Chapter 1796 Two women from Kanto are about to give birth
Hosokawa Fujitaka shook his head and sighed.
"It's easy for Nizi Shengjiu to gain a lot. Going to the Western Kingdom is like a hidden dragon coming out of the abyss. Nizi's family is really going to be prosperous now."
According to Hosokawa Fujitaka, the Nizi family once dominated the Western Kingdom, and this time when they return, the saint must rely on the local heritage of the Nizi family.
In addition, Nizi Shengjiu worked hard in the past seven or eight years and contributed to the Sibo family with loyalty, so he was very trusted by the saint.
When we go to the Western Kingdom, the saints will definitely give their full support to the Nizi family. With this solid backing, the revival of the Nizi family is just around the corner.
Although the Nizi family was known as the governor of the Eleven Kingdoms of Yin and Yang, with influence all over the Western Kingdom, and a stone height of two million, it was all false.
The Nizi family rebelled against the Kyogoku family and the Ouchi family successively, and refused to hand over some of the tax money to the shogunate. They had a very bad relationship with the central government, and they only became arrogant by relying on force and arrogance.
Once it declined, Nizi's family fortune was like ice and snow under the spring sun, disappearing in an instant.
But this time it's different.
Nizi Shengjiu has established a firm foothold in the Sibo family. With the endorsement of the saint and his great righteousness, the Shanyin countries will be smoothly pacified.
The Nizi family has local connections and a background in the central government. Even if they don't have the domineering power to sweep through the eleven countries, they have a shallower foundation than their predecessors, but they have more political confidence to rule Shanin for a long time.
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled and looked at Hosokawa Fujitaka without saying anything. In her heart, her cheap father was already a dead man, and Nizi Katsuhisa was also a dead man.
If she wanted to attack Oda Nobunaga justifiably, two conditions must be met.
The first is personal grudges. The second is public grudges.
Akechi Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga are too close. Now she says that she wants to rebel against Oda. How many people are willing to believe it? How many people are willing to follow her?
Therefore, she needs her dead father to let her and Oda Nobunaga have a father-killing feud in order to convince others to believe in her.
As the Western Kingdom strategy is imminent, the geographical location of Tamba Country is too important and must be captured.
Hatano Hideharu is a female owl. This kind of person is a hidden danger in Tamba country. It is better to find an opportunity to trick him down the mountain and kill him, and it will be over.
Akechi Mitsuhide felt it was worth it to exchange Hatano Hideharu's life for a cheap father.
If he works well, Oda Nobunaga will be responsible for the tragic incident of killing the famous lord of the foreign domain and leading to the murder of his hostage's father.
Thus, the Tanba Kingdom was obtained, and the revenge for killing his father was also obtained. It was ideal and perfect.
In addition, Akechi Mitsuhide also needed Nizi Katsuhisa to die in the Western Kingdom, causing problems in the cooperation between the Shiba family and the Oda family, in order to incite the samurai family in the Kinki Shiba territory to hate Oda Nobunaga.
Nizi Katsuhisa managed the Kinki Shiba Territory for seven or eight years with kindness and kindness, and many Shiba retainers thought of her well.
If she was killed by the Oda family in the Western Kingdom, then when Mitsuhide Akechi attacks Oda Nobunaga in the future, there won't be much resistance from the Kinki Shiba leader.
Nizi Katsuhisa and Hashiba Hideyoshi cooperated to conquer the Western Kingdom. The rear of the Sanin line was in Tango Kingdom, which was the future territory of Mitsuhide Akechi.
As for Hashiba Hideyoshi, who cooperated with Nizi Katsuhisa, she owed two lives to Akechi Mitsuhide, and also needed Akechi Mitsuhide to intercede for her to conquer the Western Kingdom.
Hashiba Hideyoshi was so ambitious, how could she be willing to share the results of the Western Kingdom with Nizi Katsuhisa? As long as they were careful and Akechi Mitsuhide and Hashiba Hideyoshi cooperated internally and externally, Nizi Katsuhisa was doomed.
Putting this blame on Oda Nobunaga would be a good choice for both Akechi Mitsuhide and Hashiba Hideyoshi.
Anyway, Oda Nobunaga was surly and deviant, and there were countless samurai who hated her. Regardless of the truth, they only said that Oda Nobunaga killed Nizi Katsuhisa. Everyone was willing to believe this.
The thing that Akechi Mitsuhide is most fortunate about now is that Nizi Katsuhisa has always strictly adhered to his duties as a monarch and a minister and did not climb onto the holy couch of a saint.
If she really slept with the saint, Akechi Mitsuhide would not dare to take action.
Akechi Mitsuhide knew very well that the women and children of saints should never be killed. This was the reverse of Yoshigami Shiba.
The biggest reason why Ashikaga Yoshiteru was killed and the mastermind Akechi Mitsuhide was able to escape the murder was because Ashikaga Yoshiteru never slept with the saint, but Akechi Mitsuhide did.
Akechi Mitsuhide discovered this a long time ago. Men are men after all, and saints are extremely soft-hearted towards their women and children, with almost no bottom line of tolerance.
Therefore, as long as Nizi Katsuhisa has not slept with the saint, then the trouble of killing her and passing the responsibility to Oda Nobunaga will not be too big.
Under Akechi Mitsuhide's smiling appearance, Nizi Katsuhisa has been sentenced to death.
Hosokawa Fujitaka didn't know what his close friend was thinking, and he was still sighing, thinking that Nizi Katsuhisa's life was good, and that Sanin (do) in the future would probably be the territory of Nizi's family.
If she had known the terrible thoughts in Mitsuhide Akechi's heart, I wonder if she would have dared to accompany Mitsuhide Akechi to climb the fatal Mount Tenno.
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The Kinki samurai all paid close attention to the Oda family's Ishiyama strategy, and after cracking this hard nut to resist, the Oda family's general trend was formed.
Without the religious constraints of the Ichikai sect, coupled with the moral blessing of the Shiba family's reputation in the center of Kyoto, the Oda family's external expansion speed is smoother than before.
Being blocked from Kinki and unable to support Ishiyama Honganji Temple, the Mori family was sweating with anxiety, but they had no choice but to do anything.
As the old saying goes, if the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, today's Ishiyama Honganji Temple will be the tomorrow of the Mori family.
As for Yoshigan, who is far away in Kanto, he has no time to take into account the changes in Kinki at the moment. As the delivery date approaches, he is wholeheartedly waiting for the birth of his little life.
This summer in Guandong is particularly peaceful. The warnings for the chaos in the East are not far away. There are saints sitting in charge, and ghosts and monsters do not dare to cause trouble.
All parts of Kanto have ushered in rare peace, and every family is busy focusing on production and development.
The land that was devastated by the war actually had some of the grandeur of the Heji period, and the voices of the lower classes singing their praises could be heard endlessly.
The requirements of the people at the bottom have always been very low. If they have food to eat, clothes to wear, and a house to live in, and those in power have less trouble, this is a prosperous age.
After a long period of chaos, we hope for peace, but if peace lasts for a long time, the new generation will forget the horror of war, and new waves will be caused.
The only lesson humanity can learn from history is that it never learns.
The cyclical law of the rise and fall of chaos will never go out of style, because human nature has never changed. Whether it is the ancestors five thousand years ago or the self-righteous civilized people today, it has never changed.
The peaceful days passed quickly, and after the leaves fell in the autumn wind, Yiyin's mood became more and more nervous.
He should have been accompanying Hojo Umasa in Kawagoe Castle at this time because her delivery date was earlier.
If you are pregnant in ten months, the pregnancy period is actually only thirty-seven to forty weeks. If it is less than thirty-seven weeks, it is considered premature, and if it is forty weeks, it is called full term.
Hojo Umasa was pregnant about two weeks earlier than Shima Katsuru. Now she is thirty-nine weeks and may give birth at any time.
Therefore, Yiyin stayed in Heyue City these days and did not go anywhere.
But today, he made an exception and left Kagotsu Castle and came to Edo Castle just for one important matter.