A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Is Aneshan Meixue an unwise and resourceless person?

Obviously not!

So what does he rely on when he puts forward such conditions that are completely beyond his trump card?

What he relies on is that the Yamauchi family must rely on him!

The Yamauchi family's huge family business, which now spans five countries, was actually developed by three generations of Yamauchi Yoshitari's ancestors and grandchildren in the past twenty years. Thirty years ago, in the era of Yamauchi Yoshiharu's father Yamauchi Yoshiaki, the Yamauchi family was just a local tycoon with less than ten thousand counties.

From the founder of Yamauchi Yoshiaki Gong to Yamauchi Yoshiki, there were only six generations, and the accumulated samurai group did not exceed 800 people. It is completely impossible to rule the territory of the Five Kingdoms with 800 people.

Therefore, in the era of Yamauchi Yoshiharu and Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, every military service member who was slightly outstanding in Yamauchi Township in Uchida County had now been promoted to a samurai.

It only took more than ten years for Koheita to reach the position of Assistant Minister. In addition to his own abilities, the most important thing is that Koheita is a member of the military service of Yamauchi Township, a member of Yamauchi, and a member of the Yamauchi family. The ministers who ruled for six generations.

In the past ten years, just look at the samurai under Koheita's command. Aji has become the banner general of Yamauchi's 13th Division, Heiroku has been the governor of Toe Fukuchi County, and Tatsuzo has also served as the chief of Changyi Castle. Shichiki also serves as Koheita's general. These warriors, who had different origins and could even be considered humble, grew up rapidly in a short period of time and became high-level warriors.

The fundamental reason is that the Yamauchi clan lacks samurai!

This problem came to light very early, and I was relatively comfortable dealing with it at first. After all, the Yamauchi Township of Uchida County, which is the foundation of the Yamauchi family, still has hundreds of warriors. Although these people are not samurai, they have fought with the Yamauchi family for generations. Quickly promoting them to the status of warriors is not only reasonable, but also very appropriate.

But gradually the Toe Kingdom was pacified, Northern Shinano surrendered, and Higashi Mikawa was attached, the shortage of samurai began to become increasingly huge. As a result, not only the public servants of Yamauchi Township were generally promoted to samurai, but the public servants of the entire Uchida County were transformed into samurai.

Still not enough!

By last year, Shinano was almost pacified, and the Yamauchi family's shortage of samurai had almost reached a critical point. The most direct manifestation is that Uncle Tsuna Liang removed all the more than 20 men from the entire riverside village and promoted them to samurai and servants to restrain the increasingly large territory and army.

And Koheita is even more unbearable. Almost all the ashigaru heads and ashigaru team leaders under his command have promoted the ashigaru who have followed him to fight ten years ago and have survived till now.

Transforming from an ashigaru to a samurai was simply impossible in the early Sengoku period. It's 100% non-existent. How could a samurai be given such a noble status to a lowly soldier?

But this is the norm in the Yamauchi family today!

Why did Hosokawa Saimee fight so bravely in the past and win every battle? When their family had a salary of 500 yuan, they only had 200 soldiers. A dozen warriors and servants could drive them up, and the proportion of officers was as high as 10%, who were like arms and fingers.

In just ten years, the territory expanded tenfold, from more than 5,000 territory, to 2,000 to 3,000 soldiers. What about the samurai? There are still so many!

The organizational strength of the army has dropped significantly, morale and loyalty have all declined, and it is impossible to fight for a long time. The more troops there were, the more Hosokawa Zainyu lost her martial name.

Now in the Kingdom of Kai, the Takeda clan and most of the old ministers are being punished or hunted to death. So how can the Yamauchi family rule Kai? By keyboard? Just talking?

This is Aeshan Meixue’s biggest reliance!

He is a local snake! As long as he comes forward, he can barely maintain the stability of Kai's country. As long as the Yamauchi family uses him, they can make Kai's transition smooth. It wasn't until Yamauchi's samurai group expanded ten years later, or Yamauchi's expansion failed, that he took advantage of the situation and rose again.

His identity is so perfect! It's perfect!

The brothers and nephews of the Takeda family will definitely not survive and will be executed, otherwise someone will always take the opportunity to cause trouble. The only ones left with appeal in Kai were some of Takeda's sons-in-law, and the Anayama family happened to be from the Takeda clan, and they were the third-generation sons-in-law of the Takeda clan.

Although he is related to Takeda, he is not a close clan member of Takeda.

In a short period of time, no one in Kai could find a more perfect agent than the Anayama family!

Unless the Yamauchi family's tens of thousands of troops did not leave Kaibi for a whole year and stayed in Fuchu City. That way, no one in Kai will jump out to make trouble, and he will be sure to be well-behaved.

But is this possible?

The Yamauchi family's army will definitely leave, and they won't stay for long. The moment you evacuate is the moment you have to compromise!

At this time, in order to pacify Kai and compete for Suruga, the seemingly huge 33,000 Yamauchi Takanashi coalition forces were formed. We have to go all the way to Iwadou Mountain Castle to eliminate the Oyamada clan who has an unclear attitude. With the disgust of Iwadou Mountain Castle, Oyamada has 2,000 people to defend the city. If hundreds or even thousands of Hojo reinforcements are added, the Yamauchi family will not be able to break the city without tens of thousands of people.

No matter how bad Shougui Ni is in Suruga, there are still two to three thousand soldiers in the city. Once he joins forces with the Imagawa clan, there will be six to seven thousand troops in the city, and there will be a powerful Suruga navy to communicate with the outside world. Given the grandeur of Sunfu Castle, the Yamauchi family would need at least 30,000 men to break through the city in a short time.

Can the Yamauchi family afford it? Are there so many people?

We can’t afford it, and there aren’t so many people!

The simplest way to solve all these difficulties is for Umeyuki Ayama to step forward and inherit the Takeda family with Nobuharu Ayama. Express surrender to the Yamauchi family, gather and appease the old ministers of the Takeda family. To ensure the stability of the Kingdom of Kai, until the Yamauchi family has the strength to directly distribute samurai and rule Kai.

The Yamauchi army, which did not need a large army to hold Kaibi for a long time, could immediately put an end to the chaos between the Oyamada clan and Suruga, and all difficulties were easily solved.

The price was only to tolerate Asayama Meyuki, Takeda's son-in-law, and to recognize the inheritance rights of Takeda's nephew, Nobuharu Asayama.

It’s really just a sentence!

Too easy!

Leaving Imagawa Hikoro's life was only beneficial to Anayayama Meiyuki. There were so many benefits that no need to say more. Not only was the bloodline of the Takeda family preserved, but they also had an excuse to interfere in the Suruga Kingdom. The Anayama family also became loyal ministers who protected Takeda.

Word of mouth and future opportunities are both there, and you can make hundreds of thousands of profits!

That's why Umeyuki Anayama boldly proposed such a seemingly impossible surrender condition even when Takeda was almost annihilating the country and the Takeda clan was hunted down and exterminated!

"I promised Anayama Meisetsusai that his descending castle will be safe and secure, but Imagawa Hikoro is going to Fuchu Castle Shoryakuji Temple to become a monk, and Anayama Hikorokuro, who succeeded the Takeda clan, is not allowed to stay in Kai and must go to Fuchu to serve as His Highness's banner! As for the He himself came to Kofu immediately to serve as the leader of the Kafi sect!"

Koheta announced this decision in front of the judges. Everyone looked a little heavy and doubtful, and even Yamauchi Yoshiho opened his mouth, but in the end no one spoke against it.

"University! Immediately organize an inspection of the countryside. The army will stay for five days at most. Suruga cannot miss it!"