A woman's intuition is very sensitive, and when Yumi Kohata saw Li Xiao silently, she immediately didn't continue to ask.

At this moment, a samurai ran upstairs and said, "My lord, Your Highness Suwa, there is a secret letter delivered. ”

This samurai is Yokotani Yukiyo, the younger brother of the leader of the Azuma ninja leader Yokotani Yukishige, and his ninjutsu and assassination skills are very powerful, so Li Xiao gave him the status of a samurai and left him close to him, specializing in intelligence information.

After receiving Yokotani Yukiyoshi's letter, at first Li Xiao thought that Takeda Katsuyori had something urgent, and then opened it and took a look, and the entire Takeda Katsuyori was complaining and complaining.

The letter was written by Takeda Katsuyori before he left Matsuyama Castle, Li Xiao looked at it and smiled, the reason for the matter was very simple.

It turned out that after Li Xiao left, the structure of Takeda Katsuyori's retainers group had undergone major changes.

With his qualifications, generals, and official positions, Okuma Asahide deservedly became the pen of Takeda Katsuyori's direct retainers. Big Bear Chaoxiu's temper, Li Xiao has always known, the fighter in the rooster, the poisonous tongue in the poisonous tongue.

When Li Xiao was here, he could still suppress Daxiong Chaoxiu, but now that Li Xiao is gone, Takeda Katsuyori can only hand over most of the military and government affairs to Daxiong Chaoxiu.

And the bad temper of the big bear Asahi broke out, and he didn't dare to confront Takeda Katsuyori now, but because of the dispute over affairs, he scolded other retainers, Sanada Masayuki, the Hoshina brothers, Akiyama Masatada, Akiyama kinhisa, Abe Sosada and others were all scolded by him to the point of blood.

So the retainers had a lot of opinions about Daxiong Chaoxiu, so Takeda Katsuyori wrote a letter and asked Li Xiao how to deal with it.

Li Xiao shook his head when he saw this, Da Xiong Chaoxiu's temper is really enough, with him like this, he will never be able to become a major minister that Takeda Shenglai really relies on.

Okuma Asahide is a usable talent, and there is no need to question his loyalty to Takeda Katsuyori, when the Takeda family called Haksaiyama, Anayama Nobuyumi, Kiso Yoshimasa, and Koyamada Nobushige a series of important ministers abandoned the Takeda family, but he stayed and died with Takeda Katsuyori.

Li Xiao thought about it and immediately put pen to paper, and decided to reply to Takeda Katsuyori.

Li Xiao didn't have a pen, so he had to write a letter by himself, the letter meant that Daxiong Chaoxiu's loyalty is unquestionable, and his temper Your Highness you also know, the current situation is not so much the fault of Daxiong Chaoxiu, but rather that Your Highness you can't know how to make good use of people.

Put the big bear Chaoxiu in this inappropriate position.

Da Xiong Chaoxiu is talented, but he can't handle interpersonal affairs, and the task of specific scheduling and coordination is handed over to him, so he can only mess up. Therefore, the only way to ask Katsuyori Takeda to remove him from his position and replace him with someone else.

As for changing anyone, Li Xiao thought about it, but in fact, there was only one answer, but this answer was unwilling for Li Xiao.

This candidate is only Yutaka Sanada.

Sanada Yutaka's talent is not under Yamamoto Kansuke, there is no doubt about this, and regardless of seniority, prestige can overpower the big bear Asahide, and the words and orders of the big bear Asahide have to listen, and it is just right for him to serve as the pen head retainer of Takeda Katsuyori.

And others, such as Kohata Kenshige and Takeda Nobutoyo, are far inferior to Sanada Yutaka in these points.

However, Li Xiao did not want Sanada Yutaka to become the retainer of Takeda Katsuyori, if after Sanada Masayuki, Sanada Yutaka re-entered the central decision-making power of Takeda Katsuyori, then the influence of the Sanada family on Takeda Katsuyori in the future will reach a crucial point.

The relationship between the retainers and the lord is usually reciprocal, but there are also retainers who are overly dependent on the lord, or the lord is overly dependent on the retainer.

The former is normal, and if the latter appears, then it will be terrible for the lord.

Not only that, but at present, for Li Xiao, this is also related to who can become the first minister of the Takeda family in the future between Li Xiao and the Sanada family after Takeda Katsuyori officially took charge of the Takeda family!

Because of the exploits of the capture of Azuma County and the great merits of the Battle of Iwabu Castle, Sanada Masayuki was promoted to the rank of general by Takeda Katsuyori and led Azuma County to 3,000 kokugao.

Sanada Masashi is only sixteen years old, and he has reached the position of standing on the same running line with Li Xiao. And what's even more terrifying is the Sanada family behind Sanada Masayuki.

In terms of strength, the Sanada family wants money, grain, and territory. In terms of talent reserves, there are many elites in the retainer group.

Sanada Yutaka and Sanada Masayuki father and son are talents who have passed through heaven and earth, and Sanada Nobutsuna and Sanada Masaaki are also pillars. And Sanada Yutaka's younger brother Yazawa Raisuna, Yazawa Raikang's family, and later the lessons of the Hojo family will tell you how strong the two of them are.

In the end, not counting Sanada Masayuki's two sons who have not yet been launched, Sanada Nobuyuki, and Sanada Nobuyoshi, the first strong soldier in this book.

Looking at the strength of the Sanada family, it is currently beyond Li Xiao's reach.

If it continues, the Sanada family can only be the only one, even if Takeda Katsuyori trusts Li Xiao again, but the Sanada family still needs to make decisions about family affairs. At that time, Li Xiao can only be overwhelmed by the Sanada family forever.

Now it is a foregone conclusion that Sanada Yutaka will become the head of Takeda Katsuyori's pen retainer.

It is conceivable that the reason why he didn't come forward before was to wait for Takeda Katsuyori to follow the example of Sangu Thatched House and personally go to Matsuo Castle to invite him out of the mountain and rectify the endgame.

This old fox, thinking of this, Li Xiao scolded secretly.

Sanada Yutaka's every step of the plan, calculation, he knows it, but he is helpless.

This is where the strength is there, forcing Takeda Katsuyori to give in.

After Li Xiao wrote the letter, he ordered Yokotani Yukiyoshi to send it, walked to the pane and looked at the heavy snow outside the window.

After he left Takeda Katsuyori, Sanada Yutaka became the first retainer under the command of Takeda Katsuyori, and if he can't improve his strength now, then he can only cheapen the Sanada family's old and young foxes in the end.

Although he currently has a good relationship with Sanada Masayuki, there is always a conflict of interest in the political situation, and even a day when he turns his face.

If there is such a day, I will either have to swallow my anger, or I will be squeezed to the edge of Takeda's house, or the well water will not interfere with the river water, and guard my own one-third of an acre.

Li Xiao took a heavy breath, closed the pane heavily, and took this step today, there was no way back, but to walk down with his head held high.

Hida country, Hida country.

Take you as the first step for me Li Xiao to build a foundation in the future.

Li Xiao looked at Yumi Kohata, who was sitting on the side, and suddenly said, "Yumi, are you willing to marry me Li Xiao?" ”

"What?" Yumi Kohata was shocked, "My lord, what are you talking about?" ”

Li Xiao repeated, and said: "Yes, Yumi, I am proposing to you, in our Ming Kingdom, when a boy likes a girl and wants to be with him for the rest of his life, he has to carry out a marriage proposal ceremony?" And I, Li Xiao, am proposing to you. ”

Yumi Kohata listened and took a step back.

And Li Xiao had a lot of thoughts in his heart, and his proposal to Yumi Kohata was to break Takeda Shingen's concerns about himself.

The reason why he has not been able to win the trust of Takeda Shingen is that he is a foreigner, he has no fetters in the Takeda family, no wife and children, and it is easy to be recruited by other families and be betrayed when the time comes.

According to common sense, Takeda Shingen will personally designate a child of a Takeda family official to Li Xiao as his wife. Then the two families became in-laws, so that Li Xiao strengthened the ties of the Takeda family, and his wife, or son born in the future, was taken as a hostage.

But Li Xiao didn't want to be like this, as a modern person, how could he accept such a marriage that he had never seen before.

Although Yumi Kohata is not a famous family, and her family has declined, she is always a descendant of the samurai family, and more importantly, she likes her.

And that's enough.

If you don't have enough strength, you can fight for it on your own, and there is no need to get it through marriage.

Li Xiao made up her mind and looked at Yumi Kohata waiting for her final decision.

(To be continued)