Pillars of the Wu family

The sudden collapse of the Kiso Clan, which flourished for a while, had a great impact on Minami Shinano. All the remnants of the Kiso Clan were captured and sent to Kasugayama Castle for punishment. All these warriors were dispatched to Sado Island as a mere cutscene. At that time, all the territory belonging to the Kiso clan near Kiso Valley was confiscated, and the few Kiso clan genealogy retainers who had made contributions gave guarantees of security skills, but these Chinese people had no way to form a climate.

Most of the territory of Kiso Valley was taken over by Kira Yoshitoki, which greatly increased the influence of the Kira family on Minami Shinano, and further caused a huge change in the pattern of Ina County. As they got closer, they deeply realized that the master was not only noble, but also a ruthless and merciless figure, who seemed to be even more terrifying than Takeda Shingen.

Harvesting a piece of territory should be a happy thing, but Kira Yoshitoki couldn't be happy no matter what. He never thought of having such a small territory in Kiso Valley, and dealing with the Kiso Clan was also a temporary action out of necessity. After Kiso Yoshisho's family clan's party, he hastily dispatched Feng Xing to carry out a new round of appeasement work for the Chinese people in Ina County. I am afraid that these Chinese people will leave a deep shadow because of the death of Kiso Clan, and it will be very difficult to turn around in the future. .

The so-called extremes must be reversed is the truth, often the greater the pressure you put on, the stronger the power of rebellion, don't look at him doing the business of copying the family and exterminating the family cleanly and never procrastinating, in fact, you have to think carefully before doing all these things After the calculation, there will be a lot of appeasement and a series of preferential treatment after the action.The local Chinese people should not be allowed to form a mentality with cold lips and cold teeth.It would be a disaster for him to let them hug each other unconsciously, after all, they didn't always have a reason to be cruel.

There are many ways to soothe.The simplest thing is to count the big sticks and throw them to the carrots. The magistrate of the Kira family sent carrots to the people in Ina County. The people in Hida also received the carrots. Tian, ​​repair streets and dikes, and carry out comprehensive reforms in the four aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation in the southern Shinano and Hida countries.

The preliminary plan will take five years, and a total of [-] yuan will be invested in the two places in batches to improve road traffic.Rectify river dykes, innovate agriculture and build larger and wider villages and towns. Concentrating the population can not only form a scale but also reduce management costs. Remove redundant city walls and only keep a small number of branch cities controlled by the Kira family, which can effectively increase dominance For the power of the two places, ensure that the people of the two places dare not have the idea of ​​​​disaster.

As for the development of new agriculture, it needs to be postponed. The terrain of Minami Shinano and Hida is very similar.The main reason is that there are many mountains and hills and relatively few plains. The two places mainly grow barley and the situation in Echigo, Ueno, and Kitashinano is completely different. Therefore, the worshipers have to make appropriate adjustments. The characteristic of wheat is that the plants are short and the barley is short. , with long spikes and high yields, while barley is just the opposite.The plants are tall, the awns are long, the ears are short, and the yield is relatively low. The applicable scope and methods of planting the two crops are not much different.

Therefore, the first thing to do when entering the two places is to change relatively low-yield barley to relatively high-yield wheat, and then encourage local farmers to plant soybeans in winter as a crop rotation method.In addition, the most important compost establishment points also require a lot of manpower and time, and these technologies cannot be completed by using them widely.It takes a year or two or even longer to accumulate.

At that time, Ji Liangyi was not so worried about the governance methods he pursued, but was worried about leaving huge psychological trauma to the people of Hida and Minami Shinano. Influential samurai let them spread the word that the Miki clan and the Kiso clan are pretending to be famous families, and they have colluded with Kinai to rebel against the Miyoshi clan. They rely on this method to slowly eliminate the adverse effects of killing the two families on the local area. twist back. [

He had just finished a bunch of things and hadn't had a rest for a few days when Furukawa's changes reached his ears. As early as a few months ago, he knew that Ashikaga Fujimasa's activities were very unstable, but he didn't expect this guy to be mad Seeing a move that was not good for the Ashikaga family, and the relevant information that came later also proved the crazy behavior of the Furukawa prince Ashikaga Fujimasa.

Holding a thick stack of information, he casually threw it on the case table, and sneered in a low voice: "He even colluded with Miyoshi Changqing in Jinei to make a plan that is not good for Yu Xing. In the past few months, he really made him put Kanto, Yuao, etc. I really don't understand how much influence this group of Chinese people with different orders and different ideas can have on Yu? This matter is getting more and more interesting!"

Ben Duoshi was smiling and said: "It's really sleepy to send a pillow. Isn't this a good opportunity to invade Kanto? If you defeat the Kanto Gongfang, you can enter Kanto."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy." Hosokawa Fujitaka frowned and said: "The Furukawa government has joined forces with the Kanto samurai family to fight against my Kami Ashikaga family, but how to fight is still a problem. According to the current situation, we can look at the situation between the Shimono country and the Mutsu country. The war waged by the people of the country is probably a huge trap, trying to lure us into an extremely dangerous quagmire."

The responses of the family members of the Pu Dynasty here are also different. Some people think it is better to fight, while others think it should be safer not to use military fire. It is not appropriate to call them masters and masters, but these adherents are more inclined to use diplomatic means to resolve conflicts instead of war.

It is probably the same as the main battle masters from ancient times to the present. The warriors in the front line all want to fight for meritorious service, and the followers in the rear think that one thing is worse than one thing, which can be solved by strategy and political means. Don't go to war if you want to fight, why bother to spend money and food every time you go to war.

Just when a group of warriors were struggling, Uesugi Uesugi, a banner figure, suddenly interjected: "What the Bingbuden said is reasonable, Shimono and Minamimutsu are places where there have been long wars, and the people of the country are tough and rebellious, although they are not as good as me. It's not easy to deal with the tyrannical Echigo samurai. Although my Kamiso Ashikaga family is well-known in the Hokuriku region of the Eastern Kingdom, it has no influence at all in these two places. It's hard to say if I rush into it rashly. If it is fought intermittently for five or seven years like the Battle of Chuanakajima, it will not be worth the loss."

For a long time, Ben said calmly, "The main hall is very concerned. It's just that I still insist that this is a good opportunity, but it needs good guidance to implement it. The node of this guidance lies in Sagami Hojo. Can't it be made easier? For example, it would be much better to take a strategic defensive stance against the disputes between Shimono and Mutsu, and to deal with Sagami Hojo with all his strength!"

Honjo, who had been silent for a long time, said: "East Ueno defends, Xia Yue defends, should Izuha defend? If how many troops are needed for defense, how should they be deployed? How many troops are more suitable for Musashi? What about Kinai?"

"This..." Ben Duozheng was suddenly stuck. Such a complicated strategic performance cannot be figured out in a short time. Usually, a key node cannot be figured out, or a wrong judgment may bring disaster.No one dares to make a fuss about this kind of issue.

Sanada Yutaka said: "Hontaden provides a very good idea. Please use it in the urn so that it will have a miraculous effect on going south to Kanto. Today, the gathering of more than [-] troops around Kasuga Mountain Castle is a huge deterrent force. As long as this force is used properly It is very convenient for me to go to the Ashikaga House.”

After a few days of discussion, there is no clear answer. The reason is that I want to wait for the changes in Kinai. If there is no action within the Kinai Three Kingdoms Alliance, no one dares to mention the action of going south to Kanto. Presumably Miyoshi Changqing also understands this truth, which is to compete with patience. .It depends on whether the Kira family went south to Kanto first or the Three Kingdoms Alliance in Kinai had problems first. As long as there is a change in one party, this fragile balance will be broken instantly.

Kira Yoshishi didn't worry much about encountering a sudden change. Now that the Kira family has a great advantage, whether it's the Kinai Three-Kingdom Alliance created by Miyoshi Changqing, or colluding with Furukawa Lord Ashikaga Tomasa and creating an anti-Echigo alliance, yes The influence of Kira's family and Echigo's native land is almost negligible.

In the four directions of Echigo country.The three kingdoms of Etsuchu, Shinano, and Ueno have all fallen into his hands. The only place that can be invaded is the Ashina Mori family in Aizu, and you need to climb layers of mountains to enter Echigo. The Date family in Yonezawa can theoretically enter Echigo , but the mountain is even more exaggerated than Aizu to Echigo.If you turn over, you must be mentally prepared to die half of the people. If you catch up with the heavy snow and block the mountain and forcibly turn over the mountain, there will be as many deaths as possible.This is basically equivalent to the road is feasible.

As long as Echigo is not threatened, the other countries are equivalent to the strategic depth as a buffer zone. With Echigo's strong strength, tens of thousands of troops can be mobilized quickly, and the situation can be forcibly brought back by virtue of generals who can recruit and fight well. Takeda Shingen teamed up with Hojo Ujiyasu, Kaga Ichikui, and Uo's national army failed to win Echigo, and now it is even more difficult to pose a fatal threat to Echigo. [

In the blink of an eye, it is August again, and the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival means that the autumn harvest is coming soon. Tiger Ji's body is getting heavier and heavier, so Kira Yoshishi puts down his official duties and is busy with his wife. About ten days is the labor period. Yoshihiro Kira was nervous and counted several times before he figured out that after forty days, it will be a certain day at the end of September. With the experience of having a first child, he should be calm as a husband, but seeing My wife is struggling with her stomach, and she can't always calm down.

It would be better if it was just a lady who was due to give birth, but the most troublesome thing is that Zhihu and Tanxiang are also seven months pregnant, which makes him so busy that he can hardly touch his feet and run around to serve him, not because he is worried about this. If he can't eat well, he is worried that he won't be able to dress warmly, or that he won't sleep well, which will be bad for the fetus, which makes him very busy.

On the other hand, this guy Saito Chaoxin is laughing and joking all day long like a normal person, not at all like his daughter-in-law Aju is on the latest due date, and he still has the time to call friends to drink and play before returning home until midnight. Kirayoshi is so angry In a rage, Shi ordered him to go home to serve his wife, and he was not allowed to go out to play until the child was born, which made Saito Chaoxin, a fierce general, very depressed.

One day, Saito Chaonobu complained again to Ishikawa who came to visit: "Why doesn't my wife let me stop playing after giving birth to a child? There is a maid at home who is always serving and the midwife lives at home, but let me live." Squatting at home to serve Madam, how unpleasant it is for me to see Madam suffering from pain and discomfort all day long!"

Unfortunately, his words reached Kira Yoshishi's ears in a blink of an eye, so he issued an edict to Echigo Zhongkui, who must learn to wash diapers by himself and serve his wife Aju's confinement, and he is still not allowed to go out for half a step If there is a violation, there will be severe punishment, so Saito Chaoxin is so unlucky to lie down.

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A horse farm has long been opened up in the back mountain of Kasuga Mountain City. Every day, a group of Ji warriors practice riding and shooting, spear and naginata skills here.The girl warriors took off their beautiful gowns and put on gorgeous big armor, their long hair was bound by bowls and black hats.It is very handsome to run back and forth with the rein on the left and the naginata on the right.

In the gazebo at the corner of the racecourse, several women sat and chatted while Hu Ji walked a few steps with her round belly and then sat back on the embroidered pier, saying angrily: "Obviously I gave birth to Zhenwang Pill, why is this?" The second pregnancy is still so hard! It seems that the belly has grown a lot."

"Sister Hu Ji is pregnant..." Tan Xiang swallowed her words, but a few women turned to look at her, Tan Xiang suddenly regretted her recklessness, she knew she shouldn't have said so much In a word.But now that the words have been spoken, what should I do?

Hu Ji looked at Tan Xiang who was hesitant to speak strangely, and felt that her behavior today was a bit abnormal, so she asked curiously: "Sister Tan Xiang can say what she wants to say, don't worry if all my sisters here, even It’s okay to say anything wrong.”

"The meaning of the concubine is that she is pregnant with two children?" Tan Xiang whispered, "If the concubine says something wrong, the sisters must not laugh at Tan Xiang!"

Several women suddenly fell silent.Pregnant with two children is a very reluctant way to turn around. In fact, all the women here know that this is implying the meaning of twins. The legend that having twins is unlucky has lasted for more than a thousand years, and it is also a taboo thing in Echigo. Until A-ju gave birth to twin daughters and it was considered reversed.

Hu Ji's beautiful eyebrows were slightly frowned and she didn't say a word for a while, and these women could understand her complicated mood.In the early days, no one saw the abnormality of Hu Ji's pregnancy, but since the five or six months became more pregnant, some people were sensitive to discover that Hu Ji's belly was abnormally big. , Zhihu went out several times, and the women present more or less guessed the possibility of twins.

As the main wife of the Kamiso Ashikaga family, Torahime's every move represents the huge influence of Yoshitoki Yoshira.Every child she conceives is a star that attracts attention, and it is hard to say how much impact it will have if she is actually pregnant with twins.Several women suddenly felt a little bit like a six-spirited master, and they didn't know how to comfort them.

The racecourse was full of smoke and dust, Princess Ling drove the silk to gallop on the racecourse for a few laps, and then shot a pot of arrows on the archery target before stopping, calling Axu who was dozing in the corner and walking slowly Going back to the pavilion, Nagao Ao is the pro daughter of the Sanjo Nagao family and also the sister-in-law of Princess Aya and Tiger Princess. Although Ao married Honjo Shigecho for the purpose of a political marriage, she has not suffered much.

Since Honjo Shigecho rescued her at the wedding, her status in the banner family has risen steadily, and as a direct minister, she doesn't need to live in the countryside to manage the estate, so she has been living in the Fudai Shiki house in Kasuga Mountain City Didn’t leave, just ran to the Honmaru to find a few sisters to play with. The young couple didn’t plan to have children for the time being, so they lived a comfortable life. Princess Aya is also very close to this sister, although Nagao Ao The age is slightly younger, but it does not affect the intimacy between the sisters.

Princess Aya was born in October of the first year of Kyoroku (1528), one and a half years older than her younger brother Uesugi Terutora, and will only turn 33 in two months. A woman of this age is a lifetime The most brilliant time among them represents that a woman gradually matures from youth to maturity and enters the golden age. The so-called wife is this time.

The mature temperament and charming femininity often make her brother-in-law run away in fright. Princess Aya also seems to like teasing her brother-in-law very much. The domineering, cruel and ruthless people outside have always been cautious and timid when dealing with women, not daring to go overboard.

As soon as she entered the gazebo, she found that the atmosphere in the pavilion was a bit abnormal. The women looked worried, and she was puzzled and said with a smile: "The rain on our faces a few days ago made us hide in the house. It happened that the sun was shining today and the temperature was moderate, so I thought about inviting a few pregnant younger sisters to come out to bask in the sun.

Could it be that the good husband of the sisters took someone else's daughter as a concubine, or took that woman's body?Don't sisters often say that their husband's job is too big to grasp, and he always wants to go to work three or five times a night before he can rest?It must be because there are no younger sisters to serve as this sneaky cat! "

Princess Ling's opening made several women blush. Hu Ji blushed and said coquettishly, "My lord sister made fun of Hu Ji again. Your Highness is gentle with Hu Ji and the younger sisters! Just do that I didn’t force us when it happened, so don’t talk nonsense about it three or five times, if it gets out, Hu Ji will be ashamed.”

Married women spoke more casually, so Linggong sat up on the embroidered pier, inadvertently showing his slender legs and a pair of snowy feet, and asked strangely: "Then what's wrong with you little sisters?" The food is good, the clothes are warm and no one cares about it, and that good husband has not found a woman, so why do they all look worried?"

"It's not caused by the baby in Hu Ji's belly!" Hu Ji said distressedly: "My lord, what do you think if Hu Ji is pregnant with two children?" (To be continued...)