Having been pointed out by Taiyuan Xuezhai, Miyoshi Changqing, Miyoshi Yixian, Anzhai Toyasu and Matsunaga Hide all realized that they could no longer pretend. After exchanging a few glances with each other, Miyoshi Changqing fell into deep thought. .
Although the specific details of Taiyuan Xuezhai were unknown, the general plan of the Miyoshi family was expected. He didn't understand what kind of psychology Taiyuan Xuezhai had to think of digging for Ashikaga Yoshiharu in the chaos. The tomb of the person - it's not something that normal people can think of at all, right? Or is it that he just happened to want to try his luck, but he happened to run into the lifeblood of the Miyoshi family? Or there is a traitor from the Imagawa family in the Miyoshi family, who is still there This information was disclosed to him at a key position.
Whether it is inevitable or accidental, Miyoshi Nagakei has no intention to think about it. But if it is true as Taiyuan Xuezai said, he has conclusive evidence in hand to prove Hosokawa Harumoto's innocence, then the Miyoshi family's plan will be will be completely in vain.
The two key chess pieces of this plan are Ashikaga Yoshitō, a general supported by the Miyoshi family, and Mibuchi Haruka, who is close to Ashikaga Yoshiharu. Although Miyoshi Haruka comes from the Izumi-Hosokawa family, he is an early member of the Miyoshi family. He bribed the informant who was placed next to Ashikaga Yoshiharu. After Ashikaga Yoshiharu died suddenly, he asked him to defect to Hosokawa Harumoto to report the news, and won the trust of Hosokawa Harumoto.
The original plan of the Miyoshi family was to pretend to withdraw from Kyoto, and even leave Ashikaga Yoshito, whom they supported, in Nijo Castle, hand it over to the Confederate Army, and allow the Confederate Army to occupy Shokokuji Temple. However, when the great names of the Confederate Army met Ashikaga Yoshito At that time, Ashikaga Yoshito launched an attack on the spot, threatening that Ashikaga Yoshiharu had told him before his death that the murderer was a member of the Hosokawa family. This sparked a controversy and forced Hosokawa Harumoto to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy - and then he He could not argue in front of the traces of poisoned corpses. If Hosokawa Harumoto was unwilling, Mibuchi Harumoto, who was on the sidelines, would persuade him and take the lead in questioning Hosokawa Harumoto at the last moment. If he turned against him, the biggest risk would be guide public opinion to a certain extent.
Of course, this plan itself is very risky. Mibuchi Haru is okay, but the Miyoshi family completely lacks the ability to restrain the general Ashikaga Yoshitō, so they can only persuade them based on the interests. If Ashikaga Yoshitō does nothing, it will really If the Confederate Army wins, Hosokawa Harumoto will most likely make Ashikaga Yoshiaki, whom he supports, ascend to the position of the new general. What awaits Ashikaga Yoshito is the end of becoming a monk and being placed under house arrest.
And if Ashikaga Yoshito steps forward to assist the Miyoshi family, if they win, the Miyoshi family will undoubtedly continue to support Ashikaga Yoshito as the general. And Ashikaga Yoshito overthrows the leader Hosokawa Harumoto in public, which will also win for him. Huge prestige, and even directly gaining supporters from the daimyo of the Southern Army is also very beneficial to his own power, and he may even have the opportunity to gain a certain degree of autonomy in the hands of the Miyoshi family. If he loses, the most he can do is become a monk, put under house arrest, and There is no difference.
The Miyoshi family can only hope that Ashikaga Yoshitō can figure out the interests and risks on his own, and that he is not willing to be a puppet on strings and is willing to risk the prestige of the shogunate.
But if at this critical moment, the Imagawa family really releases the secret evidence they possess to clear the name of Hosokawa Harumoto - then all the plans of the Miyoshi family will come to nothing. Although Miyoshi Nagakei thought about it for a long time, he still had no idea. One can imagine what form the Imakawa family will leave evidence in, but since Taiyuan Xuezhai has already come to this point - one needs to be vigilant no matter what.
"What do the Imagawas want?"
After a while, Miyoshi Changqing raised his head again and finally chose to compromise.
"Help us kill Oda Nobunaga and Saito Dozo." Taiyuan Xuezai gave the offer very directly: "After all, they are friendly forces, it is inconvenient to do it, and the Oda family and Saito family are not worthy of our Imagawa family's reputation.
To destroy him at the cost. So when you fight back with your carbine, give priority to destroying him."
"Okay." Miyoshi Changqing readily agreed, "What will the Imagawa family do for us?"
"Help you shake the prestige of Commander Hosokawa." Taiyuan Xuezai replied simply, "If you have an internal agent responsible for identifying Hosokawa Harumoto, we will also help you protect their safety."
"What if it should be the Gongfang Hall?" Sanhao Changqing's voice suddenly rose, and he looked at Taiyuan Xuezhai.
Taiyuan Xuezhai calmly squinted and smiled, "Those are our hostages. After you help us deal with the Oda Army and Saito Army, we will return the Gongfang Palace to you."
"When that time comes, I'm afraid Master Xuezai will not accept his debt." Miyoshi Yixian frowned and whispered, "The Imagawa family also needs to give us hostages."
"There is absolutely no such possibility." Taiyuan Xuezhai shook his head without hesitation, "His Royal Highness Shixiu, we are all businessmen. Please also find out who is begging and who is doing the work."
"Why are you so verbose?" Shihe Yicun, who stood behind and remained silent, finally couldn't help but snorted, "Isn't it enough to just fight? Why bother."
"Fourth brother." Anzhai Dongkang glanced at Shihe Yicun and pulled his sleeves. Shihe Yicun stopped talking.
"Master Xue Zhai is right. We are indeed under the control of others at this moment." Sanhao Changqing was honest, but his words were unexplainably firm: "But we also have a bottom line. We will never get it if Gongfang Palace can't get it.
We will start a war with the Oda Army and the Saito Army. Once we lose the general who supports us, how will the Miyoshi family gain a foothold in Kinki? This is our lifeline, and we must not tolerate being pinched by the Imagawa family. I hope Master Yusei understands.
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"No problem." Taiyuan Xuezhai agreed without thinking, which made Miyoshi Changqing and others feel frustrated that they had been calculated in advance. The former confidently added: "But our Imagawa family will be there when the time comes.
The one who led the Oda Army and Saito Army to you, whether to start a war or not may not be your decision."
"So..." Seeing that Mihao Changqing and others stopped talking, Taiyuan Xuezhai smiled and extended his hand, "Happy cooperation?"
"It's a pleasure to cooperate." Sanhao Changqing held Taiyuan Xuezhai's calloused hands, "I just hope that Master Xuezhai will keep his promise."
"Monks don't tell lies, don't worry." Taiyuan Xuezhai laughed when he heard this, "Besides, this is not the first time our two families have cooperated, so please rest assured."
Miyoshi Changqing snorted coldly. It felt really bad to be led by someone's nose from beginning to end.
"Happy cooperation, Your Highness." Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had been watching the show from the beginning until now, and even talked less than Tokawa Ichino, did not forget to pay his respects to Miyoshi Nagakei at this time, but Miyoshi Nagakei felt
However, Miyoshi Nagakei, who did not want to lose his composure in front of Matsunagahide and other brothers, still nodded to Imagawa Yoshimoto with a smile, then leaned into Imagawa Yoshimoto's ear and whispered in an inaudible voice.
The voice sarcastically said:
"His Royal Highness Zhibu is just a good student of Master Xue Zhai. Without Master Xue Zhai, you are nothing."
"So what?" Unexpectedly, Imagawa Yoshimoto was not angry, but showed a complacent look on his face, "I just have a good teacher and a good life. Don't you envy me?"
But these words unexpectedly made Miyoshi Nagakei feel relieved. After a long silence, he turned around to say goodbye and left a message for Imagawa Yoshimoto:
"You have changed a lot. You used to resist the world that was different from your own ideas, but now you have learned to compromise with the world. When you learn to take the initiative to cater to and take advantage of the world, you will truly become my enemy."
"I don't know why." Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't know what Miyoshi Nagakei was referring to specifically, "But I still thank you, Your Highness. I wish you good luck."
With the premeditation of the Miyoshi family and the Imagawa family, the ending of the Kyoto war was also a matter of course. With the joint efforts of Ashikaga Yoshito, the Miyoshi family, and the Imagawa family, the Confederate army collapsed and almost fell into internal strife. The Miyoshi army, which made a comeback, recaptured Kyoto and faced
Returning to Ashikaga Yoshito, the Imagawa Army and the Takeda Army took advantage of the opportunity to accept the baggage in the Confederate Army camp, as well as another "general who conquered barbarians" Ashikaga Yoshiaki. The Oda Army and Saito Army, who were enemies of the Imagawa family,
It also suffered heavy losses from the Miyoshi Army. Only the Hojo Army was not able to participate in any party's plan because it was not trusted and escaped by chance.
After the war, the propaganda wars of various big names also started immediately, claiming that they were the victors in the Kyoto War. The Northern Army was naturally justified in their claims, and they could just make their experience of returning from defeat to victory public. Relatively speaking,
The Nanjun's explanation requires the daimyo to give up their efforts.
The Imagawa family, the Takeda family, the Asakura family and the Asai family, all of whom were against the Hosokawa family, claimed to have discovered that Hosokawa Harumoto was the real culprit who poisoned Ashikaga Yoshiharu, so they cooperated with the Miyoshi family and successfully defeated
Hosokawa Harumoto. The Hosokawa family and the Rokkaku family accused these Eastern kingdom daimyo of rebellion and threatened to target these daimyo who colluded with the rebellion as targets of conquest by the shogunate.
However, Ashikaga Yoshito and Kyoto are under the control of Miyoshi Nagakei, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki has been taken away by Imagawa Yoshimoto. Hosokawa Harumoto, the leader of the shogunate, has now become a completely empty promise, and even the banner of the shogunate has been pulled.
Since they have not come out, naturally there are very few people who have responded. Many of the Kinki daimyo who had surrendered to them also had the tendency of "falling down trees and scattering hozens" when they saw this. They did not listen to the instructions from the Hosokawa family, which was once very popular.
For a while, the Hosokawa family seemed to have plummeted to an ordinary daimyo occupying only hundreds of thousands of koku scattered territories after the war.
The one who is most at home in the propaganda war is naturally the Oda family who shined in the Kyoto War. Relying on the achievement of being the first to break into Nijo Castle and the Imperial Palace, the Oda family boasted a lot. But compared to the publicity on the surface, the Owari family stayed behind.
Oda Nobuhide has begun to plan a more realistic operation - the invasion of Mikawa.
Because he received news from Kyoto - Oda Nobunaga had led the Oda army to escape and escaped from the surveillance of the Imagawa family and the Takeda family. Although he did not yet know how to return to Owari territory, he was far away
The Imagawa family and the Oda family will no longer dare to use force against the leaderless and empty Imagawa family because of the hostages. The Imagawa army is marching towards Wakasa northeast of Kyoto in large numbers - it seems that they want to take a boat to circumnavigate half of Japan.
Then return to Suruga. This left enough time for Oda Nobuhide to invade the Imagawa family.
With the right time, right place, and right people, how can the Owari tiger remain immobile?
Oda Nobuhide, who had already assembled his troops, ordered his troops to attack Mikawa on June 24, the 14th year of Tenmon (1546), the day after the end of the Battle of Kyoto.