The record of winning three cities in a row in Kaga in one night made Long Tao famous, and many low-level samurai came to join him.

However, none of their abilities meet Long Tao's requirements, what he needs is a military general who can take charge on his own, and the kind that can lead troops to fight after being recruited.

Long Tao thought back to the plot of the game and found that in the current period, there didn't seem to be any outstanding general-type ronin in each town.

The more famous fierce generals, such as Shibata Katsuie, Honda Tadakatsu, etc., or more capable and all-round characters such as Hosokawa Fujitaka and Takenaka Hanbei and others, have already served under other daimyos, and it is much more difficult to win over these people than to recruit ronin.

Relying on a "hint" of ninjutsu alone, the success rate of wooing is not large, and the other party may not be tempted even if it takes a lot of effort.

After all, if these people followed Long Tao, it would be equivalent to betraying the original daimyo, which required a lot of determination.

Long Tao remembered another skill that can improve the success rate of persuasion - the heart of virtue, this skill needs to be practiced to the fourth level to obtain, which can affect the other party's mind, and most importantly, this skill can be used at the same time as "hint", and under the superposition of the two, the possibility of successful persuasion will be greatly increased.

Ashikaga Yoshi's tea ceremony skills at this time were two-level, and Long Tao thought that he was already a daimyo at this moment, and he would inevitably have to associate with various dignitaries and nobles in the future, so he decided to go to Sakai no Town to practice the tea ceremony, and by the way, he learned the "heart of virtue".

Sakai no Machi still looks so lively and prosperous, but the dominant force behind this prosperity has already quietly changed.

Naya is still thriving, but the owner is no longer Imai Munehisa, Rafi Yale has lost his biggest partner, and the Kastor Chamber of Commerce is finally slowly squeezed out of Sakai no Machi.

When Long Tao arrived in Sakai, the Jacobt Chamber of Commerce had set up a new Nanban Merchant House here, where he met the sisters Lilu and Goya.

The two daughters were pleasantly surprised, and threw themselves into his arms to tell their feelings of longing, and Long Tao naturally comforted the two daughters.

Drove away the Astor Chamber of Commerce, the entire Japanese market will be occupied by the Jacobt Chamber of Commerce, Lilu is quite excited, Long Tao took the opportunity to order a large number of firearms from her, Lilu agreed, promised to personally send the firearms to Kaga, by the way to visit Long Tao's territory.

After lingering with the second daughter for three days, Long Tao came to Qianzongyi's tearoom and began to learn the tea ceremony, which took eighty days to move from two to four levels.

As soon as he left the tea room, a ninja who had been waiting here for a long time hurriedly stepped forward to report that the Echizen Asakura family wanted to go to Kaga, and the military situation was urgent, and he was asked to return to Kaga as soon as possible.

"How long have you been waiting here?" Long Tao asked, when he entered the secret room to learn skills, he was cut off from the outside world, so he had to confirm the time when this information was delivered.

"It's been twelve days."

"It's been so long." Long Tao frowned and said, "In this way, it is very likely that the Asakura family has already invaded Kaga. ”

The ninja replied respectfully: "Not necessarily, Lord Takekawa just thinks that Asakura must be the first to make a move, so when he found out that the Asakura family began to prepare for war, he immediately sent a small one to come, if the war has started at this time, there should be the latest news." ”

"So, it's not just Asakura who wants to attack Kaga." Long Tao smiled coldly, "Let's go back to Kaga quickly, and talk as we walk on the road." ”

"Yes!"

From the mouth of the ninja, Long Tao learned about the changes in the past two months, and only then did he know that Kaga was in a dangerous situation surrounded by enemies.

For the vast majority of the Sengoku daimyos, Ichimune had always been a thorn in the side, and they instigated peasant revolts and launched a rebellion to shake the rule of the daimyo.

The daimyo had always hated this thorny trouble, but Ryutao defeated Kaga's Honganji forces, expelled the followers of the Ichishu, and killed those who were stubborn, and many of the daimyo secretly applauded.

The daimyo who were farther away were not hostile to him, but it was normal for several daimyo around Kaga to covet this new force.

However, firstly, Long Tao's name for the Ashikaga family has a certain deterrent effect, and secondly, his record in using troops also makes them fearful, and the expulsion of Isakimune from the country has played a certain role in blocking and buffering, so in the past few months, Kaga and the surrounding forces have been at peace.

Until last month, the shogunate issued a shogun's order, and the Kaga Ashikaga clan used the "two lead two" family crest without authorization, which was rude and arrogant, and called on the surrounding daimyo to ask for it.

In fact, this situation was expected when Long Tao and the others decided to use the "two lead two" family crest, but they didn't expect it to come so quickly.

According to Long Tao's consideration, at this time, Ashikaga Yoshiki should be busy with how to take back the general's power, and he should not decide whether to treat him, a new Ashikaga powerhouse, whether he is an enemy or a friend.

Later, the ninjas spied on and learned that the reason why the shogunate issued the crusade order so quickly was because Honganji Temple was behind it.

The Honganji family has prospered because of its traditional sect, and after several generations of development, its strength has become stronger and stronger, but in the eyes of other forces, it has always been just a religious temple and social force, not orthodox.

This situation was not improved until the current head of Honganji Temple, the 11th generation head of the Ichizo sect, Honganji Xianru, succeeded to the throne.

Xianru first married Hosokawa Harumoto's adopted daughter and the third daughter of the left minister Sanjo Gongyori.

The Hosokawa family had always held the position of steward in the Muromachi shogunate, and the shogun of the Ashikaga family fell into the hands of the Hosokawa clan.

And Hosokawa Harumoto's own daughter married Asakura Yoshikage, and the second daughter of Sanjo Koyori married Takeda Shingen, so that the Honganji family had a brother-in-law relationship with the Asakura family and the Takeda family.

Subsequently, Xianru donated a large amount of money to the imperial court and the shogunate respectively, and all his efforts finally succeeded, and Xianru obtained the official position of "Quan Monk Zheng" and officially became one of the daimyos.

Long Tao took over the Kaga of the Honganji family, and it was obvious that he would not give up, and with his relationship with the imperial court and the shogunate, it should not be difficult for the shogun to issue a crusade order.

Although in this era, the shogunate's orders no longer have enough weight, and many daimyo are just used as a guise for justification, and those who are beneficial to themselves will be executed, and those who are not profitable will be ignored, Xianru is also well aware of this, but his order happens to be beneficial to those daimyos, Kaga is a treasure, who doesn't want to get a piece of the pie?

As a result, at the instigation of Honganji, the daimyo around Kaga finally took action, and the Asakura family in Echizen, the Jiboho family in Echichu, and the Tayama family in Noto were all ready to move.

The most active of them is naturally the Asakura family, firstly, Asakura Yoshikei and Honganji Temple have a brother-in-law relationship, and secondly, the Asakura family is also the strongest among them.

However, in the eyes of Long Tao, who is familiar with the plot of the game, the Asakura family has nothing to fear.

Yoshikage's ancestors once created a glorious period for the Asakura family, because they fought with Ichichi all the year round, and even had a military god like Asakura Sodr, but at this time Asakura Sotsuya was dead, Asakura Yoshikei was cowardly and incompetent, and he never dared to set foot on the battlefield in his life, and was finally destroyed by Oda Nobunaga in history.

"It seems that we are going to rob Nobunaga's prey, so let's take the Asakura family first!"

After Long Tao asked about the situation, he left the ninja behind, and he suddenly accelerated and rushed to Kaga.