The Wu family attaches great importance to the family business. For the continuation of the family business, life and death can be ignored.
It's easy to say this, but fear of death is human instinct. Who doesn't want to live if he can't die?
However, the family business is the dining table where all Ji warriors under the entire family name eat. Compared with the importance of the continuation of the family business, the family governor is nothing.
Sometimes it’s not possible to die even if you don’t want to. If you don’t want to be dignified, there are people who can help you look decent.
Wada Weimasa had not yet reached Kyoto and complained to General Ashikaga about Mibuchi Fujihide's evil deeds. Oda Nobunaga slapped her hard on the face, telling her to wake up.
The Wada family ended up in today's situation because Wada Weimasa and Ashikaga Yoshiaki got too close, which affected his family business.
Wada Weizheng instinctively had to stop and did not dare to go to Beijing again to ask for help. She stopped midway and took a couple of sips of sake in frustration. There were already sudden movements outside the house.
Her face was calm and she said calmly.
"come in."
His daughter He Tian Weichang opened the door, bowed respectfully and said.
"I'm disturbing my mother's rest."
After she entered, she closed the door, blocking the arc light reflected in the moonlight from the tip of the knife outside the door.
Knowing that there would be an end tonight, Wada Weimasa didn't expect that the person who set off the undercurrent behind her was actually her own daughter Wada Weichang.
But by this time, she didn't care anymore, she just drank the sake casually and asked.
"Why?"
"If I had not agreed to serve the Oda family, Wada Village would have been bulldozed by Niwa Nagahide-sama long ago."
Wada Weimasa threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground with such force that it almost broke into pieces.
The sliding door was opened, and a group of Ji warriors armed with sharp blades rushed in. Wada Wenaga turned around and said sternly.
"My mother and I are talking. Anyone who allows you to come in and disturb me should get out!"
A group of Ji warriors bowed and apologized, exited the room, and did not forget to close the door.
Wada Weimasa asked with a self-deprecating smile.
"Won't you let them chop me?"
Wada Weichang whispered.
"Mother has devoted her whole life to the Hotan family business, and the Ji warriors in the family respect you very much.
It's just that the shogunate is in decline and the general is unkind. Why don't you abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side? Your Majesty Oda actually values you very much. "
Wada Weimasa nodded and said.
"I see, Oda Nobunaga doesn't want me to die. She wants me to live and beg for mercy from her, so that I can further humiliate the shogunate and undermine the general's prestige."
Wada Nobunaga frowned when he saw his mother calling Oda Nobunaga by his first name.
"Mother, please be careful what you say."
Wada Weizheng said pleasantly.
“In troubled times, it is not a wrong thing for mothers, daughters and sisters to take sides separately to consider the continuation of the family business.
Wei Chang, I don't blame you for taking orders from His Highness Oda. But you also have to understand that if I take refuge in the past now, I will completely offend the shogunate, and it will also be detrimental to the Wada family. "
Wada Weichang hesitated and said.
"Mother, His Highness Oda will not let you die."
Wada Weimasa said with a sad smile.
"Yes, I just figured it out when I saw you. Your Highness Oda is so cruel. She wants to make General Ashikaga feel ashamed.
I will not go to Luo or Beijing again, and I don’t care what happens in Setjin Kingdom. "
Wada Weizheng took out the ribs, which made Wada Weichang a little nervous, fearing that his mother would commit seppuku.
Wada Weimasa glanced at her and smiled.
"If I want to commit seppuku, I will naturally ask you to prepare a sword and introduce the wrong person. It will be uncomfortable to use the ribs."
While joking, she grabbed her hair with her left hand, cut off a lot of her hair with her ribs, and then handed it to Wada Weinaga.
"Find someone to help me shave my head, and please send this hair to the case of His Highness Oda in Gifu City.
Tian Weimasa and I plead guilty to the issue of Minami Omi and Tamura, but we will never succumb to the Oda family. If His Highness Oda is not satisfied, please send someone to Wada Village to grant me permission to commit seppuku. "
Wada Weichang respectfully took his mother's hair with both hands and asked.
"Mother is going back to Hotan Village?"
Wada Weimasa said with a bitter smile.
"The general is incompetent, and the Hota family has no choice but to save itself. I can't really let the family fortune fall into my hands. I can't go to Kyoto, so I can only go back to Hota Village and wait.
The Oda family did not allow Wada Village to erect a city wall, so I personally went back to take charge of the territory. I believe that my compatriots from the Koga community will give me a good deal of respect and will no longer be instigated to embarrass the Wada family.
But what happens in the future still depends on whether His Highness Oda is willing to let me go. But as long as you are here, there should be no major problems in the Wada family. It is just my personal fate. "
Wada Weichang was silent for a long time and asked bitterly.
"Mother really doesn't blame me?"
Wada Weimasa sighed.
"In more than a hundred years of troubled times, nothing strange has happened. I have served Rokkaku and Ashikaga for many years, and I am used to being deceived by others.
You are a good boy. Although you hid this matter from me, you did nothing wrong. The power of the Oda family is growing day by day. The Wada family is based in Minami Omi and cannot be an enemy.
I was unwise, obsessed with the shogunate, and mistakenly trusted Ashikaga Yoshiaki, an incompetent and unrighteous Ashikaga general.
But now, I cannot bow my head before the general, I must stick to my loyalty. This is also for the reputation and future of the Hotan family. "
Wada Wei let out a long sigh, kowtowed to the ground and said.
"Thank you for your hard work, mother."
Wada Weizheng said with a sarcastic look on his face.
"It won't last long. I believe the general will give in soon. By then, I can naturally bow my head."
———
As Wada Weimasa judged, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was an incompetent and unjust general. She was not considerate of Wada Yaimai's move to return to Minami Omi Wada Village halfway, but became furious.
But Wada Weimasa insisted on his principles after all, did not bow to Oda Nobunaga, and shaved his head to show his unyielding.
The general is mentally retarded, but the Ashikaga shogunate's airs are still there, and they haven't been completely swept into the trash heap. Wada Weimasa could never surrender to a foreign vassal as a minister of the Ashikaga Shogun.
The Ashikaga family can't afford to lose this person, and the shogunate can't afford to lose this person. The most important thing is, will the elder of the Genji family, Yoshigan Shiba, come forward to kill the Wada family?
The Wada family couldn't afford to offend Oda Nobunaga, so how could they offend Kawachi Genji? This sign isn’t completely rotten yet, and it still has a handle on it.
This persistence of Wada Nobunaga was appreciated by Oda Nobunaga. She also saw that Wada Weinaga was working for the Oda family and no longer cared about Wada Weizheng's disrespect for her.
After all, Wada Weinaga's defection to the Oda family could no longer be concealed.
She even cheated her own mother. If Oda Nobunaga continued to persecute him, the recent samurai families who had taken refuge in the Oda family would surely be in mourning. For the Oda family, this move was not worth the gain.
After sparing the disgraced Wada Weimasa, Oda Nobunaga raised his troops to Luoyang again in the name of paying homage to Ashikaga General.
At the turn of spring and summer, Oda's army besieged Sakamoto Castle, an important town in Yamashiro Province, from Minami Omi. Niki Yoshimasa was unable to resist and was forced to surrender at Kaicheng. Sakamoto Castle fell into the hands of the Oda family.
Having been taken back by Ashikaga Yoshiaki to command the Ashikaga Huimen, and having lost Sakamoto Castle, Hitoshi Yoshimasa did not dare to return to Kyoto immediately and hid in his own territory on the border between Iga and Yamashiro.
This territory was still the one that Shiba Yoshigan ordered to protect several villages in recent times in order to thank her for giving up the Iga guardianship. Outsiders did not dare to covet it.
Hitoshi Yoshimasa, who fled back to the village, recalled all the experiences he had experienced in the past few years. After the ups and downs, he was particularly grateful for Yoshigan Shiba's kindness and kindness.
Thinking of her villainous behavior of standing by and watching Shiba Yoshiyin being embarrassed in Kyoto, she felt quite regretful.
At this point, the two most relied upon by Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Wada Weimasa and Hitaki Yoshimasa, the two most relied upon, were temporarily forced to leave sadly, and others did not dare to stop the menacing Oda Nobunaga.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki of Kyoto watched in horror as Oda's army approached Kyoto, but the samurai inside and outside Kyoto silently watched her embarrassment.
Oda Nobunaga wrote to Mibuchi Fujihide, denounced her crime of provoking provocations and illegally occupying Takaki Castle, and asked her to withdraw from Fushimi Castle immediately, otherwise she would bear the consequences.
Mibuchi Fujihide was in trouble with the shogunate because of his occupation of Takatsuki Castle, and was severely criticized within the Hosokawa Mibuchi family. She didn't dare to resist Oda's army at all, so she had no choice but to abandon Fushimi Castle.
By suppressing Ise and disrupting Settsu's pressure, Oda Nobunaga took advantage of the situation to take Sakamoto Castle and Fushimi Castle, two important towns guarding the gateway to Kyoto, and once again successfully entered Luo and entered the capital.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki had no choice but to pretend and allow Oda Nobunaga to attend. At this point, the story of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's one-year restoration of the shogunate has completely become a big joke on the streets.
———
Kyoto, Nijo Castle.
In the conference hall, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was furious.
"Asshole! This bastard!"
Everyone sitting at the altar was silent. Kerji stood like a stake at the door, gazing at the scene inside.
She was brought by Ashikaga Yoshiaki from Kofukuji Temple, and he accompanied and protected her all the way to Luo, so she was deeply trusted and is now the leader of the Konoe.
In front of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Yagyu Soen fell deeply to the ground. After Ashikaga Yoshiaki succeeded to the throne, she returned to the position of Omesuke in the shogunate and realized her ambition.
This time, she also brought back Oda Nobunaga's request.
After Oda Nobunaga came to Luo, he did not come to Nijo Castle to see her immediately. Instead, he hoped that Ashikaga Yoshiaki could go to Tofukuji Temple to see her.
As a general, Ashikaga Yoshiaki's face was stepped on and rubbed by Oda Nobunaga. She was so angry that she wanted to refuse, but she did not dare to refuse in the face of strong military pressure.
Although Oda Nobunaga did not bring many people into the capital, Oda's army was stationed in Fushimi Castle in the south, eyeing the north.
Ninagawa, who was sent by the shogunate, hid back to Tanba Kingdom, and Hatakeyama Takamasa also ran back to Minamigouchi to watch. Everyone was watching what she, the Ashikaga General, would do.
The only thing Ashikaga Yoshiaki can rely on is the Fenghong and Ashikaga Huichu who are loyal to the Ashikaga family.
But during Miburou's Tenchu operation, Iio Akiren and Matsuda Fujihiro, who were the most prestigious among the shogunate, and Ueno Kiyonobu and Odate Harutada who firmly supported the general among the shogunate judges.
These four people were either dead or disabled.
Everything was going smoothly, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki didn't feel anything was wrong. But when trouble really came to her door, she suddenly found that she could not find a few loyal and brave men under her command who dared to fight and kill.
Wada Weimasa, Hitoshi Yoshimasa, and Yagyu Sogan were all opportunists who supported her in going to Luo, but now they are running away, stupidly.
The dignified Ashikaga Shogun could not find a few people in the shogunate who were willing to bleed and die for her. Doesn't this make outsiders look down on her even more?
Ashikaga Yoshiaki was so humiliated that he vented his anger, but the other concubines in front of him couldn't offer any useful suggestions except for calming down, dying, and being guilty.
She suddenly regretted it. If Yoshigan Shiba was still in Kyoto, would Oda Nobunaga dare to be so unbridled and domineering?
———
At this time at Tofukuji Temple, Oda Nobunaga also welcomed a guest.
In the quiet room, Akechi Mitsuhide smiled and saluted Oda Nobunaga and said.
"I haven't seen His Majesty Oda for a few days. Your demeanor is indeed better than before."
Oda Nobunaga tilted his head and looked at Akechi Mitsuhide and said.
"What? Do you want to complain for Ashikaga Yoshiaki, or are you the lobbyist she hired?"
Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head and said.
"You have forgotten that I am also a garrison in Kyoto. With so many sergeants coming to the capital, I always have to go through the motions and not be in my position.
By the way, No-kun sent me a letter, saying that she had arrived at Minami Omi, and asked me to take Ryuuki Saito to see him when I have time.
May I ask, Your Majesty Oda, if I can take my children to Minamiomi to meet No-kun once in a while? "
Oda Nobunaga glanced at Mitsuhide Akechi, who had a gentle face, smiled and said.
"They are all my relatives. Since we live not far away, we will move around more in the future. Mr. Nong misses you very much."
Akechi Mitsuhide bowed happily.
"That's really troublesome for you, thank you very much."
Oda Nobunaga felt a little uneasy when he saw her talking about things.
"These are the only things you have to say to me?"
Akechi Mitsuhide pretended to be stunned.
"What else do you want me to say, Your Majesty Oda?
When Tsudoden left, Qian warned and asked Wan to ask the recent Sibo leaders to be careful in their words and deeds and not to get involved in the shogunate's dispute.
Although I was appointed by the general to guard Kyoto, you know that I am staying in Kyoto to conduct diplomatic affairs on behalf of the Shiba family, so it is not convenient for me to talk nonsense. "
Oda Nobunaga smiled.
"So, even if I destroy this annoying Ashikaga General, you will watch silently?"
Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head.
"No, it's not like that. I have only heard of using the emperor to control the princes, but I have never heard of deposing the emperor to control the princes.
His Highness Oda is talented and ambitious, how can he let himself fall into unfavorable public opinion? "
Oda Nobunaga looked at Mitsuhide Akechi for a while, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, so he extended the invitation again and said.
"I like you very much. Do you want to seriously consider coming to Oda's house to work for me?"
Akechi Mitsuhide bowed his thanks and refused again.
"Your Highness is very affectionate, but foreign ministers are frightened.
I am very close to Mr. No, but it is not appropriate to go out to Shiba's house, and it will also cause Tsutama's resentment towards you. On the contrary, by staying in the Sibo family, he can make his own contribution to the friendship between the two families.
Besides, in this chaotic world, order must eventually be restored. If His Majesty Oda can really unite the world, whoever serves under his sect will serve under your sect, won't he? "
Oda Nobunaga laughed, clapped his hands and said.
"You are very good at talking. I really don't want to touch Ashikaga Yoshiaki, but she is really ignorant and makes me very embarrassed."
Akechi Mitsuhide said calmly.
"Since Your Highness dares to go to Luo, he is naturally confident and well prepared."
Oda Nobunaga nodded, pointed at the floor, and said.
"So, I want you to help me invite Ashikaga Yoshiaki here. I will take care of the rest by myself."
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
"Although it would be embarrassing for her to ask the general to come over and talk, the situation is compelling and she probably won't refuse and make the situation worse.
But you also know the general’s temperament. Can you give me the confidence to persuade him? "
Oda sneered.
"Isn't she just afraid of death? I promise not to kill her or cripple her, and let her come here in peace.
You also said that it would not do me any good to kill the emperor by holding the emperor hostage. "
Akechi Mitsuhide bowed.
"In this case, I can go out shamelessly and share some of His Highness Oda's worries."
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