The Ashina family, like the Date family, is also a powerful daimyo in the Mutsu region.

The Ashina family's sphere of influence includes the Mutsu Koimazu area, and it also has some control over some of the surrounding wealthy families, but in general, the influence of the Ashina family in the Mutsu area is still not as good as that of the Date family. The reason may be that the rise of the Ashina family is shorter than that of the Date family, and the background is not as deep as the Date family.

The Ashina family was previously a subordinate force of the Shirakawa family (Shirakawa clan), but only later became independent and gradually rose to prominence.

The Minami-Mutsu region (Iwashiro, Iwaki area) was first nominally controlled by the Shogunate Kamakura Principality. At that time, there were dozens of large and small local forces in the South Michinoku area, and although the Kamakura Princesses nominally controlled the South Michinoku area, in fact, these people did not buy it.

In order to strengthen the management and rule of the South Michinoku region, the third Kamakura Duke, Ashikaga Mitsukane, sent his younger brothers Ashikaga Mitsunao and Ashikaga Mitsusada to the Sasakawa and Inamura regions of the Mutsu Province, respectively, and established the Sasakawa and Inamura Dukes from this base, in an attempt to strengthen the rule of the people of the Mutsu Kingdom.

However, after Ashikaga Mitsukane's son, Ashikaga Mochiji, succeeded to the Kamakura Prince's throne, and gradually began to oppose the shogunate. The shogunate then wanted to establish Ashikaga Mitsunao as the Kamakura Duke, so as to maintain stability in the Kanto region.

In the 10th year of Eternal Enjoyment, the Eternal Enjoyment Rebellion broke out, and the confrontation between the shogunate and the Kamakura public became increasingly serious, and in the end, it was a direct fight. Ashikaga Mitsunao joined the shogunate to attack the Ashikaga clan, and eventually the Ashikaga clan committed suicide.

However, the shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori finally wanted to send his son to Kanto to take up the post of Kamakura, but the father and son of the Yuki clan strongly opposed this, and intended to support the son of the Ashikaga clan to succeed the Kamakura principality, which eventually led to the resumption of war.

Yuki raised his arms and shouted, and a group of melon-eating people in Nanturi immediately responded and sent troops to attack Ashikaga Manao. In the end, Ashikaga Mitsunao was outnumbered, and the shogunate was indeed beyond the reach of the Kanto region, and was finally defeated by a group of countrymen and committed suicide in the Shinogawa Imperial Palace.

The fall of the Shinagawa Imperial Palace and the suicide of Ashikaga Mitsunao directly frustrated the previous attempt of the Kamakura Princes to strengthen their control over the South Michiku region, and the South Mitsu area instantly became chaotic. And as the leader of this confrontation against the Shinokawa Principality (Shogunate), the Yuki family (Shirakawa Yuuki family) rose instantly, integrating the previous territory of the Shinagawa Principality, and the strength is not far behind the Date family!

After the rise of the Shirakawa family, the shogunate could only hurriedly pacify, and successively recognized the command of the Shirakawa family over the people of the Nanjiku Kingdom, and the Shirakawa family also fought snakes and sticks, and reached the peak of power with the shogunate as the backing.

However, as time passed, the shogunate's domination over the Mutsu Kingdom gradually collapsed, and the Shirakawa clan slowly lost their territory in Utaso, and their influence on the surrounding clans gradually decreased, and the Ashina clan and Iwaki clan, the two former loyal younger brothers of the Shirakawa clan, were the first to become independent.

In the seventh year of Eisho (1510 AD), civil strife finally broke out in the Shirakawa family, and Shirakawa Kenyori exiled his father with the help of the Komine clan, and the Komine clan took the opportunity to become independent, after which the Shirakawa family completely declined.

After that, the Ashina family began to rise without the constraints of the Shirakawa family, gradually controlling the Aizu region and becoming a powerful daimyo of the Mutsu Kingdom.

The former head of the Ashina family was Ashina Shengshun, although he was not an enterprising leader, but he was not a person who did nothing. After Ashina Morishun succeeded to the throne of the family, he first quelled the rebellion of the Inawashiro clan of the tribe, and then actively deepened the alliance with the Date family, and successively assisted Date Minoru to attack the Kasai family and other forces, so that the Ashina family followed the Date family's ass and brushed a big wave of prestige.

In the 10th year of Astronomy (1541 AD), Ashina Morishun gave up the position of governor to his son Ashina Mori (the previous text Yoshira misremembered the time, and at this time the governor of the Ashina family was already Ashina Mori). At the beginning of the succession, the Ashina Mori clan changed the previous policy of following the Date family to brush up on the prestige of the Date family during the reign of Ashina Mori Shun, and gradually began to work alone!

In the 11th year of Astronomy, the year after the Ashina Mori clan succeeded to the throne, the Ashina Mori clan set out to defeat the Aizu Yamauchi clan and subjugate it in one fell swoop, completely controlling the Aizu region. In the same year, civil strife broke out in the Date family, and the Ashina Mori clan immediately took action. The main room of the Ashina Mori clan is the daughter of Date Minoru, and with this relationship, the relationship between the Ashina Mori clan and Date Minoru is naturally quite stable, so at the time of the astronomical rebellion, the Ashina family stood firmly behind Date Minoru.

However, the covenant is the covenant, and the wife is your daughter, yes, but in front of interests, how can a daughter who does not even have a B diamond shackle the restless heart of the Ashina Mori clan?

On the basis of the civil strife in the Date family, while the Ashina Mori clan openly supports Date Minoru, they are secretly planning how to take advantage of the opportunity. As a result, Tamura and Nikaido, two weaker people who were adjacent to the Ashina family, became targets.

It's just that the two forces, Tamura and Nikaido, like the Ashina family, were on the side of the Date Minoru sect in this civil strife in the Date family, so on the surface, the Ashina family and them are allies. In order to achieve his goal, the Ashina Mori clan began to turn to a unique PY deal with Date Harune......

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According to the Ashina family, in Aizu Kurokawa Castle, the Ashina Mori clan, the most outstanding leader of the Ashina family in the past dynasties, sat in the castle tower with a heroic face. Ashina Mori was born in the same year as Soharu Tsugawa, and he is only twenty-five years old this year.

Sitting on the main seat of the castle tower, the Ashina Mori clan slowly glanced at it, and hurriedly said to the retainers, "The family has decided not to intervene in the civil strife of the Date family from today onwards!" As soon as the Ashina Mori clan opened his mouth, he threw a bomb at the retainers of the Ashina family, knowing that the Ashina family had always been a staunch supporter of Date Minoru's side.

Of course, the retainers didn't know the fact that the Ashina Mori clan had secretly reached a PY deal with Date Harune, otherwise there would be an exclamation from the castle tower.

But even so, there are many retainers who are very puzzled by this.

"My lord. The family had always supported Dr. Sakyo (here referred to as Date Minoru ) before, so why did they suddenly make such a decision? "It was the Ashina clan of the Ashina family who spoke.

The Ashina clan is the Ida's family, and his father is the former head of the Ashina Mori Shun, and he is the elder brother of the Ashina Mori clan. But because his mother was just a "white beater", he had no inheritance rights, and he was not treated well by his retainers when he was young, and was raised by Tomita Yoshimi, a retainer of the Ashina family.

Seeing that it was the Ashina clan who was talking, the Ashina Mori clan undisguised a disgust in his eyes, but because Ashina Mori Shun was still sitting below, the Ashina Mori clan did not show it obviously.

"My brother doesn't seem to have a clear grasp of the situation." Ashina Mori suddenly smiled, and then said slowly, "If Date Harumun is defeated by his father-in-law, then the Date family is bound to reunify, with his father-in-law's influence in Mutsu Kingdom, I believe it won't be long before the Date family will regain its strength?" So, where will the family be? ”