Warring States Eagle

At dawn, the rain finally stopped.The rising sun shone on the castle tower of Yoshida-gun Yamashiro, but the corridor from the gate porch of the courtyard to Mori Motono’s room was still very dark.

"Father, is your lord awake?" His son Mori Takamoto stepped on the newly laid tatami mats and came to Mori Motozuru's room and asked.

"Come in." Mori Motonaku's voice sounded from inside the house.In fact, Mao Liyuan, who is 52 years old (already an old age in this era), has always been used to getting up early, so Mao Lilong, who knows his father's habit, dares to come to disturb his father at this time.

"Father, this is a letter sent by my father-in-law from the Zhoufang University Hall urgently." After entering the room and saluting Mao Liyuan, Mao Lilong immediately presented a still sealed envelope to Mao Liyuan. .

"Huh?" Suddenly received an urgent letter from Ouchi Yoshitaka, which surprised Mori Moto.Not long ago, at the request of Mori Motozuru, Ouchi Yoshitaka sent the Ouchi family's army together with the Mori family's army to attack Bianjo Castle, the guardian of the Yamanashi family. The whole family had to flee to Izumo and asked for help from Nizi's house.

Contrary to historical records, in history, Mao Liyuan invaded the country of Bingo and China, and at the same time integrated the power of the family.However, after being stimulated by the sudden rise of the Luo family and awakened by Masara's original self-defeating arrangement in Aki, Mori Moto took the risk of arousing Ouchi Yoshitaka's vigilance and formed the Mori family in advance. The Sichuan system, and then tightened the hierarchical order of the family, from cronies to genealogists to outsiders to local tyrants, with layers of control.Build a solid feudal family system.Although the method implemented by Mori Moto is different from the retainer system implemented by Takeda Shingen at home.But the so-called different routes lead to the same goal.The strict retainer group system provided the basis for the Maori family's strategy.

Over the years.Through the marriage of his son Mori Takamoto and Ouchi Yoshitaka's adopted daughter (Naito Xingsheng's biological woman was adopted by Ouchi Yoshitaka as an adopted daughter and married Mori Takamoto as the main wife), the connection with the Ouchi family was strengthened At the same time, he also gained the trust of Ouchi Yoshitaka through some small means (Ouchi Yoshihide left the last words to many important retainers before his death: "An Yi's Yuanjiu must be firmly grasped, otherwise it will be unimaginable", At this time, it was forgotten by Ouchi Yoshitaka and others).With the support of the Ouchi family, the Maori family quickly infiltrated from the Aki country to the Bingo country on the northern shore of the Seto Inland Sea and the southern part of China.Even at this time, there was still a confrontation with the forces of the Nizi family in the central region of Bingo and Bigou.

Quickly opened the urgent letter bag sent by Ouchi Yoshitaka, and then Mao Liyuan looked at the letter in the bag. After reading the letter, he pondered for a while, and then sighed The tone said:

"When Izumo jointly attacked Nizi's family back then, I reminded Mr. Tanti to keep a close eye on Luo Shizhenliang. Unfortunately, Mr. Tanti was negligent in the end. Now that Luo's family has become powerful, they even have a relationship with Nizi. The families have united to deal with the family."

"Ah?" Suddenly hearing the news that Luo's family and Nizi's family were united, Maori Takamoto couldn't help but change his expression drastically.Now it doesn't matter whether it's Nizi's family or Luo's family.They are all daimyo forces that can cause headaches to the Ouchi family camp, and now the two daimyos are united to deal with the Ouchi family.It is indeed not a good thing for the Maori family who belong to the Ouchi family camp.Once the Ouchi family is tired of dealing with the pincer attack of these two families, they will naturally be unable to divide their forces to support the Maori family's strategy in Bigo and Bi China. At that time, the Maori family will have to fight against these local forces and the Nizi family's support forces alone. up.

"It is obviously unwise to confront the Luo's family head-on. There may be some small means that can plunge the Luo's family into civil strife, so that the family can have sufficient troops to support our family's strategy. This is the most beneficial to our family. "Mao Liyuan said suddenly, obviously he thought of some way to deal with Luo's family.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered someone to bring a pen, ink, and paper to write a letter in hand, and ordered someone to rush it to the hands of Ouchi Yoshitaka in the Shufang Ouchikan, and then said to his son-in-law Takamoto Mori:

"Go and invite the warrior who was intercepted a few days ago. The success or failure of this strategy depends on him."

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"What is this thing called Zhengliang melon? It tastes really good!" Just when Mori Moto was thinking about Luo's family, in front of a fire in a forest on the west side of the Gojo River in Kiyosu City, Owari Kingdom, a man watching The 15-year-old boy held a scorched sweet potato in one hand, and touched his lips that had become dark because he ate the scorched sweet potato skin with the other, and exclaimed loudly.

This young man is naturally Oda Kami Sosuke Nobunaga who almost unified the Wa country in the future.A few years ago, Oda Hikogoro Shintomo was very angry because he intentionally set fire under Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo's Qingzhou City, so after putting out the fire, he immediately raised his troops to kill the Gudu City where Oda Nobuhide was located.The latter simply wiped out the Oda Hikogoro Shintomo clan in the next two years.Kiyosu Castle, which originally fell into the hands of Oda Nobunaga nearly ten years later, has now fallen into the hands of Oda Nobunaga's father, Oda Nobunaga, ahead of schedule.

It is estimated that Oda Nobunaga is indeed incompatible with Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo by nature.Historically, after the death of Shinhide, Nobunaga succeeded.The believers support Nobuyuki's succession to the position of family governor and are hostile to Nobunaga, and draw up Nobunaga's murder plan.However, Yoshitomo Shiba, the guardian of Owari, who has long been regarded as a puppet regime by believers, informed Nobunaga of the murder plan in advance.Furious about this, Shinto killed Yoshito when Yoshito and his first son Shiba Yoshigin led troops to the river to hunt (chuan hunting or chuan hunting).Therefore, Shiba Yoshiyin and his younger brothers Mori Hideyoshi, Tsugawa Yoshifuyu and other Shiba clan fled to Nobunaga's place to seek protection. Believers.

As a result, the Qingzhou Oda family, the guardians of the four lower counties of Owari, perished, and Nobunaga of the Oda family's concubine family became the leader of the Oda family.Since then, Nobunaga has embarked on the road to unify Owari (then Nobunaga and the lord of the same family, Inuyama City, Oda Shinkiyo, etc., defeated the Qingzhou Oda family's old enemy Oda Yimen clan's upper four counties guardian Dai Oda in the battle of Ukiyo Xin'an, and exiled him. And Shiba Yoshiyin, who was established as the new puppet guardian, and the Shiba family's Ishibashi family, and the Kira family who are also Ashikaga, conspired against Nobunaga. Nobunaga, who was aware of this, sent Yoshigin was exiled to Kyoto where the Ashikaga shogun's family of the Shiba clan was located. Owari has been unified since then).

But the above are the original historical records.Now Oda Nobunaga triggered the conflict between Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo and his father Oda Nobuhide nearly ten years in advance, and then eliminated Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo in advance, and Owari's guardian Shiba Yoshitomo became Oda Nobuhide's puppet again.In this way, at least after Oda Nobunaga inherits the family governor, there will be much less resistance in quelling the civil strife in the family and unifying Owari.

However, Oda Nobunaga was also blamed by some of his retainers for setting fire under Kiyosu Castle and triggering the civil war of the Oda family, but these censures were blocked by Oda Nobunaga (it is estimated that Oda Nobunaga had been thinking about how to As for attacking Qingzhou City, this move of his son Nobunaga just gave him the confidence to make a decision and an excuse to attack).certainly.Even with Oda Nobunaga as a shield, in the eyes of some retainers, Oda Nobunaga is becoming more and more unsuitable as the successor of the family governor.As a result, the voice of abolishing the old and establishing the young again swelled up.

At this time, Oda Nobunaga didn't seem to care about such things at all.Since the family acquired Qingzhou City, he often came to Qingzhou City on horseback from his fief, Guye City, and then rode his beloved horse to inspect the market opened under Qingzhou City in a grand manner.Today, I accidentally bought some magic melons from Kyushu in the hands of a trader, so he ran to the woods by the nearby river with his followers to roast the magic melons.

"By the way, this guy called Kyushu Eagle is really amazing. He actually planted such a delicious thing in his territory. It would be great if our family could also plant these things on our territory." Oda Nobunaga took Started to eat the last magic melon with big mouthfuls.At the same time, I did not forget to give some comments.

Maeda Inuchiyo (that is, Maeda Toshiie) who was eating half a melon in small bites, muttered in his heart: "Such a delicacy is so easy to grow. Even if the lord wants to, you have to slow down." It's a slow start. The locals will not easily be willing to plant crops they have never seen before. After all, it is a matter of survival whether they can eat enough. Besides, they don't know how to grow these delicious delicacies, and the vendor only knows These Zhengliang melons are delicious, but you don’t know how to grow them?”

During this period, although a small part of the unique sweet potatoes in the Luo family's territory had begun to flow out to various parts of the Wa country, the people in other areas did not know how to grow these sweet potatoes.

In fact, both the sweet potato itself and the rhizome of the sweet potato can be planted.The general planting method is to first plant a small part of sweet potatoes as seeds into the ground, and after these seeds grow rhizomes and vines, these rhizomes and vines are continuously cut out as seeds, and inserted into the soil to grow new sweet potato saplings.By analogy, the planting scale of sweet potatoes is continuously expanded through rhizomes and vines.

It’s just that people in this period, after getting sweet potatoes, ate them as delicacies (even the skin of sweet potatoes, as well as sweet potato roots and vines that can be used as dishes), so naturally there was no chance to find that sweet potatoes can be grown through roots and vines Featured.This feature was finally discovered by the people of the world more than ten years later, after the Luo family became the overlord.Before that, they only knew that to grow more sweet potatoes, they had to bury the sweet potatoes as seeds in the soil to grow.

"Inuchiyo, do you think that Kyushu eagle is really as powerful as that vendor said? It is said that it is now the overlord of Kyushu." Oda Nobunaga continued to ask.

"This? The villain doesn't know?" Hearing the young master talking to him, Maeda Inuchiyo hurriedly put down the sweet potato in his hand, and saluted.

But at this time, Nobunaga threw the half-eaten sweet potato over with a whimper, then sat down and said, "Don't just think about the deliciousness in your hands. Bastard! Tell me, if it were you, what would happen?" What to do? It was about rescuing my brother Xinguang."

"He has fallen into the enemy's hands!" Nobunaga gritted his teeth bitterly again.Changing the question in an instant, it seems that he is deliberately teasing the other party, so that the other party is caught off guard so that he can laugh at the other party. This way of speaking is indeed unique to Nobunaga.

When Anxiang City fell, Zen Master Xuesai of Ueno Castle sent envoys to negotiate with Oda Nobuhide, and finally exchanged Shinhiro Takechiyo (that is, Tokugawa Ieyasu) for returning to Toe. Maeda Inuchiyo was naturally very clear .But isn't this matter over?At this time, Takechiyo may have already arrived at Junfu City of Yuanjiang Imagawa's family. What else is there to say?Besides, such a matter is not something that his little attendant can discuss!So he immediately said:

"Young master, the villain is just a martial artist who serves the young master. He doesn't understand literature. It has always been that literature comes first and then martial arts. If martial arts are placed above literature, the family will be in chaos. Although it is the young master's order, if right and wrong are reversed, we will You can never obey. That's why villains can't answer such questions."

"Hahaha, you bastard." Nobunaga laughed when he heard the words, but then his eyes sharpened, and he said in a low voice, "Xinguang and Takechiyo are incomparable in stature. Xinguang has been persuaded by the enemy and has become a A traitor, he doesn't know that he has fallen into the enemy's trap. Although Takechiyo is still a child, he has a kind of courage in the face of danger. As a hostage, he insists that he is a general. If he is allowed to go back, it will be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain. Even this time If the hostages are not exchanged, Shinhiro will not be killed. Because killing him will not help. Imagawa will definitely let him live so that he can be used at the right time. The cards in their hands and ours have the same Big difference."

When discussing with the Imagawa family of the Oda family, Nobunaga did not agree to use Takechiyo in exchange for Shinhiro.In his opinion, if the Imagawa family wants to kill Nobuhiro, Owari will kill Takechiyo.Once Takechiyo died, everyone in Okazaki would disperse like birds and beasts.Once they disperse, the Imagawa family will lose their fighting power.So I can be sure that Imagawa will not kill Nobuhiro.If it is not possible to negotiate on an equal footing, Owari will be at a disadvantage from the beginning and will be passive in everything.But at this time, Nobunaga's status in the family was not enough to attract other people's attention, so his father did not agree with him, and even reprimanded Nobunaga for being too cold-blooded and disregarding his brother's life and death.

"Regardless of elder brother's life or death? This sentence came from the mouth of the father who made his own guardian a puppet. This is too ridiculous." Nobunaga said to himself.For a while, the position of family governor, which he thought was dispensable, now seemed to have a certain effect.

"The position of house governor will only belong to me, Oda Nobunaga. No one can take it away!" Thinking of this, Nobunaga shouted fiercely in his heart.

"Let's go, Inuchiyo, don't forget to take the Masaragi melon that I threw at you just now, I haven't finished eating yet." After finishing speaking, Nobunaga first rode on the side horse, pulled the rein, and turned the horse He headed towards the direction of Furuno City.

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