"Since they are developing well in the Omi Province, why did they come to join my Kuroda family? Because listening to you, the Goto family has actually been away from Omi Province for many years, isn't it? These people should all be planning their own ways now, how could they suddenly think of entering the Kuroda family through your Goto family's relationship at this point in time, this is really unreasonable! ”

"The lord is really discerning. These people have indeed broken away from my Goto family and have become self-reliant. In other words, the current cave is not the same as the cave under the command of my Goto family before. Matabei said honestly.

"Since the cave Taizhong has escaped from the control of your Goto family, isn't it even more strange that they are coming to you now?" Kuroda asked puzzled.

"Lord Lord, the reason why they chose to take refuge in the Kuroda family at this point in time is indeed their own reasons, and it doesn't have much to do with my Goto family."

"Let's hear it first."

"Hey! In fact, they had taken refuge in the newly rising Oda family, and then played a great role in the construction of many castles in Omi Province and Mino Province, so they also gained a certain amount of trust in the Oda family. ”

"Well, they should be doing well! Why did you leave the Oda family? If this is the case, once they come to the main family, won't all the trust they have accumulated before joining the Oda family be gone? ”

"My lord, don't you know, the cave Taizhong is just a general name, there were more than ten cave Taizhong back then, and it was indeed based on my Goto family, but after my Goto family left Omi Province and came to Harima Province. The head of the cave Taizhong pen became the Kurita family, although it had taken refuge in the Oda family as a whole, but there were still four families led by the Hasaka family, and they did not submit to the Oda family, but went out independently and planned their own way out, which is exactly what went wrong here. Matabei said.

"Is it the Hasaka family? Since they went out independently, that is to say, they did not act with the brigade of the Cave Taizhong, and provoked the Oda family, could it be that they were building and repairing the castle for the forces hostile to the Oda family? Kuroda asked.

"Hey! The lord is right, and these people, led by the Hasaka family, recently repaired the castles of Otani Castle and Sawayama Castle for the Asai family, and added stone walls to these castles. At the beginning of this year, the Oda family launched the Kanesaki Battle because of the Asai family and the Asakura family, and in retaliation, Oda Nobunaga himself led the attack on the Asai family in the northern Omi province, but the result was that they lost on the stone walls of these castles, and even the outermost Sawa mountain castle failed to break through.

As the general of this military operation, he originally thought that he would eliminate the Asai family at one time, and Oda Nobunaga, the governor of the Oda family, was very angry about this defeat, and several other cave people who took refuge in the Oda family were also implicated because Oda Nobunaga was angry with the Hasaka family, and they were jealous of Oda Nobunaga together. ”

"Oda Nobunaga, that's a person who doesn't care about fame at all, and his thoughts are extremely jumpy, he really does everything, it turns out that your cave Taizhong is being coerced!" Kuroda said with a smile.

"My lord, the cave Taizhong has nothing to do with my Goto family anymore."

"It's okay, then why did you introduce the Kuroda family to them?"

"This, maybe it's because my Goto family is now from the Kuroda family!"

Kuroda Zhigao smiled slightly, didn't dwell on this matter, but continued: "There is no need to say more about this, it seems that the matter is very simple, the cave Taizhong should not be able to stay in the Oda family, in this case, it seems that their current situation is already very bad!" Did they send anyone? ”

"Hey! My lord, this time the cave is indeed in a very critical situation, and all the more than ten people in the cave are ready to join my Kuroda family, and the one who came on their behalf is the head of the Kurita family, Kurita Sanemon, who is now the head of the cave Taizhong's pen family. ”

"That means their leader came over himself, right?"

A gust of wind blew in from the corridor at this time, and Kuroda put down the fan in his hand and looked out of the corridor, where there was a large persimmon tree, which was planted by Kuroda Shigetaka himself when he entered Himeji Castle. The unique chirping of cicadas in summer and the leaves on the persimmon trees are particularly brilliant under the reflection of the sun, which is really beautiful! This is the vitality of summer, Kuroda Zhigao's mouth turned up slightly.

"Hey! Exactly. ”

"Are they in the city now?"

"Hey! Kurita-sama is waiting in Ninomaru. ”

"In that case, you've brought someone here."

"Hey!"

Soon a well-dressed middle-aged man was led in by another guard, Kuroda saw very clearly, from the time he came in, the middle-aged man knelt on the ground timidly, and he didn't dare to look up at all.

Kuroda noticed that there were two or three patches on his clothes, but these clothes still looked relatively clean, which only showed that this middle-aged man knew that this time was very important for their caves, so he dressed himself up quite cleanly.

But judging from these patches, even if they are doing well in the Oda family, this so-called good is only able to survive, and there is not much improvement in their living conditions.

This is actually understandable. At the top of the hierarchy were the feudal lords represented by the daimyo and samurai, and craftsmen like Anatai, who were at the lowest level, could only live the most ordinary life, and even if they had very good craftsmanship, it was difficult to change their living conditions, which was mainly based on the prejudice of the whole society.

"Kurita-sama." Kuroda said.

"I don't dare to accept the title of an adult." Kurita Miemon said.

"Kurita-sama doesn't need to do this, I heard that Matabei said that you want to take refuge in the Kuroda family."

"Hey! This time, the eighteen families of our cave are ready to take refuge in the Kuroda family. Kuroda Vocational High School noticed that this Kurita Sanemon had not looked up.

"How many of you are there? I mean the population and your builders. ”

"Back to Kuroda's words, we have actually fled to Tanba Province all the way to Tamba, and there are more than 1,890 people in the eighteen families, including more than 600 construction craftsmen."

"Youbei have already introduced you to me, and I know that you are the craftsmen who built the city." [.]