Chapter 449: Where the Gate of Life Is

Knowing that Asakura Yoshikage was far from being as powerful as he appeared, Kira Yoshishi instantly felt extremely relieved, although he vaguely remembered that Asakura Yoshikage did not seem to be a master, but he never thought that this person's level of governance was so inferior, probably comparable to the playboy Ichijo Kaneji of the Tosa Ichijo family.

In fact, the situation of the Echizen Asakura clan is very complicated, just like many families are similar to the dilemma of forcing weak cadres, in the era of the Onin Rebellion, Asakura Toshikage took the shogunate's Echizen guardian appointment of the imperial teaching book, and dared to go to Echizen Province to defeat the guardian Kai Toshimitsu to seize the power of the country, and several of his brothers used a lot of strength.

Later, Asakura Toshikei set up a point in Ichijo Valley Castle, and formed an alliance with the eighth master of Ichishumune Masamune, who fled to Kyoto to Echizen to establish Yoshizaki Gobo, Honganji Renru, and formulated the "Seventeen Strips of Asakura Tokei" to establish the ruling ideas of the Asakura family, and then in order to strengthen the influence of the Echizen prefectures, he sent his younger brother Asakura Toe Shoukeitung to serve as the secretary of Tsuruga Prefecture.

He also recruited another younger brother who had already become a monk, Jishiin Mitsuku, and was also commonly known as Asakura Mitsukushi as the Ono Commander, and at the same time, Asakura Shimono Mamoru Jingjing served as the Ashoba Commander, these three families were different from the ordinary sects of Asakura and were called the namesake, among which the most powerful Tsuruga Gunji and Ohno Gunji were also called Ninachiko.

First of all, after the death of the first Tsuruga Commander Asakura Keidong, his sister-in-law served as the second generation of the Tsuruto Commander, and Asakura Keito, who was the second generation of the Tsuruga, tried to rebel, but found his brother-in-law and Asakura Toshikyo's son Asakura Sodrip to discuss rebellion, and as a result, he was told by Asakura Soya the day before the incident to his nephew, Asakura Sadake, who was the governor of the family at the time, and Asakura Sotsu also relied on this opportunity to obtain the position of Tsuruga Gun.

With the Northern Army God gradually becoming known. The governors of the Asakura family were very short-lived. Gradually, the two inner people obtained the right to collect taxes in the county and apply for military service. At the same time, it also obtained the most important judicial authority in the territory, which is almost a copy of the Takeda Liangshan and Maori Liangchuan system, and several generals of the same name run their own country within a country.

But this is how Asakura Yoshikyo still plays tricks to pit his uncle.,I don't know how his head is structured.,Compared to Hatakeyama Takamasa, he's a good samurai with a normal IQ and very brave.,If you insist on saying that Asakura Yoshikei has any advantages.,Probably only proficient in Kyoto culture, good at waka-tea ceremony.,And the benefits of building a castle town in the valley into a "second Kyoto".

When he saw the governor Yoshirayoshi, he completely relaxed. Langoka Rongfang smiled slightly: "Actually, this Asakura Jingo Hall has also done a great thing, that is, the power of the two positions of the Ichijo Valley and the Ichitani Clan, the last time I went to Kaga to meet the Uesugi Dan Main Hall, His Royal Highness Asakura Genbo Suke Jingren, is the current governor of the Echichu Shoujia who is one of the two positions of the Ichikura Campani, and the status of the Asakura family is about the same as that of the Hosokawa Warbu Hall.

This Asakura Genbo assistant Keiren and another two-position commissioner of the Asakura sweeping department assistant Keiyori, as well as the Ichijo Tani Shikai Shogo Keigu, Kawai Yasuki Mamoru Yoshito, Maehatto Uemon Keitasei, and Koizumi Fujizaemon Nagatoshi jointly assisted Asakura Yoshikei, these six people are also known as the Ichijo Tani Rokushi, and basically monopolize the large and small government affairs of the Asakura family.

Asakura Jinwu Dian Xu felt that the six of them were more eyesore, so he promoted a few smart and clever people from the nearby favored ministers to set up an institution for the performers, and ordered the Ichijo Valley Six to carry out the daily affairs of the people, and when the daily affairs were disposed of, the performers needed to sign the documents before they could be implemented. At the same time, in the handling of issues such as judicial prosecution and land disputes, Yicheng Gu Liuzhi also pursues the opinions of the public. It is equivalent to completely emptying these six powerful martial artists. ”

Asakura Yoshikei's original intention may be to take back the power of arbitrariness that originally belonged to the family governor, but he ignores a huge problem, that is, the Ichikura Valley Six Governor is not a few powerless ministers, they have their own territory and a large number of genealogy retainers, as well as a large number of powerful officials who serve for them, Asakura Yoshikei does this is equivalent to provoking a war between one and the spectrum at the same time, as the saying goes, how can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet, and he is waiting for the day when he plays with fire and burns himself.

Hearing the strange expressions of these many Echigo samurai, they couldn't understand the mentality of the Asakura family sitting on the fire pit drunk and dreaming of death, it stands to reason why there is such a big difference between the same Hokuriku Province's domains, Kurokawa Kiyomi sighed: "Isn't the Asakura family more in danger of internal and external troubles than us?" But Asakura Yoshikage is still living a luxurious life as before, and it is a miracle that he can sit firmly in the position of family governor in peace! ”

Naoe Keixuna shook his head and said that he didn't quite understand the thoughts of the Asakura family, it stands to reason that the samurai of the Asakura family should have risen up a long time ago to overthrow the position of the family governor, even if the family governor is not wrong, as long as the family is not satisfied, they can be abolished, for example, the Hongji rebellion that the Notoyama family has just ended is caused by the forcible abolition of the family governor.

Saito Asanobu suddenly grinned and said, "Who knows what the Asakura family thinks, maybe they will think that the family governor is working hard to revitalize the family business!" Maybe this Asakura Yoshikage still thinks that the Asakura family is getting stronger and stronger under his governance, but the monarchs look back and see if the Jinjiang-Vietnam Triple Alliance reflects Asakura Yoshikage's strong self-confidence? ”

"Hahaha...... Yes, yes! The young samurai didn't care what the middle-aged people thought, and he hugged his stomach and laughed.

Seeing everyone's mood slowly regain their former self-confidence with the analysis of each article, Kira Yoshitoki's face also showed a faint smile, he, the family governor, can't always hang his worries and troubles on his face, that will make the family governor immature and easy to make the genealogy of the retainers cranky, it is because of the pressure that he has to bear alone will be extremely sensitive to the chaos in.

But now everything has changed, knowing Asakura Yoshikage's temperamental ability, it is much easier to turn his face and plan a strategy, Kira Yoshitoki supported his chin with one hand and quickly fell into contemplation, time passed minute by minute, and many genealogical retainers in the assessment room whispered about the feasibility of the strategy, and Langoka and Honda were also in deep thought, looking at their expressions, they probably had already come up with a feasible method, but they were stuck in some levels and couldn't act.

There was a young man who was very high in the front of the table and suddenly bowed and spoke, this person was the new collection of the most advanced Yoshimitsu of the Sect by Kira Yoshitoki, and in the months before that. He hid in the crowd and always watched the expressions of the spectrum from side to side. It wasn't until this moment that he saw that many generations were in deep thought, and then suddenly said: "Your Majesty has a plan, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”

"Oh? Yoshimitsu, please! Kira Yoshitoki suddenly became interested. Secretly said that this little child endured most of the winter and finally couldn't help but stand out, and couldn't help but look forward to his first speech.

Mogami Yoshimitsu found that hundreds of people in the entire assessment room were looking at him in unison, and he was suddenly nervous and a little overwhelmed, Yamamoto Tokiyuki threw a friendly smile at him, as if to say that he didn't need to be nervous and bold to say, seeing this never-before-seen but very warm eyes, the young man suddenly felt not nervous at all, took a deep breath and said: "This strategy is a little difficult to talk about...... Because you want to kill! ”

Kira Yoshitoki knew that the young man might not have killed anyone yet, and he had not overcome some mental cleanliness. So he said with a warm voice: "What we and other samurai do is to kill people, either to kill people with a sword or to come up with a plan to kill, or to do something that is conducive to the samurai to kill people quickly, it is much easier to come up with a plan to kill people than to come up with a plan not to kill, so Yoshimitsu can rest assured and boldly say what the strategy is!" ”

Mogami Yoshimitsu took a deep breath and said loudly: "Your Majesty just heard the explanation and analysis of several highnesses, and concluded that this Asakura Jingo Hall is a family governor who lives a luxurious life and likes to enjoy it, and he provokes a public overhead spectrum to show that his civil and martial arts are not inferior to his ancestors, and he still relies more on the communication of the performers and his cronies and favored ministers for governance, so we only need a few ninjas to sneak into Ichichengya City." Assassinating those performers and spreading rumors of assassinations by the same name would plunge the Asakura family into chaos.

Then he bribed the maid of the Asakura family to poison Asakura Yoshikage's favorite concubine, Prime Minister Anya, and spread rumors that Kaga Ichimune took advantage of the chaos to kill him. This Jinwu Palace will definitely fall into a crazy situation, and at that time, the Asakura family will definitely leave behind the agreement made by the Triple Alliance to attack the Rokkaku family and cut off my Kagaga family, and launch the Echizen family with all its strength to avenge the blood and the deep hatred of the sea of blood. ”

"Shhh What a vicious scheme! What a scheming! Honda was in danger and screamed, but fortunately, he still had a sense of vigilance and swallowed the words back into his stomach, Mogami Yoshimitsu's plan not only surprised Honda Tokimasa, but even Yamamoto Tokiyuki, Nanaoka Fubo, Hosokawa Fujitaka, Shima Tokatsu, and Nagano Yoshimasa also showed surprise.

Those genealists who were slightly less intelligent even threw a ghostly look at him, Takigawa Shiyi grinned and didn't close his mouth for a long time, he really didn't understand how this half-grown child could come up with such a ruthless and vicious plan, Nagano Yegu, who was sitting in the back of the big wide room, also showed a calm look, and Kohata Nobutaza rubbed his stiff expression and tried to erase the shocked expression.

He Tianyefan's expression was also similar to that of Kohata Nobuzhen, and he said unnaturally: "This plan is too ruthless!" It was like driving the Asakura family to a dead end, and this was really a ploy that a fifteen-year-old peer came up with...... But why can't I come up with such a powerful plan? ”

Nobusada Kohata pouted and said: "In addition to eating and sleeping, you are playing eagle hunting and dog chasing, you are definitely better than Yamagata Hall than killing, but what a plan!" It's better to wait for the next life to be reincarnated and try again! ”

He Tian Yefan looked at him in surprise, and suddenly grinned: "Huh? I can't see that your kid is also slipping away when he speaks, and if you don't accept it, you will go out to compete and compete? ”

"Okay! I'm not afraid of you! ”

"Don't make a fuss!" Nagano Yegu interrupted their whispered frolic, and hesitated for a moment before sighing, "His Royal Highness the Supreme Doctor Youjing will definitely become a great man in the future......

A few young samurai came over and said disapprerovingly, "Just this one ploy has become a big man?" I think it's a lot worse! ”

Nagano Yegu waved his finger at the lord who was on the top seat in the distance, and whispered, "I don't believe you can tell by observing the expression of His Royal Highness Gongfang. ”

And at this moment, after experiencing the baptism of initial surprise, Kira Yoshitoki's face showed a strange smile, this smile was mixed with three points of surprise, two points of exploration and five points of relief, and the smile containing a complex expression made Mogami Yoshimitsu couldn't understand it for a while, and his heart was as nervous as a drum, after all, this was the first time he gave advice to the Kamiki Ashikaga family, and the specific effect was completely bottomless.

Kira didn't give him time to prepare for any more tension. Just sighed softly and stroked his palms and exclaimed: "Yiguang's plan is really very good!" But Yu's thinking was limited by ancient behavioral habits. I didn't think to use such a ...... A powerful strategy to deal with the Asakura family. The inspiration of this strategy for Yu is huge, and as soon as Chong Yiguang plans to defeat the Asakura family in the future, he will make you a meritorious decision. ”

The big stone in Mogami Yoshimitsu's heart was unloaded, and he hurriedly leaned over to thank him for his compliment, and Langoka Rongfang shook his feather fan and said: "His Royal Highness Jingzhao's plan is greatly beyond my expectations, if you act according to this plan, you can indeed easily consume the Asakura family's own strength, but there is another detail below that can contribute to Jingzhao Palace's plan......

When the musicians and the small prime minister of Satanya died, causing the city of the Ichijo Valley to fall into chaos, the commissioners under the Ichijo Valley Six Commissioners were omitted. At the same time, he deceived the Tsuruga people into believing that there were some rumors that were very unfavorable to the Tsuruga Gunji, such as the Asakura Jingu Temple, which was ready to conquer Kaga Ichijomune, but the general had to hand it over to the Ono people's Asakura Keigami, believing that Asakura Keigami would definitely not be able to sit still.

This news then passed through the matching commissioner of the Ichicheng Guroku Commissioner, turning this rumor into the fact that the Tsuruga Gun Division was preparing to forcibly regain the lost position of the general general, and then Asakura Yoshikage would definitely veto Asakura Keiga's request without hesitation, and even punish him for his ignorance of good and bad behavior, and the conflict between the generals and commanders before the war started, and lay the root cause for the confrontation of the same name, which is a plan to kill two birds with one stone and kill two birds with one stone! ”

Kira Yoshitoki was very satisfied and exclaimed: "What a plan! It's really hard work! ”

"Your Majesty doesn't dare to take credit. It's just a matter of picking up the gaps. Nanoka was smiling and modest, so much so that Honda was annoyed. In fact, he also came up with a similar plan, but before he could perfect the details, he was won by Langgang Fang, and if he said it again, he would be regarded as an imitation of Dong Shi, but it was better not to say it at all.

Patience for a while, in the end, he was still unwilling to let the Langoka Tsunabe Tsunabe be in front of him, so he forced himself to come up with a plan to press the bottom of the box, and said loudly: "The chaos of the Asakura family is just a prelude, and the subordinates have a strategy that can make the Wakasa Takeda clan also chaotic, as long as the Nakajo Dewa Shouden joins the Kira naval army in time to seize Maizuru Port, he can quickly control the entire Wakasa country, and threaten the safety and stability of Tsuruga Port. ”

Kira Yoshitoki waved his hand and said, "The situation of the Wakasa Takeda clan will be told by Shi Zheng!" ”

"In fact, the Wakasa Takeda clan is more difficult than the Echizen Asakura clan, and the current family governor Takeda Yoshitomi seized the position of family governor by exiling his father, because he was not properly appointed and was a puppet of the pro-Asakura, so it caused widespread dissatisfaction among the people of Wakasa Province, and a few years ago before Takeda Yoshitomi became the family governor, he faced a serious problem of attacking his uncle from a large number of people." Honda is telling the situation of the Wakasa Takeda clan little by little.

Compared with Asakura Yoshikage's abnormal thinking, the former governor of the Wakasa Takeda family, Takeda Nobutoyo, can only be regarded as a secret fool, so he didn't do too strange behavior, but he happened to meet the death of his descendant Rokkaku Dinglai, which made it more and more difficult for him to resist the invasion of the Asakura family, and the new backstage of Rokkaku Yoshiken was very weak, triggering a round of blood fighting between the family and the pro-Asakura.

Takeda Nobutoyo did not stand in the forefront, but pushed his younger brother Takeda Shigenobu out to confront Takeda Yoshitomi, who was pro-Asakura faction, and thus a family dispute that began at the end of the Astronomical period slowly began, and in the second year of Koji (1556), the lord of Kokishi Castle, Samea Echichu Mamoru Katsuhisa, supported Takeda Shigenobu to attack Takeda Yoshitomi.

Helplessly, the follow-up support of Rokkaku Yoshiken and Takeda Nobutoshi did not follow up in time, so that Takeda Yoshitomi, who was supported by the Asakura family, took his younger brother Takeda Nobukata and Takeda Nobuya to easily defeat the two who tried to seize power.

Two years later, in the first year of Eiroku, Takeda Yoshitomi felt that the time was ripe, so he took the initiative to provoke a war and launched a charge against the governor, and successfully won the head of his uncle Takeda Shigenobu, so that his father Takeda Nobutoshi fell into an absolute disadvantage, and he was forced to flee to Omi Province for refuge under the response of the Rokkaku family.

Takeda Yoshitomi also successfully seized the position of the governor, but before his position was hot, he found that the governor's dominance over Wakasa Province was getting lower and lower, his younger brother Takeda Nobukata was in charge of Enshiki-gun as a military representative, and Yoshimi Masaka-gun in Wakasa Shuangbi was in charge of Oii-gun in the west, and Awaya Katsuhisa, who suffered defeat, still firmly controlled Mikata County, and the short-term dormancy of Wakasa Shuangbi was just to prepare for the next outbreak.

Honda was smiling at his father-in-law, Numata Mitsukane, and continued: "Actually, His Majesty also knows that Numata Uenosuke has extraordinary connections in Wakasa and Echizen, the former main room is the daughter of Takeda Motomitsu, and the two side rooms are the daughter of Awaya Mototaka and the sister of Itami Masashi who are Waksasa Shuangbibi, and several sons-in-law are the generals of the Asakura family, Ichijo Kyogu, Maenami Keitsugu, and the powerful general Yamazaki Yoshike in the Nianji, and these three people can bring deep disasters to the Asakura family as long as they control one person at will.

In addition, there is the current head of the Wakasa Muto clan, Muto Shunhide, it is said that this person's military strategy and wisdom are first-class, and he has been in and out of Echizen Province all the year round, and he knows the wind speed and geography in the first half of Hokuriku well, so it is only that the Wakasa Takeda family cannot be used for it, if this person can be used by my Kamiashikaga family, Wakasa Country will definitely be able to take it easily, and it can further threaten Echizen Province. ”

In fact, the latter passage of Honda is purely talkative, how to arrange the general is a matter of Kira Yoshitoki, but since he mentioned it so, there must be his reasons, especially the emphasis on the fact that Numata Mitsukan is a powerful country of Wakasa is indeed true, and his children are all over Wakasa country, Echizen country and even Kita Omi, such a samurai who can speak and know the Tao and have rich connections is simply a messenger made in heaven.

"Hmmm! Yu probably understands what you mean......" Kira Yoshitoki caught a glimpse of Numata Mitsukane's excited expression, nodded and said: "Then Numata Uenosuke will serve as the second officer of Wakasa Kuni, responsible for coordinating many things of Wakasa Shuangbi and the people in the county, Uenosuke's task is to cooperate with the Kira Navy and the 3,000 troops of Nakajo Dewa Mamoru as soon as possible to open up the situation, and quickly grasp the territorial defense force of the entire Wakasa country, and welcome back the exiled Takeda Nobutoyo to serve as the governor of the family in order to reduce unnecessary trouble!" ”

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This year's rain and snow are particularly intensive, and in previous years, the snow would gradually melt in February, but this year, there was a heavy snowstorm until February 20, and this heavy rain spread to most of Honshu Island, with a rain in Kanto as the beginning of the new year.

Because of the sudden change in Kinai, Kira Yoshitoki had to make the decision to postpone his trip south, and he could be sure that if the Kira family was caught in the war in the Kanto region, Miyoshi Nagakei would launch a strong attack on Omi from behind, and this so-called anti-Kira encirclement network and the invitation to the Kai Takeda clan and the Sagami Hojo clan to the people of Izuha Mutsu were also motivated by this consideration.

Miyoshi Nagakei's purpose is clearer than before, he shifted the target of hostility from the shogunate in Kyoto to the Kira family, the shogunate's backstage, through the ten years of the Kinai war, he understood a truth, that is, without defeating the supporters behind the shogunate, there is no possibility of complete domination of the shogunate, and the Kinai Triple Alliance is also to further clarify its strategic goal, that is, to defeat the Shogunate supporters in Omi Province, the Kira clan, the Rokkaku clan.

Kira Yoshitoki will not allow Miyoshi Chokei to make a layout easily, the first point of attack he chooses is the Echizen Asakura family, the current governor Asakura Yoshikei is actually not as strong as imagined, especially the Tsuruga Port, which has the greatest impact on the Kira family's maritime trade, has a very low degree of mastery, which is a great good news for the Kira family.

That's why there will be an arrangement for Numata Hikaru to go to Wakasa Country alone, and Numata Mitsukane's first task is to win over his eldest brother Masashi, who is twenty years younger than himself, and only by wooing Wakasa can he ensure that the subsequent capture of Maizuru Port will not be greatly interfered with by the Tango Isshiki clan.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki led 3,000 Echichu troops will also set off at the same time, they will take a roundabout boat to Wakasa Province near the port of Maizuru to standby, Nakajo Tokihide will rush to Wakasa territory as soon as possible to complete the smooth handover, in the time of all this arrangement has reached the spring sowing season, the warm land is once again flooded with a strong sense of spring.

The spring of the third year of Yonglu quietly came. (To be continued......)