I am practicing in the Nianghua Warring States Period

Skill 1, Ghost Slaying Record: There are no ghosts in this plane, so it will not be implemented. The skill experience will be accumulated to the next skill.

Skill 2, Half-Demon Transformation: There are no half-demons in this plane, so this skill will not be implemented. The skill will accumulate to the next skill.

Skill 3, [Nioh (2)] Attribute Addition: Your various attributes are based on the original basis, and an additional attribute of this skill is added. Strength, Endurance...

【Nioh (2)】Attributes bring you new skills

1. Canxin...]

Simply put, this cute, seemingly emergency-looking girl will bring new attributes to me, becoming a new reserve retainer. It seems she's a power-oriented retainer, further increasing my military power. She'll also gain numerous additional skills, like [Zanshin] and [Ryuren], which can instantly restore my energy. This means my biggest bottleneck, the bottleneck preventing me from fighting continuously, has been removed. From now on, with proper management, I'll truly become the slayer of a hundred men under Mount Fuji.

"Yeah." Beidou Xinwei looked at the girl in front of him and looked at her carefully for about thirty seconds.

Then he saw the girl in front of him go from being in a cold sweat to being mentally broken.

"Hey! You're not going to hang someone who's disfigured, are you?" The girl, holding a katana in one hand and a dagger in the other, looked at Beidou Xinwei who tried to stop her but remained silent for a long time. Finally, she couldn't help herself.

"Beautiful looks are utterly cookie-cutter, but interesting souls are rare. You pretty much fall into that category, so put the dagger down. I have no interest in things like slutty women, and I was just taking advantage of them. You have to understand that leaders are human too. I'm under a lot of pressure because of what you did, and I need to let off some steam." Beidou Xinwei shrugged and said with a relaxed look, "As for the entire Owari, let me say this: I don't know how many women are crawling into my house tonight, so you don't have to think of yourself as so noble and glamorous. Of course, I appreciate your protective demeanor."

“…” Xiu Chiyo looked at Levi in ​​confusion, not knowing what the other party meant.

"You actually look pretty good, and those few moves were pretty neat." Beidou Xinwei extended an offer: "Want to be a real warrior?"

"Of course I do." Wild cats always want to become house cats, but some wild cats prefer to be free: "But being a warrior is too much of a responsibility. I like to be alone and free."

"..." Oops, this type really exists. There's no other way, I have to turn up the intensity - my friend, do you know how to sell anxiety? "Have you ever considered that you look around 18 years old, and I estimate you'll be 20 in two years. In this world, the possibility of getting married is infinitely close to zero. How many years can you work next? How many years can you still do this job? After you turn 30, you will have completely lost your skills, the quality of your work will decline, and the quality of your life will be far worse than it is now. Then there's the issue of your retirement, which is simply impossible..."

"Stop reading! Stop reading!"

"You've actually realized this a long time ago, haven't you? Repeating this day after day, there's no guarantee for the future. Now you drink Happy Wine and eat Happy Meals every day. You earn more and spend more, but in the future..."

"I want to be a warrior, too! But there's no way!" The girl covered her ears and crouched down, looking desperate. As expected, humanity has evolved too far. When it comes to factory jobs, everyone gets anxious. This is how the East Asian region's excellent matching system works. What about Africa? The future? No fear at all!

"How about becoming my retainer? You seem quite capable, and you should be able to get a promotion and a raise soon. You'll have your own territory, maids to help you get up every day, and meals to be served to you. You'll have more than enough money to spend every month..."

"...Become your retainer? Is that true? How much does it cost per month?" The young girl Niou (2) looked excited!

Before ignorant girls enter the factory to work as factory girls, they all have beautiful expectations for the future.

"Fifty to five hundred strings of cash per year." That's fifty strings of cash. Beidou Xinwei watched the other party take the bait. He had no idea that he had picked up a strong opportunity and declared, "And there are commissions. Every head of the enemy is your future military merit."

"I did it!—"

[Ding! — Conquer new retainer [Saito Hidechiyo]]

Beidou Xinwei: ...Hmm? What's her last name?

Chapter 102: How much are the sudden extra relatives worth per pound?

The surname Saito is unusual. At least, the problem of duplicate names and surnames in Japan isn't very serious. Especially during the Warring States period, some surnames were rare.

There is a Buddhist family with the surname Shakyamuni near Gyeonggi Province. Do you believe it?

Hidechiyo herself didn't know that her last name was Saito. At this moment, she came to Beidou Xinwei's home like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden.

"Wow! Is this the room of the family's elder and most important retainer? It's so... luxurious!" Hidechiyo looked at Kitato Nobuyoshi's house with envy on her face.

"Like?" Beidou Xinwei pointed at the door of his house.

"Yeah! Suki!" Hidechiyo's expression at this moment is called innocence if you have high EQ, and it would be called "Damn Aqua" if you have low EQ.

"After a while, Oda Nobuhime will move to Kiyosu Castle to suppress the four northern counties. Then Furuno Castle will be mine." Beidou Nobuyoshi waved his hand and said, "I'll lend you this house. Let's make it clear, it might be a dormitory. I can arrange for all the female warriors to stay here..."

"My Lord, you've been so kind to me. Look how embarrassing this has become." If her ears weren't holding her mouth shut, it would have split all the way to the back of her head. Hidechiyo was already imagining how she could move. "My Lord, it's just that my house isn't big enough. I'm telling you, if I ever get a big house of my own, I'll give it to you without hesitation! Hahahaha..."

"...Remember what you said." The beautiful boy stared at the beautiful girl in front of him, looking at her intently.

"Haha, I remember, I remember." The beautiful girl laughed loudly, too excited to control herself: "If you lend me this room, I swear I'll give you my whole house! I'll be very happy living in this room even if it's just a dormitory!——"

Saito Hidechiyo Yoshihide swore thus.

Beidou Xinwei took Xiu Chiyo back home.

Ken-chan was already bracing himself for a stern reprimand from his homeroom teacher for sneaking over the wall with Nobuhime to go to an internet cafe. But then he discovered the teacher had returned with this mistress! Teacher! What's going on?

"Come on, come out and have some fun. This is a new retainer I found when I went out for a walk."

The young bride Saito Kicho ran out to greet her husband, only to discover that he was standing next to her with his mistress! Everyone felt that this was the time to sing a song: For all the pain of love, for all the hurts of love ~ Unforgivable...

However, at this time, Saito Kicho was looking at the beautiful girl standing next to her handsome husband in surprise.

The first feeling is:

"Wow, how tall is this girl?" She's 1.7 meters tall. For a girl to be this tall is incredible. At 1.6 meters tall, she'd already be called "Eight-foot Lady," and now here comes a 1.7 meter! However, the next moment, Saito Kicho was stunned. "How strange! I feel like I've seen her somewhere before. How familiar she is."

Hidechiyo also looked at Saito Kicho, who mingled with the common people. Because of her delicate features and tall stature, she was called a demon or a hanami (bashi). After being hired as a ronin, she also killed people. People around her said she was a demon, out to slay demons. The ignorant people spread rumors and called her a demon. She didn't care, being optimistic by nature and not taking anything to heart.

"I've seen this sister before." Hidechiyo looked at Saito Kicho and suddenly laughed.

"Huh? This is my wife, have you seen her?" Beidou Xinwei looked at his wife and finally remembered why he felt that Xiu Chiyo looked familiar when he first saw her.

"Although I've never met you, I think you look familiar, so I consider you an old acquaintance. Today we can just be a reunion after a long separation, which is fine." Hidechiyo scratched his head and said with a smile, "Oh my, so I really am a bit of a kooky guy..."

"Better, better." Beidou Xinwei already had some ideas in mind, but he wasn't sure yet. This Hidechiyo's surname was Saito, and she looked a bit like his wife, Saito Kicho. Could it be...

"This... is simply unbelievable!" However, after seeing Hidechiyo clearly, Saito Kicho stood there in a daze.

"What?" Beidou Xinwei looked at Saito Kicho as if he was about to be exposed. "This is Hidechiyo, a wild samurai, who is..."

"Why, with my brother..."

"Stop, stop." Beidou Xinwei took the initiative and picked up Saito Guidie. Amid the young bride's gasps and screams, he said, "Hey, Kenshin! Go show Ah Xiu around here. She'll live here from now on. Guidie and I have some private matters to discuss."

"Ah~ dear, how could you..."

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Of course things should be done at night. Otherwise, if you finish all the work during the day, what will you do with your private time at night?

Beidou Xinwei talked with his concubine about his work experience for a long time, and only then did he find out that Hidechiyo and his brother Saito Yoshitatsu looked exactly like each other.

"Wait a moment." Beidou Xinwei covered his face and looked at the concubine in front of him. He brainstormed for a while, countless cosmic stars and abyssal knowledge swirling wildly in his mind. But he still didn't understand. "Are you saying that Hidechiyo and your brother Saito Yoshitatsu look exactly like each other?"

"Yeah! At first glance I thought I had recognized the wrong person, but when I looked closely... isn't this my brother!" Saito Kicho was also puzzled.

"...Hidechiyo is a girl!" Beidou Xinwei was a little crazy. Is this even possible? "Your brother... is a boy, right?"

"Is that so...? When I was three or five, I saw him being held by a maid bathing." It seemed the painter had established the man's identity, and the younger sister produced the older brother's evidence: "Besides, his son is already six years old."

"? How old is your brother?" Beidou Xinwei was stunned. The sister is only 18, and the brother's son is already 6 years old?

"Twenty, after the New Year, he'll be twenty-one, right?" Saito Kicho explained. "Oh, so my nephew Kitaro should be seven now. Oh, that's an important age, right? Avi, can you do me a favor?"

"? You say." Beidou Xinwei had a lot to complain about, but for some reason he was suddenly asked to do something. And this Xizhilang... no, Kitaro, this name is too efficient, right? "Your nephew is me... What should I be called?"

"Call me nephew, too?" The boy and girl had just gotten married, and the girl was also confused about the various names. She said, "Kitaro is seven years old this year, but seven is a difficult age for children. Can you give me some cold medicine or something so I can take it back to Mino?"

Huh……?

Beidou Xinwei was surprised. In this world of intrigue and deception, you actually treated me like one of your own family? Forget about anything else, you actually gave me the medication details of your own father, nephew, and brother?

...as your husband, I like the way your elbows are bent outwards

Chapter 103: What a pity for this brother-in-law

"Um... no problem." Beidou Xinwei thought about it. They were still at war with Owari and needed a stable rear base. What was a seven-year-old kid to do? "Send medicine to our jelly nephew. I'll just send him a cold medicine or something. But let me make it clear that the shelf life is three years. After three years, the effect has worn off and it has to be thrown away. I always have some here."

"Thank you, Avi~" The girl hugged Beidou Xinwei and kissed him, then said with a smile: "You are so nice to me——"

"Love me, love my dog ​​too... But..." Holding the girl in his arms, the handsome young man suppressed the urge to "stand up and kick." His curiosity was now too strong: "Is your brother exactly the same as this beautiful girl I brought back?"

that...that...

Isn't that helping her?! I brought back this one with breasts?

"Well... basically the same, except his breasts aren't this big. My brother does look like a man with a feminine appearance." Guidie glanced around awkwardly, then said, "This... Hidechiyo, could he be... my father's illegitimate child?"

Oh, not futanari? A simple drawing of a woman and then insisting it's a man?

"It's possible, but I don't want them to recognize each other." Beidou Xinwei hugged the beautiful girl in his arms and sighed, "Generally speaking, rulers are ruthless, especially when it comes to the issue of inheritance. The fact that they look exactly alike is unacceptable. Especially your father... my father-in-law has a very bad reputation. I am attracted to Hidechiyo's abilities. Her swordsmanship and character are both excellent. I hope she will become my retainer. I don't want her to be involved in the right and wrong that is best avoided..."

"Hayi, I will obey you, my dear. I am yours, Master, so naturally I must obey my husband." You see, the three obediences are so beautiful. The girl hesitated and said awkwardly, "I am definitely not a jealous woman. Master... Master is always very powerful, allowing me to obtain the greatest happiness as a woman. It's just that he is a little too powerful. Master, if you take another concubine, I actually support it."

"You don't have to humiliate yourself like this..." Beidou Xinwei didn't like this kind of self-proclaimed title very much, but what the other party said could satisfy men's self-awareness.

"No, please listen to me." If you say something embarrassing out loud, it's not you who will be embarrassed, but others. "Master, please give me some time to prepare myself. Suddenly, a girl who looks exactly like my brother appears, and my husband wants to sleep with a beautiful girl who looks just like my brother... I still need some time to accept it."

"Stop talking! You're making me feel like a pervert. Also, Ah Xiu is clearly a beautiful girl. Isn't it a bit...disrespectful of Ah Xiu to say that?" Beidou Xinwei himself thought for a long time, grinning awkwardly. Such a beautiful girl actually shared a face with his brother-in-law. How could this be allowed?

Show off, show off so much!

It turns out that no one is ordinary in the chaotic Warring States period. I thought that the Saito family was just a bloody regime that rose from the bottom to the top, but I never expected that in terms of ethics, the Saito family is actually on par with the Oda family!

"..." Beidou Xinwei suddenly thought of a very curious question: "Guidie? I want to ask you something?"

"? Go ahead." The young bride suddenly felt that the handsome boy in front of her was not speaking human language, and immediately became alert: "You'd better say something good."

"Look, you've been with me for such a long time." Although I'm four years younger than you, I'm several dozen centimeters taller than you. "You should know my temper and character. I find the warriors' tricks disgusting, but I'm very puzzled. Is your brother almost stabbed to death? Hahahaha..."

Then, Beidou Xinwei told a few gay jokes.

"Master, although I have made up my mind to follow you when I married you, my dear, you are too much!——"

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Strong claims are made like this. Beidou Xinwei is even considering whether to secretly kill his brother-in-law! And then secretly let A Xiu replace her brother-in-law. Is this a kind of peaceful evolution?

Oh, relatives, of course they are used to betray! Beidou Xinwei has thought of a way to poison his own medicine! Hehehe, but he has to wait until his father-in-law is stabbed to death by his brother-in-law! Of course, these small conspiracies and intrigues in life are full of political tentacles. When they accumulate to a certain amount——

It will explode!

Conflicts between political entities are often the result of friction, like two prostitutes pressed together. They rub and rub. Today I touch your vital point, tomorrow you hit my sweet spot. The back-and-forth between the two sides builds to an indescribable level—and then comes the climax.

"You bastard! Kono, I'll kill him!!!" Oda Nobuhime was always so angry that she couldn't stand it anymore this time.

They summoned all the men they could from Gunye City and blew the conch shells to signal the gathering. It was generally assumed that the main reason for the uprising was anger.

"On the eighth of this month, the day before yesterday! The Lin brothers rebelled." Oda Nobuhime threw a document on the ground.

The female warrior beside him immediately picked it up and handed it to Hirate Masahide. Hirate Masahide and Beidou Xinwei were shoulder to shoulder, and the old man was also smart enough to show them both to Beidou Xinwei.

Beidou Xinwei took a look and started reading aloud.

"On July 8th, Lin Tongsheng gathered 150 cavalrymen and led the two Lin brothers to the Anshi River to respond to the north..."

Simply put, the two Lin brothers gathered 150 warriors. The "cavalry" here refers to a warrior unit, not necessarily cavalry, similar to the idea that knights equal nobility, the ruling class. The unusual gathering of these 150 warriors before the autumn harvest suggests...

The other side's actions also began to intensify, and both sides were preparing for war.

"Those who devour their lord and plot treason deserve death!" Oda Nobuhime directly increased the intensity, imbued it with value, and elevated it to a moral level, essentially suggesting a sense of nitpicking. "Such villains must be killed to appease our anger! I intend to raise an army to repel them!"

The Oda clan also engaged in treason and betrayal. While Japan's Warring States period is often described as a haven for the weak and betrayal was commonplace, the consequences of those who truly rebelled against their superiors were generally not good. For example, Saito Dosan was ultimately stabbed to death by his own son, while Akechi Mitsuhide was executed after serving as Shogun for only three days. It's hard to say whether Oda Nobuhime's final roasting was retribution. Ukita Naoie's descendants ultimately suffered unbearable consequences, and Matsunaga Hisahide himself blew himself up.

Therefore, conspirators who are directly stained with blood will not last long. The old turtle Tokugawa is relatively clever in playing the game (although he is also very stingy in his treatment of the monkey).

During the Japanese Warring States period, people basically had to have a legitimate reason for their actions - in psychology, this is called self-rationalization, self-defense, and refusing to admit mistakes.

"Raise an army! Attack the Lin brothers!"

The Owari unification war is about to begin.

Chapter 104: A Knife Above the Word "Ninja"

Targeting the Lin brothers this time felt like picking on the weak. It was a bit like the actions against Wu Te—I hit someone who wasn't your younger brother, but everyone knew he was your younger brother's younger brother.

Are you going to fight back? If you don't, I'll take it all in one gulp! If you fight back, I can beat you up too.

On July 8th, Oda Nobuhime declared a general mobilization order. The "professional farmers" the Oda family had invested heavily in after the separation of soldiers and farmers were quickly assembled. Because they had been actively preparing for war, even military rations were continuously being prepared. The rations weren't great either. Japan's terrain is rugged, and plains are rare, with Owari being one of the few "large" ones. However, much of the rice grown had to be replaced with more coarse grains to feed them. Farmers were like cattle and horses; how could they possibly be fed rice?

Taro ropes and the like were "real" military rations. These were probably made by grinding taro into powder, drying it, and then wrapping it around the waist. This food, which could be used as a rope, had a texture and flavor you can imagine. Those with high emotional intelligence would call it chewy, while those with low emotional intelligence would simply call it stupid. They had to be boiled in water until soft to make it easier to eat, and they were only issued for three days at a time. Because these ropes were wrapped around the waist during battles and marches, they inevitably became soaked with sweat and even blood. A fall would naturally lead to dirt, sand, and dead skin flakes. The taste was unpredictable. Even professional soldiers didn't need to look down on them, as this was a reflection of the Edo period—the entire Warring States period was plagued by severe famine. Daimyo took the lead in eating radishes, and the entire nation marched together in hardship.

“No matter when or who you are, you should take the person wearing a straw raincoat as the standard.” In ancient Japan, the person wearing a straw raincoat generally referred to beggars - as long as they were not starving to death, it was fine.

Coming to inspect the logistics and supply reserves, Beidou Xinwei hadn't expected to have to do something of this magnitude himself. However, Oda Nobuhime had asked him to go through the various "armaments" one last time, so he had no choice. Li Yunlong had said: A higher rank can crush a lower rank. "Well, that's basically it - Sakon?"

"Yes," Takigawa Ikki bowed his head obediently beside Beidou Xinwei: "Your Highness, please give your orders."

"Zuo Jin, there is no problem with the amount of military rations here. You can prepare manpower to distribute them. Send out three days' worth of military rations at once, just like before." Beidou Xinwei patted the military ration bag in front of him, which was filled with all kinds of unpalatable taro stem ropes.

"Yes. Your Highness - Hey! You guys can come over and carry the military supplies." Takigawa Kazumasu called out to the peasant soldiers behind him, and the soldiers began to work as cattle and horses.

"Sakon, I have something to talk to you about." Beidou Xinwei called out to Takigawa Kazumasu who was standing beside him, as if he didn't want him to leave.