Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 938 Ambition
On August 18, the ninth year of Tensho (1581), as Oda Nobunaga's request for the surrender of the family governor of all Kanto daimyo, Kamiro, spread throughout the Eastern Kingdom, each family was faced with a heavy and difficult choice.
The Hojo family refused without hesitation and stepped up the autumn harvest, which was likely to prepare their troops for a battle with the Oda family in the severe winter. The Hojo clan also issued a formal message to all the daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom, directly recruiting Oda Nobunaga.
Called "the traitor who assassinated the king", he called on the daimyo across the country to unite to form the third Nobunaga siege to attack the regicide Oda Nobunaga. After receiving the news, the Takeda family and Uesugi Kagetora's Higashi-Uesugi family immediately
Expressed their response, the Yuki family, Oda family and other subordinate daimyo of the Hojo family also joined the alliance. It must be said that the slogan of crusade against the regicide is still very appealing. Even the Utsunomiya family and the Utsunomiya family, who have always been hostile to the Hojo family,
The Satake family also joined the third Nobunaga siege. However, the Satomi family, which was entrenched in the Kamiso and Anbo areas, still opposed the Hojo family. Satomi Yoshiyori personally traveled by sea to seek an audience with Oda Nobunaga.
However, not all daimyo belong to the big families like the Hojo family, which are large enough to influence the situation in the world. Many of the weak wealthy families in the Mutsu-Dewa area know that they are insignificant, and they just glanced at the Oda family on the map.
Within the scope of their rule, they had lost the will to resist. Even the head of the Date family, the largest daimyo in the Northeast, Date Terumune, made the decision to surrender to the Oda family after weighing the pros and cons. Under his influence, Iwaki,
In Iwashiro and the Rikuzen area, a large number of small wealthy families who were deeply related by marriage to the Date family followed Date Terumune collectively and took a boat out to sea on August 30, preparing to go to Luo and surrender to Oda Nobunaga. Mogami Yoshimitsu seemed to
He also recognized his brother-in-law's decision and was mobilizing the wealthy families of Dewa Country to go to Beijing with him. Places farther north, such as the Nanbu Family, the Anton Family, the Tsugaru Family, and the Oyizaki Family, often only appear in the final scenes of "Nobunaga's Ambition" players.
The daimyo of the extremely cold places who are on the cleanup list and will not have any impact on the ownership of the world have not made clear statements - perhaps no one pays attention to their statements.
However, just four or five days after Date Huizong set sail with a group of wealthy family governors, something unexpected happened in Date's home.
On September 5th, in the Yonezawa Castle Castle, the temporary acting governor of the Date family—Date Masamune, the one-eyed dragon who is also the eldest son of the Date Terumune family—was speaking nonsense at the family appraisal meeting.
"My father is really stupid and has no ambition at all! The enemy is still thousands of miles away! He just said a few threatening words and then dragged his family and his family to surrender in Diluo. Where has such a thing happened in the past?
?It’s simply a shame for a samurai!”
Katakura Kojuro, who was sitting at the far end of the subordinate position, looked pale as he watched Date Masamune going crazy in the main position. He had not yet fully recovered. How did things become like this? Date Terumune had just been there before.
When the family announced that they would surrender to the Oda family, although Date Masamune was also dissatisfied, his emotions were not so intense. Why did he suddenly... this afternoon?
Could it be...
Katakura Kojuro suddenly remembered the conversation that took place in the morning - Yamaoka Shigenaga, the envoy sent by the Date family to Kyoto to attend the military parade not long ago, happened to come to Yonezawa Castle today to report on a trivial matter of wasteland reclamation.
I chatted with Date Masamune for a while and talked about how Oda Nobunaga formed a horse-mounted iron cannon team with strange iron cannons...
After finishing the small talk with Yamaoka Shigenaga, Date Masamune's face became very ugly, and it continues to this day.
While Katakura Kojuro was thinking about these things, Date Masamune on the stage was still "firing" and complaining all the time, and his words were full of dissatisfaction and resentment towards Date Terumune. Katakura Kojuro stood up for him
I was sweating - my lord had just handed over the acting governor to his son, and his son was complaining about it behind his back in front of many retainers. What if it got to the ears of Date Terubong?
However, there is still some market for Date Masamune's remarks, and there are many retainers in the family who are dissatisfied with Date Terumune's decision to surrender without a fight. For example, Date Masamune and his son Date Masamune, Huri Genmune and his son
Huri Shigemune, Oniwa Yoshinao and his son Oniwa Tsunamoto and other important family ministers, as well as Shiraishi Munemi, Harada Muneki, Yuume Keiyasu and other young warriors - wait a minute? Katakura Kojuro is counting.
Then, I realized that there were not just a few retainers in the family who were dissatisfied with Date Terumune's surrender policy. Almost most of the retainers had a look of approval on their faces when listening to Date Masamune's complaints. The only one in the family who was dissatisfied with Date Masamune's words was
The only person who firmly opposes this opinion is probably his half-brother Date Kojiro.
"Brother, why did you say this? My father made that prudent move for the sake of the Date family and to assess the situation!" As expected, after seeing that Date Masamune's complaint seemed to be recognized by the retainers, Date Kojiro hurriedly
Jumped out and accused.
"What do you know?" Date Masamune didn't even look at Date Kojiro seriously. He still complained angrily, "If everyone in the world were like my father, there would be no need to wait until now. The Oda family is taking down Ono.
Then they can unify the world, right? If the Oda family said to the Asai family after taking Ono, I will destroy you if you don't surrender, wouldn't the Asai family not resist and surrender because of the difference in strength? The Asai family surrendered
, the Oda family then asked the Ise Kitahata family to surrender, then the Matsunaga family, and the Asakura family. At this time, their power was greater than that of the Miyoshi family. They asked the Miyoshi family to surrender again, and then it snowballed little by little? What if everyone didn't
If you resist, won’t it become like that?”
"This..." Date Kojiro was speechless for a moment due to Date Masamune's words, so he could only accuse him on the line: "No matter what! It is an unpardonable crime to slander your father in front of his retainers!"
"What do you know?" Date Masamune doubled his volume and shouted at Date Kojiro, which shocked all the retainers present. Date Masamune stood up and faced the hanging
Pointing at the map on the wall, he kept complaining: "Isn't Oda Nobunaga just lucky? It happened that Imagawa Yoshimoto died unexpectedly, so that he could avoid catastrophe. He hit Mino
, it took seven years to defeat it, and it was won by chance that Yoshiryu Saito died of illness! Then he joined forces with the Asai family and the Asakura family to go to Luo, but was beaten to pieces by the Miyoshi family, and only by chance did the Miyoshi family catch fire in the rear.
After that, he occupied Onono and Kinki, and with the constant supply of money, food, grass, and soldiers, he conquered everywhere without any difficulty, and he still suffered defeats one after another! It was really good luck... If it hadn't rained in Okehazama, he would still be there.
So many things? What if Saito Yoshiryu didn't
Death? Where is his business? If the Mihaoshi family fought with all their strength, where is his business? Why did all these good things happen to him? "
"Why was it that he was born at the critical point of the world and not me? Why was I born at the end of the warring states period? This is a troubled time that only happens once in a thousand years. Why should I be born when the overall situation of the world is settled?
What? Why do I have to play a supporting role?"
"If I had been born twenty years earlier, I would have achieved a hegemony no less than that of Oda Nobunaga!"
After yelling these words sternly, Date Masamune fell down on his seat as if he suddenly lost all strength, with tears faintly flashing in his one eye.
Date Masamune's roar caused all the retainers present to fall into silence, and Date Kojiro was obviously stunned by the roar, and he returned to his seat in a daze and sat down.
After a long time, another loud roar sounded in the house.
"No...it's not too late!" Date Masamune stood up again, and at the same time he clenched his left fist fiercely, "Now is the last chance. Now that the whole Kanto unites together, there is still a chance to defeat the Oda family! We can't
Surrender, if you surrender, the troubled times will really end! I can only do nothing in this life and let future generations laugh! I am not willing to accept it!"
"Brother? What are you going to do?" Date Kojiro suddenly realized what Date Masamune was thinking, but before he could say anything to persuade him, Date Masamune had already shouted his decision:
"Arm up! Rise up! Rise up! We join the Eastern Kingdom Alliance and take advantage of the opportunity when all the governors of the surrounding daimyo have followed our father. We will kill them all in one fell swoop! After that, with half of Mutsu, we will also become millions of koku.
As a daimyo, he suppressed the Hojo family and became the leader of the Kanto Allied Forces, and went to Luo to defeat the regicide rebel Oda Nobunaga! The world belongs to our Date family! This is the last chance! If we miss this opportunity, the world will be with us from now on.
The Da family has no chance!"
Date Masamune's roar and his seemingly endless passion ignited the aspirations of the Date family retainers. After all, they were also vigorous Northeastern warriors. There seemed to be fire flashing in everyone's eyes. Seeing everyone
Being persuaded by Date Masamune, Katakura Kojuro, a die-hard supporter of Date Masamune, became worried and hurriedly stood up to advise: "Young Master! Please calm down! If the plan does not go according to plan, the Date family will be defeated.
, when the Oda family is liquidated in the future, the Date family will be in doom and gloom!"
"What are you afraid of? Didn't father go to Luo to ask for surrender?" Date Masamune waved his hand nonchalantly, hammered his chest and said, "When the time comes that we really fail, we will welcome father back and pass all the responsibilities on.
Give it to me and say that I am the one who provoked the family governor to raise an army without authorization. Wouldn't it be better to execute me? The Date family can still survive under the protection of my father!"
"Young Master..." Katakura Kojuro swallowed even harder when he heard this, and knelt down with a plop, "Are you really going to do this?"
"This is my ambition, this is my life-long dream. I will fight for the world and I will cherish this life. Even if I am reincarnated seven times and go back to the eighteenth level of hell, I will have no regrets!" Date Masamune laughed.
He pulled out his knife, chopped off a corner of the table in front of him, and shouted: "If you are willing to follow me, come with me! If you don't want to follow me, it will be like this!"