What made you have the illusion that I am the protagonist! ?

Matsudaira Rongho and Inaba Masamuni were a little surprised when they heard this.

Tokugawa Jiashige didn't immediately continue the conversation, but showed a look of remembering something.

"My ancestor, that is, the first generation general Ie Yasuo once left a portrait of an old man. I only saw that painting after I inherited the general. Lord Ishitani looks quite similar to the person in the painting... ..."

Fuyumi scratched her cheek and said, "Hey, speaking of it, someone said before that I look very similar to the young ancestor in the painting."

Iemo Tokugawa couldn't wait to ask: "May I ask Master Ishitani's ancestors from...?"

"Owari Oda."

"—As expected, Lord Ishitani is the descendant of Lord Nobunaga." Iemo Tokugawa nodded with emotion, "What a hero."

Hearing such anecdotes, Matsudaira Yohoho, Inaba Masamuni and Matsudaira Nobuhide couldn't help but look hard at Fuyuya, as if they could get a glimpse of that person's former demeanor from his face.

Oda Nobunaga.

Even if Japan was truly unified, it was Toyotomi Hideyoshi who became the "man of the world"; and it was Tokugawa Ieyasu who won the Battle of Sekigahara and established the rule of the Edo Shogunate——

Even if Nobunaga did not fulfill his ambition, he failed on the eve of victory, was betrayed by Akechi Mitsuhide and defeated Honnoji Temple, but no one can deny the weight of this name in history, especially for those former Nobunaga retainers or allies after.

Because it is undeniable that whether it is Toyotomi Hideyoshi or Tokugawa Ieyasu, in the end they walked the road that Oda Nobunaga failed to walk.

In terms of ideology, they inherited Nobunaga's belief in "buying military forces under heaven"; in terms of strength, both of them inherited the military power left by Oda Nobunaga after his death in order to complete their great cause.

From this perspective, both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu are the successors of Oda Nobunaga.

Even after Nobunaga's death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu each supported Oda Hidenobu and Oda Nobuo to fight for power in order to compete for the rich political and military legacy he left behind, which eventually indirectly led to the split and demise of the Oda clan.

Although Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Gao family in order to protect the declining masters of the Warring States Period after the establishment of the Edo Shogunate, and there were also three branches of the Oda family, but they were all branches of the Oda family.

It can be said that, as Nobunaga's former retainers and allies, both of them owed Oda Nobunaga something.

It was also for this reason that Tokugawa Ieshige said that Fuyuya didn't need to salute him.

"Master Shigu... I was the one who was rude before."

Even Masamuni Inaba, who had scolded him earlier, immediately became more polite.

As the chief official of the Kyoto Governor, he is not as close as Matsudaira Nobuhide and others to Fuyiya. In addition, the Kyoto Governor has always been used as a decoration, but Anpingya rose within two months and put the law and order in Kyoto in order. How much does he feel? A little suffocated, before speaking to refute.

However, after knowing that Fuyuya is Oda Nobunaga, everything is different. The rise of Anpingya in a short period of time has become a performance of Fuyuya living up to Nobunaga's blood, and he is naturally convinced.

His ancestor Inaba Ryotsu and his son Inaba Sadatsu both served as officials at Nobunaga, and later changed to Toyotomi and Tokugawa.If it was an ordinary descendant of the Oda family, he would not have to be so polite. However, for Tokuya Ishitani, who Tokugawa Kaeshige personally said looks like Nobunaga, it is a completely different concept.

"I really didn't expect to see Nobunaga's descendants here." Matsudaira Rongbao sighed.

Fuyumi scratched his cheek, and said: "Well, actually, the hanging scrolls painted hundreds of years ago all look similar, at least I didn't see how much alike the ancestors in my family's scrolls are. "

If this was said by other people, it would definitely be considered disrespectful to Oda Nobunaga, but Toya himself has no such worries. Tokugawa Kashige and Matsudaira Yohobo both laughed when they heard the words.

After laughing, Tokugawa Iemo said sternly: "No, no, Nobunaga on the scroll in Ieyasu's collection is a scroll from his youth. I am afraid it was made by the two emperors when they appointed the Cheongju Alliance. Master Ishitani and the letter on the scroll The grandpa is very similar, which made me think of that painting when I saw it."

"I heard that Ishitani-sama was born in Harima country, is your family there too?" Matsudaira Yohoho asked with great interest.

"Well, after the change of Honnoji Temple, some descendants of the Oda clan left the main family and started to multiply in Harima. Anyway, it's a pretty rural place..."

"Then how did you come to Kyoto?"

"Well, actually, I was on a trip. I went to many places, and I happened to arrive in Kyoto, but I ran out of money, and I couldn't just sit and eat. I just wanted to do something to make money, so I opened Anpingya..."

Fuyumi's truth-telling made the Black Academy burst into laughter again, and the samurai guarding the gate looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.

From the history of the Ishitani family, the chatterbox was opened, and Tokuya was left by Iemo Tokugawa to chat for an afternoon and an evening.

In fact, it’s not that Tokugawa Iemo and the others have never seen the descendants of the Oda clan. Now there are three branches of the Oda clan in the Gao family. It’s just that after hundreds of years of pampering, those descendants of the Oda clan are no different from the descendants of other samurai families. .

On the other hand, Tomi speaks in a humorous way, and his travels have given him a wealth of experience. There is no shortage of topics to say, and he dares to think and speak in front of the shogun.

The experiences of those different worlds and the future world can be pretended to be what happened in Western countries, and it can be regarded as an explanation of why there are Westerners Diarmuid at his side. After hiding some key points, the experience full of whimsy still makes people Tokugawa Jiashige and others were amazed from time to time.

In the end, Tokugawa Jiashige kept him for another dinner, and specially invited Godaisho and Ishitani Liangxia to the same dinner. If it wasn't for Fuyuya, who couldn't stay in Nijo Castle, he reluctantly let him go.

Matsudaira Rongbao and others had already gone back, and Tokugawa Jiashige finally said sincerely: "Master Ishitani, you have been to so many places, and you have also been to the West. I have a question I would like to ask for your opinion - today's Japan and the shogunate, Where should we go?"

This is also the source of the most distressing problem for Tokugawa Iemo.

Ten years ago, Matthew Perry's black ship opened the door to this country, and now they are in an era of drastic change, and many times they can only drift with the tide.

However, as the head of the shogunate, the real ruler of the country today, as the "tall man" who "the sky fell and was supported by a tall man", he could not simply follow the crowd like those ordinary civilians.

Fuyuya, who has always relied on instinct, rarely thought about it. Although he has never really been to Western countries in this era, perhaps the whole world has less right to speak than him from the future on this issue.

However, is such a development in the future necessarily good?

What are the consequences of historical change?

Will it get better, or get worse?

In the end, he still said: "My lord, I don't know what to do is the right choice. However, you just need to do it according to your ideas-the era will make its own choice, leaving the right one. side."