Kira Yoshishi's angry voice spread far away: "Is the god and Buddha punishing us?" I would say absolutely not! This is just a test for us by the gods and Buddhas! I think Echigo is a good place, the shining water shows the simple folk customs, the hard-working farmers work hard with their hands, I have never seen the civilians who are good to eat in the three years of Echigo, so what is Echigo lacking? It's knowledge, it's a broad vision!

The lord of Echigo is also my brother-in-law, and the main hall of Nagao Dan has worries about the survival of the 300,000 Li people in Echigo, and has traveled thousands of miles to Kyoto to seek a cure for the root, so he has contributed to my decision to go down to Echigo, and since then, my brother and I have been working hard every day, but I did not intend to make my brother fall ill due to a disaster, and it has been three full years now!

Three years! I uphold the will of the righteous brother to lead the Echigo thousands of samurai repeatedly to the countryside to investigate and study the law of agricultural reform, Echigo in our hands a little bit of change, from famine and poverty gradually got rid of the present, only three years, to complete the unfinished business in three hundred years, I can proudly say that Echigo is the samurai, the people are the best! The samurai and people who have been fighting day and night for three years are the most outstanding in the whole world! ”

The solemn proclamation heralded a complete summary of Echigo's great achievements, and as the majestic sound spread throughout the square, the hundreds of thousands of people in the audience were thunderous with joy, and the people cheered and celebrated the great harvest of the three years, and the first country to win a million koku with the exception of Mutsu, and easily surpassed Mutsu to become the first country to achieve two million koku.

Nagao Keitora was choked on his inflammatory rhetoric, and the unwitting samurai thought it was because of the excitement, but in fact he knew that this was not the case. But who doesn't love fame in this world? The long-tailed Jinghu is certainly no exception.

"Echigo's achievements of more than 400,000 Li Shu in three years of hard work. Let's live a happy and peaceful life. The whole of Echigo was expecting a life free of famine and poverty, without war and carnage, but all this was ruined by them! They call it always a pinch!

They burned down the houses that the kings had worked so hard to build, killed the relatives and compatriots of the kings, wantonly trampled on the fruits of the kings' labor, their thieves who did not work hard, the robbers who were full of evil, they wanted to kill all the warriors who defended their homeland, and trampled on the faith of the kings to fight for it. The wives and daughters and the food of the kings have been usurped, but fortunately they are in the hands of my righteous brothers, and the place where my Echigo legions have passed has been crumbled, and now is the time to judge them for their crimes! Tell me aloud what to do with them! ”

"Kill them! Kill them! Kill them...... "The anger of hundreds of thousands of people is terrible, and when they burst out in unison, even the hard-hearted Echigo generals will change color.

They never expected that a well-prepared one-time battle would end up like this, except for killing hundreds of fish that slipped through the net, and they had to take more than 500 lives of themselves and others for this. In their opinion, it is a bloody loss.

The civilians of Echigo did not feel that they were at a loss, and more than 7,000 troops were killed on the spot by the army led by Nagao Keitora and more than 1,800. Seven or eight hundred people died one after another when they fled overnight, and finally they were found out one by one and another five or six hundred died.

In addition, there were about 5,000 people who did not have time to gather to make a scene, and their scattered branches to other areas of Shangyue were also quickly extinguished, and now more than 500 diehards are to be executed, adding up to more than 13,000 believers of the Sect, and there are only more than 7,000 people who are really worthy of "saving", and the rest are either dead or waiting to be executed.

Ishida Yasuru shouted frantically, "You can't kill me!" Shengxing Temple will not let you go! I will never let you go......"

The little sound he made was drowned in the rolling tide without even a single wave, but fortunately the voices of the hundreds of thousands of people were loud enough to drown out his threat, otherwise he would have been torn apart by the angry Echigo civilians on the spot.

In the face of the tsunami-like sound of the mountains rushing straight in, the deafening loud noise made the legs of many samurai watching the ceremony on the high platform weak in fright, Uesugi Kenmasa was one of them, if it weren't for the quick help of Xiao Li Yuan, who was standing on the side, most of the Kanto leaders would have lost a big ugly, and his eyes were a little more awe-inspiring when he looked at Kira Yoshishi again.

Nagao Jinghu didn't expect him to use this hand, and turned his face to look at the retainers of the Kira family, except for being a little surprised by the huge sound, there was only an excited expression on his face, and everyone looked similar, which made him very confused: "Such an unbelievable method, why aren't they surprised at all?" ”

Honjo Minoru is also very puzzled, he does not have the identity of the long-tailed Jinghu, so he cheekily came to Yamamoto Tokiyuki's side to ask a few words, as the head of the Kira family's genealogy, Yamamoto Tokiyuki's statement is in a sense the embodiment of Kira Yoshitoki's will.

"Don't be surprised! Our lord's words and deeds are always unexpected, and we have long been accustomed to them. ”

"It's as simple as that?" Honjo still doesn't believe it.

"That's right! Too easy. Yamamoto's smile was impeccable, and his tone and movements were very natural, and he signaled without waiting for Honjo to continue to ask: "Hurry up and look ahead!" ”

“…… All the kings can be killed, then I will judge again! Thirteen people including the first evildoer, Ishida Yasuru Mamoru, were burned at the stake, and thirty-five other main accomplices were beheaded, and the rest of the accomplices were all hanged! Execute it now! ”

The Echigo samurai, who was in charge of the execution, escorted Ishida Yasuru Mamoru slowly up the steps and walked to the most conspicuous wooden stake, and people suddenly realized that this large wooden stake was used to carry out the burning at the stake, and the 100,000 spectators erupted in enthusiastic cheers as they watched the samurai wrap the thick hemp rope of a thick baby fist around Ishida Yasumoru's body.

"You can't kill me! I've always been a sect that won't let it go, woo woo......"

The samurai who executed him was too long-winded, took out a rag and stuffed it into his mouth, and several samurai tied him tightly by dividing him by two, and then walked down the steps and lit the firewood and grass, saltpeter, grease, sulfur and other ignitions prepared in advance, and the raging fire quickly burst out, but in a moment half of the stake was burned.

The high flames jumped up to the criminals on the stake little by little, and they wailed as they gradually became consumed by the fire. Cursed. Begging for mercy. In the end, they were all turned to ashes, and at this moment no one felt fear, no one felt disgusted, and when people's right to life and the right to pursue happiness were violated, they could do anything cruel, even if it was the gallows that cost hundreds of lives.

Standing in the shade of the trees in the Myokakuji Temple in Naoetsu Town, Toriya Soyi looked at the raging fire in the distance and the cheers of more than 100,000 people, sighed and immediately recited the "Jizo Bodhisattva Honwish Sutra": "...... At that time, the Buddha told the Bodhisattva Jizo: All sentient beings who have not been liberated have an uncertain nature. Bad habits are the result of good habits, and they are born for good and evil, and there is no rest in the five realms of reincarnation, and they are confused and obstacles through the dust and tribulation, and if they swim in the net, they will be a long stream, and they will be ...... again in the net when they get out of the net."

Kira Yoshitoki sent people to inform the temples near Naoetsu in advance that they could choose whether or not to attend the public trial meeting according to their own wishes, and Gochi Kokubunji Temple gladly went there, because they had also been hit hard by the previous blows, and an army of three or four hundred people rushed to the temple and burned them down. He also almost broke through the temple, but in the end it was the Echigo army that came to the rescue.

Kurita Kanyasu of Echigo Zenko-ji Temple also expressed his pleasure to go. His own family Kurita Tsuruju was killed because of rebellion, and after the territory was confiscated by Kira Yoshitoki, the power of the entire Zenko Temple was also taken into his hands, and now he is his younger brother in the Zenko Temple where Shinano stayed, and Kurita Kanaki is responsible for guarding the main body of Shinano Zenkoji Temple, and this time Echigo Ichijo did not touch the Naoetsu Town, but he still decided to take this opportunity to add some impression points in front of several big people in Echigo.

Looking at the blazing pillar of fire devouring more than a dozen lives, Kira Yoshi, who was standing at the forefront and witnessing all this, was silent for a long time.

"In the midst of the fire, everything will end!"

In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun gradually dissipated, and the noisy streets of Naoetsu Town gradually returned to quiet, and the people who were excited by the great execution in the morning were particularly excited, and then they were busy all day until the pedestrians became very scarce in the evening, probably going home to catch up on sleep.

In a certain liquor house on the corner of the street, the two teasers who appeared earlier sat in the liquor house and chatted while eating, and the two of them could not stop arguing for a while, and they wanted to invite a quiet drinker to persuade the shopkeeper twice but to no avail, so they had to get up and leave angrily.

After the shopkeeper sent the last customer away with a bitter face, he quietly closed the door and then turned around to change to another expression: "How are you listening?" Is it the village rain? ”

The two giggling guys suddenly turned back into poker faces, and said quickly: "There is no doubt that it is the famous knife Murayu that was lost by the Furukawa Gongfang family!" I've also seen Honjo Shiro show off with my own eyes, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it! ”

"Hmmm! I'll tell you as soon as possible, you've worked hard! The shopkeeper nodded and turned to walk into the inner room, and the two of them didn't say much, and quickly got up and hurried away after finishing their meal.

Quickly wrote down the information in the inner room, pasted the mud and handed it to the deaf and dumb servant on the side, the shopkeeper paced quickly and whispered: "Sure enough, it was the Kira family who stole the village rain!" It is not wrong for the leader to send me to lurk for three years, so it seems that the more I will collect every bit of it, the more I will contribute to the great cause of the Lord, the more stable the position of my Wind Demon Clan! ”

A few days later, in Mochizuki Castle in Saku County, Sanada Yutaka and Yazawa Yoritsunasa had a good drink with Mochizuki in their prime, chatting about nothing more than the short of the family and the old things of Shinano, and the relationship between the Sanada family and the Mochizuki family was intimacy, because the three families of Umino, Mochizuki, and Nezu (Youzu) were all part of the Shino clan, and the Sanada clan was originally a branch of the Mochizuki clan.

It was with this relationship that Sanada Yukitaka was able to rebel against a large number of Shinano people all the way, because they were all from the same family, Sanada Yukitaka's father Sanada Yorisho was also the son-in-law of his maternal grandfather Umino Totsuna, Sanada Yukitaka's father died early, and Sanada Yukitaka was raised by his maternal grandfather Umino Totsuna as an heir.

As a result, he ignored the opposition of Umino Tōtsuna, and left the Umino family under the fence to join the Takeda family, and thus soared all the way to become the de facto ruler of half of Shinano, and the successful Sanada Yukitaka went to invite his grandfather again but was simply refused, and now he is so miserable, his allegiance to the Takeda family and attack the Nishi-Ueno country where Umino Totsuna stayed, and his grandfather is even more unlikely to come.

Mochizuki was more than a dozen years older than Sanada Yukitaka, about the same age as Yamamoto Tokiyuki, with an old face with gray hair and a messy beard, he looked like a sixty or seventy-year-old old man, drinking and scolding: "It's all the good things that ruined me when Yoshitomi Kirayoshi!" Bastard! ”

Sanada Yutaka asked with interest, "Huh?" How do you say that? ”

When Mochizuki was in his prime, he looked around and saw that there were no outsiders on the left and right, beckoned to the two brothers, approached and whispered, "You should know that I have a branch in Omi, right?" ”

Yazawa Yoritsuna immediately came over and gossiped: "I know! It seems to be quite famous. It's called Mochizuki Izumo Mamoru, right? What does this have to do with Kira Yoshitoki? ”

"The old man is nearly sixty years old and has no children, as you know. I died in childbirth when I gave birth. As a result, the adults and children were not saved, and then there were years of war and famine, and the livelihood was difficult to maintain on the missed time, a few years ago I sent someone to Omi to contact the family, I wanted to continue a room for me to give birth to a son and a half daughter, I never wanted to talk about a good marriage was disturbed by him! It's disgusting! Mochizuki scolded indignantly.

"In this way, it is also a last resort to adopt the second man of Takeda's stable as an adopted son a few years ago!" Yoritsuna Yazawa smacked his lips, thinking in his heart how badly he would be scolded by his brother if he laughed out loud now.

Mochizuki angrily hammered on the case: "The old man doesn't even have a son-in-law." It's too late to adopt a daughter, so I can only watch my Mochizuki family's handle being taken away by the Takeda family, and my Shino clan has worked hard for hundreds of years to make wedding clothes for others, do you think I should hate Najirayoshi? ”

"That's miserable!"

Sanada Yutaka made a little calculation, and said softly: "I heard that Mochizuki Izumomo's daughter was taken in as a side room by Kira Yoshitoki?" I don't know if it's true or not! ”

"What? How could it be! Mochizuki was both frightened and angry, and then turned to depression and decadence, and the old man, who had been dry and thin, was now even more shriveled, and lamented: "The old man would rather that woman marry an ordinary samurai than have to be so painful!" ”

When Yoritsuna Yazawa saw the eyes handed over by his brother, he immediately smiled and said, "Don't mention it again if the matter has long passed." Let's talk about something else! For example, Echigo's public trial, I don't know how he came up with the idea. Uncovering the crime in front of more than 100,000 people, and then quickly executing in a public trial, is really amazing! ”

"I just don't know what the lord is going to do, how he will deal with it! It's a pity that this great opportunity is so good......" Sanada Yutaka saw that Mochizuki was hit by the words just now and had no intention of talking, so he immediately cut off the conversation, slowly stood up and said to him: "Thank you for the warm hospitality of Mamoru Enoe, I am really fortunate that I am too strong to accompany Mamoru Enoe to continue drinking!" I still have something to go back tomorrow, so I'll say goodbye here! Let's catch up on the old days at the Ashigasaki Museum another day! ”

"Oh! Good! Rest fast! I'll send you! "When the moon is in full bloom, take three steps and make two steps to send them away.

……

At the April Assessment, Echigo no Ryu solemnly promised Uesugi that he would go to Ueno within a few months to expel the invading Hojo clan, and at the same time promised to provide Ueno with 50,000 stone of rations to help the people of Ueno survive the difficult season.

Uesugi Kenmasa was so excited that he almost cried, compared to the indifferent Kira Yoshishi, this is the real warm-hearted, and then said that he wanted to transfer the family control of the Yamauchi Uesugi family and the Kanto management to him, and he only needed to be his adopted son All this is the Nagao family, I can't stand the fright when I'm old, and I need to take care of the clouds.

Nagao Jinghu is a little embarrassed, whether it is himself or the Nagao retainers are very interested in the Kanto administration, the reason why the Nagao family has always been unable to suppress the Echigo people, the most fundamental problem is that the name is not enough, the Nagao family was born in the Kamakura Party of the Banto Hachihei clan, and most of the large number of vassals in Echigo are also the Banto Hachihei clan, or the samurai family of the Fujiwara clan Hidego flow.

There are even Genta Genji clan Sasaki clan streams, Kawachi Genji Shinta ryu and other Genji clans, their own family background is no worse than the Nagao family, and some samurai families are even worse, looking down on or jealous of the sudden rise of the Nagao family, disgusted with the Nagao family on the lower Ke, and even denying the legitimate ruling power of the Nagao family.

If there is no external intervention, this stubborn disease that has plagued Echigo for many years will continue for more than ten years, and it took several rebellions to establish a relatively stable Sengoku daimyo power system, but the current situation is very different, the appearance of Kira Yoshitoki made the situation in Echigo take a sharp turn, and the traditional samurai groups of Central and Lower Echietsu were broken and scattered one by one, and the development of Nitta and the powerful suppression of force made Echigo's order greatly improved.

In a few years, it crossed the threshold that could not be crossed for hundreds of years, and the people who did not obey the Nagao family were defeated one by one, and other samurai families also surrendered to the stick in one hand. A hand of carrots under the strategy. Even if there are Chinese people who covet the interests of Xintian, they must weigh how much strength and appetite they have to eat this part of the benefits. Accidentally facing the devastating attack of the Kira Legion, they are the next generation of Great Bear Ashide.

Judging from the current situation, Nagao Keitora does not particularly need the name of the Kanto Governor to lead the Echigo retainers, and there are many people who are now in charge of Echigo with the support of Kira Yoshishi's name, and the only thing to worry about is the worries of Honjo Minoru, Nagao Keishinobu and other genealogy generations, who have openly and secretly expressed their worries about the Kira family gradually becoming stronger in recent years.

The grassroots servants and ordinary people in the depths of Echigo all know that Echigo is from the Kira family today, and the powerful Kira is equipped and well-armed. The eye-popping treatment, the beautiful and neat new town, and the new village that is not inferior to the town, let the hearts of the people of Echigo gradually condense under the banner of the Kira family, how many people in the Nagao family are shaken, and how many are invested in the Kira family? No one can tell.

"If Wuweidian really does that, will my Nagao family be able to stand alone? Can the lord stay out of it? "Honjo really said that heart-wrenching words to wake up Nagao Jinghu like a dream, Echigo changes so fast that he can't even recognize it, walking out of the spring mountain castle around without even a little familiar feeling, if it is a wanderer who has been away from home for three years. You will definitely get lost in the unfamiliar new town.

Unconsciously, Echigo already has a strong national strength to crush several countries, and there are as many as 20,000 tigers on standing. He can arm another 20,000 reserve legions at any time, what the hell is he going to do? Nagao Jinghu wishfully thought that he just wanted to support the shogunate, but was this to help the shogunate? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

"Is he going to do that? Wrong! Hasn't he always hated subordination and rebellion? Definitely not so! There must be some reason I don't know...... "If you are not in your position, you don't want to be in politics, and after a few years of self-cultivation, there are more and more things that Changwei Jinghu thinks."

At the thought of that terrible hypothesis, he couldn't help but shudder, and muttered in his heart, "...... What would happen if that thing was actually done? Success is in the future, my long-tail family will ascend to the sky in one step, and defeat will be a catastrophe, my long-tail family will be infamous for thousands of years, what should I do? ”

Kira Yoshitoki didn't know how fierce the contradiction in Nagao Jinghu's heart was, but he found that his face was blue and white for a while, and he seemed to guess what he was thinking, so he was relieved: "Brother! The palace is full of enthusiasm, and the sincerity of the palace can be seen in the past few months, and the elder brother can consider the next, after all, the situation in Ueno is inseparable from the command of the Kanto commander. ”

"At first glance, it seems that the Wuwei Hall is testing the sincerity of the family, and if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is indeed a test, but why does the family always feel that something is not right?" Uesugi Kenmasa smiled embarrassedly, if there was no Yoshishi Kira, he could have set up the score of the aristocratic lord in Echigo, but unfortunately he had no temper when he met the Kamiyamaga family, and he didn't even dare to interject.

"The matter of the appointment of the Kanto governor is very important, without the permission of the shogunate, without the support of the Kanto samurai, it is still inconvenient for me to make a forced decision, so let's wait and talk!" Nagao Jinghu is still worried, there is a reason why he is so worried, it is useless to quietly recognize an adoptive father in Echigo and then call himself the Kanto governor.

The Kwantung people are very famous for being stubborn and conservative, and if they don't go to Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace to hold a grand inauguration ceremony, those stubborn Kanto people won't care about it at all, and it's better not to take office at that kind of inauguration ceremony, the Nagao family can't afford to lose that person, and as the backstage of the Nagao family in the shogunate and the imperial court, Kira Yoshitoki can't afford to lose this person.

"The inauguration ceremony of the Kanto Governor really needs to be held at Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace, but it can't be done for the time being!" Uesugi Kenmasa also thought of this stubble, both embarrassed and anxious, he didn't feel very troublesome when he was in charge before, at that time their Yamauchi Uesugi family was still the overlord of the Kanto region, and now it has only been ten years of hard work and has fallen off the altar and fallen to the days when the parasitic fence is gone.

"How's that okay? Danshoden, you must help my Yamauchi Uesugi family! ”

"In any case, the trust of the Stewardship Hall, I, Jinghu, will definitely do my best to complete it, and helping the Consul Hall expel Hojo is the first priority for today." Nagao Jinghu appeased the impatient Uesugi Kenmasa: "I heard that there are two samurai from Ueno around the palace, I don't know where they are now?" According to the family's investigation, they were the first to find out that the Kai was in contact with the first time, and they asked for the first time, and the family had to thank them heavily. ”

"It's them who Dan Zhengdian said! I'm going to send someone to please! Soon to arrive. Uesugi Kenmasa hurriedly got up and left. (To be continued......)