On the first day of the 11th month of the first year of Yonglu, the year of Hede, Yuehede, Huoyao, Minri, Mingya, Tiangui, Yutang, Yi Nacai, Covenant, Sacrifice, Prayer, Prayer, Inheritance, Zhaijiao, Bathing, Enlightenment, and Wealth, Kira Yoshishi stood outside the Kasuga Imperial Palace and paced back and forth, and he wandered here for nearly two hours with a frown.

It was the first time in many years that he had been so nervous, and he had never been so anxious even when he left Mikawa and embarked on the uncertain road to Joraku, whether it was facing the mighty Suruga lord Yoshimoto Imagawa in Mikawa, the overlord Miyoshi Nagakei in Kyoto Kinai, or the Kai tiger Takeda Shingen in Shinano, and the Sagami lion Hojo Yasuya in Ueno could not shake his iron will.

As he grew older, Kira Yoshishi's temperament became more and more calm, and it was difficult to see the true expression on his face, unless it was a big change, he couldn't see his joy and anger, but whoever was in a position must have a valley in his chest, and the kung fu he was proud of in the past made him never anxious in the battle of Kawanakajima, but when it came to such a major matter as his wife and child, he still couldn't hold back the irritability in his heart, and he clenched his fists and paced anxiously and wandered.

At this moment, the inside and outside of the Kasuga Imperial Palace have long been completely closed by the samurai and female ninjas, and since this morning, the Kasuga Mountain Castle has issued a martial law order, and the cities of Naoetsu Town, the town of the castle, have been closed for one day, and the monks of Myokakuji Temple, Gochi Kokubunji Temple, and Echigo Zenko-ji Temple have gathered in Kasuga Mountain Castle, and many shrine officials have prayed for blessings with shrine maidens, and the entire Kasuga Mountain Castle is like a great enemy.

Tiger Ji's due date arrived as early as the middle of last month, and it has been delayed for nearly half a month before she suddenly saw red labor pains, and Tiger Ji was okay at the morning meal, and he mentioned to him that the baby in her belly was so naughty that she didn't want to come out. Kira Yoshishi told him to rest in the palace. It wasn't even a long time before the results came. And the maid came to him and told him that he was about to give birth.

Standing outside the heavily surrounded palace, he could still hear the painful exhalation from time to time in the delivery room, and the familiar moans of pain made him very worried, Qu Naase Shouzhen brought a bowl of soothing soup to him with a small surname, and said softly: "The Lord doesn't need to worry, there are three of the best midwives in Echigo, as well as the Korean red ginseng soup and awakening incense carefully prepared by the master, and you will definitely be able to give birth to the child safely." ”

"I understand...... I understand. Kira Yoshishi waved his hand and didn't pick up the soup bowl. Two hours of water and rice did not enter the water and rice was not difficult for him, involuntarily pacing and continuing to wander, he naturally knew that this preparation work for ten months must be foolproof, but some things will be nervous and restless knowing this, and people who are about to become fathers are probably in this mood.

According to Mr. Nagata Tokumoto's instructions, the first child should not be supplemented, so as not to develop too well to make it difficult to give birth, and there is no possibility of caesarean section in this era. Even if Hua Tuo was resurrected, he didn't dare to try.

"Rest Lord, lunch is useless!"

A few more chamberlains came to persuade him, but he still did not move. All the retainers gathered in the Ohiro room and waited quietly, many samurai were waiting for news from the palace on an empty stomach, Princess Aya and Aju did not come out of the palace, the merchants and townspeople of the castle town and Naoetsu town were also looking forward to it, and there were many people who did not eat lunch in the entire Kasuga mountain castle and even Naoetsuri.

I don't know how long it has been, the hoarse and high-pitched cry of pain in the palace suddenly stopped, Kira Yoshitoki's spirit suddenly shook and looked nervously at the delivery room in the distance, that short moment seemed to be a century apart, suddenly there were bursts of baby cries in the delivery room, "Woo wow wow wow" The cry became louder and louder, so that he removed a boulder in his heart, and when he relaxed, he found that his hair had been soaked with sweat.

Nagata Tokumoto, Qu Naase Shouzhen and many close attendants also involuntarily came around, and there was already a small surname who ran to Dahiroma to report the news, everyone was nervously waiting for the exact news in the delivery room, Kira Yoshitoki took a deep breath and prayed silently: "No matter what kind of child is my first lineage, it doesn't matter if I am male or female...... But it's better to be a boy! ”

It's not that he prefers sons over daughters, in comparison to Kira Yoshishi, who prefers girls, but his current status determines that his first child will occupy the position of the eldest son, if Tiger Ji is not born as a boy, Sandalwood and Naohu have a boy, it will cause a huge hidden danger to the newborn Kamiki Ashikaga family, so he would rather have a boy for the first child.

After a long wait, I finally looked forward to the delivery room opening a gap, and an old woman with snow-white hair came out of the delivery room, she walked out empty-handed, knelt down respectfully, and said: "Congratulations to His Royal Highness the Zhenfu Gong, Huyutai gave birth to a healthy boy of six pounds and six taels, the child is very strong and crying loudly!" Tiger Yutai is no problem, mother and child are safe! ”

"Boy...... Boy! I've got a queen! I've got a queen! Just to your sentence of mother and son safety! Enjoy! Reward! Everyone present has a happy money! Ji Liang Yoshishi was excited to wave his sleeves and give a series of rewards, no one was more excited than him, if it weren't for the many taboos of the mother who couldn't see the wind and the light, he couldn't wait to rush in and hug the tiger Ji to celebrate.

The small surnames rushed to tell each other excitedly, and the samurai in the large wide room cheered when they got the news, and most of the samurai present were looking forward to the fact that Tora Yutai would be the first to give birth to a son, and this young prince would represent the interests of their genealogical retainers and would be guaranteed to follow him as he grew up.

It's just that there are always some people in the hall who are not very happy, such as Numata Mitsukan stretched his face and showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, this one is looking forward to the tiger Ji day and night not giving birth to the eldest son, if the tiger Ji gives birth to a daughter, then his daughter Sandalwood has a fifty percent chance of having a son left, if the luck is better to give birth to a boy before Jing Yi Naoto, then no matter whether Jing Yi Naohu is born after a man or a woman will not be affected.

But he can't say this kind of selfish thoughts, he can only lust himself in his head, but now all fantasies have disappeared like bubbles, and the cruel reality makes him unable to face it, his daughter lost at the starting line from the beginning, and finally the round house was deliberately postponed, and now the eldest son is born, he really doesn't even give a chance to compete for the eldest son, he feels unfair, he wants to wave the flag for his daughter, but is it useful for him to do this? The only thing to gain is probably ridicule and ridicule.

Just when Numata Hikaru was suffering from gains and losses, the big bell in the mountain castle of Kokasuga was ringing. The melodious and melodious sound of the bell rang twice at once throughout the spring mountain town. It was spread to the castle town and Naoetsu town. The townspeople of the castle town silently counted the bells, until the bell on the mountain rang nine times and stopped, they were sure that the lord of Echigo had given birth to the eldest son, and the townspeople lit firecrackers and sang and danced in the town, and although the children did not understand what was happening, it did not affect their excitement and scurried around laughing and making trouble.

The monks of Myokaku-ji Temple, Gochi Kokubun-ji Temple, and Echigo Zenko-ji Temple breathed a sigh of relief, and this time they prepared for a month, and the monks prayed day and night in two shifts. Half a month ago, Kurita Kanan even swore with a gambling curse that the first child of the town government must be the eldest son, and he was finally able to relax after a long time of hard work.

Tiger Ji was sweating profusely, the maids picked up clean gauze and soaked her lips with warm ginseng soup, Princess Aya and Ah Ju came to the delivery room to hold the pale Tiger Queen, and said happily: "Tiger Ji gave birth to a lovely boy, it's so good!" What a heroic woman she is! ”

"I have given birth to an heir for His Highness, and I have lived up to His Highness's expectations......" Tiger Ji looked at the little baby who was sleeping next to her, and smiled with happiness and satisfaction.

A month later, on the first day of December, under the careful protection of a group of women. The young baby appeared in the Kasuga mountain castle of Ohiroma, and Kira Yoshitoki happily announced, "This is the eldest son of my Ashikaga family." His young name is inherited from his ancestor and named Zhenwang Pill, and from now on he will be the heir of Yu! Uesugi Danmasa Shobi Masato will serve as the Gomi service of Yu Yu, and at the same time appoint Sanada Yutaka, Saito Asanobu, Hosokawa Fujitaka, Nanaoka Kazubo, and Honda Tokimasa as Fu servants, and from two years later he began to teach and protect Zhenomaru! ”

"Yes!" The spectrum looked at the four people with envious and jealous eyes, Uesugi Masatora deserved to be the chief queen, Sanada Yutaka represented the new spectrum, Saito Asanobu represented the Echigo spectrum, Hosokawa Fujitaka represented Kyoto spectrum, Nanoka Tsubo represented the strategist, and Honda was the most trusted person among the Mikawa samurai.

When Echigo happily celebrated the birth of his eldest son, in a blink of an eye, it had come to the end of the first year of Eiroku, and in the season of the harsh winter of this year, the tension of the imperial court shogunate throughout the autumn could finally be relaxed.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru thought that this was the prestige of the shogunate that deterred Miyoshi Nagakei, so he boasted about his exploits, and as soon as the imperial court was happy, he ordered his official to be moved to the left, and a right minister, Kuga Haritori, announced the latest appointment, and Ashikaga Yoshiteru no longer served as the main two Shoji Tsunayan, and moved the two internal ministers, and the right Konoe general Rumoto.

This is since the ninth shogun Ashikaga Yoshisho, the Ashikaga shogun's family was promoted to the ministerial position again, in the shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshiaki's eyes this is a sign of the shogunate's prosperity, in the shogunate people to celebrate this peaceful year roaring, some people are far away to hide and sneer, such as the exiled Hatakeyama Takamasa and Yasumi Sobo in Sakai Town, such as the Hatakeyama family's Yusa religion, the Yamato country's Kuniren Lang party, and then the Miyoshi family and a samurai.

Miyoshi Changqing, who spent the winter in Sakai Beizhuang, only sneered when he heard the news, threw this information into the brazier and burned it to ashes, and said to his sister-in-law Miyoshi Yoshixing: "The Beijing Gongfang is still indulging in the praise of the prosperous Jingshi, as well as the imperial court and many samurai, and the false peace has consumed his ambition only this little bit, no wonder Kira Yoshishi wants to abandon him, and the Beijing Gongfang is really ambitious and talented!" When the army of fathers gathers next year, break this Kyoto and look at his expression! ”

At the end of the first year of Eiroku, news of the war between Echichu and Shinano came one after another, and the Echichu army led by Yamamoto Tokiyuki had advanced the military force to the most stubborn areas in Tonami Prefecture to carry out a sweep, and a letter from Yamamoto Tokiyuki was also delivered to Kasuga Yamajo at the same time, and this long letter sprinkled with nearly 10,000 words to his beloved disciples explained the principle of generosity as a king, including massacre, refusal to give Andu, and refusal of some countrymen to surrender to forcible encirclement and suppression.

Kira Yoshitoki didn't expect that the master craftsman who gradually faded out of the spectrum still had such a keen sense of smell, in fact, he also realized that in recent years, he has been a little cocked and said many proud but hurtful words, such as not needing allies, such as disdain to tweak, such as imposing capital punishment on countrymen who do not surrender or surrender and betray, and then not giving Andu, slaughtering the samurai of the Ichizong and Shimizu clans, and so on.

These behaviors are actually violating the code of conduct of the samurai of this era, and even trampling on the existing samurai laws to a certain extent, but because Kira Yoshishi is too powerful, these drawbacks have not been manifested for the time being. If this sign cannot be pinched in time. As the Kira family's territory grows day by day. Sooner or later, the evils will accumulate to an irreparable level.

When this "Book of Ten Thousand Words" really shocked Kirayoshi, to be honest, he had never thought of it so profound and thorough, and he always had a sense of superiority in his heart that everyone was drunk and I was sober, and he always felt that Yamamoto Kansuke's skills had been learned by him, so he would send this hard-working master to a place to guard the place, and this contempt was completely broken by this "Book of Ten Thousand Words" at this moment.

Before that, he always thought that he could make the rules of the game with his big fists, but he didn't think carefully that he hadn't grown to the level of a rule maker now. Although the wanton action is refreshing, how long will it take to erase the notoriety left behind? Is it a good thing that Saito Asanobu can stop children crying at night?

"I'm still too big, without this awe, maybe I would have done a lot of ridiculous things, but fortunately, I still have a good teacher who dares to say things that others dare not say." Ji Liang Yoshishi took this "Book of Ten Thousand Words" and read it again and again, and ordered the small surname to copy dozens of copies, and passed it to many generations at the last big assessment meeting at the end of the year.

He solemnly stated at the general assessment that he must correct this problem, first of all, he ordered that the local people of Shinano, Echichu, and Ueno be given security to ensure that their local territories were protected, and second, he announced the prohibition of wanton massacres. The "bloody edict" issued by the believers of the Yizong sect was also adjusted accordingly, changing the massacre to the dispersal of the exiles. Those who refuse to change their religion are divided by capital punishment to set an example.

For more than a month from the end of the autumn harvest to the snow, Sanada Yukitaka led his army to launch several tentative raids on Okaya Kita Castle, but unfortunately under the defense of Takeda Nobuyoshige, the defense was not leaked, and several attacks were in vain, and after Shinano's road was blocked by heavy snow, Sanada Yutaka transferred the main force back to Fukashi Castle, and at the same time wrote a letter about the strategy plan for Suwa Prefecture.

This plan was not a simple attack on Chikuma-gun, but from the strategic level of Shinano Province and even the Kira family, it talked about the proposal to complete the unification of Shinano, including a set of plans to attack Minami Shinano Ina County after the spring blossoms, Sanada Yukitaka was very sure that after these tentative attacks, he learned Takeda Nobuyoshi's operational ideas and the direction of the main activities of the Takeda Army.

Since the invulnerability of Takeda Nobushi's defense is comparable to the hard tortoise shell, then the best way to deal with them is nothing more than three, either a hammer to smash his hard shell, or the tortoise shell is broken from the inside, or only to lure the snake out of the hole, Sanada Yutaka asked himself if he had the strength to break the evenly matched hard shell.

After all, it is difficult for the main attacking side to occupy the geographical advantage, and Takeda Shinshi's strategy may be inferior to Sanada Yukitaka, but the military strategy, government affairs and knowledge are not much worse, behind it is the support of Kai Takeda Shingen, whether it is the cost of defense or the advantage of supply and transportation, it is higher than Sanada Yukitaka.

With Takeda Shingen's old scheming, it is very difficult to deceive them into attacking internally, and it is not much easier than when Takeda Shingen defeated Kira Yoshishi on the frontal battlefield, so there is only one option to lure the snake out of the hole, fortunately, Kai In addition to Minami Shinano's Suwa Prefecture, there is also a 3,000 army led by Akiyama Nobuyo in Ina County, and just by dividing the troops to attack, it will inevitably involve Takeda Shinshige's energy.

Another set of strategies is actually a variant of luring the snake out of the hole, but this plan is not to use the Shinano army as the main direction of attack, but to call the Echichu army to attack Hida from Echichung, and then turn to use Hida as a springboard to attack Minami Shinano's plan, from Hida directly into Kiso Valley Fukushima Castle, as long as you try to subdue the Kiso clan, Minami Shinano will basically get half.

After careful consideration, Ji Liangyi decided to focus on the first set of plans, because the peace between Vietnam and China was not yet stable, and there were still a large number of remnants of the Vietnamese and Chinese parties that needed to be cleaned up, and issuing a security letter to the local people who had surrendered in Vietnam and China was a means of compromise, and only by winning the support of the local people could the rule be stable for a long time.

There is also a letter from Noto Nanao Castle to Echigo Kasuga Yama Castle, written by Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna, the governor of the Noto Hatakeyama family, who wrote a sincere letter to ask Kira Yoshitoki for help, and took the initiative to hand over the country of Echichu to him as the lord of the country, and also stated that he was willing to write a letter to Echichu to give the country in duplicate, one to Noto and one to Echigo, and one to the shogunate.

What he asked for was the hope that Kira Yoshitoki would send troops to Noto to rescue him and his governor, because at this time, the Noto Hatakeyama family was caught in a heavy rebellion set off by the Buni clan, a retainer of the Buni clan, and there was no stability for three years, and the port of Noto Wajima lost a large share of trade due to the spread of the war, and at this time, the four major ports of Echigo gradually formed a system, and recently seized the port of Sakata to dominate the entire second half of Hokuriku, so that Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna was eager to end this civil strife that cost people and money.

From the mouth of the messenger Nagajiren learned that Noto fell into a civil strife in the first year of Hongji, Onkai Susada and his son Onai Susumune tried to support Hatakeyama Harumushiro, and was discovered by Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna in advance to assassinate Oni Suisada, and then Oni Susumune immediately raised the anti-flag, this rebellion spread to the entire Noto country, although Onjing Suzane was quickly killed, but Wenjing Xunzhen's two younger brothers, Oni Sutsuki, Oni Tsunade inherited their rebellion and continued to struggle. (To be continued......)

PS: The birth of the sister-in-law, scattering flowers!