After the reception, within a few days, Tieshou received the news that food prices continued to rise.

In Hequan China, the original brown rice was seven or eight hundred wen per stone, but recently it has risen to the same level. In Yamato, the original level of six or seven hundred wen has also risen to eight or nine hundred. The surrounding areas of Settsu and Hanoi have all been impressed, but only Omi and Kii have not changed significantly. The largest amplitude is near Kyoto, which used to be consistent at most, but now it is consistent 0400 Wen, and you have to rush to buy it.

With the rise in prices, a rumor is also spreading in the market.

It is said that the fleet of the Hirate family was ambushed by Takeda spies on the Kii Kaido, and suffered a major setback, losing tens of thousands of koku of grain and more than 200 large ships, so not only did they lose the financial resources to purchase food again in the short term, but they also no longer had the capacity to transfer grain from other places. In order to solve the problem, the Daisa of the Hirate Punishment Department will rely on the army to oppress the merchants and wealthy clans in Kinai, and impose a forced apportionment, and each family must provide a specified amount of rice to avoid being tortured.

This rumor fully explains the reason for the rise in food prices, and it can also hit the real situation, and it captures the dark and panicked side of people's hearts.

Upon learning of this, some uninformed retainers suggested that this must be a conspiracy of the Takeda family's spies, and that measures should be taken as soon as possible to stabilize prices and prevent chaos.

Tie hand show from the advice is like a stream, is known for a long time.

So he immediately ordered his soldiers to post lists in various nearby towns and temples, vigorously publicize the truth, and tell everyone that the so-called loss of tens of thousands of stone of grain by the fleet was purely fabricated. My family is not short of military rations, and there is no need for any means of "food control." Within ten days, another fleet would be carrying a steady stream of grain from Shikoku, Kyushu, and other places. Please keep your eyes right, do not believe rumors, do not spread rumors, and do not participate in the foolish act of rushing to buy rice.

After a few days, the food in the relevant places rose even higher, even affecting Owari and Mino, as well as Harima and Tamba.

Generally speaking, farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky will be relatively more trusting of official announcements. However, the townspeople who live by the calculation generally believe that "the more the official refutes the rumors, the more it shows that they are true".

However, there are some small and medium-sized businessmen who do not know the truth, and they take the initiative to come over and say that they are willing to accept the assessment and provide support. Almost all of them came from Kaimachi and Kishiwada Castle, and they obviously tasted all kinds of sweetness in the system of "auctions", "ration stamps", and "stamp duty", and thought that they were a community of interests.

But more often than not, he said to the samurai master of the Heite family, "Resolutely support the wise leadership of the criminal department, and never listen to the rumors issued by any hostile forces", but secretly he was quietly stockpiling food.

Tieshou Fanxiu privately asked people to put the businesses with different reactions on the white list or blacklist, and he didn't say anything, sat firmly on the fishing day, and waited for the follow-up development.

The mastermind Munehisa Imai, together with Tsuda Muneki, Hasegawa Munehito, Harutaya Shuichi, and Tamakoshi Sanshiro, and other businessmen, ostensibly went with the flow and bought rice in a panic, but in fact they carefully grasped the scale and were ready to sell it at a high price before the rise turned to a fall.

As for the tiebreaker, of course, they will not surrender their identity to participate in this vulgar and vicious hype, and will only share more than half of the profits after the water is revealed.

On the other hand, if the merchants do not operate properly, or have bad luck, do not make the expected money, or even lose money, then they only need to stay out of the matter, and there is no need to go to the bottom, which is really a good business.

Of course, Harutaya and Yuyue House are basically of the same heart and one person with the Pingshou family, and their reputation is one.

If all goes well, in a dozen days, there should be a large inflow of funds, enough for tens of thousands of people to be stationed on the front lines in the area of Owari and Mikawa to fight a protracted war of attrition with Takeda Shingen.

Tie Hoshu has a positive attitude towards this.

And yet—

One day before that, he saw Sasa Chengmasa, who had an extremely ugly face, and once again broke into the room without notice and handed over a shocking paperwork.

It recounts the tragic defeat of the Oda and Tokugawa coalitions, and is accompanied by a letter written by Oda Nobutada himself asking for help, which expresses strong grief and despair.

After a while, the news came back from his intelligence department, which was similar to the content of the battle report in the hands of Sasa Chengzheng, and the two corroborated each other and confirmed it again.

The following day, the Kyoto Imperial Palace also sent an envoy, and in a change of the arrogant attitude of the previous days, he respectfully pleaded with the army of Hirate to leave for the front as soon as possible.

It seems that all the nobles are no longer optimistic about resisting Takeda.

I don't know if this is a blessing or a curse for the career of the Tie family.

The reason is obvious -

Last winter, the Takeda Army, which was thwarted by the bitterly cold weather, launched another large-scale offensive in May this year, and dealt a bigger blow to the Odami Three-Nation Coalition than last year.

According to the information provided by Sasa Naimasa, it is likely that Oda Nobutada and Tokugawa Ieyasu discussed a plan for a two-headed ambush, first attracting Takeda's main force deep into Owari territory with a small-scale deception and lengthening its battle line, and then the Oda army attacked from Kiyoshu Castle, and the Tokugawa army intercepted its rear road from Hamamatsu Castle.

By the way, the two of them couldn't hold it back and took the initiative to go out of the city to attack, the reason seems to be that they were affected by the rise in food prices, and the logistical pressure was too great, so they didn't dare to continue to cage the city.

It is said that the coalition forces were successful in their first battle, successfully attacking the weak links of the Takeda army, courting several samurai at the rank of Ashigaru general, and even defeating the famous Yama Prefecture Shokei Akabi.

However, Takeda Shingenqi was one step ahead, sitting back and watching the collapse of the prefecture department, but secretly arranged an elite reserve team, led by his son Takeda Katsuyori, with an estimated size of between 5,000 and 10,000.

Just as Oda's army was in full swing and intending to expand the results of the battle, this reserve suddenly counterattacked, cut in from the side, broke several formations in a row, and killed all the way to Oda's main camp, turning the situation around in an instant.

In the end, Oda completely collapsed, and the deputy general Kawajiri Hidetaka was killed in battle, and when Oda Nobutada gathered the remnants of his army and retreated to the vicinity of Kiyoshu Castle, there were less than 10,000 people available.

The front in charge of the three people on the left wing Mino should have been experienced veterans of a hundred battles, but they were easily broken through by Takeda Katsuyori, and I didn't dare to think about the details in detail.

In this battle, the Takeda family is known as "wounded and killed", which should be an exaggeration.

According to common sense, the actual casualties of the Oda family should be two or three thousand, and most of the losses were due to the flight and escape of the soldiers who lost their formation.

But there's no point in worrying about that.

Takeda Katsuyori took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the momentum was violent, and there was a great tendency to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

Oda Nobutada believed that the vicinity of Cheongju was all plains and could no longer be defended, so he retreated further to Komaki Mountain Castle, which had the advantage of the terrain, so that he could feel at ease.

Then he hurriedly ordered Maeda Toshiie, who was guarding Higashimino, and Ikeda Tsuneko, who was supporting Kita-Ise, to turn back, and he couldn't take care of the two secondary fronts that were also tight.

This is likely to cause Higashimino's local power to fall to Takeda, and Takigawa Kazuki of Kitaise will have to ask for more blessings.

Tokugawa Ieyasu had a very smooth operation in Enoe, gathered all his forces, and captured thousands of people from the Takeda Military's Horse Farm Shinbo Office and won a great victory. However, after receiving the news of the loss of Cheongju City, the army was in an uproar and had to flee back to the city in embarrassment.

As a result of this battle, the Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces lost the ability to launch a field war in a short period of time, completely lost the initiative, and the situation was precarious.

And several other fronts are not good news either.

In Minami-Omi, Shibata Katsuie, who was forced to live in seclusion last year due to the accident, thought that the limelight had passed, and returned to the castle without authorization, hoping that Shigeharu Takenaka would return to power.

I heard that there were peaceful negotiations between the two of them, and there was no conflict, and they agreed to jointly defend against foreign enemies and protect the territory. But the fact is that - just a few days ago, more than 10,000 troops of Asakura Yoshikei attacked Sawa Yamajo Castle and obtained the gateway to suppress Minami-Omi.

It is said that Asakura Yoshikage took advantage of the outside world's contempt for him, laid out a plan to lure the enemy, and omitted some of the local wealthy clans, and successfully captured the city with the inside and outside.

Asakura Yoshikei defeated Shigeharu Takenaka and Shibata Katsuie with a trick, which seemed impossible, but it did happen.

And Takigawa Kazuki of Kitaise defeated Kitabatake's Goyoku in two consecutive head-on battles. But the inexplicable death of Oda Chasimaru caused great political turmoil, which was not limited by military success.

According to intelligence estimates, with the fall of Kiyoju Castle and the massive fall of the local forces in Northern Ise to Takeda, Takigawa Kazuki may no longer be able to sustain himself.

Higashimino Maeda Toshiie and Akiyama Nobutomo were at odds with each other, but he now had to withdraw to assist in the frontal defense......

In this situation, the Asai family, which is based in the western country, seems to be the wisest. It is said that they have taken down the entire territory of Harima, most of Settsu, and several prefectures of Tajima Province, including Ikuno Ginzan, as well as about one-third of Bizen and Misaku.

It seems like a wise choice to leave Omi's hometown behind......

After listening to the battle reports from all over the place, the feelings of the draw were very complicated.

On the surface, of course, this is bad news, but on the other hand, only if Oda and Tokugawa are badly defeated, others will have more room to profit. Of course, you can't really let the Takeda family win too thoroughly, otherwise it will be unstoppable.

- This is the wishful thinking of the Tie Family.

Of course, Takeda Shingen may be using this kind of thinking to divide and dissolve each one......

If the princes of Kinai really united, it would be enough to make the Takeda army return in vain, and Asakura and Kitabatake would not be worried.

Unfortunately, when Oda and Tokugawa needed support the most, what were the nobles of Kinai doing? Yoshiaki Ashikaga, who has the most reputation, is staring at Kawachi after the fall of Hatakeyama and Miyoshi, while the strongest Hirate Honhide is focused on solving the Yamato Bankoku of the Matsunaga family.

The world is like this, and it is understandable to only care about yourself.

Intellectually, I am benefiting, but I always feel that I am morally indebted like a "national disaster".

It may be time to make up for this debt.

So far, Ashikaga Yoshiaki still only relies on the calculation of "relying on one faction of warlords to defeat another faction of warlords", and refuses to press his own capital.

And the tie is ......

You can find a hundred more reasons to stay at any time, and sit back and watch Oda and Tokugawa use their flesh and blood to kill the edge of the Takeda family, or Honda Masanobu and Iwanari Tomotsu will think that this is the right choice.

However, from a longer-term and macro perspective, now is the best time to fight Takeda.

It can even be said that the tie has been tossed for more than half a year, and it is not an exaggeration to wait for this moment.

Stripped of the emotional factor, the defeat of Oda and Tokugawa was a positive one, although it must not be said publicly.