Pillars of the Wu family

Most of the territory of Shioya County is in the mountainous area, and the Kira family's knife against Shioya County also falls on those deserted mountains and wild lands that no one wants to worry about. Nominally subordinate to the Utsunomiya family, what really hurt Utsunomiya Hirotsuna was the fact that a small piece of territory in Kawachi County and that piece of territory in Haga County were cut off.

From the name of Haga County, we can know that this county has a very close relationship with the Haga Gaoding clan. The two major powers in the county, the Mashiko clan and the Haga clan have been fighting for hegemony for many years. Settling into Siyoga clan to control most of the county, the territory in the county is mainly controlled by Haga Gaoding and his brother Masuke Daisuke Clan, as well as Haga clan's concubine Xiaozhai Bingbu Zaemon Komune controlled by.

Crossing out a piece of territory in Haga County happens to be the core area dominated by the interests of these three families. This knife move is no less than inserting a sharp knife in Haga County, which is equivalent to digging out the Utsunomiya family’s control in Haga County. For the foundation, there are only two choices for the three lords. Either the ministers from the Kira family will turn the parts that have not been allocated into the areas that have not been allocated, or they will abandon this part of the core territory and move the residence city out to establish another residence city.

The difficulty factor of the latter is too great. Just a few flat plains and fertile land that has been reclaimed for hundreds of years have been forcibly taken away. These lords cannot be allowed to re-cultivate the mountains and hills, let alone those territories. It is also dominated by the next generation or the local Chinese. Most of the lands without owners are places with harsh terrain, such as mountains, swamps, and dangerous beaches.

These few knives shattered the Utsunomiya family's dominance to pieces, and the knife went straight to Utsunomiya Hirotsuna's heart.Although a few knives can't make the Utsunomiya clan fall to the dilapidated predicament of the Xiaoshan clan, it is a big difference compared to his old enemy Nasu Ziyin. The Utsunomiya clan was in the war against the Nasu clan before.But it has always maintained its dominant position.

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna lodged a protest with dissatisfaction. He believed that the Kira family was blatantly partial and unfair. It was unfair that Koyama and Nasu were not punished but he was severely punished. As a result, When Ji Liangyi was really good, he said that he would consider his request and deal with the rebellious samurai in Shimono Kingdom in a fair and just manner.

Now, Xiaoshan Takatomo and Nasu Ziyin were very anxious. The former had just succumbed to the promise of technical security, and before he had slept for a few days, he was sued by this deceitful Utsunomiya Hirotsuna.For Mr. Xiaoshan, who was ready to watch the show without any involvement, this was the rhythm of being shot while lying down.

Nasu Ziyin felt that he was bitten by the bastard Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, and originally thought that he would rebel against the Kanto People's Allied Forces and send Ashikaga Fujimasa behind. Help him deal with the three brothers of the Otahara family.Just as he was happily watching Utsunomiya Hirozuna being cleaned up, he was severely tricked by this mortal enemy. The hatred in his heart could not be described in words.

The two families also immediately wrote a letter to defend, and one cried out that his grievance was even worse than that of Dou E.Another gritted his teeth and cursed Utsunomiya Hirozuna with ulterior motives.Koyama Gaochao, an old samurai of this age, also showed off his acting skills on the spot. He knelt in front of Kira Yoshishi's imperial court, weeping bitterly, almost committing seppuku suicide to show his loyalty to the town government. Sincerely, at first glance, this quality can catch up with the level of generations.

This acting not only shocked the members of Kira's family, but also stunned Nasu Ziyin, who was watching the play. He opened his eyes wide and didn't know how to deal with this strange situation. He quietly glanced at the hearts of the Kira family members in the military tent With an expression of embarrassment, he smacked his lips and cursed secretly in his heart: "The old bastard of the Xiaoshan family is really cunning. He can probably get away with the play he acted in! It would be great if I could cry too. !"

After all, it was really hard for him to do it, let alone howling and crying in front of hundreds of warriors.Even with Kirayoshi's half-smiling eyes, he didn't dare to be so snarky. If he couldn't cry well and show his feet, wouldn't it be embarrassing, but he didn't know that Koyama Takatomo quietly wiped some ginger on his eyes before crying. Otherwise, this old man might not be able to perform the act of crying with hundreds of pairs of eyes on his shoulders.

Yoshihito Kira drew out his bat fan to cover half of his face, and said in distress, "Oh! It's really hard to answer Utsunomiya Shitano Mamoru's protest letter in front of Yu. Everyone, but the loyalty of the two of you makes it difficult for Yu to make a decision on how to deal with it, what should I do?"

"His Royal Highness is very worried! If you don't deal with it, you won't be able to convince the public, and if you deal with it, you will be sorry for the two Highnesses. What should we do?" Sanada Yutaka seemed to be very distressed, squinting his eyes and pinching his beard. A samurai, his eyes seemed to express something chilling.

The genealogies of Kira's family said a few words in a casual manner, and the new members of Kanto started to discuss in a hurry. A group of people who are close to the Xiaoshan family expressed their support for the defense of Xiaoshan Gaochao and Nasu Ziyin , while the people of Shimono, who are pro-Utsunomiya, opposed Utsunomiya Hirozuna's protest, and the two sides quarreled as they talked, which meant that they would stage a reality show.

Seeing this scene not only dissatisfied Kira Yoshitoshi, but also the genealogy of the Kira family. Since Kira Yoshitoshi went to Echigo, a new system was established in the East, and the repeated emphasis on the law and order of the samurai family With his personal actions, the chaotic order of Echigo and other five countries was cleared up. At this moment, seeing the familiar but unfamiliar scene of turmoil, the warriors who like to be quiet and abide by the etiquette couldn't help but yelled loudly.

"Don't rest, gentlemen, listen to me!" Ben stopped drinking for a long time, cleared his throat and said, "It's about the stability of the Bandong kingdoms, and we must investigate it! Your highnesses please respond." For the sake of the overall situation and the stability of Bandong, there will always be a day when you will earn back if you suffer a little loss, as long as your loyalty and dedication to the public remain unchanged, His Royal Highness, the wise Rugong, will definitely keep it in mind."

Xiaoshan Gaochao and Nasu Ziyin secretly said that it was bad, and they thought that they were crying and making noise until the end, but they still didn't escape the blow. They wanted to say that they hated the Kira family's injustice, but they didn't dare to hate, so they could think about telling them to take more care of themselves. The promise that the copies will be returned in the future is quite kind, and if the Kira family doesn't make sense and treats them arbitrarily, it won't do anything.

Since you can't hate Kira's family for being unfair.The only one who hates Utsunomiya Hirozuna is meddling with rats, and the only one who didn't have this bad luck is the Utsunomiya family, and they will definitely not implicate the two of them in vain.After pondering for a long time, the two felt that they could only endure it, so they stood up and bowed: "I will wait for His Royal Highness to punish you!"

Yoshihiro Kira watched the two leave with a smile on his face. In fact, he was already happy in his heart. In his mouth, he insisted on taking advantage of the problem and twisted it to bite Xiaoshan Gaochao and Nasu Ziyin. The two were frightened and rushed to fight, and finally had to eat the knife.It's not bad for these three families to form an enmity and gain a piece of territory by the way.

Having said that, he has to be more cautious about how to deal with these two families. After all, these two families have become foreigners who surrendered to the Kira family.He also said that "but it depends on the disposal". In the end, the Xiaoshan family just marked down ten towns and cultivated land symbolically. Yucheng's deprivation of [-]% of his territory has already been regarded as a severe punishment.

In short, it is obstinate to confuse the territories of the Xiaoshan clan and the Yuki clan into one family.Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, when talking about Kirayoshi's mouth, things can always be turned up.Even if he wanted to engage in double standards, the people of the Kanto Kingdom would not be fooled. What's more, the Xiaoshan family's kinship connections spread throughout most of the Kanto region, and their sympathizers were no less than the Utsunomiya family.

It's more interesting to attack the Nasu family. It doesn't mean that Nasu Ziyin directly led it. Instead, he simply attacked the territory of the three Otawara brothers. Anyway, these three brothers were active participants in the anti-Kira alliance. , Oseki Takazen himself was also the person who was going to be named and issued a crusade order by Kira Yoshishi, and the three families were directly removed from the nominal Nasu family to save one step of the procedure.

Now Xiaoshan Gaochao and Nasu Ziyin were happy again.No matter how poor the Xiaoshan family was, it wouldn't hurt to lose their meat. Nasu Ziyin was at most a little upset that the fat in his mouth was given to the Kira family for no reason.But this also has the advantage that Nasu Ziyin no longer needs to be the vanguard of the crusade against the three families, but just wait for the Kira family to suppress these ambitious bastards.

As soon as this edict came out, the hearts of Shimono Kingdom fluctuated again. In the reply received by Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, the tone of the words was obviously aggravated, as if telling the Utsunomiya family that I have already given you the fairness and justice you want. There is not much time left for fifteen days of consideration, and it is not good for Utsunomiya to make a decision as soon as possible to avoid new disputes.

This frightened Utsunomiya Hirotsuna so much that he hurriedly summoned the genealogy group to discuss countermeasures, but he did not expect that the Utsunomiya family tree generation had quietly divided into two factions, one of which was assigned to the Kira family The lineage retainers of the new members of the direct ministers, their mentality gradually moved closer to the Kira family. After all, it is always easier for the lineage retainers to hold their thighs.

The other part is the envious family members who were not included in the list. They firmly support the family governor to continue the trouble. Some of the family members of the family of Utsunomiya have sinister thoughts in their hearts, hoping that Hirozuna Utsunomiya will make trouble In the end, Dai was exiled by Gai Yi, and they themselves could inherit the Utsunomiya family's family business and serve as genealogy retainers. Even if this plan did not succeed, they could rejoin the Kira family as ordinary retainers.

According to the rules of the Muromachi period, the past of the main family is basically not as bad as the genealogical retainers. The demise of many samurai families does not prevent their branch family genealogical retainers from continuing to serve as new main families. This is actually a feature of the samurai ecosystem in the Warring States period. One of them is that the Nizi family and the Otomo family are in the minority who are devoted loyal ministers. They are so famous because of their original intention of praising loyal warriors and yearning for a better life.

Oseki Takasuke, Otawara Tsunakiyoshi, and Fukuhara Zitaka initially resisted the edict of Kira Yoshitoshi, but with the [-]-odd troops of the Kira Legion approaching Utsu Miyagi, they cleared up Utsunomiya Hirozuna After bowing their heads and offering their oaths, the attitudes of the three Otawara brothers changed dramatically.

Under the leadership of the eldest Oseki Takazen, the three brothers ran all the way to Utsunomiya Castle to present an oath to Kira Yoshi. When you are righteous, you have to be older, and you may be able to do things that you consider yourself a child.

Then Naganuma Suruga Mamoruhiro of Shimotsunomiya, the Utsunomiya family concubine Matsuno Tsunataka who belonged to the Satake clan, Takemo right soldier Wei Shouzuna, who is known as the grandson of Takemotaro Utsunomiya Masatsuna, and the Utsunomiya clan concubine Sosuke Mogi Fang successively rebelled from the Satake clan's camp and joined the Kira family, and the entire Shimono country fell into the hands of the Kira family. The so-called Shimono quagmire was so vulnerable to the general situation.

At this stage of the march, the time has quietly come to the end of October. With the heavy snow falling, it indicates that the war of this year is over. Kira Yoshitoshi tried his best to serve the public in Utsunomiya Castle, and at the same time, the strategic goals of Shimono To make adjustments, Nasu Ziyin in the north is the head of the Oshu side, and is responsible for planning and attacking the Chinese lords under the Ashina clan of Oshu, especially Yuki Haruzuna of the Yuki Shirakawa clan, which must be captured as soon as possible.

On the other hand, it is also a good idea to appoint Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, who has been severely damaged, as the banner head of Hitachi, and let Utsunomiya Hirozuna deal with his old father-in-law Satake Yoshiaki. Yoshitomo Kira encouraged him from that fall Just get up from where, as long as he can defeat the Satake clan of Hitachi, he will restore his original collar and give him a title as appropriate.

Even if Utsunomiya Hirotsuna knew it was a pit, he had to bite the bullet and jump in. Of course, he knew very well that Satake Yoshiaki's ability was superior to his own, but now he has no choice but to be a puppet, Utsu The Gong family was not united in the first place, and Yoshitoki Kira's intervention made the family of Pu Dai's retainers even more disunite.

A small half of the genealogy members of the family were taken away to be the direct ministers of the Kira family, and the remaining half could not tell whether they were really loyal or pretended to be loyal. He did not dare to try to resist the consequences of the Kira family. Definitely leaving is tantamount to taking away his backbone. The successive rebellions of the original family members such as Toshimune Minagawa and Tsunao Mibu made him lose the opportunity to move around. If he betrayed the Kira family at this time, he might be punished in minutes. The acting retainers were sent to Edo Castle to wait for hanging.

When Yoshito Kira returned to Edo Castle with his army, Terutora Uesugi’s camp north of Odawara had already been reinforced as a semi-permanent branch of the city. A large number of wooden and stone structures and piles of sanhe soil had an effect no less than that of stone walls. Months of exposure to wind and sun and repeated beatings ensured that the Sanhe clay was as hard as a rock, and ordinary bows and arrows and old-fashioned iron cannons could not hurt even a hair on it. (To be continued..)