Pillars of the Wu family

At the end of May, the temperature increased sharply, and Tokaido ushered in the most important rainy season of the year. The continuous heavy rain wiped out the enthusiasm of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Tokaido, and the battle in Nagaragawa also came to a standstill. During this period, Minamoto Yoshitoki handed over the affairs of the formation to Yukitaka Sanada as an agent, and returned to Qingzhou City from Xiaomushan City to preside over the military meeting.

Affected by the favorable impact of the pacification of the Ise country, Minamoto decided to send more troops to follow up. He ordered Hojo Shizheng to command 14 troops, with Nagao Yoshike as the deputy general and Nagano Yemori as the vanguard, to attack the Iga country first. Join forces with the Iga ninjas to launch an offensive against Yamato and Minami-Omi. Only [-] main forces remain in this formation, Owari and the Western Army.

Handling military affairs is one aspect, and more importantly, dealing with prisoners of war. For example, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who escaped from Okazaki Castle and took refuge in Cheongju City, tried to disguise himself as a farmer when the army was approaching the city. At that moment, he was greeted by countless eyes of hatred that were as sharp as the light of a knife.

"Tokugawa Ieyasu... Tokugawa Ieyasu!" Ignoring the dozens of samurai behind him, staring coldly at the honest farmer who looked like a farmer, Genyoshi pulled out his folding fan and tapped on the tatami, suddenly asked : "I've heard for a long time that the Matsudaira clan came from a courtier of Kamo, but I don't know why you abandon the Matsudaira clan and take the Tokugawa clan?"

Tokugawa Ieyasu said tremblingly: "I...the origin of the word Miao is..."

Genyoshi ignored him at all, stared at Tokugawa Ieyasu's simple and honest face, and said, "I also heard that this is another solution of the Tokugawa clan. Your ancestors had a samurai who married into Songping Township. Is that right?"

"There is absolutely no such thing..." Tokugawa Ieyasu broke out in cold sweat.He really couldn't figure out how his little dark thoughts were discovered by others. This is a bold idea that has never been made public. The master in front of him is the famous Genji sect of the Genji family, and the powerful martial arts sect of the Yuanyi kingdom. One, pretending to be a descendant of Yuan Yiguo in front of him is not much easier than a pie in the sky.

Since the rise of the samurai family in the Heian period for more than [-] years, there has been almost no trace of people pretending to be the name of the family. It was not until the fall of the power of the shogunate in recent decades that this trend gradually emerged.Tokugawa Ieyasu's name change is also to imitate those impersonators. As far as Genji is concerned, it is obviously the most cost-effective to impersonate the relatives of the current shogun.

But the Ashikaga clan has a clear and clear spectrum, and the Ashikaga clan can be found everywhere from Yuao to Kyushu. Not to mention that fake claims are worthless, even the real money of the Ashikaga family is not very valuable. Those few Ashikaga clans who ranked first are all in the same family, but it is very difficult to impersonate these families.

So after thinking about it, he decided to impersonate the exterminated Nitta clan. There are many samurai in Ueno Kingdom who call themselves the Nitta clan, such as the Iwamatsu clan and his retainer Yura clan. The Yamana family is still alive.The Satomi family also has a branch, and only after turning seven or eight corners, they found a branch of the Tokugawa family, the Serada family, as their own.

Under Tokugawa Ieyasu's horrified eyes.Yuan Yishi suddenly sneered: "I have to say that you are really brave, you dare not choose to harm yourself to preserve the statement, what kind of courage is it that makes you dare to stand in front of Yu alive, this is a confusing question !"

"My..." Tokugawa Ieyasu broke out in cold sweat instantly, knelt down and begged on the ground: "I dare to swear to the gods and Buddhas that I have absolutely no intention of harming the Kira family. I just want to force Kira Mikawa Shouden to submit. That's all!"

"Maybe you don't have this idea, or maybe you're just lying to me..." Yuan Yishi's tone suddenly changed, and he said, "But these are not important! The important thing is Yu's uncle, uncle, and brother, who have passed on for generations. And all the maids with small surnames in the city are dead, how can we settle this account?"

"I..." Tokugawa Ieyasu found that his clothes were soaked quietly, his throat was unbearably dry like a fire, he swallowed hard and lowered his head and said, "I am willing to die in exchange for..."

"Don't make a deal with Yu, you are not worthy." Minamoto stood up, walked to the group of Matsudaira samurai behind Tokugawa Ieyasu, who were sticking their heads, glanced at their death-defying expressions, and then turned to look at Tokugawa Ieyasu With an expectant expression on his face, he chuckled and said, "Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sekiguchi Sena divorced, the Matsudaira clan executed all except the Ohakusa and Sakurai clans, and Tokugawa Ieyasu and his son Takechiyo... the head of the clan!"

"Ah! How dare you..." Honda Tadakatsu was furious, and when he got up and was about to rush towards Ashikaga Yoshika, he was grabbed by the tall and burly Kakizaki Yoshiya, and even the weapon was confiscated by Matsudaira Samurai. The opponent of his personal guard was easily captured by dozens of strong men who followed him.

"Why...why..." Tokugawa Ieyasu sat on the ground as if mourning his concubine, and wailed, "Why can't I die alone...why my child Takechiyo is not let go."

"Because of what? Well, I'll tell you why..." Genyoshito grabbed Tokugawa Ieyasu by the collar and said murderously, "Because you killed all of Yu's relatives, and you made Yu feel ashamed and despicable." A reptile-like existence like you dares to kill members of my Yuan family, regards the majesty of my Yuan family as nothing, and thinks that Yu's sword is not sharp enough, and wants to test the sword with your own and your whole family's head!"

Tokugawa Ieyasu trembled like sifting chaff, his whole body was as soft as mud, choked up for a long time and couldn't utter a word of pleading, he could only watch Genyoshi throw him to the guards, staring at his figure being dragged away , slowly said: "So you deserve to die, you deserve to die a long time ago! Yu just fulfilled you and sent your whole family to Huangquan to reunite."

Honda was sweeping past Hirotaka Honda, Toji Honda, and Tadashi Honda who were captured in the team, bowed and said, "Please show me, how should the Tokugawa retainers deal with it?"

Genyoshi caught a glimpse of some apparently unwilling warriors in the queue, and pondered: "Anyone who is willing to follow Tokugawa Ieyasu to death can stand up now, and I will give him a chance to fulfill his loyalty."

"Who is afraid of your threats, it's just death!" Honda Tadakatsu struggled fiercely, but Kakizaki Yoshika was a head and a half taller than him, and it was not easy to capture a dwarf who was only 1.4 meters tall. Duo Zhongsheng's performance is also very interesting, and he yells at him when he can't struggle.The faces of the samurai in the hall changed before they cursed a few words.

Hiroko Honda couldn't see it.He shouted repeatedly: "Hei Hachiro. Shut up!"

"Hiko Saburo, what are you afraid of? Isn't it all about death? Don't we, samurai, still fear death? Ah!" Honda Tadakatsu yelled loudly, for fear that others would not know that he was not afraid of death.

Yuan Yishi smiled indifferently: "Since you want to die so much, I will grant you, and those in the Tokugawa vassals who want to die loyally will be fulfilled!"

In panic and confusion, Tokugawa Ieyasu was forcibly taken out of Ohiroma by two samurai. Along with him were Tadakatsu Honda, Tadakichi Torii, Mototada Torii, Tadamasa Abe, Tadashi Okubo, Ishikawa Iecheng, Sakai Tadashi, Hiraiwa Omokichi, Natsume Yoshinobu, Uemura Ietsu and other loyal officials all died.But what's interesting is that most of their families chose to survive, preferring to live with humiliation rather than exterminate the family.

If Honda Tadakatsu, who was impulsive, was removed from the Honda family, most members of the Honda family chose to survive, such as Osuga Yasuka, Sakakibara Kiyomasa, Sakakibara Yasumasa and other former ministers of the former Kira family took the opportunity to join, representing Tokugawa Okubo Tadashi, Okubo Tadasa and other brothers who were powerful warriors in the family expressed their obedience. The broken ship of the Tokugawa family is destined to sink, and it is better to struggle to survive than to be buried with it.

Hundreds of members of the Matsudaira family were all killed, the women were given to the samurai as concubine, and Sekiguchi Sena was betrothed to Watanabe Shouzuna as the main wife.Masahisa Matsuhira, the family governor of the Matsudaira family of Okusa, changed back to the original Miao character Xixiang family, and the Matsudaira family of Sakurai changed the family name to the Miao character name of Sakurai.Since then, there has been no samurai family named Matsudaira in the world.

Except for a few hypocritical samurai who neither wanted to die nor to become an official, they voluntarily returned to agriculture, and the living generations of Tokugawa genealogy chose to serve in the Ashikaga family without exception. There is a set of Ishikawa's numbers, and Aoyama's Zhongmen have been properly settled.

Among these people he found an interesting samurai, his name is Dazura Changan, his father is the ape music teacher of the Takeda family, Dazura Taifu Juro Shinan, who studied under Jinchun Liu's family, and met the leader Kinharu Xikatsu, whose family is Kinharu who specializes in Kyogen The Dazang style, which was created separately, is a long-standing Dazang style, and the time of its establishment happened to be the era when Dazang Xin'an was born.

Okono Shinya came to Kai from Harima and took refuge in the tent of Takeda Shingen as an imperial ape musician. His son Okono Changan despised the low status of the ape musician, so he learned the skills of internal affairs from several outstanding priests in Kai. , Takeda Shingen relies heavily on his unique secret skills of calculating arithmetic with one hand and using two minds.

In his teens, he served as the envoy of Kurokawa Kinzan mining, and served as the main executor of Minami Shinano Kinji Kinzan. As the Takeda family expanded the three territories of Suenen, he became the envoy of Suruga Kinzan, and the direction of his subsequent duties From Suruga, he was transferred to Yuane to serve as the magistrate of Himajo Town, and then transferred to Mikawa Country to serve as the second servant of the servants of the Tokugawa family.

These big leaps have greatly benefited him, and at the same time made him entangled with the Tokugawa retainers in a daze. Among them, he has a particularly close relationship with Okubo Tadashi and Okubo Tadasa brothers. Xia married his daughter as the wife of the wife. Before this kind of secret betrayal was discovered, he learned that the Takeda family suffered heavy losses and Jun Enzo lost control. He also sneaked into Okubo's house and hid. At this moment, the Okubo brothers surrendered , he had to come out to show his face.

"Okubo Chang'an is now renamed Okubo Chang'an, father-in-law is Okubo Tadashi, righteous brother is Okubo Tadashi..." Yuan Yishi felt like laughing but couldn't laugh, wandering back and forth, Okubo Chang'an still became attached to Okubo's family, thinking After a while, he said: "Although he is a corrupt official, his ability is still good, and he will not have the opportunity to monopolize the power if he is in a different position, so let him do it."

Then Yoshitoshi Minamoto ordered to bulldoze Saijo Castle, the former leader of the Mikawa Kingdom, and plant a thousand red-leaf trees and a thousand cherry blossom trees nearby. I love the beautiful scenery of Kyoto when the maple leaves are red. It is the most wonderful enjoyment to enjoy the cherry blossoms in spring and autumn in Kyoto. Of course, her favorite flowers of all colors are indispensable.

A Hongye Shrine was built on the original site of the old city. The main gods enshrined were his father Yoshiyao Kira and his mother Aihime Nakain. The early death of his father and mother was his great regret. Feng came to cherish the memory of the deceased relatives, and hoped that the couple could live more comfortably in heaven.

In addition, a Saijo Shrine was built opposite the Red Leaf Shrine. The main deities enshrined are his two elder brothers, Kira Yoshinori, Kira Yoshinori, uncle Kira Yoshitomi, and uncle Kira Yoshiaki. The name, origin, age, and even life of each of the victims, such as Yuan and the maid with a small surname who died in Saijo Castle, are recorded, so that these people who died for the Kira family can also enjoy a share of incense in heaven Blessings, this is probably the only reward that is useful to the loyal.

After dealing with all this, it was already the beginning of June, and it was the season of heavy rain and floods. He needed to sort out the military affairs before the battle and a lot of government affairs transferred from his hometown Edo Castle. In terms of study and study, Yuanyi always came and went in a hurry when he was on the road. Recently, when the father and son rarely talked, he needed to find time to talk to his son.

The father and son sat down and talked again. This kind of question and answer is relatively equal. He likes it very much. Ashikaga Yoshitaka asked: "I have heard my father say several times that among the heroes in the world today , there is the name of Nobunaga Oda Kami Sosuke, but this person chose Ashikaga Yoshiaki to enter Beijing to be an enemy of our Ashikaga family, and then abolished the emperor and repeatedly rebelled. This person should be a relative and ally of our Ashikaga family , why did you make such a move?"

Yuan Yishi nodded and smiled: "Oda Nobunaga is indeed a hero today. Yu's Inu Gozen and Ichi Gozen are also daughters of the Oda family, but this person is not very close to Yu. It is impossible for Yu to allow the Ashikaga family to replace him, and he is also very clear that this idea cannot be supported by Yu, which is why Shangluo made the decision to establish the Ashikaga Yoshiaki and seek hegemony.

Supporting Ashikaga Yoshiaki just fits the meaning of seeking wealth and wealth, and abolishing the Emperor is desperate to seek great wealth. These two gains made him change from a national samurai in Owari to three councilors and deputy shoguns in an instant. The territories of the five countries in Guinei have become the overlord of Guinea, and the above gains are not insignificant. This is something that I will never get if I follow Yu. "

Ashikaga Yoshitaka nodded thoughtfully, and asked after a while: "Then Oda Nobunaga is now a puppet court, attacking Sakamoto, burning Mount Hiei, and arresting the emperor everywhere. What is the reason for being able to sit firmly in Kinai and mobilize the army, and mobilize the Mino and Owari men to cause rebellion?"

Yuan Yishi did not answer his question directly, but shook his head and smiled: "If Saburo put himself in the situation of Oda Nobunaga, and learned that Yu led 23 elites from the Eastern Kingdom to attack the rebels, there are three roads in front of you to choose. , first to attack Sakamoto, second before aiding Vietnam, and third to defend Mino or Sanhe, how should you choose?" (To be continued...)