A few days after the end of the military conference, Echigo's war machine began to run at high speed, and the proclamations posted from Kasuga Yamajo Castle all the way to Ueno Hirai Castle declared that he had always been guilty of Echigo's repeated evil deeds, not only invading Echigo and killing civilians for no reason, but also colluding with the Kai Takeda clan in an attempt to subvert Shinano's peace and stability.

The huge propaganda made the Eastern Samurai once again understand what is called the power of public opinion warfare, and the spring mountain castle was already full of storms before the soldiers and horses moved, and even the Kwantung people who were fighting and killing also pricked up their ears to listen to the powerful voices from the north, and the strong neighbors were always vigilant and listened to when they were eyeing each other.

Sagami Odawara Castle also received this news, and the Hojo clan took a notice from Ueno and happily found the reclusive Hojo Shiyasu: "Father, please look at the announcement posted by the Kira family, saying that they are going to fight Echichu, this is really great news!" We can take this opportunity to expand the territory of the Upper Empire! ”

"Since the rebellion of Yingren, the world is chaotic and evil, now there is a Buddha evil sect to seize the land of several states in the northern continent to establish national law to kill and protect, the court shogunate has repeatedly ordered the samurai to conquer and not to resist, so far for decades more and more arrogant and rampant, my generation of martial arts respect the shogunate to pacify one side of the crusade against the rebels is the right way, the evil sect demon means do not want to use the army, but in recent years, I have been repeatedly committing Echigo and killing my people to burn down the temple, creating a tragedy that has always been a raid on Echigo, so that my heart is angry and difficult to control......

I, Ashikaga Kamizaburo Shangzun Imperial Court Shogunate, have been trembling for five years and have not dared to be careless, and after all, Echigo will be built into a paradise, and then the Kai Takeda clan colluded with the Sagami Hojo clan to invade the Mogami clan of Dewa, the Mutsu Ashina, the Date clan and the Kaga Ichijo clan. This has always been a wolf's ambition, and he actually forcibly recruited more than 110,000 civilians to storm Yuehou......

Recently, he arrested Takeda Ryuyoshi in the Shinano Koku-gun Chonobu Temple, and there was ironclad evidence of the collusion of the Zong Sect and the intention to rebel. Such unscrupulous people are shameless and unrelenting. With the Buddha's holy name on his lips, the evil in his heart is a hundred times that of a butcher whose hands are stained with blood, and the evil of this evil sect is too numerous to write! If such an evil sect is not banned, it will become a cancer that spreads all over the world, and I, Ashikaga Kamizaburo, am determined to crusade against the evil sect with my own strength, but those who are determined to eliminate evil in the shogunate can go to Echigo to join the army. ”

An impassioned recruitment notice was written, in the eyes of the Hojo clan, this was more like a show of force, the Asakura family fought three generations of the Ichijo sect that had not been defeated for decades, and he was given by him in a few words as an evil sect that should be banned, and led the army to crusade in order to relieve the danger of the people of Li. The righteousness and strictness can't help but make people stunned.

Hojo clan Yasu took this notice of just a thousand words, and even read it repeatedly for half an hour and still did not stop, Hojo clan Masashi couldn't help but sarcastically said: "This Kamisui Ashikaga family is really a good calculation, a good army, a good minister who protects the people and the land, open and close his mouth is the imperial shogunate, and what he thinks about is always the safety of thousands of people, as if there are some injustices in this world for him to save, is he doing this to treat us and other Eastern samurai as if they are grass mustard?" ”

"Eastern samurai? Is my Hojo clan counted as an Eastern Samurai? You can just listen to what the Banto Takeshi family thinks about this family......" Hojo Shiyasu laughed at himself: "We will always be outsiders!" Even if my father changed the Miao character to Hojo, it didn't help. ”

As we all know, the Sagami Hojo family is from the Kyoto Ise clan, and Ise Shinkuro was an authentic Kyoto samurai in his heyday. Through the intermediary of the Sanjo family in Masakimachi, he got on the line with the "half-general" Hosokawa Masamoto, and through this, he completed the marriage between Ise Kitagawa and Imagawa Yoshitada, and became an important minister relied on by the Hosokawa family.

Subsequently, Isemori resolved the succession of his nephew, the Imagawa clan, to Suruga. For the first time, he intervened in the internal affairs of Imagawa on behalf of the shogunate and served as the genealogy elder of the Imagawa family, and when Ise was in his prime, he took many samurai such as the Kyoto samurai Ogasawara clan and the Matsuda clan to Suruga to serve as the guardian of Suruga.

In the third year of the Ming Dynasty (1493), the coup d'état that shocked the world broke out, and the much-despised Hino Tomiko and the unbearable Hosokawa Masamoto finally broke out, blocking Ashikaga Yoshisai from Kyoto, and supporting Ashikaga Masachi, the son of Ashikaga Masachi, the prince of Horikoshi, as a new generation of shoguns, this person is Ashikaga Yoshisumi of the Horikoshi Gongkata lineage.

Then Ashikaga Yoshisai was exiled and lost his influence, and the puppet general Ashikaga Yoshisumi's position gradually stabilized, and gradually worried about the ambition of his half-brother Horikoshi Shinkoshi Ashikaga Chachamaru, Ashikaga Chachamaru is the concubine born to Ashikaga Masachi in the drunken and daughter-in-law, and has always misbehaved, and was found by Ashikaga Masachi to find a wrong place and imprisoned in a dungeon, after Ashikaga Masachi died, he didn't know how to get out of the cage, and secretly killed Ashikaga Yoshisumi's mother Enmanin and his younger brother Ashikaga Profit Boy, but this wicked man set himself up as Horikoshi Gongfang.

Ashikaga Yoshisumi hated Ashikaga Chachamaru very much, and told Hosokawa Masato about his anger and concern, so Hosokawa Masamoto was determined to eradicate Ashikaga Chachamaru and completely exterminate the Horikoshi Gongkata lineage, Hosokawa Masamoto found Ise Moritoki to let him carry out this important mission, and in the autumn of that year, he raided the Izu Horikoshi Imperial Palace and killed Ashikaga Chachamaru, and set a fire to burn the Horikoshi Imperial Palace to ashes.

From that moment on, Ise's mission changed from simply representing the shogunate to pacify the Imagawa clan to dismantling the agreement of peace between the Furukawa clan and the Kanto Governor on behalf of the Horikoshi Principality, and since the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of Rokuenin, the Shogunate's consistent strategy towards Kanto for nearly a hundred years was to cause chaos in the Kanto region, whether it was indirectly inciting civil strife in the Kanto region, or supporting the samurai to divide the unity of the Kanto samurai family as an agent, in short, it was not to let the Kanto be quiet.

Uesugi and Ashikaga Nari's peace of mind, it is obvious to destroy the established strategy of the shogunate, so before the Onin Rebellion, Ashikaga Yoshimasa and Hosokawa Katsumoto discussed sending Ashikaga Masachi to separate the Kanto samurai, with the occurrence of the Ming Coup, the role of the Horikoshi Principality from the original separation of Kanto, into a powerful weapon in the hands of Hosokawa Masamoto, the Horikoshi Principality was not successful in the separation of the action, so that its own existence value is infinitely close to zero, and it is the best way to eliminate the Horikoshi Principality and replace it with more effective means.

At this time, Ise was in his prime, taking over the Horikoshi Principality to occupy Izu, and with the support of both the shogunate and the Suruga Imagawa family, he quickly seized all of Izu and Sagami, but the shogunate's support dropped greatly with the assassination of Hosokawa Masamoto. Ise's strategy came to a standstill. It was the basic plate of Izu and Sagami that the two countries were formed. Later, during this period, Ise was a monk and entered the Dokumo Mono, and it took more than ten years to eliminate Miura Michicun, and then the development of the family business almost stopped, and Ise Sakumo could only pass away with endless regrets.

His son, Tsunade felt that the family business was difficult, and changed the Miao character to the Hojo clan to respect his father as Hojo Sakumo, in an attempt to show people the face of a pure Kanto samurai, and tried to get rid of his strong Kyoto samurai atmosphere, but the Banto samurai family did not buy their family's face. is even more disgusted with this fake Hojo clan, and it will be the reason why he has repeatedly surrendered to the Hojo clan but repeatedly defected.

The fierce temperament of the Hojo clan was simply sharpened, and in the end, he was pitted by his most trusted nephew Imagawa Yoshimoto, and watched his nephew Imagawa Yoshimoto unite with the speed Takeda Shintora, which was equivalent to "snapping" dozens of loud slaps on the old face of the Hojo clan, and finally his "good nephew" united with the sworn enemy of the Hojo family, Takeda Shintora, and the Kanto Uesugi clan besieged the Hojo family, and this good character of the family governor died of depression under shame.

Hojo Shiyasu's temperament has also been smoothed out, and to be the governor of the Hojo family, you must have a good temperament, and you must have very strong patience and tolerance. and perseverance in order to persevere, otherwise it will be reversed several times by those prejudiced Kwantung samurai. I dare to say unashamedly that it is necessary and necessary to make your Hojo family, and the behavior will be angry to death.

Just like the Hojo clan Yasu hates Imagawa Yoshimoto who betrayed his father so much, and the Kai Takeda clan who is disgusted to the bones, but is forced to form an alliance with these two families, sometimes you can't do it according to your personal preferences, just like the Ota family naturally wants to rebel, whether he is really rebelling or just trying to be happy, the Hojo family can't do anything to them, and they have to appease their family with a pleasant face.

Thinking of the decades of humiliating family history of the Hojo family, the Hojo clan's teeth were about to be crushed, and he said hatefully: "Father, don't say that, this time is different from the past, the people who brought us humiliation back then, we have to take revenge one by one!" The child is planning to take revenge on Satomi Yiyao, please ask your father to make it clear! ”

Hojo Shiyasu didn't have the anger of a young man, shook his head freely, and said in a flat tone: "Matsuchiyomaru!" Be calm and peaceful, and don't look at them with hatred, hatred will disorient you, anger will make you lose your mind! This is a family motto passed on to your family by your grandfather before he died, and you should always remember this sentence! ”

“…… Hatred will disorient you, anger will make you lose your wisdom! Got it! The Hojo clan bowed down in convincing.

Hojo Shiyasu's gaze was as dark as ink and as deep as the sea, and a little bit of fine light passed quickly: "Sakai Yinji, the lord of the Kamitsu Clan, is obedient to my Hojo family, this is a good opportunity to continue to invade the Kazumi Kingdom under the banner of avenging the Masato Valley clan, and to continue to attack and constantly compress the territory of the Satomi clan, until the Satomi Yoshiyao people rebel and surrender, this family wants him to understand what it is like to be betrayed!" ”

Just when Echigo began to act, a rescue letter came from Dewa Daihoji Yoshisu, it turned out that the Daihoji family, who had twice been a member of the invasion army, had fallen into a new crisis, and Shimizu Hizen Mamoru Yoshitaka led an army to raid the Daihoji Leader, and standing behind him were Mogami Hachishu and Mogami Yoshimori, and it was clear that they were going to play the trick of unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

Kira Yoshishi received this strange letter of request for help, really a little crying and laughing, Dahoji Yoshizen this guy is very funny, even thought of his nephew Honjo Fanchang and then climbed to the back of the Akaga Ashikaga family, shy face to find the Akaga family to ask for troops and at the same time expressed willingness to surrender to be his subordinate retainer, what is even funnier is that Dabaoji Yoshizen also clearly told Kira Yoshisu in the letter, he not only sent this letter of help, but also sent a letter to his brother-in-law Onodera Jingdao hoping to work together Yunyun.

Dabaoji Yoshizen is a little funny, but this is not the main problem, Mogami Yoshimori is the biggest surprise to the Dahoji family, I thought he would do something to the Hanhe River, so the Kira family has not been prepared to attack the feather in the near future, but I don't want Mogami Yoshimori to finally choose to occupy the richest land in the village Dabaoji clan.

Presumably, Daihoji Yoshimasu didn't expect this, and sent a letter to his brother-in-law Onodera Jingdao for help, and was worried that Onodera Jingdao was restrained by Mogami Hachiyu and couldn't look south, so he thought of his good nephew Honjo Fanchang, this unexpected letter for help made Kira Yoshitoki overjoyed, and laughed loudly: "Asuka is good to hide the bow." The cunning rabbit dies and the lackey cooks. The ancients did not deceive me! Mogami don't blame Yu for not giving you a chance. You don't have a chance anymore! ”

Hu Ji asked with a big belly and a smile: "Who is Your Highness talking about when you are so happy?" ”

"The Dewa Mogami family did something to the Dahoji family, and the Dabaoji Yoshizen asked for help from Onodera Jingdao and Yu respectively, these countrymen are really interesting, and they even said in front of Yu that they also asked for help from others, don't you know who Yu is?" As soon as he said this, Kira Yoshitoki couldn't help but laugh again.

"It's normal for people to ask for help! It's just that His Highness hasn't received such a letter for help before! Is Your Highness going to prepare for battle? The concubine will prepare clothes and armor for His Royal Highness......" The pot-bellied tiger Ji struggled to stand up, and was gently hugged by Kira Yoshitoki.

"Yu He once said that he was going to go into battle! Why should Yu personally fight in some joint battles, just hand it over to the generals in front. Yu plans not to go anywhere during the year, and will guard you until our child is born. ”

Tiger Ji's eyes were red, and she snuggled into his arms and said coquettishly: "Your Highness! Is that really okay? Will this be discussed by the retainers of the spectrum? ”

Kira Yoshishi smiled and reassured: "It's too late for them to be happy, so how can they discuss right and wrong?" Tiger Ji is the key object of protection at home! Tiger Queen, be relieved! The little momentum that Yu created outside was just to divert his attention and was not ready to attack in a big way, and his brother was also left by Yu to recuperate in the spring mountain city, how could Yu go out to fight? Wouldn't it be better to have my tiger queen at home? ”

Gently stroking the bulging lower abdomen of the tiger queen showed a happy smile, and gently coaxed the little woman to smile, the tiger queen was more and more impatient to sit for more than six months pregnant, and only sat with her for a while before she got up and walked around, she has complained more than once that her life is to eat and sleep, wake up and go back to eat and sleep for a while. There are only a few gardens in Honmaru, not to mention how boring it is.

Before they knew it, the two of them walked to the garden on the side of the castle tower. Seeing a young woman standing in the garden in a daze, this woman is fair-skinned and tall, in her twenties, but she is dressed as an unmarried woman's hair bundle, but she can also be called a beauty just by looking at her appearance, and her sad expression makes people feel pity.

Kira Yoshishi looked at the woman in surprise and asked suspiciously, "Who is this woman?" Why haven't I seen it before? ”

The woman may have noticed that someone was looking here, and at a glance, she saw a young man in Chinese clothes walking slowly with a pregnant woman, and she couldn't help but want to stay away, but as soon as she took a step, she was seen by Hu Ji, and shouted in surprise: "Is it Sister Ah Lang?" Yikes! It's really Sister Ah Lang! Tiger Ji misses you so much! ”

"Are you...... Tiger Queen? I didn't expect to be married! I heard that Tiger Ji married a great husband! A hint of surprise flashed in Ah Lang's ancient eyes, and he gently saluted: "This is His Royal Highness the Duke of the Zhenfu, the husband of Tiger Ji!" The concubine Naoe Ah Lang has seen His Royal Highness the Zhenfu Duke! ”

"Your Royal Highness, this is Sister Ah Lang who is often mentioned by the concubine, when my brother is out fighting all the year round, only Sister Ah Lang will often come over to talk to the concubine!" Hu Ji slowly walked over and helped Ah Lang to stand up, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, Sister Ah Lang is also a heroine!" It's just that I have returned home because of the family affairs of the Yamato Shoudian over the years, and I don't think I can see Sister Ah Lang after not seeing Tiger Ji for many years!. ”

"Let the Tiger Yutai worry, Ah Lang is back to serve the main hall." Ah Lang replied with a knowing smile.

Seeing the good sisters who haven't seen each other for many years, they naturally have countless things to say, but when they saw Ah Lang's sad face, Hu Ji pouted and complained: "Eh! Brother is so stubborn, how good Sister Ah Lang is! Why do you have to refuse Sister Ah Lang! Hu Ji didn't understand why his brother swore not to marry, even if it was for the sake of cultivating rice rope authority, he didn't have to be so persistent! ”

This is a family affair of the Nagao family, although Kira Yoshitoki is the brother-in-law and lord of Uesugi Masato, but this kind of thing is still not suitable to meddle, even Princess Aya's hard persuasion can't screw this stubborn younger brother, can Kira Yoshitoki still force him to marry his own son? Naturally, this kind of thing is unspeakable, and even if it is said, it will probably push him to Koyasan.

Ah Lang didn't speak when he heard Tiger Ji's complaints, and let her say it with a gentle smile, it could be seen that the relationship between the two was very deep, even if they hadn't seen each other for many years, they were still affectionate like sisters, and Tiger Ji pulled her to talk for a while and couldn't support the sleepiness, Ah Lang got up and said goodbye when he saw this.

Looking at Ah Lang's figure gradually leaving, Hu Ji yawned and turned around to see Kira Yoshi, frowning and thinking, and said curiously: "What is Your Highness doing?" ”

"It's just a matter of lamenting my brother's marriage."

"That's right! Since her brother started the army, Sister Ah Lang has served with her brother for more than ten years, except for a few years ago when she was forced to return to her hometown, she has been staying by her brother's side, but her brother has not touched her for so many years, either drinking all day long or chanting sutras and sitting meditation all day, and my sister has worried about this many times in the letter! But no matter how you persuade it, it's useless, I don't know what will happen if Your Highness persuades you? ”

Hu Ji looked at him expectantly, and Kira Yoshishi could only explain helplessly: "Yu is not very convenient to manage this kind of housework, after all, Yu's identity is not only the son-in-law of the Nagao family!" I'm afraid that persuasion will have a bad impact, in case my brother has bad thoughts, it will have a bad impact on Ah Lang! ”

Hu Ji looked at the garden and sighed for a long time: "Eh! What a pity! (To be continued......)