The most important thing for a human being is dignity.

- Premchand (Indian Hindi writer, king)

After introducing the situation of the Date family in Shimono Province, Maxi and Darnell began to introduce the current situation of Hitachi Province, which is different from Shimono Province, which is completely owned by the Date family, and has not been unified by powerful families, and has been in a state of chaos in which major families compete for hegemony.

The years of fighting and scuffle not only brought the development of Hitachi Province to a standstill, but also gave birth to several families with good strength in Hitachi Country, among them, the Osaki family of Meisheng Castle, the Kasai family of Teraike Castle, and the Barnyard family of Hanamaki Castle were the strongest.

The first is the Barnyard family of Hanamaki City, and the current governor of his family, Barnyard Guan Hirozhong, was originally the governor of the Hega family, but he obtained the Hanamaki City of the Barnyard family through succession, so that the two families of the Barnyard Guan family and the Hehe family were merged into one.

Waga Castle, which was not among the important towns of Hitachi Province, and Hanamaki Castle, which was actually annexed by the Waga family, became one of the strongest families in Hitachi Province, but a policy after the ascension of the barnyard family made the strength of the barnyard family plummet.

Although the barnyard family and the Waga family were fused in a succession way, the retainers of the barnyard family were dissatisfied with the barnyard family, and these retainers who were dissatisfied with the barnyard family being sought by outsiders launched a mutiny to regain the family.

Almost all of the main retainers of the Barnyard family and all the members of the lineage participated in the mutiny, but unfortunately, the well-prepared Barnyard Hirotashi had his own brother transfer the army of the Waga family into Hanamaki Castle in advance, and bought a large number of samurai from the Barnyard family.

The samurai, who actually controlled the army of the Barnyard family, defected and became followers of the Barnyard Hirotada, and the army of the Waga family was stationed in Hanamaki Castle, and the mutiny of the former members of the Barnyard family and his retainers had already been quelled by the barnyard clan before it had even begun.

After completely controlling the situation, Barnyard Guan Kuzhong executed all the members and retainers of the Barnyard family who participated in it; after that, in order to block the mouth of the world, Barnyard Guan Kuzhong transferred his position as the governor of the Hehe family to his younger brother and He Yizhong.

In this way, he 'draw' a clear line between himself and the Waga family, and thus officially became the governor of the Barnyard family; with Hanamaki Castle, one of the six important towns of Hitachi Province, and Waga Castle as a supplement, the strength of the Barnyard family should not be underestimated.

However, the destruction of the retainers of the Barnyard family was a very huge blow to the overall strength of the Barnyard family, and the Hehe family, which was not prosperous in the first place, could not provide too much help to the Barnyard family, so that the barnyard Guan Kuzhong fell into a situation where no one was available.

In the huge barnyard family, the family governor is the lord of Hanamaki Castle himself, and his younger brother He Yizhong is the lord of He Castle.

The Osaki family, which is more than a little stronger than the barnyard family, and its current governor, Osaki Yoshitaka, is not only a member of the Osaki family, but also a wise sage who knows how to make good use of people, and the strength of the Osaki family should not be underestimated!

The Osaki family of Osaki Yoshitaka not only owns the two important towns of Meisheng Castle and Nakaxinta Castle, but also has the most powerful retainers in Hitachi Province.

In addition, the presence of important generals such as Takashi Ichisa, Takahide Shigama, Takanobu Nanjo, and Takashi Miyazaki also played a positive role in the growing strength of the Osaki family.

The clan Takatsugi, who was more inclined to Wenchen, and his son, the clan Yoshitsugi, was famous since he was a child; after the Yuan service, he always followed the family governor Osaki Yoshitaka to fight in the north and south, until the clan Takatsugu was appointed as the lord of Nakaxintian Castle, and he also came to Nakashinda Castle as the general of the garrison.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is not difficult for the Osaki family, which has more troops and better retainers, to exterminate the Barnyard family with all their might, but the complicated situation in Hitachi Province determines that the Osaki family cannot send too much force to deal with the Barnyard family.

Otherwise, the strongest Kasai family will become the one who reaps the benefits of the fisherman, and everyone knows that the Kasai family governor of Teraike Castle, Kasai Harunobu, is just an enterprising and unenterprising governor of the Shoucheng family, but no family dares to provoke the Kasai family easily.

With a good hand of cards, Kasai Harunobu and his family owned the three important towns of Teraki Castle, Saguma Castle, and Griasawa Castle, and both the number of troops and the number of samurai were the highest in Hitachi Province! Only the retainers were slightly inferior to the Osaki family.

If you only compare from the perspective of the number and quality of retainers, then the Kasai family will not be worse than the Osaki family, but many of the important ministers and generals of the Kasai family are not loyal to Kasai Harunobu, or rather, they have a very powerful family themselves!

Teraike Castle, which was personally led by Harunobu Kasai, did not have outstanding governance talents, but it had the great military achievements of Yasaku Shigetsune to command the defenders of the castle, and Yoneya Tsunehide, who served as the lord of Sonuma Castle, and even more talented people under the rule of Yoneya Tsuneta and Yoneya Nobutada.

As one of the oldest families in Hitachi Province, the history of the Yoneya family is even longer than that of the Kasai family, and even though the Yoneya family is now subordinate to the Kasai family, the head of the Yoneya family, Yoneya Tsunehide, and his two younger brothers, are still well-known Hitachi talents!

Similarly, Kashiwayama Akiyoshi, who served as the lord of Griazawa Castle, his Kashiwayama family was not much worse than the Yoneya family of Yoneya Tsunehide; although Kashiwayama Akiyoshi himself was not outstanding, his three sons were the 'Kashiwayama Three' alongside the 'Three Talents of Yoneya'.

Kashiwayama Akiyoshi's eldest son, Kashiwayama Akimune, once persuaded Kasai Haru to trust his father to be the lord of Tsaki Castle, and the second son, Kashiwayama Akinaga, was a fierce general who could compete with the Kasai family's number one general, Yasaku, and he was much younger than the other party.

Compared to Yasaku Shigetsuna in his early forties, Kashiwayama Akicho in his twenties is too young, young enough for him to have enough time to grow to a stronger realm, and it is no exaggeration to say that in just three years, Kashiwayama Akicho will replace Yasaku Shigetsune and become the number one general of the Kasai family!

Kashiwayama Akihisa, the third son of Kashiwayama Akiyoshi, is in some ways more capable than his two elder brothers, and at the age of eighteen, he can easily handle all the affairs of the castle and ensure that the castle prospers day by day!

Compared to the situation in Shimono Province, the situation in Hitachi Province is indeed much more complicated, for example, the Kasai family, which ranks first in Hitachi Province in terms of overall strength, is not so much a powerful family as an alliance of the three major families of Kasai, Yoneya, and Kashiwayama.

Anyway, in the eyes of Bai Feng and the generals here, the Miya family and the Kashiwayama family, which are not directly controlled by the Kasai family and have their own family army and excellent retainers, are no different from independent families;

In order to ensure that the legion commanders and Roman captains present had a deeper understanding of the situation in Hitachi Province, Bai Feng gave them plenty of time to compare the map of Hitachi Province and understand the distribution of important cities of the Barnyard Family, the Osaki Family, and the Kasai Family.