Outside Kamiowari Iwakura Castle, Oda Nobunaga’s shogunate.
It was getting late, and Nobunaga looked at the setting sun. The weather today was good, and half of the sky was dyed red, just like Iwakura Castle with flames on the other side.
Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda Tsuneaki knelt down behind her, looking at each other with uneasiness in their hearts.
Since the summer harvest, Oda Nobunaga has been busy launching the Northern Expedition. She has endured it for too long, and waiting for one more spring has almost exhausted her patience.
Fortunately, she did not wait in vain, as the four counties of Owari almost decided to send a message.
Facing Oda Nobunaga's murderous army, and being persuaded by the secret tricks of the Shimowari samurai, the Kamiowari samurai had little resistance and surrendered to Oda Nobunaga's military might.
Only Iwakura Castle, as the ancestral home of the Iwakura Oda family, still persisted in resisting.
Nobunaga was not in a hurry, and shot military reports of the surrender of samurai from various places into the city one by one, and also ordered the samurai who had surrendered to Owari to come with their troops.
The flags of various families inside and outside were flying under the city, which made Nobuyasu, the governor of the Iwakura Oda family in the city, panic all day long, and the morale in the city was getting lower and lower.
In the end, Oda Nobunaga had no intention of persuading him to surrender. As soon as the various places were pacified, he ordered each family to take turns to attack the city, day and night.
In just over a day, the city was destroyed.
"Hengxing, pass on my order.
Oda Shinyasu assassinated the guardian Shiba family's surviving son, Yoshigan, in front of him, and raised an army to resist me, the guardian appointed by the shogunate, in the rear. This crime is unforgivable and will be punished by the clan.
The Wu family who followed her and resisted were all exterminated, thinking that future generations would be on guard."
Ikeda Hengxing was stunned for a moment, and when he saw Oda Nobunaga looking over at him with emotionless eyes, his heart trembled, and he shouted loudly and went out to deliver the order.
At this time, Oda Nobunaga was already the guardian of Owari, a great name with more than 500,000 koku, and his thoughts were getting deeper and deeper.
Even her breast sister Ikeda Hengxing didn't dare to speak freely in front of her anymore.
Niwa Nagahide felt it was inappropriate and did not dare to say anything.
Nobunaga glanced at her.
"Do you think I did too well?"
Niwa Nagahide hesitated for a moment before answering.
"Oda Shinan does not know good from evil and deserves what he deserves."
Oda Nobunaga nodded with satisfaction and continued to look at the sunset that fascinated her. As for the cries coming from Iwakura Castle behind her, she turned a deaf ear.
Niwa Nagahide wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, kowtowed and left.
Now Oda Nobunaga is becoming increasingly powerful, and his behavior is more arbitrary than before. But what if he is so arbitrary?
The Wu family doesn't care whether your governor is overbearing or not, they only want rewards and knowledge. Whoever can bring them benefits is the best governor.
The Iwakura Oda family has been the guardian of Owari for generations, and is the direct descendant of the Oda family.
Whether it was the succession conflict of the guardian generation or the suppression of the common people by the clan, Oda Nobunaga was not prepared to leave her family behind.
After what happened to Shiba Yigen, Nobunaga was a little upset. This time, she would not make the same mistake again.
All hidden dangers that threaten her rule at Owari must be eliminated. Not only the Iwakura Oda family will be destroyed, but even the samurai family who helped Oda Nobuan defend the city this time will not be left alive.
She knew what Niwa Nagahide wanted to say.
The society of the samurai family is orderly and orderly. Now that we have gained substantial benefits, we should change the policy and reduce the number of seals to leave some room. Oda Nobunaga's arbitrary approach completely abandoned tradition.
This kind of eradication will make other martial arts families fearful, fearing that they will have different intentions and cause more trouble. After all, it is against the rules.
What a nonsense rule, Oda Nobunaga sneered in his heart.
She has not been loved by her father since she was a child, and her mother abandoned her to the countryside early to be a wild child. Her sister is determined to remove her from the position of family governor.
Everything she has now was earned with swords, guns and military force.
The rules of the martial arts and the cycles of nature are all cowardly words that losers talk about.
The strong should have everything, and the weak should kneel at the feet of the strong and beg for their lives.
As for the descendants of Yize, hahahaha, I won’t care about the flood after I die.
Oda Nobunaga unified Owari and was looking at Mino with his heart burning.
Along the way to the Tokaido, there is Sunfu Castle farther east, and the Three Kingdoms 700,000-koku daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto, who leads Suruga, Ene, and Mikawa, is also sharpening his sword and getting ready to go.
The Suruga Imagawa family is said to belong to the Ashikaga clan, but its status is not high. This can be seen from the positions of the three families arranged by the shogunate in Tokaido.
The closest one is the Owari Shiba family, then the Mikawa Kira family which is a little further away, and finally the Suruga Imagawa family which is far away on the edge of Tokaido.
Among them, the closest ones are none other than the Shiba family, one of the three leaders, followed by the Kira family, whose family status is one level lower.
As for the Imagawa family's boast that Ashikaga has no heir, Kira Tsugumi, and Kira has no heir, Imagawa Tsugumi, they are nothing more than deceiving people in the countryside and serving the country in Tokaido.
Even if each branch of the Ashikaga family is extinct, and Hosokawa and Shiba are completely dead, who will get distant branches like Kira Imagawa to jump out?
But the Wu family society still relies on strength after all.
The Imagawa family has been cultivating the Tokaido for ten generations. In addition to their ancestral property, Suruga, they also conquered the two countries of Toe and Mikawa, with a stone height of 700,000 koku.
As the eleventh generation governor of Imagawa, Imagawa Yoshimoto also established a directory of Imagawa's kana, internally trained in politics, and diplomatically, the Takeda family and the Hojo family formed a three-family alliance.
From then on, Imagawa's residence, Sunpu Castle, became the largest castle town on the Tokaido Road, and its business was as prosperous as that of Sakai Port.
The Takeda family conquered Shinano Province, and the Hojo family conquered Kanto, both of which made the Imagawa family make a lot of money.
Takeda Koshu gold and Hojo Izu gold are both rare gold mines in the world. The two families came to Sunfu Castle in exchange for Owari's grain and grass, Ise's weapons, and Mikawa's war horses.
The Imagawa family made a big profit from all the specialties of the Tokaido front line, and their power was even higher than that of the million-koku daimyo.
Imagawa Yoshimoto is even known as the No. 1 bowman of Tokaido.
The meaning of this bow is the person holding the bow, which refers to the counselors in her hands like rain, the fierce generals like clouds, and the overwhelming military power. She is the number one Ji warrior in Tokaido.
Today, at the Sunpu Castle Castle Tower, Imagawa Yoshimoto was in high spirits and spoke to his father, Shou Kei, who was sitting here.
After the death of her teacher Taiyuan Xuezhai, her father was the person closest to her. It was these two who helped her rise to the top and assisted her both internally and externally for many years.
Therefore, whenever there is something big to do, she will come to inform her father and listen to his opinion.
"Father, my daughter is determined to go to Luo."
"Shangluo?"
Shou Keisen is the husband of the seventh generation Imagawa family governor, the father of two Imagawa family governors, and Imagawa Yoshimoto is also her biological daughter.
This man maintained the Imagawa family property throughout his life, and was highly praised by both internal and external martial arts families, and was known as the male daimyo.
When I heard that my daughter was going to Luo, I naturally didn't really think that she was going to Kyoto, so I thought about it carefully.
"You want to destroy the Oda family while Owari is still undecided?"
"My father is wise."
Naturally, Imagawa Yoshimoto would not underestimate this person, but he could see through his intentions at a glance and couldn't help but praise him.
"The Miyoshi family and the shogunate have been in a war in recent years, and they have no time to take care of the Tokaido. This is a good opportunity for my family to show its strength.
Mino Saito Yoshiryu killed his mother and sister, and Owari Oda Nobunaga forcibly seized the four counties of Kami-Owari. All the samurai families in the country were in panic.
I intend to use the name of Luo on the road to occupy Owari. Let's see if there is an opportunity to drive some wedges into Meino."
The Imagawa family is also in trouble.
Although the family is powerful, the shogunate has always disliked the Imagawa family, and her family is far away on the east side of Tokaido, so it cannot help with the affairs of Konki. Therefore, it has always ignored the Imagawa family.
The Owari Oda family and the Mino Saito family on Tokaido are close to Konki, and they are always keeping an eye on their powerful neighbors to the east.
The Mikawa Matsudaira family destroyed the protecting Kira family, but finally let the Imagawa family pick peaches and take over Mikawa Kingdom. How could we not let the two families be afraid?
Nowadays, Owari Mino is in turmoil, and the shogunate has been busy in recent years. This is a God-given opportunity.
