There was not much time left for the Date family to entangle, and on the third day when Koragawa Morimune came to the Kira army camp, the Kira army launched an attack on Zhongshan Castle, unlike the weakness of Mogami Yoshimitsu to attack the city, the five thousand ashigaru of the Kira army easily approached Zhongshan Castle under the cover of the iron artillery team, and the wooden arrows in the city could not support the repeated fire of the iron cannons were all broken into pieces.

No matter how many samurai who are not afraid of death climb the arrow turret, they will be instantly beaten into a puddle of rotten meat, and the power of hundreds of iron cannons at the same time at a distance of twenty meters is unimaginable to the Date family, in the face of the almost brutal attack of the Kira army, Date Huizong can do very limited, nothing more than to drink the bow and arrow to fight back and strictly guard the Otemon, so this Zhongshan City is still relatively strong when newly built, and there will be no danger of being broken for a while.

But the more than 10,000 troops of the Date family were helpless in Zhongshan Castle, and a group of samurai crowded into the evaluation room and quarreled fiercely, some began to discuss the issue of achieving peace, while others expressed their determination to live and die with Zhongshan Castle, and there were serious differences between the retainers of the generation and the people, which made Date Huizong, the family governor, also scratch his head.

Soon they couldn't quarrel anymore, and the battle only lasted for one morning, and the Date army was greatly shaken, and some strange rumors suddenly popped up to make the Date family fall into passivity, these rumors were basically aimed at Date Terumune, the family governor, saying that he let tens of thousands of people leave their homes for his own selfishness and come to the border of the Mogami family to fight a doomed war, and they will all be captured by the Kira family, and the family governor will abandon them at a critical moment and flee back to Yonezawa Castle, just like the last time Oura Castle abandoned his allies and fled alone.

There are many similar statements, most of which are directed at Date Terumune himself. portray him as a selfish, narrow-minded, and self-indulgent. An arrogant governor who doesn't know the height of the sky. For a small problem of jealousy for a woman, he did not hesitate to start a war with the famous Kira family of Genji, and the princess of the Mogami family was portrayed as an infatuated woman when he was concerned about Kira Yoshi, and was given to Date Terumune, who was not liked by Mogami Yoshimori's arrogant promise, and finally fought back the Date family with the help of his brother Mogami Yoshimitsu before he was about to get married.

When Date Terumune heard such a bizarre rumor, his face turned purple and his eyes burst out, and he wanted to tear the mouths of these people, but if he really couldn't find and catch the rumor-monger, he could only angrily execute a ashigaru and low-level samurai who spread rumors to set an example. Instead of helping to solve the problem, he will add fuel to the fire of rumors, and all kinds of gossip will be spread in private.

Seeing that the situation was slowly unfavorable to him, Date Terumun decided to advise Date Terumune to put out his anger for the time being, and first reach a no-war agreement with the Kira family before making a decision, this proposal was strongly supported by Nakano Munetoki and Makino Kunaka, but Date Terumune brutally rejected this proposal, saying that he would never look back if he did not take revenge.

Seeing that the world was not good, Date Mimoto thought of asking for help from the reclusive Date Harumune, and at present, no one except the former governor could persuade Date Terumune, not to mention that Date Terumune also had a group of retainers around him as support. It gradually became ineffective for him, the elder of the auxiliary political lineage, to speak, and Nakano Zongshi complained to him several times that the family governor did not know how to respect the family elder, and he was also very worried. For today's plan, only Date Harunzong can solve the crisis.

It didn't take long for Date Harumune to personally rush to Zhongshan Castle and pull Date Terumune to the castle tower and the father and son talked behind closed doors all night, and the next day it came out that the Date family was willing to reach a no-war agreement with the Kira family, and Koragawa Morimune signed an agreement with Mogami Yoshimitsu as a messenger on behalf of the Date family, and the two families agreed to gradually disband the next day until the two sides fully signed the contract and then all retreated.

At the same time, the envoys of the two sides, the clan Shoudong and Koliangchuan Shengzong, also went back and forth, and conducted a series of negotiations on the release of the captives, the Date family wanted the 800 prisoners anyway, and the Mogami family also wanted to recapture the territory near Zhongshan City no matter what, but neither side was willing to unilaterally fulfill the obligations required by the other party, so there was only endless fighting.

Seeing that the autumn harvest was just in time, it was not a matter for everyone to drag it here, and finally at the behest of Date Harumune, he reluctantly agreed to exchange 800 captives for the territory near Nakayama Castle, and on the morning of September 20, Date Army withdrew from Nakayama Castle with grain and grass, and then the Kira Army released 800 captives and the unlucky Murata Sozo.

Subsequently, Kira Yoshitoki appointed the pedigree of the Mogami family, Ira Zi Zongniu, to lead 800 troops as the lord of Zhongshan Castle, and the clan Shoudong to lead 500 troops to serve as the lord of Morumi Yamana, and with this as the core, he could build a set of castle nets consisting of Nakayama Castle, Monomi Yamana, Narashita Castle and Kamiyama Castle behind it, which could effectively block the offensive route of Mogami Castle in the direction of Zhishi-gun.

Date Huizong under the urging of his father Date Harumune,Full of resentment to leave this sad place,This time the battle of Zhongshan Castle, including the battle of Sukawa before this, has always been a big loss for the Date family,Sugawa battle lost 300 troops and 800 prisoners,Also hitched into his uncle Murata Sozo, the battle of Zhongshan Castle lasted for three days and there was an unfavorable phenomenon of vacillation in the army,If it weren't for Date Harumune coming in time to quickly use bullets to refute rumors and other means to stop this unhealthy trend,Date Huizong's reputation may be bad here。

Date Harumune told his son a truth, don't go head-on with a strong opponent, the survival rule of the Date family is to never be hostile to the strong, even if he suffers a great shame, he can't change the survival law of the Date family, otherwise he can only taste failure and the discrete end of the spectrum, the situation that the Date family has worked hard for more than a hundred years cannot be easily destroyed by his angry impulses, he is not only the governor of the Date family who loves face, but also has the support of many relatives and friends.

Kira Yoshitoki didn't care about the mess of the Date family, in fact, he didn't go to the battlefield at all in this war, but Narifune went back to give a general order to look at the terrain near Sugawa, ordering Mogami Yoshimitsu not to return to the city in the process of retreating, but to be stationed at Kashiwagi Mountain as a maneuver, and the subsequent attack did not need him to come forward at all, and Shima Toki Katsu as his shadow warrior disguised himself as he commanded the attack of 15,000 troops, including the subsequent siege battles and peace talks, and then Mogami Yoshimitsu came forward to answer.

In the past ten days, he was surrounded by 500 horses, and took Mogami Yoshihime to continue his unfinished tourist business, and the place they went to this time was the Enzawa Silver Mountain, which originally belonged to the Enzawa family, which was discovered by the local prospector in the second year of Yasuma (1456), and was quickly mined locally by the Enzawa family in the following years.

In the past 100 years, the mining scale of this silver mountain has increased little by little, but because of the backward mining technology and the lack of personnel, the mining efficiency has always been very low, which can only ensure that the Yanzawa family, who has not much territory, can sit firmly in the second place by virtue of the advantage of economic strength.

The location of this silver mountain is good, not only close to Mogami River but also very convenient, the sterling silver mined and smelted on the spot is sent to Echigo for further processing, and as the territory of the Kira family continues to expand, Soga Taibei and his apprentices have traveled all over Echigo, Echichu, Shinano, Ueno, and now they have come to Dewa Province to make new contributions to the exploration industry.

With the continuous discovery of gold and silver mountains and copper mines, the income of the Kira family also skyrocketed, and the large-scale increase in business made the geographical location of the copper house not suitable for daily transportation, and was forced to move to the newly built Niigata Town to carry out large-scale smelting, and now the copper house can provide millions of copper coins into the market every year, and in just a few years, it gradually exchanged nearly half of the reserves of the iron coins in the Kanto region.

The reserves of iron money in various places were far beyond his expectations, and Pipa House even connected with the Ming smugglers operating in Kyushu, and these merchants from Jiangnan were also happy to use this Yongle money as a trading currency in exchange for the raw silk needed by the Kira family to meet the needs of the textile industry in Sakamoto and Echigo, and boatloads of copper coins were transported to the Ming Dynasty by smuggling ships in exchange for several times the amount of raw silk, which was one of the most profitable businesses of the Kira family at present.

As a result of the influx of copper coins into the market, the value of Yongle money depreciated, and merchants traveling between Kanto and Kinai gradually lost the advantage of traveling between the two places to exchange the difference in the price of coins.

This has to be praised for Matsui's clever methods, not only to prevent the merchants from going bankrupt and getting stuck in their profit points, forcing them to give up their own business and join the Kira family's Biwa House Alliance, which is a new concept he has put forward in recent years, advocating that the Biwa House as the core backbone, unite the big business groups in various places to form a joint business alliance, and carry out various business activities with the relationship between colleagues within the alliance.

His new concept was met with an awkward cold reception as soon as it was launched, and in Matsui's words, he did not receive active support from other places for the time being, probably because the Kira family was far away from Kinai and not in Kanto, and could not affect the two most important business districts in Gyeonggi and Kanto, but he also expressed confidence in it.

After a while of strolling around the Yanzawa Silver Mountain to enjoy the scenery, he came to Yanzawa Castle and had a cordial conversation with the retired Yanzawa Manshige, and had lunch in the city before leaving, their next stop was to go to Kazuoka Castle to continue the tour, and on the way to Mogami Yoshihime had a good laugh and was uncomfortable, he did not tell the truth to the simple Mogami Yoshihime, in fact, this trip was just a disguise, in fact, it was to appease the retainers of the various subordinate Kamiyamaga families of the Dewa Kingdom.

The reason for this is that he feels helpless about the complicated situation in the country of Dewa, the core interests of the Kira family are not the remote area of Yuao, he cannot come from the town every once in a while, and it is impossible to send a large number of important ministers to deal with it as he did with Vietnam, and the relationship between too many people in Dewa is too complicated, which is completely different from the clear situation that has always been clear in Vietnam and China except for a few people.

He needs to use Mogami Yoshimitsu to suppress the people of Dewa Province, and at the same time make sure that the people of all regions will not deviate from his family governor, so he will spend a summer visiting many places, appearing in the countryside of Dewa Country as his honorable identity, and does not care about the rudeness of the people of Dewa Country, and talks with retainers in various places in a friendly manner, gradually winning the respect and trust of the samurai. (To be continued......)