He thought for a while: "Because the army is elite and good at fighting, His Highness is very intelligent. ”

"I'm alone, even if my whole body is iron, how many knives can I forge?" I smiled and shook my head, "It's because I'm able to gather everyone's strength." ”

"How do you gather everyone's strength?" Gamo Fuxiu asked.

"The most important thing is to govern the territory and treat the people well. If it is properly governed, there will be more income in the territory, and the people will be able to have a better harvest; Be kind to everyone, whether they are samurai or peasants, they will be happy to follow me because their lives have improved, and I have enough money and food to support the army, and get more glory, merit, and knowledge. In this way, the peasants were able to have no worries about food and clothing under their own rule, and if they worked hard to make meritorious contributions, they could also obtain a piece of heirloom territory; The samurai were able to earn their martial names and zhixing under my leadership, and expand their families. If such people are gathered together, it will naturally be an elite and good fighting army with good equipment and high morale...... You will also become the head of your own house in the future, so be sure to remember these two things. ”

"Yes. I was taught under it. Gamo Fuxiu bowed his head and said.

"I'm going to divide all of the plains of Awaji Province and leave 20,000 koku in the northern mountains as a direct leader. The specific division of the territory will be troublesome to Yabei," I turned to Asano Nagayoshi, "You have followed Ichitoyo for many years, and it will definitely be no problem to do things." But be fair! And with a good heart for the people. The distribution of river water sources and the renovation of various chute ponds must be done carefully to ensure that everyone in the family can have a good harvest. ”

"Yes." Asano Nagayoshi replied.

"Also, I've heard that Mitsunari seems to want to cut down the trees on Mt. Doufumaru?"

Asano Nagayoshi nodded: "There is such a thing." Futami was preparing to build an attaku ship outside the castle, and he felt that the trees here were more suitable, and that he could float down the Sumoto River to the mouth of the river by transporting them down the mountain, saving a lot of manpower and freight. ”

"Tell him that you can't cut down any of the trees on the mountains at the headwaters of the two rivers, otherwise the rivers will be damaged. If you want wood, you can go to other areas, and it doesn't matter if the shipping costs are high, I don't blame him. I commanded.

Asano Nagayoshi nodded in response.

"Take advantage of this opportunity to be promoted, you can change your name, 'Changji' seems to be a little stingy...... Since he is in charge of the country's major government, how about changing the name to 'Changzheng'? I continued to say to him. Asano Nagayoshi" is a name that always sounds a little awkward.

"Thank you, Lord for your name." Asano Nagamasa happily agreed with me.

“…… The lord's words are really admirable! Antaku Nobuyasu, who was in charge of leading the way, suddenly bowed down to me, "Originally, my subordinates still had reservations about being loyal to my family, but when I saw the lord's recent actions, I realized that he was really a generous person with far-reaching thoughts. From now on, please drive away, and your subordinates will do their best. ”

"It's really exciting to hear you say that!" I said with a smile.

……，…… Soon after the end of the survey, I took Gamo Fuxiu to officially release the country-by-country plan.

As I promised in advance, I sealed off all the land in the south, including the fertile fields of the Sumoto Hirano and the Mihara Plain, except for the 20,000 koku in the mountains of Tsuna-gun in the north. The 10,000 stones of the northern foothills of the Mihara Plain, I handed over to the Iwamatsu Jingding; Located in the southernmost Kii Suido and the Naruto Strait, the Blowing Valley's 14,000 koku was handed over to Masakatsu Wasuka. The two of them, my reserve general and the navy general, respectively, are responsible for the garrison of one side this time.

I gave all of the 30,000 stones of the Continentals to the three reserves and the people in the navy. The highest was the 4,000 koku of Tsubouchi Riding, and the 3,500 koku of Futami Mitsunari, and the five samurai I promoted at the earliest, such as Naoshi Sakamoto, each of them was a 1,000 koku Zhixing, and Seiki Kiyohiro also received a 1,000 koku seal for improving the shooting training of the iron cannon, and most of the rest were between 500 and 100.

The remaining 7,000 koku were scattered in the mountainous areas of the prefecture, and I gave all of them to the people who were born in the guards and made meritorious deeds, the highest being 1,200 koku from Yasutoyo Yamauchi, followed by 500 koku from Fujido Takatora and Yanagi Yankatsu, and the remaining 1,200 koku, including Miyata Koji and Kazuki Shiroto, also received 100 koku each.

The rest of the people's territories that served and served in Mie Castle were still placed in Chaomei County, and they were given a certain increase. The highest was Shigeharu Takenaka's 7,000 koku, then Maeno Nagayasu's 5,500 koku, and Yamauchi Kazutoyo and Ii Naotora 5,000 koku. Because Iyi Naohu married me, he was going to hand over the position of head of the family to Hu Song the next year, and the 5,000 stone territory and Viryu Castle were also handed over, assisted by the three people of Ii Valley under him.

These retainers with more than 5,000 stone are the elders of the family, and they are expected to become the new genealogy family.

There are also two people who are more special. One is Ishigu Laichen, his surname has always been very lazy, he likes to travel, and the two thousand stone territory I gave him is basically spent on himself. But he has a lot of connections, he has a lot of knowledge, and he is very suitable for educating Keijiro, and his eldest son, Ishiya Kabei, is Keijiro's very trusted attendant, and he can already be regarded as the genealogy of his family; The other is Katsugano Motonobu, who only has the 850 koku territory of Tosa, and because he has only joined it for a short time, I have not increased it, and the territory has not reached the standard amount of 5,000 koku.

All in all, I was able to get two provinces of Mie and Asaki in Ise Province, and two counties of Tsuna and Mihara in Awaji Province, with a total stone height of about 180,000 koku. The direct collar is about 60,000 koku, which is 40,000 koku for most of Mie County and 20,000 koku for the whole of Awaji Kunitsu Prefecture. The other 20,000 koku in Mie County belong to the Senju family, and he is considered my strength, but basically nothing is arranged. As for the two prefectures of Tosa Province, they are almost all separated, and those two counties have not yet formally surrendered to Nobunaga, and Tosa has not been included in Nobunaga's strategy plan, so for the time being, it can only be said that I am a personal vassal.

While I was making territorial adjustments, Nobunaga was doing the same thing.

Not long after I returned to Awaji, Hideyoshi Dai-Ha-ra of Sakata-gun and Yoshiyoshi Takigawa of Inugami-gun gathered about 2,000 men to enter Minami-Omi, breaking the stalemate between the Hao clan and Ichi-kyo, and driving out Rokkaku Yoshiken, who had been ordered to return to Minami-Omi from Ishiyama and entangle in one direction. In this way, Nobunaga's military presence was once again connected with the Owari and Mino main offices, and personnel and armaments from both countries could be replenished. The Asakura family wanted to drag Nobunaga so that he had no time to take care of the Kinai domain, but now he was a little overwhelmed, so he had to ask the Oda family for peace. At this time, Nobunaga happened to get the news that Nagashima had broken out and his brother Oda Nobuyo Castle had committed suicide, so he agreed to the Asakura family's request.

As a result, the Asai family, who left the Huihu territory early, was betrayed by their ally Asakura family, and not only did they officially lose the occupied counties of Kita-Omi Sakata, Aichi, and Inuage, but even the Takashima County that had been assigned to Nobunaga the year before was ceded to the Oda family, and only the two counties of Ika and Asai were retained, becoming a small daimyo of 100,000 koku, and there were very few direct leaders. Even if you count all the territories you control, you can't even get a few important ministers of our Oda family.

Isono Honmasa of Sawa Mountain Castle was besieged by Takigawa Kazuki, Nakagawa Shigemasa, Mizuno Nobumoto, Maeda Toshiie, Beeya Yoritaka and others, and was still struggling to hold on. Hearing this peace treaty, he knew that he had been abandoned, and soon accepted Takigawa Kazuki's mediation and surrendered to the Oda family. Nobunaga was overjoyed and immediately conferred the title of Takashima-gun, which he had just received from the Asai family, to Isono Yuanmasa.

Taking this incident as an opportunity, Nobunaga officially gave the title of Okuri Taigun to Sakuma Nobumori on the New Year, and concurrently served as the county representative of Koga County; gave the Yasu County and Kanzaki Half County to Shibata Katsuie, and concurrently served as the county representative of Gamo County; Gave Sawa Yamajo to Takigawa Ichiyi, and transferred from Haguri County to Inougami County 60,000 koku, and Yura Hideyoshi was also rewarded with an increase of 5,000 koku territory in Haguri County.

Shiga Prefecture Daimori Konari was killed in battle, and his position was temporarily replaced by Akechi Mitsuhide, who resisted the Asakura family's invasion of Kyoto. Kesei's eldest son, Mori Kolong, was also killed in Kanesaki a few months ago, and Nobunaga was the second son of the Mori family, who was not yet thirteen years old, and was given the name Mori Nagake (also a fierce man who died in battle at the age of twenty-seven), serving as the head of the Mori family and the general of the family. Because of his young age, Mori Changke temporarily did not undertake any service and returned to Jinshan Castle in Minong Keer County.

In addition, due to the merits of the siege of Sawa Yamashiro, Mizuno Nobumoto was appointed as the commander of Chita-gun. There are only two wealthy families in this county, one is the Mizuno family in the north, and the other is the Saji family in the Chita Peninsula, but the heads of the Saji family, Saji and Kuro, are only two years old and are completely unable to manage the territory, so Nobunaga let Mizuno Nobumoto be in charge of the military affairs of the whole county.

Shigemasa Nakagawa and Toshiya Maeda also participated in the raids of Zo and Yamashiro, and each received an increase in the territory of 5,000 stones. Nakagawa Shigemasa and his younger brother Tsuda Moritsuki transferred to the other half of Kanzaki Prefecture with 20,000 koku, receiving 15,000 and 5,000 koku respectively, and continued to serve as the power of Shibata Katsuke; Maeda Toshiya left Owari Arako Castle and took over the 10,000-stone old domain left by Nakagawa Shigemasa, and divided Ise Amaki County equally with his younger brother Yoshiyuki Sawaki and Lady Ikoma's younger brother Ikoma's family.

My territory has not increased, but the word "generation" has been removed from my service, and I have officially become the guardian of a country. This is the third guardian in the family in addition to Kitabatake Nobuo and Takeda Nobutaka, but Kitabatake Nobuo and Takeda Nobutaka are both sons of Nobunaga, and the guardianship is inherited from the succession family, so I became the first of the important ministers of the family.

The appointment of guardians was originally the power of a general, a consul, or a consul, but now Nobunaga has broken this rule. In this way, he seems to be officially announcing to Kinai the loss of Shogun Yoshiaki's authority and the decline of the Miyoshi family.

At the same time, the three people of Amyun County were appointed to become my strength. The three of them have a good relationship with me, and they are also Nobunaga's relatives or the earliest descendants of the horses and mothers. So on the one hand, it is with force, and on the other hand, it is also a constraint.

According to the arrangement of Naoto, the ten-year-old Tiger Matsu was given the title of head of the Jingyi family and the lord of the Virto Castle by me, who returned to Mino to participate in the New Year's celebration, and took over the position of the head of the Jingyi family and the lord of the Virgen Castle, and served as the head of the family and my personal guard.

After I was busy with New Year's affairs, I returned to Awaji Province with Maeda Toshiie, Sawaki Yoshiyuki, Ikoma Parents, and Ii Nobunao. Xiao Xia offered to accompany him, but I persuaded him to quit.

Is! Mingjin is only five months old, and when his mother is messing around, he has to be a little measured...... At this time, the castle was still not completed, and my temporary residence was located in the southern part of the city. It was built by the first Hosokawa clan in the early Muromachi period during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, and has a history of 230 years. The last head of the family, Hosokawa Naoharu, was killed by Miyoshi Nagakei's great-grandfather, Miyoshi no Naga, in Awa, and the house has been abandoned for 50 years. Fortunately, the main building in the museum is still there, and you can move in after some renovation, which is rare to be full of antiquity and beautiful scenery, which really lives up to the name of "Yangyi".

Hidekei, Gamo Fuhide, Asano Nagamasa and other commissioners are also there, and they are in charge of the subdivision of the territory of Mihara County nearby. In the days since I left, they were still working in an orderly manner, hoping to get everything done before the farming, which was very gratifying. Fuhide Gamo and Nagamasa Asano, as well as Takatora Fujido, who is currently serving as Honda's deputy, are rare generals in the domestic affairs department among the younger generation, enough to support the family for decades to come.

At the end of January, an envoy from Awa came to YGIKAN and sent me a letter. The letter was rarely signed without any signature, and as I opened it, I asked the envoy, "Who sent you?" ”

"Report to the lord of the country, it was the villain sent by the lower house shape hall of Shengrui City." Respectfully replied.

"Oh, it's the lower house!" I nodded, and began to read the letter.

"Tell His Royal Highness Xuanjing, the concubine has been pregnant for more than two months, presumably His Royal Highness is the ......"

What the? Pregnancy? There is also Luoyin, doesn't it mean that he is an illegitimate child? …… This seems to be the tone of the Great Shape Temple!

"You say, you sent you to deliver the letter? Isn't it? I asked uncertainly.

"Exactly," said the envoy with a nod, "the letter is to hand over the house-shaped hall to the villain, and order the villain to be handed over to the lord of the country himself." ”

"So, you don't know what's in the letter?"

"The letter sent to the lord of the country by the lower house-shaped hall, how dare the villain open it privately! The villain has followed the lower house since he was a child, and he will never dare to do such a deceitful thing! Said with trepidation.

I nodded. The letter is indeed very secret and can only be sent by those closest to him. However, judging from the tone, syntax, and text, it is clear that this letter was written by the Great Shape Temple. In this era, only women could use kana without any kanji.

So, under what circumstances did Shinyuki Hosokawa send this letter on behalf of the Ogataden? If his mother sends a letter to an outsider, will he feel strange and will he check the contents of the letter? If you already know, why would you want to help? What would he think of my affair with his mother?

“…… Lower House Shape Hall, do you have anything to say? I asked, groaning.

"Shimoyagata Hall just said that the Lord of the Kingdom will understand after reading the letter," the envoy replied, "and the Shimoyagata Hall also asked the Lord of the Kingdom to give a verbal reply." ”

"Really?" I opened the letter and saw the end directly, and sure enough, there was a paragraph, which was obviously added by Shinyuki Hosokawa. He said that he had received the letter from the maid, and that it was inconvenient for the maid to deliver the letter, so he sent someone close to him to bring it to his mother. He also said that he could understand his mother's mood and behavior, and he was very grateful for my previous help. In addition, he would let his mother give birth to the child, not as my child, but only as his mother's child and his own younger siblings, hoping that I would not interfere in any way, and would keep it a secret.

I folded the letter, and I was silent for a while.

I didn't expect that only once Yan Hao, the big shape hall became pregnant, this is such a coincidence, I can't help but doubt.

However, when she married Hosokawa Chitaka, she was pregnant with Hosokawa Shinyuki; gave birth to Miyoshi Changzhi, even in the same year as marrying Miyoshi Yixian; According to the original trajectory, she would later be pregnant with the child of the first parent of the Changzong family, and the time was also in the first year of marriage, and she was close to sixty years old at that time...... It can only be said that she is too suitable for childbirth.

When this happened, according to my intention, since she is now widowed, I must be responsible for marrying her. However, I had to take into account her own opinions, as well as Hosokawa Shinyuki's feelings and moods.

Am I responsible? Does she want me to be responsible?

As I hesitated, the two images of the Great Hall alternated in my mind. A moment ago, her plump body was still very rhythmically rhythmic, moaning gracefully under me, and the breasts on her chest trembled back and forth, making it impossible for any man to hold himself; The next moment, she was already in tears, and she poured out her helplessness and bitterness to me mournfully, which was enough to make any man pity.

She shouldn't want to leave Hosokawa Shinyuki, right? Moreover, whether it is out of emotion or dignity, Hosokawa Shinyuki will not allow his mother to marry someone else, let alone as a side room.

I let out a long sigh: "I see...... You reply to the Yagata Temple, saying that I fully agree with his decision. ”

"Yes. The villain must bring the original words of the lord of the country. He bowed to me, stood up, and left the meeting room.

When he left, I read the letter again, trying to find out the mood hidden in the words of the Great Shape Hall. However, she didn't have any emotion throughout the text, as if she was saying something that had nothing to do with her. This is really a very strange thing, her emotions are so rich! I still remember the gratitude, the welcome, the temptation and the sorrow that afternoon.

I really don't understand...... Is it really like she said, as if nothing happened, and then it really didn't happen? So who is the person who conceived the child?

Shaking my head, I found the fire fold and reduced the letter to ashes.

(To be continued)