Chapter 163: The Controversy of National Policies (I)

As the months passed, Nobuyi and all the elders, middle-elders, and commissioners all moved to Kanto, temporarily residing in Odawara Castle, and chose a place to build a new castle as the center of the shogunate's rule. Come from. The location of the castle was built with reference to the suggestions of local daimyo and wealthy families, and after the exploration and weighing of the elders and middle-aged elders, it is not surprising that the old site of Edo Castle built by Ota Michikan, a famous minister of the Uesugi clan in Ogiya. Located at the eastern end of the Kojimachi Plateau in Toyoyu-gun, Musashi, this place controls the main road of Tokaido, guards the confluence of the two rivers of Japan, the Tone River and the Arakawa River, and can easily enter and exit the Tokaido countries, or along the Tone River and its tributaries deep into most of the inland areas of the Kanto region, it can be said that it is the water and land hub of the entire Kanto, and at the same time, this castle is also close to the open sea Sagami Bay, and the geography is very similar to Mie Castle, Imabari Castle, and Tenjin Mountain Castle, which can be regarded as a continuation of the tradition of Kira Mune's home castle built by the sea.

In view of the fact that this matter is related to the foundation of the shogunate, it is self-evident that the important thing is self-evident, and Xiujing personally stepped forward to take charge of the general affairs, entrusting Fujido Takatora, a famous person who built the castle and one of the seven families, to be in charge of the specific matters. And the hand of Fujido Takatora is also very large, the entire castle outside the wall is as long as 16 kilometers, including 25 outer buildings, by the daimyo to build the castle wall and the castle hori, the city is planned to include Honmaru, Nishimaru, Kitamaru, Ninomaru, Sannomaru including five huge building complexes, only Honmaru has the Great Palace, Honmaru Palace, Oku, Okubetan, between the table, Ōhiroma, between the throne, Hakushoin, Black Shoin and many other buildings, and the whole Momiji Mountain where Honmaru and Nishimaru are located, has become the imperial court in the city, in addition to local conditions, There are 6 triple turrets, 10 double turrets, 4 flat turrets, and 26 multi-mén turrets, forming a complete defense system with Uchihori, Nino Marubori, Sannomarukori, and Uchihori, and defending the castle Honmaru.

As you can imagine, this castle is larger than the castle of Quanzhou, Tenjinyama Castle, and Odawara Castle of the Hojo family, and when completed, it will undoubtedly be the largest castle in Japan.

In addition to the establishment of the castle, another major task of the shogunate at present is to divide the Kanto Daimyo and the Tohoku Daimyo into feudal feudal areas. On the Kanto side, according to my instructions, except for a few daimyo of the pre-arranged commissioners and the daimyo of the ruling family, the fiefs of the rest of the daimyo will not exceed 100,000 koku, and the largest is the Yuki family succeeded by the second son of Takigawa Kazuyi, which just reaches the quasi-koku holding scale of 100,000 koku. In the northeast, the former elder Shigeharu Takenaka, who was actually in charge of planning, divided the country of Mutsu into five kingdoms: Mutsu, Rikunaka, Rikuzen, Iwaki, and Iwashiro, according to the territory of the daimyo that had surrendered to the daimyo, of which Mutsu was owned by the Anto family, and the stone height was close to 100,000 koku; Luzhong is owned by the southern family, and the stone height is more than 200,000 stones; The vast area south of Rikuchu, west of Dewa, and north of Iwaki, including the originally disputed area, was given to the Date family, and the territory of Yonezawa Province, which had been developed during the Harumune period, was confiscated, and the final stone height was determined to be 620,000 koku. In principle, the scope of each family's territory and stone height were determined by their own families and reported to the shogunate, but the entire survey process had to involve representatives of the shogunate and the remaining daimyos, and the data had to be jointly confirmed by them.

Iwaki Province is more complicated, and it is the domain of small daimyo such as Soma, Tamura, Nikaido, Iwaki, and Ishikawa, and several small daimyo are sometimes united, sometimes hostile, and each of them uses the peripheral Date, Ashina, and Satake as backups. For example, the Soma family used to use the Date family as a backup, the former head of the family, Soma Kenyin, married Date Uemune's long NV house-shaped Gozen as the main room, and was the first active figure of Uemune in the Astronomical Luàn (one meter eight tall, making the big iron army fan eight times heavier to command the army), but after Uemune lived in seclusion, the contradictions between the two families gradually became jī, and although the current head of the family, Soma Shengyin, and Date Terumune are cousins, but because of the surrounding territories of Igo County, he has repeatedly challenged the Date family; In order to win over the Tamura family, who also had a territorial dispute with the Soma family, the Date family specially married Tamura Kiyoken (whose mother is also Date Uemune's NV son) as the main room, intending to use the Tamura family to subdue Soma Moriyin, but Tamura Kiyoaki's main room is Soma Moriyin's sister.

The other Nikaido family is backed by the Ashina family, and the current head of the family, Nikaido Shengyi, although he married Date Harumune's NV son Ananhime as the main room, but he has been losing sincerity to the Ashina family, using their power to fight against Date and Tamura Alliance, and his eldest son, Nikaido Heishiro, originally served as a hostage in the Ashina family, but because of the accidental death of the Ashina family's sister-in-law Shengxing, he was adopted as an adopted son by the Ashina Mori clan, which is now the head of the Ashina family.

The southernmost Iwaki family,Previously oppressed by the Date family in the Shigetaka era,Forced to marry the NV son Kubohime to Date Harumune,And the eldest son of the Haruzong family inherited the family business.,It's for the previous generation of the head of the family Iwaki Kintaka (Date Hui Zong's brother),At the same time, the kintaka also married Satake Yoshishige's sister.,Married the Satake family invaded Tamura、Ishikawa two families,After his death,The family was even the same as the Shimono guardian Utsunomiya family.,Lady Midai from the Satake family took over the affairs of the family.,However, his sister-in-law Tsunitaka is older than Utsunomiya Kunitsuna., Therefore, a few years ago, he took back his family business, and at the same time married the NV of Nikaido Shengyi as the main room, and no longer supported the Satake family one-sidedly, so he did not participate in the previous Satake, Utsunomiya and Yuki alliances, and this time he did not follow the Satake family against the shogunate. Come from.

In short, if the forces of Mutsu, Rikuchu, Rikuzen, and Dewa are the minor warring states of the Warring States, and the Iwaki Province is the small Mutsu of the Mutsu, there are some territorial disputes between the small daimyo of the country, so it is necessary to be extremely cautious in seizing land and blocking it. Fortunately, there are not many of these small daimyo territories, and the largest is less than 100,000 koku, and the shogunate can completely force arbitration.

In the Iwashiro Province to the east of Iwaki Province, which is commonly known as the Aizu area, the territory of the Gamo clan was 420,000 koku when the Kamo clan was enclosed, and later it was expanded to 920,000 koku after land inspection and expansion to the surrounding areas. At present, the most powerful forces in this territory are the Ashina family of Wakamatsu, and the Nihonmatsu family of Anda-gun, which is the descendant of the Hatakeyama family. A few years ago, when the Ashina Mori clan was alive, he controlled almost the entire Aizu, to the extent that he was divided with the Date family, and once took advantage of the Luàn of the Uesugi family to invade Echigo Province, but unfortunately the family's sister-in-law Ashina Moriko (who had succeeded the family governor at that time) died early, and there was no heir in addition, and the Ashina Mori clan adopted the beloved Nikaido Heishiro Moritaka to inherit the family business. However, Ashina Moritaka was originally the identity of the proton of the Nikaido family, and the kinship with the Ashina Mori clan and Mori Xing came from the old enemy Date family, and Ashina Mori's mother and Shengxing's main room were both the NV children of Date Harumune, such a kinship naturally could not be recognized by all the retainers, and it was also vigorously resisted by relatives such as the Inawashiro family, who had always been at odds with the Ashina clan, so after the death of the Sheng family, Ashina Moritaka could not rule the whole territory at all, and his power soon declined. What's more serious is that in order to reconcile with the Date family, Ashina Moritaka did not marry Ashina Morixing's NV according to Ashina Mori's will (another reason is that she is too young, and she is only more than ten years old so far, and Moritaka can't afford to wait for her to grow up), but married Date Harumune's little NV son, Huizong's adopted NV Hikohime as the main room (bloodly is his **Ananhime's sister, that is, his own aunt), which was unanimously criticized by the retainers. Now that he himself is seriously ill and has not yet given birth to an orthodox heir, he has to imitate the precedent of his adoptive father Ashina Mori and prepare to adopt Satake Yoshishige's second son Tokushoumaru (the historical Ashina Hiroshi), and although Tokushoumaru passed to the Mori family's NV son (married to the wealthy Yuki Yoshikin), their main relatives are still from the Date family, Sheng Long's mother and Tokushoumaru's mother are both Date Harumun's NV children.

It is conceivable that if it weren't for the Shogunate's Eastern Crusade, with the pitiful prestige of Ashina Moritaka, once Tokushoumaru inherited the family business, even if the Satake family supported it hard, the entire Ashina family would fall apart due to the lack of family governor and inability to convince the public, and eventually be destroyed by Date Masamune, who was beaten with jī blood, as in history, or become a vassal of the Hitachi Satake family.

Of course, now that the Satake family has lost power, Tokujumaru from the Satake family will definitely not be able to inherit the Ashina family. Relying on this, Takenaka Shigeharu ordered Ashina Moritaka to live in seclusion on the grounds that Shenglong's bloodline was not correct and he was seriously ill, and then Akina Shengqiu married Ashina Shengxing's NV son, inheriting the family business of the Ashina family. Needle Sheng Shengqiu's father, Needle Sheng Shengxing, is the only son of the fourteenth generation head of the Ashina family, Sheng Zi, just because he was not born in the main room, and when he was born, Sheng Zi had already given up the position of family governor to his younger brother Sheng Shun (the father of the Ashina Sheng family), it was a retired identity, so he could not inherit the family business, and was sealed by Sheng Shun to the place of Needle in Yema County, and when he grew up, he used "Needle Sheng" as the Miao character. Now that Sheng Shun is cut off, according to the principle of kinship, it should be inherited by Sheng Qiu, and in history, 3 years after the extinction of the Ashina clan, the grandson of Ashina Hiroshi, Chizurumu, died), and it is also his branch that revived the name of the "Ashina" family.

The territory of Ashina Moriaki Andu, naturally it will not be all the places in Aizu, and the Nihonmatsu and other families who are semi-subordinate to the Ashina family, the Inawashiro family who have been trying to ** for a long time, the Shinmiya family that was destroyed and inherited by the Ashina family, and even the Kinaka family, a branch who supports Ashina Moritaka (the head of the family, Kanagami Moribei, is called "Ashina Ruling Power"), are all ruled by Takenaka Shigeji, who came out of the Ashina family ** and became a small daimyo one by one, leaving only about 100,000 stone territory for the Ashina family. In addition, Shigeharu Takenaka also transferred the Satake family to 200,000 koku (equivalent to half of the current territory under the name of the Satake family), and served as the daimyo of the foreign sample country of Iwashiro Province.

In the area of Dewa Province, the surface height was more than 300,000 koku, and after careful investigation by Shigeharu Takenaka, 570,000 koku territory was finally detected (the Ishitaka that was sealed by the Mogami family after the Battle of Sekigahara), and the largest force was naturally the Mogami family of Minamiidewa, and after obtaining the Yonezawa area of the Banshi-gun of the Date family, the territory reached 240,000 koku (the domain of Hideyoshi Andu during the Odawara expedition). As a result, Shigeharu Takenaka divided the kingdom from it, and the southern Mogami clan domain was the Hazen Province (corresponding to the Date family Rikuzen Province), and the northern part of the country, including the former domain of the Anto family, was consolidated into the Hago Province and transferred to the Uesugi family of Echigo. For this decision, the Mogami family is naturally happy, and Uesugi Keikatsu also chose to obey, anyway, what he can control now, that is, most of the Echigo country, Shi Gao is about the same as the Yugo country, and he has an extreme headache for the powerful families in the jurisdiction. At the beginning, in the era of Uesugi Kenshin, he still encountered many rebellions, not to mention that he had just inherited the family governor after the Luàn of the Imperial Palace? Last year, the wealthy families such as Honjo Fanchang had just rebelled once.

In this way, the entire Northeast became orderly, and the endless disputes finally ended. Those careerists may have regrets, such as Date Masamune, who has not yet succeeded to the throne, and may secretly sigh about how many years he was born later, but for most of the small daimyo and small and medium-sized nobles, it is undoubtedly a blessing to be able to avoid war. You must know that throughout the Muromachi period, the Northeast was constantly fighting, especially in the past hundred years, due to the decline of the shogunate, this place has reached the extreme, and many of the previous generations of family heads died in the war, and even the festival days are about the same, all during the agricultural slack in May and June or ** month. Even the small daimyo such as Soma and Nikaido in Iwaki Province were forcibly set by the shogunate, and they always felt a little worse than their demands, but deep down they felt faintly happy

From the perspective of the end war, Shigeharu Takenaka, who actually presided over this matter, can be said to have great merit, and Shinkei's prestige has also increased greatly because of this matter. Unfortunately, my ominous premonition came true, and Shigeharu Takenaka fell ill early the following year due to cold and fatigue, and died soon after in Odawara Castle Ninomaru.

After reading the bamboo fold transferred by the letter at the Higashiyama Imperial Palace, I couldn't help but burst into tears. Although he said in his testament that if he can finish this thing, he will be willing to pay for his life, please don't mind me; He even said in a joking tone that now the cherry blossoms in Kyoto must have bloomed, and it is a pity that he can't accompany Taizheng Gong to watch, but fortunately, he has never been able to stand huā powder close, and it may be a little less torment for himself.

After calming down, I summoned the messenger of Xinjing and asked him, "How did Nayan Takenaka fall ill?" ”

"At the Great Imperial Palace, Lord Takenaka suffered a cold when he personally went to Hago Province to investigate, and then took the Hago Country Territory Limit Account, the list of samurai in the country, and the blood oath given to the shogunate by the wealthy clan Jiāo, and forcibly climbed over the snow-capped mountains of Ueno Province, and personally went to Chūn Hiyama Castle, which had not yet melted the snow, to persuade Uesugi Echigomori, and it was already difficult to support it on the way back...... Uesugi Echigo Mamoru was also very impressed, and personally attended the funeral of Takenaka-sama, and thanked the heroic spirit of Takenaka-sama for the results of the Hago National Inspection. ”

"Re-governance...... What a pity," I sighed, "why didn't you tell me sooner?" Otherwise, I will at least be able to see him one last time and attend his funeral. ”

"Go back to the Great Imperial Palace, this is also the Jiāo generation of Takenaka-sama," the messenger bowed his head deeply, "Takenaka-sama said, with the kindness of the Great Imperial Palace, knowing that he was ill, he was likely to rush to Kanto to visit. However, there is still a lingering cold in Kanto, and I really don't dare to work the Great Imperial Palace to travel thousands of miles to ...... Because of this Jiāo generation, the Gongfang Palace, the elders, the middle elders, and the eyes of the people temporarily suppressed the news, and asked the Great Imperial Office to forgive me."