After the castle was built in mid-September last year, it was rebuilt for more than three months. It wasn't until the first month of this year that Nobunaga officially moved to Jin, and took advantage of the fact that all the ministers came to Jinjin, and officially changed its name to Gifu Castle. However, Yi Zhou did not move with him, and still lived in Jiangyan Temple, called Jiangyan Imperial Palace. At first, it was because of the relationship between the imperial palace and the inability to move lightly, but later it was probably Nobunaga's choice of surname to ignore.

In order to find out the reason for the change in the attitude of the Oda family towards Yoshishu, several important ministers around him were naturally aware of it, and in order to find out the reason, they sent people to Gifu twice in early and mid-March, but they were not able to learn the specific situation, nor did they get a clear explanation, and the second time they even met Nobunaga in person. Not only that, but the cherry blossom season is coming to an end as March draws to a close, and the cherry blossom viewing party scheduled for the second half of this month is still in sight.

Faced with this situation, they inevitably felt anxious, but now there was no other way for them to do anything but wait, and who told them that they had no one in the Oda family.

At this time, I came to visit, and I can imagine how urgent they would be. Yoshishu didn't even care about etiquette, so he skipped Shinjizhong Odate Glow and met me in person, accompanied by four people, including Yoshimasa Hitoki, Grubik Odate, Sadachi Ise, and Tomokan Matsui.

"The minister has seen the stable." I saluted outside the threshold.

"Kira came all the way here, and it was really hard. Please don't be polite! Ashikaga Yoshishu comforted him from the main seat in the hall.

"Thank you for your kindness." I sat down.

"His Royal Highness Xuanjing has a lot of connections with the shogunate, so I won't say more polite words." Odate Glow first complained for his cousin, "Since the puppet general Yoshiei usurped the throne, Oda Danmasa's attitude towards the Cishengyuan Hall (Yizhou Temple) has been much colder, and it can really be said that 'the car and horses are sparse in front of the door'......"

The Odate family is a genealogy of the Ashikaga family, and has been favored by the shogun for generations, and has served as the second public in the government, as well as serving the public for the fifth time. For example, Odate Katsumitsu's grandfather, Odate Shoji, was a famous cultural figure who was proficient in waka, renge, and keju, and his book "Okan Changxing Chronicles" is an important historical material for studying the structure and trends of the Muromachi shogunate. Although the glow of Tai Kwun is young, it also has a bit of a family tradition, and a poem by Bai Lotian is indeed very appropriate here.

Although I personally feel a little guilty about Yoshishu, I am representing the Oda family at this time, so I don't plan to lower my posture too much, especially when Odate Glow is still so high.

Odate-sama lost his words. Lord Yoshiei is not a usurper, but a public palace that has been officially proclaimed by the imperial court, forbidden to be granted and allowed to ascend to the throne. I corrected him.

"Is this what Oda Danmasa means? Is it the formal attitude of the Oda family? Ise asked, "So where will you place the Jiseiin Hall?" ”

"The family also deeply regrets this incident. However, on the question of the succession of the general, the imperial court had already made a decision. His Royal Highness Danzheng has always upheld loyalty, so naturally he cannot do anything that goes against the imperial court. I replied with a solemn face, but sighed in my heart. Since Nobunaga has confessed, I can only say this in the official face.

"The attitude of the Oda family is too irresponsible!" Listening to my words, Odate Glow asked angrily.

"Okay, His Royal Highness Xuanjing has come from afar, how about resting for a while?" Yoshimasa Renki, who already had a tacit understanding with me, hurriedly started a round. He turned his head to look at me, as if he was talking to me, but he vaguely reminded Ashikaga Yoshishu, "His Royal Highness Xuanjing is not an outsider, you can be casual, and you don't have to be too restrained." ”

"Yoshimasa is right," Ashikaga Yoshishu understood what he meant. This scene is indeed too formal, the two sides are bound by etiquette and positions, and there are many things that are not easy to say...... "Please ask Xuanjing to rest first, and you can arrange it." ”

"Yes." Matsui Yukan said.

That night, Yoshimasa Niki hosted a banquet for me at his residence, and Odate Glow and Tomohiro Matsui also came to accompany me. The four of them sat in a room with sake and a small amount of food in the middle.

"I'm so sorry! In the next day, the attitude is too intense. However, I have no dissatisfaction with His Royal Highness Xuanjing, please be aware of this! "Maybe I got instructions from Yi Zhou, and Okwan Glow apologized to me as soon as he came up.

"It's okay, Lord Okun is also out of loyalty to Lord Yizhou, so I can understand it." I nodded.

"It's rare for His Royal Highness Xuanjing to be so generous...... But is there really no room for redemption? "He still won't give up.

"It's also something that can't be helped. The name of Lord Yizhou, after all, can't compete with General Yirong, who was officially proclaimed by the imperial court. I sighed.

"According to Oda's surname, I will never stop like this, right?" Matsui said thoughtfully.

I looked at him, and he really deserved to be one of the "Mitsui" of the Oda family, and he was able to know Nobunaga to this extent.

"That's true," I thought about it for a while, and felt that there was nothing to hide, anyway, it was something that the high-level leaders of the Oda family knew, and it was about to be made public, "I can't hide it, His Royal Highness Danmasa has made up his mind, and is ready to unite with the Asakura family to support Echizen-sama Yoshiaki-sama......"

"How so!" Odate Glow stood up suddenly.

"Lord Yoshiaki is a descendant, and in terms of name, he can compete with General Yoshiei, who is a puppet of the Miyoshi family. Moreover, the imperial court also expressed its support for Lord Yoshiaki......"

"His Royal Highness Xuanjing is talking about the promotion of the imperial court to the Yiqiu rank in February? …… That's a problem. Yoshimasa Hitoki muttered. Thanks to Nobunaga's help, Yoshishu, like Yoshiaki, had his own resident envoy in Kyoto, who was responsible for liaising with the minister's family and reporting on the movements of the imperial court from time to time.

"Is there really no way?" Daguan Glow said hurriedly, "Do you want the Cisheng Temple to return to Luyuan Temple?" ”

"In terms of the following, I am very willing to do my part for Lord Yizhou. After all, it is under the first to welcome Lord Yizhou. My attitude seemed very sincere, "If you want to be a general, there is really no way." However, there may be ways to avoid becoming a monk again. ”

"I have heard for a long time that His Royal Highness Xuanjing is the wise general of the Oda family, and he really lives up to his name," Matsui Yuxian hurriedly praised me, "We are really helpless, and I ask His Highness Xuanjing for advice!" ”

"Don't you dare," I said humbly, and said the plan I had come up with after careful consideration, "I heard that General Yoshiei, Lord Yoshishu, and Lord Yoshiaki are actually from the Horikoshi Gongfang lineage?" ”

"Yes, the ninth generation of the Gongfang Palace has no heirs, so the position of the Gongfang is transferred to the first line of the Yoshisumi Gong, the son of the Horikoshi Gongfang, and the three are all after the Yoshicheng Gong." Odate Glow nodded.

In fact, there is also the tenth shogun Ashikaga Yoshisai in the middle. But Yoshisai is the one who competes with Yoshichu for the position of general, and it is Yoshiei's grandfather in terms of righteousness, Yoshiei's father Yoshiei was originally Yoshichun's second son, and was later adopted by Yoshisai as an adopted son, so Yoshiei inherited the position of general. It is also normal that Okan Glow does not mention the ten generations of generals.

"I also heard that the Horikoshi Gongfang family is now extinct?" I said again.

"Exactly. It is a pity that the two elder brothers of Yoshisumi died early because of the competition for the throne, and the younger brother succeeded the Oda family, so that the Horikoshi Gongfang died for two generations, which is really a pity......" Odate Glow sighed.

"Does His Royal Highness Xuanjing want Lord Yoshishu to return to the Horikoshi Princess?" Yukan Matsui understood what I meant.

"Oh...... This is indeed a way to go! Tai Kwun Glow said happily.

"It's just ......" Matsui Yukan, who first understood my plan, hesitated.

"Yes, the Horikoshi Gongfang is in accordance with the shogunate's arrangement, and the existence of the Furukawa Gongfang (formerly the Kamakura Gongfang) for control of the Kanto region, and now the Kanto-Tojo family is powerful, and even the Furukawa Gongfang has become a puppet of the Hojo family, and it is really very difficult for the Horikoshi Gongfang to make a difference...... Whether it is feasible or not depends on the meaning of Lord Yizhou! If Lord Yizhou is interested, he will do his best to promote this matter with his own meager strength, so as to take care of the morality of flattery. I voiced Matsui's concerns and left the choice to Ashikaga Yoshishu.

"Even so, after all, the Temple of the Holy House has an official name...... His Royal Highness Xuanjing is really worthy of being a person of faith! Okoun Glow exclaimed.

I smiled, there are moral reasons, but there are other considerations.

According to history, at the end of this year, the Takeda family will tear up the Koshojun alliance and make an agreement with the Tokugawa family to divide the Imagawa family, and then, under the pressure of his reclusive father Yasu, the Hojo clan broke off from his beloved wife and Shingen's eldest daughter, and sent troops to fight with the Takeda family, rescued his cousin and brother-in-law Imagawa Shima from the besieged Kakegawa Castle, and formed an alliance with Takeda's enemy, the Uesugi family of Echigo; In response, the Takeda family formed an alliance with the Hojo family's sworn enemies in the northern Kanto region, such as Satake and Liangtian, to deal with the two Etsusho families. However, the Hojo family controlled the Furukawa Gongfang, the Uesugi family was the Kanto governor, and completely occupied the name of righteousness, but the Takeda family and the Northern Kanto family did not have any signboards, and they could not coordinate at all, so the Takeda family had to admit it, and through Nobunaga and Yoshiaki, who had already been in Kamiraku at that time, they reached a peace with the Uesugi family in August of the following year, and then concentrated on fighting the Hojo family.

And my idea is to let the Takeda family serve the righteous week, get the right name, and fight with the Hojo family more durably and fiercely.

The strategy of the Takeda family was originally very realistic, that is, to constantly invade the periphery, with the expansion of the territory as the top priority, and the name and everything were floating clouds for his family. In April of the 7th year of the Great Eige reign (1527), the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu sent an envoy to convey to Takeda Nobutora a request to send troops to King Kamirakin, and on June 19, Uesugi Kenkan of Ueno, Shinano's Suwa Shrine Daijo Suwa clan, and Kiso Yoshimoto issued an order to help Shintora Kamiraku.

However, if it is too rigid, it is easy to break, and if it blindly relies on force, even if it is as heroic as a tiger, it cannot cope with the situation of enemies on all sides, and it is still bleeding from Shinano. For this reason, the later Xinhu began to improve his family's situation by marriage, and sought the support of his name. He married his eldest daughter to Imagawa Yoshimoto as the main room, married the third daughter You to the main room, married the daughter of the Ogiya Uesugi clan for Shintora, and actively moved closer to the shogunate and obtained the status of a judge; Later, through the Imagawa family, he married the prince of the court, and changed to Shingen to marry the daughter of the left minister [***] Sanjo Gong. Even if he was too eager to implement the integration of the domain (he eliminated many well-known Kai clans, and later Shingen inherited them with his own cronies, such as the Yama family inherited by Ishikeimasa and renamed the Baba family, and the Yama Prefecture family inherited by Satomi Masakai), he was still in contact with the shogunate and the minister. According to the record of "Yan Jiqing", when Xinhu was in Kyoto, he waited by Yoshihui's side for a while, and at the same time befriended the ministers such as Feitorii Yajiao and Wanli Xiaolu Weifang, and also married his young daughter to Juting Qingji. It was because of these actions that Shingen was able to obtain the high position of the four lower daizen doctors in the imperial court, and at the same time received the five three kirichi side tattoos from the shogunate.

As for Shingen, he must have been deeply touched to see his old rival Nagao Jinghu hugging Kanhaku Konoe Maehisa and Kanto Governor Uesugi Kenmasa, and actually gathering more than 100,000 Kwantung coalition troops to besiege Odawara!

In fact, Nagao Keitora attacked the Hojo family because the Hojo clan Yasu imprisoned the Furukawa Gongfang Ashikaga Haruhi clan (under the favor of General Yoshiharu), and abolished the eldest son of the Harushi clan Ashikaga Fuji (under the leadership of General Yoshiteru's early years), and set up his own sister, the Ashikaga Yoshiji (under the guidance of General Yoshiteru). That is, relying on the big tree of the Kanto Coalition Army, the Ashikaga Fuji clan captured the Furukawa Imperial Palace, chased down his younger brother Yoshi, and with the support of Satake, Satomi and other families, they nominally controlled most of the Kanto, as if they had the posture to revive the power of the Kanto Princess.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and as soon as Nagao Jinghu, who changed his name to Uesugi Masatora, left, Fuji immediately became a tragedy, and was driven out of the Furukawa Imperial Palace by the Hojo family, and disappeared at the same time as his younger brother Hui in the first two years...... In other words, there is now only one Ashikaga Yoshimasa Furukawa who is the puppet of the Hojo family in the entire Kanto, and there is also Ashikaga Tomasa who only has an identity but no name. At this time, if the Takeda family supports the Horikoshi Gongfang with the support of the shogunate, then the situation in the Kanto region will definitely be much more lively, at least the Hojo family will not be allowed to dominate, and the rest of the Kanto daimyo who have no name will be held down and beaten.

This is the first time that I am qualified to interfere in the general situation of the world, and whether I can do it depends on the decision of Ashikaga Yoshishu. Takeda Shingen is not a good man and a woman, and Yoshishu, as the successor of the Horikoshi Gongfang, will undoubtedly become a puppet signboard of the Takeda family if he goes to attach. However, the people of the Ashikaga family rely on signboards to support the façade, and if they lose their signboards, they are nothing; And without a signboard, he had to become a monk according to the family tradition...... So, I think Yi Zhou will definitely choose this plan.

If this is the result, Odate Glow as Yi Zhou's cousin, will naturally follow Yi Zhou, but the others are hard to say. They may have some loyalty to follow Yoshishu, but the most important thing should be for the position of the shogunate's center.

Before Odate Glow could finish speaking, I noticed a look of hesitation on Matsui's face.

"Master Youxian, is there a better idea?" I asked deliberately.

"This ......" Matsui Yu glanced at the glow of the Odate, "The poor monk is thinking, such a thing happened, but we didn't know about it before, so we could only sit here and wait for news, if it weren't for His Royal Highness Xuanjing, it is estimated that we would continue to be in the dark...... Therefore, the poor monk is willing to serve as a contemporaneous servant of the Oda family, so that he can communicate the news between the two parties, and when the time is right, he can also exert influence and contribute to the temple of the Holy Temple......"

(To be continued)