Chapter 38 Meeting Nobunaga for the first time

Kyoto, the Imperial Palace of Flowers.

This place is where Oda Nobunaga currently resides.

In the second year of Yuanwa in this universe, two luxurious residences, the "Nijo Imperial Palace" and the "Flower Imperial Palace", existed in the Heian capital, but there was no "Nijo Castle".

Right now, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the "General who conquered the barbarians", lives in the Nijo Imperial Palace, but he did not entertain Oda Nobunaga, a distinguished guest who was very kind to him, in his imperial palace. Letting the other party live at the Flower Palace, this move has undoubtedly aroused the vigilance of many of Nobunaga's cronies.

Why don't you ask Nobunaga himself?

It stands to reason that with his ability, it is impossible to see through the conspiracy here, but Nobunaga has been a little abnormal lately.

To use a more popular and appropriate word to describe him, it is "eo".

The reason for his eo was actually that not long ago, he had just finished reading a miscellaneous book passed down from Dashu called Quanxiang Three Kingdoms Zhipinghua, and he was worried about many plots in the book.

We have to mention a little bit here, because on this historical line, the Yi Dynasty lasted for a very long time and was quite powerful. Therefore, during this period, many cultural products of the Yi Dynasty were sold overseas and There is a market for it especially among Japan's aristocratic class. Many daimyo and samurai have learned some Chinese characters, and compared to things like the Four Books and Five Classics, many miscellaneous talks written in vernacular are obviously more popular with them.

In the history we are familiar with, Oda Nobunaga is a person who likes to absorb and learn overseas knowledge. He is the pioneer of the "Southern Barbarian Trade" at that time; therefore, Nobunaga in this universe will It is also reasonable to dabble in contemporary Dazao culture.

In recent days, Nobunaga has always been sitting on the veranda of his room near the courtyard because of his melancholy mood, drinking alone and watching the court in silence.

He would ignore the serious things the cronies he brought told him, and just asked them not to disturb me while I was drinking and enjoying the scenery.

As these days go by, his subordinates are also anxious, and everyone is talking behind his back about what Lord Nobunaga has planned. Doesn’t he know that this time Ashikaga Yoshiaki will be killed? Are you really having bad intentions in summoning us to Kyoto on the grounds of "respecting Nobunaga as deputy general"?

The key point is that Lord Nobunaga had already resigned from the position of deputy general two days ago, and he did it on the spot. Ashikaga Yoshiaki is so shameless. This is almost a state of discord. Why don’t we leave the city?

Our Oda Army troops are all stationed outside the city. There are only so few manpower in the city. If Ashikaga pulls some tricks, we guys might not be able to resist it.

Of course, the people of the Oda Army were panicked, but not in chaos.

Because the deputy Nobunaga brought with him this time, Akechi Mitsuhide, was a shrewd and capable man, and he stabilized the situation for Nobunaga.

Mitsuhide told others that even if Ashikaga Yoshiaki wanted to harm Nobunaga, he would never dare to directly send troops to attack us, so everyone should calm down., Nobunaga must have his plan, we just need to do a good job of guarding and guarding against all kinds of plots.

Guangxiu’s judgment is undoubtedly correct.

Who in the world doesn’t know that you, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, were able to sit on the throne of shogun only because of Nobunaga’s push behind you? Now that you have secured your position, you want to get rid of Nobunaga. Everyone understands this. .

However, you have to find a way

It is okay to trick him into coming to the capital in the name of a reward, but it is absolutely not okay to directly send troops to encircle and suppress him.

Because this is equivalent to committing a "great injustice" in front of the world. If Ashikaga Yoshiaki really does this, it is not a question of which daimyo will dare to cooperate with him in the future, but who will You can use what he did as an excuse to fuck him anytime, anywhere.

So, Ashikaga Yoshiaki used a technique similar to the "clothing edict", secretly exchanging letters with the daimyo, and wrote in them something like Oda Nobunaga's intention to rebel, which everyone knew It's nonsense as an excuse to organize an "assassination" situation.

As long as the assassination is successful and Nobunaga dies, the rest will be easy to handle

There is no need to make a big move against Nobunaga's remnants; except for some dead soldiers around him , others can be included through negotiation.

The rhetoric that will be told to the world in the future is that of sudden death due to illness.

Anyway, no matter what you say outside, as long as our generals and the famous names tacitly agree on this matter, and the "official statement" insists that he died of illness, then forget about it.

The incident will not eventually escalate to the level of a military incident, but will remain at the level of a political incident.

The difference here is huge. The former is the "Honnoji Incident", and the latter is the "Xuanwu Gate Incident". The endings of the parties involved in the two incidents are also clear to everyone.

Of course, the current Akechi Mitsuhide is not the same person as he was during the "Honnoji Incident". He is still loyal to Nobunaga, and he is still loyal to Nobunaga.

It snowed in Kyoto the night before.

In the morning, Nobunaga, who was wrapped in a quilt outside his pajamas, came to the corridor of the courtyard and sat alone again.

There was a small fire not far from his side, with a pot of wine hot on it; he drank while watching the white snow that accumulated last night slowly melting in front of his eyes. Dissolving, an hour passed without realizing it.

"Lord, Mitsuhide-sama asks for an audience." At the beginning of the month, a handsome young man carrying a long sword appeared behind Nobunaga, interrupting his wandering time.

"Ah, are you here again to ask when we will return to Gifu." Nobunaga responded lazily.

"No." The young man continued politely, "Master Mitsuhide said that he has something to report that may be of interest to you."

"It may be of interest to me. "Nobunaga's expression seemed to be disbelief, but he still sighed and shrugged, "Okay, let him come in."

"Yes" the boy retreated respectfully.Get off, then walked to the other end of the room, opened the door and walked out.

After a few seconds, another person opened the door from the outside. "I'm sorry." After saying hello, he walked in.

Unlike Nobunaga, who is still wearing a nightgown and wrapped in a quilt, Mitsuhide always dresses formally and decently whenever he gets up, and the look on his face is full of energy.

"Just tell me what you have to say." Nobunaga's tone revealed that he had no expectations for what Mitsuhide would say next.

"That's right," Mitsuhide replied slowly and calmly, "just now when my subordinates led soldiers to patrol the streets outside the imperial palace, they discovered two people who were acting suspiciously. My subordinates stepped forward. When interrogating the identities of these two people, I didn’t expect that they actually claimed that they were artists from the other side of the sky."

"What?" Hearing this, Nobunaga, who was listless just now, suddenly sat down from a half-reclining position. He stood up and looked back at Guangxiu with wide eyes, "You said they came from Zhen"

At this moment, a smile appeared on Guangxiu's lips.

As a close confidant of Nobunaga, how could he not know that Nobunaga has recently become obsessed with things about Ozu, so he doesn’t care whether Shuangxie is really from Ozu or is a fake, anyway, let him When he bumped into it, he immediately "asked" to hand it over to Nobunaga.

It doesn’t matter to Mitsuhide whether the two men are real or fake, whether they can deceive Nobunaga if they are fake, and whether Nobunaga wants to kill or behead him if they are not deceived. Anyway, as long as they can make him Now Nobunaga cheers up, this is worth a try. < /p>

"Okay, okay, stop being verbose and bring them over quickly." Nobunaga suddenly stood up excitedly like a child and urged Mitsuhide impatiently.

"As you command." Mitsuhide bowed his head and agreed, and when he turned to leave, the smile on his face could not be concealed.

To make a long story short, two minutes later, two young men who looked to be in their early twenties and whose temperament and appearance were indeed very different from the Japanese of that era came to Nobunaga.

Nobunaga had returned to the house at this time, got into a kotatsu table in the center of the room, and ordered people to bring in the wine from the porch, and also prepared several snacks to place on the table. on the table. < /p>

Hearing this, Sun and Huang looked at each other, then looked at Nobunaga together, and said in unison, "Who are you?"

The "bold" boy who was guarding his lord at the side said He couldn't help but yelled, "How dare you be rude to an adult"

"It's okay, Ranmaru." Nobunaga smiled and waved his hand, signaling the boy to step back, and continued to look at Sun Huang , smiled and said, "You really don't know who I am."

He would ask this, no doubtIt's testing.

Because according to common sense, when these two people came here from the outside, they must have come into contact with many of his men, and there were traces of them on their clothes and sabers, including in this room. The crest of the Oda family can be seen in many places, and this crest was almost unknown to everyone in Japan at the time.

If these two people really do not recognize this family crest and cannot guess that he is Oda Nobunaga, then if he asks this again now, their reaction should be the same as when he said "Who are you?" "As natural as ever.

"Hmm" Unexpectedly, the next second, Sun Yixie raised his eyebrows, glanced around, and then seemed to remember something, and exclaimed, "Could it be"

As a result, the second half of Sun Yixie's sentence was actually "You are the Emperor of Japan"

As soon as he said this , Oda Nobunaga and Mori Ranmaru in the room, including Akechi Mitsuhide who was listening to the wall outside the room, were all shocked.

For three seconds, the scene was deathly silent. Even the upright young man Mori Ranmaru did not dare to react casually. He was also afraid that he would make a mistake in answering half a sentence and commit treason.

"Pfft hahahahaha" it had to be Nobunaga. After a few seconds he laughed loudly and took the pen off, "Interesting, interesting hahahaha"

He With this smile, both Mori Ranmaru and Akechi Mitsuhide breathed a sigh of relief.

Brother Sun turned his head and exchanged glances with Huang Donglai. The latter also shrugged and spread his hands, noncommittal.

After a while, Nobunaga, whose smile was gradually fading, spoke again, "I am Nobunaga, the chief minister of the Taira court, Oda Kame, I wonder if you two have heard of it."

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