Chapter 474: Nobunaga's Head

In the third year of the Tensho year, on the fifth day of the seventh month.

It was more than a month after the Battle of Nagashino.

Kai, Tsugasaki Pavilion.

It's been a while since the building has been so lively.

This is not the largest, most participatory, and most solemn evaluation of the Takeda family, but it is definitely the most decisive.

It is unprecedented to agree on the governor of the family and decide the head of the Kai Genji clan.

The servants in the museum got up early in the morning, followed the road from Otemon to Honmaru, sprinkled the road with water, and cleaned it clean.

On the horse road, the elders of the family, the samurai retinue, the wealthy clans, and the heads of the country's families, each drove their horses straight to Honmaru.

Kai, a wealthy family of Shinano, stayed overnight in the town of Kofu and came to the main building the next day to participate in the assessment.

Even the local tycoons of Ueno, Suruga, and Enoe also arrived.

Kiso Fukushima Castle Lord Kiso Yoshimasa Kiso has arrived.

The lord of Suruga Koyama Castle, Okuma Ashide, has arrived.

Akiyama Nobuyo, who guards Minami Shinano, has arrived!

Even the old Takasaka Masanobu, the second seat of the family who has been in Kaizu Castle, has arrived!

However, in this evaluation, the most eye-catching people are not them.

In the corridor behind the main hall, Li Xiao was wearing a folding black hat, a hunting suit, and a saber hanging from his waist, walking in the present.

And his subordinate family Lao Dao Katsuto, the deputy general of the Hida Echichu Army, Maba Masafu, the military commissioner Shigeharu Takenaka, and the military adviser Honda Masanobu fell behind Li Xiao and took a step forward.

After that, it was Hideji Kano, Ariyama Torada, Shioka Kazuha, Tsuchiya Masatsune, Rui Costa, Yubi Usami Nami, and other general-level retainers in the latter step.

This large group of people walked majestically towards the main hall, which immediately attracted people's attention.

After coming to the main hall, the eyes of the retainers of the Takeda family present all looked at Li Xiao and his party, and when the last assessment was made, Xin Xuan was still alive, and Li Xiao was still the second retainer under Changjing in Shan County.

And this time, Li Xiao is already the head of the Takeda family, and he can be described as a very good minister.

It is related to the assessment of the ownership of the new family governor, and as the head of the family ministers, Li Xiao's opinion is very important and affects the attribution of the family governor.

And who Li Xiao will support this time, his decision will be pivotal.

Li Xiao took off his shoes, then held the sword in his hand, and strode into the hall, directly in the inner hall, which was slightly higher than the outer hall.

This distinction between the inner and outer sanctuaries is equivalent to the hierarchical division of the Tokugawa shogunate's main corridor, the large wide room, and the slippery room.

In the inner hall is the serving seat of the old Ge retainers of the family, and the outer hall is the serving seat of the general level and the head of the country whose territory is below ten thousand stones.

Li Xiao, Maba Changfang, and Shigeharu Takenaka walked straight into the inner hall, while the rest stayed in the outer hall.

In the inner hall, Takeda Nobuyo, Baba Nobuyo, and Sanada Masayuki have all arrived, and Li Xiao is the latest one.

But the so-called distinguished guests must come later, as the head of the pen family, if you wait for the position early, then there will be ** shares.

Although Li Xiao ignored so much red tape, under the persuasion of Honda Masanobu, he still felt that he had to put on a score, but he also grasped the time, only a little later than others.

In the inner sanctum, the left column is still a public seat, and the first one is still Takeda Nobuyo, followed by Kawaya Nobutomi, Kawaya Nobuyoshi (the son of Kawaya Nobutomi, but the successor of Shingen five male Matsuo Nobu is the family business), Takeda Nobutoyo, Mochizuki Shinnaga, Takeda Nobuyo, Ichichi Nobuturyu, Katsuyama Nobutaha and others.

On the right-hand side, the first hanging seat is followed by Takasaka Masanobu and Baba Masafu, while Sanada Masayuki ranks fourth among the retainers in one fell swoop, and is higher than the original Akiyama Nobutomo, Oyamada Nobushige, Anayama Nobuyo, Kiso Yoshimasa and others.

Of course, Sanada Masayuki's position has risen so quickly, and there is also Yamaguchi Masakai, and the reason why Naito Masatoyo and the two died in the Battle of Nagashino is among them. …,

After Li Xiao walked into the inner hall, he slowly walked to his position, and all the elders of the family turned around in their seats, bowing slightly.

Li Xiaoyi smiled and nodded, waiting to walk in front of Naito Masatsuki.

Naito Masatsuki looked happy, and said to Li Xiaoyan quite closely: "But Lord Mamori, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

Li Xiao remembered the years when he taught him marksmanship in Gaoyuan City, smiled, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Naito repair, work hard." ”

Yes, after the death of Naito Masatoyo, Naito Masatsuki inherited his official name in addition to his family name.

"Yes." Masatsuki Naito said loudly.

After greeting Naito Masatsuki, Li Xiao passed in front of Takasaka Masanobu, he glanced at the stacked seats in front of the seat, and then slowly sat on it with his legs together, while Takenaka Shigeharu and Baba Masabo sat in a row behind Li Xiao.

Li Xiao turned his head sideways, and all the retainers in the inner hall and outer hall were sitting quietly with bated breath, and everyone's faces were in front of him.

Li Xiao turned his head to look at the stacked seats in front of the Wind Forest Volcano Banner and the Suwa Dharma Helmet representing the Takeda family's governorship, thinking that this may be the so-called feeling of one person under ten thousand people, if you want to take another step forward, then ......

Just as Li Xiao was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the paper door on his side push.

Takeda Shintora, Nishina Morinobu, Takeda Shinshi, and Takeomaru came together.

The attendants placed four futons for them in front of the main seat, Takeda Shintora and Nishina Morinobu sat on the side of the futon of the Takeda family, while Takeda Shinshihiro and Takeomaru sat on the side of the retainers.

There are some clear barriers between the two sides.

It was the first time Li Xiao saw Takeda Xinhu, and he saw that the other party's beard and hair were all white, and he looked like an old dragon, but he was still very healthy mentally, his eyes were sharp, and he still had a sense of tiger style.

Takeda Shinhu was also the first to see it, and Li Xiao, who was sitting at the head of the retainer group, was obviously the first to know his identity.

The eyes of the two met together, and there was a bit of gunpowder smell.

However, Takeda Shintora immediately turned his gaze, and after sitting down on his seat, his eyes were closed, and his eyes were closed.

After the four of them arrived, all the servants and servants in the hall retreated.

The early morning sunlight shone through the closed paper sliding doors, and everyone was seated in their seats, staring at the key figures in the inner sanctum.

Takeda Noburu, who presided over the assessment, said directly to the point: "My lords, the first thing to be discussed in today's assessment is that the Oda family sent an envoy to ask us to return Nobunaga's head, and to return Nobunaga's son Kitabatake Nobuo, who was captured during the Nagashino War. ”

In Kawakami Mountain, Oda Nobunaga died, and Kitabatake Nobuo wanted to commit suicide, but in the end he hesitated, lost the opportunity, and was captured by the Takeda army.

So in this evaluation, how to deal with Nobunaga's head, Kitabatake Nobuo became the first topic of discussion.

The first to speak, Kawaya Nobuyoshi, he is the son of Shinhu, Shingen's half-brother, and he is also the chief general of the Takeda Army in this Nagashino battle, and the Takeda Army is guarding the rear of the Kite Nest Mountain.

In history, he should have died under Nagashino Castle because of Sakai Tadaji's sneak attack, but now, because of Li Xiao's arrangement in advance, he sent Yokotani Yukishige's ninjas to snipe Sakai Tadaji.

Therefore, Kawaya Nominee sat here unharmed, but instead kept the back road of the Takeda family, repelled the attack of the Oda Tokugawa army, and was unanimously praised as the cornerstone of the queen of the palace, known as the wisdom and bravery.

Kawaya said truthfully: "It seems that Nobunaga's son, what questions are there, since he was caught and killed directly, he will be the master of the memorial hall with his head." ”

Nobuyoshi Kawakashi, who inherited the Matsuo family from Nobuyo's son, echoed and said, "I heard that Nobunaga was cruel and made the skulls of the family governors of the Asai family and the Asakura family into sake cups, so we simply made a sake cup with the skull of his son." ”…,

Nobuyoshi laughed to himself after speaking, and several people on the side echoed and said, yes, Nobunaga is violent and rebellious, countless laws, and he also burned Mt. Hiei, such a retrograde person, made his skull into a wine cup, so it is cheaper for the other party.

"Don't do that," Nobubo said, who was at the head of Li Xiao, "Although Nobunaga is violent, he is the head of the Oda family after all, and disposing of his corpse like this will damage the martial name of my Takeda family, but it will be the unanimous anger of the Oda family, and give the other party the excuse to attack the family." ”

Then the Baba Nobubo said, "Lord Lord, the last order left behind is to make peace with the Oda family, and returning Nobunaga's head to the Oda family right now is a sign of our leniency." As for Kitabatake Nobuo, he is only a concubine, and killing him can't be shown, so he simply returned to the Oda family together with Nobunaga's head. ”

"I can't agree with Mino Baba."

A weak voice spoke.

Li Xiao turned his head to look, only to see that it was Naito Masatsuki who spoke up, and he refuted the opinion of the racecourse Nobufang, which made him a little lacking in confidence.

Takeda Nobuyoshi looked at it, frowned and said, "Naito repair, please speak up." ”

Naito Masatoyo grabbed his legs with five fingers, and plucked up the courage to say: "That's the case, my father died at the hands of Nobunaga, not only my father, but also Yama Prefecture, Tsuchiya, and Sanada-sama all died at the hands of the Oda army, if so, it would be too cheap to let go of Kitabatake Nobuo." ”

Naito Masato's words were reasonable, and Takeda Nobuyoshi couldn't help but nod when he heard it, seeing that the other retainers didn't speak again.

So Takeda Shin said, "Since this is the case, the discussion is over. ”

After a pause, he looked at Li Xiao and asked, "I don't know Li Dan Ma Shou about this matter, what do you think?" ”

Hearing Takeda Shinren pointing at Li Xiao, everyone in the hall looked at each other, and Takeda Shinto, who had been closing his eyes to recuperate, also opened his eyes and looked at Li Xiao with a shiny look.

In the sight of everyone, Li Xiao thought for a while, and said with an unhurried smile: "Everyone here should be a warrior, as a warrior, although they all want to prosper in martial arts, they also have the consciousness of dying on the battlefield when their martial arts are exhausted." If the head of the body is desecrated by the enemy after death, can you tolerate it? As the saying goes, don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, yes, Nobunaga made the head of the Asai Asakura family governor into a wine cup, but if we follow suit, wouldn't it be just like Nobunaga, so damaging to our martial reputation? ”

After Li Xiao finished speaking, all the retainers nodded one after another, and Heqi Xinshi and Heqi Xinjun all showed shame on their faces.

After a pause, Li Xiaoyan said: "As His Royal Highness Heqi said, although Nobunaga is violent and ignores Buddhism, it is undeniable that this person is a hero of the world, even if he is unwilling, he does not recognize our martial artists, and my Takeda family is a respectable opponent." Therefore, I agree with Mino Baba and return Nobunaga's head to the Oda family, just as Nobunaga returned the head of Yoshimoto to the Imagawa family. ”

As soon as Li Xiao's words fell, he saw Naito Masatsuki's appearance as if he wanted to speak and stopped, smiled and added: "Of course, Nobunaga's head cannot be returned in vain, and the Oda Army seized the head of our army's general, banner, horse seal, and armor must also be returned by them, and returned to the families of the fallen soldiers, so that they can pay tribute to the heroic souls." ”

Naito Masatsuki's face was overjoyed when he heard this, Nobunaga was dead, and if he could return Naito Masatsuki's lost flag and armor in the Oda army, it would be regarded as a modest contribution to his father.

"As for Nobuo Kitabatake,"

Li Xiao paused when he said this, Kitabatake Nobuo had a very low evaluation in history, set fire to Azuchi Castle, failed miserably when attacking Iga, and the battle of Komaki Nagakute put Tokugawa Ieyasu together to subdue Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and after the vassals refused to transfer the fief, they were deprived of their fiefdoms by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and all their efforts were in vain. …,

This series of actions are extremely stupid, the most important thing is that this person is an outsider in the war, but an expert in the civil war, as the vanguard of the Oda family's civil war, he forced his own brother Oda Nobutaka to death.

There is such a character in the Oda family, and he is simply a traitor to the Oda family, and the Takeda family is guilty.

Judging from his ambitions that are extremely incompatible with strength, intelligence, and appearance, after Nobunaga's death, he will inevitably have the consciousness of seizing power from the center of Oda Nobutada, and when the time comes, he can pose a threat to the clan whose current foundation is unstable.

And even if he kills Kitabatake Nobuo, Ise, who is in charge of Takigawa Kazuki, has a way to control the Kitabatake family.

"As for Nobuo Kitabatake, it's just an inconsequential person, let it go." Li Xiao finally said lightly.

Nobuo and Nobunaga's head were two things that made no sense, so he returned Nobunaga's head and killed Kitabatake Nobuo.

It is also impossible to make Nobunaga's head into a wine glass, but he put Kitabatake Nobuo again.

"I agree with Li Dan Ma Shou's opinion." Sanada Masayuki was the first to echo.

"I'm in favor of it too." Machang Xinfang also nodded, obviously Li Xiao said what was in his heart, very satisfied.

Takeda Nobuyoshi saw that Nobushige Koyamada was noncommittal, but it didn't matter.

Among the five elders of Takeda Katsuraitogu, three of them are already in favor of this matter, so it doesn't matter if Nobushige Oyamada's opinion is there, not to mention that Nobuyoshi Takeda is also inclined to this decision in his heart.

"In that case, return Nobunaga's head to the Oda family, and Kitabatake Nobuo will also return it to the Oda family, and at the same time ask the Oda family for the return of the heads of the fallen samurai of my Takeda family, armor, weapons, and banners."

"Oh~!"

The retainers of the Takeda family supported the ground with their hands in unison, kneeling down to accept the decision.

After that, Takeda Shinren paused and said, "Next, discuss the inheritance of the governor of this family!" ”

As soon as Takeda Nobuyo's voice fell, Takeda Shintoka, who was old, stood up directly and said, "I have something to say!" ”

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