In the first month of the fourth year of Hongji, the first day of the first day of the court was particularly lively, and people from all walks of life such as Echigo, Ueno, and Shinano gathered here, and more Daimyo from all parties, such as the Echichu Shiina clan, the Shimonono Sano clan, the Shimochi Chiba clan, the Aizu Ashina clan, and the Dewa Mogami clan, sent envoys to celebrate, and they nominally played the banner of celebrating the newly released three ministers, but in fact they came to take the initiative to establish a good relationship with the hot Echigo.

Other Chinese people came over, but the Ashina Mori clan and Mogami Yoshimori also sent messengers to run over to the city to celebrate, and the sycophants sprayed out like they didn't want money, and they couldn't wait to stick their faces over, so disgusting that even the other envoys couldn't look at it, so everyone was a samurai family, where did they have such a low price, and most of the people who came to congratulate them didn't understand the fear of these two families.

For the envoys of these two families, the measures taken by the Kira family are to open the door to welcome guests, as long as you dare to come over, I will welcome them, and the gifts will be accepted in full, but they will not talk to you about any problems, everyone laughs and eats and drinks all as a New Year's party, and the ambiguous attitude turns the two messengers anxiously, but there is no better way to deal with it, so you can only accompany everyone to eat, drink and have fun with a look that you want to laugh but can't laugh and want to cry and dare not cry.

The spring mountain castle is lit up and down with a festive and lively atmosphere, and the banquet has not stopped since the beginning of the first month, since the imperial court announced the promotion of Kira Yoshiro to the three, the name of the long-tailed tiger princess has also become the tiger royal platform, and the maids of the spring mountain castle no longer have to worry about the awkward title of the two tiger kings.

The envoy officially announced by the imperial court is still out of Sichuan in the sunny season, and with it comes the Tongmi, the cousin who came to Echigo for a few days to eat and drink on the occasion of official travel for the imperial court. Now his life is really desireless. The three lieutenant generals and left guards were very satisfied.

The few merchant houses operating in Kyoto dare not say that the daily income is definitely better than the previous days of guarding a few granges and worrying about the ground servants making trouble. His married life with Kuga Rongzi is also very happy, it is said that Kira Yoshitoki's sister-in-law with a pungent personality is pregnant and ready to give birth, and the happy smile revealed between the words makes Kira Yoshitoki very jealous, reflecting that he has not been touched by women until now, it is really a failure.

He also told Kira Yoshitoki a piece of news that the imperial court intended to move the position of the Intermediate Minister, probably to move the official position of the Minister of the Interior, but the Intermediate Court Tongwei did not plan to follow for the time being, because the Imperial Court wanted to use the price of this Minister of the Interior. Replacing the right minister of the father-in-law of the middle court, Kuga Harumi, the person who promoted this appointment was none other than the former Sekihaku Nijo Harora.

It can be seen from this that there is still a lot of voice in the imperial court for the emerging alliance of the Minister's Group, and the Kujo and Ichijo Secretaries group represented by Nijo Harara, and the Ichijo Minister's Group have always been the political enemies of the Konoe and Eagle Secretaries groups represented by the former heirs of Konoe, and it is not surprising that the two have won and lost each other for three or four hundred years, but in recent years, the signs have clearly leaned towards the side of the Konoe family, and many neutral Ministers' families have been pulled into the carriage of the Konoe family, and a hidden force behind this is the Kamisuyamaga family from the shogunate faction.

Nijo Harura soon discovered that the political factions of the Kamiashikaga clan were very complicated, and a new magnate who had been away from the center of power in Kyoto for several years still maintained absolute influence over Kyoto, and a large number of ministers' families, such as Konoe, Kuga, Sanjo, Imadegawa, Tokudaiji, Sanjonishi, and Chuinin, all had very close contacts with the Kamiashikaga family.

The more he investigated, the more frightened he became. The left minister of Sekihaku is the righteous brother of the former heir of Konoe and the righteous brother of Yoshitoki Kira, and the right minister is the uncle of the former heir of Konoe. At the same time, it is also the in-law of the middle court of the middle court, and the middle court is the uncle of Kira Yoshishi, and this layer of relationship becomes a new elite group far beyond the original faction.

Therefore, Nijo Harira wants to break this power net, first of all, to clean up the most powerful link, Kuga Haritsu, his method is to use his in-laws to serve as the Minister of the Interior as bait, forcing the middle court family to betray the interests of Kuga Haruntong in order to bite the hook, this strategy is not hidden or clever, but it is very tempting enough.

The Intermediate Yuan Tong thought about it for a long time or rejected this proposal, he knew very well that once he became the Minister of the Interior, he would have to resign automatically for two or three years at most, after all, the family of the Intermediate Court was only the minister's family and not the Tsinghua family, and he couldn't always occupy the position of the Minister of the Interior, and he still wanted to wait for a few years.

As soon as the middle court was on the front foot, Odate Harumitsu led a huge team to Kasuga Yamajo Castle, he came to announce the latest appointment of the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiteru's imperial book did not have the habit of old ladies wrapping footcloths, just a few lines to the effect that Kira Yoshitoki was appointed as the guardian of Ueno, and under his duties, the people of Ueno should be impartial and law-abiding, and make more efforts to revitalize the cause of the shogunate.

The edict announced that the people of Ueno Kuniren cheered regardless of their true feelings or falsehoods, this is the latest guardian appointed by the shogunate to show support no matter what they think, in fact, the shogunate official Ashikaga Yoshiteru is still very excited, this is the first Kanto state recovered by the shogunate for Kira Yoshito, and it is also the first comprehensive penetration of the shogunate into the Kanto region, this news will be excited if the ancestors of the past generations know about it underground.

When it comes to the Muromachi shogunate, people's impression is that there is endless turmoil, almost compared with the congenital bad Kamakura shogunate, although it did not play the shogun's concubine to death like the Kamakura shogunate, but the behavior of killing the general and exiled the general to manipulate the inheritance is still severe, and the most serious internal trouble of the Muromachi shogunate is the eight countries of Kanto outside the independent shogunate, and how many generations of the difficult Kanto princes have been obsessed with Kamiro to usurp the position of the shogun, which has always been a major problem for the shogunate.

Since the Onin Rebellion, the authority of the shogunate has declined more and more, and the Kanto Gongfang has become a marionette in the hands of the Hojo family.

The clouds and rain in Echigo during the Kira Yoshitoshi not only caused the Kanto region to shake up and down, but also the west and north of the Ha Oku, Hokuriku, and Tokai all spread the appearance of two military gods in Echigo, one is the Ashikaga Kamizaburo of the Kawachi Genji clan, and the other is the Nagao Heizo Keitor, the military god of the Bando Taira clan. At the turn of the summer and autumn of the third year of Hongji. The two staged a big drama in the eastern country.

Nagao Keitora defeated Hojo Shiyasu's army of 40,000 with a division of 10,000. Eight thousand were killed and 6,000 were captured alive, and this battle lost the horror of the Kanto group, and since then no one knows the name of the dragon of Echigo, the name of the "Ranlong Banner" and the name of the "Black Dragon Cavalry" spread all over the world, and the princes of the sixty-six countries in the world were also shocked.

Legend has it that Echigo gathered a group of immortal legions in the Yellow Springs, and Zhong Kui, the general of the Black Dragoons, was three feet tall with green fangs, and he could drink the water of the Tone River by swallowing a thousand live cattle in one meal, and his strength was infinite. Single-handedly captured the Kanto Princess, captured the Hojo clan alive, and killed Hojo's 3,000 cavalry with only one person, and was a general of ghosts and gods with great skills through the sky, and there are more bizarre legends circulating among the people, and various rumors describe Echigo as extremely bizarre.

Yoshitoki Kira killed 10,000 people of the Takeda army with an army of 10,000 and captured more than 6,000 alive, and killed more than 100 famous samurai including Takeda Nobuyoshi, and thousands of unknown people, and captured alive Takeda Yoshinobu and Takeda Nobuyoshi, including many ministers of the humerus, and for a time Shinano and Ueno were all in the pockets of the Kira family, and the "people with lofty ideals" of Kanto and Ha Oku were shocked and couldn't sleep at night.

It is said that the battle was particularly fierce. The weeds on Kawanaka Island were stained red with blood, and Takeda Harunobu was in danger of being stabbed in his body, and he was lucky enough to hide in Kai to recuperate. Veterans such as Masatake Komai Shoshi Shomi, Imai Sagami Nobufu, and his younger brother Imai Toranobu were not so lucky, and they died soon after returning to Kai, announcing the decline of the once-prosperous Takeda family.

Ueno Province can be regarded as a first-class power in the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto, Ueno Country was a country in the Heian period, Ueno Mamoru can only be a prince who can concurrently serve, since the establishment of the Muromachi Shogunate, it belongs to the Kanto Princes and the core territory of the Uesugi family in Yamachi, and the shogunate's lack of actual control over the Ueno country is an indisputable fact, and this time it was taken back by the Kira family lightly, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of the wishes of more than ten generations of shoguns.

Although Ashikaga Yoshiteru did not want to see Kira Yoshitoki's successive victories emotionally, this kind of private little thought could not be taken out to talk about things, and he was more worried that doing so would cause an uproar in the world and leave the world with a bad image of being vicious and ruthless to the heroes, and the revival and support of the shogunate could not be separated from the support of the Kira family, and he could not do the stupid thing of self-destruction of the Great Wall.

Even if all this is not so important, just looking at the money and food paid for the annual regular rules is a lot of timely and thoughtful, asking the official to take the initiative to communicate with the shogunate and seal a lot of money, from top to bottom the shogunate ministers are very satisfied, he, the shogunate is now more and more authoritative, ushered in the cost of sending it is quite expensive, just took out 10,000 kan for the emperor to get the funeral of the previous emperor, if he left Kira Yoshiro when the money and food to support him where is the next 10,000 kanwen to support the emperor, not to mention the cause of the shogunate to welcome all kinds of daimyos, The Hao family was busy with traffic, and the scene of the public party sending money.

Harumitsu Odate, who stayed in Kasugayama Castle for a few days, explained in detail the complex forms of Kinai to Kira Yoshitoki, focusing on the influence of the Kira family on Kinai in Shiga and Takashima Prefectures, as well as the increasingly obvious movements of Rokkaku Yoshiken, and his implication was that he hoped that Kira Yoshitoki would be more prepared and be careful that this person would attack the two counties at any time.

This is what Harumitsu Odate explained to him in private, Ashikaga Yoshiki did not let him tell this information, this kind old man is now the fourth Shimochichi Okumori, he is getting older but still in good spirits, and he has a heart-to-heart exhortation to Kira Yoshitoki, hoping that he can pay more attention to Kinai's behavior, after all, he is from Kinai and there is the root of the shogunate.

Kira Yoshitoki was very happy with the old man's admonition, and had the heart to persuade him to stay in Echigo as a diplomat of the Kira family, the old man was happy with his invitation but said that he was old, and in a few years he would retire to retire in Kyoto, but his son Odate Glow was twenty-two years old this year, and the young man did not have much status in the shogunate, so he could come to Echigo to help the Kira family, after all, the same shogunate could help each other to make the shogunate better.

Odate Harumitsu hurried away, in fact, he had already mastered the information he gave, and it was not a day or two that Rokkaku Yoshiken's thief was not dead, and the 5,000 Omi New Army was sent to Echigo for training in order to deal with the increasingly serious provocation, and at the end of the year, he asked Yamamoto Tokiyuki to recruit another 5,000 new troops in Vietaka for training, and use these 5,000 new troops to replace the remaining 2,500 Omi New Army.

After two years of hard training, half of them died after only a few months of fighting, and it is false to say that they are not distressed, if it were not for the desperate persistence of this group of new troops, they would definitely not be able to hold Matsukura Castle if they were replaced by 10,000 national troops, and they experienced a lot in just a few months. Know how to defend the city and how to fight. Be fully prepared for every battle. In case of emergency, there is no hurry or impatience, and the greatest gain is to successfully complete the transformation of the recruit egg to the elite division.

These two thousand five hundred people will return to Omi by boat when the spring flowers are blooming, and Nakajo Tokihide needs this group of elite towns, these two counties have not experienced war for several years, and even the spirit of the samurai is gradually becoming lazy, so he needs this kind of samurai killed from the frontline battlefield to defend the stall, and at the same time, he also plans to transfer another 3,000 soldiers from Omi to rotate the garrison, to hone the fighting will of the Omi samurai in battle, and by the way, to find some soldiers for himself.

In the first month, there are many feasts for days. Kira Yoshitoki only appeared a few times in the first few days, and the banquets behind were all presided over by the genealogy, and Nagao Keitora announced that honoring Yoshiro Yoshitoki was only the beginning, and it still took a process to reverse the mentality of the Echigo people, and the agricultural development of Shinano and Ueno was not a sentence that could be summed up by following the Echigo model, and squeezing the government affairs for half a year was stacked on the desk, which really gave him a headache.

When he was having a headache about the paperwork related to the development of Niigata Nitta, the construction of river defenses, and the trial of rice-wheat rotation for a year, something happened that did not annoy him, and Saito Asanobu found him with a sad face. Wailing: "The town government, please be the master of my pilgrimage!" Ah Ju is living a hard life now, but today she has the idea of suicide. If the maid hadn't found out, she would have left me! Woohoo......"

Kira Yoshishi stood up suddenly, and hurriedly asked, "Stop!" You calm down and tell Yu first, what the hell is going on? How is Sister Aju now? Are there any dangers? Do you need to ask Mr. Sixteen Wenqian to come for treatment? Where is Sister Ju now? ”

"Ah Ju is not in danger, but he is hiding a dagger in his hand and is ready to find a short view, but he was knocked into by a few little maids who happened to be cleaning the house, and he was not injured but his spirit was very low, holding the child and crying and crying, which broke my heart! Woo woo......" Saito Asanobu said upside down, intermittently for a long time before he explained clearly.

As soon as he finished speaking, this one began to cry again, and Kira Yoshishi was disturbed by his mental confusion by howling and crying at his throat, who would have thought that this seven-foot high-spirited man who killed people on the battlefield and shocked Kanto would cry like a little doll, a handful of snot and tears, just like a dead old lady.

"Don't cry! See what you look like and listen to me! ”

Saito Asanobu stopped crying immediately, pulled out an embroidered handkerchief out of nowhere and wiped it a few times on his face, and said in his low and hoarse broken gong voice: "Didn't you already tell the town government about this two months in advance?" It's not because Ah Ju gave birth to a pair of twin daughters! They have been saying that the twin girls are unlucky for months! Ah Ju is depressed these days, but she doesn't want to kill herself! ”

Kira Yoshishi's brows furrowed: "What did you say about your baby girl!" Yu knew about this, and Yu also asked Ah Hu to take gifts to see the two little princesses of the Saito family, Ah Hu told Yu that these two little princesses are very beautiful and cute, not at all like you, the five big and three coarse, why are the twin daughters unlucky? ”

"They say twins are unlucky, and so are twins......"

"Wait!" Kira Yoshishi roared murderously: "Which of them? Who said that? After reporting the name, Yu had to ask them face to face, who was so bold to tell right and wrong behind his back, and didn't know that the two tongues were guilty of breaking the precepts? ”

"......" This time it was replaced by Saito Asanobu who didn't dare to speak, he didn't dare to say who it was, but Kira Yoshitoki could also guess that eighty percent was Echigo's group of bastards who were idle and sore and were talking cheaply.

Thinking of this, Kira Yoshitoki's face suddenly became gloomy: "It's those bastards who are talking again, right?" Can't you find out if you don't say Yu? You wait, it won't take me half a day to catch all these bastards, dare to talk about Sister Aju's daughter, Sister Aju almost died, is Yu, the general of the town guard, muddy? Hum! ”

"But there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a restrictive word or deed in the duties of the town government." Saito Asanobu subconsciously took another sentence, and at that time, he met the sharp eyes like a knife, and quickly lowered his head and muttered: "They don't dare to talk about the town government, and besides, this is also an unintentional mistake, if it is really because of the minister's family affairs to damage the reputation of the town government, it will not be good, I am not a person who does not know good and bad, the town government does this has advantages and disadvantages, and the disadvantage is that it makes Aju bear greater criticism, and she will definitely live a very unhappy life." ”

Saito Asanobu's last sentence points to the key point of Kira Yoshito, he knows too well the character of Sister Aju, a silly girl with a rough personality likes to live a simple and peaceful life the most, such punishment not only does not help solve the problem, but will make things more complicated, and the family of the samurai who has been punished may spread more rumors, so that she has no reason to bear a psychological pressure, and she also has to bear the heavy burden of Ji Liang Yoshitoki's sister to mutate a crime.

Kira Yoshishi was silent for a long time, and sighed: "...... You're right, Yu can't do this, Yu has to consider the views of the retainers and samurai, and the burden of Sister Aju's heart, but the people who should be punished can't do it, just like Yu's ups and downs in the past few years, how many times should he do it but can't do it because of such and such scruples, people in troubled times have to be bound by the shackles of the old rules left over from this prosperous world, so that I am unhappy and unhappy, this is the troubled times, this is the reality! ”

"Town Government ......"

"Yu is fine, it's just a feeling...... Or talk about your business, Sister Aju gave birth to twin daughters very well, this is the blessing accumulated by your Saito family for several generations, it's not an unlucky thing, Yu is the most unbelieving in the legend of evil ghosts and demons, what twin children must die or both must die, this is what kind of superstitious stupid words, pointing to a stone and saying that it is a god, pointing to a big tree and saying that it is a god, what cats and dogs can become gods and are not afraid of Gao Tianyuan being crowded! Why can't they have a twin god when they have so many gods? ”

"The town government! Please be careful! Saito Asanobu was frightened and shuddered, where would he dare to imagine that Kira Yoshitoshi would spray the entire Shinto religion with one mouth, and rumors such as twins being demon incarnations are said to be from Shintoism, and the folk village villagers don't know if it's true or not, anyway, the priests say so, and they all believe it. (To be continued......)