Then it would just be making wedding clothes for someone else—not quite proper.
By rights, it would be best to wait a little longer, let Wanjin develop more, deepen its foundation, prepare greater reserves of soldiers, and run a few more draft cycles for the army—but given the current circumstances, it's getting hard to wait any longer.
If I wait another two or three years, Japan's Warring States will have no place for me, and none of my plans will be possible.
So, the best is to throw the whole Ise Peninsula into chaos—by the time I get there, the Hokitate Family will be too feeble to resist, and the Daimyo like Hosokawa, Miyoshi, Rokkaku, and the rest won't be in the mood to meddle with me.
There are ways—whether they'll succeed or not, who knows; and even if they do, it's not exactly heaven-approved…
