Chapter 1432 The king is accompanied by his ministers
Maeda was a little worried. Did he act too disappointed just now, making your superiors notice something was wrong?
She was about to smooth things over with a playful smile, but Yiyin spoke first.
"Benefit, I want to entrust this war to you, and you will be the general of the anti-Three Goods coalition."
"Forehead???"
"What? You don't want to?"
"No, it's not. It's just that the anti-Three Goods coalition has almost taken over all the forces in Western Kinshasa. How can I be qualified to be the general?
Not to mention Hatano of Tanba Province, Araki of Settsu Province, Tsutsui of Yamato Province, and Zaga and Nerai of Kii Province, these outsiders with different thoughts.
Even the three powerful local sects, Hatakeyama Hosokawa and Mibuchi, who are close to the Shiba family, will not obey me.
Only if you step in and take charge can everyone be convinced and obey orders."
Yiyin shook his head and said.
"The Shiba family already has three Shiba territories. In addition to the Toshiba family's Owari Shiba territory, which is deeply embedded in the Oda family's territory, the two territories in Kanto are too far apart in recent years, which always makes it difficult for me to take care of both ends.
The situation in Konki is getting more and more weird. The siege network created by Nobunaga caused all the powerful samurai families in Konki to jump out and besiege the Oda family.
I don't believe that Nobunaga's siege network will disappear just because of a piece of agreement. As long as Oda Nobunaga's ambition remains, if the siege network fails the first time, sooner or later there will be a second or third time.
If I was not in Konge at that time and was presiding over important affairs in Kanto, and the chaos in Konge suddenly got out of control, how would the Shiba family react?
In recent years, the safety of the Shiba Territory needs someone to protect it. The Hokurikudo Trading Route and the Shiba Chu Fund are the source of welfare annuities. These are the vital interests of the Shiba family, and I cannot afford to lose.
Interests, I hope you can take on more important responsibilities for the Spo family and become the military ballast for peace in recent times.
After this great chaos, the Hosokawa Mibuchi family will definitely move closer to me. The Hatakeyama family is weak and has long followed my lead.
If the four families of Shibahatakeyama, Hosokawa and Mibuchi can strengthen their military alliance, plus the surrounding forces that are friendly to our Shiba family, we can form a coalition again at any time to safeguard our interests.
If you can take on the responsibility of general general in my fight against the Three Goods this time for me, you will have the qualifications and status to lead the coalition forces.
In the event of an emergency in the future, even if I am out of reach in Kanto, I can authorize you to form a coalition again to protect the peace of Japan."
Yoshigan decided to compensate Maeda for her interests by promoting her from the military commander of the Konkispo Territory to the military commander of the entire Konkispo force.
In recent years, the Shiba Territory only has 200,000 koku. It is impossible for Yiyin to add knowledge to Maeda's interests. This will destroy the balance of power among the important officials of the Shiba family.
And the peaceful development route advocated by Yiyin made it impossible for him to use force to expand his territory and use expansion to increase the knowledge and behavior of his important ministers.
Fortunately, the Shiba family is the best among the traditional guardians of daimyo, and Yoshigan can promote Maeda's interests in terms of traditional status and give her alternative compensation.
Different from the centralized approach of the Warring States Period, in which daimyo desperately expanded their territories and concentrated power to establish military dictatorships during the troubled times, the territorial mobilization power and actual influence of traditional samurai families were actually not consistent.
When the Ashikaga shogun was at his most powerful, he only had 200 imperial palaces, but he was able to make all the samurai in the world use them.
The same is true for other famous samurai families. For example, during the Eighth Generation Shogun Rebellion, the Hosokawa family, one of the three leaders, and the Yamano family, one of the four leaders, faced off, and each brought strength far beyond their own.
This is the political ecology of traditional samurai protecting daimyo. According to their own interests, powerful samurai from various places choose to join the Hosokawa and Yamana factions to attack each other.
As a representative of the traditional samurai family, Yoshigan Shiba cannot arbitrarily annex local samurai families and innovate the political system like Oda Nobunaga did. That would be destroying the roots of the Shiba family itself.
His approach is still to unite powerful martial artists who share his own interests and fight in the same camp for a common goal.
In this troubled world where rituals and music have collapsed, the martial arts family who yearn for traditional order actually have little choice.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the current general, is a loser. Besides Yoshigan, who else can they look for?
Therefore, during the Yatsudai Shogun Rebellion, the traditional samurai family could still choose between the Hosokawa family and the Yamano family, both for the sake of justice.
But today, it seems that all the shogunate's great interests are in the hands of Yoshigan. If traditional samurai want to maintain order and interests, they can only actively or passively join the Shiba camp.
As a result, the power of the generals of the Sibo faction has been very great in recent years.
If Yiyin appoints a person as the military chief to safeguard the interests of the Spo camp in recent times, then this person's power is theoretically almost unlimited.
The great affairs of the country lie in sacrifice and military affairs. To ensure the stability of the political power, the two most important points are righteousness and war.
Yiyin asked Maeda to take charge of the military affairs in recent areas. This was to promote Maeda to the position of the second-in-command in recent areas.
There are two main reasons why he made this determination.
First, Maeda's interests are always cautious and loyal, and Yoshihiro must give adequate returns.
In recent years, Maeda's interests have actually been neglected. Even if she doesn't care, the Iga Maeda samurai group who eats with her will not be convinced.
This main body comes from the fellow villagers' groups in the four counties of Shimo-Owari, and they are very united. They are the most important military group in the Shibo Territory in recent years, and it is impossible for Yiyin to ignore their dissatisfaction.
From an emotional point of view, Yoshigan also hopes that Maeda's interests can be furthered. Why not reuse Samurai Hime who is so loyal, reliable and capable?
Secondly, Yiyin really needs a military commander in recent years to help it.
Twice, he has been passively affected by the chaotic situation in Konki and had to return from Kanto to Konki, causing Kanto affairs to be negatively affected.
As the saying goes, there are only three things that can happen.
Yiyin can't always deal with it passively. He needs some emergency plans so that he can be more calm when encountering unexpected situations.
Among the recent candidates he could trust for important ministers, Akechi Mitsuhide was the first to be eliminated.
This sinister woman walked alone several times, which made Yiyin very uncomfortable. Yiyin was reluctant to kill her, but he did not dare to give her too much power, lest she would one day lead her into a ditch and make her unable to get up.
Nizi Shengjiu is a good candidate, but Nizi is a party in the mountains, and everything must be considered together.
Yamanaka Yukimori has already become the deacon of the Kanto Palace in Kanto. Now that the power of the Kanto Palace has greatly increased, she has also followed the rise.
Nizi Katsuhisa has been the acting official of Sibo in recent times. Yiyin must consider the balance of power and cannot give more power to Nizi's party in the mountain.
Although Takada Harano has made great achievements that surprised Yoshihiro several times, her shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, her business superiority and lack of military merit.
The Wu Family Group is, after all, a violent group.
No matter how powerful Takada Haruno is in making money, Samurai Ji will not obey her. The samurai believe that the gun in their hand can be dismounted from the horse, and the new iron cannon is more popular than Takada Haruno.
After all the calculations, only Maeda's interests are the most suitable.
The emotional entanglement also allowed Yiyin to trust her and trust her to hand over military power in recent areas. As long as she still had the heart to care for Yiyin, Yiyin would not worry about her loyalty.
As he was thinking about it, Yoshigage subconsciously used his little finger to lightly tickle the palm of Maeda's hand, causing her to feel itchy from the palm of her hand to her heart. Looking at Yoshigan's handsome face, she couldn't help but be fascinated and wet.
Although Maeda Yoshida was very attracted by Yoshigan, he still did not dare to agree easily.
"Your Majesty, my background is too low, so I am really unqualified."
In recent times, the most important thing for samurai families, especially the shogunate samurai family, is family background.
Miyoshi Nagakei was born as the head of the Hosokawa clan. He wanted to control the shogunate in the name of the governor, but he was strongly opposed and despised by the samurai family of the shogunate.
The coalition force that Yoshigan wanted to be led by Maeda's interests included top nobles from the third-in-command family, such as Hosokawa Hatakeyama, and countless descendants of other famous families. How could she not be frightened?
Maeda Yoshi's mother was a concubine of the Takikawa family, and her family was in poverty.
As soon as his mother died in the war, his father starved to death. If his adoptive mother, Toshihisa Maeda, hadn't stopped by to see the family of her old comrade, Maeda would have starved to death.
At that time, Oda Nobunaga wanted to replace Maeda Toshihisa with his own Maeda Toshiie. As the heir to the Maeda family, one of the reasons was that Maeda Toshihisa had no heirs and his adopted daughter Maeda had no interests at all.
Maeda Toshihisa was forced to abdicate, and Maeda's interests were transformed from a direct line of the Maeda family to a branch of the common line, and his status was reduced by one level.
The Takigawa family and the Maeda family are both natives of Owari. In recent years, the samurai family have been over the top. Even Oda Nobunaga was complained about being an Owari countryman, let alone a little bumpkin like Takigawa Maeda.
Maeda's interests are not even the direct descendants of the little bumpkin, they are just the common descendants of the separated families. How can they command the nobles of the shogunate?
If she was just being humiliated, Maeda would not be afraid. But she was afraid of living up to Yoshigan's expectations, and even more afraid of embarrassing Yoshigan and being humiliated.
Maeda thought about it and said again.
"I beg you, Your Majesty, to think twice."
Yiyin felt a little unhappy when he saw her cowardly look.
I have slept with you, so I feel sorry for you, and I have tried every possible means to give you a chance to climb up. But you have pushed back and blocked me, wasting all my efforts.
If those stupid and famous families in the shogunate were reliable, Yoshigan would of course be willing to give them a chance. But they had neither ability nor loyalty, so Yoshigan could only use Maeda to benefit one of his own.
Seeing Maeda's interests hesitant and hesitant, Yoshihiro knew that good words and persuasion were of no use. To deal with this guy, he had to use provocation.
Yiyin pretended to be helpless and sighed.
"I thought you could take care of my worries, but now it seems that I didn't think well and put you in trouble.
In fact, this war is not difficult to fight. Mitsuhide Akechi contacted all parties in Kyoto, suppressed the general, and brought over the Tanba and Settsu clans.
Takada Haruno also made great achievements in Sakai Port. On the one hand, he received the support of Ishiyama Honganji Temple and hired Zagazo and Neraizo. On the other hand, he persuaded Miyoshi Yasunaga and Azaya Fuyuyasu to invest.
Both of them have done very well. Since you don't want to be the general, then I can't force you. I will be in charge of the overall situation, and you will be the striker.
Don’t worry too much about the war, the war may be over before you reach the enemy’s formation.”
Maeda's eyes widened with eyes. These messages were the latest information obtained by Yiyin along the way. Naturally, she didn't know.
Unknowingly, these rivals have been involved in this?
Thinking of this, Maeda couldn't help but panic.
She has been the chief military officer of Sibo Territory in recent years, and she has the best understanding of the current situation of the war. If it is true as your Majesty said, the Miyoshi family may have collapsed as soon as the war started, so what does she have to do with it?
After waiting for two years, I finally got an opportunity to go into battle and make meritorious deeds. But before I could do anything, I was intercepted by Akechi Mitsuhide and Takada Harano. How could this happen?
Seeing Yoshigan looking at him with a smile, Maeda Yoshida couldn't help but smile bitterly.
She knew that this might be the emperor's way of provoking the general, but the anger in her heart surged up and she couldn't suppress it.
At this time, Maeda would not worry about his humble background and worry about the disobedience of those famous families in recent times.
Thinking about it, I have even slept with immortal figures like Shiba Yiyin twice. Those useless descendants of famous families are nothing! Why should they worry about me? Have they ever slept with Shiba Yiyin?
Maeda gritted his teeth and now wanted to be the general of the anti-Three Good Alliance forces.
But she had just rejected Yiyin, so she couldn't ask for it again, so she could only look at Yiyin helplessly, with a begging look in her eyes.
Yiyin chuckled when he saw that she was submissive and pitiful like a domestic dog about to be abandoned by its owner.
"What? Have you figured it out?"
Maeda had no time to worry about his face at the moment, so he nodded quickly.
"I have figured it out, I have figured it out, and I am willing to share your worries with you."
Seeing her face turn red, Yiyin looked pitiful as she was embarrassed and afraid of missing a good opportunity, so he couldn't help but stretched out his finger and tapped her forehead.
"You, I really don't know what to say about you."
Being a little angry by Yoshiyin's intimate actions, Maeda lowered his head and whispered softly.
"I don't want to lose."
Yiyin was stunned for a moment, then tapped her forehead lightly and said softly.
"fool.
You have guarded the border for me for the past few years, so I understand in my heart that it is not easy for you.
Don't worry, since I said I would help you become the general of the anti-Three Goods coalition, I will naturally help you get out of trouble and won't make it difficult for you.
You, as long as you are a good military commander, you will be fine."
Yoshigan's soft words passed through his ears, and a warm current of courage grew in Maeda Yoshi's heart, and he blurted out a sentence without thinking.
"If you do a good job, is there any reward?"
Yoshigan was stunned, and Maeda Yoshie finally realized that his words were too ambiguous, and he quickly waved his hand and said.
"That's not what I meant, no."
Yiyin looked at Maeda's blushing pretty face and glanced at her curvy figure. He suddenly had a thought in his heart and moved his index finger.
He looked at the Spocky warriors guarding him in the distance, lowered his head and spoke in Maeda's ear.
"Come to the castle tower tonight and talk to me."
Maeda's body froze, and she clearly felt that Yiyin blew air on her ear holes, and when he left, he lightly touched the corner of her mouth with his lips, which seemed like a kiss but not a kiss.
But because Yoshigan deliberately avoided the sight of Samurai Hime in the distance and hid on the other side of Maeda Yoshi's body, others could not see Yoshigan's small movements.
For a moment, Maeda Yoshi's breathing became a little heavier.
"Your Majesty has an order, and your subordinates must accompany you."