Chapter Seventy-Two: Seeking to Seek Harmony and Knowing the Chaos in the Kanto Region (II)
After talking about the "two public squares", we can lead to the closely related "two Uesugi trees".
As mentioned above, at the beginning of the world, the first shogun Ashikaga Zun arranged for his mother clan Uesugi clan to serve as the deacon of the Kanto region (later arrogated to the Kanto governor), and played the dual role of assisting and monitoring the Kanto Prince.
The Kanto region was extremely rich, and soon the Uesugi clan bred a litter, and the main branches were four branches: Yamanuchi, Inukake, Zhaima, and Ogiya. Among them, Yamauchi is the descendant, Inuhang and the house are the branches with the highest personality, and the ancestors of the three lines are the sons of Uesugi Kenbo, the uncle of the Ashikaga clan. However, due to the early death of the heir to the house Uesugi, the remaining Yamauchi and Inusugu lines agreed to alternately serve as Kanto deacons, called "two Uesugi deacons", while the Ogiya Ichiline could only sit firmly in the last position and watch others play because of their farthest blood ties and weakest power.
However, after all, people's hearts are always selfish, and this pattern of the boss taking turns to sit will not last long after all.
When it came to the fourth generation of the Kanto Prince, the Ashikaga Mochi, it was the-stirring stick that fought with the Ashikaga Yoshikyo for the defeat of the six generations of generals and set off the eternal peace of mind. The following year after he took over, there was also a change of leadership in the Kanto region, with Uesugi Ken, who was born in the Yamauchi line, resigning, and Uesugi Clan, who was born in the Inuhang line, taking over.
After a smooth handover, the leadership team composed of the new public lord and the steward, who both took office, soon had an accident. Due to the incompatibility of the two personalities and the conflict of interests, the Ashikaga Mochishi and the Uesugi clan have never been able to pee on the same pot, and the Ashikaga Mochi, as the boss, has always wanted to find a reason to fire the Uesugi clan.
After thinking about it for five years, the opportunity came inadvertently. Hitachi Kunito Koshihata Rokuro was punished by the Ashikaga clan for being a traitor and confiscated his territory. In order to protect his subordinates and maintain the unity of the family, the Uesugi clan had to bow to the Ashikaga clan and beg him to be a little lenient.
Ashikaga Mochi's clan grabbed the handle of Uesugi Kenbetsu and made him bow his head, and he couldn't help but feel happy, but he insisted more and more that he must strictly punish Goshihata Rokuro and sweep him out of the house, and never give Uesugi Ken the slightest relief.
This came and went, and the Uesugi clan lost both face and lining, and his heart became nameless. In a fit of rage, he asked to resign as the governor of the Kanto region, and at the same time became a monk and changed his name to Uesugi Zenhide.
Uesugi Zenhide's move was originally to retreat into advance, and to resign as a threat, forcing the Ashikaga clan to retract his life. He is the second-in-command and the prime minister of Kanto, and now he is returning to his hometown. You, the boss, don't say anything, at least you should talk to me on behalf of the organization, listen to my demands, and keep it.
As a result, the Ashikaga Mochishi was also a stunned young man, and he didn't play cards according to common sense at all. He went down the slope and signed and sealed the resignation report submitted by Uesugi Zenhide, for fear of leaving him with a chance to regret it. Subsequently, he quickly appointed Uesugi Kenki, the son of the former governor Uesugi Kenji and also from the Yamanuchi family, to replace him.
Uesugi Zenhide was stunned, and then became furious: "Holding the child, don't talk about the rules!" I, an old comrade with high morality, has been wronged in the workplace and plans to go home to sell sweet potatoes, you faint gentleman don't make a guilty edict to reflect on your mistakes, and you don't even bother to pretend! If I dare to resign, you really dare to approve it!? โ
"Take 10,000 steps back, Wu'er Jiaochao, Xianqiu, and Holding the House are all outstanding, which succession is not good, and where will it be the turn to get the child of the Uesugi family in Yamauchi?"
Ashikaga Mochi's move was extremely reckless and merciless, completely tearing off the last fig leaf of Uesugi Zenhide, leaving him no longer dignified. The appointment of the Yamauchi Uesugi line to replace the Kanto governor seemed to be a normal rotation, but it greatly offended the Inuhang Uesugi line.
Just as Uesugi Zenhide was sulking at home, a group of big people who "fought unevenly" came to the door. The people who are the leaders are the younger brother of the contemporary shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori Yoshitsugu, and the younger brother of the former Kanto Prince, Ashikaga Mitsutaka.
Under the influence of the "younger brothers", Uesugi Zenhide finally made up his mind and led them to rebel against their noble brother. In the twenty-second year of Oei (that is, in 1415), Uesugi Zenhide retired from Kamakura Castle to the general headquarters, prepared armor, gathered grain, and the soldiers and horses of the Quartet or were called by the dog to hang Uesugi, or at the invitation of Ashikaga Mitsutaka, or sent by Ashikaga Yoshitsui, and gathered one after another, among which there were more Uesugi Zenhide's father-in-law, Kai guardian Takeda Nobumitsu, "Kyoto Imperial Support Public" Yamairi, Oguri, Utsunomiya and other powerful factions, and the momentum was huge for a while.
After the autumn harvest of the following year, Uesugi Zenhide and Ashikaga Mitsutaka officially launched their troops, and the whole army raided the residence of the Ashikaga clan and the current leader of the Kamakura Ashikaga clan. The two sides fought for several days, and the remaining garrison loyal to Kamakura was defeated, and the garrison commander Kido Mitsunori was killed, but the Ashikaga Mochiji and Uesugi Kenki, who had ordered Daifuku, managed to escape before the castle was breached. Among them, the Ashikaga clan avoided Suruga and defected to Suruga, who was in charge of monitoring the Kanto region, to protect Imagawa Nomasa. Uesugi Kenki fled to Echigo, the territory of Uesugi in his own mountain.
Ashikaga Mochiji and Uesugi Kenki both escaped, frustrating Uesugi Zenhide's strategic intention to attack Kamakura. Its original intention was to take the Kamakura Principality with a thunderous blow, support Ashikaga Mitsutaka to ascend to the throne, lead the Kanto Warriors in the name of the Kanto Prince, and then promote Ashikaga Yoshitsugu in Kyoto to come to power.
As a result, this first step was not stepped on, and neither of them held it, and they immediately became numb. Uesugi Zenhide's attack on the Kamakura Principality was the following offense of the Shogunate, and the samurai forces in the Kwantung countries who supported the shogunate and the Shogunate came back to their senses and fought fiercely, fighting fiercely with Uesugi Zenhide and the soldiers of the "younger brothers", and each other won and lost.
It is said that after Imagawa Fan Masa's arrival at the Ashikaga Mochi, he was shocked when he asked carefully, and he was responsible for monitoring the Kanto, but the first and second leaders of the Kanto were almost killed, and where was it still available, so he hurriedly reported to Kyoto.
Although the four generations of shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimochi were as close to the Uesugi clan as his parents and grandparents, and hated the Kanto Princes, when the Uesugi clan tried to hook up with his younger brother and overthrow his throne, he naturally still knew what was right and what was wrong, and immediately sent troops to crusade against Uesugi Zenhide and the "younger brothers" he supported. Ordered Imagawa Nomasa and Ashikaga Mochi's troops to leave Suruga and cross Mt. Ashigara to attack Odawara Castle; Echigo was ordered to guard Uesugi Fangfang and Uesugi Kenki and Shinano to protect Ogasawara Masayasu to enter Musashi and set up a battle for Kumegawa.
Uesugi Zenhide did not show weakness and refused to divide his troops. Sent his father-in-law, Takeda Nobumitsu, to lead the Kai strong army north to resist the Shinano and Echigo armies. Takeda Nobumitsu and his future descendants, Shintora and Shingen, are full of martial virtues, and they defeat the two guardians of Uesugi Fang Fang and Ogasawara Masaysu in person. However, on the other side, Zenhide Uesugi, who was in charge of guarding the house, pulled his shoulder.
The army of Suruga swept in, and the forces that supported Uesugi Zenhide fell apart, and the people rebelled. In the first month of the twenty-fourth year of Onei (i.e., 1417), Kamakura Castle, the base camp of Uesugi Zenhide and the "younger brothers", fell, and Uesugi Zenhide committed suicide with Ashikaga Mitsutaka in Tsuruoka Hachimangu Hosekiin Temple.
In this way, the vigorous Uesugi Zenhide rebellion came to an end. After that, the Inusuke lineage, which was once equal to the Yamauchi system and shared the position of Kanto governor, was in a slump, and could only run to Izu to play with the Hori-Etsu Princesses (the heir of Uesugi Zenhide was pardoned, and later the hereditary Kanto deacon of the Hori-Etsu Princess), and the Wannian crane tail Ogiya system instead seized the opportunity to greatly increase its power, and since then it has been called "two Uesugi by Yamauchi" and Ogiya, of which Yamauchi Uesugi controls Echigo, Nishi-Sagami, Ueno and other places, and Ogiya Uesugi has Higashi-Sagami, Musashi and other places, all of which are equivalent to the daimyo of one million stones.
However, despite their rising status, the Ogiya clan did not legally have the prerequisites for inheriting the Kanto Prefecture (not descendants of Uesugi Kenbo). Therefore, the Kanto management has become a forbidden part of the Yamauchi system, which makes the eyes of the Oiya system hot.
The house is out of the house, the dog is out of the game, and after subtracting from four to two, the huge Kanto still can't accommodate the ambitions of the two lines of Yamachi and Fan Valley. The two families fought one after another, intriguing, and did not miss any opportunity to suppress each other, and finally became weaker and weaker in the struggle, giving the foreign race a chance to rise.
In addition to infighting, the two families also self-destructed the Great Wall one by one.
The Uesugi clan of Yamauchi took the lead and took the lead to provoke the Nagao clan, the head of the house. The head of the family is to the Uesugi clan, just as the Kanto governor is to the Kanto government, and he is the head of the retainers who assist in the governance of the country, and has a pivotal position.
In the fifth year of civilization (i.e., 1473), the head of the Nagao clan, Nagao Keishin, passed away, and Uesugi Kendai, who was then the head of the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi, suddenly intervened in the succession of the Nagao clan governor and directly appointed Nagao Keinobu's second son, Nagao Tadakei, to succeed him, forcing the original heir and Nagao Keinobu's eldest son, Nagao Keizun. With the support of the Ashikaga Narishi clan, the Furukawa Gongfang, who hated the Uesugi clan deeply, Nagao Keiharu quickly gathered his army and headed south, driving Yamauchi and Ogiya out of the castle and fleeing to Ueno Nabaso for refuge.
At this time, the head of the Ogiya Uesugi clan and the famous Kanto general Ota Michikan stood up to save his lord.
Even in that era of heroes, Ota Daoguan was definitely the brightest star among them. He was wise and versatile since he was a child, not only proficient in the art of war, but also the founder of the "Ashigaru War Method", and in turbulent moments such as the Uesugi Zenhide Rebellion and the Xiangde Rebellion, he turned the tide and maintained the strength of the Ogiya Uesugi clan; He was also a world-renowned expert in castle building, and built famous castles such as Kawagoe, Iwatsuki-ri, and Edo Castle, laying the foundation for the development of the Ogiya Uesugi clan.
Unlike the head of the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, who beats the lord when he disagrees, Ota Michitsu is completely loyal to the Ogiya Uesugi clan, and it is really a comparison of goods. Hearing that Nagao Keiharu had revolted and expelled his lord Uesugi Dingmasa, Ota Michikan, who was out on the campaign, quickly led his troops back to Edo and killed Nagao Keiharu's rebels.
Dragging pig teammates (in the whole process of Ota Road irrigation to quell the rebellion, Uesugi Dingzheng has always been cowering in Ueno, not daring to return to his skills to inspire the morale of the army, and even rejected his request to reward meritorious soldiers and win over the surrounding wealthy clans), against the continuous reinforcements of the Furukawa Gongfang and the powerful forces in various places, Ota Daoguan deserved to be the strongest professional player of that era, and was unmoved in the face of the difficulty of the highest level, and won consecutive battles, one by one uprooted the hostile forces entrenched in Sagami, Musashi and other places, and finally captured Hino Castle, the city of Nagao Jingharuju.
In the 14th year of civilization (i.e., 1482), under the mediation of Uesugi Kendada's biological father, Echigo's guardian Uesugi Bosada, and Hosokawa Masamoto, the Furukawa Shogunate's Ashikaga Nari clan proposed peace on behalf of Nagao Keiharu, and the two sides finally reached peace.
Seeing that the Yamauchi system forced his own family leader Nagao Jingchun to score a point first in the self-destruction Great Wall competition, the Ogiya system immediately returned the color. Four years later, the loyal but highly accomplished Ota Michikan was summoned by Uesugi to assassinate him in the castle and exiled his son, Ota Shiyasu. This move was like a flat landmine, shaking the land of Kanto. Because Ota Michikan is not only a great martial artist, but also a fair and kind person, he has united a large number of Chinese forces inside and outside the Uesugi clan (of course, this is also his way to death). After learning of his unprovoked murder, many wealthy families who had been favored by him or befriended him left the Ogiya Uesugi clan and returned to the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi.
After a wit-wrenching operation, the Self-Destruction Great Wall Contest ended, and although Ogiya Uesugi scored late, the effect was outstanding and superior. Yamauchi Uesugi was unwilling to admit defeat and opened the second round of PK between the two parties.
The year after Ota's death (1487), the Yamauchi Uesugi family broke with the Ogiya Uesugi family, and the "Choko War" broke out. Due to the death of Ota Michikan, the vitality of the Ogiya system was greatly damaged, and the enemy was not able to defeat the sworn enemy Toushan Nei system, so he took the lead in shaking people and attracted the Furukawa Gongfang to participate in the battle.
Ogiya + Furukawa VS Yamauchi, a joint battle will be launched in three places: Real-time Hara, Suga Tanibara, and Takamigahara. With the idea of a quick victory, the three parties coincidentally invested heavily in the order to decide the winner in the shortest possible time. However, the Horikoshi Public, one of the "two parties", quickly provoked a basket and escalated the scale of this scuffle.
Before his death, the first Ashikaga Masachi of Horikoshi had appointed his youngest son Jun Tongzi as his heir, but after his death, the eldest son, Ashikaga Chachamaru, murdered his stepmother and younger brother Jun Tongzi and seized the position of Horikoshi Gongkata.
Ashikaga Chachamaru thinks very well, the orphan and widow have nothing to rely on, kill and kill, anyway, the upper position in the troubled times is always respected by the strong, who dares to disagree!
But some people are not convinced, this person is the new eleventh shogun Ashikaga Yoshisumi, and his other identity is the brother of the murdered Runboy! Due to the bad relationship between Hosokawa Masamoto, the shogunate, and the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshisai, Ashikaga Yoshisumi, who was a monk in Kyoto, was confused, so he picked up a bargain, and was pushed to the shogun throne after Hosokawa Masamoto abolished Ashikaga Yoshisai.
No matter how mysterious the process is, the Ashikaga Chachamaru, who has a grudge against the new shogun for killing his mother and brother, has no good fruit to eat after all.
Sure enough, under the orders of the shogunate, the Suruga Imagawa family sent Ise Munerui (Hojo Sakumo) to invade Izu Province and crusade against the second generation of Horikoshi Gongfang Ashikaga Chachamaru. Since Izu Province was the territory of the Yamauchi Uesugi family in the early years, most of the people who followed the Ashikaga tea tea pills had a lot of incense with the Yamauchi Uesugi clan.
Since you have already beaten the dog, you should beat it with the owner. In order to fight with these "former lackeys" of the Yamauchi Uesugi family, Ise Munerui formed an alliance with the Ogiya Uesugi family, forming a new situation of Ise Munerui (Imagawa clan) + Furukawa Gongkata + Ogiya Uesugi VS Yamauchi Uesugi.
Three hits and one obviously can't be beaten, and the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, who fell into a situation of being beaten, can only swing a hoe to dig the foot of the wall. In order to win over the Furukawa Princess, Uesugi Hideta, then the governor of the Kanto region and the head of the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi, adopted the second son of the Ashikaga Nari clan as his adopted son and named him Uesugi Hidemi, so that he would inherit the name of the Kanto governor and the Yamauchi Uesugi clan in the future. This price is very sincere, so that Furukawa Gongfang suddenly turned to support the Yamauchi Uesugi family, and re-formed the new situation of Ise Munerui (Imagawa clan) + Ogiya Uesugi VS Furukawa Gongkata + Yamauchi Uesugi version 2.0.
In the first year of Eisho (1504), the two factions that had finally redivided their camps fought a fierce battle at Musashi Prefecture Kawara, and the Ogiya coalition won a great victory, with thousands of Uesugi killed in the battle.
Fortunately, the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi still has foreign aid. The following year, Uesugi Kending's own brother and Echigo's guardian Uesugi Fang Noshi led the Echigo army south, besieged and forced the Uesugi family's base in Ogiya to conquer Kawagoshi Castle, and the Eternal Enjoyment Rebellion ended with the victory of the Yamauchi Uesugi family.
However, the final winner, the Uesugi clan of Yamauchi, was not happy for long, and the new enemy had already grown stronger in the shadows through the fight between the two families.
In the fourth year of Eishล (1507), Echigo's guardian Uesugino was suddenly defeated and killed after being rebelled by his own guardian Nagao Weijing.
The death of his own brother by his servants and the theft of his own homestead Echigo Province are unbearable. Uesugi Hidese, the leader of the Kanto Prefecture and the head of the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi, immediately led his people north to Echigo, and at the same time ordered the Ogiya Uesugi clan, who had been subordinate, to enter Shirai Castle in Ueno Province to ensure the retreat of the army.
Because Uesugi was both righteous and strong, Nagao was soon expelled from Echigo Province along with the new Echigo Uesugi family governor Uesugi Dingshi, and the situation in Echigo Province was controlled. However, at this time, Ise Munerui, who had already fished in troubled waters in the "Choto War" and captured Izu and most of Sagami, echoed the rebellion of the Nagao clan and led an army to invade Musashi.
The wealthy Musashi was the most important territory of the Ogiya Uesugi clan, and in the face of the undeclared war of Ise Sorui, the Ogiya Uesugi army, which had defended Uesugi Hide's way back at Shirai Castle, had to return to Edo Castle. And after Shirai Castle lost the Ogiya Uesugi army, it was immediately captured by the resurgent Nagao Keiharu.
After the loss of Shirai Castle, Uesugi Kending's back road was cut off, and the army's morale was immediately in turmoil. In addition, after occupying the Echigo government, the posture adopted was too tough, which caused the dissatisfaction of the people of Echigo and forced these people to the side of Nagao.
In the end, Uesugi Kensei decided to return to Kanto, but his return route was cut off by the Ueda Nagao family on the side of Nagao, and in the Nagamorihara area of Uedanoso, the Uesugi army was overtaken by Nagao Weijing and his reinforcement Takanashi Masamori, and after a fierce battle, the Kanto governor Uesugi Kensada died in Echigo Province at the age of 57.
After the Kwantung Principality had actually disappeared, the Kanto Governor was the supreme commander of countless samurai families in the Ten Kingdoms of the Kanto region. The death of such a figure in battle was like the death of the "sword general" Ashikaga Yoshiteru in the battle of the Muromachi Imperial Palace decades later, and the blow to the family's legal system and prestige was unprecedentedly huge.
However, Yamauchi's bad luck in Uesugi is not over yet.
Uesugi is a hundred dead, but the Uesugi clan in the mountains has to be re-elected as the master to live. Back then, in order to win the support of the Furukawa Princess, the Yamauchi Uesugi clan had already sold the next generation of lords and the position of Kanto governor for a good price, and now it was time to repay the debt. As a result, Uesugi Hidemi, the second son of the Ashikaga Nari clan who succeeded the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi, was elected as the next generation of Kanto rulers and heads of the family, but it aroused the dissatisfaction of Uesugi Hidemi's other adopted son, Uesugi Kenbo. After a new round of turmoil, accompanied by the weakening of the family's power again, the Yamauchi Uesugi clan ushered in the next head of the Uesugi Kenbo.
Later, after realizing that the Hojo clan and the Nagao clan were the enemies of life and death, and their own internal strife could be put aside, Yamauchi and Ogiya finally put aside their grudges for the time being, and won over the Takeda clan, the old rival of the Hojo clan, forming the camp of the Takeda clan + two Uesugi clan VS Nagao clan + Hojo clan.
Thanks to the good fighting of the Takeda Army and the little residual heat left over from the golden signboard of the Kanto Governor, Ryouesugi finally lived a good life for a few years, and even recaptured important towns such as Iwatsuki Castle in Musashi Province and Tsukui Castle in Sagami Province.
However, just when the situation was favorable for the Takeda family and the two Uesugi families, the Kanto governor Yamauchi Uesugi Kenbo died at the age of 59, and a new round of disputes over the head of the family began with the adopted son Uesugi Kenkan and his son Uesugi Kenmasa.
Returning to the era of Keisada, not long ago, Uesugi Kenmasa finally won the final victory, inheriting most of the dilapidated Ueno Province and a bleak crown of "Kanto Governor".
Now, what is it that Kei Shya wants to impress the young, titular lord of Kanto?