Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
If you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy. If you have strong feelings, there will be dry bones in the grave.
But her face stiffened and her smile froze. I made some arrangements, but was killed in the hands of Nizi Shengjiu.
I don’t know if he was reminded by Hosokawa Fujitaka or if he had doubts about Akechi Mitsuhide. Nizi Katsuhisa, who is in charge of housework, has been strictly suppressing dissent.
Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't insert a needle or splash water, so there was absolutely nothing he could do.
Nizi Katsuhisa is fair and strict in dealing with things, and Maeda Benefit, Takada Yono and others all want to give her some face.
With her mediation, the big bosses from the recent Sibo leaders were finally able to sit down and work together to ensure the peace of the territory.
This should have been the situation that Shiba Yiyin wanted to see, but it was not conducive to Akechi Mitsuhide's plan.
This guy is really tough.
Akechi Mitsuhide thought for a while and decided to give up blasting from within the Shiba family and turn his attention to Kyoto, where he had strong influence.
She said softly to Fujibayashi Xing.
"I hope that in a few days, a nursery rhyme will be spread throughout Kyoto."
Fujibayashi Xing was stunned.
"Nursery rhymes?"
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled and nodded.
The candlelight flickered, and her beauty dimmed and shone between light and darkness, looming. Her singing voice suddenly sounded in the silent room, so ethereal that it echoed in the room.
"A good retainer builds up the family business and is very happy to have good relationships with superiors and subordinates. However, the important ministers of Sibo do not get along with each other."
She sang it three times before stopping and asking.
"Did you hear that clearly?"
Not only did Fujibayashi Xing hear it clearly, but she also understood it, and it even sent chills down her spine.
She stammered and wanted to say something, but when she looked up and saw Akechi Mitsuhide's warm eyes, she was speechless.
"Go do something."
Fujibayashi Xing bowed to the ground and then ran out of the room as if running away. Akechi Mitsuhide looked at her back with a hint of mockery in his eyes.
What an idiot. These white gloves are useless. Sooner or later, you will have to throw them away and replace them.
She sighed.
If Nizi Shengjiu hadn't been on guard against deadlocks, she wouldn't have used this strategy. If it cannot be exploded internally, it can only rely on external force.
If Shiba's ministers don't get along, then what are they waiting for? General, what do you think?
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In Kyoto, Akechi Mitsuhide secretly wants to cause trouble. But in this boring autumn, others are not idle either.
In Iga country, after the autumn harvest. Maeda's interests invited Otani Yoshitsugi to come to his residence to discuss military affairs. Her mother, Toshihisa Maeda, was sitting with her.
The two parties exchanged pleasantries and observed the tea master's tea art in the tea room. Then they retreated to drink tea and chat.
Looking at Yoshitsugi Otani, who had his head covered and only his eyes exposed, Maeda expressed concern.
"Otani-hime, has your skin been bad lately?"
Otani Yoshitsugi said helplessly.
"That's it. After autumn, the weather becomes dry and much more comfortable."
Maeda shook his head.
"When winter comes and there will be less trouble, you can go to the hot springs to recuperate. I'll be watching over you at home, so it'll be fine."
Otani Yoshitsugi nodded in agreement.
She is now a high-level martial artist with status, and she is no longer the poor girl in Otani Village back then. A little enjoyment and therapy, not a problem.
"Maeda Hime, why did you call me here this time?"
Maeda Yoshitake glanced sideways at his mother and said to Otani Yoshitsugi.
“There is indeed something that I hope to get Otani-hime’s support for.
I want to take advantage of the quiet autumn and winter to sort out the military service accounts in Iga.
In recent years, the military service account in Spoland has been too chaotic, which is not conducive to mobilization. If a war breaks out, and I, the general of the Sibo family, don't even know the military strength in my hands, isn't it going to be a big deal?
I would like to start with the rectification in Iga and sort out the recent military service accounts. What do you think? "
Maeda and her daughter both looked at Yoshitsugi Ohtani, watching her lower her head in thought.
This matter was actually suggested by Maeda Rihisa.
As the Owari samurai family entered Iga country in large numbers, the rule of the Iga Maeda family in Yuye has been stabilized. Now that the fundamentals are stable, Maeda Toshihisa begins to plan for his daughter’s future.
She was cunning and calculating, and this method of sorting out the military service accounts was within the scope of Maeda's interests, and no one could make a mistake.
Yoshigan Shiba was too hasty to leave Konkyo, so he reluctantly assigned housework, military power, and diplomacy to Nizi Katsuhisa, Maeda's interests, and Akechi Mitsuhide.
Among the three parties, Maeda, who seems to have military power, has the strongest interests, but this is not the case.
What Shiba Yiyin needs is stability in the near future, relying on uniting the shogunate and local powerful factions to deter foreign vassals, so that nothing major happens before his return.
After the failure of the Rokkaku family's Omi Northern Expedition, Konge has indeed entered the stable period hoped for by Shiba Yoshigan, but this also limits the power of Maeda's interests.
Without a war, how could she expand her prestige and power in recent weeks?
Akechi Mitsuhide has the Nakado team, Nizi Katsuhisa has the Yagyu team, and even Takada Harano of Sakai Port is secretly recruiting wild samurai.
Only Maeda's interests are trapped in the Iga Basin and do nothing due to restrictions on their authority.
For this reason, Maeda Riku began to think about how to help his daughter gain greater power and improve the strength of the Iga Maeda family.
Her entry point was military mobilization, one of the powers of General Spo.
The three most important powers in the hands of the ruler are personnel power, financial power, and military power.
The personnel power must be in the hands of Yiyin Spo. Before he left, he had planned the rights of all parties. This is an unshakable rule of the game.
Nizi Shengjiu was responsible for the housework, land tax, business taxes, house farewell and other income, and she controlled the financial power.
And where is the military power of Maeda’s interests reflected? Is it just wartime command? Does it include military service accounts? This vague power is what Maeda Riku wants his daughter to strive for.
In recent years, when the Sibo Territory was founded, most of the land was allocated to Maeda's interests in the situation of Sibo. The wisdom was brilliant, the island was powerful, and the Nizi Mountain was a party.
Afterwards, Shiba Yoshigan went to Kanto and took away Yamanaka Yukimori and Shima Katsuruo. In order to ensure the stability of the Sibo Territory in recent years, the Iga tribe and the Peking University tribe have been continuously removed, causing chaos in the military service account.
As the general, Maeda Yoshida didn't know how many people he had under his command and how many troops he could mobilize in each territory. This was unreasonable.
Therefore, she said that she wanted to rectify the military service account and control the mobilization power of the recent wave leaders. No one could make a mistake.
The most important thing is that the policy designed by Maeda Toshihisa to help Maeda's interests is to rectify the situation in Iga first. In this way, he temporarily avoided the Beidahe territory and did not cause any friction with Nizi Shengjiu.
No one likes others to put their hands in their pockets. Peking University and Spo's materials are in the hands of Yidang and Dao Shengmeng in Nizi Mountain.
Now that Shima Katsuo has gone to Kanto and Nizi Katsuhisa is in charge of the housework, why should the Iga Maeda family bother them. If you have to eat one bite at a time, your first target is Mitsuhide Akechi.
Iga's three points, Maeda's interests account for the majority, but he can't do whatever he wants. Minami Iga has Otani Yoshitsugi, and Northern Iga is in the hands of Akechi Mitsuhide, making the three parties a powerful force.
In order to force Mitsuhide Akechi to accept the rectification of the military service account and extend his hand into her territory, he must first obtain the support of Yoshitsugi Otani.
Therefore, Maeda Interests invited Otani Yoshitsugi to discuss the matter.
