Chapter 457: Bright Flowers
Ah Shi, who had been excited for a long time, also noticed Ah Dog who was sobbing quietly, she also knew that her miraculous encounter must have caused her sister's sadness, and then looked back at the sister-in-law of the George family who was too wronged by her sister, so she gently took Ah Dog's hand and whispered: "Sister doesn't cry, okay?" Let's go and ask my brother to change his decision, okay? A beautiful woman like my sister must marry an excellent samurai, and it is the same for His Royal Highness of the George family to marry a woman from another family! ”
"Sister don't cry, Ah Shi don't say stupid things, where can our martial arts daughter resist the marriage arrangement of the family governor? The elder brother has his ideas when he arranges it like this...... "Ah Dog said as he spoke, tears fell down, obviously he said that he didn't cry, but the grievances in his heart always poured out irrepressibly.
The weak girl never thought of jealousy of her sister's fate, but blamed her misfortune on the arrangement of the gods and Buddhas, maybe her life was not good but encountered such a thing, just a few thoughts even made her think of the green lantern ancient Buddha this remnant life, just like her mother Tsuchida Gozen, begged for Oda Nobunaga's forgiveness for the sins of her second brother Oda Nobuyuki, although he was once pardoned but was finally killed, and since then Tsuchida Gozen has been hiding in the Buddhist hall all day long chanting and worshiping Buddha without asking about the world.
"But doesn't my brother love my sister and Ah Shi the most? Let's ask for it! Ah Shi couldn't get up for a moment, pouted and said: "If the elder brother disagrees, Ah Shi will go to ask His Royal Highness the future husband to persuade the elder brother to change his ways, okay?" ”
Ah Dog cried for a while and was in a better mood, picked up a handkerchief to wipe away his tears, took Ah Shi's little hand and persuaded softly: "Ah Shi, don't make trouble." This will add to the annoyance of your future husband. It's not good for your life later in life! ”
"But ......" Ah Shi also knew that his strength was too small to change the established marriage contract. He could only pouted and complained unhappily: "How can my brother be like this!" Ah Shi was very unhappy. ”
Seeing that these two sisters still maintain a pure sisterhood in one joy and one sorrow, they secretly nodded for the performance of the little sisters, how to put aside Oda Nobunaga's temperament and means, at least the daughters of the Oda family have no bad character, these little sisters are good women with good conduct, women in troubled times shoulder heavier courage, and the burden is the major mission of family marriage, and it is really difficult to love the husband who has never met without regrets.
Guidie is also a lonely woman in troubled times. Only women will understand the difficulties of women better, when she got married, she also had a short knife, with the heroic belief that if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent to meet her husband, and then found out that Oda Nobunaga is a strange man with extraordinary bearing, and finally got a relatively happy ending.
I was stunned for a moment before I realized that I had been out of my mind for so long, the little sisters didn't know how to hug each other and cry bitterly, as if Ah Shi was crying for the tragic situation of Ah Dog's future, and the girl's sentimental temperament cried loudly regardless of it, which made Guidie really don't know what to say about the little sisters.
Now she also regrets that she was distracted for too long just now, and she didn't dare to let the little sisters continue to be suspicious. He whispered, "And the husband of the dog is also coming to pick you up!" The concubine can tell Ah Dog a good news, Ah Dog's husband is not the sister-in-law of the George family. It's a person with His Royal Highness Ashi! ”
"Huh?" The two sisters stopped crying at the same time, and looked at Gui Die in a daze, looking at Gui Die, who saw that the little sisters were stupid again, and said softly: "In other words, Ah Dog and Ah Shi are going to marry a husband at the same time!" I can be a sister for a lifetime! Even the concubines envy your good luck! ”
"Huh?" The screams of the girls sounded in the castle tower, startling a few crows who were sleeping on the castle tower, and the angry crows rattled and hovered over the castle tower, and they could not find the culprit who woke them up, so they could only stare at the small surnames under the Honmaru to launch a guano attack.
The ignorant little surnames didn't know what interesting things the two princesses had discovered, so they could only dodge the surprise attack of bird droppings in embarrassment, shrank under the porch and said tremblingly: "What's wrong with the two princesses, Your Highnesses?" I think I found something surprising, maybe I found something interesting! ”
In the middle of the moon, the lights in the assessment room of Cheongju Castle had just been extinguished, and the meeting lasted from noon to the time of the lantern before it ended in a hurry, and the genealogies of the Oda family expressed strong dissatisfaction with the request made by Kira Yoshitoki, and the marriage of two women was something they would never have thought of, and it was easy for the samurai of the Oda family to feel that they were in a position of weakness or dominance.
Shibata Katsuie was furious and resolutely opposed to the Kira family's unreasonable demands, he himself had an unhappy marriage, Mrs. Masamuro was the woman he loved, but his supposed happy life ended when a plague took her life, and since then Shibata Katsuya has become a widower without a wife, concubines, and children.
He has a secret idea in his heart that he doesn't dare to say, that is, he covets the princess of the Oda family, whether it is Ah Dog or Ah Ichi, it would be great if he could let one be his main wife, but Oda Nobunaga never seemed to have considered the marriage of this single family retainer for decades, and would rather marry Princess Oda Inu to the bean sprout-like heir of the Oda family, rather than consider the possibility of him, the chief general of the Oda family, which made him very depressed and annoyed.
Matsunaga Shu can marry Miyoshi Nagakei's daughter, why can't Shibata Katsuya marry Oda Nobunaga's sister, he doesn't understand, of course he won't be happy, this time he met the Kira family's unbelievable request made him even more annoyed, in his opinion, the princess of the Oda family marrying out a side room has already taken advantage of the Kira family, and it is unreasonable to want two princesses to marry each other, so he raised a resolute opposition on the spot.
More than half of the genealogists of the Oda family objected, and they also felt that the dignity of the Oda family had been violated, and the humiliation of the Oda family was equivalent to the income of these genealogy retainers, although it would not be too bad if the lord humiliated the ministers to death, even if the Kira family had the name of the Ashikaga family, they could never make such excessive demands.
And the Oda family genealogy generation retainers also have their own reasons, no matter how strong the Kira family is, after all, the distant country daimyo is far away from Owari, and no matter how weak the Oda family is, it is not a kind of daimyo who is directly dominated by the Kira family. Why do you want to sell it to the Kira family for face? Why do you have to compromise and marry your two daughters? Not to mention that the two daughters are married or do side rooms, which is simply incredibly arrogant and rude.
In the eyes of the retainers of the Oda family, the only influence of the entire Tokaido is nothing more than the territory of the two counties of Nishimikawa, and the territory of Nishimikawa has been in a state of autonomy for more than ten years, and at this time, the Mikawa country is in full swing and has no ability to influence the Owari Oda family, and the Oda family is now the Daimyo with the strongest rising momentum in Tokaido, and there is no need to be afraid of the Kira family.
The Imagawa family, a strong enemy of Tokaido, was too busy to take care of himself, and the Imagawa clan was really busy pacifying the commotion of the people of the country. Mino Province is in turmoil due to Saito Yoshiryu's health problems, while Ise Province in the southwest is a chaotic battle between the powerful and the surrounding areas, unable to cope with the expansion of the Oda family.
This is a rare opportunity for the Oda family, and it is also the reason why Oda Nobunaga chose to marry the Kira family, as long as he can unite with the overlord of Hokuriku, the Kira family, he can easily involve the offensive pressure in the direction of Koshin, Oda Nobunaga can free up his hands to clean up Mino and Ise, and then easily lead the army to expand and then march towards Kinai, this is the strategic core of the Oda family to the west has not changed from beginning to end.
However, the Kira family's statement once again deeply stung their self-esteem, and they made such a harsh request to treat them. This is not an equal alliance at all, but a relationship of domination between master and slave, which is unacceptable to the genealogy of the Oda family. Marriage is a means, not an end, and it becomes less pleasant if the means and ends are reversed.
Oda Nobunaga knows very well where the anger of the spectrum comes from, in fact, he himself is also very indignant and annoyed, although he played some small tricks in this marriage action, but he doesn't think that this trick will affect his cooperative relationship with Kira Yoshitoki, but he never expected Kira Yoshitoki to turn around and give him an unacceptable choice question, forcing him to make a formal submission This is something he must not allow, but what can he do if he is not allowed, can he let him and Kira Yoshitoki tear his face and start a war?
Returning to attack Mikawa to occupy the old territory of the Kira family, and at the same time angering the Imagawa family who was still breathing and linking up with the Triple Alliance behind the Kora to fight back wildly, and then offended the Kira family ruthlessly, Kira Yoshinori will also support the attack of the Oda family by the Triple Alliance of Shoshogun, Minami Shinano Ina County is very close to Mino, Mikawa, and Enoe, even if the mountain road is rugged and the plank road is difficult to walk, it cannot prevent the deterrence of the Kira family from spreading.
What's more, a long letter sent by Niwa Nagahide also mentioned an important piece of information, the general of the Kira family, Yasuda Nagahide, sent troops to Hida Province a month ago when the snow water was first melting, and at the time when Ina County was ceded to the Kira family by Takeda Shingen, the people of Hida Province, who had lost the support of the Takeda family, could not and did not dare to resist the attack of the Kira family, and it was only a matter of time before the entire territory of Hida Country surrendered.
Hida is equivalent to opening a passage connecting Mino, an important waterway in Hida Province is called Hida River, this river is the main tributary of the Kiso River, the main artery of the river that runs through Mino-Owari, the entire Hida Province except for the important passage along the Hida River to the Kiso River into the territory of Mino Province, there is only another passage along the Zhuangchuan River and Miyagawa River to Etsunachu, the only other road that can be called a road is a rugged mountain road connecting the Minami Shinano Kiso Valley, and other places are blocked by high mountains and cannot be frequently trafficked.
The Shokawa River in Echichu is the river in the Shokawa battle that Uesugi Terutora has always won the battle, and with the support of the naval army of this big river, the powerful power of the Kira naval army can be exerted, and if the ship is not closed, it will be much easier to go to the mountains than to transport it to the mountains little by little than a pack horse, once it is controlled by Kira, Hida Province will wait to pinch the main artery of Mino Province and even Owari Province, but is the Oda family capable of stopping the actions of the Kira family? They can't!
Saito Yoshiryu was terminally ill and unable to react, the people of Mino never thought of offending the behemoth of the Kira family, Oda Nobunaga himself never thought about offending the Kira family and how to force others to offend the Kira family, the Hida country will soon take it means that the Oda family has no chance to resist the Kira family, otherwise once the skin is torn, Mino will definitely not have to think about it, but also in the face of the strong strength of the Kira Navy to control the Hida River and threaten the Kiso River, you can't expect to buy the Kawa and the people to fight against the powerful Kira Navy.
If you agree to the unreasonable demands of the Kira family, your self-esteem will be greatly affected, and your heart will be greatly affected, and it may even have a lingering shadow in the minds of the retainers, which will not necessarily be a good thing for the future development of the Oda family. But if you don't agree, the alliance won't work. The "friendship" that he and Kira Yoshitomo worked so hard to manage is completely ruined, and maybe they will offend people.
The so-called situation is stronger than people. People have to bow their heads under the eaves, it is a well-known thing that the Kira family is so powerful, he Oda Nobunaga only has Owari Ichikoku stone is no more than 400,000 stones, even if he opens Xintian for three years and five years now, it is impossible to skyrocket to one million stones, so what can he do to fight with the Kira family? What good is it for you to offend the Kira family?
After struggling for an afternoon and half a night, Oda Nobunaga still decided to do it according to Kira Yoshitoki's request, since he wanted it, he gave it to him, not the two daughters of the Oda family. There are many relatives in the Oda family, not only Iwakura, Kiyoshu and the three families, but his father Oda Nobuhide gave birth to a bunch of children, and the most important thing is his daughter, and he can marry out if he has a few more in the future.
Don't show your face and maintain the alliance and marriage plan with the Kira family, as for the interests of the unlucky guy of George Nobukata, basically no one will care, if you want to blame him for going out and running into Huang Wanxing's unlucky urging, he met a powerful opponent who is destined to be unable to provoke in this life, and no one sympathizes with him when the engaged lady of the main room is robbed.
Fortunately, this guy is not the only unlucky person.,Kira Yoshitoki's arrogant and domineering temperament is already well known.,In the country of Dewa, he was overbearing and robbed the main lady of Date Huizong.。 It's just the villain who is not looking for a villain in the legend.,According to the rhythm of myths and legends.,There should be a Momotaro、Kintaro or something at this time.,Beat him up crying dad and calling his mother.,And then obediently save the two "people's girls" who were "robbed" from the tiger's mouth and wolf's den.
It's a pity that real life is not acting, and there are not so many dramatic things. Date Huizong was snatched away, and Mrs. Mazuma didn't even dare to let out a fart, and the dignified Date family once served as a "famous family" for exploring the topic of Oshu was slapped in the face by Kira Yoshishi, and he grabbed his hair and kicked it all over his face, and his facial features were almost misplaced.
And George Nobugata is only a small Owari local tyrant, the little-known lord of Ohno Castle, how many people have noticed him is still a problem, who would care that his wife in the main room was snatched away, maybe a few years later, someone will notice this, and will compile this story into an anecdote and become an after-dinner conversation, revolving around nothing more than the young and romantic behavior of the town government and doing some deviant behavior, whether the bitter supporting actor is called Saji Nobukata, or Satake Yoshiaki no one cares at all.
Oda Nobunaga will not be stupid enough not to really comfort the injured George family, his method is quite simple, that is, to change a daughter to marry, and if the concubine is not good, the change of concubine is always to make up a daughter of the Oda family for your George family, anyway, Oda Nobunaga has many sisters, and there are a lot of cousins who can't be named at any time.
Quietly smoothed out the beginning and end of this matter, and guaranteed that except for the parties and insiders of Owari and Echigo, no one would notice that this unlucky ghost's lady was snatched away, and the face of the George family could still be preserved, this routine was actually the rhythm of Iwaki Shigetaka to appease Yuki Haruzuna back then, if these two people could meet each other, they would definitely hug each other and weep bitterly, telling that they had suffered such a sad fate.
Oda Nobunaga is a man of the same word, since he wants to send his two younger sisters to marry, he will act immediately and will not waste time in procrastination, and in three days he packed the two sisters together, and sent a team of 500 people to send relatives, including a large combination of samurai including the maid Ji Samurai, plus a number of dowries to send relatives to Echigo Kasuga Mountain Castle.
At the same time, the envoy of the Oda family informed Shinano's Kira army along the way to receive him, and he could be sure that Shinano's Oda family general would not dare to be careless, in fact, Oda Nobunaga did not know that all this was under the close supervision of the Kira ninja, and when the send-off team from Kiyoshu Castle had just left, Ogasawara Naga of Minami Shinano Takato Castle had already received accurate information.
Two hours later, Miyabe Jijun, who was sitting in Fukashi Castle, also received the same information, and quickly made arrangements to protect the safe arrival of the family send-off team along the way to Kasuga Yama Castle, including the fleet in the territory of the Chikuma River, and it was not until another day and a half later that Kasuga Yamajo received the information that Oda Nobunaga had made a decision, and at this time, Oda Nobunaga had sent to Shinano in advance to deliver information, and the envoys who rushed to Echigo had just entered the territory of Minami Shinano.
Kira Yoshitoki shook the intelligence document lightly, and said with a light smile: "Oda Danzheng Shaozhong's choice is correct, the phrase that the one who knows the times is Junjie is a famous saying through the ages, what Yu wants is the formal submission of the Oda family, and if he is not impressed by a little impress, he may be unscrupulous to make small moves against the Ashikaga family, Yu hates allies who keep making small moves, and Yu needs obedient and obedient allies...... Of course, it can also be explained as an out-of-spec. ”
"His Royal Highness is as majestic as a mountain, so His Royal Highness Oda Danzheng Shaozhong made the right decision, congratulations to His Royal Highness the Principality for winning the side room!" Hosokawa Fujitaka's reaction was very fast, which made the samurai who reacted later annoyed that he was half a beat slower, and many people echoed without hesitation, but Hondo hesitated again and again but did not choose to do so. (To be continued......)