Warring States Eagle

Astronomy 15th Year ([-]), April.

Birds soar high in the clear blue sky, and you can see the eaves of Furuno Castle.

On the right side of it is the Rage God Forest, on the left is the woods of Bawang Temple, connected to the woods of Tianwang, and then there are streets with only a few houses.There are no decent mountains here, and the Pingsong Mountains and Xiaosong Mountains in front of them can only be regarded as small hills. Although the land is vast, the cultivated land is limited.

It was noon, and there was a noise coming from the woods beside the wall of Furuno City, which the locals called Wakamiya.

It turned out that a circle was drawn in a small clearing in the woods, and two children were competing in sumo in the circle.

"Not yet, not yet, continue to look at each other, continue to look at each other." Suddenly, sitting on a high platform four or five steps behind the sumo wrestler on the right, a naked teenager Gao Said loudly.

The boy appeared to be about twelve or thirteen years old, his hair was tied upside down in the middle of the top of his head, and held in a clip.He frequently picked his nostrils with his fingers and took out his boogers.Oddly enough, when he makes these moves, there's something indescribably attuned to him, from his hair to his movements.

Seeing that the breaths of the two matched, the boy suddenly shouted: "Okay! Let's go." With this wild cry, the two young sumo wrestlers rushed towards each other at the same time.

"Master Ji!" At this moment, a muscular old man walked into the woods. After seeing the scene in front of him, he sighed secretly, and then called to the boy to change lanes.

"Oh! Grandpa!" He glanced at the person, then turned his head and shouted at the two people in the circle: "Idiot, hurry up and start! Whoever is late. There will be no rice balls to eat."

"Master Ji."

"Oh! Can't we wait a while, Grandpa!"

"Master Ji!"

This is the third time the old man called him.

Master Ji finally raised his face again.

"What's the matter? Grandpa! I'm having a great time! Don't get in my way!"

"Have you forgotten? Today is your Yuanfu ceremony! The elder Hayashi Shingoro Sadahide, Aoyama, Sanemon, and Naito Katsusuke have been waiting in the city for a long time." The old man said.

The old man is Master Ji's teacher Hirasakabu Chengzhenxiu.Today is the day when Master Ji held the Yuan Fu ceremony.As a result, several of their retainers found Master Ji.Zhengxiu, the minister of affairs in Hirao, had to go to the place where Master Ji often went to look for it, and he found it here.

Master Ji is Oda Nobunaga.

Oda Nobunaga is not the first son of Owari overlord Oda Nobuhide, he also has an older brother named Oda Nobuhiro, who has the same name as his ancestor Changmatsu. Chinese people find it incredible, but in Japan it is very strange. common thing.However, Oda Nobuhiro was born in a concubine.If he is a concubine, he must be behind the concubine in the line of succession.

Oda Nobunaga is the second son of Nobuhide, but he was born by Mrs. Tsuchida, the eldest son. The joy his birth brought to his father Nobhide is indescribable.Not long before the birth of Nobunaga, Nobuhide decided to build a new city [-] kilometers south of Nagoya, named Furuto (the southeast area of ​​Nagoya City today).After the completion of Gudu City, Xinxiu moved there and made it his main city, and gave up Guye City to this infant who was still in its infancy.The baby's baby name.It's called Master Ji.

Not only that, Oda Nobuhide immediately appointed family veteran Hayashi Shingoro Hidetada, Hiraobu Cheng Masahide, Aoyama, Sanemon, and Naito Katsusuke as masters and assistants of Master Yoshi.

It is said that Master Ji's child is different from birth.His character is very irritable, and he showed a headache and domineering attitude when he was still a baby. He bit the nanny's nipples many times, and Oda Nobuhide was forced to change the nanny frequently.However, as the heir of a daimyo in the Warring States Period, he would be prone to wind and rain at home, and his personality would easily become proud and violent. I'm afraid it was all acquired, rather than a person who likes to toss people from birth.

In addition to his irascible personality, when he was seven or eight years old, Master Jifa began to show another aspect of his personality that was equally unpleasant.First of all, he is very contemptuous of tradition and hates all kinds of rules and regulations. This is probably because he is used to seeing his father Oda Nobuhide's domineering attitude towards Owari Mori and Shimoshogun Mori who are nominally their chiefs.Secondly, this child likes novelty things very much. As long as he has never seen or used anything, he wants to snatch it for himself, and even in dressing, he often deliberately behaves differently from children of the same age. different.

Master Ji likes to dress up in strange clothes, so he is called "Qing Qi" at this time.It is said that he often braids his hair with five-color silk thread, and the clothes on his body are also painted with strange patterns. At first glance, he may be mistaken for a wandering entertainer, rather than the heir to a famous family.He is often surrounded by a group of young attendants. These attendants are carefully selected by Xinxiu from the children of the retainers to serve as Master Ji's guards and companions. However, Master Ji does not study with the attendants like the children of other famous families. , Martial arts, but led them everywhere to cause trouble and fight.

Because of all these performances of Master Ji, he did not have the slightest awareness of being the heir of the lord. Except for one of the masters, Masahide Hirate, his father Nobuhide Oda, and some attendants, almost everyone in the family held a deep affection for this child. of disgust.Even his mother Mrs. Tsuchida doesn't like him, but dotes on his younger brother, Nobuyuki Sano.Oda Kanjuro Nobuyuki (also known as Shinkatsu), although Heji Master is a brother born to the same mother, but his behavior is quite different from his elder brother. He is upright, smart and polite, and he is unanimously loved by his family.Mrs. Tsuchida and her vassals repeatedly suggested to Oda Nobuhide, requesting to abolish Master Ji’s inheritance rights and replace them with Nobuyoshi, but Nobuhide always talked about him and rejected their opinions without being hard or soft.

It is estimated that in Oda Nobuhide's mind, it is very common for boys to be naughty. Compared with a lively and active child who fights everywhere, those pale and helpless children are even more serious.The son of a samurai, he was able to fight when he was young, and he will naturally be able to fight when he grows up, so there is nothing to worry about.Moreover, displacing the elders and establishing the younger ones, and replacing the heirs, are often the root causes of family divisions and civil strife, and this should not be done unless it is absolutely necessary.

Oda Nobuhide is very laissez-faire with Master Yoshihide. Whether he wants his children to develop freely, or whether he believes too much in the teachings of Hirate Masahide and others, no one knows.

Master Ji grew up in the eyes of hostility, contempt or contempt from all directions.

To this day, accompanied by several masters, he will go to Gudu City, the main city of his father Oda Nobuhide, where the Yuanfu ceremony will be held.Master Ji at this time was only 12 years old, according to the Japanese custom, he was only thirteen years old.

After this Yuanfu, Nobuhide named Master Ji Sanlang Nobunaga, and since then he has been called Oda Nobunaga.Not long after, Nobuhide also offered his son to Shangzongsuke (Shangzongguo, which is now the central part of Chiba County, by presenting a gift to the emperor's court whose authority had been lost. According to the convention, Shangzongguoshu was only awarded to the prince, and nobles and samurai could only get Jiezongsuke. , that is, the position of the assistant officer of Guoshou), so it is generally called Oda Kami Sosuke Nobunaga.

Just when Master Ji was forced to return to Naguye City to go to Gudu City to hold the Yuanfu ceremony with Cheng Zhengxiu.But they don't know, how many people are watching their every move not far from them?

"This is the person my lord said we should pay attention to and investigate? I heard that the local farmers call him dumb!" one of them said.

"My lord, why don't we take this opportunity to kill them directly." Another person suggested.

"Don't mess around, we have an important mission here this time, so don't make any troubles." A young man who looked like a leader said.If all the retainers of the Luo family were here, they would definitely recognize this person as the member of the Luo family who had left the territory of the Luo family for more than a year.

But Master Ji and Master Ji, who were rushing to Guye City, didn't know that they had just escaped a catastrophe. (To be continued..)