With the arrival of severe winter, a cold wave that swept through the 66 countries mixed with a large amount of rain and snow fell, the willows on both sides of the Shonai River were wrapped in a thick layer of silver, and long ice streams hung down from the eaves.

This year's winter is particularly cold, Owari Province ushered in a rare blizzard, since the beginning of November intermittently for more than a month, in this season is also the traditional snowfall season of Owari Province, in previous years are sporadic snow dripping down, or the most annoying freezing rain through the wet cold, occasionally there is a larger scale of snow is also rare in several years, such a rare heavy snowstorm in the memory of the old people, as if they have not heard of it for hundreds of years.

In the castle town of Cheongju Castle, the elderly are busy clearing the snow, the children are building snowmen, having snowball fights, and wrestling and rolling in the snow, a white snow provides countless laughter and laughter for the children, and the merchants on the street rub their red hands and shout loudly to sell the accumulated goods, and see the customers carrying baskets into their houses with bright smiles.

Two sets of thick paper doors were urgently installed in the large and wide room of Qingzhou City, a group of samurai sat around the fireplace in twos and threes, and the fresh fish caught from the river were roasted on the fire pond that exuded a boiling heat wave, as well as golden potatoes and corn.

When the samurai began to feast, Ikeda Hengxing drank a little too much, and he said drunkly: "The corn and potatoes sent by the town hall are really good!" Put it in a pot and cook it on a fire to roast. It can even be buried under the fire and baked. I've heard that you can also make a dish to eat. What a good thing! ”

After a few years of cold benching, Shibata Katsuya's temperament is more introverted, but the posture of the genealogy of the important ministers in his bones is still very sufficient, and when he saw his drunken gaffes, he stabbed lightly: "What nonsense is Katsuzaburo talking about, even my Katsuya knows that these potatoes and corn are good things that can fill the stomachs of farmers, but you only remember to eat, and you are too unambitious!" ”

The samurai in the room burst out laughing, and Ikeda Tsuneko didn't seem to notice Niwa Nagahide's eyes, and said with a smile, "The people live on food." What do you say without eating? I Hengxing only know that this thing is delicious, not only my relatives and friends at home love to eat it, not to mention the townspeople and farmers. ”

Oda Nobunaga hugged Saito Guidie and smiled without saying a word, he is no longer the stunned young man who stopped Kira Manmatsu Maru many years ago, he has been a family governor for several years, he has developed a deep temperament and excellent skills, and he is naturally aware of some contradictions in the family, and on the premise of not destroying the unity of the retainers, some small contradictions between each other will help the family governor control the whole situation.

In recent years, Oda Nobunaga's development can be described as smooth sailing, with a small victory in the Battle of Muraki and a successful attempt to repel the Imagawa army, and the Battle of Inayu defeating Oda Nobuyuki's plot to seize the governor. At the intersection of summer and autumn this year, Oda Nobunaga led most of the army of Owari Province to fight the Battle of Ukino.

The significance of this war is very significant. This is the first time he launched the unification war of Owari Province, the enemy of this war is the clan of the same clan, the Iwakura Oda family's family governor Oda Nobuken, but also the guardian of the four counties of Owari, in order to completely complete the great goal of unifying Owari, he chose to enlist his brother and brother-in-law Oda Nobukiyo to deal with the Iwakura Oda family.

This war was fought very successfully, with Oda Nobunaga's well-trained elite soldiers, plus the iron artillery team built at the expense of blood, it was easy to defeat the stubborn and old-fashioned Oda Nobuyogen, and then stuck in the pre-harvest to surround Oda Nobuken's Honkuwa Kura Castle, cage city for a month The food in the city could not be sustained, and Oda Nobuyoshi was forced to surrender the city.

Since then, Oda Nobunaga has successfully achieved the great goal of unifying Owari, which his father has worked hard for more than ten years and has not done, and now he has only been on the throne for a few years, and no matter who in the Oda family or in Owari Province is talking about Owari as a fool, he can tell everyone generously that Oda Nobunaga has become a qualified family governor, and his deeds are on par with Owari no Tiger.

Ikeda Hengxing hugged the wine jar and drank bitterly, anyway, the bachelor didn't have to worry about family affairs, and said drunk words while drinking: "It's a pity that the Guardian Alliance plan failed, the Kira family unexpectedly agreed to negotiate peace with us, if it weren't for the Spo family's really bad peace talks, maybe my Oda family would be able to get rid of the pressure in the direction of Mikawa!" ”

Ikeda Hengxing said vaguely, but the samurai present are not stupid, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly cooled down, the samurai put down their wine glasses and turned their eyes to Oda Nobunaga, who was in high hands, only to see him close the folding fan and glared at Ikeda Hengxing: "Katsuzaburo drink a few glasses, be careful that you can't find the door if you are drunk, when you go back, you patrol a few more times and pay attention to remind the townspeople to clean the snow on the house, it's all gone!" ”

"Yes!" The samurai hurriedly leaned over in response, pulling up their drunken companions and rushing out.

Gui Die was very worried when she saw her husband's unhappy face, and felt the small movements of the woman in her arms, Oda Nobunaga shook her head with a smile and took Gui Die's hand and smiled: "Don't you have this measure when you come to your own house?" It's just that I'm tired of listening to their drunken nonsense, so I'm driving them home to sleep, and let's rest early when it's cold! ”

Sensing that the belt was untied by Oda Nobunaga's big hands, Gui Die's eyes were like silk and whispered: "But Your Highness, it's just past afternoon!" ”

Oda Nobunaga picked up the disheveled Guidie and laughed, "It's more interesting to Dunlun during the day." ”

The incident mentioned by Ikeda Tsuneko was a strange event that occurred in the later stages of the Ukino War, when Oda Nobunaga led an army of 4,000 to besiege Iwakura Castle for more than half a month, and consciously unified Owari Shinakusa, so he began to plan the next strategic goal of "avenging his father-in-law", but before that, he still had to do one thing, that is, to stabilize the first bow in the East China Sea and take Imagawa Yoshimoto.

There are not many cards he can play in his hand, but there is still a treasure card that can be used, that is, the former Wuwei Gong Spo Yoshigin, this gentleman is the descendant of the Owari Spo family, one of the three leaders of the dignified family, and has become a canary of the Oda family today. Except for a tiger skin guarded by the Muromachi shogunate Owari that is still somewhat useful, it is really useless. Nothing.

This project is called the "Ashikaga Ichido Guardian Alliance". The core content of the plan was to achieve the political goal of the Oda family and the Imagawa family to finally live in peace and stop the military offensive of both sides in the name of harmony between the Ashikaga clan of the Owari Shiba clan, the Mikawa Yoshira clan, and the Suruga Imagawa clan.

The Oda family's plan is very good, but I don't know if the Imagawa family will take the bait, and I only planned to throw stones to ask for directions, but I don't want the Imagawa family Although they didn't agree, the head of the Kira family, Kira Yoshiyasu, agreed. You must know that this is Kira Yoshitoki's half-brother, Imagawa Yoshimoto's son-in-law, Mikawa Guardian, who just returned to Tojo Castle this year to preside over government affairs.

It is said that Imagawa Yoshimoto and Kira Yoshiyasu have a good relationship with the son-in-law of the Imagawa family, and they also have a close relationship with the Imagawa family's heir, the Imagawa clan, whether it is a waka tea ceremony or Kemari painting, and it is people's impression that an elegant traditional nobleman does not do political affairs.

Although Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't agree, he didn't object, and it was not complicated to make any calculations, let the son-in-law sign the covenant, and then the father-in-law would turn around and tear up the covenant. No matter how angry your Oda family is, you can only hold it in your heart, and the whole world knows that Kira Yoshiyasu is the son-in-law of Imagawa Yoshimoto. It is also clear that this noble prince has been cultivated in Junfu for seven or eight years, and he has completely forgotten all the government affairs, and the military power in his hands is even less pitiful, and there is no so-called prestige in the country of Three Rivers, so it is a naked trick to let him sign the alliance.

Even so, Oda Nobunaga was ecstatic for a long time, how could everyone be adults who believed in the constraints of a covenant, Oda Nobunaga didn't ask for too long, as long as he was given three and five years of opportunity to implement a strategy plan against Mino, it didn't matter if this covenant was torn up in the future.

Soon after the end of the Ukino War, the two sides set to hold peace talks at a place called Uenohara at the junction of Owari and Mikawa, and Imagawa Yoshimoto would definitely not come, how could the daimyo who mastered the Three Kingdoms play such a childish game with him,

Since it was nominally under the guise of the Ashikaga clan, it was natural that the Ashikaga clan governor should lead the talks, and the envoys of the two sides had already basically finalized the basic content of the peace talks, but in fact, Spo Yoshigin, who was in charge of the conclusion of the Oda clan alliance, and Kira Yoshiyasu, who represented the Imagawa clan alliance, were just going through the motions.

On a sunny morning in late autumn, Spo Yoshiyin and Kira Yoshian were talking, but the two literary and artistic youths suddenly realized whether they wanted to decide on the main and secondary seats, just like the Spring and Autumn Alliance always had a leader, and when it came to the covenant, there must always be a strong person to lead the conclusion of the covenant.

This is the problem, the difference between the doors on both sides seems to be an Owari Ashikaga, a Mikawa Ashikaga, everyone looks at the name passed down by the ancestors as higher than the sky and thicker than the earth, even if they eat bran vegetables, they can't fall into the prestige that the ancestors worked for.

So the funny scene appeared, stopping at a distance between the two sides, and the envoys on both sides talked back and forth, and Sipo Yiyin said that I was the governor of the three rulers, and how the ancestors were illustrious, so I would sit on the throne.

Over there, Kira Yoshian was very unhappy, and said that you still came to fight with me like this, and immediately said that I was the Ashikaga royal family, and the lower horse people, and the Kira family clan represented by my younger brother Kira Yoshitomi was also raised to the Ashikaga family, and became the authentic Ashikaga royal family, I am the guardian of Mikawa and the son-in-law of the Imagawa family, which is much stronger than you, a down-and-out child, so I must sit on the main seat.

The eldest young master on both sides couldn't convince anyone, so the two sides tied up each other and moved out of the bed (Maza), and took out the lunch box prepared in advance to make psychological preparations for a protracted battle, so the sun rose high and slowly set, and the two did not move a step.

Although the climate in late autumn is not cold, it is not a matter of wasting a day's time in vain, the two eldest young masters are full of food and chanting poems and singing and playing, and the warriors and soldiers below have to starve next to each other, and finally the two generations on both sides can't stand it and persuade their respective governors, and finally the two reluctantly agree to this request.

After some communication between the two sides, Kira Yi'an and Si Po Yiyin took a step reluctantly, you step by step, I take a step, no one wants to suffer more, until they walked ten steps to meet and talk to each other, and the two were unwilling to move, silently saying that they wanted to wait for the other party to take the initiative to come over, and regarded this as a change of direction to grasp the initiative.

The two neither greeted nor saluted, and faced each other with their eyes for half an hour. In the end, it was dark and I didn't say a word. In the end, it was useless to salute, so he turned around and left silently.

To satisfy personal vanity. The two of them insisted on an important mission to disrupt a planned covenant, Kira Yoshiyasu did not have much problem doing this, Imagawa Yoshimoto did not support this covenant in the first place, since it could not be negotiated, he simply did not talk about it, and it could be used as an excuse to intervene in Owari in the future.

Oda Nobunaga had great expectations for the early conclusion of the covenant, and invited people from all walks of life in Owari to come to Kiyoshu Castle a few days in advance, and the merchant house set up a grand banquet to wait for the news. As a result, there was no movement after waiting left and right in the afternoon, so Oda Nobunaga was in a hurry and hurriedly sent someone to ask what the situation was.

The messengers sent stubble after stubble, until the dark Spo Yoshiin finally returned, Oda Nobunaga waited all day without eating, and a room of samurai also starved all day, but as soon as Spo Yoshiin returned, he proudly announced that he had defeated Kira Yoshian in the battle for the throne and became the leader of the alliance, as for the covenant? What's that? This eldest young master has long forgotten the covenant and gone to the clouds.

Oda Nobunaga was so mad that he couldn't imagine that this idiot could play this trick in front of all the powerful samurai of Owari Province. A room full of samurai was also mad, and one hundred and eighty samurai were hungry all day just to hear him brag here. Who do you defeat and what do we have to do with it? We starved all day, and in the end the covenant was not signed, and we didn't even have a chance to eat lunch and dinner together.

A month after the covenant was shattered, it was rumored that Yoshiin Spo had colluded with Yoshitada Ishihashi of Todaso's household, Yoshiyasu Kira Yoshiyasu of Mikawa Province, Yoshimoto Imagawa of Suruga Province, and Tomosada Hattori of Tsushima's Suiko in an attempt to disrupt the covenant and take the opportunity to lure the Imagawa family's army into Owari from both land and water.

God knows how this stupid boy came up with such a complicated plan, and it was such a difficult plan to advance by land and water, and such a strong organizational ability to count everyone in Owari, Mikawa, and Suruga, I almost thought that this was the "anti-Owari alliance" that narrowed down by one, and I don't know if Oda Nobunaga, who concocted this crime, was inspired by Kai Tiger.

Neither the Oda retainers nor the people of Owari Province believe in this crime, but what does it matter if they believe it or not, this guy who is a waste of wood and stupid has no other function except to be a manure machine that wastes food, and it is a typical example of insufficient success and more than failure, so this eldest young master with two goods and straw bags was gorgeously thrown out of Owari Province and wandered to the end of the world with the enthusiasm of all the support.

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On September 5, 1557, the third year of Hongji (September 27, 1557), when the emperor died today, his son-in-law Prince Fanghito ascended the throne and began to prepare for his father's funeral.

The recently deceased Emperor Go-Nara faced this problem when he succeeded to the throne, and it was hard to save enough for the ceremonial expenses for the burial of his father, Emperor Go-Kashiwahara, but he couldn't afford the ceremony of his own accession to the throne, so he could only delay it until ten years later, relying on Yamashina Yanji to go to the east of the countryside to ask for a little, and the west to make up a little bit before reluctantly holding the enthronement ceremony, Oda Nobuhide and Oda Nobunaga's official positions were also obtained by chance, otherwise the imperial court would not give a local tyrant official position.

The new emperor who has just ascended the throne is also facing this problem, he needs money to bury his father, and he also needs money to hold the coronation of the throne, and the imperial court will definitely not be able to take out this money, so he can only find the shogunate and the various samurai of the world to make up for it, Ashikaga Yoshiteru gritted his teeth and saved 10,000 Kanbun Yongle money in the small treasury in recent years, and the emperor's tears of emotion flowed out.

The rest of the ministers also took out their pockets to donate spontaneously, Konoe Qianjiu rich and generous donated 5,000 guanwen, two Harira saw that the situation was not good, hollowed out the family bottom and turned out 2,000 kanwen, Jiu I Qingtong also donated 1,500 kanwen by virtue of the business of the Konoe family, Sanjo family has the support of the three western families also donated 1,500 kanwen, and now Izukawa Qingji also made up a little money to donate 1,000 kanwen, the middle court is not too presumptuous, only donated 1,500 kanwen, and other ministers donated a lot of 300 kan and 200 kan, but the gap is still very large.

At this time, Kira Yoshishi sent an envoy to the shogunate to apply for Ueno protection, Ashikaga Yoshiki wanted to sell the imperial court a face, and ordered the Kira family to donate more, and the news was sent to Echigo in early November, Kira Yoshitoki immediately made a decision to donate 20,000 Kaneiraku money for the funeral ceremony of Emperor Nara in the future, and another envoy will be sent to present a rich gift to the new emperor at the court's Zhengtan court.

This time the emperor was overjoyed, and immediately issued an imperial edict to express his praise for Kira Yoshishi, and Imadegawa Hayashi served as an envoy to personally convey the imperial court's edict to Echigo, and announced that he was promoted to the three Left Guard Governors and Zhenshoufu Generals.

He knew very well what the general of the town guard house did, and in history, only the Kitabatake family of the Southern Dynasty served as the general of the town guard house with the three Kawanaka Nayan, and the Emperor Go-Daigo of the Southern Dynasty added a big character to him, which was originally intended to compete with the general of the Southern Dynasty and the general of the Northern Dynasty.

Kishira Yoshitoki is not afraid of the little bit of bad things in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the unity of the Northern and Southern Dynasties has passed more than 150 years, even if it is calculated based on the last activity of the Southern Dynasties, more than 100 years, what is the official position set by the emperor of the Southern Dynasties, it will not affect his fate, and Kira Yoshitoki does not care about the so-called auspicious or murderous things, but he is not willing to touch the taboo of Ashikaga Yoshiki's super self-esteem at this juncture. (To be continued......)