Wherever there are people, there are fights. In troubled times, the new year is the beginning of a new conquest.
Sagami Country, Odawara Castle.
Three generations of the Hojo family have passed since the Ise woman came to Kanto and conquered the Kanto plain.
A generation of Ise women received help from the Imagawa family, started from the Kokokuji Castle west of the Kano River in the Suruga Kingdom, entered the Izu Kingdom, and conquered the Sagami Kingdom.
The second generation Hojo Utsuna continued to expand her territory and invaded the Musashi Kingdom. She pretended to be Hojo Miao and claimed to be a descendant of the Hojo family who ruled the Kamakura shogunate. Unfortunately, the Kanto samurai family did not buy it.
Kanto is a place that has always been xenophobic. The Hojo family that was in charge of the Kamakura shogunate was once extremely powerful, but it has long since perished following the Kamakura shogunate.
Kanba Prefecture, where the Kanto Plain is located, is the birthplace of the samurai shogunate. There are many famous families here, and the imperial family members are not as good as dogs. One stone can knock out three descendants of famous families.
Even if the Hojo family pretends to be a famous family, the local samurai family will not recognize it and will still regard her family as foreign invaders.
The Kanto Plain was called Bando in ancient times. When the Minamoto family came from Hanoi, the Minamoto no Yoshi family called on the local samurai to conquer the indigenous Mao people who occupied a large area of Kanto. They fought a war for twelve years.
Later, the imperial court refused to reward the samurai family for participating in the war on the grounds that the Minamoto no Yoshi family started the war without permission. The Minamoto no Yoshi family sold their property to give the samurai family rewards. This was how the Bando samurai family vowed to be loyal to the Minamoto clan in Kawachi from generation to generation.
It's just that the Wu family is only interested in profit, so it's okay to just listen to this kind of oath.
Later, the direct descendants of the Genji clan in Kawachi and the Taira family, who were born in the Ise Taira clan, fought for power in the emperor's court. The Minamoto clan was defeated, and the legitimate daughter Minamoto Yoritomo was exiled to Izu country.
The Bando family pretended to be deaf and mute. The oath from that year is still in the temple, and the oath is still floating in the air. But who would take it seriously? What are the benefits of helping Genji in Kawachi fight?
But then, things changed.
The Taira family was in great power and quickly moved closer to the emperor. Her family used Konki as its base and squeezed the Kanto samurai family to the extreme. The Bando samurai families dared not speak out in anger.
Kantō and Kansai have been full of contradictions since ancient times, and the Bando area is mostly descended from the Taira clan. The Ise Taira clan is actually the descendant of the Bandō Taira clan who went to Ise country to open up places.
The Taira family among the concubines gained power, but instead helped the imperial court to oppress the direct descendants. Regardless of whether it was Kanto and Kansai, the distinction between direct descendants, or the interests of money, food and taxes, the three layers of superimposed discord were unbearable.
Seeing an opportunity, the Hojo family of Izu gave their son to the exiled Minamoto Yoritomo for sex, and they gave birth to a direct descendant of Kawachi Genji.
The two sides immediately got along, and the Hojo family called on the Bando Taira families to raise troops to follow Minamoto Yoritomo. It seemed that each family suddenly remembered their original oath to Kawachi Genji.
Thus, the Bando Hachihei clan, who followed Minamoto Yoritomo, the first shogun, was officially released.
Minamoto Yoritomo took over the Kanto Plain and established a service office in Kamakura of Sagami Province, which was the prototype of the shogunate. The Bando Hachihei clan followed the footsteps of the shogunate and conquered the world, multiplied and grew continuously.
Nowadays, a branch of the Kyoto Ise family belonging to the Isehei clan has come to Kanto to cause trouble. How can the Kanto samurai family recognize the Hojo family's Miao name that her family falsely claimed!
Calling Hou the Hojo family has already given her enough face. If not for the power of the Hojo family, she would have thought of annihilating her family.
The Odawara Castle Castle and the Hojo Family are also holding spring reviews.
Hojo Uyasu is the daughter of the second generation Hojo Utsuna and the current governor of the family. She sits on the main seat with her eyes closed, listening to the group of retainers discussing the household affairs.
The Hojo family is an outsider, and it is quite difficult to open up the Kanto Plain. It usually takes one generation of family governors to pioneer, and one generation of family governors to stabilize it. It took three generations of steady work to get to where it is today.
Geographically, the Kanto Plain refers to the eight kingdoms of Kanto, Sagami, Musashi, Ueno, Shimono, Hitachi, Shimotsou, Kamiso, and Anfang in ancient times.
In addition, the two countries of Izu and Kai are the ten kingdoms of Kanto in the political sense, the Kanto shogunate, and the fiefdom of the Kamakura Ashikaga family.
The first generation of Ise women conquered the Izu-Sagami kingdom, and the second generation of Hojo Uzuna stabilized the territory, built Odawara Castle, and then conquered Musashi Kingdom.
When she arrived at Hojo Ujiyasu, she completely defeated the Kamakura Ashikaga family and the two Uesugi families, making the Hojo family the overlord of Kanto in the eyes of the concubines.
Today, the Hojo family occupies the three kingdoms of Izu, Sagami, and Musashi, encroaching on the four kingdoms of Ueno, Shimono, Shimotsou, and Hitachi. It has truly become a nightmare for the Kanto samurai family.
The two Uesugi families were wiped out by her, and only one person, Kensei Uesugi, escaped. The Kanto general Ashikaga Haruji was also forced to become a puppet of the Hojo family.
Hojo Ujiyasu's younger brother and Ashikaga Haru gave birth to Ashikaga Yoshiji, who succeeded the Kantō Shogun. Ashikaga Yoshiji married Hojo Ujiyasu's daughter. From then on, the Kanto shogun line completely became puppets of the Hojo family.
After Hojo Ujiyasu achieved a series of military and political victories, his family business became even more prosperous. The samurai families in Kanto were afraid of the power of the Hojo family, and began to join forces to fight against her family, both covertly and covertly.
For example, Satomi Yoshiyao of the Anfang Nakami family claimed to be the deputy commander of Kanto, and he had been conquering the Anbo Peninsula where the Lower Sovereign, the Upper Sovereign, and the Anfang Three Kingdoms were located.
Satake Yishige of Hitachi Province was also wary of the Hojo family, and the two sides continued to have border disputes between the two countries.
The already-extinct Ryogamisugi family also caused trouble for Hojo Ujiyasu.
Kensei Uesugi fled to Echigo Province and entrusted all his family property to the Fuchu Nagao family of Katsukami Shimo, only seeking revenge for the extinct Yamauchi Uesugi family.
The Uesugi family of Ogitani had occupied Musashi country for many years. Even if they were destroyed, the retainers who had lost their backbone still missed their old master and were full of malice towards the Hojo family.
The local samurai family headed by Ogitani Uesugi family chief and the Ota family were very uneasy and had been fighting against the Hojo family, so they could only use force to suppress it.
At this time, the Takeda family fired another shot in the Suruga country behind the Hojo family, intending to go south and invade the Imagawa family.
The family seemed to be prosperous, but it was struggling, suffering from internal and external troubles. Hojo Ujiyasu was tired in his heart, but he didn't show it on the outside.
She listened quietly to the deliberation of the retainers group, nodding her head from time to time to express her own opinions. Seeing that the governor was as stable as a mountain, the retainers also felt at ease.
Because the Hojo family is an outsider, it is difficult for them to be accepted by the local samurai family. Therefore, her family attaches great importance to internal affairs, attaches great importance to territorial construction, and wins people's hearts with benevolent government.
In Kanto, where the tax burden is six to the public and four to the people, the Hojo family has always adhered to the light tax of four to the public and six to the people.
Kanto is no better than Kansai. The commerce in Kanto is underdeveloped, and the samurai family mostly relies on local taxes and land taxes to survive. The Hojo family can only use more sophisticated internal affairs and commercial methods to make up for these losses in money and food.
Fortunately, there was a consensus within the Hojo family and they knew that pioneering would be difficult. The six Myusu families who followed them to Kanto, three generations of branched relatives, were all very united.
Although the Hojo family, which had a stable group of retainers, did not expand rapidly, the power gathered by three generations still made Hojo Ujiyasu famous.
But as the family business grows, Hojo Ujiyasu has to face a bad situation that his grandmother and mother have never seen.
If you sail against the current, you will retreat if you don't advance.
The outsider of the Hojo family was, after all, an existence rejected by the Kanto samurai family. She could not retreat, as there was an abyss behind her, and once she retreated, she would be doomed.
