"Lord, there are guests from afar. After a whole day of meaningless meetings, Tokugawa Ieyasu returned home. Just as he was about to rest for a while, he received such news. He just changed his clothes and welcomed the guests into the room. When the guests came in, he was slightly stunned. He was a wise man, but Tokugawa Ieyasu was extremely tolerant and covered up his surprise. "Thank you for the guests from afar, thanks for your hard work."

"I have met Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu." The visitor called Tokugawa Ieyasu according to the custom of Japan, and then pointed out his identity. "I am the envoy of Lord Chen Chen, the general of the Ming Dynasty, who came to visit Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu. This time, he had important matters to discuss."

Tokugawa Ieyasu's thoughts were heard, and he had guessed the purpose of this person and hurriedly stepped back. Only the two of them were left in the room. Tokugawa Ieyasu talked a lot about his disagreement with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sending troops to North Korea, and then repeatedly showed that their Tokugawa family had absolutely not participated in the invasion of North Korea.

It is true that Tokugawa Ieyasu's army did not land in North Korea. North Korea was originally the gifts prepared by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to reward the ministers who followed him. How could Tokugawa Ieyasu participate in it? When Governor Konishi and others were killed in North Korea, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Takashi, Uesugi Kyokashi, Pusheng Township, and Masatoshi Masato and others still stayed in the Homi Nagaya as a reserve team, and they did not participate in it even when the war was at its most intense.

This also allowed Tokugawa Ieyasu to avoid the attack of the Ming army and preserve his power, becoming the most powerful daimyo outside the Tokugawa family. He originally thought that after the deaths of Tokugawa Hideyoshi and Maeda's family, he would take down Tokugawa Hiderai and ascend to the throne of the world, but unexpectedly, the arrival of the Ming army disrupted this plan; but now there are envoys from the Ming Dynasty visiting him. Perhaps this matter is not all bad for the Tokugawa family?

"I understand what Lord Tokugawa Uchita means. My family also knows that Lord Tokugawa Uchita has not participated in this matter, so I sent me to visit me. Otherwise, Lord Tokugawa Uchita would probably not have seen me." The envoy only gave a few words of encouragement, and suddenly changed his tone and asked, "I wonder what Lord Tokugawa Uchita views my Ming Dynasty's requirements?"

"Uh," Tokugawa Ieyasu was a little hesitant. According to his ideas, Tokugawa Hideaki sent to the Ming Dynasty only benefits but not harmful to their Tokugawa family, but he could not expose his true intentions. These days, he could only let his subordinates and Mitsunari Ishida slowly get it, because Tokugawa Hideaki is not only his nominal boss, but also his grandson-in-law. He seems not to hand him over to Mingguo in terms of emotion or reason.

"My adults think that since such a thing has happened, the Toyotomi family is no longer suitable to take charge of Japan. It seems that it is time for Japan to change to another ruler." The envoy said slowly, his eyes constantly surfing Toyotomi Ieyasu, as if implying that Toyotomi Ieyasu is the best candidate to replace Toyotomi Hiderai to rule Japan.

"Even though Lord Taige has all kinds of faults, he entrusted Hirai to Jae-seok before he died. How could Jae-seok let others replace him?" Tokugawa Ie-seok concealed the excitement in his heart and said in a pretended not to understand. The envoy said so much but did not give anything practical. He wanted to exchange for benefits by just talking, which would be such a cheap thing.

"Haha, Lord Tokugawa's Inner Mansion treats Toyotomi family loyally, but Toyotomi family is still afraid of Lord Tokugawa's Inner Mansion. Not long ago, I heard that Maeda Tsunaga, Asano Nagamasa and others planned to assassinate Lord Tokugawa's Inner Mansion. Recently, I heard that Uesugi Keisaki was in the local army and recruiting ronin. I don't know what he had." The envoy sneered at Tokugawa's Inner Mansion's words. After the plot of Maeda Tsunaga's assassination was exposed, Tokugawa Ieyasu led a large army into Osaka, who looked like a loyal minister. The reason why he said this was just to gain some benefits.

When he heard about Maeda Tatsunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu could still remain calm, but when the envoy said that Uesugi Keisaki was expanding his army, Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help it. Uesugi Keisaki's territory was next to Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was self-evident that he had to deal with whom he wanted to deal with. What's even more strange is that he had not received the news yet, but the envoy of the Ming Dynasty had already learned that Uesugi Keisaki was so hiding from him! Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help but worry.

The messenger knew that a cunning person like Tokugawa Ieyasu would not think that he would easily change his decisions after one or two conversations, so he did not bother him, but said goodbye to leave, so that Tokugawa Ieyasu could inquire about the news in time and wait until the matter was verified before visiting him.

Then Tokugawa Ieyasu hurriedly sent his subordinates to inquire about the latest developments of Uesugi Keisaki. As a result, Tokuroku, the Masamoto, the leader of the Matsuoka vassal state of Tokugawa, reported to Tokugawa Ieyasu that there were indeed strange phenomena in Uesugi Keisaki's territory recently; in addition, the Echigo Kingdom's Daimei Hori Hideo sent a secret spy, and after investigation, it reported to Tokugawa Ieyasu that "Keisaki has the intention of betrayal."

Then Tokugawa Ieyasugi asked Uesugi Keikaku to come to Osaka to explain that Uesugi Keikaku was very unhappy and thought that he had built a city in his territory and summoned soldiers to join forces with Tokugawa Ieyasugi? He instructed his important minister Naoe to write a letter to reply that this is the famous "Naoe Story"; "Naoe Story" is not so much a defense, but it not only refuted Tokugawa Ieyasu's accusations one by one, but also Piri Yo-Aki said a lot, as if he wanted to anger Ieyasugi.

After receiving the "Naturo Eiyasu", Tokugawa was furious. He was usually very tolerant and said, "I have read countless letters in my life for 63 years. This is the most rude and unrestrained letter of the book! Is this kid too much? How can I tolerate such a work?"

As a result, the situation in Japan changed again. Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered Daming from all over the world to go to Aizu to attack Nakana Yanan, one of the five elders at that time. After Ishida Mitsunaga learned that Tokugawa Ieyasu to raise troops to Uesugi Keitaki, Ishida Yoshisuke Otani, Nagamori Matsuda and Akikoji Ekiki in Sawayama Castle, and at the same time began to attack the Fushimi Castle where Tokugawa had left.

For a time, the land of Japan was filled with smoke again, and the major names were divided into two groups, gathered under the command of Misaki Ishida and Ieyasu Tokugawa to prepare for a fight.
Chapter completed!