Chapter 20: The Māori Impoverishment
They are all the same people, but the price of lives of different identities is very different.
Since Ashikaga Yoshiaki fled and drew with Honhide's westward expedition, more than a year before and after, the number of soldiers killed and wounded on many fronts, not to mention 10,000 or 20,000, can still be stopped and unimpeded. Only this time the death of the son of the head of the Changzong department caused a political crisis, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense, not to mention incompatibility, at least sabre-rattling.
But this is a matter of course for the people of the world.
The price of the lives of the nobles and the head of the Qian, must be different, is this worth mentioning?
As a semi-ally and semi-subordinate identity, the head of Tosa Chomune's department has been following the pace of the flat Tsunohide for almost ten years, and has always been loyal and courageous, conscientious, and exists as an important wing, and now the territory has exceeded 400,000 stones, and it seems that it is far from the end, how can the eldest son of his family be an ordinary person?
For this reason, there is nothing wrong with adjusting the troop arrangements in Kansai and Kyushu, and delaying the plan to enter Kanto and Hokuriku.
Uesugi Kenshin's situation has improved dramatically in the short term, and it doesn't look like he's facing more pressure.
Takeda Katsuyori and Tokugawa Ieyasu can only find a way to contain the Hojo clan on their own for the time being.
Otomo Sorin, on the other hand, is going to be worried, without the help of the Shikoku soldiers, he is not an opponent at all when he faces Shimazu alone.
But the most bitter must be Maori Huiyuan.
After inviting back the shogun, he suddenly became the number one leader of the "anti-tie encirclement", and his reputation soared, and Shimazu, Uesugi, and Hojo all sent letters to express their respect.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki chose the port of Bigo Tokuura, which is the location where his ancestor Tsuneji received the recourse of Nitta Yoshisada from Emperor Kogan more than 200 years ago, as a temporary "imperial palace", hoping that this blessed land would bring good luck.
Taking advantage of the fact that the signboard of the Muromachi shogunate was still within the expiration date, the official service names who did not need money were cleared and sold, packed and sent out, and Mori Terumoto was easily given the title of "Guanling" and then simply promoted to "deputy general" within a few days, and more than 100 retainers all obtained the title of "Feng Public", and suddenly became people with status.
However, these false names may not have any real effect, but have attracted powerful attacks.
Perhaps there was originally some positive effect, but it was later offset by the huge charge of "facing the enemy". Out of consideration for the face of the samurai all over the world, Hirate Hoshu does not plan to directly throw such a big pot to Ashikaga Yoshiaki for the time being, so it is really inappropriate in public opinion to do so.
But you are just a Maori Huiyuan, dare to coerce the public party, forcibly claim your position, and pretend to be the "deputy general", you are really arrogant, and you have to clean you up.
The parties may feel aggrieved - obviously there is no forced demand, but it is better to say that Ashikaga Yoshiaki forced it. However, hundreds of ministers in Kyoto unanimously agreed, believing that it must be you who coerced and forced the extortion, and you should be the enemy of the DPRK.
Can you speak hundreds of mouths with one mouth?
The main force of the Heite family attacked the Inaba of San'in, the Niko Revival Army was active in Hakuki, the Ukita Naoke and Bessho Naoji troops were in preparation, the Kuki Yosataka and Ataka Nobuyasu led the water army in the Mishima area, and now there are Shikoku soldiers of the head relatives of Nagamune and my department ready to go.
Under the multi-sided siege, it can be called precarious.
With the strategy of Zhengbing Yang, the tie took the two cities of Zhutian and this corner mountain, pacified Danma, and pointed to the west again, and went to Tottori City, showing an unstoppable momentum.
Bichu and Mishima were originally in a state of confrontation, but the addition of the head relatives of Nagamune and my department broke the balance. Taking advantage of the fact that the Maori navy was all delayed, he rented the ships of the Otomo navy, and from the direction of Yashiro Island, he sent more than 10,000 people from his brother Xiangzong and my department to land on the defenseless Zhou Fangguo, and after some burning and looting, he went straight to the mountain castle of Yoshida County.
Shikoku's Tokawa Depository, Miyoshi Yasunaga, Saionji Kohiro and others expressed their willingness to support, apparently also thinking about the territory of Kansai.
This was the first time since the beginning of the war that Mori Terumoto had experienced the feeling of being invaded in the core area. It's almost the first time in my life.
He lost his father when he was young, and since he was sensible, he was covered by a great grandfather, and the neighbors on all sides had either knelt on the ground begging for mercy, or were about to be beaten to the ground begging for mercy, and there was never an enemy. Later, the battle line became longer and longer, and finally he dealt with the powerful forces of Kitakyushu and, and although they won and lost each other, they were always fighting outside the country.
In these places, such as Anyi, Zhoufang, Iwami, Nagato, and Bigo, there is basically no sword and soldier thing, and it is gradually moving in the direction of centralization and unification.
But the arrival of the soldiers of the four countries interrupted all this.
Changzong himself did not act because of the pain of losing his son, but his younger brother Xiangzong and my family were also a person who knew the soldiers and was good at fighting, leading 10,000 elite soldiers, facing the old and weak soldiers left behind in various places, it can be called devastating, like a bamboo, and it took only five days to conquer three small cities in a row, occupying the Hiroshima Delta, which is rich in products and convenient transportation. It was only two days away from the residence of the enemy daimyo.
Mori Terumoto originally planned to concentrate his forces against the Niko Revival Army first, but when he heard that his back was unstable, he hurriedly retreated to reinforcements and turned back to the mountain castle of Yoshida County.
The terrain of this city is dangerous, the walls are stacked, and the grain is sufficient, even if 180,000 people come to surround it, it can hold on for a year and a half.
But his two uncles were in an awkward position.
Yoshikawa Motoharu had to deal with the stubborn resistance of the Niko Revival Army and the advance of the main army of the Hisho alone, while Kobayakawa Takakei had to deal with the attacks of the Ukita Naoke and Bessho Nagaharu and the pressure of a thousand ships.
In short, it is too much to stretch.
After entering Inaba and besieging Tottori Castle, Hirate saw that the enemy was heavily garrisoned, and judged that it would be difficult to conquer for a while, and saw the progress in the south, so he flexibly adjusted the emphasis.
While keeping 30,000 men fighting in San'in, he ordered Iwanari Tomotsu to lead 10,000 men to Sanyang, temporarily commanding the coalition forces of Ukita and Bessho, and attacking Beizhong.
The nine ghosts of Yoshitaka, Ataka Nobuyasu, and Kurijima only need to contain the Maori naval army in the Mishima area.
Then Nakamura Kazushi went to Shikoku and gathered all available troops, including Tokawa, Miyoshi, Saionji, Kagawa, etc., to support Kamune and my tribe to pro-Tai, but the purpose was not to rush to attack Yoshida-gun Yamashiro, but to build a castle in Hiroshima as a front-line fortress.
The branches of the three major Gosho in the Shikoku region will be responsible for the materials and manpower required for the project.
Noguchi Masatoshi took another 8,000 men to cross the sea to attack Nagato and Iwami, who were in the void, and the requirement was to only pick up soft tofu and never gnaw hard bones, and if Mori Terumoto or Yoshikawa Motoharu went to the rescue, then they would retract and wait for the reinforcements to return to the front line before continuing to harass. Cities with more than 1,000 defenders do not need to be attacked, but only need to set fire to the houses and destroy the streets under the city to strike at the enemy's future war potential.
Or rather, it was a strategy to force the Maori family to submit.
In the long run, it seems that this will attract the hatred of the common people, lose the hearts and minds of the people of Kansai, and affect the stability of the future. However, the hirate did not have the intention of directly ruling these regions, so it was very indifferent.
The only thing that needs to be overcome is a sympathetic mentality for the poor. After decades of exposure to this superfluous and harmful substance, there is probably no one left, but what little remnant of it has never completely dissipated.
After successively acquiring the northern part of Iyo, the central part of Harima, pacifying the entire territory of Tajima, and occupying Tanba and Tango, Hirate Honshu has found himself gradually approaching the ceiling of his administrative ability.
In the short term, even if new land is acquired, there will not be enough manpower to implement centralization. If it is forcibly promoted, there will be a situation in the history of the past called the central government, but in fact, there is no way to help the local power, and then it will inevitably be very embarrassing.
Fuso, lacking a unified tradition and the absence of a civilian community, embarked on the shogunate system, and it was not until modern times that there were prefectures, and this development process was obviously inevitable and beyond human interference.