Pillars of the Wu family

With the arrival of severe winter, a cold wave sweeping across the 66 countries mixed with a lot of rain and snow fell, the willows on both sides of the Shonai River were covered with a thick layer of silver, and long ice streams hung down from the eaves. The scenery of the northern country has attracted curious townspeople to look at it. The smog is so beautiful that it looks like fog but not fog. Even if you look at it for a long time, you don't get tired of it.

This year's winter is extremely cold, and Owari has experienced a rare snowstorm. It has been falling intermittently for more than a month since the beginning of November. This season is also the traditional snowfall season of Owari. In previous years, there were sporadic snowfalls. Or the most annoying freezing rain soaked in the wet and cold, and the occasional large-scale snow is rare in a few years. In the memory of the old people, it seems that such a rare heavy snowstorm has never been heard of for hundreds of years. Pass.

In the lower town of Cheongju City, the elderly were busy clearing the snow, and the children made snowmen, had snowball fights, and wrestled and rolled in the snow. The white snow provided countless laughter to the children, and the merchants on the street rubbed their red hands and shouted to sell their savings. The goods, seeing customers walking into their shops with baskets and showing bright smiles, the definition of happiness in every era is so similar.

Two sets of thick paper doors were urgently installed in the large room of Qingzhou City. A group of warriors sat around the fire in twos and threes. Fresh fish from the river, as well as golden potatoes and After a while, the strong aroma of corn came to the face, and the warriors held the wine jars and drank happily, how comfortable they were.

When the wine was half drunk, the samurai began to feast on it. Ikeda Hengxing drank a little too much, and his words were incoherent when he was drunk: "The corn and potatoes sent by the Zhenfu Palace are really good! Put them in a pot and cook them on the shelf. It can be baked on the fire. It can even be baked under the fire. I heard that it can be cooked and eaten. It’s really a good thing!”

After several years of being on the bench, Shibata Katsuie's temper has become more restrained, but in his bones he still has the posture of being an important minister. Seeing him slipping up after drinking, he stabbed lightly: "What nonsense is Katsusaburo, even My Sing family knows that potatoes and corn are good foods that can fill the stomachs of farmers, but you only remember to eat them, and you have no ambitions!"

The samurai in the room laughed loudly. Ikeda Hengxing didn't seem to notice Niwa Changhide's eyes, and said with a smile: "Food is the most important thing for the people. What can you say if you don't talk about food? I Hengxing only knows this The food is delicious, not only I love it, but also my relatives and friends at home, not to mention the townspeople and farmers."

Oda Nobunaga put his arms around Saito Guidie and smiled without saying a word. He was no longer the stunned young man who stopped Kira Wansongmaru many years ago. He has developed a deep temperament and excellent skills in the past few years as the governor of the family. Naturally, he knows some contradictions in his heart, and on the premise of not destroying the unity of the retainer group, some small contradictions between them will help the family governor to control the overall situation.

The development of Oda Nobunaga in the past few years can be described as going smoothly. The Battle of Village Muzhai was a small victory and successfully repelled the temptation of the Imagawa Army.At the intersection of summer and autumn this year, Oda Nobunaga led more than half of Owari's army to fight in a wild battle.

The significance of this war is very great.This is the first time he launched the unification war of the Owari country. The enemy of this war is the head family of the same clan, the governor of the Iwakura Oda family, Oda Nobuken, who is also the guardian of the four counties of Owari. In order to completely complete the unification of the Owari Zhang's great goal, he chose to win over his brother-in-law and brother-in-law Oda Nobukiyo to deal with the Iwakura Oda family.

This war was fought very successfully. With the help of Oda Nobunaga's well-trained soldiers and strong generals, and the iron artillery team built at all costs, he easily defeated the stubborn and conservative Oda Nobuken. Surrounding Oda Nobuken's Honjo Iwakura Castle, there was no food in the cage city for a month, and Oda Nobuken was forced to surrender the city.

Since then, Oda Nobunaga has successfully achieved the great goal of unifying Owari. This is something his father failed to achieve after more than ten years of hard work. Now he can easily achieve it after only a few years in office, no matter in the Oda family or in Owari Junior High School. Who else will talk about the big fool of Owari, he can tell everyone openly that Oda Nobunaga has become a qualified family governor, and his achievements are on par with the tiger of Owari.

Ikeda Hengxing hugged the wine jar and drank to his heart's content. Anyway, a bachelor doesn't have to worry about family affairs. He drank while talking drunk: "Speaking of which, it's a pity that the Guardian Alliance plan failed. The Kira family unexpectedly agreed to discuss peace with us." , if it wasn’t for the Shiba family’s helplessness to disrupt the peace talks, maybe my Oda family would be able to get rid of the pressure from Mikawa’s direction!”

Ikeda Hengxing said vaguely, but the samurai present are not stupid. The atmosphere in the hall suddenly cooled down. The samurai put down their wine glasses and turned their eyes to Oda Nobunaga who was at the top of his hand. He closed his folding fan and stared. Ikeda Hengxing took a look: "Katsusaburo drink less, be careful not to find the house when you get drunk, when you go back, patrol a few more times and remind the townspeople to clean up the snow on the house, it's all gone!"

"Yes!" The samurai hurriedly bent over to agree, and dragged their drunk companions out in a file.

Gui Die was very worried when she saw her husband's unhappy face, and felt the small movements of the woman in her arms. Oda Nobunaga smiled and shook his head, took Gui Die's hand and said with a smile: "You don't have such a measure when you come to our house? It's just tired of listening. Let’s get rid of their drunken nonsense, drive them home to sleep, let’s go to bed early even if it’s freezing cold!”

Noticing that the belt was untied by Oda Nobunaga's big hands, Gui Die whispered softly, "But Your Highness, it's only after noon!"

Oda Nobunaga hugged Guidie, who was disheveled, and said with a big laugh, "Dunlun is more interesting during the day."

The incident mentioned by Ikeda Hengxing was a rare event that happened in the late period of the Ukino War. At that time, Oda Nobunaga led an army of [-] to besiege Iwakura Castle for more than half a month. The next strategic goal of "revenge for his father-in-law", but before that, he has to do one more thing, which is to stabilize the first bow in the East China Sea and take Imagawa Yoshimoto.

There are not many cards in his hand, but there is still a precious card that can be used, and that is the former Wuwei Lord Shiba Yoshiyin. This gentleman is the descendant of the Owari Shiba family, one of the three leaders of the Owari Shiba family. One canary.It is useless except for a tiger skin guarded by Owari of the Muromachi shogunate, which is somewhat useful.nothing.

This plan is called "Ashikaga Ichimon Guardian League".Oda Nobunaga painstakingly calculated for a long time before he came up with the final plan. The core content of the plan is to achieve harmony between the Owari Shiba family, the Mikawa Kira family, and the Suruga Imagawa family in the name of the harmony between the Oda family and the Imagawa family. The political purpose of the ultimate peaceful coexistence and the complete cessation of the military offensives of both sides.

The Oda family's plan is good, but they don't know if the Imagawa family will take the bait. Originally, they only planned to throw stones to ask for directions, but they didn't think that although the Imagawa family did not agree, the head of the Kira family, Yoshiya Kira, agreed.You must know that this is the half-brother of Yoshitoshi Kira, the son-in-law of Yoshimoto Imagawa, and the guardian of Mikawa who just returned to Tojo Castle this year to preside over government affairs.

The guardianship of Mikawa was not given by others, but the guarding position given by Ashikaga Yoshiki at his request at the beginning of the year. It is said that Imagawa Yoshimoto and Kira Yoshian have a very good relationship with the son-in-law of the Imagawa family, and they also have a relationship with Imagawa, the successor of the Imagawa family. Shizhen has a close relationship, and is good at both waka tea ceremony and Cuju painting. People's impression is that an elegant traditional nobleman does not deal with political affairs.

Although Yoshimoto Imagawa didn't agree, he didn't object either. What kind of calculations he was making was not complicated. Let the son-in-law sign the covenant and then let the father-in-law turn around and tear up the covenant.No matter how angry your Oda family is, they can only hold it in their hearts. The whole world knows that Yoshiya Kira is the son-in-law of Yoshimoto Imagawa.They all know that this noble son has been in Junfu for seven or eight years and has completely forgotten about government affairs, and the military power in his hands is even less pitiful, and there is no so-called prestige in Sanhe Country. **Naked deceit.

Even so, Oda Nobunaga was ecstatic for a long time. Everyone is an adult, how could he believe in the constraints of a covenant? Oda Nobunaga is not too demanding, as long as he is given three to five years of opportunity Mino implements the strategy plan, and it doesn't matter if this covenant is torn up in the future.

Soon after the end of the Ukino war, the two sides decided to hold peace talks at the junction of Owari and Mikawa called Uenohara. Imakawa Yoshimoto will definitely not come. How could a daimyo who masters the Three Kingdoms play such a naive game with him? ,

Since the Ashikaga sect is used as a cover in name, it is natural that the governor of the Ashikaga sect should lead the talks. The envoys of the two sides have already basically finalized the basic content of the peace talks. , and Yoshiya Kira, which was concluded on behalf of the Imagawa Alliance, were just going through the motions.

On a sunny morning in late autumn, Yoshihiro Shiba and Yoshinori Kira had a meeting, but the two literary youths suddenly realized whether they wanted to set the primary and secondary seats. There must always be a strong person leading the conclusion of the covenant.

Here comes the problem. The difference between the families on both sides is like Owari Ashikaga and Mikawa Ashikaga. Everyone regards the name passed down from their ancestors as higher than the sky, even if they eat bran and swallow vegetables, they can’t fall into the ancestors. The prestige of hard work.

So a funny scene appeared. The two sides stopped at a distance of one town, and the envoys on both sides talked back and forth. bit.

Yoshinori Kira over there was very upset. He said in his heart that you still came to compete with me for the priority. He immediately stated that I was the Ashikaga family and the lower horses. Authentic Ashikaga Mikamon Fang, I am the guardian of Mikawa and the son-in-law of the Imagawa family. I am much better than you, a down-and-out kid, so I have to take the lead.

The elder and younger masters on both sides could not convince each other, so the two sides tied each other up and moved out of the bed (maza), took out the pre-prepared lunch boxes and prepared for a protracted war, so the sun rose high and slowed down. Slowly falling, the two of them did not move a step.

Although the weather in late autumn is not cold, it is not a waste of time to waste a day. The two young masters had a great time eating delicious food and reciting poetry for rewards. In the end, the genealogists on both sides couldn't stand it anymore and tried to persuade their respective family governors, and finally the two reluctantly agreed to this request.

After some communication between the two sides, Yoshinori Kira and Yoshihiro Shiba reluctantly took a step forward. No one would be more disadvantaged if you took a step and I took a step. When they met and talked ten steps away from each other, they did not agree. Willing to move, silently expressing that he will wait for the other party to approach him proactively, taking this as changing direction and taking the initiative.

The two of them neither greeted nor saluted, but stared at each other for half an hour.In the end, it was dark and still didn't say a word.In the end, without even saluting, he turned around and left without a sound.

To satisfy personal vanity.The two of them insisted on carrying an important mission to ruin a planned covenant. Kira Yoshian did not have many problems in doing so. Imakawa Yoshimoto did not support this covenant at all. As an excuse to intervene in Owari.

Shiba Yoshiyin over there is terrible. Oda Nobunaga held great expectations and looked forward to the early conclusion of the covenant. A few days in advance, he invited people from all walks of life in Owari to Qingzhou City. The banquet was just to wait for the news.As a result, after waiting for the afternoon, there was still no movement, so Oda Nobunaga hurriedly sent someone to ask what was going on.

The envoys were sent one after another, urging Shiba Yoshigin to come back until dark. Oda Nobunaga waited for a whole day without eating, and the samurai in the room also went hungry all day. As soon as Yiyin came back, he proudly announced that he had defeated Kira Yi'an in the seat contest and became the leader of the alliance. As for the alliance?What it is?The young master had long forgotten the covenant.

Oda Nobunaga was furious, he couldn't imagine that this idiot could perform this trick in front of all the powerful samurai in Owari country.The samurai in the room were also mad with anger, and a hundred or eighty samurai starved all day just to listen to him bragging here.What does it matter to us who you beat?It caused us to be hungry all day, and the covenant was not signed in the end, and we didn't even have the chance to have lunch and dinner together.

One month after the covenant was disturbed, it was reported that Shiba Yoshigin had colluded with Todaso's housekeeper Ishibashi Yoshitada, Mikawa country Kira Yoshiyasu, Suruga country's Imagawa Yoshimoto, and Tsushima's water bandit Hattori Yusada , intending to disrupt the covenant and take this opportunity to lead the Imagawa family's army to attack Owari from both land and water.

God knows how this idiot came up with such a complicated plan, and it was such a difficult plan by land and water. Such a powerful organizational ability counted everyone in Owari, Mikawa, and Suruga. I almost thought it was one size smaller. The "Anti-Owari Alliance", and I don't know if Oda Nobunaga, who concocted this charge, was inspired by Kai no Tiger.

Neither the Oda vassals nor the people of Owari country believe this crime, but it doesn’t matter if you believe it or not. This useless idiot has no other function except to be a dung-making machine that wastes food. This is a typical example, so this second-handed and idiot young master was flamboyantly kicked out of Ozhang country to wander around the world after the enthusiastic support of all.

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On September 1557th of the third year of Hongzhi (September 9, 27), when the current emperor died, his son, Prince Fang Ren, ascended the throne and began to prepare for his father's funeral. The posthumous title of Emperor Nara was soon determined, and then it became a problem. It was a huge sum to hold a funeral for the emperor. The problem was still one word, money.

The recently deceased Emperor Go Nara faced this problem when he succeeded to the throne. He managed to save enough money for the burial of his father, Emperor Go Kashiwabara, but he could not afford the money for his own enthronement ceremony. It can only be delayed until ten years later by relying on Shan Keyan to go to the east of the countryside to ask for some, and the west to collect a little bit before holding the enthronement ceremony. Will it give a local tyrant an official position?

The new emperor who has just ascended the throne is also facing this problem. He needs money to bury his father, and he also needs money to hold his own coronation. This money is definitely not available to the imperial court. The only way is to find the shogunate and various samurai masters from all over the world to join in. Ashikaga Yoshiki As soon as he gritted his teeth, the [-] Wen Yongle money saved in the small treasury in the past few years moved the emperor to tears.

The rest of the public ministers also took out their pockets to donate spontaneously. Konoe Maejiu was rich and generous and donated [-] kanbu. Seeing that the situation was not good, Nijo Haruyo emptied his family and dug out [-] kanbu. Also donated [-] kanwen, the Santiao family had the support of the Sanjo Nishi family and also donated [-] kanwen, this Dechuan Haruji also pooled up some money to donate [-] kanwen, the middle court said it was not too much Taking the lead, he only donated [-] guanwen, and other officials donated [-] guan and [-] guan, which is a lot, but there is still a big gap.

At this time, Kira Yoshishishi sent envoys to the shogunate to apply for Ueno guardianship. Ashikaga Yoshiki wanted to sell the imperial court's face, and ordered the Kira family to donate more. The news was sent to Echigo at the beginning of November. At that time, Yoshishi Kira immediately decided to donate [-] guanyongle money for the funeral ceremony of Emperor Nara, and another envoy would be sent to present a generous congratulatory gift to the new emperor at the Zhengdan court meeting.

The emperor was so happy that he immediately issued an imperial edict to express his appreciation to Kira Yoshishi, and Haruki Imidegawa served as a messenger to personally convey the imperial edict to Echigo, and announced that he was promoted to the rank of three left guards, The general who guards the house, Haruki Imadegawa hinted at Yoshiki Kira, according to the court's law, he could add a big character between the general who guards the house, but was declined by Yoshitomo Kira.

He is very clear about what the general of the tutelary palace does. In history, only when the Hokubata family of the Southern Dynasty used the three powers of Nagano as the general of the tutelary palace, Emperor Godaigo of the Southern Dynasty added a big character to him, which meant to take The general of the tutelary mansion competed with the general of Zhengyi in the Northern Dynasty.

Ji Liangyi was not afraid of the bad things about the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has been more than 150 years since the Southern and Northern Dynasties were unified. Even if the last activity of the Southern Dynasty is calculated, it will take more than a hundred years. Yoshiki Kira didn't care about the so-called auspicious or inauspicious rules for his fate, but he just didn't want to touch the taboo of Ashikaga Yoshiki's super self-esteem at this juncture. (To be continued..)