This kind of chaotic Chinese army is nothing to be afraid of. It is not easy for a group of Chinese people with ulterior motives to gather together and expect them to act together. Without the support and influence of powerful names, this group of Chinese people is a joke. Their ability to look after the house is
There is more than enough in the hospital, but it is slightly insufficient to expand and dominate, and it is even more wishful thinking to unite and enterprising.
After all, this is not the Northern and Southern Dynasties era two hundred years ago. Ashikaga Takauji had already obtained the title of direct descendant of the Genji family in Kawachi before he was defeated in Kyushu, so he retreated to Kyushu with a group of defeated soldiers and not long after that he raised an army of 200,000 to re-enter.
In Kyoto, the power of fame has lost its effect as the Ashikaga Shogun family continues to weaken.
What's more, the current general Ashikaga Yoshiteru is in Kyoto. In the past few years, the situation was so good that it looked like a renaissance. But Ashikaga Fujimasa, a puppet of the Furukawa Imperial Palace, chose to launch an attack on another member of the same clan who had just obtained the imperial palace.
It's so funny, not to mention that he, an idiot, has no right to be righteous at all.
This farce was already doomed to have no good outcome before it even started. Yoshitoki Kira temporarily ignored Ashikaga Fujimasa's angrily shouting, but mobilized five thousand troops from the garrison in Niigata Town, Shimotsu, to leave Echitsu and enter Dewa Country via Sakata Port.
Taking advantage of the short period of time before it started to snow, he quickly launched a severe punishment campaign against the people of several countries in Dewa Country.
These five thousand troops were led by Masashige Naito and Katsunaga Irobe who were stationed in Dewa Province respectively. They were responsible for punishing Tendo Yorisada, Mitsushige Nozawa, and Yoshizou Daihoji who were dissatisfied with the reduction of the seal. They joined the garrison of Kira in Dewa Province and added
The army of the people of Dewa Province surrounded Shimizu Castle with 13,000 troops. Mogami Yoshimitsu led another 3,000 troops to attack Tendou, Nozawa and their accomplices Shiratori and Kangae. The overall situation was very serious for Kira's army.
favorable.
Date Terumune wanted to break into Dewa Country several times to launch an attack on his great enemy Yoshimitsu Mogami, but he was severely stopped by his father Date Harumune. For the Date family, the face of the family governor was more important, and the Date family's
Maintaining hegemony is more important. The inheritance of the Date family's family business is the most important. The face of the family governor is not as important as maintaining hegemony, let alone passing on the family business. When the former conflicts with the latter, face is secondary.
When he first received the alliance invitation from Ashikaga Fujimasa, Date Harumune was opposed to it, but he, a reclusive former family governor, would not be more authoritative than Date Terumune, the current family governor, because he chose to be in his prime.
When the family governor was passed down to his legitimate son who was only a teenager, Date Harumune could not significantly interfere or even obstruct his legitimate son's political judgment just because of his different ideas.
This means that it will prompt a new round of confrontation between the family governor. Just like the Tianwen Rebellion that year, this is almost the reason. Due to the adoption of his adopted son, Date Yuzong had serious ideas with the family governor's successor, Date Qingzong, and then the old family governor Yi Zong
Da Fengzong was ousted from power by his son Date Qingzong and was forced to live in seclusion. As the initiator of the Tianwen Rebellion, he was well aware of the consequences of the confrontation between the two generations of family governors.
Date Harumune knew very well that Ashikaga Fujimasa was unreliable, but his words were of no use and he did not dare to use them. He did not choose to obstruct the Hodashiro family's greetings, but expressed his attitude reasonably and then kept his mouth shut.
The foundation of the Date family needs Date Huizong to protect it and let him practice it a few more times to facilitate his growth.
Now Ashikaga Fujimasa has been proven to be a fool, and the so-called anti-Echigo alliance he initiated has also become a laughing stock. Now the Kira Army has chosen to launch a major attack on the rebels in Dewa Country before the heavy snowfall. At this time, the Date family is
It's not convenient to step in rashly. It's still a problem how to get back at this critical moment when heavy snow is approaching.
Secondly, he was worried that if Kiragi was angered by such an attack on the supreme leader, the Date family would be listed as the first target after the coming spring. Whether it was an army of 10,000 or 20,000, they would rush into Inuwa Country and attack Yonezawa.
It will be a disaster. The Date family's current physical strength is absolutely unable to withstand the Kira family's army attack. This can be judged from the last battle for Nakayama Castle.
If rushing into the top leader at this moment is the stupidest choice, it would be equivalent to the Date family blocking the gun for Ashikaga Fujimasa, the instigator, and using the Date family's destruction in exchange for slowing down the Kira family's expansion. What do you think?
It was a meaningless and very stupid choice. Therefore, Date Harumune did not hesitate to call his impulsive son to give him a scolding. After completely scolding Date Terumune, he warned him not to be impulsive.
The Date family's failure to take the bait meant that the rebels in Dewa Kingdom lost their most powerful support. Under the siege of tens of thousands of troops and Mogami Yoshimitsu's plan, they only slightly provoked the relationship between the Daihoji clan's retainers and used
The different voices within the Taihoji retainers group against the rebellion easily prompted the lord of Tozenji Temple to unite with several family elders to suddenly attack and imprison Tosa Rin Chando, the old man of Touzuku, the author of the book, and then strangled Yoshimori and his son Manmon of Daihoji Temple and opened the city in person.
surrender.
Kira Yoshitoki was very happy to accept this person who knew current affairs, and immediately promised to hand over all the inheritance of Daihoji Yoshimasu after his death to Tozenji Yoshinaga, and then pretended to be generous and released Tosabayashi Zentou and other former officials of the Daihoji clan.
, in fact, secretly encouraged them to avenge their master's family, so Tozenji Yoshinaga, the lord of Qingshui City, fell to the ground before his throne was warmed. He was beheaded by the dead warriors of the Daihoji clan and committed seppuku to die for his late lord.
Just a few days after this back and forth, the prestigious Dabaoji clan disappeared. After this blow, Tosabayashi Chandong was disheartened and chose to escape to Mount Haguro to become a mountain monk in the wild without caring about worldly affairs. Dabaoji
All members of the clan and their family members were dead and crippled, and they no longer had the strength to resist the purge of Kira's army, and the Qingshui Territory fell into the hands of Yoshitoki Kira.
Perhaps the drama of the genocide of the Daihoji clan was so scary that the people of the originally noisy Dewa country suddenly became as honest and obedient as chickens. Those people who cheered for Ashikaga Fujimasa and shouted "The Kira family get out of Dewa country"
Everyone ceased their activities, and for a few short days, the entire Dewa Kingdom was quiet as if there were no samurai.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Tendo Yorisada and Nobuzawa Mitsushige were very single. They did not give several armies a chance to join forces and attack for encirclement and suppression. They simply opened the city gate and surrendered in a posture of asking for forgiveness. This behavior has been in the past for a long time.
The last time I performed it was in front of Yoshitoki Kira, and Yoshiki Kira was quite moved at that time, and he immediately gave permission to Anzu and appreciated their act of surrender.
Less than two years later, Tendo Yorisada and Nouzawa Mitsushige seemed to be planning to repeat their same tactics to obtain forgiveness. Unfortunately, Kira Yoshitoki, who felt that he had been deceived, had already made up his mind and decided to abolish the two families.
So these two house governors and seven groups of their respective sons and nephews were directly captured and forcibly transported to Kasugayama Castle. In fact, they were sent to Sado Island to work as miners halfway. There was no hope of leaving that island in this life. The Tendo family and the Nozawa family
The territory naturally fell into the hands of Yoshitoki Kira.
As for the other six Mogami Hachimon families, Shiratori, Hanhejiang, and several temples that supported the rebels were all subject to corresponding penalties of reduced fiefdoms. The reduced fiefdoms of these families were all placed under the direct control of Mogami Yoshimitsu.
It took Mogami Yoshimitsu a moment to fully understand what being punished as a direct leader was. When he stared at the people of the country whose seals had been reduced, it felt a bit like a weasel giving New Year greetings to a chicken.
Before he could deal with Onodera Kagemichi, the lord of the three Senhoku counties, the first heavy snowfall of late autumn came to Dewa Country. When the heavy snow fell, it basically announced that the war of that year was over. Naito Masashige and Irobe Katsunaga retreated to the defense area with their troops.
The pace of garrisoning and marching came to a complete halt. This made the people of Dewa country heave a sigh of relief.
It is no longer necessary to clench your fists and give a strong blow to the rebels of Dewa Country. An additional five thousand troops are enough to deal with these dishonest people of Dewa Country. These five thousand people are all from Echigo locals in Shimotsu who are more tolerant of the bitter cold. In the future,
They will be left in Dewa Country as a guard for a long time. With these five thousand reinforcements, they can basically be stable. It was during the autumn harvest assessment meeting held to take a routine inventory of this year's agricultural income and expenditure that Shan received the
The belated latest news from Kinai.
A wave of unrest hit the Kinai, and its intensity was completely beyond Kira Yoshitoki's expectation. First, in April, Asakura Yoshikage and Asai Nagamasa jointly announced a high-profile announcement that they would plan to transport traffic between Tsuruga Port and Sakamoto Town.
The road set up checkpoints to collect heavy taxes, which meant forcing Sakamoto Town into a dead end.
Of course Yamamoto Tokiyuki could not allow them to be so unscrupulous, so he teamed up with Nakajo Tokihide to quickly seize Tango Maizuru Port, find another outlet on the west side of Wakasa Bay, and pretend that if you want to force Sakamoto Town to death, it will be a big deal.
It's a dead end. You won't be able to collect a cent of business tax and you'll offend the Kira family to death.
Asakura Yoshikage and Asai Nagamasa didn't seem to care about this threat at all. In their eyes, the Kira family had no influence on the internal affairs of their county. Soon, Asakura County, Ixiang County, and the Asakura family in Omi State
Several customs offices were quickly set up in Tsuruga County to collect taxes. One customs office in each county collected a tax of 10% of the total value of goods from business travelers passing through this place. The three counties needed to collect the tax three times, and the trade was allowed to go on without any reason.
The process increases costs by 30%.
What's even more egregious is that Asakura Yoshikage actually ordered Tsuruga County Governor Asakura Kageki to levy high cargo handling fees for ships berthed in Tsuruga Port. Instead of levying a head tax, he levied a 50-10% levy based on the value of the goods.
Waiting for the transportation fee, this is just pretending to be a toyota king who just wants to have fun and get out. Asakura Yoshikage also contacted Wakasa to protect Takeda Yoshinomi, and Tango protected Isshiki Yoshimichi in an attempt to attack the Kira army in Maizuru Port.
Launch a pursuit and attempt to use this method to implement countermeasures against the Kira family's infiltration.
Takeda Yoshitomi immediately launched a relevant crusade motion, and was jointly opposed by his younger brother Takeda Nobukata, who held the real power in the family, as well as important ministers Awaya Katsuhisa and Yoshimi Masakune at the evaluation meeting. Among them, Yoshimi Masakune had the most violent reaction.
He even did not hesitate to turn his face on the spot to express his strong dissatisfaction. Takeda Yoshito didn't think it was possible and did not dare to make it too tense. Thinking about it, this is just a conflict between the Asakura family and the Kira family. If they have no relationship with their Wakasa Takeda family, they will just go with the flow.
Talked.
Isshiki Yoshimichi didn't care about Asakura Yoshikage at all. A few years ago, this guy, together with Takeda Yoshitō, attacked the Tango Isshiki family's territory, and today he came to him again to rebel against the Kira family. It was obvious that he wanted to use him as a gunman, and
On the contrary, the Kira family sent Mitsukane Numata to contact Isshiki Yoshimichi early and told him that a lot of the tax revenue from Maizuru Port would be returned to the Isshiki family. They only garrisoned the port and controlled it as a port for entry and exit of trade with Kyoto.
This is very important news for the Isshiki family. Although the Tango Isshiki clan, one of the four original shogunate officials, has been strong for more than a hundred years, this clan has basically withdrawn from the shogunate since Isshiki Yoshiki was killed by the evil Gosho Ashikaga Yoshitsune.
He was an important minister and had been subordinate to the Western Army during the Yingren Rebellion and had been sanctioned. His family business had long since declined.
Tango Kingdom is the only country that can barely hold on to its family. It is no longer the powerful samurai family with high prestige in the past. Tango Kingdom has a sparse population and barren land. The only thing it can rely on is the tax revenue from a few ports and castle towns. If these are excluded
He is really just a poor local warrior.
The sudden capture of Maizuru Port by the three thousand invading troops of the Kira family has revealed that the Isshiki clan has a powerful military force that is completely irresistible, and the entire Isshiki family only has an army of three thousand. Faced with such a powerful opponent, Isshiki Yoshimichi even did well
They were prepared to fight to the death to recapture Maizuru Port, and the messenger Mitsukane Numata sent by the Kira family at this time was very good at alleviating the confrontational mood of the Isshiki family. Returning the Isshiki family's tax revenue will not expel the original port.
To implement it, you only need the garrison and security authority of Maizuru Port.
Then Kira Yoshitoshi wrote him a personal letter telling him that he had no intention of getting involved in Tango Kingdom. These 3,000 defenders could serve as the defenders of Maizuru Port to guard the east gate for Tango. From now on, the Isshiki clan only needs to manage the territory carefully.
That's it, Isshiki Yoshimichi repeatedly weighed and felt that Kira Yoshitoshi's request was too much, which made him, the governor, feel embarrassed. But he knew very well that this was the fate of the small country's daimyo.
A few years ago, he was still aggrieved by the invasion of the Asakura family. In the past few years, he was annoyed by the tyranny of the Miyoshi family. He secretly cursed the chaos in the world for allowing these lowly samurai to ride on the head of his family, but now he encountered
When he met a member of the same clan whose family was even higher than his own, Isshiki Yoshitsune had no intention of continuing the fight to the death.
Kira Yoshitoki also mentioned in the letter that he could provide some conveniences to Maizuru Port, such as providing discounted prices for the renovation and reconstruction of Abeyama Castle, the residence of the Isshiki clan, which also included the reconstruction and renovation of Abeyama Castle Castle Town, and Tango Street.
The expansion and organization can provide corresponding help, and this can also be applied to the reconstruction of Maizuruko Town.
In addition, Isshiki was willing to use flax, aquatic products, honey and agricultural products to deduct the corresponding construction costs. However, this made Isshiki Yomichi very satisfied, and then he planned to cooperate with the Kira family. You must know that Tango
It is a very small territory, lacking land and not rich in mineral resources. It only has a few specialties that are not very valuable. The Isshiki family's generous life in Tango relies on tax revenue from the trade route to Kyoto.
Since the Heian period, Tango has always been valued by the imperial court as the northern window of Kyoto. With its convenient transportation advantages and comfortable environment, it has become one of the places favored by ministers. Therefore, Tango's business activities are relatively developed.
Some businessmen from Sanin in the Western Province will land at Maizuru Port to go to the capital. Finance and taxation are the only main income that can be used by the guardian of Tango. If Isshiki Yoshimichi refuses without knowing the current affairs, it may be that Maizuru Port cannot get it and he still needs it.
If you lose these preferential treatment, you will really get nothing.
Compared to Asakura Yoshikage, who only joined forces verbally without delivering any real benefits, Yoshikage Kira from Echigo's sincere cooperation made Isshiki Yoshitsune feel that being from the same clan was more reliable, so he didn't think much about it.
Recognizing the fact that the Kira Army controlled Maizuru Port, they signed a series of cooperation agreements with the Kira family, including the construction of the Abeyama Castle and Castle Town mentioned earlier, the construction of Tango Street and Maizuru Port.
This package agreement is expected to take a construction period of five to seven years, and will require an investment of more than 100,000 Kanbun Yongle for renovation. The reconstructed eastern area of Tango will become another important outlet for Kyoto, which will greatly enhance the economic vitality of Tango.
And business exchanges will also make the Isshiki clan's family economy greatly improve, and the guardian of Tango Kingdom, Isshiki Yomichi, will be more comfortable than before.
Moreover, because both Kenkobuyama Castle and Maizuru Port are the private property of the Isshiki clan, the debts that the Isshiki clan needs to bear are also a series of astronomical figures. A clause was added to the agreement that if the Isshiki clan is unable to pay off the debts when the agreement is completed, Maizuru Port will be automatically transferred to the Isshiki clan.
It is transferred to the Kira family as collateral to offset the debt. If the converted debt is still not enough to compensate, the territory will need to discount it.
It is certain that Isshiki Yoshimichi could not afford to repay this huge debt until the moment of his death, or that he never thought about repaying this huge debt at all, but only wanted to enjoy the comfortable life of five or seven years and the Kira family.
With the huge dividends brought by the huge investment, who knows what will happen in five or seven years. Maybe the world will be more chaotic, maybe the Kira family will disappear, maybe the world will be peaceful and Yoshidao will come to Beijing and become an important minister.
Even if we do not consider this unreliable possibility, it is not the so-called monk who rings the clock for one day. It is also conceivable that in five or seven years, the Kira family will be able to hug this thigh. The so-called big tree that is easy to enjoy the shade may be a tree that can
The big tree that is leaning up, as for the problem of Maizuru Port, is not important at all, there is always a price to pay for hugging.
This can be understood as a way for the Kira family to use money to buy Tango. A strong army is a tachi that kills Yingye, and a strong economic strength is a soft knife that kills people without blood. This can be easily avoided by using such a set of business methods.
In order to seize the port and cause serious conflicts, use money to open a path to buy a peaceful transition method that the local indigenous warriors are willing to accept.
