Over the years, the rebellion of the Satsushi clan was subdued by the eastern and western expeditions, and with the assistance of the old minister Tosabin Zendong, the family business of the previous family governor Daihoji Harushi that had begun to decline was revitalized, and the family business of the Muto clan of Daihoji reached the largest territory in his hands.

In the entire Dewa country, there is only about one person who has retired Date Harumun, who has retired even more than him, whether it is Mogami Yoshimori, Onodera Keido or Tiantong Yorido who has also retired, they can only be regarded as on par with Daihoji Yoshizen, maybe Mogami Yoshimaru is a little stronger than the four of them, but it is not enough to hold down the other people steadily.

If you want to say that he may not be able to strategize and strategize, the military strategy may not be particularly outstanding, but the vision and accurate judgment are not lacking at all, he knows better than anyone that the Daihoji clan is inseparable from the support of Echigo, and their family has established inextricable ties with Echigo as early as twenty years ago, otherwise Daihoji Yoshizen would not have become the uncle of Honjo.

Satsumi is one of the richest places in Dewa Province, even stronger than near Yamagata Castle, without the support of Echigo, the Dahoji clan would not be able to occupy the essence of Satsukai Prefecture at all, he knows this better than anyone else, his brother Daihoji Harumi took his hand before his death and told him to hold Echigo's thighs tightly, and must not spoil the long-term future of the Dahoji clan because of temporary greed, so when Uesugi Masata proposed to let the Dahoji clan be transferred, although he was very dissatisfied, he still accepted this order.

In general, the identity of the Daihoji clan in Dewa is like the identity and status of the Kai Koyamada clan in Kai, and it is almost on his head to stick "I am a Nagao retainer" to advertise it, in order to ensure that he will not be excluded by other people within the system of Dewa Province. Daihoji Yoshizen married his sister to Onodera Jingdao, a powerful countryman from Dewa.

The Onodera clan is descended from the Fujiwara Hidego Yamauchi Shouto clan. Because of the division of the three counties of Xianbei, Pinglu and Katsuo. Because these three counties have been called Sanbei or Senbei since the Heian period, these three counties are also called the three counties of Senhoku, and the Onodera clan has been called the Senhoku Onodera clan since the Kamakura period.

With the help of this snake that has taken root for more than 300 years, the Dabaosi family not only successfully walked out of the shadow of decline, but took advantage of this opportunity to expand and surrender the Sagoshi clan and the Laiji clan one by one.

Seeing this, Tosabin Chandong knew that the persuasion of the retainers who were inclined to the anti-Echigo alliance had failed. I was very worried that these guys would take risks to kidnap Dabao Temple Yoshizen, so he hurriedly rushed to the waiter to give a look, and smiled and started the round: "Actually, this problem is not too complicated, the lord's consideration is very reasonable, I am now a retainer of the Kira family, and we can't go to the end of the day, otherwise even if we defect, most of us will not get benefits from the Mogami family, for example, the Date family rushed over from such a far away place as Yonezawa is not a benefit?" If it's not profitable, why mix, just learn from Anton's family. ”

"But the anti-Vietnam coalition is imminent, what if we don't join? Regardless of whether they are anti-Vietnam or not, they will deal with us after all! Satsugoshi complained dissatisfiedly, "If only we still had Shonai in hand." Even if they can't fight, they can retreat into the village and continue to hold on, forgiving them and not daring to cross the feathers. But now do we have a way out? Do you want to retreat to Yuguro for help? ”

"No, you don't! His Majesty felt that this Onodera clan's strategy could be used, but it had to be changed before it could be used, otherwise it would really become the kind of tragedy described by the lord, and we just had to ......" Tosabin Zendong's voice became smaller and smaller, and his expression became more and more mysterious and unpredictable, and it didn't take long for a tacit laughter to erupt in the assessment room.

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On February 16 of the second year of Eiroku, the Kasuga Yamashiro Grand Judgment was held as scheduled, and in addition to the daily follow-up of the agricultural decrees, Kira Yoshitoki made further adjustments to the decrees of Shinano and Ueno, revising some of the decrees that were not suitable for the two countries due to the lack of adaptation due to the departure of Echigo, so as to ensure that the new fields cultivated by farmers in various places would be quickly converted into productive fields in the new year.

Just when there was a meeting to discuss the march to Kanto and go to Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachimangu to prepare for Uesugi Masato's appointment to the Kanto Governorship, a letter from Mikawa Province was placed on his desk, and a closer look was a letter written by his brother Yoshiyasu Kira, the general meaning of the letter was that he hoped that he could order the retainers of Saijo Castle to give money and food support, and it would be best to send troops to help at the right time, he and Matsudaira Motoyasu were about to tear their faces, and he was determined to help his eldest brother Imagawa Shima.

"My brother was really coaxed by Imagawa Jibe! Let him be! Anyway, Mikawa is too far away from the house to care, so it's funny that Matsudaira Motoyasu can't hold it back so quickly...... Something doesn't seem right! If you just ask for help, you can go to Okochi Tajima Mamoru to find it, so why bother to write a letter to Echigo? Kira Yoshitoki didn't expect his brother Kira Yoshian to also play tricks on him, and read it several times with doubts, and his brows were much more furrowed.

"According to the distance, it has been at least more than a month since the letter was delivered, and the meaning of my brother who took so much trouble to send this letter should be to tell Yu not to fight the idea of the Three Rivers Country? According to this direction, selfishly reasoning is indeed possible, and the Imagawa clan may really promise him some benefits, such as mastering the Mikawa Half-country to stabilize the family business that is about to collapse, it seems that this move should be from the guidance of Imagawa Shouguini! It is no wonder that it is difficult for the Imagawa family to let a nun who has been a monk and has lived in seclusion for many years go back to the mountain. ”

Mikawa is the home of the Kira family, operating here for more than 300 years, the power is intertwined, although it was suppressed by the Ashikaga shogun family in the Muromachi period, and the protection of Mikawa Province is also controlled by the Hosokawa clan and the Isshiki clan, and the country was once controlled by the government deacon Ise clan, such as Matsudaira Nobumitsu and Toda Munemitsu were samurai from Kyoto who migrated to Mikawa to crusade against Nueda Kazuku, but it was precisely because of this that the Kira family was able to avoid early involvement in the Onin Rebellion and the collapse of the maelstrom of the Meishin coup.

It is understandable that his brother Yoshiyasu Kira intends to stand in the camp of the Imagawa clan, after all, the Imagawa family has been operating in Mikawa Province for nearly ten years, and Yoshiyasu Kira has married Princess Tsuruhime, the daughter of Imagawa Yoshimoto. also gave birth to his sister-in-law Kira Mantakemaru last year. A good life was very comfortable, and suddenly my father-in-law died in the barrel. How angry he was.

It is inevitable to find Oda Nobunaga for revenge, but Kira Yoshiyasu, who has studied Sinology, also knows the truth of "the outside must first be inside", and has been in the Sunfu and Matsudaira Motoyasu for many years, on the other hand, the relationship between the Matsudaira family and the Tojo Kira family has always made Kira Yoshiyasu feel that this person is not very respectful to his old master is really hateful, these years in front of Imagawa Yoshimoto to maintain a group of harmony, in fact, in private the two sides do not know how many times, long have hated each other.

Kira Yoshiyasu has always believed that this Matsudaira Motoyasu is a representative of a traitor. So Kira Yoshiyasu has been keeping an eye on Matsudaira Motoyasu's every move, trying to find clues of rebellion from his behavior, and he has been a little discouraged by searching for several years without finding anything strange, but his poor performance in the battle of Barrel Sagama still makes Kira Yoshiyasu covet the opportunity.

So Kira Yoshiyasu wrote a complaint to present Matsudaira Motoyasu's inaction in the barrel sagama to Imagawa Shima, and the words roughly compared him to the culprit of Imagawa Yoshimoto's death in the barrel saga, including that it was an unusual act to not hold on to and support Narumi Castle after the barrel saga.

In addition, he also has an ironclad evidence of "capital enemy", that is, on the night after the occurrence of the barrel narrow, in the absence of a large number of chasing troops, he took the initiative to abandon Dagao City with a thousand troops, not only did not set fire to the city and destroy the grain and grass in the city, but also did not bring back the grain and grass with a small pack of people. Instead, he chose to abandon it directly to the Oda army, including a full set of small pack loads and pack horses, and gave them to Oda Nobunaga.

In order to prove that what he said is true. It is also mentioned that Matsudaira Motoyasu was close friends with Oda Nobunaga when he was exiled to Owari Province to live, so he has reason to believe that Matsudaira Motoyasu deliberately financed the enemy in this war, and as for Matsudaira Motoyasu's mention of running to the Taishu Temple with a thousand troops to try to commit suicide by seppuku, it must be fabricated.

The Great Tree Temple is outside Okazaki Castle in Ota County, and even if the Oda Army dares to fight again, it will not dare to cross Bihai County and chase into Okazaki Castle outside Ota County to chase and kill him, not to mention that he still has a thousand troops to protect, and there is a large group of people from the Matsudaira family in Okazaki Castle not far away, and according to the information obtained, it can also be determined that the Oda Army did not penetrate deep into the territory of Mikawa Province, but only chased it to the border village of Owari and retreated.

The above words and deeds really made the Imagawa clan suspicious, compared to the same like-minded cultural person, and at the same time Kira Yoshiyasu, who was born in the clan, the short and fat Mikawa turtle Matsudaira Motoyasu couldn't get into the eyes of the Imagawa clan at all, Kira Yoshiyasu and he both communicated in Kyoto dialect, no matter how bad it was, it was also Suruga's accent, only Matsudaira Motoyasu's authentic Mikawa dialect was really ugly, he didn't understand what his father valued him, just because he was fat and more honest?

Look at the beautiful regular script written by Yoshiyasu Kira, and then look at the rotten characters written by Motoyasu Matsudaira like ants, and it is also a self-defense book using a pseudonym throughout, Imagawa really shook his head or believed in Yoshiyasu's words more, at least what they wrote was justified, and they doubted and deduced, Matsudaira Motoyasu was a strong expression of loyalty, saying that he was innocent, if he was innocent, why didn't he explain clearly what it meant to abandon Datakao Castle and a pile of grain and grass with a thousand troops, and run to Dashu Temple to commit suicide? Acting for him?

Matsudaira Motoyasu can't explain clearly, he can't say that he has a fever in the head recently and is ready to take a rib trip to diarrhea when he sees his own Bodhi Temple, right? He did regret it when he returned to Okazaki City, but can he deny it when he has done it? The retainers of the genealogy of good deeds are eager to publicize this to everyone, and he has no way to retreat.

The Imagawa clan did not order to punish Matsudaira Motoyasu, but told him not to have crooked thoughts, but to recuperate and recuperate for the war, and then find Oda Nobunaga to avenge the killing of his father when the Imagawa family is fully rejuvenated.

Of course, this kind of order is not the original intention of the Imagawa clan, but his grandmother Kanegawa Shouguini taught him to do it by hand, and his father did not have time to teach only to let his grandmother teach on his behalf, but the Imagawa clan really felt that he was the lord of Junyuan San after all, and he was very awkward to be pointed out by his old grandmother all day long, and he felt that his grandmother should stay in the Buddhist hall to pray for his grandfather and father or simply enjoy the blessings, and there was no need to participate in national affairs.

After all, it wasn't his wise father who taught him, and it was inevitable that the Imagawa clan would change their mentality, and the samurai were always naturally contemptuous of women. His grandmother was a legendary figure who assisted two generations of family governors. But how much does that have to do with him? When he was born. Grandmother Shou Gui Ni has cut her hair and lived in a simple house, and when she grows up, she only sees her grandmother once a year during the New Year's holidays or her grandfather's annual offerings.

So Imagawa Shin privately wrote a letter to Kira Yoshiyasu, in which he told his brother-in-law that this was not his intention, everything was arranged by his grandmother Imagawa Shouguini, and he was still more inclined to him in his heart, this Matsudaira Motoyasu did have a problem, I hope he will be cautious, and once he finds out that he has different intentions, he will rest assured and bold to do it. The Imagawa clan will support him behind the scenes, and he received a letter from the governor promising that Kira Yoshiyasu was also depressed by failure, and he replied excitedly that he would do his best to fulfill the governor's entrustment.

On the other hand, Matsudaira Motoyasu is also extremely resentful of Yoshiyasu Kira, thinking to himself that I am also very respectful to you, although I am offended by the retainers, but I take the initiative to apologize every time, isn't it? How much of a grudge did you make you go against me three times and twice, and even tried to kill yourself at the expense of suing him, if it weren't for his great fortune, he would really be planted in the hands of Kira Yoshiyasu, so the opposition between the two sides changed from a small action in the dark to a confrontation in the open. And the sparks of collision are growing, and the signs of armed conflict are gradually emerging.

Hattori Masaaki's intelligence is very powerful. Especially about some of the hidden things about Mikawa can always be investigated clearly, it's really hard to complain when you see this inside story Kira Yoshi, his best brother is really not ordinary stupid, and it is very easy to be stupid to come up with his own logic system, and what is even more interesting is that it is really interesting to be crooked and staring at this little turtle.

Kira Yoshishi pursed his lips and said contemptuously: "My brother wants money and food for him, and if he wants to beat Matsudaira, let him fight, who calls him Yu Tong's brother-in-law?" He made this request, Yu still had to give him a face, Yu was unable to expand the territory of Sanhe, and he was not interested in a trick to divide the world. ”

The passage of ten years is enough to change a person, especially for the youthful and impulsive youth to the personable youth, Kira Yoshian is no longer the reckless child of thirteen or fourteen years old, he has a family and a bright career prospects, what he has seen and heard in the past ten years is the wise guidance of his father-in-law Imagawa Yoshimoto, and the bright future of the Imagawa family.

People are a realistic creature, and with the change of the world, the mentality will always change, for example, Kira Yoshian is now like the iron of the Imagawa family, and then think back to his resolute statement against Imagawa ten years ago, it is really embarrassing, whether it is the death of Kira Yoshiko, or the death of Kira Mochihiro, it is not as good as his father-in-law giving him ten years of wealth and glory, and it is not as beautiful as the red dust of his wife and beautiful family.

After not seeing each other for ten years, the brothers embarked on two completely different paths, and then saw Kira Yoshian's letters and gorgeous and unfamiliar handwriting, Kira Yoshitoki did not feel a trace of family warmth at all, everyone has their own ambitions and cannot be forced, since his brother chose to embark on a path that he is not optimistic about, Kira Yoshitoki will not be too forceful, so as not to make the already unstrong family relationship appear more cracks.

Kira Yoshishi is not very surprised, since he was a child, he has not had much contact with his brother Kira Yoshiyasu, his mother and birth identity are destined to make Kira Yoshian from a concubine to a concubine, he can become the son-in-law of the Imagawa family, which also has his own strength, to not feel how much he owes him so laissez-faire, ten years of wealth and glory is a blessing that many people can't look forward to, Kira Yoshian should also be content, as for the future road depends on his own grasp.

"Besides, Mikawa Country is far away from Echigo in Tokaido, and there are so many territory countries such as Shinano, Kai, Suruga, and Enoe, even if Yu's hand is long, it can't reach so far, Yu's goal is to go south to Kanto to clean up the lions of Sagami, and he doesn't have the time to accompany the people of Mikawa to make a small fuss, and it's still a trouble for the old genealogy generation at home to really absorb it!"

He can not care about Kira Yoshiyasu's attitude, but he can't ignore the two or three hundred years of genealogy family on the side of Mikawa, if it weren't for the fear that these genealogy generations suddenly came over and affected the genealogy retainers group he created, he would not have repeatedly emphasized that Okochi Nobutada and others should guard Mikawa's hometown without being aggressive, and he would not make more statements in the affairs of the Imagawa family.

When he learned that Imagawa Yoshimoto was about to go out of Owari, he ordered all the Nishimikawa samurai to be silent, neither receiving an order not to take the initiative, but receiving the order, it was estimated that he would slow down his actions as much as possible and not rush to the front.

During the entire period of the Barrel Narrow War, the people of the West Mikawa Country, which were sitting in the rear of the Mikawa Country, did not move a single soldier. In the Imagawa army, the Nishimikawa army was also very slack, and there was no high will to fight. For this reason, he was ridiculed by many samurai of the Imagawa family. Nobutada Okochi thought he was farting about this, and he didn't even have the mood to deal with it.

Strictly speaking, they are only a samurai family dominated by the Imagawa family, and their own lord is when Echigo's Kira Yoshishi, Echigo's order came down to let him delay, where would he care if Imagawa Yoshimoto's general order was urgent or not, if he could push it, he would find a reason to push it off, and if he couldn't push it, he would make do with the main force, so he dragged his feet until it rained.

When a storm falls. Obviously, more sentinels can be arranged to control the information of Atsuta streets, even if they can't intercept Oda Nobunaga's surprise army, they can also provide timely warning signals to the nearby military situation, but Okochi Nobutada didn't do anything at all, but camped on the spot to hide from the rain on the grounds that the rain was not conducive to marching, and after the news of Imagawa Yoshimoto's death came, he led his own army to retreat as soon as possible, and the Oda army saw the banner of Ashikaga Nichiji and decisively gave up the pursuit, which is the greatest tacit understanding established between the two sides.

The blatant Yin Imagawa family will inevitably affect the old nest of Nishimikawa, so this is the reason why he hasn't done more actions. After all, Nishi-Mikawa is close to Owari and is under the match of the Imagawa family, so it is not realistic to cause trouble and expect Oda Nobunaga's conscience to find out that it is not realistic to help the Kira family. It's hard to help Nishimikawa become his family's territory again, but Oda Nobuhide has a history of ruling Nishimikawa for a short time.

"Since they want to fight for life and death, let them do it! As long as you make sure that Yu's old collar of Xisanhe is not lost, Yu Cai doesn't care what tricks they play! Oda Nobunaga also didn't want to attack Nishimikawa, so it was time to write him a letter to advise! Folding Kira Yoshiyasu's letter and storing it, he felt that this letter was quite memorable.

In fact, there are still some things he didn't say, before Imagawa Yoshimoto died, he was more worried that Suruga Hero would grow into a big trouble for him, and the Triple Alliance of Koshojun allowed an unlimited development, and the power to be fed back to Shinano would make the Kira family extremely uncomfortable, maybe Imagawa Yoshimoto would wantonly meddle in Shinano and even Kanto after becoming stronger, this feeling easily reminded him of the days when he was bullied by the Imagawa family in Mikawa many years ago, so he was determined to let Imagawa Yoshimoto die with peace of mind.

But after the death of Yoshimoto Kawa, a new question arose, how should he face the growing Oda Nobunaga, a man who was simply a legend of the Warring States period, regardless of his luck or amazing means, he left a strong mark on the history of Japan and even East Asia.

In history, his successor Monkey brazenly launched a war of aggression against Korea, which can be regarded as an abuse of the challenge to the Central Plains Dynasty, he hated the monkey very much, and the unscrupulous villain, and Oda Nobunaga himself was a more rebellious villain than the monkey, and his ideas and ambitions and actions were even more disgusting than Kusunoki Masanari in the eyes of Kira Yoshitoki.

Although Oda Nobunaga is called Owari Big Fool, he is not really stupid, on the contrary, he is still an extremely smart person, since Oda Nobunaga is no longer engaged in the killing of the Matt sect leader to return to normal, in the past few years to reorganize the armament war in Owari to achieve victory after victory, not only to establish the authority of the family governor for himself, but also to gradually hone the lack of political means for many years.

In fact, Oda Nobunaga has faintly regarded Kira Yoshitoki as his competitor in his heart, of course, this kind of other thoughts are only hidden in the subconscious, he does not have the capital and Kira Yoshitoki now, and he still feels that he is more than a competitor as a friend of his youth, maybe his memory is still stuck in the little child who was pushed by the recoil for the first time using the iron cannon.

Kira Yoshitoki's attitude towards him is also very complicated, not only admiring his intelligence, keen judgment, accurate and decisive character, but also worried that his future achievements will become a big problem for himself, and now the Oda family's body is not as strong as he remembers, should he support this young friend, or should he support his opponent to break with him completely?

The complicated problem gave him a headache, and when he was about to give up, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and Kira Yoshitoki's face showed a clear look, and said with a chuckle: "Although Yu knows that sooner or later he will have to break up, but before the break, you still have to use him as much as possible, maybe using him well can save Yu a lot of trouble!" (To be continued......)