Chapter 9: The Dragon of Echigo

After wandering in the dense forest for nearly ten days, Asadachi and others finally took Uesugi Kenmasa out of Ueno Province and stepped into Uonuma Prefecture in Echigo Province.

Although this is nominally the domain of the Nagao family, it is indeed the domain of the Ueda Nagao family, and its lord is the father of Nagao Masaki, the head of the Nagao house.

Nagao Masakai must have known that this is a famous anti-bone person, and he has never been trusted by Nagao Keitor, even during the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, he stayed in Kasugayama Castle.

Nagao Masaki, a kindred of Nagao Keihu (Kenshin Uesugi). After Jinghu replaced his brother Naruo Harukei as the guardian of Echigo, he was the most vocal member of the opposition. Zhengjing's position is not unreasonable, first of all, the process of Jinghu getting the post is not very glorious, basically a carrot and a stick barely succeeded. Moreover, Zhengjing is the number two person of the long-tail family who has sworn allegiance to Qingjing, and he wants him to obey Xiao Jinghu, who is 19 years old, and he can't get by no matter what. In addition, after Jinghu's initial battle, Tochio's battle, another branch of the Nagao clan that was hostile to him, the power of the Suyoshi Nagao clan was greatly expanded; In a sense, Zhengjing is worried that Jinghu intends to get rid of him. Soon after, Masakai sacrificed his original name and openly confronted Jinghu in Sakamoto Castle in the name of the head of the Ueda Nagao clan. The young and vigorous Jinghu couldn't bear it anymore after being repeatedly provoked, and led a large army to besiege Sakamoto Castle. At this time, the wealthy families of Echigo, who had learned Jinghu's military genius, fell to Jinghu one after another, and the tilt of the military and political balance gradually became more and more unfavorable to the political scene. Eventually, Masakei surrendered to Kyungho Kaejo and formally surrendered his allegiance to Nagao Kyungho.

After the surrender, Zhengjing was treated leniently, and his fief remained unchanged, but he served as a "left-behind service" and stayed in Kasuga Mountain Castle to become Jinghu's right-hand man. Regarding "remaining in service", it is necessary to give an explanation. The Japanese word for "留守 (るす)" is the opposite of the Chinese word for 留守, which means "not at home when you go out". The word "left-behind" in the word "left-behind" is the same as the meaning in Chinese, and "left-behind service" is the official position of the person responsible for protecting the family.

The current Nagao family is led by the young lord Nagao Keiho, and the original lord Nagao Harukei gave the position of the governor to Nagao Keihu due to the intermediary of the lord and the serious illness of Uesugi on a regular basis.

Even if this is not a territory that supports Nagao Jinghu hardcore, Nagao Jinghu still sent his own trusted retainer, Naoe Jinggang, to lead a thousand troops to respond.

After Jinghu took office, Jing Gang was the three generations of old ministers since his father was Jing, and he supported meritorious service, and became the most influential minister in the pedigree, and Kawada Nagakin, Honjo Minoru, Okuma Chaoxiu and others were responsible for serving as the center of Jinghu's early administrative organization and concurrently serving as the commissioner, and Jing Gang was mainly responsible for commanding Jing Hu's direct flag book and managing the military service mobilization of the retainers, and later in the fifth year of Yonglu in the name of the lord Changwei Jing Hu, he received the word "Jing", and changed the name from Shigang to Jinggang.

In addition to being very active in domestic affairs, Naoe Keixuna also had a good performance in diplomatic work, when Jinghu first went to Luo in the second year of Yongroku, Jinggang and Shenyu Qingang were as envoys and vanguard troops to Kyoto to take care of various affairs and contact with generals and courtiers, and later when the former heir of Sekihaku Konoe could no longer endure the oppression of Miyoshi, Matsunaga and others, when Yonglu went away to Echigo in the third year, it was also received by Keitsuna instead of the Kenshin who led the army, and later in the twelfth year of Eiroku, when the Uesugi family and the Kantohoku family formed an alliance, It was also Keitsuna who was mainly responsible for receiving the Hojo clan's envoys.

In the Kenshin Banner Honpaiga military service account second only to Yamayoshi Sunjiro Toyomori Katsuna, in military activities Kenshin gave the task of garrison and support, such as in the fourth year of Eiroku in the fourth year of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, the 2000 supply troops led by Keitsuna were only put into the battlefield at the last critical moment to support the retreating Uesugi main team, and the pursuing Takeda Yoshinobu troops were repulsed, and in the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, the most tragic war in the Warring States, Naoe Keitsuna was not sent to the battlefield until the last moment, However, it played the most important role, allowing the complete retreat of the Uesugi army to maintain a situation of victory and defeat with the Takeda army.

In the fourth year of Tensho, Uesugi Kenshin sent troops to war with the Oda family at the request of the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the primary target was the new Notomi mountain family of the Oda family, Uesugi Kenshin approached the city with lightning speed, and in a blink of an eye it had swept through the country, Keixuna went out with the army to serve as the lord of the castle that garrisoned Notoshi Yama Castle, and in April of the same year, Keixuna died of old age and illness at the age of seventy, because he had no children under his knees and inherited the family business by his son-in-law Nobutsuna, but later when Tensho was ten years old, Naoe Nobutsuna was killed by Mori Hidehiro because of a quarrel, The main prince Jing Sheng's life Higuchi Shigemitsu continued to marry Jing Gang's daughter \ "boat" into the Naoe family, which was for the continuation of Naoe. Later, Naoe's son Jingmei died early, and his adopted son Masashige returned to his original surname Honda, and changed to serve the Kaga Maeda family, and since then the Naoe family has been broken.

"Foreign Minister Naoe Keixuna see the Kanto Governor's Hall and the Uesugi Repair Doctor's Hall." Naoe Keixuna guessed the identity of the other party when he saw the Uesugi family's family pattern bamboo and finch.

"Where is Lord Jinghu? Take me to her. Uesugi Kenmasa treats Nagao Keitora as if he were his own straw and wants to see her as soon as possible.

"Aren't you here for a night's rest?" Naoe Jinggang has never seen such a person, isn't it that his home city is gone? And the horseback team under the command of Uesugi Asadachi on the side is not weak in combat, so why did he come to seek the assistance of the Hokuriku samurai?

"The Kanto Governor has spoken, so Lord Naoe should lead the way quickly." Chaoding's tone was very peaceful, which made Naoe Jinggang feel that this fifteen-year-old child was not simple.

"The minister understands, please." Naoe Jinggang didn't say much after seeing the form, but the Kanto Governor was the person who nominally commanded the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto and the Ten Kingdoms of Kai and Shinano, and even his boss Nagao Jinghu attached great importance to it.

Subsequently, Naoe Keitsuna took Uesugi Kenmasa and others to the castle town of Kasuga Mountain Castle two days later.

"The minister's tail bullet is Shaobi Jinghu to participate in the Kanto Governor's Command and the Military Department's Young Auxiliary Palace." The first thing that caught my eye was a relatively tall and handsome man, and he was wearing jet-black armor.

"Jinghu Gong, I, the Kanto Governor, can't stand anymore, even the city was seized by the Hojo family, and my only sister-in-law, Ryuwakamaru, died tragically at the hands of Hojo Tsunari!" As soon as he saw Nagao Jinghu, Uesugi Kenmasa quickly dismounted, ran to her and cried with a handful of snot and tears, hoping to win sympathy and send troops to Kanto as quickly as possible to exterminate the Hojo family.

"Lord Steward's Day Mourning." Jinghu couldn't say anything sympathetic, and she was indeed angry at what Hojo Shiyasu had done.

"Jinghu Palace, Edo Castle, the residence city of the lower ancestors, has also been repeatedly seized by the Hojo family, and now it has been burned clean by Hojo Weichang's fire." Chao Ding also hurried to clean up the bad things he had done at this time.

"My lord, it seems that the Hojo family has indeed been causing trouble to Kanto for a long time." When the military advisor Usami Dingman next to Jinghu saw the performances of the two 'actors', he had to say so, after all, he was the boss and he was a subordinate.

"Let's all go in and talk, please." Jinghu first invited Asada, Uesugi Kenmasa and others to Honmaru in Kasuga Mountain Castle, and also settled the knights under Asada's command in the racecourse of Ninomaru, and sent them a lot of wine and food for them to eat and drink.

"Lord Steward, please take a seat." As soon as he arrived at the assessment room, Uesugi Kenmasa was placed in the upper seat, and even Nagao Keihu sat on the right chief. Chao Ding did not suffer a loss, in the latter position of Jinghu.