Japan is separated by a river from Lu Qi.

At the end of the year, the Central Plains was full of gongs and drums, loud laughter, and a war between the great and small kings of Japan was going on.

The so-called big and small kings refer to Chongde and his father or brother Toba!

In the past sixteen years of Hongwu, Chongde, with Lu Qi behind him, although his popularity has plummeted and the basic market is pitiful, but in any country in this world, the people there are survival first.

In order to get enough food to fill their stomachs and fill the stomachs of their families, one after another Japanese farmers took the weapons produced by Lu Qi and walked onto the battlefield with the banner of Chongde.

In this civil war, Toba has an absolute advantage in the balance of power in Japan. Even though Toba was no longer able to control the whole of Japan, the mines that Lu Qi had taken away from him earlier were not only nailed to Japan like nails, but also an invisible knife that cut the whole of Japan apart.

It's just a fierce operation after Chongde's 'independence', but Toba has made a new improvement.

He called Lu Qi a vassal, which is understandable, and even sold the mines in the territory to Lu Qi on a large scale, which is understandable. This is true throughout Japan, from the central government to the local government. However, the Chongde regime, from military to legal, from civil affairs to internal affairs, was all under the influence of Lu Qi, and even publicly abolished the queen and married a Zhao woman as the new queen, which really made the Japanese nobles and nobles unable to agree.

And more importantly, Chongde actually brandished a big knife and slashed at the samurai class, and at the same time repaired the noble gate lords with scissors like bonsai, which is completely self-defeating from "Japan".

Japan's samurai class has been formed for more than 200 years, and if not deep-rooted, it has been recognized by Japanese society in practice. The rest of the aristocratic families, although they were two different groups, were both truly privileged classes, and the two had long been combined.

Now in Japan, large and small aristocratic families, who has no samurai under their name? That's already a symbol of force. More than 200 years have passed since some local lords began to build up private armies to defend themselves and use their expanding power to the present, which has gradually matured into an institutionalized professional military organization and has become the privileged ruling class of Japan.

In this way, more than ninety percent of the samurai in the country gathered under the banner of Toba. At least nominally in favor of Toba.

If you want to do something against a privileged class, how can you not suffer backlash?

Is this a change? However, looking at those changes in history, how many people have done well?

Seven or eight hundred years later, during the period of industrial civilization, Okubo Ritsu, who had the privilege of stabbing the samurai, also died at the hands of the assassins.

But if Chongde wants to turn back, is there still a way to go?

If he wants to survive, he has to kill himself. And if he wanted to live, he could only continue the war according to Lu Qi's wishes, even if he understood that the price of doing so was the destruction of the whole of Japan.

The sixteenth year of Hongwu was a turning point in the history of Japan. Chongde-Lu Qijun, who had always been on the defensive, helped him a wave, but after getting the mine from both sides, those Qi troops withdrew in name, and Lu Qian still had to face it. Chongde fought with his own Lao Tzu, and the territory quickly shrank by more than half, and there was only a small slit near the East China Sea in the North Road.

Toba didn't dare to really kill Chongde, the latter ran away to Sado Island in the blink of an eye, once the big move summoned Qi Jun to play, Toba still had to fight on the street.

Lu Qian looked at the map and felt that the North Road was similar to the territory of Uesugi Kenshin in the ghost game in the later generations, and it was a little familiar to hear the name, Yuehou, Yuezhong and the like.

Chongde went all the way to the dark, without the support of the Japanese forces, and even some of his subordinates left him, but this does not mean that the path he took was wrong.

This year, the Chongde Army, which was mainly civilians, was trained by the good students of the Lu Qi Army, and defeated the Toba Army in the battle of Wakasa Province with fewer victories, and then successfully recovered Echizen Province, and Noto Province, which had been cut off from land for more than a year, resumed land transportation, which can be said to be a rare highlight moment for the Chongde Army in recent years. Although Chongde issued an order to Nengdaguo, it was because he had a hole in his brain that he would take the land route.

The northern road area is close to the sea, and the waterway is the most convenient way to contact. But this did not prevent the Chongde regime from boasting about this rare victory in every possible way.

In fact, when the new governor of Haidong, Shi Wenbin, arrived on Sado Island, the Chongde regime had just received new news from Lu Qi, not about anything else, but about the general inventory of the harvest of the Eastern Route Army in the Battle of Northern Tianzhu, as well as the personal gains of the soldiers who participated in the battle.

This information was reported in the form of a feature by The News.

From the limited size of the Eastern Route Army to the huge results it had already achieved in Sena, from the total harvest of the whole army to the individual gains of the soldiers, it was a figure that made the big and small figures up and down the Chongde regime blush.

The great victory they achieved in the country of Wakasa was not worth mentioning in front of the Eastern Route Army in the Battle of Northern Tianzhu. The income in tens of millions of silver dollars made the entire Chongde regime appear extremely poor.

If so, Shi Wenbin saw that the Chongde regime had a complex mentality of envy, doubt, fear, and eagerness for Lu Qi and Qi Jun. This kind of mood is very complicated, mixed with the fear of Lu Qi among the insiders of the Chongde regime, and at the same time the envy of the combat effectiveness of the Qi army, of course, it is also full of some people who have completely fallen to Lu Qi, and eagerly hope that Lu Qi will intervene more in the Chongde regime and give it more and greater help, the latter is especially represented by Fujiwara Tadashi.

Fujiwara Tadashi is the Sekibai of the Chongde regime, a person whom Shi Wenbin focused on understanding before he set off for Japan, and a person who knows how to make trade-offs. He is a relative of Chongde, how can this relationship be calculated?

Shotoku's mother's father, his maternal grandfather, Fujiwara Nagami, was a loyal brother.

It's a long, far away relationship.,You must know that the faithful daughter is the second main room of Toba.。 Toba is his son-in-law!

But Fujiwara Faithful stood on the opposite side of Toba.

Ostensibly, this was more due to the dispute between his two sons. The faithful eldest son Fujiwara Tadamichi is a fan of Toba, but the most beloved of the faithful is the second son Fujiwara Yorinaga, who is very friendly with Chongde. It's just that Fujiwara Tadamichi still doesn't like this second brother very much, Lai Changke is twenty-four years younger than Zhongtong, and it stands to reason that there is no threat to Fujiwara Zhongtong. It's just that the rules of Japan are very strange, Lai Changxu is twelve years old, and when he is ten years old, he will be subdued, and he will be the official position under the five ranks, serving as an attendant, a major general of the guards and Iyo Quanshou. stepped into the official career too early, and under the care of his father, the official position was promoted quickly, which naturally made the old brother feel a threat on his back. In addition, although he himself is proficient in Song Confucianism and Sinology, he has not learned the slightest bit of Confucian moderation, and his personality is harsh, harsh, and refuses to compromise.

The conflict that erupted between the two sons, as well as the conflict between Toba and Shotoku, made Fujiwara Tadashi realize that he had to make a choice. As a matter of course, he sided with his second son to support the Chongde regime.

This is not purely the love of the son, but also to protect the family, not to put all the eggs in one basket. And Fujiwara Tadamichi is very important in front of Toba, but Fujiwara Yoshicho is still young, even if he is also a close minister of Chongde, but on the surface, he cannot dominate the 'government'. In this way, Fujiwara faithfully stood on the side of the second son, wouldn't it be logical for the 'court's government' of the Shotoku regime to be the commander-in-chief?

Dividing the entire family into two, but each side can become a 'Seihaku' under one person and above ten thousand people, this is Fujiwara's faithful decision!