different warring states of japan

Chapter 1731

In this troubled spring, the two Ji warriors who received the most attention in Guanbazhou turned out to be two pregnant women.

Masaru Shima was pregnant, and broke through Sekisu Castle quickly and fiercely, which became the last straw that broke Yoshishige Satake's will to fight.

Because there is no Ji warrior regiment in the East Musashi area, she opened the door of convenience. A large number of rebels who participated in the battle and received rewards were all organized by Siba and stationed in Shiba in Kanto.

All the concubines cheered, and they naturally praised this loyal and wise general of the Shiba family highly, the so-called flowers are full of brocade.

With the grace of the sage above and the support of the followers below, although Dao Shengmeng has recently been raising a baby quietly, his prestige and prestige are getting higher and higher, and his power status has gone further.

The other pregnant woman is Hojo Ujimasa.

This weak family governor who has been oppressed by Hojo's retainers has never been so easy to speak, and has never been so tough since he was pregnant with the divine descendant of a saint and held his stomach to command his retainers.

She first mobilized the Hojo Army with all her strength, making the Hojo Army the absolute main force of the rebel army in this Eastern People's Rebellion.

Regardless of how many members of the Hojo family went to the battlefield, this attitude alone is enough to help the Hojo family wash away many doubts inside and outside the Kanto Servant, go ashore clean, and call themselves loyal ministers.

When the sage and the Kanto servant had a huge disagreement on how to deal with the Eastern people, it was the Hojo Clan who rushed to Kawagoe Castle and invited Kenshin Uesugi and Shingen Takeda to have a talk.

The eyes of the Guanbazhou samurai are all focused on Kawagoe City at this moment, hoping that the Hojo Clan's mediation will be successful, so that the disaster-ridden Kanto land will not be subjected to another storm and be honed again.

There are three important rivers in Musashi. Narukawa runs through Musashi from northwest to southeast. They are Tamagawa, Arakawa, and Edogawa.

Tamagawa is close to Sagami country, Arakawa is in the middle, and Edogawa is the lower reaches of Tonegawa, which is located on the geographical boundary of Musashishitaso and the two countries.

Among them, Arakawa and the lower reaches of Edogawa merge into one, and go to the sea at Edo Bay.

Kawagoe Castle, also known as Kawagoe Castle, has a very close relationship with Edo Castle. Both cities were built by the ancestors of the Ota family, a famous family in the Musashi Kingdom.

Kawagoe Castle is located at the confluence of Arakawa and Edogawa, and Edo Castle is at the mouth of the downstream. The two constitute the geographical defense line of Musashi Kingdom facing the Lower Sogo Kingdom.

The Ota family is the head of the Ogiya Uesugi family, and the Ota ancestors made great contributions to the rise of the Ogiya Uesugi family, so the Ota family has a detached status in the Musashi Kingdom.

During the confrontation between the Ashikaga family in Kamakura and the Uesugi family in Ogaya, the ancestors of Ota built these two cities. The original purpose was to guard against the Kwantung General of Furukawa.

However, because of the advantages of occupying the river, the two cities developed. Because Kawagoe City developed faster than Edo Castle and was located in the upper reaches of the city, it was named the father of Edo.

In this era, Kawagoe Castle is the largest city in Musashi, so the Hojo family is willing to dedicate Edo Castle and the land of Tomusashi to the saint. If it is Kawagoe Castle, the Hojo retainers are really reluctant.

The Hojo family has been blowing the wind at the Kanto Office, hoping that the sage will relocate the offices of the Kanto Office's Great Review and Standing Council to Edo Castle.

Although this was out of the Hojo family's selfish desire to be close to the water, the Echigo Imperial Palace was too far away, and the Guan Yashu samurai family generally agreed.

Of course, the Uesugi family naturally strongly opposed it, and the two families have been competing secretly.

Hojo's vassals had too good ideas, but the core position of Kawagoe Castle in Musashi Kingdom may soon be lost.

Because the sage has merged the land of Higashi Musashi into the territory of Kanto Shiba, the pregnant Shima Katsuo regards this land as the base for his children to settle down in the future, and is very concerned about it.

The development of Edo Castle was not good in the past. On the one hand, it was because of the confrontation between the two in Hojo. Edo Bay was always at the forefront of the confrontation, and it was difficult to develop maritime trade routes.

On the other hand, it is also because the lower reaches of the Tone River are flooded. There are many swamps and reed beds in the area. It looks like a plain and fertile soil, but in fact there is a lack of arable land.

Commerce was hampered by battles at sea, and farming was hampered by floods on land. Even though Edo Castle occupied an excellent location at the seaport, it ended up being unable to develop Kagotsu Castle, which was an inland river transportation hub.

However, with Satomi's surrender and the smooth progress of the diversion project in the middle and lower reaches of the Tone River, the two unfavorable factors hindering the development of Edo Castle are gradually disappearing.

Shima Katsuo is very optimistic about Edo Castle. Dahuling is too small and too far away. The future of Shibaling in Kanto lies in the land of Tomusashi, and the most suitable core city for development in the land of Tomusashi is Edo Castle.

The place where the Hojo Clan received Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin was at Hikawa Shrine on the east side of Kawagoe Castle.

After the emperor's court was slaughtered by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the Shinto religion that was closely related to the emperor was also wiped out, and only the shrines of the Hachimangu Shrine dedicated to the samurai gods were preserved.

Ancestor Ota built Kawagoe Castle, and this Hikawa Shrine survived because of its detached status as the general guard of the castle.

The local Hikawa Shrine is said to have a history of 500 years, and the name of the local Omiya comes from the Hikawa Shrine.

However, all the gods originally enshrined in the shrine were removed and replaced with the god of the samurai god Hachiman, and this was considered a pass.

The Omiya area where the shrine is located is a hundred miles away from Furukawa Castle and twenty miles away from Kagotsu Castle.

Takeda Shingen, who came to Omiya on horseback, looked at the torii gate outside the shrine, and wanted to laugh for no reason.

The world is changing too fast. Five years ago when Kawanakajima joined forces, Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin fought bloody corpses in Beixin, wishing they could bite each other to death.

During the Suruga invasion four years ago, Takeda Shingen tore up the alliance with Hojo Imagawa and swallowed Suruga Castle in one go. Hojo Ujiyasu also wished he could kill Takeda Shingen.

In just four or five years, the three families of Takeda, Uesugi and Hojo were able to sit in the system of the Kanto servants and discuss matters together in an amicable manner.

What's more interesting is that Takeda Shingen's daughter is four years old, Uesugi Kenshin's daughter is two years old, and Hojo Ujimasa's child is three months old. The offspring conceived by the three daughters are all divine seeds from saints.

I don't know how Hojo Shiyasu, who is already in the sky, will feel about this matter?

The Sanqiangfan fought to the death in Kanto, but in the end they were joined by a man named Jill, sitting at the same table, using the same pair of chopsticks, and eating from the same pot.

Thinking of this, Takeda Shingen couldn't help sighing, Nie Yuan, it's all because of that cute and hateful handsome boy.

The Hojo retainer who greeted the guests, she saw that Takeda Shingen was not moving, but was fascinated by the torii, she did not dare to urge, but just waited silently.

After a while, Takeda Shingen came back to his senses, touched the crow's feet faintly showing in the corner of his eyes, smiled wryly and shook his head.

Every time I see the saint, I am amazed by his appearance.

Takeda Shingen is old, and Uesugi Kenshin is also old, but Shiba Yoshigin will always be that handsome 16-year-old face, and the passage of time cannot leave the slightest trace on the face of that saint.

Seeing that forever youthful handsome face always makes Takeda Shingen nostalgic for the past, lamenting that time is ruthless and people's hearts are changeable.

It was rumored that Kenshin Uesugi and Shingen Takeda fell out on the spot when the sage summoned them, but they were only half right.

It was Uesugi Kenshin who turned his face, that person is always so stubborn, full of resentment like a dissatisfied woman, she is obviously a mother who has a child, how can she be so angry?

Takeda Shingen is one of the most powerful people in the city. Even when she kills someone, she stabs him with a smile. How could she fall out with the saint on the spot?At most, it was a soft knife thrusting, which made the saint unable to express his pain.

Both Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen can understand Shiba Yoshigin's political intention to protect the Eastern people, but they are indeed very embarrassed.

The family business under the family name of the Wu family belongs to all Ji Wu warriors under the family name, which is the traditional consensus of the Wu family.

The Ji warrior group is loyal to the family governor in the form of retainers, and what they are actually protecting is the common interests of the entire warrior group, including their own.

Just like a modern joint-stock company, the governor is the chairman and can decide the development strategy.

But the major shareholders of the board of directors, and even the minority shareholders who hold minority shares, the company also belongs to them, and they also have a share.

Retainers' allegiance to the lord is similar to buying shares, and the distribution of knowledge and practice is similar to holding shares. The traditional review system of the Wu family and the right of consultation of the retainer group are, in a sense, restricted to the family governor.

Everyone is working hard with you, hoping to follow you to make a fortune. If you can't make profits for everyone, then I will take the capital and invest in another family.

This is like a listed company. When the performance is good, hello, hello, hello everyone, the major shareholders and small shareholders laugh together and watch the value of the stocks in their hands increase.

If the performance declines, the stock plummets, the major shareholders reduce their holdings in a fancy way, and the small shareholders want to cut their meat, they all want to run away with their capital, how will life be?
Therefore, Wu family and listed companies are actually in the same style. The leaders brag every day and improve their performance every year, but they dare not disappoint the shareholders.

If the enterprise collapses, it will be bankruptcy at most. If the family business collapses, it will really kill the whole family, and the pressure will be even greater.

Shiba Yiyin forced the counterparts in the Kanto servants to help and rescue the people in the east. No normal family governor would dare to agree to such a thing, and the retainer group could not explain it.

From the standpoint of a politician, Takeda Shingen understands that Yoshihiro Shiba is right, Guan Yashu needs to bridge the differences, and internal friction is the worst option.

However, if you regard Wujia as a listed company, and look at those companies that are eager for quick success and instant profits in the stock market, hype every day, and their performance exceeds expectations at every turn, you can understand the embarrassment of Shingen Takeda.

The Wu family's model of running a family business has no soil for outstanding politicians to display their talents. Small groups are selfish, and small hills only care about themselves. Who cares about the overall situation?

Hurry up to swallow today's benefits, the arbitrage has been realized, and they will be impatient to wait tomorrow, let alone consider long-term healthy development, and invest a large sum first.

The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took advantage of the shade. The reality is that no one is willing to plant trees. They are all thinking about cutting down trees to make money, and they are coerced by the short-sighted majority. What can be done well?
Yoshihiko Shiba supported the diversion project in the middle and lower reaches of the Tone River, borrowed a large sum of money for water conservancy and production with his credit as collateral, and everyone was willing to follow up after tasting the sweetness.

But when it comes to helping the people in the East, each family only sees the contribution, not the reward.It must be said that it is good, that is, it is related to the overall political situation of the overall stability of the eight states.

Who cares about this thing?Who is willing to use their own vain food to buy a so-called stable overall situation?

The sky fell and there was a tall man to support it. Anyway, there was a sage who was the one who took the blame. Naturally, the families were unwilling to pay, and they were all holding their money bags and pretending to be dead.

Yoshihiko Shiba summoned Kenshin Uesugi and Shingen Takeda, and mentioned the strategy of counterpart assistance, which is to hope that his own woman will have a long-term vision and help to take the lead as an example.

But he didn't think about it, his wife was also the house governor, and she was also raising a group of Ji warriors for food behind her buttocks, and they were also very embarrassed.

Takeda Shingen, for example, of course she understands that helping the people in the east is conducive to the stability of Guan Yashu and the future development of Shiba theocracy.

But can she be this early bird?She can't!

Withdrawing from the Suruga country, suppressing the Kai people, and running the Hitachi country, this has already made many people in Takeda's vassals feel dissatisfied, and feel that their vital interests have been damaged.

Takeda Shingen even needed to use his daughter's future as an excuse to beg Takeda Nobutora, a notorious mother, to help him restrain Konobu before he dared to focus on the management of Hitachi.

If she supported the sage's counterpart assistance, if the Takeda family became the first bird, not to mention the dissatisfaction of the Kanto servants with the Takeda family, there would also be twists and turns within the Takeda family.

Because of his daughter's irregular birth and lack of morality, Takeda Shingen now wholeheartedly follows Shiba Yoshiyin's strategy, and he can be described as the most intimate iron ally.

How dare Uesugi Kenshin agree to something that even she didn't dare to agree to?
Don't look at Uesugi Kenshin's rebelliousness, and the way of ruling the Echigo Group is brutal and direct, but she is just hot-tempered, straightforward, and not stupid!

The former Uesugi Kenshin may have paid a lot for Shiba Yoshihiro, and he has done a lot of things for him to suppress the Echigo Group.

But today is different from the past, Uesugi Kenshin now has a daughter!

To put it bluntly, Shiba Yoshihiro and Uesugi Miyuki fell into the water at the same time, who do you think Uesugi Kenshin will save first?
The Nagao family in Fuchu was wronged. It killed Echigo and guarded the Uesugi family, and then took away the ruling power of Echigo.

Uesugi Kenshin has been suppressing the rebellion in the early years, and the unconvinced samurai in the country have been rebelling one after another. She just relied on her super military talent to forcibly suppress the Echigo samurai group.

Although through Shiba Yoshiyin's political means in recent years, Uesugi Kenshin inherited the name of the Yamauchi Uesugi family and became the governor of the Kanto.

However, Kenshin Uesugi's governing methods are rough, and the internal conflicts of the Uesugi family are more than that of the Takeda family, and it is impossible to compare with the Hojo family, which is known for its unity.

If Uesugi Kenshin dared to agree to the help of his counterpart, the Uesugi retainer group would immediately make trouble.

Although those bastards in Echigo didn't have the guts to oppose the saint openly, they also have many ways to secretly disgust people.

Uesugi Kenshin's most important thing now is the future of Uesugi Miyuki, and he does not want any twists and turns in her inheritance rights, and she will toss Uesugi Jinghu and Uesugi Jingsheng two hapless people in the country.

If the Echigo Samurai Group had disgusting thoughts and turned around to kowtow to Uesugi Jinghu Uesugi Jingsheng a few more times, Uesugi Kenshin would not be able to accept it.

Uesugi Kenshin inherited his mother's family business back then, but the process of subduing the Echigo Samurai family with a sword was difficult, and it is not enough for outsiders.

She herself is going to suffer from PTSD, so naturally she doesn't want her daughter to go back to the old way, why does she want to be a good-for-nothing early bird for those bastards from the East?

Takeda Shingen shook his head, the saint's idea is correct, but the reality is that it can't be done.

She sighed again, walked up the steps step by step, passed through the torii gate, and saw Uesugi Kenshin in a tall and straight figure before the dance hall at the end of the steps.

Takeda Shingen laughed.

"His Highness Uesugi arrived so quickly."

Uesugi Kenshin turned his head and saw Takeda Shingen, not knowing what expression he should put on to face this deep love rival in the city.

Just three years ago, I was still planning to besiege the leader of Takeda in the Kanto Office, vowing to cut off the head of this beast that humiliated the saint.

But today, the two have to stand on the same front, making things difficult for the man they love.

This feeling is really disgusting.

Uesugi Kenshin didn't speak, but Takeda Shingen took the initiative to make fun of it. He stepped forward and glanced at the stone that Uesugi Kenshin was playing with in front of the stage, and asked.

"What is this?"

Uesugi Kenshin had a complicated complexion, he was silent for a while, and said.

"The trick of the shrine here is to say that it is a fate stone. If you get it, you can have a beautiful marriage and stay with your lover for a lifetime."

The castle is as deep as Takeda Shingen, and when he heard Uesugi Kenshin say this in a melancholy tone, his complexion also became complicated.

The two love rivals who wished to slash each other to death in the past met their eyes at this moment, and after touching each other, they turned their heads away, and their faces became unnatural.

Uesugi Kenshin ruthlessly threw the stone out of his hand, and an arc disappeared in front of the two of them.

"Swaggering and deceiving."

Takeda Shingen nodded.

"Nonsense."

Uesugi Kenshin made a gesture of invitation, Takeda Shingen politely returned the greeting, and the two moved forward side by side.

"I heard that Hojo Ujimasa has been sick for three months, so he must be throwing up a lot right now?"

"Naturally, he vomited badly, you and I know it all too well."

"...yes."

(End of this chapter)