At dawn, the rain finally stopped. The rising sun shone on the castle tower of Yamashiro, Yoshida-gun, but the corridor from the main porch of the courtyard to the Mori Motosho room was still very dim.

"Is my father awake?" His son-in-law, Mori Takamoto, stepped on the newly laid tatami mat and came to Mori Mototo's room and asked.

"Come in." The voice of Mori Motokai rang out in the room. In fact, Mori Moto, who was fifty-two years old (the age of an old man in this era), had always been accustomed to waking up early, so Mori Takamoto, who knew what his father was used to, dared to come and disturb his father at this time.

"Father-in-law, this is a letter that my father-in-law just sent from the Zhoufang Dauchi Pavilion to send an urgent letter." After entering the house and saluting Mori Yuan, Mori Takagen immediately presented an envelope that was still sealed in front of Mori Yuan.

"Huh?" Suddenly, he received an urgent letter from Yoshitaka Ouchi, which surprised Mori Moto. Not long ago, at the request of Mori Motomasa, Ouchi Yoshitaka sent the Ouchi family army to attack Kamibe Castle, the home city of the Yamana family, which guarded the Yamana family, together with the forces of the Mori family.

Unlike what is recorded in history, in history, the Mori Yuan invaded Bigo and China while integrating the power of the family. However, after being stimulated by the sudden rise of the Luo family and the vigilance of Masara's original self-defeating arrangement in Yasui, Mori Yuan risked arousing the vigilance of Yoshitaka Ouchi, and formed the Liangchuan system of the Mori family in advance, and then tightened the hierarchical order in the family, from cronies to genealogies to outsiders to local tyrants, and ruled at all levels. A solid feudal family system was established. The method pursued by Mori Motoshi was different from the retainer system that Takeda Shingen had implemented at home. But the so-called different paths lead to the same end. The strict system of retainers provided the basis for the Maori family's strategy.

For several years. Through the marriage between his son-in-law Mori Takamoto and the adopted daughter of Yoshitaka Ouchi (Naito Yoshimori's own woman was adopted by Yoshitaka Ouchi as an adopted daughter and married to Mori Takagen as the main room), he strengthened the connection with the Ouchi family, and also won the trust of Yoshitaka Ouchi through some small means (Yoshiko Ouchi's last words to all important retainers before his death: "The Motoshi of Aki must be firmly mastered, otherwise it will be unimaginable", but at this time it was forgotten by Yoshitaka Ouchi and others). With the support of the Ouchi family, the Mori family quickly infiltrated from Aki Province to Bigo Province on the northern shore of the Seto Inland Sea and the southern region of Bichugo. Even at this time, there was a confrontation with the power of the Niko family in the central region of Bigo Province and Beichugoku.

Quickly opened the letter bag sent by Yoshitaka Ouchi, and then Mao Li Yuan looked at the letter in the bag, and after reading the letter, he first groaned for a while, and then sighed and said:

"When I jointly attacked Izumo of the Nizi family, I reminded the Probe that he must pay close attention to the Luo family Masashi, but unfortunately the Probe Lord was negligent in the end, and now the Luo family is already powerful, and even joined forces with the Nizi family to deal with the family."

"Huh?" Suddenly hearing the news that the Luo family and the Nizi family had united, Mao Li Takashino couldn't help but change his face greatly. Now whether it is the Nizi family or the Luo family. It's all the power of the daimyo that can give the Ouchi family camp a headache.,Now the two daimyo have joined forces to deal with the Ouchi family.。 It's really not a good thing for the Maori family, who belong to the camp of the Ouchi family. Once the Ouchi family is tired of dealing with the attack of these two families, then it is natural that they will not be able to divide their forces to support the Mori family's strategy in Bigo Province and China, and the Mori family will have to fight against these local forces and the support army of the Niko family alone.

"It is obviously unwise to confront the Luo family head-on, and there may be some small means that can plunge the Luo family into civil strife, so that the Ouchi family can have sufficient troops to support the strategy of this direction of the family, which is the most beneficial to the family." Mao Liyuan said suddenly, obviously he had thought of some way to deal with the Luo family.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered someone to bring pen, ink, paper, and handwritten a letter, and ordered someone to send it to Ouchi Yoshitaka of the Zhou Defense Ouchi Pavilion urgently, and then said to his son-in-law, Mori Takamoto:

"Go and invite the samurai who intercepted a few days ago, and the success or failure of this strategy depends on him."

……

"This is what kind of thing is it called? It tastes so good! Just when Mori Yuan was thinking about the Luo family, in front of a fire in a forest west of Gojo River in Kiyosu Castle in Owari Province, a young man who looked to be about fifteen years old was holding a burnt sweet potato in one hand, touching his lips that had turned black from eating the skin of the burnt sweet potato directly in the other, and exclaimed loudly.

This young man is naturally Oda Kamisuke Nobunaga, who almost unified the Wa Kingdom in the future. A few years ago, because he deliberately set fire to Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo's Kiyoshu Castle, which made Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo very angry, so after extinguishing the fire, he immediately raised troops to kill Oda Nobuhide in Furuto Castle. The latter simply wiped out the Oda Hikogoro Nobuyo clan in the following two years. Kiyosu Castle, which originally fell into the hands of Oda Nobunaga after nearly ten years, has now fallen into the hands of Oda Nobunaga's father, Oda Nobunaga, ahead of schedule.

It is estimated that Oda Nobunaga is indeed incompatible with Oda Hikogoro Nobuyo. Historically, after Nobuhide's death, Nobunaga succeeded him. The faithful, on the other hand, supported Nobuyuki as the successor to the position of governor and turned against Nobunaga, and drew up a plan for Nobunaga's murder. However, Owari guardian Yoshitomi Spo, who had long been regarded as a puppet regime by his faithful, had secretly told Nobunaga about the murder plan in advance. Furious by this, the faithful killed Yoshitong while he and his son-in-law, Spo Yoshigin, were leading their troops to hunt in the river (Kawa Hunt or Kawa Hunting). As a result, the Spo clan fled to Nobunaga for protection, along with his younger brothers Mori Hideyori and Tsugawa Yoshito, who named Nobunaga as a rebel in the killing of Yoshitomo and ordered his uncle Oda Nobumitsu (the lord of Moriyama Castle) to kill him.

As a result, the guardian of the four prefectures of Owari Shimo, the Kiyosu Oda family, perished, and Nobunaga of the Oda family became the head of the Oda family. Since then, Nobunaga has embarked on the road to unification of Owari (and then Nobunaga and Oda Nobukiyo, the lord of Inuyama Castle, defeated the old enemy of the Kiyosu Oda family, the Oda Ichigoku clan, the guardian of the Oda Ichigoku clan, the guardian of the four prefectures, Oda Nobuyan, in the Battle of Ukino, and exiled him. And the Spo Yoshigin, who was appointed as the new puppet guardian, and the Ishibashi clan of the Spo clan, and the Kira clan, who are also Ashikaga clans, conspired against Nobunaga, and Nobunaga was aware of this. He banished Yoshiin to Kyoto, where the Ashikaga Shogun's family was located. Since then, Owari has been unified).

However, these are the original historical records. Now Oda Nobunaga is nearly ten years ahead of schedule, causing a conflict between Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo and his father Oda Nobuhide, and then Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo is destroyed in advance, and Owari's guardian Spo Yoshitomo has become Oda Nobuhide's puppet again. In this way, at least after Oda Nobunaga succeeded to the throne, there would be much less resistance to quelling the civil strife in the family and unifying Owari.

However, Oda Nobunaga was also reprimanded by some of his retainers for setting fire to Kiyosu Castle and causing a civil war in the Oda family, but these reproaches were blocked by Oda Nobuhide (it is estimated that Oda Nobunaga had been thinking about how to attack Kiyosu Castle before, and this move by his son-in-law Nobunaga just gave him the confidence to make a decision and an excuse to attack). Of course. Even with Oda Nobuhide as a shield, Oda Nobunaga is becoming more and more unsuitable as the heir to the family governor in the eyes of some retainers. As a result, the call for the abolition of the long and the young swelled again.

At this time, Oda Nobunaga didn't seem to care about such a thing at all. Since his family got Cheongju Castle, he often rode a horse from his fiefdom Nakono Castle to Cheongju Castle, and then rode his beloved horse to inspect the bazaar opened under Cheongju Castle in a grand manner. Today, a merchant accidentally bought a few divine melons from Kyushu, so he ran with his entourage to roast them in the woods by the nearby river.

"Anyway, this guy called the Kyushu Eagle is really powerful, he actually planted such a delicious thing in the territory, if the family could also grow these things in the territory, it would be great." Oda Nobunaga picked up the last melon and ate it in a big gulp. At the same time, I didn't forget to give some reviews.

Chiyo Maeda Inu (i.e., Maeda Toshiie), who was eating half a divine melon in small bites, muttered in his heart: "Such a delicacy is so easy to grow." Even if the lord wants to, he will start slowly. The people are not willing to plant crops they have never seen before, after all, it is a matter of survival whether they can eat enough. Besides, I don't know how to grow these delicious delicacies, and the vendor only knows that these Zhengliang melons are delicious, but I don't know how to grow them? ”

During this period, although a small part of the sweet potatoes unique to the Luo family's territory had begun to flow to various parts of the Wa Kingdom, the people in other regions did not know how to grow these sweet potatoes.

In fact, both the sweet potato itself and the rhizome of the sweet potato can be grown. The general planting method is to first plant a small number of sweet potatoes as seeds into the ground, and after these seeds grow rhizomes and vines, then continue to cut these rhizomes and vines as seeds, and insert them into the soil to grow new sweet potato saplings. And so on, and continue to expand the cultivation of sweet potatoes through rhizomes and vines.

It's just that people in this period, after getting sweet potatoes, ate them as a delicacy (even the skin of sweet potatoes, as well as the rhizomes and vines that can be used as dishes), so naturally there is no chance to discover the characteristics of sweet potatoes that can be cultivated through rhizomes and vines. This characteristic was finally discovered by the world more than ten years later, after the Luo family became the overlord. Before that, they only knew that in order to grow more sweet potatoes, they could only bury sweet potatoes as seeds in the soil to grow.

"Inuchiyo, do you think that Kyushu Eagle is really as powerful as the vendor said? It is said that they are now the overlords of Kyushu. Oda Nobunaga continued to ask.

"This? The villain doesn't know what to do? Hearing that the young master was talking to himself, Maeda Inu Chiyo hurriedly put down the sweet potato in his hand with a little reluctance, and then saluted and said.

But Nobunaga threw the half-eaten sweet potato over with a snort, then sat down and said, "Don't just worry about the delicious food in your hand. Bastard! Say, what would you do if it were you? About rescuing my brother Nobuhiro in the first place. ”

"He's in the hands of an adversary!" Nobunaga gritted his teeth again in hatred. Changing questions in an instant, as if deliberately teasing the other person and catching him off guard, so that he could laugh at the other person, is indeed a way of speaking that is unique to Nobunaga.

At the beginning of the loss of Ansho Castle, the Zen master of Ueno Castle sent an envoy to negotiate with Oda Nobuhide, and finally exchanged Nobuhiro for Takechiyo (that is, Tokugawa Ieyasu) to return to Enoe, Maeda Inu Chiyo was naturally very clear. But isn't this the end of the matter? I'm afraid that Takechiyo has also arrived at the Junfu Castle of the Toe Imagawa family at this time, what else is there to say? Besides, such a thing is not something that his little attendant can discuss! So he immediately said:

"Young master, the villain is just a martial artist who serves the young master, and he doesn't understand literature and reason. From the text to the martial arts, if the martial arts are allowed to override the text, then the family will be in chaos. Even if it is the order of the young master, if we reverse right and wrong, we will never obey it. So the villain can't answer such a question. ”

"Hahaha, you guy." Nobunaga smiled when he heard this, but then his eyes sharpened, and he said in a deep voice, "Nobuhiro and Takechiyo are not the same in terms of strength. Nobuhiro had been persuaded by the enemy to become a traitor, and he did not know that he had fallen into the enemy's trap. Although Takechiyo is still a child, he has a spirit of not being afraid of danger, and as a hostage, he insists that he is a general. If he is allowed to go back, it will be tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain. Even if the hostages are not exchanged this time, Nobuhiro will not be killed. Because killing him won't help. The Imagawa clan will definitely let him live so that it can come in handy in due course. There is a big difference between the cards they have and the cards we have. ”

At the time of the discussion at the Oda family's Imagawa family, Nobunaga did not agree to exchange Takechiyo for a reply to Shinhiro. In his opinion, if the Imagawa family wants to kill Nobuhiro, Owari will kill Chiyo Take. As soon as Takechiyo dies, everyone in Okazaki will be scattered. Once they disperse, the Imagawa family will lose their combat effectiveness. So it's certain that Imagawa won't kill Nobuhiro. If negotiations cannot be conducted on an equal footing, the Owari side will be at a disadvantage from the outset. However, Nobunaga's status in the family at this time was not enough to attract the attention of others, so his father did not agree with him, and even reprimanded Nobunaga for being too cold-blooded and ignoring his brother's life and death.

"Regardless of my brother's life and death? This sentence came from the mouth of the father who had made his guardian a puppet, which is also ridiculous. Nobunaga muttered to himself. For a while, the position of the governor, which was originally dispensable in his opinion, now seems to have a certain role.

"The position of the governor will only belong to me, Oda Nobunaga. No one wants to snatch it! Thinking of this, Nobunaga shouted fiercely in his heart.

"Let's go, Inuchiyo, don't forget to bring the Masara melon I just threw at you, I haven't finished eating it yet." After speaking, Nobunaga first mounted the war horse on the side, pulled the reins, turned the horse's head, and headed in the direction of Nakono Castle.

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