While the dragon of Echigo, Nagao Keitora, was busy suppressing the civil strife in the pacification territory, Kai Tiger Takeda Harunobu was not idle.

If the dragon of Echigo, Nagao Keitora, is a natural military genius, then Kai Tiger Takeda Harunobu is an outstanding strategist. As early as the nineteenth year of Astronomy, when he learned that his father Takeda Nobutora had married Suruga's daughter, Imagawa Yoshimoto's main room Joein, died, Takeda Harunobu immediately made a decision and immediately sent the Kawachi Anayama family in the family's "Niyama System" to discuss the marriage of the two families. So two years later (the twenty-first year of Astronomy), he welcomed Imagawa Yoshimoto's daughter Ryomatsuin (the daughter of Joein and Yoshimoto), and became the daughter-in-law of Taro Takeda Yoshinobu (this is a standard cousin).

In the 22nd year of astronomy, Takeda Harunobu married his daughter Huangmeiin into the Odawara Hojo family through the intermediary of the Oyamada family in the county in the "Nishan system", and became the wife of the Hojo clan, the son of the Hojo clan. In the twenty-third year of Astronomy, after some hard work, Hayakawain, the daughter of Hojo Shiyasu, under the escort of a large number of Sagamiya samurai, went to Sunfu Castle in a cage, and became the wife of Imagawa Yoshimoto's son Shijin. While the Takeda family and the Nagao family faced off against each other, the famous Kosho Jun Alliance was finally finalized. In March of this year (Astronomical 23), the Takeda family, the Imagawa family, and the Hojo family finally met at Zentokuji Temple and concluded an alliance.

I don't know if Harunobu Takeda had predicted a few years ago that he would meet the dragon of Echigo in the north, and he actually began to lay out this three-way alliance several years in advance. Now, just as the Takeda family and the Nagao family are about to fight in the northern part of the eastern country, Takeda Harunobu is just going through this three-way alliance. Stability in the south of the Takeda house was thoroughly secured. So that the Takeda family can compete with the Nagao family in the north with all their might.

The same. As a result of this alliance, both the Go-Hojo family and the Imagawa family were able to shift their strategic focus. The strategic center of the Hojo family is naturally to continue to penetrate their own forces into the Kanto Plain region, but it also led to the Raptors Nagao family from Echigo.

Sometimes I really admire the dragon of Echigo, Nagao Jinghu, and even single-handedly confronted the two samurai giants of the Takeda family and the Hojo family, and even poured cold water on the hot-headed and rebellious people in Echigo from time to time during the battle.

Here, the Hojo family and the Nagao family are facing each other, but the Imagawa family's governor over there, Imagawa Yoshimoto, has finally begun to think about the matter of his Kamiro becoming a person in the world, and if it is the Imagawa family, Kamiro. The first obstacle had to be solved first, and that was the Owari Oda family, which was on the verge of civil strife.

At this time, the military advisor at home, Taiyuan Xuezhai, who was also a teacher and friend of Imagawa Yoshimoto, was also seriously ill and recuperated at home for a long time. Lacking the cautious and resourceful Taiyuan Xuezhai by his side, coupled with the alliance with the Takeda family and the Hojo family, the worries have been solved, and the flattery and advocacy of some of the retainers in the family at the right time, Imagawa Yoshimoto has already moved his mind to prepare for Shangluo.

And in this process of agitating Imagawa Yoshimoto Joraku, the minister from Kyoto and the newly appointed 13th shogunate Ashikaga Yoshiteru also played an important role.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who was dedicated to restoring the authority of the shogun, had become a puppet of the Miyoshi family at this time, but at this time the area around Kyoto's family. There are also many forces such as Hosokawa Harumoto, who is unwilling to fail, and the Rokkaku, who is ready to take advantage at any time, in fact, Miyoshi Changqing's main energy is still in the battle with these forces. Regulation of Ashikaga Yoshiteru is really limited. It is for this reason that Ashikaga Yoshiteru has enough opportunities to implement his ambitions.

And to re-establish the authority of the shogun, it was first necessary to have an army, and then to use the army to defeat Miyoshi Nagakei, who was watching him. In this era, it is really the era when whoever has the biggest fist is the boss. However, Ashikaga Yoshiteru soon became a little desperate about the affairs of the army.

Here's the thing. The shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, who used to have a direct army, was called "Ma Huizhong" at the beginning, and later called "Shoshiko", and selected the second son or concubine of the samurai family of the whole Wa country, who came to Kyoto to serve the shogun, and was raised by the shogun, who served as the general's personal soldier in the war, and became a bureaucrat of the shogunate in peacetime. The third shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, had 3,000 people under the Shogunate, and even after the Onin Rebellion, the ninth shogunate Ashikaga Yoshisho conquered the Omi Rokkaku family, and he was able to mobilize 700 people to fight, but in the Ashikaga Yoshiteru era, there were only about 100 people left in the public, and it was not even the establishment of a sharp knife company. The reasons are very simple: first, the general's family is poor; Second, the general's family has no authority.

The financial sources of the shogun are as follows: first, the estates all over Gyeonggi, which are now being seized by the daimyo and the countrymen; Second, the taxes in the Kyoto area are now uncollectible; Third, it can temporarily requisition manpower and money, and now basically no one will pay attention to it. In such a situation, the general's family is very poor. It is said that the eighth generation of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, in order to repair Ginkakuji Temple, sold a lot of treasured paintings, paintings, and tea utensils, and when it came to Yoshiashikaga Teru, it was even worse, how could he afford to raise so many people?

In addition, the shogunate served the public and became less and less attractive to the world of the Japanese kingdom, and the second son of so many famous samurai families was full of loyalty, and came to serve the dogs and horses under the shogun's tent. I just hope that the general will be happy one day, send the imperial teaching book, and support him to grab the position of the family governor. In addition, under the system of the Warring States Daimyo, the power of the governor was strengthened, and the concubine basically became a retainer, and someone took care of the food and drink, and he didn't have the leisure to come all the way to Kyoto to suffer crimes.

So Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru soon discovered that now he had neither money nor land, and could not organize a large-scale army at all. In such a situation, it is impossible to shake Miyoshi Changqing without an army. If you can't shake Miyoshi Chokei, you won't be able to regain the prestige of the shogun. The root cause is still no money and no land, this is a vicious circle, and it is difficult to return.

The grief-stricken Ashikaga Yoshiteru thought about it and directly confronted Miyoshi Chokei, but it was basically no way, so he thought of two more ways.

The first option, of course, is to continue its previous assassination operations. He continued to secretly conduct his own Assassin training class, and then waited for an opportunity to send Assassins to assassinate Miyoshi Chokei. It is estimated that his idea at this time is to assassinate ten or eight times. You'll get it sometime, right?

Another way. It's just to keep making friends with various daimyos. After all, he is still the public servant of Kyoto. It's completely possible to contact other daimyo and use the strategy of driving away tigers and wolves to push off the three good Changqing! The Tayama family and the Rokkaku family in are actually just small characters, the Roche family in Kyushu; the Nizi and Maori families in the West; the Imagawa family in Tokaido; The Kanto Nagao family and other powerful names are the foreign aid he wants to care about. Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshiteru's vision is no longer limited to the Gyeonggi area, but to make a voice and let the Sengoku daimyo in various parts of the country of Wakoku. All come to King Qin.

For this reason, he has really done a lot of things during this period of time.

In the Koshin area, Takeda Harunobu attacked Ogasawara, and Ashikaga Yoshiteri actively mediated from it; In the western region, Mori Moto fought with Niko Harumu, and Ashikaga Yoshiteru said that the two sides should return to the negotiating table as soon as possible; If it weren't for the fact that when the Luo family attacked the southeast of Bunzen Province and the northeastern part of Bungo Country, because the surrounding border was blocked by the Luo family, the news of the strategy was not immediately publicized, and it is estimated that Ashikaga Yoshiki would have sent someone to mediate. For these moves by Ashikaga Yoshiteru. As the dominant party, the daimyo naturally ignored it, but this could not stop these seemingly useless actions of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. After all, people came under the banner of public justice, and since they couldn't refuse, they simply put Ashikaga Yoshiteru's messenger aside, and then continue their strategy.

In addition to constantly sending people out to carry out diplomatic work, he also gave various daimyo partiality in a large way, giving the world the impression that "my Ashikaga family is still a dignified general", and for a time, the Mori family, the Date family, and the Tsutsui family all received gifts from the character "Fuji" or "Teru" - Hosokawa Fujitaka and Tsutsui Fujikatsu (i.e., Tsutsui Shunkei) were the "vine" characters used in the past (Ashikaga Yoshiteru was called Ashikaga Yoshito before the name was changed), and Mori Terumoto and Date Terumune were later "Hui" characters. It doesn't matter if people ignore him or not (most of them ignore it, but they still want to give it partially), anyway, they take the initiative to send it.

Of course, the most important thing is to use the strategy of driving away the tiger and devouring the wolf, and encourage the daimyo from all over the country to go to King Luoqin. The Imagawa family was the first to be instigated by it, and now it was the turn of the Roche family. Successively defeated the Ouchi family and the Otomo family, who were once the overlords of Kitakyushu, and even annexed the power of these two families in Kitakyushu, especially after the recent annexation of the Otomo family's most resounding territory, and at the same time forced the news of the Otomo family's governor to be killed spread everywhere. The prestige of the Luo family was unrivaled in the western region for a while, and its prestige was even stronger than that of the Go-Hojo family, the Takeda family, the Nagao family, and the Imagawa family that rose in the eastern region.

Such a powerful Luo family is naturally the target of foreign aid that Ashikaga Yoshiki, who is in urgent need of foreign aid just now. It can be said that the arrival of Ashikaga Yoshiteru's envoy and the wooing of the Luo family are a historical necessity.

Of course, Ashikaga Yoshiteru also knows that since you want others to work for you, you must know how to pay sweetness. And Ashikaga Yoshiteru can now give the sweetness of the daimyo everywhere, except for the office in his hands and the official position he consults with the emperor, there is nothing better. Therefore, this time, Ashikaga Yoshiteru sent Masayo's in-laws, Mimon Nobuhide, as an envoy, not only to give a letter inviting Masato to King Rakuto, but also to bring Masato a promotion of his position and official position.

In terms of the positions controlled by the shogun, Masarashi was already the guardian of Higo under the six positions, and the guardian of the five countries mentioned above was the guardian of Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hizen, and Toyozen under the six. This time, the shogunate directly gave Masarashi the post of Kyushu exploration under the fourth.

The Kyushu Exploration was one of the most important local offices of the Muromachi Shogunate, and was responsible for the military and political power of the Bunzen Province, Bungo Province, Chikuzen Province, Chikugo Province, Hizen Province, Higo Province, Hyuga Province, Satsuma Province, and Osumi Province in the Kyushu region. Historically, in the early days of Muromachi, he served for Imagawa Rytoshi, and later it was hereditary by the Shibukawa family, and after the Onin War, with the decline of the Shibukawa family, the Kyushu exploration has become nominal and substantial. Now he has given Masarashi such a shogunate position, although he is not really able to fully control the military and political power in the Kyushu region, but it has given Masarashi a righteous name to intervene in the military and political affairs of various regions of Kyushu. Not only did Masahiro justify his rule over the areas already controlled by the Luo family, but he even had the name of intervening in the affairs of the hostile areas of Kyushu.

This time, in addition to the position of Kyushu detective, the shogunate also appointed the post of guardian of Bungo from the sixth rank to Masarashi. It seems that with the death of Otomo Yoshizhen, the friendship between the Otomo family and the shogun's family in the past has been completely wiped out, and the position of Bungo guardian held by Otomo Yoshizhen was naturally given to Masahiro by Ashikaga Yoshiki as a favor. Since then, Masashi has been the guardian of the six kingdoms of Kyushu.

However, the above is not enough, and what is even more exaggerated is that Ashikaga Yoshiteru also asked Nakagomon Nobuhide to send several things to Masayo.

The first is a sedan chair painted in a striking color, which was generally owned by a famous daimyo during the Muromachi period. Of course, Ashikaga Yoshiteru would not have let Nobuhide Nakagomon really stupidly carry such a sedan chair from the Kyoto area to the Kyushu area. Ashikaga Yoshiteru is now just letting Masarashi get such a right in name only. This means that the shogunate recognized the Luo family as a famous family.

The second is the "Zhu Handle Umbrella", which is similar to Tuyu, and was a symbol of the nobility during the Muromachi period, and was held high by an entourage when he went out to inspect. This "vermilion umbrella" was brought from Kyoto by Nobuhide Nakamon. The retainer Togo Heiji and others immediately solemnly enshrined it.

The third is the "Yagata number", that is, Masarashi will be called "Yagata" from now on, which is an honorific title for a high-ranking lord, such as the level of Kyozhao Hosokawa.

The fourth is the "white umbrella bag", it is not enough to have a red handle umbrella, but also an umbrella bag, the Muromachi era guardian grid used a white umbrella bag, and the guardian Daige used a Tang umbrella bag. Zhengliang is now the rightful guardian of the Six Kingdoms, so naturally there will be these things that show his identity. It can be seen from here that in order to win over the Luo family, Ashikaga Yoshiki has put a lot of thought into it.

The fifth is the "felt saddle cover", which is a saddle covered with cloth and animal hair, which acts similarly to a white umbrella bag and is a symbol of the protection of the daimyo of the real card.

The sixth is the partiality of the word "Hui" given to Zhengliang's son-in-law. was made by Ashikaga Yoshiteru.,At this time, he was already twelve years old.,And has begun to follow Masa-ra's side to hold a position with a small surname.,At the same time, Masara's sister-in-law Tang Wangmaru.,His name when he was in the Yuan service in the future became Ro's Teru-ra.

(Well, I've been sick lately, dragging the sick body code word, and the update release time is unstable, but it is inevitable to guarantee a minimum of 5,000 words of updates per day, well, recently I have actually insisted on 10,000 words of daily updates.) (To be continued......)