In Hidehoho's impression, Tokugawa Ieyasu was Oda Nobunaga's most solid ally from beginning to end, and he never betrayed it even during the two Nobunaga's encirclements. How could such a strong friendship be disintegrated just by a few words from the ministers?

Probably because he had been lying down for a long time, Hideyoshi tried to move his body, but he was so weak that he could not make any big moves. Fortunately, with Hideopo being careful to serve, he could only sit up against the edge of the bed.

"Do you know who the inner man admires the most in his life?" Hideyoshi asked.

"It should be Nobunaga. After all, he is the hero who is closest to the throne of the world before you, and he has saved the Tokugawa family from danger many times." Hideo blurted out.

But Hideyoshi shook her head: "You only know one but not the other, but he doesn't know that he admires most not only Nobunaga, who is his brother-in-law, but his old enemy of the Tokugawa family, who is famous for the "Tiger of Kakai" and Shingen, the doctor Takeda Oshinga, who is famous for the East Country."

"Tada Shingen?!" Hideopo said in surprise, "That is the hero who wants to annex the Tokugawa family and complete the great cause of Shangluo. For decades, the two families have been intriguing and fighting, and they are simply enemies who have become powerful. With such a relationship, how could the inner mansion admire him?"

"This is the charm of Shingen, and it is also one of the things that I admire most in the inner palace." Hideyoshi sighed, "Shingen started out with less than 300,000 stone high in Kakai. It took less than 300,000 stone high in the country. It took less than 30 years to conquer Shinno, a wealthy family, and conquered Suruga, who had always dreamed of, and was involved in the Joe-Chun, Hitoshi, Tok-Ji, Mikawa, Mino, Ueno and Musashi, and achieved the hegemony that the ancestors of the Takeda family had never achieved. Although he failed Noda and died in the Nakado, the courage and strategy he showed were examples of the Wu family. He should be admired by the world. Even Kenshino and Nobunaga had once sighed that they were inferior to each other. What's more, the inner palace.

Since the Imakawa family, the inner palace has been determined to revive the hegemony of the Mikawa Matsuhei family. So he went west to Oda, connected to Takeda in the east, so he sought Toru River, and coveted Suruga. He intended to occupy the territory of the Imakawa family as his capital to further expand territory, but this strategy was soon discovered by the Takeda family and the Oda family.

In terms of fighting alone, the inner palace never defeated Takeda. Instead, in Shingen, the two generations of Shingen, the one who led the two generations to attack and divest the city and lost land. Aren’t Sanfanghara and Takatoshi all good examples? But what surprised me was that although I was so scared that I pulled my pants (Tokugawa Ieyasu was defeated by Takeda Shingen during the Battle of Sanfanghara, and when I fled in panic, the pursuers approached several times, so I was so scared that I pulled my pants immediately), the inner palace was not ashamed and ordered people to draw down their embarrassment at the time to remind myself.

From then on, the Tokugawa family secretly took Takeda as their teacher and learned Takeda's military strategy and strategy. Combined with the loyalty and courage of the Mikawa samurai, they created a brave and good warlike tiger and wolf army. Do you think such a daimyo who knows shame and then becomes brave and humble, will he be content with the hundreds of thousands of territories of Sankawa and Torii?"

"According to your opinion, the inner government is also a person with the hegemony of the world, so he wants to get rid of Nobunaga and replace him?" Hideopo asked.

Hideyoshi did not agree with Hideopo’s statement: “Nobunaga was the first to kill, and the inner government had to do it.”

"Did Mr. Nobunaga have long discovered the ambitions of the inner palace?"

"Yes," Hideyoshi nodded, "The reason why Matsuhide Nobuyashi committed suicide and colluded with the Takeda family was fake, but in fact, he knew that his son was not as capable as Nobuyashi. He was worried that his hegemony would not be guaranteed in a hundred years, so he became interested in killing. It was from this incident that the inner palace and Nobuyashi began to be in harmony with each other.

After the destruction of Takeda clan, although the inner palace obtained Suruga, Takigawa Ichii of Ueno, Kawaji Hidetaka of Kataki, Mori Nagaki of Kitaki, and Mori Hidera of Minami Shinno were all Nobunaga's Naomon. It is not difficult to see from the map that except for the Hojo clan in the east, the north and west of Tokugawa Territory were surrounded by Oda army. In this case, as long as you have a little brain, you should know Nobunaga's intentions."

"What do you mean is that if there was no Honnoji Incident, would Nobunagaki plan to destroy the Tokugawa family together?" Hideopo was a little surprised, "The two families have been in alliance for nearly twenty years, how could they..."

"Twenty years? Even if it's two hundred years, so what? Let me tell you the truth. Since the Asai family betrayed Nobunaga Duke (Asai Nagamasa was also Nobunaga's Yoshinobu and married Nobunaga's sister), his temperament has changed drastically. Not to mention the Yoshinobu, even the retainers of the genealogy, he always exiled and said that he would be ruthless. As long as he was willing, he could attack the Tokugawa family at any time, and there would be no reason. This is strength." Hideyoshi paused and continued: "However, judging from the situation at that time, although Nobunaga Duke was vigilant against the inner palace, he did not take action immediately. The reason why the inner palace accepted the invitation was completely because he had a ghost in his heart."

"Are there any ghosts?"

"Yes, after the demise of the Takeda family, some Takeda retainers expressed their obedience to Nobunaga, but were still ordered to be completely eradicated ('Hunting Takeda Order'). However, the inner court felt that this was a good time to recruit Takeda's remains, and desperately recruit Takeda's remains (according to the leaflet, Naomasa Ii recruited more than 1,700 people). Although this was carried out secretly, it was inevitable that Nobunaga Duke discovered it, especially the sentence in the recruitment article, "The Takeda Shingen family law will be inherited by the Tokugawa clan". Isn't the subtext "I Tokugawa Ieyasu must also be determined to be in the world like Takeda Shingen'? You can imagine that this is a naked betrayal in the eyes of Nobunaga Duke. The inner court firmly believes that the reason why Nobunaga Duke did not take action was because he was useful. Once Maori was eliminated, Hojo would be the time to settle the score in the autumn."

"I'm also worried about the followers of Nobumori and Lin Xiuzhen, right?" Xiubao understood. Because of the exile of the two, the best retainers and closest allies had the intention to kill. It's really better than the God's. Of course, this is just one of the many incentives, and the most important thing is their own interests.

"This is just an apparent reason. In fact, the inner government decided to cooperate with us to assassinate Duke Nobugata in order to realize its ambitions, but..."

"But you took the lead." Shuibo said bluntly.

"Haha, that's right, if I hadn't been moving fast, I'm afraid the Tokugawa family would be the Tokugawa family." Hideyoshi smiled cheerfully, like an athlete who rushed to the finish line in the 100-meter race and reached the finish line early. Although he left Ieyasu, who was honestly waiting for the starting gun, he would not have thought that it was this opponent who had been cheated by him for more than ten years that completely made the Toyotomi family lose his descendants after his hundred years.

"Shuchen is presumptuous. They have finished talking about it. Should we talk about yourself?" Shuibao asked with courage. Although he didn't know why Hideyoshi told him about this at this time, he could vaguely feel that it must be related to Ieyasu.

Hideyoshi was stunned for a moment and said blankly: "I? What do I have to say? How could 'people in the world' be willing to live under others? Besides, there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, why not take a gamble?"

Xiubao frowned and whispered: "You have ambition, it's understandable, but why do you have to betray the agreement and turn against each other?"

"Why?" Xiujia laughed, "Bomo, Shi Gao, a total of only 500,000 yuan in total, would you be willing to give up the Qianqiu hegemony for this?"

"Since you don't want to, why did you have to swear with the other three?" Xiu Bao asked.

"This is easy to understand," Hideyoshi explained, "In terms of strength, Maori, and Tokugawa are all above me. In terms of fame and family, the court's first promotion of Hyugamori. Even if it is not him, he will be the other two daimyos, but he will never be a peasant. Among the four forces, I have the weakest strength. It seems reasonable to allocate 500,000 knowledge and action, and even if I fight for it, there will be no big changes. But it is precisely because I am the weakest that other daimyos will not be suspicious and can make their own plans under their noses.

In other words, this secret agreement was just my expedient approach, just a trick to confuse them."

"I'm curious about what you said," Hideopo asked, "Since the three of them are either strong or have the support of the court, why should they bring in a small commander of the Oda family like you?"

"Because I have something that they don't have." Hideyoshi replied, "that's what Nobunaga trusts me."

"trust?"

"That's right, I just told you that since the Kanazaki Palace, Asai Nagamasa, betrayed Nobunaga, he no longer easily trusted anyone. He had suspicion of Hinaga's inner court. Only I, the confidant general who he promoted, has always been highly valued. It was because of this that they secretly contacted me, hoping that I would lead Nobunaga to Kyoto on the grounds that China lacked military strength and low morale. Then Hinaga's attacks, quickly surrounded Honnoji, which had only more than a hundred guards, and wiped out it in one fell swoop."

"Nobunagata takes you well, why do you want to repay your kindness and revenge?" Hideopo was already full of disgust and resentment for the former idol in front of him. If it weren't for his life that was not long before, he would have the urge to end him with one knife.

"After hearing so much, don't you understand that even if I don't kill him, there will be other people who will kill him. Shibata Katsuya from Hokuriku, as an old minister, will also have the worries of Hinata Masao? When he advised Lieutenant General Gifu (i.e. Nobuta Nobuta and Nobunaga's legitimate son) to die, but he escaped from the city, do you know what he thought? Do you know what he thought when he was in Ise, but he was watching the fire from the other side of the river and was reluctant to advance to Oe (i.e. Nobunaga's third son) who had been reluctant to advance to Oe, do you know what he thought?"

After hearing Hideyoshi's series of questions, Hideoba was silent. Yes, many people's actions during the Honnoji Incident were abnormal, and some even enjoyed seeing it. I have to say that there were too many people who hoped Nobunaga to die, and they did not want him to die. There were probably very few people who supported the new era he created.

"The authority of the court has been completely destroyed, but how easy is it to overthrow it? The Hiroshi Sect and the current Nobunaga Duke are all shaking trees and can't escape death. I am just letting his death be used by me." Hideyoshi said so naturally that it makes people feel no repentance and regret.
Chapter completed!