Chapter 267: The Enemy of the Shogunate
Just when Namba Tian Kenji disobeyed the order of the Asada, and prepared to attack Odawara Castle without authorization, the Asadachi in Kawagoe Castle also learned the news. Although Asadashi was angry at Namba Kenji for disobeying his orders, he did not send anyone to stop it. Because at this moment, something more important has happened than letting Kenji Namba lead the army back.
After receiving bribes from Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenmasa's close ministers Kanno Nobukata and Uehara Hyogo, Uesugi Kenmasa, said that the court had been brutalizing the Kanto samurai family since he entered the Kanto region, causing many famous samurai families, such as the Musashi Seven Party, the Fukaya Uesugi family, and the Kurakano family, to cut off their family names. Moreover, even Hirai Castle, the residence of Uesugi Kensei, was not governed by himself, but by Oishi Tsunamoto, a castle dynasty who had fallen to the court, and so on.
Uesugi Kenmasa was originally a person who had no opinions, and the two of them, Nobukata Kanno and Uehara Hyogo, had always been with him, and what he said was also for himself. Immediately, Uesugi Kenmasa took Kanno Nobukata and Uehara Hyogo to meet Kenshin together.
Nobukata Kanno and Hyogo Uehara had been fond of doing things that had done things to kill Tadaya before Uesugi had fled to Echigo, and this was no exception. Whether it is the head of the Yamauchi Uesugi family, the retainers of the genealogy and the lords of the country, they have all framed them. As soon as the two of them saw Kenshin, they began to talk about the major crimes of the court in front of her: "sending troops to kill the Kanto Princesses appointed by the shogunate", "Forcing the Furukawa Princes to rebel", "Cruelty to the Kanto samurai family for a long time, causing the Ogiya Uesugi family to dominate the Kanto family", "Forcibly taking the territories of other daimyo to serve as imperial palaces", "Disrespecting gods and Buddhas", "Raising high positions with donations", "Arrogant", "Attempting to replace the Kanto governors", "Long-term conquest of the surrounding daimyo who do not want to submit", "Cutting off the trickle of Mogami and Date and the two detectives", etc.
"The old man was finally able to return to his city, but he didn't even have any power. Even matters such as taxation and military conscription are all under the jurisdiction of the castle Daishi Harima Mori, and even ······ Even the Kabuki that the old man sent to invite outside couldn't get into Honmaru. "If Uesugi hadn't had his own entertainment activities restricted, he wouldn't have come to this troubled waters.
“······” Kenshin wanted to refute the words of Kanno Nobugata and Uehara Hyogo, but after listening to Uesugi Kenmasa's words, she was silent. At the beginning, he and Asadachi raised troops and united with the Kanto generals to support Uesugi Kenmasa and returned to Ueno Hirai Castle in order to fulfill his promise to Uesugi Kenmasa and let him have the original original Hirai Castle. However, the situation was unstable at the beginning, and the lords of the surrounding countries and the Later Hojo clan were eyeing each other, so Kenshin had to let Oishi Tsunamoto, a retainer of the former Uesugi Kenmasa, serve as the castle representative of Hirai Castle.
"You are now appointed by the shogunate as a deacon of the government office, a Hokuriku detective, and the former Kanto governor, Echigo Guardian, and Echichu Guardian. You yourself said before, 'Sitting on the official position, not being a minister', have you forgotten it? Uesugi Kenmasa thought of Kenshin's previous promises and vows, and at this moment he said them all in one go.
"Don't dare to forget ······" Qianxin can't get off the stage now. Originally, she just wanted to make a show and send troops to the border to make the DPRK rein in, and just send someone to negotiate peace. Who knew that Uesugi Kenmasa took the initiative to come to the door to 'force the palace'. And Kenshin has only now discovered that the two close ministers around Uesugi Kenmasa are not good stubble.
Ever since the appraisal meeting was held that day, Kenshin had thought that the retainers of the veteran level were all against sending troops to him, and the court had only kept refuting his face and had not done anything out of the ordinary, and he did not really want to be his enemy. Moreover, Minamide Yu's Katsunaga Shibabe, Keissuna Takemata, Shitoyo Tsukiji, Tadahide Okawa, Keinaga Yamamoto Temple, and Chisaka Keijin all sent troops to rescue when they were in trouble, and if he hadn't gone to the rescue, it was very likely that the retainers who had been transferred to Mogami and Murayama would have been reimbursed long ago.
Uesugi Kenmasa was the former Kanto governor and Kenshin's adoptive father. His face humility had to be given. Moreover, the charges of the court that Sugano Nobukata and Uehara Hyogo said are basically true.
In particular, the court once issued an edict at the front foot of Ashikaga Yoshiteru to appoint Ashikaga Yoshiji as the Kanto Prince, and after that, he ordered his retainer Anazawa Toshimitsu to attack Sagami-Kamakura, kill the Kanto Shogunate appointed Ashikaga Yoshiji, and also destroyed and plundered the treasures of Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachimangu Palace. These two things alone have already made Ashikaga Yoshiki feel that the court must not be subservient. If it weren't for the fact that Konoe's former heir was friendly with the court, then the charge of "enemy of the court" would have to be pressed on the body of the court.
On June 10, as a liaison between Kenshin and the shogunate, Kamiyu Jintsuna came to Echigo Fuchukan on this day, bringing with him the Imperial Decree issued by Ashikaga Yoshiteru. The content is that Ling Kenshin is in charge of the strategy of the Kanto region, the crusade against the dynasty and the reconstruction of the Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace. And Ashikaga Yoshiteru also did not pursue the previous rebellion of the Ashikaga Fuji clan, and also took the initiative to appoint him as the Kanto Prince.
After Qianxin saw this, he almost couldn't help but tear up the royal text. If there is really a war with the court, then it is very likely that the retainers who opposed the dispatch of troops before will be adjusted by the court, especially the generals of Yangbei. At that time, before entering the Kanto, he became the commander of the light pole.
The reason why Ashikaga Yoshiteru dared to issue such an imperial edict was completely instigated by the daimyo such as the Satake family, the Oda family, the Takeda family, the Odawara Ise family, the Osaki family, the Kasai family, the Tozawa family, and the Hiyama Yasuto family. As the saying goes: "Three people become tigers", with so many people writing and talking, Ashikaga Yoshiki can't even do it if he doesn't want to issue the imperial decree. After all, in order to maintain the authority and arbitration ability of the shogun's family, Ashikaga Yoshiteru could only do this.
And when Ashikaga Yoshiteru learned that Asadaki sent troops north to attack the two hereditary explorers of the Mogami family and the Date family, he was already very angry. The governors of these two families sent people to Shangluo every year to donate money, and their financial routes were cut off. In addition, the previous dynasty sent a retainer Anzawa Toshimitsu to lead an army into Sagami-Kamakura and kill the Ashikaga Yoshiji, the Kanto duke he appointed. After adding up the old and new hatreds, Ashikaga Yoshiki concluded that the court must have a heart of disobedience, and if it is not cut off as soon as possible, then it is likely to replace the Ashikaga family.
Although Ashikaga Yoshiteru judged the court to be the enemy of the shogunate, the court did not think so. Emperor Masakin-cho finally obtained 30,000 stone of land in the Kanto region as the imperial food center, and the royal family finally bid farewell to the life of selling calligraphy and paintings, and he did not want to return to the pre-liberation period overnight. Many of the ministers of the court, such as the former heir of Sekihaku Konoe, Haruhide Gondai, and Senator Yamashina (the person in charge of the court's finances), also had the same attitude as Emperor Shokincho. The imperial court directly rejected Ashikaga Yoshiteru's request to designate Fujiwara as an enemy of the DPRK.
As soon as this incident came out, the heir of Sekihaku Konoe was finally able to go to Kanto once as he wished, to show that the imperial court and the court were on the same front. This time, the former heir of Konoe also brought the decree of Emperor Shokin-cho, and the position of repair doctor in the court was promoted to the position of the left Konoe general and the general of the town guard house as the third (at this time, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was concurrently the general of the Senate and the left guard lieutenant general was only the third), and the court was sure to be able to crusade against all the ministers of the Kanto region.
On June 12, after Uchio Kasuhi Ieyoshi and Miyaki Shiro Bei, who were in Odawara Castle, led their troops to attack and kill the Ninomaru defender, Ishikawa Genshiro, they quickly opened the side door and prepared to let the Uesugi army enter the castle. After the side door of Ninomaru was opened, Namba Kenji did not plan to invest too many troops to enter Ninomaru in the first place, just to be on the safe side. He immediately ordered Okabe Motonobu and Anzawa Toshimitsu to lead two thousand troops to break into Ninomaru first.
After the killing of Ninomaru's defender, Genshiro Ishikawa, the remaining Ninomaru defenders were leaderless and demoralized. Soon, with the advance of Okabe Motonobu and Anzawa Toshimitsu, the defenders scattered and fled. Okabe Motonobu and Anozawa Toshimitsu took advantage of the situation to seize Ninomaru and sent someone to inform Namba Tian Kenji that the opening of the side door of Ninomaru was not a trap.
Knowing that it was not a trap, Kenji Namba immediately ordered Asahina Taichao to lead 2,000 troops to attack Odawara Castle's Otemon Gate from the front to attract the attention of the defenders, and he himself led 10,000 troops to quickly enter Ninomaru, allowing Okabe Motonobu and Anazawa Toshimitsu to expand their gains and continue to attack all parts of Odawara Castle.
Soon, the Ise clan in Honmaru also learned of the fall of Ninomaru and the situation of Sannomaru being attacked on his back. Ise wanted to make amends, but it was too late. As a large number of Uesugi troops poured into the city, the defenders, who were old, weak, sick and disabled, were completely unable to support them. Immediately afterwards, before the Ise clan sent reinforcements to rescue Sannomaru, the two places of Higashi no Maru and Nishi no Maru were attacked by Asahina Shinji, and the defenders Yamanoka Uemon and Ueno Sun Saemon were killed in battle.
In less than three hours, Odawara Castle was left with only Honmaru still in the hands of the Ise clan. The rest of the area was captured by the Uesugi army. The Ise clan was unwilling to surrender to the Uesugi family, so he and his family members such as Hoshoin (Ise Masasa Room) and Zueiin (Ise Masasaki's mother), as well as Imai Gentaro and Imai Masarosuke of the Imperial Horse Clan, killed themselves in Honmaru Daihiroma. The Hojo clan, based in the Kanto region for four generations, officially perished.