In the past half a month, Yamamoto Kansuke has not mentioned inviting him to watch the military training, of course Kira Manmatsumaru is not interested in running to see what military training on a hot day, in addition to the daily course teaching, Yamamoto Kansuke is always busy inside and out, and I don't know how much he has to be busy, always coming and going without a trace.

Of course, the busier Okochi Nobutada is not only busy with the autumn harvest of his own territory, but also to supervise the payment of the autumn harvest of the Kira family, this year's year is good, although it cannot be said that the wind and rain are smooth and the grains are abundant, at least the Yasaka River did not break out of the flood, the rain is abundant and not flooding, according to the preliminary estimate of Okochi Nobusada, the Kira family received the annual tribute is about 18,800 kanwen.

This is the algorithm of the Yonggao system, not that the Kira family can really collect so much money, it is roughly converted into 18,800 Kanwen rice, mountain delicacies, seafood, in recent years, Kira Manmatsu Pill has been promoting soybean planting, as well as simple fertilizer applications, although because he is too young to be obstructed by the spectrum generation and can not personally supervise, but also has some effects, such as a steady rise in grain production, the previous statistics of the height of less than 30,000 guan, the annual income is also 16,000 kanwen up and down, to this year's increase in production by one-eighth.

The Saijo Kira family received 32,000 guanwen, and the reason why they could receive so many years is because Japan's harsh tax rate from ancient times to the present day is at fault, and the three dukes and two people are the normal tax standards set by the imperial court, if you count the subordinate and subordinate families, the semi-subordinate countrymen exceed 70,000 guanwen, of course, there is a lot of water, for example, there are some people in Bihai County who have taken refuge in the Oda family, many subordinate Matsudaira families in Eda County, and some who simply take refuge in the Imagawa family, and the actual control is less than 50,000 guanwen.

The real control of the Kira family itself is only 32,000 Kanbun's direct collar, most of the direct territory is in Hatazu County and part of Bihai County, this is still because of the influence of the great decline of the Kira family, more than 30 years ago when his father Kira Yoshiyao was in charge of the house, the Kamiyoshira family actually controlled half of the Mikawa country, and the direct leader of the family exceeded 50,000 Kanbun, and he also controlled part of the territory of the Enoe country, and his income was definitely not much worse than that of the rich man Oda Nobuhide.

The Shimokira family is roughly the same as the Ichiyoshi family, except for Tojo Castle in Hata-gun, most of the territories are in the territories close to Mikawa Bay, such as Nueda and Hohan County, and these territories are also fertile places in the Yasakugawa River basin because they are located in the Toyokawa Valley, but because of the initial unification of the two Yoshira, Manmatsu Maru and his half-brother Kira Yoshiyasu have not yet figured out how to deal with the relationship.

Kira Manmatsu Pill and his brother have a very delicate relationship, obviously the second son of a family of leaders, but he was succeeded by his father to the next Kira family as an heir, and then his father married a princess from Kyoto to give birth to Wan Matsumaru easily seized the family business of the Kira family, it is impossible to say that Kira Yoshian has no grudges.

Yoshian Kira is five years older than Manmatsumaru, he is a samurai in the Eight Classics and Motofu, and from the late Heian period, the custom of the samurai family is to treat thirteen-year-old children as adults, such as in the first nine years of the late Heian period, Minamoto Yoriyoshi, the second pillar of the Genji clan of Kawachi and the shogun of the town guard at the time, once beheaded Chiyo Abe, who was only thirteen years old and showed bravery on the battlefield.

The Genpei era was even more common, such as a famous general of the Genji clan in Hanoi, and Minamoto Weichao, who was very active in the Hogen Rebellion, was exiled to Kyushu by his father Minamoto at the age of thirteen, and when Minamoto Yoshitomo died in the Heiji Rebellion, the thirteen-year-old Minamoto Yorichao was captured in Kyoto Rokuha, and was later exiled to Izu Province, and then there was the aftermath of the rise of the Kamakura shogunate.

If it weren't for the fact that Kira Manmatsu Pill was too young, the retainers wouldn't mind imitating the ancient method to give him the Yuan Fu first, but it was a pity that he was only nine years old, and the age disadvantage could not be brought back.

Okochi Nobusada is very busy, but no matter how busy he is, he doesn't forget to take time every few days to supervise Kira Manmatsumaru's studies, perhaps because he is worried that his knowledge will become more and more difficult every time he takes the random exam, and it is also very cheating to involve dozens of kinds of knowledge in hundreds of books, which is even more painful than a sentence, Kira Manmatsumu feels that he can't go on like this, and if he continues to be educated, sooner or later he will become a nerd or a nerd or something like that, but what should he do? Kyoto? Kira Manmatsumaru shook his head, it was a sacred place of Japanese culture, and his two brushes were really not enough.

At the end of July, the Kira family welcomed a long-expected guest, the Bodhi Temple of the Kira family, the head of the Mikawa Kuniyasu Koyasu Kokuchan Temple, Nishiyama Sonobu, who also brought the letters of Taiyuan Xuezhai unexpectedly, and under the witness of Yamamoto Kansuke and Okochi Nobusada, Kira Manmatsu Maru opened the mud seal and read the letter.

It didn't take long for him to finish opening the letter, which was less than 300 words, and handed the letter to Okochi Nobusada and Yamamoto Kansuke to circulate it, and Okochi Nobutada couldn't help but read: "Respectfully presented to His Royal Highness Kira Goyagatata: When everything is in chaos today, Suruga Imagawa Jibu Hall guards Junyuan and guards Kaido...... Today, Owari Oda Nobuhide did not keep the state border and entered Mikawa indiscriminately, wantonly harming the land of Mikawa, and my Imagawa family had the heart to support the great cause of the shogunate and calm the chaotic Mikawa, so they went out to Anjo after the autumn harvest, and specially asked His Royal Highness Kira to go out together to subdue Owari no Ko, and then the Imagawa government will definitely fall to meet him......"

After reading the letter, there was a brief silence in the room, Nishiyama Zongyan held the rosary in his hand and meditated, Okochi Nobusada seemed to be a little unable to turn around, his face was red for a while, and he didn't know what he was thinking about holding the letter for a while, and after a while he asked, "This letter...... ShimoKiraden also received it, right? What does Shimono Kiraden say? ”

"ShimoKiraden was very angry, and he tore up his senior brother's letter on the spot, threatening to be inseparable from the Imagawa family, why bother?" Xishan Zongyan had a compassionate look on his face, he was not a professional diplomatic monk, and it didn't matter if he told the truth.

Nobutada Okochi breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his stiff cheeks, and said, "I see, in this case, it seems that the family should also be ......"

"I should think about it again! But His Royal Highness Ma Shou sent Master Zong Yan back first, and the matter still needs to be seriously discussed at the assessment meeting. Kira Manmatsu Maru directly interrupted him, this topic should not be concluded at this time, otherwise the assessment will be meaningless, Okochi Nobutada also immediately remembered this stubble, secretly scolded himself for being stupid, and hurriedly got up to send Zen Master Nishiyama Zongyan away.

After a while, Okochi Nobutada turned back to the castle tower, picked up the letter and read it several times, and sighed: "Imagawa still has to attack the family, I don't know how the Imagawa family felt when the fatherland clan knew about it." ”

"I'll probably rejoice! It's a great honor to defeat the clan family, and my Kira family will soon be reduced to the Imagawa family with a retainer, and maybe the family will also be under the auspices of Imagawa Yoshimoto! I wonder if he will deprive his family of the common words that have been passed down from generation to generation? Kira Manmatsumaru pursed his lips and gently fanned the folding fan, turning the old face of the pen man pale, and his whole body trembled.

"It's the next gram! This is a departure from the samurai tradition! My Kira family has been a powerful family of the Ashikaga family since the Kamakura period, and the Suruga Imagawa clan is just a branch of the Ashikaga clan that has only risen after the Ashikaga clan of the holding institute, and he must not be allowed to tarnish the reputation of my Kira family! Never! Okochi Nobutada's face was terrifying, his expression was distorted, and his voice was hoarse, completely different from the image of the elegant and stern elder he usually saw, which made Kira Manmatsumaru very worried about his mental condition.

"Then there is only one way to fight!" Yamamoto Kansuke pondered for a moment, and then analyzed: "The soldiers that can be recruited by this family are about 2,500 people, in addition to the 800 ashigaru trained by his subordinates, and the Kira family is directly under the two hundred imperial horse rounds, a total of 3,500 people, with 3,500 people against the Imagawa family with an army of 20,000 people, and resolutely resist with the attitude of holding on to the cage city, according to common sense, it should be able to support until next year's spring sowing, and if you are lucky, you may be able to hold out until the summer, but Taiyuan Xuezhai is an extraordinary and vulgar general, if you use the strategy, it is unknown." ”

"If you adjust it, the wealthy people under the family will definitely be shaken! Once the Imagawa family's soldiers are directed at Saijo Castle, most of the people of Etsuda Prefecture will inevitably scatter and defect...... No! As long as the Imagawa family issues a military order to fight Saijo Castle, Nuta-gun will not be able to keep it, and there is a traitor such as Arakawa Yoshihiro in the Yamian Mountain in the north of Hatazu, which is equivalent to opening the door to let the Imagawa family in, and after the Hachimian Mountain, what will the Imagawa family take to resist the Imagawa family? How long can Cage City hold on? Maybe ten days or even less.

The family may be able to do the battle of the trapped beast, Tojo Castle in Shimojira will be difficult, Taiyuan Xuezhai will definitely divide troops to attack the Shimojira family, with the current situation in Hohan County of Higashimikawa, there are already people in Hohan County in Higashimikawa who have openly defected to the Imagawa side, and there are many people secretly eye-to-eye with the Imagawa family, the Imagawa army gathers in Tojo Castle, how the people in the county choose needless to say, if Shimojira is destroyed, what is the point of the family cage castle sticking? ”

This kind of deduction has been done with Yamamoto Kansuke a long time ago, and since the Battle of Shodozaka, there have been countless similar force deductions, and each time the result is that the Imagawa family has ended in a complete victory, and the gap between the two sides is too great, no matter how you assume it, you will still face a dead end in the end.

"This ...... But how could the reputation of the Kira family allow the Imagawa family to be tarnished! Is the owner of the pavilion going to be a puppet who is bound in the Shofu by Imagawa Jibu? Okochi Nobutada struggled unwillingly, as if he wanted to remind him with a cruel reality that the retainers of the Spectrum Dynasty and him, the Governor, were grasshoppers on a rope, and their status would not be guaranteed if the Kira family fell, who would want to let go of the decent Spectrum Family and go to the Imagawa family to be watched and suppressed?

"Yes! How can this family let the reputation of the family for three hundred years be bad in their own hands, this unworthy descendant can not afford the name, so the family has to think carefully! Kira Manmatsumaru muttered to himself.