On July 12, the third year of Koji, due to the current shortage of Uesugi troops and the large defense area, the court ordered Hirosawa Tadanobu to move all the more than 3,000 households (more than 6,000 people) under Setagaya Castle and all the nearby residents to the newly built Shinagawa Minato within half a month, and the original Setagaya Castle was to be abandoned.

Although the geographical location of Setagaya Castle is important, it is better not to keep it. The complete demolition of the buildings in the castle town of Setagaya Castle also began, and Asadachi placed more emphasis on the development and expansion of Shinagawa Minato than this castle. As long as Shinagawa can be managed well, the future income will not be much worse than that of Gold and Silver Mountain.

At present, there are still 4,000 troops in Ueno Province (including Oishi Tsunagen and Igawa Kiyonaga), 2,000 in Shimono Province, 1,500 in Shimoto Province, and 7,700 in Musashi Province (only 3,000 Kamishu soldiers remain, and the total strength of the Uesugi Army in all parts of Kanto is only 15,200). This strength was still a little less than that of the Hojo Army, which held all its forces in Sagami, which still had at least 20,000 troops, while the Uesugi Army's strength in Musashi was only 7,700.

Fortunately, Hojo's goal was to recapture Izu first, not to regain control of Musashi. This also allowed the Uesugi family to gain time to recuperate and train their soldiers.

What's more, the form of the Hojo family at the moment is the most critical, surrounded by the Takeda family on the side of Kai Izu, the Uesugi family in Musashi, and the Satomi family entrenched on the Boso Peninsula (Kamiso, Anbo) hostile and attacking, not to mention whether the Hojo family can support the daily expenses of more than 20,000 troops, the Hojo family is already a little unafforded by the consumption of grain and grass, otherwise it will not occupy Ono Road Castle and Tokura Castle in Musashi. If it weren't for the difficult Odawara Castle of the Hojo family, I'm afraid the Hojo clan would have perished long ago. And Takeda Shingen's purpose is not to get involved in the Kanto region, he knows that the strength of the Takeda family is not enough to compete with the Uesugi family, just after the union of Saito Asanobu and others of Okushinano and Murakami Yoshikiyo, he can't even enter half an inch of Okushinano.

However, just as Asadachi was about to send someone to Aizu to bring Ayahime, Guidie and other family members to Musashi, an Ueno wealthy clan outside Kawagoe Castle came to visit. And the Hojo Phantom Temple, which has been in the castle for a long time, has been hanging for a long time. And this wealthy clan of Ueno took a woman dressed in a shrine maiden costume to the Ohiroma in Koeshi Castle to wait for the arrival of the court.

"Foreign Minister Chiba Cainu, this time I took the liberty to come to see the Kanto Governor Daidian, and I hope to forgive my sins." The samurai who shaved the head of the moon and dressed in ordinary clothes said respectfully, and the feeling he gave the court was very frugal and simple. However, the average wealthy should not dress like he did in the appearance of 'poverty'.

"Oh, my family has only taken Ninja City not long ago, and a lot of things haven't been dealt with yet, so please talk about it briefly." Chaoding really came to see him in his busy schedule, after all, he is a wealthy family in Ueno, and now his control over Ueno is still not enough, so he still wants to be as good as possible with them.

"The foreign minister has a daughter named Ise, who is twenty years old, if you don't dislike repairing the doctor's hall, take it!" It seems that Chiba Cainu came this time to send her daughter, and even if Chaoding accepted it, she didn't have time to talk about life or life with her······

"Well, what's the difficulty of Chiba-sama? Why did you give me your own flesh and bones? "Chao Ding doesn't understand a little, if he is poor, he can't be so poor that he can't even support his own daughter, right? And it seems that his daughter is not bad, and he doesn't want to be malnourished or look yellow and thin.

"The foreign minister was originally the lord of Hirai Castle appointed by the Ise family (the Later Hojo clan, because the people of the country who sat firmly in Musashi Province and Ueno dared to call it so), but the foreign minister was unwilling to betray the old lord of the Uesugi family, so when the Uesugi army and the Nagao army entered Ueno Province, they handed over Hirai Castle, and after buying a large amount of food from the family wealth and giving it to the Nagao army, life became poor······" Chiba Cainu also knows that she has been loyal, and the Uesugi family has returned to Kanto and defeated the Hojo clan, which is enough, as long as her daughter's future can be arranged, she will have no regrets even if she dies.

"No wonder Echigo's Danshoden will generously give me food, it turns out to be Chiba-sama's!" Chao Dingzhi understood why the dragon girl was willing to give herself thousands of stones of food without saying anything, and it turned out to be a thousand leaves picking girls.

"Lord, the loyal ministers of Lord Chiba have seen it, so you can talk about his wish to accept the daughter of Lord Chiba!" Saito Michizo, Ota Shimasa, Namba Kenji, Saito Toshizo and others who were sitting on the side all began to intercede for Chiba Sainu, although this move may make Ayago (Ayahime) and others a little unhappy, except for the sake of the Uesugi family's flourishing, the Asahi theorem should have accepted it.

"This ······" Chao Ding is a little undecided at the moment, although he has always been very decisive and not very hesitant in decision-making, strategy, internal policy, etc., but now he is a little hesitant about 'accepting girls'.

"Tell the Lord! Hojo Phantom Ann is asking to see you outside the castle again! At this time, Mori Keihiro (Hojo Keihiro) ran to the door of Ohiroma.

"Let him go to Ninomaru's Ashigaru Yashiki and wait for a while." Asada didn't want to see the old face of Hojo Phantom Temple, plus the Hojo Army sent troops to Musashi again and captured Togura Castle, which made Asadaku very angry. This is also the reason why Asadaki left the Hojo Phantom Temple to dry for a few days.

"Yes!" Although Maori Jingguang was close to Chaoding, Chaoding did not let him participate in the war, but only let him deal with some daily things. Chaoding is preparing to train him to be a retainer who is good at internal affairs, and there is no shortage of retainers who lead troops to fight.

Just after Maori Jingguang left, Chao Dingyou thought about it a little, after all, his influence in Ueno Country was still not big enough, and it was better to win over some local wealthy families to make his influence greater. Although he has some power in Ueno, he is not as powerful as Nagano Yoshimasa!

"In this way, then Ling Ai will stay with me first, and the future life of Lord Chiba will also be provided by the standard of 10,000 stone daimyo, and I will arrange for you to live in a mansion in Castle Town, Ueno National Stable Bridge Castle." Chao Ding is not a stingy person, since people buy a lot of food for their own use, then they must be worthy of him.

"Xie Chaoding's great grace!" Chiba Cainu has made a lot of money this time, how much did she have before? A thousand stone would be good! He didn't expect that he would be able to live according to the standard of 10,000 koku, and he felt that his decision was not wrong.

"Changyuki, you go and send one to Chiba-sama." Asadachi was going to see him off after he was going to meet the Hojo Phantom Temple, although he didn't want to see him a little.

"Yes." Sanada Masayuki then left Ohiroma with Chiba Cainu.

"You're Isehime? Come closer. Asada only began to look at Isehime carefully now, and she and Chiba Cainu gave Asada completely different feelings. Although Chiba Cainu is very poor, Isehime wears a relatively new shrine maiden costume.

"Yes." Isehime knew that she had been given by her father to the Uesugi repair doctor in front of her, and as the person who could directly govern her father, she had to be careful, if there was a place to displease the Asada, her father's comfortable life would be beaten back to the poor life he had before. This is also something that Isehime does not want to see.

"For the sake of Ling Zun's dedication to his family, I will reluctantly take you in, but how did you come to be in this witch costume? Could it be that she was a shrine maiden before? "Chaoding has wanted to ask this for a long time.

"The concubine originally wanted to be a witch, so that the family's expenses would be less, and she could earn some small money to send to the family, but I never thought that my father was going to give the concubine to you." Isehime didn't hide the reason.

"It's really a filial daughter, so you come with me first, and you guys will wait here for a while." After saying that, Asada walked quickly to Isehime's side, took her hand and left Ohiroma.

"Repair the Doctor's Palace, why are you acting so frivolously?" Isehime is a little conservative, but she can't accept it for a while.

"Nothing, I just like it." Chaoding smiled at her, and continued to take her outside her living room, "This will be your new home in the future, get used to it as much as possible, and your two sisters will come from Aizu after a while." ”

"The concubine knows." Isehime only knew that one of the two was the sister of the current Kanto governor, Ayahime, known as Ayahime. There is another butterfly, she really doesn't know.

After the asada's explanation, he first assigned two maids to her, and he walked quickly to Ohiroma, where he was about to face the retainer of the family's sworn enemy, Hojo Phantom An.

"Foreign Minister Hojo Phantom Temple, see Kanto Governor's Daiden!" Hojo Phantom Nunnery was very respectful and greeting, but what he received was naturally the cold eyes of the retainers of the Uesugi family on both sides.

"Isn't this a diplomatic monk of the Hojo family? This time I came to my family to declare war? "Asadachi can be said to be very patient now, and the Hojo family at this moment can only be described as embarrassed, but it can't be taken lightly.

"The foreign minister came this time to ask the court to return the heads or corpses of Hojo Tsunashi and other Hojo family retainers, and also hope that the court will show mercy and return the 2,600 Hojo soldiers." Hojo Phantom Nunnery is straight to the point, and he doesn't talk nonsense.

"Oh? How do you think I'm going to be merciful? Thinking about the defeat of Hojo Tsunari's father and uncle back then, how many samurai and retainers of the Ogiya Uesugi family died at his hands? And they were all built into a kyokan temple in the temple, so you don't have to bother, the corpses have already been buried with ashigaru and ordinary samurai, and the land under the castle will soon become very fertile, and that's all they can do. Asada could only sneer at Hojo Phantom, he didn't want to reconcile with the Hojo family, not to mention that Hojo Clan Yasu was not a person who was willing to live under others for a long time.

"And what about 2,600 ashigaru? Now the Hojo family is very short of labor. "Hojo Phantom Nunnery didn't dare to say that it was manpower or troops, because he knew that if he said this, he would never want the Uesugi family to release him for the rest of his life.

"My family is also short of labor! You see, Chichibu Castle Gold Mountain still needs a lot of mining, and there are still people in the territory who need to cultivate it, especially since the famine and drought have passed. Chao Ding also put on a helpless expression, "Isn't there still more than 21,000 in the Hojo Army?" How can this be said to be a lack of labor? I think one more battle of Kawagoe Isaguma would be enough, wouldn't it? ”

"Uh······" Hojo Phantom Nunnery is dumbfounded, and it is true that the Hojo Army has more than 21,000 existing troops, but this does not mean that there is no shortage of labor! In addition, the people arrested by the Asadaki were all Sagami soldiers, not Izu soldiers. The Izu soldiers were all stationed in Sagami, but the last time they followed Hojo Tsunari, Kasawara Yasukatsu and others into battle, it was a lot of Sagami soldiers. In addition, the Hojo family did not separate the soldiers and peasants, and the only standing army of Gosebei was repeatedly damaged in the battle with the Uesugi army, and it is now difficult to preserve more than 3,000.

"How many people did your Hojo family kill in the Honjialang Party back then? If you captives don't kill their own families, they will already give you face! "Ota Shimasa directly angrily reprimanded Hojo Phantom An, his brother died in that turmoil, although it was killed by Uesugi Kenkatsu's people. But it is inseparable from the Hojo family.

"Alright, Hojo Shin-an, you can go back. After you, the Hojo clan now only has the three cities of Sagami and Musashi, and Izu has been lost, what other record can you have? Asada could only smile and didn't want to say more, if it was according to the virtues of the Hojo clan, he would recover Izu at most, but whether he could fight the Uesugi family again was another matter.

"It seems that it is useless to talk too much, and the minister retires." Hojo Phantom also saw that the Uesugi family was not ready to release people, and it was useless to stay here, so it was better to go back to Hachioji City to prepare for war and development.