At the end of July and the beginning of August, autumn was deepening, and the peace negotiations had not yet been fully and formally, and the Takeda clan's troops had all turned back and returned to their hometowns to work as farmers.

News from the north said that Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin, having obtained the territories of Echichu and Noto, was content to have a truce with Honganji, and that the autumn harvest would be completed in an expedited manner by mid-August, and that troops would be dispatched to Kita-Shinano and Nishi-Ueno.

However, the Hiraite Honshu had already spent more than 300,000 troops in a year, so he was not ready to join in the excitement, but arranged for the gradual withdrawal of troops like the Takeda Army.

Only more than 6,000 people were left behind in the personal guards and banners, and they continued to be stationed in the territory of Yuanjiang to standby.

At the same time, it was also reported that some forces such as the Miyoshi Choji remnants of Shikoku, the remnants of the Tsuchihashi clan in Kii, and certain merchants in Kai Town were all taking the opportunity to set off a wave of chaos.

But now that the tie has not lost to Takeda Shingen as the enemy expected, but has gained a lot of the upper hand, then these rebellions have obviously become insignificant mantis arms. There was no need to even return to the division to suppress it in person, but only appointed Kawada Nagakin, Nakamura Kazushi, and Asano Nagayoshi to deal with it.

During this time, the Tokugawa clan was very eager to recover the territorial losses as much as possible, and the Oda clan was also a little concerned about Higashimino, but due to the unfavorable timing and lack of strength, there was no way to officially start after all.

Without the support of the Hite, they would not have been able to regain lost ground on their own.

According to the comprehensive estimates of intelligence officers, merchants, and officials, the land that the Tokugawa clan was embezzled was about 60,000 to 80,000 koku in Mikawa and 10 to 130,000 koku in Enoe, totaling about 200,000 koku, and the remaining strength was 300,000 to 350,000 koku. Oda lost 100,000 to 150,000 koku of land in Higashimino, and then Omi and Isu, excluding South Omi and Kitaise, still have about 700,000 koku left.

Correspondingly, the Takeda family can be considered to have expanded its territory by more than 300,000 koku.

But winning and losing isn't just a matter of numbers.

In the case that the Suruga country has not yet been thoroughly digested, it may be difficult to effectively manage the newly conquered land, but it will have to consume a considerable number of troops to defend it, and for a period of time in the future, the Takeda family's financial resources will still be dependent on the Koshu gold mines, and this has suffered a lot of impact due to the copper scandal.

Not to mention that the Echigo Uesugi in the north was persuaded to refocus on Hokushin and Nishi-Ueno, which made the location of the Kai people extremely sinister, and with the exception of the Kanto Go-Hojo family, they were almost all enemies.

After comprehensive consideration, Takeda Shingen decided to ignore his false name and take advantage of it first.

He decisively threw away his position to fight against the current shogunate, gave up supporting the orphans of the previous princess, and drew a clear line with the backstabbing man "Enemy Konoe" Maejiu, and bowed his knees to the "crusading army" and admitted defeat.

So, just as the wise man expected, Hisho Honhide, who had come from afar, felt satisfied after receiving this attitude, and was no longer obsessed with continuing to fight the Takeda family.

Obviously, this beautiful "Master of the Criminal Department" will soon return to Izumi, Awaji, Kii, and even Shikoku to enjoy this great glory, and will do his best to conspire with the heroes of in order to turn this glory into real profit. He had no strength left to throw himself to the east for the time being.

Then the Takeda family will be able to win a few rare years.

If we can find a way to hold Uesugi back without much effort through diplomacy and strategy, and then seize the time to digest the new territories in Suruga, Enoe, Mikawa, and Mino, we will be able to make a comeback in three to five years, organize a westward campaign that is more powerful than the five years of Motokame, and once again seek hegemony in the world.

The two sides tacitly took more than half a month to reach an agreement when each took what it needed.

On the 20th day of August in the 6th year of Motokame, a covenant was made at Hachihoji Temple on the border of Enoe and Suruga.

Kinoshita Hidenaga represented the Hirate clan, Shoki Kusakawa represented the Takeda clan, Hosokawa Fuji Takaku represented the shogunate, and Oda and Tokugawa also sent their own representatives to attend.

First of all, the Takeda family admitted that it was a mistake to support the "Yoshiki Orphan", and in the future they would be loyal to Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the only orthodox and legitimate general of the Shogun.

Secondly, the former Sekihaku Konoe, who once "colluded with the three good traitors" and "led Takeda astray", was handed over to the imperial court for disposal, but due to poor supervision, the parties escaped. The Takeda family will make amends, and the Heite family and the shogunate will show their understanding.

In the end, it was established that Takeda's guardianship was limited to Kai, Shinano, and Suruga, and that illegal appropriation of other areas was not recognized, and that it would be returned to its rightful owners, but the wording was ambiguous and there was no deadline for the deadline, and all parties pretended not to be aware of this huge loophole.

After the news came out, Ashikaga Yoshiaki of the Imperial Palace was overjoyed, and made an exception to personally handwrite a long text of 3,400 words, which was sent to the front of the battle, and used countless non-trivial words to boast of the "great feat" of Hirate Honhide's "Shochao Heizhen". In this letter, the part of his sincerity and political needs may be half and half each.

Correspondingly, the army of the Asakura clan had already taken advantage of the fact that Shigeharu Takenaka was infected and Shibata Katsuya and Sakai Masato were still at odds, and attacked a series of fortresses such as Sawa Yamashiro and Eihara Castle, and aimed at Kyoto. However, when they heard that Takeda had withdrawn and that they would return to, they retreated more than 100 kilometers and returned to Echizen within three days.

However, Kitabatake Gukyo is a strong man, and he only scolded Takeda Shingen for betraying his allies again, and declared that he would fight Takigawa Ichiyi to the end. However, the situation in Ise is not as strong as his determination, and the wealthy families have always been the most able to see the wind and steer, and at the beginning, you can see that the Takeda family turned their backs on Takigawa, and now you can also see the Taiju family Tengda and defect from Kitabatake.

As for Asai Nagamasa, who would rather lose his hometown in Kita Omi and cause poison to Asakura, than jump into the fire pit to confront Takeda. And his military advisor, Takataka Kuroda - who knows what kind of expression it will look like? Anyway, during this time, they also got the port of Bizen and the mines of Tajima, so they shouldn't be angry, right?

All in all, the autumn of the fifth year of Motokame (1572) does not look like it can be spent peacefully.

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In order to confirm something worth caring about, that is, Takeda Shin Xu Na's feelings after reading the "private message", Hirate did not rush back to, but stayed in Enoe for a few more days, and did not return to the place where the storm was at its worst.

However, the change in the situation is already evident.

Tokugawa Ieyasu did not care at all about the lost territory that Toe and Mikawa had not yet recovered, but instead put on a full gesture of gratitude to Hinote Honhide, forced a confession and approached gratitude, vaguely regarding the "Hirate Punishment Department" as the successor of "Oda Danmasa", and his behavior was even somewhat similar to the appearance of the head relatives of Nagamune and Ibu, but his words were also quite measured, and there was no excessive flattery, and he was honest, which was different from Tosa Himeko Wakako.

However, Tokugawa Nobuyasu of Okazaki Castle was quite dissatisfied with the premature collegiate agreement, and his mood was always low, and he was also very rude to the people of the Hirate family. Fortunately, his wife is good at dancing with long sleeves and exquisite thoughts, and she has established a good reputation in a short period of time, and people don't care about that stunned person in this face.

On the other hand, it is said that Tokugawa Nobuyasu's wife, Gotoku, privately sent a maid to the Hirate army to ask, "Is Chiyomaruden, the young master of your family, here?" Can you see me? words. This is indeed something that is difficult for any man to bear......

Heite began to be wary when he heard for the third time that "the lady of the Tokugawa family is really a noble, knowledgeable and wise woman, but unfortunately Mikawa-sama (Ieyasu) does not cherish it very much", but after thinking about it, he didn't know exactly what to be wary of, but he was at a loss for a while.

At the same time, it is clear that Oda Nobutada is also actively adjusting his mentality.

The death of the military commander and the defeat of several battles seem to have been deliberately ignored by the rulers of the two kingdoms of Omi, and the reconquest of Higashimino was not mentioned much, but Sasa Hidenari, the son-in-law of Hirate Honhide, who had shown himself in the pursuit phase, was rendered as a great hero, and was given a reward sword, a certificate of feeling, and permission to live in the Ninomaru annex in Gifu Castle.

The gesture here is very intriguing.

In addition, Oda Nobutada also sought marriage advice from Hirate Honhide and Tokugawa Ieyasu, as well as Oda Nagayoshi and Sasa Narumasa at a small-scale banquet as juniors.

Originally, he was supposed to marry the eldest lady of the Takeda family as the main room, but now the two sides have just barely ceased war, and they obviously have no intention of maintaining peace for a long time, and the smell of gunpowder has not yet dissipated, and there is no intention to fulfill the marriage contract for the time being.

Now there is only one side room lady in Gifu City who is Tsutsui Shunkei's cousin, and if the Tsutsui family behaves well enough against Takeda, maybe Oda Nobutada will put aside his wife, or even straighten out the side room.

The position of women in the inner house and the performance of men on the battlefield are often complementary.

However, things did not turn out that way.

So Oda Nobutada took this out and used it as a political bargaining chip.

At his age, being able to do this level can be said to have grown in the experience of the Great War.

Oda Nobutada's current situation, it is best to let Ashikaga Yoshiaki or the daughter of Hirate Honhide come through the door to consolidate his position, and secondly, the girls of the Tokugawa family can also do, but unfortunately there are no suitable candidates.

Retreating to the second, he hopes that Takigawa Kazuyi, the acting official of Ise, will come to be the old man, and it just so happens that there is a girl of the right age there.

And entrusted the uncle's uncle, Hite, to help negotiate.

This is a very clever move in the current situation.

Takigawa Kazuyi is neither embarrassed and stumbling like Shibata Katsuie, nor anti-guest like Tie Tsunohide. Rather, it controls the territory of 200,000 koku in Northern Ise steadily.

With the overall situation of Takeda's failure in the west, the ups and downs of Kitabatake Gukyo in Southern Ise were bound to fail, and it happened that Oda Chasimaru died inexplicably, and then Takigawa Ichiyi occupied the entire territory of Ise just around the corner. If Oda Nobutada can firmly grasp him as a wing help by means of marriage, a game of chess in Omi and Mi can be regarded as alive.

There was no reason to refuse due to various considerations, but gladly accepted.

The parties immediately agreed to complete the ceremony within two months.

During his stay in Toe, in addition to Oda and Tokugawa, another noteworthy one was the shogunate envoy Hosokawa Fujitaka who was released by Takeda Shingen.

This nobleman of the Genji clan, an official of the DPRK and China, a prominent official, and a literary figure, kept sighing in private, saying that the authority of the Ashikaga clan may no longer be enough to stabilize the world, and that the Equal Punishment Department is now a model for all nations, and that "the grace of saving the contemptible people from prison will inevitably be repaid by a spring, and the day of loyalty will be effective."

At first, it wasn't taken seriously.

But after saying it four times in a row, Hirata Honhide half-jokingly suggested: "Your Excellency is the Daisuke of the Military Department, and you are an important member of the shogunate, and you are an example of the world's cultured people, and it sounds really scary and unbelievable to ask you to serve me for me." ”

But Hosokawa Fujitaka made up his mind, and took over the conversation and said firmly: "Once the contemptible person returns to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, he will send the dog to Izumi to learn the art of tea, and I will ask the criminal department to take care of you at that time." ”

There is actually a meaning of sending a son as a hostage.

Hearing this, Hitetsu was very surprised, and it was hard to imagine in his heart that after being imprisoned by Takeda Shingen for half a year, how much had Hosokawa Fujitaka's mental state changed to become like this?