Nagao Keitora was later Kenshin Uesugi.

Nagao Keiho was born in the third year of Xiangroku (1530 AD), and was the youngest son of Nagao Keijing, the guardian of Echigo. Because it was the Year of the Tiger, it was named Tiger Chiyo. When he was four years old, Nagao's mother died, and two years later he changed his name to Nagao Kiheiji.

Compared with the world-famous military god Uesugi Kenshin many years later (Nagao Jinghu and Uesugi Masahu are both one person, this is the different names of Nagao Jinghu in different periods. The current long-tailed Jinghu is just a half-grown child who has just turned fourteen years old and has just entered the Yuan suit.

According to the general practice of the Muromachi shogunate samurai, when the lord died, the sons of the family would usually become monks, except for the heirs. When Nagao Weijing died in battle, Nagao Jinghu was only seven years old, and he became a monk at Nagao's Bodhi Temple, located in Kasugayama Mountain.

If nothing else, the life of the long-tailed Jinghu should be spent so plainly. However, due to Nagao Harukei's frail and sickly body, not to mention leading troops to fight, he is not even very effective in handling daily government affairs. In addition, after Nagao died in battle, many of Echigo's countrymen took the opportunity to make trouble, and Uesugi was unwilling to become a puppet, and secretly contacted Echigo's countrymen to prepare to regain power, so the current situation of the Nagao family is not optimistic.

Nagao Harukei had no choice but to take Nagao Keitora out of the temple, and then appoint Nagao Keitora as the lord of Tochio Castle to consolidate the rule of the Nagao family over Echigo, and contain the Echigo guardian Uesugi Dingshi, who was at odds with the Nagao family, and the people of the country who were in rebellion, the Yohoku.

And because of the sudden arrival of the envoy of the Tsugawa family at this time, Nagao Harukei saw a new dawn. As a result, Nagao Harukei immediately sent his retainers to the Tsugawa family to carry out diplomatic goodwill. And in order to express the importance that the Nagao family attaches to the Tsugawa family, Nagao Harujing even asked his younger brother Nagao Jinghu to accompany him.

Nagao Keihu is not the future Uesugi Kenshin now, he has just served for a short time, and he has been spending time in the temple since he was a child, so he is very curious about everything in the outside world. In addition, all kinds of things in the Tsukawa family are different from Echigo, so Nagao Jinghu often runs out secretly.

In this regard, Minoru Naoe is also very troubled. Finally, the long-tailed Jinghu ran out last night and never came back.........

After listening to Naoe Minoru's introduction to Nagao Jinghu, Tsugawa Soji was speechless for a while. Who would have imagined that the famous military god Uesugi Kenshin would be a troubled teenager when he was young????

"Lord Naoe doesn't have to worry, the family is very stable, maybe Lord Nagao was greedy for fun for a while and forgot to come back. The family immediately ordered people to look around, and they must find Lord Nagao. Although Soji Tsugawa secretly laughed in his heart, he still said comfortingly to Minoru Naoe.

"In this way, there will be Hasuke-sama Raude." Minoru Naoe hurriedly said gratefully.

"Yilong, did the family send someone to find the long-tailed Jinghu?" After walking out of the small courtyard where Minoru Naoe lived, Soji Tsugawa asked Yoshitaka Asama beside him.

Asama Yoshitaka hurriedly nodded and said, "My lord, I have already sent a squadron of Ashigaru to look around early this morning, but I found nothing. ”

"Loyal soldiers, take the banner and go to look for it again. In addition, send people to post notices in villages, outposts, exchanges, and other places near Ueno Castle, but anyone who finds a long-tailed Jinghu will be rewarded by his family! Soji Tsugawa then said to Yajima Tadabei beside him.

"Haha!" Yajima Tadabei replied quickly.

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Ueno Castle was vigorously developed by the Tsugawa family since its construction. Today, the castle is second only to Minato Castle in size, and the castle town has been expanded twice. There are seven or eight exchanges near the castle, and the river transportation of the Omonogawa River also transits here, so there are many people coming and going here.

It's not an easy task to find the long-tailed Jinghu.

Komaki Village, Xiongwa Township, outside Ueno Castle, is a small village with only 54 households, and most of the young and strong men in the village have gone to Ueno Castle to serve as garrisons, and most of the people who remain are old people and young children.

The village is backed by Mt. Ueno, and a small stream runs through the middle of the village, giving it the feeling of a small bridge and flowing water.

At the foot of Mt. Ueno behind the village, in a dilapidated farmer's household, a pair of old men with gray temples were worried about the unconscious teenager on the bed.

"Kitaro, this man has been asleep for a day and a night, and he still hasn't woken up, what can I do!" It was an old woman who spoke, with a worried look on her face, "This person is richly dressed, and at first glance he is a noble-born samurai master. If we die in our home, we'll be in big trouble. ”

The old man who was called Kitaro raised his cloudy eyes, looked at the old woman and said, "Tsubaki, this person fainted at the door of our house, how can we see death and not save us?" ”

"I heard from the head of the village that Kijiro was about to return after following the samurai masters out to fight. When Kijiro returns, let Kijiro take this man to Ueno Castle, and the samurai master there will definitely save him. Ahem! Kitaro coughed and said slowly.

While talking, Ah Chun felt something moving outside the house, and hurriedly said, "Is there someone outside?" Could it be that Kijiro is back? After saying that, Ah Chun staggered towards the door.

However, after pushing open the door, Tsubaki did not fail to see the figure of his son Kijiro, only a man dressed as a samurai and a person wrapped in blood cloth, Tsubaki recognized this ashigaru, it was Izumi Saburo of the village head.

Looking at such a scene, Ah Chun's heart jumped suddenly, and an uneasy emotion suddenly filled Ah Chun's heart.

"Tsubaki, is Kijiro back?" At this time, Kitaro also walked to Tsubaki's side with his elderly body. Compared to Tsubaki, Kitaro's eyes couldn't see much anymore, and he could only see two vague figures standing at the door, but he couldn't see who it was.

At this time, the samurai standing at the door finally spoke.

"Is Kijiro's house here?" The samurai looked at the two old men in front of him, and felt very uncomfortable, because he came here today to deliver bad news.

"The villain is Kijiro's father, Kitaro, don't you know what happened when the adults came?" When Kitaro approached, he realized that the person who came was a samurai, and quickly said respectfully.

"Is something wrong with Kijiro?" Ah Chun on the side finally couldn't help but ask.

The samurai hesitated for a moment, with a slight struggle in his eyes, "Samurai Sojiro Matsumoto, the leader of the third squad of the second squadron of the second squadron of the ashikau garrison in Shimoueno Castle. The two of them also asked for condolences, Kijiro had died in battle. ”

"Izumi Saburo, take out Kijiro's relics." As he spoke, Sojiro Matsumoto turned his head and said to Izumi Saburo behind him.

Hearing this, Izumi Saburo hurriedly handed over a pile of clothes and a few copper coins in the book.

Looking at the clothes that Izumi Saburo had sewn with his own hands, and listening to the bad news that was still echoing in his ears, Kitaro and Tsubaki finally couldn't support it anymore and both fell to the ground. There is a great sorrow in the world, where the white-haired man sends the black-haired man. [.]