When the world changes, there are always a few happy and a few sad.

Towards the end of the seventh year of Tensho, heavy snow fell in Kyoto.

The sky and the earth are vast, and the snow is fluttering in the sky over Kyoto, which is full of quaintness, and the people of Ning feel very quiet.

"I can't get tired of seeing the snow in Kyoto!"

When everything was lonely, Uji Riverside, Yushiba Hideyoshi led the horse and said this with emotion.

As soon as the seal is completed, the major names have their own joys and disgraces.

The Ashikaga shogunate, the new samurai regime represented by the three positions and seven heads, has begun to carry out the shogunate.

The rest of the daimyo who have nothing to do can also return to their respective fiefdoms, but for most people, Kyoto is a good place, and the joy of having a fief is enough to sustain them through a warm winter in Kyoto.

However, for Hashiba Hideyoshi at this moment, Kyoto is a sad place.

In the past, he had Harima Province, Kita Omi, and one-third of Tajima Province, and controlled 500,000 stone dominance, the commander of the Oda family's Sanyodo Army, and the fierce generals and strategists under his command, and Hashiba Hideyoshi, who had tens of thousands of troops.

Now there is only a lord of 2,000 stones, and the retinue of the body is only Ishida Mitsunari, Kato Mitsuyasu, Asano Nagamasa, these lonely three.

And the rest of the retainers, samurai, and even those who were close to the side, were sent away by Hashiba Hideyoshi.

When they first heard the news of the closure, the samurai of Hashiba Hideyoshi were all intent on rebelling and appealing, but the Maori and Takeda factions had already prepared.

The two families sent troops in advance to surround it, the samurai residence in Kyoto of Hashiba Hideyoshi. Anyone who comes out with a weapon will be killed.

Under this, Hideyoshi Hashiba stopped the reckless behavior of his subordinates.

Although many of these samurai of the Yushiba family are still willing to cut their own Yulu to follow Yushiba Hideyoshi, but Yushiba Hideyoshi can't even give them one-tenth of the original Yulu.

They can only be allowed to disperse themselves.

And the Li family and the Maori family on both sides of the bidding code to compete for the Yuchai family, a group of courtiers and warriors.

Because of the deep hatred of the Maori family's treachery, many of the Yuchai family are powerful retainers. all took refuge in Li Xiao's side.

For example, Kuroda Nagamasa, Horio Yoshiharu, Yamauchi Kazutoyo, Nakamura Kazushi, Miyabe Jirun, Hirano Nagayasu, Takenori Yakuya and others under the command of Yushiba Hideyoshi are all from the Li family.

And the Maori family harvested Kuroda Nagamasa's father, the military teacher Kuroda Takataka, and Konishi Yukinaga.

There are also stubborn people like Bee Suka Koroku. refused to go out of the Maoli, either side of the Li family, and returned to Meinong's hometown by himself.

"Let's go!"

In this environment, Hideyoshi, who has always been optimistic, is also a little lonely.

And then the sound of rumbling horses' hooves behind him sounded.

Mitsuyasu Kato, Nagamasa Asano. Ishida Mitsunari and the three of them listened, looked at each other and subconsciously pressed the handle of the knife.

Hashiba Hideyoshi shook his head and turned his head, but saw that in the middle of the wind and snow, more than thirty samurai dressed in white coats galloped over.

Among the knights. The first two turned out to be Li Xiao, as well as Yushiba Hideyoshi's younger brother, Yushiba Hidecho.

Seeing this scene, Hashiba Hideyoshi almost had tears in his eyes, but in the pride of a warrior.

He straightened up.

Drink!

More than thirty horsemen dismounted in front of Hideyoshi Hashiba.

Li Xiao walked over first. He lowered his head and looked at Yushiba Hideyoshi, looked at the other party, smiled slightly, and said unceremoniously: "Lord Chikuzen Mamoru, do you regret it today?" ”

Yushiba Hideyoshi raised his head and said stubbornly: "Your Highness Oyama, Your Excellency killed the next two lords, above righteousness. Even today, I never regret my choice. ”

Li Xiao laughed when he heard this, and said, "Lord Chikuzen Shou, he is still so stubborn at this time. ”

Yushiba Hideyoshi looked at Li Xiao and said, "Your Highness Oyama, my monkey is so downtrodden today, but everything was planned by Your Excellency?" ”…,

Li Xiao replied briskly: "Exactly." ”

As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, Kato Kiyomasa, Asano Nagamasa, and Ishida Sansei were all angry, and they all wanted to draw their swords.

And Li Xiao's side was close, Shigang Yiyu saw it, and immediately made a move to surround Yuchai Hideyoshi and his party.

When the two sides were tense, there was a rather piercing laugh from Yushiba Hideyoshi on the side of the Uji River.

Li Xiao stretched out his hand to stop, signaling Shigang Yiyu not to block in front of him, and asked, "Lord Chikuzen Shou, why are you laughing?" ”

Yushiba Hideyoshi looked at Li Xiao and said confidently: "It turns out that His Royal Highness Oyama has always been jealous of me. ”

Li Xiao said with a smile: "Lord Chikuzen Shou, think too highly of yourself, I gave Your Excellency two opportunities to serve my Li family, but Your Excellency disappointed my kindness and turned to Maoli. ”

"Now the reduction of your fiefdom is a punishment."

Listening to Li Xiao's words, Yushiba Hideyoshi did not change his smile, and asked directly: "Then when I returned to Mino after I went to the Takeda family, I was assassinated by ninjas halfway, I am afraid that His Highness Oyama instructed the ninjas to do it." ”

Li Xiao was slightly stunned when he heard this, and immediately admitted: "Yes, I did this very secretly, and I don't know how to judge it." ”

Yuchai Hideyoshi said: "It's not that I see it, it's the right palace that is broken. ”

Oda Nobunaga's eyes showed a little sadness, and he said: "No, the right palace was cultivated in the past, how can there be my monkey today, the kindness of the lord, I can't repay it in my life!" ”

Li Xiao listened and nodded, Yushiba Hideyoshi didn't need to be fake at the moment, for Oda Nobunaga, there was really a love of monarchy and courtiers.

People are not plants and trees, but they can be ruthless.

Looking at Yushiba Hideyoshi at this moment, Li Xiao couldn't help but think of Takeda Shingen, Takeda Katsuyori.

"Lord Chikuzen Shou, I, Li Xiao Chen, invite Your Excellency to go out of the house, Zhixing, well, how about 50,000 stones?" Li Xiao said loudly.

"Fifty thousand stones?"

Ishida Mitsunari and Kato Kiyomasa both gasped.

This number, with the status of Hashiba Hideyoshi in the past, was not too much, but now it is a charcoal in the snow.

Yushiba Hideyoshi looked at Li Xiao and said, "His Highness Oyama." Your Excellency has a lot of talents, I'm afraid you don't need me as a monkey. Hey, I really don't know why His Highness Oyama has always valued him so much. ”

Do you want me to say, you are the Fengtai Pavilion in history?

Li Xiao shook his head and said, "Talent is easy to obtain, but there is only one Yuchai Hideyoshi in the world, do you understand?" ”

When Yushiba Hideyoshi heard this, he couldn't help but show gratitude, and said, "I can get such a compliment from His Royal Highness Oyama." I am really fortunate to have three lives. ”

Speaking of this, Yushiba Hideyoshi thought for a moment and said: "I have been disappointed again and again before I go down, His Royal Highness Oyama's kindness, His Royal Highness can be so tolerant, it can be seen that he is a lord with a tolerance for people." ”

"But this time, please allow your Majesty's insistence, not because of stubbornness, but because I think Your Highness has the assistance of Koichiro. Ten times better than me. ”

"Elder brother." Hashiba Shu took a step forward.

Yushiba Hideyoshi looked at Yushiba Hidecho and said with relief: "Koichiro, the wisest decision your eldest brother and I made at the beginning was to let you go out of His Highness Shioyama, your brothers will divide the Takeda, and the Oda family will make a plan to divide the peaches." Isn't that exactly what happened? It's a pity that in the end, the Oda family's martial arts luck was not good. ”

"Koichiro, listen, His Highness Oyama is a magnanimous and accomplished king, and you have to serve hard. The family name of the Yuchai family will be inherited and carried forward by you in the future, so that my life's struggle also has a goal of sustenance. ”

"Oh!"

Yu Chai Xiu said loudly, "Brother, I have written down everything you said. ”

"Toranosuke, Sakichi." …,

"Yes."

Hideyoshi Hashiba pointed at the two men. He said to Yu Chai Xiu: "They are cultivated by me, one is brave, the other is politically strategic, in my opinion, they are all world-ruling talents who can become a 100,000-stone daimyo." ”

"It's a pity that they followed me, so I'll ask you now, let them go out of the Shiyu Chai family and glorify the name of the family."

"My lord! His Majesty would rather cut his stomach. "Kiyomasa Kato, Ishida Mitsunari are all tears in their eyes.

"Bastard!" Hashiba Hideyoshi scolded. "This is my younger brother Koichiro, from him, it is equivalent to from me Hideyoshi himself, is there anything dissatisfied?"

"Do you still want to follow me, stay in Harima in obscurity for the rest of your life, and end up in the wilderness and mountains?"

Yushiba Hideyoshi looked angry and scolded angrily: "You know, you are all from a civilian background like me, if you don't work ten times harder than others, how will you get ahead in the future?" ”

"You follow Koichiro to work hard, and let the world know that even if you are from a humble background, as long as you have a dream, work hard, and persevere, you can still achieve great things, dominate a city, a country, and even the world! Looking at His Royal Highness Oyama, he came out of Takeda as a Ming country, and today he has become a great name of a million stones, he is your best example! ”

"My unfinished dream, I'll leave it to you and Koichiro to do it together!"

Speaking of this, Yushiba Hideyoshi also turned his back and wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.

Kato Kiyomasa and Ishida Mitsunari also couldn't cry.

"I'm leaving, otherwise the wind and snow will get worse in a while, and I really want to rush home to see Ah Ning, or my mother," Hashiba Hideyoshi said with a sigh, "Thank you, Your Highness Oyama, for coming to see you off in the snow, I am very grateful for this hospitality, and I want to let go of my martial arts identity, hoping to be a friend with Your Excellency, so I say goodbye." ”

"There will be a date later." Li Xiao replied immediately.

Hashiba Hidenaga, Kato Kiyomasa, Ishida Mitsunari are all in tears, and after Hashiba Hideyoshi gets on the horse, he and Asano Nagamasa's back disappear in the wind and snow.

The horse's hooves tread the snow, leaving behind two long hoof prints.

Hideyoshi Hashiba and Nagamasa Asano rode side by side.

Hideyoshi Hashiba raised his horsewhip, pointed ahead to Asano Nagamasa, and said, "Last night I had a dream that after Yamazaki defeated Akechi, I took over the world, and Jin was located in Sekihaku-sama, and in the direction of Osaka in front of me, I built a castle that was not inferior to Azuchi Castle. ”

"At that time, I was standing on the castle tower of Osaka Castle and looking out, and the whole world was crawling under my feet."

Listening to Hideyoshi Hashiba's longing look, and riding Asano Nagamasa, he couldn't help but laugh, with a bit of ridicule.

Yushiba Hideyoshi also laughed a few times and said: "After I woke up, I realized that it was just a dream, and the situation in Osaka was like a dream within a dream!" ”

"It's good not to wake up for the rest of your life."

The laughter of the two gradually came, and a larger snowstorm instantly covered the horseshoe prints on the road. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )