Chapter 195 The embarrassment of not being able to expand
As for the stepmother of the Numata family, Hosokawa Fujitaka's mother-in-law is in an awkward position. She is the legitimate daughter of the Matsuki family, the imperial minister. Her father is Matsuki Kashichu Nagan Muneto, who died two years ago. She married Numata Mitsu who is older than him. Since then, she has been blamed for giving birth to a daughter. This woman has also suffered many setbacks. At the end of last year, she gave birth to her seventh daughter and was blamed by her husband. She was already in the Tiantai Sect Temple in Lingying Mountain. He became a monk and became a monk, with the Buddhist name Chong'an Yuan.
Because her unexpected move caused new disputes in the family, Numata Mitsukane was so angry that she moved to the Shingon Sect Tanita Temple to become a monk. In the end, she was persuaded to come back, but the anger in her heart did not go smoothly and she hid in the Nothing was done in their own Buddhist hall. Taking this opportunity, the older sons of the Numata family wanted to take the opportunity to drive out the brothers and sisters who were concubines.
Numata Mitsukane's concubine, Mrs. Awaya, and the five siblings she gave birth to were mentioned. Among them were the brothers Numata Tairamitsu and Numata Yumitsu. They also had a younger brother Acharya who had just turned ten. , the eldest sister is married to Shunhide Muto, a wealthy family in Wakasa Tsuruga Bay, and has a younger sister who was born in the ninth year of Tianbun, and will be old enough to have hairpins in a year.
Although this family can leave the family and rely on Mrs. Awaya's younger brother, the head of the Awaya family, Katsuhisa Awaya, but this is not a long-term thing. The Numata family's life is uncomfortable, and the Awaya family does not have much because of a falling out with the master's family. He had enough food left over, so Numata Heimitsu brought his younger brother Yumitsu to try to find Hosokawa Fujitaka for a recommendation opportunity.
Although the life of being dependent on others is a little more difficult, Mrs. Awaya still has two adult men, and her son-in-law is also a native of Wakasa Province, so she can get some subsidies from her brother and son-in-law. But there is another Mrs. Yoshimi. But it is much more miserable. She is 24 years younger than Numata Mitsukane. She is even younger than her husband's four older sons and daughters.
The result is that none of the children she gave birth to have grown up. The eldest daughter is only one year older than Mrs. Achariya's youngest son, Acharya. Moreover, she is still pregnant with a child and is about to give birth. This woman is unwilling to say anything. After leaving the family, her brother Itami Suruga Morimasazu also strongly supported his sister.
The Yoshimi clan and the Awaya clan were both concubines of the Takeda clan of the Kaigen clan. They had been retainers of the Takeda clan for generations. When the Wakasa Takeda clan was separated more than a hundred years ago, they followed their master's family and migrated to Wakasa country and took root. Itumi Masou and Awaya Katsuhisa are both senior ministers of the current Wakasa Takeda family, but the relationship between these two families and the main Wakasa Takeda family is very subtle.
Mrs. Yoshimi didn’t want to leave because Numata Mitsukane had always been obsessed with this side wife who was half his age. At the same time, she also had a strong preference for her children. She even named Mrs. Yoshimi’s eldest son Kumagawa Maru. This shows that This old governor is also a lucid person. No wonder his sons want to drive others away. Sooner or later something will happen to such a father.
The biggest trouble is actually Numata Mitsukane, who is the boss of the house. Even not counting Mrs. Yoshimi's soon-to-be-born child, he has two main wives and two side wives, and has a total of twenty-five children. Eight of them are boys. Man, seventeen women, truly fertile. Compared with him, those families who often worry about the loss of their children would really commit suicide by caesarean section in shame.
Such a big family needs food and clothing, and ordinary people's simple meals are not enough. One can imagine why the eldest son of the Numata family, Mitsunaga Numata, wants to evict people. Just because his family is six thousand stone high, he still needs
How can you have the money to serve a group of half-brothers and sisters if you have to bear the military service of 500 people? Haven't you seen that your own legitimate sons and legitimate daughters have been born?
Of course, Kira Yoshitoki didn't care about these trivial things. He asked this question just to pave the way for the following topic, so with a sly smile on his face, Kira Yoshitoki covered his face with his pure Kyoto voice that had not yet been heard from his childlike voice.
Qiang asked: "How many times did Hosokawa-don visit your father-in-law's house last year?"
"Uh... I visited twice." The corners of Hosokawa Fujitaka's eyes twitched. He had already realized that Kira Yoshinori would be doing something wrong by asking him this question.
"Then did you have a private meeting with Mrs. Rei?" The story of 19-year-old Fujitaka Hosokawa and nine-year-old Lolita is still so exciting even after a year of silence, and the gossip of Kira Yoshinori is still raging.
Burning, it would be great to be able to tell the dark history of famous people during the Warring States Period.
"...This isn't called a private meeting! It's an official meeting, with a wet nurse and a maid as company!" A big tic-tac-toe appeared on Hosokawa Fujitaka's head.
"Have you ever gone into Madam Ling's boudoir and talked about it? Has Madam Ling grown taller? Isn't she cute? Have you...have you? You know!" Kira Yoshi's voice suddenly became erratic, and his eyes also became uncertain.
It suddenly became sharper.
"Hmm... cough cough! Yeah!" Tokiyuki Yamamoto made a fist with one hand and coughed hard into his mouth. Kira Yoshitoki immediately sat upright, then stood up, bowed and said, "I still have important matters to attend to.
So I resigned first."
"Thank you for your hard work, master, please take a lot of rest!" Kira Yoshishi watched Kansuke Yamamoto go away with a warm smile, and then grabbed Hosokawa Fujitaka before he stood up to say goodbye and asked quietly: "Are you there?"
"...No! Really not!" Hosokawa Fujitaka quickly took off his sleeves and ran away. Looking at his figure leaving in a hurry, Kira Yoshitsune had a smile on his face, "It looks like this dead lolita
Control is not impeccable!"
While Kira Yoshi continued to strengthen himself, Togoku was not idle either. Hojo Ujiyasu was busy extinguishing Musashi's confrontational mood. Imagawa Yoshimoto was satisfied with Mikawa Mamoru and went back to continue his unification. Only Takeda Harunobu was still there.
On the offensive, he relied on Sanada Yukitaka's strategy to continuously mobilize several wealthy families in Northern Shinano, and then led an army of 5,000 to invade Xiaozhen County again. After fighting with the local wealthy families who had surrendered, he not only defeated Murakami Yoshikiyo.
, and also made Shinano's wealthy family shaken.
At the end of February, the Takeda family's army raided Katsurao Castle, the home of the Murakami family. Murakami Yoshikiyo, who was busy farming, was caught off guard. In the end, he could only burn the castle tower and escape from Katsurao Castle with more than 200 samurai followers to the salt fields.
The city continues to fight against the trapped beasts.
It was a pity that the samurai of the Murakami family were scattered in the territory for spring plowing and could not form a joint force for a while. They were swept away by Takeda Harunobu and were beaten into a drowned dog. Yantian City did not last long before it fell again. Murakami Yoshikiyo had to flee to Kawanakajima.
Zenkoji in the area was on standby. He summoned the fleeing tribesmen in Northern Shinano and fled to Echigo in early April to seek help from Nagao Kagetora.
Also in early February, Miyoshi Yoshihide killed his father-in-law Kume Yoshihiro in a gun battle. The Awa Civil War known as the Kume Rebellion ended. After the execution of his rebellious father-in-law Kume Yoshihiro and other rebels, Miyoshi Yoshihide and Masaru
Mrs. Murokume divorced her, and then married Hosokawa Mototaka's widow, Major General Okamoto, as his step-brother. In this way, he became the adoptive father of Hosokawa Motaka's son, Hosokawa Shinyuki. The veritable leader of Awa Kingdom,
Then he spent another month to reorganize the Shikoku's base, and then led the Shikoku army to land in Kinki.
However, this time the target became Tanba. Miyoshi Yoshihide was the general, and Matsunaga Nagayori was the vanguard. They commanded 15,000 troops and launched an attack on Tanba country. Hatano Harumichi, Naito Kunisada, Konishi Motonari, and Miyoshi Masakatsu gathered together.
The Tanba people resisted vigorously, and the two sides fought fiercely for several days, with rivers of blood flowing. In the end, the Naito family's Yagi Castle was captured by the Miyoshi army, and Tanba's guardian Naito Kunisada was killed. Motonari Konishi, Miyoshi Masaru defeated and surrendered, and the Tanba Kingdom was initially pacified.
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Then Miyoshi Nagakei ordered Matsunaga Nagayori to marry the daughter of Naito Kunisada. He inherited the name of the Naito family and changed his name to Naito Munakatsu. Ashikaga Yoshitō, who was in Kyoto, immediately felt tremendous pressure. He wanted to support the war in Tanba, but his hands were too weak.
He has little power. When Kiragi is used? Miyoshi Nagakei, who has an army of 20,000, has not yet moved. Does he dare?
So Ashikaga Yoshitō remembered his crooked tricks and continued to assassinate him, but this time the Miyoshi family learned a lesson and had tight defenses. Several failed assassinations not only did not hurt Miyoshi Nagakei, but instead angered him. He was very angry with this disobedient general.
I was really fed up and decided to launch a new attack on Yamashiro Country.
There was no pressure on Kiragi at that time. Omi had not used any weapons for more than a year, and the impact of the war had weakened a lot. Moreover, due to the rise of Sakamoto Castle, Shiga and Takashima counties had absorbed many immigrants from surrounding areas, and the population had actually increased.
A considerable increase.
The construction of new towns in Sakamoto has entered a new bottleneck. The total population of town residents has been increasing slightly, but the construction speed of castle towns far exceeds the increase rate of town residents. With the smooth implementation of the Raku City Order, there has been an explosive growth trend.
Since then, the growth rate of town residents has dropped to a stable range. Some new craftsmen will join every month, but it is not enough to connect Sakamoto Castle with the newly built Kenda Castle.
As Sakamoto's development entered a bottleneck period, Kira Yoshitoki found that his own development had also entered a bottleneck period. He controlled the water transportation power of the Yodogawa Basin and Lake Biwa, and also controlled the territories of Shiga and Takashima counties. His power was greater than that of Mikawa Kingdom.
It has increased more than ten times, and he would not be happy even if he was given the leader of a country in exchange for it, but he has reached the point where he can no longer expand.
"How should we expand our family?" Just as my uncle Nakain Michio said, the leader of the Asai family in Kitaomi cannot be touched. Asai Hisamasa is in alliance with the Asakura family, and he married his sister to the eldest son of Saito Michizan.
Saito Yoshiryu is the main wife, and he himself has joined the Rokkaku family. He is a character who looks inconspicuous but is actually very powerful.
Despite Kiragi's current arrogance, the Rokkaku family has long been dissatisfied with him. Shiga and Takashima prefectures are originally the territory of the Rokkaku family. The Shiga prefecture is Yamaoka Kageyuki, and the Takashima prefecture is Sasaki.
The branch of the Rokkaku family was originally only lent to the general for refuge, but why was it suddenly thrown away by the general to the Kira family as if it was a favor? Everyone in the Rokkaku family expressed dissatisfaction, especially when Sakamoto Castle suddenly became popular, they were even more dissatisfied.
Already.
It's hard to say whether the Rokkaku family acquiesced in Yamaoka Kageyuki's actions, and Hisamasa Asai had just had some unpleasantness with him and now hated him. If there was some border conflict, the Rokkaku family would definitely be happy to see the Kira family misfortune.
The Asai family's ally, the Asakura family, has nothing to do with the Kira family, which means that if Kira Yoshitoki touches Asai Hisamasa, Asakura Soutei will send troops to defeat Kira Yoshitoki without hesitation.
Asakura Sotechi, that is the ancestor of the Asakura family, the military god of Hokuriku. His status is the same as that of the military god of Echigo in the future. Moreover, this ancestor is also the Tsuruga governor, and he has money and wealth.
There are 8,000 wolf-like men, all of whom are veterans who have been baptized. In addition, the 7,000 troops from Ono County controlled by the Asakura family add up to 15,000 troops.
These were the Asakura family's elite who defeated 300,000 Kaga in the Kuzuryu River. They either recruited peasant soldiers hastily, fought them or sought death. It was really not worth offending a group of enemies for that small amount of territory, especially Echizen.
The Asakura family is very difficult to deal with. The Asakura family is twice as difficult to deal with when Sotechi Asakura is still alive. He is not the Great Demon King Oda. How dare he play the big game? So no matter how you calculate it, it will be a loss.
Minami Omi Rokkaku's family was automatically ignored, and the troubles of a lot of royal materials in Yamashiro Province were also ignored. Wakasa Province was the Asakura family's favorite, and the calculation there was no different from directly going to war with the Asakura family, and then looked around
Yiwu found that he really had no place to develop. Should he just be a small lord?
Kira Yoshitsune felt that he had to make a choice. He would never turn back after reaching this point. Only by continuing to move forward could he live well in the Warring States Period. The Miyoshi family had dominated Kinki in history and was hindered by his appearance, but things were not like that.
Simple, for the Sanhao family, the death of only one Shihe and one cun can only mean that the upward trend has stopped, not even the damage to the muscles and bones. Sanhao Changqing also threatened that he would retaliate against him, but he didn't say this, that's all.
If you tell me, you won't be able to run away.
With the end of the war in Tanba, the Kira family seemed to feel that the war was coming. Kira Yoshitsune issued an order to summon a new army. Currently, the Kira Army has a total of 7,000 people. Its combat strength has more than doubled compared to a year and a half ago, but the number of people is disadvantageous.
Still unable to make up for it, Kira Yoshihishi transferred 1,000 people with good quality from the ronin, thus gathering an army of 8,000 and began intensive training to prepare for the upcoming war.
In early March, Kira Yoshi went to Kyoto to meet Ashikaga Yoshitō. The two discussed and decided to invite Hosokawa Harumoto back to continue to be in charge of Kyoto. Since he left Kyoto to stay with the Rokkaku family, the Rokkaku family has become somewhat alienated from the shogunate. This is not a
A good sign, and his conspiracy with Ashikaga Yoshito also needs to be activated.
So Odate Harumi went to Kannonji Castle in person to ask Hosokawa Harumoto to return to Kyoto. Hosokawa Harumoto held on for a long time before agreeing to return to Kyoto. In fact, he had wanted to go back for a long time, but he just couldn't.
To save face, and Ashikaga Yoshito disrespected him too much, which hurt his self-esteem, and this time Ashikaga Yoshito came to invite him, he regarded it as a great victory in the war between the general and the commander, so he brought his entourage with great fanfare
Return to Kyoto.
At this time, Kyoto's defense force had changed from 2,000 to 5,000. The difference in military strength between Ashikaga Yoshitō and Hosokawa Haru was 1,000. However, all the elites in Ashikaga Yoshitō's hands were equipped with the armor of the Kira family, and there were also soldiers from the shogunate who were entrusted to the public.
Training with all their strength, overall the strength of the shogunate and the leader are equally matched.
Of course, now that Ashikaga Yoshitō is asking for help, he leaves Hosokawa Harumoto in charge of Kyoto's defense forces. Hosokawa Harumoto is back on the left hand of the general, which makes him very happy, and that annoying Kira Yoshitoki is also very obedient. He took back his Sakamoto Castle and became a farmer. It seems that everything is developing in the beautiful direction that Hosokawa Harumoto longs for. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!