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Chapter 161: Dongshan Imperial Palace (Middle)

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Commanding an army of 250,000 and more than 10,000 sailors, and carrying the prestige of conquering the whole country of Ueno and the northern part of Musashi Province last year, Shinkei set off a great storm in the Kanto region. 5???? Reading the latest chapter of this book, before the army arrived, Takigawa Kazuki and Shimazu Iehisa, who were in the vanguard, had already invaded the center of Musashi Province, recruited several small and medium-sized wealthy clans, and continued to march towards the southern part of Musashi Province and Shimono Province; As a partial division, Ii Nobunao led the five ** forces of Ise, Owari, Mikawa, Enoe, and Suruga on the Tokaido side, and attacked Sagami Province along the route of the march at the end of last year, and uprooted the branch cities around Odawara Castle one by one; In addition, four families, Oda Keishanobu of Mino Province, Kawajiri Hidetaka of Kai Province, Ritsunachi of Minami Shinano Tsubouchi, and Mori Nagake of Kita Shinano, also participated in the raid, and they went out from the southern part of Kai Province and invaded the northern part of Sagami Province, making the situation of the Hojo family even more critical; As for Sagami Bay in the southern sea, there is no doubt that it is completely under the control of the family's navy.

Just the strength of Oda Keishin, Kawajiri Hidetaka, Tsubouchi Toshitashi and Mori Nagako has surpassed the Takeda family in its heyday, and the strength of the Tokaido army is incomparable to the Imagawa family at any time, not to mention the blockade of a powerful naval army, as well as the more than 100,000 troops of the Western Kingdom and Kinai led by the shogun himself. In the face of such strong pressure, even after annexing the old enemy Satomi family and initially controlling the Fangwei area, the Hojo family was still at a disadvantage over Xìng. They tried to surrender to the shogunate, hoping to keep their own Sagami, Izu, and Minami Musashi at the expense of Jiāo's Izuya area, but the goal of my strategy for Shinkei was to destroy all the daimyo in Kanto over 100,000 koku, so Shinkei naturally rejected this request.

The Hojo family, who failed to sue for peace, inquired about our strategy in many ways, and actually got the key news that "all the daimyo above 100,000 koku in the Kanto region are removed", and the Hojo clan was forced by the situation to immediately contact the Satomi family in the Fangsu area, and contact the three alliances of Satake, Yuki, and Utsunomiya in the Kanto region, trying to persuade them to fight against the shogunate army together.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for this step of the Hojo family's strategy to be effective. You know, the Satomi family and the Hojo family are old enemies, although Satomi Yoshiyori married the NH son of the Hojo clan, Tsuruhime, but last year Tsuruhime died, and the two families also rekindled; As for the alliance of Satake, Yuki, and Utsunomiya, it is mainly aimed at the Hojo family, and there have been many serious conflicts between the two parties, and now it is not so easy for them to unite with the Hojo family.

However, the current alliance of the three families is almost completely dominated by Satake Yoshishige, who not only consolidates his own territory, but also according to the current momentum, is expected to subdue the rest of the nearby wealthy clans, and bring all the 540,000 stone territories of the entire Hitachi Province under control (in history, Hideyoshi was able to pacify Hojo when Anshu Ishitaka was in peace), so it is naturally impossible to be willing to accept the harsh conditions of the shogunate; In addition, the Utsunomiya family also has a territory of 180,000 stones, and the head of the family, Utsunomiya Kunitsuna, is currently only fifteen years old, and the family business is controlled by his mother, that is, Satake Yoshishige's sister Nanlu Yuan, whether it is out of kinship or out of the interests of his own family, he will also choose to support Satake Yoshishige.?? 5???? Reading the latest chapter of the book, and for these two reasons, the two sides finally put aside their old feuds and reached an alliance against the shogunate.

Satomi Yoshiyori is also an ambitious man, and he currently rules the Anbo and Kamiki regions, and his territory even exceeds that of the Satake family. In the face of the great threat of the shogunate, in order to keep the current family business, he turned around again and married Kikuhime, the younger sister of the Hojo clan, as his stepfamily, and reached a peace with the Hojo family.

When he received this news, Nobuyai had just arrived in Ueno Province, and he immediately led his army out to threaten Shimono Province and the Fangsu region, and at the same time sent an order to Takigawa and Shimazu to start a strategy to break the alliance between the two parties as soon as possible.

Takigawa Kazuyi and Shimazu Iejiu have been in business for more than half a year, and they have investigated the relationship between the Kanto daimyo and the wealthy clan very clearly, and they quickly grasped the key and focused on Yuki Harumi, the head of the Yuki family.

Unlike the Hojo family, the Satomi family, and the Satake family, the Yuki family's territory is only about 100,000 koku, and it is not within the scope of the shogunate's strong attack. Moreover, when the head of the Yuuki family formed a family and had no heirs, the most crucial step was for the Yuuki family to make a huge concession and adopt Yuki Asakatsu (Utsunomiya Kunitsuna's younger brother), the second son born to Utsunomiya Hirotsuna and Satake's younger sister, thus greatly strengthening the bond between the three families. Knowing this, Takigawa Kazuki obtained the consent of Nobuyashi, and on the one hand, Shimazu Iehisa led a heavy army to approach the Yuki family, and on the other hand, made a promise to Yuuki Harumi that as long as he and his adopted son Yuuki Asakatsu broke off their relationship, and introduced Nobuya's personal guard Takigawa as his adopted son for a while (Hideyasu, the son of Ieyasu, was introduced in history), he could keep his family name and all 100,000 stone territory.

Will they continue to accompany the Hojo, Satake, and Utsunomiya families to resist stubbornly and immediately face the strong offensive of Shimazu Iehisa, or will they surrender to the powerful shogunate and keep their family name and territory? The answer is self-explanatory...... Yucheng Qingliang thought for a long time, and soon accepted the adjustment, and went out of the city to the pioneer Shimazu Ihisa Jiāo.

As soon as Yuuki Qingliang fell, the alliance of the three families immediately collapsed, and even the situation in the entire Kanto region became much clearer, and his brother-in-law, Edo Shigetsu Shigetsu, the lord of Mito Castle in Hitachi Province, who was semi-subordinate to the Satake family, and his NV son-in-law, Nasu Shiharu, who had always been at odds with the Satake family, also surrendered one after another. The update of this book came from Takigawa Kazuki naturally did not refuse, and also asked Yuki Harumi to accept the NV Tsuruko of Edo Shigetsu as the main room of the nv (the main room of Yuki Hideyasu in history), and made a marriage contract with Takikawa for a while, thus officially establishing the status of Takigawa inheriting the Yuki family for a while, and showing great goodwill to the Edo family, which attracted those Hitachi wealthy families who were close to the Edo family to turn away from the Satake family. Even the Ashina family in the northeast, originally because of the untimely death of their sister-in-law Kameomaru, the head of the family, Ashina Moritaka, contracted the disease, and had already married the NV child to Yoshishige's sister-in-law Yoshinobu, and was ready to adopt Yoshishige's second son Yushomaru (Ashina Hiroshi, who had already entered the Komine family at that time, and his adoptive mother was Ashina Katsutaka's own sister) as an adopted son.

Subsequently, the Utsunomiya family and the powerful and wealthy families of the Mibu family and the Minagawa family also surrendered to the shogunate one after another, causing serious turmoil within the Utsunomiya family. In order to keep the name of the main family, most of the important ministers of the Utsunomiya family immediately jointly exerted pressure, took over the housekeeping from the hands of Nanlu Temple, pushed the head of the family, Utsunomiya Kunitsuna, to the forefront, and surrendered to the shogunate with Kunizena's younger brother Yoga Takatake as a hostage.

In terms of housing, Xinjing personally led the main force to carry out the strategy. He listened to Sanada Masayuki's advice and ordered Hattori Hanzo to go to Kanoyama Kannoji Temple to pick up the Satomi family's son-in-law, Umeomaru, who was forced to become a monk by Satomi Yoshiyori, and recruit the retainers of the Satomi family and the affiliated wealthy families of Kamikoku Province. This move just hit the death of Satomi Yoshirai, because Umeomaru is the son of the previous head of the family, Satomi Yoshihiro, five years ago, when Yoshihiro died, he ordered to give the Kamikoku Jiāo to Umeomaru, and the Anfang country Jiāo to his younger brother Satomi Yoshiyori, but Satomi Yoshiyori used the power of his old enemy Hojo family to forcibly seize his nephew's family business and suppressed the important ministers Masaki Kentoki, Ota Yasushi, etc. Therefore, although Satomi Yoshiyori succeeded to the position of family governor, he did not get the sincere support of all the retainers (the reason why he turned against the Hojo family last year was to some extent to appease the ministers), when the Umeomaru was also commonly renamed Satomi Yoshishige, and the shogunate supported the banner of the Satomi family governor, the large and small wealthy families of the Shangwei Kingdom turned their backs on Satomi Yoshiyori and gathered under the new family governor.

The general trend of the world, the combination of fame and strength, its appeal is not generally strong. Even heroes like Yoshishige Satake and Yoshiyori Satomi are really powerless about it.

At the beginning of June, the Tohoku daimyo such as Date, Mogami, and Ashina ended their farming work and responded to Shinkage's Imperial Letter, leading their troops to Hitachi to cooperate with the shogunate in attacking the Satake family (at this time, the sixteen-year-old Date Masamune had not yet succeeded to the family governor, and his father Date Terumune presided over everything, and the Ida family's struggle had not yet begun). At the same time, the Tokaido Gokoku and Higashiyamado Shikoku also removed all the support bases around Odawara Castle and surrounded Odawara Castle; As for Satomi Yoshiyori, he has already committed suicide in Anfang Country.

At this point, there is no suspense about the entire Kanto and Tohoku raiders. With Satake Yoshishige's patience and determination, when he sees that he can't do anything, he will definitely find an opportunity to surrender to the shogunate and strive to keep tens of thousands of stone territories; As for the Hojo family, their Odawara Castle has twice blocked more than 100,000 troops, and it is the biggest reliance of the Hojo family, so in order to clean up the Hojo family, it must take some effort to defeat their ambition and confidence. Of course, if the shogunate took more effort, the end of the Hojo family would be much worse than that of the Satake family.

In contrast to the turbulent waters of the Kanto region, Kyoto in Kinai was completely peaceful and peaceful, and the occasional procession of messengers from the Kanto region only drew enthusiastic cheers from the samurai in Kyoto. These samurai are the retainers of the Daimyo Yashiki in Kyoto, and they come from the western country, Tokaido, Higashiyama Province, and Hokuriku Province, which can be described as a rare grand occasion. In this way, the grand occasion of various countries coming to the dynasty has not appeared for many years, and the last time it appeared was in the Yingren period when the eastern army and the western army competed for power a hundred years ago. However, at that time, the samurai saw war and brought destruction, but now they are wandering through the bustling streets and quiet Buddhist temples, enjoying the atmosphere of prosperity, and the townspeople who run the department houses do not need to tremble as they did in the past with the samurai in Kamiraku, but greet their care with a smile on their faces, and loudly ask them to come back next time.

"This is all due to the wisdom of His Royal Highness, the Great Imperial Palace," everyone put their hands together from time to time and prayed sincerely toward the east of Kyoto.

To the east of Kyoto, there is the largest concentration of shrines and temples in Kyoto, including Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Tofuku-ji Temple, Nanzen-ji Temple, Senyong-ji Temple, Jishoji Temple, Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, Hyuga Daijingu Shrine, Reizan Gokoku Shrine, Yasaka Shrine, etc., some of which already existed in the Heian period. The Chisyuin Temple, which housed the 3,000 monks of Neraiji Temple, the rebuilt Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple, which is also located in the Higashiyama Mountains, and the Katsura Imperial Palace, which I built for Prince Seihito to compensate Prince Seihito for the dedication of Nijo Castle, and the newly built Higashiyama Imperial Palace.

The scale of the Higashiyama Imperial Palace is not large, and the huge projects that have been planned before, and many of the projects that have been planned, have been ordered by me to be suspended, so as not to disturb the purity of the Imperial Palace. Therefore, those daimyo in Beijing have to temporarily scatter all over Kyoto, waiting for the completion of the Rokujo Shiseien samurai yashiki area presided over by Zhou Jing.

In the north courtyard of the Imperial Palace, I leisurely boiled tea and entertained Naotoka, Wazu, Kaizu, Akitsu, and Senjuhime. Wazu had already been acquainted with Ii Nobunao and settled in Kyoto with him, and now that he was away on the expedition, I took her over and reunited with my mother Naotora and her sisters, so that she would not be too lonely.

The sunshine, the shade of the trees, the promenade, the sound of cuckoos, the beauty of the kimono, the quiet garden, and the curling water vapor are really a very pleasant scenery.

"It's been a long time since I left Mie Castle Joruriin Temple," Kazu's tone was very happy, "However, at that time, it was usually my mother who made tea. ”

Naohu is good at the tea ceremony and is well known in the family. As for me, the tea ceremony can only be regarded as average, and I rarely make tea to entertain anyone. Seeing me do it myself this time, Mitsu, Mingzu and Senjuhime's faces were faintly expectant.

My father's tea......

After I finished dividing the tea, I stirred it with a purple bamboo teaspoon and handed the tea bowl to Zhihu. Zhihu took the tea bowl with both hands, bowed his head and thanked him, rubbed the tea bowl three times in strict accordance with etiquette, drank three sips gently, and passed it to the next thousand-handed hime.

The seats are arranged according to age, and although Kazuzu has been married for a while, and Senjuhime is only engaged to Keimasa, Senjuhime is three or four years older than Kazu.

When everyone finished drinking and passed the tea bowl back, I smiled and asked them, "How?" Not bad, right? ”

"Well, that's good," a few NVs replied.

"Your Highness's tea ceremony is very progressive." Zhihu also smiled and praised.

"Maybe I finally have time to spare, and my mood is much calmer." I squinted my eyes, looked up at the swaying shade of the trees outside the corridor, and the golden sunshine rippling in dàng, and sighed sincerely, "Such a view, such an occasion, such a mood, it is really precious."

Zhihu smiled and nodded: "What His Highness said is extremely true, and the concubine thinks the same." ”

"Well," I answered, turned around and beckoned Katsugano Shushin who was not far away, and asked him with a smile, "Kishu Da Nayan is busy now, right?" ”

"Yes. Now that the expansion of Shisei Garden is in a critical period, His Highness Dainayan hopes that it will be completed as soon as possible, at least before the end of the Kanto Expedition, so that a grand welcome banquet can be held in the garden. ”

"And what about Ise Nayana?" I then asked.

Ise Nakana refers to Keimasa, who has been stripped of all his duties by my order and is "recuperating" in Kyoto with peace of mind.

"Back to Taizheng Gong, His Royal Highness Nakayama went hunting in Beishan early the next morning, but it's time to come back now," Katsugano Shushin replied respectfully.

I nodded, he probably heard that Ii Nobunao was victorious in the Kanto region, so he was a little sullen. Those victories and honors should have belonged to him.

"It seems that he is also very leisurely," I handed Zhou Xin the valuable tea bowl with my hand, "You gave this to Isenaka, saying that I gave it to him." In addition, you tell him to practice the tea ceremony more, and if he feels that he has improved, he can come to the imperial palace and invite me to taste it, and I will arrange for him to take up a position in Kyoto. ”