different warring states of japan

Chapter 2004 The dizzy Maeda Toshiie

Echizen Country, Tsuruga County.

Although the Echizen Asakura family has been destroyed by Oda Nobunaga, the Tsuruga clan led by Asakura Kageki still firmly controls Tsuruga County.

Even when Oda Nobunaga entrusted Shibata Katsuie with the 400,000 stone lord of Echizen, he only mentioned the seven counties of Echizen and excluded Tsuruga County.

It wasn't that the Oda family didn't want to bring Tsuruga County under its control, it was just that Asakura Kageki had the protection of a saint and Oda Nobunaga was powerless.

At that time, in order to help the saint, Asakura Sotechi mobilized the Asakura army and beat Kaga until his teeth were all wet, and finally he died after running out of oil and drying up his lamp.

The sage thought of this kindness, and when he was opening up the Hokuriku Road trade route, he specially supported Asakura Kageki, so that the Tsuruga people could gain huge benefits.

Today, Tsuruga Port is already a hub port on the Hokuriku Road trade route, occupying a pivotal position in the Shiba family's economic system.

Asakura Keiki, who controlled Tsuruga County and was supported by the Tsuruga people, also became an important strategic fulcrum for the Shiba family to check and balance the Oda family's reach to Hokuriku.

This time, Shibata Katsuie went south to participate in the Oda Civil War. It was Maeda Toshiie who came forward to coordinate with Asakura Kageki of Tsuruga County, allowing Shibata Katsuie's Northern Army Regiment to transit smoothly and establish a logistics line.

From the perspective of Maeda Toshiie, she was happy to see Shibata Katsuie go south to start a war with Hashiba Hideyoshi, Oda Xinbao and other careerists in the Oda family.

The Oda Civil War will weaken the cohesion and strength of the Oda family. The Shiba family can intervene when the victor is at his weakest and surrender to the Oda family in one fell swoop.

From what the Tian Toshio family knew about the Oda family girls in the past, Shibata Katsuie's ambitions were not big. She just wanted to be the boss of the Oda family, and did not want to be an enemy of the saint, nor did she have any delusions of becoming a world leader.

Once things are not harmonious, Shibata Katsuie will bow his head and surrender to the Shiba family, so Maeda Toshiie is willing to help her clear her joints and let her fight to the death with Hashiba Hideyoshi and Oda Xinbao.

But just when Maeda Toshiie was wondering when it would be most advantageous for the Shiba family to intervene in the Oda civil war, her confidant Murai Nagari came to Tsuruga Castle with two letters.

It was night, Maeda Toshiie was rubbing his temples in the courtyard of the guest house, feeling dizzy.

After attending Asakura Kageki's banquet just now, the sake seemed to be surging with energy at this moment, making people's heads feel dizzy.

After reading the two letters by candlelight, Maeda Toshiie began to feel dizzy and couldn't get over it no matter what.

Murai Nagayasu, who had hurried over to deliver the letter, looked at her lord's increasingly grim expression with worry and asked in a low voice.

"My lord, shall I tell the dining room to prepare some sobering soup?"

Maeda Toshiie shook his head and sighed.

"No need, I'm fine, just let me faint for a while. It will be even more uncomfortable when I wake up."

Maeda Toshiie smiled so hard that his teeth ached, what's going on?

The saint returned to Kinki to take charge of Tamonyama Castle, and the Shiba family had just recovered from the chaos of the financial crisis in Sakai Port. It was a good time to intervene in the civil strife in Oda.

But at this critical juncture, the interests of Kamao clan and Maeda started fighting.

Maeda Toshiie also heard a little bit about the conflict between the two. In the final analysis, it was all about money.

The wealthy Takada Yono laid the foundation of Shiba Real Estate, but he did not care about the huge profits of this emerging industry and left it to the local samurai family in Shiba to develop freely.

Just like the rise of the Age of Discovery, wealth came from the sea, attracting countless heroes to participate in it.

Since ancient times, the Wu family's concept of land is to cultivate land, produce grain, raise people, collect taxes, and register for military service.

Everyone has always eaten steamed buns with pickles, but suddenly one day, someone cut the steamed buns into pieces and ate them with pickles. Everyone was shocked. It turns out that steamed buns can also be eaten with pickles?

Takada Yonai has a businessman's temperament and knows how to use profits to drive people. As long as the benefits are enough, there will be many people who will overcome obstacles for her and make Sibo Real Estate bigger and stronger.

Maeda was the first to eat crabs, and his mouth was full of oil. The Iga Maeda family had already figured out a whole set of ways to build and sell houses.

Who among the big guys with school district qualifications from all over Spurland doesn’t want a piece of the pie?

Even Maeda Toshiie sent people to Iga Ueno Castle to learn from it. The family had already prepared civil engineering manpower and was preparing to make a lot of money. But at this moment, Takada Harano fell.

The food stamp crisis prompted the Takada sisters to prepare for a rainy day and retreat bravely, voluntarily giving up their commercial duties in Spo.

They walked away in style, but left a huge power vacuum.

The food stamp system has one base point and two handles. Sibo Tucang is responsible for the liquidation of funds in and out, and the stock and real estate two engines are also reservoirs.

The stock is now in a mess, and we can only count on the Kwantung Capital brought by Dazang Changan to save the market.

After being hit by food stamps, Sibo Real Estate quickly returned to normal and is thriving. It may become a new economic growth point for the Sibo family.

As the representative of Spo's hub, Kamo's hometown doesn't like that Kanto Capital has too much say in Spo's food stamps.

On the other hand, I don’t like the fact that local Sibo leaders use most of the profits from Sibo real estate as a small treasury.

By having the Sibo Center dominate the Sibo real estate and directing most of the profits to rescue the market, it can suppress Kanto capital and weaken the local military families. This is a double win for the central government.

It's just that the movement was too big, and the saint was afraid of triggering a backlash, so he kept pressure on Kamao Clan to prevent her from going too far.

But it happened that at this time, the tragedy of Oda Siniang occurred.

Seeing a great opportunity, the Kamao clan cannot miss it. Maeda's interests are red-eyed and desperate to protect his own interests. The contradictions in the central area instantly intensified and exploded, and it has spread to the Maeda Toshi family.

The two letters between Maeda and her daughter mean the same thing: Can you help Maeda Toshiie?

This trouble made Maeda Toshiie's head hurt so much that it almost exploded.

Maeda Toshiie casually threw the letter to Murai Nagai and motioned for her to read it too.

Murai Nagai read ten lines at a glance, frowned, and whispered.

"The Tongxin Secretariat and the Iga Maeda family are about to fight, and the attitude of the Saint is clearly in favor of the Tongxin Secretariat.

I'm afraid it's inappropriate for the Lord to side with the Iga-Maeda family now, right? "

Maeda Toshiie smiled bitterly.

"Not only is it inappropriate, it's basically jumping to the stage and asking for trouble, but do I have a choice?

That girl Maeda has been proud and self-righteous all her life. Because of the little discord back then, she has not recognized me as her fourth aunt for ten years.

It seems that the two Maeda families are in harmony with each other and are working together. In fact, the eldest sister, Toshihisa Maeda, misses her sisterhood with me and does not want to be alienated by blood relatives, so she forces Maeda's interests to cooperate with me.

If I shirk this matter, Maeda Toshihisa will definitely commit suicide. She has fought for the interests of Maeda and the Iga Maeda family all her life. She will never drag down her daughter and family business in order to protect herself.

This time, Maeda's interests were for the sake of Maeda Riku, his mother, so he was willing to humble himself and beg me. If I ignored him, Maeda Riku would sacrifice himself and die to apologize.

While Maeda is grieving, he will definitely hate me to death. Not only will the alliance between the two Maeda families end here, but they will also turn against each other. "

Jingzhang Lai was in a dilemma when he heard this. He couldn't think of a way to relieve his lord's worries, so he could only sigh.

"What should we do? Although the Tongxin Secretariat is overbearing, there is a saint's holy intention behind it. As subjects, how can we fight against the saint?"

Maeda Toshiie followed and sighed.

"Let's not mention that the two Maeda families are in the same spirit, but I am also a samurai family in Siba.

Today I stand by and watch the Kamao clan wipe out Maeda's interests, and tomorrow I will watch the Kamō clan wipe out Nizi Yukimori and Akechi Mitsuhide. .

In the end, everyone let Kamou Clan clean up, and when she attacked me, no one could help me. "