However, when he finished speaking, Kuroda Kanbei smiled and said: "Does Lord Matsunaga have any other choice, if your lord does not act like this, then once the imperial family is eliminated, he will inevitably become the scapegoat of the main hall, and there is no possibility of survival at all, and if you do what you say below, then at least seven or eighty percent of the chances of success, how to choose, this does not need to be said much." "Don't look at Kuroda Kanbei can be very polite to Niwa, Takigawa, and Tokugawa, but he really doesn't care much about Matsunaga Xiu, after all, the former is either the mainstay of the faction, or the strength is strong, Matsunaga not only made a decision today, but he also has some opinions on Matsunaga, and most importantly, he also uses the other party as a scapegoat, once he succeeds, then the first to perish is the Oda family, and the second is his Matsunaga family. After all, once Nobunaga falls, then it gives other forces, such as the Takayama family, an excuse, no matter how you say rebellion, it is definitely an unacceptable thing, if someone really happens to avenge Nobunaga, then he will definitely not hesitate to push Matsunaga out of the show.

Although Matsunaga Hide's intelligence is not bad, it is more than a step worse than Kuroda Kanbei, if the other party is kind to say, then he may think more, the more direct the other party says, the less he thinks that the other party wants to deal with himself, and at this moment he completely fell into a misunderstanding of thinking. And although he didn't think about it, he thought a little more about other aspects.

I only heard him speak: "It doesn't matter if the risk is higher, but if the benefit is less, then it can only be unacceptable." "That's right, what Matsunaga Hide's thinking now is, once Oda is eliminated, how to distribute the benefits, after all, Kuroda Kanbei said just now that after destroying the Oda family, Kinoshita and Takigawa will directly seize, if that's the case, wouldn't he be busy in vain?

Speaking of interests, it is also what everyone is most concerned about, Kinoshita Hideyoshi will act like this in order to preserve the imperial family, and although the other people present also have such thoughts, but more are driven by interests, without interests, who will hold their heads and work hard, after all, it is different from more than ten years ago, and now everyone is a person with status and status.

When it comes to interests, Kuroda Kanwei, as a retainer, can't interject, so he can't help but look at Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi also knew that if the distribution was uneven, it would be difficult to gain the support of the other party, so after thinking about it carefully, he said: "Since you have a relationship with this, then let's do it, once the Oda family is destroyed, the main family will have a territory, as long as Settsu, Yamashiro and Izumi, other places, you can wait for your own distribution." "Kinoshita Hideyoshi knows that if he says too much, it's not good, rather than so, then it's better to let them fight for themselves, and he also played a little clever, there is no intention to occupy Omi, although Omi is the best, but it is also the most dangerous, once successful, then he and Takayama will have a battle, and at that time, Omi will definitely become the main object of contention, rather than fighting with the other party here, it is better to let others fight with Takayama, and pick up cheap in the back, Of course, for the importance of land, he now values business more, especially after Xiao Xiwu brought him incomparably rich funds, which makes him pay more attention, after all, according to his current strength, if he does not develop business, the army under his command will remain at most 35,000 and 38,000 people, which is completely less than the standard of no 100 stone and 5 light people set by the lord back then, after all, the larger the territory, the more it will cost, especially in the disaster year, if you don't want to have a riot in the territory, you must come up with a large amount of food relief, If the food is not enough, it still needs to use a lot of money to buy, not to mention him, even if it is a clan, after vigorously developing commerce, it will only meet the requirements, although the army of the Gao Shan family has spent too much money on equipment, but it is enough to prove that the larger the territory, the more it will cost.

And Kinoshita Hideyoshi is developing business, after having a large amount of money, the military strength under his command has increased by 10,000, and it has reached the scale of nearly 50,000, don't look at these ashigaru equipment is much worse than the Takayama family, but the number has already caught up with Takayama, and once you can bring the Kaimachi into the rule, and add the newly obtained Three Kingdoms, then the strength will be comparable to the Takayama of Kanto, so, while developing your own business, you must have someone to help you block in front, once you wait for your own development, Then it is time to seize the world.

And when Kinoshita Hideyoshi finished saying his opinion, the other four people present were not polite, at this time, if they were humble, it would be completely impossible to get along with themselves, that is, they were still in peace at the moment, and it was not appropriate to quarrel loudly, otherwise, they would have to do it.

After a meal lasted, the four of them completed the distribution, and it could be seen from their faces that none of them were satisfied, after all, it was only the result of a compromise, and the final result was that once the Oda family was eliminated, Niwa Nagahide was in charge of Kita Omi, Tokugawa Ieyasu controlled Yamashiro Wakasa, and Takigawa Ichiyi got Kawachi who didn't contribute much, and Matsunaga who had the most credit was given Minami Omi, in addition, he was also promised that once he succeeded, everyone would help him eliminate Tsutsui and help him unify Yamato. Of course, this is not the end, taking such a big risk, only obtaining the benefits of hundreds of thousands of stones, it will definitely not satisfy everyone, so after they have finished distributing, they are greedy and eyeing Onon, anyway, Xinzhong will not survive this time, and once Xinzhong dies, then the territory will inevitably be in chaos, if you don't take advantage of this time to seize these two countries, then you will definitely regret it, of course, if you want to seize here, it is still a little difficult for them, after all, although Mori Kecheng, a member of the Kinoshita faction, is the first important minister under Xinzhong, But Ikeda Tsuneko under him seems to be central to Oda Nobunaga, and Takenaka Hanbei is a member of the Takayama faction, and as for the remaining Yoritsu, there are also many samurai from the Takayama camp, so if you want to achieve the goal of seizing these two countries, then it is not just as simple as killing Nobutada, these people also need to be eliminated.

And Tokugawa Ieyasu knew that even if he won these two countries, he would have nothing to do, so he was not very keen on it, he bit it to death anyway, and wanted to let himself send someone to assassinate them, but he had to get a piece of the pie, but because it was not bordering, he was bitten to death, and if he wanted to make himself contribute, he would take Kita Omi in exchange, but how could Niwa Nagahide agree, so in the end, everyone still thought that as long as they did it before the other party reacted, then it was still possible to eliminate them by surprise, So they didn't pay attention to Tokugawa Ieyasu anymore.

After making an assignment and setting a time, the people present dispersed, and when everyone left, Kuroda Kanbei suggested that Kinoshita Hideyoshi also return to the territory immediately, after all, he still had a lot to say, and it was too unsafe here.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi didn't want to stay here long, and the next day, after bidding farewell to his lord, he immediately led the army that protected him towards Harima, and after coming to an open place, Kuroda Kanbei said: "My lord, I think that it will be difficult to succeed with only the strength of Matsunaga Shu's army of 3,000 people, after all, even if the city gate is opened, there are still 5,000 Oda troops in the city to guard, so it is difficult for it to make contributions quickly, and once it drags on for a long time, the reinforcements of the Oda family will definitely come to the rescue, so there is no possibility of success at all, Therefore, the subordinates felt that it was necessary for the family to help Matsunaga Shu, so they should send at least 5,000 elites to disguise themselves as Matsunaga troops and borrow a road from Lord Takigawa to follow him, so as to be foolproof. ”

And at the same time, after Tokugawa Ieyasu went back, he immediately ordered his subordinates to secretly make a batch of family crests of the Matsunaga family and, he did the same as Kuroda Kanbei, but the purpose was different, although he also planned to send an army of 2,000 people to disguise himself as the Matsunaga Army this time, in addition to wanting to assist the Matsunaga Army to eliminate Nobunaga, more importantly, he fell in love with the wealth in Azuchi Town and Azuchi Castle, after all, everyone knows that the wealth of the Oda family is basically concentrated here, once it can be looted here, even if you get a part, It's enough for the family to develop for a long time.

On July 19, 1578, the Takayama clan and the samurai in his camp had already returned to their respective territories, although after going back, the Takayama clan clan immediately made preparations, but Shibata Katsuya and others did not think that anyone would rebel, so after the meeting they agreed to the clan, but as soon as they returned to the territory, they forgot about the matter completely, and the only thing to prepare a little was in Echizen Asai, after all, he was next to the territory of the Oda family, regardless of whether it was true or not, it was always right to make some preparations.

Compared with the distraction of the people of the Takayama faction, the Kinoshita faction has indeed been actively preparing for more than half a month, and today is the day they have agreed.

As early as two days ago, Matsunaga Shu had already led 3,000 troops to leave Yamato and all the way north, this afternoon, Matsunaga army had crossed Omi Shiga County, if you want to go to Yamashiro Province, then here, you should go all the way to the west, but after receiving that the Tokugawa ninja had ambushed and killed the ninja under Oda Nobunaga who was responsible for collecting information near Azuchi Castle not far away, without any hesitation, he changed his attitude of the previous two days and began to rush towards Azuchi Castle.

At this time, Nobunaga, who was sitting firmly in Azuchi Castle, did not know all this, and at this moment he was sitting in a quiet room, and in front of him was a ninja dressed in black, this person was the leader of the ninja group that Nobunaga was responsible for sending to various places to eliminate the royal bloodline, and he appeared in front of Nobunaga this time, obviously to hand over the task to Nobunaga.

When he saluted respectfully, he only heard him speak: "Report to the lord, according to the request of the lord, the ninjas under his command have swept away all the bloodlines except for the emperor, and his subordinates have also been stabbed to death by Prince Seihito. ”

After listening to this, Nobunaga nodded with great satisfaction, this is exactly the result he wanted, this matter has been done a long time ago, it is not easy to wipe out all the royal bloodlines, after all, these royal families are scattered all over the country, high-profile ones are easy to find, those with a low-key style are much more troublesome to find, of course, if you let the clan do such a thing, it will be much faster, after all, Nobunaga doesn't pay much attention to ninjas, although there are, but not much, That is, the total allegiance of Kahori has accelerated the pace of eliminating the imperial family, otherwise he would not have had such a ability.

And although the emperor has already been aware of it, but what can be done, now Oda Nobunaga has completely monitored the palace, and the military situation around the palace is open, and there are more than 3,000 people in secret, not to mention that others want to see it, even the minister can't see the emperor's face, it can be said that although the emperor is still there, he has realized his situation.

And after Nobunaga heard the news, combined with the news that he had just heard about Matsunaga Hide, he knew that within three days, the world would really belong to him.

And at this moment, suddenly there was a loud shout of killing outside the castle tower, and this was not the sound outside the castle at all, the shouting and killing was inside the castle, after all, with the scale of Azuchi Castle, it was impossible for the shouting and killing outside the castle tower to be so real, and Nobunaga's originally good mood immediately fell to the bottom.

"Report, lord, Matsunaga Xiu suddenly rebelled, and now he has invaded the city, and the army has 3,000 people, please decide on it." Just as Nobunaga stood up, he saw a handsome young man running in quickly to report to duty, this person is none other than Nobunaga's pet Moran Maru, yes, Nobunaga's love for Moran Maru has exceeded the boundary between the king and the minister, which can be seen from the age when Moran Maru reached the age of Motofu, and Nobunaga still does not let go.

And hearing this, Nobunaga scolded Matsunaga Shu as usual, but it can be seen from the fact that he changed and sat down, he is not in a hurry at all, now there are 5,000 troops in the city, and Matsunaga Shu is only 3,000, and it won't be long before reinforcements will arrive, only 3,000 people want to break through Azuchi Castle, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream, but when Nobunaga just thought about this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, how did Matsunaga Shu enter the city? If it was him, it would be better to say, after all, as a minister of the family, he still has the right to enter the city, but to stop outside the castle tower, he can enter the city with 3,000 people, which is absolutely impossible, unless there are spies in the city, this matter must be investigated, thinking of this, Nobunaga ended his abuse of Matsunaga Xiu, and asked Morinmaru in front of him: "Bastard, who relaxed the army of Shonaga to enter the city?" ”

"This ...... Back to the lord, because the subordinates came in a hurry, so they did not investigate, and asked the lord to forgive the sin. After hearing this, Senranmaru's heart tightened, and he hurriedly said. (To be continued.) )