Warring States Eagle

While Echigo's dragon, Nagao Keitaro, was busy suppressing and pacifying the civil strife in the territory, Kai's tiger, Takeda Harunobu, was not idle either.

If the Dragon of Echigo, Nagao Keiko, is a born military genius, then the Tiger of Kai, Takeda Harunobu, is an outstanding strategist.As early as Tianwen's 19th year, when he learned that his father Nobutora Takeda had married to Suruga's daughter, Yoshimoto Imagawa's main wife Joiein died, Harunobu Takeda made a decisive decision and immediately sent the "Futayama System" in his family. "The Anayama family in Hanoi went to discuss the marriage of the two families.So two years later (Tianwen 21 years), Imagawa Yoshimoto's daughter Lingsongyuan (the daughter of Dinghuiyuan and Yoshimoto) was welcomed, and she became the daughter-in-law of Taro Takeda Yoshinobu (this is a standard cousin. ).

And in the 22nd year of Tianwen, Takeda Harunobu married the daughter Huang Meiin into the Odawara Hojo family through the intermediary of the Oyamada family in the county in the "Two Mountain System", and became the official wife of the Hojo Ujimasa, the son of the Hojo family Yasushi. In the 23rd year of Tianwen, After some hard work, Hayakawain, the daughter of Hojo Ujiyasu, was escorted by a large number of Sagami samurai to Sunfu Castle in a cage, and became the real wife of Imagawa Yoshimoto's son Ushi. The Takeda family and the Nagao family confronted each other On this occasion, the famous Kosho Shun Alliance finally took shape. In March of this year (Astronomy 23), the Takeda family, the Imagawa family, and the Hojo family finally met at Zentokuji Temple and concluded an alliance.

I don't know whether Takeda Harunobu expected to meet the Dragon of Echigo in the north a few years ago, and even started to arrange this tripartite alliance several years in advance.Now, just as the Takeda family and the Nagao family are about to fight in the northern part of the Eastern Kingdom, Takeda Harunobu happened to pass through this tripartite alliance.The stability in the south of the Takeda family has been completely stabilized.This allowed the Takeda family to fully compete with the Nagao family in the north.

same.Thanks to this alliance, both the Hojo family and the Imagawa family were able to shift their strategic focus.The strategic center of the Hojo family is naturally to continue to penetrate their own forces into the Kanto Plain, but this also leads to the Raptor Nagao family from Echigo.

Sometimes I really admire the dragon of Echigo, Nagao Jinghu, forcibly confronting the two samurai giants of the Takeda family and the Hojo family with his own strength, and even gave Echigo a hand from time to time during the battle. Later, those Chinese people who were hotheaded and conspired to rebel poured cold water on them.

Here the Hojo family and the Nagao family are facing each other, but the governor of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Yoshimoto, has finally begun to think about the matter of Shangluo becoming a member of the world, and if it is the Imagawa family Shangluo.First of all, the first obstacle must be solved. This is the Owari Oda family who is on the verge of civil strife.

At this time, Taiyuan Xuezhai, who was also a teacher and friend to Yoshimoto Imagawa, was seriously ill and recuperated at home for a long time.Lacking the warning from the prudent and resourceful Taiyuan Xuezhai, coupled with the fact that the alliance with the Takeda family and the Hojo family has solved the worries for the future, and the flattery and advocacy of some retainers at the right time, Yoshimoto Imagawa has already moved. I'm thinking about getting ready to go to Luo.

In this process of inspiring Imakawa Yoshimoto to go to Luo, the public minister from Kyoto and the newly appointed Shogunate's No. 13 general who conquered barbarians, Ashikaga Yoshiki also contributed a lot.

Ashikaga Yoshiki, who is dedicated to restoring the authority of the shogun, has become a puppet of the Miyoshi family at this time, but due to the area around Kinki, Kyoto at this time.There are also various forces such as Harumoto Hosokawa who is unwilling to fail, and the Liujiao family who are ready to take advantage at any time. In fact, Miyoshi Changqing's main energy is still fighting against these forces.The supervision of Ashikaga Yoshiki is really limited.It is precisely for this reason that Ashikaga Yoshiki has enough opportunities to implement his ambitions.

And to re-establish the authority of the shogun, you must first have an army, and then use the army to overthrow Miyoshi Changqing who is monitoring him.In this era, whoever has the biggest fist is really the boss.However, Ashikaga Yoshiki soon became a little desperate about the army.

Here's the thing.The generals of the Muromachi shogunate used to have a direct army. They were called "Mahuizhong" at the beginning, and later they were called "Bongxingzhong". Raised by the general, he served as the general's personal soldier in war, and served as a bureaucrat of the shogunate in peacetime.The third shogun of the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, had 3000 members of the public. Even after the Onin chaos, the ninth general of the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshitaka, was able to mobilize [-] members of the public to fight against the Omi Rokkaku family. However, Ashikaga Yoshiki At that time, there were only about a hundred people left in Fenggong, not even a sharp knife company.The reasons are simple: first, the general's family is poor; second, the general's family has no authority.

The shogun’s financial sources are as follows. One is the manors all over the capital, which are seized by daimyo and people from all over the country at the moment; the second is the taxes in the capital area, which cannot be collected now; Basically nobody cares.Under such circumstances, the general's family is very poor.It is said that the Eighth Generation General Ashikaga Yoshimasa sold many treasured paintings, calligraphy and tea utensils in order to build the Ginkakuji Temple. It is even worse when Yoshinaka Toshiki is here. How can he afford so many worshipers?

In addition, the public of the shogunate is becoming less and less attractive to the Japanese world. There are so many second sons of the famous samurai family, who are full of loyalty, and come to the general's account to do the work of dogs and horses, why?I just hope that the general will be happy one day, and he will be able to support him to grab the position of family governor by sending him a teacher.In addition, under the daimyo system of the Warring States period, the power of the family governor was strengthened, and the concubine basically became a retainer, and someone was in charge of eating and drinking, and he didn't have the leisure to travel thousands of miles to the capital to suffer.

So the general Ashikaga Yoshiki soon discovered that now he has neither money nor land, and he simply cannot organize a large-scale army.Under such circumstances, Miyoshi Changqing cannot be shaken without the army.If Miyoshi Changqing cannot be shaken, it will be even more impossible to regain the prestige of the shogun.The fundamental reason is that there is no money and no land. This is a vicious circle, and it is hard to get back.

The sad and angry Ashikaga Yoshiki thought for a while, and it was basically impossible to directly confront Miyoshi Changqing, so he thought of two more ways.

The first way is naturally to continue its previous assassination operations.He continued to secretly conduct his own assassin training class, and then waited for an opportunity to send an assassin to assassinate Miyoshi Changqing.It is estimated that his idea at this time is to assassinate ten times or eight times.Will it work out once in a while?

Another way.It is to keep making friends with various big names.After all, he is still the official of Kyoto.It is absolutely possible to contact other daimyos and use the strategy of driving tigers and devouring wolves to push down Miyoshi Changqing!The Tayama family and the Rokkaku family in Kinki are actually just small players. The Luo family in Kyushu; the Niko family and Mori family in the western country; the Imagawa family in Tokaido;Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshiki's vision is no longer limited to the Gyeonggi area, but to make a voice and let the Warring States of Japan become famous in various places.All come to Qin Wang.

For this reason, during this period of time, he really did a lot of things.

In the Koshin area, Takeda Harunobu attacked Ogasawara, and Ashikaga Yoshikura actively intervened in it; in the Xiguo area, Mori Moto and Nishi Haruhisa fought, and Ashikaga Yoshiki said that the two sides would return to the negotiating table as soon as possible; When the Raiders and the northeastern part of the Bungo Kingdom were in the two areas, because the surrounding borders were blocked by the Luo family, the news of the attack was not immediately publicized. It is estimated that Ashikaga Yoshiki will also send someone to mediate.For these actions of Ashikaga Yoshiki.As the dominant daimyo, he would naturally ignore it, but this did not stop Ashikaga Yoshiki from making these seemingly useless actions.After all, they came under the banner of public righteousness, and since they couldn't refuse, they simply put Ashikaga Yoshiki's envoy aside and continued their strategy.

In addition to constantly sending people out to carry out diplomatic work, he also generously bestowed various big names, giving the world the impression that "I am still a dignified general in the Ashikaga family". For a while, the Mori family, Date family, and Tsutsui family all received "" The gift of the word "vine" or "hui" - Hosokawa Fujitaka and Tsutsui Fujikatsu (that is, Tsutsui Shunqing) are the "vine" characters used before (Ashikaga Yoshiki was called Ashikaga Yoshito before the name was changed), Mao Lihui Yuan and Yi Dahuizong is the later word "Hui".It doesn't matter whether people pay attention to him (most of them don't, but it is still necessary to give them a favor), anyway, they just give them away.

Of course, the most important thing is to use the strategy of driving tigers to devour wolves to encourage famous people from all over the world to become King Luo Qin.The Imagawa family was the first to be encouraged by him, and now it's the Luo's family's turn.Successively defeated the Ouchi family and the Otomo family, who were once the overlords of Kitakyushu, and even annexed the spheres of influence of these two in Kitakyushu, especially after the news that they annexed the last territory of the Otomo family recently and forced the death of the Otomo family governor spread everywhere.As a result, the Luo family's prestige was unmatched in the Western Region, and its prestige was even stronger than that of the Hojo, Takeda, Nagao, and Imagawa families that rose in the Eastern Region.

Such a powerful Luo family was naturally the one that Yoshiki Ashikaga, who was in urgent need of foreign aid, was looking for.It can be said that the arrival of Ashikaga Yoshiki's envoy and the wooing of the Luo family are historical inevitability.

Of course, Ashikaga Yoshiki also knows that since you want others to work hard for you, you must know the truth of giving sweetness.As for the sweetness Ashikaga Yoshiki can give daimyos from all over the world now, there is nothing better than the service position in his hand and the official position negotiated with the emperor.So this time, Ashikaga Yoshiki sent Masamori's in-law Mimon Nobuhide as an envoy. Not only did he send a letter inviting Masara to go to King Luoqin, but he also brought Masanori a promotion in service and official position.

In terms of the military positions controlled by the shogun, Masara was already the guardian of Higo who was under the six ranks, from the guardianship of Chikuzen, the guardian of Chikugo, the guardian of Hizen, and the guardian of Buzen, the guardianship of the above-mentioned five countries .This time, the shogunate directly gave Zhengliang the post of Kyushu Exploring Questions under the four subordinates.

Kyushu Exploration is one of the most important local job systems of the Muromachi Shogunate. It is responsible for the Bungzen, Bungo, Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hizen, Higo, Hyuga, and Satsuma countries in the Kyushu area. The military and political power in these areas of Osumi country.Historically, in the early days of Muromachi, he served for Imagawa Ryotoshi, and later was hereditary by the Shibukawa family. After the Onin Rebellion, with the decline of the Shibukawa family, Kyushu Tanti has become a nominal one.Now that Zhengliang is given such a shogunate position, although he is not really able to lead all the military and political power in the Kyushu region, he has given Zhengliang a righteous name for intervening in the military and political affairs of the Kyushu regions.Not only did it make Zhengliang more justified his rule of the areas already controlled by the Luo family, but he even gained the name of righteousness for intervening in the affairs of hostile areas in Kyushu.

This time, in addition to the post of Kyushu Tanti, the shogunate also appointed Masara from the post of guardian of Bungo from the sixth generation.It seems that with the death of Otomo Yoshijin, the friendship between Otomo's family and the shogun's family in the past was completely wiped out. The post of Bungo guardian that Otomo Yoshin held was naturally given to Masara by Ashikaga Yoshiki as a favor.Since then, Zhengliang has been the legitimate guardian of the six kingdoms of Kyushu.

However, the above is not enough. What is even more exaggerated is that Ashikaga Yoshiki also asked Nakamimon Nobuhide to send several things to Masara.

The first is "painting", that is, sedan chairs painted in eye-catching colors, which were generally owned by famous daimyos in the Muromachi period.Of course, Ashikaga Yoshiki would not let Nakamimon Nobuhide really foolishly carry such a sedan chair all the way from the Kyoto area to the Kyushu area.Ashikaga Yoshiki is just letting Zhengliang get such a right right now.This means that the shogunate has recognized that the Luo family is a famous family name.

The second is the "red handle umbrella", which is similar to Tuyu. It was a symbol of the noble family in the Muromachi period. When going out for inspection, it was held high by the attendants.This "red handle umbrella" was brought from Kyoto by Zhong Yumen Xuanxiu.The retainer Togo Heiji and others immediately enshrined it solemnly.

The third is "Yakata", that is, Masaragi will be called "Yakata" in the future, which is a respectful title for high-ranking lords, such as Jingzhao Hosokawa.

The fourth item is the "white umbrella bag". It is not enough to have an umbrella with a red handle, but also an umbrella bag. In the Muromachi period, the guardian grid used a white umbrella bag, and the guardian grid used a Tang umbrella bag.Zhengliang is now a legitimate guardian of the six kingdoms, so he naturally needs these things to show his identity.It can be seen from this that in order to win over the Luo family, Ashikaga Yoshiki put all his heart into it.

The fifth item is "felt saddle cover", that is, a saddle covered with cloth and animal hair, which is similar to a white umbrella bag and is a symbol of a genuine guardian daimyo.

The sixth is the taboo of the word "Hui" bestowed on Zhengliang's son-in-law.Being teased by Ashikaga Yoshiki, he was already 12 years old at this time, and had already started to follow Masaragi as a minor surname. At the same time, Masaragi's son Tang Wangmaru, who participated in the Luo family appraisal meeting, changed his name to Luo Shi in Yuanfu Hui Liang.

(Okay, I’ve been sick recently, dragging my sick code words, and the update release time is not stable, but it is inevitable to ensure at least [-] words of updates per day. Well, recently, I actually insist on updating [-] words every day.) (To be continued.. )