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Oda Nobunaga was a big liar who only ate but did not vomit. The cooperation between Nanman Cult and her was very unpleasant.

Isn’t the benefit that Frois has given enough?The Nanman Cult even sent armed monks to help the Oda family train the island country's spear and iron cannon formations, which beat the surrounding samurai families to pieces.

This is what the Nanman Sect is like on Kyushu Island. It uses business interests and military assistance to hook up with local samurai names, so that the local samurai can be baptized into the religion.

But using this trick on Oda Nobunaga was like beating a dog with a meat bun.Oda Nobunaga wanted all the benefits of the Nanman Sect, but she ignored the demands of the Nanman Sect.

The Nanman Sect and the Nichiren Sect are a pair of difficult sisters. They were both eaten up by Oda Nobunaga and did not get the rewards they wanted at all.

She chose to secretly instigate Nichiren of the Nichiren Sect, which led to the catastrophe of Mount Hiei. Oda Nobunaga and the Buddhist sects had no room for maneuver and could only further cooperate with the Nichiren Sect.

Frois of the Nanman Cult originally wanted to alienate the Oda family and find a reliable partner, but the situation did not develop as expected. She found that she had no choice except Oda Nobunaga.

The troubled times in the island country are coming to an end. The people are tired of the war and yearn for peaceful order.

As the two strongest families among the lords of the island country, the Shiba family and the Oda family chose to join forces, which meant that the countdown to peace in the world had entered.

The Nanman Sect is unable to cooperate with the Sibo family, not only because of the god-making movement of Sibo Yiyin and various Buddhist sects, but also because of the new sect of the Nanman Sect.

If Spo Yiyin had only joined forces with various Buddhist sects, the sense of crisis in Frois's heart might not be so severe.

However, when the Spo family began to support their own Nanman representatives.

After Lilu, a native of Lan, and Agote served as the general agent of the southern barbarians of the shogunate, and the British Kristina was hired, and Eniko served as the southern barbarians of the Spao family, Flois could no longer remain calm.

Heretics deserve to die more than heretics. Heretics still have the possibility of conversion, but heretics can only be eliminated physically.

In this era, the Nanman religion has split into many new sects that do not obey the Holy See. The Lan people and the British are all branches of the new sect.

The Portuguese-Western people on the Liberian Peninsula believe in Nanman religion and are very loyal to the faith of the Holy See.

In the long years from the eighth to the fifteenth century, the Liberian Peninsula has been resisting Arab rule. Nanman religion is the most powerful spiritual weapon to unite the local people.

The Nanman Holy See has always been the staunchest supporter of local believers during the 800-year-long movement to recover lost territories, which also gave the Nanman religion a high status among Westerners and Portuguese people.

Flois was a Portuguese. The great voyages of this period were led by the Westerners and the Portuguese, and the Dutch and British who joined later had not yet risen.

The Nanman religion took advantage of the Nanman trade dominated by Westerners and Portuguese people, used profits to seduce the famous names of the Kyushu martial arts family to convert, and spread the Lord's faith without any disadvantage.

Now, Sibo Yiyin began to negotiate individually with the Nanman merchants engaged in Nanman trade through the new sects of the Nanman religion, the Lan people and the British.

Although the great voyages of this era were dominated by the Westerners and the Portuguese, the Westerners and the Portuguese were also loyal enough to the Holy See.The problem is that businessmen pursue profits, and once they have appropriate profits, they will become bold.

If you have a profit of 50.00%, you will take risks.For the sake of [-]% profit, they dare to trample all human laws.For [-]% profit, he would dare to commit any crime, even risk being hanged.

The essence of Nanman's trade is to act as a second-tier dealer between China and the island countries, taking advantage of the blockage of trade between China and the country to earn interest differentials between China's abundant commodities and the island countries' abundant precious metals.

This profit is very large.

Nanman merchants cooperated with Nanman religion to open the door to the island country and sought official support from the shogunate, not only for belief, but also for profit.

Now, the shogunate has begun to take the Nanman trade seriously and authorized the Nanman general agent to negotiate with Nanman merchants. The Nanman merchants are naturally very happy.

In this process, the Nanman sect headed by Freus was gradually marginalized.

Since the Nanman merchants are willing to talk to the shogunate, Lilu can ask for more concessions and even relax the control on artillery imports.

And all of this was originally a bargaining chip for the Nanman Sect to negotiate terms with the famous local martial artists in Kyushu.

Now, these bargaining chips already belong to the Spo family and the Protestants. How can it not make Flois worried.

Therefore, even if she knew that Oda Nobunaga was a bastard who did not keep his word, Flois had no choice. She could only cooperate with the Oda family to prevent the Nanman Cult from being completely marginalized and excluded.

As for Hashiba Hideyoshi's visit this time, on the one hand, it does represent Oda Nobunaga's sincerity, and on the other hand, she herself hopes to draw on the power of the Nanman Cult.

Although the Nanman Sect has not been able to gain recognition from the shogunate in Luo in recent years, it has already gained great influence in the surrounding areas centered on Sakai Port.

Many martial artists, either sincerely believing in religion or eager for benefits, have become believers.

And Hashiba Hideyoshi came to seek the assistance of the Nanman Sect in order to successfully open the gates of Harima Kingdom and Bizen Kingdom.

Although there are thirteen kingdoms in the territory of Shanyin and Shanyang, they occupy more than one-sixth of the 66 kingdoms in the world, which seems to be a huge number.

But in fact, the territorial states in the Western Kingdom are all small countries. Most of the Western Kingdom is covered by the Chinese Mountains, with few plains, and the stone heights of most of the territorial states are very low.

If you really want to put it into perspective, the Nobi plain stone in the hands of the Oda family is more than one million high, which is worth the weight of seven or eight small territories of the Western Kingdom.

However, Harima Province and Bizen Province, which are close to Kinki, are exceptions. The two countries have a combined size of 70 koku.

The Harima Plain and Okayama Plain are not small, and they are also located on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, across the sea from Awaji Island and Shikoku Island.

The area is very developed in terms of commerce and farming, and it is a strategic location from Kinki to the Western Kingdom. It is a bridgehead for military depots that can raise supplies to conquer the Western Kingdom.

Whether he can get the support of the samurai of the two Harima-Bizen countries and quickly win these two countries is the key to Hashiba Hideyoshi's strategy to launch the Western Kingdom.

The Nanman religion has developed in Sakai Port over the years and has continued to spread its faith.

The leader of Ishiyama Honganji Temple attacked the Nanman Sect in the direction of Kinki in the west. The struggle between the two sides was the most intense in Settsu Province, and the samurai villagers who believed in the two religions were constantly fighting.

However, although the Ichibuki clan was powerful and arrogant on land, they were unable to do anything against the coast of the West Seto Inland Sea east of Sakai Port.

The Nanman religion comes from the sea and has a stronger influence on the coastal areas. It has many believers in Harima and Bizen countries, including many powerful local warriors.

The two Hime samurai sitting in the tea room today are Nanman believers from Harima and Bizen countries.

Hashiba Hidenaga handed a cup of tea to Floy's desk, then took another cup of tea and handed it to the next Hime warrior.

At this time, Hashiba Hideyoshi laughed.

"This one needs no introduction. Long time no see, Xiao Xiji."

"Long time no see, Hideyoshi-sama Hashiba."

This Hime Samurai was Konishi Yukino who once helped Hashiba Hideyoshi establish a relationship with the Nanman Cult. She was also a retainer of the Bizen daimyo Uki's family.And another Hime Warrior, Hashiba Hideucha introduced him over tea.

"This is Kuroda Takatakahime, she is a retainer of the Harima Koji family."

Hashiba Hideyoshi and Kuroda Takataka looked at each other, and there was something strange in their hearts. The calm young Samurai Hime in front of her actually gave her a feeling of Takenaka Shigeharu.

Thinking of Takenaka Shigeharu, Hashiba Hideyoshi couldn't help but worry.

This visit to Sakai Port was of great importance, and Takenaka Shigeharu was supposed to accompany Hashiba Hideyoshi.

But after winter, Takenaka Shigeharu's condition worsened again. Hideyoshi Hideyoshi stopped Takenaka Shigeharu from traveling far and asked her to recuperate.

Takenaka Shigeharu was Hashiba Hideyoshi's mentor and friend, and he was also the strategist who planned big plans for her. Seeing that Takenaka Shigeharu's health was deteriorating day by day, Hashiba Hideyoshi was anxious, but he had no choice.

He hired many famous doctors and took more medicine, but Takenaka Shigeji's body just didn't improve.

Takenaka Shigeharu seemed to have given up on conditioning and worked hard, as if he was trying to plan everything before he died.

Hashiba Hideyoshi shook his head slightly to disperse the bad thoughts in his mind, focusing on the communication in front of him, chatting and laughing with Yukinaga Konishi and Takataka Kuroda.

Konishi Yukinagai of the Bizen daimyo Uki family, and Kuroda Takataka of the Harima daimyo Kodera family. These two people were not casually chosen by Hideyoshi to negotiate with, but were the result of careful consideration.

Both of them are Nanman believers, and their host family is also a very important figure in the local area.

Harima Country and Bizen Country are so important that the Ashikaga Shogunate will not take them lightly. They had plans as early as the establishment of the Shogunate, and the Akamatsu family was the guardian assigned there.

The Akamatsu family is one of the three and four positions of the shogunate. It is also an outlier among the famous families because the Akamatsu family does not come from a high background.

Most of the top officials of the shogunate were relatives of the Ashikaga clan, followed by Genpei and Fujiwara nobles.

The Akamatsu family also claims to be descendants of a famous family, but most of the sources of this claim are unfounded, and they are most likely from the evil party.

Most of the villains during the Kamakura shogunate period were samurai warriors outside the system who had no or lost their status as imperial family members.

They had their own land resources and violent groups, but they were excluded from the ruling class of the Kamakura shogunate and were called evil parties.

Therefore, the Akamatsu family can only be regarded as a false claimant, claiming to be a famous family, but they cannot provide reliable evidence to prove their family status.

At the same time, the samurai family at the end of the Kamakura shogunate was not as chaotic as it was during the Warring States Period, and it was common to impersonate famous families. This was also related to the one-general system at that time.

It is impossible for a general family that is bound by blood ties not to recognize its own branch, and it is not easy to misidentify one's ancestors.

However, during the Warring States Period 200 years later, the Wu family lineage became even more chaotic, and the number of false claims was so mind-numbing that as long as the shogunate was willing to admit it, no one cared about the authenticity.

Just like Tokugawa Ieyasu's self-proclaimed Kawachi Genji Nitta Clan, it seems fake no matter how you look at it, but she was recognized by Shiba Yoshigan, and the samurai just pinched their noses and believed it.

Before the Ashikaga Shogunate, such false claims were difficult to succeed, so the Akamatsu family was in an embarrassing situation.

You are neither a member of the Ashikaga Clan, nor a descendant of the famous Genpei Fujiwara family. It is like a weasel among a group of dogs, it is too eye-catching.

The reason why the Akamatsu family was able to sneak into the top three levels of the shogunate with such an embarrassing status was very simple. They were so capable of fighting.

Just like Sanada Nobushige under Shiba Yoshigan, everyone knows that this guy is a wild monkey in the mountains, at most a branch of Shino.

The character of the Wu family of the Shino clan is average, but what about the character of Sanada Miao, the general leader of the Umino branch of the clan?

But it turns out that the Sanada soldiers are very good at fighting. From Kanto to Kansai, even Oda Nobunaga was defeated. They have outstanding achievements and are known as the best soldiers in the world.

Military merit is the highest reward among the samurai family, and Sanada Nobushige's status was completely achieved by Sanada's bloody sea of ​​corpses. He was so tough that others had nothing to say.

The Akamatsu family, the Sanada clan in the early days of the Ashikaga shogunate, were also very capable of fighting.

The Akamatsu family was born in the Harima country, which has an important geographical location and bravery in battle. Eventually, he was named one of the three administrators and four positions due to his military merits. He guarded the Harima, Bizen, Mimasaku and other countries, and strictly guarded the western gate of Kinki.

The Yamano family, one of the four positions at that time, had always regarded the Akamatsu family as a thorn in the flesh. Because the Yamana family was in the Western Kingdom and wanted to go to Luo to cause trouble, the first hurdle was the Akamatsu family in Harima Kingdom.

The Akamatsu family's presence along the West Seto Inland Sea threatened the Hosokawa family's hegemony in the countries along the West Seto Inland Sea.

At that time, the Hosokawa family was still the biggest boss in Kyoto, and the Yamana family was the biggest boss in the shogunate area, so the Akamatsu family's life was full of obstacles.

Life was difficult at first, so I gradually got used to it.

Because the Ashikaga Shogunate was at its peak at that time, the third generation of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was so powerful that he elevated the Ashikaga family from the leader of the samurai family to the co-leader of the world.

Although several Ashikaga generals after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu were not as wise and powerful as her, they still had great power and had strong control over the world's samurai families.

Therefore, although the Akamatsu family was disliked by the famous Hosokawa family, everyone managed to eat together on the table of the shogunate, and nothing serious happened despite their bumps and bruises.

By the time the Sixth Generation General came to power, the political winds were changing.

The sixth generation generals worked hard to govern, but they did not have the ability of the third generation generals, causing a series of political chaos.

She reached out to Guandong, and there was trouble in Guandong.Reach out to Kyushu, and there will be trouble in Kyushu.

Reach out for religion. .The first samurai leader to burn down the root center hall of Enryaku-ji Temple on Mount Hiei was not Oda Nobunaga, but the sixth-generation Ashikaga shogun.

This general was known as the evil imperial guard, and thousands of people were terrified, which shows the political chaos at that time.

What this general likes to do most is to imitate the methods of the third generation general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, interfering in the internal affairs of daimyo, supporting his cronies, and attacking dissidents.

It's a pity that she had Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's courage but not Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's ability, and she died in the end.

Because he interfered in the inheritance of the Akamatsu family's family business, the sixth-generation general was hacked to death by the Akamatsu family governor. Such a rebellious act of subjugation shocked the world.

The governor of the Akamatsu family fled back to Harima country. The Hosokawa family and the Yamana family were overjoyed and jointly sent troops to strangle the Akamatsu family.

From then on, the Akamatsu family fell into decline, the Kinki west gate was opened wide, the Ashikaga shogun family was also weakened, and a head-on power struggle began between the Hosokawa family and the Yamano family.

The final result was the Yatsudai Shogun Rebellion. The samurai families of the shogunate sided with the Hosokawa family and the Yamano family respectively. The strength of the shogunate was weakened too much in this chaos, and it could no longer stabilize the overall situation of the world.

From then on, the world entered troubled times.