The samurai of the Takeda family celebrated last year's victory, and many young samurai sang and danced with the strength of wine, and sang and sang the praises of the wisdom of the family governor Takeda Shingen, leading the Takeda family out of the predicament to meet new glory.

The surrender of the Suruga ancestors marked a great victory for the Takeda family's Suruga invasion, which had a great morale boost effect on the Takeda family, which had just experienced a series of great military and political defeats, and also marked the completion of another strategic transformation of the Takeda family.

The people of Suruga Province who surrendered were organized as the Suruga Ancestors, and the old Asahina Nobuji of the former Imagawa clan was the leader of the Ancestors, and Takeda Shingen's attitude towards the Suruga Ancestors was quite tolerant, and even if he once put on a confrontational posture, he did not make any plans to deal with it, but immediately issued them a certificate of permission to block the ability, and hoped to save the bad influence caused by the Shofu Mistaking.

At the banquet, the people who were staggered, there was no way to talk and greet each other, their faces were filled with a strong sense of joy, and the young people infected by the warm atmosphere at the banquet were also very excited, and they were full of energy as if they were high-spirited samurai, even if they served tea and water, it did not prevent them from taking a brisk step and a happy mood.

Takeda Shingen has been in a good mood recently, the asthma that has plagued him for many years has rarely brought him too much pain this year, and the death of his son-in-law Takeda Yoshinobu has not brought him too much negative impact, and the party members who originally supported Yoshinobu were suddenly scattered under heavy punishment, and the retainers once again stood in his camp to support him, which was a beautiful turnaround battle he fought.

The capture of Suruga Province was of great significance to the Takeda family. Its political and economic significance far exceeds all the influence of Shinano alone. In Kai, almost every samurai could understand the difference between Suruga Province and Shinano Province. The difference between them is not the number of territories, but the huge difference between the routes that Tokaido must pass through and the impoverished mountainous areas.

The wealth of Suruga Province lies not in the stone height of only 170,000 koku, but because of the important transportation hub role of Tokaido, the center of which is the Imagawa family's efforts to build Sunfu Castle, after nearly 200 years of painstaking management by the Imagawa family, Sunpu Castle's reputation has long spread to Kanto Kinai and even more distant Kyushu Ha-Oku, and although its role as an economic transportation hub is not as large as a few large cities in, it is absolutely unique in Tokaido.

A Sunfu Castle is as tall as Kai, and all the castle towns together will be doubled, and the weak castle town economy of the Tsubashi Zakikan cannot be compared with Sunfu at all. It is not even as economically developed as the castle town of Inimajo in Engae River, after all, the Kai Basin is too remote, and the samurai of the Takeda family have always been known for their rudeness and barbarism, and many merchants do not like to go to Kai to do business.

Shinano Province looks like a lot of stone height, and it used to be almost 400,000 koku, but it has jumped to an astonishing output of nearly 600,000 koku after several developments in the Kamiki Ashikaga family, but this cannot change the weakness of Shinano Province's relatively remote area and relatively sparse population, and the territory area of Suruga Province is about half that of Shinano Province, although it is less than half, it is not far off.

Ruling the huge territory of Shinano Province requires huge manpower and material support, and the road from North Shinano to South Shinano is almost knotted in nine turns, compared to Suruga Province, there is not so much trouble. Whether you choose to take the Tokaido by land or by sea, you can directly reach the territory you want to reach, and the most developed areas of Suruga Province are located in a few small plains along the coast.

Suruga has the Takeda family's favorite gold mountain. Shinano only has the Asama volcano, which erupts from time to time, Suruga has the enviable trading port of the prosperous and wealthy castle town, and Shinano only has a few spiritual mountains such as Mt. Iennayama and Mt. Togakushi, and Suruga has enough to offset all of Shinano's food income in a year, and there is still a lot of surplus, and it is more convenient for Suruga to rule with a dense population.

If you want to say that Shinano Province is stronger than Suruga Province, probably only Shinano's samurai are more brave and tenacious, and the merits of martial arts are not inferior to Kai samurai, and the advantages of martial arts are not inferior to Kai samurai, which is much stronger than the pampered Suruga samurai, and it is precisely because of the Suruga samurai after more than 20 years of peaceful life that the Imagawa family's fighting will is wiped out little by little, and even forget that they still have violent blood in their bones, so Takeda Shingen can successfully take Suruga Province.

The start of Suruga Province means that the strategic adjustment of the Takeda family is extremely correct, which not only removes the moral shackles of Takeda Shingen's imprisonment and killing of his sister-in-law Takeda Yoshinobu, but also lifts the survival pressure imposed on the Takeda Retainers, and no one will threaten the authority of the Takeda Shingen Clan, and the Takeda Retainers are closely united under the banner of the Takeda family, as for the dead samurai, they don't care at all, and the Takeda Retainers are not completely finished because of the dead people.

The victory of the war brought amazing dividends, every surviving samurai made a lot of money in the war, the excessive taking of the army just reflects the instinct of the Kai samurai who urgently need to make profits, there is no so-called loyalty without interests, and the governor who has no loyalty is just a bare commander, and then give Takeda Shingen a chance to choose, maybe he will also let the Takeda retainers take it randomly, he would rather spend time appeasing the Suruga ancestors than look at his own lineage and then question himself.

After all, Takeda Shingen is not the invincible Kai Tiger for more than ten years, and the successive fiascos have made him almost reduced to an ATM at Ashikaga Yoshitoki, and the forced payment of fame and territory wealth again and again has brought countless negative effects, making his evaluation in the world's daimyo go all the way down, and he is gradually replaced by the new Oda Nobunaga.

"Speaking of this Oda Dan Masatada, I actually think of the plan to marry my Takeda family, it seems that this person has a lot of ambitions." Takeda Shingen pinched the tiger beard thoughtfully, he had reason to believe that Oda Nobunaga was an ambitious samurai, and from the Oda family's intervention in Mikawa Kikuichi's rescue of the dying Matsudaira Ieyasu, it can be seen that this person's ambition and ambition are not bound by kinship, even if that kinship is Ashikaga Yoshito.

One day just two months ago, Oda Nobunaga sent Oda Sobu Suke Tadahiro to meet Takeda Shingen at the Higasakikan, and proposed a marriage to the victorious Kai Tiger to marry Oda Nobunaga's niece, the sister and the daughter of Toyama Naolian, a powerful countryman from Higashimino. At the same time, she is also the adopted daughter of Oda Tadahiro. The man is Takeda Shingen's fourth son, Takeda Katsuyori.

Shingen Takeda was very interested in this proposal. Oda Nobunaga's development in Mino is very bold and very powerful, on the surface it is still the situation of the confrontation between the Oda clan and the Saito clan in Nishiminon, but the actual situation is that most of the samurai in Higashimino have been quietly pulled under the command of Oda Nobunaga, this military deception is very good, if he is in the perspective of a bystander, he dare not say that he will be able to see through Oda Nobunaga's cunning methods.

Oda Nobunaga's constant attempts to find a point of support near Sugu Castle (Sumamata Castle) on the Sumamata River, and his active relocation of the castle from the relatively developed and peaceful castle of Kiyoshu to Komakiyama Castle have become less simple, perhaps no longer as simple as reducing the pressure of logistics. There are also some military deception tricks lurking in it.

At the same time, in the country of Mikawa and Mino, they can also achieve good gains respectively, just Chong's knowledge and skill are definitely not comparable to ordinary samurai, at least no one in their Takeda family can do it except for Takeda Shingen himself, the silent Takeda Shinhiro seems to have this ability, but unfortunately he is kind and relatively taciturn, so that most of his talent is covered up.

"But that's fine, it's not bad to let Shiro's kid marry the daughter of the Yuanshan family, and the family doesn't care about the origin of the Yuanshan family, as long as it can give birth to a healthy and excellent grandson for my Takeda family." Takeda Shingencai didn't care how much Oda Nobunaga had to calculate, and he didn't plan to honestly cooperate with Oda Nobunaga's plan anyway. It's a good idea to get a helping arm for the time being, but it doesn't matter how much dissatisfaction Ashikaga Yoshishi will have when dealing with Oda Nobunaga. People don't care what he needs to care about.

The Imagawa clan is still trapped in Kakegawa Castle and can't retreat, Takeda Shingen has no time to clean up this waste wood family governor for the time being, and it doesn't matter if he lets him live a few months of decadence in Kakegawa Castle, the entire territory of Suruga Province is more important than a useless Imagawa clan Shin, what he needs to do is to appease the newly attached Suruga ancestors and repair the Shofujo Castle, which was severely damaged by the war and looting.

The promise of rebuilding Sunfu is not difficult for Takeda Shingen, and he has no plans to move the city to Sunfu Castle, and the rebuilt castle can be reduced by a few numbers and then the burned castle town will be allocated to a few Buddhist temples to complete, as for the possibility of heavy repairs and the like, it is still very low, Takeda Shingen is not a mercantilist Imagawa family, he is more superstitious about the big fists and thick arms, and the reason why the expectations for Suruga Province are higher than those of Shinano Province are nothing more than taxes and gold mountain revenues.

A lot of effort was made to appease the Suruga ancestors, and one of the most important promises was that the people of Suruga would use the law, and the Imagawa False Directory, which was carried out by gathering the efforts of the Imagawa family, was actually copied from the Imagawa family's law and made some changes.

From this point alone, there is no need to worry about how much dissatisfaction the Takeda family will have, and the Takeda retainers also know that the copied law is not as perfect as the original after all, and there are many things that apply to Tokaido, especially Junyuansan, which are not used in Kai, and the previous Takeda family copycat version of the law is not much of a problem, but in the future, if you want to focus on Tokaido, you can't continue to use extensive law, and the more mature and complete "Imagawa Fake List" system has become the best choice in front of Takeda Shingen.

Taking advantage of the efforts of the Suruga ancestors to follow the old rules, Takeda Shingen pretended to be good and fully implemented the "Imagawa False List", and later simply made blatant plagiarism, combined with the regulations of the "Koshu Law Degree" to redefine the Takeda family law, and sorted out the new law corresponding to the further improvement of the prestige of the family governor and the cohesion of the retainers, which is another invisible strengthening of the Takeda family.

The victory of Suruga Province brought countless benefits to the Takeda family, and of course, it also attracted many samurai to secretly criticize Takeda Shingen in private, and the theme of their criticism was not that benevolence and morality should not be done to Taro Yoshinobu and his ilk, but that they whispered that they should not have attacked the Kamitsu Ashikaga family who invaded Shinano Province in the south, and if they had taken the initiative to sue for peace a few years earlier, they could have kept half of Shinano Province, and then switched to dealing with Suruga Province.

This statement can't be said to be completely wrong, but hindsight is not a good habit after all, and Takeda Shingen is not a god stick half-immortal who can pinch and calculate, and he can't figure out whether he swept Shinano all the way to capture Echigo a few years ago, or he can't take care of himself in the life of being beaten with a stick in Shinano country, even if he was suddenly possessed by the gods and Buddhas at that moment and ordered to sue for peace, the Takeda family tree generation who was in a hurry may not be willing to let go.

Takeda Shingen also received information about the Kanto war, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki's great voice that swept through most of the Kanto region intimidated many samurai, and the army of 30,000 on the left and 50,000 on the right almost scared the timid samurai. Not to mention that the current body of the Takeda family can't support the domineering tactics of the hammer. Even the Takeda family, which was at its peak a few years ago, could not escape the fate of being knocked to the ground. Now I'm afraid it's only going to be a little more miserable than before.

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At the moment when the celebration party was held for many days in the Kusakikan, a strange scene appeared in a certain street in the dilapidated town of Sunfu Castle in Suruga Province, and many samurai in ronin costumes wandered into the streets and alleys outside the courtyard, looking around with a sneaky expression, as if they were afraid of being discovered, until the evening Raka dodged into one of the courtyards in the sparsely populated gap.

These samurai were members of the Suruga Shokata Clan, the leading party of Suruga Province, and this was their third secret meeting in the town of Sunpu Castle, and the purpose of the meeting was obviously not to worry about how to do their best for Takeda Shingen. They don't even have the slightest affection for Takeda Shingen as the conqueror, let alone destroy the pride of the Suruga samurai, the pearl of Tokaido, Sunpu Castle.

A few days ago, that is, before the beginning of the first month, the Suruga ancestors were also forced to run to the Heshigasaki Pavilion to perform a drama of getting along with the monarch and the minister, and then returned to Suruga Country to take advantage of the Takeda family's lax surveillance to make up and sneak into the secret meeting of Sunfu Castle Town, this day is like being in prison, and I dare not say or do it all day long, not to mention how uncomfortable this day must be.

Asahina Shinji had just returned from outside the castle, and hurriedly changed his disguise and walked quickly into the secret room, looking up to see dozens of powerful samurai from all over Suruga sitting in a circle. Most of the samurai looked solemn as prayer as meditation as if they were meditating, and a few of the samurai whispered about the recent changes in Juntosan and the news of the Siege of Odawara.

Ever since the Takeda family launched the Suruga invasion. From time to time, the wealthy clans loyal to the Imagawa clan raised a counter-flag, forcing the Suruga ancestors to bite the bullet against their former relatives and friends, killing their colleagues in exchange for loyalty is like a chronic suicide, constantly consuming their influence in Suruga Province, and at the same time, through the continuous loss of troops in the process of conquest, the strength will be reduced, and the independence and control of the territory are gradually weakened.

In the long run, if the Takeda family continues to weaken this method, there will definitely be only one desperate way to die, and at that time, whether it is to change the heir or simply find an opportunity to die, it will only be a thought, this is the soft knife killing technique arranged by Takeda Shingen, and the Suruga ancestors also realized that this soft knife was for their lives.

The Takeda family would not allow most of the Suruga Province to be controlled by this gang of leading parties, and it was because there was a behemoth next to it that made people feel at ease, otherwise what fell on the heads of the Suruga ancestors would not be a soft knife, but a sharp and extremely sharp knife that specialized in cutting off the heads of the people.

This is only the first hint that has made the people of Suruga Ancestors panic, and they continue to insist on it for ten or eight years and do not know what kind of situation it will evolve into, so many people in the Suruga Ancestors hate the Takeda family very much, this time there are a few young samurai who clenched their fists and opened their eyes angrily, like a red-eyed bull with fire, as if there was endless anger to vent, no need to ask must be cursing Takeda Shingen, a circle of samurai either listened attentively or pondered solemnly, and when they saw Asahina Shinji walking in and talking, they immediately stopped.

He waved his hand to Shinji Hina, carefully closed the thickened door, walked over and sat cross-legged, and found that many samurai did not speak, so he said strangely, "Go on!" I believe that I would also like to hear your opinions, and the time for us to meet three times is not short, and we should negotiate a charter as soon as possible. ”

Most of the samurai here are cautious, and they don't dare or want to talk more at this juncture, so it's not that the samurai in this room have the doglegs of the Takeda family, and they are worried that what they said today will be known tomorrow by Takeda Shingen of the Takeda Pavilion, but they are in the psychology of talking less and making fewer mistakes, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and the current situation in Suruga Province is so bad, someone dares to express his position lightly, then there is a problem.

The life of this group of Suruga ancestors is not easy, the pressure of betraying their lord Imagawa clan to take refuge in Takeda Shingen is huge, I don't know how many times I have been scolded by my hometown fathers and elders behind my back, and in Takeda Shingen, there are also a group of foreign people who have no status, this anti-one has not reaped the benefits, and the price of the rebellion is still borne little by little, and if you don't feel angry, you are not a samurai.

There is no way to do it, they are destined to pay a high price when they embark on this road, at least they are much better than the days of the remnants of the Imagawa army who defeated and retreated to Kawakawa City, at most their status is worse than when they were the retainers of the Imagawa family tree, which is also a big reason why many samurai do not want to pretend to be deaf and dumb when they do not want to do much.

But someone didn't want to wait any longer, and Tadajiro Okabe, a young samurai from the Okabe family, was eager to try it and attracted the attention of Shinji Asahina.

"Let's talk about it first!" The young and vigorous Okabe Tadajiro snorted angrily and said, "It's just an expedient measure for us to submit to the brutal and rude Takeda Shingen, but it's extremely hateful that this Takeda family has the heart to completely abolish us!" At the beginning, without our help, how could Takeda Shingen easily enter Junfu City, and now seeing that we have lost their value, they will be ruthless! Such a bastard doesn't deserve my life at all! (To be continued......)

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