Three Rivers Country.

On the castle of Okazaki, the flag of the three-leaf Aoi family pattern flutters in the wind.

"I never expected that the Takeda family would experience such a change."

"What I didn't expect was that the Takeda family and the Oda family had reached a marriage, huh, so my opportunity for the Matsudaira family came."

On the long walkway outside the castle tower, the old writer Taduji Sakai of the Matsudaira family was striding forward.

Tadaji Sakai is thirty-nine years old this year, with the vigorous breath of a samurai all over his body, and his demeanor is calm.

As the elder of the writer of the Matsudaira family, Tadoji Sakai now serves as the head of the East Mikawa, leading the Matsudaira family.

Walking to the door of the room, Sakai Taduji undressed, handed over the samurai sword in his hand to the surname, and at the same time asked: "What is the lord doing now?"

After the surname received the katana, he replied respectfully: "Master, I am using rice now."

Then another servant boy opened the sliding door for Sakai.

Tadaji Sakai saw outside the door, a twenty-five-year-old man in martial arts attire, sitting awkwardly carrying chopsticks, was picking up dishes on a small wooden table.

As a great name in Sanhe at the moment, this man’s meal was not full. In addition to the rice, there was only a dish of dried radish, a dish of boiled eggplant, and a bowl of miso soup.

At this time, the man accidentally shook the half of the eggplant from the chopsticks and dropped it under him.

But the other party didn't mean to waste the least. He lowered his head and picked up the eggplant and put it in the mouth again. When he raised his head again, his eyes met Sakai Tadaji outside the door.

When the other party saw the action just now, he saw it for his trusted retainer, so he laughed twice to relieve the embarrassment.

Tadaji Sakai chuckled, stepped into the room, bowed and said, "Meet Lord Lord."

The other party nodded and said, "Heiji, you are not sitting in Yoshida Castle this time, monitoring Toe, did you come to Okazaki Castle to congratulate me on the New Year?"

Sakai Tadaji raised his head and smiled: "Please allow your servants to express their late congratulations to the lord, but they have other important things here."

The other party nodded, hurriedly pushed the wooden table after the meal was used up, and then a little surname came up and put the little wooden table down.

The man was chewing eggplant in his mouth, as if he was full of taste, and then said: "I have three good'eggplants','Fuji', and'Feng Ying' in my family's life. This eggplant is really delicious in food. Stable, I will be satisfied if I can eat eggplant every day."

The man who chewed the eggplant was the head of the Matsudaira family who had just unified Mikawa and one of the three heroes of the Warring States Period. He was Tokugawa Ieyasu who founded the Edo 263 era in history.

However, Ieyasu Tokugawa has not yet changed the Miao character and is still called Ieyasu Matsudaira.

Hearing what Ieyasu Matsudaira said, Taduji Sakai cried out and laughed: "As a great name in a country, the requirements seem to be too low."

Matsudaira Ieyasu said solemnly: "Heiji, you thought you knew me. The way of a samurai is to be thrifty and to learn how to restrain yourself. If you regard freedom as a common thing, you will not feel inadequate. If a samurai How to learn to restrain the enemy without learning to self-denial."

"As a samurai, you need to have complex brains and simple habits. Any extravagant and wasteful behavior is shameful. Back then, Hojo was in power, but he was simple in his life, winning people's hearts, and finally winning the world. Reality. It is worth learning from future generations."

After talking about this long talk, Matsudaira Ieyasu said with a smile: "Heiji, what's the matter here?"

Tadaji Sakai nodded and said: "The lord, the subordinates came for this marriage between the Takeda family and the Oda family. The Oda family and the Imagawa family are feuds, and the Takeda family, which is an alliance of the Imagawa family, actually married the Oda family. In addition, during the Takeda Yoshinobu's rebellion, the Imagawa family wrongly supported Takeda Yoshinobu. Lord, we have reason to believe that the alliance between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family has now broken."

Sakai Taduji said loudly: "Lord, I suggest that you send someone to discuss with the Takeda family and reach an agreement to strike the Imagawa family from both sides, so that the Imagawa family can be destroyed with one blow."

Ieyasu Matsudaira heard Tadashi Sakai's persuasion, his smile on his face narrowed, and he sat there silently.

Tadaji Sakai asked loudly, "My lord, what are you still hesitating about? This is indeed the best opportunity for my family. Is the lord still thinking about building the temple and the friendship with the Imagawa family?"

Tsukiyama-den is the main room of Ieyasu Matsudaira and the niece of Imagawa Yoshimoto.

Matsudaira Ieyasu shook his head and said, "This is not what I worry about. When I abandoned the partial taboo'Yuan' given to me by Yoshimoto, and changed my real name from Yonyasu to Ieyasu, the kindness to Imagawa's family was the same. It has been cut."

"What I worry about is," Ieyasu Matsudaira pointed to a Tigger on the side of the screen, and said, "What I really worry about is this Koshu tiger."

"Lord, do you mean Duke Shingen?" Taduji Sakai half stood up and asked.

"Yes, Ieyasu seldom admires anyone in my life, but Shingen Takeda is one of them. If you ally with the Takeda clan and take the Imagawa clan together, to paraphrase Mingguo people, it is to seek skin with a tiger."

Taduji Sakai nodded and said: "The Lord's worries are justified. Shingen Takeda is a perfidious person who uses treacherous ways to plunder him. The Suwa family at the beginning and the Imagawa family are the best examples."

Ieyasu Matsudaira shook his head and said, "No, Heiji, you are wrong. Shingen is a true hero in troubled times. The morality of a normal person cannot be used as a yardstick. It should be described in his body. If it is only by benevolence. The word "de" means that even if it is the ultimate, it can't capture the world."

Taduji Sakai asked in surprise: "The lord, Shingen Takeda is a hero? Does the lord think he can take the world?"

Ieyasu Matsudaira straightened up and said with a serious face: "Duke Shingen, I don’t know whether Duke Shingen can finally take the world, but if you look at the world, you can compete with it. Except for Oda Dan Masatada and His Royal Highness Jinghu, he will not be the first. The three thoughts, my family health is not as good."

Hearing Matsudaira Ieyasu's words, Tadoji Sakai was quite dissatisfied, and said, "Could it be that the master's wisdom and the good combat of my Mikawa Samurai can't compete with Takeda Shingen?"

Matsudaira Ieyasu smiled slightly, and did not answer. He turned to say: "It is better to judge the enemy stronger than weaker. Only in this way can we be cautious, plan more comprehensively, and control the enemy with more wins than less. Shingen must be cautious in planning, otherwise my Matsudaira family will eventually become Suwa, and Ogasawara, Murakami and his ilk will be defeated by him."

Tadashi Sakai raised his head and said, "Master, so you agreed?"

Matsudaira Ieyasu said: "If I don’t take the opportunity to usurp Suruga when Imagawa’s family is weak, my Matsudaira’s family will always be trapped in the Three Rivers. Takeda Shingen is powerful, but Uesugi is in the north and Uesugi in the east. Hojo’s elbow system, unlike my Matsudaira family, who has the support of the Oda family behind them, I only need to concentrate on dealing with the Imagawa family, and I will send troops to support me at any time by playing Masatada-sama."

After hearing this, Sakai hesitated and said: "Master, the ministers feel that it is not that you should not have too much expectation for Lord Masahata. Impersonating Lord Masahata is not to capture a city and a country in front of him. It can be satisfied. , He might not put my Songping family too much in his eyes."

Ieyasu Matsudaira laughed and said: "Heiji, you don't know Nobunaga. When I was a hostage for Oda in Cheongju, I befriended him since I was a child, so I know him well. Nobunaga has big ambitions since I was a child, and he was arrogant. From time to time, even Imagawa Yoshimoto didn’t pay attention to it. But just like Ieyasu, there is only one person who is afraid of, that is Shingen."

"Shingen does not die in one day, Nobunaga cannot truly control the world. If the Oda clan does not have my Matsudaira clan, he would resist the Takeda clan in the east for him, and Imagawa clan, he cannot complete Shangluo in one day, so Nobunaga must rely on me. The Matsudairas, otherwise as soon as my Matsudairas fall, his Odas will be the next one."

Sakai Tadaji agreed with Matsudaira Ieyasu’s words, but at the same time he also said: “Actually, Nobunaga’s worries are not the same as the Lord’s worries today. The Oda clan is indispensable to our Matsudaira clan. The same is true if Imagawa’s clan is destroyed, Takeda Shingen would want to From Shangluo on the Tokaido Road, you have to face my Matsudaira family. At that time, there will be a battle between my Matsudaira family and Takeda family."

Ieyasu Matsudaira nodded and said, "Exactly, but I have to take the Imagawa family. After all, the strength of Koshin is now higher than that of Mikawa. If all hopes are placed on Uesugi Hojo to contain Takeda Shingen, is it right? Practical. If you can understand more, the details of the Takeda family will be fine."

When Matsudaira Ieyasu said this, Sakai Tadaji suddenly stopped and said, "Master, I remember, after Masanobu Honda went on the run, didn’t he go to Kai? I heard that I was working for the Takeda family elder Li Xiao, maybe we can pass I came to understand the details of the Takeda family."

"Mashinori? It's been a long time since I heard his name," Ieyasu Matsudaira nodded and said, "I know he has worked in the Takeda family. He is the number one wise man in my Matsudaira family. It's a pity."

Tadashi Sakai said: "If the lord is interested, he can be recruited back, or lurking in Takeda's house for us, UU reading www.uukanshu.com to provide information. You must know that Honda's wife and children are still in Mikawa. "

Hearing this, Ieyasu Matsudaira shook his head and said: "It is unrighteous to kidnap the relatives of the deceased vassal and to intimidate them. I will not do it. I know Masanori’s character that it’s impossible for him to act as an insider. He came back, but it was okay. I was also wrong for what I had said at the beginning. If he is willing to come back, I should personally make amends to him."

"But if he refuses to return to my Matsudaira's house, it's fine. Don't embarrass his family. Li Xiao, the retainer of the Takeda family who was in the post of Shirane, fought Uesugi Kenshin at Shirane Mountain, and charged Uesugi with 60 horses I am also deeply envious of Xin Xuan who has such a brave general. If Zheng Xin can serve him, it is not wronged, it is always the old one. He has a good master, and I am also pleased."

Hearing what Matsudaira Ieyasu said, Tadashi Sakai immediately bowed and said: "The Lord is really kind."

Ieyasu Matsudaira nodded and said, "Heiji, the alliance with the Takeda family will be left to you."

"The Imagawa family was destroyed, but Yixue was the shame of me being a hostage in Sunfu. You must know my preferences, how much I wish I could be in Sunfu Castle, while looking at the snowy scenery of Mount Fuji, while enjoying the eggplant, this is also It can be regarded as a trivial ambition of Ieyasu.". ..