Chapter 500 59. Yamamoto Kansuke Is Not Easy to Deceive

Yesterday, I was still thinking about the honest and sincere Nagano Yoshimori, but today, Kobayata wanted to kick this unlucky kid out with one kick.

The negotiation has not started yet, and Yamamoto Kansuke's conditions have just been reported, asking for a sky-high price and paying it back on the spot. But Kobayata hasn't thought about how to negotiate yet, and this unlucky kid can't hold back and kneels down.

What is this? Forcing Kobayata to agree?

Are you on our side or on Takeda's side?

When Nagano Yoshimasa saw that his son went to trouble Kobayata without saying hello, he hurriedly asked his two sons-in-law to go up and drag him away.

"If your highness is sincere and loves the people like his own children, there will be someone to succeed Shinshu Lord!" Kobayata saw that Nagano Yoshimori was carried out of the door by his brother-in-law Shirakawa Mankatsu like a chicken, and he still had to perfunctorily say a few words.

"The child is rude and offended the emperor." Nagano Yoshimasa also apologized. Although he was anxious, he did not act so bluntly.

This is the sadness of a small country, being between big countries. Many things are not decided by him, and it requires a game between big countries to determine the fate of their small country.

But in the same way, if the issue of more than 7,500 captives of the Minowa tribe of the Nagano clan cannot be properly resolved today, the prestige of Uesugi Terutora will suffer a devastating blow. No one will follow him in the future, and all will be disunited.

As for the Yamanouchi family, the Yamanouchi family can only be said to be 50-50 with Takeda Harunobu. In addition, the head of the family died suddenly in his prime, and the Takeda family is still a level behind. If the Nagano clan, as an anti-Takeda Hojo force, is finished, the Takeda family will not only lose a strong enemy. After occupying Nishi-Ueno, the territory of 50,000 kan can allow Takeda Harunobu to immediately overwhelm the Yamanouchi family.

Save! The price is so huge!

Don't save! The price is equally huge!

"Tanzheng, what do you think?" Uesugi Terutora, who was sitting in the first seat, already knew that he had lost.

If the lives of Kawada Nagachika, Yasuda Kagehiro and 1,800 people in Matsuyama Castle can be saved, it is not impossible to withdraw from Matsuyama Castle. Now that Oshi Castle has betrayed, the Uesugi clan only has Matsuyama Castle in northern Musashi, and the Musashi business has completely failed.

"Let me think about it."

Kobayata turned back and discussed with his father-in-law, Hosokawa Harumiya. The old father-in-law is also a shrewd man and should be able to give advice.

Hosokawa Harumiya and Kobayata communicated quietly and quickly. He thought that a one-year truce was okay, but the general truce of Ka, Xiang, Xin, and Yue should be required, and all forces should not take action. Each of them should rest for a year, and if they are not convinced, they will fight again next year.

If it is just a separate truce, it is just empty talk. If I can't beat you, I will beat him. Especially the Nagano clan, which suffered heavy losses, is a piece of meat. If it cannot be preserved, it is better not to stop the war.

Kobayata motioned his father-in-law to continue, and Hosokawa Harumiya glanced at Nagano Yoshimasa. He believed that the Takeda clan's request for the Nagano clan to cede the Kuragano area was too much and must not be agreed to.

Historically, the Takeda clan's attack on Nishi-Ueno was based on the Sanada clan's attack on the Iwago area in Agatsuma County and the Takeda clan's attack on the Kuragano area.

One in the south and one in the north, it is like a pair of pliers, clamping the Minowa Castle in the middle. The power of the pincer attack does not need to be elaborated, and history has also proved that it is feasible. The Nagano clan was eventually completely destroyed, and twelve brothers-in-law could not save the brother-in-law Nagano Yoshimori.

It would be a small matter to add money, even an extra three or five thousand kan. The defense system of Nishi-Ueno must be preserved, otherwise the Nagano family will be finished sooner or later.

As for the final cession of Nanban Otsutsu, the Takeda family actually used the Nagano family to force the Yamanouchi family and the Uesugi family to suppress the Yamanouchi family. Politics is too complicated. One hair moves the whole body, and no one can be immune. In the era of the Warring States, there is no force that can survive alone.

"His Highness Kanrei also has a Portuguese gun." Hosokawa Saijo, who was squatting beside him, suddenly said.

Yes!

When learning to cast Portuguese guns, Uesugi Terutora also cast two, and those two are still in Nanban Town in Hamamatsu. The gunners of the Uesugi family were not trained, so naturally, like the Yamanouchi family, they could not use them.

It is estimated that Takeda and Hojo did not know about this, and thought that these were all from the Yamanouchi family, so they asked Kobayata for them.

"Brother, you have a good memory!" Kobayata hurriedly asked someone to summon Father William and the Spanish mercenary officer.

Everyone saw that Aji brought in two southern barbarians, and they did not understand Kobayata's intention. But the southern barbarians were a peep show after all, and the samurai in the shogunate saw them as a novelty.

"This is the Christian missionary Guillaume from Kirei-tan. The man next to him is the owner of the Nanman merchant ship (actually, the owner of the ship, because I really don't know what the second mate should be called in Warring States Japanese.)"

"The Nanman cannon is not owned by our army, but rented from the Nanman ship by the missionary." Xiao Pingtai directly pushed the blame.

Father William's Japanese is getting better and better now, and he has no problem communicating with people. After Xiao Pingtai finished speaking, he spoke to confirm.

"These soldiers were indeed hired by Mr. Fujiwara from Captain Alfonso with a monthly salary of five taels of gold. As for these cannons, I borrowed them from the merchant ship. They are not Mr. Fujiwara's property."

Now it was Yamamoto Kansuke's turn to frown. Even if he asked for the Nanman's things, Xiao Pingtai would not give them to him.

It was very realistic. Someone had previously planned to take the Nanman ships and people. Yamamoto Kansuke, as a middle-upper-level samurai of the Takeda family, naturally knew it. The Hizen Matsuura family gathered two to three thousand people to surround and attack the three to four hundred people on the two Nanban ships, but they were beaten up in return.

If the Nanman knew that the Takeda family or the Yamanouchi family dared to rob the Nanman merchant ships, the gunboats of the East India Company would come over. Unless you hide inland for your whole life, they would smash your port to pieces. The broken ships of the Japanese navy are not enough to fill their teeth.

"I wonder how much a Nanman cannon costs?" Yamamoto Kansuke asked casually.

William now understands the customs of the Japanese people and smiled knowingly. His face is full of the glorious color of another lamb to be saved who will receive the glory of the Lord and enter the arms of the Lord.

"As long as you allow the spread of the teachings of the Father, I can give one for free on behalf of the Jesuits."

"Preaching?"

"Yes, it would be better if your samurai are willing to be baptized and converted immediately."

Now it was Yamamoto Kansuke's turn to hesitate. He wanted the Portuguese gun, but preaching and converting, this was not something he could agree to.

"Can't I buy it?"

"Buy it? Five thousand taels of gold, no bargaining." William seemed dissatisfied.

"Five thousand taels of gold, why don't you go........." Even Yamamoto Kansuke, who had seen countless big things, blurted out.

"I didn't lie, did I? You know the sword, it's not that we don't give it, it's that we can't give it."

"Don't lie to me, Dan Zheng, since you allow preaching, you can give one, then what about the Yamauchi family's one? We only want the one that's given."

This smart man's mind works too fast.