Eiroku 9th year, May, Kai, Hesakikan.

The sunlight shone obliquely in the main hall, which made people feel more excited.

In the courtyard of the Ashizaki Museum, there is a scene of lush vegetation.

Takeda Shingen, dressed in a loose robe, paced to the center, and he smiled as if he was talking to himself, "This year's spring seems to have passed very quickly. ”

Just a few days ago, Takeda Shingen once again offered a prayer to the Asama Shrine in order to pray for the safe birth of his eldest daughter, Huangmeiin.

Sure enough, not long after, news came from Sagami that Huangmeiyuan gave birth to a daughter.

Takeda Shingen was very happy when he heard this, and his eldest daughter, as the head of the Hojo family, had already given birth to two sons for him.

The eldest son, King Maru, is five years old, and as a son-in-law, he has been confirmed by the Hojo family as the next governor of the family.

The second son was born just last year.

The joy of giving birth to a daughter in Huangmeiin for Takeda Shingen was only temporary, but then he seemed to think of something, and his face turned worried.

can make Takeda Shingen, who has experienced vicissitudes of life, show such an expression, there must be something big that affects him.

Originally, for Takeda Shingen at this moment, the diplomacy between the Takeda family and the Hojo family was not deepened by the fact that Huangmeiin was the Hojo clan's government and kept giving birth to children, but had fallen into a very dangerous situation.

After the Takeda family occupied Minowa Castle, they had completed the Nishi-Kamino raid, and there was no longer any need to use the Hojo family as an ally to contain Echigo.

After the capture of Nishi-Ueno, Takeda Shingen ordered the son of the former Takeda family old Ganli Toratasu, Gan Li Masatada, as the city representative of Minowa Castle, sitting in Minowa Castle, temporarily replacing Takeda Katsuyori as the commander of the Nishi-Ueno Army, and digesting the land of Nishi-Ueno under the raid, appeasing the local wealthy clans, and then selecting the elite to be incorporated into the Minowa people.

And the meritorious ministers who were subordinate to Takeda Katsuyori to attack Nishiueno were also rewarded.

First of all, the Sanada family got Wanyuki from the first county of Azuma-gun.

Azuma-gun was originally the old land of the Shino clan, and the local wealthy families such as the Hamao family, the Kawara family, and the Umino family were originally the same clan as the Sanada family, so the Sanada family was in charge of Azuma-gun without pressure.

At present, the Sanada family already has two counties, Shinano and Ueno-Azuma, and its power has increased greatly for a while, and it has become an important town of the Takeda family alongside the Minami Shinano Kiso family.

And the other reward was the Kohata Kenshige of the Kohata family.

Kohata Kenshige was originally a native of Nishi-Ueno Province, the second largest force in the area after the Nagano family.

After the capture of Nishi-Ueno, the Kohata family recaptured the old land of the original Ueno Ganle County, and moved the main castle of the Kohata family back to Kunimine Castle, where Li Xiao and the Kohata sisters first met.

Therefore, the Takeda family's rule in Nishi-Ueno was covered by the Sanada family and the Kohata family in the north and south as the flanks of Minowa Castle, and the Minowa people of Ganli Masadada as the center, which could support left and right, and it could be said to be impregnable for a while.

After the Takeda family took control of Nishi-Ueno, they also completed the shielding of Shinano from the west, which greatly reduced the pressure on the Takasaka Masanobu Army to face the Uesugi family independently, and at the same time added Li Xiao's Hida Echichu Army, which was fighting in the east.

The Takeda family's three-sided clamping of the Uesugi family has been completed.

On the side of the Hojo family, since the capture of Matsuyama Castle, the Hojo family has completed the suppression of the entire territory of Musashi Province.

Hojo Shiyasu's eyes looked at Ueno Province to the north of Musashi, and his intention was to occupy Ueno Ichikoku and completely cut off Uesugi Kenshin's passage out of Kanto.

Then he closed the door and killed the vicious dogs of Utsunomiya, Satomi, and Satake's family one by one.

Just this year, the Ueno stable bridge castle on behalf of Hojo Takahiro rebelled for the Hojo family, which was a very heavy blow to Uesugi Kenshin, and the Uesugi family lost the most important stronghold in Higashi-Ueno for a while.

The change of ownership of Stablebridge Castle not only caused the loss of Uesugi Kenshin's power in Ueno, but also further reduced his influence in the Kanto region, and the Kanto administration was already in name only. …,

At the same time, the power of the Hojo family officially entered Kamishu, which conflicted with the power of the Takeda family in Kamishu.

Therefore, the Takeda family's request for the Hojo family to go to the Kanto region gradually became sluggish.

Now the interests of the Uesugi family that were allied by the two families no longer exist.

Of course, the root contradiction between Hojo and the Takeda family is the friction between the Imagawa family and the Takeda family.

Takeda Shingen has gradually revealed an unkind attitude towards Suruga, which makes Hojo Shiyasu very worried, and he will never allow Takeda Shingen to dominate Kai and Suruga.

If Suruga is captured, the Takeda family will not only have this rich land, but also have access to the sea, so the Takeda family will be out of control and will become the strongest force in the east of the Hojo family, and thus break the current equilibrium in Kanto under the Triple Alliance.

It makes the regional forces weightless, and also completely blocks the way of the Hojo family to Luo.

Therefore, the Hojo family is now gradually on the side of the Imagawa family, and is constantly alienating the Takeda family.

Of course, in the face of Hojo Shiyasu's hostility, it is impossible for Takeda Shingen not to know, and now the Takeda family's main combat power in the north is contained by Uesugi Kenshin.

Therefore, for the Imagawa family, the Hojo family, and Takeda Shingen, they must also find other forces to contain and relieve the dilemma of fighting on three sides.

To the south, after Takeda's wedding, the Takeda family allied with the Oda family, and now the Kiyoshu alliance of Oda Tokugawa suppressed the Imagawa family to the west.

Now in the face of the Hojo family's unkind attitude, the Takeda family is also actively looking for allies who can contain the Hojo family.

The helpers that Takeda Shingen found in the Kanto region were the Satake family in Hitachi Province and the Satake family in Anbo Kunimi.

The first is the Satake family, which, like the Takeda family, is a descendant of Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu.

Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu had two sons, Minamoto Yoshiye (the ancestor of the Satake family) and Minamoto Kiyomitsu (the ancestor of the Takeda family), both of whom lived in Hitachi Province.

At that time, Gen Qingguang lived in Takeda Township, Nake County, Hitachi Province, which is also the origin of the word Kai Takeda Miao.

Takeda Nobuyoshi, the son of Gogen Kiyomitsu, entered Kai at the order of the imperial court, and took root here, and the Takeda clan became Kai guardians, while the descendants of Minamoto Yoshiye lived in Hitachi and took the Miao character Satake.

However, if you trace your ancestral hometown, Takeda Yoshinobu still belongs to Hitachi Province.

Like the Takeda family, the Takeda family was the head of the Kai Genji, while the Satake family was the head of the Hitachi Genji.

Now Yoshiaki Satake, the former governor of the Satake family, died of illness last year.

The Takesa family is now in the hands of Yoshishige Satake, who is known as Yoshishige Satake, who is known as the ghost Yoshishige in history.

The alliance between the Satake family and the Unomiya family has been competing with the Hojo family in Kanto for a long time, and it is a thorn in the eyes of the Hojo family.

Therefore, Takeda Shingen, with the relationship between Takeda and Satake, secretly communicated and quietly combined.

Takeda Shingen asked Ganli Nobutada, and Tsuchiya Shoji was in charge of diplomacy with the Satake family as diplomatic Jitori.

This alliance came to be known in history as the Kosa League.

And it goes without saying that Anfang is home in the country.

Satomi Yoshiyao, the governor of the Satomi family, was a careerist of the Kanto region, and had always had the ambition to conquer the Kanto region, and in the 14th year of Astronomy, he called himself the deputy shogun in the Tsuruoka Hachiman Shrine built by Anbo (this title was later awarded to Oda Nobunaga by Ashikaga Yoshiaki).

And Satomi Yoshiyao, as the only opponent in Kanto who can compete with Hojo Shiyasu, has been fighting for decades.

The Satomi family was defeated in the two battles between the government and Taiwan, but they did not give up, and in his lifetime, Satomi Yoshiyao recognized an opponent of the Hojo clan, and he went down and never died.

Of course, Takeda Shingen will not miss it, this old opponent of Hojo Shiyasu.

He used the Takeda clan (also the Kai Takeda clan) as the head of the Takeda clan as an intermediary, and communicated with Satomi Yoshiyao, and the two families secretly negotiated and reached an alliance. …,

The corresponding alliance is historically known as the Kobo League.

After obtaining the alliance of Satake and the Satomi family, Takeda Shingen already had the confidence to turn his face in the Hojo clan.

And this series of diplomatic offensives is enough to show the skill of Takeda Shingenyuki, which is indeed unparalleled in the world.

However, at this moment, for Takeda Shingen, there is no place for self-satisfaction at all, and the break with the Imagawa family is equivalent to losing his sister-in-law Takeda Yoshinobu.

If the alliance with the Hojo family breaks down again, then what is the situation of his eldest daughter, Huangmeiin, who lives in the hostile Hojo family?

Since Takeda Shingen inherited the family governor at the age of 21, after 25 years of hard work, he fought on the battlefield and laid hundreds of thousands of stone territories for the Takeda family.

But because of his ambition, Shin Hyun's father, sister, his most beloved woman, and his sister-in-law left him one by one.

Even his eldest daughter at the moment......

Rao is Takeda Shinxuan's heart is as strong as iron, and he can't help but be sad at this moment.

Takeda Shingencho took a breath, then picked up the folding fan on his waist, turned to Takeda Katsuyori and Sanada Yutaka who were sitting at the bottom, and said, "Someone from Suruga has sent someone again." ”

Takeda Katsuyori and Sanada Yutaka glanced at each other, and they all knew what Takeda Shingen said, what Suruga sent someone to say.

In the year since Yoshinobu Takeda was imprisoned at Tokoji Temple, the Imagawa family has been trying to use various influences, ostensibly to try to rescue Yoshinobu Takeda and restore his freedom, but in fact it is also to find out Takeda Shingen's attitude and whether he has the intention of attacking Suruga.

After all, the purpose of Takeda Yoshinobu's rebellion at the beginning was precisely because he speculated that Takeda Shingen planned to shift his strategic goal from the north to the south, and instead attacked the Imagawa family, and his position was not guaranteed, so he raised troops.

And this incident is well known, and since then, there have been rumors and rumors within the Takeda family, claiming that Takeda Shingen has the intention of attacking the Imagawa family.

The Imagawa family sent envoys several times to listen to Takeda Shingenyuki's answers, but Shingen never gave him a clear answer, which made the Imagawa family even more uneasy.

Takeda Shingen paused and said: "Right now, the Imagawa family and the Takeda family have become enemies, and my ninja in the Imagawa family, I heard that there is a secret discussion between Imagawa and Hojo, and decided to raise the price of salt exported to my Kai, as a lever to blackmail my Takeda family, what do you think?" ”

Takeda Katsuyori said: "Father, my Kai is inland, there is no outlet to the sea, and the salt road is currently in the hands of Imagawa Hojo, if the price of salt is raised, for me Kai, the people's lives will fall into a very difficult situation." ”

Takeda Shingen waved his folding fan and said: "Raising the price of salt is just a means of warning, and what is even more terrifying is to cut off the export of edible salt." ”

After a pause, Takeda Shingen said: "I, Takeda Shingen, have wanted to take an outlet to the sea for my family for a long time, and now Echigo, Suruga, and Sagami all have a sinister relationship with me, and I have to find another way out, what do you think of Echichu?" ”……，