Hearing Li Xiao say that Sanada Masayuki begged for his eldest son again, Ming Chuan also slowly lowered his head, wiped a trace of blush on his face, and then clenched his little fists and said, "It's Gengoro's stinky boy." ”

Li Xiao smiled slightly at Ming Chuan's expression, and said lightly: "Sanada Anfang, this time is different from the past, after the death of his two brothers, he officially inherited the Sanada family governor, and now he is still the general of the Nishiueno Army, in terms of status, it can be regarded as a few people in the Takeda family who can be worthy of his family." As for his eldest son, Gengoro, no, he has been appointed as Sanada Nobuyuki after his first service, and he will definitely inherit the Sanada family governor in the future. ”

"However," speaking of this, Li Xiao looked at her daughter's expression and said, "But you said that you don't like it, you won't marry, so I won't force you, so I will refuse Sanada Anfang for you." ”

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he was about to turn around, but he found that his sleeve was gently pulled by his daughter.

"What's wrong?"

Ming Chuan bowed his head and was silent, and only whispered after half a sound: "Father, that kid from Sanada, although he is not very good, he doesn't hate it when he looks at it." ”

Li Xiao listened to Mingchuan's words, his heart warmed slightly, his daughter's thoughts in the past few years, he also understood through Kohata Yumi, and every month he corresponded with Sanada Nobuyuki and sent gifts to each other.

Li Xiao sighed, patted Mingchuan on the shoulder, and said: "I understand, then the matter is settled like this, that kid from the Sanada family, what I have been sending someone to secretly understand in the past few years is indeed a samurai with integrity and integrity." ”

Mingchuan looked at Li Xiao, but he didn't expect his father to be so concerned about her marriage.

Li Xiaoyan said: "As for the marriage, it will be set in a year." When that time comes, that kid Sanada, if he dares to bully you, I will not let him go. ”

Ming Chuan opened his eyes and said, "So soon, I don't want to leave my father so soon." ”

Li Xiao shook his head slightly, and said in his heart that he was about to leave Jia Fei. But there aren't too many days for the father and daughter to get together.

For the sake of this family business. and ambitions. He undoubtedly owes a lot of affection for his husband and wife and children.

But fortunately, the children are well homed.

Mingchuan's marriage was decided, which was also a major event in Li Xiao's heart before his comeback.

However, Sanada Masayuki let his son marry his daughter. For Li Xiao, he can't be so cheap to the other party for nothing.

Li Xiao made conditions. asked Sanada Masayuki's second son, Sanada Nobuyoshi, who was also a member of the Gangyuan suit, to come under his command. As with the force.

So it seems. A transaction between Li Xiao and Sanada Masayuki, on the surface, each has each other's children, so as a guarantee between the Sanada family, the relationship between the Li family and the in-laws.

For Masayuki Sanada, the deal is not a loss at the moment.

The Sanada family's business. It must have been inherited by the eldest son, Sanada Nobuyuki, and as the second son, Nobuyo. He is not qualified to take too much territory from his brother, so his way out is to succeed other small wealthy families and inherit his family name.

Either as a brother's direct retainer and become a congregation.

The worst is to become a monk and become a monk.

And Li Xiao's condition for Sanada Shinfan is that as long as he makes military exploits under his own hands, after the age of twenty-five, he can obtain 10,000 stone territory and become the elder of the Li family.

The conditions offered in this way greatly exceeded Sanada Masayuki's expectations, so he had no choice but not to agree.

However, if Sanada Masayuki knew the prestige of this son in history, Li Xiao thought that the other party would definitely regret this decision in the future.

However, with the marriage of Mingchuan decided, Sanada Nobufan became Li Xiao and Li, so the Sanada family and the Li family, two giant-level retainers in the Takeda family, maintained their relationship with each other, and the Hida Echichu Legion and the Nishi-Kamino Legion echoed each other in the east and west. …,

In this way, the foundation has been laid for Li Xiao's next layout.

But when Li Xiao returned to the study to think about it carefully, he received separate letters from Li Zheng, Takenaka Shigeji, and Honda Masanobu.

In fact, Li Xiao gave Takenaka Shigeji, and Honda Masanobu was granted the privilege, that is, they could send a letter directly to Li Xiao without going through Li Zheng, which was called the right to fold secrets in the past.

Li Zheng read the letters of the three of them repeatedly, and in addition to mentioning the ongoing confrontation with the Shibata family in Kaga, he said that it was the matter of Tanba Nachito Ruan's decision to subordinate his family.

For a daimyo in like the Naito family, being subordinate to the Li family will definitely strengthen his own power to a certain extent and open up a favorable situation for fighting in.

But having said that, in the face of the coercion of the two major forces of Shibata and Uesugi, where did Li Xiao get the spare strength to open up this front.

The Army, but the elite army of the Oda family, is powerful, and there are generals like Akechi Mitsuhide and Hosokawa Fujitaka in charge, how can Li Xiao's navy be provoked.

After carefully analyzing the situation of Wakasa and Tanba, I added a little prophetic skill as a traverser.

Li Xiao finally found a glimmer of opportunity from it, and this is Araki Murashige in Settsu.

Speaking of Araki Murashige, I have to say that this person's experience is also full of legends, and he can be called a character like Matsunaga Show.

The Araki clan is a descendant of the Hatano clan and is a branch of the Hatano clan, a power in the Tanba country.

Araki Murashige was originally the head of the Ikeda family in Settsu, Ikeda Katsumasa, a retainer under his command, and in Nobunaga's support of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's first Kamiraku, the campaign to pacify Setzu Province.

At that time, there were three major forces in the Settsu country, namely Ikeda Katsumasa, Wada Yumasa, and Itami Kinko, and these three people were collectively known as the three guardians of Settsu.

Within a few years, the three guardians of Settsu had an accident one after another, first the lord of Araki Murashige, Ikeda Katsumasa was rebelled by the Miyoshi family, but the incident failed, and Ikeda Katsumasa was chased by his son-in-law, who was also a retainer Araki Mura.

Arakimura Shige completed the first step of the next gram, and then one of the three guardians, Itami Kinko and Nobunaga, were killed by Araki Murashige, and Wada Yumasa was used by the Miyoshi family in a daze, and was killed by Arakimura Shige's general, Nakagawa Hidekiyoshi.

At this point, Araki Murashige was appointed by Nobunaga as the lord of Settsu Province and ruled Settsu Province.

Originally, Araki Village should be grateful to the Oda family, but as far as Li Xiao knows, this is not the case.

Things have to start with Honganji, the Oda family's Army, and in recent years, although large-scale wars with Honganji have stopped. But small battles continued.

In such a small battle, Araki Murashige's Settsu Province approached the Ishiyama Honganji base camp. and the retainers under his command. Many also believe in the Ichijo sect or have some connection with Ishiyama Honganji Temple.

So in the battle between the Army and Ishiyama Honganji, not only the samurai of Settsu Province joined the side of the camp of the Ichisho sect, but even the retainers under the command of the Araki family. Sending troops to reinforcements, the battle against the Oda army has always been supreme.

It is said that Arakimura Shigeyu has curbed this. But after all, he is the new lord of the country, and he does not have strong control over the wealthy people under his command, and things are repeatedly prohibited.

As a result, he was reprimanded several times by Akechi Mitsuhide.

There is even news coming out. Let Araki Murashige be alone. Go to Gifu Castle and plead guilty to Oda Nobutada.

In this way, Arakimura's situation is precarious.

Li Xiao was also not long ago, and he followed the secret report from Yokotani Yuki's ninja organization in, and he didn't think much about it at the time, but now he wants to come. It was an opportunity that he could take advantage of.

Judging by the situation on the map, confident that after the death. Although the Oda family's control over is still huge, there are signs of insufficient control over individual regions. …,

In particular, the western part of, Settsu, Tanba, and Harima.

The Araki family in Settsu, the Hatano family in Tamba, the Naito family, and the Bessho family in Harima, these four daimyo are all the daimyo of the wall head grass that have been lowered and opposed to the Oda family in history, and if they have a backbone, they are integrated enough to fight the Army.

What's more, there is also Ishiyama Honganji Temple nearby, as well as the Maori family, the overlord of San'in Sanyang Road.

At that time, Li Xiao can take advantage of the chaotic situation and take the opportunity to get involved in it and get a handful of oil and water.

And Wakasa is a critical place, it is a pity to abandon it, after all, from Kaga to Wakasa, there is only one Echizen interval, if he can defeat the Shibata Katsuya Army, Li Xiao can complete the opening of the entire Hokuriku Province, with the strength of a legion, you can complete the move of Shangluo.

Therefore, for the opening up of the Wakasa front, it is not how many troops can be invested in it, it can be achieved, rather than being unable to strengthen itself, it is better to weaken the enemy's power, so Li Xiao's main means is to adjust.

Only by putting on fire on all sides can we effectively contain the army of Akechi Mitsuhide.

Therefore, Araki Village must be allowed to re-act in advance and rise up.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao thought of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who could let him have a relationship with Honganji, write a letter for himself, and let the Venerable Master come forward to make Araki Village rebel.

And Li Xiao's rebellion against him can secretly provide monetary assistance.

Having said that, after these two years, although Li Zheng's reign has not completed the development of the territory, his financial resources are far more abundant than when Li Xiao was there.

Among them, the most powerful financial support is, of course, from the development of Sado Jinshan, and since the tenure of Sado in Chang'an, the Great Treasury has been smiling almost every day.

Sado Gold Mountain is the largest gold mountain in Japan and one of the largest silver mountains in Japan.

And the trade between Noden and North Korea was also completed, using the relationship between the Ming merchants, the Korean trade also brought a lot of profits to the Li family, of course, the most earned was these Ming maritime merchants.

There is nothing more than using interest relationships to help these businessmen, and now the Li family and Li Dan are already an unbreakable community of interests.

So now for Li Zheng, the daily inflow of gold and silver is like the tide, and there is basically no need to worry about lack of money to paint.

He built a new tiger and didn't even blink an eye.

Unlike Li Xiao, who was worried about money every day in order to build a flag book, he couldn't sleep because of money.

As for Li Xiao or unceremoniously, the life of an explosive household in Jiafei naturally has the purpose of confusing the public, and the other condition is that he is not bad at all.

Therefore, using money to pave the way and persuade Araki Village to rebel is no pressure on Li Xiao.

As far as he knew, the ruler of the Settsu Kingdom had a very luxurious enjoyment in the tea ceremony.

To deal with such people, the money invested can be said to be in the right place.