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"That's right...... Thank you for your hard work. Oda Nobunaga said lightly.

"Elder brother......" Asai Nagamasa looked at Oda Nobunaga and wanted to say something, but before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Oda Nobunaga.

"Nagamasa, I know what you want to say, and I also know that the Asai family and the Asakura family have a deep relationship, but I have already given the Asakura family too many opportunities. Asakura Yoshikage had ignored the general's edict since he was in Kamiraku, and he refused to come when the shogun succeeded to the throne, and now he refuses again. If the family has not fought for such disloyal and unrighteous ministers for the shogunate, then where is the authority of the shogunate? Where is the majesty of this family?! Oda Nobunaga looked at Asai Nagamasa and said in a deep voice.

"Brother Chen's ......" Hearing this, Asai Nagamasa lowered his head a little helplessly, he had long known that the Oda family's crusade against the Asakura family was something that could not be changed, but he still wanted to do his last effort.

Nodding, Oda Nobunaga looked at the somewhat lost Asai Nagamasa and said gently, "Nagamasa, I know that you must be uncomfortable in your heart, so in this war against the Asakura family, the Asai family doesn't need to go out." ”

In this regard, Asai Nagamasa naturally will not object, because even if Oda Nobunaga does not mention it, Asai Nagamasa will take the initiative to bring it up.

After Asai Nagamasa left, Oda Nobunaga immediately recruited Hosokawa Fujitaka.

"Fujitaka, are you still used to it during this time?" Oda Nobunaga asked with a smile.

"Thank you for your concern, my subordinates are completely used to it." Hosokawa Fujitaka said respectfully. For Hosokawa Fujitaka, Oda Nobunaga is very optimistic about it, not only after he joined the Oda family, he gave him the status of the elder of the family, but also rewarded him with a lot of money and family treasures.

The reason for this is also very simple, Hosokawa Fujitaka is a man of great talent, whether it is government affairs, diplomacy, strategy, or the waka tea ceremony, he is the best choice. And for talents, especially real talents, Oda Nobunaga will never be stingy with rewards.

Hearing this, Oda Nobunaga nodded and then said, "Now I give you a mission, go to Nijo Castle and ask His Royal Highness the General to issue a crusade against the Asakura family." ”

Speaking of which, since Ashikaga Yoshiaki softened his courtesy, Oda Nobunaga has secretly not relaxed his surveillance of him, but on the surface, it seems that the two sides have really returned to the initial honeymoon period. As long as there is something related to the shogunate, Oda Nobunaga will definitely take the initiative to inform and ask Ashikaga Yoshiaki's opinion before dealing with it. Of course, this is also because Ashikaga Yoshiaki is completely green all the way and fully cooperates with Oda Nobunaga's request.

"Yes!" Hosokawa Fujitaka didn't ask for a reason when he heard this, and in fact he didn't have anything to ask. After all, the grievances between the Asakura family and the Oda family, Hosokawa Fujitaka can be said to be quite well understood. And speaking of which, he himself was also very dissatisfied with the Asakura family, because the Asakura family ignored the orders of the shogunate many times. And if the Asakura family could serve Ashikaga Yoshiaki Kamiraku, although it may not be able to stop the Oda family from Kamiraku, at least, it is said that Ashikaga Yoshiaki will not be allowed to fall into such a field.

As for Oda Nobunaga's request, Ashikaga Yoshiaki did not have any doubts, but quickly wrote a crusade order and handed it to Hosokawa Fujitaka. It went so smoothly, but Hosokawa Fujitaka didn't expect it, but he didn't ask much, but helped Ashikaga Yoshiaki find a reason himself. Hawkers, it's similar to Hosokawa Fujitaka's reasons for being dissatisfied with the Asakura family, and in fact, Ashikaga Yoshiaki is really dissatisfied with the Asakura family.

After receiving the crusade order, Oda Nobunaga immediately gathered all his retainers in Gifu Castle.

"Ladies and gentlemen! The Asakura family ignored the summons of the shogunate many times, and was really a disloyal and unrighteous traitor. Now, His Royal Highness the General has issued an order to attack the Asakura family, so I have decided to officially declare war on the Asakura family! I want all the daimyo to know what will happen to those who disobey the shogunate and rebel against their own family! Oda Nobunaga stood up and said loudly.

"Whoa!!" Many of the retainers of the Oda family shouted excitedly, especially Shibata Katsuya and others, who had been waiting for this day for a very, very long time. After all, as pure samurai, when there is no war, they really don't have much opportunity to obtain meritorious deeds. Especially like Takigawa Kazuyi, these people are very anxious when they see Kinoshita Hideyoshi and others, who are good at government affairs, climbing up.

Nodding with satisfaction, Oda Nobunaga turned his head to look at Kinoshita Hideyoshi and asked in a deep voice, "Monkey, after all this time, have you thought of a way to take down Harima?" ”

Hearing this, everyone was immediately shocked, and most of them didn't know until now that Oda Nobunaga's goal had begun to play Harima's idea.

"Yes! The subordinates believed that they would use Akamatsu Masahide's forces to fight against Akamatsu Yoshisuke, and at the same time win over Harima's other wealthy clans, especially those who submitted to Akamatsu Yoshiyu. If it goes well, even if there is not a single soldier, the subordinates can take down Harima! Kinoshita Hideyoshi said in a deep voice.

In the past few days, he has been thinking about Harima almost every day, and he doesn't care about the Asakura family at all. But this is also normal, after all, with the strength of the Oda family now, attacking a small Asakura family is not easy to capture? For this reason, he also specially asked Sen Kecheng to investigate the specific situation of Harima, and went to Azuchi Academy to consult Qin Kui and others.

Hearing Kinoshita Hideyoshi's words, everyone couldn't help but look sideways, and even Oda Nobunaga looked at Kinoshita Hideyoshi in surprise. There's no way, whoever hears this will think he's bragging, right?

However, Oda Nobunaga didn't care at all whether Kinoshita Hideyoshi was bragging, "Very good! Monkey, if you can take down Harima, then you are the master of Harima Country! But if you can't take it, remember what I said to you at the beginning? Oda Nobunaga asked with a chuckle.

"Yes! If you can't take the harima, the monkey will go to the beach and kill himself! Kinoshita Hideyoshi said loudly.

"I can't imagine that without Shigeharu Takenaka, I robbed a bunch of credit, but this monkey is still going to rise......" Oda Yoshishi thought confidently. He didn't know what Kinoshita Hideyoshi could do to Harima, but he didn't care too much, after all, even if there was no such thing in history, the Akamatsu family would have surrendered to the Oda family in the near future. So, Oda Yoshinobu's only question was, "Why do you want to go to the beach?" Oda Yoshinobu wanted to ask this, but seeing Kinoshita Hideyoshi's serious expression, he finally held back.

Oda Yoshinobu just thought that Kinoshita Hideyoshi had risen after all, but others didn't think so. Whether it was Shibata Katsuie or Takigawa Kazuki and others, they all looked at Kinoshita Hideyoshi with eyes full of envy, jealousy and hatred. No way, although it sounds like Oda Nobunaga doesn't plan to give Kinoshita Hideyoshi any support, and Kinoshita Hideyoshi himself doesn't have too many troops, but after all, it's a promise from Harima!

You must know that among Oda Nobunaga's command, only Oda Yoshinobu was rewarded with a country's territory. Well? Matsudaira Ieyasu and Matsunaga show them? Well, strictly speaking, when they joined the Oda family, they already owned these territories.

Naturally, Oda Nobunaga didn't fail to see everyone's expressions, but he just nodded, and then said to Akechi Mitsuhide, "Mitsuhide, the situation on Tanba's side is not as good as Harima, but I hope you don't be compared to the monkeys." ”

"Yes!" Wise Mitsuhide replied in a deep voice, "My subordinates will definitely not live up to the trust of my lord!" Although he didn't say much, everyone could feel the confidence in his tone. After all, he was originally quite a talented person, and he was still a samurai favored by Saito Michizo. Although the situation on Tanba's side is indeed difficult to manage, Akechi Mitsuhide believes that with his ability, he will not lose to Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

"Nagahide, the old ministers of the Wakasa Takeda family are for you, and you lead them to take the country of Wakasa for me! After taking it, Wakasa is yours! Oda Nobunaga said to Niwa Nagahide again.

"Yes!" Niwa Nagahide replied respectfully.

Speaking of which, with Niwa Nagahide's qualifications, such a division doesn't seem right. After all, Kinoshita Hideyoshi's Harima country is fast 500,000 stones, and the wise Mitsuhide's Tanba country is also fast 300,000 stones. But what about Wakasa? It's only about 80,000 koku.

Based on the stone height alone, Niwa Nagahide's fiefdom seems to be too few. However, there are times when this kind of sub-envelope cannot be calculated in this way. The simplest reason, whether it is Akechi Mitsuhide or Kinoshita Hideyoshi, the target local forces they are responsible for are very strong, and God knows how long it will take to take them. And what about Wakasa? Now it's the territory of the Asakura family, and the Oda family is about to attack the Asakura family.

In other words, before this battle was fought, Niwa Nagahide got 80,000 koku's territory, not counting his territory in Omi and Yamashiro.

At this time, the retainers of Oda were no longer envious, jealous and hateful, and they all had fine eyes shining and looked at Oda Nobunaga with blazing eyes, hoping to hear their names from his mouth.

Unfortunately, Oda Nobunaga did not do what they wanted, but said in a deep voice, "The others immediately returned to the territory to mobilize, and assembled in Kyoto on April 8!" ”

"Yes!" Everyone responded respectfully.

Then, looking at everyone, Oda Nobunaga said again, "You can all rest assured! As long as you can show the corresponding talents, I, Oda Nobunaga, will not disappoint anyone! Singer! Shinsheng! It can be done! When the time comes, the three of you will be in the lead! ”

"Yes!"

Hearing Oda Nobunaga's words, everyone looked at Shibata Katsuya and the others with envy, the first formation, in the face of the declining Asakura family, it was simply to brush up on meritorious deeds. It's just that although they were envious, they didn't say much, because whether it was Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori or Mori Kosei, they were all old ministers of the Oda family. It is reasonable that there will be no one who will not open their eyes to this position. Belch...... Well, there is one exception.

"Brother! The younger brother should also be the vanguard! Yoshinobu Oda jumped out and said loudly. The younger brother feels that no one in the family is more suitable than the younger brother of the minister! As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Shibata Katsu Ai and said with a smile, "Lord Shibata, you just give me the opportunity~ After all, I'm a junior~ The seniors should let the juniors more." ”

Hearing Oda Yoshinobu's words, Shibata Katsuya and the others almost didn't pull out their knives to kill this shameless guy, but on the contrary, they really didn't have anything to refute. It's not that they really feel that they should give up the opportunity to the juniors, but because in the Oda family, if you want to talk about marching and fighting, who dares to say that they are better than Oda Yoshinobu?

It's just that Oda Nobunaga just sneered and said, "Yoshinobu, do you remember how much credit you have built for your family over the years?" ”

"Huh?" Hearing this, Oda Yoshinobu was stunned, and looked at Oda Nobunaga with some inexplicability and said, "Brother I don't remember." ”

"Humph! Of course you don't remember! Since the rise of this family, your kid has almost snatched most of the credit, and now you still want to take the credit?! Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly and said, "You kid still has the face to give you the opportunity, and the one who should give up the opportunity the most is you greedy guy!" In this battle, you kid will be in charge of the back! Do you think you can do it? ”

In the last sentence, Oda Nobunaga looked at everyone and asked, and for this question, the retainers of the Oda family obviously did not have any opinions and passed it unanimously.

"You bastards!" Seeing this, Oda Yoshinobu gritted his teeth and cursed, but unfortunately he only got everyone's laughter.

Well, it seems that from Oda Nobunaga to the many retainers below, no one has taken the Asakura family seriously. However, this is also normal, although the Asakura family is also a powerful force of more than 600,000 koku, but compared to the current Oda family...... Well, there's really nothing to compare to. After all, the Oda family today, whether it is Mino, Owari, or Ise, is not much higher than Echizen's stone. Not to mention that the Oda family is home to the richest and most populous region in Japan. Money, population, food, and even the number of samurai and weapons and equipment, etc., the Oda family is far more than the Asakura family, let me ask, why did the Asakura family fight the Oda family?

Looking at the passionate crowd, Oda Yoshinobu was unhappy on the surface, but his heart was still full of pride. After all, the Oda family can get to this point, and he has contributed a lot. Well, in fact, Oda Yoshinobu is just talking about it, and for him now, it doesn't matter if he has a fief or something.

After all, he is now sitting in Ise Province, which owns 600,000 koku, as well as the Jinguashi area of Ezo, Sado, Ryukyu and Takayama Province. With the exception of Ise Province, most of the other areas are undeveloped, but in terms of income alone, there is no one among the Oda family's retainers who can compare with him.

"Then again, this time, will that kid from Asai Nagamasa rebel?" Suddenly, Oda Yoshinobu thought of a very important question, but then he didn't bother to pay attention to it. Reason? It's very simple, "If that kid really dares to rebel, I must let him see what it means to be unparalleled in the world!" ”