different warring states of japan

Chapter 1626 Tokugawa Ieyasu is too anxious

Okazaki Castle, where the Nishimikawa Matsudaira family started.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's grandmother, Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, used this as a base to take down Mikawa and Yidi, and was privately remembered by the Tokugawa family as a generation of heroes who could win the world if they lived to be 30 years old.

But the fact is that the world is not so easy to take, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is actually more capable and wise than her grandmother.

In the military, she reorganized the Matsudaira family, which had been in disarray after being ruled by her incompetent mother for many years, and won the two countries of Mihe and Yuanjiang.

Politically, she actively moves closer to Oda Nobunaga, strictly abides by the covenant of the Kiyosu Alliance, and is a back-to-back reliable ally of Oda Nobunaga.

On the issue of the Shiba Oda dispute, Tokugawa Ieyasu used his personal friendship with Shiba Yoshiyin and Oda Nobunaga to insist on neutrality and did not become an enemy of Shiba, and Oda Nobunaga could not say anything.

As a result, Tokugawa Ieyasu got a lot of benefits from Shiba Yoshigin, and even promoted the Matsudaira family to be the descendants of the famous Genji Nitta lineage, changing the name of Miao to Tokugawa, and the family status was greatly improved.

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After Tokugawa Ieyasu welcomed Yoshigin back at the Okazaki Castle House, he hosted a banquet here.

On the main seat, Yoshihiro was very polite to comfort Tokugawa Ieyasu's frequent toasts, talking and laughing happily.

Unreasonable outsiders always think that Tokugawa Ieyasu is lucky, and his subordinates are the famous samurai Mikawa Hime who is famous for his brains. He is loyal and reliable, so the Matsudaira family can make a comeback after weakening.

In fact, the fact is not so simple.

The samurai family has never been absolutely loyal, not to mention Tokugawa Ieyasu's superb means of controlling the two Ji samurai groups of Mikawa and Yuanjiang.

Just talking about Samurai Hime himself, loyalty is a joke.

The three rivers of the East and the West have conquered each other for many years, and the internal conflicts are actually great.Even if it is Nishimikawa, Sakai, Honda who started from Tokugawa Ieyasu, which of these wealthy families is a good boy who is easy to get along with?
The Matsudaira family has indeed been married to these local wealthy families for generations, but if Tokugawa Ieyasu can't suppress them, they can still turn Tokugawa Ieyasu into an incompetent puppet like her mother.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu himself was a child, he was sold by these loyal relatives between the Oda and Imagawa families, and was taken hostage everywhere.

Being able to stabilize the two countries of Mihe and Yuanjiang and revive the Tokugawa family is entirely due to Tokugawa Ieyasu's superb political methods and outstanding military talents, and has little to do with the so-called loyalty and uprightness of Samurai Hime.

The loyalty of Samurai Hime is there, but more of it is Tokugawa Ieyasu who has been promoting the loyalty of Samurai Mikawa, which in turn restrains Mikawa people to behave more and more self-proclaimed loyalty.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was able to maintain his independence under the covetousness of Oda Nobunaga, and he was able to fight against Takeda together with the Hojo clan's political hypocrisy and subordination, and was able to resist the invasion of Takeda Shingen without being defeated.

Can such a person be simple?

It was rumored outside that Tokugawa Ieyasu was scared to pee his pants by Takeda Shingen in the battle of Mikatahara. Yoshigin didn't believe a word of those humiliating and joking words.

The reality is that Tokugawa Ieyasu not only kept the territory of the Mikawa and Enjiang countries, but also continued to buy the Suruga people and reversely infiltrate the Suruga country controlled by the Takeda family.

Takeda Shingen raised the butcher's knife to control the wavering thoughts of the Suruga people. Her seemingly tough performance turned out to be the helplessness of being defeated.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Yoshihiro looked at Ieyasu Tokugawa and said with a smile.

"I heard that you have been living in Binsong City of Yuanjiang Country for the past few years, and you rarely go back to Sanhe Country. How did you come here to pick me up this time and clean up the dust for me?"

Tokugawa Ieyasu smiled.

She has been staying in Hamamatsu City all these years because the strength of Sanhe and Yuanjiang is equal. She must properly deal with the newly conquered Yuanjiang people and digest them as her own arms.

But in the eyes of outsiders, she always feels that she likes the affluent life of Yuanjiang Country. Even Sanhe people are quite critical and can't understand.

But how wise is the saint?Naturally, he could understand Tokugawa Ieyasu's deeds, and when he made a joke at this time, he was just curious about the kindness that Tokugawa Ieyasu came all the way to meet him.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is the number one younger sister of Oda Nobunaga who guards the gate of the Tokaido with 50 million shi in his hand, and his best friend and ally.

Even if the Shiba and Oda families have reconciled now, Tokugawa Ieyasu, a well-known political slick, would not appear so humble.

You know, Yoshigin just fought a decisive battle with Oda Nobunaga for the daughter of the Takeda family, involving 20 people and involving seven and eight countries.

And the biggest enemy of the Tokugawa family now is Takeda Shingen who occupies the Suruga country.

Yoshigin asked his daughter of the Takeda family to go back to visit relatives. Any humility of Tokugawa Ieyasu at this moment may lead to being misunderstood as political weakness, and wise men will not accept it.

Tokugawa Ieyasu sighed.

"I implore the sage to back away from the left and right."

Yoshigin waved his hand, and all the Hime warriors, regardless of Tokugawa Shiba's subordinates, kowtowed to the ground together and left the hall.

Even Gamo's hometown went very simply, she didn't think that Tokugawa Ieyasu dared to do anything that would be detrimental to the saint.

Given the current political environment, whoever dares to take action against a saint is seeking his own death.

Furthermore, the sage has the undue courage of Wanji, so who can do anything to the sage alone?
Tokugawa Ieyasu's move was mostly to ask the saint for something, and it was inconvenient to spread it.

After the concubines left the scene, Tokugawa Ieyasu walked up to Yiyin's case, seeing that the scented candles were dimmed, he solicitously picked up the candles to brighten the candles for Yiyin.

As the candle lights brightened, a dark fragrance spread out, which was very pleasant to smell.

Yoshihiro watched Tokugawa Ieyasu doing things carefully, and didn't care about the fragrance. His attention was all on Tokugawa Ieyasu.

I saw Tokugawa Ieyasu finished all this, kowtowed deeply, covered his face and wept.

"Please the saint save me."

Yiyin was taken aback, was it just a crying scene?The progress bar of the performance is a bit fast.

"Don't act like a little man, stand up and talk, who is going to harm you? With your hundreds of thousands of stones, who can harm you?"

Tokugawa Ieyasu wiped away tears, and smiled bitterly.

"I heard that the Kanto Servant accepted His Highness Takeda into the Grand Judgment, and has already decided to conquer the East.

The foreign minister dared to ask the sage, is this really the case? "

Yi Yin nodded and said.

"Many people in the east have committed injustice, and the concubines of the Guandong are so excited that they voluntarily crusade against them, and get to the bottom of it."

Tokugawa Ieyasu sighed.

"It appears that this is true.

It is said that His Highness Hojo and His Highness Takeda are both active responders to the conquest of the East. The Hojo family aims at the Boso Peninsula, and the Takeda family plots against Hitachi.

If they can all get what they want, I'm afraid that there will be no place for my Tokugawa family to stand on this Tokaido. "

Yoshihiro understood what Tokugawa Ieyasu said.

The current situation of Tōkaidō is that Takeda, Hojo, and Tokugawa are three pillars.

The Takeda family has Kai Kingdom and Shinano Kingdom. Although they also controlled the Suruga Kingdom, they were still unable to establish effective rule.

The Hojo family has Izu Country, Sagami Country, and Musashi Country, but Musashi Country was swept away in the Kanto Raiders jointly launched by Yoshihiro and Uesugi Kenshin, and the local samurai forces close to Hojo suffered heavy losses.

Hojo Ujiyasu took advantage of Uesugi Kenshin's failure in the general conquest, and took back the Musashi Kingdom by a clever trick. However, she mainly relied on diplomatic strategies to defeat the local powerful samurai.

These weeds were not conquered by force, but only in name, and the Hojo family had limited influence on them.

Therefore, the Tokugawa family has two countries, and the Takeda Hojo family has three countries. It seems that the other two are more powerful, but the Tokugawa family with a solid foundation does not suffer much.

The relative balance of the three powers is the most important political support for maintaining this tripartite situation.

But now, the situation is about to change.

If the conquest of the East goes well, the Hojo family will swallow the Boso peninsula, that is, expand their influence to Anbo and Kamso two countries.

Although the Takeda family's goal is only Hitachi, Hitachi is a big country, and the arable land in one country is more than the combined arable land of the Boso Peninsula.

If the goal of the Hojo Takedas is to be achieved, the balance of the three pillars of the Tokaido will be broken immediately, and Tokugawa Ieyasu will directly become the weakest one.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's best way to deal with it was to take advantage of the opportunity when the Hojo Takeda and Takeda families participated in the conquest of the East, and send troops to harass the two families' sites, forcing the two families to turn back, resulting in the failure of expansion.

From a military point of view, this is the best way.But politically, the Tokugawa family would die if they dared to do so.

Because conquering the people in the east is the strategic goal of the entire Kanto Servant, and it is also the compensation given by Yiyin to the Kwantung Allied Forces for not receiving land rewards in the Battle of Shiba Oda.

Now that Shiba Oda reconciles and joins forces to conquer the world, if Tokugawa Ieyasu dares to hold back, he will be beaten to death on the shore by a wave.

This is one of the reasons why she cried and said that she had no way out, and asked Yiyin to point out the way.

Another reason lies in the Oda family.

The Tokugawa family's Sanhe Yuanjiang and Ryogoku were originally a shield used by Oda Nobunaga to protect the Nobi Plain.

When Oda Nobunaga conquered the Kinki area, Tokugawa Ieyasu's presence in Tokaido was to protect Oda Nobunaga from being backstabbed by forces from Tokaido and threatening his base.

In the Battle of Shiba Oda, Takeda Shingen just used a small plan to pull a small group of troops from the Shinano Mountains, and they harassed the Nobi Plains.

If there is no Tokugawa Ieyasu, the door of the Tōkaidō will be wide open, how many troops will Oda Nobunaga need to keep to defend his hometown?

But now, Tokugawa Ieyasu's use value for Oda Nobunaga is getting lower and lower.

Yoshihiro and Oda Nobunaga reached a consensus, which means that the Kanto side is no longer a threat from Oda Nobunaga, and her skills are already safe.

Whether it is Takeda Shingen or Uesugi Kenshin, Yoshigin can restrain them and prevent them from interfering with Oda Nobunaga's conquest of other parts of the island country.

The Tokugawa family, the most important strategic gateway of the Oda family in Tokaido, became dispensable.

Tokugawa Ieyasu has a good strategic vision, which is why he was so anxious.

The confronting enemy is becoming unstoppable and becoming stronger and stronger, while the value of oneself to the allies is getting lower and lower.

With Oda Nobunaga's greed, how long can the Tokugawa family maintain their independence?The final result of Tokugawa Ieyasu is either to be a vassal of Oda with peace of mind, or the end of Asai Nagamasa.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was unwilling to choose these two paths, so she knelt in front of Yoshiyin.

Seeing Ieyasu Tokugawa crying miserably in front of me, I felt sorry for Tokugawa Ieyasu, Yoshihiro thought he had seen through Tokugawa Ieyasu's mind.

But he didn't know that Tokugawa Ieyasu was more ruthless than he thought, and his methods were more extreme.

While talking, Yoshihiro suddenly felt hot and uneasy all over, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's pretty face became more and more charming.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's face was flushed and his breathing was short of breath, knowing that the time had come.

She walked around the case where the dishes were placed, knelt beside Yiyin, and said sadly.

"Brother Yiyin, I beg Brother Yiyin to help me, I am willing to do anything for Brother Yiyin."

As he spoke, Tokugawa Ieyasu's hand touched Yoshihiro's calf dishonestly. Under the pitiful appearance that seemed to be begging, there was a further fiery ambition hidden.

When Yiyin was touched by her little hand, the fire in his body became more and more intense. He couldn't help but feel his heart flutter, and reached out to touch Tokugawa Ieyasu's small face.

Tokugawa Ieyasu happened to raise his head, as if he wanted to get closer, so that Yoshihiro could touch and kiss him more easily.

It was this slightly hasty action that made Yiyin feel a little vigilant.

No, Li Huazuo just completed his once-a-week mission last night, and he was so tired in the capital that his waist was about to groat, where did he have to vent his anger?
Yiyin looked serious and stood up.

"I'm a bit overwhelmed with alcohol, so I'll go to rest first, and we'll talk about business matters tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Yiyin glanced at the hem of the clothes that had been pushed out in front of him, and felt that today's matter was a bit strange, so he picked up the flagon on the table and said.

"This wine is good. I'll take the remaining half bottle home to drink."

Quickly walking out of the hall, Yiyin felt relieved when he saw Kamo Shigo and Ii Naomasa waiting outside.

"Go back to the yard and rest."

A group of Ji samurai bowed, hugged Yiyin and walked out to the residence arranged by Tokugawa Ieyasu for Yoshiyin.

After walking into the courtyard, Yoshigin handed the wine to Ii Naomasa casually and said in a low voice.

"Get someone to try the wine and see if there is any problem. Send more guards tonight, don't relax."

Ii Naomasa was startled.

"Sage thinks there is something wrong with the Tokugawa family?"

Yi Yin shook his head.

"Maybe I'm overthinking, you go first.

Shixiang, come in with me, I have something to tell you. "

After finishing speaking, Yiyin grabbed Gamo Shixiang and walked straight to his bedroom.

Just now when the door was closed, before Pusheng Shixiang could ask what was going on, Yiyin's eyes were already red, and he pounced on him.

This journey really took him to death. Now that he can't bear it, there is no need to bear it anymore.No matter whether Tokugawa Ieyasu has a problem or not, Yoshigin always has to solve his own problem first.

Gamojigo was taken aback, but outside, Ii Naomasa was tensely deploying defenses, and Gamojigo didn't dare to make a sound, so she could only bite the clothes in her mouth and bear it silently.

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After Gongsong Yiyin left, Tokugawa Ieyasu returned to the hall and sighed slightly. He was still too impatient, and a mistake ruined a great opportunity.

Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't care about the bottle of wine that Yoshigin took away, because there was nothing wrong with that bottle of wine, and the real problem was yes. .

Tokugawa Ieyasu stepped up to the main seat, picked up the snipped candle he had just used, pierced it directly into the aromatherapy, and stirred out the wick.

At this time, a person hurried into the hall, it was Okazaki Joyo, who was also the preparer of the banquet, and Ishikawa counted.

She bowed to Tokugawa Ieyasu on the main seat, and asked in a panic.

"My lord, is something exposed?"

Tokugawa Ieyasu glanced at Ishikawa Shuzheng, shook his head and said.

"The saint just took the wine."

Ishikawa was breathing a sigh of relief.

"That's fine, that's fine."

Ieyasu Tokugawa shook the wick on the cut candle and asked.

"Is there any problem with this? Will there be any sequelae?"

Ishikawa shook his head and said.

"My lord, don't worry, the man just smells this fragrance, he just feels happy, it won't hurt his body, he will be fine after a night's sleep.

This is something that the maiden of Atsuta Shrine stays with the male guests. It is a skill that has been refined for thousands of years. "

Tokugawa Ieyasu nodded, walked out of the hall slowly, and said in a low voice as he passed by Ishikawa Suzumasa.

"You destroy things yourself, don't leave traces, and don't let others know.

Heaven knows, you know and I know.

I'm going back to rest first, and I have to get up early tomorrow to pay my respects to the saint. "

"Hi!"

Bowing and watching Tokugawa Ieyasu leave, Ishikawa Suzuki was walking quickly to the main seat, taking away the aromatherapy and wick as soon as there was no one there.

At this moment, her heart was full of apprehension.

Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know and I know.But if one day, you only want to know for yourself, what should I do?
(End of this chapter)