Is the Tsugawa family really that kind?

Is the Tsugawa family really going to send troops to help the Mogami family?

The answer is no, Soharu Tsugawa is not stupid! And the reason why Togo Yoshisuke was asked to go to Mogami was that Soji Tsugawa just wanted to reassure Mogami Gagami.

So why reassure Mogami Ie? It's very simple, Tsugawa Soji wants to let the Hazen region continue to maintain the previous chaotic situation, which is the so-called troubled water is easy to fish! Therefore, Togo Yoshiyuki said that the Tsugawa family would send troops to support the war between the Mogami family and the Tendo family in the second year, so that the Mogami family could relax and deal with the Tendo family.

And if the Tsugawa family does not express this position, it can be expected that the Mogami family will inevitably strike the war with the Tendo family because they are worried that the Tsugawa family will send troops to retaliate against the Mogami family. Even in order to resist the invasion of the Tsugawa family, the people of the Hazen region would unite under the command of the Mogami family to resist the Tsugawa family.

In this way, it also invisibly helped the Mogami family to integrate the Hazen area, so Tsugawa Soji didn't want to see a united Mogami family! On the contrary, the Mogami family should continue to suffer from internal friction like this, so that the Tsugawa family can take advantage of it.

And after Togo Yoshisuke came out of Yamagata Castle, he obviously returned to Ueno Castle, but in fact, on the way back, Togo Yoshisuke also went to Tendo Castle, the original base of Tento's house!

The life of the Tiantong family is actually not easy now, although there are many people around the Tiantong family to assist the Tiantong family and the Mogami family stalemate, but after all, the most emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is easy to achieve any results, which makes many people have a kind of war weariness. In the long run, the Tiantong family is also worried about what accidents will happen.

The original Tendo Castle is located in the north of Yamagata Castle, and the Nakano Castle is separated by the Nakano Family's original Nakano Pavilion, and the straight-line distance between the two castles is only fifty or sixty miles.

At this time, the heads of the Tendo family, Tendo Yoshinaga, the head of the Shiratori family, Shiratori Yoshihisa, the head of the Kazuoka family, Miyasu Aoka, and the head of the Enzawa family, Yanzawa Manshige, and other heads of the Mogami family, were discussing something in the castle tower of Tendo Castle.

The Tiantong family is the strongest one among the top families, and the family lineage is passed down from the Sibo family. The ancestor of the Tendo clan is the son of the Spo family and the brother of the most supreme and reri, Spo Yoshizong. Later, Spo Yoshizong was adopted as an adopted son by the lord of Seishengzhuang, Satomi Yoshijing, and inherited the famous Satomi clan.

The strength and character of Satomi (Spo) Yoshizong are not inferior to those of the Satomi (Osaki) clan and Mogami clan, and they belong to the same qualification. However, according to the blood relationship in the samurai system, Satomi Yoshimune still belonged to the Spoben family, and later Satomi Yoshimune had no heirs, so he was succeeded by Mogami Yori, the grandson of Mogami and Yori, and from then on, the Satomi (Spo) family really became a branch of the Mogami family.

Tiantong City was originally the residence of the general of the town guard in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, so it was called Tiantong City. After entering the seal of Tiantong, the most upright Lai Nao took the name of the place and changed his name to Tiantong.

In addition to the eldest son Tiantong Laisheng and the second son Tiantong Laitai, who obtained the right to inherit because of Tiantong Laisheng's early death, Tiantong Laizhi sealed the third son Tiantong Manchang in Shangshan (the ancestor of the Shangshan family of the people), and the fourth son Tiantong Lai Gao sealed in Donggen Township (the ancestor of the Donggen family).

After a long period of development, the Tiantong family has increasingly developed into a strong country no less than the top clan of the family, although nominally the Tiantong clan is still a branch of the top clan, but at the same time the Tiantong clan of many families is inextricably linked with the top clan of the family in the country, but it seems to be a semi-subordinate and semi-independent state, forming a special existence.

This is also the fundamental reason for the long period of chaos between the Mogami family and the various branches!

In the seventeenth year of Eisho (1520 AD), Date Uemune invaded Mogami House, and Tendo Yoricho took refuge in Date Minoru. The following year, Mogami Yoshita, the head of the Mogami clan of the main clan, was defeated by Date Minoru in the Battle of Hasedo Castle, and was forced to marry the princess of the Date family, and was subordinate to the Date family in disguise.

At the same time, the Tiantong clan, which already had a lot of strength, took advantage of the weakening of the sect family to rise up with the intention of becoming independent. The eighth generation of the Tiantong family also inherited the heirless Donggen clan with his second son, Tiantong Lai Jing, and re-strengthened the relationship with the Donggen clan and strengthened the power of the family.

And after Tiantong Lai Chang succeeded to the throne, the confrontation between the Tiantong family and the Mogami family intensified, until the swords and soldiers faced each other! And because the current head of the Mogami family is the second son of the Nakano family, and Tiantong Yoshicho is the third man of the previous head of the Kagami family, in terms of blood relationship, Tiantong Yoshicho is more "orthodox" than Mogami Yoshimori!

This also opened the separation of the Mogami family and the Tiantong family! And the prestige of the Tiantong family in the rest of the branches is not low, and even some of the branches are from the Tiantong family, so most of the branches in the top eight branches have joined the side of the Tiantong family, which has brought a lot of trouble to the top family!

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"Lai Changdian, in recent years, the battle between us and the Righteous Guardian Hall has intensified, and the scale of the war has been expanding, and in the long run, it will have a great impact on our family! The most important thing is that although we are often in an advantageous position in the battle with the Righteous Guardian Temple, we have never been able to really bring the Righteous Guardian Temple to its knees, and if we continue like this, won't we waste our own strength in vain? "Inside the Tiantong City Castle Guard, the head of the Takao Gang family, Takao Mankang, whispered to the Tendo Lai Chang on the main seat.

Tiantong Lai Chang shook his head, and said helplessly, "The family doesn't want to be like this, but the Mogami clan is the family after all, and although the strength has long been not as good as before, it should not be underestimated." If you want to break away from the rule of the Mogami family, there is no other way than to fight and win the Mogami family! ”

To put it mildly, what Tiantong Lai Chang and others did was actually to go down! It's just that Tiantong Lai Chang and others did not openly act under the banner of letting Mogami Yoshishou step down, at most they just wanted to break away from the Mogami family and become independent. And Mogami Yoshimori is not a fool, of course he will not watch the Tiantong family and others become independent, otherwise the strength of the Mogami family will be reduced by half out of thin air.

Since it doesn't make sense, you can only fight!

But after fighting for several years in a row, although a small advantage was taken up a lot, the more Tiantong Lai Chang and others fought, the more they found that the strength of Tiantong Lai Chang and others not only did not rise in the slightest, but was still gradually weakening. Therefore, many families don't want to go down now.

However, how could the successive heads of the Tiantong family plan things for so many years and give up if they gave up, plus Tiantong Lai Chang thought that Mogami Yoshimori was not qualified to inherit the family name of the Mogami family at all, so he did not agree with the rule of the Mogami family from the bottom of his heart. In this way, half of the families don't want to fight, but Tiantong Lai Chang is unwilling to give up, so the Tiantong family is now in a dilemma.

While the discussion was in full swing in the tenmori, a young samurai of the Tendo family suddenly walked in from outside and whispered, "Father-sama, a person claiming to be an envoy of the Tsugawa family asks to see you!" ”

"What?"

"An envoy of the Tsugawa family?"

After hearing the young samurai's words, everyone in the castle tower stood up in unison.