Chapter eight hundred and forty-six absolutely uncompromising
Yiyin raised his head in pain, tears flowed from the corners of his eyes to his ears, and he felt like he couldn't breathe.
He could imagine how those greedy Kanto warriors would deal with the villagers who usually regarded them as pigs and dogs.
They would first collect all the food and let the villagers wrap their bellies with wild vegetable bark. After the Kanto warriors robbed them of their food, they would rob the villagers again and take away their seed food.
The villagers are struggling to survive, and would rather starve to death than eat the seed grain. That is their last hope. As long as some people starve to death, the remaining people can sow hope in the coming year.
And this last hope will also be taken away, leaving them to slowly starve to death in despair. This means starving to death all over the place, and even cannibalism...
Shiba Yiyin felt like he was about to suffocate. He originally thought that his life had no bottom line. But at this time, he was still trembling.
It is normal for the Wu family to grab food in disaster years.
However, his plan for the Kanto strategy was well prepared, and with slight modifications it could turn into a planned large-scale food grab by the Echigo samurai family, causing an unprecedented human tragedy.
In troubled times, people are worse than dogs, and people die every day.
However, his own sin, which caused the starvation of people in several countries, still caused Yiyin's mental breakdown.
When Teruhora Uesugi saw Yoshigan crying, she felt panicked and congested. She stretched out her hand to wipe his tears, but Yoshigan slammed her hand away.
Uesugi Teruhu looked at his opened hand in confusion.
"Mr. Qianxin, you have to understand. Problems have to be solved. We need to make choices."
Yoshigan wiped away his tears, looked at Uesugi Teruhora, and laughed.
"Yes, I understand, I should have understood a long time ago. What kind of people the Wu family is, and how they will choose in a famine.
What I don't understand is myself.
I strive to integrate into this world and become a real martial artist. Do I just want to become a beast? A beast who takes away other people's last morsel of food and last glimmer of hope?"
Teruhora Uesugi looked at Shiba Yoshigan in confusion, and Yoshigan looked back at her with a cold heart.
Uesugi Terutora doesn't understand, and all the samurai families don't understand. Because they never regard civilians as human beings. Even the lower-class warriors are expendable in their eyes.
Yiyin once thought that he could be so cold. But today, he completely understood that he couldn't do it.
The nine-year compulsory education he received in his previous life did not teach him to rob seeds and grains from disaster victims.
What has he been doing these past few years? Will he eventually become a beast if he keeps company with animals? Is everything he insists on really meaningful?
Yoshigan thought that if he could pick up a sword and kill people, he would be a true samurai. But now, Uesugi Terutora told him that it was not enough.
She didn't even understand why Yiyin was crying, so she could only try her best to understand and comfort her.
"I know that as a man, you have suffered a lot. It's understandable that you don't want to be a warrior anymore. Men are not warriors after all.
I am willing to share your burden, Sibo Yiyin, I love you, I really love you.
If you don't want to, then I can do it. I will complete the Guandong Strategy, I will capture the Guandong Plain, and propose to you as a betrothal gift.
I don’t want you to go back to Japan, I want you to marry me, and I can help you revive the Sibo family. Even in the future, when we are fully fledged in Guandong, we will go to Shangluo.
Your and my descendants will become new generals and the most noble people in the world. So, please stop crying."
In Yoshigan's tears, Uesugi Teruhora let go of her guard. She no longer used honorifics in conversations, but acted like a woman making the most sincere confession and commitment to a man.
But at this moment, this sincere feeling was a big joke in Yiyin's eyes.
"Uesugi Terutora, you don't understand me at all, you and I are not from the same world.
There is no more Kanto strategy, even if I become ugly, I will admit it! Even if I go back to marry Ashikaga Yoshiki, I will not be with you!"
Teru Uesugi said angrily.
"In order to marry you, she tried every means to force you, and her methods were extremely despicable.
Why are you still marrying her? She is just a beast!"
Yiyin smiled coldly.
"Even if I marry a beast, I will not marry you. If you rob the victims of seeds and grains, you are worse than beasts."
Uesugi Teru's eyes were red and her fists were clenched. If the person in front of her was not her sweetheart, she would have killed her with a knife.
But it’s the one you love that feels like your heart is torn apart. Your true feelings are revealed, but you get such humiliation, grief and anger.
Yiyin said goodbye, stopped looking at her, and persuaded in a low voice.
"Sister Uesugi, please, don't rob those poor people of their food, okay?"
Teruhora Uesugi sneered.
"A person like me is worse than a beast. There is nothing I can't do."
Shiba Yiyin closed his eyes, feeling desperate.
How many times, as long as he calls Uesugi sister, Uesugi Teruhu will compromise.
But this time, his emotional and reckless words deeply hurt the heart of the Lord of Echigo, and this effective little trick did not work.
There was silence in the room, speechless for a moment.
Terutora Uesugi couldn't figure it out no matter what. The two of them worked hard for more than a year and finally sorted out the rear area and could concentrate on conquering the Kanto Plain.
Why would Shiba Yiyin give up the Kanto strategy because of those untouchables?
Doesn't he care about the family business? He endured so much hardship in order to revive the Spall family, far beyond the limit that ordinary men can endure, but he never gave up.
But why, he was crying so sadly today, unlike him in the past.
Shiba Yiyin felt that his whole head was going to explode. His head was so empty that he had no way to think anymore.
I don't know how much time passed before Uesugi Teruhora spoke dryly.
"Are those untouchables important?"
Yiyin smiled miserably, pointed at his heart, and said.
"It's not important, but I can't accept it.
I used to think that I could do anything. I took out my conscience and fed it to the dogs, and I no longer had any worries.
But today I realized that I can’t do it, and my heart hurts so much. Only today did I realize that I still have a bottom line.
Consider it my last conscience."
Terutora Uesugi was silent for a while and said.
"The Uesugi retainers will not approve of your idea."
Yiyin said with a cold face.
"I have been in Guandong for more than a year, thinking about compromise day and night. Give them benefits so that they can be obedient and follow us to fight in the Guandong Plain.
But when have these greedy wolves ever been satisfied? I take one step back and they take two steps forward.
This time, I will not retreat again, never!"
Yoshigan stood up, glanced at Terutora Uesugi faintly, and said.
"Even if the Kanto strategy fails and causes endless troubles, I will never compromise on this matter again!"
Teruhora Uesugi lowered his head and could not see her face, but could only hear her voice.
"What if I did it? What if I completed the Kanto Strategy alone and robbed food?"
Sibo Yiyin turned around and walked away, saying as he walked.
"I hope you won't. Please don't let me look down on you."
Just as Yoshigan Shiba had put his hand on the sliding door and was about to leave, Teru Uesugi behind him sighed and said.
"I won't do it."
Yiyin's body trembled, he stopped opening the door, and slowly looked back at her.
I saw Terutora Uesugi looking tired, looking up at him, but his eyes were firm.
"I will never do anything to make you sad, although I don't understand why you are so persistent.
In troubled times, what difference does it make if you die by sword or gun or by famine? If I don't rob, those untouchables will still die, and others will rob their food.
I don’t understand what you think, your stubbornness will only put us in danger, I really don’t understand.”
