"Hehe, allies are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, from the highest eternal blood alliance to the lowest level of the castle alliance, the Triple Alliance of the Shoshojun is a higher-level covenant that watches over each other, Yu was still in Kyoto when the covenant was drafted, so the covenant signed by Imagawa Zhibu and Yu can only be regarded as an ordinary covenant of mutual benefit and reciprocity, the Imagawa family originally attached far less importance to this covenant than the Triple Alliance of the Imagawa family, these three families are exchanging their own princesses to do the main room, although Yu really likes Xiao Hu, But Yu still has to say that the treatment is still a lot worse. ”

Kira Yoshitoki didn't mind being known by his wife the ins and outs of signing the covenant at the beginning, when the Kira family was not very good at facing the suppression of the Miyoshi family in Kyoto, it was nothing more than using a surprise victory to shock the Miyoshi family again and again, just like Cheng Biting Jin's three-plate axe At first glance, it is very bluffing, and no matter how powerful the master is, if he can't hold the three hits, he will still die.

It is wonderful to defeat the strong with the weak with the small and the big, but once the trick is discovered, the embarrassing situation of poor donkey skills, in the last half year of the year in Kinai, Kira Yoshitoki has tried his best to maintain a good surface, but in fact, he has been urgently looking for a more suitable base for his own development.

Kinai is a big quagmire, there is no absolute strength or excellent chance, and it is self-defeating to step into this area at will, just like Ouchi Yoshiko after the Battle of Funaokama, Hosokawa Takakuni in the Great Mono Collapse, Kizawa Nagamasa during the Battle of Taiheiji, and Hosokawa Harumoto after the Battle of Eguchi.

These people are all a generation of heroes, and they are all first-class masters in terms of scheming, military strategy, and resourcefulness, and they are not even inferior to the dragon, tiger, lion or demon king monkey turtle in Kanto, what they lack is nothing more than timing and luck and wrong choices. Before achieving absolute superiority. Blindly pursuing hegemony in Kinai, but putting his life and even his family business in the rotten quagmire of Kinai.

Since ancient times, the seven provinces of Wugi have taken the five states of Jinai as the essence of the world. There is a ripe fruit in the Jin, exuding a seductive and deadly fragrance, no matter how many scheming methods you have, if you break into the one acre and three points of land in the Jin, you will have your own way to wipe out your flesh and blood, it is not only a quagmire but also a meat grinder, without the luck of the demon king, you must not create it.

Although the Imagawa family didn't know the true situation of the Kira family at the beginning, it could still be seen that the Miyoshi family was a behemoth, and it was enough to learn a lesson from suffering losses twice in a row under the Kira family. It is absolutely impossible for the Miyoshi family to be so stupid all the time, otherwise it is impossible for Miyoshi Nagakei to become the overlord of Kinai from the land of Awa's projectiles, so the alliance between the Imagawa family and the Kira family is not high-level, and even after a delay, he told him with actions, I, Imagawa Yoshimoto, am not very optimistic about you.

Later, the alliance was finally concluded, and he still relied on the Kira family to fight several beautiful wars with fewer victories, ignoring all the weaknesses of the Kira family under the strong aura, but Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was a bystander, knew very well that the weakness of the Kira family was still a small territory, a small army, and an extremely unreliable ally.

If the Miyoshi family wakes up in time, they will get closer to the shogunate first and honestly satisfy Ashikaga Yoshiki's vanity. Then blockade the Kira family from many aspects economically, militarily, and even politically, and behold the Rokkaku Yoshiken who is a hindering master in Kinai. Enryakuji Temple, who covets Sakamoto, and Asai Hisamasa, who inexplicably hates the Kira family, will be involved, and this blockade does not need to fight, only need to jointly suppress the trade exchanges of Sakamoto, the economic center, and it will not take a few years to work hard, and the prestige of the Kira family will disappear.

It is precisely seeing this step that Imagawa Yoshimoto has always maintained a relationship with the Kira family, and even sent his daughter to delay for a long time, and when Kira Yoshitoki took 20,000 or 30,000 people to defect to Echigo, Imagawa Yoshimoto was even more disappointed in the decision of the Kira family, and simply did not mention the so-called covenant and marriage.

It can be said that no one in the world was optimistic about the Kira family at that time, and everyone was looking forward to the water and soil that they liked to see, and the "Ashikaga Kamizaburo", who became famous in Kyoto several battles, was beaten by Echigo and even the Koshin turtle people and lost his armor and fled back to Kyoto.

As a result, he guessed wrong again, Kira Yoshitoki defeated the Takeda army in the battle of Kawanakajima and won a valuable victory, and his brother-in-law Takeda Harunobu, who had always had high expectations, was beaten very miserably, and had to find the Imagawa family in the hope of turning around.

Torhime stuck out her tongue and was surprised that there was a complicated story behind it, no wonder her Royal Highness didn't mention that there was a covenant with the Imagawa family, in fact, the level of the covenant between the two sides was very low, and then after the rapid rise of Echigo, if you want to strengthen the alliance, you must face the dissatisfaction of the Takeda family, which is directly hostile to Echigo, and the Hojo family, who was first indirectly hostile and then directly hostile.

Weighing the pros and cons, Imagawa Yoshimoto still chose the stability of the Triple Alliance, after all, that was the painstaking effort created by his master Taiyuan Xuezhai, and the Imagawa family could obtain the huge advantage of Junyuansan's complete domination thanks to the Triple Alliance, and without a stable rear, he did not dare to repeatedly send one or two thousand troops to conquer the Mikawa Kingdom.

When Yoshitoki Kira whispered to Torahime about the Suruga Imagawa family, Imagawa Yoshimoto was holding a tea party in the Shofu, Tokaido, attended by all the elite samurai from Junensan, including the governor of the Kamiroosen family.

Asahina Shinji personally served as the head of the tea to brew a bowl of rich matcha for Imagawa Yoshimoto, and after a complicated step of all the samurai sitting on the VIP seat tasted this bowl of tea soup one by one, Imagawa Yoshimoto said: "Today, Shingen redeemed the seized soldiers, and the national strength was slightly restored when they could be self-sustaining, and the criminal department and the town government agreed on the bottom line of both sides, and the town government said that if there was no accident, it would not touch the land of the four counties of Jiafei, presumably the princes should still trust the promise of the town government, right?" For the sake of Haru and Taro, the family will never let that 'accident' appear. ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto issued a domineering declaration that made all the samurai present stunned, and Matsudaira Motoyasu, who was sitting at the end of the VIP seat, bowed down and said excitedly: "My Imagawa family has 30,000 tigers, and the lord only needs an order to sweep that little 'accident' out of Kai!" Never let Princess Ah Chun and His Royal Highness Yoshinobu be adversely affected in any way. ”

Kira Yoshian turned his face in disgust, and sneered in a low voice: "Is Genyasu Hall intimidating my Kira family?" Don't forget that I, the Imagawa family, was a minister of the shogunate with my brother, and I was a close ally of my in-laws! I believe that my father will never sit back and watch my Ashikaga clan kill each other! ”

The faces of the samurai present changed. Some people showed surprise, and some even looked at Matsudaira Motoyasu with pity. It's really unlucky enough to talk big in the hands of Kira Yoshiyasu. Everyone in the world knows that Kira Yoshian and the general of the town guard are brothers, the elder brother is called Wan Zhu Maru, and the younger brother is called Wan Matsumaru, the two brothers have not seen each other for many years, but after all, they are brothers who break bones and tendons, and when you say Ji Liang Yoshiyoshi in front of Kira Yoshiyasu, you are boring yourself.

Matsudaira Motoyasu was remorseful and self-blaming, but he didn't want a child to suddenly burst out of his back and roared: "What did you say! Dare to insult Your Highness, I will fight with you! ”

"Heihachiro! Sit down! This is not the place for you to interject! Matsudaira Motoyasu hurriedly grabbed the reckless child. The eager Asakira Yoshian bowed and said apologetically: "Please Tojo Hall is happy and angry, the companion under is a native child from the countryside, and it is inevitable that he will panic when he sees such a big scene for the first time, speaking of which, when I participated in the tea party for the first time, I nervously lost a tea bowl worth twenty kan, and it took two months for my heart to recover......"

Matsudaira Motoyasu's apology should be to turn the embarrassing scene back, the samurai of the Imagawa family all showed a good-natured smile, many samurai who had participated in the tea party still joked a few words, Matsudaira Motoyasu was not angry, and followed everyone with a stupid smile to admit that he was too young at the time. It took a long time to learn from you.

Imagawa Yoshimoto admired this son-in-law, although Matsudaira Motoyasu's main room was his adopted daughter Sekiguchi Sena. But it did not affect his importance to Matsudaira Motoyasu, following Imagawa Yoshimoto to study for a few years and achieving a slight success, with the simplicity and sincerity unique to the samurai of the Mikawa countryside, the proud samurai of Imagawa's family disdained to bully him, the rude samurai were happy to tease him, the shrewd samurai would occasionally talk to him, the stupid samurai thought he was stupid and could not threaten himself, in short, he had almost no enemies, except for Kira Yoshian in front of him.

I don't know why, Kira Yoshiyasu began to hate Matsudaira Motoyasu, the son of Matsudaira Motoyasu, a small country daimyo, can face Imagawa Yoshimoto and answer like a stream, and can also talk a few words to the Imagawa family's genealogy retainers, almost no one says bad things about him, and he has not gained anything in the past few years in Sunfu except for giving birth to a son, Wanzhumaru.

Perhaps out of jealousy or rivalry to the rivals, Kira Yoshiyasu was sent to Mikawa with Matsudaira Motoyasu last year to prepare for the Kanraku outpost, and Kira Yoshiyasu rushed to take the lead using the peace plan proposed by the Oda family, but who knew that the stupid Spo Yoshiin actually fought with him, causing him to forget about business in a fit of rage, and by the time he reacted, he had already returned to Tojo Castle.

Although his father-in-law Imagawa Yoshimoto did not blame himself, the pimple in his heart was always inevitable, looking at everyone's smile always felt that he was mocking his stupidity and incompetence, and then looking at Matsudaira Motoyasu's honest smile was even more unpleasant, he subconsciously felt that this person was honest and treacherous on the surface, maybe he was a pit viper three-style character.

Helplessly, his reminder was not understood by Imagawa Yoshimoto at all, and Tokaido's first bow to him replied that "I have a lot of heart", "It won't be like this, just run Mikawa Yoshira's territory with peace of mind", his father-in-law actually positioned the son-in-law of the dignified royal family as a mediocre man guarding the door, how could Kira Yoshian bear it?

Imagawa Yoshimoto said with a smile: "Kai is over, Yu can also prepare for Shangluo's agenda with peace of mind, and in the future, you will have to assist Hikogoro well and keep the foundation that my Imagawa clan has worked hard for generations!" Hikogoro also has to listen more to the opinions of the elders of the spectrum family, because his father only had today's Imagawa family under the order of the master's ear, so the ministers of the humerus must be respected, understand? ”

"Yes! The child understands! "The Imagawa clan is really long and clear-eyed, but he has successfully inherited the position of the governor of the Imagawa family at the beginning of the year, and has become the third master of the Imagawa family, but he is still a novice, and Imagawa Yoshimoto, who has retreated to the background, will be guided accordingly, and after only a few months of hard work, the smart and studious Imagawa clan has already mastered the internal affairs of the envoy. (To be continued......)