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As the news spread as the Tsukawa family captured Anton Shunji and captured Hiyama Castle and occupied the western and central parts of Akita Prefecture and Yamamoto Prefecture in the neighboring areas, it fell like a stone into the otherwise calm lake with a "pop".

"What! Anton Sun-ji is dead? "The southern family is based in the three households, and the southern Harimasa said with a shocked face.

"Yes! About ten days ago, Anton Shunji begged for death at Mt. Suzuru, and the Tsugawa family has now captured Hiyama Castle and occupied all of the Ando family's territory in the Hago region. The owner of the Turbidity River Pavilion in front of Nanbu Harumasa nodded and said, "At present, the remnants of the Andong family have retreated to Fukushima Castle. The Oura family, which is subordinate to the main family, under the command of Ishikawa-sama, is attacking the territory of the Ando family. ”

"It's amazing." Nanbu Harumasa said with a cloudy face, "At the beginning, when I heard the news that the Tsugawa family sent troops to Anton's family, I was still thinking that even if Anton's family was good, it would be okay to delay it until winter. But I didn't expect to be defeated by the Tsugawa family so soon, is Tsugawa Soji really so terrible? ”

"My lord, I should have listened to the advice of Captain Saemon (Kita Zhiai) and sent troops to support the Ando family. Although the main family and the Anton family are often at war, they must not watch the Tsugawa family grow bigger. The lord of Hachinohe Castle said in a weird manner, and after speaking, he glanced at Shinaka Kunohe, the lord of Kuho Castle, who was sitting opposite him.

At that time, Kita Zhiai proposed that the southern family could not ignore the situation in the Hago area, and proposed that Ishikawa Takanobu or Ishikawa Nobubo lead a force to present troops on the border of the Andong family to create pressure on the Tsugawa family. However, Nobunaka Kunohe objected on the grounds that the invasion of the Spo family and the Nangaoka family, and the imminent war of the southern family, was not conducive to extraneous branches.

In the end, Nanbu Harumasa chose to follow Nobunaka's proposal, but he didn't expect the situation to change so quickly. In fact, Southern Harusama did not expect that the Tsugawa family would be able to defeat the Ando family in such a short period of time!

"Who would have thought that the Anton family would be defeated so quickly?" Nobunaka Kunohe, the lord of Kunohe Castle, said loudly, "What's more, at that time, the Spo family and the Langoka family were attacking the territory of their own family, so don't you care that the Spo family and the Langoka family sent troops to support the Andong family?" ”

"That's it!" Nanbu Harumasa spoke out to stop the argument between Nobunaka and Nobuyoshi Hachinohe, and looked at the two important ministers of the family helplessly. In fact, the southern family refers to the general name of several wealthy families who have territorial territory with one household, three households, four households, seven households, eight households, nine households, etc., and can also be called "the southern family of the Oshu chaff".

The ancestor of the southern clan, Nanfang Guangxing, has six sons, and the eldest son Xingchao is a concubine and is the ancestor of a family; The second son, Shimitsu, inherited the clan; The third son, Minoru Hakii, is the ancestor of the southern clan of the eight households of Nechijo; The fourth son, Chaoqing, is the ancestor of the Seven Households and the Jiuji Clan; The Five Sons Dynasty is the ancestor of the Four Households and the Kushiyin Clan; The ancestors of the Kunohe clan, the Kokarumi clan, and the Esaki clan, all of whom used the word "south" as the Miao character, formed a vast network of kinship relationships through which they jointly ruled the southern part of the Mutsu region. Among them, the Sanhe clan, known as the "Southern Temple", gradually gained the status of the general leader of the Southern Clan.

Therefore, Nanfang Qingzheng is only the head of the three clans, but he also governs several other wealthy families and the rest of the relatively small families, so he is called the head of the Nanfang clan to the outside world.

Between the intricate relationship within the southern family, Southern Harimasa has always been a headache. Take Hachihe Zhiyi and Jiuhe Nobunaka as examples, Jiuhe Nobunaka married Hachinohe Zhiyi's daughter, and it stands to reason that the relationship between the two should be very close. But in fact, the relationship between the two families has been very tense, and Nanbu Haruma's father, Nanbu Anxin, wanted to change the situation within the Nanfang family, ease the relationship between the separated families, and wantonly let the various families marry and intermarry, but it was useless.

After the implementation of this strategy, there was little effect, and even the relationship between some families became more strained. This is the case with the Hachinohe family and the Kunohe family, because after Hachinohe's daughter married Kunohe Shinnaka, she often passed some information about the Kunohe family to Hachinohe Jiyoshi, and it happened to be discovered by Kuho Nobunaka.

These are not uncommon in the southern home. However, due to the dominance of the Minohe clan in the southern family and the prestige of the southern Harumasa, although the relationship between the various families is tense, they dare not tear their faces openly.

But after the death of Minami Harumasa, a fierce civil strife broke out in the Nanbu family. Of course, these are all later words, so let's not mention them for now.

Nanbu Qingzheng's eyes swept over the faces of his retainers for a moment before he spoke, "It's useless to talk about it now. ”

"Why don't you come and discuss, for the Tsugawa family, how should the family deal with it in the future?" Nanbu Harumasa continued.

As soon as the words fell, Nan Changyi on the side hurriedly said, "Lord, after the Tsukawa family captured the territory of the Anton family, its strength was even worse than that of the previous Anton family. Although the current strength of this family is stronger than the Tsugawa family, but there are the Spo family and the Langoka family on the side, even if they have the heart to send troops to attack the Tsugawa family, they are also powerless. ”

What Nan Changyi said is the current situation of the southern family.

On the surface, the southern family is indeed the strongest force in the North Ou region, and there is no one in the surrounding area to compare. But there are actually many factors that are holding back the southern country.

For one thing, the southern territory is located in the northernmost part of the prefecture, and it is full of high mountains, the temperature is very low, and the precipitation is insufficient. As a result, harvests are often poor and food is often scarce in the southern territories. Correspondingly, there are often outbreaks in the southern family territory, although the scale is not large, but it is indeed very troublesome.

Why does Minami Harimasa always care so much about places like the Tsugaru region and Antlers? It is not because these places are grain-producing areas, and they are also high-yield areas, but what the southern families lack is precisely grain.

The second is that the instability within the southern family has become restless for the various subordinate forces. Although the southern family has a large territory, in fact, many places are not the direct territory of the southern family or the southern Qingzheng, but the territory of each branch family and subordinate wealthy families. As a result, often when troops are dispatched, these people do not contribute to the work, and they have no combat effectiveness at all.

Third, it is the reason for the southern Harimasa itself. Nanfang Qingzheng is a person.,It's quite lustful.,And the preferences are different from ordinary people.,Ten minutes to love a wife and a young daughter.。

In June of the eighth year of Astronomical, the southern Harisei at that time was still called Nanbu Ansei. The Sannohe clan's residence castle Seijuji Temple was set on fire by a retainer who had a grudge against the monarch, Akanuma Bichumori. The reason is that Akanuma Bichu Mamoru was dissatisfied with the fact that the lord Nanbu Harumasa brought his wife and daughter into the city, and at the same time, because of the problem of knowledge and action, there was a conflict with the old family Okise Yasuyomori, so Akanuma Bichu set fire to the castle and killed Oise Yasurumoru, and was later killed by the Shimoto rice family in the process of escaping, which caused the instability of the Minohe clan from then on.

Although Nanbu Harumasa followed the envoy group sent by Oshu Detective Osaki Yoshinao to Kamiraku the following month, he was given the partiality of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu and changed his name to Nanbu Harumasa, hoping to use the general's authority to stabilize his family, but with little success. After all, the authority of the general has long been reduced to what it used to be.