Chapter Ninety-Two: The True Face of the Wind Demon
Compared to the war between the Hojo family and the Satomi family, Asadaki was at ease in Kawagoe Castle with Ayahime, Guidie, Katsuko and other family members who had just arrived in Musashi. However, Tao Qingxian gave his daughter Ah Guo to Ayahime and asked her to be a maid.
Guidie didn't have any opinion on the two side rooms of Asada, but Ayahime was a little unhappy. Although Ayahime did not do so in front of anyone else, she turned him away a few times when Asada went to visit her. It wasn't until Asada asked Sanada Masayuki to go in and tell Ayahime that she hoped she could explain, that Ayahime let Asada enter the living room.
"Madam, I am also forced to do so. Ueno wealthy Chiba Sainu once belonged to the Hojo family, hoping to get the forgiveness of the family, and even most of the food of the Echigo army was supplied by him, and if I didn't accept his daughter Isehime, wouldn't it embarrass the people of Ueno? As soon as Chao Ding came in, he saw Ayahime's sullen Lian, although there was Katsuko playing with Ah Guo on the side, but she was so young, of course, she didn't know anything.
"Isehime's concubine has heard about it, but what about the Yuanjiang wealthy clan Ii Naoto? The concubine heard that she used to be the side room of Daisuke Imagawa Jibe, how can you accept it casually? "Ayahime is acceptable to Isehime's affairs, after all, she provided food and grass for the Kanto raiders of the Nagao family and the Uesugi family. But the wealthy family of Yuanjiang, and the female head of the land, Iyi Naoto, became a side room, which is why Ayahime is a little unhappy.
"The Imagawa family is gone, and the Iyi Jiro mage Naotora hopes that one day the Ii family will restore the reputation and territory of the Ii family when they go to Luo, and then correct the names of the clansmen, retainers, and samurai who died unjustly in the Ii family. They also trust the Uesugi family, otherwise they would have gone to find other daimyo long ago. "Chaoding can only fool Ayahime like this, otherwise he really has nothing else to quibble.
"Really? The concubine and the sister of Guidie in Aizu only heard that the husband annihilated the main force of the Hojo Army in Isaguma with tens of thousands of troops, and then did not let us move to Kogoe Castle in time, and first accepted Isehime and Ii Naotora as side rooms before thinking of us. "Ayahime is a little angry because of this, but she has been praying for the victory of Asada in Wakamatsu Castle, and Asadachi is good, first accepting two side rooms and then picking up the family who is still in Aizu.
"I'm at fault with this, I'll review ······" Chao Ding thought that the reason why Ayahime was angry turned out to be this, and he could only sigh that the woman's strength was really small sometimes.
"That's right, husband." Ayahime seemed to be a different person at this time, and she didn't look angry before, "The successor of the Kanto consul seems to be the child of the Kanto consul, and the tiger Chiyo is there... That..."
"Madam, do you want me to go to Echigo now and have a child with the Kanto Governor?" Although the court will not refuse, it can't be now! Don't look at it, the Hojo clan has already provoked a war against the Satomi family, and if the Asadachi leaves his ability to go to Echigo at this time, it will be irresponsible to his own retainers and family!
"Yes." Ayahime responded with a blush, but she had only just arrived in Musashi, and she probably didn't know the current form so she said that.
"Can this be slowed down? The Hojo Army had already begun an attack on the Satomi family, and the main family had only captured most of the Sea Gun, Katori County, Chiba County, Inhata County, Hanyu County, Zaki-gun and Katsushika County occupied by the Chiba family of Shimokoku Prefecture, and the Moriya Soma family of Soma County and the Isshiki family of Katsushika County were still hostile to the family, although they did not openly provoke the war, and now I don't have that time. "Even if you want to go to Echigo now, you can't go, once the Hojo family successfully defeats the Satomi family and captures the two reiching countries of Jozong and Anbo, the strength will be greatly improved, and it will be difficult to fight the Hojo family at that time.
"This concubine knows, but the successor of the Changwei family in the house also has to be considered, otherwise you have to find the children of the retainers, families, and relatives as adopted sons. Rather than that, it is better for you to have a child with Tiger Chiyo, although Tiger Chiyo may have some resistance, and the concubine will make it clear to her when the time comes. "Ayahime is ready to be a matchmaker, she doesn't want the Nagao family in Fuchu to cut off the dripping stream like this.
"I see, I'll try my best to fulfill the requirements of the Fuchu Nagao family, don't forget that if it weren't for the Nagao family's help, I'd probably still be living in Echigo right now." Asadachi then chatted with Ayahime for a while, and then summoned Kanzo Kato to the Honmaru castle tower to talk to him about work.
"My lord, the Date family, the Osaki family, the Mogami family, and the Kasai family are still stable, but there should be no need to worry about Deura-sama there." Kato Duanzo also understood why the court needed two shinobi in the first place, and if there was an enclave in the territory of the Uesugi family, one shinobi would be needed there to collect enemy intelligence.
"Well, you've done a good job, and it's been hard for you for so many years." Chao Ding also sighed, if he didn't count his own genealogy, then the only ninja who had served for the longest time would be him Kato Duanzang. At that time, he also felt that the treatment of the long-tail family was not good, so he left the long-tail family, and of course, the dragon girl also turned a blind eye to this.
"Yes! Since the minister came to the Kanto Governor's house, he felt that the lord was the one who was truly loyal to the minister. "Kato Duanzo is right, Asadaku really values the value of ninjas, and he doesn't treat them badly.
"Why is it the one who is truly loyal and not the family?" Asadaki picked out the words of Kato Duanzo out of the thorns.
"Uh······"
"Actually, a ninja should always serve the master instead of being loyal to the master." Chaoding walked up to Kato Duanzo's side and patted him on the shoulder.
"Yes, the minister understands!" Kato Duanzo is now a retainer of the Uesugi family and a samurai. His territory and glory were all given to him by Chaoding, and it was natural for him to say that he had just said that he was loyal to Chaoding.
"Ninjas are human beings, and you can't keep your status so low forever. If there were no ninjas, then information would not be able to be conveyed and discovered quickly. If the family can get lucky enough to unify the whole country in the future, the status of ninja will definitely be higher than that of merchants. "That's what Chaoding thought before, as long as he can take a large number of ninjas for his own use, then he doesn't have to worry about mistakes in his strategy and intelligence detection.
"My lord is really the savior of ninjas!" Kato Duanzo is also a samurai status that he only has after leaving the Uesugi family, and he also has the land of Zhixing, which he couldn't have imagined before.
"Don't talk nonsense else, what do you think of the Wind Demon Kotaro?" Asadaku knew that the Wind Demon Ninja who invaded Musashi was basically killed, but as long as there was this person, the Wind Demon clan would not perish.
"My lord, the name of Wind Demon Kotaro is the name used by their generational leaders, but Wind Demon is more of a mercenary like Saga than a ninja." Kato Duanzo is amazing, although the ninjutsu in the wind demon is not outstanding, but the reason why the Hojo family defeated the two Uesugi and Furukawa Gongfang is also the spy intelligence in the wind demon, if their clan is not a ninja but a mercenary, it will really be a great shame for the Uesugi family.
"So the spies they send out are all hired at will?" Asadaki was subverted by Kato Duanzo's statement that his views and cognitions of the Wind Demon were subverted.
"But it's not that there are no ninjas at all, most of them are cavalry mercenaries, like Erqu Wheel Pig Suke, Shoji Shinnai, and Irizawa Shinnai, these three are ninjas in the Wind Demon. And they can all be counted as forbearance, if they are compared with their subordinates, they will naturally not be able to defeat their subordinates. Kato Duanzo also boasted about himself in disguise.
"Then, since they are superb in equestrianism, if the Hojo Army goes out of the Fangso Peninsula, they may not be able to bring them, and it will be difficult for the family to annihilate them." Chao Ding was now in deep thought.
"My lord, although the Izu Naval Army is not as good as the Okamoto Naval Army, at least they can transport them to the land of Anfang Province, plus they also need people from the Wind Demon to attract the attention of the Satomi family." As an older ninja, Kato Duanzo can still see some clues.
"You're saying that if the Izu Navy finds an opportunity, they can be sent ashore!" Asadaki immediately checked the map of Kanto, and if the coastal area of Musashi was really according to what Kato Duanzo said, as long as the wind demon Kotaro was willing, then the Uesugi family would really never have peace. But why did they never raid themselves?
"Yes, it's just that Hojo Shiyasu doesn't trust Wind Demon much right now. It is very likely that the Wind Demon Kotaro did not report the Takeda family's betrayal of the alliance to the Hojo clan in time, and then the Hojo family suffered heavy losses. Kato Duanzo can only use this one inference.
"Indeed, only two hundred members of the Hojo Army captured by the Takeda Army were released, and Takeda Shingen also knew that the relationship with the family should not be too stiff, after all, the patron saint of Hokuriku was still staying in Echigo, and he would not dare to blatantly fight with his family." Chaoding is still optimistic about Takeda Shingen's intelligence, as long as his brain doesn't suddenly go crazy. After all, the Takeda retainers are all understanding people, and no one wants to fight a war that they can't win at all.
"My lord, the general Kogong is a little abnormal, and Ashikaga Yorijunden seems to have been in contact with the people of the Hojo family. Up to now, the Tokinsakai family, the Toki family, the Toki family, the Katsuura Masaki family, the Koyuki family, the Minami Takeda family, and the Truth Valley Takeda family had all secretly met with the Hojo family envoys, and they all promised to defect as soon as the Hojo army arrived. "Kato Duanzo also set up a small intelligence network on the Boso Peninsula before, and I really didn't expect the form of the Satomi family to be really critical.
"In a few days, the naval battle between the Kanie and the Hojo family will come out, so let's wait and see." After all, what he believes in is 'moving in line with interests, and stopping when not in line with interests'. If you really help the Satomi family from beginning to end, then you can only support the Satomi family to become stronger and stronger. It would be better if we waited until the war was stalemate, at least the Uesugi family could still reach into the country of Kamisugi.