If given the choice, Yiyin also likes to face everyone with sincerity and calmness. But when he is in his position, even if he really has no idea about many things, others will give him a few more thoughts.
This is the tragedy of the superior. All his actions will be carefully observed and scrutinized under a microscope, and magnified infinitely.
Not to mention the matter of Sanada Nobushige, Yoshigage was thinking a lot.
Even if he once really wanted to do a good job in the Standing Council of the Kanto Palace, what has it become now?
The original plan was to set up seven directors, but in the end, the number of directors was six. Why is this?
Because the island is fierce, the mountain is prosperous, and Daxiong Chaoxiu are the three permanent directors, they hope that the total number of board members will be six.
According to Yi Yin's intention, three of the seven directors are permanent directors and four are non-permanent directors. The odd-numbered vote can directly determine the result.
But the three permanent directors are unwilling, because once the four non-permanent directors reach an agreement, the three permanent directors must use their common veto power.
As the ultimate deterrent, the veto power cannot be used every day, right? So for the three standing directors, the most advantageous option is three to three, reducing the number of council members to six.
In this way, there is no need for any voting confrontation between the three one-year non-permanent directors and the three permanent directors who are always in office.
Because after one year, the non-permanent directors will leave, and there is no way to fight against the permanent directors.
Because of this dispute over voting rights, the Grand Council finally selected six directors instead of the seven originally designed by Yi Bank.
In order to get more power, Shima Shengmeng, Yamanaka Yukimori, and Daxiong Chaoxiu, whom Yiyin trusted most, could not stop their greed. The Wu family group behind them was trying their best to fight for their own greater interests.
For their own benefit, they dare to think of ways to change even the Lord's design.
Therefore, the only people Yiyin can control with his emotions are individuals. Yiyin cannot control the thoughts of these small mountain groups.
For example, Daosheng Meng.
Even if Dao Shengmeng himself is loyal to him, the martial arts group behind Dao Shengmeng still has to strive for their own interests. Dao Shengmeng himself must sometimes compromise.
In this case, who can Yiyin trust? He can only find a way to let the people below him check and balance each other, otherwise he will be ignored.
No matter how sincere the Hime Samurai leader who admired him was, politically, Yoshigan could not rely on anyone. It was not his intention to be called a loner, but it was a reality he had to face.
After Sanada Nobunshige left, Niwa Nagahide respectfully greeted Yoshibank. Yiyin exchanged a few words with her about their old friendship and warmed up the scene first.
Looking at Niwa Nagahide, Yoshigan was thinking about Oda Nobunaga. In a sense, Yoshigan and Oda Nobunaga are the same kind of people.
As a man, Yiyin is in a weak position to establish hegemony in a world dominated by women.
In addition, the Sibo clan was exterminated, leaving him with no backbone elite to support the family business, resulting in a very loose foundation for his rule.
Rather than saying that Sibo Yiyin governed his family with benevolence and righteousness, it is better to say that he governed his family with Gil.
Without the affiliation of several generations, the bonds between people are too fragile to bear the word loyalty. At this time, the most reliable thing is the blood relationship, followed by the relationship in bed.
It is helpless for the Shiba Ji Knights to acquiesce that Yoshigage is a male cousin, because apart from using the master's body as cousins, the Shiba family has no more effective bond to connect the interests of all high-level officials.
Oda Nobunaga was also in the same embarrassment. The Oda family she inherited was just a rural daimyo from Shimo-Owari County. It was not outstanding in terms of family character or strength.
The Oda family has expanded rapidly in recent years. The original foundation cannot support such a big deal. It has accumulated many conflicts. It only relies on continuous external expansion to barely ease internal differences.
The two giants, Yoshihiro and Oda Nobunaga, seemed to be able to mobilize millions of koku, each pulling hundreds of thousands of people, to fight a full-scale war that was rare in the island nation. It was very awesome.
But in fact, both of them felt guilty because they both had the same pain points.
Both of them have great power, but the core power that controls the great power is very small and fragile.
Mobilizing a large number of military forces is a manifestation of great power. But what the confrontation consumed was his own limited control and strength.
If the price of defeating your opponent is to exhaust your own ability to control your own forces, wouldn't it be like making a wedding dress for those who come after you? This is too stupid to do, right?
Coupled with the fact that Yoshigage and Oda Nobunaga had had physical intimacy and affection between men and women, it was possible for the two to have a successful affair, and the two sides were even more unwilling to fight and fight to the death.
Oda Nobunaga took the initiative to send Niwa Nagahide, his number one confidant, as an envoy. Yoshigan held a seppuku ceremony before Niwa Nagahide entered the city. It seemed like a demonstration, but it also gave an explanation to the Oda family.
Oda Nobunaga came with sincerity, and we, Yoshie Bank, also welcomed him with sincerity. The two parties finally took the first step in negotiations.
Mutual respect in politics stems from equal strength. No one can do anything to anyone, so we have to respect each other.
At least judging from the current situation, the Shiba and Oda families have a basis for mutual respect. In the face of huge casualties, the Gaojie Wu family from both camps no longer wanted to fight.
During the Battle of Yuwu Lake, the family names of two to three hundred famous families in the Shiba camp were wiped out, not counting the Ji Samurai Regiment on other battlefields.
As Yoshigami said, if all the Hime warriors are defeated, even if the Shiba family defeats the Oda family, the whole world of the samurai family will still be useless, which is unnecessary.
As for the Oda family, the old Owari samurai family, who originally did not want to start a war, was pinned to Echizen country and engaged in a war of positional attrition, resulting in heavy losses.
The Oda war faction, who had quit the war, came down from Higashinoyama and was chopped to pieces by Shiba Yiyin and his colleagues on the main battlefield of Yuwu.
Hirate Hanhide and Ujie Naomoto, the two most powerful Owari Mino factions, were hacked to death on the battlefield, and the rest of them had seen the unparalleled style of Tsutado-den.
As the core of the Oda retainers group, the Owari Mino samurai family did not want to fight at all, and other affiliated forces were even less willing to bleed for the Oda family.
Now is the best time to negotiate. The two parties bumped fists and decided to peace and love after being bruised and bruised. It is easier to respect the other party's demands before a mortal feud has been formed at this time.
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After sending Niwa Nagahide away, Yoshigami fell into deep thought.
Oda Nobunaga's request was more timid than expected. Perhaps the massacre of the Sanada people put a certain amount of pressure on her, which was an unexpected gain for Yoshigage.
Yoshigan also didn't expect that Oda Nobunaga didn't care much about the massacre itself. Most of the people who died might have been members of the Kitaomi clan, not direct descendants of the Oda family.
Yoshigan is also interested in the truce proposed by Oda Nobunaga.
Despite the fact that Oda's territory is full of loopholes, it's actually very difficult for the Shiba army to penetrate.
Otani Yoshitsugi had few troops at his disposal, and taking Suzuka Pass was already the limit, and he had no ability to continue sending troops to Minami Omi.
The Takeda Army in Higashi Mino only had 800 men, and the Maeda Toshiie had only 20,000 koku of territory, so they could not mobilize more than a thousand men despite their desperate efforts. It's okay to harass and harass, but when they really entered the Nongwei Plain, they couldn't even gather enough people to occupy it.
Daosheng Meng was blocked in the West Meinong Mountains, making it difficult to move south, and he didn't have many troops on hand. Yukimori Yamanaka of Echizen Province led the Kwantung Allied Forces to attack Shibata Katsuie, and both sides suffered heavy losses.
All in all, Oda Nobunaga is in a lot of troubles, and Yoshinobu is also under great pressure. If he can stop and take a breath, it is estimated that the two sides will never fight again.
As for what Oda Nobunaga said about changing course and slowly revising back policies that were not conducive to the Wu family, Yoshihiro didn't believe a word of it.
A centralized monarch only dislikes the fact that the power in his hands is too small. How can there be any reason to push power outwards?
Once Oda Nobunaga tasted the sweetness, it would be impossible for her to give up any power unless someone used force to force her to bow her head and let go.
But how many people in the world can subdue Oda Nobunaga, the three-million-rock Daimyo? Sibo Yiyin may be one of them, but he is no longer willing to play because the cost is too high and not cost-effective.
Oda Nobunaga's talk of political reform was just an excuse to undermine the sense of justice and fighting spirit of the samurai group to form an anti-Oda alliance. And Yiyin is also willing to go down the donkey and negotiate with the Oda family.
Niwa Nagahide relayed Oda Nobunaga's conditions, and Yoshigan agreed in principle.
But he did not relent immediately. Instead, Akechi Mitsuhide actively stepped forward and acted as a peacemaker. He followed Niwa Nagahide to Nagahama Castle on the pretext of sending Niwa Nagahide back.
The Oda family didn't care about traps and killings. Akechi Mitsuhide finally had the courage to go to Oda Nobunaga's seat and use his sharp tongue, no longer worrying that he would be beheaded as a sacrifice to the flag.
That's what negotiation is like. The two sides go back and forth, constantly working together, and finally reach an agreement.
It's just that the scale of the war with a hundred thousand troops has put too much pressure on the island country's daimyo's economy. Neither Yoshigan nor Oda Nobunaga can sustain it for long. An armistice agreement should be reached soon.
Yoshihiro felt reassured by Akechi Mitsuhide. This scheming fox would eat anything as long as he didn't suffer a loss. He felt reassured that she could run against Oda Nobunaga.
After thinking about it for a while, he felt that there was nothing wrong, so Yiyin stood up and walked out. The people who wanted to follow him were waved by him to stay, and then Yiyin came to the courtyard inside the residence.
In the small town of Yanjin, the residences are not big and the courtyards are also small, with just a few trees and a pond.
In front of the pond, Christina was staring at the water in a daze. She woke up when Yiyin walked to her side and bowed.
"Your Excellency, congratulations on another great victory."
Yiyin nodded.
"Thank you. You are also responsible for this. What are you looking at here?"
Christina looked at Yiyin cautiously and said softly.
"I didn't see anything. Your entourage ordered me to wait here. I was just bored and in a daze."
Yiyin asked.
"How are your men? Did you encounter any trouble after the artillery team withdrew?"
"Thank you for your concern, they are all fine, but I'm sorry.
Because our artillery shells were limited, we were unable to play a greater role. After firing the ammunition, we had to retreat. "
"You have provided me with a lot of help. In addition to the gold medal given to you before, there will also be a bonus sent to Tsuruga Port in the future."
"Praise to you, generous lord."
Yiyin waved his hand and asked.
"What are your plans when you return to the ship?"
Christina hesitated and said frankly.
"Lilu asked me to bring all the cannonballs this time. Our ship's cannons have no ammunition and have lost the ability to deal with dangers during long voyages.
We need to go back to Sakai Port and negotiate with other Nanman merchants to buy some cannonballs, but we may encounter a little trouble.
The fact that I led the artillery team to participate in the island war cannot be hidden for too long. The Nanman Chamber of Commerce, headed by Spain and Portugal, will definitely accuse us of breaking the agreement and expel us from the island country's trade lines. "
Yiyin thought for a while and said.
"You go back to Sakai Port first and wait for my news. I am confident that this war will end this year, and then the shogunate will officially appoint Lilu as the general agent of Nanman.
The shogunate will only conduct trade communication with the Nanman merchant group represented by Lilu. If the Nanman Chamber of Commerce is unwilling to accept it, they will not be able to continue to stay in Sakai Port and participate in trade.
My influence cannot reach Kyushu Western Kingdom for the time being, but if one day, my army reaches Nagasaki and Hakata, they will also lose the power to trade in the local ports.
I will let Takada Yono tell the news to the Nanman priests in Sakai Port. It is up to the Nanban priests to choose whether to be my friend or my enemy.
If they choose to respect me, then they must learn to respect Lilu, the general agent of Nanman trade appointed by the shogunate. "
Christina frowned.
"Lord, I thank you for your kindness and generosity, but Lilu is just a greedy and stupid businessman, and she is a Dutchman.
In the southern barbarian trade controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese, the Netherlands and England are still very weak.
In particular, their old school of Nanman religion has a profound and irreconcilable contradiction with the new school of our faith.
Your preference for Lilu may not bring her glory and wealth, but may be a dagger in the back or deadly poison. "
Yiyin looked at Christina and said slowly.
"So? Are you going to take Lilu out of this country to escape the persecution of these Nanman merchants and believers?"
Christina said bitterly.
"Lord, your war has been won. Lilu and I have completed the deal with you. We have the right to ask to leave."
Yiyin looked at Christina and said decisively.
"But I want you to stay, and I will give you everything you desire."
Christina looked at the domineering Yiyin with a strange light in her eyes.
"Everything you desire?"
"Yes."
"Does this include you? My lord."
Yiyin looked at Christina, a tall British officer and a red-haired Celtic with a gorgeous appearance. There was a trace of desire for men in her eyes at this time.
"Of course, for my family and glory, I will sacrifice everything, including my body."
Christina looked away, as if she was stabbed by the noble light of Yiyin and felt ashamed.
"Lord, I have a question."
"What questions?"
"That sudden heavy rain... was it really you who summoned it?"
Christina lowered her head, seeming a little scared. Yiyin realized something in his heart and took the initiative to hold Christina's hand.
"You should know very well whether I am a god or a mortal. You have clearly experienced it once in Sakai Port."
Christina subconsciously held Yiyin's hand and was reluctant to let go.
(End of chapter)
