No matter how ugly the negotiation scene was, Maeda Toshiie finally succeeded in holding down Uesugi Kenshin's hand, preventing her from continuing to attack the Echizen Oda army.
After that, it was a long period of wrangling.
Uesugi Kenshin didn't want to go back to Edo Castle to participate in the Grand Council, and he was too idle. Oda Nobunaga devoted himself to the strategy of Ishiyama, sharpening his sword to destroy the enemy bandits externally and kill the family traitors internally.
Shibata Katsuie was backed by the mainland of Echizen Province, so it was not difficult to supply. Uesugi Kenshin was squeezing the Kaga Etsuchu Ichikou clan, and there was no shortage of military supplies.
All in all, the Uesugi family and the Oda family were not in a hurry, and the two sides simply stayed at a standstill along the Daishoji River in Kaga.
Maeda Toshiie was busy running around Komatsu Castle and Daishoji Castle, making connections and building bridges.
The funniest thing is that the logistics and trade of Tsuruga Port, Mikuni Minato, Nanao Port, and Naoetsu on the first line of the Hokuriku Expressway trade route have not been affected at all.
At Tsuruga Port, Asakura Kageki lamented that the frontline bosses fought in a measured manner and did not forget to make money when killing people.
Shibata Katsuie pointed to the Three Kingdoms to get benefits, the Vietnamese and Chinese Noto samurai families relied on Nanao Port to enjoy prosperity, and Uesugi Kenshin made a large sum of money from Naoetsu's dividends.
After working on it for a long time, all parties in Hokuriku were quite satisfied with the status quo, except for Kaga Etsuchu and Ichigo Mune, who were worried.
Since you feel good, just keep procrastinating. Anyway, there are many troubles in this world, and if you procrastinate, they may be fine.
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The so-called righteousness of the Wu family and the so-called responsibility to calm troubled times are just words.
The Ashikaga Shogunate exists in name only, and the Hime warriors in Kinki Kanto are racking their brains to find a good position for themselves in the future new regime.
Everyone is working hard, but Yiyin, the bitter boss who is admired by the world, is worried about how to make money every morning when he opens his eyes.
The essence of political power is to rely on violent institutions to maintain rule, and effective control of violent institutions requires long-term and stable financial support.
Showing your fists is the most meaningless thing in this world.
Yiyin's current status is indeed due to his unparalleled achievements, but if he was just poor, there wouldn't be so many people willing to work with him.
Everyone is very realistic. If you have big fists, I will listen to you, but you can't make fist gestures every day. You have to give benefits. If you receive money and food from the Si Bo family, you can naturally be the eagle dog of the Si Bo family.
In the Wu family society, if you want to achieve great things, there are only three conditions: money and food, money and food, money and food.
The Wu family's so-called principle of serving the public with favors and rewards is nothing more than you giving me a favor and I'll listen to you.
In this barren island land, people are consumables, and the least valuable thing is human life.
When social values generally do not regard people as human beings, and with the concentration of production means, the gap between rich and poor widens, the gap between people is even wider than that between people and dogs.
There are sixty-six countries in the world, with a population of 10 million and a stone height of 20 million. One person only has a quota of two stones, but an adult woman's annual ration requires two stones.
This still does not take into account natural and man-made disasters, consumption of non-staple food, high-level warriors, high-level monks, etc. who are separated from agricultural production and supported by society, as well as the unemployed population who take care of them.
In other words, only a few people in this island country have enough to eat. Being half-starved and living a life of survival is the norm for most people.
When widespread immoral behavior occurs in a society, it is not a problem with individual morality, but a problem with the society itself.
It is impossible for a sick society to have normal moral concepts, and laughing at the poor but not at prostitution will become a commonplace and commonplace thing for everyone.
Living in this twisted society of the Wu family, the most important thing Yi Yin needs to do now is to make money.
Because the martial arts family generally has a tendency to admire the strong, it is normal to submit to the will of the strong.
The strong can protect them, and the strong can give them territory and food. What's wrong with being a dog for the rich? Woof! Woof!
The Shiba family can be regarded as the richest samurai force in the island country. The Hokurikudo trade route is an inexhaustible cornucopia. The system of Shiba's food stamps, stocks, and real estate has accumulated too much wealth.
But even so, Yi Yin was still full of a sense of crisis and he needed to make money.
The policy of counterpart loan assistance proposed by Hojo Ujimasa temporarily alleviated the conflict between Yoshibank and the Kanto Agency, and also gave the four Eastern countries a way to relieve themselves.
But Yiyin knew very well that his troubles had never been truly solved. They were just coming one after another before they subsided.
Will the Oriental People repay the loan for counterpart assistance? Even Kenshin Uesugi understands this issue clearly, let alone Yiyin, which was tricked by the Wu family.
Yiyin is 100% sure that Dongfang Zhong will not repay the loan honestly. And the Kanto parlors who dare to use their own reputation to guarantee loans must have thought of the next steps to deal with Dongfang Zhong.
Although Yi Bank still doesn't know how the Oriental People will default on their debts and how the Kanto Households will press for debts, these future troubles will definitely fall on Yi Bank itself in the end.
If this matter had happened seven or eight years ago, Yiyin would have jumped up and pounded the table, pointing at the noses of these bastards and cursing them. None of them were worth anything!
But now, he has matured, or to put it another way, he is numb.
The Wu family is just like this, or in other words, carnivores are despicable. All the people in power in the world have this kind of virtue. It is useless to reason with them, and they are shameless.
Wu family society has always only established rules and regulations for the middle and lower classes. When did laws and regulations control the ruling class?
If they will be sanctioned by the laws and regulations set by themselves, can they still be called the ruling class? That is, people will live in a shabby place. Will the real powerful be afraid of the laws and regulations?
The people of the East are not things, and neither are the Kantō shrines. But Kamakura Gozan knew that they were not things, and yet he dared to borrow this money and food, which was just bullying an honest man like Yoshihiro.
Yiyin is called the supreme leader of the Wu family, but he is actually the big fool who cuts straw paper to wipe his butt. He is the number one scapegoat in the world. He must prepare for a rainy day!
When the impromptu grand review of the Kanto Shrine was held in Edo Castle, Yoshihiro did not attend the grand review and still maintained a detached political attitude.
He was too lazy to read the hypocritical nonsense made by the Eastern and Western Wu families in Guan Bazhou at the meeting, and easily vomited.
Although he was not interested in the Grand Council itself, Yiyin summoned the senior officials of the practice and the Wu family ethics promotion association who came to the meeting to discuss financial issues together with the senior officials of the Tongxin Secretariat.
In the previous battle between Daxiong Chaoxiu and Dazang Changan, they competed to show their loyalty and spent money like water.
When they came to participate in the meeting this time, they had already thought that the saint would ask about the finances of the Kanto Palace, so they made preparations in advance and submitted specific documents.
After reading the document, Yiyin's head hurt even more. He threw the document to Kamao clan for filing and sighed.