Pillars of the Wu family

Ben Tajimasa himself despises people who can only flatter and flatter people. Kira Yoshishi also stated many times that the Kira family does not want to use ministers, but when it is his turn, he always treats them differently. All famous governors do not like talking It is just that some powerful daimyos are wise enough to resist the negative effects of flattery.

Ji Liangyi didn't care much about the influence of this kind of flattery, but he didn't like the habit of flattery. He especially asked his retainers to be as concise as possible and use short sentences. For a long time, Ben felt that he was still too rigid. His wife complained several times that he didn't understand Fangyuan. This is all the truth.

The so-called slapstick first is the most important, if you can't keep up with the first one, don't go for No.2 at all. Seeing that the opportunity is lost, he is a little uncomfortable, but he still has a killer weapon to use, rolled his eyes and said: "But the information mentioned The objection in the Oda family is probably a thorn in Oda Zhengshaozhong's heart, which will bring unpredictable crises to the support and strategic layout of His Royal Highness in the future!"

Langgang Tanbo said with a smile: "What Shizhengden said is true. I think that Oda Masaotada's future direction is very broad. The southeast Sanhe country is in conflict and civil strife. The southwestern Ise country is separatist. It's a good opportunity for the hero Saito Yoshiryu to die soon, the Oda family can either go all three ways together, or they can take one as the main and the other as the auxiliary, and then they can rest easy and worry about it.

Now uniting with me on the Ashikaga family means that the situation in Mikawa can be stabilized, and the other two countries will soon achieve certain results if they carry out a strategy with one principal and one deputy.If the Lord gives strong support, it will be easier, maybe the Oda family can become a surprise army to muddy the stagnant water in Kinki. "

"Three Rivers will not be stable. According to the latest information, my brother's general Tominaga Tadamoto has died in battle." Yoshishi Kira's eyes shone coldly, and he said with a cold snort, "This is what my brother boasted about more than ten years ago. This kind of idiot is really disappointing!"

In fact, describing Tominaga Tadamoto in this way is a bit unfair to him, and his death is more or less a scapegoat for the master. In fact, he himself did not make a big mistake, but his luck was not very good. Dyke fought a victorious battle.Gain some face for the retreating main family.

It is an indisputable fact that the Imagawa family has fallen into decline since Yoshimoto Imagawa was defeated and died in the battle. Not only did he lose a wise and decisive family governor but also Having lost a large number of loyal and brave retainers, the new governor of the Imagawa family did not have enough ability and prestige to suppress the wavering retainer group.

The forces of the Imagawa family then retreated into the Suruga country and could not hold on, and the real focus of the Imagawa family was to deal with the commotion among the people of the Yuanjiang country.As soon as the main force of the Sichuan Army withdrew, the defense of the Sanhe Kingdom was in a vacuum, and the originally stable Sanhe Kingdom fell into greater turmoil. This gave some young people the opportunity to jump out to fish in troubled waters. Matsudaira Yuanyasu. [

This era happened to be the threshold period when daimyos in various places were actively transforming from guarding daimyos to warring states daimyos. Those who responded relatively quickly, such as Sagami Hojo Ujiyasu, Kai Takeda Shingen, and the late Suruga Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had a relatively rapid response, had initially completed their junior high school admissions. The process of genealogy and modernization is forming a relatively complete set of national division laws.And a systematic fiscal and tax revenue system.

Kinai samurai families such as Miyoshi Changqing and Rokkaku Yoshiken are also actively doing the same thing, but the congenital dysplasia of these two families, the progress is not as good as that of the Takeda family who is facing a strong spectrum and a generation of people. The fast and slow response daimyo It will take ten or even 20 years to realize the significance of the name of the Warring States Period.

At this time, it happened to be the period when the first batch of Warring States daimyos were formed, and the Kamiso Ashikaga family, as powerful as the overlord of Hokuriku, had basically completed the overall process of becoming Sengoku daimyos.And established a banner generation control system centered on the countries of Echigo, Shinano, Ueno, Shinano, Dewa, and Kaga. A complete set of executive institutions and a reasonable government order system made them invincible in a short period of time.

The Imagawa family, which is located in Tokaido, is much worse.Originally, Imagawa Yoshimoto had already carried out this set of work to the final stage. It took nearly ten years for Xing Mikawa Kingdom to be replaced by official genealogy, basically swallowing the Chinese lords outside the territory of Nishi Mikawa Kira Yoshitoki into the Imagawa family system. However, with the sudden death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, a large number of genealogy retainers who served as the mainstay died, the work of the Sengoku daimyo did not advance but retreated, and it returned to the scene at the end of the guardian daimyo era when Imagawa Yoshimoto first ascended the throne. .

Compared with the more stable Warring States daimyo, the guardian daimyo has a major weakness, that is, the guardian daimyo only relies on the territory of one or two countries, and the daimyo who nominally obey themselves may far exceed the territories they actually control, so Only in the Western Kingdom will there be one-sixth temple, Yinyang Yitaishou, which is so exaggerated that it is unimaginable, including the newly-emerged Anyun Mori family, who also follow the traditional way of guarding daimyo.

The advantage of this way is that it can reduce casualties, and unnecessary war consumption and losses. The disadvantage is that the country's surrender is just a trick of changing the king's flag on the top of the city, and it still has autonomy in management. The daimyo countrymen can support, despise or even oppose the military order issued by the nominal lord. The relationship between each other is more similar to the allies of the alliance of geographical interests, rather than the relationship between the lord and the vassal in the orthodox sense.

The Echigo Kingdom before the arrival of Kirayoshi was almost like this. The lords of the country were against Uesugi Teruhoyo who was still very young at the time. He often urged troops to be dispatched and still remained unmoved. In the first five years when Uesugi Terotora first ascended the throne of the family governor, he often faced such embarrassing situations where the lord gave orders and responded to a few embarrassing situations. His lord was more like a samurai alliance named "Echigo Kingdom". The leader of the alliance, rather than the Echigo guardian in the traditional sense.

This was perfectly exemplified by Echigo's repeated rebellions and civil wars.It also promoted Uesugi Terutoro's determination to inherit the family governor of the Uesugi family in Yamauchi. If this guardian daimyo has Uesugi Terutoro's military strategy skills.It doesn't matter if you can kill all the way and win continuously. After a long time, you can still add up to form a qualitative change and perfect the name of the Warring States Period.

But it would have been much worse without Uesugi Terutora’s ability. The Imagawa family really only learned a few percent of his father’s level of internal affairs. The flowers in the greenhouse lack the most important political vision and skills. It's calming, but an old woman over 20 years old has lived in seclusion for nearly [-] years, and she is a little powerless when she first comes out of the mountain.

The most frightening thing for the guardian daimyo is that the dominance of the neighboring country has been impacted, and the people of the dependent country have fallen into serious contradictions and shaken.This involves the centralization of the core link in the process of daimyoization in the Warring States Period. Protecting the daimyo and the people of the country is a simple contractual relationship, and the daimyo's protection is exchanged for the loyalty of the people of the country. There is still a lot of work to do in the family, but the same thing is that loyalty needs rewards to maintain, but the former needs far more rewards than the latter.

The Imagawa family regressed from the Warring States daimyo to the guardian daimyo, and faced a crisis of legal control because of the serious lack of centralization of the Mikawa country.This is like every daimyo always has a core dominant country, and then establishes a corresponding family hegemony based on this. For example, the Zhou Fang Ouchi clan who once ruled Kyushu for hundreds of years, its core dominant countries are Zhou Fang Country and Nagato Country, The other countries injected into Chikuzen, Iwami, Anyun, and Buzen are all sub-core dominant countries.

The core ruling country is the core area where the family survives for generations, such as the Shimadzu family of Satsuma, the Nizi family of Izumo, the Mori family of Anyun, the Takeda family of Kai, the Hojo family of Sagami Izu, the Imagawa family of Suruga, and the Echigo family. The same goes for the Kamiso Ashikaga family.Have your own core dominant country to ensure the stability of the foundation, and then deploy and gather for expansion.

It usually takes a long time for a newly conquered territory to accumulate popularity and prestige. This process may take one or two generations of hard work. The hedgehog was in front of the heads of the Kanto Wu family so that they did not dare to act rashly.

Traditional territories are definitely the safest.In contrast, the newly conquered territory requires more time and patience. It is a bit sloppy for Yoshimoto Imagawa to digest Sanhe in only ten years.If Imagawa Yoshimoto is given another ten years, it may be a different scene when the Imagawa clan really grows up.

It's a pity that history has no assumptions. The failure of the Imagawa family happened right before our eyes. When the current Sichuan army fled back to Suruga, the shadow that had been squeezed in the hearts of the people of Mikawa Enjiang in the past suddenly dissipated, just like Doichi Kui in Kyoto. That way the temperance that lost the lord would swarm from all directions. [

Some lords of the Mihe people with ulterior motives will take the opportunity to make trouble, and unite with the elders of the old underground people in the village to play the slogan of expelling Imagawa on their own. Matsudaira Motoyasu, a "good old man" with a simple appearance and a simple and amiable temperament, suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed the Imagawa family, which caught many generations in the Imagawa family by surprise.

At the beginning, Matsudaira Motoyasu refused the real call of the Imagawa clan in the name of revenge for his father-in-law, and insisted on killing Oda Nobunaga before he could return to Junfu with peace of mind. This year, the important ministers of the Imagawa family need to be put to great use, and the Imagawa clan once regarded Matsudaira Motoyasu as his future right-hand man and his confidant.

As a result, before the lingering rhyme of the praise was exhausted, Matsudaira Motoyasu set up a rebellion against the "Tao" of the Imagawa family, as if someone had slapped the Imagawa family hard and firmly on the face of the Imagawa family. He has no idea what attitude to use to express his anger and incomprehension. The Imagawa family, whose power has been completely dispelled, is really powerless towards the Mikawa Kingdom, so they can only order the people of the Mikawa Kingdom who are loyal to the Imagawa family to unite in the form of a decree. Under the banner of Kira Yoshian, resolutely fight against Matsudaira Motoyasu, a treacherous and shameful person.

It's just that he still didn't expect Matsudaira Motoyasu's thick and dark place. He even spread the stupid way of Imakawa Yoshimoto in Sanhe Kingdom one step ahead of time, forcing tens of thousands of troops to work tirelessly on the grounds of personal hobbies. Described as a dandy who is obsessed with Kyoto culture, the decline of the Imagawa family is directly related to the perverse behavior of the two generations of family governors.The little reputation of Sanhe Kingdom was lost.

At the end of the second year of Yonglu, Matsudaira Motoyasu led an army of [-] to raid Mihe Kira.Easily defeated the [-] troops of Kira Yoshian's army, and easily captured Tojo Castle, the residence of Mikawa Kira's family for generations. Give support against the domineering Matsudaira Motoyasu.

Okochi Nobusada felt that Kira Yoshian was the governor of Saijo Castle who went out, so he readily gave the support of the Eight Hundred Army, led by the general Yamaoka Yaozhi, and assisted him, while Kira Yoshian followed the advice of the elder Tominaga Tadamoto, and separated The five hundred troops, led by Tominaga Tadamoto, made an attack on Ueno Castle, which was guarded by Lao Sakai Tadasaka, the descendant of Matsudaira's family tree.

Matsudaira Motoyasu immediately ordered Matsudaira Haojing, the governor of the Shengou Matsudaira family, to lead the army to rescue Ueno Castle.Matsudaira felt that Mikawa Kira's strength was so bad that he didn't need his family governor to lead the army to help him, so he ordered his son Matsudaira Yasuchu to lead the army to help Ueno Castle. The army raided Nakajima Castle between Shengou Castle and Ueno Castle.

Matsudaira Good King couldn't tolerate such a blatant division plan of the Kira family, and immediately gathered the remaining retainers and warriors in the city with more than [-] cavalry to fight out of Shengou City to meet the invading Kira army. With more than fifty riders, the [-] troops led by Kira Yi'an rushed to pieces, discarded their armor and armor, and fled on the road.

Seeing a big victory in hand is about to win.Matsudaira Haojing led the fifty-odd riders along the road to hide and kill almost without thinking, and ran for nearly half an hour to arrive in front of Zenming Embankment. Out of the famous corner, the defeated Kira Yi'an Army is about to surround Matsudaira Haojing, instantly turning a seemingly unsuspecting pursuit into a one-sided massacre.

All 34 people in Matsudaira Haojing and Yimenpudai were killed.The heavy damage to the Matsudaira family also fulfilled Fuyong Tadamoto's prestige. The soy sauce Yamaoka Yaozhi just made a stance to block the attack in the direction of Ueno Castle, forcing the owner of Ueno Castle Sakai Tadashang not to act rashly. A small contribution, and then the Kira family played triumphant songs all the way.Successfully captured Nakajima Castle and Tojo Castle which had just been lost, and then lived comfortably in Tojo Castle for a stable winter.

But Yoshian Kira never thought that Matsudaira Motoyasu at this time was like a wolf who had been injured all the time.Staring at every move of Tojo Castle, he didn't care about Okochi Nobusada's persuasion, and thought that this battle would be enough to suppress the arrogance of the Matsudaira family, and he, the family governor, would be able to secure the Mikawa Kingdom smoothly. In the position of the master, join hands with Imagawa Shima to deal with the Owari Oda family.

However, the changes in the world are often unpredictable. At the beginning of March this year, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, Matsudaira Motoyasu ordered a member of the same family, Matsudaira Tadashi, to lead another [-] Matsudaira army to attack Tojo Castle. After serving as the second time, he went to Dongjo City in a mighty way.

Before going out into battle, the Matsudaira Army performed a special ceremony. Hiroko Honda took out a one-piece meatball and wrote the seven characters "Fuyong Ban Goro Zhongyuan" on the upper band, and then threw the meatball high into the air, and was killed by Hiraiwamoto. The heavy one was cut into two sections, Honda Hiroshi said happily: "This is an auspicious omen! The merciful Matsudaira Army will definitely take the life of Tominaga Bangoro Tadamoto!"

As a result, the morale of the Matsudaira army was greatly boosted, and the warriors cheered up the chant and rushed out. At this time, Kira Yoshian in Tojo Castle had no idea that the Matsudaira family would dare to send troops, and in a hurry ordered Tominaga Tadamoto to lead the hastily gathered group Thousands of five hundred troops went out to fight, and he sent an envoy to contact Nobusada Okochi in Saijo Castle to call for support.

Tominaga Tadamoto's original intention was that he was unwilling to fight at this time. He knew very well that the Matsudaira family's eccentric character was extremely vengeful, and it would be a foolish act to use his inferior force to fight against an army that was twice as powerful as his own. Kira Yoshian, who doesn't understand military strategy, communicates patiently, especially the chaotic house governor who can't listen to anything. He has only one way to choose to send troops.

When the [-] troops walked out of Tojo Castle, they immediately formed an formation against the city, making preparations for battle at any time. It was obvious that Tominaga Tadamoto was determined to wait for the reinforcements from Saijo City to come. It was not light, and Okubo Daihachiro and Torii Hanrokuro took turns provoking before going into battle, but Tominaga Tadamoto still gritted his teeth and persisted.

After such a stalemate for half an hour, Kira Yoshian's emissary in the city came for the third time and urged him to send troops to drive away the Matsudaira army quickly, and the morale of Kira's army fluctuated with provocation and avoidance for a long time. Tadamoto Tominaga knew that There would be no good results if I dragged on like this, so I immediately ordered the whole army to attack the Songping army.

Seeing that Tominaga Tadakamoto suddenly changed his sticking strategy to an all-army attack that was completely at a disadvantage, Honda Hiroshi immediately decided to retreat back in a posture of pretending to be invincible, while Okubo Daihachiro and Torii Hanrokuro were like two A wandering god, with a mouth like a broken gong, he scolded the Tominaga family from top to bottom, and also insulted Yoshinori Kira, the governor of the Mikawa Kira family, as an idiot, constantly provoking the anger of Kira's army. (to be continued...)