Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 185 The Monkey is Dead
A few days later, Harano went to Oda Nobunaga's house as a guest as usual, but this time he felt that the atmosphere was wrong as soon as he got off the horse. Several grooms were replaced by unfamiliar faces with very heavy expressions. People around him came and went in a hurry, and the feeling was very tense.

Yuanye looked back at Aman and then turned back with a calm expression, and went to report to Oda Nobunaga as usual. Near Oda Nobunaga's residence, the defense was tighter than usual, and the activities that had been scheduled in advance were temporarily stopped as Oda Nobunaga had other important matters.

Yuan Ye was of course not surprised, but he still found an opportunity to grab Maeda Toshiie to verify the situation and asked softly, "What happened?"

Seeing that it was him who was asking, Maeda Toshiie did not hide anything and said softly, "Something happened at the stable. Several people were poisoned to death."

"Stable? Several people were poisoned to death?" Yuanye touched his chin and pondered slightly. He only ordered the assassination of Monkey, so how come several more people died?
Maeda Toshiie had a very serious expression and said softly, "It is very strange, but the target should be Hiyoshimaru."

Yuanye's eyelids twitched, and he tried to maintain his facial expression and asked calmly, "Is Hiyoshimaru dead? Who is targeting him? Why are they targeting him?"

Maeda Toshiie and Monkey were just ordinary friends at this time, and their friendship was not that deep. He felt a little regretful about Monkey's death but was not sad. He just shook his head and said, "It's not clear at the moment, but..."

He paused here, thought about it and felt that if Yuanye was willing to find out, he would find out sooner or later, and Yuanye could not be the murderer, so he continued: "The lord admired Hiyoshimaru very much. He met with him alone yesterday and seemed to have assigned him a task. He promised that if the task was completed well, he would be promoted to a samurai. As a result, Hiyoshimaru was poisoned to death that night, and several friends who had dinner with him to celebrate also died.

The lord now suspects that someone around him has leaked the secret, and is asking Lord Takigawa and Lord Ikeda to investigate the traitor together. He is also...very angry, thinking that someone is deliberately using Hiyoshimaru's death to protest against him."

Yuanye was silent for a while. This was different from what he expected. He then asked thoughtfully, "Does Your Highness Kamisuke have any suspects?"

Maeda Toshiie opened his mouth, but quickly closed it, shook his head slightly, and said nothing.

Yuanye understood that Oda Nobunaga did have the plan to promote grassroots samurai and foreign samurai to counter and balance the Owari nobles in order to realize his dream of "unitary" rule in Owari. The first candidate to be promoted was Monkey, but Monkey happened to be killed by someone arranged by Aman. Oda Nobunaga began to suspect that it was the Owari nobles who did it, as a provocation and counterattack against him. Maeda Toshiie was also from the Owari nobles. Now the lord and the nobles were secretly opposed, and the situation suddenly became tense. He should be in a very difficult situation.

Things turned out like this, and we can only say that it was Qiao'er's mother who opened the door for Qiao'er, and Qiao arrived home.

Of course, this is not a bad thing.

Yuanye also shook his head gently, and did not ask any more questions. He turned to Maeda Toshiie and said, "Since something has happened, please tell His Highness for me that I will not come over for the next two days. Please ask him to send someone to call me if there is anything."

Maeda Toshiie bent over, holding his sword, and apologized on behalf of his lord for not being able to fulfill his promise.

Yuanye bowed slightly in return and then returned with Aman and Aqing along the same route. Only after they rode their horses out of the city did he feel relieved, and at the same time, he felt as if he were in a dream.

The monkey died, his death was easy, worthless and unclear, but in a sense he truly changed history. At least the future Toyotomi Hideyoshi would not have appeared.

But this level of change in history is probably not enough. Perhaps the historical trend is unstoppable, and someone will automatically fill the monkey's hole, and then an ape, pig, or something will come out. If we really want to achieve our goal, we still have to continue working hard and find ways to eliminate the root causes of thought and cut Japan into several pieces.

Yuanye pondered for a while, gathered his thoughts, waved his hands, and found that the air was still there, time was still passing, and this event that changed history... The death of the monkey should be considered a big event, right? After this big event, it seemed that the whole world had not changed at all, and gradually even the sense of illusion in his heart disappeared.

He returned to the villa with all sorts of random thoughts in his mind. He was in a very good mood, as if he had suddenly unloaded some kind of burden. He even had the leisure to think in his mind that if he could return to the modern era in the future, this part would have to be adapted. He would definitely have to fight wits and courage with the monkey before killing him. Otherwise, it would be so simple and crude as it is now, and it would easily become a shame for time travelers - it was a bit embarrassing. He actually secretly poisoned someone to death. It was not fair at all and very shameless.

Ah Man was not in such a good mood. He kicked his shoes off as soon as he entered the room. He rushed into the inner room to find Ah Qian and Ah Yu, twisted their ears with his hands, and yelled, "You two idiots, you have learned from this old man for so many years, why are you so clumsy at work? Tell me, how do you work? How come you can't do such a simple job well?"

Ah Qian and Ah Yu had been in Wanjin for more than a year. They ate well and slept well. They had grown a lot taller and were already taller than Ah Man. However, they did not dare to resist the leader of their faction and their new direct superior. Ah Man grabbed them by the ears and lifted them up. He grinned and said, "What's wrong? You old beast...what are you crazy about? We are just following your plan. Are we still alive?"

"One is dead, but there are too many of them! Is this how you work? You have no rules at all. Believe it or not, I will send you back to this old man!" Aman originally wanted to lure Hiyoshimaru out of Oda Nobunaga's house and hack him to death, but considering that it would be too easy to make mistakes and be tracked down, she thought about it and felt that it would be better to do it directly in Oda Nobunaga's house. As a result, her plan was well planned, but Asahi and Ayu were clumsy in doing things and couldn't even poison him properly.

In other words, nothing happened. What if one of the people eating at that time ate first and got poisoned? Not only would the poison fail to kill the target, but it would also alert the enemy! Just thinking about this possibility made her furious!

Ah Qian was very unconvinced. Although he didn't dare to fight back, he was very stubborn. "It's easy for you to say that. Time is so tight. We are lucky to find the place where the poison was given. Why should we care about so many things? God knows where the other dead ghosts came from!"

"Where did you put the poison?" Aman was not afraid to bring up this matter here. This inner room was specially made so that no sound could be heard. It was a special place for discussing confidential matters. Moreover, the outer guards were Wanjin's most reliable internal security force. It didn't matter even if they quarreled.

Ah Qian was still unconvinced and didn't think she was wrong. She said angrily, "We found a few bottles of wine and put the poison in them. Where else could we put it? We searched that room and that was the only place where the poison could be put."

"Why didn't you report back?"

"You didn't even ask!"

"Do I need to ask about such a trivial matter as poisoning? You should have done it yourselves and found a way to ensure that everything is foolproof. Otherwise, what's the point of keeping you around?!"

Yuan Ye came in at this time and hurried to stop the fight: "Forget it, it's just a small matter. They just started working and have no experience. You can just teach them more in the future."

In fact, it doesn't matter if an accident happens in the first operation. As long as he can't be traced back to him, he has plenty of time to organize the second and third assassinations. Anyway, as long as the person is killed, the process is not important.

Ah Man glanced at Yuan Ye, and for his sake he let go, but he was still a little dissatisfied and said, "They must be taught a lesson. These two idiots have been raised by this old man for more than a year, and I think they are almost ruined."

Although she had no idea why Yuanye wanted to assassinate a head groom who was not worth mentioning at all, since Yuanye attached great importance to this matter and gave the order very seriously, she really did her best to carry it out. In order to prevent the leak from causing the relationship between Wanjin and Oda to deteriorate, she even transferred the most reliable personnel under the pretext of delivering urgent information - Asahi and Ayu, who had practiced the "Life-saving Flowing Yin Technique" to the level of a master. They personally carried out the assassination to ensure that only five people knew about this matter from beginning to end.

It turned out that these two little bastards were quite capable. They disguised themselves as attendants and followed Hara into Oda Nobunaga's residence. They then sneaked into Hiyoshimaru's room while he was resting in the stable and poisoned him, then sneaked back. The whole process was not discovered by anyone, but they poisoned him in the wrong place and almost made a big mistake.

Fortunately, nothing happened, otherwise Aman would probably not be able to hold her head up in front of Yuanye for several months, and then it would not be a matter of pulling the ears and kicking Aqian and Ayu, she would definitely hang these two idiots up and beat them.

Yuanye also had no objection to Aman cultivating Aqian and Ayu's discipline. He read various historical books, notes and travel notes every day, and his "assassination list" was already two and a half feet long. Such operations would be carried out many times in the future, so it was appropriate to cultivate an assassination team now.

So he just comforted A Qian and A Yu, saying that they had worked hard this time and he would give them a bonus later to encourage them to continue to improve their skills and strive to make the next operation more perfect. It would be even better if they could develop a way to make the death look like an accident.

Ah Man got impatient after listening to a few words. She felt that she had to do this kind of brainpower thing, so she directly ordered Ah Qian and Ah Yu: "Okay, the mission is completed, you guys get ready and go back with the next ship!"

Ah Qian was not happy, and even Ah Yu was not happy, and they all said, "We just got here and we have to go back, why?"

A-Man raised her eyebrows and was about to start a fight to show them how powerful she was, but Yuan Ye didn't want to listen to them anymore and said directly, "Alright, alright, we all have to go back. We don't have much to do in Qingzhou City anymore. It's time to go home."

The eight counties of Owari have been unified, the spoils have been divided, and the monkey has been killed. He feels that there is not much point in staying in Kiyosu Castle. Once Oda Nobunaga holds the tea party in the next two days, he will prepare to say goodbye and go back.

If nothing unexpected happens, the next one will be Okehazama. He has to go back and make preparations so that he can grab some territory when the Imagawa family leaves.

The assassination of Monkey was only a small node in changing history. He still had a lot of things to do, and he had to do it without strength. Otherwise, it would not be him who divided Japan, but someone else who would chew him up and swallow him.

Anyway, keep going!
(End of this chapter)