Pillars of the Wu family

At first glance, this news seems to be nothing special, but the subsequent changes are quite different. After returning to Echigo, the Kira Legion reorganized for a while, and then let out the wind, saying that it is about to join the Nagao Legion in the Ueno National Congress. Directly pointing at the Hojo army that invaded Ueno.

This not only made Hojo Shikang restless, but also made the Hojo retainers very annoyed. Now the Hojo family has very little choice, wanting to advance but not wanting to retreat, and reluctant to part with it. Thinking of the greedy samurai who joined forces to put pressure on Hojo Shiyasu a few days ago, In the end, they destroyed the basis of the peace talks with their own hands, and these warriors were so angry that they could not help venting their anger by swearing.

"How could it be undefeated early and undefeated late, and it happened to be defeated at this stall? The news came earlier that I signed the peace agreement and returned to Odawara Castle. Maybe the Nagano family will not be able to hold on later... this Will there be any problems?" Shanjiao Dingji's question caused some warriors to ponder.

"Could it be collusion? It doesn't look like it! It's hard to fake such a big move by CITIC. Those losses were calculated by Fuma Ninja. It shouldn't be wrong. It can't be wrong for the Takeda family to be angry at this fiasco. "Tamuko Motoko is one of the six Goyuo families established in Hojo Soun's era. His father, Tame Mototada, and Hojo Utsuna are both teachers and friends. Heibei's general, belongs to the Qinggui samurai family in the Hojo family.

"It's bad news no matter what." Kasahara Misaku Tsunanobu said with a sad face: "If the Kira family really goes south to Ueno, it may be really difficult to reach peace!"

Shigeru Hojo, who is in his early twenties, inherits the talent of his father Jihuang Hachiman. He is born with supernatural power and bravely crowns the three armies. Because of his birth, he hates the Takeda family.So he said, "Maybe the Kira family is bluffing. There is nothing to be afraid of! The Takeda family is a bunch of cowards. My Hojo family's samurai are not like them!"

"Zenkuro, sit down for me! You shouted at the judging meeting!" Hojo Tsunashige glared at his son angrily. In front of his father, Hojo Shigeru immediately withered.

"Yes!"

Hojo Shiyasu is not angry, but he can't blame the Takeda family's fault. As one of the accomplices, the Hojo family also lost the chain at a crucial link. The highest goal of this battle is to eat the whole of Ueno, the next level It is the annexation of half the country.The worst thing is to defeat the Minawa people headed by the Nagano family. Now they have not achieved anything, and they will face an embarrassing situation where they cannot advance or retreat. It can be called a failure among failures.

"I shouldn't have trusted the Takeda family in the past. Takeda Harunobu was too full of words. He would definitely defeat the Kira family, definitely mess up Echigo, and definitely play Kita Shinano this autumn, but he didn't do any of them! It's really bad enough !" The anger suppressed in my heart couldn't be vented, and I couldn't tell the retainers that I was plotting against the Takeda family.Put yourself in it instead!So he could only scold Takeda Harunobu in his heart.

Takeda Harunobu sent envoys last year to discuss the plan to jointly annex Echigo. This plan has been quietly brewing for a long time.The plan is huge, and there are more than one, two, three steps. If the assassination fails, there will be one key, and if the one key fails, it will definitely disrupt Echigo. If the disturbance fails, it will send troops to Kita Shinano. According to the explanation of the Takeda family envoy, this is called a chain plan. From the results, we can see this The chain meter is a failure from beginning to end.

One of the three major military divisions of the Hojo family, Haruto, who was over forty years old, took a look at Hojo Ujiyasu and said: "The Takeda family still has something to gain. Hida was taken down by them, and they got a piece of land for nothing. You can also share with us." The establishment of ties between Mino and Vietnam, I am afraid that the Takeda family has already made this plan."

This Yamato Haruto was born in the shogunate. The "Qing" in the common character is the next character of the ancestor Ashikaga Yoshiharu. Ten years ago, during the chaotic period when the war broke out at the Shariji Temple in Kinai, he fled to become Sagami. The important minister of the Hojo family, Hojo Ujiyasu also respected him very much.

"The Takeda family made a good move, and Hida's layout is particularly exquisite. It can be used as the first mover to contain Echigo, and it can also be used as the second mover to stabilize the camp and strive for greater development space." Ise Bichu Shouzhenyun is also one of the three One of the military divisions, he is in his early thirties and is handsome.

From his Miao characters, it can be seen that his origin is a relative of the Hojo family. He is the elder of the royal family in the Hojo family, and his status in the Hojo family is almost inferior to that of Hojo Huanan.

Seeing that the two older military advisers had spoken, the youngest of the three major military advisers, Yasuhiro Ogasawara, who was only 26 years old, said without showing any weakness: "Isn't this the breakthrough in Shangluo that Dr. Takeda Ozen has been striving for? It is a chicken rib inside, but it is a treasure in the eyes of the Takeda family. If you go south, you can hide from Mino, and if you go north, you can leave Etchu.

Qingbei Banner Tominaga Naokatsu was born with a loud voice, and he was dissatisfied when he heard this posture, and shouted loudly: "So, I will fight hard, but I will still be tricked by the Takeda family." ?”

The Hojo vassals fell into deep thought. They deeply realized that if the current fragile balance is broken, the local advantages of the Hojo family in the Ueno country will all be lost. With the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Kira Legion and even more terrifying legends, they led the army into Ueno. How much impact will it have on the Hojo family.

The Takeda family's repeated defeats have proved the horror of the Kira Army. Once the reinforcements arrive, they will give Nagao and the Nagano coalition a shot in the arm. Cut off, and even take advantage of the winter to kill along the Tone River to the hinterland of the Kanto, and then use the method of fighting to support Zhongxinano, the Hojo family really can't bear this kind of blow.

"In any case, let's solve the problem in front of us first!" Matsuda Morihide stopped this topic, then bowed respectfully to Hojo Ujiyasu, and said: "Now the situation is unclear and the long-term procrastination may cause accidents. Whether it is war or peace, please ask the Lord Make a quick decision!"

"My lord, please make a quick decision!" Hojo's vassals shouted and bowed down.

Kang Tie of the Hojo family paced back and forth with a blue face, hesitating for a long time before making up his mind: "Peace talks, give in, my Hojo family will leave Ueno country! At least temporarily! But the family will come back!"

"Yes!" Many of the samurai of the Hojo family showed expressions of relief, which made Shiyasu Hojo feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Kotaro, remember to keep in touch with the people who have surrendered. Make a promise to them. The money and things promised by my Hojo family will be sent over. Even if you fail, you can't treat these samurai who are loyal to my Hojo family. This family is not Takeda Harunobu , My Hojo family has always had a tradition of treating the samurai family favorably, let them serve the Nagao family and the Nagano family with peace of mind, and wait for the family to recuperate for a year, and then gather all the soldiers and horses to fight back again!"

Yasushi Hojo spoke slowly with a gloomy face, and several Yubi immediately copied down the dictation of the king, and finally used Yasushi Hojo's "tiger" monogram.It will be distributed to the people of Hojo Fangguo in Ueno.

After confirming the basis of the peace talks, the next step is to establish the results of the peace talks. The Hojo family still insisted on defending their own interests. At least the front line of Hirai Castle cannot be put back. With the support of the Kira Navy, more than a thousand riders of Kira Chibi crossed Sakado Castle and came to wait near the Yuzawa Imperial Palace.

This is the south gate for Echigo to enter and exit Echigo. It is only one step away from the Three Kingdoms Pass. After crossing the pass, you can drive straight into Numata Castle.With their support, continuing to the south is the first-line position of Stable Bridge City. If the whole march goes smoothly, it will only take one day to reach it.

Facing increasing military threats.The confidence of the Hojo family is getting weaker and weaker. What's worse is that the envoy of the Nagao family has become the deputy. The special envoy from the Kira family, Namioka Shoubo, has full powers to represent diplomatic negotiations. After discovering the weakness of the Hojo family, and formulating a set of negotiation strategies based on it, the confidence of the Hojo family was broken a little bit, and soon the emissary gave up the unnecessary struggle and accepted the harsh demands made by the Kira family one by one.

Five days later, diplomatic envoys from both sides gathered in Stable Bridge Castle and signed a non-war agreement in a warm atmosphere. The occupied territory in the country was returned to the Uesugi family in the mountains and the people of the Ueno country, the Hojo family completely withdrew from the Ueno country, and the two sides ceased fighting without saying anything about fighting again.

Ten days later, Uesugi’s constitutional envoy, Nagao Dangcho, came to Hirai Castle to accept work in name, and all the Ueno people who joined the Hojo side were all attached. The captured Shirakura Michiro and Kuragano Hiroshi were pardoned, but Capital crimes can be exempted from living crimes, and in order to prevent others from taking the same risk and committing the same rebellious behavior, Nagao Jinghu imposed certain punishments on the two in the name of Uesugi Constitutional Government.

The means of punishment are not too harsh, but they hand over Shirakura Castle, Kuragano Castle, one of their families, and all their retainers, and then the two families are transferred to a large area near Mitake Castle to guard the southern gate of Ueno Kingdom.

The new territory of the Shirakura family is in a piece of fertile land southwest of Kamirugawa, and the new territory of the Kurano family is in the cultivated land near Lake Mase. Their own direct collar was taken away by the Nagao family, which made them very embarrassed .

What is even more uncomfortable is that the lord of Mitake Castle is held by Nagano Kentada, and his skills in Stable Bridge Castle are only about 270 chobu. Give it to him, and become a middle-class wealthy family with 170 steps.

But even so, Nagano Xianzhong is still behind the two families in terms of land knowledge, and his background is only one family of the Nagano family, which is far behind the two governors of the eight Shangzhou families. Let such an intermediate samurai overwhelm them As the city lord, they will have to obey the orders of the city lord to undertake military service in the future. Thinking about it makes them feel that they have lost the motivation to live.

Of course, if you don’t look at it this way, looking at it from another perspective, the transfer of the seal did not cause any loss of the territory of the two families. From the perspective of the land and stone height, it seems to be more profitable, but this time they were excluded from Ueno What's worse is that there are no castles nearby besides Mitake Castle, so they have to spend time and energy building another Hirayama Castle.

The two families obviously didn't have this idea. They quickly faced reality after the meaningless resistance failed. They will rebel immediately.

The Nagano family and the people of the Ueno country have no objection to this. Nagano industry is gnashing their teeth with hatred for these two guys. The Minowa people have fought bloody battles for so long. It will be very disappointing if they don’t come to participate in the cooperation. To lose the face of the Shangzhou Eight Families, and to be sent to Mitake Castle to look at the gate is already considered Nagao Jinghu's generosity.

The timing of the rapprochement was a coincidence. It just so happened that at the end of the autumn harvest, the Hojo family had no choice but to return the grain harvested in the occupied area to the local lord.Arranging for harvest before the start of the war ended up saving a lot of labor for the people of Ueno.The bitterness and anger in my heart can be imagined.

This war is not without gains for the Longtail Legion.Stable Bridge Castle, Shirakura, and the castles in Kurano, with a total territory of about [-] koku, fell into the hands. The former Kashiwazaki port honcho Yamayoshi Masahisa was appointed as the governor of Stable Bridge Castle, and the former Chief of the Castle of Minokan Kageko Okanshiro came to serve as the lord of Shirakura Castle, and Nagao Konshiro Kageaki, the former lord of Sanjo Castle, came to serve as the lord of Kuragano Castle.

It can be seen from the duties that this arrangement is for one city to replace two city lords.As the city representative, Yamayoshi Masahisa took care of the land for the Nagao family, and at the same time increased the knowledge of the land of the Yamayoshi family in Urahara County by [-] steps as a reward.

The two members of the Nagao family were transferred to the past, and the nature of the new city lords was different. They led their respective sects and retainers to guard the place, and the two were transferred to Ueno. The territory occupied barely reached half, and the other half was farming for Changwei Jinghu.

"The Zhenfu Palace is indeed a famous general who is wise and brave in the world. As long as there is a word of wind, the Hojo family will be frightened and retreated. The method of enfeoffment is unheard of! I am afraid that Hojo Shikang will hate it! Hahaha... "Saito Asanobu was in a very good mood, and he spared no effort in advocating for Kirayoshi.

"The Zhenfu Palace is very powerful. But the joint battle was fought by ourselves. Don't underestimate yourself." Nakajo Tengzi said dissatisfied.Although he has been playing soy sauce in his old age, but as a veteran of the Pudai family, he should say that he should. Who asked Shino Honjo, Nagao Jingxin and other Pudai family veterans to serve as left-behind guards this time, this veteran can only reluctantly do what he wants Stand up to assist the governor.

"Hmm!" Saito Chaoxin continued to moan without blinking his eyelids, "It's still the Zhenfu Palace..."

"The main family benefited a lot from adopting Yoshitoki's strategy, so they decided to hand over all the direct collars obtained by Ueno to Yoshitoki."

"Nani? Why do you want to hand it over to the Town Hall? This is the work of the lord and I and I!" Katsunaga Sebu eagerly shouted: "My lord, please don't say stupid things, there is no one in the territory. of!"

Nagao's vassals also booed: "That's right, my lord, you can't do this! You are the lord of Echigo, and we will only follow you!"

Saito Asanobu grumbled and didn't know what he was talking about, and turned his face away to ignore them. As for the three of them, Honjo Shigecho, Kurokawa Kiyomi, and Hojo Takahiro, they were the happiest. There was no pressure at all just to watch the fun, Kira They don't need to worry about the family's influence at all, just put on a good posture and watch the show.

"Don't be impatient, gentlemen, and listen to what my family says!" Nagao Jinghu said calmly: "My family never thought of taking a single cent of Ueno's land, but Yoshitoki's letter inspired my family, If Ausinong hadn't been supported by a territory and maintained by a large army of retainers, he would have fallen into the pocket of the Takeda family long ago, but we are unjust people who take other people's land without reason!

Therefore, to punish the two chief culprits, exonerate the rest of the party to ignore the past and appease the people of the country to guard the Ueno, this is the best of both worlds!If there is no reminder from Yishi, my family would never have thought of this level anyway. This is the credit of Yishi. My family has sealed the two concubines as city lords. The territories of Jiguan City and Santiao City are my harvest. Don’t you think so? Think these two cities are not enough? "

Nagao's vassals were silent, thinking about how much honor they had gained from the Kira family over the years, and how much benefit they had gained from it, and some people said in a strange way that Nitta was at a loss, and the Kira family was plotting against their Echigo people, but they didn't want to How much would it cost to open up new fields, and how much would it cost to help them grow new crops.

How much was invested in the construction of Niigata Town, and how much was invested in building polder fields and digging river channels. Up to now, the money invested by Kira’s family has not even earned a dime. I don’t know when it will be completed. Are you from the back country?Do the people of Echigo have the ability to build such a large project?Perhaps there is no possibility of doing it in 200 or 300 years.

And what the Kira family is doing now, the Echigo people, from the lords of the country, down to the farmers and townspeople, benefit from it. A large number of labor shortages make ordinary old farmers who are worthless don’t have to worry about not being able to eat. As long as they are willing to work, they will never starve to death. There is not a single beggar to be seen in Echigo today, and beggars who are lazy and unwilling to work are either educated and reformed, or expelled from Echigo.

The Chinese lords gave up the past disputes and obeyed the re-planning of the people, discussed the control of water sources, drawing water, and building canals, and formulated detailed rules for gradual implementation. All the people in the country despise the nonsensical servants, which greatly reduces the armed forces of litigation. The probability of armed fighting has changed from the fields to the bustling Naoetsu Town, the social atmosphere has changed, the level of public security has been greatly improved, and the life is stable and the land is rich. No one can tell how many of these tangible and intangible benefits are.

"So please understand my family's wishes, and you don't need to persuade!" After a short pause, Nagao Jinghu said: "The war is over, let's go home!"

The timing of the departure of the Nagao family was very ingenious, or the timing of the end of the war was very ingenious. From the time when the peace talks were completed and all transfers were completed to the end of September, the Nagao army, which had left earlier, was not disturbed by the wind and snow. Returning to Echigo, the first heavy snow falls in Uonuma at the end of September.

In the next few days, Sanguo Pass will be gradually blocked by goose feather heavy snow. In the next few months, heavy snow will sweep through many mountains along this road. The deepest snow can reach more than one meter. It will only change when the spring is warm and the flowers bloom in the second year. Before that, no one can cross this natural moat. (To be continued..)