After Takeda Shingen returned to the army, he did not go directly to Takeda Hachiman Palace, and paid homage to the Hachiman Damyojin as usual, with no armor for the imperial flag and shield.

Takeda Shingen first led a group of generals, and first went to the tomb of the two elders of the Takeda family, Ganli Hutai and Itagaki Nobukata.

This time, Li Xiao and Sanada Masayuki flooded the Azuma River with the method of warfare, ambushed Murakami's Yoshikiyoshi team, and shot Murakami Yoshikiyo. Although he didn't ask for his head, it was a great achievement to kill Yoshikiyoshi Murakami. It was enough for Takeda Shingen to blood in Ueda Castle, the shame of Toishi's defeat in two battles, and to comfort thousands of Takeda soldiers who died in battle.

Ganli Hutai and Itagaki Nobukata were both important ministers at the beginning of Takeda Shingengang's succession, and their important surnames to the Takeda family were no less than the current Iitomi Husho and Baba Nobubo.

It's a pity that both of them died at the hands of Murakami Yoshikiyo in the first battle of Ueda Castle.

After Takeda Shingen led the generals to worship the second general, he went to Takeda Hachiman Palace, and finally led the army back to the Tsugasaki Pavilion and directly set up a banquet to reward the generals.

During the banquet, Takeda Katsuyori was naturally the target of the generals' congratulations, and Takeda Yoshinobu also changed his normal behavior and actually congratulated Takeda Katsuyori, but he couldn't see it at all, at least not the slightest jealousy on the surface.

This made Li Xiao feel like he had fallen through his glasses.

It is impossible for a weasel to suddenly change his taste to be vegetarian, so this weasel must not have a good heart for the New Year.

At the banquet, many of the elders of the Takeda family, seeing that Takeda Katsuyori was young and had great military achievements, they all moved their minds to marry Takeda Katsuyori with their daughters, and planned how to tell Takeda Shingen.

However, some people mentioned here that the Owari Oda family had sent an envoy to ask Takeda Katsuyori to marry the Oda family in order to bring the two families closer.

Only then did everyone remember that they were left in the Takeda Family Hotel in the cold, and the Oda family came.

For the Takeda family, the Oda family was like a nouveau riche at that time, and it was not from the Genji family, but it was obviously a descendant of the priests, but they regarded themselves as the descendants of the Hengwu Taira clan. And the governor of the Oda family, Oda Nobunaga, who was originally called the big fool of Owari, didn't know what shit he stepped on and killed Imagawa Yoshimoto in the stab.

The Takeda family only paid a little attention to the Oda family at this point, but the Oda family had just unified the entire territory of Owari at this time, and regardless of the family style, the strength was not as good as the Takeda family at this time.

This is also why the Takeda family does not attach great importance to the Oda family.

As for Takeda Katsuyori's marriage, it is not for him to consider, all of this must be decided by Takeda Shingen.

After all, the Oda family is now in a hostile state with the Imagawa family, and if the Takeda family and the Oda family marry at this time, it is likely to affect the alliance between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family.

Therefore, Takeda Yoshinobu, including the ** on his side, and many important ministers of the spectrum, resolutely stood up to Takeda Shingen to express their opposition.

Weighing the weight of the Oda Tokugawa Alliance and the Imagawa family in the Takeda family's strategy and diplomacy, there is no need to discuss, this result is self-evident in Takeda Shingen's heart.

The next day, Takeda Shingen personally met with the Oda family's envoy, Oda Sabusuke Tadahiro, reaffirmed the alliance between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family, and rejected Oda Nobunaga's proposal for marriage.

So the envoys of the Oda family stayed at the Takeda house for more than a month and returned in vain.

However, this result is also expected for Li Xiao, historically, the alliance between the Oda family and the Takeda family was not formally established until after Takeda Yoshinobu rebelled. Now for the two families, it is just a test of each other, and they don't even have the most basic sincerity.

But Li Xiao also saw another hole card of Takeda Yoshinobu, and the Takeda family attached great importance to the alliance with the Imagawa family.

Takeda Yoshinobu's wife, Yu Jinya, is the sister of the current head of the Imagawa family, the Imagawa clan. If Takeda Shingen wants to abolish the heir in the future, it is likely to lead to the collapse of the alliance between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family.

At present, the Takeda family is fully focused on the grand strategy of Echigo, so ensuring a harmonious relationship with the Imagawa family can prevent the Takeda family from being attacked on both sides. The Triple Alliance was still in the honeymoon period at that time, and the iron bucket was not broken.

Marriage is a good condition for political bargaining chips, and if Takeda Katsuyori wants to strengthen his strength as soon as possible, it is very important to choose his wife.

According to Li Xiao's expectations, if Takeda Katsuyori can marry Mrs. Hojo in advance, this will greatly consolidate his position in the Takeda family, and when he competes for the throne with Takeda Yoshinobu in the future, Takeda Katsuyori will also have the Hojo family behind him.

After a few days of Hapi in the Higasaki Pavilion.

Takeda Katsuyori returned to Shinano Takato Castle with a group of his retainers. At present, Li Xiao has also returned to Gaoyuan City, ready to pack his luggage, and move to Antan County in a dozen days. However, Takeda Katsuyori kept the samurai house where Li Xiao lived in Takato Castle so that Li Xiao could come back to live.

After Li Xiao went home, the first thing she visited was Yuzhen Kohata, in the past few months, she can be said to have made great contributions to the Mingguo ramen restaurant opened by Li Xiao, although the ramen sold by the Mingguo ramen restaurant is super expensive per bowl (can a bowl be sold for one or two hundred RMB), but it is still like a cloud of customers every day.

Later, Li Xiao also took the opportunity to launch the so-called VIP system, such as VIP cards, reward cards, and after paying how much money is paid at a time, you can get a consumption card that can be discounted by 10%.

In this way, the Mingguo ramen restaurant has a group of loyal customers who come to consume.

Li Xiao also did not forget his former colleagues, such as Sanada Masayuki, Dakuma Ashide, Baba Masafu, Hoshina Brothers, etc., Takeda Katsuyori's subordinates at the rank of Ashigaru General or above, and got one person.

Of course, Li Xiao also won a good reputation among his colleagues and brought the relationship between Takeda Katsuyori's retainers closer.

In fact, the income of the Mingguo ramen restaurant has not decreased, but has increased a lot.

According to the current estimate, Li Xiao's annual income in the Mingguo ramen restaurant can be increased from the original expectation of 1,800 guan a year to 2,500 guan a year, which is simply a gold absorption.

After deducting the annual expenditure of 1,500 kan for Yokotani Yukishige and his wife Shinobu, he is also rich 1,000 kan.

And Li Xiao's current salary is 1,000 guan, which together is a total of 2,000 guan. This money is enough for Li Xiao to recruit a team of hundreds of horsemen.

Before Li Xiao entered the Mingguo ramen restaurant, the fragrance of ramen could be smelled from a long distance, which made Li Xiao's index finger move suddenly.

Looking at the Chinese characters of the Daimyung Kingdom Ramen Country on the banner, the curtain in front of the store is painted with the logo of the Maruno Li character.

Since Li Xiao does not have a family crest for the time being, the so-called Maruno Li was created by Kohata Yuzhen temporarily, that is, a big white circle on the outside, and a Li character is painted on the inside.

However, it was not only the samurai who used the family crest, but also the shops of the big merchants at that time, and in the Edo period, the use of the family crest became more widespread, not to mention the samurai, but also the general craftsmen and farmers.

After lifting the curtain and walking into the ramen restaurant.

Li Xiao saw that there were six or seven tables in the store, and there were about twenty or thirty customers, who were sweating profusely eating ramen.

Li Xiao saw Yuzhen Kohata who was busy at a glance, and saw that she was wearing a kitchen skirt, dressed as a chef, holding a wooden spoon in one hand, and stepping on a wooden ladder from the second floor.

Yuzhen Kohata looked at Li Xiao standing outside the door, and the two made eye contact.

Yuzhen Kohata was stunned for a moment.

She seemed to be excited and couldn't help herself, dropped the wooden spoon, ran to Li Xiao, and hugged Li Xiao tightly with both hands.

Li Xiao didn't expect Yuzhen Kohata to have such an aggressive performance, he hasn't seen him for two months, this is too unexpected and enthusiastic.

However, Li Xiao felt the two soft places on the other side in front of him, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart, is this little girl eating papaya all day long? It's only so old, and it's so well developed.

Yuzhen Kohata let go of Li Xiao, with bright tears on his face, and said: "Li Xiao, I thought that you and your sister would not be able to come back in Ueno Country this time, and so many people in the Echigo Army besieged you there, how worried I am, do you know?" ”

Li Xiao laughed, patted her head, and said, "Didn't I come back alive?" ”

Seeing that everyone in the store saw that Li Xiao and Kohata Yuzhen were intimate, Kohata Yuzhen suddenly blushed, turned around and ran up the stairs to the second floor.

Li Xiao smiled, and saw that the business in the store was very prosperous, which made him very happy, it was time to increase the salary of Xiaohata Yuzhen.

Li Xiao secretly planned to do so in his heart.

At this time, outside the Meikoku ramen restaurant, a samurai directly under Li Xiao came to report and said, "Kinoshita Toyoshiro, a samurai of the Oda family, has come to visit your lord, and is now waiting at the samurai house. ”

Kinoshita Toyoshiro!

When Li Xiao heard this name, his body shook, and he directly burst out a sentence that no one present could understand.

oh，mygod！