Chapter Eighty-Four: The Wind Rises
Hojo Phantom An's whole body trembled, but Taiyuan Xuezhai's eyes flashed a fine light, looked up at Yamamoto Kansuke who was a little hesitant, and put his hands together and said: "Amitabha, Lord Tsukahara is really a person with great courage and wisdom, and the poor monk admires it." ”
Tsukahara Molong glanced at Taiyuan Xuezhai lightly, knowing that the other party was definitely not a simple monk who looked so kind, the Imagawa family from the divided land of Suruga to the three kingdoms of Tokaido today, sitting on 700,000 stones, but can mobilize the super power of 40,000 troops, in addition to Imagawa Yoshimoto is a generation of heroes, this monk who single-handedly taught Imagawa Yoshimoto is also a great meritorious, so he has already been vigilant in his heart. "The master is polite," the corners of Tsukahara Molong's lips raised slightly, and his smile was a little weird: "Back then, the ancestor of the Hojo family, Hojo Sakumo, betrayed the main family, the Imagawa family, and established himself in the land of Izu Sagami. Tsukahara Moryū quietly blocked the words that Taiyuan Yuisai was about to intercede for the Hojo family.
Taiyuan Xuezhai was stunned when he heard this, and his gaze at Tsukahara Molong was still peaceful, but there was a hint of jealousy in his eyes. Kansuke Yamamoto on the side touched his beard with a smile, "My Takeda family was entrusted by Lord Tsukahara this time to send troops to attack Hojo, and now Lord Tsukahara only takes Toshima County and Edo Castle, how can my Takeda family get these 140,000 stones?" Yamamoto Kansuke paused, glanced at Hojo Phantom Temple, and said, "Sixty thousand stones around Hachioji Castle are enough. ”
After Hojo Phantom heard about Hachioji Castle, his body still trembled unconsciously, it was his fiefdom, which had always been the first line of defense against the invasion of the Takeda family, with a lot of money, food, and weapons, and Hachioji City itself was a fortified city, which could be attacked and defended, and the road to the Takeda family out of Kai was curbed.
Yamamoto Kansuke and Taiyuan Yukisai have already passed the gas, this time the Hojo family should not be weakened too much, the strategic goals of the two families have reached a critical moment, and giving up halfway is likely to lead to the loss of previous efforts, so whether it is the Takeda family or the Imagawa family, they all hope that the Hojo family can take on the heavy responsibility of defending their rear. However, the lord of Tsukahara Molong divided such a huge cake for the two families, so that the two families could not eat it, and they were reluctant to eat it, and Yamamoto Kansuke was blocked by Tsukahara Molong's speech in Taiyuan Xuezhai, and then he immediately spoke, taking the initiative to reduce the territory.
Taiyuan Xuezhai secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Tsukahara Molong: "In the first battle of the national government and Taiwan, the small bow Ashikaga Hall was killed on the battlefield, and now in the second national government and Taiwan battle, Lord Tsukahara killed the clan Kanggong again, although the grievances between the two families are difficult to end, but at this moment, it is a round of cause and effect. "The implication is that Ashikaga Yoshiaki was killed by Hojo Yasu's father, Hojo Tsuna, and you killed Hojo Yasu, and the two families are even, so don't go too far.
Tsukahara Molong smiled slightly: "What the master said is very true, it's just that the Hojo family has repeatedly caused trouble in Kanto, and I am controlled by His Royal Highness the General, and the Hojo family has stolen the territory of the Uesugi family, and I should return it." ”
Nagano Yemasa also said loudly: "People die like lights going out, although the Hojo clan has been ambushed, but the Hojo family is still there, and how many clansmen in charge of the lord have been slaughtered at the beginning, and now they are not held accountable, but this territory must be returned!" ”
Hojo Phantom Ann shook his head and said, "Lord Nagano's words are wrong, if it weren't for Lord Guan Ling leading an army of 40,000 to surround Kawagoe Castle, how could my Hojo family dare to be an enemy of Lord Guan Ling in all their helplessness?" ”
Nagano was about to speak, but Taiyuan Xuezhai nodded: "What Lord Phantom said is reasonable. Yamamoto Kansuke also nodded silently, and suddenly Nagano Yoshimasa's pupils shrank, this is the first time that the Imagawa family and the Takeda family have joined forces to express their intention to protect the Hojo family.
Tsukahara Molong showed an angry look when he saw this, but he seemed to be a little helpless, and he said for a long time: "In that case, I don't know which territory the Imagawa family wants to want?" ”
Taiyuan Xuezhai raised his head again and glanced at Tsukahara Molong, such a question had already forced him to make a choice, even if Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezhai wanted to protect the Hojo family, the Imagawa family was not something that these two people could decide, and those wealthy families who sent troops would definitely not be satisfied with returning in vain. After pondering for a while, Taiyuan Xuezhai spoke: "If the 30,000 stone land east of the Royal Horse Farm can be handed over to the family, presumably the lord will have an explanation to the generals. In this way, the compensation land was directly reduced by half, and the Hakoneyama defense line of the Hojo family was preserved, which can be said to have done its best for the Hojo family.
Next, Taiyuan Yukisai and Yamamoto Kansuke began to join forces to put pressure on Tsukahara Molong and the Uesugi family, asking them to reduce the territory they asked for compensation, of course, mainly against the Uesugi family, after all, Tsukahara Molong did not have much land to ask for, if he didn't even meet this request, then Tsukahara Molong was likely to directly leave the two and continue to fight with the Hojo family. Although the Takeda family and the Imagawa family were not afraid of such a situation, the original intention of the two families was to let the Hojo family be optimistic about their own back road, so that they could concentrate on their own strategies. This kind of thing of making wedding dresses for others is something that the two families are unwilling to do no matter what. Although Nagano Yoshimasa argued with reason, the Uesugi family at this time was also extremely weak, and he still had the strength to fight in the face of the Takeda army, which was also still recovering, but he was powerless in the face of the Imagawa family, a super force with an army of 40,000. Even with the addition of Tsukahara Moryū, it will be difficult to gain an advantage. After some verbal debate, it was finally decided that about 70,000 koku from the northern part of Iruma County, the northern part of Saitama County, and the northern part of Adachi County, as well as 100,000 koku from Shimono Province, would be handed over to the Uesugi family, Tsukahara Ryū would receive Toshima-gun and Edo Castle, the Takeda family would receive 60,000 koku around Hachioji Castle, and the Imagawa family would receive 30,000 koku of land east of Gomaba. The Hojo family was able to retain about 400,000 koku, and although it was still a behemoth in the early Warring States period of Japan, he was surrounded by strong hands: the Tsukahara family, which owns 800,000 koku from the three kingdoms of Shimoso, Kamiso, and Anbo, the Imagawa family, which holds the Three Kingdoms of the East China Sea, the two counties of Owari, and the Izu Bankoku, and the Imagawa family, which also holds nearly 800,000 koku with a high stone of nearly 800,000 koku, the Kanto clan of the Uesugi family, which owns all of Ueno Province, the northern part of Musashi Province, and the western part of Shimono Province, with a stone height of nearly 900,000 koku, and the Takeda family, which is dormant in the mountains of Koshin and has a territory of nearly 600,000 koku. No matter which direction it expands, it will be extremely difficult for the Hojo family, who have lost the Hojo family. But the four major forces also have a buffer zone, and each of them has begun to recuperate and prepare for the next round of confrontation. This meeting was also known as the Xiaojin Talks in later generations.
When everything seemed to be settled, Tsukahara Moryū made another move that made everyone jaw-dropping, he built a high platform outside the small gold castle, put a lot of money on it, and then launched a civil service, first building a large number of houses around the high platform. Just when people were wondering what Tsukahara Moryu wanted to do, the recruitment order issued by Tsukahara Moryū spread throughout Japan through the god-making movement of Mizuyunya, Sanjoya, ninjas, and foot merchants next to Tsukahara Moryu. Such an act of openly issuing recruitment orders in the Sixty-six Countries has never been seen in Japanese history, but some Japanese who are familiar with Chinese history think of the famous Golden Platform during the Warring States Period of China from that high platform! It was through the Golden Terrace that the weak Yan Kingdom recruited Le Yi, a world-famous general, who broke through the Qi Kingdom for seventy years in a row, and became one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. This time, Tsukahara Molong's behavior was even more explicit, because the first line of the recruitment order was written in a row of Chinese characters: The world is out of my generation! This sentence not only made those ordinary ronin who were unemployed and hungry see the opportunity for employment, but more well-educated samurai children who did not have the right to inherit also felt enthusiastic, and there were inukai Yoshio who gave up the family inheritance right and was willing to follow Tsukahara Molong to finally obtain the 5,000-stone fief as an example, and then with the legend of Tsukahara Molong before as a foreshadowing, countless heroes with great ambitions but nowhere to show their talents began to pack their bags and embarked on a journey to Kanto.
But in a world that the world can't see, a storm no less than the recruitment order is also brewing in the sky of the sixty-six countries: Kato Duanzo, a person from a humble background who operates in the dark, was actually treated as a general as a ninja and received the territory of Wanshi, which almost completely subverted the worldview of the ninja world. Many loose ninjas with unique skills decided to go to Kanto to find out, and more of them already had ninjas, but the leaders of the ninjas with low social status and difficult life also became active, and they sent people to Kanto, and for a while, Kanto, which had just calmed down a little because of the Xiaojin talks, once again became the center of the storm, and the focus of attention of the world!