At the moment of the military discussion, Imagawa Tsuruhime came to Edo Castle with Wantakemaru, looking at the sister-in-law and the young and ignorant little nephew with a sad face, Kira Yoshitoki's heart was also full of feelings, the brother's relationship was not too close and could not block the family affection flowing in the blood, Kira Yoshitoki promised Imagawa Tsuruhime that he would seek justice for his brother and get back the territory that belonged to Mantakemaru.

Imagawa Tsuruhime is grateful for his promise, nothing is more important to her than keeping the honor and status of her late husband, keeping all this can ensure that her son Wantakemaru can obtain a decent status belonging to a famous family in the future, judging from Kira Yoshitoki's statement, Kira Yoshian's death has not changed the status of the Mikawa Kira family in his heart, and there will be no less to give.

Kira Yoshitoki arranged for the mother and son to live in the annex of Edo Castle, and specially arranged for the maid to be responsible for the daily life, and the treatment should refer to a public price, he can understand the nervous interest of the mother and son who came all the way to Edo Castle alone, and the Imagawa clan, the brother of Imagawa Tsuruhime, is really trapped in Kakegawa Castle itself, and if he does not take refuge in Kira Yoshishi in Kanto, he may face the embarrassing situation of sleeping on the streets.

Looking at a plain black dress Imagawa Tsuruhime with Wan Zhumaru, who was only more than three years old, saluted him and left, and there was a thick sadness that could almost be dissolved in his lonely figure, Kira Yoshitoki held back a nameless anger in his heart, and said with a muffled snort: "Send an envoy to Kyoto with gold, silver, pearls and jade to contact Guan Baidian and His Royal Highness Gongfang, and inform the Mikawa Kira family of all matters related to the destruction of the family. The price of blood! ”

As the name suggests, the imperial court refers to a certain samurai as the enemy, as far away as the Ping Jiangmen from the Huan Wuping clan. More recently, such as the rebellion of the Southern Dynasties, Nanmu is of this type. It is said that in recent years, there has been a Kusunoki Masatoko who claims to be a descendant of the Kusunoki clan, who has been active around Kyoto. Asking the imperial court to pardon the rebellion of the Southern Dynasty Kusunoki Masanari surprised many samurai of the shogunate for a long time.

In preparation for the attack on the Furukawa Imperial Palace, Kira Yoshitoki summoned several powerful samurai of Musashi in Edo Castle, praised their deference and bestowed them with gold beads in recognition of their efforts to support the shogunate.

In the newly opened imperial palace of Honmaru in Edo Castle, a middle-aged man with a weathered face and a young man kneeling respectfully are Kira Yoriyasu and his adopted son Kira clan. The two fathers and sons sat in the other room with stiff expressions to greet the little surname and offer refreshments, and their eyes probed into the corridor outside the door from time to time.

When he saw Ji Liangyi, who was wearing a pure white seal and two patterns of hunting clothes, wearing a black hat and holding a folding fan, he walked in surrounded by several small surnames, so he hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Kira Saemon Sasa and the Inuko clan to meet His Royal Highness Gongfang, I wish His Royal Highness Gongfang good health and long martial luck!" ”

"There is no need to be polite in the Qiantian Palace, you and I are from the same clan and family." Ji Liang Yishi waved away the little surname and sat down cross-legged, and said with a smile: "You and I have not been together for more than two hundred years since the separation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties!" Speaking of which, the ancestor Longmen Temple passed his second son to the Oshu Kira family as the heir of the family governor in the Rokuenin era, and when it comes to blood relations, you and I are closer than Saijo Kira and Tojo Kira! ”

"Yes! In the era of Gaozu Lai Zhigong, no heir welcomed Lai's Gong as his son-in-law from the Longmen Temple Palace. More than 100 years have passed in a blink of an eye. Recalling the infinite glory of his ancestors in the past, Kira Raiyasu couldn't help but sigh: "My Kira family has been in decay for more than 200 years since the disturbance of Guanxi. I have long forgotten the glory of the ancestors of the Kamakura period...... But thanks to the appearance of His Royal Highness the Gongfang, I once again saved the decaying family business of my Kira family! ”

The Kira family is also known as the Mikawa Ashikaga family, and in the Kamakura period, it was also called the Ashikaga family's Mikawa party, which can be used as a common name, but the Kira family is not the name of only one family, the original Mikawa guardian Ashikaga Yoshishi divided into two Kira clans in Mikawa, the first is the ancestor of Kira Yoshishi, and the second is Kira Yoshitsugu, these two families were originally complimented by Saijo Kira and Tojo Kira.

The ancestor of Kira Yoshitoki emerged as a powerful member of the Ashikaga family, the Kira Mitsuru clan, and in the Kamakura period, he was given the Echizen guardian with a high gold content, becoming the second powerful samurai family other than the Ashikaga clan to obtain the Kamakura guardian position, and took the opportunity to gain the name of Ashikaga Kamizaburo and the Owari Ashikaga family founded by the Spo clan, which was deposed by the Ashikaga clan of the Ashikaga clan of the Ashikaga clan.

The Tojo Kira family was much worse than the Kamikawa Ashikaga family, and its influence in Mikawa Province was completely suppressed and could not raise its head, and it was only the head of the Tojo domain for two consecutive generations, until the Kira family obtained the head of Fujitaniso in Anda-gun, Michinoku Province from the Kamakura shogunate, and later passed to the Kira Sadana family era and moved out of Mikawa Province with a family and changed its name to the Oshu Kira family.

As soon as Tojo Kira left, the original territory was vacated and fell into the hands of the Kamiki Ashikaga family, until the last year of Kamakura, the Kira family raised troops to follow the Ashikaga clan to destroy the shogunate, and then the Ashikaga clan and Ashikaga Naoyoshi opposed each other in the Guansu disturbance, and the Kami-Ashikaga family who stayed in Mikawa and the Kira family who ran to Oshu were unfortunately joined by Ashikaga Naoyoshi and became unlucky ghosts.

The name of the Ashikaga family was also banned at that time and reduced to the Mikawa Kira family, and the two sons of the Mikawa Kira family's governor Kira Manyoshi were forcibly split by the Ashikaga family, and the eldest son Kira Mitsusada inherited the clan and called the Saijo Kira family again, and his younger brother Kira Zunyi opened up another family called the Tojo Kira family, because there was a Kira Yoshiji family before Tojo Castle, so there was a former Tojo, and the latter Tojo said.

Kira Yoshishi laughed heartily and said: "There is no need to flatter Yu, Yu is tired of listening to these flattering words on weekdays, today we only talk about old friendships and don't talk about those disturbing topics, this time I am very happy to see my relatives in Kanto, and I have not been in contact with them for hundreds of years, so I will have to be closer in the future." ”

Kira Raiyasu was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed down to thank him, the first meeting was so smooth and completely beyond his imagination, in fact, the Oshu Kira family was a lot worse than the Mikawa Kira family, not to mention the rebellious Kira Yoshishi, he simply reinvigorated the name of the Ashikaga family, and said that in the past two hundred years, the Oshu Kira family has been declining, from the Oshu Governor to one of the four Governors of Oshu, and then downgraded to the Oshu Clan, and was forced to join the Kanto Princess.

Under the leadership of Kira Mitsuyoshi, the Mikawa Kira family was able to abandon the darkness and regain the understanding of the shogunate in time, which was already a great blessing in misfortune. The die-hard Oshu Kira family is under the leadership of the Kira Sada. Firmly standing in the camp of the southern Korean side, one by one, to the black. The second generation of the general Ashikaga Yoshikan once issued an imperial letter ordering Ishibashi Toyoshi to crusade against the Kira family, and at that time, the Oshu Kira family was defined as a major crime of rebellion, which shows how miserable this clan was at that time.

When chatting about Rikishirayoshi, he also mentioned the deeds of Guanxi disturbance back then, thinking that the Kira family was really optimistic about the second general Ashikaga Naoyoshi, but this lord really didn't give up the generals who had beaten them into a big defeat and loss, and the Kira family not only gave up the dream of monopolizing the management in the soup, but also took most of the family business into it and became a lost dog.

Looking back, the old enemy Spoo is already a big step behind. Spo Gao Jing is more and more moisturized and mixed with a few guards, his sister-in-law Spo will be the foundation of the shogunate's three leaders of the hegemony, the regret and depression in the bottom of the heart do not need to think about it to know how big, so later the Kira family bowed to the Spo family, and the two sides were very aggrieved when they married each other's daughters to maintain unity, and in the Kamakura era, the Kira family was better than the Spo family.

The Kira family is full of endless depression about the tragic failure of the Kan disturbance, and for two hundred years has not wanted to revive and regain their reputation, this dream has been successful in the hands of Kira Yoshitoki, which is what Kira Yorikang is most excited about, and the revitalization of the family means that he, the phoenix in distress, can also soar into the sky.

That's what it means. In the following speech, Kira Raikang deliberately talked about the devastation of the past hundred years, and sighed: "In the next family, in Oshu miserable! The governor didn't even have a decent new shirt for a year. A family of people is struggling on the line of life and death...... Fortunately, I survived in the end! ”

Kira Yoshitoki smiled and listened to him tell the history of the migration of the Oshu Kira family to the Kanto region, when a group of rebels from the Southern Dynasty escaped the shogunate's sanctions under the protection of the Kamakura Principality, and the Oshu Kira who lost power entered the Kamakura Principality, and continued to survive as the Kamakura Principality became the Furukawa Principality.

The Oshu Kira family could not enjoy the family character of the royal family given by the shogunate, but the Kamakura government said that it didn't matter what the shogunate had, we could also have it, so they made the Oshu Kira family a Kanto royal family and dismounted the treatment, and its implication was to tell the world that I was the one who wanted to be a shogun in Kamakura.

The behavior of the Kanto Shogun can no longer be described by Sima Zhao's heart, their clan is like a middle school boy who keeps jumping up and down in front of his family, as if telling his father that he is the head of the family, of course, his behavior will be angered and disgusted by the Ashikaga Shogun's family, and the eternal peace is that Ashikaga Yoshikyo is determined to bring down the Kamakura Prince.

Although it was fortunate that the Kamakura Gongfang family escaped from an Ashikaga clan and established the Furukawa Imperial Palace in Furukawa Township, Shimoku Province to continue the struggle, but the influence of the Kanto Gongfang was far less powerful than before, and the Ashikaga Yoshikyo killed countless samurai families in the Battle of Yuuki, if it weren't for the Ashikaga Yoshikyo being killed by Akamatsu Mitsusuke the following year, the Kamakura Duke's lineage would really be ancient.

After chatting for an hour, Kira Yoshitoki noticed that the young man behind Kira Yorikang had never spoken, so he smiled and asked, "This is the son-in-law of the Tsuda Palace!" What is your name? ”

Kira Yorikan said: "This is the adopted son of the Kira clan, originally the second son of the Horikoshi Imagawa family, Horikoshi Sadacho, in the next year has no children to inherit the ancestral ancestry, so he was invited by Hojo Sagamimoru to welcome an adopted son from the Horikoshi Imagawa family. ”

"It turned out to be the son-in-law of the Horikoshi Imagawa family, and your ancestor Toshiko was a great samurai! Yu's ancestor Longmen Temple is still the son-in-law of Jungong. "Kira Yoshitoki is kind to this Kira clan dynasty from Horikoshi Imagawa, the Horikoshi clan named Imagawa clan has always had a bad relationship with the clan Suruga Imagawa clan, that is, the brother of the Kira clan is still making trouble with himself, and he has to treat this family well for various reasons.

And the allusion mentioned by Kira Yoshitomi is actually that after the Mikawa Kira family was split into two sections by the Ashikaga clan, the second generation of Saijo Kira's Jira Toshishi was the son-in-law of Imagawa Sadayo who entered the Taoist Jun, and the name of the Kira Toshi's ring is Longmen Temple, just like the name of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's ring is Shikaen-in, and the samurai tried to avoid mentioning the names of the deceased sages out of the habit of being a secret for the Venerable.

Different from ancient China, the samurai have always been proud of using the name of the ancestors, and the usage of the word is the name of the first ancestor of the two characters used as the word for generations, for example, the first ancestor of Xianyuan Liu is the two great Nayan Fujiwara Gongmi, and the three families, the Xiyuan Temple family, and the Dedaiji family used by the family governor from generation to generation are the two words "Gonggong", and it is a high-end way to distinguish generations from generation to generation.

The usage of the samurai is more sparse. It is to pass on the words of the martial arts family from generation to generation. The benefits of this were evident in the feudal era. As long as you report where you come from, Miao Zitong and official position can let the other party immediately know which family you are, and even two warriors who have never known each other can verify that the two parties are close relatives through a series of special proofs such as Miao Zitongzi, which is a bit similar to something like the ancient Chinese hall name cut black dialect.

The first time I saw the same clan of Musashi Province, Kira Raiyasu was very smooth, when Kira Yoshishi knew that he only had a small territory in Kuraqi County, Musashi Province, and he could only rely on the help of the Hojo family to maintain the level of food and clothing, so he waved his pen to Kira Raiyasu a group of different treatment, as the governor of the Musashi Kira family, he enjoyed the level of 20,000 stone grids of pedigree and important ministers, and there was no shortage of seasonal fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs in the four seasons. On the spot, he gave gold, silver and silk worth 5,000 yuan.

The Kira clan was transferred to Edo Castle to participate in the government affairs of the people, and his position was to serve as a high-ranking commissioner of ceremonies, so that the 20,000 koku and various benefits that Kira Yorysu received became a family, and the salary received by the Kira clan as a high-ranking commissioner was a knight, and Kira Raiyasu was smiling on the way out of the Edo Imperial Palace.

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In the face of the great ferocity of the people of the Kanto Kingdom, Kira Yoshitoki's strategy was also rapidly developed during the same period, the first of which was the famous family of Hitachi Province, the Great Peng Sadakuni and his many clans spread throughout the Southern Hitachi Kingdom, and the 33rd Hall of the South Hitachi had a very strong influence, even the Hitachi Satake family could not suppress these people.

It's just because the strength of the Dapeng family itself is not strong. It's just that he can't exert his strength because of the various internal strife involved in the sect.,Kira Yoshitoki contacted Da Peng Sadakuni to persuade him to join the camp of the Kira family.。 Oda Shiji and Edo Tadamichi against Nakatachi Province, as well as Yoshiaki Satake, the overlord of Hitachi.

The strategy of the Shimono country first started with Sano Masatsuna, this undisciplined samurai family has actually long been on the line of the Kamiashikaga family, and its fellow clan Kiryu Suke Tsunade is serving as an ashigaru general in the Ueno Army under Kira Yoshishi, Kiryu Suke Tsunade is middle-aged and childless and facing the crisis of extinction, and deliberately came from Sano Shotsuna, a second son as the heir of the Kiryu family.

The bonds of this relationship made the Sano family naturally inclined to the Kira family, especially when he received a gold and silver gift worth 500 Kanbun Yongle money brought by the envoy of the Kira family, Sano Masatsuna immediately happily accepted the strategy of switching to the camp, and led his own army to turn around and leave the Furukawa Imperial Palace and return to his home to rebel.

Another object of the adjustment is the Nasu family's governor Nasu Ziyin, I have to say that the people of the Kanto country or the samurai of the Warring States are really undisciplined, and at the beginning of the anti-Kira alliance, Nasu Ziyin shouted to support Ashikaga Fujimasa against Kira, and the Nasu family's Oseki Takasu, Otawara Tsunakiyo, and Fukuhara Zitaka stopped it one after another, claiming that he was determined to stand in the pro-Kira camp.

As a result, it didn't take long for another 180-degree turn, and most of the pro-Kira Nasu Seven Cavalry turned into anti-Kira, and Nasu Ziyin, the vanguard of the original anti-Kira, also had a reversal of attitude, especially when he saw the secret envoy appointed by Asayama Hisaka, he quickly agreed to evacuate the Furukawa Imperial Palace and return to Shimono Province, as for the life or death of the Kwantung people's coalition army, it didn't matter much to him, and he wanted to go back and launch a surprise attack on the territory of several uncles.

The attitude of the Chinese people is so interesting, they feel that what is beneficial to them will support, on the contrary, they will oppose what they feel is harmful to themselves, this kind of consideration is usually selfish and disregard for the overall situation, so it is often encountered that some Chinese people are like wall grass and chameleons, a cat face and a dog face change a strange scene.

This set of survival rules is the unique culture of the Warring States Period, although it is very undisciplined but most of the time it is useful, as long as it does not encounter the interference of powerful daimyo or higher-level imperial court shogunate, it is not a big deal, Kira Yoshitomi is to see their temperament before daring to act, to these samurai are as loyal and brave as the battle of Yuki more than a hundred years ago, but let him have no off-board moves to use.

In the past, the people of the pro-Satake and anti-Hojo Cadre Country, all followed Satake Yoshiaki's camp to change to the anti-Kira side, and even more so, such as the Utsunomiya family's genealogy retainer Yoshiga Takada proposed an amazing plan, he actually planned to unite the Sagami Hojo clan to fight against the domineering Kira family, of course, this proposal was opposed by many Kanto sato warriors including Satake Yoshiaki in the implementation process, and many middle and low-level samurai also had a life-and-death feud with the Hojo family to kill their father and brother, so it was still very difficult for the life and death enemies to suddenly become allies.

For example, Satomi Yoshihiro, who did not participate in the Kanto coalition army, is a potential opponent, and the hatred between the Satomi family and the Hojo family is definitely deeper than most of the samurai families in the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and the only one who can stabilize the head is about the Ota clan that belongs to the Kira family, and Yuki Harumo, who is replaced by the heir of the Koyama family, but Yuki Haruma himself does not seem to be in a hurry to take revenge, but is busy with the Kwantung people coalition for Ashikaga Fujimasa Zhang Luo This time the Kwantung people coalition army, at this moment, the power wants to overpower the life and death hatred of the adoptive father and brother.

Another direction of the strategy is the puppet Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna's wife is the daughter of Satake Yoshiaki, and the retainers of the spectrum are from pro-Kira to anti-Kira Gaoding, and at home to obey the command of the important minister of the spectrum, Yoshiaki Satake, and outside the home, he must be greatly influenced by his father-in-law Satake Yoshiaki, as a family governor with ideals and ambitions, it must be very aggrieved.

It was based on this judgment that he sent a secret envoy to contact Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, the young family governor was very surprised that the secret envoy of the Kira family found him, and as expected, he was very interested in the proposal to withdraw from the Kwantung people's coalition army, but after thinking about it again and again, he finally declined the proposal of the Kira family, his concern was that Haga Takada's important role in the stability of the Utsunomiya family's political situation, once he turned his face with him, it would be equivalent to ruining his hard-earned good situation, and the best result would be to become a puppet family governor supported by the Kira family.

The adjustment of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna ended in failure, and did not expose the trace of the Kira family's strategy, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna has his own concerns and does not affect his judgment that he is not optimistic about the behavior of the Kwantung people's coalition forces, and he is also willing to expose his private contact with the Kira family's secret envoy, so it is easy for the clever Yoga Takada to strengthen the monitoring and vigilance of the family governor, he cares more about his freedom and superior life than leaking the whereabouts of the Kira family's investigation, and it is nothing to hide this news and betray the Kwantung people's coalition army.

This defeat did not discourage the secret envoy of the Kira family, and after confirming that Utsunomiya Hirotsuna would not reveal his own collection, he secretly found Mibu Tsunano and Minagawa Toshimune, who had opinions on the monopoly of the power of Hoga Gaoding, these two are the backbone ministers of the Utsunomiya family, who have long been thinking about counterattacking to seize the Utsunomiya family's family handle, and the plan to reconcile the two withdrawal and rebellion is very successful, just give some gold and silver and retreat home with the two families at the agreed time.

The Date clan, the Ashina clan, the Iwaki clan, and the Shirakawa Yuuki clan on the side of the Mutsu Kingdom have no intention of adjusting at all, and the Date clan, which has the most resolute anti-Kira attitude among the four samurai, followed by the Ashina Mori clan, a relative and strong ally supporter of the anti-Kira Date clan, and Iwaki Shigetaka, who has married the anti-Kira Date clan and the Satake clan, and the Shirakawa Yuuki clan, the only one who can be called a soy sauce, is surrounded by several of them, and it is impossible to rebel because they have long formed an alliance.

At this point, he had almost used all the forces that could be used, and Kira Yoshitoki sneered and admired the Kwantung Kunitun coalition army that was gathering more and more outside the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and ordered Sanada Yukitaka to lead 10,000 troops to Edo Castle to fight in battle, and ordered Ota Shimasa and Narita Nagatayasu to lead 6,000 Musashi Kuni's troops to Nishi-Sagami Province to support Uesugi Teruto.

Musashi Province has successively had large-scale military movements, making the atmosphere in the Kanto region more and more strange and subtle, and the people of the Kanto Kingdom gathered outside the Furukawa Imperial Palace are also aware of this, Satake Yoshiaki tried to urge Ashikaga Fujimasa to take advantage of the high morale to send troops as soon as possible, but this straw bag prince only thinks about eating, drinking, and having fun and making a base, so it is really difficult for him to send troops to fight Musashi with 45,000 troops.

Satake Yoshiaki has no way to save such a big face, and the rest of the Kwantung people are even more impressed, and the 45,000 troops gathered together to "defend" the Furukawa Imperial Palace's eating and drinking is not a small number, and seeing that time is passing little by little and gradually approaching the most important autumn harvest of the year, the people of the country will inevitably become anxious and impatient.

Date Teizon sat in the camp outside the Furukawa Imperial Palace and was stunned for a morning, and it was not until lunch that he realized that he had not moved for so long, and sighed secretly, "It's a waste of time for my family to come here!" Why did you believe the rhetoric of the Furukawa Princesses and go to the hinterland of Kanto to fight against the Kira family? What should I do if I can't go in and out now! (To be continued......)