After feeling that everything had been arranged, Gao Xianda bathed in incense and prepared to officially go to Nijo Castle to meet the general. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Who knows, the guards of Nijo Castle told Gao Xianda that the general had gone out more than two months ago and had not yet returned.

"Two months?" Gao Xianda muttered secretly. Two months ago, Gao Xianda had already started his journey to Shangluo, but he should not have started a war with the Hexagons yet.

At that time, the region should have been peaceful, and it stands to reason that the shogun, as the highest leader in the country, was busy with official business, so he should not leave his home for a long time. Even if you leave, you should just be walking around Kyoto and Sakai towns. But it is clear that neither place heard from the general.

Gao Xianda became suspicious in his heart, and carefully questioned the guard.

The guard thought he was a subordinate of the general, and his status was very high, and he was unwilling to deal with ordinary daimyos, and his face was full of indifference. Not only was he reluctant to communicate too much with Gao Xianda, but he even hinted at asking for bribes.

Gao Xianda is now the real transcendent status, so he didn't want to entangle with the guards at the bottom, so he ordered his subordinates to give the guard fifty yuan and let him go back to buy wine and drink.

Even if this guard is usually extortion, he actually doesn't have much oil and water. This time, seeing that Gao Xianda seemed to be a rich family, he tested it. Unexpectedly, Gao Xianda directly sold fifty yuan, so he secretly asked Gao Xianda's subordinates who this noble man in front of him was.

When he knew that Gao Xianda was the head of the Imagawa Army, who was now famous all over the world, the guard immediately became intimidated.

Gao Xianda is known as the "Flame Demon of Guanyin Temple City", and his reputation is very fierce. Although Gao Xianda is already trying his best to beautify his reputation, how can a good name spread as fast as a bad name? What's more, Gao Xianda's record of burning 50,000 people is also true.

After this guard was afraid of offending Gao Xianda, he was arrested by Gao Xianda and burned back. So he said that he didn't dare to take the money that Gao Xianda rewarded him.

"It's okay, it's okay. I've decided to reward you, and you can take the money. Gao Xianda said as kindly as possible, "But about the general, you'd better tell me in detail." ”

The guard hurriedly told him what he knew.

Of course, he is a guard at the gate of the city, how can he have any qualifications to inquire about the general's movements, many things are also hearsay, just to curry favor with Gao Xianda, so some of them have not said a lot.

Gao Xianda felt that something was wrong when he listened to it, and there were many contradictions in the words of this guard.

Gao Xianda's eyes widened, and he said, "If you know, you can say it, and if you don't know, don't say it." If you talk nonsense, be careful that I burn you!" ”

The guard was startled for a moment, and swallowed it back immediately. It turns out that Imagawa really doesn't only have a kind side, his angry look is so scary!

This guard knew that Gao Xianda was going to play the real thing, so he didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, so he explained the truth. In fact, they were also on duty in turns, and he only knew that the general was not in the city now, and he could not tell when the general had left, nor where he had gone.

He just wanted to please Gao Xianda, so he made up a lot of them.

Gao Xianda frowned and nodded.

Ashikaga Yoshiki has always been known as a sword general, he is not only high in martial arts, but also pays attention to his image, and he is very beautiful wherever he goes. How could it just disappear?

The more Gao Xianda listened, the more suspicious he became, and said, "So in the days when you were in office, did anything strange happen?" ”

Coincidentally, during that time, he did work for a few days. He clearly remembered that Matsunaga Shu of the Miyoshi family had come to visit the shogun.

It stands to reason that because the general had been attacked by the elite troops of the Miyoshi family, he hated the Miyoshi family to the core, and he had already declared the Miyoshi family an enemy. And Matsunaga Hide, as an important minister of the Miyoshi family, is actually not supposed to see him.

But in fact, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was promoted to general by Miyoshi Nagakei at the beginning, and he also had the credit of Matsunaga Hide.

Matsunaga is a slippery person, very opportunistic, and good at vassal elegance, and often comes to have a relationship with the general. So the personal relationship between Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Matsunaga Shu is still quite good.

As Ashikaga Yoshiteru became a shogun, his power gradually increased, and the Miyoshi family, as the guardian of, inevitably had some friction with the shogun. And the relationship between the Ashikaga family and the Miyoshi family has always been maintained by Matsunaga Hide.

Therefore, although Matsunaga Shu was only a retainer of the Miyoshi family and did not have any decent official position, he was more popular in Nijo Castle than the daimyo in many places.

In the past, Matsu Nagahide didn't need too many procedures to come to visit the general, and it was enough to pass it through.

But the guard clearly remembered that this time when Matsunaga walked away, he was in a very unpleasant mood, and it seemed that there was a conflict with the general. Since then, no one seems to have seen Matsunaga Shu again.

"Matsunaga Hide?" When Gao Xianda heard this name, he had already begun to think about it, but for a while, Gao Xianda did not come up with the connection.

But in reality, Matsunaga Shu was the only important minister of the Miyoshi family who survived the fire of Kannonji Castle. And even the head of the family, Miyoshi Yoshixing, doesn't know his whereabouts.

Gao Xianda felt that there must be a problem in the middle.

So Gao Xianda said quietly: "I see." Since the general is not here, I will come back to visit the general another day. ”

Gao Xianda immediately hurried back to Beijing Town and told Meng Yan about it.

Meng Yan said: "It stands to reason that Ashikaga Yoshiteru's position as a general is becoming more and more stable, and he has gradually begun to meddle in the affairs between the daimyo. The Miyoshi family naturally didn't want to see an uncontrollable general, so the contradiction between the two families became deeper and deeper. According to the normal plot, it should be that the three of Miyoshi and Matsunaga Shu led their troops to rush into Nijo Castle and kill Ashikaga Yoshiteru. This incident was supposed to have happened before Oda Nobunaga Kamiraku, but because we went to Rakuro ahead of schedule, it is likely that the time for the assassination of the shogun also happened earlier. ”

"It seems that you also think that the general has been murdered by Matsunaga Shu?" Gao Xianda Road.

"If not, where might he go?" Meng Yan asked rhetorically, "Even Matsunagase's home city, Xingui Mountain City, has now been surrendered to us. And Matsunaga Shu is as missing as the general, you don't think that the two of them are working together to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, right? ”

"Looks like we're going to have to go to Nijo Castle to find out." Gao Xianda Road.