Pillars of the Wu family

In Kasugayama Castle, which had been silent for a few days because of the turmoil in the evaluation meeting, another major event happened again. It was because of the land lawsuit case between Ueno Iamari and Shimohira Yoshinaga. There was a big quarrel at the routine executive meeting, and they almost started fighting on the spot, but they were finally pulled away by Changwei Jinghu.

The reason is that Shino Honjo overthrew Okuma Asohide's decision as an old assistant politician of the Nagao family, assigned all the disputed land to the Ueno family, and invited the leader of the Ueda community, Masaki Nagao, to write a letter to Uonuma County The Ueda people inside "assisted" Ueno Iamari to regain the land that had been lost for more than 40 years.

No matter how you say it, it is always obvious that it is beneficial to the Ueda people, and I don’t mind from Nagao Zhengjing down, let the Echigo Uesugi faction headed by Okuma Asohide suffer a big loss. At the beginning, they cheated Nagao Zhengjing like this, and now Just recovering the land of the Five Antis is not enough for the Echigo Uesugi faction to repay what they owed to the Ueda people.

Shimohira Yoshinaga is just a Chinese in Uonuma County, and he is also a Chinese of the Echigo-Uesugi faction. The original core of this group is Echigo’s former guardian Uesugi, and his branches Kamijo, Yamamotoji, and Yamaura The clan and many of the guardian faction's retainers were imprisoned. In the past, Ueda and the guardian faction didn't think it was inappropriate to wear a pair of trousers.

He didn't dare to appeal at all, because Honjo was the core figure of the previous guardian generation, and Echigo's current guardian Nagao Keigora's mentor, in the heart of the king, was equal to his first teacher Amamuro Guangyu, Honjo really represents all the forces of the Echigo Nagao family, and his will is sometimes equal to the will of the king.How dare he complain.

Similarly, he did not dare to fight Ueno Iamari with arms.Because it is surrounded by Ueda's territory.The land of the Five Rebels that flew away at the mouth was handed over to Ueno Jiacheng with the "assistance" of the armed forces of Ueda. Under the situation of being surrounded by enemies, how could he have the courage to fight against the entire Ueda, so he could only eat one Dumb loss.

Shimohira repaired Ryoyoshicho's surrender, and Okuma Chaoxiu was no longer a human being inside and out. Ever since the Echigo Uesugi faction lost the aura of protection, the hearts of the people have been fluctuating for the past three years.As the current leader and Echigo's first order in charge of tax collection, he cannot bow his head to Honjo Shino no matter what.

So it happened that at the above-mentioned enforcing meeting, Daxiong Chaoxiu and Honjo Shino completely tore their faces apart, and even had a big fight at one point, which caused even greater chaos. Nagao Jinghu tended to be thunderous and rainy about the handling of this matter. Xiao, first reprimanded the village for disrespecting Daxiong Chaoxiu, the handler of the land dispute case, and then comforted him, and put the matter on hold for now.As long as the two parties no longer file complaints, they are out of the question.

Of course Da Xiong Chaoxiu was unwilling to suffer this loss, so he sent someone to contact Ping Jichang.Let him continue to fight to the end, and the Echigo Uesugi faction will support him. However, Shimohira Yoshihide did not have the guts at all, and just sloppyly perfunctory. After receiving the reply, Daxiong Chaoxiu thought that he was writing an invitation letter to continue Litigation, in the ensuing executive meeting, he made harsh words and must be brought back.

In the end, I waited and waited, but I didn’t see Xiaping Jichang coming to Kasuga Mountain City in person. Da Xiong Chaoxiu sent someone to look for him again, and this time the envoy was rejected as expected. Only then did Da Xiong Chaoxiu realize that he was being fooled. In a fit of anger, he went to the enshrining meeting to make a scene, and this time, as expected, he was scolded by a group of retainers, and even Hirako Fangmasa, Sensaka Keiki, and Usami Sadami didn't speak for him.

Seeing his allies remain indifferent, Daxiong Chaoxiu felt that his dignity was being trampled on, so he declared that he would retire without saying a word, and went back to Jiguancheng, his home city in Shangyue, to stay behind closed doors. Of course, Nagao Jinghu didn't want to watch Seeing this incident, envoys were sent one after another to invite him back. The reason is that the Okuma family has been responsible for the taxation of the Echigo Uesugi family for generations, and he collects both Duan money and Dongbe money.

When Nagao Weijing and Uesugi House were able to confront each other, Okuma Masahide, the former governor of the Okuma family, took the opportunity to turn to the Nagao family, and transferred the taxes that should have been paid to the Echigo Uesugi family to the Nagao family. This directly promoted Nagao Weijing's defeat of Uesugi Fangneng in one fell swoop, and continued to play an important role when the Kanto governor Uesugi Sadesada led the army into Echigo.

Although Okuma Masahide was on the side of Kamijo Dingken during the third-third of the original war, but for the important position and outstanding contribution of this family in Echigo, Nagao Jinghu still wants to give this important minister some face, see Okuma Chaoxiu didn't come back for a long time, so Nagao Jinghu decided to apologize in person and asked him to come out again. His decision was immediately blocked by Honjo Shino.

"My lord is not at fault at all, so why go to Jiguan City to apologize in person? If this example is opened, everyone in Echigo's retainers will use retirement to take advantage of the country's lord. How can the Echigo country be governed? How should you, the lord, deal with yourself? ?”

Changwei Jinghu thought for a while and decided that he still had to go see Daxiong Chaoxiu, even if he didn't apologize, he would try to invite him back. Chunri Mountain City was not far from Jiguan City, and he could go back and forth on horseback in a day. When they arrived at Jiguan City, they learned that Daxiong Chaoxiu had closed the door for many days, and there was a wooden sign hanging outside the Otemon Gate, which read, "Even if the Lord himself comes, he will never go back!"

Perhaps his original intention of hanging this wooden sign was to stop the envoys who came to persuade him. Perhaps he did not expect that Changwei Jinghu would come to Jiguan City in person. In short, Changwei Jinghu's face was very ugly at that time, and he took his troops back to Chunri on the spot Shancheng, no longer ask Daxiong Chaoxiu to come out of the mountain.

In a sense, this is a war between two factions vying for dominance, and the fuse of this war is an inconspicuous land dispute. It was not a small political crisis. Afterwards, Xiong Chaoxiu also learned the cause and effect from his allies. Of course, he regretted it.

However, it would be futile for him to explain the matter so far. The result of completely offending Nagao Jinghu is serious. Not only did he lose his position as the leader of the Echigo Uesugi faction, but it also caused widespread rejection from Echigo's retainers. It can be said that he lost face , only to hide in Jiguan City, sighing all day long and drowning his sorrows with wine.

At this time, a secret envoy from the Kai Kingdom came to Jiguan City secretly, and the secret envoy told him secretly: "At this time, there is no place for Your Highness Okuma in Echigo's country. Jiguan City, the main hall of the long-tailed bomb will definitely not intervene at that time, the future and life of the Big Bear Clan are in jeopardy!"

Seeing the emissary of the Takeda family, Daxiong Chaoxiu was very vigilant: "Where did you get the news? Why have I never heard of it? Are you trying to encourage me to conspire against you? Let me tell you, you are dreaming! "

The envoy said calmly: "Bizen guards the palace with too many intentions! I have no such thoughts, I just remind His Highness, if His Highness doesn't believe it, you can check the trend of Zhuangtian's fixed capital! I was ordered to report to you Bizen Shouden will give you 50 taels of gold as a gift, if one day Bizen Shouden cannot stay in Echigo, please go to Kai and tell me, my Takeda family can guarantee the future of Bizen Shouden, I will bid you farewell!"

"Hmph! No!" Daxiong Chaoxiu stared at the envoy's back and gradually disappeared, looked at the gold package, and snorted coldly, "Just 50 taels of gold in exchange for the allegiance of my Daxiong clan? What a good deal! But my Daxiong family does not lack this little money! It’s just that the farmland is fixed capital, but we must check it out.”

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"Go away, all of you! Leave me alone!"

In the castle tower of Kasuga Mountain Castle, Nagao Jinghu was still angry, and there was nothing he could do about it, and there was nothing he could do about it. It was useless to invite him to the village, and it was useless to persuade him for a long time. When the minister was helpless, Yoshitomo Kira walked over slowly.

"Wuwei Palace!" Ben Zhuang hurriedly greeted him, and a group of long-tailed retainers followed suit, and he said worriedly: "I'm sorry to invite you to come here. It's really my lord who is in a very bad mood right now. Please persuade me a little more." sentence!"

"My family understands." Yoshihiro Kira closed his folding fan and said with a smile, "I will leave it to my family at Jinghu Temple."

Looking at the back of Kira Yoshitoki leaving, Honjo Mino and Naoe Mitsuna looked at each other with a wry smile. If there were other ways, they would not invite this Takee, the son-in-law of Echigo Nagao's family. People other than Hou, for the people of Echigo, they are not used to other people intervening in their own affairs, but this time the situation is different, as the initiator of the incident, Honjo can't solve it.

Walking into the Tianshou Pavilion, one could smell a pungent smell of alcohol, a pile of empty bottles and cans were thrown around, and some dry wine stains flowed out with the empty bottles, while Nagao Jinghu was staggering from drinking, Lying drunkenly among a pile of wine bottles, when he heard movement in the room, the famous Echigo general immediately opened his eyes, stood up on the ground and stared at the approaching figure.

"Who is it? Uh...it's Yoshitoki!" When it was clear that the person who came was Kira Yoshitoshi, Nagao Jinghu fell limply into the wine bottle again, and the huge movement knocked several bottles together, making him drunk He said, "Why are you here? Aren't you... practicing spear skills? Hiccup!"

A burst of wine smell came out along with the hiccups, and Kira Yoshishi couldn't help taking two steps back, covering his mouth and nose with a fan and shaking his head, "What is Jinghudian doing? What happened? Drive out the servants and take dozens of You have been drinking a bottle of sake for most of the day, and you will worry many of Echigo's officials."

"Worried?" Changwei Jinghu stood up, grabbed the wine bottle with misty eyes, touched a bottle behind him, opened the cork, raised his neck and drank it, the clear wine flowed down the corner of his mouth on the monk's robe , drank a bottle of sake in a few gulps, then threw the bottle aside casually, stood up unsteadily, swayed from side to side, walked to the window and pushed open the paper door. All the gas is expelled.

"They will worry about me, Jinghu?" Nagao Jinghu pointed at the busy figure of His Excellency Tianshou, and sneered, "When did they ever worry about me? They only worried about their wealth and land, the harvest in the field, and the disputes over the territory. Have half of my Nagao family? Worry! Hmph!"

"Jinghu Palace..."

"It's not good! It's not good!" A servant ran over in a panic and shouted, "Princess Hu Ji is gone!" (To be continued...)