At the end of May, when the temperature rose sharply, Tokaido ushered in the most important rainy season of the year, and the continuous heavy rain extinguished the enthusiasm of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Tokaido, and the war at the Nagara River also came to a halt.

Affected by the favorable influence of the pacification of Ise Province, Minamoto Yoshitoki decided to send more troops to follow up, and ordered Hojo Tokimasa to command 40,000 troops, with Nagao Yoshikei as the deputy general and Nagano Yosmori as the first hand, to attack Iga Province and join forces with the Iga ninjas, and launch a strategic operation against Yamato Province and Minami Omi, and only 140,000 main forces of Owari Province were retained in this camp to confront the Western Army.

Military affairs are one thing, but more important is the handling of prisoners of war, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu, who fled from Okazaki Castle to Cheongju Castle for refuge, and when the army was on the verge of the city, he tried to disguise himself as a peasant and fooled through, and when he was captured and rushed into Cheongju Castle, he was greeted by countless hateful eyes comparable to the sharp light of a sword.

Tokugawa Ieyasu...... Tokugawa Ieyasu! Ignoring the dozens of samurai with their necks behind him, and staring coldly at the honest guy who looked like a native peasant, Gen Yoshishi took out a folding fan and gently tapped the tatami mats, and suddenly asked: "I have heard for a long time that the Matsudaira clan is from the Kamo courtiers, but I don't know what is the explanation for you to abandon the Matsudaira clan and go to the Tokugawa clan?" ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu trembled and said, "In the next ...... The origin of the word "Miao" is ......"

Yuan Yoshishi ignored him at all, stared at Tokugawa Ieyasu's honest and simple face, and said: "I heard that this Tokugawa clan has another solution, which comes from the Nitta clan, Dechuan Yoshiki is first-class, and the Shirada clan is a branch. It seems that your ancestor had a samurai who entered Matsudaira Township. Right? ”

"There is no such thing...... Tokugawa Ieyasu broke out in a cold sweat. He really couldn't figure out how his little selfish thoughts could be discovered, this was a bold idea that had never been declared, the master in front of him was the famous family of Genji, one of the powerful martial arts of the Gen Yiguo lineage, and it was not much easier than pie in the sky to pretend to be the descendant of Gen Yiguo in front of him.

For more than 500 years since the rise of the samurai in the Heian period, there was almost no trace of those who took the name of the family, and it was not until the fall of the shogunate in recent decades that this trend gradually emerged. Tokugawa Ieyasu's name change was also to emulate those who impersonated the lords, and in the case of Genji, it was clearly the most cost-effective family to take the current shogun's kinship.

But the Ashikaga family is clear and clear, and the Ashikaga family is everywhere from Yuao to Kyushu, not to mention that the fake claim is not valuable, even the real money Ashikaga relatives are not very valuable, and the real value is the Ashikaga family that can be ranked, but it is very difficult to claim these families.

So after thinking about it, he decided to take the exterminated Nitta clan, and there were many samurai families in Ueno Province who claimed to be the Nitta clan, such as the Iwamatsu clan and his retainer Yura clan, and the Daidate clan and the Yamana clan of the Nitta clan are still alive. The Satomi clan also has branches, and only seven or eight turns can I find the Serada clan, a branch of the Tokugawa clan, as his own home.

Under Tokugawa Ieyasu's terrified gaze. Yuan Yishi suddenly sneered: "I have to say that you are really bold, you dare not choose to harm yourself to protect the statement, what kind of courage does it make you dare to stand in front of Yu alive, this is a confusing question!" ”

"In the lower ......" Tokugawa Ieyasu instantly broke out in a cold sweat, knelt on the ground and begged: "I dare to swear to the gods and Buddhas, I definitely don't have any thoughts of harming the Kira family, I just want to force Kira Mikawa to obey the temple, that's all!" ”

"Maybe you don't have that kind of thought, or maybe you're just lying to me......" Genyishi's tone changed abruptly, and he said, "But none of this matters! The important thing is that Yu's uncles, uncles, brothers, genealogical generations and the little maids in the city are all dead, how can this account be calculated? ”

"In the next ......" Tokugawa Ieyasu found that his clothes were quietly soaked, and his throat was as dry as a fire, so he swallowed his saliva with difficulty and bowed his head and said: "I am willing to exchange death for ......"

"Don't talk about a deal with Yu, you don't deserve it." Minamoto Yoshitoki stood up, walked to the group of Matsudaira samurai with their heads behind Tokugawa Ieyasu, glanced at their expressions as if they were dead, and then turned to look at Tokugawa Ieyasu's expectant expression, and chuckled: "Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sekiguchi Sena are separated, and the Matsudaira clan is executed except for the Okusa and Sakurai clans, and Tokugawa Ieyasu and his son Chiyo Take...... Owl Head! ”

"Ahh Do you dare to ......" Honda Tadakatsu was furious, and when he got up and was about to rush towards Ashikaga Yoshika, he was grabbed by the tall Kakizaki Yoshiya, and even the weapons were confiscated, and the Matsudaira samurai, who was not at all the opponent of the wolf-like guard, was easily captured by dozens of strong men who followed.

"For ...... Why ......" Tokugawa Ieyasu sat on the ground as if mourning, and wailed, "Why can't I die alone...... Why does my child Chiyo Takechiyo not let go. ”

"Because of what? Okay, I'll tell you why......" Yuan Yoshitoki grabbed Tokugawa Ieyasu's collar and said murderously: "Because you let Yu's relatives die, you make Yu feel ashamed, and a lowly reptile-like existence like you dares to kill my Yuan family, treating the majesty of my Yuan family as if it were nothing, and thinking that Yu's sword is not sharp enough, and wants to test the head of yourself and your whole clan!" ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu trembled like chaff, his body was soft as mud, he choked and couldn't cry out for a long time, he could only watch Genyoshi throw him to the pro-guard samurai, stared at his figure being pulled away, and said slowly: "So you should die, you should have died a long time ago!" Yu just fulfills you and sends your whole clan to the Yellow Springs for reunion. ”

Honda was sweeping over the captured Honda Takashi, Hondaji, and Honda Tadaji in the ranks, bowed down and said, "Please show the Lord how to deal with the Tokugawa retainers?" ”

Glancing at some of the obviously reluctant samurai in the queue, Genyoshi muttered, "Those who are willing to follow Tokugawa Ieyasu can stand up now, and give him a chance to fulfill his loyalty." ”

"Who is afraid of your intimidation, but death!" Honda Tadakatsu struggled fiercely, but Kakizaki Yoshiya was a head and a half taller than him, and it was not too easy to grab a dwarf who was only one meter four, and Honda Tadakatsu's performance was also very interesting, and he scolded when he struggled. Before he could curse two sentences, the faces of the samurai in the hall changed.

Honda Takashi couldn't look past it. He shouted in a low voice, "Heihachiro." Shut up! ”

"Hikozaburo, what are you afraid of? Isn't it just death? Are we samurai still afraid of death? Yes! Honda Tadakatsu shouted loudly, for fear that others would not know that he was not afraid of death.

Yuan Yoshishi smiled indifferently: "Since you want to die so much, it will be fulfilled for you, but there are people in the Tokugawa retainers who want to be loyal to one death, and all of them will be fulfilled!" ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu was in a panic and confusion, and was forcibly taken out of Ohiroma by two samurai, and along with him, Honda Tadakatsu, Torii Tadayoshi, Torii Mototadada, Abe Tadamasa, Okubo Tadashi, Ishikawa Ienari, Sakai Tadaji, Hiraiwa Koyoshi, Natsume Yoshinobu, Uemura Ietsu and other loyal ministers were all killed. But the interesting thing is that most of their families choose to survive, and would rather live with humiliation than be wiped out.

For example, the Honda family got rid of the impulsive Honda Tadakatsu, and most of the Honda family members chose to survive, such as Osuka Yasutaka, Sakakiwara Kiyomasa, Sakakiwara Yasumasa and other former ministers of the former Kira family took the opportunity to return to the company, representing the Tokugawa family's powerful Samurai Okubo Tadayo, Okubo Tadasa, and other brothers expressed their obedience, and the wrecked ship of the Tokugawa family was destined to sink, and it was better to struggle to survive than to be buried with it.

Hundreds of members of the Matsudaira clan were killed, and the women were given to the samurai as side rooms, and Sekiguchi Sena was assigned to Watanabe Moritsuna as the main room. Matsudaira Masahisa, the governor of the Okusa Matsudaira clan, changed back to the original Miao character Saigo, and the Sakurai Matsudaira clan changed to Sakurai as the Miao character. Since then, there has not been a samurai family named Matsudaira in the world.

Except for a small number of hypocritical samurai who were neither willing to die nor want to go out of the country to voluntarily return to the farm, the living Tokugawa genealogy generations without exception chose to go out to the Ashikaga family, Sakakiwara Yasumasa, Okubo Tadayo, Okubo Tadasa, who had an extraordinary level of military commandery, Ishikawa Shumasa, and Aoyama Tadado, who had a set of practices, were all properly settled.

Among these people, he found an interesting samurai, his name was Okura, and his father was the Takeda family's ape musician, Ozura, Taifu Juro Nobuyan, who studied under the Jinharu Sect and met the head of the Throne Akikatsu in this spring, and his clan was the Ikzo Stream, which specialized in the Kyogen Dialect and created the Great Tibetan Stream, which is a long-standing gate stream, and the time of its establishment happened to be the era when Okōzo Nobuyan was born.

Ozoshi Shinyasu came to Kai from Harima Province to Kai Province, and went to work as a royal ape musician under Takeda Shingen's account, and his son Ozura Changan disliked the low status of ape musicians, and instead worshipped several excellent practitioners of Kai to learn the skills of internal affairs, and single-handedly calculated arithmetic and single-minded unique secret skills were deeply relied on by Takeda Shingen.

As a teenager, he served as the mining officer of Kurokawa Kanayama and served as the main commissioner of Minamishinano Kaneyama, and as the Takeda family expanded the three territories of Sunen, he was transferred to the commissioner of Suruga Kanayama and then transferred from Suruga to Enoe as the commissioner of Inima Castle Town, and then transferred to Mikawa Province as the second officer of the Tokugawa family and retainers.

These big leaps gave him a great gain, and at the same time made him confused and entangled with the Tokugawa retainers, among which he had a particularly close relationship with Okubo Tadashi, Okubo Tadashi brothers, and under the persuasion of Okubo Tadashi, he married his daughter as the main wife, this kind of secret betrayal has not had time to be discovered, and he learned that the Takeda family suffered a heavy blow caused Jun Yuansan to lose control, and he also sneaked into Okubo's house to hide, and at this moment Okubo brothers surrendered, and he had to come out to show up.

"Ohzo Chang'an is now renamed Okubo Chang'an, his father-in-law is Okubo Tadashi, and the righteous brother is Okubo loyal neighbor......" Gen Yoshi had a feeling of wanting to laugh but couldn't laugh, and turned around Ozashi Chang'an was still attached to the Okubo family, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Although he is a corrupt official, his ability is still good, and he will not have the opportunity to monopolize power when he gets along with each other, so let him do it." ”

Later, Genyoshitoki ordered the bulldozing of Saijo Castle, the old leader of Mikawa Province, and planted a thousand autumn leaf trees nearby, as well as a thousand cherry blossom trees, which was to commemorate his early death of his mother, Nakain Aihime, who loved the beautiful scenery of Kyoto when the maple leaves were red, and the cherry blossoms in Kyoto in spring, and the autumn autumn maple was the most wonderful enjoyment, of course, her favorite flowers during her lifetime,

A Momiji Shrine was built on the site of the old castle, and the main deities enshrined were his father Yoshiyo Kira and his mother Nakain Aihime, and the early death of his father and mother was one of his great regrets, so he had to use this garden full of cherry blossoms and red maples to remember his deceased relatives, hoping that the couple could live more comfortably in heaven.

In addition, a Saijo Shrine was built on the opposite side of the Momiji Shrine, and the main deities were enshrined by his two brothers, Kira Yoshigo and Kira Yoshiyasu, his uncle Yoshitomi Kira and Uncle Yoshiaki, and the deputy gods were Okochi Nobutada, Yamaoka Yaomoto, and a handmaiden with a small surname who died in Saijo Castle.

After dealing with all this, it was the beginning of June, and it was the season of heavy rain and flooding, and he needed to straighten out the military affairs before the battle and a large number of government affairs transferred from his hometown Edo Castle, and he had to ask his sister-in-law about his studies in his spare time.

The father and son sat down and talked to each other again, and this relatively equal mode of one question and one answer was very popular with him, only to see Ashikaga Yoshitai ask: "The child has heard my father say several times that among the heroes of today, there is the name of Oda Kamisuke Nobunaga, but this person chose to support Ashikaga Yoshiaki to enter Beijing and make enemies of my Ashikaga family, and then deposed the emperor and repeatedly rebelled, this person should be a relative and ally of my Ashikaga family, why did he make such a move?" ”

Yuan Yoshishi nodded and smiled: "Oda Nobunaga is indeed a heroic figure today, Yu's dog Gozen and City Gozen are also the daughters of the Oda family, but this person is not very close to Yu, his ambition is to Shangluo to dominate as the hero of the first generation and even replace the Ashikaga family, which Yu cannot allow, and he also knows very well that this idea cannot be supported by Yu, so he gave birth to Shangluo's decision to seek hegemony based on Yoshihiroichi."

The deposition of the emperor was a desperate attempt to seek great wealth, and these two gains made him from a samurai of Owari Ichisuke to a samurai of the country, and in an instant he became a member of the three senators and the vice-general of the shogunate, and played the role of the territories of the five kingdoms of Kinai, and became the overlord of Kinai. ”

Ashikaga Yoshiyasu nodded thoughtfully, and asked after a while: "Then what is the reason why Oda Nobunaga is now a puppet court, attacking Sakamoto, burning Mt. Hiei, and arresting the emperor everywhere. ”

Gen Yoshitoki didn't answer his question directly, shook his head and smiled: "If Saburo substitutes himself into the situation of Oda Nobunaga, and learns that Yu led 230,000 elite elites of the Eastern Kingdom to Shangluo to crusade against the rebellious ministers, and there are three paths in front of you to choose from, the first to attack Sakamoto, the second to aid Echizen, and the third to defend Mino or Mikawa, how should you choose?" (To be continued......)