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Only now did Ii Naotora truly believe what Ii Naomasa said.

The saint really loves Ii Naomasa and wants to give her a divine seed and include her as a divine descendant. Otherwise, just defending Naoyoshi Hansawa would be enough to make Ii Naomasa unable to turn around for the rest of his life.

Seeing his adopted daughter still looking stunned and unconvinced, Ii Naotora couldn't laugh or cry, and could even feel the helplessness of the saint.

While feeling lucky, Ii Naotora was also thinking about how to enlighten his adopted daughter so that she would not be stupid.

"Zhizheng."

"Hi."

"Do you know how deeply the saint loves you?"

"Of course I know, and I am willing to dedicate everything to the saint."

Ii Naotora stared into Ii Naomasa's eyes and said slowly.

"No, you don't know. You are so well protected by the saint that you don't understand the nature of the Wu family or the dangers of the world.

Think about the people at the banquet just now. Do you know how indifferent they were five or six years ago when the Jing Yi family faced the disaster?

As the elder of the Ii family, the Ono family betrayed the master's family and took refuge with the Imagawa family. He killed two generations of Ii family governors, took away Ii Valley Castle, and almost led to the extinction of the Ii family.

Today, the Jingyi family is full of friends and allies, but just a few years ago, I lay awake at night, fearing that the Jingyi family would no longer exist when I opened my eyes. "

Ii Naomasa gritted his teeth and asked.

"Since these people are unreliable, why are you so polite to them?"

Ii Naotora sighed.

"Why should I be rude to them? It's the nature of the Wu family to add icing on the cake and add insult to injury. The Wu family admires strength and values ​​courtesy over righteousness. Everyone is like this. Who can look down on whom?

There are two reasons why Jingyi's family was able to escape death and enjoy the grand occasion today.

First, His Highness Tokugawa made great use of me after he took over the Tojiang Kingdom, so that the people of Tojiang were willing to get close to the Ii family.

Secondly, your status in the Shiba family has been rising steadily, which has made the Enji family take a high look at the Ii family.

But you should never be deceived by their good-natured appearance. If the Ii family weakens again, most of them will immediately change their faces. "

Ii Naomasa sighed.

"The Wu family's moral principles are indifferent and the order of the Wu family does not exist. This is a stubborn disease in troubled times, so it is even more necessary to reverse this wrong social atmosphere."

Ii Naotora shook his head.

“We talk about righteousness, but our hearts are all about interests. This is the normal state of politics.

If you are unwilling to accept reality and insist on persisting, the saint may not be able to protect you in the future.

If according to what you say, His Highness Tokugawa puts me in a position of great importance, I should be loyal and loyal, and should she follow her lead? "

Ii Naomasa was stunned and nodded.

"This is how a ruler and his ministers should behave, only then can they implement the principles of the Wu family."

Ii Naotora smiled bitterly.

"Then if there is a conflict between the Shiba family and the Tokugawa family, do you want me to help Shiba or Tadokawa?"

Ii Naomasa was stunned again and said hesitantly.

"No way? I think His Highness Tokugawa is very respectful to saints..."

Ii Naotora interrupted.

"So I said that you were protected too well by the saint, and you don't understand the rules of the game of Wu family politics at all.

The world is not black and white. Politicians do not make choices because they like it. When water flows downward, it always chooses the direction of least resistance. No one can truly go against the will of heaven.

Why did His Highness Tokugawa reuse me? Because she felt that as a male, I could not threaten the Tokugawa family's rule in the Tokugawa Kingdom, so she supported me to lead the Tokugawa people.

If I were a powerful and prestigious Samurai Hime, or a powerful male samurai like a saint, how could His Highness Tokugawa be so polite to me? Isn't she afraid of the hidden danger of having a big tail?

Just because I couldn't threaten her, she made me the leader of Yuanjiang, and because you are a high-ranking member of the Sibo family, she respected me extraordinarily.

But if one day, there is a rift between the Tokugawa family, I will be the biggest hidden danger in the Tokugawa family. I am afraid that I will die without a burial place. "

Ii Naomasa was frightened.

"No, the Tokugawa family has no reason to oppose the Shiba family, and His Highness Tokugawa has no courage to confront the saint."

Ii Naotora smiled bitterly.

"Of course I know how big the strength gap is between the saint and His Highness Tokugawa. I am just reminding you and hope you will be more sensible.

Wu family politics does not distinguish between right and wrong, only interests. The saint should have taught you this, right?

But you were born in the direct line of Sibo, took control of supervisory responsibilities early on, and held a high position of authority. No one dared to offend you, so you did not understand the complexity of government affairs.

The saint treats you with deep affection and love, allowing you to grow up without any worries, and you can assume the high position of the Sibo family at a young age.

You are indeed very smart and have done a lot for the saint, but your journey has been too smooth and you have never experienced any hardships or difficulties. "

Ii Naomasa was silent for a long time and said bitterly.

"Am I really naive?"

Ii Naotora did not answer directly, but just changed the topic.

"Do you know where the four nuns who were scared away by Hanzawa Naoyoshi are now?"

Ii Naomasa shook his head numbly.

"do not know."

Ii Naotora pointed to the south and said.

"Right in Hamamatsu Castle."

Naomasa Ii almost jumped up.

"Did His Highness Tokugawa take them in? Why? His Highness Tokugawa also wanted to intervene in the affairs of the eight states?"

Ii Naotora grabbed his adopted daughter and said helplessly.

"Sit down first and don't get excited. As long as the saint is here, the sky will not fall."

Naomasa Ii reluctantly sat down, but his expression remained solemn and he said solemnly.

"Father, you don't know something. This major corruption case in Guanbazhou has a wide range of implications. Almost everyone in the Wu family ethics promotion committee has been contaminated by the cause and effect, and the middle and lower classes in Guanbazhou are also panicked.

The cause of everything was the absconding of these four nuns. They should have taken away important accounts, which are conclusive evidence.

But I didn't expect that they would actually escape to the Tokugawa family. "      Naomasa Ii smiled and said.

"Don't even think about it, where can these four nuns run to when they are desperate?

As soon as they ran away, the Wu Family Giri Promotion Association was put on a fire. How many people in Kanto wanted to kill them and silence them, and burn all the accounts with a fire.

Therefore, they cannot stay in Kanto and must stay far away.

The Hokuriku Road trade route is inextricably linked to the Samurai Giri Promotion Association. If they cannot leave, they can only seek refuge on the Tokaido Road.

Their only way to survive is the saint. It is better to expect mercy from others than from the saint, so they wander around the East China Sea Road, waiting for an opportunity to meet the saint to express their love.

It's just that they were unlucky and were caught by His Highness Tokugawa.

The Tokaido trade route has been planned for two years, but Sakai Port has always been pushy and perfunctory and still maintains the operation of the Hokuriku Road trade route.

His Highness Tokugawa proposed to the sage to reopen the Tokaido trade route. He had been looking forward to it for two years, and naturally he was angry. However, Takada Haruno of Sakai Port refused to let go and did nothing about it.

The major corruption case of the Samurai Giri Promotion Association involves Sakai Port, so it is impossible for the flow of large sums of money in Sakai Port to bypass Takada Haruno.

His Highness Tokugawa captured four great nuns, which gave him the leverage to talk to the saint, put some pressure on Sakai Port, and forced Takada Yono to relent. "

Ii Naomasa snorted.

"These four nuns are certainly to blame for the corruption in Guanbazhou. However, His Highness Tokugawa only cares about his own selfish interests and only wants to use them to negotiate terms with the saint. It's really... hmph..."

Ii Naotora shook his head.

"Zhizheng, I will teach you another lesson today on behalf of the saint.

In fact, the saint doesn't care about major corruption cases at all. There is no corruption in Guandong. Isn't it just internal fighting?

The Kanto warriors were nothing more than relying on mountains to eat mountains, water to eat water, and doing things like plucking feathers when geese pass by.

There are three million koku in food stamps in the accounts of the Wu Jiayi Li Promotion Association. The money and food are flowing like water passing through the hands of these people. How can they not think about it?

Did the saints not know what kind of people they were before using them? Of course the saint knows!

There is no wiser person than a saint. A saint knows better than you and me what the virtues of the Wu family are. How could we not think that there might be problems with the accounts? "

Ii Naomasa was stunned by what his adoptive father said and murmured.

"Since the Wu Family Ethics Promotion Association is so important, it should employ loyal and righteous people."

Ii Naotora interrupted.

"There are hundreds of thousands of Kanto warriors, how many loyal people are there?

Even if there were still loyal and righteous people in the Kanto warrior family, they were all wiped out in a hundred years of chaos.

What is troubled times? Rituals have collapsed, morals have declined, and order has ceased to exist. How can the Kanto warrior family survive in troubled times for hundreds of years and have any truly loyal people?

Even if he knows that they are all bastards, the saint still has to hold their noses and use them. He can't push the land of the eight states away and give it to others, right?

Everyone is greedy, which means no one is greedy, so I say there is no corruption, only infighting.

Naoyoshi Hanzawa, a foreign samurai warrior with no roots in Kanto, took less than a year to tear off the fig leaf of the entire Kanba Province and turn it upside down. Do you think it's normal?

Although I don’t know the specific inside story, I can guarantee that there must be someone in Kanto secretly helping Hanzawa Naoyoshi and adding fuel to the flames.

Hanzawa Naoyoshi has been taken advantage of, and so have you. Your so-called loyalty and your so-called righteousness are just political tools for others to fight among themselves.

In fact, the saint understands everything, but he has to figure it out slowly.

If enough loyal people can be promoted in Kanto, what else will the saint do to recruit foreign students, recruit blue-clad people, and look forward to the next generation?

Just because there is no one to use it and it has to be used, the saint can only be confused.

The sage has always been well aware of the mess in Kanto. Why do you need you to act as a hero, and why do you need Hanzawa Naoyi to investigate Kanto?

Originally, everything was hidden under the table. Even if we knew there was a latrine underneath, it would just stink up the latrine. After this generation has passed, we can slowly clean it out.

But you'd better just send someone to blow up the toilet! If I were a saint, let alone Hanzawa Naoyoshi's head, I would want to chop off your head!

Zhizheng, the saint really loves you and is really protecting you. You should be more careful and stop causing trouble to the saint. "

Ii Naomasa was stunned by his adoptive father's heartfelt words and was speechless for a moment.

This is why the person closest to me would educate her with all his heart and soul, and tell her everything in detail. Others would not explain it in such detail and clearly.

But these words also made Naomasa Ii, who upholds loyalty and is in charge of supervision, somewhat subvert his views, with confusion in his eyes.

Are you really wrong?

Are we really wrong about young people such as ourselves, Naoyoshi Hanzawa, Yua Kito and others who are obsessed with righteousness, righteousness, and justice?

Is this world supposed to be dirty? Should the stinking filth be covered up under the whitewash and pretend not to know?

After a while, Naomasa Ii sighed.

“I’m very grateful to my father for his thoughtful words.

But if young people think like this, the world will really be over.

We hope to follow the saints and build a beautiful new world. If we compromise with the dirty old world in front of us, wouldn’t our life be a joke?

Yuya Kito is dead, and Naoyoshi Hanzawa is waiting to die. I can accept that they died for their ideals, but I cannot tolerate them becoming a joke.

Someone has to speak up for them. Even if it is for the future of the Sibo family and a better social atmosphere in the Sibo world, I must stand up.

This is my love for the saint. I will not allow this dirty old world to tarnish the saint’s new world! "

Ii Naotora looked at his adopted daughter with firm eyes and was speechless.

Ii Naomasa's stubbornness gave the saint a headache and his adoptive father a headache, but they could not completely deny Ii Naomasa's ideas.

The true growth of a child is from discovering the ugliness and filthiness of the world, but still loving and embracing the world, hoping to make the world a better place.

In a sense, both Yoshihiro Shiba and Naotora Ii are not as good as Naomasa Ii. Young people like Naomasa Ii who adhere to justice are the driving force of social progress.

Shaking his head, Ii Naotora said.

"I have all the good things to say, it's up to you whether you listen or not. I'm getting old too, and it's up to you to decide on this family fortune. You can do whatever you want."

Looking at the gray hair on his adoptive father's temples, Ii Naomasa felt a little guilty, lowered his head and remained silent for a moment, then couldn't help but speak.

"The corruption case of the Wu Family Giri Promotion Association is so intense, but in your opinion, father, you downplay it, as if you don't care at all."

Ii Naotora smiled.

"I said, no one is wiser than a saint.

The Saint is invincible and has dominated the world for ten years. The land of Guandong has long been conquered. As long as the Saint is around, there will be no trouble in Guandong.

It's nothing more than some money and food being moved around. Whether it's moved to each family's own warehouse or embezzled to Sakai Port, who dares not to return it with just a word from the saint?

Since there is no loss of money or food, what big thing can happen? "

What Ii Naotora didn't know was that the large amount of money and food that had been misappropriated to Sakai Port had been accepted by Takada Harano and might evaporate without a trace at any time.

As a traditional martial artist, she didn't realize that this huge storm had just begun.

In fact, even Spo Yiyin himself did not clearly realize the seriousness of the problem and thought that everything was under control.

At this moment, Ii Naomasa is more concerned about whether he can save Hanzawa Naoyoshi.

There is little sense of justice in troubled times. Although Hanzawa Naoyoshi's approach is radical, he is a righteous person recognized by Ii Naomasa. He really can't bear to see her lose her life like this.