Jingzhen's words surprised Takeda Shintora, he sat up straight, squinted his eyes and said:

"It turned out to be the envoy of the palace in front of him, and the minister was really disrespectful. However, when things happened suddenly, can His Royal Highness Jingzhen inform the foreign ministers why the Gongfang Palace suddenly summoned the foreign ministers to Shangluo? ”

"A few days ago, the combined forces of Hosokawa and Urakami were defeated at Tennoji Temple in Settsu at the hands of Miyoshi Gencho, and the commander-in-chief, Hosokawa Takakuni, committed suicide in defeat."

"What, has Lord Gao returned to the West! No wonder the Gongfang Palace is so eager to summon the foreign ministers to Shangluo, so it is. Jingzhen's answer seemed to be unrelated, but how could Takeda Shintora, who had experienced two generations of generals and the Lianghosokawa Rebellion, not know the key points, and suddenly understood.

Hosokawa Takakuni is the adopted son of Hosokawa Masamoto, the former head of the Hosokawa clan (Kyozhao family), because Hosokawa Masagen has no children under his knees, the family forces around the succession of the three adopted sons of Hosokawa Sumiyuki, Hosokawa Sumimoto, and Hosokawa Takakuni are divided into three factions and set off civil strife.

In the fourth year of Eisho (1507), Hosokawa Sumiyuki (Kujo Masaki's son, born in the Kujo clan), who had no Hosokawa clan bloodline and had the fewest supporters, decided to strike first, and united with the inner Yakushi Temple Nagatashi and Kasai Motocho to assassinate Hosokawa Masamoto and establish himself as the main leader, and at the same time sent troops to attack the Hosokawa Sumimoto faction, which had the most supporters and the strongest power (Hosokawa Branch, Awa guarded Hosokawa Yoshiharu's son, and won the support of Awa's local forces such as the Miyoshi clan).

Although Hosokawa Sumiyuki obtained permission to inherit the Hosokawa Kyyosho family from the current shogun Ashikaga Yoshisumi, due to his bloodline and evil deeds such as killing lords and fathers, he was collectively resisted by the Hosokawa clan, and the two factions of Hosokawa Sumimoto and Hosokawa Takakuni also temporarily united, and a month later they crusaded against and killed Hosokawa Sumiyuki, Kasai Motocho, and Yakushiji Nagatada. After the war, Hosokawa Takakuni recognized Hosokawa Sumimoto's position as the governor, and the remaining two factions temporarily made peace.

The good times did not last long, and in the following year (1508), Ashikaga Yoshinoki, the former shogunate who had been deposed by Hosokawa Masamoto, raised an army in Shangraku with the support of Ouchi Yoshiko, the lord of the Western Kingdom, with the intention of regaining the position of shogun. Hosokawa Sumimoto was naturally not to be outdone, calling friends and gathering people to prepare to protect the current shogun Ashikaga Yoshisumi.

In the midst of the two parties, Hosokawa Takakuni, who was originally attached to Hosokawa Sumimoto, was suspected of being estranged by Hosokawa Sumimoto because of his sister's marriage (Hosokawa Takakuni's sister married Tayama Naoshun, who supported Ashikaga Yoshinoki), and at the same time, the Hosokawa Kyozhao family was also dissatisfied with Hosokawa Sumimoto's reuse of Miyoshi and other Awa fellows, and they all supported Hosokawa Takakuni, who was born in the Noshu Hosokawa clan and was closer to the Hosokawa Kyozhao family, to establish his own door, which eventually made Hosokawa Takakuni change his position.

In the same year, Hosokawa Takakuni completely fell to Ouchi Yoshiko, claiming to be the orthodox Hosokawa Kyozhao family, raising troops against Ashikaga Yoshisumi and Hosokawa Sumimoto, and supporting Ashikaga Yoshiki's restoration. Settsu's Itami Motofu, Tamba's Naito Sadamasa, and Kawachi's Hatakeyama Naoshun echoed Hosokawa Takakoku's call to defeat Ashikaga Yoshisumi and Hosokawa Sumimoto in Kyoto, and drove them into exile to Omi. After that, Ashikaga Yoshikie succeeded in going to Rakuro and became a general again, and in order to reward Hosokawa Takakuni for his support, he deprived Hosokawa Sumimoto of his status as the ruler and family governor, and handed it over to Hosokawa Takakuni to replace him.

For more than ten years after that, the three generations of generals Ashikaga Yoshiki, Ashikaga Yoshisumi, and Ashikaga Yoshiharu and Hosokawa Sumimoto (Hosokawa Harumoto) and Hosokawa Takakuni have been divided and combined, but they have generally maintained the two-part camp of Ashikaga Yoshikie (Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Yoshiki's successor general) + Hosokawa Takakuni + VS Ashikaga Yoshisumi (Ashikaga Yoshiwei, Yoshiharu's brother) + Hosokawa Sumimoto (Hosokawa Harumoto, son of Sumimoto) + Awa.

In the 6th year of Daiei (1526), the current shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu and Hosokawa Takakuni faction were defeated by Ashikaga Yoshiyo and Hosokawa Harumoto faction due to the betrayal of the forces, and they were also driven into exile in Omi and followed the path of their father (Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the son of Ashikaga Yoshisumi). In the years that followed, Hosokawa Takakuni, as the backbone of this exile force, protected the shogun and lobbied various countries to plot a comeback, and even Takeda Nobutora received an order inviting him to lead his army to Rakuro (in 1526, Ashikaga Yoshiharu and Hosokawa Takakuni ordered Takeda Nobuhara to lead an army to Rakuro to maintain law and order in Kyoto). However, Takeda Nobutora was taking advantage of the death of the Imagawa clan, the head of the Imagawa clan, and the instability of his family, and was busy invading Suruga, and he was unable to raise troops to the west. ）。

Now that Hosokawa Takakuni has been defeated and died, it basically means that Ashikaga Yoshiharu's hopes of ending exile and returning to Kyoto are dashed, and he naturally has to urgently look for the next umbrella. Compared with those daimyo who ignored the shogunate, he had visited Beijing many times, and later paid homage to his own partiality (the word "Haru" in the name of Takeda Harunobu's Yuan Fu was to worship the self-sufficient Li Yoshiharu, and he had to give a lot of money to the shogun to receive this word), which was undoubtedly a potential object of wooing, and it was also logical to try to order him to go to Luo again.

"In this way, the advanced mining technique is just a slap in the face to lure me to the king of Luoqin, but it seems to be a little better than the last blank check (note 1)," Takeda thought to himself.

"Doctor Zuojing, there is also a handwritten letter to you in the Gongfang Palace, please take a look."

Jingzhen watched Takeda Nobuta's expression change, knowing that he had been misled by himself, so he took out the letter that Mibuchi Fujito had just forged and deliberately aged from his arms and presented it.

Yes, in addition to being proficient in Japanese negotiations, Mibuchi Fuji is also good at handwriting and imitating other people's handwriting. And his father, Mibuchi Haruto, as a Ashikaga Yoshiharu shogunate (Shin Jizhong), served Ashikaga Yoshiharu all the year round and went into exile with him in Omi, and had an extremely close relationship, so close to the point that the two shared a wife (Note 2), so it is not surprising that Mibuchi Fujiren could easily come into contact with Ashikaga Yoshiharu's brushwork and imitate seven or eight points.

Kamiraku invited this false news to mislead and made up for the mining skills he offered as a reward paid by Ashikaga Yoshiharu in advance.

If he was an ordinary businessman, Takeda Shinhu could naturally kill and take away the art of mining without any effort; But if he is a general's envoy, and the mining skills he shows are the reward of the Shangluo Covenant, then this tiger should feel tricky.

Pulling off the skin directly, swallowing the remuneration and refusing to carry out Ashikaga Yoshiharu's request, is naturally the most tasteless and brainless choice, and the plastic friendship that Ashikaga Yoshiharu deliberately manages and maintains will inevitably break down, not to mention, it is more likely to be deprived of the guardian service under his anger and lose the title of the commander Kai. This is the least likely, and it is also the worst outcome for Jingzhen, but at least his life is worry-free, and this tiger will not kill the general's messenger no matter how crazy it is.

The word "name" seems to be useless in the Warring States Period, when the imperial court was swept away, but it is actually as heavy as a thousand gold. If the two parties hold their own names, they naturally have to speak with strength; If one party attacks the non-nameless party with a name, the famous will naturally suppress the nameless.

You don't see, the Ashikaga clan of the Furukawa Gongfang and the Kanto Governor Ueshi clan have been repeatedly defeated by the Hojo clan, but after the war, they can always be entangled in the reorganization of the alliance of the Kanto group and make a comeback, because the former naturally has the reputation of leading the Kanto. It was not until the end that the Hojo clan recruited the two generations of the Ashikaga Haruhi clan and the Ashikaga Yoshiji clan as sons-in-law and controlled them as puppets, so that they had a proper name and completely drove the Kamisaki clan out of Kanto. Later, the Kamishi clan transferred the Kanto governor and the family name to Nagao Keitora, who changed his name to Kamishi Kenshin, and led the Kanto group of 100,000 people to besiege the Hojo clan with the name of the Kanto governor, which is another story.

Therefore, Takeda Shintora, who did not dare to risk the world's condemnation and directly angered Ashikaga Yoshiharu, naturally had only three choices. First, after eating the remuneration, he obediently raised troops to go to Luo, so the loss-making business was naturally not within the scope of his choice. Second, he did not accept remuneration or invitations, and directly sent Jing Zhen and his entourage, who were envoys, out of the country, and spit out the food in his mouth, which was not the personality of this greedy tiger. Third, eat the sugar coating and spit out the cannonballs, shirk Shangluo with excuses such as uneasy territory and impassable roads, and then offer a heavy donation to Ashikaga Yoshiharu, so that he has face, which is also the most likely result of Jingzhen's judgment.

Who knows, Takeda Shintora pondered for a moment, and actually turned interested in Jing Zhensheng:

"His Royal Highness Jingzhen shouldn't be a person from Kyoto, he can be favored by the Lord of the Gongfang Hall to envoy to his own family at a young age, and it seems that he is also a young man!"

"Oh, this is the beginning of the household registration, fortunately I have already thought of this section", Jingzhen replied while slandering:

"Born in the Sasaki Kyogoku clan side branch, Izumo Nikoko clan, because of the changes in the family and went to the capital, it is also regarded as the nephew of His Royal Highness Kyogoku Nakabu Shaosuke (Kyogoku Takayoshi), and there is also Mibuchi Fuji, the son of Mibuchi Harumen-sama. Because it is difficult for the elders to leave the side of the Gongfang Palace, and the goal is large and eye-catching, I sent our juniors to pretend to be a caravan to convey the mission. ”

"Oh, I see. It seems that His Royal Highness Jingzhen is not only proficient in military and political affairs, but also good at diplomacy, which is really a rare talent! ”

"Proficient in military and political affairs, where did Doctor Zuojing start?"

"Haha, isn't His Royal Highness Jingzhen in Meinong and that group of countrymen, by the way, what is it called, and it will be a great cause!"

"Look down on this fat tiger, I'm afraid that after entering Kai, it's not right, and even Shinano revealed his identity when he was exposed, and he was picked up from what he did along the way. Fortunately, his behavior along the way can also be consistent with the secret envoy, but now he can only see the tricks and try his best to cover it up" Jingzhen thought so, but unexpectedly, Takeda Shinhu directly skipped this section and threw a depth charge.

"His Royal Highness Jingzhen is a rare talent in the world, I don't know if I want to be in this family?"

"Damn, this is for me to be a wise Guangxiu!" (Note 3)