What was strange was that although the sky was filled with Feixue, not a single snowflake fell on him.
"Greetings, General." After the door opened, Long Zhijie bowed to Tokugawa Ieyasu. "I'm Yagyuu Long Zhijie. Please forgive me for disturbing the General's enjoyment of the snow."
"How can you be so polite?" Tokugawa Ieyasu quickly bowed back. When Keiko saw Tokugawa Ieyasu bow, she immediately lowered her head and bowed to Long Zhijie.
"General," Long Zhijie stood up and said, "I have something important to tell you this time."
"Sir, if you have something to say, please come in," Tokugawa Ieyasu said as he flashed and extended his hand. "Please come in."
Long Zhijie nodded slightly and stepped into the courtyard.
After entering the room, the two of them knelt on the opposite side of the tea table.
Keiko put the umbrella aside and began to pour tea for the two of them.
"Please have tea." After pouring tea for Tokugawa Ieyasu, Keiko placed a cup of freshly brewed tea on the wooden table in front of Long Zhijie.
Long Zhijie nodded slightly to Keiko.
After Keiko bowed to the two of them, she retreated to the door with small steps and closed the wooden sliding door with both hands.
"Sir, why have you come in the snow?" Tokugawa Ieyasu was the first to speak.
"To be honest, General, I'm here for you," Long Zhijie said as he bowed slightly.
"For me?" Tokugawa Ieyasu asked doubtfully.
"Yes," Long Zhijie replied.
"Please enlighten me," Tokugawa Ieyasu went straight to the point.
Facing the legendary Long Zhijie, Tokugawa Ieyasu felt a lot of emotions. According to the time, Long Zhijie was at least 60 years old, but he looked at most 30 years old. It could be seen that this person was indeed as rumored. His cultivation was unfathomable.
"General, have you sent Minister Matsumoto Takeyoshi to the Great Ming Dynasty?" Long Zhijie asked.
"That's right," Tokugawa Ieyasu replied. "I did send him to the Great Ming Dynasty. It's been more than half a year. Sir, why are you suddenly asking about this? "
"When will he be back?" Long Zhijie asked.
"Japan is thousands of miles away from the Great Ming Dynasty. Just the round trip will take two to three months," Tokugawa Ieyasu said. "In a few more months, we should be able to return to Japan."
"General, you have been wise all your life, but you are foolish for a moment." Long Zhijie picked up the white porcelain cup. "To tell you the truth, General, you have been deceived by him." After he finished speaking, he took a sip of the fragrant tea.
"Deceived?" Tokugawa Ieyasu frowned. "What happened?" Long Zhijie's words made him feel that something was wrong.
Outside the door, Huizi immediately frowned.
"As far as I know, Matsumoto Takeyoshi's trip to the Great Ming Dynasty this time is not that simple," Long Zhijie said as he placed the fragrant tea in his hand on the table.
"What is his motive?" Tokugawa Ieyasu frowned as he asked Long Zhijie.
"Nine cauldrons," Long Zhijie replied solemnly.
"Nine cauldrons?" Tokugawa Ieyasu was shocked. He knew a little about the rumors of the Nine Cauldrons in the Central Plains. The one who obtained the nine cauldrons would obtain the world. Could it be that this Matsumoto Takeyoshi wanted to seize the world of the Great Ming Dynasty?
"How is that possible?" Tokugawa Ieyasu laughed. "Sir, you are thinking too much. Matsumoto Takeyoshi is a bit greedy, but he would definitely not have such an unrealistic idea."
"General, you are still in the dark," Long Zhijie said. "You think too simply of Matsumoto Takeyoshi. Do you know who has one of the Three Great Divine Weapons, the Sword of Kusanagi?"
"The Sword of Kusanagi?" Tokugawa Ieyasu's heart moved. "Sir, do you mean …"
"It is in the hands of Matsumoto Takeyoshi," Long Zhijie replied.
"The Sword of Kusanagi is in his hands?" Tokugawa Ieyasu was so shocked that the teacup in his hand almost fell to the ground. "Is this true?"
Long Zhijie nodded.
"How did you know about this?" Tokugawa Ieyasu asked Long Zhijie with a serious expression.
"General, do you still remember Fujiwara Kaga?" Long Zhijie did not directly answer Tokugawa Ieyasu's question.
"Fujiwara Kaga?" Tokugawa Ieyasu was a bit unhappy when he heard this name. "Demon Blade Muramasa?"
"General, you have made a mistake in this matter," Long Zhijie said to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at Long Zhijie and did not speak. If it was someone else who spoke to him like this, he would have been beheaded.
"From the beginning to the end, this matter was caused by Matsumoto Takeyoshi alone." Seeing that Tokugawa Ieyasu was unhappy, Long Zhijie told Tokugawa Ieyasu how Matsumoto Takeyoshi liked Miaofa Chihō, how Matsumoto Takeyoshi was rejected by Fujiwara Kaga, and how Matsumoto Takeyoshi used Tokugawa Ieyasu to kill the Fujiwara family without concealing anything from Muramasa.
After Tokugawa Ieyasu heard this, his face changed greatly, and he did not speak for a long time. He stood up and walked slowly to the main door. With a swish, the wooden door slid open. He looked at the Feixue outside the door and was lost in thought.
He wanted to calm himself down as soon as possible.
If things were really as Long Zhijie said, what he had done was simply unforgivable.
Keiko, who was standing outside the door, frowned even more.
"General, you don't believe me?" Long Zhijie, who was kneeling in front of the wooden table, asked while drinking tea.
"How do you know these things?" Tokugawa Ieyasu said while looking at the snow outside the house.
"To be honest, General, these things were told to me by Amaterasu Ōkami," Long Zhijie said.
"Amaterasu Ōkami?" Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately turned to look at Long Zhijie after hearing these words. "Is this true?"
"I have no need to lie to you, General," Long Zhijie replied.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was silent. Long Zhijie was right. He really had no need to lie to him. In the past, he also heard people around him say that Matsumoto Takeyoshi was not simple, but at that time, he did not take it seriously. Now it seemed that he was indeed careless.
"Even if he has the Sword of Kusanagi in hand, what can he do?" Tokugawa Ieyasu said as he closed the wooden door. He slowly walked to the opposite side of Long Zhijie and sat down again. "The Great Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and abundant resources. There are many talents and masters. He is just an ordinary person without the strength to truss a chicken. How can he find the divine weapon of the Great Ming Dynasty?"
"General, you underestimate him too much," Long Zhijie put down the white porcelain teacup in his hand and said slowly, "This person is very shrewd, and there are many masters around him. As far as I know, there are no less than thousands of Bufan's Jonin subordinates. If you count the Chunin and Genin, I'm afraid the number is already tens of thousands. "
"Tens of thousands?" Tokugawa Ieyasu was shocked when he heard this number. In a small country like Dongying, having thousands of ordinary soldiers and horses was already considered strong. This Matsumoto Takeyoshi actually had tens of thousands of ninjas!
However, Long Zhijie's next words made Tokugawa Ieyasu unable to sit still.
"This is not a big deal," Long Zhijie continued, "I heard that Matsumoto Takeyoshi has an extremely mysterious army stationed in Dongying. The combat power of tens of thousands of ninjas is nothing compared to the combat power of this army of only a few hundred people!"
"Mysterious army? What mysterious army? " Long Zhijie's words made Tokugawa Ieyasu stunned. He did not understand who the mysterious army Long Zhijie was talking about was. There were only a few hundred people, but their combat power was far greater than that of tens of thousands of well-trained ninjas!
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