Warring States Eagle

Coincidentally, when Akechi Mitsuhide and his wife first arrived in Kyoto, they were recognized by a retainer of Saito Shimao who was out on errands. ?. .As a few retainers who have followed Saito Dosan for a long time, he naturally knows many noble family governors of Mino Kingdom, so he has really met Akechi Mitsuhide and knows that this person is his lord's in-law. When justice needs manpower, such talents will naturally be recruited by the lord.

So after secretly following Akechi and Mitsuhide and confirming their residence, the retainer immediately returned to Saito Dosan's residence and reported the situation to the lord Saito Dosan.After hearing the report from his retainers, Saito Dozo immediately understood what happened to Akechi and Mitsuhide. After all, Saito Dozo had just sent people to Mino country to spread rumors, so he naturally knew what happened to Akechi's family.So after thinking about it for a while, Saito Michizo asked his retainers to invite Mitsuhide Akechi and his wife, who were planning the next itinerary and Kawasaki's capital, over in the dormitory.

Akechi Mitsuhide was naturally overjoyed when he suddenly met his original old lord in the Kyoto area, and learned that the old lord was not killed, and also saw his aunt here.And the two families also marveled because of the changes they had encountered before.After reminiscing about the old days, Saito Dozo suggested that Mitsuhide Akechi should become an official of the Luo family, who was already in full swing at this time. After all, Saito Dozo was just living under the roof and receiving relief from the Luo family.With the help of Luo's family alone, it would be great to be able to support several of Saito Dosan's family members and two underage children. Besides, some coins should be saved for Saito Dosan's own operations.Thinking of this, Saito Daozan also had to thank his son-in-law Masaragi. It seems that this son-in-law intends to fund some of his operations against the Mino country, so he has been given a lot of support in terms of coins and even information, so that His affairs were carried out smoothly.

But even so.If Mitsuhide Akechi is added as a temporarily unusable retainer, it would be an increased burden for Saito Dozo.What's more, even if he is a relative of the main family, Saito Michizo does not completely believe in Akechi Mitsuhide from the root. Moreover, Saito Michizo can be seen from the dialogue with Akechi Mitsuhide that this young man's ambition is high. Now, based on his current situation, it is impossible to keep the other party.So after some consideration and getting Mitsuhide Akechi's consent, Dozo Saito recommended Mitsuhide Akechi to the Luo family.

When a Shenglong in Kyoto sent the letter of application for employment from Mitsuhide Akechi and the letter of recommendation from Dozo Saito to Masara.It was already the beginning of April in the second year of Hongzhi (16). At this time, except for Huanglong City and Marsh City, which were still stubbornly resisting, the Nagato and Zhou Fang countries gradually stabilized.Prior to this, Zhengliang sent a large number of troops to carry out a special clean-up of the Yamabushi (that is, bandits, mainly composed of fleeing refugees and scattered enemy soldiers) that were gradually rising in these two areas.For this reason, the Luo family's slave team has added a lot of members, and the large-scale construction of the territory that will be next to the Luo family has added a lot of free labor.After receiving Akechi Mitsuhide's job application letter, Zheng Liang was taken aback at first. He had no idea that this historically talented person would actually plan to join the Luo family.At the same time, Zhengliang also remembered the history.Akechi Mitsuhide had indeed planned to become an official of the Mori family after the Itsukushima War.

At that time, Mori Moto personally interviewed Mitsuhide Akechi.But in the end, Mitsuhide Akechi was not listed.At that time, some retainers were not admitted even after seeing that Mitsuhide Akechi was so talented, so he raised doubts to Mori Moto.

Mao Liyuan replied in this way: "Shibingwei Guangxiu's Miao characters are very good. His intelligence is indeed sharp, and he is both civil and military. His achievements in the future will definitely not be inferior to mine. But, I think he has a dark face, and the eagle looks at the wolf. He is happy and angry. It is not visible, this kind of person has a wolf side in his personality, but he is still sleeping inside, and when he wakes up in the future, the first one to devour him will be his master.”…

Although I don't know if this passage was fabricated, but at least in history, Mori Moto did decline Akechi Mitsuhide's job offer.And knowing that Mitsuhide also shattered Oda Nobunaga's ambition and launched the Honnoji Rebellion, it seems that he really devoured the Lord.Of course, Zhengliang would not conclude that Mitsuhide Akechi is a person just because he knew Mo Liyuan's words about Mitsuhide Akechi.But Zhengliang also has his own considerations.

First of all, Zheng Liang is not clear about Akechi Mitsuhide's situation.Judging from some historical data, Mitsuhide Akechi's views tend to be traditional and conservative, but Mitsuhide Akechi is too untouchable.This is known from the fact that his motivation for launching the mutiny of the Honnoji Temple has not been understood for a long time until later generations have studied it for a long time.Under such circumstances, Zheng Liang is not willing to have such a person by his side that he may not be able to control. This is equivalent to installing a time bomb around him. Zheng Liang does not want to be suddenly hit from behind by his retainers .Although according to the military system of the Luo family at this time, the generals could not lead troops out of battle unless they were actively attacked by the enemy without the letter of appointment and monogram from the military cabinet and Zhengliang.But as a resourceful person, I don't like being surrounded by elements that I can't control and are uncertain.In this regard, Masara is similar to Saito Dozo.

Secondly, Zhengliang didn't like Akechi Mitsuhide.Because in his opinion, Akechi Mitsuhide's unexplained coup d'état brought disaster to his wife and children.After the Honnoji Incident, Akechi Mitsuhide's four sons were all killed. Even his daughter, who escaped by chance, was accompanied by infamy all her life, and eventually she could not escape the fate of suicide.And his other relatives also suffered a lot in the next few decades (although later a niece Kasuga Bureau appeared and indirectly avenged him).For a man who can't guarantee his wife and children, even in this man-eating Warring States period, Zheng Liang still despises him.

Of course, Masaragi cannot deny the outstanding talent of Mitsuhide Akechi. He will also be a famous general in history. The records about him in later generations are more smearing materials. This is mainly because Toyotomi Hideyoshi who later took power deliberately caused by smearing.Zheng Liang will not fully believe these obviously smearing records.

However, Zhengliang was still influenced by Akechi Mitsuhide's deeds of betraying Oda Nobunaga in the original history, and he was unwilling to put an unstable factor by his side. Therefore, Zhengliang finally decided not to use Akechi Mitsuhide.Of course, Masara also planned to help this famous general in history, so he wrote a letter and ordered Shenglong Ichito in Kyoto to help with the operation, and recommended Mitsuhide Akechi to the No.12 shogun Ashikaga Yoshiki.I believe that Ashikaga Yoshiki, who is in urgent need of talents, will be very happy to employ Mitsuhide Akechi, and because of this, he will deepen his affection for the Luo family.

According to the information obtained by the black eagle investigation lurking in the Kyoto area, the general Ashikaga Yoshiki has recently secretly recruited talents. These talents include not only samurai, but also cockfighters, even singers, etc. Almost as long as they have certain skills, Ashikaga Yoshiki wants it all.After receiving a large amount of money and food from the Luo family's secret support, Ashikaga Yoshiki was full of energy to increase his own power.Of course, in order to avoid excessive stimulation of the Miyoshi family who is still in control of the Kyoto area at this time, Ashikaga Yoshiki also listened to some previous suggestions from the Luo family, and secretly developed his own power as much as possible.In this era, ordinary daimyos don't pay much attention to the so-called intelligence capabilities, which can be seen from the low treatment of ninjas in many places.And the Miyoshi family happens to be such a famous name, so the Miyoshi family has not noticed the series of secret actions of Ashikaga Yoshiki until now.

Just as Masara expected, after Akechi Mitsuhide performed some iron cannon skills, he was immediately recruited by Ashikaga Yoshiki, and he was directly awarded the rank of Ashgaru general.This made Akechi Mitsuhide and his wife very happy.Akechi Mitsuhide is therefore very grateful to the Luo family for everything they have done for him.

Since then, Akechi Mitsuhide has stayed in Kyoto, training the Iron Cannon Team for the general, and at the same time devoted himself to socializing with his staff and ministers.Just after Akechi Mitsuhide finally settled down in Kyoto, his original master, Saito Dozo showed his broken fangs again. )

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