Chapter 621: Assessment

After a night of consulting with Oda Yoshinobu, three days later, Oda Nobunaga gathered all his retainers to hold an assessment at Gifu Castle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

In the evaluation, Oda Nobunaga first praised Kinoshita Hideyoshi, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Murai Sadakatsu, and even gave them a territory of 20,000 stone each. Subsequently, he praised Oda Yoshinobu again.

"This kid is richer than me, but I can't say it if I don't reward you, huh...... In this way, Kii Province and Shikoku will be yours. Oda Nobunaga said.

"What's the difference between this Nima and no reward?!" Oda Yoshishi thought in disbelief in his heart. But he can't help it, in fact, everyone doesn't think it's strange not to reward Oda Yoshinobu, after all, Oda Yoshinobu's current status in the Oda family is very special.

To put it simply, the second person under Oda Nobunaga is said to be a retainer, but obviously he has a higher status than all the retainers, and even those who are not in the family can compare with Oda Yoshinobu's status. Perhaps, Ashikaga Yoshiaki's position as a deputy general is quite similar to that of Oda Yoshinobu, deputy governor?

Well, although no one says so, it is actually more or less the same. It can be said that if Oda Yoshinobu asked other retainers to do something without Oda Nobunaga's order, I am afraid that even if they hesitated, as long as Oda Yoshinobu forcibly asked for it, they would do it.

Subsequently, Oda Nobunaga announced a new appointment.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi was stationed at Katryuji Castle, Maeda Toshiie and Sasa Narumasa remained in the territory of Kawachi Province, and Ikeda Tsuneko was stationed at Kawachi Kuni-Ei Castle. The rest, such as Akechi Mitsuhide and Shibata Katsuie, returned to their respective territories and carried out armaments while defending against enemy attacks.

At the same time, Oda Nobunaga asked Matsudaira Ieyasu to find out the true situation of the Kiyoshi Imagawa family as soon as possible, and if possible, try to persuade the Imagawa family to surrender. Although the strength of the Imagawa family is not in the eyes of the Oda family today, there is no doubt that the Imagawa family still has this great use value even when the dominance of Toe and Suruga is in extreme decline now.

To put it simply, if the Imagawa family can be subjugated, then the Oda family will be able to complete their complete domination of Enoe in an instant. And if it is to conquer by force, look at Shinano, it is only in recent years that Takeda Shingen has truly achieved complete domination of Shinano.

This is not because of the opposition of the people to the new ruler, but because of the wealthy families of the domain. Their attitude determined whether the new ruler would be able to rule the land smoothly. And that's why Oda Nobunaga attacked Mino in the first place with Saito Michizo's Rangkoku. Because only with this thing can those beautiful wealthy families have no reason to rebel. At the same time, it also gave Oda Nobunaga a very good reason to suppress those oppositionists.

And without these, it is very difficult to rule a territory in one fell swoop. Although Oda Yoshinobu seemed to have a simple attack on Ise, in fact, it would have been difficult for Oda Yoshinobu to gain a firm foothold in Ise if it had not been for Oda Yoshinobu's lightning-fast defeat of the Ise coalition army, and at the same time completely exterminated several wealthy clans to make an example of chickens and monkeys, and coerced them into offering hostages.

But even so, Oda Yoshinobu had to complete his rule over Ise through succession with the powerful wealthy families of Ise. And strictly speaking, if it weren't for Kitada Gukyo's voluntary submission in the end, the time for Oda Yoshinobu to capture Ise would have to be pushed back for a while.

Therefore, Oda Nobunaga was still more inclined to persuade surrender than to conquer by force. And in Oda Nobunaga's opinion, now is also the best opportunity to persuade the Imagawa family to surrender. However, although Oda Nobunaga's reasons were enough to convince everyone, Oda Yoshinobu was not included in this all.

"Cut, I think you just want to satisfy your perverted psychology!" Yoshinobu Oda said so with Toshiie Maeda and others. In his opinion, if the Imagawa family can subdue the Oda family, Oda Nobunaga will definitely be very happy, after all, he and his father's generation have a lot of hatred with the Imagawa family. Is there anything in this world that is cooler to kill the enemy? Of course there is, that is, the enemy will be a cow and a horse for you in order to survive.

However, it is obvious that Oda Nobunaga only replied very simply to Oda Yoshinobu's words, "Get out of here!!" ”

Well, it was obviously impossible to get Oda Yoshinobu to roll back to Ise, because just after the evaluation of the day, Oda Nobunaga held a grand funeral for Mori Kosei. In fact, the most important reason why Oda Nobunaga recruited everyone back was so that they could all attend Mori's funeral. Even Oda Nobunaga specially invited a senior monk from Kyoto to preside over the funeral.

Speaking of which, it seems that this has surpassed Sen Kecheng's status. After all, although he was an important minister of the Oda family, he didn't say anything about it. You must know that in this era, there are strict standards for the scale of funerals. But Oda Nobunaga did just that, because he felt that Mori was worthy of the treatment.

"I have been born and died in my family for more than ten years, and I can be said to be my right-hand man...... Although he is now dead, his eldest son, Kotaka Mori, has inherited his father's legacy......" Oda Nobunaga said to all his retainers at the funeral.

To summarize briefly, it is that Senko has established a lot of credit, and now it is inherited by Senkolon, and everyone takes care of it. At the same time, it is also to tell everyone that as long as you can make a contribution to his satisfaction, then he Oda Nobunaga will definitely not treat you badly.

After the funeral, Oda Yoshinobu was pulled by Oda Nobunaga again.

"What are you going to do with those people?" Oda Nobunaga asked with a serious expression.

"Who?" Oda Yoshinobu glanced at Oda Nobunaga suspiciously, and then reacted, "Those guys from the Sect? I haven't thought about it yet. Tsk, 100,000 people, it's not easy to deal with. Oda Yoshinobu scratched his head and said, although history has given Oda Yoshinobu an answer, but that answer is obviously not what Oda Yoshinobu wants.

After all, that's 100,000 people anyway! If so many people were killed, even Oda Yoshinobu, a guy who had hacked a piece of people to death in the first battle, would not dare to imagine such a thing.

"That's right......," Oda Nobunaga replied when he heard this, and then said solemnly, "No matter how you deal with it, you must remember that you can't let this group of people have a second chance to raise an army!" ”

"Of course." Oda Yoshinobu nodded when he heard this, and then patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, they won't have a second chance!" ”