Receiving Takeda Shinto's unexpected solicitation, Jing Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted:

"It's not good, this fat tiger wants to prostitute me for nothing, and he wants me to take the blame!"

Takeda Shintora jumped out of the three responses conceived by Jingzhen and found the fourth possibility - the bottom of the kettle.

Ashikaga Yoshiharu secretly sent an envoy here, although it had the intention of hiding people's eyes and ears and trading offstage. But if Takeda Shintora really dares to take a strong hand to seize the secret arts, so that Ashikaga Yoshiharu has nothing to lose, Ashikaga Yoshiharu who has nothing can open his face, openly turn the table, and denounce or punish him in the name of contempt for the general.

However, if his own messenger rebelled and took the initiative to join Takeda Shintora and offer a secret technique, then Ashikaga Yoshiharu would not have the position to directly punish Takeda Shintora even if he took the initiative to blow himself up, and he would throw the last bit of face on the Seto Inland Sea, and at the same time concentrate his anger on Jingzhen instead of Takeda Shintora. You can imagine the following scenario.

Scenario 1:

Ashikaga Yoshiharu: "You evil tiger, you dare to calculate my secret technique for nothing!" ”

Takeda Shintora: "Meow meow, I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense." I was eating hot pot and singing at home that day, but your messenger fell from the sky and insisted on stuffing a copy of "Rulai Divine Palm", ah no, mining secret technique into my arms. I struggled and resisted, but he opened his eyes, pressed the book in front of it, and was forced to see the contents. So, it's all his fault, I'm just an innocent kitten! ”

Ashikaga Yoshiharu vomited blood and died

Scenario 2:

Your messenger meets the robbers. If he resists with all his might, and ends up being knocked unconscious and losing his belongings, you will feel a little humiliated, but you will understand the messenger and hate the robbers. If as soon as he sees the robber, before the other party reveals the identity of the robber, he will kneel and lick it directly with lightning speed, take the initiative to offer all his belongings, and even follow others to the grass, you will be incompetent and furious, and you will want to break your shameful thing into pieces.

According to Jingzhen's thoughts, Takeda Shintora could only deceive at most to this extent, and did not dare to really be strong against the general's envoy, at most he could only force himself, the "messenger of Ashikaga Yoshiharu", to teach the secret art of mining, and then offered a large amount of money to send him back to Kyoto to continue to support the great cause of His Royal Highness the general, as a gift for not being able to go to Luo in person.

So Jingzhen reacted according to the normal messenger's reaction, thought for a moment and then decisively shirked and said:

"I have no plans to leave the house for the time being, thank you for the kindness of Dr. Zuojing."

"Oh, His Royal Highness Jingzhen is not from Kyoto. Although His Royal Highness the General is the co-lord of the world and the lintel is noble, it is of course extremely glorious to be able to follow and serve his subordinates. But after all, at present, the guest lives in Omi and sends people under the fence, and a military and political talent like His Royal Highness Jingzhen can only travel around the world to act as a lobbyist, which is really useless! Why don't you think about it again! ”

"I'm just a nobody, and I can't afford to be praised by Dr. Zuo Jing anyway, after all, except for the identity of a messenger in Xia, there is nothing worthy of adulthood!" Seeing that Takeda Shintora was still entangled, Jingzhen excused himself while pointing out the identity of his envoy, implying that he had insight into his intentions.

"All of them, all of them will step down for me!"

Takeda Shintora heard what Jing Zhen said, suddenly stopped the beat in his hand, took advantage of the drunkenness, and roughly waved his arms to drive away the actors and courtiers in front of him, watching them rush out and bring the door, only then did he turn to stare at the only remaining Jing Zhen in the audience, raised his head and drank the remaining wine, threw down the wine cup in his hand, stood up crookedly, grabbed the Zong San Zuo text in front of him, overturned several cases in front of him, and rampaged down the hall, with a strong smell of alcohol, condescending to Jing Zhen, tearing off all pretenses.

"Hmph, boy, do you think I'm going to invite you out because I want to covet Ashikaga Yoshiharu's secret art?"

Without waiting for Jingzhen to speak, he followed up and said:

"I can't bear to deal with you, just get straight to the point! The words here are only circulating between the mouths and ears of you and me, don't pretend to go around in circles! ”

Seeing Takeda Shinhu in such a posture, Jingzhen was no longer polite, and said bluntly:

"Isn't this mining technique that increases production by 30 percent, isn't Dr. Zuo Jing determined to achieve it?"

"That's nature! But I believe that Tiger is not something that everyone will invite! If that Jingji Gaoji or Mibuchi Qingren came here in person, Lao Tzu would only take away the secret art, and then take out a sum of money to send it back, and he didn't bother to invite him at all. Only you, this kid, don't know what to do, thinking that Lao Tzu wants to deliberately cheat you and save that little money? ”

"My lord values it this time, and I keep it in my heart. But there is also a question below, the Kai Takeda clan is full of talents, why do adults regard His Royal Highness Kyogoku Chubu Shaofu (Kyogoku Takayoshi) and Mibuchi Haruhin as nothing, but they favor him? ”

"Hahaha!" Takeda Nobuta laughed with the intention of drinking, "Can't you understand this?" If the likes of Kyogoku Takayoshi and Mibuchi Haruto are rotten wood that is unbearable to build a house, you kid at least has the potential to become a good stone! ”

"Stones?"

"Why, do you still think that you are a good talent and beautiful jade, the mess that Meinong did was extremely rough, and it was also the pit viper that only hid in the shade and swallowed venom, giving you a chance to breathe and grow."

"If it were me, as soon as I received the news that you led the Kawanami people to defeat the Saito clan's coalition army, I would directly attack with two hundred horsemen in the starry night, first kill all the tired divisions such as you, and then break the panicked Saito clan and kill Saito Toshimasa, and pile up the corpses of both sides in the leather city and burn them to the ground, claiming that the Kawanami people and the Saito clan died together, and then took the post of guardian in his hands. Whoever dares to disagree will let whoever go to hell to accompany you and wait! ”

"Of course, it's nice to be able to make a stone."

"People are the city. I only value war, and each person has a different role to play in war. For example, Xinfang, Huchang and others are the cornerstone and pillars of the family, so I will also be tolerant, even if they make big mistakes, I will give them the opportunity to turn back; For example, the powerful people of the small Yamada clan and the Anayama clan, although they are neither particularly loyal nor particularly excellent, but they are still good masonry and wood, as long as the unruly and crooked parts of them are destroyed, the rest can be piled up with walls and sharpened into spears; And then there are the many lords, which are bushes and weeds, which cannot be used to make wall spears, but which can also be used to burn fires, or mixed with dirt to make earth, to delay and consume the enemy's pace a little, and although they are the most useless, they do not need to be cooked, and they can be cut off in time to grow another in the following year. ”

"Treating everyone as a tool of war, as my armament, and using them to pierce the enemy, this is how I, the Kai Takeda clan, can fight against Suruga and the Samimo countries with the strength of one country, and encroach on Shinano!"

"Everyone is a tool of war, so is this the path of the tiger in front of you?" Jing Zhen silently thought, "Seeing war as everything, and treating everything as a means that can be used in war, is really in line with the characteristics of this era!" ”

"But the hard crossbow string broke first, and the steel blade injured itself. If you treat people as tools, you will eventually be eaten by tools; If you gain everything from the war, you will eventually lose everything in the war. The fate of Takeda Shintora and the fate of the Kai Takeda clan have long been doomed inadvertently! ”

"However, when I was ten years old, I was still studying with Master Honggao, and when this man was ten years old, when he was still wearing the filial clothes of his dead father, he had already raised his knife to kill his rebellious uncle, and sat firmly on the blood-stained Iron Throne under his buttocks. I don't agree with his bigoted, insane, salvaged creed, but I'm not in a position to mock or make irresponsible remarks. ”

Thinking of this, Jing Zhen also straightened up and looked at Takeda Shintora and said:

"My lord's insightful opinion, although I don't fully agree with it, but I have benefited a lot, please accept my worship. But there are troubles in the matter! ”

"Oh, can't you let go of that broken ship of the Ashikaga clan? But in my opinion, you kid doesn't look like a person who is willing to lose his sincerity to an incompetent person like Ashikaga Yoshiharu! ”

"In Shimomi, Izumo Niko has made a vow to return to his home and get back everything that belongs to him!" Jingzhen didn't get drunk, but he was also infected by Takeda Shinhu a little drunk, and suddenly spit out the ambition that had been buried in his heart for a long time, and the whole person didn't feel a little relaxed.

"Haha, that's fun!" As if hearing something unbelievably new, Takeda Shintora couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard this, laughing and laughing, and the wine swelled up, so he staggered out the remaining half bottle of residual wine from the seat of the courtier beside him, and after a few sips directly, he staggered back to Jingzhen with the bottle.

"So, Your Highness Jingzhen, Lord Jingzhen, what do you plan to rely on to get back everything you have?"

"I can see that you look down on me, a martial artist who can only fight and kill. But by this I can subdue my retainers and my countrymen, intimidate them, coerce them, and make them gather under my banner and die for me. With this, I can kill the two annoying spirits of Imagawa and Hojo, let them come in vertically and go back horizontally, and let them calculate how much blood can be shed on their bodies every time they plan to invade Kai! As he spoke, he suddenly pulled out the text on the left side of Zong San and slammed it into the floor in front of Jing Zhen!

"So, how do you defeat the old wolf who conquered the eleven kingdoms with more than seventy people (Nizi Longevity), and after that, how do you suppress your retainers, submit your countrymen, and rule your people, and how do you defeat the enemies who are watching you inside and outside? Are you going to laugh at them with your rhetoric? ”

"Of course, a yellow-mouthed child like you who has not passed through the sea of corpses and blood, one or two, thinks every day about what kind of people are back, strategizing, and winning without a fight, just like my unsuccessful son. I don't understand the hardships of the times at all! ”

"So, boy, think about it! Dare to be in this Kai and really feel what a samurai is! What is Sengoku! Hahahaha! ”

Takeda Shintora seemed to have completely exhausted himself, and after saying the last sentence, he ignored Jingzhen and turned back to the hall on his own, disappearing behind the screen.

Jingzhen stood in place for a long time before she lifted her steps in despair and returned along the road she had come. I don't know if it's the custom of Takeda Shinhu's banquet or if he has already explained, Jingzhen didn't bump into any guards or attendants all the way, until he walked out of the mansion gate and saw the cold moonlight and the deep night sky, he woke up a little, as if he was in another world.

Back in the dormitory, the clothed and yawning crane opened the door for Jingzhen, Nagasaka Nobumasa and other partners were still waiting sleepily under the dim candlelight, Jingzhen's heart warmed, and he simply recounted two sentences of escape and sent everyone to rest, and he and the crane turned off the lights and lay down.

"How are you going to defeat that old wolf?"

"How do you suppress your retainers, subjugate your countrymen, rule your subjects, and defeat your enemies who are watching you inside and outside?"

"Do you want to laugh at them with your rhetoric? Hahahaha! ”

With the sound of Tsuruko's shallow breathing, Takeda Shintora's ridicule began to echo in his mind again.

……

On the other side, in the Lord's Mansion, Takeda Shintora, who was drunk and hazy just now, was still drinking bottles of wine in the living room, as if he would be drunk and snoring like thunder in the next second, and it seemed that he would never be completely drunk.

"Father, is that Nizi Jingzhen really just a good stone?"

"Is it Katsuchiyo, you kid overheard my conversation again."

"My father forgave my sins, and the sons who were "not successful" just passed by the back of the hall and happened to hear a few words. ”

"Get in!"

"Yes!"

Before the words fell, a young man about the same age as Jingzhen pushed the door in, then closed the door again, sat down in front of Takeda Shintora, took the cup, and poured himself a glass of wine.

The young man is the same size as Jingzhen, with broad shoulders, well-defined muscles, and a slightly loopy posture that shows that he is a seasoned and mostly experienced rider, although his face is not handsome, but his thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his eyes are blazing, which is unforgettable, and has a special temperament and charm. He sat down and sniffed the wine in the air, and chuckled:

"Father, I drank a lot today, it seems that this Nizi Jingzhen is quite an interesting character."

"A little devil who is a little clever and can't carry the height of the sky, just like you!"

"Oh, is this a compliment to him, or is this a disparagement to me?"

"Humph!" Hearing this, Takeda Shintora only threw out a nasal voice and seemed to disdain to answer.

"Well, it looks like I'm going to have to make friends with him. But did his father convince him in the end? ”

“…… I don't know. But he is a smart man, he should know what he has to learn, and there are only a few schools in the world that can teach him, and the choice is all up to him. ”

"Katsuchiyo, you've got it in mind. This kid is indeed very immature and shallow, and now he can only be regarded as a good stone. But he still has the potential, he has the potential to become a Shinfang and Huchang, no, it should be a cornerstone like Chang Lu Jie (Note 1)! ”

"Is it a character like Master?" The boy took a light breath, "It seems that I still look down on him." ”

"Hmph, it's just potential. If it weren't for such potential, would a mere kid deserve me to drink so much wine and talk so much? Even Huchang and I only gave me one chance, and this little ghost actually dared to refuse my solicitation one after another! ”

"Hehe, this era, this country, is really getting more and more interesting."

Note 1: Tokirosuke refers to Hagiwara Masakatsu, and Tokiroku is his official position. He was born into a family of villagers (i.e., the "local servant" class) in the Ogiwara region of Yamanashi County, Kai Province, but he eventually became the leading retainer of the Takeda clan, and his status was still above a large number of retainers of the family, and he went through two generations of Takeda Nobunashi and Nobuta, and eventually became the teacher of Katsuchiyo (Takeda Harunobu).

Hagiwara Masakatsu is both wise and brave, and has served as a military advisor in his family for a long time. In the fourth year of Eisho (1507), the 10-year-old Takeda Nobuhu inherited the position of family governor, and the lord and young ministers were suspicious, and a large number of powerful people supported Takeda Nobuta's uncle and Yagawa Nobue to compete for the position of head of the family. Faced with the disadvantage, Hagiwara Masakatsu persuaded Takeda Nobutora to personally lead the team and raid the castle of Nobue Yatagawa at night, killing Nobue Yatagawa and the backbone of his henchmen, breaking the rebellion from the root and consolidating his position.

In the 18th year of Eishō (1521), during the Battle of Iida and Kawara. The Fukushima clan under the Imagawa clan took advantage of the unstable situation in Kai to entangled more than 10,000 troops of Suruga and Enoe (some people have verified that it was 12,000 to 15,000 people) to attack Kai, and set up a formation in the hinterland of Kai, Ryujitai, and the peak of the soldiers pointed directly at the residence of the lord of the country. At this time, most of the people in Kai rebelled or waited and watched, resulting in Takeda Shintora only mobilizing an army of 2,000 people.

Faced with a disparity of six or seven times the number of troops, Takeda Nobuta adopted the strategy of Hagiwara Masakatsu and took the initiative to attack on October 16, crossing the Arakawa River with the whole army and charging straight at the Fukushima Army, which was deployed at Ryujidai. At the same time, at the top of Katayama Mountain in the upper reaches of the Arakawa River, he ordered people to vigorously sound the taiko drums and horns, and launched countless soldier figures and banners, disguised as a large number of reinforcements. Fukushima was stunned by the Takeda reinforcements that fell from the sky, and more than 2,000 Takeda elite soldiers took advantage of the momentum to advance from the front with a determination to die, which suddenly plunged the Fukushima army into "floating Adachi" (chaos), and Takeda Shintora won first.

On 10 November, the Fukushima Army split into two routes, one remaining in the front to attract the Takeda Army, and the other maneuvering upstream along the Arakawa River to occupy the other key point of Chongkatsuyama Castle, forming a flanking attack on the Takeda Army. In the face of the unfavorable situation, Shintora once again adopted the opinion of Hagiwara Masakatsu, "I will go all the way no matter how many ways you come", relying on the strength of the Kai cavalry, he directly broke through the main formation of the Fukushima army, which had been greatly defenced due to the dispersion of troops, and killed most of the Fukushima clan (who was also the senior commander of this war), including the father of the famous "Dihuang Hachiman" Hojo Tsunari, the general of the Fukushima clan, Fukushima Masanari, also died in the battle and achieved the final victory. (It turns out that the woodpecker tactics will be pulled across as soon as they reach a critical time, fat tiger, you don't have a long lesson)

During the war, Takeda Shintora also ushered in the birth of his eldest son. To commemorate this victory, he was named Katsuchiyo, who would later become Harunobu Takeda.