Since the Battle of Mizen Pass on October 6 last year, the Takeda Army defeated the Hojo Army.

Only a month later, in November, Takeda Shingen once again led a large army from Kai.

In the last two battles, the Hojo family thought that Takeda Shingen was lost because of the loss of Suruga under the attack just now, but it was occupied by the Hojo family, so he would definitely return to the army to fight for the ownership of Suruga by the Hojo family.

Therefore, the Hojo family has always hoarded heavy troops in Suruga as a defense.

However, Takeda Shingen did the opposite, and did not send troops to Suruga, and did this kind of battle with the Hojo family, but instead attacked the empty ability of the Hojo family.

Once into Izu, once from Musashi to Odawara Castle, as if entering a no-man's land.

After seeing the strength of Shingen, in order to strengthen the defense of these two places, the Hojo family had to transfer the troops that Suruga and Enoe were preparing to meet to defend with their skills, which this time caused the defense of Suruga to be empty.

This time, Takeda Shingen really chose to attack Suruga and recapture the original Imagawa family's land Suruga.

Along the way, Shingen broke through Yokoyama Castle, Kamobara Castle, and Fukasawa Castle, and the Hojo Army was short of troops in Suruga, so it was a sweep.

On December 7, Takeda Shingen led a large army to besiege Sunpu Castle.

On December 13, the lord of Sunpu Castle, Okabe Masatsuna, surrendered to the Takeda family.

After that, Takeda Shingen ordered the capture of Shokei in Yamaguchi, the main road in and out of the western part of Surugawa, Hanazawa Castle, and Tokuishi Castle.

After the fall of the two castles, the Takeda family completed the suppression of the entire territory of Suruga Province.

Since the Suruga Province was defeated in December last year and the Imagawa family, it took the Takeda family a year to fight several battles with the Hojo family before the Suruga Province and the Enoe family were pacified.

After the Suruga Province was taken over by the Takeda family, Takeda Shingen was also officially ranked among the million-stone daimyo (this data does not include Li Xiaoyue's Nakahida territory).

At present, among the world's million-stone daimyos, in addition to the Takeda family, there are only four families: Oda, Hojo, and Mori.

Thirteen years of Yonglu.

It was also the first month of 1570 A.D.

At this time, the Takeda family was at its peak, and in order to celebrate the suppression of Suruga, a large-scale Noh drama and dance performance was held at the shrine near the Tsurugasakikan.

Under the cover of night, braziers were lit all around, illuminating the surrounding fields in red.

Armed with vermilion lacquer spears, the Takeda Gungun, standing tall and guarding the shrine on all sides.

In the middle of the shrine, on a high platform, a dance is being held.

On both sides of the high platform, more than 40 Takeda generals and ashigaru-level retainers were all bareheaded, with their hands folded on their knees, sitting on straw mats.

On the front of the raised platform, this is the best position.

Takeda Shingen was dressed in a hunting suit, wearing a folding black hat, and sitting on a horse in a formal suit, with a somewhat relaxed expression.

Behind him, there are more than a dozen veteran retainers of the Takeda family, such as Takeda Katsuyori, Takeda Nobuyo, Yama Yama Masaka, Baba Nobubo, Naito Masatyo, etc., and Li Xiao, who had just returned from Yuezhong, was also sitting beside Takeda Katsuyori.

Right now, everyone is watching this scene with all their attention.

On the high platform, dancers wearing dragon heads and small blue clothes with golden poles are performing dance music with their hands.

This dancer performed the Japanese court music, the Lanling King's entry song,

The Lanling King's entry song originated in the Northern Qi Dynasty of China, and was later introduced to Japan, which was used to express the appearance of the famous general Lanling King in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

It is said that the king of Lanling has to wear a hideous mask when fighting because his face is too soft and beautiful to threaten the enemy.

Later, in order to highlight the great victory of the Lanling King, this dance music was performed by a dancer wearing a mask to show the heroic posture of the Lanling King's finger stab.

The vivid performance of the dancers, as well as the tragic and majestic music, the momentum is extraordinary, simple and melodious, but it makes the hearts of the people present feel a little refreshed for a while.

Li Xiao, who was sitting on the side, also felt the momentum of the bloody battle of the Lanling King, it is said that this song has long been lost in China, but in Japan because of its secret collection of family heirlooms, it has been preserved from generation to generation, and there is still a bit of ancient style of this song.

It's a shame to think about it.

However, it is only fitting to use this song to show the joy of the Takeda family's victory in the battle of Mizen Pass in the capture of Suruga Province this time.

As the song gradually became excited, all the retainers of the Takeda family looked excited.

A dance is over. …,

Everyone is still unsatisfied.

Takeda Shingen got up and stood up, took the sword from the hand of the little surname, and slowly walked up to the high platform.

Everyone knew that Xin Xuan had something to say, so they silently waited for Xin Xuan's words and sat down to listen.

Xinxuan glanced at the retainers and said: "King Lanling, who was a famous general in the Northern Dynasty, was young and handsome, and he was a figure that I admired when Xinxuan was young, so I invited Kabuki from Kyoto to perform this song. ”

After a pause, Takeda Shingen said again: "The king of Lanling is outstanding, but he died at the age of thirty because of the suspicion of the monarch and the minister, since ancient times, there are not many famous generals who have been able to die well, and I Xinxuan has fifty this year, and he has fought all his life, killing countless people, I thought that he would die on the battlefield, but fortunately, the god of Hachiman Daming blessed me to this day, so that I am still here, but now it is time to think about what is behind me." ”

When the people heard the words of Xinxuan, they were all amazed.

And the generals of Yamayama, Baba, Naito, Takasaka, Akiyama, etc., who have followed Shingen for a long time and brought it up single-handedly, heard Shingen's words, and there were a little tears in their eyes, and a few people even reached out to wipe them in their eyes.

Takeda Shingen continued: "The eldest son, Yoshinobu, who rebelled and killed his father, was unrighteous and unbelieving, and I have been deposed as a son-in-law, and he is now dead. And Shiro Katsuyori, loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, filial piety, and outstanding martial arts, even Uesugi Kenshin was defeated in his hands, and made great contributions to the capture of Nishiueno by his family, it is the person entrusted by I believe that Xuanyi belongs to, and I think he will be able to inherit the foundation of the Takeda family in the future, do you have any objections? ”

Since the death of Yoshinobu Takeda, Katsuyori Takeda has become the most likely successor to the future governor of the Takeda family.

In the past five years, Takeda Shingen and all the retainers have been tested, and Katsuyori has performed very decently.

And hearing Takeda Shingen say this, among the old family seats, the most pleasing are naturally Li Xiao, Sanada Yutaka, and Takeda Shintoyo.

As for the integrity of Hoshina, Nobusada Kohata, and Okuma Asahi sitting below, they are also happy.

Now in the Takeda family, most of them have tacitly accepted Katsuri as the candidate for the future governor of the Takeda family, and a small number of people are unwilling to admit it at this moment.

And Takeda Shingen said this, which is equivalent to piercing the last layer of window paper, and no one will ruin everyone's interest at this time.

Therefore, as soon as Takeda Shingen's voice fell, all the retainers said: "We are willing to obey the orders of the lord." ”

Seeing that the retainers collectively expressed their attitude, Takeda Shingen nodded slowly and said, "Since everyone has no objections. Three years later, I believe that Gen will officially retire, give up the position of family governor, and let Katsuyori officially become the twentieth generation head of my Takeda family. Victory, you need to have the consciousness to take on the family business. ”

Takeda Katsuyori knelt under the high platform and said to Takeda Shingen, "Shiro will definitely live up to the trust of his father and all the retainers. ”

After that, the Takeda family held a small ceremony, and Takeda Shingen officially gave Takeda Katsuyori the position of Shinano guardian on his body, and Takeda Shingen still had Kai guardian, a position that had been carried by the Takeda family governor for generations.

In the end, Takeda Katsuyori also changed the Miao character from Suwa back to Takeda, confirming the position of the sister-in-law of the Takeda family.

After Takeda Katsuyori's son-in-law was confirmed, Takeda Shingen gathered all the retainers again in the main hall of the Tsugasaki Pavilion.

This time the matter discussed was more important than the matter of Takeda Katsuyori inheriting his son-in-law.

This time, there were more than 300 family ministers, all the family elders, and all the generals and retainers were present.

Takeda Shingen will decide on the genealogy of the Takeda family here.

This time, the lineage family elder is different from the ordinary family elder, after being selected, he can become the hereditary lineage of the Takeda family, and the security of the territory is regarded as the same public treatment, and he can become a joint judge with the right to deliberate.

He became the elder of the family of the pedigree, and there were retainers of the retainer Yamaprefecture Masakai, Kimino Baba Nobubo, Nishino Legion General Naito Masatyo, Kitashino Legion Takasaka Masanobu, Echichu Hida Legion Li Xiao, Attack Bomb Masamada Yukitaka, Minami Shinano Akiyama Nobutomo, Oyamada Nobushige, Anayama Nobuyo, Kiso Yoshimasa.

This total of ten people makes up the Takeda family's highest council.

As one of the Lian Judges, the Takeda family guarantees the hereditary seat of his family, for example, after Li Xiao retires in the future, Li Zheng will inherit the family governor, and he can replace Li Xiao to enter the Lian Judgment seat.

Even the judgment has considerable power, and in the case of full approval, it can even refute and influence the opinion of the head of the family.

And the sentence of the whole person signing the document is also equivalent to the order of the head of the family. …,

After hearing that he was selected for the Lian Judgment seat, Li Xiao was very surprised, this was a treatment he had never thought of, and the establishment of the Lian Judgment Seat by delegating power to Takeda Shinxuan was also something that had never happened in history.

But after being shocked, Li Xiao immediately thought that the so-called even judging people was just a vain name, and it was simply impossible for all the members of the ten-seat even judgment seat to pass the decision of changing the head of the family.

As long as one person is in unison with the head of the family, this is just a joke.

However, it is quite useful to judge the public in this way, and to give an identity treatment to foreign retainers like Li Xiao and Sanada Yutaka.

At the same time, the identity of the genealogy also adds another layer of protection to the security of Li Xiao's current territory.

And Li Xiao's seat in the Lian Juju is also much higher than he expected, the old man in the family like Baba Nobubo and Naito Masahiro is not as good as him, and even Takasaka Masanobu, who has a heavy army and is a good friend of Shingen, is also under him.

Li Xiao's seat is second only to Changjing in Shanxian County, and in addition to the others, he ranks second among all the elders of the Takeda family.

In this regard, Li Xiao inevitably expressed his 'sincere fear', and even hypocritically asked Xinxuan for his resignation.

Of course, Xin Xuan also refused as a matter of course, saying that Li Xiao was definitely competent.

In fact, everyone in the Takeda family, including Xinxuan, knows that with Li Xiao's current family background of 256 stones in Hida in Yuezhong, as well as tens of thousands of troops that can be mobilized at any time, it has become a terrifying combat force of the Takeda family.

Its strength is definitely ranked first among the retainers of the Takeda family.

If Takeda Shinxuan didn't follow Li Xiao here, Li Xiao would also feel dissatisfied ......with his current position.