Pillars of the Wu family

() "Okay! Kiraden is really a straightforward and generous person, so I will entrust Hidetaka, the dog, to Kiraden!" Nakajo called a boy with good facial features to sit down beside him. The boy was wearing a simple suit. Wu Fu, with his hair tied up in a common hairstyle in Dongguo, the childishness on his young face has not yet taken off, and it seems that he has not been in Yuanfu for a long time. He kneels and waits for his father's instructions meticulously.

"Yatoji! From now on, you will go to the shogunate with Kiraden, remember not to fall into the name of my Nakajo family, remember?" The words were like Hong Zhong Da Lu was full of energy, it seemed that the whole person became stalwart again when he saw this young man.

"Yes! Father! I, Nakajo Yatoji Hidetaka, will definitely not fall into the prestige of my Nakajo family!" The young man named Yatoji spoke very methodically, judging from his kneeling posture and facial expressions, he was also A noble son who has been nurtured by family etiquette, of course Kira Manmatsumaru is most concerned about his childhood name. Hearing this childhood name, he can understand the plan of this Nakajo Ideha Mamoru.

Yatoji is the common childhood name used by the Nakajo family since the ancestor of ZTE, Nakajo Kaihei. This renown Kira Wansongmaru once read in "My Wife Mirror" and survived the Kamakura chaos. They are all great families, and so is the Nakajo family, who have been tenaciously maintaining the tradition. This kind of spirit is admirable.

This Nakajo Hidetaka didn't seem to have the slightest stage fright, he straightened up and turned to Kira Manmatsumaru to bow respectfully: "Nakajo Yato Jihidetaka see His Highness Kira!"

"You don't need to be too polite! You and I are the servants of His Royal Highness, and we will be ministers in the same palace in the future. Please take care of Zhongtiaodian." Although the two of them were polite to each other, they knew each other well. He is the leader of the Fenggong family, who personally holds the power of the Wuban Fenggong, and is also the first sect of the Ashikaga Shogun's family.

The status of the Mikawa family is even more disparate. The Kira family's declining territory is roughly equivalent to that of the Nakajo family, but this balance of power did not last long. After the Nakajo family was defeated by Matsudaira Kiyoyasu more than ten years ago, it was almost It was terrible to see, not only lost his vassals Miyake, Suzuki, Nasu, and Abe, but even the Takahashi village that had been in control for more than 300 years became a nameless name. Neither the shogunate nor Mikawa could compete with the Kira family. Kira Wansongmaru was gradually turned from an official to a retainer, and he had no other choice.

In Nakajo's Dewa Shou Changlong's view, Kira Manmatsumaru's visit this time is to force him to stand in line, either to enter the camp of the Kira family, or to wait to be attacked by the Kira family. Although there is no news that the two Kira family will fall to the Imagawa family However, local snakes like Nakajo Tsunetaka have long been aware of the change in Okazaki Castle, and have completely removed their defenses against Hatazu County. The retainers of the upper and lower Kira frequently travel to Okazaki Castle. The outsider Oda's family is still kept in the dark about such an obvious matter. .

Therefore, Changlong Nakajo wanted to measure Kira Manmatsumaru's true thoughts, and then called his son-in-law to pay homage to Kira Manmatsumaru. The meaning was nothing more than to entrust the family business. Just like the Kira family is a grasshopper on a rope, you can figure it out.

Although he failed to get 100% support from the Nakajo family, the purpose of this trip was achieved. With a satisfactory reply, Kira Wansongmaru chatted with the Nakajo family's father and son for a while, and agreed on the date of Shangluo and various preparations , and hurriedly left Fist Mother City.

It was only after I left the boxing mother city that I realized that Yamaoka Zenjiro hadn’t followed, and after inquiring about it, I found out that this guy was obsessed with the Nakajo family’s art of war and had to learn a few skills in front of the battle. A horse returning to the samurai forcefully captured this guy back. His poor horse was very sensible. Seeing its owner being strangled and howling like a pig, it ran behind the tail of the large group of people and waited.

Back on the rugged mountain road, Kansuke Yamamoto, who was making soy sauce and posing in a thinking posture along the way, finally spoke. As soon as he came up, he left a message: "The Takeda family was defeated! This news has been hidden by the Takeda family for nearly a year, but It was still detected by my family.”

"Nani? Defeated? Why did you lose the war?" Kira Manmatsumaru was a little surprised. Ever since he was born, he had heard the story of Harunobu Takeda, an invincible military master in the Takeda family. Briefly, by the way, I also picked up the grievance history of the father and son Takeda Nobumasa, Takeda Nobunawa, and Yukawa Nobue, in order to warn Kira Manmatsumaru to be careful about the issue of offspring.

"I was only six years old at the time. Is it really okay to talk about the issue of raising an heir so early?" Thinking of that period of history, Kira Manmatsumaru shuddered, and the way he looked at Kansuke Yamamoto changed, which made the wise general of the Warring States period look very pale. Baffling.

"The long-lost news of defeat came from the Takeda family. It was a belated news. It was hidden by the Takeda family for nearly a year, but it finally spread throughout Tōkaidō. Speaking of which, it was the brother-in-law of Takeda Daizenden who revealed the news. Kawajibuden." Kansuke Yamamoto began to lament the dark history between brother-in-law and brother-in-law.

Ever since Imagawa Yoshimoto and his brother-in-law Takeda Harunobu joined forces to play his father-in-law Takeda Nobutora, Imagawa Yoshimoto, who has a card in his hand, took advantage of this advantage card. The first time Harunobu Takeda was invited to attack Ujiyasu Hojo, as long as Harunobu Takeda said "no", he immediately threatened him to "let your father go back to Kai".

So at the end of the chaos in Hedong, Takeda Harunobu jumped out and said stop fighting, let's sit down and negotiate a peace, fighting back and forth is not of any benefit to his Takeda family, and he was threatened by his unscrupulous brother-in-law with "letting father go" when he was fine. This day is too unpleasant, so the signs of the Three Kingdoms Alliance sprouted long before the Hato Ichi Rebellion that ended a few years ago. Takeda Harunobu was a peacemaker in it and finally made Imagawa and Hojo, who were relatives and enemies in the past The family sat together and talked about peace, and then there was the story of the Triple Alliance.

Kira Manmatsumaru is not surprised at the behavior of Takeda Harunobu in Imagawa Yoshimoto pit. None of the three guys in the Three Kingdoms Alliance is simple. He is more concerned about the news of the defeat. He listened carefully to the introduction of Kansuke Yamamoto. He called out secretly: "Isn't this the legendary Battle of Uedahara?"

Although that period of history has been blurred, he still knows some details. Takeda Harunobu was defeated by Murakami Yoshiki twice, not only fell to the same opponent twice, but also ended in disastrous defeat twice. , This became the only blemish in his life. As for how he defeated Murakami Yoshiki later, he was a little unclear, so he just vaguely remembered that Sanada Yutaka made the great contribution in the end.

"The Takeda family is finally defeated? The wise governor of the Takeda family doesn't seem to be as invincible as advertised!" Because of the shocking event that Takeda Nobutora was exiled, the Takeda family started a long-term battle. Large-scale propaganda, "People are cities, people are fortresses, people are walls, favors are friends, hatred is enemies." This slogan was also spread during this period. I have heard.