Asahina Nobu nodded thoughtfully, but secretly looked at the expressions of the two brothers, Okabe Masana and Okabe Motonobu, the Okabe clan is the Fujiwara Minami family, the Kudo clan is also a big samurai, in the Imagawa family's system, the Okabe clan has always served as a powerful lineage, and the identity of the super Bina family is similar, so Asahina Shinji pays more attention to their clan.

Okabe Tadajiro is a member of Okabe Masatsuna, and he is still a stunned young man who has just turned twenty, and he can't say such an orderly word with his past experience, and Asahina Shinji thinks that it is more likely that the two brothers of the Okabe family instructed him to express some opinions through the mouth of this insignificant boy, even if he says the wrong thing and causes trouble, he can push it clean without the slightest trouble.

"What a cunning bastard!" Asahina Shinji scolded secretly, and said in his heart that you have a crowd when I am a bare pole commander of Bina's family, and I gave a look at my own sect of Asahi Bina's Yuanzhi.

Asahina Motochi jumped out knowingly and said: "In the past half a year, the war in Suruga Kunichu has been continuous, and under the influence of the large-scale invasion of the Takeda army, the people of Sunfu have been shattered, and the people have been displaced, and the allies of the Sagami Hojo clan have been trapped in Odawara Castle, so that the Tokaido trade route has blocked the transmission of news and is almost none, so you probably don't know an important piece of information!" ”

"What information?"

"His Royal Highness the Shogunate of Edo Castle shocked the Kanto region, not only easily took the Musashi Kingdom, but also swept the Shimoki Province one after another, and the Shimono Kingdom subdued the group of arrogant Kwantung samurai, His Royal Highness the Shogunate Princesses have allowed His Royal Highness the Shogunate to serve as the new generation of the Kanto Princes, that is to say, he is about to ascend the throne as the Edo Prince, do you know what this means?" Asahina Motochi looked at the samurai in the room with a strange expression.

There was a sudden gasp in the room, and the sound of holding his breath was almost as good as Shina Hina. Then he whispered, "Maybe it won't be long." The lord of Kakegawa Castle will go to Edo Castle to join His Royal Highness the Princess. We don't know how much bloodshed this will cause in Suruga Province, but are we still confused because we don't know what the future holds? ”

"Shhh This ......" Okabe Masatsuna's face changed and he immediately returned to Furui Wubo's expression, and countless waves rose in his heart, and he glanced at the samurai in the room with their mouths wide open and stunned, and he could guess what words they were thinking about in their hearts, and the shock in their hearts must not be smaller than him.

Asahina Shinji seems to know a lot of insiders, and as he peels back the cocoon, the people of Suruga Province, who have been closed for more than half a year, know about the changes in Kanto, compared to half a year ago, when they only lost Musashi and still have the strength to resist. In the past six months, the Kamikawa Ashikaga family has gone on a thunderous rampage, killing most of the Kanto, and the Suruga samurai were stunned and didn't dare to move for a long time.

"Aren't we waiting...... In that case......" Several samurai muttered a few words vaguely, expressing the emotions stirring in their hearts with a look of life and hell, this information is like a long drought and a rain for the Imagawa family, and the Ashikaga family or the Kanto Ashikaga can't hide a fact, the Imagawa clan is really a member of the Ashikaga Yoshito, and the relationship is second only to the close relatives of the Mikawa Kira family.

Almost everyone can be sure that the Imagawa clan will definitely go to Edo Castle, and they can also be sure that Takeda Shingen will not dare to stop him easily, so it seems that the choice of these Imagawa family's vassals suddenly adds a shortcut to the south, and perhaps they don't have to worry about the reputation of the Takeda family being poked in the back. As long as it is properly controlled, it can completely evolve into a posture of loyal ministers who will not hesitate to save the country for the savior.

Thinking of this, not only the samurai present cheered, but even the gloomy Okabe Masatsuna was very excited. It was the first time in more than half a year that he had a big smile, and the weight of the pressure was like a Mount Fuji weighing on his head, almost crushing his spine together, but it all seemed to be different today.

Asahina Shinji will not lie, at least not to the grasshopper on a rope, the accomplice of the same origin who is related to the same background and participated in the Richi scheme, and the big thing about the change of Ashikaga to Kanto Ashikaga must soon spread all over the world, as long as a few henchmen are sent to Owari Province to inquire, the truth can be verified.

Asahina Shinji would never be stupid enough to coax them with a fake news that was destined to be exposed, betraying his accomplices would not do him any good, it would only make Takeda Shingen deepen his jealousy and vigilance against him, in the end, the people of the foreign country will always be inferior, but anyone who guards the genealogy of the daimyo is not willing to be a foreign countryman.

They are not those insignificant people who yearn for freedom, many of those people have been wild for hundreds of years, and even some of them are originally from the evil party composed of mountain bandits and robbers in the Kamakura period, they just want to mix with the outside and do not want to be bound genealogy retainers, this tiresome person is the representative of most of the small country lords.

These genealogical retainers are all descendants of some families and even from famous martial families, and there are many people in the family who have served a family for hundreds of years, so that they are suddenly lowered by a level as if they entered the reserve army from the regular army, although it is easier and not to be bound by so many rules, but I always feel that it is not a taste in my heart.

The genealogy of the Imagawa family does not dare to say that all of them have been handed down from the Kamakura period, but there are still some genealogy retainers who followed the Imagawa family and the Imagawa Sadashi brothers in the Northern and Southern Dynasties era.

The Imagawa family can call for wind and rain in Tokaido when they take the Hosokawa family's doorway, and the Kamikawa Ashikaga family can only keep warm with the three-pipe leader of the difficult brother Owari Spo clan, until the past ten years, it is even more inseparable from the sword and soldiers, so that Ashikaga Yoshito, who is about to succeed to the Kanto Prince, is also forced to use "Kamiraku" to avoid the coercion of the Imagawa family.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki's eldest brother Kira Yoshigo died tragically in Yamian Mountain is also a good thing done by Imagawa Yoshimoto, this is not a good thing to say at all, but now the situation has come to a shocking reversal, becoming Ashikaga Yoshitoki is strong Imagawa clan is really weak, Ashikaga Yoshitoki is unwilling to admit submission, but it does not mean that Imagawa clan really has the backbone and does not admit it.

As long as Allah of the Imagawa clan goes to meet him as a courtesy, no matter how much anger Ashikaga Yoshitoki has, it is impossible to do anything to him, and the Imagawa clan is really not the stupid Ashikaga Fujimasa or the irrelevant Oda. There are still a lot of loyal genealogies of the Imagawa family. Imagawa himself is not a good-for-nothing fool. It's just that his wise and martial father died too early and didn't have a chance to teach him well.

Although his political skills are sloppy and naïve, and his military strategy and wisdom are still in a blank state to be developed, he still has the advantage that he is smart and studious, proficient in etiquette and culture, whether it is Waka Keju tea ceremony calligraphy has extraordinary attainments, and has his father's training of brilliant internal affairs skills, only need to cultivate basic political concepts and means of doing things is an excellent talent.

The Imagawa clan really defected to the Kanto Princess, and their group of retainers who were depressed to death could turn around and take charge, and maybe they could come back with a big counterattack to beat the invading Takeda family back. It is believed that Takeda Shingen, who was celebrating the victory with great fanfare, quickly realized this, but even if he thought of this contradiction, he could not do anything about it.

I believe that any samurai can see that Takeda Shingen does not dare to offend the Kanto Princess, and he has almost no power to fight back after being defeated and retreated in the battle, and he has played a few tricks to deal with Echigo and was all abolished, and in turn he used a move to secretly launch it at the last moment, and almost cut off Takeda Shingen's head, this back and forth has long been completely extinguished Takeda Shingen's mind against the Kanto Princess, and he will never dare to provoke the Kanto Princess.

The Kanto government is eyeing Suruga Province, and if Takeda Shingen dares to make a big move, he will die. Doing nothing would be a chronic suicide, and all he could do was speed up the pace of the attack on Tokaido. Strive to gradually use the method of expansion and sub-sealing to dismantle the Suruga ancestors, but it is impossible to see how many changes will be caused by doing so, and according to this situation, the Takeda family will probably not be able to live so smoothly.

The last thing in the world is the smart people, even the yellow-haired and blue-eyed Nanban people they look down on can build enviable ships and the collapse of the country, and there is no shortage of smart people in the Imagawa retainers, but some people can see some changes clearly but lack decisiveness, always looking ahead and thinking about the future, gaining and missing good opportunities.

But this time it's really different, Richi to the Takeda family has already shown that these people have the determination to break the cauldron, seeing that the Takeda family, a big ship that is luxurious on the surface but actually hides crises everywhere, is in danger, these samurai immediately began to think about how to take advantage of a better opportunity to betray, and the smart samurai have already guessed that Asahina Shinji is most likely to have a way to go up to the Ashikaga family, so that he can be the first to get the news when everyone is not aware of the changes in Kanto.

"I vaguely remember that Suruga Moriden is the old acquaintance of Yamamoto Sado Moriden! Sado Shouden sits in Omi and defeats two powerful daimyo of Asakura and Asai in a row, and its strength is unfathomable! After Okabe Motonobu's reminder, many of the samurai present remembered that Asahina Motocho had a great kindness to Yamamoto Tokiyuki, and Asahina Shinji had also followed him for a period of time to learn the art of military strategy and castle building, and he barely had a relationship between a teacher and a friend.

With this relationship, the samurai present had a different idea, and most of the asahina Shinji had secretly joined the Kamisuashikaga family, climbed the big tree and then came back to take the second battle to reverse their gang, this is the rhythm of making great contributions and receiving rewards, and immediately the eyes of the samurai were red with envy.

Everyone loves to hug their thighs, but some thighs can't be hugged because of a serious conflict with their own interests and interests, and they are unwilling to let the Suruga ancestors join the Takeda family, and it is almost impossible to let them take refuge in the Matsudaira family now, but Ashikaga Yoshitoki is not among them, and he is definitely in line with the interests of the samurai of the Imagawa family and will not betray their own interests.

"I still remember the figure of the lame one-eyed samurai wandering outside the city of Junfu, who would have thought that in less than twenty years, the circumstances of this life would have changed so much!" The Geshan clan was envious to death, wishing that he was the lame ronin who was recruited to Sanhe back then.

The excited samurai whispered about the Kanto region, trying to extract more useful information from Asahina Shinji's mouth, and several members of the Asahina family were happy to enjoy the treatment of the stars holding the moon, and the great success of Ashikaga Yoshitoki shocked and inspired the fading confidence of many samurai, and some samurai began to consider the merits of Ashikaga Yoshitoki.

First of all, the Ashikaga family is very strong, and it is not too much to call it the strongest in Kanto under its elite brave and good fighting, and as for the general, it is a luxurious combination, Ashikaga Yoshitoki himself is a top general in military strategy, and the joint battle under his command has never been defeated in the joint battle commanded by himself for more than ten years, and the Uesugi Terutora has also commanded the army for more than ten years. The joint battle commanded by himself has not been defeated either. The rest of the generals all have the strength of Hojo Tsunari at this level. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the Takeda family can resist it.

Secondly, Ashikaga Yoshitoki has always had a good reputation in Kinai and Dongguo, and once again he respected the laws and traditional order of the shogunate, and he dominated nearly ten countries such as Kantohoku, and he could still maintain a respectful attitude towards the shogunate, which alone can definitely completely destroy several generations of family governors from the Kamakura Duke to the Furukawa Duke.

At that time, the Kamakura Dukes were from the second generation of the Ashikaga clan, and they were going to make trouble with their brother Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to grab the position of the shogun, and the Kamakura Dukes at that time had very little actual territory, and they were able to rule the Kanto region purely by relying on their bloodline to call on the people of the Kanto Kingdom, and Ashikaga Yoshinori was not like that. He had a straight collar big enough to scare most samurai, and it was not easy to keep his original vows.

Again, as long as he is not resolutely against him, he will be forgiven after all, in the early years, he also liked to use the form of murder and coercion, with the rich experience in the government, he gradually consumed most of the anger in his temperament, and the punishment of most opponents was nothing more than a reduction of the seal, change, and exile, and the most heinous crimes would consider hanging, as for the more ruthless beheading and beheading, etc., which are rarely used,

This change may seem insignificant, but it is actually very important to the Suruga ancestors, indicating that the temper of the new master is becoming more gentle. The Suruga ancestors who have lost the festival can also be more tolerant and understanding, at least these samurai don't have to worry about being boiled frogs in warm water again. They don't have to worry about being sent to the front line to die, which is already extremely satisfying for them.

Before parting, Asahina Shinji said a meaningful conclusion: "Many of the heavens in Kanto are about to change, is Tokaido still far away?" ”

As the first lord of Sunpu Castle to occupy Suruga, his duty is to keep an eye on the Suruga Ancestors, and observe the changes in Enoe Province and Izu Province to report the latest information at any time, laying a solid foundation for the next step of expansion.

"Should I tell my brother? However, the town government ...... "Takeda Nobushige took Ashikaga Yoshitoki's handwritten letter and fell into confusion and wavering.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki, who was about to ascend the throne, admitted in the letter that Takeda Yoshinobu had been successfully transferred by him, and he planned to take advantage of the opportunity to go south to Kanto to open up the situation to support Takeda Yoshinobu as the governor of the Takeda family, but he didn't expect Takeda Shingen to start so quickly, and Takeda Yoshinobu's preparations were not ready to usher in a devastating disaster, and it was indeed not wrong to say that he had rebelled, at most it was just a secret of intelligence secrecy, and it was not discovered by Takeda Shingen for the first time.

Although the news of his nephew's attempted rebellion and being claustrophobic was shocking, this did not make Takeda Nobuyoshi feel contradictory and his confidence was hit hard, and the next letterhead boldly proposed that he intended to support his sister-in-law Takeda Rokuro Jiro, and enter the Takeda clan as the family governor to cultivate the plan, the letter clearly told Takeda Nobuyori that his brother was capricious and untrustworthy and unrighteous and was laughed at by the world, and if he continued to act unscrupulously, it would only be the Takeda family that would be humiliated and perish.

"Is this a warning that if I don't cooperate, I will let the Takeda family perish?" Takeda Shinhiro frowned slightly, he was no longer the young man who only knew how to prove himself with loyalty and courage twenty years ago, and did his best to assist the family governor in exchange for his brother's understanding and love, and Takeda Shingen was no longer the young family governor who was willing to entrust his wife to his younger brother.

People's hearts always have to change, twenty years have made the young and strong-willed Takeda Harunobu transform into a treacherous and cunning Takeda Shingen who knows how to judge the situation, Takeda Shinshi is also quietly making subtle changes, he doesn't even remember how his loyalty to Takeda Shingen was blurred, maybe it should be the moment when Shinano received Ashikaga Yoshinobu a few years ago.

Got up and walked to the bookcase, gently opened the secret compartment and took out a scroll, Takeda Nobuyoshi held the painting and sighed: "In the battle of Fujigawa, Minamoto Yoritomo and Takeda Nobuyoshi joined forces to defeat Taira Weisheng...... This is an early hint of his ambition by His Royal Highness the Princess, and it is also a hint at the future direction of my Takeda family......"

Speaking of the words of Takeda Nobuyoshi in the back, his voice suddenly turned low and his expression was lonely, it was precisely after the end of the Fujigawa Battle that Takeda Nobuyoshi, who felt that his prestige had risen greatly, once competed with Minamoto Yoritomo for the pillars of Genji, and finally lost under the superb strategy of Minamoto Yorito, Kagami Yuanguang, Ogasawara Nagakiyo father and son and other powerful sects rebelled, and completely ruled out the opportunity to compete for Genji's pillars.

Subsequently, Minamoto Yoritomo set up a plan to exclude the Kai Genji clan, assassinated Takeda Nobuyoshi's eldest son, Ichijo Tadayori, exiled Itagaki Kanesin on the charge of violating the order, executed his brother Yasuda Yoshinori on the charge of treason, and executed Takeda Yuyoshi, the heir of the family governor, on the same charge of rebellion, and vigorously supported the father and son of Kagami Aoguang and Ogasawara Nagakiyoshi who opposed the Takeda family Nobuyoshi, and simply forced Takeda Nobuyoshi to death in fear.

Takeda Nobushihiro is familiar with that period of history, their ancestor Takeda Nobumitsu was originally a separate family of Izawa Nobumitsu, after the death of the heir to the family governor who inherited the character "Yi" of the Kawachi Genji, he passed on this lineage with "Shin" as the common character, which is not enough to outsiders.

Therefore, he is very worried about standing on the wrong team again, so that the Takeda family will suffer a bigger blow than this, although this extermination of the clan cannot extinguish the bloodline of the Takeda clan, but the severance of the lineage also means the severance of the inheritance, and how meaningful it is to have a separate family "Isawa Nobumitsu" to succeed the heir.

Walking to the terrace to look at the decaying night view of Sunpu Castle, only a few lights were still on, Takeda Nobuyoshi looked melancholy and sad, and sighed for a long time before he sighed: "Should I choose loyalty and support my brother to continue fighting, or should I choose reason and accept the olive branch of His Royal Highness ......" (to be continued......