The Kanto region of the twenty-first year of astronomy has become very calm, and it cannot be said that it is completely calm, at least the war is still burning, but the situation has changed from the siege of the Hojo family by the Eastern Coalition Army to their respective internal strife, and the Yuki family and the Oda family have completely turned their faces, and Yuki is in full swing with the people of Hitachi Province against the Oda clan to attack the residence of the Oda clan, and the Oda clan is not to be outdone and asks for help from the ally Satake clan, at this time Oda and Satake are still allies, so the Satake family has to send some soldiers and horses.

Shimono is also fighting, the civil strife of the Utsunomiya family is not over, Haga Gaoding designs the murder of Mibu Tsunabe and waits for the opportunity to seize Utsunomiya Castle, for the Utsunomiya family's family business, this loyal minister is completely open, poisoning and murder rumors assassination various means emerge in an endless stream, and finally the combination of soft and hard finally sent Utsunomiya Hirotsuna back to Utsunomiya Castle.

But the war in Shimono is far from over, in order to avenge the previous head of the family, the Utsunomiya family began to reorganize and attack the sworn enemy Nasu clan, of course, the Nasu clan is not easy to mess with, he immediately invited the Satake clan of Hitachi as reinforcements, and the two sides pinched each other again in Shimono country.

Satomi Yoshiyao had a very unpleasant life, because his actions in pit Furukawa Gongfang were really retributed, and the flaw in the card of not having a small bow in his hand was exposed at once, and Furukawa Gongfang repeatedly disrespected Satomi Yoshiyao and issued an order to crusade against the Satomi clan, not to mention that the name of the empty head is indeed a little useful, at least the Chiba clan and the Hara clan, who have been suppressed by the Satomi clan, began to make trouble again, and even the real Satoya clan couldn't get along with Satomi Yoshiyao.

And what's worse is that the Satomi family also began to catch fire, and some old ministers of the former Satomi clan who had been suppressed for a long time jumped out and raised anti-flags, on the grounds that Satomi Yoshiyao assassinated the Satomi clan back then. He also found eyewitnesses to tell the story of the original incident. Now I saw that Yiyao couldn't sit still. He could only be busy extinguishing the civil strife in his territory, and he didn't care about Musashi Province at all.

The four countries of Shimono, Shimo, Kamisu, and Hitachi in the Kanto region were all caught in the whirlpool of war, which also gave Hojo Shiyasu a precious respite, and Musashi Province experienced more than two years of baptism of war. Countless villages were burned, peasants fled, the land was desolate, the castles were in tatters, and the castle towns were burned to the ground, and although he eventually won the war, he also paid a terrible price for it.

First of all, because of the years of war in Sagami and Izu, the people of Sagami-Izu have been burdened with heavy military service, husband service, and general service, and in some places there is a trend of political instability, and the people of the country are in turmoil, and there are rumors everywhere that people are panicking, such as that Hojo Shiyasu is an evil ghost who eats the hearts of children.

This kind of rumor of truth and falsehood gave Hojo Shiyasu a headache. It is very easy to defeat an army, but how to appease the people is a headache. This made him have to give up his plan to continue to expand and seize territory, focus on restoring the stability of the people in the territory, and rebuild the economic order of Musashi.

After more than half a year of hard work, it has also achieved a little effect, although it missed the opportunity to continue to expand, but it is also a last resort, Hojo Shiyasu is angry with the Furukawa Gongfang who brought him endless trouble, and he is even more worried about the mysterious death of the Furukawa Gongfang, but the investigation of the Wind Demon is not good and has not found the mastermind behind the scenes, but it was found out that on the night of the incident, the castle tower of the Furukawa Imperial Palace was on fire, causing a riot and causing Ashikaga Haruhi to fall into the well and drown.

He has always suspected that Kai's Takeda Harunobu is making trouble, this guy is even more insidious and cunning than his father, no worse than Hojo Shiyasu in terms of resourcefulness, and may win a little more in terms of viciousness, especially the lack of affection and greed is even more moving, if it weren't for the fact that his cousin Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly put the Hojo family together, and united with Takeda Shinhu to make a mess in Hedong, he and his father really planned to unite with the Imagawa family to completely destroy the Takeda family.

At the same time as the smoke of the Kanto region continued, the cunning Imagawa Yoshimoto finally sent a marriage envoy, since the turbulent changes in Kinai a few months ago, the Imagawa family's original proposal for marriage was silent, until Kira Yoshitoki fought a classic battle in the Katsura River, and after completely defeating the Miyoshi family, Imagawa's attitude changed one hundred and eighty degrees.

The envoys of this marriage not only had an old acquaintance Sekiguchi Kinaga, but also the minister cold spring who had been eating and mixing in Sunfu for a long time, and they brought Imagawa Yoshimoto's handwritten letter, which enthusiastically expressed the application of the Kira family in the battle of Katsurakawa, and also had a great interest in the superb military qualities shown by the Mikawa Army, and then about the marriage between Imagawa and Kira, the daughter of the Ii family, Master Jiro, was adopted by Imagawa Yoshimoto as an adopted daughter, and handed over to the mother of the Imagawa family Shou Guini to teach.

Then he said that the process of teaching etiquette would last for a year, and then he would send his adopted daughter to Sakamoto, and then under the joint witness of the representative of the Imagawa family, Sekiguchi Shinnaga, and the representative of the Kira family, Yamamoto Tokiyuki, the presiding officer of Myounji Temple, and the governor of the Cold Spring family, Reicumaki, the marriage contract was formalized, which also indicated that Kira and the Imagawa family had established a close bond, and not only that Kira Yoshitoki could serve in the shogunate with peace of mind, but that Imagawa Yoshimoto could also suppress the people of Mikawa with peace of mind.

Nagao Keitora went out of Echigo again with 6,000 troops in late August, and after the merger of the 2,000 army of Zenkoji and Kita-Shinano, it also reached 8,000 people, and Takeda Harunobu did not dare to slack off at all after receiving the news, and he set out from Saku-gun with his family's 7,000 troops, and set up his main camp at Shiota Castle that had just been captured, and let Iitomi Toramasa take a special force to station at Muroga Castle in the north, and at the same time summoned the Shinano clan to serve as the vanguard of the servant army.

The Shinano clan that served as the vanguard was defeated by the Nagao army without any suspense, and the Nagao army did not stop to hunt indiscriminately, but chose to directly cross Hachimangahara and capture the Arato Castle across the Katsuro Castle, just when the Takeda family main camp not far from the barren castle felt like a great enemy, Nagao Keitori gave up the attack on the Takeda family main camp, and instead attacked Aoyagi Castle across the Baba Pass, his purpose was obviously to enter Azumino, and the target was the territory of the former Ogasawara clan and the newly built Fukashi Castle.

Just when the Takeda family's army was in turmoil, the scheming Takeda Harunobu moved, he chose to attack Arato Castle at night to cut off the grain route of the Longtail Legion, and then crossed the Baba Pass to attack the Longtail Legion who was attacking Aoyagi Castle, and he planned to close the door here to fight the dogs. The military strength of the Long Tail family is completely rounded.

And the long-tailed Jinghu's response is also a genius. When he received the Takeda Army rushing towards Aoyagi Castle. Immediately led the Nagao Army to turn around and cross the Baba Pass, and went straight to the temporary camp of the Takeda Army, Shiota Castle, and Takeda Harunobu, who received the information, was also shocked and worried, so he could only immediately stop the march and return to Yantian Castle with the army in a gray manner.

What he considered was that once Nagao Keiho captured Shiota Castle, he would take away the ordnance and food stored in the Takeda Army's temporary camp, and the Nagao Army, which had received a large amount of supplies, would be unstoppable, and he would inevitably divide part of the main force and drive straight into the Takeda Army and even Saku, but at this time, the countrymen of Saku and Koho were still in the Takeda Army. The rear was empty, and there was no main force to defend the city, and he attacked the southern part of Shinano, and the consequences were unimaginable.

Takeda Harunobu gave up, so that the two sides returned to the original point, Nagao Keiho recaptured the Wild Castle abandoned by the Takeda family, and there was no intention to repeat the old trick of crossing the Baba Pass to attack Minami Shinano, Takeda Harunobu was also shocked by Nagao Keihu's elusive tactics, and also wanted to wait and see what happened, and did not plan further.

Neither side was very warlike, and this awkward confrontation lasted until the end of the autumn harvest in mid-September, when the Chihisa clan, a native of Minami Shinano, raised a flag against him. Nobuyo Akiyama was alone and deserved to send a plea to the Takeda family on the front line, and Takeda Harunobu had to send an envoy to negotiate a peace agreement with the Nagao family.

The Nagao family was also very satisfied with the raid. Now that the autumn harvest is over, there is no need to continue to stay, and after some bargaining, in the second half of that month, the Takeda family took the lead in announcing the withdrawal of troops, and then Nagao Jinghu also announced his retirement, and the two sides agreed to lead the troops back to China with each other's non-fight and peace agreement.

At Zenko-ji Temple, Nagao Keitora persuaded Murakami Yoshikiyo to give up the construction of Katsuo Castle for the time being, and then ordered someone to build Kaizu Castle on the site of the Kaitsu Pavilion of the Kiyono clan, and ordered Yoshie Keishi, Yasuda Keimoto, and Kakizaki Keike to be stationed at Yashiro Castle, Shiozaki Castle, and Arato Castle respectively, and Murakami Yoshikiyo sat in Kaizu Castle in the rear and took on the responsibility of providing assistance at any time.

At the same time, he also asked Usami Dingman, with a secret order to find Murakami Yoshikiyo, so that he and Usami Dingman and Echigo's generals co-opted to suppress the countrymen of Kitashinano, all the Hao clans who rebelled against the Echigo army were to be eradicated, and at the same time to ensure the safety of those who surrendered to the Hao clans, which was also the first step of Nagao Jinghu's quest for change, and Kira Yoshitoki's letter gave him great inspiration.

Later, Nagao Jinghu also found Zenkoji Temple Beidang Kurita Kananyasu, and told him that the area of Kawanakajima Island, where the Zenkoji Hirano is located, will soon be a war, and Zenkoji Temple will inevitably be the main point of contention between the two families, and legend has it that Takeda Harunobu was brutal and greedy, slaughtered 3,000 people in the Battle of Oda Ihara and piled up a Kyoto Temple, and even sold all civilians as slaves and maids, for the sake of Zenko-ji Temple, he suggested that he should first move back to the original location after the Shinano was pacified.

Nagao Keitori also told Kurita Kanyasu that Takeda Harunobu had put the Suwa Dharma on his head in order to obtain the name of the leader of the Shinano people, and the military flag also had a side written "Suwa Daimyojin", so it was very likely that he would follow the influence of the Suwa lineage to persecute Zenko-ji Temple, which had fallen to the Nagao family, in fact, it was still necessary to let Kurita Kanyasu go to Echigo to establish a Zenko-ji Temple, and invite the treasure of Zenko-ji Temple, "Ichiko Three Amitabha Nyorai", to Echigo.

Although Kurita Kanyasu was reluctant to give up his homeland, he was still very worried about the comfort of Zenko-ji, especially the three glazed absolute secret Buddha statues in the temple, which were simply his lifeblood, because the historically strong samurai took away the Buddha statues in order to force Zenko-ji to surrender, so he decided to accept Nagao Keitor's invitation to build a new Zenko-ji Temple at the site of Naoetsu, near Kasugayama Castle in Echigo's Sekigawa, for which Nagao Keitora also specially offered a thousand kan to pay money.

With the influence of the migration of Zenko-ji Temple, the people of Kita-Shinano and Shinano as a whole, Ueno, Echigo, and even the entire Hokuriku and Kanto regions had a huge impact, and everyone from the daimyo and the people of the country to the merchants and farmers were very concerned about this event, and the reason for this is that Zenko-ji Temple has a unique status, especially the influence on Shinano Province and even on the Suwa Taisha Shrine in Minami-Shinano.

Zenko-ji Temple is a non-sectarian temple, it was born before the separation of the Buddhist sect in the middle court, founded in the third year of Emperor Huangji (644 AD), the foundation of Zenko-ji Temple is the Emperor Huanggoku, which enshrines the three Buddha statues of Amitabha Nyorai, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Daishi Zhi Bodhisattva, the reason why these three Buddha statues are so valuable is that the absolute tantric Buddha deity invited from Baekje Yuandu, and its precepts are so strict that even Zenko-ji Temple and the senior monks of the past cannot see all its honor.

According to the legend of the Kamakura period when Zenko-ji Temple was burned down, these were the three glazed absolute secret Buddha statues, and although Zenko-ji Temple was burned down, the three glazed absolute secret Buddha statues enshrined in the glazed altar of the main hall were preserved, and then after the reconstruction of Zenko-ji Temple, the three absolute secret Buddhas of Zenko-ji Temple were regarded as more important than life.

The so-called Esoteric Buddha is a form of worship that is also extremely rare in the Ming Dynasty, due to the different beliefs and precepts, the Esoteric Buddha is a non-public Buddha statue, and because of the different doctrines and regulations of various sects, there will be a certain period of public worship, but the absolute Esoteric Buddha refers to the Buddha statue that is completely not public, and no one can see the deity except for external grabbing.

Zenko-ji Temple has a public worship once every seven years, and in the eastern country it is also called the grand ceremony of the Gokai, and the three Amitabha statues that are made public in the Gokaitaku are not the Buddha statues of the Buddha, but the Buddha statues that imitate the Buddha-figures, and in Japan they call them Gozen-ritsu, which is a substitute Buddha statue enshrined in front of the Buddha-figure cabinet.

There will be a golden curtain in front of the glass altar in normal times, and only in the early morning and noon of a certain day at a certain time the curtain will be opened, and then you can only visit the golden glass altar in the Gozenri, the status of the Japanese Buddhist community is extremely high, if it is not for the lack of sectarian concept competition, and is located in the Shinano mountains far away from Gyeonggi, I am afraid that the status will be higher than the five mountains.

Under the influence of the relocation of Zenko-ji Temple, the originally wavering people of Kita-Shinano once again fell to the side of Nagao, and the Shinano people who originally fell to the Takeda side began to waver, and except for a very small number of Shinano people who firmly supported the Takeda family, many people began to think carefully.

At this time, the noisy people of Minami Shinano were also more cheerful, including the Kiso family in Fukushima Castle, which began to be unstable, and the Suwa County and Matsumoto Basin were shaken to varying degrees, which made the Takeda family feel very distressed. (To be continued......)