On August 24, Kira Yoshitoki swore in Edo Castle, Hidetsuna Kamizumi attacked one step earlier as the vanguard general, 3,000 elite warriors galloped through a banner samurai holding high Ashikaga two leading two flags, and then followed by a large number of samurai in black clothes and black armor with black background and five seven paulownia patterns on their backs, and the flags outside Edo Castle were like a forest, and tens of thousands of troops dragged the team slowly marching.

The residents of Edo Castle Town gathered in groups outside the city, curiously watching the Kira army slowly leave, they are still full of curiosity and fear of this Kira family, how many years has not been such a big change in Kanto, how many years have passed since a Kyoto-born Hojo family laid Musashi, and another Kyoto-born Kira family laid Musashi, and the chaotic changes in the world are probably summed up by the change of ownership of Musashi country.

It is not surprising that these townspeople lack a sense of belonging to the Kira family, and the conquerors can never expect to build enough support and trust in a short period of time, especially since a "brutal" lord like the Kira family has captured nearly 100,000 people and sent them to Echigo to live a hard life.

Musashi has a total population of 300,000, and taking away 100,000 people means losing one-third of the population, in the era of strong local consciousness in ancient times, which family did not have some relatives and friends who were sent to Echigo to suffer, but they could not resist in the face of the strong force of the Kira family, and at this time, seeing the disputes in Kanto will inevitably give birth to some strange thoughts.

After watching the excitement, some young townspeople ran to the brewery and gathered together to discuss the changes in the Kanto region in a whisper, and the topic revolved around the Kira family's changes in Musashi Province this year and the Kira family's immigration strategy, and some young townspeople kept cursing the Kira family for not dying well. The more radical townspeople tried to persuade everyone to join the Furukawa Gongfang and rebel against the Kira family. As soon as he spoke, he was scolded by the elderly townspeople. So he didn't dare to continue to insist.

The ninja of the Kira family, who was hiding in the corner, watched coldly as the troublesome young townspeople dispersed indignantly, secretly followed them to find out the addresses and then quietly recorded their names, thinking about how to lure these thorns to the rebels who were secretly spying on them, and then find an opportunity to wipe out these unstable factors.

Luring the snake out of the hole and catching it all is the favorite method of the Kira ninjas, and the turmoil and hidden dangers of the previous Echigo have been eliminated by them in this way, as early as when Kira Yoshishi ordered the arrangement of Echigo immigration, the monomi commissioner Mochizuki Yoshicho was ordered to implement a set of "Osprey Plan", which aimed to eliminate the resistance of the Kira family. During the execution of the program, they can act as brocade guards.

With the full cooperation of the Monomi Commissioner, these ignorant townspeople were soon coaxed into a rebel organization consisting of only a few dozen people, who thought that their strength was rapidly expanding and were overjoyed, but they did not know that the god of death was quietly tightening the noose around their necks.

A few days later, on a dark and windy night, Kira ninja cooperated with the city guards of the Kira family to raid several secret points of the rebels in the castle town, captured and killed 75 people, and captured three old-fashioned iron cannons, a number of jade medicines, thirteen knives, 25 plain guns, six wooden bows, and more than 30 pairs of various armors.

The members of the Kira family acted quickly, and in only three days before and after the quick trial, all the dozen or so bandit leaders were hanged, and the remaining 61 people were all sent to Sado Island to work as miners. It is estimated that it will be impossible to return to his hometown in this life, and more than a dozen gallows stand on the avenue outside the town of Edo Castle. At the turn of summer and autumn, mosquitoes breed and stink within a few days, allowing pedestrians to cover their mouths and noses and walk around.

Facts have proved that the townspeople will not sympathize with the weak, especially the weak who do not know the current affairs, and will not be tolerant, even if these weaklings were once their relatives and friends and give themselves help, but at this moment they also resolutely stand on the criticism seat to reprimand their old friends for their madness, for many townspeople who lack political positions, participating in such a dangerous thing is to die, and being caught by others has no reason to forgive, so as not to harm themselves in the future.

The rules of survival in troubled times led the townspeople to quickly use the means of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages to avoid the attacks of the Kira family, and the followers of the Kira family had no intention of making a big deal out of it, so they quickly put this matter behind them after the secret self-trial, and made every effort to deal with the housing and living arrangements of the 300,000 peasants in Echigo, which was a great event.

You must know that 300,000 people is not a small number, and the housing of 300,000 people needs to be built quickly, and they cannot be allowed to live in tents, so it is necessary to plan a new castle town to give them a living environment that is not inferior to that of Echigo, and secondly, the pressure generated by food and clothing is not small, although these money do not need to be paid by the Kira family, but it is not always a matter that the temporary residence is not so convenient.

Moving over so many people will inevitably have to stumble a little, all kinds of quarrels need to be handled by the executive delegation, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to neighborhood disputes, which family's chickens and ducks are less than a dog to steal their own dried cured meat, trivial things are always indispensable to these junior practitioners who come and go like the wind, these teenage young people are often busy from early in the morning until dark to rest, to really have a little community volunteer meaning.

Before his departure, Kira Yoshitoki issued an order to take advantage of the Echigo 300,000 immigration plan to move the Kasuga Imperial Palace to Edo Castle as soon as possible, and the Edo Castle renovation project, which began at the same time, was also in full swing, first of all, to demolish all the small castle towers of Edo Castle and the earthen moku, and the next step was to demolish all the existing Edo Castle towns.

The planning of Edo Castle Town is very unreasonable, and the wooden houses stuck together by the congested roads are a fire hazard, and a single fire can turn all the castle towns into ashes, and Edo Castle has been burned down several times in history, and even the castle tower of Edo Castle has been burned down, so Edo Castle is also called a fire city.

Kira Yoshitoki was not stupid enough to make the same mistake, and he did not allow the samurai land, temple shrine land, and town people's land to be divided in a 622 pattern, and it was a waste for the samurai to use so much land, so it was better to give it directly to the townspeople to live in, and then divide the road into four wide alleys, eight wide paths, and sixteen wide roads. One is 1.8 meters. Sixteen rooms is twenty-eight meters wide. As a main road, there is no problem in using eight carriages in both directions.

The relocation of the Kasuga Imperial Palace also meant that the wives of Kira Yoshitoki also had to take their children south to Musashi Province, and Kasuga Yama Castle only set up a garrison to guard the castle, and the related institutions of the Ministers and Echigo were also moved to Edo Castle to re-set up, and Kira Yoshitoki's posture was to enter the Kanto Department and not leave.

Compared to the two generations of the Hojo family from Izu to Sagami, it is much more direct, and the Hojo clan wants to move the castle into Musashi Province, but Odawara Castle has long become a majestic city in the world after three generations of construction, and he is reluctant to abandon such an old nest if he wants to move away, but he is not at ease if he does not abandon it and hand it over to any of the genealogy retainers. It dragged on until Kira Yoshi's time and killed from Echigo.

Kira Yoshitoki is not worried about the Kasuga Mountain Castle being occupied, when he leaves, he will close all the two pills and above, Kasuga Mountain Castle is not handed over to any samurai, the city has always been an annex to Kira Yoshitoki, and the remaining servants are only guarding the mountain castle in the samurai house at the foot of the mountain, just like the master goes out to let the family look at the house, the family can only live in their own small courtyard to watch the house, and cannot go to the master's bedroom to live.

As the Kira clan moved south one after another, the security and defense level from Echigo Province to Ueno Province and then to Musashi Province was raised by several grades, and the remaining troops of Echigo sent 5,000 men to Mabashi Castle to maintain the safety of this major Kanto artery. As one of the officers of the resettlement, Nagahito Kawada has excellent domestic affairs skills and many years of experience. Quickly get into your position and do a good job.

Another outstanding officer, Masuda Nagamori, was one of the members of the Edo Castle Reconstruction Bureau, and what he had to do was to follow Mitsui Toraka and Ina Tadashi, who had been transferred back to the center, to do clerical and errand work, and it is said that Tokiyuki Yamamoto, who was far away in Kinai, also gave a lot of information and advice to support the construction of Edo Castle.

Masuda Nagamori was the first time he had seen such a grand new town plan, and the new Edo Castle Town was planned to be very large, including 10,000 towns, which meant that 100 square kilometers of land would be used, enough to complete the level of more than 20 square kilometers of Kyoto Castle, and it is said that it took more than 50 years to complete the construction of the three phases of the project.

The first phase of the project is to build Edo Castle as large as Kyoto is today, and the core area of 2000 Machibu will be built around the Edo Castle that is currently under construction, and this Edo Castle will become the future residence of Kira Yoshitoki, and it is expected that it will take three full years to complete the main building, and it is not excluded that higher construction requirements will be adjusted and strengthened.

Seeing this amazing plan made Masuda Nagamori excited for a few days and didn't sleep well, but he knew that this plan was still highly secret, Edo Castle would take more than three years to build, and the first phase of the project would take up to eight to ten years, among which the new castle town based on slabs and sanhe soil would become a new benchmark for Kanto architecture, and it was expected that the construction cost would exceed the seven million Kangaku money in ten years, and it was guaranteed that it would be overspent in the future and would not be more economical.

When the townspeople of Naoetsu heard that His Royal Highness had left Echigo to set up a castle in Edo, a large number of townspeople followed south, which greatly surprised the Kira family's followers, and the 200,000 townspeople in Naoetsu and Kasugayama Castle were the efforts of the Kira family for many years, and the systematic handicraft industry developed very well, and every day just taxes could make money, and neither Kira Yoshitoki nor the priests had any intention of letting them go south to participate in the construction of the Edo Castle construction site.

Tens of thousands of townspeople dragged their families south to Kanto to Edo Castle, and this change caught the government off guard, so they had to levy the general service of Musashi Province farmers as soon as possible to build Edo Castle as soon as possible.

The government members quickly convened an internal meeting to discuss countermeasures, and finally drafted a decree and sent it back to Echigo Katsu Town for posting, which temporarily discouraged the townspeople from blindly following south to Edo, because the urban construction of Edo Castle was far from being officially launched, and most of the townspeople in Echigo had long been accustomed to the well-developed castle town facilities and superior living conditions, and blindly going to a large construction site would not get much needed things, but would cause many economic losses.

It was not easy to appease the restless Echigo townspeople, and at this time, the war in Shimokoku also officially broke out, and the advance of the Kira army collided head-on with the vanguard of the Kwantung People's Alliance. It's just a temporary change of formation to make a defensive posture and send an envoy to contact allies.

Hidetsuna Umizumi led Ueno Shichihongun to force a gap with a sharp arrow formation. More than 1,000 horsemen led by Nobutaha Nobusada, Wada Yeshiro, and Yasunaka Tadanari quickly followed. Shengsheng carved a big hole in this gap. What followed was a rout without suspense, and the fleeing Nationalist Army had no formation at all, and was chased by Hidetsuna Kamiizumi for several miles until he discovered the main activities of the Dongguo People's Army nearby.

There was no fierce collision as imagined, and even Hidetsuna Kamiizumi didn't expect this battle to be so easy, and the army against him was at least more than 5,000 people, and it could be seen that they were the vanguard of the military force, and the configuration of the cavalry team and the ashigaru team was also more reasonable, but this short battle lasted less than an hour. Almost from the moment of contact, there was a one-sided situation, and it seemed that the will of the people of the Kwantung Province to resist was not resolute.

The generals of the vanguard were also puzzled by this, because they were worried that they would be trapped in it if they were too aggressive, but after discussing it, Hidetsuna Kamizumi decided to camp on a hillside and release a cavalry team to probe the enemy's reality, and after interrogation from the samurai captured alive, it was learned that there was a huge turmoil within the Kwantung Nationalist Alliance, which was caused by the sudden announcement of the withdrawal of some powerful nationalists, which had a huge impact on the already disunited Nationalist Coalition Army.

Hearing the news, Hidetsuna Kamiizumi realized that something was wrong with the situation, and first-hand information about the movements of the Kwantung Coalition Army was very important, so he immediately sent this information back to Honjin. After a long wait, it was not until the next morning that the main force of the Kira army left for the territory of Shimokoku.

It is located in a military tent in Katsushika Prefecture. Kira Yoshitoki listened to the latest information reported by Umizumi Hidetsuna with a smile on his face, and the people of the Kwantung Kingdom stationed in the Furukawa Imperial Palace unsurprisingly caused internal strife, and the outbreak of the incident was triggered by the departure of Sano Hidetsuna, just a few days before the invasion of Umiizumi Hidetsuna, Sano Massuna emphasized that his territory was close to Ueno Province, and it was really not appropriate to be overly involved in the war between the two shogunates, and the next day he left the Furukawa Imperial Palace with his army and returned to Karasawa Mountain Castle.

Sano Masatsuna's departure did not cause too many samurai to care, the Sano family has always been pro-Umino and pro-Musashi rarely participated in the internal strife of Shimono country, and even if he left, his own special situation could not make other samurai criticize, but no one thought that his departure was just the beginning, and the subsequent chain reaction brought a huge impact to the Kwantung coalition army.

The following Da Peng Zhenguo also withdrew to the mainland with a group of people from the 33rd Hall of the South Changlu Pavilion to say hello and withdraw to the mainland, which is no less than 3,000 people leaving the coalition army, and in the blink of an eye, the already small army was reduced again, and what is even more worrying is that the Oda clan began to waver, his family's territory is so close to South Changlu, Da Peng Zhenguo returned to Changlu with his own military strength, and he also has to take the Lang Party to fight for the Furukawa Gongfang, in case he loses or loses too much, it will not give the Dapeng family an opportunity to expand.

Under this concern, Oda Shiji also asked to leave the Furukawa Imperial Palace and return to his own territory to take care of the territory, this request was immediately rejected by the Furukawa Princess, Ashikaga Fujimasashi said that you look down on me and think that I am easy to bully if I read less, and immediately ordered that from now on, no Kanto people will be allowed to return to the territory, and this order will be valid until the victory against the Kira army.

At this time, not only Oda Shiji was not happy alone, but even the people of the Kanto Kingdom who were watching the excitement were also a little unhappy, thinking that he would post money and food to this straw bag public party to spend all day and wine, and what did it mean that he didn't let people evacuate if he had a little problem, and that Su Ziyin saw that this feeling was good, and immediately yelled I still have to go back in advance You continue, so he left his three uncles and most of the main force of Nasu Qiqi, and returned to the territory of his Shinoki country to plan the embezzlement plan.

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna saw that he was going to do something to the Kwantung army gathered at the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and was hesitating whether to take the opportunity to bring up something at home that needed to go back for convenience, and his two genealogy family veterans Mitsuyo Tsunashi and Minagawa Toshimune proposed that they were a little uncomfortable and wanted to return to their hometown with military strength to see a doctor.

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna secretly scolded "I wipe", which is clearly in collusion with the Kira family to come to Yin him, the family governor, so without saying a word, he found Fanga Gaoding and said that he was still very young, and he should put more time and energy into dealing with the affairs of the territory and inheriting the lineage, and the military strength of the Utsunomiya family was entrusted to Fanga Gaoding, and he ran back to Utsunomiya Castle with his own flag samurai.

Shimono Province and Hitachi Province successively appeared in the incidents of saying goodbye without saying goodbye, or finding an absurd and bizarre reason to escape, which had a great negative impact on the Kwantung Coalition Army. Ashikaga Fujimasa felt that these samurai were disrespectful to him, the Furukawa Prince. Immediately proposed to crusade against these disrespectful villains. Fortunately, Arimatsu's persuasion stabilized the indignant mood.

Looking back at the coalition forces of the Furukawa Imperial Palace, the army had been reduced from 45,000 to the miserable point of not being able to make up the 40,000 troops, and when he was lamenting that it was not good to drink cold water and stuff his teeth, Daseki Takassu and Hoga Takatsu jointly proposed a retreat, on the grounds that the governor was really worried that there would be problems in the territory again, so it was better to fight here this year's war, and it would be the same next year.

"What a battle! Yu hasn't fought a single battle since the beginning of the year, and this group of bastards shamelessly said that they would fight here first! It's just contempt for the dignity of me, the Furukawa Princess! Ashikaga Fujimasa didn't know that there was a phrase "beat your sister". Otherwise, he would have shouted out with joy.

Ashikaga Fujimasa will not understand the painstaking efforts of these two samurai, the three brothers of Oseki Takassu seem to be very majestic on the surface of the family governor, but in fact he is very worried that his defection will cause the dissatisfaction of the Kira family, when he learned that the lord Nasu Ziyin, who has always looked down on him, ran back to the territory without saying a word, he knew that this was probably the secret guidance of Kira Yoshitoki, otherwise with the IQ of his lord, he would never have thought of this vicious plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.

At this moment, a samurai as talented as Daseki Gaozeng had already seen that the Kira family was secretly adjusting inside, and the people of these countries suddenly changed their attitude and retreated without saying a word, and it must be a problem if they retreated so cleanly and decisively, and they did not choose to cut on the battlefield to show that their confidence in the Kira family was not so strong. A more conservative approach to influencing the confidence and morale of the Kwantung coalition is also a good way to deliver on promises.

"So, Dr. Satake Ukyo still doesn't mean to evacuate?" Kira Yoshitoki took the bat fan and spun it between his fingers. The bat fan seemed to be glued between the fingers and spun rapidly, without meaning to stop, attracting the surprise and admiration of many Kwantung samurai in the military tent.

This is the pen turning technique that he used to be very good at.,It's just that he hasn't used to move a lot for many years.,He has a lot of similar small means to shake the people of the turtle country in Kanto It's absolutely no problem.,They will only think that this is a profound skill from Kyoto.,And they won't suspect that there is something strange about the origin.。

Takikawa Shiyi stared at the technique of turning the pen for a long time before he said, "Your Highness, can you launch a general attack?" The boys can't wait any longer. ”

"Shi Yidian doesn't need to be in a hurry, His Royal Highness has already formulated a strict attack plan, and he can trigger it just by waiting for a signal." Sanada Yutaka said, "It's almost time for this signal to appear! ”

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In Sekijuku Castle, a few miles away from the main camp of the Kira army, Harusuke Takada sat in the assessment room all day without moving, and since the secret envoy of the Kira army informed him of the position of Kira Yoshishi in the morning, he remained in a posture of sitting upright without drinking water or eating, and he was very anxious and contradictory in his heart.

"In the end...... Should I turn my back on His Royal Highness? Harusuke Tanada was still hesitating about the choice of the day, and his wife and young sister-in-law looked at Harusuke Tanada worriedly, a powerful samurai from the side of the Daisho clan of the Banto Hachihei clan, who successively supported two Furukawa princes to ascend the throne, but in the end they were disliked by their nephews and thrown away like garbage, and it is understandable how angry and incomprehensible he felt in his heart.

The contractual relationship of the royal grace was completely destroyed in the hands of Ashikaga Fujimasa, and the retainers did not reward the lord for their great merits but reduced their guilt and seized their positions, and it was a huge dispute that was enough to kill the governor of the other samurai, such as the original Yinfang who killed the lord Chiba Yinzhi Manmen, because Chiba Yinzhi changed to reuse the favored minister Tsuki Temple Shangren, and was provoked by the Ashikaga Nari clan to immediately throw off his arms and do the Chiba clan.

Hara Yinfang is a rebellious villain, Harusuke Hata is unwilling to be such a reviled bastard, but if he doesn't move, maybe he will never have a chance to act again, Furukawa Gongfang Ashikaga Fujimasa is becoming more and more like a dead king, and all kinds of unbelievable and even perverse behaviors have already hurt many samurai of the Furukawa retainers, and if he doesn't do it, his clan will do it, and at that time how worthless it is to take his own life in vain.

Harusuke Haruta didn't want to die for Ashikaga Fujimasa at all, even if his father Takasuke Akita died fighting for the Furukawa family, even if his clan died a dozen relatives for the Furukawa Ashikaga family, and fought for the main family for many years and was praised by the Kanto samurai, but at this moment it is not as harmful as Ashikaga Fujimasa's disdain and indifferent ridicule, people always hold grudges and don't remember the animals, Ashikaga Fujimasa is such a conscienceless person, Ashikaga Fujimasa might as well be a person without conscience.

Suketsuna hurriedly broke in, saw his sister-in-law and little nephew hurriedly bowed and saluted, and then said eagerly: "Brother! Let's do it! The town government is about to attack! If you don't move tonight, you're going to miss the best time! Matsunaga has noticed the movement of our disappearance from the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and this secret cannot be kept for too long! ”

"......" Harusuke Tanda frowned tightly into a pimple, his two fists clenched tightly and released it so many times, and suddenly raised his head to look at his anxious brother and the samurai of the same clan who were walking around restlessly outside the room, and then turned his head to see his wife smile quietly, as if to say that everything is up to your decision, and the thirteen-year-old sister-in-law clenched his fists and looked at him with reverence.

He knew that his son-in-law respected himself the most, and vowed to be a great warrior like himself, looking at the expressions of his wife and children, Harusuke Tanda's heart knot suddenly untied, and he smiled with relief: "The family was still hesitating that the loyalty of the ancestors for a hundred years was broken in the hands of the family, and it was not until this time that I figured out a truth...... It turns out that the most important thing in this family is not loyalty but family, as well as the family business of my family for hundreds of years! ”

"Brother! You've finally figured it out! He was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "If there is chaos today, you shouldn't have done things with a foolish and loyal mind......"

Harusuke Hata shook his head and smiled, "No! Suketsuna is wrong! There is nothing wrong with loyalty, and it is not the family that is wrong but His Royal Highness, and the family still has to be loyal to His Royal Highness! I am a first-class loyal and brave man of the Taira clan, and I have never betrayed my lord for 500 years, and the current Ashikaga Fujimasa is not virtuous and unscrupulous by the Kanto samurai, and I am willing to welcome the town government into Furukawa as the new princess of the new princess, so I will dedicate my Ashida's loyalty to the Kanto princess to the new princess! ”

Tanda Suke Gang was given a lecture that was not light or serious, and lowered his head a little embarrassed, seeing his little nephew grimacing at him, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I knew that I wouldn't mess with my brother, so why bother to be reprimanded!" But speaking of which, it's a good thing that my brother can figure it out! I don't know if my brother means to start an army now? ”

"Raise your troops! I, the Tsukita family, are determined to break with Ashikaga Fujimasa, the evil imperial palace of Furukawa, and from today we will officially start our troops to welcome the town government into Furukawa! Harusuke Hata smiled and looked at the sunset outside the hall, and said softly: "This troubled world may end in the hands of the town government!" ”

"Father! His Royal Highness should be called! ”

"......" Sutsuna Tanda quietly exited the room, leaving time for the family to enjoy their family fun. (To be continued......)