Chapter 45: The Diplomatic Monk

When Hiroke Gono was killed, his two younger brothers also committed suicide in Ohiroma after the subsequent Honmaru was breached. The Fifty Gongye clan also committed suicide after the subsequent destruction of the castle, and the retainers and servants who did not die were forced to leave Echigo, and some of them were exiled to Sado Province. This time, Yangbeizhong has one less family since then. Although the Fifty Gongye family is not ranked in the top five of Yangbeizhong's combat power, it is also a member of Yangbeizhong. In July of the first year of Hongji, the Yangbei people, who controlled half of Echigo, lost one Nakajo family and one less fifty kono family. Since the Xinfa Tian family was transferred to Aizu, it was not considered a member of the Yangbei people. However, the candidate for the Dragon Girl in Yangbei's pen has not been decided for the time being.

It was probably the dragon girl who felt that Nakajo Fujishi was killed, and looked at her crying in front of her about Nakajo Fujishi's daughter Nakajo Mako, who was only fifteen years old. At this time, the court as a member of the circle field participated. He took the initiative to let the old Ota Shimasa of the Uesugi family's pen family come to marry Nakajo Mako, and as long as the two of them had a second boy, they would inherit the name of the Nakajo family.

There is no objection to this request from the northern people, you must know that Ota is the queen of the Setzu Genji, and the ancestor Ota Michigan is still the head of the Uesugi family in Ogiya. Now Ota Shimasa himself is still the head of the Uesugi family, and his territory also has 27,200 koku, which is not lower than the knowledge and action of Nakajo Fujishi. But after all, the Nakajo family is the strongest in Yangbei Zhongli.

Under the mediation and operation of the dragon girl and the asada, the good-looking Mako Nakajo married to Aizu as the main room of Ota Shimasa. And the territory of Nakajo Fujishi was also 'temporarily' taken over to the direct domain of the Fuchu Nagao family. Coupled with the territory of the Fifty Gongno family, the Nagao family is now transforming from the original 'leader of the country' to a real Sengoku daimyo. She is no longer the long-tailed Jinghu who only had 50,000 stones in her direct collar before! As for the punishment of the long-tailed chief, the dragon girl ordered seppuku when she had an adopted son on the grounds that the long-tailed chamber chief was old and had no heirs. This reason is indeed 'sufficient', and since the Uesugi family is in Aizu, if anyone wants to rebel, the Uesugi family will be able to rescue Echigo as reinforcements. Therefore, the head of the Nagao house returned the head after paying tribute to Nagao Masakai, and the dragon girl also ordered the body of the head and Nakajo Fujishi to be buried together. In this way, Daxiong Chaoxiu, who has been raising military expenses for the Nagao family, will save effort, and there is no need to go to Yangbei to ask for money door-to-door. In addition, now that the direct collar of the Nagao family has increased, old ministers such as Minoru Honjo are no longer prepared to exclude others (such as the former ministers of the Echigo Uesugi family such as Okuma Asahide) in exchange for excess land in Echigo. And after having Asada's sister Ayahime marrying the dragon girl, they didn't worry about the continuation of the Nagao family. The current long-tail family can be said to be thriving and developing faster and faster.

The territory of Fifty Gongno Castle was also in mid-July, and the dragon girl directly appointed the Echigo Uesugi family to divide the family, and the Umijo Yoribo of the Ujo family was the lord of the castle. You must know that after Uesugi Dingmi's younger brother Uesugi Joken raised the rebel flag and was defeated by Nagao Yukei, the Uesugi collar was confiscated. This time, the dragon girl knew that Yangbei did not want outsiders to serve as the lord of the city of Xiayue, so she had to let the unbehaving of Shangjo Laifang serve as the lord of the city. His words were with Uesugi Dingshi before without a territory, but Uesugi Dingshi just didn't want him to inherit the Echigo Uesugi family, Uesugi Dingshi was optimistic about the dragon girl.

However, the long-tailed chief, who had a somewhat stubborn temper, wrote a letter to the dragon maiden first, and he made a seppuku with the help of his retainers. Since then, the Ueda Nagao family has been broken. Ueda Nagao's retainer Kokubunhiko Goro left Uedaso the next day and went to Kasuga Yamajo Castle to report to the Dragon Maiden.

After the death of the head of the Ueda Nagao family, the old Kunita Hikotoshi Goro and Higuchi Kanetoyo, became retainers of the Fuchu Nagao family, and the two of them also assisted the dragon girl in managing the territory of Ueda's 10,000 koku. As soon as the long-tailed room chief died, everyone in Yangbei breathed a sigh of relief. Even Mako Nakajo, who had already arrived in Aizu, was able to calm down her anger, and compared to Ueda, she was accepted as the direct leader of the Nagao family, and the Ueda Nagao family had been broken.

On the 20th day of July in the first year of Hongji, Ayahime's belly also grew bigger day by day. She's been three months now. On the one hand, Chaoding just sent Honjo Fanchang to Xiayue to invite a monk - Jieshan Yunsheng. It is estimated that Jieshan Yunsheng is not famous now, so he doesn't care about his existence, and Honjo Fanchang knows where he is. Jieshan Yunsheng, born in Iiyama, Shuinai County, Shinshu, became a monk at the age of 16, both civil and military. The armor is painted with a statue of Guanyin, and he has participated in 85 joint battles in his life, and he has fought bravely. It just so happened that Honjo knew him!

On the first day of August, Honjo brought Tsuyoshikatsu, who had just escaped into the Buddhist gate, to Wakamatsu Castle.

"Poor monk Jieshan Yunsheng see Uesugi to repair the doctor's hall." Jieshan Yunsheng was still very young at this time, even two years younger than Chaoding.

"Get up, how about I want to recruit the master as a diplomatic monk for my family?" Chaoding felt that he did not have a diplomatic monk yet, and there was an old man of Anguo Temple in the Maori family.

"Poor monks are people who have escaped into Buddhism, how can they easily intervene in the affairs of Hongchen? Repairing the doctor's hall is too much to look up to the poor monks. "Jieshan Yunsheng, this is clearly not good, just don't do it.

"How about the three thousand stones of Aizusakashita Castle?" Chaoding directly opened the price of 3,000 stones, but this is already the highest, and it can't be more.

"This?" Jieshan Yunsheng wanted to refuse. First, his old acquaintance Honjo Fancho invited him to come, and it was not easy to refute his face, and secondly, the Takeda family is now eyeing his hometown.

"My family is in urgent need of diplomatic monks now, so how about the abbot of Huiri Temple being served by a master?" Chaoding thought of a trick, and the land of Huiri Temple continued to be owned by Shengguo of the Pig Miao Dynasty, but the temple belonged to Jieshan Yunsheng.

"Since repairing the doctor's hall is so worthy of the poor monk, then the poor monk will do his best for the Uesugi family." Jieshan Yunsheng thought that the Uesugi family looked up to him so much, why didn't he take the opportunity to become a leader? Moreover, the Uesugi family beat the Takeda family to the point of asking for a truce in the Second Battle of Kawanakajima, and as long as the Uesugi family is next to the tree, Jieshan Yunsheng is not afraid that his hometown will be invaded by the iron cavalry of the Takeda family.

"The master is refreshing!" Asadachi was very happy, so that the Uesugi family had a diplomatic monk to 'fool' the countrymen and daimyo who had made enemies with the Uesugi family.

However, Jieshan Yunsheng was not so easy. The first task assigned to him by Asadachi was to negotiate with the 'father-in-law' of Mino Inabayama Castle. And the content of the negotiation is to make friends with the Saito family.

Take other people's hands short, eat other people's mouths short. Jieshan Yunkatsu had no choice but to set foot on the road to Mino, and also took three of the better horses and fifty swords selected by the Asadaki to give Saito Michizo. The issue of the guards of Katsuyama Yunkatsu was handed over to the ten ninjas under the command of Deura Mamoru Kiyoshi. Their mission is to disguise themselves as merchants and travel to Mino. If they wait until they get to Mino, it is estimated that they will not return until December.

However, Yoshiaki Satake, known as 'Hitachi-no-O', finally sent his retainer + diplomatic monk Zenzhe Okamoto to Aizu Wakamatsu Castle. Along with this, Yoshiaki Satake accepted the daughter of Yoshiken Satake as his adopted daughter.

"The poor monk came to disturb the repair of the doctor's hall this time, and it was really helpless." Okamoto Zenzhe was dressed in a black monk's robe and said a little helplessly. He came this time to facilitate the friendship mentioned by the court last year.

"It doesn't matter, at that time, even my family was almost overwhelmed by several daimyos." Chao Ding was also wearing a black court dress, after all, it was a diplomatic meeting.

"The Satake family is also very worried about the Uesugi family, and now that Aizu has been completely controlled by the repair doctor, it's really gratifying." Okamoto Zenzhe's words are a bit hypocritical, but in fact, Yoshiaki Satake is also running around in order to seize the time to unify Hitachi Province. Why did Yoshiaki Satake think of this? That's because he has to wait for the Uesugi family to become a daimyo after it stabilizes before he can befriend the Uesugi family, otherwise he will be a little passive after blindly befriending him.

"Then, the princess of the Satake family will choose an auspicious day to marry the Ashina clan." Chaoding looked at the Satake Jia who was behind Okamoto Zenzhe and felt that he didn't look good, so he gave this kind of goods to the Ashina clan.

"Actually, my lord still wants the princess to marry you, even if it's a side room." Zenzhe Okamoto said Yoshiaki Satake's thoughts at this time.

"Why? At the beginning, it was said that he would marry the governor of the Ashina family, and then end the rival relationship between the Ashina family and the Satake family. "After the dynasty is settled, I will go back to Kanto, and in the future, the Satake family will be resealed, so it is better to have nothing to do with them.

"I'm sorry, it's the poor monk who talks too much." Zenzhe Okamoto knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he had no choice but to stop mentioning it. He also knew that Uesugi Asada's main room was Echigo Nagao Keitor's sister Nagao Aya, so he didn't dare to mention the main room.

"So be it, there's still a lot of work to be done in the territory. Chang Xing send-off! Asadachi then left Ohiroma, and he was now going to prepare for the formation of a Naginata samurai, and the general was chosen as Kenji Nambata. Ota Zimasa had just finished getting married, and Chaoding didn't let him go to work.

In fact, since the daughter of Nakajo Fujishi was married by the old Ota Shimasa of the Uesugi family, many Echigo samurai families hope to marry their daughters and adopted daughters to the Uesugi family. However, Naoe Keixuna's daughter wanted to marry a retainer of the Uesugi family, and this proposal was directly vetoed by the court. Naoe Jinggang's daughter has to be left to the barrel mouth and continue! And the retainers of the Uesugi family are all looking for a partner or something, and the court must know that their gang has been single for a long time, but now is not the time. Unless the Uesugi family and the Nagao family succeed in taking the Kanto region, they can't let their guard down. Since the Dragon Maiden's righteous value is MAX, it is said that you can't continue to push south without Lun's purpose. The dragon maiden also knew that the Aizu Uesugi family would fight side by side in the Kanto region, Shinano, and Nagao families, and sent someone to invite Asada to Kamiraka in mid-August!

Kato Danzo and the ninjas have all entered the Western Country, and four of them are lurking in Itsukushima. And Kato Duanzo took a ninja to go to Zhoufang to investigate.