Right now, halfway through June. The rainy season has officially arrived.

Since Kakizaki Keike and other Uesugi retainers stationed in Echichu purged the Echichu area of the people who were following Nagao Keibo and the vacillating countrymen, some of the Echichu people, including Kakizaki Keike, Usami Dingmi, and Okuma Ashide, led a large army into Echigo to quell the rebellion. The situation in Echigo was also reversed when a large number of Vietnamese and Chinese reinforcements arrived.

Originally, the Sado people planned to concentrate most of their forces on attacking the important towns of Nakaetsu and Sakajo, but when they learned that more than 10,000 Uesugi troops had entered Echigo, they retreated. Honma Takanobu, the lord of Hamo Castle, Honma Sadanao, the lord of Kawarada Castle, and Honma Yuyasu, the lord of Zatai Castle, withdrew most of their forces to Yoshidakan on the coast, and returned to Sado by sea one after another.

However, after most of the Sado people evacuated, some of them remained in Echigo. In order to give some face to the long-tail view, Honma Masatasu left his own family, the son of Hidetoshi on the long-tail, and let him lead more than 700 people to continue to obey the dispatch of the long-tail view.

At the same time that the Uesugi army continued to counterattack in Shimo-Vietnam and Zhong-Vietnam, the 'unauthorized' retreat of the Sado generals undoubtedly made the situation worse for the Nagao Keibo army, which was getting worse and worse. The Uesugi army in Echigo fought more and more, while the Nagao army fought less and less. Even the Dahoji army, which had been rampant in Shimoetsu for a period of time, had to withdraw to Kitakurokawa under the constant blows of Kaji Haruna and others, and the Dahoji Yoshiji, Abe Yoshiki and others could only wait and see what happened, and they no longer had the advantage in troops.

The life of the Ueda Nagao family was not easy. After the Ueda Nagao Army was defeated repeatedly, the 'Ueda Fifty Cavalry' also suffered heavy losses. Long-tailed Jingguo is about to become a loner. If it weren't for the support of him and the old ministers such as Kanetoyo Higuchi, I'm afraid he would have been unable to support himself and commit suicide by seppuku.

In order to open a larger gap in the 'Uesugi Encirclement', Asadachi set his sights on Shimono Province.

Shimono Province is located in the country of Higashiyamado in the central part of the Northern Kanto region. To the east, it is bordered by Hitachi Province through the Hachigou Mountains. It is separated from Ueno Province by the Shirane Mountains, Mt. Kokai, and Ashio Mountains to the west, Musashi Province and Shimosoku Province in the Kanto Plain to the south, and Michinoku Province to the north via Mt. Nasu. It is the main point of the Higashiyama Road connecting the Tohoku to the Kanto region. The Shimono Plain is formed by Mt. Hachigou to the east and Mt. Nikko to the west, and the Naka River and Kinugawa River flow through the center, and there is an abundance of water for agriculture, so it is highly productive. In addition, the existence of Ashikaga schools has made the cultural level of the area also high.

Due to the repeated wars in the land of Ou. And the geography of Aizu and Yonezawa, which originally belonged to the rear, should be safe and peaceful. Now, however, even the entire area of Aizu has almost become a battlefield. Let's not mention that the various parts of Hashiki Prefecture have been lost one after another, and the Soma family alone has always needed the assistance of the Uesugi family. However, if the Daicho family of Okuwa, the Mogami family, the Osaki family, the Kasai family, and the Daihoji family, wanted to exterminate or pacify the daimyo of the Okuwa family, he had to pacify Shimono first. And the key to the pacification of Shimono is to purge a large number of people and wealthy families. Otherwise, these forces such as 'Kyoto supports the public', 'the public serves the public', and the 'public palace is in the palace' will continue to raise troops to rebel.

However, for a long time, the concept of dealing with problems in the DPRK is still relatively simple, that is, to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. The so-called law does not blame the people, and it is not a problem for him. Because the emperors of the Ming Dynasty had experience in dealing with this. For example, the case of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and Hu Weiyong, 10,000 people from the same party were reported and killed; 20,000 people, killed; 30,000 people, kill, kill, kill. It's nothing more than saying a few more killing words, and it doesn't take much effort.

The times have progressed, the society has become civilized, and the principle is still the same. In the past dynasties, the Uesugi family in Yamauchi slaughtered the Ashikaga Nagao family and rebelled against the whole clan; The former Uesugi family's retainer Numata family rebelled against the entire clan (Numata Yumitsu belonged to Wakasa Numata); Which of the Kuragano family, the Wada family, etc., was not punished by the whole clan? Wherever there are people, they will fight wherever they are, and if you don't look at the previous merits and glory, won't you turn around without them in the land of Kanto? In these years, it is difficult to find a dog who can watch the door, and the person who wants to be an official is a little, who is afraid of whom!

At some point, the court still wished that the remnants of the Furukawa Shogunate (Furukawa Gongkata) would take the initiative to jump out, so that there would be a reason and excuse to invade the lower field, and as long as these 'tumors' were eradicated, the Eight Provinces of Kanto would be as safe as the back garden of the Uesugi family.

When Akiyama Tatsuna, the head of the two prefectures of Shimono Province and Ryota-gun, who had been appointed by the court, took the lead in implementing the 'Hanji Order' within the two prefectures under their jurisdiction, the Ashikaga Fuji clan, Harusuke Ryoda, and Mochisuke Ryoda, who had been expelled from the castle Furukawa Imperial Palace, had changed the name of Utsunomiya Castle to 'Utsunomiya Imperial Palace' with the support of the local people and the old department. The Ashikaga Fuji clan is healed of the scar and forgot the pain, and is still ready to confront the Uesugi family as the 'shogun'.

Ashikaga Fuji seems to have forgotten that Shimono Province is not so safe. And the Kawachi County where the Utsunomiya Imperial Palace is located is not far from Nasu County, which is occupied by the Uesugi family in the northeast. Once the Sano family of Ansu County in the south of Shimono takes the lead, then the people of Toga County will be vulnerable at all. It's okay for them to fight with the Utsunomiya family, but it's hard to say if they run into a hard stubble like the Uesugi family.

Before Asadashi prepares to attack Shimono Province, he also needs to thank the Ashikaga Fuji clan. If it weren't for the 'Furukawa Shogunate Army' under the Ashikaga Fuji clan to destroy the Utsunomiya family, the genuine Shimono guardian, and the shogunate did not send or appoint a new guardian, the court would not have been able to order the Uesugi retainers in Shimono to carry out the 'Banji Order'. The 'Hanji Order' is the 'Banji Payment Authority' granted by the shogun to the daimyo in various regions. The 'Semi-Grant Benefit' is also one of the 'Six Powers' to protect the Daimyo. The function of the 'Banji Order' is the right to levy half an annual tribute of rice from the manor under its jurisdiction to serve as military rations. Any grain stored in manors throughout the territory can be expropriated, even including temple manors, princess manors, imperial court palaces, and public offices (owned by the shoguns of Kyoto). However, Chaoding did not go to learn from Asakura Xiaojing to occupy the imperial court's imperial material. This is one of the reasons why his current official rank is higher than that of Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

Orders to protect the daimyo are not something that can be issued at will. In particular, Asadachi has not yet received the position of 'Shimono Guardian'. And the Asadachi himself is only hung with the duties of Musashi Guardian, Sagami Guardian and Kanto Governor. With his identity and rights, he can't reach out to the lower field yet.

Since Chaoding himself doesn't have that ability, he just needs to find someone who has the ability. And this capable person is - Kenshin Uesugi. She has been raising a baby in Heyue City for a long time, and she could have forced Chao Ding to show her some official documents, but now she directly handed over all the affairs to Chao Ding to take care of, and she didn't bother to ask anything. This is a great thing for Chaoding. In other words, the court was able to use the order of the Kanto Governor to implement the 'Banji Order' in Shimono Ichikoku, rather than using his own identity as the 'Kanto Governor' to order. This will also save a lot of trouble.

However, the most regrettable thing is that the Ashikaga school in Shimono was destroyed in the war. Otherwise, Shimono is still a relatively literate area in the Kanto region.

The guardian of Shimono Ichikoku has long been served by the Koyama family and the Utsunomiya family, and all their territories are densely populated with large estates. Therefore, it is a good place to satisfy the appetite of Chaoding. In addition, there is also an acting official sent by the court in Shimono Kuniyasu County-Fujioka Castle Daisu. In this way, the Uesugi family will be able to implement the 'Banji Order' in Ansu County openly. In order to make Xuanyuan's work better implemented, even the five flavors of Shimokawa Castle were sent to Shimono to assist Xuanyuan Weifan. Of course, Gomi Takashige entered Ansu County with three thousand ashigaru.

Asadachi didn't want to be hindered by Takeda, Hojo, etc. Although he has been called 'Dongguo Taishou' and 'Kanto Taishou' by many people, this is only in name, and it is not really a complete occupation of Kanto. In the heyday of Ryuzoji Takanobu, it was also known as 'five states and two islands Taishou', and the five states referred to the Hizen country, Higo country, Fengzen country, Chikuzen country, and Chikugo country; The two islands refer to Tsushima Island and Iki Island.

Just after the 'Shimono Banji Order' jointly issued by the two of Asada, Kenshin and Kenshin, Akiyama Dingzuna became the head of Shimono Province, and Gomi Takashige, Xuanyuan Weishi, Akechi Mitsutada and others were temporarily under his command.

Beginning on June 21, Akiyama took a heavily armed team to travel throughout Shimono Province in the scorching summer weather. He passed the "very reasonable" violent _ law enforcement, and a large amount of military rations from the "half-ji" continued to be hoarded in Ashikaga Castle.

The reason why the court dared to do this was to see that a large number of people and wealthy clans in Shimono followed the 'Furukawa Shogunate' of the Ashikaga Fuji clan, so that he could also deal with these rebels in an open-minded way. Moreover, in the process of 'semi-ji', the rebel generals everywhere did not dare to go out of the city to stop them, and could only watch their grain being taken away.