The Kira family insists on implementing relevant policies. As long as a farmer comes to Echigo, he will be given twenty pieces of land for farming. If a family has more than five people, each additional person will be given five pieces of land. The cattle and horses for farming will be provided by the Kira family.
Lending and registering the cattle according to their age and health, more cattle will be owned after five years, exempt from one-year period payment, three-year housing payment, and provide housing policy. The policy is also being implemented intensively.
This policy still aroused a strong response after being disseminated by Hattori Ninja's propaganda network. Within half a year, 50,000 people gradually moved in. Even so, there was still a large shortage of farmers in Echigo. Just counting the land owned by the Kira family and Nagao family.
Half a million farmers are needed for farming, but now there are only 200,000. The only option is to give higher wages to force farmers to work harder.
Twenty people doing the work of fifty will definitely be very tiring. Men, women, old and young all go into battle. It is not uncommon to even bring straw mats, mosquito nets and mugwort to sleep directly on the ground. They work from dawn to midnight.
There are many farmers in the country, and you can often see three or four-year-old children carrying small burdens and following their elder brothers to collect firewood. Kira Yoshiki has nothing to do about this.
In the Middle Ages, Japanese old farmers were no worse than Chinese farmers in terms of tenacity. They paid 60% of their grain as annual tribute, and at the same time they had to pay various taxes such as household money, house farewell money, military service, and general service. In the event of a disaster,
When the New Year comes, it is common to abandon the elderly without food and drown babies. In terms of poverty and harshness, life is no worse than in China.
Of the 21,000 acres of land owned by their two families, about half is planted with three new grains: potatoes, corn, and pumpkins, and the other half is planted with rice. There is no choice but to do this. Except for low-level samurai, town residents, and farmers,
The new grain is the staple food. Senior warriors, monks and the like still eat rice as their staple food. Of course, they usually drink pumpkin porridge, corn rice, potato stewed quail, etc., but they rarely eat meat food secretly.
The main consumer was Kira Yoshi, who promoted field meals for the entire army. Pumpkin, corn, and potatoes, combined with pickled radish roots, chicken soup, and fish soup can supplement most of the nutrients needed. It is more delicious than dry, cold, and hard rice dumplings.
There are many of them, so they are loved by the soldiers who are marching and fighting.
Before winter, the excavation of river ponds gradually stopped. Under the command of Li Ding, tens of thousands of farmers gathered around a dozen swamps of different sizes. First, they dug out the inlets and outlets of the swamps to keep running water flowing out, and then built dams.
To build polders, Yoshitoki Kira spent nearly 100,000 guan on various construction projects in Echigo that year. The amount of investment was astonishing.
At the same time, another interesting thing happened in Shinano Kozhin County. Sanada Yukitaka may have become addicted to stealing from the city. This time, he repeated his old trick and used the night attack to target Yasuda Keimoto's Susuki Castle. He used it to instigate rebellion.
The Shinano samurai opened the city gate and sneaked into the city. However, they were attacked head-on by the Yasuda army who had been prepared for it.
Facing the fierce attack led by Yasuda Keigen himself, Sanada Yukitaka immediately realized that the news had been leaked and the sneak attack had failed. However, the Sanada army's numerical advantage made him hesitate to retreat, because more than 500 Sanada troops had been suppressing Yasuda Keimoto.
During the team fight, Waiqulun was completely occupied, and he was confident of defeating the enemy within half an hour.
This hesitation almost caused the Sanada army to fall into trouble. Not long after, a secret sentry lurked outside the city issued a warning. Two unknown numbers of troops appeared outside the city. Sanada Yukitaka was so frightened that he was covered in white-haired sweat, and he did not care about the rush to seize the city.
retreat.
As soon as they escaped from Susuki Castle, Sanada's army unfortunately encountered the Kakizaki Kei family and the support troops of Yoshie Keizi's troops who were chasing after them. Sanada Yukitaka made a prompt decision and left a team of ashigaru to fight to the death, while he led the army.
Our team fled eastward along the Chikuma River at high speed.
The samurai of the Danhou Army were loyal ministers who had served the Sanada family for many years. In order to buy more time for the Sanada Army to retreat, they bit the Kakizaki Kei family. The pursuers of Yoshie Keizi's troops did not let go and rushed to the front of Yoshie's team.
was blocked, and at the same time, the Kakizaki team, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was blocked behind them.
This obstruction resulted in the loss of a valuable pursuit. Kakizaki Kage's angry yelling was of no avail. If he went around at this time, it would definitely arouse Yoshie Kage's dissatisfaction. However, his military strength and eagerness to gain the fastest combat power were slightly inferior.
After a while, it was obvious that they could not catch up after being held back for a quarter of an hour by the fifty-man team. Finally, the two of them discussed and decided to give up the pursuit and return to the army to rest.
In this night attack, the Yasuda Army only lost a few dozen people, and it still had a certain advantage in the scene. Then it was almost beaten by reinforcements without knowing it. The Sanada Army lost more than a hundred people, including those after the break.
The Sanada family suffered a big loss this time.
Echigo quickly received the battle report from Yasuda Keimoto and others, and quickly issued new orders. In the next few months, the old Kakizaki Keie of the Kashiro clan served as the flag leader, and Hattori ambushed Hattori in Shinano.
With the cooperation of ninjas, they eliminated the Takeda family's spies who were hiding in Northern Shinano and the samurai who were instigating rebellion one by one. The traitors were treated in the same manner as Kira Yoshitoshi's execution method, and they were hanged directly outside the city as a warning to others.
Nearly a hundred samurai were hanged outside the castle towns of various cities. The brutal executions and stern warnings made the people of Shinano fear the Hattori ninjas. At the same time, they used the corpses of these public executions as bait, and soon caught those who came regardless of the danger.
A samurai who collects the corpses of his comrades.
The Hattori ninjas showed off their skills, using various interrogation methods to pry open the mouths of these samurai, and then followed the clues to catch a line, which also involved several hidden big fish.
During this massive purge, more than 200 wealthy people and local servants were executed, and their land was confiscated, equivalent to a thousand machibu. The scope of executions was concentrated in Gengji County, Nianke County, and Xiaozhen County.
Lord, it is worth mentioning that the Minai County where the Kawanaka Island area is located, and the people in Takai County were not implicated. This result makes Yoshitoki Kira extremely satisfied.
The Great Purge severely shocked the people of Shinano with evil intentions, especially those wealthy families who had just attached themselves to the Kira family. The servants were frightened to death. Many people still harbored extravagant hopes for the Takeda family, hoping that Yukitaka Sanada would be able to
They led the Takeda Army to fight back again, but this time the Kira family told them with an iron fist that "this is a delusion" and that only obedience can be forgiven, and those with evil intentions can only be hanged.
The Kira family has a very strict rule of law and has never been merciful in dealing with such a wealthy family who does not know how to advance or retreat. They hang the first offender, change their behavior, and their relatives and retainers are assigned to the Echigo samurai as punishment. Although this method is not as good as Takeda Harunobu's frequent massacres. Vol.
The residents of the city despised him for his ruthless hard work, but it also deeply touched the hearts of countless Shinano samurai.
Neither the Kira nor the Takeda families are easy to mess with. The problem is that the Takeda family is weak and the Kira family is strong. The situation is relatively clear. Many Chinese people are beginning to figure out what they can do with the Kira family as a token of approval.
After this change in Shinano's situation, the people who believed in the Takeda family's unification of Shinano were gradually shaken. Takeda Nobushige, who was in charge of Xiaozhen County, and Yukitaka Sanada had to spend more effort to appease the people in the county, and they were unable to do so in the short term.
Suppressed Echigo's infiltration of Shinano.
Not long after winter started, a series of news came from Kyoto. First, the Itsukushima battle, which determined the Western Kingdom's dominance, broke out. Tao Qingxian, the actual leader of the Western Kingdom's overlord Ouchi family, married Izumo Niko Haruhisa, another Western Kingdom's overlord, at the beginning of the year.
Make a covenant to join forces to destroy the Maori family.
At this time, Nizi's family coincided with the changes in the New Palace Party. Nizi Qingjiu was busy eradicating Nizi Kunjiu, who had always been arrogant and domineering, and despised the authority of the family governor. Nizi Chengjiu and his family of military leaders were not only severely weakened in terms of military strength, but also spent a lot of money.
He wanted to annex the territory belonging to the New Palace Party and appease the foreigners who belonged to the Nizi family.
Seeing that their allies are so incompetent, and at this moment they just received the news that Mouri Gen has begun to build Miyao Castle on Itsukushima, this can be a thorn in the side of the Ouchi family and Tao Qingxian. Itsukushima Shrine is a famous tourist attraction in the West.
At tourist attractions, who among the traveling merchants would not go there to burn a stick of incense and worship the gods and Buddhas?
This is also an important source of financial income for the Ouchi family. How could this old boy Moli Yuan be allowed to take it? So Tao Qingxian decided not to wait for the cooperation of his allies and personally led an army of 27,000 to attack across the sea.
The Maori Army on Itsukushima.
Strictly speaking, Tao Qingxian's choice was not bad. The 27,000 Ouchi troops deployed this time were enough to crush the 5,000 defenders of Mori Motonari. Itsukushima is another small island surrounded by water. As long as
A large army besieged the Maori army on the island, and it became a battle of annihilation to catch the turtle in the jar.
He is not wrong to think so. The basis of the Ouchi family's dominance is the Ouchi navy. This powerful navy with seven hundred large and small ships maintains the Ouchi family's hegemony and dominance in the Western Kingdom and Kyushu, and with them
The Maori navy and the Kobayakawa navy that faced each other only had about a hundred ships in total, and more than half of them were Kobayashi ships. There were more than a dozen Kansai ships, and Anzai ships were the unique technology of the Miyoshi family, which had never been seen before.
With such a huge advantage in military strength and navy, Tao Qingxian was stubborn and determined to have his own way. No matter how he persuaded another important minister of the Ouchi family, Hironaka Takabao, it was of no avail. Compared with the strategy of encircling Yoshida Gunyama Castle to call for reinforcements, Tao Qingxian
They prefer to fight a war of annihilation, annihilating all the enemy's main forces, and the Maori family will collapse without a fight.
The result was far beyond his expectation. From the moment he entered Itsukushima to attack Miyao Castle, it had not been smooth sailing. The defenders of Miyao Castle were Naoyuki Kinohi and Motomasa Tsuboi, both of whom were former members of the Ouchi family.
The die-hard Ouchi family is not loyal to the Mori family either, but they resist with unexpected tenacity.
Miyao Castle happens to be built on one of the few cliffs on the island. The only access is a rugged steep slope. The attack angle is not good, the road is unusual, and the attack surface is narrow, which cannot fully exert the effect of a large army siege. By this time Tao Qingxian
He also began to regret his recklessness, but at this point, as the actual leader of the Ouchi family, could he bow his head and admit his mistake like Hironaka Takabao? Absolutely impossible! Even if he knew that he had made a mistake, he could never bow his head.
While Tao Qingxian was gritting his teeth and planning to go all the way to the dark side, Mao Liyuan was also waiting anxiously. Since the Daning Temple Incident happened four years ago, he had been keenly aware that things were about to change in the Western Kingdom. Therefore,
He worked hard and painstakingly to plan this war in order to lure Tao Qingxian into taking the bait. From the moment the war began, his strategic purpose had been basically achieved.
What was left to consider was how to encircle and annihilate the Ouchi Army, which was several times larger than our own. Motonari Mouri's strategy was to recruit the Murakami family's Mishima Navy to jointly attack the Ouchi Army. The Battle of Itsukushima began on September 21.
From that day on, Nomi Munekatsu, who served as a liaison with the Mishima navy, went to seek help with Motonari Mori's request for help.
Regarding the request of the Maori family, the Mishima Navy behaved differently. Murakami Yoshimitsu, the governor of the Innoshima Murakami family, first agreed. His wife was the daughter of Nomi Sokatsu, so it was natural for him to help his old father-in-law. He came to the island
The attitude of the Murakami family governor Toshiyasu when he came to Shima was very ambiguous. The family had already taken refuge with the Kono family, and he himself became the son-in-law and adopted son of the Kono family. He had long been separated from the other families.
The last and largest Noshima Murakami family chief photo is the Mishima Navy. The head of the family is Murakami Yamato Mori Takeyoshi. His official position is not claimed by a local daimyo. Because Murakami Takeyoshi's status is extraordinary. In the Mishima Navy
He is the strongest and has always been respectful to the shogunate.
Therefore, in order to commend Murakami Takeyoshi for his "loyalty" over the years, Ashikaga Yoshiki got him the official position of Yamato in the imperial court. As for the money to buy the official position, of course the shogunate could not come out. Murakami Takeyoshi made a very honorable contribution of five dollars.
Bai Guan chat expresses his gratitude.
Murakami Takeyoshi was not willing to help the Mouri family at first. What does Ouchi and Mouri have to fight each other to death? It was just a lie. Everyone was in harmony under the Ouchi family. Why should Ouchi and Mouri have a blood relationship?
When the time comes, let us help you?
When Nomi Sokatsu saw that this move was not working, he quickly called his lord for support. This back and forth was delayed until September 28, the seventh day of the Ouchi Army's attack on Itsukushima.
Mouri made some calculations and wrote another letter, talking about the "Tao Qingxian Itsukuo" established by Tao Qingxian on Itsukushima half a year after the Daningji Incident, which prohibited unknown ships from docking and the imposition of "police guards" on unknown ships.
"Materials" regulations, the Mishima Navy has not been doing well in recent years because of this regulation.
Mouri Genari mentioned in his letter: "If Yamato defends the palace and adheres to neutrality and the Mouri family is defeated, our Genari will definitely die in Itsukushima, and the Maori family will also perish soon. By then, there will be no more Western Kingdoms.
The opponent's Ouchi family will enact more stringent legal restrictions and even force the Murakami Navy to surrender. If the Yamato guardian does not comply, he will definitely encounter the crisis that our family is facing today... If the Yamato guardian is my Maori family
Let's work together to counterattack the Ouchi Navy, and I will swear to the gods and Buddhas to protect the privileges of the Murakami Navy in Seto!"
Motonari Motonari's judgment was very accurate. Murakami Bukichi was successfully persuaded. As soon as Kamishima Tomiyasu saw the Zong family dispatching, he also hurriedly followed suit. In the blink of an eye, the Mishima Navy gathered more than 300 large and small ships. The number of Maori's naval forces
The number of ships reached more than 500, and the navy's disadvantage was restored quietly, and the balance of victory was tilting little by little in the direction of the Maori family.
The end of every month is called an "evil day". In the Ming Dynasty, it was called a "bad day". Everything was unfavorable on the night of the evil day. The night before, Tao Qingxian had received a letter of surrender from Gui Yuancheng, who claimed to be the Western Kingdom.
Tao Qingxian, an unparalleled general, had no idea about "Huang Gai's fake surrender". When he saw the letter of surrender, he was overjoyed and agreed to accept the surrender on October 1.
They were waiting for something to happen. That night, the moon was dark, the wind was high, and the storm swept across Itsukushima. When he woke up the next morning, Tao Qingxian was full of hope and waited for Gui Yuancheng's surrender troops to arrive. At this time, suddenly there was a surprise in the camp.
There was a chaotic cry of killing, and a group of Maori troops from behind the Red Leaf Valley attacked the Ouchi Army, putting the unsuspecting Ouchi Army into a difficult situation.
At the same time, the Maori navy and the Mishima navy raided the Ouchi navy, which was also unprepared. The crowded Ouchi navy was unable to exert its numerical advantage and was overwhelmed by the Mishima navy, which was proficient in sea plunder.
Can't lift his head.
Seeing that the situation was excellent, Murakami Bukichi immediately used his magic weapon to bake the fire arrow. Suddenly, a raging fire continued to burn on the sea. The Ouchi navy was killed and was defeated. It only lasted for an hour. This maritime hegemon that had shocked the Western Kingdom for more than two hundred years was over.
disappear.
The naval army won a complete victory and cut off the Ouchi army's only chance to escape. The original intention was to catch Mouri Moto, the turtle in the urn, but he never thought that he would become the sad prey. A desperate raid completely defeated the Ouchi army.
Unable to fight back, after a whole day of fierce fighting, Tao Qingxian led the remaining troops to retreat to the seaside.
However, he would never have thought that the Ouchi Navy docked at Omotopo would turn into burned-out ruins overnight. Looking at the ships moving on the sea, there were no signs of "Up" flags. Occasionally, he could also see the Maori family.
The one-character three-star flag, but there is still a ship of his Ouchi family.
Tao Qingxian has realized that he has fallen into a trap carefully laid by the enemy, but he has not given up hope yet and insists on leading the remaining troops to continue fleeing towards the deep mountains and forests of Itsukushima. Every time he is chased by Maori, there will be a loyal Ouchi family.
The warrior voluntarily broke off the rear and escaped again and again after being chased. Tao Qingxian suddenly found that there were only a dozen or so people left around him.
He escaped for four days. During these days, Tao Qingxian risked his life to escape to Dajiangpu, but there was still no ship. At this time, Tao Qingxian was completely desperate.
In front of an unknown forest, he wrote his farewell words: "What regrets and regrets go back to the origin, destiny is destined to be here."
As a result, the generation of hero Mouri Yuan finally completed the triple jump in his life. He strode from a small wealthy family into the class of the Warring States Daimyo. The Ouchi family fell into decline uncontrollably. This represented the end of an old era, as if in
It heralds that the troubled times of the Warring States Period will usher in the last and craziest era.
It seemed that he had sensed a change somewhere, or was shocked to learn that in the Battle of Itsukushima, the powerful Ouchi Army of the Western Kingdom was defeated by the Mori family, annihilating more than 8,000 people and capturing more than 18,000 people.
In the imperial court, the old and sick Emperor announced that wars were recurring, disasters occurred frequently and the Yuan Dynasty was changed.
The new year's name was decided on October 23rd. The name of the Yuan Dynasty was Hongzhi. It came from the "Book of Northern Qi" and only inherited the treasure life and aspired to Hongzhi's body. It was the same as the Hongzhi era name of the Ming Dynasty. From then on, the remaining month of 1555 was
It is called the first year of Hongzhi.
During this year, they frequently entered Harima. The Miyoshi clan of Tamba and Tanzania suddenly stopped their expansion into the Kinai. A few months before the outbreak of the Itsukushima war, they turned their attention to the solid foundation of the Shikoku lair. The reason was the emergence of Sanuki domestic
This is the third time in recent years that instability has occurred.
Before that, Tokawa Ichino had been responsible for the war of the Sanuki people. However, with the death of Tokawa Ichin five years ago, the Miyoshi family's control over Sanuki gradually weakened. In the past few years, there have been many incidents in Sanuki.
Problems that arose could not be effectively solved, and the main force of the Mihaoshi family happened to be trapped in the territory and could not return to help, so they spent five years in comfort.
Now that the situation in Kinei is stable, Higashi-Harima has basically surrendered, and Tamba Kingdom has been completely sorted out, Miyoshi Yoshihide was ordered to return to Shikoku to pacify the people of Sanuki Kingdom, from annexation to digestion, and then to accumulate strength to wait for the next annexation. This is the rhythm of the Miyoshi family , and it is also the rhythm of most Warring States Daimyos.
The Awaji Navy, which suffered heavy losses, also initially completed its reconstruction work at the end of the year. Compared with the Awaji Navy three years ago, the quality of the soldiers of this new army has dropped significantly. In recent years, in order to improve the quality and sense of belonging of the soldiers, With a sense of honor and loyalty, Anzai Fuyasu led the newly formed Awaji navy to attack various pirates.
In the past, it was nothing for these pirates to wander around Seto. The Awaji Navy always turned a blind eye. Everyone knows that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. But three years ago, they lost a traumatic event. In order to regain their strength, Bones Thousand Days targeted them again, including the Tosa Navy, Kumano Navy and other key targets.
With excellent equipment and preliminary mastery of baked jade, he successfully caught the two naval forces by surprise, sinking more than half of them, and severely damaging and capturing dozens of large and small ships. Setouchi was shocked, and Anzai Fuyasu used this glorious victory to announce to the world the return of the Awaji navy.
With the power of this great victory, the Awaji Navy successively swept away several difficult naval forces, forcing several small naval forces in Kii to surrender. At the same time, they stabilized the pressure on the Iyo Kono family, ensured the smooth navigation of the Sanuki-Utatsu Port, and dominated Higashi Seto. Half of the country.
With this series of achievements, Anzhai Toyasu was greatly praised by Miyoshi Chokei, who transferred him to Sakai Town to guard Osaka Bay. His status, which had declined slightly in the Miyoshi family in recent years, was restored. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, The novel is better and updated faster!
