In the early morning of October 10th, after finishing the reorganization, Amakihei said goodbye to his friends and headed for Iimoriyama Castle. Before leaving, Oda Nobunaga sent him a job offer from Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
——Kawachi Guardian Dai. This is the most the Oda family can do, and Uakiuhei is also the first retainer in the Oda family to serve as the guardian.
The guardian of Kawachi has been inherited from generation to generation by the Hatakeyama family, one of the three stewards and four ministers. It is impossible to hand over the guardian of Kawachi to Yu Qiupei, so it can only be given to one guardian of Kawachi. And the guardian of Kawachi has always been an important minister of the Hatakeyama family.
The Yusa family and the Anjian family were in charge. This time, Yu Qiuping was asked to come as the guardian of Hanoi, which was a waste of effort.
In addition, all the important ministers of the Oda family also received official positions from the imperial court. Basically, they all held official positions below the sixth rank and above. Shibata Katsuie seemed to have received a Sakyo Daishin, and others also
All are divided into enfeoffments.
"Then what is my official position?" Yu Qiuping asked the women in uniform who came to deliver the order.
"My lord said, this is the gift he prepared for His Highness." The female servant smiled and handed a piece of paper with Yu Qiuping's official title written on it to Yu Qiuping. The latter took the note and turned around to look at it.
There are eight large characters neatly written on it.
Zheng Liu was the chief minister of the Ministry of Governance.
Governance department…
Yu Qiuping suddenly smiled. People around him hadn't seen him smile so happily for a long time.
"It seems that you are very satisfied with my lord's gift." The mother-in-law also laughed when she saw this, and then bowed respectfully: "Your Highness Najibe, I take my leave."
As the women turned to leave, Yu Qiuping's laughter gradually became bitter, until finally it gradually disappeared, and tears rolled in his eyes.
Zhibu? I am Yuqiu Zhibu now. I can also be called, Your Highness Zhibu.
Your Highness, the Governor, are you watching?
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"Your Highness, why did you not discuss this decision with the subordinates at all?" Until now, Amano Jingde is still very dissatisfied with Yu Qiuping's decision. But even so, he still firmly supports Yu Qiuping in front of everyone.
I just protested to him privately.
"The bounden duty of a samurai is to obey orders. This is an order given to me by the Master. I cannot refuse." Yu Qiuping shook his head and whispered with some emotion: "The most important thing in being a human being is to repay kindness. I am the third member of the Oda family.
As a guardian, my lord even allowed me to bring my family to Iimori Mountain Castle, and allowed me to surrender when necessary. This kind of kindness... My lord treats me as a soldier of the country, and I will repay you as a soldier of the country."
"Iimori Mountain Castle is isolated and helpless, surrounded by enemies. This is a place of death." Amano Keitoku whispered sadly, but things could not be changed, and in the end he could only let out a long sigh.
"That's not necessarily true. Don't you believe in the strength of our Yuqiu family?" Although Yu Qiuping was unsure, he still pretended to be confident and said with a smile: "Maybe we can take down Hanoi and Iquan!"
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On the evening of October 10th, the Yuqiu family's army finally arrived at the outskirts of Iimori Mountain Castle. On the foothills to the east of Iimori Mountain Castle, there was actually a large maple forest. Against the backdrop of the sunset, the red color was even more gorgeous and sad.
Yu Qiuping was unknowingly intoxicated by the beautiful scenery and forgot the official duties at hand until the Matsunaga family defenders of Iimori Mountain Castle personally sent someone to find him.
After the handover, the Matsunaga army hurriedly handed over a series of documents and land deeds of Iimori Mountain Castle to Yu Qiupei, and then fled the place of right and wrong.
"Oh, Your Highness Jibu, I'm so sorry!" The elder of the Matsunaga family apologized to Yu Qiuping before leaving, "I didn't know that this city would become His Highness's fiefdom, so my men plundered it a little.
, Your Highness, don’t blame me! Before the Sanhao family evacuated, they also made random arrests, but we weren’t the only ones who did it!”
When Amakihei actually saw Iimoriyama Castle with his own eyes, he realized that it had not been plundered but was completely destroyed. Once one of the most prosperous and prosperous cities in Kinki, it was now in ruins like Kyoto.
The fire started by Matsunagahide to ignite the mountain of luggage belonging to the Miyoshi family has not been completely extinguished. The fire has long since spread to the walls of Iimoriyama Castle, the castle tower, and even the surrounding castle towns, almost burning the entire city to the ground.
The remains of people who were burned to death at doorsteps can be seen everywhere on the road - these poor people probably did not want to give up their houses and tried hard to fight the fire, but eventually lost their lives.
The originally prosperous city saw no sign of life at the moment. The streets of the castle town were filled with homeless refugees. Some of them were huddled on mats, while others had straw wrapped around their bodies. You could often see people sitting on the streets.
The whole family on the street, young and old, could only share a blanket to protect themselves from the cold. In front of them, there was a porcelain bowl, waiting for kindhearted people to donate some money and food to live on. But the entire rice bowl
Most people near the mountain city are already impoverished, so where can anyone give alms to these beggars?
Most of the few houses that were not burned were now empty. Most of the houses showed signs of being smashed, smashed, and robbed. It was obvious that the Miyoshi family and the Matsunaga family were responsible. The Miyoshi family was retreating.
They had wiped out all the castle towns in the west city - they couldn't hold it any longer anyway. If they didn't grab it, wouldn't it be a waste of money for Matsunaga Hide? And in the three days that the Matsunaga family was in Iimoriyama Castle, they almost wiped out the prosperous Iimoriyama Castle.
They robbed everything and nothing was left. As the cold winter was approaching, these poor people lost their homes and homes, and even the money, food and cultivated land they relied on. Most of them were destroyed in the fire, and the remaining
They were all wiped out by the Matsunaga army.
If Yu Qiupei can't do something, more than half of the more than 50,000 people around Iimori Mountain Castle may not survive this winter.
When the refugees on the street saw the brightly-armored troops approaching the street, they immediately let out a wave of exclamations. Then, the unkempt and unkempt poor people leaning on the street immediately packed up everything they could carry around.
They fled quickly into the streets and alleys. It can be seen that the random arrests by the Matsunaga Army gave them a fierce fear of the army. When one family was escaping, they accidentally left behind a worn-out porcelain bowl used for begging.
On the street, the little girl at home wanted to run back to get it halfway, but her father grabbed her hard and ran away quickly.
"Send an order to the entire army not to disturb the people or enter people's houses. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed." Yu Qiuping sighed and issued this order. But he knew that even if he did not give a special order, with the quality of Changpan Bei, he would never do it.
What could go wrong?
Long Zi, who was walking beside Yu Qiuping, looked at the poor refugees with tears in her eyes. She took out a bunch of copper coins from her arms and put them in the left porcelain bowl. However, before they could take a few steps away,
, immediately several crazy refugees rushed towards the porcelain bowl, trying to fight for the copper coins in the bowl. The string of the string of copper coins was torn off, and the copper coins collapsed all over the ground, attracting a bigger crowd.
In the large-scale competition, the refugees were almost lying on the ground grabbing scattered copper coins from each other. Longzi originally wanted to step forward to stop him, but when he saw that the people who came to grab the money were all poor people who couldn't live, there was one among them.
A little girl, about ten years old, was also fighting there.
Ryuko was stunned for a moment. Isn't that who she used to be? A weak and helpless little girl who couldn't survive anymore and had to grab money in order to survive. Tears welled up in her eyes. The girl
He leaned against the blackened wall and cried. Yu Qiuping stopped, slowly hugged her, and gently stroked her back, trying to calm the girl down.
After a long time, Long Zi suddenly tugged on Yu Qiuping's clothes, whimpering and whispered: "Your Highness, can you help them?"
"Of course." Yu Qiuping nodded heavily.
After all, I am still a good person.
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When the army slowly entered the vicinity of the castle tower of Iimori Mountain Castle, a messenger suddenly rushed from the rear army to the front army where Yu Qiupei was, and reported in a low voice: "Your Highness, there are refugees making trouble behind, and Mr. Fukushima is maintaining law and order."
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"Trouble? Are they going to attack the army?" Yu Qiuping turned his head in surprise and asked in a low voice.
"No. They saw the rations transported by our army and wanted to beg our army to give them some food. However, our army's rations are not much and can only last for ten days. Therefore, Fukushima-sama does not dare to make any arbitrary decisions. Some of them
The hungry people came forward to snatch the military supplies, which led to conflicts."
"Lord Fukushima sent me here, hoping to allow His Highness to distribute part of the general food to the hungry people. They really will not be able to live without food." The messenger conveyed Fukushima Yasunari's request, and the surrounding guards all used
He looked at Yu Qiuping with a serious expression. This good man who had a good reputation of sending food supplies to the enemy would naturally not leave him alone.
"Your Highness, please don't be kind to women." Amano Keide, who was following Yu Qiuping, immediately warned in a cold voice: "There are more than 50,000 people around Iimori Mountain City, and Your Highness cannot be saved. Our military rations are only enough for the time being.
Ten days of rations, even if all the food is taken out for three or four days, is not enough. Once His Highness sets a precedent and rescues this man, another man will come to ask for military rations. It will not be given by His Highness, and it will not be given if it is not given.
We will be the first to run out of food when the time comes."
"According to your opinion, you are going to die without saving me?" Takenaka Shigeharu's tone deepened and he looked at Amano Keitoku - the latter looked at him without fear.
"Don't worry, let me handle it." Yu Qiuping smiled and patted the shoulders of his two subordinates, and then ordered: "Gather the hungry people who are coming to ask for food under the East City Tower, and take our military rations as well."
Transport it to Sannomaru in the east city."
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By the time Yu Qiuping arrived at Dongcheng, nearly tens of thousands of hungry people had gathered under the walls of Dongcheng. They were desperately attacking Tokiwa Bei's guards - the target was the military supplies behind these guards. Yu Qiuping stepped onto the road that was burned by the fire.
On the bumpy city wall, Honda Tadakatsu was ordered to raise his maple bird flag high.
After seeing this flag, the noisy and chaotic hungry people gradually calmed down, and slowly turned their attention to the young man under the Maple Bird flag. They were all common people in the Kinki area, and they were relatively well-informed. This man once had the ability to deliver food.
The good Samaritan Yu Qiu Hongye, who had a good story about the enemy, specially summoned them here, and they must be here to put food out! Therefore, everyone was waiting expectantly for Yu Qiuping to speak.
Yu Qiuping put his hands on the battlements, cleared his throat, leaned out of the city, and shouted to the hungry people: "Folks, I know you are hungry and cold, I know you have no food left, and I know you
We really need the Yuqiu family to support you with food."
Then, Yu Qiuping took a deep breath and shouted loudly:
"But I won't give you a grain of rice now!"
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As soon as Yu Qiuping said this, tens of thousands of hungry people below the city tower were in an uproar. Even though they had always been honest people, they were respectful to the warriors who could kill them at any time. But they were already so hungry that this trustworthy
Not only did the lord refuse to release food, he also specially summoned them in the city to tell them not to release food. It was as if he was humiliating and toying with them. It was really too much bullying. For a while, there were constant shouting and cursing downstairs, and Yu Qiuping was almost pulled down.
The city is coming.
Behind Yu Qiuping, Ryuko, Amano Keitoku, Takenaka Shigeharu and others were also at a loss. They did not expect Yu Qiuping to speak like this. After the latter shouted this sentence, he seemed to be quite satisfied with looking at the people in the city.
reaction, patiently waiting for the crowd to return to silence. After waiting for a long time, Yu Qiuping found that the people under the city had not stopped, so he winked at Honda Tadakatsu. The latter took a knowing breath, and then used the giant beast
A roaring voice shouted: "Quiet!"
This shout instantly drowned out the noisy discussions and curses of the people. After being stunned for a moment, everyone realized that Yu Qiuping seemed to have something to say, so they all stopped and looked at Yu Qiuping.
"The reason why I don't give you food is because it is military food! Military food is used for fighting!" Yu Qiuping pulled out the Chidori from the scabbard and pointed in the direction of the food, "I have sent people to Kyoto.
We will transport food and grass, and the temporary relief food for you will be delivered tomorrow night. Please be patient a little longer!"
After learning that there was still food to eat, these people suddenly turned from sadness to joy. However, many people still shouted below, asking Yu Qiuping to release the food now. Anyway, the food will arrive tomorrow, so there is no need to miss this day.
Seeing this, Yu Qiuping continued to shout loudly: "The reason why I don't send you military rations today is because if there is no military rations, Tsukiwa Bei will not be able to defend this city tomorrow! If there is an enemy invasion, Tsukiwa Bei will
We can only abandon the city and flee. When the enemy troops enter the city, you will face another robbery like the Matsunaga family. Do you want to see this situation? Do you want to be arrested again? "
The hungry people who had been shouting vigorously were speechless under Yu Qiuping's rhetorical questions. They recalled the hellish days of the past three days - the fires all over the city devoured their homes, and the vicious rebels took away their former homes.
If something goes wrong with your property, your life will be ruined. Who would want to experience such a day again?
"I, Yu Qiuping, and our Yuqiu family will treat Iimori Mountain City as our own city and guard it forever. And this requires an army, and the army needs military rations, so we cannot give you military rations. If we give you military rations, we will
If we are unable to defend the city, Iimoriyama Castle may fall! We are different from those of the Miyoshi family and Matsunaga family who looted and abandoned Iimoriyama Castle. We will not regard it as a tool that can be thrown away after use, so we cannot give up.
Military rations, we must guard this place! We will not bully and occupy your lives and property at will. I sincerely want to protect this wonderful city so that the people in the city can live and work in peace and contentment, so that the hard-working people can make a fortune.
Get rich without having to worry about the day when the city owner abandons the city and flees, and the rebels enter the city and loot it, causing the property accumulated by your ancestors to be wiped out."
"In the past few decades, Kinki has been in turmoil. Iimoriyama Castle has changed owners so many times, and has been repeatedly affected by wars and wars. I think you are all afraid. You don't want this to happen again. You also want to live a peaceful and peaceful life.
Let's do it." Yu Qiuping looked at the more and more people gathering under the city, and shouted almost at the top of his voice: "So I think, let the name Iimori Mountain Castle and all its previous misfortunes become history! I declare that Iimori Mountain Castle
Change the name to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle!" Yu Qiuping said while pointing his Chidori at the beautiful maple forest on the east mountain of Iimori Mountain Castle, and solemnly shouted: "Maple Leaf Mountain Castle will be the home city of our Yu Qiu family. As long as the Yu Qiu family is alive,
I will never abandon Maple Mountain City and guard Maple Leaf Mountain City and the people in the city forever!"
"I swear to this mountain of maple leaves, this is the last time Maple Leaf Mountain City changes hands! From now on, the Yuqiu family will guard this city for generations, so that you no longer have to worry about military disasters and wars! From now on, you can live in peace and contentment.
Days! I, Yu Qiuping, do what I say!"
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After shouting such a long sentence, Yu Qiuping felt that his voice was hoarse. He turned around and asked softly to the people behind him: "How is it? Are you satisfied with what I said?"
"The people's hearts are attached to it." Amano Keitoku didn't say much, he just spat out these few words.
"It doesn't matter whether you are satisfied or not, the key is to look at the people." Takenaka Shigeharu said with a smile, while pointing behind Yu Qiuping, "Your Highness, listen."
A gust of evening wind blew in, carrying the red leaves on the east mountain and floating to the top of Maple Leaf Mountain City. What the wind brought with it was also the sudden loud cheers from the people below Maple Leaf Mountain City.