Katsuhisa walked up the long staircase of Gifu Castle, and each step seemed more nervous; Last night, I imagined countless scenes of meeting the Great Demon King, and I also thought about how to answer him; But when I really arrived in the city, I was inevitably nervous.

The Rika led Katsuhisa to wait in the compartment in Honmaru, where there were already five or six samurai waiting, all of whom seemed to want to meet Oda Nobunaga as much as he did.

During the waiting period, the Rika instructed him to be respectful, not to contradict Nobunaga, and not to talk too much if he found that Nobunaga was in a bad mood at the time of the meeting; He also revealed to Katsuhisa that Nobunaga intended to send troops to Tanba, and this country also belongs to the Sangami Road; Katsuhisa couldn't be more grateful for that.

The two of them didn't know how long they had been waiting, their feet were numb, and watching all kinds of people coming and going in the corridor, the Oda family was really busy!

Finally a small Nobunaga surnamed came to them:

"Which one is Katsuhisa-sama Niko?"

When Katsuhisa heard the call to himself, he hurriedly replied:

"Exactly down there."

"Please follow me."

"Oh!"

Katsuhisa stood up with the discomfort of numbness in his feet, and the people around him cast envious glances.

The Li family next to him also got up and wanted to go over together, but was stopped by the little surname:

"The lord did not invite Lord Li."

The Rika family could only pout their lips and did not follow them anymore, but turned around and walked to the mother's clothes Zhongyashiki halfway up the mountain, and found the guy Neizosuke (Sasa Seimasa) to practice his hands.

On Katsuhisa's side, he followed the little one all the way to the outside of the palace, where Nobunaga and his retainers worked, and waited outside a slightly smaller wide room.

"Lord Qi, Lord Nizi Katsuhisa asks to see me."

A moment later, the door was pushed open, and it was Nobunaga's favorite little surname, Mori Ranmaru, who took Katsuhisa's saber away and then made a gesture of please.

I saw several important ministers of the Oda family sitting on both sides, and the man with a serious but rather heroic face on the main seat was undoubtedly Oda Nobunaga.

Katsuhisa kept in mind the instructions of the Li family, sat down cross-legged in the distance with his head down, and bowed with his hands on the ground:

"Nison Shiro Katsuhisa pays a visit to His Highness Oda Danmasa."

Katsuhisa lowered his head, a little nervously waiting for Nobunaga's reply, but he didn't hear a voice for a long time; What's the situation? That's not how to play tricks!

At this time, Nobunaga, who was sitting on the first seat, put down the handwritten letter of Murai Sadakatsu in his hand, and said to Katsuhisa in the hall:

"Hear Zhensheng say that you are a disciple of Master Huisheng?"

"Oh! He practiced at Tofukuji Temple for several years. ”

"Isn't it good to stay in the monastery? The world is chaotic enough, what can a monk do. ”

Hahaha~

Nobunaga's sudden taunt made the Oda retainers present laugh, and they all stared at Katsuhisa as if they were laughing at it.

Katsuhisa's originally somewhat nervous mood was instantly replaced by anger, he clenched his hands into fists, raised his head and replied to Nobunaga:

"I spent my life chasing and fleeing since I was a child, and the Maori family still refused to let me go during my training in Kyoto; If you will only cowardly escape, you will be in vain after the reputation of the source courtier Sasaki Gao; If you don't fight to the death for the revival of Nizi, how can you meet your ancestors under the Yellow Spring? ”

The hall fell silent amid Katsuhisa's resounding answer, and Nobunaga, who was staring at Katsuhisa, smiled playfully.

Suddenly, Lin Xiuzhen turned sideways to Katsujiu and said:

"So you want the family to help you reclaim Izumo? It's a pity that the Maori family is not the enemy of their own family. ”

Katsuhisa also let it go, although he didn't know the attitude of the important ministers of the Oda family, but he knew what Oda Nobunaga wanted, so he replied to Lin Xiuzhen:

"The Maori family dominates the yin and yang, how can the Maori Yuan stop here, and if he doesn't defeat the Maori in the future, do you want Nobunaga to stop at Gyeonggi?"

"Presumptuous!"

Shibata Katsuie yelled at Katsuhisa, and was then stopped by Oda Nobunaga's eyes.

Nobunaga closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead, and asked Katsuhisa:

"What do you want from me?"

"I didn't think anything about it."

Nobunaga's hand rubbing his forehead froze when he heard this, opened his eyes and looked at this interesting fellow, and chuckled:

"Aren't you here to surrender to me?"

After Katsuhisa took a deep breath, he bowed to Nobunaga again:

"Katsuhisa came here this time just to show his heart, and he was humble and didn't dare to ask for the courtesy of Nobunaga."

After a pause, he raised his head and looked at Oda Nobunaga with a sincere face, and continued:

"The Maori family, who owns the land of the ten kingdoms, will be a great trouble for the Oda family; At this time, the Mori family was busy attacking Shikoku Kyushu, and the Oda family was also anxious to pacify the countries of Kinai, and the Hokuriku Asakura family was not on good terms with the Oda family, and there would be a war in the future, both Mori and Oda needed time, and in the next wish to fight for this time for His Royal Highness, then Seto Waterway, Yama**, Sanyo Road, three ways go hand in hand!

The road of Sanyo Road is flat and easy for the Oda family army to march, and the Nizi army will attack on the Sanyin Road, and the Oda water army will contain the Maori army, so that the Maori family will take care of one and the other; It can also calmly adjust the anti-Maori daimyo in Kyushu, forming a pincer attack, and the Maori family will die!

In the lower wish, Niko and Oda reached an alliance, and if they were lucky enough to recapture Izumo from the Mori family, they asked Nobunaga to ensure that they would be safe in Shimoto, and the Niko family would wait for Nobunaga's dispatch. ”

Katsuhisa's words directly brought the Mori family and the Oda family to a situation of equal competition for the world, and some retainers thought about it if the Mori family pacified Shikoku or Kyushu before the Oda family, then the Oda family would really be passive; Shibata Katsuie, who was dissatisfied with Katsuhisa's big words just now, also changed his opinion of Katsuhisa at this time.

But none of the people here are stupid, and the things in front of them have not been done well, how can they think about the future?

Although the retainers of the Oda family were surprised that Niko Katsuhisa had such an opinion at such a young age, many of the Retainers of the Oda family could not do so; But what's the point of the extinct family of the Nizi allied with the family? It's a shame.

"Three ways to go together, interesting!"

Nobunaga thought in his heart, originally thought that Niko Katsuhisa would pretend to be pitiful like someone and cry for help, but he didn't expect it to be like this, I underestimated the heroes of the world!

It seems that there is no harm in accepting this little brother, although he does not believe that Katsuhisa will be able to recapture Izumo on his own, but the influence of the Niko family in the mountain ** is still worth using.

"I agree to your request."

"My lord... This! ”

When many of the Oda retainers heard Nobunaga say this, they all looked at Nobunaga in bewilderment.

Oda Nobunaga completely ignored the opinions of these retainers, and he continued to Naiko Katsuhisa:

"I admire your courage, and before the Battle of the Barrel Narrows, the world thought I was nothing more than a mantis arm; But as a samurai, it is admirable to perform miracles with the impossible. ”

At this time, Nobunaga got up, took one of the three knives behind him, and walked up to Katsuhisa:

"This knife is called Sosanzuo script, it is Imagawa Yoshimoto's saber, and I got it in the narrow room of the barrel, so take it! I hope you understand the meaning of giving you this knife. ”

Katsuhisa trembled a little and took the text of Sosanzuo, he didn't expect Oda Nobunaga to give him a famous knife, of course, he also understood that this was Nobunaga who wanted to inspire himself with his story, so he hurriedly said:

"I am determined to live up to Nobunaga's expectations."

Nobunaga didn't care about the famous swords, and for him to find the most suitable person to use them for these knives, so that they could play the role of these knives, and lying quietly on the sword platform was just a dead thing, so Nobunaga would give the sword to others at every turn, whether it was Oda Naomi or others.

He originally wanted to give Katsuhisa [Great Prajna Nagamitsu], which was one of Ashikaga Yoshiki's love swords, but seeing Katsuhisa seemed to see himself who had struggled in a difficult situation, and he believed that fate was created by himself rather than gods and Buddhas; So I gave Katsukuzong three left words, I hope I didn't look away.

"I support you with 50 iron cannons and 500 gold, and I will give you Zongsanzuo text, hoping that you can bring me the saber of Maori Yuan."

Katsuhisa was overjoyed, but he didn't expect Oda Nobunaga to be so generous, so he hurriedly promised:

"Oh! With the king of Fudo Ming on top, Niko Katsuhisa will hand over the saber of Mori Motoshi to His Highness Nobunaga in his lifetime! ”

Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly, he never believed in the oath, all he wanted was the result, the result he was satisfied with.