After Ji Xiaolu Laigang entered the inner room, after chatting with his retainers for a few words, the Uchijima clan immediately set off to return to Guiyun City without hesitation.

Returning to the castle tower of Cloud City, as soon as the Uchijima clan returned, before he could rest for a while, he immediately summoned his eldest son, the Uchijima clan, and the old Kawasaki Kuro to the assessment room.

As soon as the two of them sat down, they only heard the Unejima clan say directly to the point: "Two, now the Oda family has the intention of invading Hida, in order to continue to keep the family name and territory, so I plan to abandon Ji Xiaolu and return to the Oda family, I don't know what the two of you suggest?" ”

After listening to this, the Unejima clan took the lead in speaking: "My father is wise, and now my family should take advantage of this God-given opportunity to profit from it, but the child thinks that before the Oda family has attacked Hida, the matter of belonging still needs to be kept secret, so that after the Ji Xiaolu family gets the news, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry and is not good for the family. ”

Uchijima Shili smiled slightly, and said: "Of course, this matter is only known to you and me for the time being, and it must not be spread outside, can you two hear it clearly?" ”

Although the ability of the Kawa corpse Kuro is average, he has a lot of criticism about this proposal, although there is nothing wrong with the lord's desire to keep the name and territory of the family, but before the Oda family attacked, he moved the city to surrender, such an approach, he really found it difficult to accept.

I saw him frowning and dissuading: "My lord, my subordinates think that at the moment of the great enemy, we should unite with the Ji Xiaolu family to jointly resist the invading enemy, and now we will submit to the enemy before the war, if we are known by others in the future, we will definitely be ridiculed, and my subordinates think that we should also resist the Oda family with the Ji Xiaolu family, and after defeat, it is not too late to return to the enemy." Although Kawa Corpse Kuro didn't know what the strength of the Oda family was, he knew that the strength of the other party was definitely much stronger than that of the Ji Xiaolu family, so he didn't even dare to think about the matter of winning.

"There is no need to mention this matter, compared with the name of the family, everything else is a trivial matter, besides, this is the best time for the family to get a big development, you can't miss anything, I have already decided, you don't have to persuade again."

Seeing that he was reluctant, the Uchijima clan finally decided to send the Uchijima clan, who supported the decision, to Hachiman Castle in the county and inform Takayama of his family's intentions.

Just when the Ji Xiaolu family had just begun to mobilize Ashigaru, the clan had already gotten the news. "Report to the lord, Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang, under the persuasion of the retainers and the inner island clan of Guiyun City, the city lord, decided to go to the capital of Shancheng, and asked the lord to prepare early." As soon as the ninja heard this important information, he immediately returned to Hachiman Castle in Gujo to report to his lord.

However, the clan didn't care too much, this matter was originally drawn between him and Honda Masanobu Ji, so there was no sense of panic at all, and at this moment, the clan was still laughing at Ji Xiaolu Laigang's inadequacy, don't look at Ji Xiaolu's family occupying nearly half of the land in Hida Country, it can be said that its strength in Hida is second to none, but the Hida land is vast and sparsely populated, even if his generals are fully mobilized, it will definitely not exceed the strength of 1,200 troops.

Moreover, the Eima family to the east of it has the Kai Takeda clan as the backing, and has always had the heart to destroy Ji Xiaolu and unify Hida, so the Ji Xiaolu family will also leave a large number of troops to defend in Tanaka City and the area of Kojima City, so that the military strength that he can really use in North America will definitely not exceed eight hundred.

Just with these 800 peasant soldiers, he wants to capture Dushan City, which is simply wishful thinking, since he came to die, it will be all him. …,

For the little miscellaneous fish of Ji Xiaolu's family, the clan is too lazy to pay attention to it, and the Ji Xiaolu family does not have any decent talents, Dushan City has Yamauchi Ichitoyo in charge, and there is a ninja army of Wasuka Masakatsu not far away, it is enough to deal with Ji Xiaolu's family, a small name who can't get on the table, and there is no need to worry about it at all.

Thinking of this, I only heard the clan sect say to the ninja who came to report: "You immediately inform Yamauchi Kazutoyo and Wasuka Masakatsu of this matter, and let the two of them deal with this matter together." ”

"Yes, lord, my subordinates will go to Dushan City, and my subordinates will retire."

After the ninja left, he walked through the cloister and into the living room, and seeing that the New Year was looming, it was time for him to head to Owari for the year-end assessment.

"My lord, Sakura has already packed up the adult's belongings, and the adult can go to Owari at any time." As soon as the clan entered the living room, Sakura began to speak.

After taking the silk baggage handed over by Sakura, the clan opened his mouth and said, "Well, since it's ready, I'll get up and go now." ”

However, before he could step away, he heard his attendant Maeda Keiji shouting outside the door: "My lord, there is a person outside the castle tower who claims to be a member of the Uchijima family in the Hida Province and the Cloud City. ”

"Hida domestic islands?" After muttering to himself, the clan returned the burden in his hand to Sakura.

This Uonejima family is just a small tyrant in Hida Country, so the clan has not paid attention to it, but this does not mean that the clan has not heard of this name, and the clan has not only heard of it, but also has some understanding of it.

The Uonejima family has produced a capable samurai, and that is the Uchijima clan, who can make the Takeda and Uesugi armies return in vain in a few words. This proves that his wisdom may not be as good as that of the world's wise men, but his ability to speak well is first-class, and with such ability, not to mention in the country of Hida, even if you look at the whole world, he is definitely a first-class samurai.

However, because he has been fooling around in Hida, a place where birds don't, he has never left there for a single step in his life, and Hida's message transmission is inconvenient, and the Uesugi family and the Takeda family also deliberately conceal such a humiliating thing, so his talent has not been discovered by the world.

In addition, the demise of the Inner Island clan is too bizarre, and it is also a reason for the clan's concern, if you remember it well, the entire Inner Island clan was buried in an avalanche, and its home city was buried by heavy snow, and no one survived.

However, now his own strength is not enough, and it is not realistic to want to dig up the heir of the Uchijima family for his own use, and it seems that he can only wait until he attacks Hida in the future, and then fight his idea. And for the sake of a small life, when building a city in the future, I can't say anything about building it at the foot of the mountain.

"My lord, the envoy of the Inner Inland Island family is still waiting outside the castle tower, do you want to meet the lord?" Seeing that the lord didn't speak for a long time, Maeda Keiji couldn't help but ask again.

"Tell him to wait in the assessment room now, and I'll go later." The clan thought that the Nei Nei Island family and the Ji Xiaolu family were allies, and now that he only made a slight move, the other party could no longer hold his breath, for himself, these wealthy families are not useful now, but they will always be useful in the future. At that time, the clan was confident and persuaded Nobunaga with his three-inch incorruptible tongue to set his knowledge and deeds in Hida. Thinking of this, the clan quickly walked out of the living room.

In the assessment room, the Uchijima clan had already knelt respectfully in the center before the clan arrived, waiting for the clan's reception, and Honda Masanobu immediately came from the samurai mansion after receiving the news.

After a while, the clan slowly walked out of the inner room, and behind him, there was also the equally tall Keiji Maeda. …,

After taking him to sit down, I only heard him speak, "Who are you?" What are you looking for me? "For this kind of little person, the clan sect does not have any courtesy, after all, now he already has eight thousand stone Zhixing, how much is a character, even if the head of the inner island family, the territory he owns is only about two thousand stones, not to mention that he came under his command, even if the inner inner island clan comes in person, the clan will not be half polite with him.

As a minister of the lower country, where does the Neinjima clan dare to pick the clan, he can meet him in his busy schedule, which is already very face-saving for the Nechijima family, thinking of this, I only heard him quickly and respectfully replied: "Back to Lord Gaoshan, the son of the city lord of Yuncheng under the Xiagui, the ...... of the Neinajima clan"

"You're the Uchijima clan?" After hearing this name, the clan couldn't help blurting out a question, he really didn't expect that he was still thinking about this name just now, and in the blink of an eye, it appeared in front of him, which was really too coincidental.

After speaking, the clan couldn't help but raise his head and take a closer look at him, only to see that the age of the Uchijima clan was around twenty-five years old, because the place where he was located was mountainous, so in addition to his dark skin, his body was extremely strong, but his appearance was not rough, but his face was full of bookishness.

Looking at the clothes on the body of the Unejima clan, although the straight hanging on his body is very smooth, but it has been washed and faded, and the fabric is just a coarse cloth, it seems that Hida is not only a poor civilian, but even the samurai there are much worse in life than other places, I am afraid that in this era, only he can make Hida a country get rid of the fate of backwardness.

Just as the clan was looking at it to himself, the Unechijima clan couldn't help but raise his eyes and secretly glanced at the clan, and when he saw that the clan was looking at him, he quickly lowered his head again.

He thought to himself that he had never had any intersection with this Takayama lord, but looking at Takayama Lord's appearance, it was as if he had heard of his own name, but although he was the young master of the inner island family, it was true, not to mention outside, even in the Hida country, he was an unknown person, so how could he arouse Takayama-sama's idea?

But when he thought about it, he understood a little, although he had never heard of Takayama and a son, and not to mention Takayama's appearance, his fine white skin alone did not look like a Hida person, but no matter what he said, he was also a Hida person, so even if he heard his name, there was nothing to make a fuss about. ……，