The New Year at the beginning of the third year of Eiroku was particularly difficult, and the continuous heavy snowfall showed no sign of stopping, and even Odawara Castle, which was located on the western shore of Sagami Bay, was experiencing heavy snowfall.

The Hojo clan, who succeeded Oishi as an adopted son and later returned to the clan, looked at his brother's uneasy appearance, and said: "This snow keeps falling is really annoying, and it has become very inconvenient to go out for eagle hunting, and your subordinates have listened to the elders of the family discussing the poor harvest for two consecutive years, and the situation this year does not seem to be very good." ”

"Shizhao is right, the current situation is very unfavorable to my Hojo family, and it seems that it is about to be the busy season of farming or the blizzard continues, but I am afraid that I will miss the good season!" Matsuda opened his hazy sleepy eyes and looked like he was trying to make himself not so quick to doze off.

The old Matsuda Morihide is over eighty years old and still trying to serve in Odawara Castle, this has lived in the Kanto region for more than 60 years with Hojo Sakumo Xiang Izu, and after the baptism of the years, the former young and handsome Kyoto samurai has become an old Kanto samurai, and there are not many important ministers like him who have experienced the auxiliary government of the three dynasties, and his existence is not only a genealogy of the family elders, but also an important person who connects with the Kyoto shogunate.

The Matsuda clan came from the Ashikaga Shogun's family, and the family collected taxes for the shogunate for generations, and the current shogunate ministers Matsuda Fujihiro, Matsuda Yorie, Matsuda Mitsutoshi, and Matsuda Yoritaka were all members of Matsuda Morihide, and Matsuda Morihide himself went to Kyoto to serve as a member of the shogunate during the astronomical years, and was in charge of the shogunate's imperial food collection.

At the same time, he also served as an important liaison between the Sagami Hojo clan and the shogunate. Without his support, there would be no Hojo family, who could kill Ogiya Uesugi in the Kawagoe Night War. In the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion, the killing of Furukawa and Kokumi was majestic. But because he was still not ordered by the shogunate to fight, he would have been punished for being so unscrupulous in the early decades, and maybe he would follow the old example of Hojo Sakumo destroying the Horikoshi Princess, and replace it with other samurai as the banner leader for the invasion of Kanto.

It can be said that the meaning of the existence of an old minister like him is to prove to the world that the Hojo family is not only a samurai who is rapidly becoming a daimyo of the Warring States, but also a Kyoto samurai clan that is in line with the interests of the shogunate, and to a certain extent, it is also catering to the trend of the shogunate's prosperity and the political orientation of the powerful neighbor in the north.

The Hojo clan shook his head and said, "The family is most worried about the strong enemy in the north!" The appetite of the town palace is getting bigger and bigger. Last year, he won a series of brilliant victories in Echichu, Kaga, and Dewa, and his strength became stronger and stronger, and there were strong neighbors in the north who were still suspicious, so how could the governor of the family settle down to govern and expand the family leader? ”

After two years of experience as a family governor, and suffered the first defeat and then victory in the second battle of the national government and Taiwan and the first victory and then defeat in the battle of Mifune Mountain, the character of the Hojo clan is much calmer than more than a year ago, and the young eagle must go through the wind and rain to flutter its wings and soar high into the sky.

"What does the lord mean......" The veteran Yamakaku Dingji asked hesitantly, "Do you want to ask for the covenant of the Miyoshi family or do you still want to agree?" But with the situation of my Hojo family, isn't it a little powerless to dominate the next siege network! After all, the military strategy and resourcefulness of the town lord in the north are really powerful, and the old lord is also full of praise for him! ”

The Hojo clan frowned slightly when he heard this, and glanced at the three major military divisions who served as assistants. The Yamato military department is a young assistant and a commander, and Ise is ready to guard the faithful luck. Ogasawara Harima Shou Yasuhiro, only to see these three wise generals raise their heads at the same time and shake their heads slightly at Hojo Clan Masa, he understood that it was several teachers who advised him to calm down.

Many of the ministers in the assessment room didn't notice this episode, and the samurai frowned and pondered, but the Hojo clan, who was sitting in the back row, pouted and snorted coldly: "The Miyoshi family is just an explosive household that started from the bottom of the line, how can it be compared to my Hojo family is the general of the Kanto region personally ordered by His Royal Highness Jishoin of the Eighth Dynasty Gongfang, and he thinks that he can control the form of the Eastern Kingdom as the guardian generation, and he has to pull out the so-called Kira encirclement network, I really don't know how high the sky is and how thick it is!" ”

The Ise Hojo clan is an outsider in the Kanto region, and he wants to use the name of Hojo to get closer to the relationship and is ruthlessly exposed, so he simply tore his face during the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion, and shook off his background as the deacon of the shogunate Ise clan clearly, if you don't like to listen to it, then I don't like to act, how can the Kanto samurai be so powerful that his nose and face are swollen by our Kyoto samurai.

Anyway, the group of young samurai in the Hojo family who spoke the dialect of the Kanto countryside began to call themselves samurai from Kyoto again, and when they had nothing to do, they showed off the little things that their ancestors had sent to Izu on the orders of the shogunate, so that many foreigners who belonged to the Hojo family were disgusted, and the Hojo clan did not stop it, allowing this trend to gradually rise.

Shimizu Yasuei is older than the Hojo clan, and when he was nearly thirty years old, he became a veteran of the family of the Genealogy, relying not only on his excellent ability to govern and pursue government, but also on his good military exploits and the prestige accumulated by his father, his father Shimizu Tsunayoshi served as the Fu of the Hojo clan, and his mother was the nurse of the Hojo clan, so although he was more than ten years younger than the Hojo clan, he could still be qualified as a righteous brother.

As the elder of the twenty-one families of Izu, and the youngest of the Hojo family, even if the Hojo clan sees him, he must maintain a certain amount of respect and courtesy, because he is the youngest family elder, and he usually has to be self-conscious not to mess with these young samurai younger than him, and raise a humble and serious reputation among the old class of the family, but instead mix up a bad reputation among the young samurai.

Seeing that the Hojo clan was attacking the Miyoshi family, he had the heart to follow up with a few words, so he coughed and said: "That Miyoshi repair doctor suffered a big loss in Kanto last year, and the general of the 60,000 army besieging the Kira family, Nakajo Tokihide, and the foolish Rokkaku Yoshiken, fought hard for a summer and finally couldn't take Kyoto, and buried tens of thousands of people in vain only in exchange for a relatively decent harmony, so it seems that it is no wonder that he was defeated by the newly rising town government!" ”

Yasuaki Kasahara was both one of the twenty-one families of Izu and one of the young samurai of the Hojo family. When he saw his boss opening his mouth, he also mocked: "The three good families don't do their best." It was the old lord's father-in-law who led the army to be defeated in the hands of the Kira family. Doctors such as Takeda Daizen have also been beaten to a slump, where is he a nouveau riche in the Awa countryside can compare, even the left-behind generals of the Kira family can't clean up and dare to learn from us to pull up the Kira siege network? It's just too much to do! ”

"That's it! My Hojo family should try their best to stabilize the territory of Xia and Shang, and actively expand to the lower and upper fields, how can I have the kung fu to accompany the Miyoshi family to play the anti-Kira encirclement network! ”

"It's ridiculous to use Yongle money and 20,000 Guan Wen to buy tens of thousands of tiger and wolf teachers of my Hojo family to serve them! Our Hojo family is not short of this money! ”

"Nonsense! 20,000 Guan Wen Yongle is a lot of money! Haven't you seen that the disaster has been suffered in the past two years? 20,000 is a lot of things! ”

A group of samurai talked in a low voice, and what they said over and over again was how powerful the Kira family was, and the town palace and the main hall of the bullet were blooming on both sides, one north and one south, and the entire Dewa country that killed was terrified and shattered. The fact that such a big man as Ishiyama Honganji was forced to bow his head and admit his cowardice was unprecedented from ancient times to the present, and it was completely unimaginable.

Matsuda Shengxiu, who was napping, seemed to be awakened by the discussion of this group of young people, slowly opened his eyes, and after a while, he smacked his lips and said: "The old minister has a strategy, I don't know whether to talk about it or not!" ”

Hojo Masa was pleasantly surprised: "Oh? Sheng Xiudian, please say! ”

"Although the Miyoshi family's strategy is a little inappropriate, it is not as useless as imagined, since the Miyoshi repair doctor is willing to pay a lot of money, let the Hojo family preside over the anti-Kira siege network, then promise him that the 20,000 Kanbun Yongle money is exactly the disaster relief money that my Hojo family urgently needs, after solving the current impact of the snow disaster. It's not too late to discuss how to send troops and where to fight. ”

Matsuda Morihide spoke slowly, and it was hard to imagine that the old man was still full of energy a few years ago. The important ministers who worked hard for the expansion of the Hojo family, with the major blow of the disastrous defeat in the Takayama War, the Hojo clan Yasu stepped down from the family governor and lived in seclusion in Odawara, and many old ministers have also passed away in the past few years, and Matsuda Morihide has also aged a lot, and it is very difficult to say a few words now.

Hojo Phantom Nunnery stroked his palms and praised: "What the horse guards are saying is good! His Majesty also means this, whether it is successful or not, take the money first, whether the reserve fund in the treasury can not be moved or not, with 20,000 Guan Wen Yongle money, you can follow the actions of the Kira family, buy a large amount of rice and grain, hire farmers to clear the snow, build a river to prevent loosening the soil, and cross the threshold of natural disasters first. ”

Ogasawara Yasuhiro immediately echoed with a smile: "The Miyoshi family is willing to take out a large amount of money to make me wait to fight to the death for the Kira family, why can't my Hojo family take the money and then consider whether it is for him to fight to the death?" Gyeonggi to Kanto is so far away, the Miyoshi family is just a country from four countries, and it has suddenly risen to dominate in just over ten years, but in my Kanto, there is no foundation at all, even if you don't get the due return, I'm afraid there is nothing to complain about! ”

Yamato Qingtong smiled at their statement and said nothing, and only after he finished his words did he say: "It's not good to take money and not contribute to damage the reputation of my Hojo family!" Since my Hojo family takes people's money, I must do what I can...... For example, the people of the country who are inclined to the Kira family in the Kanto region, such as Satomi Yoshihiro in the Kamiki Province, Yuki Harumi in the Shimono Province, Sano Masatsuna in the Shimono Province, and Satake Yoshiaki in Hitachi Province, etc., I believe that the Hojo family's efforts to eliminate the minions of the Kira family will definitely be understood by Dr. Miyoshi! ”

"That's right! That's right! I'll do it later! The Hojo clan shouted excitedly: "Clean up those countrymen first, don't you care if he is against Kira or not!" He is not a half-general, can he still stretch out his hand to affect Kanto? It's ridiculous that an upstart who doesn't think enough of himself would want to emulate the strategy of a half-general! If the Miyoshi family offends the Kira family and offends my Hojo family, look at what else they use to meddle in Kanto affairs! ”

The samurai of the Hojo family have no resistance to the Miyoshi family at all, and if this matter is a request made by the shogunate, they may think about it carefully, but if it is replaced by the Miyoshi family with no foundation, it will be different, and the overlord of the Miyoshi family bluffing is so fragile in the Luozhong battle last year, it is strange that the Hojo family will be afraid of a paper overlord like him. (To be continued......)

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