A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Seeing Mr. Oishi's gloomy expression, he wrote down a document requesting Odawara Castle to send an envoy to talk. He picked one of the captured samurai he trusted and gave him a horse to put back in Odawara.

There were so many famous samurai of the Hojo family. In fact, everyone's thoughts were to cut them off with one sword, and then immediately pounce on the Hojo family and bite his flesh and blood. However, if this can be used as a condition, peace talks are not impossible.

The Oishi clan Teru and more than thirty samurai generals of the Hojo clan were temporarily imprisoned in Gotokuji Temple (this is the later name, now called Hongtokuji Temple), all weapons were disarmed, and five hundred people were sent to surround the temple and take care of it. The samurai who lost their army were just ordinary people after all, and their discouragement was evident.

It may be said that Gotokuji Temple is not famous in history, but it is the burial place of the future Tokugawa shogunate leader Ii Naomi, and became the Bodaiji Temple where the shogunate succeeded the Ii family of the Omi Hikone clan.

There is also a very strange story here. It is said that one day Naotaka Ii, who came to Edo to pay homage to the general, was tired and happened to see a big tree growing lushly on the roadside, so he stopped his horse and walked to the tree. rest under the shade of a tree.

Not long after, the sky turned dark, which is normal in Japan, and it rained from time to time. Naotaka Ii also lamented that he was so lucky to find such a big tree to take shelter from the rain.

While he was sitting under a tree, bored, a big, chubby white cat passed by him. Naotaka Ii is not a cat lover, but he was attracted by such a snow-white cat and followed him.

The cat seemed to be guiding Ii Naotaka, walking and walking, leading Ii Naotaka to the eaves of the gate of a small temple. Ii Naotaka, who was about to suck the cat, was suddenly frightened by a terrifying thunder.

A divine thunder fell from the sky, splitting the tree where Ii Naotaka had just rested into charred wood. If Naotaka Ii was still under the tree, he would definitely die.

It was that white cat that saved my life!

Looking back, there is no white cat anywhere around! Naotaka Ii was amazed, thinking that this small temple was protected by a "white cat that attracts good fortune". So he donated a lot of money to the temple and ordered the Ii family to support the Gotoku Temple from generation to generation.

And Gotokuji Temple became the origin of the lucky cat in Japan!

It is said that the lucky cats of Gotokuji Temple are still very effective today. People who come to ask for the lucky cats will send the lucky cats back to the temple to support them after their wishes are fulfilled. There are more than 10,000 lucky cats.

I just don’t know if Teru Oishi can be like Naotaka Ii and be protected by the lucky white cat and turn bad luck into good luck.

The Hojo samurai who was sent to deliver the message passed the small machine city and ran into the Hojo clan's 20,000-strong army. Only then did the clear news that the Oishi clan's entire army was annihilated and that almost all of Musashi's territory was lost was brought to the Hojo clan and others.

The Hojo clan was still young. After the Oishi clan Teru lost his voice, the only ones that the Hojo clan could actually speak to were the Fujita clan with tens of thousands of people, the Imagawa clan with six thousand clans, and the Yoto clan Yao with four thousand clans. These three brothers were very important to each other. War means fighting and arguing.

The retainers of the Hojo clan were also arguing endlessly. The Odawara Appraisal Conference, which was once able to unite the retainers, became a wrangling conference!

Once the conservative Oishi clan left, the radical faction of the Fujita clan took the initiative, and the Imagawa clan took the initiative to give up many of Suruga's defenses in order to come back and protect Odawara. As a result, Fujita Clan said that he would gather the entire army to take the initiative to attack the coalition forces, while Imagawa Ujiki and Yotoji Yao advocated holding on to Odawara. As long as the coalition forces retreated, Musashi could be restored.

After three or four days of quarreling, the Hojo clan finally sided with the Fujita clan, and 20,000 troops came out in an attempt to reverse the defeat and block the enemy from the country.

So when they got the news that the Oishi clan Teru's entire army was destroyed, Koheita also got the news that Hojo's army had arrived at Koji Castle.

After a brief discussion, the Yamauchi Army gave up the small machine city as a gesture of goodwill before the peace talks and ordered the troops to shrink. Prepare to gather 50,000 people and have a good talk with the 20,000 people from the Hojo Army.

The Hojo family still has two lands, and the two counties of Suruga are still resisting. It is true that they are still one of the most famous names in the world. Even if the coalition forces led by the Yamauchi family gain the upper hand, they still cannot afford to ignore it.

After confirming that more than thirty key warriors, including Oishi Teru, were unharmed, the Hojo family transported three hundred koku of rice. It was used as food for the three thousand elite Hojo soldiers who were captured, and also showed their sincerity in peace talks.

The Hojo family had not been aware of the situation in Musashi before, but now that they were fully aware of it, they saw that Edo City was completely burned down, and the radical radicals including the Fujita clan also became conservative for the time being.

Their condition is to admit defeat, and the existing territories occupied by the coalition forces will be disposed of by the coalition forces. The resurrected Uesugi family of Musashi guardian Ogitani and the Edo-Ota family of Musashi guardians were both recognized by the Hojo family. The Hojo family gave up supporting the former Furukawa Lord Ashikaga Yoshiji who was still in their hands, and recognized Oyumi Yorijun's status as a Kanto shogun.

In the territory of Musashi Province, except for the three counties of Kura, Tachibana, and Tsuzuki, which are close to Sagami Province, all other Hojo families have given up. And paid five thousand kan Yongle coins or five thousand taels of gold for the captured Hojo people.

Under this condition, apart from five thousand taels for Hojo, doesn't it mean that he has paid nothing!

Naturally, the Yamauchi family refused. Anyway, the Imagawa clan still had Izu's territory. The Yamauchi family's request was that Suruga should spit it out completely and leave nothing behind. Let Imagawa Yoshiuchi's guardianship of Suruga be completely confirmed, and he can threaten the Izu Sagami Country, the home of the Hojo clan, at any time.

In addition, the Uraga area of ​​Miura County in Sagami Province, that is, the port of Yokosuka, which will be very famous in later generations, must be ceded, but not to the Yamauchi family or any other family.

Izu is the foundation of the Hojo clan. Now that he still has strength, if he is asked to cede it, he is afraid that he will not agree. However, Uraga Port on the Miura Peninsula is only a station for the Sagami Navy. It is still far away from Odawara, so it can be discussed.

Uraga was opened as a free port, and the Yamauchi clan and the Satomi clan each stationed 300 troops in Uraga. The warships of the Yamauchi clan and the Satomi clan were allowed to dock and station here at will.

Nanman ships were also allowed to trade here, extending the radiation network of Nanman trade from Sagami Izu to the entire Kanto hinterland. Through trade, with the Yamauchi clan's royal merchants as the vanguard and the Yamauchi family as the leader, they gradually guided and led the Kanto daimyo noble families, at least economically, to launch a united front against the Kanto forces.

The more important point is that Shimoda in Izu has opened its port, and Shimoda and Uraga happen to be Luda and Weihai. With Sagami Bay included, Odawara Castle will be wide open.

The Yamauchi family will not directly occupy the land in Kanto, or in other words, they will not directly occupy the land in Kanto at this time. This will not irritate Uesugi Kenshin, who has fundamental interests in Kanto, but will also gain the goodwill of Kanto forces.

The last point, of course, is for the Hojo clan to sign a two-year armistice agreement with all parties to the coalition. Everyone will go home and prepare their troops. If they are not convinced after two years, they will try again.

war?

Peace?

It's up to you, the Hojo clan!

Happy New Year!