Kinoshita Hideyoshi trembled in the severe reprimand, and for some reason suddenly had great courage, raised his head and looked at the noble samurai sitting in the center with a pair of round eyes wide, and looked at Kira Yoshitoki with a very rare look for more than ten seconds, and the wide room suddenly quieted down, and everyone looked at this little-known Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

When the many samurai of the Kira family were about to leave, this strange-looking guy did not say the words of the imagination, but suddenly bowed his head and said earnestly: "The lord of my family negotiated the alliance and marriage with the town government in the spirit of goodwill, and there is absolutely no malice or deception.

Princess Ashi is one of my father-in-law's most beloved sisters, and always regarded as a sister-in-law, this time to Princess Ashi as the object of marriage is my lord's full of sincerity move, by no means intended to offend the supreme majesty of the town government, but also to the dignity of the Ashikaga family, all kinds of twists and turns and rights and wrongs are also invited to the town government to be clear! ”

"So bold and eloquent, is this Kinoshita Hideyoshi? There are very few people who dare to look at Yu and have no fear, even if it is only for a short moment, it is very commendable, there seems to be something strange in his eyes just now, but it doesn't look like ambition...... What the hell is it? Kira Yoshitoki took out the bat fan and slowly opened it, revealing a special monogram on the fan, and carefully observed this short, skinny, baby-faced, big-eyed monkey-like fellow, wanting to dig out more from him.

He wouldn't have known that Kinoshita Hideyoshi's heart was pounding wildly at this time, he had never done such a crazy thing in his short life for more than twenty years, and he had already seen Niwa Nagahide keep giving him worried looks. Toshiya Maeda, who was beside him, tried to tug at his sleeve to keep him from being impulsive. Sasa Chengzheng's face was stunned and mixed with a little gratitude. Ikeda opened his mouth wide and showed an incredulous expression as if he had seen a ghost.

Time seems to stop moving forward at this moment, everything in front of him is like a slow-motion replay, nothing can be heard in his ears only the heartbeat of "plopping plop", he only has a persistent thought now, that is, to live, to live better than anyone else, this time the responsibility of marriage is a very important opportunity for him to advance.

The eight words "only success and no failure" are firmly engraved in his mind, and he knows better than anyone how serious the consequences of failure are, even if he is not arrested and taken back to be ordered to seppuku, his years of hard work will be in vain. As a peasant child from a humble background, he started from the first step to warm straw shoes for the lord, relying on personal efforts and a bold and cautious heart.

"A low-level samurai like me, usually can only be a shigami head to the limit, just like my father, Kinoshita Yaemon, who is as brave and excellent as his father, but because of his background, he can only become a humble ashigaru head, and he can only be sick and disabled in the battle, and he returned to his hometown to marry his mother and gave birth to several of our brothers and sisters, I Hideyoshi must not follow my father's old path, Nene is still waiting for me in Cheongju City, and I can't be exiled because of this anyway, then my struggle and my life will be over!" Kinoshita Hideyoshi's expression was full of determination and resoluteness, and an unflinching momentum. Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of you, you have to give it a try.

The genealogies of the Kira clan seemed to be intimidated by his bold words, or they never thought that this short samurai of Owari would be able to organize his reasonable words so calmly. Using this silent means to fight back against the slander he had just suffered, the most important thing is that he did not get angry when he found Kirayoshi, but smiled at him as if admiring his cautious boldness.

"Only a powerful person like the town government will discover my Hideyoshi's talents! It's the same feeling when my lord promoted me to be a priest. Kinoshita Hideyoshi regained his strength, and swore to the genealogy of the Kira family that his lord had absolutely no disrespect.

Niwa Nagahide's reaction was also very fast, and he immediately took over the handle from Kinoshita Hideyoshi, solemnly apologized to Kira Yoshitoki and then brought back the unfavorable situation in a few words. ”

"This ......" Niwa Nagahide hesitated a little and didn't dare to answer, several samurai behind him also showed hesitant expressions, Maeda Toshiya clenched his fists, his forehead was full of sweat, and Kinoshita Hideyoshi was speechless.

When Honda saw this expression, he guessed the inside story, and snorted coldly: "Is this the sincerity of the Oda family?" There are daughters of the right age but they are unwilling to take them out as marriage partners, this is the respect and sincerity that your Oda family keeps saying, but it really opened my eyes! ”

Niwa Nagahide didn't dare to hesitate anymore when he saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly said: "There is indeed one, it is the sister of my lord, Princess Inu, and the two favorite princesses among the many sisters of my lord are Princess Inu and Princess Ashi, because the two princesses have been imagining since childhood, and they are listed as the most beautiful women in my Owari Province, but Princess Inu has been allowed to marry by my lord of the family, and next year she will marry His Royal Highness Saji, the lord of Ohno Castle, a powerful country in the county......"

Honda reprimanded loudly: "What Ono Castle Lord George is xing, I've never heard of it!" Because of this kind of messy people, the Oda family's concubine was married, and then a concubine was forcibly stuffed to make up the number, what are you Oda family thinking? Could it be that I should be the governor of the Ashikaga family, and I still have to be a righteous brother with a small wealthy family in Owari Province? It's ridiculous! ”

Niwa Nagahide buried his head even lower, he didn't expect the situation to turn out like this, so he leaned over respectfully and replied, "I'm sorry! This matter is the decision of the lord, and our retainers really can't give an answer! If the princes were not satisfied, they immediately wrote a letter back to Owari asking the lord to send another envoy to re-negotiate the agreement. ”

Kira Yoshitoki picked up the handle of the fan and gently tapped the floor to signal the ministers to be quiet, and after a while, he said slowly: "Tell Oda Dan Main Hall that the marriage contract and marriage are promised!" However, the contractor of the marriage contract still has to renegotiate, and Yu means that the marriage contract of Princess Inu is nullified. As a married woman, send it along with Princess Aichi! ”

"Na...... Nani? Ikeda's voice rose sharply. only to realize that his faux pas, shocked the audience. He quickly covered his mouth and lowered his head to apologize for his rudeness, but no one cared about the little samurai's surprise, because he was not the only one in the hall who was surprised by this.

All the samurai in the Oda family envoy team were taken aback, no one could have imagined that this world-famous general of the town guard would have such a big appetite, and he would have to leave Oda Nobunaga's two favorite sisters with one mouth, in fact, it is not particularly exaggerated when you think about it, not to mention that in the history of the Ming Empire, there was a classic scene of two women serving one husband together.

It is not uncommon in feudal Japanese society, and the pickled stories of the imperial family and ministers of the Nara and Heian periods are not mentioned. Just to say that there are many similar examples in samurai society, the Ashikaga Yoshikyo, known as the "Evil Imperial Palace" and "Ten Thousand Terrors", once set up two main wives, not only did this absurd thing but also successively had two sisters, Hino Muneko and Hino Shigeko, although they were not married together but only compensated, but if it was compared to Kira Yoshitoki's simple request, it was many times more outrageous.

If the surprised performance of the samurai of the Owari Oda family is related to the surprise of Kira Yoshitoki's special request, then the surprise of the Genealogy retainers of the Kira family is more of a puzzle that the family governor values the Oda family, and Kira Yoshitoki is not a greedy and lustful person, and there are very few samurai who can guard a few pregnant ladies who have not been abstinent from flowers and grass for a whole year. It stands to reason that such a strange request should not be made for the two sisters of the Oda family.

In terms of appearance, birth and conduct, the Kira family has a large number of women to choose from in the five countries. Even if there are no satisfactory women of school age in the territory, there will be countless samurai families who respectfully offer their daughters and sisters for selection with just a word from the governor, especially the Kanto Beilu will never have any problems.

But Kira Yoshitoki did not do this, he rejected everyone's marriage proposals, but only agreed to the marriage request of the Owari Oda family, and one could not do it until two girls were satisfied, which had reached the point where it was completely impossible to understand the reason for this, and many samurai who claimed to be clever looked at each other with their heads and sad faces.

Uesugi Teruto, who was sitting in meditation with a rosary, slowly opened his eyes, and when he looked at Kira Yoshishi with a hint of puzzlement and confusion, he didn't open his eyes to see the samurai of the Owari Oda family from beginning to end, and in his opinion, the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, the only threat in Tokaido, became completely unmentionable, and it was really a little incomprehensible to marry this little-known Oda Nobunaga.

More than ninety percent of the samurai in the Great Hiroma didn't quite understand Kira's decision, but they didn't think about it because they didn't understand it at such a complicated level, but this can hurt Nanaoka and Honda Tokimasa and others, Hosokawa Fujitaka frowned and thought about it for a long time, and didn't get along, until he found Sanada Yutaka and said with a smile: "Your Highness's will will be heard!" Princess Agu and Princess Ashi are the women of the marriage party, and this matter cannot be violated! ”

"I'll go and contact the lord immediately, sorry for causing trouble to you, and take your leave!" Niwa Nagahide and his colleagues hurriedly got up and retired, and then Kira Yoshitoki got up and left to announce the end of the meeting.

Hosokawa Fujitaka hurriedly stopped Sanada Yutaka, who was about to leave, and said thoughtfully: "Sanada Dan Main Hall, please wait a while, I don't know what the significance of Dan Main Hall can see the significance of His Royal Highness's move?" I didn't know what the reason was for half an hour! ”

At this time, the samurai of the Kira family had not yet dispersed, and the important ministers of the genealogy who remained in the hall left relatively late because of their noble status, so they heard this speech clearly, Sanada Yutaka turned around and noticed that Uesugi Terutora was looking at him with burning eyes, so he said with a smile: "Actually, I am not sure what His Royal Highness is thinking about, but I just have the courage to guess one or two possibilities, and if I think about it carefully, I can probably be involved in the chaos of!" ”

"The Chaos refers to the Triple Alliance! However, this does not seem to have much to do with the Owari Oda family in Tokaido, and besides, does this Oda Danmasa Shao Chundaden have the ability to break into Kinai and destroy the Triple Alliance? Just think that the Owari weak soldiers should be powerless! Honda was looking at Sanada Yutaka with suspicion, as if he didn't trust the legend's judgment.

Langoka also felt that it was not very reliable, shook his head and said: "It is said that the lord of Mino Country, Isshiki Sakyo Daifuden, is a very outstanding samurai in both military and political affairs, and the people of Mino Country are in good weather under his rule. Therefore, it has won the love of both the people and the people of the United States. It's a lot stronger than his brutal and murderous Saito Michizo, who loves to dance.

And this His Royal Highness Oda Danmasa Shaozhong is the sister-in-law of the Ichishiki Sakyo Doctor's Palace. The two seem to be in trouble over the death of Saito Michizo, and His Royal Highness Oda Danmasa Shaozhong took out a letter of resignation that was said to have been written by Saito Michizo before his death, and used this to indicate that he was the actual lord of Mino Province and issued an order to crusade against Isshiki Sakyo Daifuden, and in recent years, he has fought several times intermittently at the junction of Mino Province and Owari Province without distinguishing the winner. ”

Saito Yoshiryu killed his father Saito Michizo with his own hands, and he changed his name to Isshiki Sakyo Doctor because he felt that he had no face to see people, and this name came from the Miao character brought by his mother's family, and his mother was the daughter of Dango's guardian Isshiki Sakyo Doctor Yoshikiyo, so he reluctantly said it with the Miao character of his mother's family.

And the wisdom of this Saito Yoshiryu is indeed not comparable to that of his brutal father. The people of Minoku often compare Saito Yoshiryu with Takeda Shingen, both of whom have a father who is cruel and murderous, and likes to abuse the people of the country, both of whom killed or exiled their fathers by violent means, and after taking power, they also abolished their father's brutal system, and tried to appease the people of the country to unite the family business all day long.

Regardless of whether these two people are at the same level, at least from the current point of view, it seems that the people of Mino can use the consequentialism to prove that Saito Yoshiryu is more powerful, or that the achievement of killing his father is better than that of exiled his father, and many people of Mino are sympathetic to what happened to the Kai Takeda clan.

In their opinion, this Takeda Shingen is too soft-hearted, if he killed his father in the first place. If the name of Dr. Oi Daizen is changed, it will not be a big deal, and maybe he will not be half-dead in the country of Kai like he is now. Of course, this is just their wishful thinking, and probably only the people of Minokoku will think that Saito Yoshiryu can be compared to Takeda Shingen.

There are many legends about Saito Yoshiryu, and most of them have become more and more bizarre when they have passed down to Echigo, and some people describe Saito Yoshiryu as a giant man with a green face and fangs and a height of seven feet, and many strange tricks to kill his father and dominate Mino, most of these statements are made up by the remnants of Saito Michizo and Oda Nobunaga, and a small number are casually fabricated by good deeds.

The genealogy of the Kira family naturally won't believe these messy legends, but purely for strategic considerations, they still feel that Saito Yoshiryu is more advantageous, for Honta's positive guessing eyes, Sanada Yutaka just shook his head disapprovingly and said: "I don't know if you have noticed a detail, that is, the information sent by Mochizuki Yasuki Shouden a few years ago mentioned that the Ishiki Sakyo Doctor Hall seems to be bedridden, and this disease can't see the light or the wind, do you know what kind of illness this is?" ”

“…… You can't see the light or the wind! Hondo was trembling in shock, and immediately blurted out: "Is it leprosy?" ”

Several samurai who had not left couldn't help but gasp, the so-called leprosy is also called leprosy is an incurable disease of this era, after the onset of the disease, the tumor on the face gradually festered and died, all the sick people have never survived safely, Saito Yoshiryu suffered from this terminal illness means that his life is short.

Of course, there is also a syphilis disease that is very similar to leprosy and is easy to confuse together, in this era Japan is just epidemic of syphilis, which is said to be an infectious disease brought back from the Ming Empire by a Ming envoy during the Yongzheng period, but a few doctors named it "Tang Sore" according to their own personal opinions, but in the relatively backward eastern country, it is still called "leprosy".

Hosokawa Fujitaka groaned, "Leprosy? It is indeed an incurable terminal disease! ”

"Only leprosy can explain it, and it is said that Dr. Isshiki Sakyo has not shown up for nearly a year." Sanada Yutaka said, "If you look at the new turmoil that will happen in Tokaido in the near future, it may not be a great opportunity. ”

"Doctor Isshiki Sakyo is suffering from such a terminal illness...... Uesugi Terutora shook his head and sighed, "Pity a consolidated minister loyal to the shogunate is passing away again." ”

Saito Yoshiryu's temperament is by no means as cruel and cruel as he showed when he killed his father, almost the opposite of his father Saito Michizo, who has always been very deferential to the shogunate and has a good relationship with the Rokkaku family in Kinai, and is regarded as a big supporter of the shogunate in Tokaido, but with Saito Yoshiryu's terminal illness, it may make the newly stabilized Minoku suffer from elbow and armpit again.

Hontashi thinks this makes sense, but he still has some questions he wants to express: "If Dr. Isshiki Sakyo dies, it doesn't necessarily mean that Oda Danmasa Shaozhong will be cheap, right?" ”

"It depends on His Royal Highness's opinion, if His Royal Highness is willing to support it, it won't be a problem!" Sanada Yutaka smiled and said: "I only think of so much in the eagerness, as for the more specific temptation, I am sorry not to speculate, farewell!" ”

Uesugi Terutora was silent for a moment and then got up and left, and gradually the samurai in the large wide room hurriedly dispersed, leaving only the two strategists sitting in place and thinking, Nanaoka Kazubo said with a smile: "Sanada Dan Zhengden is only halfway through the words, it seems that there is something to do with the meaning of the unfinished, in your opinion, what is the reason hidden in it?" ”

Honda nodded and said, "Sanada Dan Main Hall must have an idea that has not been spoken!" At least I haven't said why it's involved in the chaos in and the annoying Triple Alliance, and I'm trying to figure out the mystery, and it seems that I've found some clues but I'm not particularly sure, so I need to think about it carefully. (To be continued......)