On October 18 of the second year of Koji, the young lord of the Hojo clan, the Hojo clan, entered Odawara Castle.

The next day, the governor of the Hojo family, Yasu, lived in seclusion, and his son-in-law, the Hojo clan, ascended the throne.

In the evening of the same day, Hojo Shiyasu was seppuku at Odawara Castle.

He left a farewell poem of "Autumn は来つ, cicada がなくなっ, empty clothes self の, 身の上に着よ", and warned the Hojo clan to "must not be enemies with the two people of Nagao Terutora and Sasa Narimasa".

On October 20, the surrender ceremony of the Go-Hojo clan was officially held outside Odawara Castle.

That night, a celebration banquet hosted by the Kanto Governor Uesugi Kenmasa, undertaken by the Echigo Nagao family, and assisted by the Kanto Clanhao was held in Odawara Castle Honmaru.

But at the banquet that night, he was absent from the biggest contributor to the Hojo crusade, Sasa Narimasa.

Where did Chengzheng go?

It wasn't until the banquet was about to end that Sasa Narumasa entered Odawara Castle. Later, a farmer's uncle said that Sasa Narimasa had a secret meeting with the Imagawa family's Taiyuan Yukisai in the Hakone Mountains, but the reason for this meeting, and what kind of agreement Sasa Narimasa and Taiyuan Yukisai reached between the two protagonists of the meeting, have become an unsolved mystery in Japanese historiography for hundreds of years.

To paraphrase a fixed sentence...... Here's what happened:

On the morning of the 20th, Sasa Naimasa and Ii Naotora set off from the coalition camp early and entered the Hakone Mountain Road in a circle.

When I entered Mt. Hakone for more than ten miles, and when I reached the west side of the canyon, it suddenly became clear to me that on the foothills of the right-hand side, the 5,000-strong army of the Imagawa family was encamped here.

Outside the camp stood a tall and thin monk and a short and fat boy.

After seeing Sasa Naimasa and Ii Naoto, Yukisai also took a step and walked to the mountainside.

Cheng Zheng and Naohu dismounted from the two trees at the bottom of the mountain, tied the horses casually, and climbed up to the two of them step by step.

Yukisai stopped in a pile of rocks on the mountainside, swept a smooth boulder with his wide sleeves, and sat down on the spot.

Matsudaira Motonobu beside him looked at Xuezhai for a while, and looked at Sasa Narumasa who was coming over with a shallow foot in the depths, and a pair of small eyes flashed with a wandering light.

"Yuanxin!"

Xue Zhai suddenly shouted.

"Hay! What does the teacher command? ”

"Remember the person Zuo Zuo Chengzheng, you must remember! At any time, you should not take him lightly. ”

"Hay!"

Although Yuan Xin agreed, he didn't quite understand the deep meaning of Xue Zhai's words.

A moment later, Sasa Narumasa and Naoto Ii also arrived.

Cheng Zheng's face was pale, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he sat next to Xue Zhai panting, but Jing Yi Naohu was not red and panting, showing good physical strength.

Zuo Chengzheng has not recovered from his injury, and it is already very face-saving for Xuezhai to come up like this, but whether Xuezhai understands it or not is not within the scope of Chengzheng's attention.

"Let me start with that...... This, the lord of Iya in Enoe Kuni, the daughter of Naomori Ii, is also my Ji military general, my wife. Tiger Girl ...... I've come to see Yukisai-sama. ”

Under the mediation of Chengzheng, Ii Naohu bowed shallowly to Xue Zhai, showing a strange look in his eyes.

Of course, Xuezhai understood why Zhihu couldn't be happy, because the culprit who decided to exile the heirless Jing Yi family was Taiyuan Xuezhai himself. From a certain point of view, if there is no antecedent for Taiyuan Xuezhai to exile Jing Yi Naoto, there will be no consequence of Sazuo Naimasa and Jing Yi Naohu fighting side by side, knowing and falling in love.

I really don't know whether to resent Xue Zhai or to be grateful to him?

"You and I are busy people, and time is pressing, so I won't talk nonsense anymore. There are a few questions that I need your answers to. ”

"Lord Yukisai, please speak."

Whether it is Naotora Ii or Motonobu Matsudaira, they definitely did not expect that Sasa Narimasa, who has always been unruly and informal, and dared to yell even in front of Oda Nobunaga and Nagao Teruto, would be as well-behaved as a kitten in front of the old man who was about to die in Taiyuan Xuesai.

"Where is your ambition, Guan Bai? Or the Great General of Zhengyi? ”

As soon as the words came out, both Yuanxin and Naoto, who were retinues, had their eyes widened in surprise.

In their opinion, whether it is Guan Bai, the head of the public family, or the general of Zhengyi, the head of the samurai family, they are all unattainable things.

"The world is full of martial arts."

Sazuo Chengzheng said almost without thinking, and after these four words were spoken, he immediately added:

"As for the specific form to take, I haven't made a specific choice. After all, strength is the most important thing...... What does Lady Yukisai think? ”

"Since you are determined to be in the world, do you know the suffering of the people?"

Xue Zhai suddenly opened his slightly closed eyes, and his eyes bloomed with a terrifying light.

"I used to farm in Owari, sell sushi, and help poor farmers when I was in Mino, so how can I not know the suffering of the people? In Japan, I don't know what the people are suffering, but it's a monk like Yukisai-sama. The four bodies are not diligent, and the five grains are not divided, but they enjoy the offerings of the daimyo and the farmers, not to mention the high, I don't know if Lord Xuezhai has planted rice seedlings? ”

No one thought that Sasa Chengzheng, who was respectful just now, would be blown up.

Xue Zhai was surprised by Cheng Zheng's fierce reaction, but in the face of Cheng Zheng's problem, after thinking about it, he could only admit it sullenly:

"Nope."

"It's really unbelievable that even Lord Yukisai, who is sympathetic to the suffering of the people, has never planted seedlings."

Sasa Narumasa won in words, and couldn't help but show a smug look.

"Since you know about the suffering of the people, why did you kill 3,000 people in the Tone River, destroy the fertile fields outside Odawara Castle, and carry out a poisonous plan to exterminate households?"

Xuezhai came up with the next problem.

Those two very sensitive events ...... "killing and surrendering" and "extinction plan".

"Peace cannot give birth to peace, only killing can end killing, as long as it can end this troubled world, I don't mind destroying it first!"

Hearing this, Xue Zhai stood up vigorously:

"DID YOU KNOW...... If you continue like this, you will become the fourth worst person in the history of Japan! ”

The fourth villain?

Zuo Zuo Chengzheng was stunned, and turned his head to look at Zhihu, his eyes full of doubts.

What the hell are the four wicked people?

Xue Zhai didn't expect Cheng Zheng to be so uneducated, and snorted coldly:

"It has long been concluded in the Japanese academic circles that the three villains in Japan are-

The only time he openly rebelled against the emperor in Kyoto and established himself as an emperor - Heishomon;

entered the palace as a Zen master and had an affair with Emperor Xiaoqian, a demon monk - a bow and a mirror;

and the first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, a rebel minister of the Muromachi shogunate, who rebelled and exiled the emperor. ”

Sasa Chengzheng suddenly realized.

Although he didn't know about these "three evildoers", judging from their crimes, it was not necessarily a butcher who killed people and bled on the blood, but because of the label of "betrayal" and "immorality", he has been scolded by people for hundreds of years.

Thinking of this, Sasa Chengzheng couldn't help laughing:

"Not to mention the fourth villain in the history of Japan, even if I become the head of the four evildoers, I am willing to do it and will never regret it!"

Hearing Sasa Chengzheng's sworn declaration, Xuesai, who was like dead wood, was also a little moved.

As he said before...... Sasa Naruma is a devil.

Since Sasa Naruma has the consciousness to become the head of the wicked, he thinks he has made up his mind not to be afraid of the slander of the world, and even to lose his reputation before and after his death.

"I heard...... You once cooked wine in Ninja City and talked about heroes, 'There are millions of heroes in Kanto, but there is no hero', although Yoshimoto is a hero, he only has half of it...... Since you are the other half of the heroes, are you willing to inherit Yiyuan's ambition and make the world a good one? ”

Hearing Yukisai mention the two-year-old Imagawa Yoshimoto, Sasa Narimasa's face also had a look of remembrance, the hero who used the Sozo left script to fight himself to the death in the heavy rain, and to this day, he still makes Narumasa admire.

"Nope! Zuo Zuo Chengzheng has the ambition of Zuo Zuo Chengzheng, although Chengzheng admires Yiyuan Gong, but he will not follow the example, Yiyuan Gong has his royal road, Zuo Zuo Chengzheng...... There is also Sazo Chengzheng's own 'devil' road! ”

The mountain wind blew everyone's robes, and although Sasa Narumasa's words were categorical, they were immediately drowned in the Hakone Valley.

Xue Zhai sat on the stone for a long time, and finally sighed, got up and left silently.

Matsudaira Motonobu followed behind him, with a hundred doubts in his heart, but he felt that he couldn't ask any of them. He originally wanted to ask Sazuo Chengzheng when he would be able to get through, but he was touched by the three questions and answers between Xuezhai and Chengzheng, and he forgot his original intention for a while. When he was about to return to the camp, Xue Zhai suddenly said:

"Do you understand that today's things are out of my mouth and into your ears?"

"Yuanxin understands, please rest assured, teacher!"

Matsudaira Motonobu couldn't help but look back, and saw Sasa Narumasa and Ii Naotora one after the other, walking at the bottom of the Hakone Valley.

Sasa Chengzheng, who walked in the middle, did not look back......

- Although there are tens of millions of people, I will go.