Chapter 138: The Situation

Iga is connected to Omi to the southwest, Yamato to the southwest, Ise is divided by mountains to the east, and the mountain town of Kyoto is connected to the northwest.

It looks like a mountainous woodland, but it is a small basin with a pleasant climate and abundant products. There are also 100,000 stone of land, enough to feed 40,000 or 50,000 people.

There are four openings in the mountains and forests facing outward. Koga Pass in Omi, Nobutuksu Pass in Yamashiro, Yamato Pass in Yamato, Kata Pass in Ise.

If you keep these openings, you can close the door and be the earth overlord, that's what the Hattori family thought at the beginning.

During the time of the eighth shogun, the governor of the Nishiki family was mediocre and incompetent, and the credit of the Hattori family for the public favor was given to her instead.

The Hattori family governor was a great man for a while, but he couldn't swallow this breath and drove the guardian Niki family out of Iga country.

At that time, it was the rebellion of the shogunate of the eighth generation, and although the power of the shogunate was strong, each family was busy fighting each other, killing their own family, how could there be such trivial matters as air control in Iga country.

The eighth general simply sealed the country and said it later. This one is decades.

At first, the Nishiki family hoped that the shogunate would be the master of her family.

But later, the shogunate gradually weakened in the internal strife, and the people of Iga did not jump out of the Iga country to provoke, and simply ignored this troublesome matter.

The shogunates, whose territories were close to the Iga Province, gradually discovered a way to make money, and that was to sell the necessities of life to the Iga people at high prices.

After connecting with each other, they got a lot of profits and gave some profits to the Renmu family. At that time, the Nishiki family had already lost their country and was defeated, and they also drank doves to quench their thirst, and no longer mentioned the affairs of Iga country.

It dragged on until today.

For the high-ranking martial artists above, this is just a small matter. But for the people of Iga Province, it is Mount Tai who is on the top, and there is a long dark night where there is no light.

At the beginning, the Hattori family governor was also high-spirited, consciously talented, and looked down on the mediocre guardian of the Renmu family.

I think it's a man-to-man business, but if you can't do it, you will give it to me. But when he was really in charge, he knew what price Shengtian half of the son needed to pay.

Is she facing a mediocre Governor of the Niki Family? She was confronted with the entire shogunate system, a samurai society in the Middle Ages, a loose ruling group that applied to feudal society.

One person against one ruling group against the whole society. What can you do, you can only despair.

The country of Iga has grain and wood and minerals, so it should not be poor.

However, as soon as the shogunate gave the order, the surrounding countries no longer contacted Iga. At that time, the shogunate was a civil strife, not a weakening.

If you hit your own fist, you can also hit others, who dares not to listen. Iga was kicked out of the shogunate system and became an outcast of nearly a few women.

One cannot just eat. Thousands of years of evolution have made human society a complex complex, and no one can live alone.

Humans need to trade. It's not okay to eat salt, it's not okay to wear clothes, and Chinese people can only buy it at a high price.

Humanity needs education. Without pen and paper, no books, no professors, the Iga samurai would have turned into a bunch of savages.

Humanity needs to be prevented. There are no doctors, no medicines, no communication, minor illnesses can only be resisted, and major illnesses are waiting for death.

In short, the sky is falling.

From being unruly at the beginning, he became begging his grandfather to sue his grandmother and wanted to be punished.

I ran into a wall everywhere, only to find that I had been isolated. What's even more terrifying is that isolating yourself has become a business, and it is still a very profitable big business.

The samurai have interests, who wants humanity.

So, the Iga people worked their lives as mercenaries outside to earn a meager salary, gritting their teeth to buy the necessities of life.

These days are decades after that.

Yoshimasa Nishiki accompanied Yoshimasa into Iga Province, and there were several small villages outside Mt. Iga that belonged to the Nishiki family.

Along the way, he introduced the situation in Iga to Yiyin along the way.

Although the Renmu family has been kicked out for many years, the news inside is still known one after another. For Yiyin, it is very important.

Convincing the people of Iga to be loyal was the most important starting point for Yoshiyin's battle. If there are no soldiers, there will be a fart fight.

If you want the Iga people to be sincere in paying for the troops, you have to know what they think.

Yiyin has the privilege of making decisions by the general, but how to use this power still has to be decided.

After the village, Renki Yoshimasa did not dare to go any further. In front of it is the mouth of the Shinzuki, which belongs to the territory of the Iga people.

The Nishiki family lost the Iga guardian this time, and they didn't want to continue the adventure. Since you, Spo Gozen, have taken over this burden, then please do more work.

The Iga Province has four counties: Abai, Yamada, Iga, and Nabari. Among them, Abai County is in the north, and it is also the place where Yiyin and his party entered.

Yiyin rode on horseback, thinking about the people and things that Renmu Yoshimasa said. In front and behind are four Ji samurai on guard, and on the side are the military commissioner Niko Katsuhisa.

Nizi Shengjiu is very resourceful, and in this battle, Wise Mitsuhide is not there, and she is the strategist that Yiyin relies on.

"Niko-sama, how do you think we should get started?"

Yiyin is not smart, but he has the advantage that he is self-aware.

After many years of social animals, I know how much I can do. I've lived again, and I'm not much smarter.

So, it's time to keep a low profile. Those who can believe should listen to advice.

And Niko Katsuhisa belongs to the kind of Ji samurai who is trustworthy and can listen more.

Niko Katsuhisa and Yamanaka Yukimori served the shogunate in this battle in order to revive the Niko family, and they were not involved with many forces in the near future.

That's why Akechi Mitsuhide let her go out with Sipo Yoshiin and serve as a military officer.

Since Niko Katsuhisa is here, he also wants to do something, so he naturally has to do his best.

"Iga has also studied it before, and this time I listened to the details of the Governor of the Niki family. I think it's best to start with the Fujibayashi family. ”

Iga was the first country to take the lead, and it was the Hattori family who took the lead. The hard days that followed were endless, and the Hattori family also went to Beijing many times to look for opportunities.

But how could the courtiers, who had eaten a lot of money, give her the opportunity to beg the general for mercy, and after a few times, she was also disheartened.

The contemporary Hattori family governor was still obstructed when he was the last time he surrendered to Beijing when he was a shogun of the twelfth generation.

He was also a bold man, who took his clan away to Mikawa, and is said to have been in the Matsudaira family over there.

This reminded Yoshiin of Matsudaira Takechiyo, the heel behind Oda Nobunaga, and he also had some intersections.

The current Iga country is divided into three parts.

In addition to the clansmen left behind by the Hattori family's attachment to their homeland, there are also two branches of the Hattori family, the Hyakuri family and the Fujibayashi family, and the three families divide and rule.

Among them, the most famous is the three Taifu of Hyakchi, the governor of Hyakchi, and the founder of Iga Ninja.

This Iga native has been a mercenary for so many years, and is often maliciously used as cannon fodder by the samurai, resulting in heavy casualties.

Since the ascension to the throne of the third Taifu of Hyakchi, the Iga people began to learn from the Koga people. Instead of directly participating in the battle formation, it turns into ninja affairs such as spying on intelligence and assassinating key personnel.

The money was not less, but the people died less, and the prestige of the three princes of Hyakchi increased greatly, and he was the heaviest among the Iga people.

But she has a straightforward personality, and since she has chosen the path of assassination, she has made it clear that she is not ready to make peace with the samurai.

In the ninja industry, the most criticized by the samurai is assassination.

The samurai family likes to assassinate others, but they don't like to be assassinated, and these ninjas who are good at assassination are naturally night pots, and they are disgusting when they run out.

The third husband of Baidi felt that the martial arts family was shameless and could not be trusted, and there was nothing wrong with what he said.

The Hattori family has no backbone, and the Hyakuri family doesn't believe in the samurai family, so the only way to open the situation is from the Fujibayashi family.

As Spo Yoshigin and Niko Katsuhisa were talking, a string of shurikens were nailed to the ground in front of their horses, causing the horses to stand on their feet.