Pillars of the Wu family

The Kira family insisted on implementing relevant policies. As long as a family of farmers came to Echigo, they would give [-] anti-lands for farming. If a family had more than five people, each additional person would give more land to the five antis. The loan is registered according to the age and health of the farm cattle, and more than five years will be owned by them. The one-year section fee is exempted and the three-year tenancy fee is exempted. The policy of providing housing is also being implemented in full swing.

This policy caused strong repercussions under the dissemination of Hattori Ninja's propaganda network. Within half a year, 5 people moved in one after another. Even so, there were still a large number of farmers' gaps. It needs 50 farmers to cultivate, but now there are only 20. We can only give higher treatment and force farmers to work harder.

Twenty people do the work of 50 people, and it will definitely be very tiring. Men, women, and children all go to battle, and even bring straw mats, mosquito nets and wormwood to sleep directly in the field. There are a lot of farmers, and you can often see three or four-year-old children carrying small burdens and following their older brothers to collect firewood. Yoshishi Kira has nothing to do about this.

In the Middle Ages, in terms of tenacity, old Japanese farmers were no worse than Chinese farmers. They paid [-]% of their grain as an annual tribute, and at the same time they had to pay various taxes such as Duan Qian, Dong Bie Qian, military service, and general service. When the new year comes, it is not uncommon to abandon old people without food and drown babies. In terms of poverty and harshness, life is no worse than that in China.

Of the [-] chobu of their land, about half of them are planted with potatoes, corn, and pumpkins, and the other half are planted with rice. There is nothing they can do about it.Except for low-level samurai, townspeople and farmers, new food is the staple food.High-ranking warriors, monks and the like still had rice as their staple food.Of course, they also usually drink pumpkin porridge, eat corn rice, and eat stewed quail with potatoes, but relatively few meat dishes are also eaten secretly.

The main consumer is the field meal that Kira Yoshishi promoted the whole army. Pumpkin, corn, potato, pickled radish and big root, chicken soup and fish soup can supplement most of the nutrients needed, and it is better than dry, cold and hard rice balls. many.Therefore, it is loved by soldiers who march and fight.

Before winter, the excavation of river ponds was gradually stopped. Under Li Ding’s command, tens of thousands of farmers surrounded more than a dozen swamps of different sizes. First, the water inlets and outlets of the swamps were dug to keep running water flowing in and out, and then the dams were built. For the construction of polders, Yoshishiki Kira spent nearly [-] guan in various constructions in Echigo this year. The amount of investment is astonishing.

At the same time, another interesting thing happened in the small prefecture of Shinano. Yukitaka Sanada may have become addicted to stealing the city. The Shinano samurai opened the city gate and sneaked into the city.In the end, he was hit head-on by the Yasuda Army who had been on guard for a long time.

Facing the onslaught of soldiers led by Yasuda Keimoto himself, Yukitaka Sanada immediately realized that the news had leaked and the attack had failed.However, the superiority of the Sanada army made him hesitate whether to retreat, because the Sanada army of more than [-] people had been pressing Yasuda Keimoto's team to fight, and the outer curved wheel was completely occupied. He was confident that he could defeat the enemy within half an hour.

This hesitation almost caused the Sanada army to fall into it. Not long after, the secret sentry ambushed outside the city sent a warning. Two armies of unknown numbers appeared outside the city. retreat.

As soon as he escaped from Susuki Castle, the Sanada Army was unfortunately pursued by the support troops of Kakizaki Keijia and Yoshie Keisuke. Sanada Yutaka decisively left a team of Ashigaru to fight to the death, and he led the army. The team fled eastward along the Qianqu River at high speed.

The samurai of the Duanhou army are loyal ministers who have served the Sanada family for many years. In order to buy more time for the Sanada army to retreat, they clung to the pursuers of the Kakizaki Kei family and Yoshie Kagesuke's subordinates and rushed to the front of the Yoshie team. It was blocked, and at the same time, the Kakizaki team with the strongest combat effectiveness was blocked behind.

This obstruction will miss the precious pursuit, but Kakizaki Keijia's angry swearing is of no avail. His detour at this time will definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of Jijiang Jingzi, but his fastest combat power is slightly inferior After a while, being held back by the 50-man team for a quarter of an hour obviously couldn't catch up with anything. In the end, the two discussed it and decided to give up the pursuit and return to the army to rest.

The Yasuda army only lost dozens of people in this night attack, and they still had a certain advantage on the scene. Then they were almost made dumplings by the reinforcements without knowing it. The Sanada army lost more than a hundred people together with the loss. The Sanada family suffered a big loss this time.

The Echigo side quickly received the battle report from Yasuda Keimoto and others, and soon issued a new order. In the next few months, the old Kakizaki Kei family of the genealogy family will serve as the banner head, and the Hattori in an ambush in Shinano With the cooperation of the ninja, the Takeda family was ambushed in Kita Shinano's eyeliner, and the samurai who instigated the rebellion were removed one by one. The method of dealing with the betrayers was borrowed from the execution method of Kira Yoshihime, and they were directly hanged outside the city as an example.

Nearly a hundred samurai were hanged outside the castle towns of various cities. The cruel executions and severe warnings made the people of Shinano fearful of Hattori ninjas. A samurai who collects the corpses of his comrades.

Hattori ninja showed his skills, borrowing various interrogation methods to pry open the mouths of these samurai, and then followed the clues to catch a thread, which also involved several hidden big fish.

During this massive cleansing process, more than [-] nobles and land servants were executed, and the land was confiscated equivalent to [-] towns. Lord, it is worth mentioning that the people in Minauchi County and Gaojing County, where the Kawanaka Island area is located, were not implicated. This result made Yoshitoki Kira extremely satisfied.

The Great Cleansing severely frightened the unruly Shinano people, especially those aristocratic families who had just attached themselves to the Kira family, and the land servants were frightened. Bring the Takeda army back and fight back, but this time Kira told them with an iron fist that "this is a delusion", only obedience can be forgiven, and those who have evil intentions can only be hanged.

The law of the Kira family has always been relentless in dealing with this kind of aristocrats who do not know how to advance or retreat. The first criminal was hanged, his knowledge and behavior were changed, and relatives and servants were distributed to the Echigo samurai as punishment. Although this method is not as good as Takeda Harunobu's frequent massacres.Ruthless and ruthless in sweeping away the residents of the city and degrading their efforts.But it also deeply moved the hearts of countless Shinano samurai.

Both Kira and Takeda are not easy to mess with.The problem is that the Takeda family is weak and the Kira family is strong, and the situation is relatively clear. Many people in the country are beginning to think about what they will use to vote for the Kira family.

After this change in the form of Shinano, the people of the country who firmly believed in the unification of the Takeda family in Shinano gradually wavered. Takeda Nobushige and Sanada Yutaka, who are located in the small prefecture, had to spend more effort to appease the people in the county, and they could not do it in the short term. Suppress Echigo's infiltration of Shinano.

Not long after winter began, a series of news came from Kyoto. The first was the outbreak of the Itsukushima War, which determined the supremacy of the Western Kingdom, and Tao Qingxian, the actual ruler of the Ouchi family, the Western Kingdom's overlord.At the beginning of the year, he formed an alliance with Haruhisa Izumo, another overlord of the Western Kingdom, to join forces to destroy the Maori family.

At this time, the Nizi family coincided with the change of the Xingong Party. Nizi Qingjiu was busy eradicating the arrogant and domineering Nizi Guojiu and Nizi Chengjiu who had always defied the authority of the family governor. Not only was their military strength severely weakened, but they also had to spend The intention is to annex the territory belonging to the Xingong Party, and appease the foreigners who belong to the Nizi family.

Seeing that his allies are so weak, and at this time, he just received the news that Mo Liyuan started to build Miyao Castle on Itsukushima. This will touch the heart of the Ouchi family and Tao Qingxian. Itsukushima Shrine is a famous tourist destination in the West Sightseeing spots, who doesn’t come and go to offer a stick of incense to worship gods and Buddhas?

It is also an important source of financial income for the Ouchi family.How can Mao Liyuan take it just as the old boy says?So Tao Qingxian decided not to wait for the cooperation of allies, and personally led an army of [-] to attack the Maori army on Yan Island across the sea.

Strictly speaking.Tao Qingxian's choice was also good. The [-] troops of the Ouchi army that went out this time were enough to crush the [-] defenders of Mori Motozuru. Yan Island was a small island surrounded by water. As long as the army besieged the island, The Maori army has become a battle of annihilation.

He is not wrong to think so. The foundation of the Ouchi family's hegemony is the Ouchi navy. This powerful navy with [-] large and small ships maintains the hegemony of the Ouchi family in the Western Kingdom and Kyushu. The Maori navy and the Kobayakawa navy that faced the battle had only a hundred or so ships in total, and most of them were Xiaozao. There were more than a dozen ships closed, and the Ataka boat was a unique technology of Miyoshi's family, which had never been used before.

With such a large force advantage, the superiority of the navy is Tao Qingxian's confidence to go his own way and go his own way. No matter how Hongzhong Longbao, another important minister of the Ouchi family, persuades him, it will not help. I prefer to fight a war of annihilation. Annihilate all the main forces of the enemy, and the Maori family will collapse without fighting.

The result was far beyond his expectations. Ever since he stepped into Itsukushima to attack Miyao Castle, it has not been smooth. The defenders of Miyao Castle are Naoyuki Kami and Motomasa Tsuboi who belonged to the Ouchi family. The die-hard members of the Ouchi family are not loyal ministers of the Maori family, but they have unexpectedly tenacious resistance.

Miyao City happened to be built on one of the few cliffs in the island, and the only passage was a steep and rugged slope. The angle of attack was not good, the road was unusual, and the attack surface was narrow, so it couldn't exert the effect of a large army besieging at all. At this time, Tao Qingxian He also began to regret his recklessness, but the matter has come to this point, as the actual power holder of the Ouchi family, can he bow his head and admit his mistakes like Hongzhong Longbao?No way!Never bow your head even if you know you made a mistake.

When Tao Qingxian was gnashing his teeth and planning to go all the way to the dark, Mao Liyuan was also waiting anxiously. Since the change of Daning Temple four years ago, he has been keenly aware that the sky in this western country is about to change. He worked so hard to plan this war in order to lure Tao Qingxian into the bait. From the moment the war started, his strategic goal had basically been achieved.

What remains to be considered is how to encircle and annihilate the Ouchi Army, which is several times larger than his own. Motoshi Mori's strategy is to win over the Mishima navy of the Murakami family to attack the Ouchi Army. From September 21, when the Itsukushima Battle started From then on, Nomi Sokatsu, who was in contact with the Mishima Navy, brought a letter from Mori Motozuru to ask for help.

Regarding the request of the Maori family, the Mishima navy behaved differently. Because the governor of Shimamura's family, Murakami Kichimitsu first agreed, and his wife is the daughter of Nomi Sokatsu. It is only natural to help the old father-in-law. Come to the island Murakami's family supervisor Laishima Tongkang's attitude is very ambiguous. This family has long since joined the Kono family, and he himself has become the son-in-law and adopted son of Kono Tongzhi.

The last and largest is the head of the Murakami family on Noshima Island, and the leader of the Mishima Navy. The family governor is Murakami Yamato and Takeshi.His official position is not what the local turtles claim to be.Because the status of Murakami Takeshi is extraordinary.The Mishima Navy is the most powerful and has always been submissive to the shogunate.

Therefore, in order to commend Takeshi Murakami for his "loyalty" over the years, Ashikaga Yoshiki got him an official position in the court. As for the money for buying an official, of course the shogunate cannot let the shogunate pay. Baiguan chatted to express his thanks.

Takekichi Murakami was not willing to help the Mori family at first. What does Ouchi and Mori's life and death have to do with him? It is purely a lie to say that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold. In the past, everyone was very harmonious under the rule of the Ouchi family.Why should we help you when Ouchi and Maori are shopping together?

Naomi Zongsheng saw that this trick was not working, and quickly called the Lord for support. This time it was delayed until September 28, the seventh day when the Ouchi Army attacked Itsukushima.

Mao Liyuan even wrote another letter, talking about the "Tao Qingxian Yandao Sanctuary" established by Tao Qingxian in Yandao half a year after the end of the Daning Temple Change, which prohibited unidentified ships from docking and prohibiting unidentified ships from collecting "police "Materials" regulations, the Mishima Navy's poor life in recent years is also because of this regulation.

Maori Motojima mentioned in his letter: "If Yamato Shouden strictly abides by neutrality and our Maori family is defeated, I will definitely die in Itsukushima, and the Maori family will also perish in the near future. The opponent's Ouchi family will formulate more stringent laws and restrictions, and even force the Murakami navy to surrender. If Yamato Shouden does not obey, it will definitely encounter the danger of my Yuanjiu today... If Yamato Shouden is my Maori family Let us cooperate to counterattack the Ouchi navy, and I will swear to the gods and Buddhas to protect the privileges of the Murakami navy in Setouchi from being hindered!"

Mori Motoji's judgment was very accurate. Murakami Takekichi was successfully persuaded, Laijima Tongyasu saw that the clan was dispatched and hurriedly followed suit. In the blink of an eye, the Mishima navy gathered more than 500 large and small ships. The number of the Maori side's navy Reaching more than [-] ships, the disadvantage of the navy was pulled back quietly, and the balance of victory was tilting a little bit in the direction of the Maori family.

The end of every month is called "evil day". In the Ming Dynasty, it was called "dark day". On the night of the evil day, everything is inappropriate. Tao Qingxian received Gui Yuancheng's letter of surrender the night before. The unparalleled famous general Tao Qingxian didn't know anything about "Huang Gai's feigned surrender". He was overjoyed to see the letter of surrender and agreed to accept surrender on October [-]st.

Waiting for something to happen. That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high and the storm swept across Yandao. When Tao Qingxian woke up the next morning, Tao Qingxian waited hopefully for Gui Yuancheng's surrendered army to arrive. There was a chaotic cry of killing, and a group of Maori troops from the back of the Red Leaf Valley came to attack the Da Nei Army, putting the unsuspecting Da Nei Army in a difficult situation.

At the same time, the Maori navy teamed up with the Mishima navy to raid the Ouchi navy, which was also unsuspecting. The crowded Ouchi navy could not give full play to their numerical advantage, and was overwhelmed by the Mishima navy who was proficient in sea plundering. I can't hold my head up.

Seeing that the situation was excellent, Takekichi Murakami immediately sacrificed the magic weapon to bake the fire arrows. Suddenly, a raging fire continued to burn on the sea.

The naval army won a complete victory and cut off the only chance for the Ouchi Army to escape. The original intention was to catch Mao Liyuan, the softshell turtle in the urn, but he never thought that he would become that sad prey. Powerless to fight back, after a whole day of fierce fighting, Tao Qingxian led the remaining troops to retreat to the seaside in defeat.

However, he would never have imagined that the Da Nei Navy docked at Dayuanpu would turn into burnt ruins overnight. Looking at the ships moving on the sea, could it be the "Shang" flag, and occasionally you can see the Maori family. There is a three-star flag in one word, but there is still a ship of his Ouchi family.

Tao Qingxian has realized that he has fallen into a trap carefully arranged by the enemy, but he has not given up hope, and insists on leading the remnants to continue fleeing towards the deep mountains and forests of Yandao. After the samurai voluntarily died, he chased and killed again and again and escaped again and again. Tao Qingxian suddenly found that there were only a dozen or so people around him.

He fled for four whole days. During these few days, Tao Qingxian had risked his life to flee to Dajiangpu, but there was still no boat. At this time, Tao Qingxian was completely desperate. In front of an unknown woods, write a death sentence: "What regrets and what hates to go back to the origin, the destiny is destined to be here."

As a result, a generation of hero Mao Liyuan finally completed the triple jump in his life. From a small wealthy family to the Warring States daimyo class, the Ouchi family fell into decline irresistibly, which represented the end of an old era, as if in It indicates that the troubled times of the Warring States Period will usher in the last and craziest era.

It seems to have noticed a slight change in the dark, or learned that during the Battle of Itsukushima, the Ouchi Army of the Megatron West Kingdom was annihilated by the Maori family in the first battle. More than 8000 people were wiped out, and more than [-] people were captured. The glorious record shocked the court. At that time, the old and sick emperor announced that there would be wars and disasters, and that the Yuan Dynasty would be changed.

On October 23, the new year name was set, and the Yuan name was Hongzhi, which came from the "Book of Northern Qi". It only inherited Baoming and Zhihongzhi style. It is the first year of Hongzhi.

During this year, the Miyoshi family who frequently entered Harima and Tanba for the first time suddenly stopped their expansion in Kinai. A few months before the outbreak of the Itsukushima War, they turned their attention to the solid foundation of Shikoku’s old nest. This is the third time that instability has occurred in recent years.

Prior to this, Shihe Yicun had always been in charge of the subjugation of the people of Sanuki. However, with the death of Shihe Yicun five years ago, the Miyoshi family's control over Sanuki gradually weakened. In a few years, Sanuki has repeatedly The problems that occurred could not be effectively resolved, and the main force of the Miyoshi family happened to be stuck in Kinai and could not return to help, so they spent five years in comfort.

Now that the situation in Kinai is stable, Higashi Harima has basically surrendered, and Tamba Kingdom has been completely straightened out. Miyoshi Yoshiken was ordered to return to Shikoku to appease the people of Sanuki, from annexation to digestion, and then to accumulate strength to wait for the next annexation. This is the rhythm of the Miyoshi family. It is also the rhythm of most Warring States daimyos.

The Awaji Navy, which suffered heavy losses, also completed the initial reconstruction work at the end of the year. Compared with the Awaji Navy three years ago, the quality of soldiers in this new army has dropped a lot. In recent years, in order to improve the quality of soldiers, sense of belonging, With a sense of honor and loyalty, Toyasu Ataka took the newly created Awaji navy to attack all kinds of pirates.

In the past, it was fine for these pirates to wander around Seto Inland. The Awaji Navy has always turned a blind eye and closed one eye. Everyone knows the truth that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. But three years ago, they lost a muscle injury. Gu Yiqiantian, in order to regain his strength, he focused on them again, including the Tosa Navy, Kumano Navy and other key targets.

Relying on the excellent equipment and the initial mastery of baked jade, attacking the unprepared with intentions, and overpowering the few with the crowd, he successfully defeated two naval forces and one was caught off guard, sinking more than half of them, and severely injuring dozens of ships of all sizes. Setouchi was shocked, and Toyasu Ataka used this brilliant victory to show the world the return of the Awaji Navy.

With the prestige of this great victory, the Awaji Navy continued to mop up several difficult sailors, forcing several small sailors in Kii to surrender, and at the same time stabilized the Iyo Kono family, ensured the smooth passage of Sanuki-Utazu Port, and dominated half of the East Seto. .

With this series of achievements, Toyasu Antaka was greatly praised by Miyoshi Changqing, and he was transferred to Sakai Town to guard Osaka Bay, and his status in Miyoshi's family, which had declined slightly in recent years, was restored. (To be continued..)