Pillars of the Wu family

Yoshikage Asakura felt deeply humiliated and annoyed. The old people of the Pudai family answered each other with each other, which made him deeply feel the helplessness of being a powerful daimyo in Kinki. In the past, no one dared to fight against him. In front of me, I mentioned how the Chaokura family couldn't work, and what I heard in my ears was always how powerful the Chaokura family was.

The people who have been with him all the year round often praise the greatness of the Asakura family in front of him. The most frequent mention is how powerful the Asakura family's political influence is in Kinai and how far-reaching its economic influence is on Hokuriku. The Tsuruga Port of the Echizen Kingdom could easily choke the lifeline of the Kira family's maritime trade, so the Asakura family was the least afraid of the existence of the Kira family among all the samurai in Kinai. It only took a little threat to force the Kira family to soften.

But everything he heard and saw now is telling him profoundly that what he heard and saw before seems to be an illusion. The Chaokura family is facing many crises from inside to outside. The local Echizen Ichikui needs to be eradicated, and the Kaga Ichikui, Echigo Kira's family, and Wakasa Takeda clan need to be dealt with externally.

In terms of family development strategy, it is also at odds with his will to revenge. The topic that the family members of the family of Pu Dai and the people of the country have been arguing about is how to take revenge on Kaga. Launch an all-out war to deal a severe blow to Kaga's usual arrogance.

Just when Yoshikage Asakura was hesitating, his father-in-law Angu Shiuzhi suddenly wailed and said, "What do you mean, gentlemen? My poor daughter just died at the hands of the rebels who have always been ruthless. The daughter of my Ashikaga family! Isn’t Jin Wuden the one who loves her the most? Could it be that my poor daughter died in vain?”

After this cry, Asakura Yoshikage immediately remembered the woman he had loved for many years. Originally, he had planned to make the young prime minister upright as his wife.Reluctantly, Akuhime, who was much worse in appearance and temper, suddenly appeared.He could only calmly comfort his beloved woman and wait patiently.But I don't think that this class means that heaven and man will never have the chance to meet each other.

Thinking of the tragedy of the young prime minister's death, Asakura Yoshikage's suppressed anger rose again, and he shouted angrily: "The traitor of the Kaga Isato clan killed our beloved little prime minister! Our family will never tolerate a murderer!" Get away with it! We must take revenge on Kaga Izuku Ichikui, and we must give him a good look!"

There are so many foreign people that they don't have much expression, but the family members of the genealogy family are a little unhappy. It is obvious that two wives died and one of them is Mrs. Asai who is pregnant, but Yoshikage Asakura only has one woman in his eyes, the young prime minister. , if Asai Nagamasa knew that his sister was so worthless.It will definitely cause unnecessary diplomatic disputes.

The lord of Beizhizhuang Castle, Asakura Tosa Shoujingxing, gently persuaded: "My lord's feelings are deeply touched. Mrs. Asai died in Sanlihama pregnant with His Highness's child. It is really a huge disaster. Why don't you take this opportunity to formally inform Xiaotani It's better for the temple to let the Asai family know my Asakura family's resolute vengeance."

Asakura Yoshikage knew that this was his elder brother's tactful way of persuading him not to act emotionally, but his heart seemed to have been taken away by the death of the young prime minister, and he had no time to think about more alternatives, so he waved his hand and said, "...just How to do this! This family is also tired, you can discuss for a while and come up with a statement and Ishi Jianshou will hand it over to our family's monogram, and the rest of the evaluation will be left to the gentlemen!"

"My lord, my lord." The samurai hurriedly bowed and saluted, and Tsugutomo Anya, who had a very special status and was independent from the Asakura family system, also resigned on the grounds of being sad.Many people in the queue had their gazes on the triumphant Fukuoka Yoshiki, but there was a bit of contempt and looming malice in these gazes.

Watching Asakura Yoshikage leave.Fukuoka Yoshiki couldn't wait to sit upright, coughed and reminded: "My lord, you must have understood the meaning! The enmity between Mrs. Asai and Mrs. Angu must be avenged, and my younger brother can't just do it for nothing. So I have to beat Kaga Ichikomune, and beat him hard, please tell me how to beat him!"

Fukuoka Yoshiki's overstepping behavior aroused the displeasure of the Eruizhong and many pedigree family elders. As a result, no one answered for nearly a quarter of an hour after he finished speaking. Ming is looking down on him, the leader of the performers, who is of low status and status.

And the other members of the performers have been living in Yichenggucheng for more than ten years, playing with Yoshikage Asakura every day, making fools of themselves to make the governor happy, how can they understand military and state affairs, and can search their memory to come up with a few decent words? It's still some words I heard from Asakura Yoshikage's gossip. It's unrealistic for them to think of an effective way to deal with Kaga. The military representative has gone.

Those who are incapable want to say something but don’t know how to say it, and those who are capable deliberately pretend to be stupid and don’t speak. Anyway, they just look down on you, a lucky minister. This will annoy Fukuoka Yoshiki and say angrily: "If you don’t have anything to say, Then don't blame me, Yiqing, for reporting the truth, just saying that the gentlemen are not good at doing things and cannot come up with a strong statement to deal with Kaga, who has always been consistent..."

"My eyes are clumsy, I don't know who Shi Jianshou is talking to himself for a long time?" Yu Zhujing Gu narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "My lord just mentioned that Shi Jianshou should pass on the items discussed. Have you ever said that Ishi Jianshou presided over the appraisal meeting, and that Ishi Jianshou's frivolous actions are despising the many genealogy elders of my Asakura family?"

Fukuoka Yoshiki was furious: "You...you spew blood! You are slandering! I will sue you in front of the lord!"

"Hmph! I want to go all over the place. No one can stop me with long legs like Shi Jianshou." Yuzhu Jinggu confronted him without any fear. He was able to have this confidence because there were many people in Pudai's retainers who supported him. , the chief genealogist of the inner circle, the old Yamazaki Yoshiya, as well as Yumi Yukitada, Kawai Yoshitō and others are supporting him.

Yuzhu Jinggu just made it clear that he would not go down the steps, but wanted to slap his face naked, which made the scene even more embarrassing. Qian Bo Jingding quickly stood up to be a peacemaker: "Your Highness, please calm down for now. As the minister of my Asakura family, and serving the lord in the same hall, why bother to fight over some misunderstandings, let's discuss how to deal with Kaga's consistent problem!"

Qian Bojing decided to try to persuade the two to make peace.To be precise, Fukuoka Yoshikiyo took the lead in subduing his softness and pretending to be generous, expressing that he didn't care about it.It's not because he's too informal or impressed by former Bojing Ding's rhetoric.It was because he had discovered that the most powerful eponymous group of the Asakura family, as well as the family members with extraordinary strength, and none of the foreigners came to speak for him. capital.

A few family members on behalf of the genealogy said a few words, and proposed to have lunch first before continuing the discussion. Fukuoka Yoshiki also agreed to ease the atmosphere. He promised to keep his background and fight against Kaga's consistent military general in exchange for the full support of this powerful retainer.

Asakura Jingjing smiled and agreed.But in his heart, he looked down on Fukuoka Yoshiki more and more, and watched him leave before he secretly smiled and said: "The Asakura family has actually bred such a sycophant who is obsessed with gaining power, but I don't know if the ancestor Xiao Jinggong knew that he had such a useless person. My son, how do you feel when you promote so many useless retainers?"

For the olive branch from Fukuoka Yoshikiyo, he would accept it without hesitation, but Asakura Jingjing didn't have many worries in his heart. He hated everything from the Asakura family including his own family. There is also Asakura Yoshikage, the family governor, who spent his childhood under the planning of his ambitious father, Asakura Keigao.

He has seen too many intrigues and ruthless betrayals since he was a child, which made his childhood education lack moral values ​​and necessary concepts of right and wrong.Just when he was about to reach adulthood, Asakura Keigaka's rebellion failed and fled to Kyoto, and then he was exiled for the second time and completely expelled from Asakura's house.Since then, his life has been overwhelmed by ridicule and contempt, which filled his heart with endless hatred, hating his father, his brothers, his descendants, everything about the Asakura family, and even himself.

According to the normal trajectory of life, maybe he will follow his father's old path in this hatred, and then die under the sword of a certain samurai and become a stroke of glory in military exploits, but all of this is in Asakura Yoshike. Asakura Yoshikage deliberately checks and balances the overpowering Tsuruga County Secretary, and remembers that Ono County Secretary still has such a remnant of him, so he promotes him to regain the lost military power of Ono And then cited as a confidant.

In his opinion, maybe this Asakura Yoshikage is still dreaming of the kindness of knowing you, dreaming that Asakura Jingjing will use this arm stretched out from Takamahara as a great benefactor who saved him from hell, so Ron seems to be recreating his life, and he must be moved to die for him, but Asakura Kejing has never thought of this, he will only be more excited to watch Asakura Yoshikage make one stupid mistake after another , and wouldn't mind making the idiot a little bit more stupid by getting in the way.

The evaluation meeting in the afternoon was held again, Fukuoka Yoshiki and the performers were much more honest. Yamazaki Yoshiya, as the temporary host of the evaluation meeting, called the vassals to discuss countermeasures, and the people of several countries also spoke enthusiastically, making the atmosphere very enthusiastic. It made Fukuoka Yoshiki look very embarrassed. Thinking about the scene of not saying a word in the morning, the resentment towards these genealogists in his heart increased a bit.

Perhaps because he was a little too excited, Yin Mujingzhong said suddenly: "At the beginning, we shouldn't have tore up the covenant with the Kira family so hastily. If we didn't pierce that layer of paper, we wouldn't be in such an embarrassing situation. At least the Wakasa country can be suppressed in a safe and sound way, and Kaga Ichikui can be handed over to the Kira family to deal with, and the little prime minister will not die in Sanlihama in vain..."

"Yin Mu, be careful! Don't forget that we are allies with the two anti-Kira families!"

Yin Mujingzhong also realized that he was a little too careless, touched his head and apologized in embarrassment: "I'm messing with Meng Lang! Actually, what I mean is..."

"Does it mean that it is more cost-effective to kiss Kira than to kiss Sanhao? Yin Mudian has realized the truth of being close to the stronger side after serving my Asakura family all these years!" Takahashi Jingye, a member of the performers, seized this opportunity to sneer and sneer. Lively Yin Mu Jingzhong became angry with embarrassment, and a good evaluation would turn the vegetable market into a quarrel again.

The last few important ministers and family elders have always decided that the evaluation meeting will end here, and we will discuss the crusade to be handed over to the family governor at another day. It was not until the performers and the people of the country left one by one that Chao Cang Jingji warned everyone in front of a genealogy: " My father has been dealing with Kaga Ichigoki all his life, and as my father's successor, I, Jing Ji, support the fight against Kaga Ichigoku!

But please don't forget that the covenant with the Kira family to share the Kaga country has been broken. It is really hard to say whether the Kira family will fight to the end with us.In the end, if the Kira family picked the peach again, wouldn't it be a loss of money.It is even more important to beware of any vicious means used by the Kira family to secretly encourage the Sanlihama riots.Don't make me the Asakura family willing to be the chess piece that was fooled by him. "

Asakura Keiji's words aroused bad thoughts in many people. It must be admitted that the Kira family used their ability and definitely had the intention to promote this assassination. From the surface, it can be seen that the Sanrihama riot is completely different from what Kaga has always done. Because, especially in combination with Kaga Ichikui's misdeeds of cooperating with the Takeda family to launch the Kasugama riot, it can prove that the Kira family was involved in this riot.

Kaga has always been a group of monks who are full of madness and violence in their heads. They regard the rules and regulations as correct and they can use a sword to kill people and set fire to them.This group of flower monks dared to think and do anything, the only thing they couldn't think of was conspiracies, and the only thing they didn't dare to do was blaspheme gods and Buddhas.

Kira Yoshitoshi's image in Kinai is very good. He abides by business rules, respects cultural people, respects religious freedom in Kinai, respects the imperial court and shogunate, abides by laws and regulations, and treats no discrimination from the public to the common people. He is the only one who is willing to pay for the dead. A samurai with a high pension, generally speaking, his image is perfect, and his popularity and reputation in Kinai are very good.

But it is not enough to cover up his characteristics of being good at intrigue and scheming, with vicious and vicious methods. Thinking back to how many samurai families have died or even been exterminated by him for so many years, the court and shogunate can be deceived by his rhetoric.The people of Limin were deceived by his propaganda, but the powerful samurai daimyo would not be deceived by his false appearance.They knew very well in their hearts what a terrible opponent this Kira family was.

It is naive to wishful thinking that the Kira family did not intervene. It is naive to know that Kira Yoshitoshi was able to defeat the powerful Takeda Shingen and Hojo Ujiyasu by various means, not entirely because of his powerful warriors who are brave and good at fighting. With extremely ruthless means, it is absolutely impossible to rise to the top of the Five Kingdoms in just a few years.

Several generations of the Asakura family struggled for decades before Echizen became a country. Asakura Keiji’s parents were the original members of the Asakura family’s founding period. When it comes to the difficulties of starting a business, they are absolutely clearer than anyone else. Therefore, Asakura Keiji Ji is more afraid of the Kira family's behind-the-scenes black hands than anyone else. Compared with the Asakura family's trump card, the Kira family has more trump cards that can easily deal with the Asakura family.

"Is the disturbance in Sanlihama this time a stern warning from the Kira family? No! It is certain that the lord was almost assassinated... In this way! The Kira family may have killed the lord with luck and put my Asakura family in trouble." Civil strife, bad luck will deter me from acting rashly, warning us that we have plenty of means to deal with my Asakura family? This is a bit too..."

Yamazaki Yoshiya stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, but all the samurai present understood what kind of modal particles he should use to express his surprise in the lingering lingering words. It seems that this inference is the most likely One of the facts, the Kira family is very likely to intervene in this commotion, but they can't catch the Kira family's handle, even if there are thousands of suspicions, they can only stare at this black hand behind the scenes.

If you want to blame, you can only blame that when the commotion happened, the warriors of the Asakura family were too impatient. They chopped melons and vegetables and cut the assassins clean. If there is no evidence and no evidence, forceful accusations are framed. The method might be able to play some tricks to deal with the Asakura family. Thinking about this possibility made many samurai feel cold.

Asakura Jingjing looked at the unknown and transparent person with gray hair in his early fifties with some surprises. He never imagined that this guy who always looked down upon him could think so deeply about the inside story. Many of them were his Something that he couldn't even think of, he realized that he seemed to underestimate the strength of this formidable opponent.

This evaluation will end with a warning from Asakura Kageki, and within a few days, Pudai will come up with a detailed plan to crusade against Kaga Izukui, and the crusade will only be limited to Echizen Sakai and Ono counties Echizen in the country has always been a force, and in the name of revenge, he summoned [-] troops to attack Echizen Yoshizaki Gobo, striving to completely remove this nail buried in Echizen for decades.

Generally speaking, it is just copying the old routine of attacking Echizen in the past few decades, but it is still a step-by-step and uninnovative attack plan with a different name. Fukuoka Yoshiki took this attack plan and poured bitterness in front of Asakura Yoshikage. I still don't forget to mock the plan put forward by Pu Daizhong, trying to use this method to influence Asakura Yoshikage's judgment.

It's a pity that the family governor was mourning because of his wife's death in vain. Holding the bronze mirror for a while, he didn't speak for a long time. He didn't hear his earnest slander at all. This made Yoshiki Fukuoka very disappointed with the statement of the governor.

The rhetoric that I had prepared for so long failed to impress Asakura Yoshikage, forcing him to use his trump card: "Please tell me, who will be the commander-in-chief for this crusade against Echizen Ichikozong? Should Asakura Shishi be appointed?" How about Jing Jingdian, the assistant minister of the Ministry, as the general of the Crusade Army?"

Fukuoka Yoshiki asked patiently two more times before calling Asakura Yoshikage back from his distraction: "... Asakura Keijing is the general? How can he be the general? Shouldn't Asakura Keiri be the general?" ...The family remembered that it was too much for Asakura Keilong to be the general, and now it is time to appoint Asakura Keijing as the general, let him be used!"

"But how should I explain to Jing Jidian? Jing Jidian is a strong candidate for electing his son Jing Yu as the general..."

Asakura Yoshikage waved his hands impatiently, and scolded the close minister who had followed him for more than ten years: "It's long-winded! You can do whatever my family arranges! If you have any problems, let your uncle come to your family!"

"Ha!" Fukuoka Yoshiki quietly stepped back a few steps and turned to leave, showing a complacent smile from an angle that Asakura Yoshikage could not see. He quickly returned to Shikiya and wrote down what he had just seen and sent it to his favorite ally Asakura Jingjing.

The humiliation left to him at the evaluation meeting made him deeply aware of a truth. As a close minister next to the governor, if he does not have the strong support of external allies, he can only be a cowardly little guy who pretends to be a tiger, and he was humiliated at the evaluation meeting. At that time, there was not a powerful warrior to speak for him, which was too much stimulation to him.

"That's why I need your support even more! Asakura Kagekage!" Fukuoka Yoshiki murmured joyfully while writing: "We are allies, with my support, you can secure the position of the general, and you will be defeated in the future Tsunhe all want me to help you, so you have to remember the benefits of me, Yiqing!"

In this strange atmosphere, the Asakura family decided to go out to attack Echizen Ichikui in August. In just one month, [-] elite soldiers from Echizen gathered outside Ichijo Valley Castle. On the pavilion, I saw the [-] brave tiger and ben army, shouting the slogan of crusade against Yiyi Kui in unison, and suddenly felt extraordinarily at ease in my heart.

"Sure enough, only a strong samurai group can defend the majesty of our Asakura family, and it is the foundation for our Asakura family to dominate the Hokuriku region. Only they can fight for our family's Ichikui!" Yoshikage Asakura said deeply. I realized that the strength of the Asakura family is based on the powerful family members, the loyal family elders and the [-] samurai ashigaru who are loyal to him.

In the past, his confidants who were quite pleasing to the eye were just decorations of his power, and could not change the extreme dependence of the Asakura family on a retainer. Asakura Yoshikage thought to himself: "Power! What a terrible thing! It It can make my family use [-] troops to avenge revenge with just one word... It is also power that makes my family meet and lose the little prime minister, power is really a legacy of hell evil spirits!"

Twenty thousand tigers held a simple swearing-in meeting and set off. Their goal is the important town of Echizen Ichikui on the border of Echizen Kingdom. The Echizen Ichikui is the main force, so there is no need to worry about what disturbances the Echizen Ichikui in other places will cause. (To be continued..)