After his death, Kaga entered the era of Honganji, the Tomigashi clan became a puppet puppet with no power, and after the death of Renru of Honganji Temple, it became the era of Kaga Sanji holding power, in this era, Kaga Sanji conquered the east and west to expand the territory, and finally wanted to usurp the position of the master, and finally was destroyed by the Chaokatsuji Miyoji sent by Yamashina Honganji in the big and small ones, and since then it has entered the era of the Chaokatsuji family.

Chaokatsuji Mikuji can sit firmly in Kaga Ichikozong general, and quickly create a powerful army is in the word "money", money can make the ghost grind, seize Yoshizaki Imperial Workshop to exterminate the Kaga three temples in the process, Chaokatsuji Miyoji plundered a large number of temple properties and hidden gold that originally belonged to Kaga three temples, a large amount of wealth makes the Chaokatsuji family in just ten years of hard work has more than Kaga three temples arrogance, the Honganji temple is often disobeyed by the order.

So much so that Honganji had to establish Kanazawa Gobo in order to suppress him, and ordered the Chaokatsuji Mitsuji to settle in it with various restrictions, and from then on, the Chaokatsuji clan began to gradually put away the ostentatious posture, but often because of the conflict between their own interests and Ishiyama Honganji Temple and killed the messenger, and at the same time, during this period, the Chaokatsuji took Honyoshi Minato into his own possession, and the financial and tax autonomy was guaranteed.

In recent years, he has gradually controlled some of the temples of Kanazawa Gobo under his own match, and he must be careful enough not to let Honganji Xianru feel that he has bad intentions, and externally he wants to suppress the powerful members of Echizen Chaokatsuji and Wada Chaokatsuji Temple, and gradually transfer the finances of the two temples and the resources in his hands to Kanazawa Gobo. He had intended to complete the complete subordination of Kanazawa Imperial Workshop within ten years.

But it all came to an end with the arrival of the Kira army. From the Genhei era, the Tomigashi family made great contributions in the battle of Kurigara. Since he was appointed as the guardian of Kaga. For more than 360 years, the wealth accumulated by the Tomigashi clan, Kaga Sanji Temple, and Kokatsuji clan changed hands several times fell into the hands of the Kira family.

"I roughly estimate that there are no less than 100,000 yuan of all kinds of copper coins, as well as almost equivalent gold and silver, as for some books, antiques and precious utensils, I really don't know the value, these warehouses only have my own family to go in and take a cursory look at the out, and then seal the warehouse and send heavy guards to guard it, write to you and wait until it is shipped back for re-inspection."

Uesugi Masatora briefly explained and took Hosokawa Fujitaka to several warehouses in the Imperial Workshop, not having much interest in this huge amount of wealth. If it weren't for the disputes in the family caused by the apportionment of Shangluo's expenses, he would not have engaged in the Qingjiao franchise to obtain benefits to support foreign wars, and now Echigo is not short of money at all, and more floating wealth is just icing on the cake.

Hosokawa Fujitaka just went in and hurriedly checked it out, and then recruited the people and things to start the handling and preliminary inspection, this trip took a full three days to all the ships and transported back to Echigo, Hosokawa Fujitaka did not tell Uesugi Masahu the specific number, but estimated that all kinds of copper coins are worth about 150,000 Yongle money, and the converted value of gold and silver is more, and the rest of the antique calligraphy and paintings cannot be estimated for the time being.

In addition, several secret doors were discovered, and several battle plans for the Chaokatsuji family to annex Kaga were found. Precious tea sets, gemstones, ivory and other handicrafts from the Ming Dynasty, and even a top-level inkstone. This kind of good thing is that the Kira clan has not been obtained in three hundred years of inheritance, only the Ashikaga shogun's family received a gift from the Ming Dynasty in the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu era, and it is said that Taira Kiyomori once had a side of the inkstone, but with the battle of Tannoura, I don't know where it spread, but I don't know if this side of the inkstone is the side of the end inkstone that was passed down by the Taira Kiyomori.

After another half a month, Kira Yoshishi issued a letter of appointment, ordering Uesugi Masatora to take full responsibility for reaching an agreement with the harmony of the Ichisho Sect and the Asakura family, and asked him to resolve the war in Hokuriku as soon as possible and lead the main army to return to Kasuga Mountain Castle, in fact, he did not call to return to Echigo to sit in Kasuga Mountain Castle, because there was no war around Echigo, and it was better to go back and try his best to suppress the forces of the three counties, anyway, neither Ichijo nor Honganji could not afford to delay, he did not have to feel anxious.

Fortunately, Uesugi Masato didn't wait, not long after the letter of appointment was issued, the envoy sent by Ishiyama Honganji hurried to Kaga Kanazawa Gobo, this time the messenger was Shimoma Yorisho and Shichiri Yorishu, these two are Honganji's most trusted henchmen, neither of them is the descendant of the Hokuriku Ichikozong.

Shimoma Yorisho's father, Shinma Yorikiyo, was one of the leaders of the Echizen Army, and he was rewarded for his merits in the big and small ones, but later he was squeezed back to Ishiyama Honganji Temple by Chaosheng Temple and ended up depressed, he came back this time to be ordered to seize the military power of Echizen Ichijo Zong, and naturally it was inevitable to compete for power with Chaosheng Temple Jiaofang, which was in line with his original intention of avenging the revenge of the year.

Qili Lai Zhou's background is lower, he was born in the Yamashina Honganji era of a small young young man, the so-called green servant is a relatively young and promising man among the low-level samurai of the ground servant, he himself does not even have a common surname Miao is just an ordinary rich peasant turned into the ground servant class, because of loyalty and courage and in the past 20 years of Chenguang, he was gradually promoted to the confidant general of the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, and this time he was sent to Kaga to obtain the military and political power that Kaga has always had.

Shimoma Lai Zhao is a middle-aged monk in his forties, and the age difference between Qili Lai Zhou and him is similar, but the performance and aura of the two are really superior, Shinma Lai Zhao looks more like a knowledgeable monk from the perspective of appearance and conversation, and Qili Lai Zhou abandons his unattractive appearance, not to mention, he is short, thin and a little hunchbacked, and he really doesn't look like a general.

Qili Lai Zhou and Shimoma Lai Zhao glanced at each other, and then took the lead in saying: "The poor monk came to reach a peace with the Kira family on the order of the Dharma Master, I don't know if the main hall of Uesugi Dan can be the master, and if not, where should the poor monk and others go to discuss peace matters." ”

"The family can call the shots, you don't have to worry about this, just say what you have to say!" Uesugi Masata stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please.

Lai Zhao smiled and said, "That's good! The purpose of the poor monk's visit is to make peace with the Kira family, and the original words of the Dharma Master are to write off all your previous grievances, and take this opportunity to heal the troubles caused by the conflict between the two families. Take the current area of actual control as the baseline. Since then, the two sides have ceased fighting and no longer engaged in warfare. I don't know what the Uesugi Dan main hall will do? ”

Uesugi Masatora also smiled when he heard their proposal, knowing that the head of the Chaokatsuji Temple Miteru had been hanging outside the Kanazawa Imperial Workshop for nearly a month, and after many days of public opinion fermentation, it was inevitable that the Ishiyama Honganji Temple fell into a state of fear, and the 127,000 troops were captured and annihilated, and the invasion of Kaga took the two northern counties for more than ten days, and then it was defeated in the Battle of Kaga, so that Kaga Ichimune fell into an embarrassing situation that could not be defended in Nomi County.

The territory was occupied, and the believers were taken into captivity, causing Kaga and Echizen Ichijomune to face the dilemma of having no troops to levy and no food to raise. The only source of money and expenditure was also cut off with the fall of Benyoshiminato, and with the defeat of the Honsho Clan, the last chance to turn the tables was buried, and now it is very difficult to maintain the existing situation without collapsing, not to mention the counterattack of the strong Kira family to regain the lost territory.

Knowing that they were facing a huge and irresistible threat, the head of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, Honganji Temple, immediately made concessions and compromises in exchange for the basic requirement of peace without a fight with the Kira family, because they knew that the forces of Kaga and Echizen Isōmune were absolutely incapable of fighting on two fronts at the same time, and the only way out was to choose one as the direction of attack.

The current situation is that the power of the Echizhong Ichijo clan has been completely emptied, and several officials of the Noto Ichijo clan have also been trapped in the civil strife of the Noto Hatakeyama family and cannot extricate themselves, and the main forces of the Ichijo Ichisui clan in the northern two counties of Kaga have already been emptied in the process of the invasion of Echichu, and after the Kira army entered Kaga, they carried out massacres and human hunting again and again. Anyone who has always been a strong believer, whether a samurai, a monk, or a peasant. Regardless of gender, age, all capture, twist, and dispose of it after Echigo.

In this series of bloody suppressions, the losses to the believers who were the basis of the sect were extremely serious, and no more than 50,000 people remained in the villages and townships, and these 50,000 people either did not have a deep belief in the sect, or they were the people who hated the sect or belonged to the hostile forces of the sect.

The elite garrison of the Kira family army in the two northern counties is as much as 40,000, plus the strength of the Kira water army that can be reinforced at any time is no less than 3,000 troops, so that Yichangzong has no chance to incite a new riot in the two northern counties, and what is worse is that the Kira family is still constantly transporting peasants from Vietnam to the two northern counties, nominally to coordinate the autumn harvest problem, but in fact to completely subjugate the two counties.

The situation was similar in the eastern part of Nomi-gun, where hundreds of large and small villages were captured, and even the unaffected areas of the western part of Nomi-gun were affected by small-scale hunting, and these well-trained cavalry could raid several villages in a row overnight, and with the cooperation of Ashigaru, they would catch the believers in these villages from top to bottom in the next day.

The men of the faithful group who united to actively resist were mercilessly slaughtered by the Kira army, and these unsympathetic samurai were more likely to kill the followers of the Tsusho sect than a chicken, and the fearful believers had to make a choice: either they trampled on the banner of the Tsujo sect and swore an oath to break with the gods and Buddhas, or they were forcibly taken and sent to Echigo or Sado to work as miners, and those who resisted were executed on the spot, regardless of whether they were male or female.

Such a brutal system really deterred the arrogant and arrogant Ichi, they had never seen such a terrible means, with such a drastic method to uproot the lifeline that Ichiyi relied on for survival, and the loss of believers they were rootless duckweed would collapse in an instant after a few defeats, which was never allowed to happen by Ishiyama Honganji.

In fact, the Ishiyama Honganji side did not understand what kind of factors existed for the Kira family to deal with the Isunzong with such drastic means, because the Honganji family and the Kira family had no grudges in the long days and no enmity in the near future, and the two sides could not talk about serious conflicts of interests, but some religious differences, which were not as good as one-tenth of the mortal enmity between the Echizen Asakura family and Honganji.

Although Kaga and Echichu have allowed Echigo to attack Echigo over the years, it is not that they have not thought of taking the initiative to bridge this relationship, but the Echigo Issho sect's prohibition order just touched the bottom line of the Ichijo sect, so that Honganji Xianru hesitated several times or gave up the plan to take the initiative to propose peace, as long as he proposed a peaceful negotiation, Honganji Xianru will definitely reach out to accept this good intention.

Because in the heart of Honganji Xianru, he always felt that in the end, the Kira family would take the initiative to make peace with him, and at that time, Echigo would relax the restrictions on sectarianism. Even if it's just a gap, it doesn't matter if it's strictly managed, just like Kai Kuni's Takeda Shingen. He just needs one step down. If the monks and officials of Hokuriku do not obey the order, he will gladly invite Kira Yoshitoki to carry out another "big and small" purge of Hokuriku.

It's just that this encounter is really beyond the expectations of Honganji Xianru, and the war between the two sides for territory in Vietnam and China will be so fierce, and Uesugi Masato, who once had a relationship with Kyoto, is so powerful, not only annihilating the dishonest Chaokatsuji Miteru who has always been yang and yin, but also annexing the two central and northern counties of Kaga Province and the half of Nomi County, so it is too late for him to make more adjustments.

This time, Lai Zhao and Qili Lai Zhou were appointed as envoys, one is to fight for power. The second is to test the specific reaction of the Echigo side, whether it is really planned to join forces with the Asakura family to annex the Kaga country and completely eliminate the Hokuriku Isun sect, or whether there is room for maneuver, everyone can sit down and discuss how to divide the sphere of influence.

Uesugi Masatoshi obviously understood this truth, and smiled at the two monks and said: "The family came by order of His Royal Highness the Prince, and reached an alliance with the Echizen Asakura clan, and the Kaga country was divided into two, and the north went to the Kira family and the south belonged to the Echizen Asakura clan, and now our army has captured the two northern counties, and the sweep in Nomi County has also come to an end, and now the only enemy is the 30,000 Ichichi army in Wadayama Castle, which makes the family very unhappy, and this is also the only challenge to my Kamiashikaga family's complete domination of the Tetori River." ”

"Kaga two points? I see! Is the invasion of Nomi County by the main hall to ensure that the dominant Tetori River is not disturbed? The only challenge is the 30,000 defenders in Hetian Mountain City! The poor monk understood! "Shimoma Yorisho is also an extremely smart person. Words don't need to be clicked through to understand the joints.

Qili Lai Zhou was a little slower than his reaction, but after a little hesitation, he immediately understood. Uesugi Masatora is clearly going to sell the Echizen Asakura clan as an ally, and even the secret alliance can be pretended to be unconcerned, but you can imagine how unstable the covenant established by the two families to divide Kaga is, maybe there is a contradiction between the two sides, or maybe the Kira family is not very satisfied with the Asakura family, in short, there is an opportunity to take advantage of this.

Uesugi Masatori didn't seem to see their expressions of sudden realization, and continued: "The meaning of this family is very simple, the 30,000 troops in Wadayama Castle have withdrawn from the Ichichi Army, and Ichichi has not allowed to cross the defensive network built by my Kamiyamaga family on the front line of the Tetori River in any form or under any name, and at the same time, the family can guarantee that the opponent will not use troops on the south bank of the Kawakawa, and at the same time, I can allow Ichijo Mune to retain part of the original property in Honyoshiminato, but it is forbidden for armed ships and ships prohibited by our side to enter Honyoshiminato. ”

"That's great!" Qili Lai Zhou couldn't help but pinch the rosary excitedly, he was about to take over the military and political power of Kaga Ichizong, as the new general of Kaga Ichizong, no one would listen to the two of them if there were no soldiers, no money and no food in their hands, and these two new generals could not become bare-bones commanders, so they had to get money and food for the soldiers to sit firmly in Diaoyutai.

The attitude of the Kira family is precisely to express their willingness to take care of this, first of all, the 30,000 troops who retreated from the castle of Wada Mountain will definitely fall into his hands, and secondly, the safety of the western part of Nomi County and Enuma County can be guaranteed, and the land, food, and population do not have to worry about being plundered again, and finally, the temple property of Benyoshiminato has been partially restored, which is the temple property operated by the Chaokatsuji family for several generations, even if only one-tenth of it is a lot of wealth, and most of the army's salary can be supported.

The two of them can also see the attitude of the Kira family, which is to use powerful force to cripple Kaga Ichiyi, so that they dare not have a different heart, but they are not willing to beat Kaga to death with a stick, and finally completely break with Ishiyama Honganji like a sandpiper and fight, but let the Echizen Asakura family hide behind the fisherman to benefit.

In fact, Honganji Xianru also did not want to offend the Kira family, Kira Yoshitoki was able to create the miracle of Sakamoto in just four years in Kinai, and went down to Echigo and used six years of hard work to win four realms, just looking at this skill and ability is by no means comparable to the noble son of Asakura Yoshikei, and the Kira family and the Ichikoji family did not have a grudge with the Asakura family for decades, the Honganji Otani family's clan Hino Ryu line, and has always maintained a good relationship with Kira Yoshitoki, and can be regarded as one of the representative ministers of the pro-shogunate and biased towards the Kira faction in the court.

Ishiyama Honganji has always been extremely deferential to the imperial shogunate, and more than 20 years ago, it was also cleaned up by the stewards Hosokawa Harumoto and Rokkaku Dingyori, who have been carefully holding their tails in Kinai for many years, and the Kira family has maintained great influence in the shogunate. For any reason, you shouldn't tear your face with the Kira family.

Although Honganji Xianru also used rumors of "Buddha enemies" to test the attitude of the Kira family. Playing political tricks is the way for every mature daimyo to go. After several waves of baptism of the Cargill Rebellion, the Onin Rebellion, and the Ming'an Coup, the current Daimyo of Kinai are extremely shrewd, that is, Kira Yoshitoki has gained such a great fame in Kinai, and there are a lot of samurai families betting on both sides, and the Ishiyama Honganji is not a big deal to use the means of doing something, even if the Kira family knows about this matter, they will not completely break with the Ichizuna.

And the form of Kaga Province in Hokuriku Province is so bad that after Uesugi Masatoko broke the so-called alliance between the north and the south to divide Kaga equally, the two of them found that the situation faced by Kaga Ichisho was particularly divided. The Echigo Kira clan and the Echizen Asakura clan were both well-known samurai, and they chose to attack from both the north and south at the same time, and if you don't deal with such a sinister environment, you will only perish.

But the reality is so cruel, the options in Ishiyama Honganji are very limited, the best way is to defeat both sides at the same time through war, but there has never been a military wizard like Uesugi Masatora in the entire Kaga country, let alone an all-round general like Kira Yoshitoki, Takeda Shingen, and Hojo Shiyasu.

With the nature of always involving the whole people, they are also destined to be unable to fight on both sides at the same time, because the inferior quality of the soldiers is destined to require several times the enemy's strength to gain an advantage, of course, this advantage usually loses its effect in front of the elite generals, such as 300,000 against 18,000 in the battle of the Nine-Headed Dragon River. Another example is the 100,000 against 23,000 in the Battle of Echichu Shokawa, and Kaga does not have the same strong national strength as Echigo.

If you can't start a war at the same time, then you can only strive for a simultaneous truce. But at the same time, the price of the armistice is not affordable by the Tsunemune, and the current situation is obviously extremely unfavorable to the Ichōmune, no matter which side is begging, it will have to pay a certain price in exchange for peace, but the Hokuriku Ichōsamun still has half of the Kaga half of the country left, and the family of the Echizen Sect is less than half of the country's family, and how much territory can be taken out as a trade item in exchange for peace is still a problem.

There are actually only two choices in front of Honganji Xianru, the first is to take the initiative to make peace with the Echizen Asakura clan and fight against the Kira army with all their might, and the second takes the initiative to make peace with the Echigo Kira clan to fight against the Asakura army, and the choice of the former means that the 40,000 army that has always been going to stand up to Uesugi Masatora and the most terrible 7,000 cavalry team is still a question.

Even if you really want to start a war with the Kira family, you need to transfer troops from Echizen to help, and in this process, it is really hard to say whether the Asakura army will suddenly tear up the treaty and attack Echizen all the time, and the crisis of the two-sided attack cannot actually be broken, from this point it can be seen that the actual occurrence point of this crisis is the 40,000 elites of the Echigo Kira clan, and if they can't stop them, there is no strategy to break the two-sided attack.

"One more point! His Royal Highness means to support Honganji's invasion of Echizen, and can give a certain amount of military salary support, the amount is not less than 10,000 kanwen per year, if the two are about to become the general of Kaga and Echizen, that is, the two high monks each have 5,000 kanbun, although this money is not much, but it is used to make up for the material supply of the Ichijo sect, and the ordnance is still enough.

In addition, the use of this money is also significant.,That is, it must not be developed in Kaga Province's Nomi County.,As long as we find out that there is a military change or a change in Nomi County.,This contract will be torn up immediately.,In addition, this is a secret contract that is only a verbal promise and will not fall on paper.,If you two think that getting this money can challenge my Kira family.,You can try it.。 ”

At the same time as Uesugi Masato's voice fell, Saito Asanobu also cooperated with the action of sharpening the knife, which was quite funny, and the two monks whispered a few words and said together: "We can wait for the Lord to agree to this terms of harmony, and I will return to Ishiyama Honganji Temple to draft the documents, and when the town government turns around, I will personally send it to Kasugayama Castle." ”

The two monks hurriedly left the Kanazawa Imperial Workshop, and they did not ask where the captured believers were sent, nor did they ask for the prisoners captured in a series of joint battles between Echichu and Kaga, because they both knew very well that the Kira family would not easily grant their wishes, and the price they needed to pay was definitely beyond the affordability of Ishiyama Honganji, so it was better to simply shut up and pretend not to know how to pull them down.

Uesugi Masatora is still a little unaccustomed to participating in this evil agreement for the first time, if it weren't for Kira Yoshitoki's secret letter to ask him, the general to be responsible for handling the beginning and the end, with his temperament, he would never be involved in this kind of conspiracy, all these years has been indoctrinated by Kira Yoshitoki, intentionally or unintentionally, and he also knows some ghost tricks that violate morality, and he has repeatedly expressed strong opposition and dissatisfaction in private, but Kira Yoshitoki can find sufficient reasons for his actions every time to justify.

More than ten years of military career has made him gradually understand that war is everything, sometimes you can't talk too much about benevolence and morality, as long as you don't lose the bottom line to the big festival, it doesn't matter if you are a little more relaxed in the small sections, for example, this is the case in the handling of Kaga Ichishomune, who is half-crippled and fearful out of political considerations, is far more suitable than becoming a remnant of the party and scurrying around the Kaga border to threaten the stability of the territory.

As long as Kaga does not fall, these extremists of the Zong will be strongly restrained by Shimoma Yorisho and Shichiri Raishu, and the officials and local servants at the grassroots level can still restrain the followers of the Yizong through their influence, so they will not have to worry about the stability of the two northern counties being affected by geopolitical factors, and nothing is more important than annexing territories and being able to quickly digest them without leaving hidden dangers.

In contrast, killing Kaga in one go will not only offend Ishiyama Honganji Temple to the death, but also provoke the strong hostility of the Echizen Asakura clan, and if you don't act according to the covenant, you will automatically break the alliance and tear your face, and the remnants of Kaga's always one party will become a group of lawless fanatics after losing their leader, and maybe they will get the support of the Asakura family in turn.

Mori doesn't need to come forward in person with the Asakura family, as long as they are properly indulged or given a certain amount of protection, they can make the remnants of Kaga always be like wild horses that have escaped to make trouble everywhere, they will take advantage of the geographical advantage to play hide and seek with the Kira army in the mountains of Kaga country, there is the Asakura family deliberately conniving and sheltering, and there is the strong support of Ishiyama Honganji Temple outside, just like the remnants of the Southern Dynasty in the Northern and Southern Dynasties era, you can rely on external support and the advantage of the land snake to fight with the Muromachi shogunate for nearly a hundred years before it is over.

Even if the great cause of the Kira Yoshishi family is not afraid of consumption, but he is not willing to spend it for such a place, the Kira army entered Kaga to grab territory rather than to fight to the death, and he can't trap himself for the territory of this county and two counties, if he falls into the crisis of intermittently fighting a ten-year or eight-year war between the great demon kings back then, even if he finally collapses all of them, it doesn't make much sense.

To enter Kaga Province, it is necessary to make efforts to stabilize the local situation, not to let Kaga Province become a quagmire and swamp and trap tens of thousands of troops into it and unable to pull it out, to defeat Kaga Ichiyi as quickly as possible, to take the opportunity to attack the city and seize the land, to conduct another battle to achieve victory, and quickly promote a peace agreement, this has already achieved the set strategic goal, and further greed and lack of greed will inevitably find people to resent. (To be continued......)

PS: For the daimyo, festival is a luxury.