When everything was quiet, Zhu Yijun finally ended his in-depth conversation with Zhang Juzheng and expressed his intention to return to the palace. Zhang Juzheng forced himself to open his sleepy eyes and breathed a sigh of relief: "I respectfully see you off, Your Majesty."
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "I came to see a doctor, but I took the old gentleman to talk for half the night." Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly in his heart, but his face showed a deep honor and said: "This is my honor." After a pause, he said: "I estimate that this is also a good story that can be recorded in the history of the country."
Zhu Yijun's eyes lit up and he said: "Wonderful! The old gentleman's energy has improved." After saying this, he stood up reluctantly.
After opening the door, Wei Chao hurriedly came forward to greet him, shook out a cloak and said: "Your Majesty, there is still a bit of a cool breeze at night, please put on some more." Zhu Yijun said: "I don't care, you can put it on for the old gentleman. "
Wei Chao smiled and said, "I have two pieces here." Zhu Yijun nodded in approval. Wei Chao hurriedly stepped forward and carefully put the cloak on him, and then put another scarlet one on Zhang Juzheng.
Looking up at the sky, Zhu Yijun suddenly said with deep emotion: "I wonder how many emperors and kings in the world are shining on this crescent moon? These emperors and generals can be like you and me, our monarchs and ministers, with strong muscles and strong ambitions. outside?"
Zhang Juzheng smiled when he heard the words: "Your Majesty is just beginning to gain strength, but I am an old man." Zhu Yijun sighed when he heard the words: "Mr., take care of yourself, be healthy, and stay with me for a few more years." Zhang Juzheng felt that his eyes were filled with tears. Hot, he turned his head slightly and wiped his face.
After Zhu Yijun left the Zhang Mansion under numerous guards, You Qi came over and reported: "Master, Mr. Liu and others can't wait, so I arranged to sleep in the guest room." Zhang Juzheng nodded and returned to the room with his help. When he walked to the stone bridge in the Summer Palace, Zhang Juzheng also raised his head and looked at the traces of the moon, which looked deserted against the backdrop of the Milky Way in the sky.
Suddenly feeling agitated, Zhang Juzheng sighed and said: "When I meet this wise master, I can only devote myself to death and die!"
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At this moment, five thousand miles away, the cold moonlight was still shining on Inaba Mountain Castle. In a mansion under the Tenshu in Gifu Castle, Maeda Genki suddenly sat up from his sleep - because he seemed to hear some rustling sounds while half asleep.
He first touched the tachi in his hand, and then gently clapped his palm. A young man woke up from his nap, knelt down and said, "My lord, do you want to get up for the night?"
Maeda Genki rubbed his eyes and said, "Are you Takahashi? I remember tonight is the night of Haibo duty?"
The young man said: "Yes, my lord. Haibao ate something bad tonight. His stomach kept ringing and he kept passing gas. Because he was afraid of being rude, he changed shifts with me."
After hearing the explanation, Maeda Genyi didn't say anything. He just ordered: "I heard some noises in the yard, please go out and have a look."
Takahashi bent down and shouted "Hi", backed to the door, opened the door and went out. Just after he went out for a while, he saw him running back and crawling: "Lord, something serious has happened! It seems...it seems that the castle guard has caught fire!"
Maeda Genki was taken aback, stood up immediately, opened the shoji of the Japanese room, and ran out of the room without even putting on his shoes. His residence was two miles away from the castle in a straight line. At this time, he raised his head and looked towards the top of the mountain, and there seemed to be a faint red light.
He took a deep breath and shouted: "Here comes someone!" As one of the five great lords of the Oda family, the first generation lord of the Tanba Kameyama Domain, Gen. Maeda had more than 150 soldiers in Gifu Castle. When he shouted loudly, the whole house was in an uproar, and soon everyone was shouting and horses were neighing.
Before Maeda Genki could put on his clothes, the entire Gifu City was in turmoil. The fire of the castle became more and more obvious, and the sound of gongs of fire could be heard from a distance. Maeda Genyi had already heard his neighbors shouting noisily.
He was so anxious that before he finished arranging his armor, he ordered his generals to open the door of his house and led his men to rush towards the castle. There was definitely a fire there, because the red light at this time was no longer faint, but turned half of the sky red.
Maeda Genyi shouted on the horse: "Nozawa! Nozawa!" His family general Nozawa Nao agreed, hit the horse and came straight over and said: "Lord!"
Maeda ordered: "Your riding skills are better than mine - take my tachi and rush in first to rescue the three mages!" Nozawa agreed, took the tachi in his hand, and straddled the horse. , shouted "Drive!" The horse rushed out and disappeared on the mountain road.
Although Maeda Genyi sent out samurai, he himself was also fighting hard against the horses. But Gifu Castle is built on a mountain, and there is only one winding mountain road under the castle. It is not far away, but it takes a lot of time to turn around. Moreover, the castle tower is located at the commanding heights of the city, and it would be difficult to run a horse up the mountain as fast as you would.
When he rushed to the place where he could see the whole view of the castle, Maeda Xuanyi felt that the sky was spinning and the stars all over the sky were pouring down on him - at this moment, the castle was like a big torch, which was bound to peel and burn red, even though people shouted The horses were neighing, and everyone in the Oda family still poured water on the fire scene desperately, but anyone who came to see it would know that this was completely in vain, and the fire could not be saved at all.
In just a short while, Maeda's voice was completely hoarse. He said hoarsely: "Where is Nozawa?"
Takahashi and other people around him shouted a few times, and Nozawa ran over from the fire scene. His face was covered with black ash, his hair was burnt yellow, and several holes were burned in his robe.
Nozawa Nao saw Maeda, knelt down and cried and reported back: "Lord, when I came, the whole temple was on fire, but there was still some space in the front hall to go in. I grabbed a quilt, poured water on it and rushed in - We didn’t even get half a foot in, but it was full of fire, and the pillars inside the hall master were also on fire. I shouted a few times, but I heard nothing except the sound of fire.”
Maeda Genyi suppressed the blood that was about to spurt out, and asked with hope: "Can we see His Highness the Third Master?" Nozawa shook his head, and then the God's guard, Saburo Sato, came over and reported: "Master Tokuzenin, Hua It started very quickly, and by the time we found out, there were already fires all around the palace master, and it seemed like... no one came out."
Maeda Gen yelled angrily, pulled out the tachi held in Nozawa's arms, and wanted to kill Sato Saburo with one strike. Sato's face turned pale with fright. Takahashi, who was surnamed by the younger brother, said softly at the side: "Where is His Highness Hidesunori? He seems to be in the castle, haven't you seen him?"
Impressed by this question, Maeda's murderous intention dropped a lot. Sato cast a grateful glance at Takahashi and reported back: "His Majesty Hidesunori needs to be weaned, so the mistress asked him to live in Ryūpōji Temple today, not in the castle guard."
Maeda Genyi ordered: "Immediately send someone to protect Ryūpōji. If anything happens to His Highness Ruo Hideze, I can only have a disembowelment..." Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of horse hooves, and a messenger with a horse riding on his back was heard. Soldiers came galloping from the mountain road.
Maeda Xuan felt a palpitation in his heart inexplicably, as if the news brought by the messenger would take away his soul. When he was nervous, he suddenly heard Takahashi beside him mutter: "We always see why the temple should change the name of the temple master to the castle... Sigh."
Maeda Genyi turned to look at Takahashi with red eyes. I saw Takahashi staring at the fire scene, his face was so frightened that there was no color at all, and he was mumbling some nonsense. He did not notice at all that his lord was furious.
Maeda Genyi heard him continue to murmur: "Shibata Katsuie is very happy now. His Highness Nobutada likes His Highness the Third Master the most."
Gen Maeda handed the knife to his left hand, slapped Takahashi on the face, and cursed: "You bastard, what are you talking about?"
Takahashi was so excited that he knelt down to apologize. Just when Maeda was about to continue scolding him, he saw that the messenger had already rushed in front of him: "Akechi Mitsuhide has rebelled! Minister Taizheng and His Highness Nobutada are trapped in Honnoji Temple!" Before he could finish his words, he fell off his horse with a thud.
Maeda Genki spurted out a mouthful of blood, but before he fainted, everyone around him heard a loud noise, but someone was mixed in with the fire-fighting crowd and fired a shot at Maeda Genki.
This shot clearly showed that the fire in Gifu City was definitely man-made. Maeda Genyi's last thought in his life was: "The Oda family is finished!"
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