In addition to the old team of the Hojo family, this time they attacked Musashi Province and recruited a large number of wealthy clans, but they were used as cannon fodder when attacking Edo Castle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe Hojo clan had no choice but to order most of the wealthy clan's territory to be given to appease these people.

But what really shook the foundation of the Hojo family was not the contradictions within these samurai classes, but the growing dissatisfaction of the people of Izu Sagami Province with the Hojo family. Since the time of Hojo Sakumo, great attention has been paid to the construction of people's livelihood, so the economic development of Izu Sagami Province has been very rapid, and the people of the country have also supported the two generations of Hojo Sakumo and Hojo clan. According to the trajectory of history, during the reign of Hojo Shiyasu, the popularity of the Hojo family in Izu Sagami country will be higher, in history, Uesugi Kenshin led the army south, and almost all the territories of the Hojo family were captured, only Izu Sagami and the two countries were barely in hand, it can be said that the First World War returned to the pre-liberation period, but with the support of the citizens of the two small countries, the Hojo clan Yasu not only recaptured all the territories, but expanded. After Hojo Shiyasu died of illness, Izu Sagami Province mourned almost the whole country, commemorating this famous general who lived with the people. However, due to the birth of Tsukahara Moryū and the killing of the middle-aged Hojo clan Yasu in the second battle of the national capital and Taiwan, the impression he left on the people of Izu Sagami was that in order to raise enough troops to fight Tsukahara Moryū, he changed the policy of people's livelihood during the period of Hojo Sakumo and Hojo clan, and wantonly raised the level of taxation. When it was really "Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp." Xiang Zhi died at the beginning, who knows the truth of his life? ”

However, the death of the Hojo clan did not bring a relatively peaceful environment for the Hojo family, and in order to survive in the gap between the powers, the Hojo clan had to continue to maintain high taxes to transfuse the blood of the Hojo army, which was greatly injured, especially the reorganization of the red and white reserves, which consumed a lot of resources. Fortunately, the Hojo clan defeated the Uesugi army in one fell swoop in the Battle of Fuchu Castle and recaptured most of Musashi Province, which eased the civil conflict between Izu Sagami and Sagami, and everyone was immersed in the joy of victory. Soon, however, the defeat of the Battle of Edo Castle caused the Hojo Army to suffer heavy losses again, and the people became more and more dissatisfied with the Hojo clan himself. There are even many people who openly claim that the father and son of the Hojo clan and the father and son of the Hojo clan are far inferior to their fathers and grandparents, the Hojo clan and the Hojo Sakumo, but the Hojo clan and the Hojo Sakumo have a very high prestige among the people, and no one really dares to pursue the person who said this, which led to the rapid spread of this kind of remarks, which invisibly eroded the foundation of the Hojo family.

The person who is most sensitive to the direction of the folk is the Hojo Phantom An, who was also born in the Hojo clan and served the three generations of Hojo family governors, so in the post-war assessment, the Hojo Phantom Nunnery took the initiative to restore the tax level before the Second Kofutai War, and at least part of the tax reduction request, but unexpectedly aroused the strong opposition of the core foreign style generals and the young Zhuang faction generals.

Originally, both factions set their sights on the first general of the Hojo family, Hojo Tsunari, but they saw that Hojo Tsunari was silent, but this move aroused more people's opposition, if you don't get up to speak, then we will get up and say it ourselves.

The first to stand up and express his opposition was Toyama Tsunade, who was seriously injured by Tsukahara Moryū in the night battle of Ninja City, but fortunately he picked up his life, but he has not been able to fight, but to recuperate, and the Hojo clan did not mobilize the Toyama family to gnaw any hard bones, so the combat power remained relatively intact. Originally, with the strength of Toyama Gangjing, he couldn't rank in the top five among the generals of the core foreign style faction, but Kasahara Shinwei, Oishi Dinghisa, Tamu Mototada, Kasahara Yasukatsu, Daido Temple Masashi and others died in battle, which made him suddenly become the number two person, which really made people laugh and cry.

"Although the family has temporarily disbanded the peasant soldiers, Tsukahara Moryū is still eyeing him, and he still has the main forces of the three major legions available in his hands, and he may attack the family at any time. If taxes are cut now, how can we sustain a military force that is sufficient to protect our family? Toyama Tsunakei's impression of Tsukahara Molong can be said to be hateful and afraid, so he does not agree with the self-defeating behavior of cutting taxes.

Hojo Phantom Nunnery also seemed to have expected this, and said unhurriedly: "What Toyama-sama said is very true, but Tsukahara Moryū has just assessed Shimono and Hitachi, and has to focus on digesting the territory, so I think that in the short term, it is unlikely that the Tsukahara army will invade the family." ”

"I don't think so." Yasumitsu Kano, one of the representatives of the Shaozhuang faction, said sideways: "If you really think about it, the land of the three kingdoms of the Lower General Country, the Upper General Country, and the Anfang Country, Tsukahara Molong has not actually finished digesting it, but he still dares to swallow the land of the two countries in one breath again, which shows this person's ambition and courage, and he must not be taken lightly!" Although the young Yasumitsu Kano has a lot of enthusiasm, he is too young in the end, so he doesn't dare to speak out against Hojo Phantom An, but he still states that he doesn't support it.

"Tsukahara Molong is indeed not to be underestimated, but is it impossible for the world's heroes to be made of mud?" Tominaga Naokakatsu said: "Although Tsukahara Molong has the courage and ability that is rare in the world, and there will inevitably be a battle with this family in the future, but the main business at the moment must be to digest the territory, and it is impossible to use troops against this family in the short term." ”

"And to confront Tsukahara Moryu, who holds the land of the Five Kingdoms, the main family can also seek an alliance with the Imagawa family and the Takeda family." Hojo Phantom Nunnery said slowly.

Allied with the Imagawa family and the Takeda family? Everyone was surprised, but when they thought about the cooperation with the Takeda Army and the Imagawa Army in this Musashi Raider, they felt that this proposal seemed to be very valuable. But how exactly is it implemented...... Everyone looked at the Hojo clan, who was sitting in the main seat and didn't say a word.

"The matter of forming an alliance with the Takeda family and the Imagawa family, please ask my uncle, presumably Takeda Harunobu and Imagawa Yoshimoto also urgently need the family to block the attack of Tsukahara Molong for them." The Hojo clan said unhurriedly, obviously agreeing to Hojo Phantom's proposal, but then added: "But we can't say that we can pin our hopes on the outside world, once Tsukahara Moryū sends troops to the main family, and the Takeda family and the Imagawa family cannot come to support for some reason, we can't stand still, it is necessary to strengthen our own forces, so the matter of taxation will remain unchanged for the time being." ”

"Lord!" Hojo Phantom Nunnery hurriedly wanted to speak, but was rejected by Hojo Clan Masa's wave of his hand, so he had to sit down.

"I know that my uncle is bent on planning for my family, but the Takeda family has been six princes and four people for a long time, and there has been no chaos, and the family has been implementing the four princes and six people for a long time, but there are many constraints, I have long felt that many times, things that can be done with more effort, but have to give up due to the lack of strength in the family. But in fact, the family is far from exerting its strongest strength, and when facing Tsukahara Molong, it is not allowed to keep the family, and must go all out! ”

Seeing that the Hojo clan was like this, and most of the generals also agreed to this matter, Hojo Phantom and Tominaga Naokakatsu glanced at each other, but sighed helplessly and stopped talking.