The family business of the Kira family is thriving, and the retainers are full of joy to celebrate this hard-won victory, but as the governor of the family, Kira Yoshishi is not happy, after this war he figured out many things, staying in really has no development prospects, he can win the Miyoshi family is relying on good luck and nine thousand elite hard work, as well as the advantage of information asymmetry in the open and dark.

It can be said that he has won the Miyoshi family in recent years by killing the other party, but this advantage has also completely disappeared with this battle, whether it is the secret weapon of the navy, or the powerful power of the new musket team, the use of guns and shields, javelins, red cavalry, and the huge secrets of new arms such as the Liudi horse archery cavalry have been completely exposed in broad daylight, and the Miyoshi family will definitely imitate this military system at all costs in the future.

Even if you can't do it, you will be on guard, and it will be extremely difficult to use a trick to trap the Miyoshi family again, and the Miyoshi family will definitely try every means to infiltrate Shiga and Takashima counties, even if the Kira family has Iga and Koga's ninjas, they can't completely stop this infiltration.

And the development foundation of the Kira family has been basically stable, there is no chance to expand again, and his fate is too tightly tied to the shogunate, but he will face great risks, and the shogunate will think of him in any trouble, the days of the Miyoshi family's hegemony are still very long, just because he offended the Miyoshi family so ruthlessly, do you want to mix well in the future?

This time, I was lucky to win the Miyoshi Changqing, but next time, what should I do next time? Is he going to be the captain of the shogunate fire fighting for the rest of his life, what if he misses once and doesn't know which battle he falls and dies heroically in which battle? It didn't meet his wishes, and he wanted to show his talents. He's going to get ahead. He wants to learn from the Great Demon King. He doesn't want to be someone else's stepping stone.

"But where am I supposed to go? Where in the world is there a place for me when I was auspicious? Where is my way? Kira Yoshitoki fell into deep thought.

At the same time, at the beginning of July, there were new changes in the eastern country, Echigo Nagao Keitora was invited by Murakami Yoshikiyoshi and Takanashi Masayori to send troops to Shinano to vent the anger of the people of Kita-Shinano who had lost their territory, and then Nagao Keitora launched a mobilization order and dispatched 5,000 troops to attack Shinano, and the Echigo Army easily defeated the hastily responded Takeda army in Hachimangawa, and almost swept the entire Kita-Shinano in five days in early July. And in one fell swoop, he recaptured Katsura Castle for Murakami Yoshikiyo.

It's a pity that Katsumi Castle, where the Murakami family has lived for generations, has been tossed into ruins by the excessive indiscriminate capture of the Takeda family, and then Nagao Jinghu suggested that he temporarily live in Asahiyama Castle, the residence of Kurita Kanyasu, at Zenkoji Temple, and wait for Katsumi Castle to be repaired before moving back in, Murakami Yoshikiyo didn't think much about it and stationed more than 1,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters in the Zenkoji area.

And Nagao Jinghu continued to sweep the pro-Takeda Hao clan with his military momentum, and handed over the Kaizu Pavilion of the Kiyono clan of the Murakami clan to the pro-Takeda clan, and handed over the defeated Kiyono clan to Murakami Yoshikiyo, who hated and betrayed Murakami, slashed all the men of the Kiyono clan, and the female dependents gave the samurai of the Murakami side as a reward.

Then Nagao Keitora defeated Yashiro and Shiozaki in a row, forcing them to submit, and then emptied the resistance of the Kawanakajima generation. The Nagao Army's defeat of the Kiyono clan greatly deterred the Shinano clan, which had just surrendered to the Takeda family, and at the same time gave many Shinano people the courage to resist the Takeda family.

Throughout July, the Nagao family was able to eliminate all the forces that the Takeda family had worked so hard to root in Kita-Shinano. It was not until the castle guarded by several Takeda retainers in Koji County that he ordered Shi Shiran of the Hokushin Coalition Army to harvest all the ripe rice in front of Toishi Castle, where Sanada Yutaka had a tight handle, and then slowly retreated.

After a period of confusion, the Takeda family, who was celebrating Shinano's pacification at the Tsugasakikan, finally made a new move, and the shocked and angry Takeda Harunobu swore in front of the Nagashi Armor and Hinomaru Imperial Banner that he would take revenge, so he gathered the Takeda family's 5,000 troops to attack Shinano Province just after the autumn harvest in August.

After converging with Shinano's ancestors, the Takeda family's army reached more than 8,000 people, and this time Katsumao Castle, which was being built, was hit by a military disaster again, and a raging fire burned the ancient city where the Murakami family had lived for generations to the ground, and then Takeda Harunobu led a large army to attack Shiota Castle, and Murakami Yoshikiyo, who was hiding in Asahiyama Castle, was shocked and angry, and immediately asked Nagao Keitora of Kasugayama Castle for help.

Perhaps it was the reason for the fall of the ancestral castle this time that Murakami Yoshikiyo was greatly stimulated, and the general Shinano took the wealthy samurai who had lost the land of Kita-Shinano to present an oath to the governor of the Nagao family, who was more than 20 years younger than him, which read, "As long as we can regain the territory that has been passed down from generation to generation, we and other generals of Kita-Shinano are willing to guard the fence for His Royal Highness Jinghu for generations, pioneer in front of the horse, and kill the betrayers and gods together!" ”

At the end of July, after the regular appraisal meeting, Kira Yoshitoki encountered a new trouble, not from him, to be exact, but from Hosokawa Fujitaka, and Kira had to be troubled by it.

In the Sakamoto Castle Honmaru Ohiro room, Kira Yoshitoki sat on the main seat to greet a group of special guests, and at the same time sat with Hosokawa Fujitaka, Kira Yoshitoki stiffened and smiled at the hair on the opposite side A little glorified, between the middle and old age, the old man with kind eyebrows and kind eyebrows danced and spoke.

This old man's name is Numata Mitsukane, Hosokawa Fujitaka's old father-in-law, over fifty years old but energetic, ruddy and shiny to speak full of energy, of course, this is also full of mouth to run the train, regardless of whether the two young people sitting on the hand are willing or not, just talk about the gossip in "The Tale of the Heike Family".

"Speaking of the noble sons of the Liupola family, no matter what kind of famous family, can not be compared with them, the brother-in-law of the Xiangguo, Ping Da Nayan Shi Zhongqing, once said such a thing: 'People who are not from the Ping family, are all lowly', no matter what kind of virtuous king and holy master, and what kind of good ruler, it is inevitable that some boring people will gather in some unnoticed places, spread some gossip, this is a common thing in the world.

However, in the heyday of the Enlightenment Xiangguo, there was no gossip about the Taira clan, because the Inido Xiangguo had a unique arrangement, he selected 300 teenagers of fourteen, five, and six years old, all with short ear-length hair and wearing a red straight jacket, and let them walk around Kyoto to investigate, and when they met someone who spoke ill of the Taira clan, he immediately notified his accomplices to break into his home, confiscate his property and furniture, and arrest the person in the Rokupola Mansion.

Therefore, even if ordinary people see dissatisfaction in their eyes, they do not dare to say it, not only pedestrians on the street, but even the horses and cars passing on the road, and the bald children who see the six poles are far away. ”

Ping Qingsheng was the minister of the Taizheng Dynasty, and after becoming a monk, he was called the Xiangguo of the Dao, and the last sentence was from Chen Hong's "Song of Long Hatred": Regardless of entering and exiting the forbidden door, the chief officials of the Beijing division looked sideways, but it was to describe Yang Guifei's power, which made people both envious and afraid.

This paragraph is also a very famous story in "The Tale of the Heike Family", which is about the Heike family engaging in spy organizations and listening to the speech to coerce the people of Kyoto not to say a bad word about the Heike family, which is also a big example of evaluating Weifuku's self-dictatorship, laying the groundwork for the later rise of Nioh.

With the knowledge of Yoshitoki Kira and Hosokawa Fujitaka, it is natural that they are familiar with "The Tale of the Heike Family", but to highlight their respect for Numata Mitsukane, the two of them have to sit in one position in the Ohiroma and listen to the old man Balabala for a morning.

I can't stand it if I change people, not to mention that Ji Liangyi is not an idler, even if he is idle, he will not listen to his old tunes and repeat his clichés, so he interrupted while the old man was drinking water: "Hehe...... Ueno Kaiden is really an elegant person, but the Ling family really can't interfere, so Ueno Jieden is not ......?"

Numata Mitsukan saw that the signs were wrong, and hurriedly complained: "His Royal Highness Sakamoto! I was really forced to come to the service, but I still have a skill in the next, and I want to be a minister in the Shijiliang family, so as to support the children in the family! ”

Kira Yoshitoki turned his head to look at Hosokawa Fujitaka, and he also smiled helplessly, and he couldn't refuse when it came to this, and then asked: "Okay, what will Ueno Sukeden do, tell me?" Of course, let's not talk about allusions such as "The Tale of the Heike Family". ”

Numata Mitsukan hurriedly said: "In the next meeting, tea ceremony, waka, and some research on sinology, and!" He is very proficient in ape music, and has cooperated with Yuanzhong several times to perform ape music, and the first generation of the Gongfang Wansong Yuan Hall is very appreciative of the music in the next, and he has specially rewarded ten times of money to the next! Why don't I sing a paragraph to the Lord of Kira Palace? ”

“…… Yo! "Mitsukane Numata's voice is indeed very distinctive, even if there is no chaemen accompaniment, there is a different feeling, and the voice is loud and subdued, which is very attractive.......

For example, when the garrison was not far from Kirayoshi, the general Yamaoka Zenjiro Naocho, stretched his neck while beating the beat to listen, but Kira Yoshitoki felt terrible, because he hated ape music very much, such a strange old man actually wanted to go out of Shijira's house, if you see him every day, it is definitely a very painful thing.

With a formulaic smile, Kira Yoshitoki covered his cheeks with a folding fan, and gently turned to Hosokawa Fujitaka and asked, "Fujitaka, why did your father-in-law come out of his own family this time?" ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka also turned his mind sideways and replied with a folding fan covering his face: "There was a sudden civil strife in Kumagawa Castle, Numata Toyocho and Numata Toyokan teamed up to drive his two younger brothers Numata Mitsukiyo and Numata Motomitsu out of Kumagawa Castle, and then each had a faction to fight, and Jiayue was also detained in Honmaru and could not get out, fortunately, the important ministers of the family still cared about a little affection, and secretly let the Jiayue family go, and now Jiayue really has a home and it is difficult to return." ”

"Speaking of which, why didn't your father-in-law go to Takeda Nobutoyo or Asakura Keiki?"

Hosokawa Fujitaka smiled bitterly: "Because the eldest man and the second man are detained in Jiayue, even if they go there, they will be immediately placed under house arrest." ”

"What about the three men's Isshiki family and the four men's Iguchi family?"

"After the third and fourth men were kicked out, they went to their respective fathers-in-law's houses to move the rescuers, and if the family went there, they would also be placed under house arrest as a basis for retaking Kumagawa City." Speaking of this, Hosokawa Fujitaka's face was bitter like a bitter melon. (To be continued......)

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