different warring states of japan

Chapter 782 The Dilemma of the Hojo Family

Where there are people, there is fighting. In troubled times, the new year is the beginning of a new conquest.

Sagami country, Odawara Castle.

The Hojo family has gone through three generations since the Ise daughter went to Kanto and conquered the Kanto Plain.

With the help of the Imagawa family, a generation of Ise girls started from Xingguoji Castle in the west of Kanogawa in the Suruga country, entered the Izu country, and conquered the Sagami country.

The second generation Hojo Ujitsuna continued to expand his territory and invaded Musashi Kingdom.She pretended to be Hojo Miao, claiming to be a descendant of the Hojo family in charge of the Kamakura shogunate, but unfortunately the Kanto Samurai family didn't buy it.

The Kanto region has always been xenophobic. The Kamakura shogunate's ruling Hojo family used to be powerful, but it has long followed the Kamakura shogunate to perish.

Guanbazhou, where the Kanto Plain is located, is the birthplace of the Samurai Shogunate.Famous families walk everywhere here, and the Yu family is not as good as a dog. One stone can throw three descendants of famous families.

Even if the Hojo family pretended to be a famous Miao family, the local samurai would not recognize it, and still regarded her family as foreign invaders.

The Kanto Plain was called Bandong in ancient times. At that time, the Minamoto clan descended from Hanoi, and the Minamoto family called on the local samurai to attack the indigenous hairy people who occupied a large area of ​​Kanto. They fought a war for twelve years.

Later, the imperial court refused to reward the samurai who participated in the war on the grounds that the Minamoto family started the war without authorization.The Minamoto family sold their own property to reward the samurai family, and this is how the Bando samurai family swore to be loyal to Hanoi Genji from generation to generation.

It's just that the Wu family is only interested in profit, so it's fine to listen to this kind of oath.

Later, the descendants of the Genji family in Hanoi and the Heike family from the Isehei family fought for power in the imperial court.Genji was defeated, and his daughter Minamoto Yoritomo was exiled to Izu country.

The Bando samurai pretended to be deaf and dumb, and the oath of that year is still in the temple, and the oath is still floating in the air.But who the hell would take it seriously?What are the benefits of helping Hanoi Genji fight?
But then things changed.

The Heike family was in power, and they quickly approached the emperor and his ministers.Her family used Jinji as their base to oppress the Guandong samurai, and the Bandong samurai dared not speak out.

Kanto and Kansai have been full of contradictions since ancient times, and Bando is mostly descendants of the Ping family.The Iseheira family is actually the descendant of the Bando Heira family who went to the Ise country to open up the place.

The Ping family among the common people gained power, but instead helped the court to oppress the descendants.Regardless of whether it is the Kanto Kansai, the difference between the concubine and the concubine, or the interests of money, grain and tax burdens, the three-layered discord is unbearable.

Seeing the opportunity, the Hojo family in Izu dedicated their son to the exiled Minamoto Yoshitomo, and gave birth to the direct descendants of the Kawachi Genji family.

The two sides hit it off immediately, and the Hojo family called on the Bando Heira family to follow Minamoto Yoritomo, and each family seemed to remember the oath they had made to Hanoi Genji for a moment.

Thus, the Bando Happei clan, who followed Minamoto Yoritomo, the first shogun, was officially released.

Minamoto Yoritomo conquered the Kanto Plain and set up a waiter in Kamakura of Sagami Country, the prototype of this shogunate.The Bando Bahei clan followed the footsteps of the shogunate to conquer the world, multiplied and continued to grow.

Now, a branch of the Kyoto Ise family belonging to the Iseheira family came to Kanto to make trouble. How could the Kanto samurai recognize the Hojo family Miao character that her family pretended to claim!

The Hojo family has already given enough face after calling her. If it weren't for the fact that the Hojo family is so powerful, they would have thought of destroying her family.

The castle tower of Odawara Castle and the Hojo family are also holding spring reviews.

Hojo Ujiyasu is the daughter of the second-generation Hojo Ujitsuna, and the current family governor.She sat on the main seat and closed her eyes to meditate, listening to the group of retainers discussing the family affairs.

The Hojo family is an outsider, and it is quite difficult to open up the Kanto Plain.It is often that one generation of family governors develops, one generation of family governors stabilizes, and it has been three generations of steady and steady development that it has come to where it is today.

Geographically, the Kanto Plain refers to the eight states of Guanbazhou, Sagami, Musashi, Ueno, Shimono, Hitachi, Xiazong, Shangzong, and Anfang in ancient times.

In addition, the two countries of Izu and Kai are the ten countries of Kanto in the political sense, the generals of Kanto, and the fiefs of the Kamakura Ashikaga family.

The first generation of Ise women conquered the two countries of Izu Sagami, and the second generation of Hojo Utsuna secured the territory, built Odawara Castle, and then attacked Musashi Kingdom.

When it came to Hojo Ujiyasu, she completely defeated the Kamakura Ashikaga family and the two Uesugi families, making the Hojo family the Kanto overlord in the eyes of the princesses.

Today's Hojo family occupies the three kingdoms of Izu, Sagami, and Musashi, encroaching on Ueno, Shimono, Shimoso, and Hitachi Shikoku, which has truly become the nightmare of the Kanto samurai family.

The two Uesugi families were beaten to extinction by her, and only Uesugi Xianzheng escaped.Kwantung general Ashikaga Haruji was also forced to be a puppet of the Hojo family.

Hojo's younger brother and Ashikaga Haru gave birth to Ashikaga Yoshishi, who inherited the Kanto General, and Ashikaga married the daughter of Hojo's Yasushi.Since then, the Kwantung Generals have been completely reduced to puppets of the Hojo family.

After Hojo Ujiyasu achieved a series of military and political victories, the family business became more prosperous.The samurai families in the Kanto were afraid of the power of the Hojo family, and they began to join forces against her family both openly and secretly.

For example, Lijian Yiyao, who saw his family in Anfang, claimed to be the deputy commander of Kanto, and had been attacking the Anfang Peninsula where the Three Kingdoms of Anfang and Xiazong were located.

Yoshishige Satake of the Hitachi country is also very wary of the Hojo family, and the two sides have continued to dispute the border between the Hitachi and Hitachi countries.

And the two Uesugi families that have already perished have also caused trouble to Hojo Shiyasu.

Uesugi Sensei fled to the Echigo Kingdom, and entrusted all his family business to the Nagao family in Shimokakami's Fuchu, only to avenge the extinct Yamauchi Uesugi family.

The Ogiya Uesugi family has occupied the Musashi Kingdom for many years. Even if it perishes, the retainers who have lost their backbone still miss the old master and are full of malice towards the Hojo family.

Ogaya Uesugi's head, the local samurai family headed by the Ota family are very uneasy, they have been fighting against the Hojo family, and they can only use force to suppress it.

At this time, the Takeda family fired another shot at the Suruga country behind the Hojo family, intending to go south to invade the Imagawa family.

It seems that the family business is prosperous, but it is struggling with internal and external troubles.Hojo Shiyasu was exhausted in his heart, but he didn't show the slightest outward appearance.

She quietly listened to the group of retainers' comments, nodding from time to time to express her opinions.Seeing that the family governor is as stable as Mount Tai, the retainers also feel at ease.

Because the Hojo family is an outsider, it is difficult to be accepted by the local samurai.Therefore, her family puts the most emphasis on internal affairs, attaches great importance to territorial construction, and buys people's hearts with benevolent governance.

In Kanto, where the tax burden is based on the six publics and four people, the Hojo family has always insisted on the light tax of the four publics and the six people.

Kanto is no better than Kansai.The commerce in Kanto is underdeveloped, and most of the samurai rely on land taxes and land taxes to make a living. The Hojo family can only use more sophisticated domestic and commercial means to make up for these losses in money and food.

Fortunately, the Hojo family has a consensus and knows that pioneering is difficult.The six Miyuo families who came to Kanto, and the branch relatives that have reproduced for three generations, are very united.

The Hojo family with a solid retainer group, although the pace of expansion is not fast, but the strength gathered by the three generations has achieved the prestige of the Hojo family.

But as the family business grows, Hojo Ujiyasu has to face a harsh situation that his grandmother and mother have never seen.

Traveling against the current, retreating if not advancing.

The Hojo family, an outsider, was rejected by the Kanto samurai family after all.She can't retreat, there is an abyss behind her, and once she retreats, she will be lost forever.

(End of this chapter)