The two children, the name Kichijomaru who stayed at the Kira family, and the name that was sent to the Kinoshita family was Treasure Maru. I chose the name, but it's actually a substitute. But since both of them asked me, I didn't shirk it.

These are two names with very strong Buddhist meanings, and I hope that the devotion to the Dharma in the hearts of all people will prevail over the blind obedience to legends. In addition to this, the two names have another meaning. The name of Kichijomaru is a blessing from me to him; Treasure Pill is my expectation for the Hideyoshi couple, hoping that they will cherish this child.

Because of this child, the relationship between the Kira family and the Kinoshita family became much closer.

At the end of June, Nobunaga and his retainers all moved to Komakiyama, but most of their families remained in Cheongshu. Nobunaga did not force some of the townspeople to relocate, but most of the merchants, especially those in military-related industries such as konya and blacksmith, were forcibly relocated to the designated area of Komakiyama Town.

The entire town of Komakiyama has a complete plan, which was roughly designed by Niwa Nagahide, and I also provided some advice. This was Nobunaga's first new castle, and the second was Azuchi, which was rumored to cost 1.1 million tsuki.

Overlooking the mountain castle, a wide road leads outward from the castle gate and leads straight through the castle town to the main road. On both sides of the road, a block of areas is demarcated, which houses handicrafts, commercial, residential, etc. The boundary between the areas is the latitude road in the town that is perpendicular to the chido. Almost all the townspeople were under arrangement, and they filled in the town of Komakiyama like predetermined parts, and then ran to serve Nobunaga's Inuyama strategy.

With Nobunaga's move to the city, the situation in all directions of the family immediately changed dramatically. As for Inuyama, when Nobunaga was forced to his doorstep like this, he immediately felt a huge threat. And the retainers who were matched also had a different kind of thought in their hearts. In November of that year, after the mediation of the two important ministers of Niwa Nagahide and Murai Sadakatsu, Nakajima Toyogo Mamoru of Oguchi Castle and Wada Sadatoshi of Kuroda Castle defected respectively, and Inuyama Castle was exposed to our side. At this time, there is basically no suspense about the outcome of the game.

However, in the direction of Nishimino, as Kinoshita Hideyoshi had predicted, we were under great pressure. In just three months, he asked me for reinforcements twice.

For the sake of the big picture, and partly for the sake of Treasure Maru, I sent troops on both occasions to assist Sumamata in resisting the attack from Nishimino.

As a result, I didn't do anything in Ise from May to August. Fortunately, the Kitabatake family is quite safe and didn't cause me any trouble.

At the end of September, the Kitabatake family finally moved. They crossed Mount Asakuma near Kongoshoji Temple and invaded the Kuki's house in Shima Province to the north, intending to clear the trouble behind them first. The total number of troops reached 5,000 people, and the commander was Kitabatake Gukyo's younger brother Kizo Gumasa.

As an opponent, the Shima Kingdom of the Nine Ghost Family only had 17,000 koku, and the army gathered was no more than 500 people. Not surprisingly, Nine Ghost Jialong quickly sent a messenger for help.

I wasn't as enthusiastic about them as I was with Hideyoshi. I instructed the messenger to tell the Nine Ghosts Jialong to try to hold the city as much as possible, and when I have deployed my forces, I will immediately rush to the aid of the Nine Ghosts.

However, for the next few days, I didn't do anything. During this period, the Nine Ghost Family sent a messenger again, and I perfunctory the excuse that I was sorting out the military situation.

Seeing this, the retainers could not sit still. On the tenth day, Hidekyo Kira and Naotora Ii jointly asked to meet.

"I'm surprised that you two are here together!" In the meeting room, I said with a smile.

"His Royal Highness Xiujing is the lord's brother, and there are some things that can be said directly; As for the following, the time to join the family is still short, and it is very idle at present, so I will take advantage of the leisure to visit. Naoka Ii smiled back.

But Xiujing's expression was very serious: "Brother, I had doubts last time, and this incident makes me even more worried. So there are some things that I have to say to my brother. ”

"Oh? What's the matter? I asked.

"My brother is a person who values friendship very much. I and my family are very impressed by this. But I hope that my brother can start from the overall situation and not use family affection to sway his own judgment. ”

"You mean, the matter of His Highness Hideyoshi and His Highness the Nine Ghosts, right?" I understood what he meant.

"Yes...... I think that the family should pay more attention to the Ise strategy, and there is no obligation on our side for His Royal Highness Hideyoshi. If my brother had taken special care of His Royal Highness Hideyoshi because of Treasure Pill, I would have rather abandoned that child earlier. Xiujing admonished me seriously.

"If that's the case, then you're too worried," I shook my head, "Reinforcement His Highness Hideyoshi, I admit that it is related to Treasure Pill, but more importantly, it is still for the sake of the overall situation. ”

"Then ask my brother for advice." Xiujing still insisted.

"Reinforcement of Hideyoshi is actually reinforcement of Nishimino. At present, this is the weakest point of the family, and if it is breached, then the whole situation will have to be reconsidered...... The main hall is very clear about this matter, and it is not without expectations for the family, so it is necessary to send reinforcements. In this way, not only will you win the trust of the main hall, but you will also win the family's right to speak on the issue of Seminon. ”

"What about the Nine Ghost Family? I know that my brother doesn't have a good impression of His Royal Highness the Nine Ghosts, but the current situation is really serious. Xiujing continued to ask.

"There's nothing wrong with the Nine Ghost Family," I said, "they're from the Navy. ”

"Born in the water army...... Brother is saying that their strength is far more than five hundred? Xiujing also understood.

"Yes, for them, they can't use territory to calculate troops," I nodded, "The Nine Ghost Family obviously has other considerations, and still hasn't given up on rebuilding the water army!" …… However, I would like them all to return to shore. ”

"In that case, I'm relieved." He nodded.

"But Xiujing, these things, you should have thought of them, right? When I helped Hideyoshi rush to build the Ink Mata, didn't you thank you for your reminder? I shook my head, "I don't have an obsession, but you have an obsession!" ”

"Yes...... I'm really sorry to disappoint my brother. Xiujing owes herself.

"You don't have to blame yourself, just understand it," I smiled and pointed at Jing Yi Naoto, "You see, His Royal Highness Naohu is much calmer than you." The rest of the family, even if they don't understand the overall situation, don't think so much about it. ”

"The lord is still so straightforward." Ii Naotora blinked and smiled softly.

Indeed, these words can only be put in the heart, not on the table. But for the two of you, it's okay......

In mid-October, seeing that the Kitabatake family's army had lost its sharpness and was deeply entangled in the Kukiya Castle, I led the whole army through Ise Bay, traced up the Miyagawa River, and invaded the Hokahata family's Tokai-gun, cutting off the back road of this army. At the same time, at my invitation, Atsushi Nagano Fujito, in the name of Nagano Guto, led his army across the Kumoide River to "support" the Kitabatake clan against the invading Kira clan's forces.

For the "support" army sent by the Nagano family, the Kitabatake family had a headache. They are clear about the relationship between Nagano Fujitsu and me, and when I send troops on the front foot, they send "reinforcements" on the back foot, and there must be a cat in them. But at present, the two are still nominally allies, and the nominal commander of the military is the son of Kitabatake Gukyo, so there is nothing to be picky about the name. As a result, the 6,000 troops that could have met our army and supported Kizokumasa became 3,000, and the remaining 3,000 men needed to "meet" the friendly forces of the Nagano family, lest they stab the empty interior of the Kitabatake family.

Three thousand troops thought about Miyagawa? No way!

Due to the suggestion of the Futaminaura trio, who are familiar with the geography of Minami-Ise, we are stationed in the area of Iwade Village. This is the only way to Shima (the modern Ise Expressway is here), and although Miyagawa is only 70 meters wide, more than 40 meters is deep water, and I can't get through it without a boat, and the nearby boats have long been cleared by me.

In the territory south of the Kitabatakeya Miyagawa, all the forces that can be mobilized have gone to Shima; Even if the forces in the north want to make a detour, because the upper reaches are full of mountains, they have to be exhausted to death if they climb mountains and mountains and wade through mountains and rivers. Downstream, the river is naturally more spacious.

That's how it is, every other stretch on the land there is a river that stretches into the sea. In Ise Province, for example, there is the Kiso River system, which is four kilometers wide from north to south, the Hibichi River that divides Kuwana and Hibenben Counties and Asaaki County, the Suzuka River that crosses Mie and Suzuka Counties, the Unide River that separates Ichishi-gun and serves as the boundary river between Kitabatake and Nagano, and the Sakudagawa, Miyagawa, and Isuzu River, which penetrate deep into the Kitabatake family......

These rivers of considerable length and width are so convenient for the water supply army to raid Ise.

Now that's it, because we control Miyagawa, the two sides are at a stalemate. During this period, the Kitabatake family tried once and temporarily set up some rafts, but the result was that the rafts fell apart and the people disappeared.

Knowing that the back road was cut off, the grain and grass were insufficient, and the morale of the wooden army plummeted, and it was almost impossible to capture Tiancheng. In desperation, Kitabatake Gukyo proposed peace to me through his relationship with Nagashima.

Considering the face of Ichimune and the difficulty of eliminating the wooden shogun, I agreed to negotiate a peace on the condition that Shima's wooden shogune was redeemed in cash, and the price was the same as that of the ashigaru, the samurai five kans, and the shogun's Hyakun. Kitada Gukyo agreed, he couldn't afford to lose these young men, although he didn't usually have to pay the ashigaru people at all, but at this time he had to spend 6,000 kan to redeem the remaining 4,000 people.

I divided the money into three parts. The nine ghost families worked hard and worked hard, and they got three thousand yuan; We have come from afar, and we have two thousand; The Nagano family went out for a parade once, and they got a thousand times. The Nagano family is naturally happy to laugh at this, and the Nine Ghost family can be regarded as roughly making up for the loss. And after gaining the great prestige of repelling the Kitabatake family, the rule of the Nine Ghost family over the territory was even more stable.

Although he was put on the table, the Nine Ghosts Jialong still came to Xiejiang City in person to express his gratitude to me for sending troops to help.

In a cordial and friendly atmosphere, the two sides held a harmonious meeting, during which I made an important speech and put forward several common understandings between the two sides, while Jiugui Jialong fully expressed his agreement and fondly recalled the deep "friendship" between the two countries since the establishment of diplomatic relations.

……，……

In November, Yu Kawa Nana gave birth to a son successively, named Keisaburo and Keijiro respectively. Since Nana was born to the sister-in-law of the Kira family, at the request of the retainers, I held a very formal celebration, and Nana held Keijiro and received a visit from the retainers alone in the evaluation room.

Then there are Buddhist temple prayers, blessings from monks, selection of nursing mothers, selection of auxiliaries, etc. The prayer at the Buddhist temple was supposed to be at my own Bodhi Temple, but it is impossible for me to go to Tosa right now, so I will do it at Hosenji Temple. The high monk blessed me and insisted that it be carried out by the monks of the Shingon sect on the grounds that the Kira family had been worshipping it for generations. For this reason, I sent someone to Haseji Temple in Yamato Province and invited a monk to honor him with a lot of money.

Hase-dera Temple is the headquarters of the Toyoyama sect of the Shingon sect, and the first ancestor of the Toyoyama sect of the Shingon sect. In the 12th year of Tensho, when Hideyoshi Hashiba attacked Kii Province, he was the head of the Nerai Temple, and he had great prestige among the Nerai people, who were as famous as the Saga people.

However, he is only thirty-three years old now, and certainly not so famous. And if I invite him by name, it will naturally improve his reputation, which can be regarded as a good fate in advance.

In the case of a nursing mother, the final choice was the main room of Hirano Nagaji, the adopted son of the Hirano family. The Hirano family is one of the fifteen parties of Tsushima, with a territory of less than 2,000 stones, and the head of the family, Kencho Hirano, serves as the slave of the Ohashi family; Hirano Nagaji is from the Funahashi Edama family, Hirano Nagaji's main room, is the daughter of Tsushima businessman Hotta Masadada, who gave birth to a daughter not long ago and is breastfeeding.

When she participated in the selection, she represented the friendship of the four families of Ohashi, Hirano, Funahashi and Hotta. I reciprocated by taking the third son of the Nagano family, Gonhei Saburo Hirano (Hirano Nagatai), who was less than five years old, to Kanie Castle and let him live with his mother. At the same time, as a milk brother, he has been booked as Keijiro's close attendant.

And Keisaburo's birth seems to have been ignored by the retainers. Not to mention comparing with his sister-in-law Keijiro, even compared with Xiao Xiasheng's eldest son Keitaro, the treatment is much worse.

As a lord, if you don't want to cause strife in your family, you can only acquiesce to this.

I'm very sorry for Yuga in this matter. She has always been very low-key at home, but she silently helps Cai Cai deal with most of the chores, and at the same time harmonizes the atmosphere at home, and can be said to be the hardest person in the north of the Crab River Castle Guard. Although her child was born before Keitaro, it could only be postponed to the third place, which was also a big grievance.

But Yujia had no complaints. She is a typical housewife, hardworking and obedient to her husband's family, and in her mind there is no word "resistance" at all, and she rarely thinks about herself. Sometimes, I try to find a unique surname from her, but all I can say is that she is a very considerate and trustworthy person. She was like a cedar tree in the countryside that had been trimmed very straight, cut and polished and used as a pillar. It may lack some twists and turns, but it is absolutely powerful and absolutely reassuring.

She basically didn't ask me for anything, and the only time she asked me to take care of Mitsu was on the day she volunteered to die. So I took full care of Yuka's wishes, and compensated Mitsu with all my gratitude and regret. The whole of Kanie Castle knows that my favorite is Mitsu.

The retainers didn't care much about this, and it was impossible for Mizu to inherit the family business, and no matter how much he liked it, there was no problem. Moreover, Mitsu is indeed a very cute child. The people she comes into contact with, from the dishes she is the hostess to the maids below, everyone likes her very much.

It's just that sometimes, seeing me and Mitsu being intimate, Konatsu will have some emotions.

"Does Your Highness want to wait for Mitsu to grow up and then marry her?" One night, she asked me this.

"How is this possible? How did you come up with such a strange idea? I asked, with a strange look on my face. Really, I'm not the perverted monkey, I said that I adopted the daughter of Ashi and the daughter of the Li family as adopted daughters, and then raised them into a side room and carried them to the tatami mats.

"It's a couple of maids talking about it," Natsu twisted my back, "maybe it's possible?" It's not biological, anyway. ”

"But her mother is my side room, so of course she's my daughter," I smiled, stroking Natsu's hair, "Really, you're the one who cares about these things, that's why you're worried about all these weird things." ”

"Does Your Highness want the concubine to be like Yu Jia and not care about anything? Hmph, that concubine can't do it. Anyway, the concubine is a wild girl who grew up in the mountains......"

"yes, I love it." I reached out and rubbed her breasts vigorously, causing her grumbling to turn into a soft moan. Soon, I felt that the ** in my hand became more firm. Then she took the initiative to wrap herself up, holding her hips for me to invade, and she met her.

After going in and out for a while, she suddenly twisted her waist, turned over and changed to it, and swayed like a water snake. I felt a tightness in her body, almost uncontrollable, followed by a continuous burst of pleasant stimulation to the peak.

"Sometimes...... The concubine was thinking, if ...... Well, if you stay in the mountains, Your Highness should be ...... The concubine is alone! ”

She lay limply on my chest, panting.