A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

At this point, Xiaopingtai still doesn't understand, because Japan has long had a good habit of sitting down and talking between lords and peasants. After all, if we really take action, both sides will definitely suffer losses, or even die together.

No matter which daimyo is, no matter which army, the main force under him will always be ashigaru armed with yeoman farmers. How many warriors are there? Who doesn’t understand the principle that an elephant is killed by ants?

What's more, when the "Jiaji Rebellion" occurred in 1441, nearly 100,000 village farmers around Kyoto organized and launched a large-scale uprising on the country. They even defeated the official army and invaded Luojing, forcing the general to issue a waiver for all arrears. Debt's virtue decree. 【Note 1】

Slowly, with the further development of feudal relations, the superior guardians and agents sent by Luo Jing's shogunate gradually disappeared. They were replaced by local Warring States daimyo who were rooted in their hometowns, and they had closer ties with the people in their territories. The two parties formed a feudal dependence relationship in which they utilized each other and influenced each other. Since then, the daimyo lord's oppression of the people has become limited and restrained, which is very different from the old-style shogunate bureaucrats who scraped the land and left.

Therefore, during the Warring States Period when feudal oppression and economic exploitation became increasingly serious, although the life of farmers was indeed not very good, some places in the Western Kingdom even implemented the horrific tyranny of eight public servants and two private citizens. However, in order to survive, the territorial residents, who felt that the annual tribute was heavy, gave full play to their survival wisdom. As soon as it's time to pay taxes, I'll start a drama of extreme poverty with you. Seeing this, the lord decided to reduce taxes in lean years, and was too embarrassed to raise taxes in good years.

After understanding this truth, Xiao Ping Tai simply decided not to watch their "performance" and completely let the Tongxin collect the goods according to the books.

Amid hundreds of people crying and crying, Xiaopingtai became a disabled person who was "blind in both eyes" and "deaf in both ears." He walked quickly back to Ejiri's residence, and then ordered the maids to close all the doors and windows tightly. Xiao Pingtai can only keep his eyes and ears out of sight and let them go.

So the farce of crying and begging for mercy went on for three or four days before it was completely over. Finally, the money returned to the treasury and the rice returned to the warehouse. It seems that the poor and penniless subjects still paid the annual tribute according to the previous books, and did not pay more because of this year's rice harvest. The tax money was also scrapped together, and Xiaopingtai finally completed the task of collecting Ejiri's annual tribute after going through many twists and turns, and everyone was happy.

Of course, this scene is not just in Ejiri, it is played out in Kiyosu in Owari, in Suruga's mansion, in Kasugayama in Echigo, and in every branch of Japan, large and small. It’s really an everyday situation that can no longer be everyday, so I’ll just skip it.

Because Xiaoping was too uninterested to care about the bad things in this three-thirds of an acre of land, he got an even more shocking news. Owari's Oda Nobukatsu finally died of a sudden illness as expected. This was naturally expected.

After all, Oda Nobukatsu once raised an army and almost captured Owari country, and there were many people in Owari country. The political aftermath of his sudden death is not something that can be easily dissipated.

After learning the news, the Imagawa clan in Mikawa frequently took action. Even the Zen master Taiyuan Yuzhai who was far away in Suruga did not care about his old body and quickly took a boat to Nishi Mikawa Yoshida Castle.

As for why it is Nishi-Mikawa Yoshida Castle and not Higashi-Mikawa Okazaki Castle which is closer to the Owari front line, some people may still remember that in the battle of Hachimen Mountain many years ago, Nishi-Mikawa flag general Uden Nagatoshi held Uden Nagatoshi The father and son defected before the battle, causing the originally undefeated Kira coalition to suffer a humiliating defeat. Because of the shameless behavior of the Uno family, the Mikawa Fongkong Samurai Order was destructively cut in half, and more than a dozen Mikawa Fongkong families were wiped out. The Udono clan has completely exterminated themselves from the people of Higashi Mikawa country, and they must hug the Imagawa clan tightly, so Yoshida Castle is the safest place in Mikawa.

In Mikawa Kingdom, the Imagawa clan has been making frequent moves, so Owari's internal affairs are naturally unstable.

It is said that in one day, more than twenty powerful warriors from the country went to Kiyosu Castle to greet Oda Nobunaga himself. As long as they can be met by Oda Nobunaga, they all breathe a sigh of relief, while those who are rejected by Nobunaga are in constant panic.

As long as it wasn't stupid, everyone could see it from top to bottom. Oda Nobukatsu, who was originally running around in Suemori Castle, suddenly fell ill and died. There must be something behind it. And the only one who could extract Oda Nobukatsu from the hands of his late mistress, Mrs. Tsuchida, and then kill him without anyone noticing, and only make it known to everyone after he was dead, was Oda Nobunaga.

Everyone knows that the time has come to liquidate Oda Nobukatsu and his gang. The first culprit Nobukatsu is now dead, and the remaining miscellaneous fish have no backbone. Naturally, there will be a little panic, especially the Owari Kuni public who were attached to him in the first place.

Watching the fire from across the bank, Zen Master Taiyuan Xuezhai immediately took action. After a while of provocation, the lords of Narumi Castle, the important town in Owari Mikawa, Yamaguchi Sema Suketsugi and Yamaguchi Kurojiro's father and son finally set off the banner of rebellion. It was okay for him to surrender to the enemy alone, but in the end, all the cities of Odaka, Washizu, and Marune rebelled and surrendered to the Imagawa clan.

Taiyuan Zen Master did not expect the effect to be so good, and immediately began to mobilize the Mikawa Samurai Group, as well as the 1,500 Suruga clan members of the Imagawa clan in Mikawa. Then, the Suruga samurai such as Katsura Nagayoshi, Asai Koshiro, Iio Yuzenmori, Miura Yoshijo and others all sent troops to attack Owari.

Oda Nobunaga was no weakling. In the morning, he heard that the Yamaguchi Sect had taken the castle to surrender to the enemy. In the afternoon, he took eight hundred Ashigaru and Hatamoto clans to Koto Castle, his father's former residence, and ordered the Owari clan to gather with him.

He himself led the troops to capture all the branch cities outside Narumi City in one day. On the fourth day of the Yamaguchi Sect's rebellion, he fell into a state of constant panic. He could only hope that Zen Master Taiyuan Xuezhai would quickly send troops to rescue him. .

Nobunaga immediately set up many castles and formations around Narumi, such as Tange, Zenshoji, Nanakajima, and Komura, and constantly dispatched soldiers and samurai from various places to garrison them.

Various actions seemed to indicate that Oda Nobunaga wanted to completely surround Yamaguchi's stepfather and son in Narumi Castle, and then completely eliminate this force that dared to rebel against him.

There was a miserable wind and rain in Narumi City, and it was a state of imminent death.

[Note 1]: "Guangci Garden" Doichiku (どいっき) In the Muromachi period, it was the farmer's farmer in the center of Kinai's Zhoubo. The foundation of the foundation is the foundation, the alliance between the villages is strong, and the military force is rising. The shogunate protects the lord of Soen Garden, and the government is exempting the annual tribute service. In 1428 (Masachō 1), Shosho no Soichi is famous.どいっき.