Takeda Katsurai, Li Xiao now wants to guess what Takeda Shingen is thinking. In his thoughts, the fate of Takeda Yoshinobu and Takeda Katsuyori was reversed.

Will Takeda Shingen abolish Takeda Yoshinobu because of this?

I saw Takeda Shingen ponder for a while, and said, "Who else knows about this matter except for the two of you?" ”

As soon as Li Xiao heard Takeda Shingen's words, he understood Takeda Shingen's thoughts.

Takeda Katsuyori spoke: "No third person knows, we don't dare to leak a word." ”

Takeda Shingen nodded and said, "This matter is over, do you understand?" ”

Takeda Katsuyori was surprised when he heard this, but Li Xiao took a step forward and preemptively said: "Yes, my lord, His Royal Highness Katsuyori and his subordinates are absolutely tight-lipped. ”

Takeda Shingen turned around, and the guards around him were all understanding, and retreated out of the range where they couldn't hear a few people talking.

Li Xiao also wanted to retire together, but was signaled by Takeda Shingen to stay.

Takeda Shingen said to Takeda Katsuyori: "Yoshinobu disappointed me this time, but after all, he is the son of the Takeda family, the son of Takeda Shingen, I grew up watching, he made mistakes, and I am also responsible." ”

After a pause, Takeda Shingen said again: "I have thought very clearly on the way to Iwajijo, whether Yoshinobu is connected to Uesugi or not, I Shingen has been busy with the war all these years and has not fulfilled the responsibility of being a father's teacher, and Mrs. is too doting on Yoshinobu, no matter what, it is for the sake of Mrs. Madame's face, so I will give Yoshinobu a chance." But they will also beat him well, if he makes a second similar mistake. I will not tolerate mercy. ”

In an ordinary family, if the eldest son makes a mistake, the father can beat and scold, but Takeda Yoshinobu is the heir of the Takeda family.

If he is deprived of his throne, he will either be imprisoned for the rest of his life, or commit suicide, and only then can he become a monk. In history, who failed to win the heir, which one has a good end, if Takeda Yoshinobu is abolished, this is no different from killing him with his own hands.

Therefore, even if Takeda Shingen considers it from the perspective of family affection, it is not so easy to make this decision.

Li Xiao heard Takeda Shingen say this, and sighed silently, sure enough, he still couldn't bring down Takeda Yoshinobu on this basis.

For the time being, even if family affection is not considered, according to the primogeniture system, many retainers now regard Takeda Yoshinobu as Takeda Shingen's future successor.

There are many retainers who have invested in him politically, or gambled their lives on him, and there are also some retainers who abide by righteousness, but they just feel that the name of righteousness is there, and the order of inheritance cannot be easily changed.

In this way, if Takeda Shingen wants to abolish the heir, it will undoubtedly be difficult. At the beginning, Takeda Shintora wanted to abolish Takeda Shingen's throne, but instead he was exiled to Suruga by his retainers, and he ate this guest meal at his grandson's house for 20 years.

Therefore, Takeda Shingen has learned from this past, and he will undoubtedly be a lot more cautious.

And this letter is not visible for the time being, after all, the Takeda family has just decided to start a war with the Echigo army, and the incident of the eldest son of the eldest son of Echigo happened here, which is a great blow to the morale of the Takeda family.

What's more, Li Xiaodang said that if it weren't for the urgency of the matter, he would not have ordered Yokotani Yushige to send the letter so early.

Such key evidence should be saved for the fatal blow, and if it is not absolutely fatal, you must keep the good card in your hand.

Just like in the struggle of officialdom, the characters who are usually said to be on top have unlimited scenery, once something big happens, all the evidence of the crime is thirty or forty, or even hundreds, and most of them are not fabricated, so such a big man will fall down in the end, and there will be no place to turn over.

Doesn't all this evidence exist? Not really, it's just that his political enemies are tightly clenched in their hands, waiting for his weakest moment.

Slowly slashing people with a blunt knife is very painful but not fatal, only a quick knife to cut the mess is once and for all.

With this letter, it is not impossible to overthrow Takeda Yoshinobu at present, but it is not very certain, in fact, as Li Xiao expected, Takeda Shingen did not make up his mind to abolish Takeda Yoshinobu.

But now Li Xiao has to do this, Takeda Katsuyori and his situation are already in trouble in Azuma County, but without Shinxuan's reinforcements, there will be no hope of survival.

And Takeda Shingen's plan at that time was undoubtedly two, one was to send troops from Kawanaka Island to the first line of Chunyu Mountain City, use you to kill me a big dragon, I will kill you a big dragon, you attack one city, I will attack you two, in exchange, if you can surround Wei and save Zhao, let Uesugi Kenshin withdraw the army is of course the best, but this hope is very low.

The second Shingen led an army to rescue Iwaku, but this move was risky for Takeda Shingen, and at that time, Uesugi Kenshin gathered an army of 17,000 and besieged the small land of Iwakujo Castle, and I am afraid that most people would not have hope and sent troops to the rescue.

If reinforcements do not arrive and Iwaki Castle falls ahead of schedule, then the morale of the Takeda army will undoubtedly be frustrated.

If Uesugi Kenshin returns to face the Takeda army with a victorious army. At that time, Takeda Shingen will be in a dilemma of whether or not to conduct a decisive battle.

Therefore, there are only two to let Takeda Shingen send troops to Iwajicheng, one Iwajicheng must be able to hold out until his reinforcements arrive, and Eryanjicheng is valuable enough for him to save.

For Li Xiao, the purpose of sending this letter is to use the way of stepping on Takeda Yoshinobu to increase Takeda Katsuyori's bargaining chips in Takeda Shingen's mind.

You must know that in addition to being brave and good at fighting, Takeda Katsuyori is a blood relative of Takeda Shingen's son, and he is also the second heir to the Takeda family, although he does not have the surname Takeda.

Because in the case of the first heir in line to hang up, it is common for the original descendants of other families to return to take charge of their own family. For example, in the original history, Sanada Masayuki succeeded the Muto family after Motofu, named Muto Kibei.

Later, his two brothers, Sanada Nobutsuna and Sanada Masaaki, died in the battle of Nagashino, and he abandoned the surname Muto and changed back to his original surname Sanada, officially taking charge of the Sanada family.

If Takeda Yoshinobu really can even do the thing of colluding with the Uesugi family, Takeda Shingen must consider re-establishing the heir, even if it is not abolished for the time being, there must be a way back.

In this way, the important surname of Takeda Katsuyori has been greatly improved, you must know that in addition to Takeda Yoshinobu and Takeda Katsuyori, the second son of Takeda Shingen is blind, the third son died early, and the fifth son Nishina Morinobu is young, in fact, Takeda Shingen has no candidate for the third heir for the time being.

If Takeda Katsuyori dies again, the governor of the Takeda family will not only pass on his surname, but will also be no immediate family. Historically, when Takeda Yoshinobu was deposed, Takeda Shingen even considered his son-in-law Anayama Nobuyoshi to inherit the Takeda family's succession.

Therefore, Li Xiao sent this letter while attacking Takeda Yoshinobu, and aggravated Takeda Katsuyori's status in Takeda Shingen's heart.

At least one of the reasons why Takeda Shingen came to save Iwakujo Castle can be added to the inheritance of the Takeda family's future succession to ensure that Takeda Katsuyori does not die.

But it's a shame to play this good card so early without killing Yoshinobu Takeda.

Therefore, Li Xiaocai asked Yokotani Yukige to delay for a day before sending it, if it was Li Xiao, Sanada Masayuki would be able to successfully rescue Takeda Katsuyori, and he was leading the army to jump out of the encirclement of Uesugi Kenshin.

Then Yokotani Yukishige doesn't have to make such a trip.

This good card can also be left in the hand, both for the fatal blow to Takeda Yoshinobu, or as a kind of blackmail, to exchange some kind of benefit with Takeda Yoshinobu for greater benefits.

It's impossible to say for sure.

This is the experience that Li Xiao gained from reading YY's novels at the starting point in college.

But it's okay if you don't kill Yoshinobu Takeda right now.

As Li Xiao said to Takeda Katsuyori before, this kind of thing is like climbing a mountain with a heavy load, sailing against the current, and doing difficult things against the common way.

It's not so easy to achieve it overnight, if you don't have a good mentality and stick to the end, it's easy to capsize halfway.

Li Xiao guessed that with Takeda Yoshinobu being so restless and open-minded, he would have a handle to catch him in the future.

Li Xiao peeked at it, and saw that Takeda Katsuyori seemed to be a little unbalanced in his heart, and he thought that it was a sure thing to bring down Takeda Yoshinobu this time.

Takeda Shingen looked at Takeda Katsuyori and said, "Katsuyori, Yoshinobu I have been disappointed in him, so you have to work hard and work hard in Ueno, understand?" ”

Takeda Katsuyori immediately perked up and bowed down on the spot and said, "Father, Katsuyori will definitely live up to your expectations." ”

Takeda Shingen nodded in satisfaction, and then returned to the castle tower with his people to rest.

Watching Takeda Shingen go away.

Li Xiao said to Takeda Katsuyori on the side: "Your Royal Highness, you are one step closer to the future governor of the Takeda family. ”