Chapter eight hundred and ninety-third the premonition of rupture
Yiyin saw Daxiong Chaoxiu's expression quickly relaxing and smiled bitterly in his heart.
The tax rebate from the second father-in-law is a trivial matter, and the shrinking business profits of Hokuriku Road can be solved. However, Uesugi Teruhora's aggressive pursuit of love really shook the foundation of the Kanto Palace.
Not to mention that Yoshigan himself is not willing to be associated with him, even if he is willing, how to deal with the samurai families who are at odds with the Uesugi family in the Kanto Palace? Clean them out?
Terutora Uesugi will one day understand that Yoshigan Shiba never thought of getting married to her. Everything was done to perfunctory her and use her to complete the Kanto strategy.
No, maybe she understands now, but just pretends not to understand. She numbs herself, moves herself, and has a sweet dream that she doesn't want to wake up from.
But this matter can't be dragged on forever, there will always be a day when it completely breaks down. Yiyin has a splitting headache and is so confused that he can't think of a solution.
Will Terutora Uesugi be hostile to him? Will the two sides meet in arms? Yoshigami recalled her calm smile, and his heart was touched.
I did come here to complete the mission, but now I really like you.
Yiyin shook his head.
Thinking of those Ji warriors I had slept with and the unresolved love debts, I knew that I could not be a good husband and father in this world where women were respected.
Sorry, Terutora Uesugi, I'm just a male cousin, a slut, it's impossible for us.
His eyes turned firm and he said to Daxiong Chaoxiu.
"No need to pay attention to what His Highness Uesugi says or what the Uesugi retainers think.
The Guandong Secretariat must do its own thing well. Our goal is to pacify the Guandong Plain and restore a clear and bright world here.
As for the rest, we’ll talk about it later.”
Big Bear kowtowed to Chao Xiu and agreed, feeling at ease.
The Godaisho's thinking is very clear. Uesugi Teruhora's words in the Council's review were indeed a conspiracy to frame the Godaisho.
They are really so delusional that they even dare to attack the general's men. The Uesugi family actually wants to use the method of Shiba Uesugi's marriage to swallow up the Kanto Palace and monopolize the fruits of the Kanto Strategy. It is really shameless.
The Odaisho's current forbearance is all for the success of the Kanto Strategy, and is temporarily dealing with the Uesugi family's delusions.
Da Xiong Chao Xiu secretly sneered.
When you get back, you must make it clear to everyone. You can't fall into the Uesugi family's tricks and make things difficult for Odai. After the Kanto strategy is successful, you can slowly settle the score with the Uesugi family.
It's not that I don't want to report it, the time has not come yet. The Kanto Palace is not a soft persimmon that the Uesugi family can take away. Let's wait and see.
Shiba Yiyin closed his eyes and sighed, Daxiong Chaoxiu lowered his head and thought, and the room became silent for a while.
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Just when Ohuma Asahide was reporting Naoetsu-related affairs to Shiba Yoshigan, Naoe Tsuna was also giving advice to his lord, Uesugi Teruhora, in the Kasugayama Castle Castle Tower.
"The money and food returned from taxes by the Second Duke is a trivial matter. No matter how dissatisfied the Joetsu samurai family is, it can't be worth it to the middle and lower samurai families who occupy 70% of the land in Echigo.
The Echigo Plain encompasses the entire Central and Lower Etsu, and almost all local samurai families can benefit from water conservancy construction. The Upper Etsu people have no strength to resist the general trend.
The real trouble lies in Naojiangjin. Because of the grain purchase plan, Naojiangjin’s taxes and market will hardly increase this year, and it is a predictable result that the income will be the same as last year.
However, the total volume of goods on the entire Hokkaido trade route has at least doubled. Vietnam, China, Noto, and even Echizen Kaga can gain a lot of benefits.
I'm worried that many people will be dissatisfied in the future."
Teru Uesugi sneered.
"These stupid guys, do they think that buying food and grabbing food means changing a word? To buy food, you need to exchange something.
They are also too greedy.
During the Echichu campaign in the spring, my family had already acquired the land east of the Kurobe River in Echichu. The Kanto strategy was launched after autumn, and the land of Ueno Musashi was right in front of us.
It’s not like Hokuriku Province’s business profits have declined, it’s just the same as last year, and they’re still not satisfied? What are they thinking?”
Naoe Keizuna sighed.
"It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go back from luxury to frugality. The human heart is like a snake swallowing an elephant. This is the nature of the martial arts."
Life is getting better and better, but there are more and more people who are dissatisfied. You and the imperial office are riding on the back of a tiger, if you are not careful..."
Naoe Keizuna's words stopped abruptly, Uesugi Teruhu glanced at her and sneered.
"Tiger back? These chickens and dogs are also worthy of being called tigers? Without me, without Kenshin, they are just a bunch of scum fighting in the Echigo den.
I know what you want to say. The conflicts in Echigo's dual politics are getting more and more intense. The Uesugi people can't hold it anymore, right?
This is the reason why Duke Kenshin and I discussed that we must launch the Kanto strategy this autumn. We can no longer suppress it internally, so we must fight externally and use the land of the Kanto Plain to ease conflicts."
Naoe Keizuna bowed and said.
"Your Highness is wise, and the Odaisho is wise. But in Echigo, there is a conflict between the Kanto Palace and the Guardian of Echigo.
Once we enter the Guandong Plain and involve the Guandong leaders, I'm afraid things will be even more difficult."
Uesugi Teruhora glanced at her and saw that her face was sincere, but sweat was pouring from her forehead. She probably said these words with trembling heart.
Naoe Keizuna was the leader of the Uesugi retainers, and she could still take into account the overall situation in many matters. What she was talking about was actually one of the biggest troubles in the politics of the samurai family, the overlapping of powers between local and central governments.
Echigo Kingdom is not among the Ten Kingdoms of Kanto, and is not included in the area under the jurisdiction of the Kanto Shogun. Many things can be justified.
For example, Terutora Uesugi took over the hereditary guardian of Echigo of the Yamauchi Uesugi family and ruled the Echigo Kingdom as the guardian daimyo.
On behalf of the shogunate, Yoshihiro Shiba established the Kanto Palace as the central agency for the shogunate to manage the Kanto imperial family. The conflict between the two sides was not too intense.
But once we enter the Guandong Plain, politics becomes complicated.
The Ten Kingdoms of Kanto are the territory of the Kanto shoguns. Starting from the first generation of Ashikaga shoguns, the Kamakura Ashikaga family has been a semi-independent force in the guardianship system, only lower than the Kyoto Ashikaga family.
Terutora Uesugi entered the Ten Kingdoms of Kanto as a hereditary servant of the Uesugi family in Yamauchi and the governor of Kanto.
If Shiba Yoshigan still cooperates in the name of the Kanto Palace, the political status of the two parties will not be the central government versus the local government, but the Kyoto Ashikaga family versus the Kamakura Ashikaga family.
It is difficult for the Kanto Courthouse, which represents the Ashikaga Shogun, and the Kanto Commandery, who represents the Kanto Shogun, to coexist peacefully.
Although there are still differences between the two sides in the guardianship system, after the rebellion of the Kanto shoguns, the ten kingdoms of Kanto were actually no longer under the control of the shogunate.
Kyoto's Lord Kōkō personally kicked Kamakura Kōkō out of the guardianship system and fired him. Now Yoshihiro Shiba wants to use the name of the shogunate to cooperate with the Kanto leaders to conquer the Kanto Plain.
In the eyes of the samurai family in the Kanto Plain, isn't Teruhora Uesugi, the leader of the Kanto region, a leader and a big traitor?
Terutora Uesugi smiled.
"I succeeded the Yamauchi Uesugi family and took the position of Kanto governor. It was recognized by the Ashikaga shogun of Kyoto. I was not recognized by the Kanto samurai family in the first place.
Besides, I am from the Echigo samurai family, so people in the Kanto Plain regard me as an outsider."