In the past few days when Takada Yukino went to Sakai Port to seek reinforcements, Kyoto was not peaceful either.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki of Nijo Imperial Palace, faced with Yoshigan Shiba's tough attitude, was not angry but happy.
Takada Yukino ran away from the Shiba family and could have put aside her relationship with the Shiba family. However, Yoshihiro Shiba even forcefully claimed that Yukino Takada was not guilty. It turned out that he was a man of passionate nature and was not suitable for political involvement.
After the death of their heir, the Matsuda family rushed to the front line and acted out in grief and indignation in front of the new general Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki threw away several good positions in the shogunate for this drama. The Matsuda family received the benefits and was so satisfied that they were immersed in sadness. Ise Sadakyu took the opportunity to provoke the shogunate to feel sad.
The shogunate's security team, who had killed their colleagues, shared the same hatred. Not only did they ignore the rumors in the castle town, but many Hime Samurai even joined in and added fuel to the flames.
Shiba Yiyin treated each other coldly in the mansion, waiting for the shogunate's further actions, just to see if these girls dared to fight with him. Who knows how many days I have to wait, only to receive more condemnation.
Faced with the rhetoric from the samurai of the shogunate and the increasingly fierce rumors in the castle town, Yoshigan remained calm.
He was also curious about what new tricks Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Ise Sadakyu, two cowards who didn't dare to fight head-on and only pretended to be men, could come up with.
The Shiba mansion is always on guard. If something goes wrong, everyone will protect Yiyin and rush out of Kyoto and return to the nearby Shiba territory.
But now it seems that the worst possibility of a quarrel between the two sides no longer exists. The weaklings in the shogunate have no courage to start a war with Shiba Yoshigan.
No one can be killed by spitting, and the shogunate does not dare to use weapons. Yoshigan is even more confident. The idea of ending without illness, as a thousand wives point out, is of no use to me.
Just as the two sides were in a stalemate, a letter from Oda Nobunaga inviting Yoshihiro Shiba to meet at Tofukuji Temple was sent to Shiba's residence, causing panic in Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
Why did Oda Nobunaga, who kept a low profile at Tofukuji Temple, stand up at this time? What on earth is she going to do?
If Shiba Oda joins forces, the consequences will be disastrous.
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Around Tofukuji Temple, Yoshigan is revisiting his old haunts. At that time, he also lived here for a period of time.
He didn't know why Oda Nobunaga invited him to Tofuku Temple on the cusp of such a storm.
At this moment, there were countless pairs of eyes on the side of the shogunate, staring at his meeting with Oda Nobunaga.
Yiyin chuckled, feeling chilled.
In the past few days, he had become increasingly frustrated. His enthusiasm was completely dampened by the selfishness of the shogunate.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki is a wolf with white eyes, and she can fall out of favor faster than turning the pages of a book. I really don’t know what she has been reading at Kofukuji Temple all these years, and she doesn’t care about etiquette, justice, and integrity.
Thinking of her face that resembled Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Yoshigan inevitably felt depressed. Ashikaga Yoshiki was very affectionate and loyal to her, but her sister was an ungrateful bastard.
Now that the confrontation between Shiba Ashikaga is a foregone conclusion, Oda Nobunaga will probably die laughing.
The more Yiyin thought about it, the angrier he became. He whipped his horse hard and raised its speed. The people who protected him on the left and right hurriedly followed and arrived at the Tofuku Temple Jingshe area.
The nuns at Tofuku Temple had long been driven away by the overbearing Oda Hime samurai, and what greeted them outside the door was a tall woman covered in black.
Yi Gin dismounted and took a few steps, followed by the Hamo family behind him. Ii Naomasa even stepped forward and blocked Yoshiyin's side, looking at the black woman in front of him in fear.
Looking at the black woman wearing Ji Ji's costume, Yiyin was also a little surprised.
This island country in Northeast Asia is thousands of miles away from Africa, and they are completely unrelated to each other. When did foreign visitors arrive?
After taking a closer look, I saw that she looked quite beautiful. Although her complexion is dark, her facial features are three-dimensional and delicate, she is tall, her limbs are slender, and her height is only a hair shorter than Yiyin.
At this time, Yiyin's height was getting closer and closer to the 183 cm in his previous life, exceeding 175 cm. Among the Ji warriors who are generally 160 centimeters tall, they are even more majestic.
Not to mention that few men in this world are taller than 150 centimeters, making him look like an ordinary person.
The black warrior princess in front of him was tall and heroic. No wonder Ii Naomasa felt nervous and subconsciously stepped forward to protect him.
Yiyin held her shoulders and said.
"fine."
Naomasa Ii stared at the black warrior Hime and said with a frown.
"Odaisho, Oda-sama, what does this mean?
Where did she get this tall weirdo to greet you with darkened skin? It's really rude. "
Yiyin laughed dumbly and said.
"This man looks like this and has the same skin color. He is a black man from the distant African continent."
Naomasa Ii glanced at the black warrior Hime in disbelief, and finally nodded reluctantly, accepting what his master said.
Seeing her cautious and dubious look, Yiyin couldn't help but want to laugh again.
He stepped forward and walked in front of the black warrior Ji. The black warrior Ji bowed respectfully and said.
"Hello, I'm Yasuke, please follow me."
Yoshigami nodded slightly, followed Yasuke inside, and asked.
"Why didn't His Highness Oda come out to greet me?"
With his current status, he was invited to come to Tofukuji Temple, and Oda Nobunaga should come to greet him in person. The current situation is a bit disrespectful.
Yasuke looked back at Yoshigan who was speaking, and repeated.
"Hello, I'm Yasuke, please follow me."
Seeing her confused eyes, Yiyin understood a little bit and smiled without saying a word.
He walked inside, and his colleagues blocked part of the passage along the way. Warrior Oda Hime did not dare to stop him, but bowed respectfully and stood aside.
Walking to a quiet room, there were only a few concentric members like Kamao Clan, Ii Naomasa and others left behind Yoshigan.
He saw Oda Nobunaga kneeling in the quiet room and said to the ladies behind him.
"You guys will wait here."
"Hi!"
After saying that, he followed Yasuke into the quiet room.
There are no Buddhist inscriptions and calligraphy that are common in Buddhist temples on the indoor wall. Instead, there is a map hanging on the wall. Yiyin glanced at it, and it turned out to be a world map.
Although crudely produced, it lacks literal geography. But Yiyin can be sure that this is indeed a world map.
Oda Nobunaga smiled and saluted Yoshibank, and then said hurriedly.
"Mr. Qianxin, my warrior Ji looks a little weird, does it not scare you?"
Yiyin resisted the urge to roll his eyes and complained secretly. Didn't you just want to scare me when you sent her out to greet me?
Facing Oda Nobunaga, who was happy that he had succeeded, Yoshigage had a prank thought in his heart.
He pretended to be nonchalant and said.
"He's just a black man. What's so surprising? Doesn't His Highness Oda know about black people?"
"Forehead?"
Oda Nobunaga looked surprised, but she immediately coughed to cover it up. She couldn't help but wonder, could I really be ignorant?
Seeing her embarrassment, Yiyin snickered inwardly and said with a serious face.
"In the Kingdom of Heaven, there were Kunlun slaves during the Tang Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty made seven voyages to the West, and the furthest they sailed was Africa, the hometown of black people.
Oh, Your Majesty Oda may not have read these historical materials. "
Yoshigan's expression said, "You don't study, you are uneducated, I can understand." This made Oda Nobunaga instantly itchy with hatred.
She wanted to scare Yiyin with a black man who had never appeared in the island country, but she was silenced by a few words from him.
The samurai education focuses on studying the art of war, mathematics, documents, etc., focusing on practicality, and indeed there are few etiquette and historical materials. Oda Nobunaga was immediately bluffed by Yoshigami.
It was rare for Yiyin to see her in embarrassment, so he felt relieved and stabbed her again.
"If I'm not wrong, His Majesty Oda, a black samurai warrior, shouldn't be able to speak Japanese, right?
It is not dignified for His Highness Oda to welcome guests from such uncivilized foreign lands. "
Oda Nobunaga's face turned red when Yoshigan said it, and he shouted at Yasuke.
"Get out! Get out!"
Yasuke looked at Oda Nobunaga with a confused expression and said.
"Hello, I'm Yasuke, please follow me."
Oda Nobunaga's face instantly turned as red as a pig's liver. She originally wanted to show off the black man she just got and see Yoshiyin's reaction. I don't want to make things worse, and I will be embarrassed and lose my fortune.
Seeing the weird smile on Yoshiyin's face, Oda Nobunaga finally couldn't help but curse.
"Get out!"
While she was talking, she was still anxious and pointed outside. Lest Yasuke, who doesn't understand, have to say that sentence again, the only Japanese she can speak.
Yasuke finally came to his senses and bowed to the two His Highnesses before retreating.
Seeing Oda Nobunaga's embarrassment and anger, Yoshigan couldn't help but laugh.
Oda Nobunaga was so unhappy that he looked at him and burst into laughter. In the end, he couldn't help but laugh too. The two laughed for a while and gradually became silent.
After a long silence, Sibo Yiyin asked.
"His Majesty Oda invited me here today. Why?"
There was no one else in the quiet room, so Oda Nobunaga personally filled a cup of tea for Shiba Yoshigan and presented it to him.
She was also confused in her heart.
According to her original idea, she should sit on the mountain and watch the fight between the tigers, and wait for Yoshigan Shiba and Yoshiaki Ashikaga to completely break up before making arrangements.
But the rumors outside were getting louder and louder day by day, and Oda Nobunaga didn't know how Yoshigoshi Shiba could bear it.
The only thing she could do was to strictly prohibit the Oda family's Hime Samurai from participating in it, and then watch Yoshigoshi Shiba being humiliated in dirty words.
Oda Nobunaga has never felt this way before. What is this? Is it reluctance?
Yes, reluctant to part with it.
She couldn't bear to see Yoshigan Shiba being humiliated by those bastards, so she irrationally sent out this invitation that shocked Ashikaga Yoshiaki and walked on stage in advance.
Oda Nobunaga offered tea, and Shiba Yoshigami nodded slightly in thanks.
Pointing to the world map on the wall, Oda Nobunaga said.
"Mr. Qianxin, do you know where this map is?"
Yoshigan Shiba didn't know the tangled emotions in Oda Nobunaga's heart. He only thought that this world map was just like the black Hime Samurai, and it was another show off by Oda Nobunaga.
He took a sip of tea and said slowly.
"Appreciate further details."
Oda Nobunaga said.
"A few days ago, several Nanman people asked to see me.
Their leader gave me a black man and a knight from Spain. Well, they call them knights there. "
Yoshigan already knew from Suzuki Shigehide that Oda Nobunaga was involved with the Nanman Cult. Unfortunately, before he could take advantage of this, he was stabbed in the back by Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
At this time, hearing Oda Nobunaga take the initiative to mention the matter of the Nanman people, Yoshigan's heart skipped a beat.
Spanish?
The world trendsetters in the sixteenth century were not Britain and the United States in the future, but Portugal and Spain on the Liberian Peninsula.
In particular, the Spanish created modern tactical formations, improved gun and artillery tactics, and were at the forefront of military level in this era.
Yiyin didn't care about the black man just now, but he was very interested in this Spanish knight.
he asked pretending to be casual.
"I saw the black man. Where is the Spanish knight? Aren't you going to show it off?"
Oda Nobunaga chuckled, Shiba Yoshigan really understood his character.
She didn't know that Yiyin knew much more about the world than she did, so she said without thinking too much.
"She has already served me as an official, and she has also taken a Japanese name, Yamashina Shengcheng.
I'm not here now, but I'm in the army helping me train the Iron Cannon Ashigaru. In her hometown, she has great experience in using spears and iron cannons in teams. "
Yiyin's heart sank when he heard that, what a Spanish phalanx soldier! The existence of black people in the island country is already outrageous. Oda Nobunaga still wants to train the Spanish phalanx that has transcended the era of hot and cold weapons?
Seeing Yoshigan's expression not looking good, Oda Nobunaga thought he was mentioning the military relationship. She smiled, pointed at the world map on the wall, and said.
"I was just talking about this map.
Do you know? This is a map of the world, everything on the ground beneath our feet. The world is round and our island country is here.
You didn't expect that, did you? In the whole world, island countries are so small. "
Oda Nobunaga became emotional, and Yoshiyin looked at her coldly and continued.
"For thousands of years, we have lived on this small island with frequent volcanoes and barren land. To this day, warriors are still fighting over this useless island.
Such a waste! What a pity! With our population and our martial spirit, we can definitely conquer North Korea and land on the mainland!
The vast world is out there, why should we fight with each other? Why don't we join forces and speak out unanimously? "
Oda Nobunaga's eyes were blazing with wildfire, and he said to Yoshigan.
"As long as you and I join forces, we will soon be able to unify the sixty-six countries.
Help me, Mr. Qianxin. I will be your most reliable ally and we can conquer this world. You and I are together, and the world is ours. "
Oda Nobunaga stretched out his hand, palm upward, and placed it in front of Yi Gin, making an inviting gesture. Her eyes were full of sincerity and desire.
Only she was worthy of the handsome young man in front of her. For the first time, she was honest about her inner love and was willing to fall in love with this man and share everything.
Yoshigan looked at Oda Nobunaga's hands, which were slender, white, and moist. In the previous life, this was a beautiful hand that could be used as a hand model and in advertisements.
But at this time, Yiyin could smell the strong smell of blood from his hands, which lingered.
He couldn't help but laugh, leaning forward and backward with laughter, completely ignoring Oda Nobunaga's increasingly ugly expression.
Oda Nobunaga didn't expect that for the first time, he ignored his reason, left the show early, and issued a sincere invitation of love, which would actually make Yoshigami smile like this disrespectful person without regard for decency.
She has not been cared for by her parents since she was a child. She has a surly temperament, strong self-esteem, and loves face. At this time, he was laughed at by his admirers, and he couldn't stand it anymore.
Oda Nobunaga said with a cold face.
"What's so funny? Mr. Qianxin."
Shiba Yoshigan looked at Oda Nobunaga seriously and said.
"Your Majesty Oda, do you know the story about sitting in a well and looking at the sky?"
The corners of Oda Nobunaga's eyes twitched, and he grinned with white teeth, showing his fierce look.
"Mr. Qianxin, do you want to say that I am a frog in the well?"
Yiyin stared into her angry eyes and said.
"Yes."
Following Yiyin's loud reply, the atmosphere between the two suddenly froze.
