different warring states of japan

Chapter 1640 The Interesting Imagawa Clan

Pandora's magic box has been opened, and the food stamp financial system that helped the Shiba family grow rapidly has ushered in a crisis in less than three years.

Takada Yono fears the crisis and looks forward to the crisis. She hopes to use the crisis to solve her own troubles and further strengthen the food stamp financial system.

She wants to use the stock market crash of the Hokuriku Road trade route and the corruption of the Samurai Giri Promotion Association to get rid of the huge debts she is carrying and complete the settlement of the accounts.

Then go into battle easily, and start the next round of financial expansion by taking advantage of the new business opportunities of the Tokaido business route and the general agent of Nanman.

Crisis is a crisis, and there is an organic crisis.

As long as this step can be passed, the Sibo food coupons will become even stronger, and will also become the most powerful tool for the Takada family to compete for the favor and give birth to the descendants of gods.

two years. .In order to achieve his goal, Takada Yono has to plan within two years, actively brewing and setting off this financial crisis, killing others, and strengthening himself.

At this time, Yoshihiro still doesn't know that the greedy idiot in Kanto has been targeted by Naoyoshi Hansawa, let alone Takada Yoshino's idea of ​​catching cicadas with praying mantises, and the oriole is behind.

Yoshihiro is happily enjoying the hot springs of Mount Hakone, enjoying the gentleness of the Hojo Clan, and fantasizing about the great strategic significance of reopening the Tokaido trade route.

Originally, Yoshihiro was still wondering whether after satisfying Hojo Ujimasa's sex request, it would trigger a new round of wormwood craze and start a bad start.

But after he really fell asleep, Yiyin didn't bother to worry about how he would have a headache in the future. If he has wine today, he will be drunk today, and he will worry about it tomorrow.

Hojo Shizheng, really fragrant!
The generosity of the Hojo family and the obedience of the Hojo clan far exceeded Yoshigin's imagination.

It may be because he was killed too badly by Yoshihiro, the Hojo retainers' fear of him has already exceeded Yoshihiro's own expectations.

As long as the Hojo clan can be allowed to board Yoshigin's bed and become a member of Shiba Shen, the Hojo family is really willing to spend all their money, and directly took out hundreds of thousands of stones of Tomuzang land.

With such a huge contribution, the Imagawa family really seems to be an inconspicuous addition.

The three pillars of the Tōkaidō stand together. Even if the Hojo family holds the trump card of the Imagawa clan and has enough righteous reputation, it is actually of no great use.

First of all, after the death of Yasushi Hojo, the Hojo retainer group tended to be conservative. No matter how you look at it, the new governor of the Hojo clan was unreliable, and everyone had no confidence.

Let the Hojo clan lead the Hojo family to fight against famous bigwigs like Takeda Shingen, and the retainers themselves don't think they can win.

Secondly, even if the Hojo family really wins the Suruga country, they will lose both sides with the Takeda family, and there is a Tokugawa Ieyasu who is eyeing him.

Tokugawa Ieyasu has been infiltrating the Suruga country over the years, and has a deep relationship with the Suruga people. Even if the Hojo family drives away the Takeda family, it is too embarrassing to replace the Takeda family's ecological niche, which is just as troublesome.

Third, the Takeda family has already joined the Kanto Servant, and the Hojo family can't find a reasonable excuse to go to war under the call of righteousness that there will be no war in the Kanto.

After all, not everyone is as unlucky as the people in the East. They have become public sacrifices, and they can eat and share and eat in the name of righteousness.

Fourth, the crusade against the Eastern Crowd is already a certainty. Compared with the Suruga Kingdom, which has a lot of troubles and little benefits, the strategic goal of the Hojo family has turned eastward in an all-round way, looking at the Boso Peninsula on the other side.

The Takeda family who intends to attack the Hitachi country can help the Hojo family to contain the other families of the Eastern People, so that the Hojo family can attack the Satomi family with peace of mind.

Why would the Hojo family offend the Takeda family, a quasi-ally, at this time for the sake of a tasteless Suruga country?

To sum up, the current strategic goal of the Hojo family is no longer the Suruga country in the west, and the Hojo family, which has the natural dangers of Mount Ashigara and Hakone Mountain, is not too worried about threats from the west.

Let the Imagawa family really return to the country to serve as the guardian of Suruga, supervised by the Shiba family, and turn the Suruga country into a strategic buffer zone between the Tokugawa, Takeda, and Hojo families, which is conducive to the Hojo family's eastward expansion.

Moreover, the restart of the Tokaido trade route will also help the Hojo family to obtain cheap supplies and reduce the consumption of conquering the Boso Peninsula.

Therefore, when Yoshigin proposed to meet Imagawa Shima, and the Shiba family to lead the three-party and four-family peace conference, and to reopen the Tokaido trade route, the Hojo family agreed without hesitation.

Hojo Ujimasa is now like an innocent girl who has fulfilled her love fantasy. Her blind worship of Yoshihiro is different from the pity of ordinary Ji warriors, and it satisfies Yoshihiro's machismo.

The Hojo vassal group headed by Hojo Genan is also willing to offer up the territory of Higashi Musashi, hand over Imagawa Shimao, and tie himself firmly to the chariot of the Shiba family's god-descendant group.

The two sides are each taking what they need and have a happy cooperation.

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Odawara Castle, castle tower.

After spending a few days comfortably in Mount Hakone, Yoshigin was welcomed back to Odawara Castle by the Hojo Ujimasa, and met Imagawa Ushima and Imagawa clan elder Asahina Taito who hurried over from Izu.

In the main hall, Kneeling in front of Yiyin, the Imachuan clan was really busy, but his spirit was very excited, and he kowtowed to the ground.

"The sinful minister Suruga guarded the Imagawa Clan. He lost his virtue and lost his country. He was ashamed of the entrustment of the shogunate, and he was ashamed of the Ashikaga family. Please ask the saint to punish him."

Yi Yin was very fond of hearing this, and asked her to stand up softly. Seeing that the governor of the Imagawa family is pretty handsome, but a little fat, it seems that the Hojo family has not treated her badly in recent years, and has raised her well.

As soon as Imagawa Shin opened his mouth, Yiyin knew that this person was not stupid, at least he had been educated.

She did not directly accuse Takeda Shingen of treachery, attacked Suruga without reason, and took away the territory of the Imagawa family, but emphasized that she was incompetent and moral, so she lost the country and blamed herself.

Although Takeda Yoshinobu's external identity was an abandoned baby adopted by Takeda Shingen, but a fool would take it seriously. The fact that Takeda Shingen gave birth to Yoshin's eldest daughter is a secret known to all samurai families in the world.

Both Yoshihiro and Takeda Shingen rolled out of their children. In order to protect the calf, Yoshihiro and the Shiba and Oda families even fought a battle of 20 people.

Is the relationship between Shiba Takeda and his family normal?
If the Imagawa family really accuses Takeda Shingen here, talking nonsense, Yoshihiro sees that she is ignorant of current affairs, and the Imagawa family's return to the country may be ruined.

Even if it is going back to China to be a marionette of the Shiba family, it is better than being under the fence of the Hojo family, the Imagawa family has really thought about it clearly.

Yoshigin is the elder of Minamoto and the most prestigious leader of the Ashikaga family. If Imagawa really stands for him, even if Suruga is lost in the future, he will definitely compensate the Imagawa family.

The Imagawa clan really doesn't have the ambition to compete for the world, so why not do it with the Siba family to make a living and continue the family business?
The Ashikaga shogunate was inherently weak, and it was a hodgepodge of samurai alliances. The Ashikaga general was called the lord of the world. In fact, he had little power and mainly relied on the support of powerful samurai from all over the country.

These powerful samurai who served as important ministers in the shogunate, served as guardian daimyos in the local area, and lived in various places for generations are collectively referred to as the Ashikaga Ichimon Oyakata.

These samurai basically have branches of the Ashikaga family, which is the supporting force of the Ashikaga shogunate.

Among them, only Ishibashi, Osaki, and Mogami are not branches of the Ashikaga family, but they are offshoots of the Shiba family.

Therefore, the Ashikaga Shogunate is actually a weak samurai regime composed of a big family that relies on blood ties to maintain a blood alliance, and the retainers of the big family.

The Imagawa family came to the Suruga country to serve as guardians, as well as the Kira family from Mikawa and the Shiba family from Owari, all of whom were sent by General Ashikaga to Tōkaidō to watch the scene.

Although Shiba, Kira, and Imagawa's relatives killed each other, their strength weakened, and they were overthrown successively by Xia Keshang, but the duties entrusted by the Ashikaga shogunate remained unchanged.

The Imagawa clan really blamed themselves for losing their morals and country, and being responsible for the shogunate. This political posture is very correct, and it also satisfies Yoshihiro.

Regardless of whether someone taught Imagawa to say this, at least it shows that she is very aware of her role as a puppet after returning to Suruga, implying that she is willing to obey the organization of Ashikaga.

As the leader of the Minamoto clan and the eldest brother of the Ashikaga clan, Yoshigin faces the familiar Imagawa clan, and in the future must ensure that the Imagawa family has a good result. This is the political tacit understanding between the two parties.

(End of this chapter)