Pillars of the Wu family

On the first day of November in the first year of Yonglu, Suihede, Yuehede, Huoyao, Minri, Mingyuedu, Tiangui, Yutang, Yinacai, alliances, sacrifices, praying for blessings, begging for heirs, fasting, bathing, Consecration and receiving money, Yoshiki Kira stood outside the Kasuga Imperial Palace and paced back and forth. He frowned and lingered here for nearly two hours.

This is the first time he has been so uneasy in many years. Even when he left Mikawa and embarked on the road to Shangluo with an uncertain future, he was not so panicked again. Miyoshi Changqing, Shinano's Kai Tiger Takeda Shingen, and Ueno's Sagami Lion Hojo Ujiyasu could not let him shake his steely will.

As he grows older, Kira Yoshitoshi's temperament becomes more and more stable. It is difficult to see the real expression on his face. It is not because of a major change that if you don't see him, he will show joy and anger, but those who are superior must have valleys in their chests. He was never in a hurry during the Battle of Chuanakajima due to his proud self-cultivation skills in the past, but it still made him unable to restrain the irritability in his heart when it was such an important matter related to his wife's birth of a child, and he clenched his fists anxiously pacing and wandering.

At this moment, the inside and outside of the Kasuga Imperial Palace have already been completely closed by Hime Samurai and female ninjas. Since this morning, Kasugayama Castle has issued a martial law order, and the castle town of Naoetsu Town has been closed for one day. The eminent monks of Myogakuji Temple, Gochi Kokubunji Temple, and Echigo Zenko Temple have gathered in Kasugayama Castle , Most of the shrine officials brought the maidens to pray for blessings, and the entire Kasuga Mountain City was like an enemy.

Hu Ji’s due date came as early as the middle of last month, and it took nearly half a month before she suddenly felt red and labor pains. Hu Ji was fine during the morning meal, and she even mentioned to him that the baby in her stomach was so naughty but she didn’t want to come out.Kira Yoshitoshi told him to rest in the imperial palace.As a result, it's not over yet.The maid came and told him that she was about to give birth.

Standing outside the heavily surrounded palace, he could still hear the occasional cry of pain coming from the delivery room. The familiar painful moaning made him very worried. Qu Naose Moruma brought a bowl of soothing soup for him with a small surname. , said softly: "My lord, don't worry, there are three of Echigo's best midwives inside, as well as the Korean red ginseng soup and refreshing fragrance carefully prepared by the master, and the child will be born safely."

"I understand...I understand." Ji Liangyi waved his hand and did not pick up the soup bowl.It didn't bother him if the water and rice hadn't been in for two hours, so he couldn't help pacing and continuing to wander. He naturally knew that after ten months of preparation work, it was sure to be foolproof, but there are some things that he would be nervous about sitting and lying down knowing that. Ning, those who are about to become fathers probably feel like this.

Hu Ji’s body is very strong, and she usually pays attention to light activities. According to Mr. Nagata Tokumoto’s instructions, the first child should not be heavily supplemented, lest the fetus develop too well and make it difficult to give birth. In this era, there is no possibility of caesarean section. sex.Even if Hua Tuo came back to life with Mafeisan, he would not dare to try it.

"My lord, rest up, we don't have lunch yet!"

Several groups of servants came over to persuade him, but he still didn't move.All the servants of the family gathered in the Daihiro room and waited quietly. Many samurai waited for the news from the imperial palace on an empty stomach. Princess Aya and Akiku also did not come out of the imperial palace. The merchants and townspeople of the castle town and Naoetsu town were also looking forward to it. So, there are countless people in Kasugayama Castle and even Naoetsu who have not eaten lunch.

I don't know how long it has passed, the hoarse and high-pitched cry of pain in the imperial palace suddenly stopped, Kira Yoshishi's spirit was suddenly shaken and he looked nervously at the delivery room in the distance. In that short moment, it seemed that a century had passed, and suddenly there was a sound in the delivery room. There were bursts of crying babies, and the cries of "Wooooowah" became louder and louder, which made him remove a huge rock in his heart, and when he relaxed, he realized that his fortune had been soaked in sweat.

Nagata Tokumoto, Qu Naose Moruma, and many other attendants also involuntarily surrounded him. Some of them rushed to report the news to Ohiroma. Everyone was anxiously waiting for the exact news in the delivery room. Kira Yoshihiro took a deep breath Silently praying: "No matter what kind of child it is, it's my first direct descendant. It doesn't matter if I'm a boy or a girl...but a boy is the best!"

It’s not that he favors sons over daughters. In contrast, Ji Liangyi preferred girls, but his current status determines that his first child will occupy the position of the eldest son. If Tiger Ji does not give birth to a boy, Tanxiang and Naotora have a life together. Giving birth to a boy will cause huge hidden dangers to the newly born Kamiso Ashikaga family, so he would rather have a boy for the first birth.

After a long wait, a gap was finally opened in the delivery room, and an old woman with white hair walked out of the delivery room. She came out empty-handed, knelt down respectfully, and said, "Congratulations to Your Highness, the Lord of the Town, Hu Yutai gave birth to a six-year-old woman." A healthy boy who weighs six liang, the baby is very strong and crying loudly! Huyutai is fine, mother and child are safe!"

"Boy... boy! I have a child! I have a child! I want to say to you that mother and child are safe! Look at the reward! Reward! Everyone present will have a happy money!" Ji Liangyi waved a series of rewards excitedly , no one was more excited than him, if it wasn't for the mother who had many taboos and couldn't see the wind and see the light, he would have rushed in to celebrate with Hu Ji.

The surnames rushed to tell each other excitedly, and the samurai in the big hall jumped up and cheered when they got the news. Most of the samurai present were looking forward to the birth of a son first, and this young son would represent them. The interests of these lineage retainers will be guaranteed in the long run as he grows up.

It's just that there are always some people in the hall who are not very happy. For example, Hikari Numata elongated his face and showed a smile that was uglier than crying. His daughter Tanxiang has a [-]% chance of having a son. If he is lucky enough to give birth to a boy before Jingyi Naotora, it will not be affected whether Jingyi Naotora will give birth to a boy or a girl.

However, he couldn't express his dark thoughts, he could only fantasize about himself in his head, but now all fantasies disappeared like bubbles, and he couldn't face the cruel reality. Losing at the starting line, the consummation of the house was finally postponed on purpose. Now that the eldest son is born, he really doesn't even give him a chance to compete for the eldest son. He feels it's unfair. He wants to cheer for his daughter, but is it useful for him to do so? ?The harvest is probably only ridicule and ridicule.

Just when Hikari Numata was worrying about gains and losses, the big bell in Kasuga Mountain Castle was rang.The melodious and melodious bells sounded once or twice throughout the mountain city of Chunri.Spread to castle town, Naoetsu town.The townspeople in the castle town silently counted the bells until the bell on the mountain stopped ringing nine times, and they were sure that the ruler of Echigo had given birth to his eldest son. The townspeople lit firecrackers in the town and celebrated with singing and dancing. Although the children didn't understand What happened, but it didn't affect their excited running around, laughing and making noise.

The monks at Myogakuji Temple, Gochi Kokubunji Temple, and Echigo Zenkoji Temple breathed a sigh of relief. This time they prepared for a full month, and the monks took two shifts to pray day and night for the Lord Mother.Half a month ago, Kurita Kanyasu even swore that the first child of the town government official must be the eldest son, and finally he was able to relax after a long time of hard work and tension.

Hu Ji was dripping with sweat, and the maids picked up clean gauze and soaked her lips with warm ginseng soup. Princess Ling and Aju came to the delivery room and held Hu Ji with a pale face, and said happily: "Hu Ji It's great to have a lovely boy! Hu Ji is such a brave woman!"

"I have given birth to an heir for Your Highness, and I have lived up to His Highness's expectations..." Hu Ji looked at the sleeping baby beside her, smiling happily and contentedly.

One month later, on the first day of December, under the careful protection of a group of women.The young baby appeared in Daihiro, Kasuga Mountain Castle. Yoshitomo Kira announced happily: "This is the eldest son of my Uesugi Ashikaga family. His baby name is inherited from his ancestors, and he is named Zhenwangmaru, and he will be Yu's heir from now on! Uesugi Tansho Shaobi Masatora will serve as the concubine of Yu Dizi's son, and at the same time appoint Yukitaka Sanada, Saito Asanobu, Hosokawa Fujitaka, Namioka Kobo, and Honda Takamasa to serve as tutors, and from two years later, he will teach Goji Jinoumaru!"

"Obey!" Fukudai looked at the four people with envious and jealous eyes. Uesugi Masatora deservedly served as the Chief Houmi, Sanada Yukitaka represented Shinfuyo, Saito Chaoxin represented Echigo Fudo, and Hosokawa Fujitaka represented Kyoto. On behalf of the genealogy, Langgang Tengfang is the representative of the counselors, and Honda Shizheng is the most trusted person among the Mikawa samurai.

When Echigo was happily celebrating the birth of the eldest son, it was the end of the first year of Yonglu in a blink of an eye. This season of severe winter, the imperial court and shogunate were finally able to relax throughout the autumn. After Miyoshi Changqing captured Hanoi There is no further action to go to Luo, but choose to return to Sakaimachi for the winter.

Ashikaga Yoshiki thought it was the prestige of the shogunate that deterred Miyoshi Changqing, so he boasted about his achievements. When the court was happy, he ordered his official to be moved to the left. A right minister, Kuga Harutichi, announced the latest appointment. Ashikaga Yoshiki no longer served as Shoji The position is powerful and powerful, and the two internal ministers are relocated, and the right guard general Ru Yuan.

This is the second time the Ashikaga shogun's family has been promoted to the post of minister since the ninth general, Ashikaga Yoshinaka. From the perspective of the shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshiki, this is a sign of great prosperity for the shogunate. Everyone in the shogunate celebrates this peaceful year, and some people are far away. Those who hid away and sneered, such as Hatakeyama Takamasa and Anmi Zongbo who were in exile in Sakai Town, such as Yusa Nobuyo of the Hatakeyama family, the Japanese Langdang of the Yamato Kingdom, and the samurai of the Miyoshi family.

Miyoshi Changqing, who spent the winter in Sakai Beizhuang, just sneered when he heard the news, threw the information into a brazier and burned it to ashes, and said to his son Miyoshi Yoshiko: "The Beijing government is still intoxicated by the prosperous capital, and still Among the praises from the imperial court and many samurai families, the false peace has left him with only a little bit of his ambition. No wonder Ji Liangyi wanted to abandon him when he was in power. Jinggong Fang is really a high-spirited person who cares about high-minded people! Be a father next year The army is gathered, break this capital and look at his expression!"

At the end of the first year of Yonglu, news of the war between Vietnam and Shinano came one after another. The Vietnam Army led by Tokiyuki Yamamoto has advanced to the most stubborn area in Tonami County and launched a campaign of suppression. Tokiyuki Yamamoto A letter was also delivered to Chunri Mountain City at the same time. This eloquent and long letter of nearly ten thousand words explained to his beloved disciples the principles of being a magnanimous king, including massacres, not giving security and refusing some people to join forces and forcibly encircling and suppressing them. criticism.

Kira Yoshishi did not expect that the master craftsman who gradually faded out of the genealogy had such a keen sense of smell. In fact, he also realized that in recent years, he has been a bit cocky and said many proud but hurtful words, such as not needing allies, such as disdain to mediate Strategies, such as the death penalty for those who refused to surrender or those who surrendered and then betrayed, or not giving Andu, massacring the warriors of Yixiangzong and Qingshui clan, etc.

These behaviors are actually violating the samurai code of conduct of this era, and even trampling on the existing samurai laws to a certain extent, but because Kira Yoshitoshi was too powerful, these disadvantages have not been revealed for the time being.If this symptom cannot be pinched in time.As the territory of the Kira family grew day by day.Sooner or later, the disadvantages will be accumulated to an irreversible level.

When this "Book of Ten Thousand Words" really shocked Kirayoshi, to be honest, he never thought of it being so profound and thorough. He has learned everything in his hands, so he sent this hard-working master craftsman to one side to guard the place. This kind of contempt is completely broken by this "Ten Thousand Words Book" at this moment.

Before that, he always thought that he could make the rules of the game because he had a big fist, but he didn't think carefully that he hadn't grown to the level of a rule maker yet.Although wanton actions are refreshing, how long will it take to get rid of the bad reputation left behind?Is it a good thing that Saito Chaoxin can stop the night crying of children?

"I'm still too conceited. Without this great drink, I might have done a lot of absurd things. Fortunately, I have a good teacher who dares to say things that others dare not say." After reading and reading, I ordered Xiaoxing to copy dozens of copies, and passed them on to many genealogy generations at the last big appraisal meeting at the end of the year. Yoshihiro Kira made self-reflection in front of many officials.

He solemnly stated in the grand evaluation that this problem must be corrected. First, he ordered the local citizens of the three countries of Shinano, Etchu, and Ueno to be protected, to ensure that their territories were guaranteed, and secondly, he announced the prohibition of wanton massacres.Corresponding adjustments were made to the "bloody edict" issued by the believers of Yixiangzong, and the massacre was changed to breaking up the distribution.Those who refuse to mend their ways will be punished with capital punishment as an example.

During the one-month period from the end of the autumn harvest to the snowfall, Sanada Kotaka led his army to launch several tentative raids on Okaya North Castle. Unfortunately, under the guard of Takeda Nobushige, the defense was impeccable. After the road in Shinano was blocked by heavy snow, Sanada Kotaka transferred the main force back to Fukashi Castle, and at the same time wrote a letter about the strategy of Suwa County.

This plan is not a simple attack on Chikuma County, but a proposal to complete the unification of Shinano from the strategic level of the Shinano country and even the Kira family. Among them is a plan to attack the Southern Shinano Ina County after the spring blossoms. Sanada Yutaka is very sure that after these few tentative attacks, he learned about Takeda Nobushige's combat thinking and the main activity direction of the Takeda Army.

Since Nobushige Takeda's defense is as impeccable as a hard tortoise shell, the best way to deal with them is nothing more than three, either smash his hard shell with a hammer, or the tortoise shell is broken from the inside, or only lure the snake out of the hole, Sanada Yukitaka Ask yourself if you don't have the strength to break the hard shell that is evenly matched.

After all, it is difficult for the main attacking side to occupy a favorable location and people. Takeda Nobushige’s strategy may be inferior to Sanada Kotaka’s, but military strategy, government affairs and knowledge methods are not much worse. Behind it is the support of Kai Takeda Shingen, whether it is the cost of defense or the advantages of supply and transportation. They are all higher than Sanada Kotaka.

Based on Takeda Shingen's sophistication, it is very difficult to trick them into breaking through internally. It is not much easier than when Takeda Shingen defeated Kirayoshi in the frontal battlefield. Then there is only one option to lure the snake out of the hole. Fortunately, Kai is excluded from Suwa County in Minami Shinano. There is also the [-] army led by Akiyama Shintomo of Ina County. As long as the troops are divided and attacked, it will inevitably involve the energy of Takeda Nobushige.

Another set of strategies is actually a variant of leading the snake out of the hole, but this plan does not use the Shinano Army as the main attack direction, but calls the Etsuchu Army to launch an attack on Hida from Etsuchu, and then uses Hida as a springboard to attack Minami Shinano The plan is to directly enter Kiso Valley Fukushima Castle from Hida, and as long as he manages to subdue the Kiso Clan, Minami Shinano will basically get half of it.

Kira Yoshishi thought about it carefully, and decided to focus on the first set of plans. Vietnam and China have just settled down and are not considered stable. There are still a large number of Vietnam and China who have always been remnant parties who need to be cleaned up. It is a means of compromise, and only by winning the support of the local people can the long-term and stable rule continue.

There was also a letter from Noto Nanao Castle to Echigo Kasugayama Castle. The writer was none other than Hatakeyama Yoshizuna, the governor of the Noto Hatakeyama family. A country was handed over to him as the head of the country, and he also stated that he was willing to write a three-point letter to the Echigo Kingdom, one for each of Noto and Echigo, and one for the shogunate.

What he asked for was that Yoshitoki Kira would send troops to Noto to rescue him and his family governor, because at this time the Noto Hatakeyama family was caught in a serious rebellion set off by Oni, the family member of the generation family, and there was no stability for three years. Noto Wajima Port was lost due to the spread of the war. A large share of trade, and at this time the four major ports of Echigo are gradually forming a system, and recently seized Sakata Port to dominate the entire second half of Hokuriku, making Hatakeyama Yoshizuna eager to end this civil strife that cost people and money.

It was learned from the mouth of the envoy Chang Xulian that Noto was caught in a civil strife in the first year of Hongzhi. Onjing Sosada and his son Onui Susamune attempted to support Hatakeyama Harutoshi, but Hatakeyama Yoshizuna discovered in advance that he assassinated Onjing Sosada, and Onjing Susamune Immediately, the rebellion flag was raised, and the rebellion spread throughout the Noto country. Although Tsugumune Oni was killed soon, Sosada Oni's two younger brothers, Tsunaki Oni and Tsunasada Oni, carried on their rebellious cause and continued to struggle. (To be continued..)

ps: The birth of a son-in-law, sprinkle flowers!