different warring states of japan

Hosokawa Fujitaka took a breath, Akechi Mitsuhide was so generous.

You know, that is the territory of [-] stones that can be justifiably held in hand. Akechi Mitsuhide didn't care at all and divided it as soon as he said it.

Akechi Mitsuhide keeps saying that she has no strength, but as a foreign minister of the Shiba family, she has close contacts with the Oda family and has great influence. How could she not be able to do anything to the Isshiki family?
Not to mention anything else, Asakura Kageki of Tsuruga County, which is close to the two states of Tango Wakasa, has a very good relationship with Akechi Mitsuhide, and the Tsuruga people are also strong troops trained by Asakura Sote.

Akechi Mitsuhide wants to borrow troops, and Asakura Kageki will definitely agree as long as he is willing to give him some benefits.

There is also Kitanomi Hashiba Hideyoshi not far away. Mitsuhide Akechi saved her life twice. Now that she still relies on Mitsuhide Akechi, she will definitely be willing to help and sell her favors.

Mitsuhide Akechi still has many such connections in Kinki.

The worst, the worst, she went to Oda Nobunaga and asked the Oda army to sweep through Wakasa Kingdom, and also clean up Tango Kingdom. How difficult would it be?
At this point, Akechi Mitsuhide's acquisition of Tango Kingdom's 11 koku is not a big problem. At most, he will be given some money and food benefits, so as not to give away the land that the samurai family values ​​most, right?

However, Akechi Mitsuhide only found Hosokawa Fujitaka and was willing to send troops in exchange for the land of two counties. This matter is worth recalling.

Hosokawa Fujitaka had just succeeded to the Izumi Hosokawa family. Although she held Izumi, Kitakogenchi, and Sakai Port in her hands, she did not conquer them.

The retainers group has never seen the power of the governor, and has not been given the benefits of the governor. Hosokawa Fujitaka, the governor, is also a bit difficult to serve.

At this time, Akechi Mitsuhide handed over the land of the two counties of Tango Kingdom, which just solved the urgent need for Hosokawa Fujitaka.

Once this matter comes to fruition, the retainers group will taste the sweetness and benefit, and Hosokawa Fujitaka's position as the governor of the family will be completely established.

Looking at the smiling Akechi Mitsuhide, Hosokawa Fujitaka secretly sighed.

Outsiders think that Mitsuhide Akechi is good at dancing, cold and deep, and can be called a poisonous person.

But Akechi Mitsuhide was indeed the most loyal retainer of Shiba Yiyin, and he never considered his own family business.

She had plotted several times and was hated by Shiba Yiyin. Her territory only had the initial three thousand stones, which was a huge gap compared to her authority.

This time Oda Nobunaga gave Tango a kingdom. If Mitsuhide Akechi took it all by himself, he would have 11 territories and become the leader of a kingdom.

But Akechi Mitsuhide took the initiative to send two counties to Hosokawa Fujitaka, just to bind Hosokawa Fujitaka even tighter on behalf of the Shiba family and her saint.

Such a loyal minister who loved to play tricks but didn't care about the gains and losses of his family's fortune made Hosokawa Fujitaka not even know what to say.

Hosokawa Fujitaka asked himself that he could not be as selfless as Akechi Mitsuhide, but he could do this for Yoshigan Shiba.

She couldn't help but sigh.

"No saint knows how many things you have silently done for him behind the scenes."

Akechi Mitsuhide raised his beautiful eyebrows and smiled.

“I’m happy to do it for him, I don’t care if he knows it or not.

Instead of saying these pretentious words between you and me, I would like to ask you if you are interested in expanding your territory and sharing the country of Tango with me. "

Hosokawa Fujitaka smiled.

“The land of two counties is tens of thousands of stones high, of course I am interested.

However, the Isshiki family has been protecting Tango since the opening of the Ashikaga Shogunate, and it has been almost 200 years now. It is deeply rooted.

I thought about the fact that the Isshiki family is one of the four official positions and is a kinship family of Ashikaga, so it is not appropriate to go to war. If you can be gentle, try to be gentle, first be polite and then fight. "

Akechi Mitsuhide waved his hand and said. "This is your problem, I don't care. Even if you poison and kill Isshiki, I won't give it a second glance.

If you need any assistance in conquering Tango, just tell me and I will give you my full support.

As for the specific military affairs, you can take care of it yourself. I am very busy right now. His Majesty Oda is lighting beacons everywhere on the Ishiyama Hokuriku Road. I really don't care about the Isshiki family's affairs. "

Akechi Mitsuhide chose Hosokawa Fujitaka to deal with the Isshiki family of Tango Kingdom, also taking into account Hosokawa Fujitaka's status as the governor of the Izumi Hosokawa family.

Yoshigan Shiba has always regarded himself as the patron saint of the samurai family and treated the Ashikaga clan kindly.

The Isshiki family is a member of the Ashikaga family, one of the three and four positions of the shogunate, and the pen head among the four positions. They control the once powerful shrine, and when they were at their strongest, they were also the great guardians of the five kingdoms and two counties.

Oda Nobunaga asked Akechi Mitsuhide to conquer Tango Kingdom and attack the Isshiki family, which was also a bit of a bad idea to play with Akechi Mitsuhide.

The position of Tango Kingdom is very important. Oda Nobunaga is willing to give it, and Akechi Mitsuhide is naturally willing to accept it.

But how to collect it is a question.

As a retainer of Shiba, Akechi Mitsuhide naturally could not make things difficult for the saint, so the task of conquering Isshiki was left to the foreign minister Hosokawa Fujitaka, who was also a member of the Ashikaga clan.

Mitsuhide Akechi had already thought of the reason for attacking Tango Kingdom.

When the Ashikaga shogunate was opened, it inherited the old system of the Kamakura shogunate. The imperial court system under the imperial family system was equivalent to a military institution that managed the world's troops.

There are four positions in the service office: Isshiki, Akamatsu, Kyogoku, and Yamana. They are responsible for the military command of the shogunate, tax collection, and public security in Kyoto.

Together with the Toki family in Kyoto, the Ise family in charge, and the Uesugi family in Kanto, they are collectively known as Nanato.

In addition, the three leaders, Shiba, Hatakeyama, and Hosokawa, assist the general in governing, collectively known as the three leaders and seven heads.

The three members of the seven clans participated in the central politics as the shogunate elders and held high positions. Among them, the Isshiki family was appointed by the Ashikaga Shogun as the pen head among the four positions, which is evident in their status.

With the demise of the imperial family system and the rise of the guardian system, the power of the imperial court has been greatly reduced, and it has gradually been reduced from the Ministry of National Defense to the Kyoto Police Station.

But the police station also has the benefits of a police station. The police station is in charge of the security of Kyoto, and the castle town benefits a lot from the Isshiki family.

Miyoshi went to Luo, killed the general, Ashikaga Yoshiteru tragically died in Nijo Castle, but the Isshiki family ran away early and fled back to Tango Kingdom.

It is understandable to say that the dozens of people the Isshiki family put in Kyoto to show off their power, faced with the tens of thousands of troops from Miyoshi to Luo, there was no way they could stop them, so they might as well run away to save their lives.

But just because there are extenuating circumstances does not mean there is no guilt.The Isshiki family abandoned their master and fled without caring about Ashikaga Shogun's safety. This was a great injustice.

Yoshigan Ushiba and Nobunaga Oda joined forces to support Ashikaga Yoshiaki Kamiro and succeeded him as Ashikaga Shogun. Subsequently, the three Ashikaga and Oda families competed for dominance in the center.

This political whirlpool was not easy to get involved in, so the Isshiki family did not send anyone back to Kyoto and continued to pretend to be ignorant in their home base in Tango country.

The great injustice of abandoning the Lord and running away has not yet been fully explained, but this adds another great disrespect of the new Lord.

The current situation in Kinki is that Ashikaga Yoshiaki fled to the territory of the Mori family to establish a separate central government, while in Kyoto the Shiba and Oda families joined forces.

With Akechi Mitsuhide's authority in the Fushimi Castle system, he would punish the Isshiki family for both crimes of great injustice and disrespect without any pressure.

There is no problem at all in depriving the Isshiki family of the guardianship of Tango and granting Hosokawa Fujitaka the right to conquer Tango Kingdom.