Date Harumune was born in the 16th year of Eisho (1519), Iwaki Kubohime was born in the first year of Oei (1521), and another unlucky supporting character, Yuki Harutsuna, the lord of Shirakawa Castle, was born in the 17th year of Eisho (1520).

Iwaki Kubohime's father, Iwaki Shigetaka, is also a strong countryman of Nanji, the territory of the Iwaki family is still south of the Soma family, and it happens to be a door-to-door neighbor to the Shirakawa Yuki clan in the southernmost part of the Nanjinoku, and to the south of the Iwaki family is the Hitachi Satake family, due north is the Soma clan, northwest is the Nikaido clan, and to the north of the Nikaido clan is the Ishibashi clan, the Tamura clan and the Nimatsumoto Hatakeyama clan, and then the territory of the Date family, and the distance between the two is more than a long word can describe.

At the beginning, Date Harumune's father-in-law, Iwashiro Shigetaka, was the family governor of the Shirakawa Yuki clan, Yuki Haruna, and felt that the young man had a good character and good ability, and it was also very promising to follow the Kanto Gongfang Ashikaga Harushi clan, and their Iwaki clan was also determined to develop in the Kanto region, and it happened to be like-minded with Shirakawa Yuuki, and it would be a good means to watch each other if they were in-laws.

At that time, it was between the eighth year of astronomy and the tenth year of astronomy, and it happened to be the time when the Hojo clan was about to die, since the Hojo clan was stabbed in the back by Takeda Shintora and Imagawa Yoshimoto, at that time the Hojo family obviously fell into a period of decline, during that period, the Kanto prince Ashikaga Haruhru, the Kanto governor Uesugi Kenmasa can really be described as infinitely beautiful, and the two allied with Imagawa Yoshimoto and Takeda Nobutoro to pull up a powerful siege network that is more powerful than the Echigo siege network to deal with the Sagami Hojo clan.

Therefore, Iwaki Shigetaka's judgment cannot be said to be wrong, at least at that time, the Kanto Gongfang Ashikaga Haruka was a thick thigh that everyone wanted to hug. Moreover, the people of Mutsu and Dewa have always respected the edicts of the Kanto Princess. The Kanto Princess's creation of an eight-house shape is to elevate the most powerful eight nationalist lords in the Kanto region and even the Yu-Olympics. Harutsuna Yuuki of the Shirakawa Yuuki clan happens to be a member of the thick thighs.

The Shirakawa Yuki clan was once a powerful general of the Southern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Emperor Daigo used the title "Yuuki Ueno Iridokan" in his edict to Yuuki Sohiro, the second governor of the Shirakawa Yuki clan in the Mutsu Province, so it was customary to use the title "Yakatakan" when sending letters to the Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom from the beginning of the Southern Dynasty.

This can be said to be the earliest user of the house, and when the Southern Dynasty was defeated and lost its power and became a lost dog, it was quickly co-opted by the scheming Kanto Princess, and the Yuki clan, the Anbo Satomi clan and other samurai families belonging to the Southern Dynasty were all preserved in this way, of course, the Date family should also be counted as one of them.

Ever since Date Harumune fell in love with Iwaki Kubohime, he inquired in many ways, and finally knew that this beautiful girl turned out to be the daughter of Iwaki Shigetaka. And Iwaki Shigetaka is looking for a fast son-in-law for himself, and soon Iwaki Kubohime will marry into the Shirakawa Yuuki clan to be the main wife of Yuki Harutsune, Date Harumune was anxious when he heard it, and hurriedly ran to the house to ask his father Date Minoru to ask for a favor, so he went to Iwaki's house to discuss marrying Iwaki Kubohime.

Of course, Iwaki Shigetsu can't look down on this wild boy who was killed halfway, no matter how powerful the Date family is, it doesn't have much to do with them Iwaki Shigetaka, and the Iwaki family has always had a bad relationship with the Soma family in the north, although there is no large-scale war, but a little friction is indispensable, and Iwaki Shigetsu himself is already a good neighbor and ally with the Shirakawa Yuki clan, and it must be better to talk about the bias gang or Yuki Haruna, who knows the roots. But the problem is that Date Harumune doesn't play cards according to common sense.

At that time, the signs of the outbreak of the Astronomical Rebellion were already looming, and Date Minoru intended to send his son Date Mimoto to Echigo as the governor. In this way, a large network of his relatives is composed of a super family network centered on Yonezawa, the Ashina clan in Aizu in the south, the Watari clan, the Kokubun clan, and the Rushu clan in the east, the Mogami clan in the north, the Osaki clan in the northeast, and the Echigo Uesugi clan in the west, and a large number of sons and sons-in-law have to listen to him, which is not very cool.

The disagreement between Date Harumune and Date Minoru became more and more acute, because Date Harune knew better than anyone that the previous succession was a small fight, and it was not a matter of worry, Echigo's territory was so vast and there was a large group of strong people who had destroyed several samurai families in Mutsu, and at that time, Nagao was not dead at all, and it was simply a way to kill to provoke that family.

Even if he is lucky enough to make his younger brother strong after he dies, that is, a proper strong branch and weak trunk, his younger brother Date Miyuan is a powerful daimyo of 400,000 stones, and he is invincible when he sits down with tens of thousands of tigers, although his brother who is the governor of the family has a lot of relatives, but the direct military strength is only five or six thousand people, and most of them are miscellaneous soldiers, and the total territory under his direct command is more than 100,000 stones, how can he sit as the governor? simply served his brother as the governor of the house.

In the ninth year of the Astronomical Echigo Yangbei people, the head of the Honjo house raised an army to resist the succession of the adopted son of the Date family, Date Harumun saw the opportunity to find his father to ask for a woman, Date Minoru naturally will not be hindered, his eldest son at this time is still thinking about the love of children and daughters is following his thoughts, he feels that he can be the governor of the family for another twenty years, let his son indulge in the beauty of the country.

So Date Harumun went to Iwaki Shigetaka to discuss marrying his daughter, of course, he was rejected without hesitation, where would Date Harumune be willing to swallow this breath, and he ran to his father Date Minoru to hope that he would come forward to exert his strength, so Date Minoru summoned his good son-in-law Soma Onyin and told Soma Onyin that your brother-in-law fell in love with Kubo Hime of Iwaki Shigetaka's family, and you should be a middleman to make peace.

At that time, the astronomical rebellion had not yet broken out, and the relationship between Soma and Date Harumune was quite good, as the eldest son-in-law of Date Minoru, he was naturally very concerned about the marriage of his brother-in-law, so he rushed to Iwaki Shigetaka to say goodbye, Balabala said a lot of big meaning to join the big family of Date family, but Iwaki Shigetaka didn't bird him at all, and didn't say a word about serving tea and sending guests.

Soma Rongyin was kicked out like this, his nose was not his nose and his eyes were not eyes, not to mention the annoyance and grievances in his heart, and at the same time he hated the old guy Iwajo Shigetaka, and felt that he was a little sorry for his father-in-law and brother-in-law, so he went back and ordered all the soldiers and horses to run over to fight with Iwaki Shigetaka, saying that he wanted to get this face back.

Date Harumune had long known that his eldest brother-in-law had gone in vain, so he took a hundred or so horseback riders to follow behind him and watch their movements. He knew very well that Shigetaka Iwashiro would never agree to the so-called act of kissing. It's not because Iwaki Shigetaka is stubborn and has no eyes. It's that his daughter, Kubo Hime, has already said that the next family of the Shirakawa Yuki clan will marry out one day to be a woman of the Yuuki family, and she can't break her daughter in half and one person on one side.

And Iwaki Shigetaka also thinks that Soma is finding fault, and it is well known that he is praised as the first beauty of Michinoku as a girl, and it is also well known that Iwaki Shigetaka values his ally Yuki Harutsuna, and the marriage contract between the two parties is not hidden from anyone, if he is not messing around, as long as he inquires, the two families are not a day or two, which makes him very suspicious that Soma is deliberately disgusting him. So he didn't hesitate to get rid of him.

Sure enough, the grumpy Soma Oki took his son to run to fight with Iwaki Shigetaka, and the Iwaki clan's home city, Odate Castle, did not have many troops to defend it, so Date Harumune swaggered into the Iwaki Castle under the banner, and came to Odate Castle to knock on the door and enter it in a grand manner, and he said to the Iwaki family tree guarding the door that it was Iwaki Shigetaka's son-in-law who came to see his wife Iwaki Kubohime.

The retainers of the spectrum didn't know the details of him, but they just saw if his banner was the family crest flag of the Shirakawa Yuki family, so they asked a few words, and as a result, Date Harumun was so bold that he dared to open his eyes and say nonsense, saying that Iwaki Shigetaka felt that Yuki Harutsuna was too young and lacked experience, and their Utsu Oida family was more suitable for being sons-in-law. So I fell in love with him, and just now I saw Iwaki Shigetaka on the street and asked him to come over to see Kubo Ji Yunyun.

It just so happened that the guard of Odate Castle was not an elder of the lineage, but a retainer of the lineage who was not very helpful. The elders of the spectrum family followed Iwaki Shigetaka to fight, and the defenders of the city were naturally some retainers who were not valued or suppressed, so this genealogy retainer was bluffed by him, and opened the big door to let more than 100 horseback warriors enter the city.

Date Harumun didn't dare to delay when he entered the city, so he went straight to Ji Qulun to see Iwaki Kubo Hime, and then dragged Kubo Hime, who was still a yellow flower girl, to get on the horse, and then so blatantly abducted Iwaki Shigetaka's baby daughter, and when Ji Qulun's maid shouted and called for the samurai, they had already gone away, and the stupid retainer didn't know how the lord's "good son-in-law" came in and out, and he didn't notice that Date Harumune's horse was still carrying a girl with a gagged mouth.

When Iwaki Shigetaka repelled Soma and returned triumphantly, he found that his baby daughter was taken away by the "good son-in-law", and he was angry like thunder, and without saying a word, he cut off the head of that stupid retainer and hung it outside the big hand door, and looked back at the crying lady in the dark. If this ugly thing is said, Iwaki Shigetaka will not live, and he will commit suicide directly.

As a result, within a few days, Date Harumunu dared to send a messenger to invite Iwaki Shigetaka to attend his wedding, and called him his father-in-law in the letter, so that Iwashiro Shigetaka had no choice, so he could only try to tell his hardcore ally Shirakawa Yuuki clan in a tactful way, Kubohime can't get married, or Iwaki Shigeru still has a little niece who is thirteen years old this year.

Because this incident is too ugly, the Shirakawa Yuuki clan soon knew the inside story, Yuki Yoshitsuna was almost angry and vowed to be inseparable from the Date family, and then took the military strength to start a war with the Date family, but I didn't think that there were too many relatives of the Date family, and a large group of relatives and sons-in-law of Ashina Mori, Ishikawa Harumitsu, Nikaido Teruyuki, and Soma Rongyin rushed up.

Where have the Shirakawa Yuuki clan seen this kind of unreasonable formation, a group of people singled out one and simply don't bully people too much, in this battle called the Battle of Slippery Battle, Yuki Yoshitsuna fought hard for many days and finally lost, not only did the marriage with the Iwaki clan completely ruined, but also lost part of the territory and the power declined, it was even more bitter than a little cabbage, and he was shot to death for no reason and was bullied to death by a large group of relatives of the bully, which is simply unreasonable.

Since then, although the Shirakawa Yuki clan has not completely broken with Iwaki Shigetaka, the relationship between the allies of the two sides has been seriously cracked, and the Shirakawa Yuuki clan knows that he can't play with a large group of relatives in the Mutsu Ita family, so he concentrates on developing in the direction of Shimono and Hitachi, and from time to time he bumps and fights with the Satake clan.

And Date Harumun just snatched a beautiful wife, and a group of relatives cleaned up for him, although the relationship with his father-in-law Iwashiro Shigetaka was not very harmonious, but the couple raised five sons and six daughters with Kazumi, and Date Harumune never accepted the side room from beginning to end. This blessing alone is not comparable to the hapless Yuuki Haruna.

Ever since Yuuki Haruzuna's wife was robbed, he has been unlucky all the way. First after the defeat in the battle of Kashiai, and then in the battle with the Satake clan, he was at a disadvantage. Fortunately, Date Harumune felt that what he had done was a bit excessive, and sent an envoy to persuade his father-in-law, Iwaki Shigetaka, to adopt his little niece as an adopted daughter and marry Yuki Harutsuna, and then support this unlucky guy to stabilize the situation.

Fortunately, it didn't let the Shirakawa Yuuki clan fall into decline, so Yuki Haruzuna was also a little biased towards Date Haruzuna in his position, in fact, Yuki Haruzuna couldn't do it, his wife had already flown into the arms of others, and he and his father ran desperately and were almost overturned by a group of bully relatives. There are only two ways in front of him, either gritting his teeth and admitting cowardice or desperately resisting, when he hesitated, Date Harumi threw an olive branch is the best step down, and he also took advantage of the situation to save the name of his family.

Moreover, the matter of Yuki Yoshitsuna and Iwaki Shigetaka negotiating the marriage contract was only circulated in the Nanjitsu generation, and after Date Harumune's mixing, many people thought that Iwaki Shigetaka really planned to marry his daughter to the Date family, and Date Harumune clearly told him that this matter could barely be covered up, and the traces of it could be covered up by using the Spring and Autumn penmanship to revise the various documents of the Mutsu family involved in it a few years in advance.

Since there is no need to lose face, there is no need for Yuki Haruna to go down, and it is more important than anything else to preserve the family name and inherit the family business. The so-called face will only be considered when there is no danger to one's own territory and the family business is not disturbed. Several of the participants had vowed to cover it up, and he had nothing to worry about.

Yuki Yoshitsuna was not as open-minded as his son, and soon completely retreated because he was not angry, and Yuki Haruna did follow the pace of Date Haruhuna in the subsequent astronomical rebellion, and was subordinate to Date Haruzuna together with his "father-in-law" Iwashiro Shigetaka, and he received an invitation to involve Tamura Takatsuna behind his back, without having to fight shirtless in person, Yuki Harutsuna welcomed this request very much, so he maintained "neutrality" behind his back to make a stumbling block on Takamura.

If it weren't for this incident, maybe his father would never have told such a tortuous past in his life, and his old-fashioned and serious father was also a bold and careful real man who dared to think and dare to do it.

But Date Harumun poured a bucket of cold water on him without hesitation: "Tell you these old things for your father, not for you to follow the example of your own family to go to Yamagata Castle to snatch Princess Yoshihime, the strength of the Kira family is by no means something you can deal with alone, telling you this story is to cheer you up, don't be intimidated by the current crisis, things in this world are not static." ”

"Father's ......"

Kubo Hime frowned slightly and stared at the strange looks of the father and son, and asked with a puzzled face, "What's wrong with Shijiro and Princess Yoshihime?" What are you two fathers and sons talking about? Shijiro has a marriage contract with Princess Yoshihime, why do you want to get Princess Yoshihime back? ”

"This ...... It's more complicated, I'll talk to you later. Date Harumune didn't want his son to lose face in front of his mother again, so he quickly concluded: "In short, this shame must be recovered, and the family will inform all allies to act quickly and rush to Yonezawa Castle to find an effective way to properly solve this problem, go!" Don't overthink it, rest and recuperate, and don't get discouraged. ”

Date Huizong nodded silently, bowed and bowed and left in a hurry, Kubo Ji turned around and grabbed Date Harumune's sleeve, this old governor who has always been simple and serious is trying to change his sitting posture, and crawled towards the door on the other side silently with his hands and feet, but unfortunately Date Harumune's efforts were finally easily broken by Kubo Hime, and he couldn't break free from being grabbed by his sleeves, so he had to sit down helplessly and look at his wife with his head down.

I saw Kubo-hime smile at him and complained softly: "Your Highness, now you should tell me why you want to tell all these old things, right?" The concubine was very worried just now that His Highness would not pay attention and say all the things that should not be said! Fortunately, His Royal Highness still has a sense of proportion, and the child is heard......"

"Ahem! As a husband, I'm not stupid or stupid, I can't tell Yujiro that I took you to the rice fields in the wilderness back then, and then carried you to complete the first human gift in my life, right? Then what majesty do I have as a father! Date Harumi's poker face, which has not changed for thousands of years, once again showed an embarrassed expression, the old husband and wife are always the most familiar with each other's temperament and habits, and Date Harumune, who has always been deep and spicy, is still powerless in front of his wife.

"Okay, don't talk about that! Excuse me? Even if Kubohime is a dignified and generous lady again, she can't stand her man's unashamed words, so she slapped away the thief's hand that he quietly stretched out, and asked, "What did His Highness say about the matter between Seijiro and Princess Yoshihime just now?" The concubine listened to it for a long time, but she didn't understand it at all! ”

Date Harumuni hesitated for a moment before he said slowly: "Actually, it was Shijiro who met him, just like the similar thing that his husband and Kubohime experienced back then......" (To be continued......