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Chapter 294: Descendants of the Heike Clan
Tsutsui Junkei hurried to the main camp of Ninomaru, where he met Matsunaga Nagamichi who was under guard.

Matsunaga Nagamichi knelt in front of Oda Nobutada and struggled, "It's no use killing me. Tsuda Nobutora is my son-in-law. He will avenge me!"

Upon hearing this, Tsutsui Junkei shook his head and stepped forward and said, "Matsunagama Nagamichi, you are already about to die, why are you still saying these nonsense words? You are actually thinking of framing Jingzhao Yindian, how stupid."

When Matsunaga Nagatsugu heard Tsutsui Junkei's voice, he looked at him with hatred and shouted, "Tsutsui Junkei, you damn bald ass! I should have asked my father to search the mountains and seas to find you and kill you!"

Oda Nobutada seemed annoyed by Matsunaga Nagamichi's shouting. He waved his hand in annoyance and said, "Drag him away and chop him off."

Matsunaga Nagamichi still wanted to struggle, but several warriors came forward and dragged him out. Matsunaga Nagamichi shouted unwillingly and cursed the sky.

"Tsuda Shintora, you are heartless and ungrateful, you bastard, Ah Zhu, what on earth have you done!"

After a while, Matsunaga Nagamichi's howling stopped abruptly, and a samurai came to the main camp holding Matsunaga Nagamichi's head.

Oda Nobutada took a look and waved his hand, saying, "Pack it up and send it to Azuchi Castle for father to check."

With the death of Matsunaga and his son, the affairs of Yamato came to an end.

Tsutsui Junkei was granted a title by Oda Nobunaga and became the main force of the Oda family to dominate the Yamato Kingdom.

Because of his achievements, Oda Nobutada was recommended by Oda Nobunaga to the rank of one of the three lieutenant generals.

When Nobutora learned that Matsunaga and his son were dead, he withdrew his troops and retreated back to Arioka Castle.

Honganji Kenshin breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the Tsuda army withdraw. He only felt that the sharp blade on his neck had disappeared.

However, the once prosperous Temple Town has been destroyed, at least 30% of the people have disappeared, and Honganji Temple has suffered heavy losses.

As for Nobutora, he made a fortune by selling slaves.

After Nobutora retreated to Arioka Castle, he disbanded his army and continued to supervise Settsu's internal affairs.

After resolving the rebellion of the Matsunaga family, Oda Nobunaga finally had time to deal with Honganji.

However, problems arose in the matter of Tamba. Although Tamba alone was definitely no match for the Oda clan, Akechi Mitsuhide was alone in leading an army to attack Tamba, which was beyond his ability.

Oda Nobunaga ordered Akechi Mitsuhide to attack Tamba Province, and the first to bear the brunt was Akai Naomasa of Kuroi Castle.

This guy was the first Tamba lord to oppose the Oda clan, and it was he who allied with the Hatano and Naito families to be hostile to the Oda clan.

So Oda Nobunaga asked Akechi Mitsuhide to attack Akai Naomasa first.

At first, Akechi Mitsuhide thought this was just an ordinary battle to quell the rebellion, but he underestimated Akai Naomasa and Hatano Hideharu.

Just when Akechi Mitsuhide led his troops to besiege Kuroi Castle, Hatano Hideharu led his troops to attack Akechi Mitsuhide from behind, and Akai Naomasa saw the opportunity to send troops.

Under the attack from both sides, Akechi Mitsuhide was defeated and withdrew from Tamba Province.

Such a result naturally made Oda Nobunaga very angry.

In Hiroma of Azuchi Castle, Oda Nobunaga knocked Akechi Mitsuhide to the ground, stepped on his head and cursed: "Akechi, what are you doing, you idiot? You were beaten away by those wild monkeys in the mountains of Tamba!"

Akechi Mitsuhide was terrified and begged for mercy: "I am very sorry, Lord Nobunaga, I underestimated the enemy this time. Please give me another chance."

"You jerk, you still have the nerve to say something like that, I should really kill you with one blow!"

Oda Nobunaga still stepped on Akechi Mitsuhide.

Oda Nobutada could not stand it any longer. After all, Akechi Mitsuhide was his mother Kicho's confidant, so he had to say, "Father, Akechi has made great contributions, but he has also worked hard. He did fail this time, but I believe he will learn from his mistakes next time and work hard to deal with the Tamba rebels."

Oda Nobunaga did not speak. He turned around and sat back in his seat, saying with a straight face, "Since Nobutada has pleaded for you, I will give you another chance, Akechi. If you can't take down Tamba again, I will kill you."

Akechi Mitsuhide quickly stood up and saluted.

Although such an act is shameful, it is a blessing to be able to save one's life.

Akechi Mitsuhide gritted his teeth, saluted, and then retreated.

Oda Nobunaga looked at Oda Nobutada and said, "Akechi has some talent, but he is far inferior to Nobutora.

There are many talented people that can be used in my Oda family, like Monkey, this guy is very smart and talented, Akechi is talented but has a conservative personality, and I won’t say much about the others.

But among so many of them, none of them is better than him. We can't expect him to conquer the world for us alone. If we wait for Xinhu to go alone, then how long will we have to wait?

You must push them more and never let them slack off."

Oda Nobutada nodded quickly and said, "Ha, I understand. Don't worry, father. I will definitely supervise them and make them work harder to achieve your ambition of spreading military power throughout the country as soon as possible."

Oda Nobunaga also thought about what would happen after the unification of the world, so he asked: "Nobutada, what do you think the Oda family should do after the unification of the world to avoid the fate of the Ashikaga family?

The chaos in the world is caused by the Ashikaga family. Tell me, can the system of the Shogun really govern the world?"

Oda Nobutada was a little surprised. It sounded like his father wanted to change the current system?
He asked, "Father, are you planning to abolish the shogunate?"

Oda Nobunaga shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I will ask Nobutora when the time comes. He will definitely give me some suggestions.

But before that, we have to do one thing, that is to announce to the world that our Oda family is the descendant of the Heike family, and now the descendants of the Genji are no longer capable of governing the world, so the world should be handed over to the descendants of the Heike family."

Oda Nobutada felt that he could no longer keep up with his father's thinking. How did this involve the Heike clan?

However, since it was his father's intention, Oda Nobutada naturally did as he was told.

The Oda family was originally just a clan of priests from Echizen, and their origins are unknown. However, because of a word from Oda Nobunaga, the imperial court actually recognized that the Oda family was the descendants of the Taira clan.

Such things are somewhat difficult to accept for the samurai families in various places, after all, many of them are descendants of the Minamoto clan.

Just like Akechi Mitsuhide, he was from the Toki branch of the Kiyomizu Genji, and after all, he was also a member of the Minamoto family.

Now that his immediate boss has become a member of the Ping family, he naturally feels a little uncomfortable.

After all, it was the Minamoto clan that caused the downfall of the Heike clan, which made him worry about his future career.

After the Oda family conquers the world, will the Oda family still use the Minamoto family? Tsuda Nobutora is also a Taira family member. With his status and strength, he must occupy the most important position of power in the family. Will he also promote Taira family members first?

In short, this made the descendants of the Yuan family feel a sense of crisis.

When Nobutora learned about Oda Nobunaga's actions, he was also a little confused.

Because the Taira clan followed the court official route, they were eventually overthrown by Minamoto no Yoritomo, the agent promoted by the samurai clan.

However, Nobutora was not worried about this matter. He was thinking about the hypothesis that in the Honnoji Incident, Oda Nobunaga intended to overthrow the emperor and become the emperor himself, so he was killed by the loyal emperor Akechi Mitsuhide. Oda Nobunaga got the title of the Taira clan, and the Taira clan was a descendant of the royal family. According to this bloodline, it is possible that Oda Nobunaga had the idea of ​​becoming the emperor.

However, Tsuda Nobutora soon calmed down. No matter how people in later generations speculated about the hypothesis of the Honnoji Incident, now, the mastermind behind the Honnoji Incident would not be the emperor and the court nobles, nor would it be Akechi Mitsuhide and others.

The final mastermind was naturally Tsuda Nobutora.

He has already sensed the changes in Oda Nobunaga. Although Oda Nobunaga still relies on him to unify the world, after this, Nobunaga will definitely take action against him.

Perhaps he will be forced to retire, or maybe he will die. This is the best outcome, exchanging his death for the survival of the Tsuda family.

But Nobutora didn't want to die, he was unwilling to die, so the one who had to die was Oda Nobunaga.

However, he could not openly kill the king because it was not in line with the greater good, so he could only train Akechi Mitsuhide.

Now that Akechi Mitsuhide is being punished for the Tamba incident, he needs my help.

However, he did not plan to contact Akechi Mitsuhide directly, he planned to contact Saito Kicho.

Xinhu immediately wrote a letter to his daughter Adong, and he planned to let Adong be the middleman.

A few days later, Adong received a letter from his father Xinhu. The person who delivered the letter was Mitsutoshi Taroo who was in disguise.

After handing the letter to A-Dong, he whispered, "Miss A-Dong, there is a very important book in this gift. It contains secret words. To recognize the secret words, just burn the blank space of the letter with fire and the words will appear."

Adong was very surprised to hear this, because in the past, the letters his father sent him were just ordinary greetings, and he had never done anything like this.

She did not ask, but kept the doubt in her heart. She knew that her father was so cautious, which showed that the matter was very important and could not be known to others.

She didn't reply, but just nodded slightly and let Tara Oo Mitsutoshi and the others leave.

As usual, after reading the letter, she called her maid to take the letter back to her room.

She followed him all the way back to her own yard.

It was not until night that Adong lit a candle. She then used the candlelight to warm the blank space of the letter, on which there was a paragraph.

She memorized all the contents in a short period of time, and then waited for the heated part of the letter to cool down and the handwriting gradually disappeared.

A-Dong immediately took out the banknotes, copied the letter, and then burned the original.

Afterwards, she took out the book and deciphered the hidden information in the letter according to the rules she wrote down.

After reading the message, Adong was a little surprised, but she immediately burned the contents of the letter and disposed of the ashes, then sat down to think.

As the daughter of the famous general Tsuda Nobutora, she is naturally a good daughter. She often hangs around in Tsuda Nobutora's study and knows a lot.

She remembered what had just been said, which was her father's advice on the strategy for conquering Danbo.

Such a suggestion would definitely help the Oda family capture Tamba, but her father did not say it. Instead, he told her in this confidential way and asked her to find an opportunity to tell Mino-dono.

Why did my father have to take so many detours?

The Tsuda family is now facing a big problem, so serious that the father must be cautious and act in secret.

The one who could make his father so cautious was not his father-in-law Oda Nobunaga, but his husband Nobutada.

Adong's expression became more serious. Although she didn't know what happened, she didn't think too much.

She concentrated and calmed her mind. What she needed to do now was not to find out what happened between her father, her father-in-law Nobunaga, and her husband Nobutada.

Now she just needed to stay calm and maintain her previous behavior. As for what her father had arranged, she could wait for the next time she visited Mino-dono and find an opportunity to talk about it.

Soon, Adong returned to her normal expression, as if what had just happened had not happened to her.

A few days later, Adong brought the three masters to pay a visit to Saito Kicho.

When Saito Kicho saw the cute Sanposhi, it was as if she saw the little Qimyoumaru. She immediately took Sanposhi from Adong's hands and held him in her arms.

"Adong, don't learn from Nobutada's stupid head. He has to be very strict about everything. I don't remember that I taught him that. He must have learned it from Nobunaga."

Guidie complained for a while, then held Sanfashi's face and teased him, "Sanfashi, don't be like your father. Come play with grandma more often!"

The three wizards chuckled, which made Guidie even happier.

Ah Dong said at the side: "I am just afraid of disturbing my mother's meditation. Although Master San is quiet and lovely here, he is very noisy at home."

"It's better for children to make some noise."

Saito Kicho continued to tease the three masters with a rattle.

"Sanboshi will inherit the Oda family in the future. He is not an ordinary person. Why should he be restricted by ordinary people?"

A-Dong lowered his head and said, "Mother is right."

"I wonder if mother has heard recently that Lord Akechi was punished by Lord Nobunaga for the incident at Tamba."

Saito Kicho was still teasing the three magicians, but she stared at Adong with a scrutinizing look, and then said, "As expected of you, the daughter of Tsuda Shintora. Now, what do you want?"

Ah Dong did not hide anything and said directly: "I am bringing a message for my father."

He recounted Nobutora's strategy for conquering Tamba.

Guidie snorted when he heard this and said, "As expected of a famous general who is always victorious. Although he is in Settsu, he is still so familiar with Tamba. Akechi is really not even as good as one of your father's hands.

I know about this matter, and I also know what your father meant. This matter is only known to our two families."

Adong smiled faintly, harmless to humans and animals.

Saito Kicho continued to play with the three masters as if what had just happened had not happened.

Half an hour later, Adong left with the three mages.

Guidie looked at Adong's departing back and murmured, "Everyone in the Tsuda family is a tough guy. What is Tsuda Shintora planning? He is actually helping Mingzhi. It's incredible.

Interesting, really interesting, Oda Nobunaga, the outcome is still unknown."

Guidie raised the corner of his mouth slightly with a hint of sneer.

(End of this chapter)