: Marriage and the Situation
Now I'm going to talk about Nobunaga-san's marriage. After all, as the titular future ruler of Owari, he must have a decent wife. I don't know what Nobunaga himself thinks about his early marriage, anyway, Hirate Masahide just let her marry early, object, the daughter of Mino Province lord Saito Michizo (will be pulled later) Saito Guidie (this pit will definitely be pulled). Although Guidie is a beauty, Oda Nobunaga, who was deprived of the freedom to marry so early, and was used as a marriage tool, will definitely not be very happy, but he can't help it. Because the situation is stronger than people. Next, I'll talk about the Warring States situation at this time, oh, no, it's Owari Fengyun.
I don't know which ancestor said: Where there are people, there is struggle. It is clear that the outwardly united Oda family also had a struggle. The largest and most orthodox of these was the Oda Nobuhide faction, located in southern Owari, and the "most threatening" faction was Oda Nobuhide's younger brother, Oda Nobutomo, located in Kiyoshu Castle, north of Owari. At the same time, the faction of the former Oda rookie was divided again because of Nobunaga's stubborn performance, so the place with a big slap in Owari was already full of crises.
There are many people who recognize the bloodline and the so-called orthodoxy, but this so-called orthodoxy can't be eaten as food like spiritual beliefs, so in such a troubled era, orthodoxy that can't be eaten as food can only be bullshit, or even bullshit. Maybe when I say this, some people will say that I am a great rebel, but it doesn't matter, Oda Nobutomo is such a great rebel.
Oda Nobuyo, as the younger brother of Owari no Tora, has never been very convinced by the tiger, and has always been angry about the defeat in the competition for the position of family governor. Some people may think that the younger brother of the tiger is also a little tiger, right? I'm sorry that Oda Nobutomo is a house cat at best, but this house cat has a heart to kill a tiger, and there are two other people around this house cat, one is the former lord Spo Yoshitomo who is also at the level of a house cat (the one who was set aside by the Oda family). There is also a man named Sakai Daizen (half a catty mountain...... There is only half a pound of mountain...... This person is roughly at the level of a jackal, and it is estimated that he must be a careerist who wants to make a career in the Warring States.
The IQ of a person at the level of a domestic cat is negligible, and a person at the level of a jackal is a bit of an IQ. So this is the situation of the Oda family in Cheongju: two fools and a normal careerist. This is really not a problem for the living Nobuhide.
We often say that internal and external troubles, internal and external troubles. There is a reason for this, not to mention external and internal troubles, because internal worries tend to be more harmful than external ones. In fact, I've been thinking, since I know that I have factional problems within myself, why didn't I make a decision earlier, and chop off one of my own sons with my own hands to solve all the problems. In history, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign fathers their sons, and there are many things about sons abolishing their fathers. And as we mentioned earlier, Owari no Tiger Oda Nobuhide has 25 sons, and dying is really not a big problem, as long as the final successor is his own son.
Looking at some of Nobunaga's strange behaviors, I think I've found the answer: I can't figure it out! That's right, Oda Nobuhide must not be able to understand his son's strange behavior, he can't figure out what his son is going to do? People always have a wonderful yearning for things that they cannot understand. It is this wonderful sense of curiosity that maintains the balance within the Oda family of the Nobuhide faction.
The situation is about like this, no matter what, Nobunaga gets married, and he has his own wife: Saito Guidie, a woman three years older than him, who will often appear in Nobunaga's world in the future.
After talking about the situation around Nobunaga, what are you talking about, many people are curious about the relationship between Oda and Tokugawa, so let's talk about how Oda Nobunaga's most solid ally in the future, Tokugawa Ieyasu, came to Owari. In Oda Nobunaga's childhood, the most awesome man in Japan was a dead fat man named Yoshimoto Imagawa (mentioned earlier). This dead fat man is a fat man who has conquered **, and the first thing he conquered was the Matsudaira family (which was later the Tokugawa family). conquered the Matsudaira family, which is equivalent to having another little brother, and the eldest brother must give something to the younger brother, otherwise the younger brother may have to get up and kill the eldest brother in the future, so he took the Matsudaira family to attack Owari, saying that the territory laid down belongs to the Matsudaira family, who wouldn't have this pie? The key is whether the cake is good or not, and whether people have an appetite after reading the cake? Obviously, this cake painting was a failure, so the Imagawa Matsudaira coalition army and Oda Nobuhide's "weak soldiers in the world" fought at a place called Kodozaka at the junction of Owari and Mikawa, and the weak soldiers of Owari won, and history called the first Kodozaka battle, which was a lot of news at the time, and the man who could defeat the Imagawa family could not have a great nickname? So the nickname of Owari no Tiger spread. This is not to say how weak Imagawa Yoshimoto is, one or two small defeats will not have much effect on such a man. Therefore, the people of Suruga who lost the battle still sing and dance, and the people of Owari who won the battle are still the weak soldiers in the world. It was business as usual, but only one family changed dramatically, and since then, the Matsudaira family, which had been galloping around Mikawa for thirty or forty years, completely lost control of Mikawa, and even the last home city, Okazaki, could not hold on, and completely became a vassal of Imagawa. And as a vassal (to put it nicely, allies), the Matsudaira family needs to send hostages to the Imagawa family, and they must also be blood relatives of the head of the Matsudaira family. So the young (no more than 5 years old) Matsudaira Takechiyo (later Tokugawa Ieyasu) began his career as a hostage.
It stands to reason that Takechiyo's children should have gone to the dead fat man of Imagawa Yoshimoto in Sunfu to be hostages, why did they go to Owari? Because of the anti-bone boy, in the era of Takechiyo's grandfather Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, the Matsudaira family was still relatively awesome, rejecting Oda in the west and Imagawa in the east, which was so prestigious. In troubled times, this is how rich is a father, and if you have milk, you are a mother, and if the Matsudaira family is strong, there will naturally be a younger brother and allies, what Mizuno, Toda...... But after thirty or forty years, the Matsudaira family was not as good as before, and even became a vassal of the Imagawa family. There has never been a shortage of people in history, so these former allies of the Matsudaira family left him one after another, those who were close to Suruga took refuge in Imagawa, those who were close to Owari took refuge in Oda, and a man named Yasumitsu Toda took refuge in Oda, and this man also took refuge in Oda, and he informed Oda Nobuhide of the route of Takechiyo's children to Sunfu in exchange for a bounty...... So Oda "brought in" Takechiyo's children to Owari, just to prevent you Imagawa family and Matsudaira family from forming an alliance, Owari no Tiger thought so. And the Matsudaira family, which is a vassal of the Imagawa family, is hostage in Owari...... There is only one word to describe it, not people inside and out.
The embarrassing Matsudaira family seems to be a foregone conclusion, and what Mencius said "Heaven will descend on the people, must first suffer their minds......" is not in vain, history is so fond of playing with people, he gave many people the opportunity to work hard, and those who can survive are those who can be in great charge. It turns out that Takechiyo survived and became the world-famous Tokugawa Ieyasu. So Takechiyo came to Owari and had the "We are generals" conversation with Oda Nobunaga that I mentioned at the beginning, and although I was 80% sure that it was a Japanese literati nonsense, I wrote it anyway because I thought that kind of history was romantic enough.
Well, the picture cuts back to Nobunaga's wedding, Oda Nobunaga looks at the beautiful sister in front of him who is three years older than himself, and must be very curious about the appearance of his father-in-law (how to give birth to such a big beauty). Here's an anecdote to share with you, which is quite interesting:
Before Gui Die's marriage, his father, Mino Province lord Saito Michizo, talked to her, gave his daughter a knife, and said to her, "If Oda Nobunaga is really a fool, you can use this knife to kill him, and we will take Owari"
I think Third Uncle Dao must have been very lewd when he said this. And his daughter's answer is even more so (I can't describe it), let's take a look at the answer of this so-called Warring States strange woman "If Nobunaga is not a fool, I'm afraid this knife will be inserted into his father's chest" Gui Die said calmly.
I don't know how a normal person would react to hearing that his daughter might have stabbed herself with a knife, but I certainly wouldn't have prepared a dowry for her if my daughter (if any) had said so. But Saito Michizo is different, after listening to his daughter's words, he laughed. Lewdness! It's so kinky!
Will I not pull such a lewd person? Apparently not. So don't worry, everyone, this person is very lewd and funny, I want to give him a little more scenes, that's it, next time I will talk about Oda Nobunaga's father-in-law.