A bowl of matsutake porridge with two slices of pickled dried radish is what the Wu family considers delicacy.
After Yoshigage finished taking a few bites, he looked at Satake Yishige with a smile as he chewed carefully. She seemed to be really enjoying this so-called delicacy.
Seeing that Yoshigin was waiting for him, Satake Yoshige hurriedly finished the drink in several sips with a look on his face that he was still unsatisfied.
Ii Naomasa and Tachibana Kaoru served the after-dinner tea and took away the food trays. Yoshigan took a sip of tea and said calmly.
"What are your plans next, Your Highness Satake?"
Satake Yoshitaka fell to the ground and kowtowed again.
"The guilty minister is treasonous and immoral. I sincerely apologize for my sins by committing seppuku. I only ask for the mercy of the saint. The sin is on me. If I can stay in the Satake family, the guilty minister will shed tears of gratitude and die in peace."
Yiyin sighed.
"The land of Guanbazhou has only been at peace for three years, and you have started another war. You deserve to die.
If the death of one of you can stabilize the overall situation of the Eight Prefectures, I will chop off your head with one knife now and spread the news to all directions.
Do you know how much I hate you in my heart? Just because of your own opinions, the future I planned for Kanto Shi is in chaos. It is really hateful and I want to kill you right now.
I just lament that the inheritance of the Satake family is not easy, so this gives you a chance to make a crime and perform meritorious service. Whether you can find a way out for the Satake family depends on you."
Satake Yoshie narrowed his eyes.
She naturally knew that Yoshihiro's compassion was not to show pity for the Satake family, but rather to be a little difficult to deal with the current chaotic political situation.
Satake Yoshige is the organizer of the rebellion of the Eastern Congregation, and no one knows the internal situation of the Eastern Congregation better than her.
Yoshigan was a little unsure about how to properly deal with the Eastern crowd, and wanted to hear Satake Yishige's thoughts.
Satake Yoshizhong's heart moved. She gave up her son and gave up this time. She was sincerely convinced of Yoshigami.
The Saint was really good at fighting. He led a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers to suppress the Eastern Army's 30,000 to 40,000 troops on the north and south fronts and beat them hard. Although Satake Yoshige felt aggrieved, he did not lose unjustly.
But Satake Yishige's admiration for Yoshigami does not mean that she has no resentment towards those at the Kanto Palace.
I can't beat the saint, and I won't dare to be disrespectful anymore, but those bastards from the Kanto Palace should be dissed.
The saint's original intention must be good, but those in the Guandong Service Office must have executed it badly. It was they who failed the saint!
Satake Yoshi again thought about it and bowed.
"Being a saint, sinners dare not hide anything and speak out boldly.
Although this war caused a great fuss, it was not necessarily a bad thing for the saint.
First, the power of the saint is so shocking that the guilty ministers were removed from office. Changlu, Shangzong, and Anfang were all unable to defeat the lone saint.
From then on, no one in Guanbazhou dared to fight against the saint. I, the sinner, have served as a warning to others, and others should take it as a warning.
Secondly, the Guandong Shisuo ignored the kindness of the saints and expelled the Eastern people from the seats of the Grand Council, and wanted to forcibly annex the four eastern countries of Guanbazhou.
The guilty minister had no way to appeal and started a rebellion. Naturally, he deserved death. But were the people in the Guandong Palace not wrong?
Are they not afraid of causing turmoil to the saint by bullying the four martial families in the eastern part of Guanbazhou like this?
Although the Kanto Temple was founded by a saint, there have been too many newcomers in recent years, and they do not have enough respect for the saint.
Today's misfortune is actually the best opportunity for the saint to attack the Guandong Palace."
Yoshigan looked at Satake Yoshijue without saying a word.
He encouraged Satake Yoshitaka to ask her to help dismantle the Eastern Masses. Unexpectedly, this guy was so bold that he directly pointed the finger at the Kanto Palace and sent out a wave of output.
Leaving aside the fact that Yoshigan has established a higher prestige through the war, Satake Yoshige's criticism of the Kanto Palace immediately aroused the disgust of Ii Naomasa.
Ii Naomasa scolded.
"Wise words and charming words!
According to you, the people in the East started a rebellion during the spring plowing season, and you even ordered the dikes to be destroyed and the fields flooded, causing a loss of life. Is this all the fault of the Kanto Palace?
You still dare to instigate the saint here, thinking that the saint is as shameless as you and wants to use the livelihood of the people of the eight states to calculate the concubines of the Guandong Palace. What is your intention!
At this time, you still don’t know how to repent and don’t forget to sow discord! Holy man, I ask you to personally kill this official and restore peace to the eight states!”
Yoshigan glanced at the indignant Ii Naomasa. This little girl was still too upright. Her words not only denounced Satake Yishige, but also put Yoshigan on the fire of justice.
Yoshigan is not as righteous and selfless as Ii Naomasa says. He actually has his own dissatisfaction with the current situation of the Kanto Palace.
As Satake Yoshige said, as more and more new forces entered the Kanto Palace, especially after the entry of the three powerful feudal clans of Uesugi, Hojo and Takeda, Yoshigan was no longer able to control the situation by hiding behind it.
This time, the Kanto Palace was so greedy that it forced the people of the East to rebel. Yoshihiro was actually quite unhappy about this.
The current reality is that the people in the East have been beaten to death, and the Guanbazhou that was in chaos during the spring plowing period is also in a mess.
The situation has become such a bad one, so we might as well take advantage of the situation and kill the people in the East with one end, while also beating the Kanto Palace with the other end.
Yiyin originally didn't want to cause trouble, but since the matter has already broken out, it wouldn't be a loss if the finishing work was done beautifully.
Ii Naomasa is still too young, and the world in her eyes is black and white, but Yoshigan cannot think about problems like her.
Politics means making friends as many as possible and enemies as few as possible, and uniting the majority to deal with a handful.
After the Dongfang people were beaten to the ground, Yiyin's biggest trouble was no longer these dead dogs, but the greedy and disobedient people at the Kanto Palace, which needed Yiyin's backhand to suppress them.
Satake Yoshige claimed that the current mess was a good time to clean up the Kanto Palace. Although her words were shameless and based on the suffering of the people of Kanto Province, she was right.
As the saying goes, if it is not broken, it cannot be established. If the situation is not bad, there is no reason for Yiyin to clean up the Kanto Palace.
In this case, it is better to listen to what Satake Yoshige said, Yoshige said calmly.
"Tell me more specifically."
A glint flashed in Satake Yoshige's eyes. Yoshigan was interested in suppressing the Kanto servant, which made Satake Yoshige very excited.
The Satake family will definitely not get better this time, but if it can make the people at the Kanto Palace also suffer, Satake Yoshitaka will be very happy.
She said solemnly.
"Sage, in order to catch you off guard in the New Year, I started preparations as early as last autumn to raise food and grass.
In the New Year's surprise attack, each of the Eastern Houses has deployed a large number of manpower, which has delayed the spring plowing, and the autumn harvest of Ueno, Hitachi, Kamizou, and Anfang Shikoku will be reduced by at least 30%.
The Lower Kingdom is the main battlefield this time. Furukawa and Yuecheng are not able to defend the city, so the spring plowing must have been delayed.
The Chiba family and the Takagi family were pursued and beaten fiercely by Bosou's coalition forces. They huddled in Taicheng, the national capital. They lost almost all their territory, and they certainly couldn't take care of spring plowing.
In addition, I destroyed the dikes and flooded the fields in Nanliu Mountain outside Xiaojin City, and the overflowing Tone River was raging in the central part of Shimonoseki. Not to mention the autumn harvest, the already almost mature summer wheat would probably rot.
Saint, you summoned the rebels from the middle and lower reaches of the Tone River. Every village was mobilized in a hurry, and a lot of local spring plowing manpower must have been mobilized.
The southeastern part of Ueno Country and the Higashi Musashi Land are both fertile grain-producing areas. This year's autumn harvest will definitely be worrying.
In the land of Guanzhou, seven of the eight countries have to reduce production. This winter will be difficult."
A word came to Yiyin's mind: great famine, and he frowned and sighed.
"Satake Yoshige, you really deserve death."
Satake Yi kowtowed heavily and said.
"The sage is right. It would not be a pity for me, Satake Yoshie, to die, but for the sage, it is not necessarily a bad thing."
Ii Naomasa's eyes widened with anger, and he wanted to interrupt again to scold Satake Yoshige, but Yoshige glared back.
"Naomasa Ii, don't speak. Your Highness Satake, please continue speaking."
Satakeyoshi sighed heavily.
"I am guilty, but who in the Guanbazhou Wu family is not guilty? A hundred years of troubled times, moral decay, each family only knows how to clean up their own troubles, when have they ever thought about justice?
The moralistic Wu family has all died in a hundred years of chaos, and those who survived are all selfish and self-interested people.
Your idea of a saint being born and reestablishing righteousness is good, but the Guanbazhou Wu Family is not worthy of your benevolence and righteousness.
In this military disaster, I, Satake Yi, committed an unpardonable crime. Everyone in the East has their own reasons for their sins, but don’t those people at the Kanto Palace have no responsibility at all?
It was they who abandoned the spirit of unity that you founded the Kanto Palace, excluded the people from the East, and forcibly suppressed their political opponents!
Isn't it ridiculous that the Kanto Palace has kicked out the Four Eastern Kingdoms, but claims to represent the entire Guanba Province?
With the greed of the western warriors and the grief and indignation of the eastern warriors suppressed, how can the Guan Eight Prefectures avoid chaos?
If it were not for you, the saint, I, Satake Yoshitaka, would never surrender to the people of the west like Uasugi Hojo even if I breathed my last breath!
Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated. They will be burned together, so why should we be afraid?"
