With the arrival of severe winter, a cold wave swept across the sixty-six countries, mixed with a large amount of rain and snow. The willows on both sides of the Shouchi River were covered with a thick layer of silver, and long ice streams hung from the eaves.
The northern scenery outside the house attracted curious townspeople to look at it. The smoke was so beautiful that it looked like mist but not fog. It was so beautiful that even after watching it for a long time, it didn't get boring.
This year's winter is extremely cold. Owari Province is experiencing a rare snowstorm. It has been falling intermittently for more than a month since early November. This season is also the traditional snowfall season in Owari Province. In previous years, sporadic light snow fell.
Or the most annoying freezing rain, which is wet and cold. Occasionally, there are larger-scale snows that are rare in several years. Such rare and huge blizzards are in the memory of the elderly, as if they have not heard of them for hundreds of years.
Pass.
In the castle town of Cheongju City, the elderly are busy clearing the snow, and the children are making snowmen, having snowball fights, wrestling and rolling in the snow. The white snow provides countless laughter to the children, and the merchants on the street rub their hands red and loudly sell their savings.
goods, seeing customers carrying baskets into your store with bright smiles, the definition of happiness is so similar in every era.
In the large room of Qingzhou City, two sets of thick paper doors were urgently installed. A group of warriors sat around the fire in twos and threes. Fresh fish caught from the river, golden potatoes and
After a while, the strong fragrance of corn hit my face. The warriors held the wine jar and drank happily. They felt so comfortable.
After the wine was half drunk, the warriors began to feast. Ikeda Hengxing drank a little too much. He was so drunk that he began to speak incoherently: "The corn and potatoes sent by Zhenfu Palace are really good! Put them in a pot and cook them on the rack.
It can be roasted on the fire, or even buried under the fire. I heard that it can also be made into dishes and eaten. It is really a good thing!"
After several years of being sidelined, Shibata Katsuie's temperament has become more restrained, but deep down he is still very dignified as an important minister. When he saw him making a mistake while drunk, he casually said: "What nonsense are you talking about, Katsuzaburo?"
We all know that potatoes and corn are good foods that can fill the stomachs of farmers, but you only remember to eat them, you are too unambitious!"
The samurai in the room laughed loudly. Ikeda Hengxing didn't seem to notice the look Niwa Nagahide cast, and said with a smile: "Food is the most important thing for people. What can I say if I don't talk about food? I, Hengxing, only know this
The food is delicious, not only do I like it but my relatives and friends at home also like it, not to mention the townspeople and farmers."
Oda Nobunaga hugged Saito Guitie and smiled without saying a word. He was no longer the stupid young man who stopped Kira Mansomaru many years ago. He had developed a deep temperament and excellent skills in the past few years as the governor of the family.
Naturally, he is well aware of some conflicts. Without destroying the unity of the retainers group, some minor conflicts between them will help the family governor control the overall situation.
In the past few years, Oda Nobunaga's development has been smooth sailing. He successfully repelled the Imagawa Army's trial with a small victory in the Battle of Murakusa, and defeated Oda Nobuyuki's plot to seize the family governor in the Battle of Inai. This year's summer and autumn intersect, Oda
Nobunaga then led most of Owari's army to fight in the Ukino Battle.
This war is of great significance. This is the first time he launched a war to unify the Owari Kingdom. The enemy in this war was Oda Nobuhien, the governor of the Iwakura Oda family, who was from the same clan, and was also the head of the four upper Owari counties.
Guardian Dai, in order to completely complete the great goal of unifying Owari, he chose to recruit his brother-in-law and brother-in-law Oda Nobukiyo to deal with the Iwakura Oda family.
This war was very successful. With Oda Nobunaga's well-trained soldiers and strong generals, as well as the iron artillery team built at no expense, he easily defeated the stubborn and conservative Oda Nobuxian and defeated his army. Then he was stuck at the critical moment before the autumn harvest.
Oda Nobunaga was surrounded by Iwakura Castle, and the city could not sustain food for a month. Oda Nobuxian was forced to surrender the city.
Since then, Oda Nobunaga has successfully achieved the great goal of unifying Owari. This is something his father failed to achieve after more than ten years of hard work. Now he can easily achieve it after just a few years in the Owari family, whether in the Oda family or in Owari Junior High School.
Who else will talk about Owari's idiot? He can openly tell everyone that Oda Nobunaga has become a qualified family governor, and his achievements are as good as Owari's Tiger.
Ikeda Hengxing held the wine jar and drank happily. Anyway, a bachelor does not have to worry about family matters. While drinking, he talked drunkenly: "Speaking of which, it is a pity that the Guardian Alliance plan failed. The Kira family unexpectedly agreed to discuss peace matters with us.
, If it weren’t for the Shiba family who was so incompetent in interfering with the peace talks, maybe our Oda family would have been able to get rid of the pressure from Mikawa’s direction!”
Ikeda Hengxing's words were vague, but the samurai here were not stupid. The atmosphere in the hall suddenly cooled down. The samurai put down their wine glasses and turned their attention to Oda Nobunaga, who was in the upper hand. He closed his folding fan and glared.
He glanced at Tsuneki Ikeda and said, "Katsusaburo, drink less, and be careful not to find the door when you are drunk. When you go back, patrol a few more times and remind the townspeople to clean the snow on the houses, so that it is gone!"
"Yes!" The warriors hurriedly leaned over to promise, picked up their drunken companions and filed out.
Guidi was very worried when she saw her husband looking unhappy. Feeling the small movements of the woman in his arms, Oda Nobunaga shook his head with a smile, took Guidi's hand and said with a smile: "Don't you have this kind of tolerance when you come to my house? I'm just tired of hearing that.
I stopped their drunken nonsense and sent them home to sleep. Let’s get some rest early as it’s freezing cold!”
After noticing that the belt of Oda Nobunaga was being untied by Oda Nobunaga's big hands, Guidi whispered with charming eyes: "But Your Highness, it's just after noon!"
Oda Nobunaga picked up the disheveled Guidi and laughed and said, "It's more interesting to be alone during the day."
The incident mentioned by Tsuneaki Ikeda was a strange thing that happened in the late period of the Ukino War. At that time, Oda Nobunaga led an army of four thousand to besiege Iwakura Castle for more than half a month. He felt that the unification of Owari was almost certain, so he began to make plans.
The next strategic goal is to "avenge his father-in-law", but before that he has to do one more thing, which is to stabilize the first bowman in the East China Sea, Imagawa Yoshimoto.
He doesn't have many cards in his hand, but he still has a treasure card that he can use, that is the former military commander Shiba Yoshigan. This man is a direct descendant of the Owari Shiba family. One of the dignified three leaders of the family was reduced to become the gold medal of the Oda family today.
A canary. Except for a tiger skin that was guarded by Owari, the Muromachi Shogunate, it was of some use. It was useless. It had nothing.
This plan is called the "Ashikaga Ichigawa Guardian Alliance". Oda Nobunaga worked hard for a long time before coming up with the final plan. The core content of the plan is to organize the Ashikaga Ichimen of the Owari Shiba clan, Mikawa Kira clan, and Suruga Imagawa clan.
In the name of harmony among the clans, the political goal of achieving the final peaceful coexistence of the Oda family and the Imagawa family and a complete cessation of military attacks by both parties was achieved.
The Oda family's plan was quite good, but they didn't know whether the Imagawa family would take the bait. They originally just planned to ask for directions, but they didn't expect that although the Imagawa family didn't agree, the head of the Kira family, Kira Yoshian, agreed. You know, this is
Kira Yoshitoki's half-brother, Imagawa Yoshimoto's son-in-law, just returned to Tojo Castle this year to preside over government affairs as the Mikawa Guardian.
The guardian of Mikawa was given by none other than Ashikaga Yoshiteru at his request at the beginning of the year. It is said that Imagawa Yoshimoto and Kira Yoshihiro have a very good relationship with their sons-in-law, and they also have a close relationship with Imagawa, the heir to the Imagawa family governor.
Uzuma has a close relationship and is very good at both Waka tea ceremony and Cuju painting. People have the impression that he is an elegant traditional aristocrat who does not engage in political affairs.
Although Imagawa Yoshimoto did not agree, he did not object either. The calculation was not complicated. He asked his son-in-law to sign the covenant and then his father-in-law to break it. No matter how angry the Oda family is, they can only hold it in their hearts.
The whole world knows that Kira Yoshihiro is the son-in-law of Imagawa Yoshimoto. They also all know that this noble prince has been trained in Sunfu for seven or eight years and has forgotten all about government affairs. He has even less military power in his hands. He is also in Mikawa Kingdom.
There is no such thing as prestige, so asking him to sign the contract is a naked deception.
Even so, Oda Nobunaga was overjoyed for a long time. How could we all be adults and believe in the constraints of a covenant? Oda Nobunaga did not demand too long, as long as he was given a chance of three to five years.
Meinong implements the strategy plan, and it doesn't matter if this alliance is torn up in the future.
Shortly after the Battle of Ukino, the two sides decided to hold peace talks at a place called Uenohara at the junction of Owari and Mikawa. Imagawa Yoshimoto would definitely not come. How could a great master of the Three Kingdoms play such a childish game with him?
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Since the Ashikaga Ichimon clan was nominally used as a cover, it was natural that the governor of the Ashikaga clan should lead the talks. Envoys from both sides were going back and forth to basically finalize the basic content of the peace talks.
, and Kira Yoshian who formed the alliance on behalf of the Imagawa family are just going through the motions.
On a sunny morning in late autumn, Yoshihiro Shiba was having a meeting with Yoshihiro Kira. However, the two literary young men suddenly realized that they had to decide on the priority seats. Just like the Spring and Autumn League, there always has to be a leader, and talking about the alliance is not the same.
There must always be a strong person who takes the lead in making a covenant.
Now the problem arises. The families on both sides are as different as one Owari Ashikaga and one Mikawa Ashikaga. Everyone regards the status passed down by their ancestors as high as the sky and the earth. Even if they eat rice bran, they cannot lose their ancestors.
A hard-earned reputation.
Then a funny scene occurred. The two sides stopped a distance away from each other. The messengers on both sides talked to each other. Shiba Yiyin said that I am the governor of the third house leader. My ancestors are so prominent, so I want to sit in charge.
Bit.
Over there, Kira Yoshihiro was very unhappy. He said to himself that you still come to compete with me like this, so he immediately said that I belong to the Ashikaga family.
A true member of the Ashikaga Imperial family, I am the guardian of Mikawa and the son-in-law of the Imagawa family. I am much stronger than a down-and-out kid like you, so I must take the head seat.
No one could convince the young masters on both sides, so the two sides locked up and moved out of the bed (mazar), took out the lunch boxes prepared in advance, and made psychological preparations for a protracted war. Then the sun rose high and slowed down.
Falling slowly, the two of them didn't move a step.
Although the weather in late autumn is not cold, it is not a good thing to waste a day in vain. The two young masters enjoyed delicious food and sang poems for entertainment, while the warriors and soldiers below had no choice but to fight against each other with hungry stomachs.
In the end, the family members on both sides couldn't stand it anymore and tried to persuade their respective family governors. In the end, the two reluctantly agreed to this request.
After some communication between the two parties, Kira Yi'an and Shiba Yiyin took steps reluctantly. No one wanted to suffer more, until they walked ten steps away from each other to meet and talk.
If you are willing to move, you are silently indicating that you are waiting for the other person to take the initiative to come closer, and regard this as a change of direction to take the initiative.
The two of them neither greeted nor saluted, and stared at each other in a stalemate for half an hour. In the end, even when it got dark, they didn't say a word. In the end, they turned around and left silently without even saluting.
In order to satisfy their personal vanity, the two of them just shouldered an important mission and disrupted a planned alliance. Kira Yoshiyasu did this without much problem, but Imagawa Yoshimoto did not support the alliance at first. Since the negotiation could not be concluded, he would not
Talking about it can be used as an excuse to intervene in Owari in the future.
The situation at Shiba Yiyin over there was terrible. Oda Nobunaga had great expectations and looked forward to the early conclusion of the alliance. He invited people from all walks of life in Owari to come to Qingzhou City a few days in advance. On the same day, a grand ceremony was held in the commercial building.
We had a banquet just to wait for this news. As a result, after waiting around for a while, there was still no movement. Oda Nobunaga became anxious and sent someone to inquire about the situation.
The envoys sent came one after another, until it was dark and Yoshigami Shiba finally came back. Oda Nobunaga waited all day without eating, and the samurai in the room also went hungry all day.
As soon as Yoshiyin came back, he proudly announced that he had defeated Kira Yoshian in the competition for seats and became the leader of the alliance. As for the alliance? What is that? This young master has long forgotten about the alliance.
Oda Nobunaga was so angry that he couldn't imagine that this idiot could still pull this trick in front of all the powerful warriors of Owari Kingdom. The samurai in the room were also mad, and one hundred and eighty samurai were hungry.
We spent the whole day just listening to his bragging. What does it have to do with who you defeated? We were made hungry all day long. In the end, the covenant was not signed, and we didn’t even have a chance to have lunch and dinner together.
One month after the alliance was disrupted, it was reported that Yoshihiro Shiba was colluding with Todasou's lord Ishibashi Yoshitaka, Mikawa Kingdom's Kira Yoshian, Suruga Kingdom's Yoshimoto Imagawa, and Tsushima's water bandit Hattori Tomosada.
, intending to disrupt the alliance and take this opportunity to lure the Imagawa family's army to attack Owari from both land and water sides.
God knows how this stupid young master came up with such a complicated plan, and it was such a difficult plan to move both land and water. He had such strong organizational skills, including everyone from Owari, Mikawa, and Suruga. I almost thought it was a shrinking one.
The "Anti-Owari Alliance", and I don't know if Oda Nobunaga, who concocted this crime, was inspired by the Tiger of Kai.
Neither the Oda retainers nor the people of Owari Province believe this accusation, but it doesn't matter whether they believe it or not. This useless idiot has no other function except to be a waste of food and manure-making machine.
This is a typical example, so this young master who was a good-for-nothing and a fool was sumptuously kicked out of Owari Kingdom and wandered to the end of the world despite the enthusiastic support of everyone.
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On September 5, the third year of Hongzhi (September 27, 1557), when the emperor passed away, his legitimate son, Prince Fangren, ascended the throne and began to prepare for his father's funeral. The first thing was to discuss the posthumous title, which the ministers were very good at.
The posthumous title of Emperor Go-Nara was quickly decided, and then a problem arose. The funeral for the emperor was a huge sum of money, and the problem was still one word: money.
The recently deceased Emperor Go-Nara faced this problem when he succeeded to the throne. He managed to scrape together enough money to pay for the ceremonial expenses for the burial of his father, Emperor Go-Kashiwara, but he could not pay for his own enthronement ceremony.
We could only postpone the enthronement ceremony until ten years later by relying on Yantsugi Yamashina, who went to the countryside to get a little bit in the east and a little bit in the west to scrape together a little bit. The official positions of Oda Nobuhide and Oda Nobunaga were also obtained by chance, otherwise the imperial court would not have
Will he be given an official position for a local tycoon?
The new emperor who just ascended the throne also faced this problem. He needed money to bury his father, and he also needed money to hold his own enthronement and coronation. The court would definitely not be able to come up with this money, so he had to find the shogunate and various samurai lords in the world to help him. Ashikaga Yoshiteru
The emperor was moved to tears by the 10,000 guan Wen Yongle money he had saved in his small treasury over the past few years.
The remaining ministers also made voluntary donations from their pockets. Konoe Maekyu, who was very wealthy, donated 5,000 kanmon. Nijo Haruyoshi saw that the situation was not good and emptied his family fortune and made 2,000 kanmon. Kuga Harumichi invested in the Konoe family's business.
I also donated 1,500 kanmon. The Sanjo family, with the support of the Sanjo Nishi family, also donated 1,500 kanmon. Imedekawa Haruki also collected some money from stocks and donated 1,500 kanmon. The Central Court didn't have much money.
He took the lead and only donated 1,500 guan. Other officials donated a lot, 300 to 200 guan, but the gap was still huge.
At this time, Yoshiki Kira sent an envoy to the shogunate to apply for the guardianship of Ueno. Ashikaga Yoshiteru wanted to show off to the court and ordered him to donate more to the Kira family. It was already early November when the news was sent to Echigo.
, Yoshitoki Kira immediately decided to donate 20,000 kan Yongle money for the future burial ceremony of Emperor Nara. In addition, he would send another envoy to present a generous congratulatory gift to the new emperor at the imperial court's Zhengdan court meeting.
The emperor was so happy at this time that he immediately issued an imperial edict to express his praise for Kira Yoshitsune. Imadegawa Haruyuki served as an envoy to personally convey the imperial edict to Echigo, and announced his promotion to the post of three Zuohei guardsmen.
General of the tutelage, Imadegawa Seiki hinted to Kira Yoshitoki that according to the imperial decree, he could add a big character between the generals of the tutelage, but Kira Yoshitoki declined.
He knew very well what the garrison general did. In history, only the Hokahata family of the Southern Dynasties had three Nagano Nagan as the garrison generals. Emperor Go-Daigo of the Southern Dynasty added a big character to him.
The general of the garrison competed with the general of the Northern Dynasty to conquer the barbarians.
Kiragi was no longer afraid of the troubles in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has been more than 150 years since the Northern and Southern Dynasties were united. Even if the last activity of the Southern Dynasties is calculated, it will take more than a hundred years. What is the official position of a Southern Dynasty emperor?
It will not affect his fate. Kira Yoshitoki doesn't care about the so-called good or bad luck. He just doesn't want to touch the taboo of Ashikaga Yoshiteru's strong self-esteem at this juncture. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature,
