Apparently, he misunderstood me and thought I was asking him to die by seppuku.

"Has His Royal Highness Yuzhou also heard of Yanagi Yansheng?" I smiled slightly, "He is in the dojo of Awaji Yogikan at the moment, and if His Highness Yushu wants to see him, there will be more opportunities in the future." ”

"...... future?" Kono looked at me in surprise.

"Yes," I nodded, "I would like to ask His Highness Yoshu to leave Iyo and move to live at Awaji Yangikan, and I am willing to offer five hundred koku as an offering...... Located in the middle of the mountains, Yangyi is a rare mountain resort with beautiful scenery, and I and Humble Jing have lived for a long time. ”

"I see...... Kono relaxed, "Then I'll go to Yakikan!" ”

In any case, it is fortunate to be able to survive, especially for an eleven-year-old child like him.

And I don't need to be so ruthless. The Kono family, as the territory of the foundation and the castle of Yuzuki, is already under my control, and the retainers and wealthy clans of hundreds of years have been wiped out by me all the way, and it is impossible to make any more waves. There is nothing to be taboo about such a child who has lost his family business. Even if the Mori family intends to use him as a puppet to plot against Iyo, they must first destroy my army and navy, and then take Awaji Island.

Let him live quietly in Yangyikan!

Maybe it's a bit hypocritical, but it's one of the few principles I still adhere to: a gentleman cooks from a kitchen. In other words, it would be too brutal not to personally participate in the incident, just as in Kinai, I was reluctant to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Kii. Although I organized the siege of these 30,000 Mumizu followers, I already knew their fate when I returned the army to Nobunaga.

At the same time, the Shibata Katsuya of Hokuriku also executed 14,000 Ichijo sect followers in the two prefectures of Enuma and Nomi in Kaga Bankoku. Uesugi Kenshin was extremely dissatisfied with this incident, and severely accused the Oda family of being cruel and unreasonable, and then took advantage of the situation to break the alliance between the two families.

In my opinion, he broke the alliance, not because of this righteousness, but because he felt threatened by the Oda family. He is currently pacifying the central part of the country, and has invaded the northern half of Kaga on several occasions in the counties of Hebei and Ishikawa, and may have regarded the two countries of Vietnam, Kaga, and the Noto Peninsula to the north of the two countries as his sphere of influence.

Uesugi Kenshin has always been regarded as a righteous man who adheres to righteousness, and in later generations he has simply become the embodiment of righteousness. However, when he went to the Kanto region, he repeatedly carried out human hunting (human trafficking) and mono hunting (looting property) to raise military funds on the spot, which is really unclear what kind of righteousness is supported. One of the eight houses in Kanto, the British lord of the Satake family, Satake Yoshishige, was very unkind to see Kenshin, in the face of the invasion of the Hojo family, he would rather take Takeda Shingen one after another than bow to the Kanto leader, Takeda Shingen went out of the tripartite war, he was still stirring up trouble in Kanto, crusading against Oda Shiji (Oda Politics's son, Ashikaga Yoshisumi's nephew) who wandered between Uesugi and Hojo, and helped Takeda Shingen drag Uesugi Kenshin.

In my opinion, humility should be too conceited! Therefore, when dealing with the people in the territory and the people from other places, he has almost two attitudes. And the self-proclaimed incarnation of Kunsha Mentian, and firmly believe in it, and even never marry for this reason, this can be said to be a narcissistic situation. He helped Shinano Murakami Yoshikiyo and Ogasawara fight against Shingen for a long time, not so much because of his insistence on righteousness, but because of the compassion of the strong for the weak, and the mentality of competing with another strong man, Takeda Shingen. And the many battles in the Kanto region are also to ensure the dignity of the Kanto governor, not to rescue the wealthy families who were ravaged by the Hojo family.

He and Oda Nobunaga can be said to be the two most conceited people in the Warring States period, and they each went to the corresponding two extremes. Oda Nobunaga wanted to trample everyone under his feet, so those who hated him the most were not merciful to those who rebelled (the only exception was Matsunaga Hide); Uesugi Kenshin wants everyone to hold him high, so he cares very much about form, and pays attention to his own authority, those rebellious nobles, as long as they are willing to admit their mistakes and bow down in front of him, and then re-respect him, can almost be forgiven (no wonder it will be considered a woman, his conceit is completely feminine, it is a woman with the extreme vanity!). In the fourth year of Eiroku, he surrounded Odawara with 100,000 troops, which can be said to have greatly increased his prestige, and then at the succession ceremony of the Kanto governor at the Tsuruoka Hachimangu Palace, he faced the sixty-seven-year-old Narita Narita Nagatai who did not dismount according to the ancient custom according to the ancient practice, and in front of the imperial court Sekihaku Konoe Maehisa, the former governor Uesugi Kenmasa, and the wealthy clans of the Kanto region, he knocked off the opponent's black hat with a folding fan, so that Narita Narita Nagatai was so angry that he immediately returned to the city and raised the anti-flag.

However, in the past two years, Uesugi Kenshin has finally opened up a little, no longer rushing in the Kanto and Hokuriku regions, and no longer fighting with the Takeda family, but focusing on attacking neighboring Yue China in order to expand his own strength.

I have to admit about Uesugi Kenshin's military capabilities. Whether it was in the Kanto region or in the Hokuriku, he had never failed in any field battle, and he was able to successfully retreat at the worst. However, after all, his territory is only so little, and the military strength is not much, when he went out to fight in Yuezhong this year, the total army strength was only less than 20,000, most of them were apportioned to the wealthy families of various countries in accordance with the "Uesugi Family Military Service Account" that had just been formulated, and the ninety-six people listed on it were respectively a certain number of spears, longbows, iron cannons, and horseback samurai, and the most was the old mountain Yoshitoyomori of the Bitou family, who needed to provide 235 spears, 40 archers, 20 iron cannons, 30 banners, and 52 horse samurai, a total of 377 military service. However, because the Uesugi family has not completed the nationalization, many of the wealthy families except for one family and genealogy are just Fengqianxin as the leader of the alliance, and from time to time they come to two rebellions to find some stimulation, which is much inferior to the neighboring Takeda family.

What's more, the Oda family has risen strongly, and under the general trend, no matter how powerful Kenshin Uesugi himself is, he can't reverse the whole situation. Moreover, the Hokuriku road is difficult to travel, and most of the time in winter and spring are blocked by heavy snow, which is not suitable for large-scale battles.

I myself have some ways to deal with the Uesugi family, that is, from the economic side, to hit the lifeline of the Uesugi family.

Similar to the Takeda family, the Uesugi family's territory is also dominated by mountains, and there are not many stone heights, if the source of the Takeda family's strength is the gold mountain of Kai, then the source of the Uesugi family's strength is the Echigo green hair trade and maritime trade routes (although Sado Island on the sea has the first gold mountain, but Kenshin does not know...... ）。

Cranium, also known as ramie, is known as Chinese grass in the world, mainly cultivated in the south of China, and is concentrated in the Echigo area. This is not inferior to cotton high-quality textile raw materials, the fiber is several times longer than the highest grade cotton, the color is white after degumming, showing a silky luster, and raw silk is somewhat similar. The summer cloth woven from it, "light as cicada wings, thin as rice paper, flat as a water mirror, as thin as Luo Juan", has been listed as a tribute cloth by the Chinese imperial courts, has become a treasure loved by the royal family and dignitaries and nobles, and has won the gold medal of the Paris International Exposition in the 30s of the 20th century.

In Japan, this fabric is especially popular in Kinai, and it is one of the main raw materials for the famous Nishijin weaving. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, merchants in Kinai established the Tennoji Rakuza Seat, Sakamoto Rakuza Seat, and Kyochu Rakuza to monopolize the trade of green sprouts from Echigo to Kinai. By the time Kenshin's grandfather, Nagao Nokei, he established the Echigo Tsuza and controlled the export of Echigo's green roots, thus laying the foundation for the prosperity of the Nagao family. After Kenshin succeeded to the throne, he continued to strengthen his control over the export of green roots, and further controlled the Echigo-Kinai trade route, collecting taxes from incoming merchant ships and merchants as funds for sending troops to his family.

In addition, there was also a salt transaction, which also made a lot of money for Uesugi Kenshin, and the batch of life-saving salt that was rumored to be a beautiful conversation and sent to Takeda Shingen was also paid. Therefore, by the time of his death, although he had experienced the great war with the Oda family a few years earlier, there were still 27,140 taels of gold stored in the mountain castle of Chunyue.

In fact, the process of suppressing the Uesugi family is already underway. The large quantities of raw silk shipped from the Kanai trade squeezed out a huge share of the textile raw materials supplied to the western area of Kyoto, and Takeda Nobutaka's control of Wakasa Bay, Akechi Mitsuhide Tsukusakamoto Castle, and Hideyoshi Hara built Nagahama Castle, all partially monopolized the Echigo-Kinai trade route.

This holiday may be another important reason why Kenshin Uesugi and the Oda family turned their faces.

After dissolving the alliance with the Oda family, the Uesugi family soon joined the anti-Oda coalition, and in August, through the mediation of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, they reached a "Koai-Etsu Ichiwa" with the Kai Takeda family and the Sagami Hojo family, and at the same time reached a peace with their old enemy Ichishomune. Losing the Takeda family's containment in Shinano and the Hojo family's control in the Kanto region, and losing the support of the Echichu Ichikami forces, the guardian of Echichu, Daijimi Ho Nagaju, was jointly expelled by the Uesugi family and the Kojima Shojin Town, who was close to Uesugi at home, and fled from Toyama Castle to Kyoto to Nobunaga; Yasuin Shiina, the guardian of the Shinkawa Prefecture Division, defected from the Uesugi family a few years ago, and was expelled from Matsukura Castle, where the Uesugi family had lived for generations, and fled from Shinkawa County, which occupies half of Vietnam, to Tonami County, the westernmost part of Vietnam. As a result, the entire country of Vietnam and China came under the control of the Uesugi family.

Uesugi Kenshin's next goal is to control the Noto Hatakeyama family, the nominal lords of Jimbo and Shiina, on the Noto Peninsula. The hostage left by the Noto Hatakeyama family in the Uesugi family, Yagoro Hatakeyama, is the uncle of the current head of the family, Yoshitaka Hatakeyama, who is only twelve years old this year. Uesugi Kenshin served him in advance and named him Hatakeyama Yoshiharu, and then claimed that the former head of the Hatakeyama family, Hatakeyama Yoshika's brother Hatakeyama Yoshikei, died unexplained last year, and Hatakeyama Yoshikei was also established after the retainers exiled the former head of the former family, Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna (Hatakeyama Yoshiharu's own brother), and in fact he was also the master, so he wanted to crusade against the rebels as the Kanto governor, so as to correct the world.

It seems to echo the Uesugi family, and the Maori family also acted. In September, Yoshikawa Motoharu entered the Inaba Province and attacked Yamanaka Yukimori's private capital, and the Yokochi brothers, Moriwaki Hisashi, the remnants of the Niko family in the city, still saw that the situation was not good, and took the initiative to surrender to the Mori family, Yamanaka Yukimori fled to Kyoto again, and then was arranged by Nobunaga to attack Tanba Province under Akechi Mitsuhide.

The actions of the Maori family are reasonable, but the actions of the Uesugi family are more than a year earlier than the original historical time, and they also make the second Nobunaga siege network appear in advance. Nobunaga felt the pressure from Uesugi and immediately made arrangements. He ordered Shibata Katsuie to speed up the pacification of Kaga and obtain Kita-Kaga as a buffer between the two sides. Not long ago, Nobunaga gave Takigawa Kazuki a seal to Takagawa Kazuki, and ordered him to use the Daishoji Castle under construction as a base as the vanguard of the Oda family's attack on Kita-Kaga Province.

At this time, Kiichi's momentum had been destroyed, and Ishiyama Honganji Temple was surrounded by the army led by Sakuma Nobumori. In addition, Hatakeyama Yoshishu also received an order to lead the army of his headquarters and the Tsutsui and Matsunaga families of Yamato Province to attack the western part of Kotaka and Mulou Prefecture, where the people of Kii Province were located.

However, at this time, Matsunaga Xiu suddenly raised the anti-flag. He refused Nobunaga's order to go out of battle, and then reduced his forces to Nobukiyama Castle, making preparations for a long cage castle.

It seems very unwise for him to rebel against Nobunaga so suddenly. However, thinking that he once had the power of the world and ruled most of the province in the past, it should be understandable! If he said that he lived under Harada Naomasa and Sakuma Nobumori in Kinai, he still had nothing to say, after all, the two were Nobunaga's close retainers; Then, even the wise Mitsuhide, who took refuge halfway, climbed on top of him, which inevitably made him a little angry. What's more, this time he and Tsutsui Shunkei both participated in the operation to destroy Kiichi's power, and when Nobunaga rewarded the merits, he only handed over the Yamato guardian position vacated after Harada Naomasa's death to Tsutsui Shunkei, and Harada Naomasa's Tamonyama Castle, which originally belonged to him, was not returned to him, but was ordered by Nobunaga to be dismantled into stones and transported to Azuchi, which must have also disappointed him very much in Nobunaga.

This time to attack Kii, Nobunaga put Matsunaga Hide under Hatakeyama Yoshishu, which finally made him unable to continue to endure, so he brazenly raised the anti-flag.

I can roughly figure out his wishful thinking. From the perspective of the general trend of the world, at present, the Oda family is facing the joint encirclement of the Maori and the Kosho-Etsu Alliance, the east and west fronts are threatened, and all the legions and reserve corps cannot relax, and there is still a hidden danger in the center of the territory of Ishiyama Honganji, he has a considerable chance to disrupt the strategic system of the Oda family when he rises at this time; At that time, if the Oda family loses power, he will gain great prestige as the first person in Kinai to oppose the Oda family, and will indisputably occupy the largest piece of the cake.

In terms of personal honor and disgrace, Matsunaga Xiu is sixty-six years old this year, which is definitely not much, so going crazy before he dies can at least become the focus of the world's attention again, let the people of the time recall his previous glory, so as to comfort his depression that has become more and more marginalized in recent years. In this way, even if it fails, there will definitely be a curtain call.

What is the saying? The husband can't eat five tripods in life, and he should cook five tripods when he dies!

(To be continued)