Pillars of the Wu family

"Master..." Kira Yoshitoshi looked at the old man who just turned 60 this year in surprise. Since Tokyuki Yamamoto gradually faded out of the center, he has not seen this master who treated him like a son for a long time. Time flies in the blink of an eye More than ten years later, he is no longer the worried three-foot child, and the energetic one-eyed samurai Yamamoto Kansuke has also become a gray-haired old man.

Tokiyuki Yamamoto said with a smile: "The old minister is almost useless, the only thing he can do for His Royal Highness is to guard a Ping Fan. After leaving the town of Etsuchu in the past few years, he has a lot more time, and he is free every day. So I wrote about the history of the past. These years have been written intermittently to the story after the first year of Yonglu. Presumably, I will give the old minister two more years to write down all the things in the past few years!

The old minister has long wanted to go to Jinei to protect the first piece of foundation laid by His Royal Highness, and by the way, he also wants to get close to the place where people gather in Kyoto, and collect more historical records since the Ming Dynasty for the purpose of writing a book. The old minister heard that the ministers in Kyoto They all have the habit of recording essays, and they may be able to find some historical documents and documents in Kyoto! "

Yoshishi Kira sighed quietly, he didn't know his master's good intentions for the Ashikaga family, but when he thought of this, he couldn't help feeling a little melancholy in his heart, and sighed quietly: "A history book? Master really intends to write a history book in the style of "My Wife Mirror" and "Tai Ping Ji"! Then... Yu really shouldn't be in the way anymore!"

Tokiyuki Yamamoto wrote a book and said that it is not new. Since the family business of the Kami Ashikaga family flourished in the Koji era, the chief genealogist gradually faded out and became an invisible person. He hardly said a word or set a word in the annual evaluation. To plan, and occasionally have military training missions, Takigawa Tokimashi, Shima Tokatsu, Honjo Shigecho and others are often called for help.

I usually like to take care of some mountain flowers and weeds native to Echigo. In the backyard of my house, there are several mulberry trees and a vegetable field. The vegetable field is taken care of by the family members. .Other than that, there is only one hobby of writing books.

Kira Yoshitoki's collection of classics from Kyoto has been read over and over again. Yamamoto Tokyuki felt that he was not energetic enough, so he specially asked for some surnames from Kasuga Mountain Castle who were quick-witted, literate and clever enough to copy them for him. , and he himself basically writes more than a thousand words a day.Over time, hundreds of thousands of words of manuscripts have been written.

Yoshiki Kira often saw Tokiyuki Yamamoto’s letters mentioning where he wrote and what kind of historical materials he needed as support. Yoshiki Kira immediately arranged for people to search for relevant historical materials, not only for the support of Yoshiki Kira .He will also go to Miaojue Temple to look for Huzai Zongyi to extract and discuss historical materials and classics.

Relying on the strong connections between the imperial court and the shogunate during the period of Kira Yoshitoshi, it is easy to use the official historical records of these decades. Except for the inconvenient copying of the notes of the ministers, all the documents in the Kyoto collection can be copied and sent to Echigo .Many Habayashi families in the imperial court and the followers of the shogunate loved to do this kind of thing, and Kira Yoshishi would give a considerable amount of embellishment fee according to the corresponding number of transcribed documents. [

The accumulation of this information over time has made the types of historical materials more and more diverse.Tokyuki Yamamoto came up with the idea of ​​writing a book that far exceeds "My Wife Mirror" and "Taiping Ji".Gradually, the materials he consulted gradually moved forward from the Xianglu period he experienced to the Mingyu period before he was born, and the brief history of each era became a comprehensive history of each person in each era.

Yoshihiro Kira thought for a while and then said: "Master, this book takes a long time and requires a lot of investment, and there is really not much left to do. The only way is for Sakamoto to prepare twenty bright and clever young people for the master to drive. Yu Dao has a preliminary idea, how about letting Master Youguang and Master Zongyi also record in different places at the same time. How about compiling a comprehensive book when the world is peaceful in the future?"

"Would it be inconvenient for Youguang to go out of the town of Kaga now?" Tokiyuki Yamamoto hesitated, "In addition, Master Torano Zongyi also has a post of envoy..."

"Master Zongyi has no problem. Since the master intends to go out of the town of Sakamoto, then I plan to transfer back Tokihide Nakajo, who was guarded by Omi, to serve as General Kaga. The military records of marching and fighting are enough. Master Zongyi mainly records the development of culture, economy and folk. The records they make will be regularly copied and sent to Sakamoto for compilation by the master. Of course, the master can also give regular feedback to certain records. As a backup." Yoshitomo Kira arranged everything in a very short time, which made Tokiyuki Yamamoto feel quite feasible.

As a result, the topic of the evaluation meeting gradually changed from discussing the emerging Three Kingdoms Alliance in Kinki to the history books Yamamoto Tokiyuki wanted to record. Soon those young warriors discovered that their names were still in this unfinished history book. So he began to brag enthusiastically, wishing to record clearly the heads of certain warriors in a certain war, how many miscellaneous soldiers he killed, and what rewards he got.

The evaluation room also became lively immediately, and the atmosphere that had been suppressed and stagnant for a long time was gradually dissipated. The samurai wanted to be famous in the history books. Up to now, the world is optimistic about the future of the Kamiso Ashikaga family. It is definitely more honorable and decent to "show" one's side first. Since the Genpei era, isn't the family name of the samurai family supported by historical materials and legends?

"I wonder if the master has thought of the name of this history book?"

Yamamoto Tokiyuki bowed and said: "If there is none, why not ask the Lord to give you a name!"

"What should I call it? "Hei'ran" seems inappropriate, and "Warring States" is too ordinary..." Yoshitoki Kira had an idea: "How about calling it "Ashikaga Taiping"? Anyway, this In the past 200 years, "Taiping Ji", "Continued Taiping Ji" and "Nan Taiping Ji" have been added, and one more book is also a big problem."

Tokiyuki Yamamoto praised: "The name of "Ashikaga Taipingji" is really good. The word "Taiping" breaks people's desire for peace in the world, and at the same time, it can be compared with the crisis brought about by the chaos of the world since the Ming Dynasty coup mentioned in the book. The sufferings form a stark contrast, and if you can use the perspective of the shogunate to look at this chaotic world that has spread for a hundred years, then the ministers should use this name!"

Interrupted by this topic, Yoshitoki Kira also took this opportunity to calm down quickly, thinking that the impulsive decision just now was really inappropriate, and it is now the best choice for Toki Yamamoto to go out of the town of Omi, not to mention that once he lightly moves the army "Meddling" in Echizen's affairs will trigger an unpredictable crisis.That is, it will not be long before the army leaves Kanto and there will be chaos.

Don't look at Yoshiki Kira's extraordinary ability and great advantage, the oppressive Takeda Shingen shrank in Kai and dared not come out of the mountain, the "forced" Hojo Ujiyasu lived in seclusion in Odawara Castle and did not care about world affairs, and the people from all walks of life who held Dewa Mutsu with their left hands dared not move.With a stretch of the right fist, the famous Kaga Ichikui was crippled. In fact, as long as the Kira family's army leaves for three or two years, all this coercion will be completely lost.

After all, the Kira family is also an emerging force that has just risen not many years ago. It is true that the Kira family's ancient family belongs to a famous family in the shogunate, but this ancient and prestigious name has basically nothing to do with the Kantohoku.It is impossible to talk about how beautiful the Kira family was in Kanto when they visited the "chaos" more than 200 years ago. The so-called people go for tea and cold things are not human beings. Decades of time can change people's development, not to mention the 200-year-old years without any influence on what the outcome would be.

The Hojo clan has always endured humiliation and made progress.Shangsuo won the leadership of the country, the Takeda family still did not let go despite the huge pressure of the Kira family, and Yu Ou's group of newly surrendered retainers.The territory that Kaga has just conquered is not as stable as imagined.If these Chinese lords did not realize the truth through several years of ups and downs, it would be impossible for them to hang out with the Kira family wholeheartedly.

For example, at the Zhengdan court meeting that has just passed, it was really lively where Chinese lords and envoys from various countries gathered together, but in fact, there are always many Chinese lords who found various reasons and did not come to the meeting, and were willing to go to Chunri Mountain City to receive the reward Most of them are new genealogy generations who are relatively close to the Kira family, and those stubborn guys don't care about the little favors, and still maintain a semi-independent state as usual. [

For this kind of people, there is no way to show them a cold face.It is impossible to get the support of everyone at once, but all people will always have subjective factors of love and hate. Kira Yoshishi is not the popular Yongle money, and it is impossible to make everyone like and be satisfied. It is normal to not get the support of some Chinese people.

If Kira Yoshitoshi had led his army to fight in Echizen, he would first have to face the Kaga Isato clan who signed the non-war agreement. If he wanted to cross this threshold, he would have to perfidiously kill him, but this would have a very serious impact on the reputation of the Kira family. Seriously, he also united with Yi Xiangzong to betray the Asakura family, maybe he still has thousands of reasons to defend himself.

But only a few days later, they have to tear up the treaty and betray the Izumo clan in order to beat the Asakura family, which is tantamount to offending Asakura Yoshikage and Honganji Xianru, which will reduce the reputation of the famous Genji family, the Kamiso Ashikaga clan The situation of the abusive Takeda family, and the form will be extremely unfavorable to Yoshitoki Kira. From Kaga to Echizen, Omi, half of the mountain city, and Settsu Izumi are enemies. When will he finish fighting?

Even if he can successfully defeat the Kaga Ichizumune and Asakura family with his powerful martial arts, and make the heads of the people killed by Echizen screaming, but the consequence of taking shortcuts will make the subsequent attack extremely difficult, and the sensitivity of public opinion in Kinai The habit of thinking and cleanliness is not comparable to that of distant countries. The public opinion in Kinai may not care about the news of the massacre of Etsuchu and Kaga Izumozu during Kira Yoshishi, but they will definitely not let Kira Yoshishi slaughter Echizen all the way, and then go to Omi. Yamashiro and Settsu Izumi.

At that time, maybe the shogunate government will jump out to reprimand Kira Yoshishi for his selfishness and viciousness, and take back the Rishu privileges granted to Kira Yoshishi. At that time, he will suddenly fall from the peak cloud where one person is under one person and above ten thousand people, and his loss It is even twice as great as the huge disaster caused by the loss of the three counties of Jinjiang. This kind of consequence is simply unimaginable.

But if we change the way to fight a little bit, it will become very slow. The only way is to attack Tsuruga Port with the navy, and then join forces with Ichimune to attack and destroy the Asakura family. However, there is Miyoshi Asai as an ally outside the Asakura family. It's true that the young ones came to the old ones. If they beat Asai's house again, they might attract Asai Nagamasa's uncle Saito Yoshiryu.

At that time, it will turn into a multi-party chaos in Kinai, and Kira Yoshishi will be the instigator of all these incidents, and will lose a huge reputation in Kinai, which is positive for his painstaking efforts in Kinai The image will be adversely affected, and the relationship between people in Kyoto will also change accordingly. Perhaps the assigned Biwaya and the monopoly behavior that dominates Yodogawa and Lake Biwa may be questioned.

In short, the route of aggressive and rampant cannot be chosen, and the route of slow intervention is not very good. Just like the judgment he once made, today's Kinai is a huge swamp and quagmire, and it is very easy to get involved without enough strength and luck. It is difficult to pull out again, and the same Kanto is also a very troublesome big quagmire.He can only choose one of the two quagmire, and the latter is more in line with his interests of stabilizing the rear and consolidating his own position, so calming down is the choice to stop impulsiveness.

"When the master goes to Kyoto, he needs to establish more communication with the imperial court. With the name of master Sado Mamoru and nearly 20 years of cultural influence, it should be no problem to participate in the activities of Kyoto as a cultural person. There are more than enough in Luozhong. Some old relationships can be moved more frequently, and the shogunate should also exert more influence, especially His Highness Odate Zaemon Sa Haruki. There is also the deacon of the government office, Settsu Chubu Daisuke Haruto, who is also a relative of the Ashikaga family. of the Gaomen Wujia."

Tokiyuki Yamamoto shook his head with a smile, and he didn't care about the explanations of these diplomatic matters. He knew that his apprentice had nothing to say to explain a few words, and these connections have long been practiced in Sakamoto.It is really difficult for him, a one-eyed and lame old man, to go to Kyoto to sing waka and be arty. Maybe people in Kyoto will joke that the Ashikaga family can find a disabled old man to fool people.

After a few words of politeness, he turned the topic back to the main topic: "The old minister is more concerned about the strategy that should be used in Sakamoto. The alliance of these three families is unbreakable in a short period of time based on the relationship between in-laws. Then what should the old minister do in Omi What about "sex" strategies?"

"Yes! What strategy should we use?" Yoshiki Kira frowned and thought hard.

In the next half month, the Kasuga Yamashiro Conference was almost non-stop. When Kira Yoshitoshi was still worrying about the "Kinai Incident", Takeda Nobushige led a mission composed of more than [-] samurai to Kasuga Seeking Yamashiro, an old acquaintance from Yoshiki Kamikami, who was also Takeda Shingen's most powerful right-hand man, his arrival was immediately highly valued by the entire Kira family.

Nobushige Takeda didn't do too much politeness, and asked straight to the point to reach a non-war agreement with the Kira family.Yoshishi Kira was not too surprised by this request. Ever since the Takeda family was defeated and returned to Kai in the First Battle of Kawanakajima a few years ago, the Takeda family has always gritted their teeth and refused to bow their heads. Minami Shinano is tired of the stagnant tug of war.

In the past, the Takeda family was still a piece of delicious meat and bone, but as Shinano swallowed most of it, it was equivalent to eating all the meat on the bone, and the remaining hard bone was not enough to pay for the loss. In the second half of the year, it can be seen that the rewards obtained cannot be directly proportional to the efforts in the battle of Okayani-saka and the invasion of Ina.

The Takeda family huddled all their forces together, like a hedgehog to resist the attack of the Kira family, even though the Shinano army had a perfect combination of Sanada Yutaka, Murakami Yoshiki, and Ogasawara Nagato, occupying the morale of the troops. In the end, it will lose its troops and will not be able to defeat Suwa County.

At first glance, Yoshiki Murakami's performance in Ina's attack was quite good, but in fact, those who are willing to surrender to this point will surrender to the Kira family, and the rest will either be neutral or resolutely resist, relying solely on the reputation of the Kira family to call and coordinate It is difficult to achieve a better effect, not to mention the strategy master Yukitaka Sanada focused his experience on fighting Nobushige Takeda.

There is no time to adjust the many small national lords of Minami Shinano. If he leaves Fukashi Castle and goes to the front line of Ina County, whether Ogasawara Nagato can deal with Takeda Nobushige and Takeda Shingen hidden behind the scenes is still a huge problem. Sanada Kotaka Without daring to act rashly and without receiving more external support from Kasuga Yamashiro, the deadlock in Shinano was completely resolved.

After such a consumption, it means fighting several battles every year intermittently. The 4000 troops of Sanada Yutaka have already consumed more than 8000 people, and the Takeda garrisons in Suwa and Ina counties are also about the same number and consumption. If seven or eight thousand people die in two or three years, there may be a chance to consume the Takeda family to completely surrender and ask for peace without war. Surrender is still an impossible dream.

Unless the Kira army is willing to lead an army of [-] into Kai, it will take three years and two years to kill everyone in Kai from the beginning to the end, and then it will be possible to quickly subdue Effie, but this will cause great anxiety for Suruga and Sagami And resentment, just like Yoshimoto Imakawa's clear statement back then, the Three Kingdoms Alliance of Kosangjun will never sit back and watch Kai's country be broken. As long as the Three Kingdoms Alliance still exists, it will still be a quagmire of solution.

Fortunately, at this moment, the Takeda family was also a little bit exhausted, so they took the initiative to send envoys to discuss the request for a peace without war. Kira Yoshishi didn't want to overly manipulate the Takeda family, lest they end up self-defeating and causing trouble. After thinking for a while, he said: " If there is no war and harmony, Yu agrees, after all, it will not be a good thing for both sides if the fight continues."

Takeda Nobushige sighed and said: "I also have the same idea. It is better for the two families to turn their wars into jade silk. To save the citizens of Shinano Kingdom from being troubled by war and chaos, they will continue to fight on this piece of land in Shinano Kingdom for 20 years. In the war, so much blood has been shed and so many people have died in these years, and finally it is back to the original point.”

"Dian Stable Hall is indeed a benevolent general who loves the people! But there is one prerequisite."

Nobushige Takeda secretly thought that this was inevitable.Immediately restrained his face and said solemnly: "Please speak!"

Yoshihiro Kira saw Takeda Nobushige's small actions, but he didn't care about his small thoughts, and said straight to the point: "I want the territory of Ina County, and I don't plan to take it from Suwa County. But Ina County has already been taken by Yu." Nearly [-]%, I believe that there will not be many Takeda Army left in the county, how about simply withdrawing to Suwa County?"

"This is impossible! The Takeda family will not give up any land. If peace is reached, it will be divided according to the current actual occupation area. It must not be given up." Takeda Nobushige resolutely refused, and the Takeda family was so little The occupied area was ceded by Kira.Wouldn't it be that there is only one Suwa county as the only foreign leader.Who can guarantee that the Kira family will not greedily demand the territory of Suwa County in a few years?

Kira Yoshitoki chuckled: "Takeda Nomonshou should be aware of Yu's strength, and Yu might as well reveal some news to Tonsouden. As early as the end of last year, Yu appointed Yasuda Jibu Shaofu Changxiu as a general. When spring comes, soldiers go out to Etsuchu and enter Hida to sweep away the Chinese lords who are close to the Takeda clan. It is expected that this task will be completed before summer. At that time, it will cooperate with the Sanada main hall, Murakami Habayashi hall and Ogasawara Shinano hall. The army launched a large-scale attack on Ina County, and by then it will not just be an army entrenched in Shinano to deal with the Takeda family."

Hearing the threat of such a red fruit.Many samurai in the mission of the Takeda family showed aggrieved expressions. If it were not for the fact that Nobushige Takeda, who is the envoy, hadn't moved yet, he would have jumped up and reprimanded the Kira family for such a vicious strategy. It's a pity that they After waiting for a long time, Nobushige Takeda made the action they expected.

"What the town government official said may or may not be true...No!" Takeda Nobushige's mind started to move rapidly, and he suddenly thought: "It doesn't really matter whether it is true or not, the important thing is that the Kira family has the ability to put this A joke was successfully realized, and my Takeda family has no way to fight against it. It is still unknown how long Kiso Yoshimasa will hold on. By then, Hida and Ina’s surrendered national troops will gather together, and Takato Castle will be really difficult to defend. .”

Thinking of this, Nobushige Takeda began to hesitate again. According to his thinking, at this time, he should take the initiative to give up Ina County, which is far away from Kai and unfavorable to stick to it, in exchange for the final conclusion of the no-war peace agreement. If he can't cede even a piece of land, he will be in a dilemma and can't make a decision.

Yoshitoshi Kira also saw that he had difficulties. Even the elder of the Takeda clan, the No. How about discussing this matter here first? It is not too late to discuss the peace talks after the decision of the Tenstable Palace, but I will keep the ugly words at the front, and the army attacking Hida will not stop for a moment. It will be meaningless to talk about ceding Ina County until the moment when the army besieges Gaoyuan City."

"I understand! I will definitely contact the lord as soon as possible to make a decision." Nobushige Takeda simply saluted and withdrew.

After the [-] or so members of the Takeda family gradually left, Yoshitoki Kira immediately ordered: "The people should keep a close eye on this group of people, and check where they stay and whoever they come into contact with. Don't let them go." Sensing any troubles in Kasugayama Castle, create more true and false news to deceive the Takeda family, and make the Takeda family fall into confusion and confusion, so that this peace agreement can be negotiated quickly .”

"Yes!" Several ninjas hurried out from the corner and left quickly.

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