It was September 2 when Asada and the others returned to Aizu. When they arrived at the castle town of Wakamatsu Castle, as soon as Guidie saw Asada, he ran over to ask Mino about the war and if his brother had let Michizo go.

"Don't worry, my father-in-law still saved it. Look~" Chao Ding looked at Gui Die's appearance of crying, and pointed to the pile. And Dao San also knew each other and immediately walked out of the crowd.

"Father!" Guidie couldn't believe it when she saw Daosan, she just knew that Asadago went to Echigo just to let Ayahime and the dragon girl meet, and she actually rescued her father!

"Guidie, how are you doing in Aizu all these years?" Since Daosan's right arm has not yet recovered, it is still hanging around his neck, so he can't give Guidie a hug.

"My husband is very good to me, and Sister Aya takes good care of me." Guidie can be regarded as having been rewarded for her willfulness at the beginning, if her wife married to Owari peacefully, then she would really never see Daosan.

"This is not the place to talk, let's go into the city." The Shojo ordered the families of Akechi Mitsuhide, Saito Toshizo, Tsugi Hirotada, Akechi Mitsutada, Ikeda Teruie, and Okuda Keitsuna to live in the castle town, and they, as heads of the family and retainers, were to go into the castle with Saito Michizo to talk.

Just after everyone entered the Great Wide Room, the court sat down on the main seat. And Namba Tian Kenji sat at the position of the pen tip of his right hand, Michizo Saito sat at the position of the pen tip of his left hand, and Akechi Mitsuhide and others all sat in order according to their identities. And Jieshan Yunsheng, a monk who was idle and panicked, had already sat behind Namba Tian Kenji, and Tao Zhuo Zhenxuan was sitting behind Jieshan Yunsheng. Chao Ding Gui Butterfly sat down beside him. Sanada Masayuki was arranged to serve tea and water to everyone present.

"My lord! Urgent report that the Takeda Army has taken more than 128,000 stones in the four counties of Higashiminon! "It may be that the matter is urgent, and Kato Duanzo ran directly into the Ohiro room.

"It's such a fast speed, it seems that the strength of the Yuanshan family is not very good. Jingguang, you go and tell your father and uncle that you can restore your original surname to Maori. "Asadachi is a little unhappy with the surname Hojo, so it is better to change it as soon as possible.

"Yes." When Hojo Keihiro heard this, he quickly stopped what he was doing, and left Ohiroma happily. He had also mentioned the glory of his family by Hojo Takahiro before, and it would be a great gift to be able to restore his surname.

"Next year is the time when the family and the Nagao family will jointly send troops to the Kanto region, and I hope you can make more contributions under the command of the family." The meaning of the court is that as long as we return to the Kanto, the territory is big!

"The lord is already the guardian of the three kingdoms of Musashi, Sagami, and Izu appointed by the shogunate, as long as the family can defeat the Gohojo clan and regain the former leader of the Uesugi family in Ogiya, it is not impossible for everyone here to know how to do more than 10,000." Jieshan Yunsheng is responsible for helping Chaoding fool Wise Guangxiu and others. As for Saito Michizo, he doesn't bother to pay attention to it, he is now a relative who eats together.

"Congratulations!" Wise Guangxiu's IQ is not low, of course this can be heard. Immediately took the lead in congratulating the court, which caused the wise retainers and the rest to follow suit.

"Needless to say, these are false. Zhuo Zhenxuan, the credit you received for the last time you sent troops has not yet had time to be rewarded. Chao Ding thought for a while and then said, "The eight thousand stones of the tabula rasa city will be given to you, and you will be promoted to the general of the family." Also, you and the Satake family go and get in touch with them, and ask them to contact the Utsunomiya family. At this time, the Nagao family was still preparing to send troops to the Kanto region, and it was crucial to get the support of the Satake family and the Utsunomiya family among the Kanto generals, and it would be better if they could get in touch with the Satomi family on the Boso Peninsula. ”

"Yes, the minister will go immediately." Zhuo Zhenxuan naturally had to work harder when he got the reward. He could also predict that the Uesugi family would return to Kanto and regain their old domain!

"Wise Mitsuhide-sama, can you be interested in going out to the Uesugi family with the 170,000 stone of this family?" Although Chao Ding used the name of 170,000 stone to laugh at himself, if it weren't for the righteousness of the dragon girl, he would have gone east and west to ask for it.

"The minister is willing to serve the Uesugi family!" Wise Mitsuhide knew that if he could dispatch tens of thousands of troops from the Nagao family, he would not be willing to live on a territory of 170,000 stones, and he also wanted to be the lord of a country and a city, and this dream could naturally be realized by having a reliable lord.

"Mitsuhide-sama is Guidie's cousin, and he used to be a member of the Saito family, so he will be entrusted with important tasks in the future." Gui Die is from Saito Michizo's main room Koma no Fang, and Komi no Fang is a wise woman.

"I don't need my father-in-law to say this, I know it. Akechi Mitsuhide-sama has a talent that he was not able to show in the Saito family, so please show it in the Uesugi family. "Although this is the case, I don't want to be roasted duck in the temple like a demon king.

"I understand. Compared with the Saito family, which is the general of the Hao Alliance, the Uesugi family can be said to have started from scratch from the departure of Musashi to the development of Aizu. And the retainers under your command are all genealogy retainers who are willing to follow you, and some of them are Aizu nationals who are sent and recruited by the Nagao family. Generally speaking, the Uesugi family's ability to reform in Aizu and implement policies such as the Four Publics and Six Citizens is inseparable from you. "Wise Mitsuhide is now a retainer of the Uesugi family anyway, so there is no need to look at Saito Michizo's face anymore, although the pit viper on the side is a little ugly.

"I'm willing to work for the Uesugi family!" Sitting behind Akechi Mitsuhide, he pleaded with the two dozen people who were close to the door of Ohiroma at the same time.

"If you want to be a career in the Uesugi family, you won't refuse to come." Chao Ding naturally agreed. Akechi Mitsuhide's subordinates are not bad, you must know that in the battle of Yamazaki, Akechi Mitsuhide used inferior forces to fight with the monkey for a long time, and once put the monkey in a defeated situation! Wise Mitsuhide is all familiar with recuperation, talent, and internal affairs, and it can be said that many things after the Demon King Shangluo can only be done by Mitsuhide, such as communication with the court of the minister.

"When you first arrived in the Northeast, I wasn't going to stay with you for too long. Let's all go back to their respective mansions and rest, tomorrow is the family assessment meeting. Let's get some rest, everybody." Chao Ding wants to give an order to expel customers, and he has to prepare for the next army in Kanto.

"Yes." Everyone then left one after another, and Katsuyama Yunkatsu and Namba Tian Kenji also left on the grounds that there were still things in the collar that had not been dealt with. At this moment, there are only Chaoding, Guidie and Daosan left in the Daguang room.

"It's not easy to be my son-in-law. It's just that Oda Nobunaga, that fool, now has Owari Kazukuni in name, who doesn't know that the identity of the Nagao family's million-stone daimyo is still obtained with your help. Dao San is still very happy about this, his daughter has not been wronged, and she is still living well. After all, the Ogiya Uesugi family has a tradition of frugality. Dao San looked at Gui Die's clothes and didn't look very thrifty.

"My father-in-law praised it falsely. The son-in-law was only able to get the appreciation of the princess of the Nagao family after being driven out of Musashi by Hou Hojo. Otherwise, just like the Kanto Governor Uesugi Kenmasa, he sings and dances every day in the Imperial Hall under Kasugayama Castle. "Chaoding doesn't think it's his own credit to be able to settle down in Aizu, if it weren't for the reinforcements of the Nagao family back then, it would still be a question of whether he could conquer the two counties of Aizu at one time!

"By the way, what kind of military strength is the Uesugi family with the samurai in white robes? Why do you feel that you are stronger than the Takeda family's Akabi? Saito Michizo thought of Echigo, who had left with hundreds of people including Akechi Mitsuhide, escorted by four hundred knights.

"The Kawagoe Knights were established in Musashi Kotsu Castle. But after so many years, there are fewer and fewer Musashi soldiers now. Especially in the battle of Yushan City, half of the 400 brave and skilled cavalry were killed, although nearly 1,000 enemy troops were killed, but this is not what I want to see. Speaking of this, Chao Ding couldn't help but sigh.

"I've also heard that the Battle of Aizu was first fought by the Uesugi army alone against many daimyos, and then the Uesugi clan established its position in the Tohoku after the Nagao army came to the aid and instantly defeated several daimyos." Saito Michizo was a little shocked, he didn't want to see two hundred samurai in exchange for nearly a thousand?! He didn't have such a record before!

"Today is not the time to discuss these things, these things are in the past, let future generations of scholars write these stories." Towards the open-minded words. After he finished speaking, he hugged Gui Die beside him, and Gui Die picked up the peeled chestnuts on the plate and gave them to Chao Ding to eat. This scene gave Dao San peace of mind, but he hoped that they could have a noble son as soon as possible.

Although Takeda Harunobu was still a little afraid of the Nagao family's assistance to the Saito family in the Mino War, he had to send his sister-in-law Takeda Yoshinobu to Minami Shinano to guard the town. The reason why Takeda Harunobu hurriedly wanted to take Higashimino was that the gold mountain in Kai was close to being mined. After the defeat of the Takeda army on Kawanaka Island, they worked harder to mine the gold and silver mountains of Minami Shinano and Kai, but if they continued to mine like this, they would naturally be quickly exhausted, and there was no special product in Kai that could replace the income of gold and silver. In order to seize military expenses and strategic locations, Takeda Harunobu had no choice but to send a Nobu Ryu and others to conquer the four counties of Higashiminon. It also forced the Toyama family and others to submit to the Takeda family.

And the court decided to prepare for the four months before the dragon girl sent troops to the Kanto region, and the generals had to sort out a lot of things and raise grain, grass, and ordnance. And the castle of Idle Forest Castle is a castle in the Nasu Territory that has just been taken, and if it weren't for the close proximity to the White River Territory, it would have been burned down by a fire. Naturally, the task of repairing the castle was entrusted to Akechi Mitsuhide. Akechi Mitsuhide was appointed by the court as the general of Ashigaru, and led the castle of the idle forest with 500 stones. He needed to build the castle into a military station within three months, and at the same time, he had to develop the castle town and agriculture like a normal flat castle. Since Akechi Mitsutada (the son of Akechi Mitsuhide's uncle Akechi Mitsuhisa), his wife Aki Hirotada, Ikeda Teruie, and Okuda Keitsuna also had to follow Akechi Mitsuhide regardless of their fortunes, the court decided to allow them to serve as courtiers. Akechi Mitsuhide's nephew, Toshizo Saito, was assigned to the Samurai of the main team of the Asada, who had not yet completed the recruitment, and served as the head of the samurai.

Momoi Yoshitaka, who had been idle for a long time, was also summoned to Wakamatsu Castle, and the reason why Asadaku approached him was simply to ask him to organize people to repair a road that was spacious and convenient for transporting supplies and soldiers. The specific plan is up to him. But this achievement can only be tested after next year, that is, the third year of Hongji's army out of Kanto, if you cut corners and are not satisfied, then Momoi Yoshitaka's place of knowledge and action will naturally be withdrawn.

For the Uesugi family, who had already begun to prepare for war, the head of the Soma family next door, Soma Shengyin, came to negotiate with the Uesugi family on September 10 of the second year of Hongji, and brought Ei Yinji, who had already half-entered the loess, as an important minister to negotiate with the Uesugi family. And his purpose is to bring out the Uesugi family's military strength to help the weak Soma family. As a Soma Shengyin who is close to the age of not being confused, he wants to choose one of the Date family and the Uesugi family as allies. Naturally, Soma Shengyin will choose

The Uesugi family, who has already made a name for themselves in the Northeast, and the Nagao family behind the Uesugi family is also a million-stone daimyo, and the astronomical rebellion was decided to invite the Kanto governor Uesugi Kenmasa to mediate. The retainers of the Soma family on both sides knew that if they chose the Uesugi family, they would be able to seize Watari Castle, which belonged to their Soma family, and some of the surrounding villages. Of course, the hatred between the Soma family and the Date family naturally started from the Astronomical Rebellion, but it did not end with the Astronomical Rebellion.

Soma Shengyin, commonly known as Sun Jiro, is the eldest son of the fourteenth generation of the Soma family, the eldest son of Soma Xianyin, whose mother is the eldest daughter of Date Uemune, and the wife of Sheng Yin is the daughter of Date Minoru's grandson, Oda Date Yoshimune. The Soma clan originated from the five generations of the Huanwu Taira clan Taira Shomen Sun Ping Yin country, the original Taira Shomen territory was the lower general, based on the Soma County Koganehara as the leader of the total country, once called himself Soma Kojiro. After the failure of the rebellion against the imperial court by the Heishomon Shomon, the domain was abolished. It wasn't until the time of the fifth generation of Sun Yinguo that he returned to the territory of a county owned by Soma, so he called himself Soma. Later, his son Shiguo had no heirs, so he used the Chiba family, who was also from the Taira clan, to attract his adopted son, Shishi, and when he went out to conquer the Fujiwara clan in Oshu in the Minamoto Yoritomo Dynasty, Soma Shichang often accompanied the army to establish military exploits, and worshiped Mutsu Oku, and Gyokata County. At the beginning, Mutsu guarded Date Minoru to vigorously promote marriage diplomacy, and Soma Kenyin, the father of Mori Yin, was one of Minomune's sons-in-law, and then on June 20, the 11th year of Astronomical, the son of Uemune, Date Harumune, because of the third brother Date Minoto into the Uesugi clan, turned against his father, and raised troops to resist his father Minorune, who was imprisoned in Nishiyama Castle, so Soma Kenyin and another son-in-law of Uemune, Kakita Toshimune, sent troops, and at the same time, Minoru was also rescued by the retainer Koragawa Mune, which caused the Date astronomical rebellion that implicated the Oshu daimyos, and Soma Kenyin and Tamura Takaaki and Nikaido followed, Ashina Morishun supported his father-in-law Uemune, and Hyuna also took the opportunity to expand his territory to the area of Uta County and occupy the Kido Castle and Tomioka Castle of the Iwaki family, and Sheng Yin also grew in this chaotic situation, and concluded an ebony hat with the Ashina Mori clan of Aizu during the Yuan service to receive the word "Sheng" and named it "Sheng Yin". At the beginning, the Pingjiangmen used the local plain terrain to catch wild horses, and then trained them in military affairs to form a cavalry team. Therefore, the Soma clan has always attached great importance to the training of cavalry, and also holds the "Soma Wild Horse Chase" festival on July 23 every year, and then holds a riding competition for the divine flag on the 25th. When the horse is the mascot of the family, the Soma master often used the cavalry to make meritorious contributions when attacking the Fujiwara clan, so after getting the territory of the Mutsu Gyokata County, the family crest was changed to "繋ぎhorse", and later when Soma Riyin rectified the castle town of Nakamura Castle, the retainers advocated the production of pottery masterpieces, and invited Tashiro Gengo Uemon to open a kiln, and the successful firing of tea vessels that depicted the posture of horses was mostly called Soma Koma Yaki, which can be said to be another horse-related story.

As soon as Ei Yinji came, he was naturally quickly invited to live in Huiri Temple. On the second day, Asadachi took the pen head of the old Ota Shimasa, the old Nanba Kenji, the old Miyagi Masayo, the old Hojo Takahiro, the old pig Nawashiro Shengguo, the general Nambada Hiroyoshi, the general Tao Zhuo Needle, the general Usami Dingkatsu, the general Ogasawara Nagasawara Nagasaki and other important ministers of the Uesugi family to the hall of the Huiri Temple to listen to what the visitors had to say. Ota Shimasa sits in the left-hand pen position of Asada, while Namba Kenji sits in the right-hand pen position. The rest of the retainers sat on either side according to their rank.

"The prince of the court, the foreign minister of the Xiangma family, the retainer of the Jiangjing Yinzhi. I didn't expect to be able to meet Chao Dinggong this time, which is really a blessing for three lives! Not long after Chao Dingcai sat down, Ekai Yinji began to flatter. Probably he didn't know if the court was not good. He looked around him at the group of fierce and vicious Uesugi retainers, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Enough. In the Aizu Rebellion, your Soma family didn't support the daimyos, wealthy clans, and landheads who were enemies of the main family and the Nagao family, right? It seems that I almost didn't send troops directly to fight with my master! When Miyagi Masayi saw that Chaoding's face was a little ugly, he directly mentioned the old thing.

"This, this, this, this ......" Jiang Jing Yinzhi didn't react for a moment, he thought for a moment and then said: "Chao Dinggong, this is all ignorance of people in the countryside such as me at that time!" My father-in-law was also deceived by the villain, please set the prince to be clear! ”

"Well, you're not here just to apologize to your family." Chao Ding knew that people like him would go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and they must have asked for him. It can also be regarded as Jiangjing Yinzhi, the head of the dynasty, the court of the short, and the court of the short, who is too lazy to ask the Soma family.

"Could it be that the Soma family's request for the little land in the city was rejected by the Date family?" As soon as Namba Tian Kenji said this, the retainers laughed instantly, and Asadachi didn't laugh with them because of his identity, but he also forced his smile.

"Kenji, you restrain yourself." Asahi finally spoke, and Namba Tian Kenji immediately put away his smile. The rest of the retainers became serious when they saw that they were serious.

"What the minister said is the same as what the lord said just now, it is the city of Qianli. However, with the Soma family's territory of more than 85,000 stones, it really does not have the ability to occupy it for a long time, and the Date family will definitely raise troops to recapture it. "Eai Yinji knew that this time he was given a death order by Soma Shengyin to invite reinforcements from the Uesugi family, so he had no choice but to endure it, no matter what, he asked the Uesugi family to send troops.

"If you can't occupy it for a long time, you have to ask your family to come forward? Since the adults have said that the Soma family only has a territory of 45,000 koku, there must be no conditions for the Uesugi family to send troops. "Ota Zimasa's words are of a good level, and it is estimated that he was taught well by the princess of the Nakajo family at home.

"If Asadako can help the family, then the Uesugi family won't have to go to Echigo to buy horses! My lord knew that it would not be easy to exchange for the harmony of the Uesugi family, so this time the foreign minister came and brought fifty good horses! As soon as Ei Yinji's words came out, the retainers of the Uesugi family exchanged heads and ears, which made the court who didn't want to fight a little moved.

"The Date family and the main family have been at war, please be clear!" Usami Dingkatsu and Anzawa Toshimitsu directly told Asadachi loudly in unison that they had fought with the Date army, and if it weren't for the mountain castle and the rugged road, then Toyama Castle and others would have been taken down in an instant.

"The Date family has been exploring the problem for Oshu for a long time, and the first time my family came to the northeast, it was not very embarrassed by the encirclement made by the Date family, and the Kawagoe Knights, the main combat force of the family, also lost more than half of the battle against Yu Montenegro!" Namba Hiroshi is also for this reason, and he is still a general until now. It's not that Chao Ding doesn't want to give him the position of the old family, but to tell everyone in the knights that if the command is wrong, he can't be promoted.

"Not bad!" Asada's right hand, which was originally holding the folding fan, also crushed the handle of the folding fan because he heard Nambada Hiroshi's words. Although the voice was not loud, the retainers and Ei Yinji saw it.

"The foreign minister is willing to persuade the lord to send ten good horses to the Uesugi family every year in the future! And let the retainers of the Uesugi family come to Soma to purchase horses, harness, etc.! "Ekai Yinzhi is amazing, but it is precisely because of his courage that the court can make up his mind.

"Dingsheng, you will be responsible for going to Soma to purchase in the territory every year. Everyone, get ready to fight! Chao Ding stood up and said that he had long wanted to fight Ida's house, but there was no reason or opportunity.

"Thank you Chao Dinggong!" Ei Yinji is clear about the strength of the Uesugi family, although there are more than 170,000 stones on the surface, but after counting the gold and silver mountains and wood, it is more than that, and the overall strength can completely fight with the Date family.

"By the way, since your Soma family takes care of your family so much, then your family can't help but pull allies. I'll bring these military expenses to your father-in-law. With a wave of his hand, Sanada Masayuki and Hojo Keihiro walked to Ei Yinji with the heavy box before putting it down.

"Chao Dinggong, what is this?" Before Ei Yinji could figure out what was going on, he saw a large box appear in front of him.

"It's nothing, a hundred little gold sentences. The Soma family is going to get their equipment in order. After Asada gave Ota Zimasa a look, Ota Shimasa handed his folding fan to Asahi to play with. Ota Zimasa also knew that Asada liked to hold a folding fan in his hand when he was in a meeting, so he had to endure the pain of parting his love.