Asahina Nobu nodded thoughtfully, but secretly looked at the expressions of Okabe Masatsuna and Okabe Motonobu. The Okabe clan was the first of the Fujiwara Minami family and the Kudo clan, and was also a great martial arts family.
In the system, the Okabe family has always been the powerful heirloom, which is very different from the Chaohina family, so Asahina Nobuyuki pays relatively more attention to their family.
Okabe Chujiro is a disciple of Okabe Masatsuna, and he is still a young man who has just turned 20. Based on his past experience, he can never say such an organized thing. Asahina Nobuyuki thinks that the greater possibility is that the Okabe family
The two brothers asked them to use the mouth of this insignificant boy to express some opinions. Even if he said the wrong thing and caused trouble, he could get rid of it without causing any trouble.
"What a cunning bastard!" Asahina Nobuyuki cursed secretly, thinking that you are the only one who has a clan and thinks that the Asahina family is the bare commander, so he winked at his clan, Asahina Motochi.
Asahina Motochi jumped out knowingly and said: "In the past six months, fighting has continued in Suruga Province. Affected by the massive invasion of the Takeda Army, Suruga was shattered and the people were displaced. The ally Sagami Hojo clan was trapped in Odawara Castle, leaving the Tokaido trade route.
Blocking message delivery is almost non-existent, so you probably don’t know an important piece of information yet!”
"What information?"
"His Royal Highness the Lord of the Edo Castle was so powerful in Kanto that he not only easily captured the Musashi Kingdom, but also swept the Shimono Kingdom one after another. The Shino Kingdom subdued those arrogant Kanto warriors. His Highness the Shogunate has allowed His Highness the Lord to serve as the new generation of Kanto.
Lord, that is to say, I will soon ascend the throne as Edo Lord. Do you know what this means?" Asahina Motochi looked at the samurai in the room with a strange expression.
There was a gasping sound in the room. Seeing that the heat was almost under control, Asahina Nobuyuki whispered: "Perhaps it won't be long before the lord in Kakegawa Castle will go to Edo Castle to seek refuge with His Highness the Lord Mayor.
We don’t know how much chaos our country will cause in Suruga, but do we still feel confused because we don’t know the way forward?”
"Hiss! This..." Okabe Masatsuna's expression changed and he immediately returned to his unwavering expression. Countless waves arose in his heart, and he looked at the samurai in the room with their mouths wide open in shock. That's it.
Guessing what words they were thinking about, the shock in their hearts must not be less than his.
Asahina Nobuyuki seemed to know a lot of inside information. As he peeled off the cocoon, the people of Suruga country, who had been blocked from information for more than half a year, learned about the changes in Kanto. Compared with half a year ago, the country that only lost Musashi still had the strength to resist. In the past six months,
The Ashikaga family of Uragami Sutsui rampaged through most of Kanto with lightning speed, shocking the Suruga samurai so much that they were stunned and did not dare to move for a long time.
"Isn't that what I'm waiting for... Then..." Several samurai muttered a few words vaguely, expressing the turbulent emotions in their hearts with expressions as if they had seen ghosts. This piece of information had a great impact on all the surrenders of the Imagawa family.
Just like the rain comes after a long drought, neither the Ashikaga family nor the Kanto Ashikaga family can hide the fact that the Imagawa clan is truly a clan member of the Ashikaga Yoshito era, and their relationship is second only to the closest relatives of the Mikawa Kira family clan clan.
Almost everyone can be sure that the Imagawa family will definitely go to Edo Castle, and it is also certain that Takeda Shingen will never dare to stop it easily. Then the choices of these Imagawa family's surrenders seem to suddenly have a shortcut to the south. Maybe they don't have to worry about it for themselves anymore.
The Takeda family is distressed by being stabbed in the back and their reputation has been damaged. As long as it is properly controlled, it can evolve into a loyal minister who will not hesitate to go to all corners of the country to save the country.
Thinking of this, not only the samurai present cheered, but even the gloomy Okabe Masatsuna was very excited. This was the first time he showed a bright smile in more than half a year. The heavy pressure was like a Mount Fuji pressing on his head.
It would crush his spine together, but everything seems to be different today.
Asahina Nobuyuki will not lie. At least he will not lie to a grasshopper on a rope, a co-conspirator who is closely related to the same origin and participated in Rikiri's plan. The matter of Ashikaga becoming as big as Kanto Ashikaga will surely spread throughout the world soon.
, as long as you send a few confidants to Owari Country to inquire, you can verify the authenticity.
Asahina Nobuyuki would never be stupid enough to deceive them with a fake news that was destined to be exposed. Selling out his accomplices would not do him any good. It would only make Takeda Shingen more fearful and wary of him. In the final analysis, foreigners will never be the same.
To be inferior to others, any retainer who protects the famous family is not willing to act like a foreigner.
They are not those insignificant Chinese people who yearn for freedom. Many of those Chinese people have been wild-tempered for hundreds of years, and some are even from the evil gangs composed of bandits and bandits in the Kamakura period. They just want to look like outsiders.
The unwillingness to be a chained family vassal is typical of most small country lords.
These generational retainers are all descendants of ordinary people with some family backgrounds, and even come from the famous Wu family. There are many people in the family who have served the same family for hundreds of years. To suddenly lower them to a lower level is like joining the regular army into the reserve army. Although it is more relaxed and comfortable without being so exposed.
There are so many rules and regulations, but I always feel uncomfortable in my heart.
I dare not say that all the Imagawa family genealogies were passed down from the Kamakura period, but at any rate during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were some genealogical retainers who followed the Imagawa Nor clan and the two brothers Imagawa Sadashi. The famous samurai families of hundreds of years have come out.
Crossing Kyushu to explore the issue, Suruga Enie was the guardian, even more powerful than the relatively declining Kamisetsu Ashikaga family.
The two families gradually became estranged due to different circumstances. The Imagawa family followed the path of the Hosokawa family and could make all the difference in Tokaido, while the Ashikaga family of Kamizuki could only stay together with the Owari Shiba family, the third-in-command writer, until the past ten years.
The confrontation between swordsmen was so intense that Ashikaga Yoshitoki, who was about to succeed the Kanto Lord, was forced to "go to Luo" to avoid the intimidation of the Imagawa family.
The tragic death of Ashikaga Yoshitoki's eldest brother Kira Yoshigo in Yamiyama was also a good deed done by Imagawa Yoshimoto. It is unjustifiable to say that this discord is not certain at all, but now the situation has undergone a shocking reversal, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki has become the powerful Imagawa clan.
Weak, the fact that Ashikaga Yoshi was unwilling to give in does not mean that the Imagawa family really has the backbone to refuse to accept coercion.
As long as the Imagawa family really takes the initiative to surrender and meet each other as a vassal, no matter how angry Ashikaga Yoshitoki is, he can't do anything to him. The Imagawa family is really not the stupid Ashikaga Fujimasa or the inconsequential Oda family.
, the Imagawa family still has a huge number of loyal members. The Imagawa family is not a useless fool, it’s just that his wise and powerful father died too early and had no chance to teach him well.
Although his political skills are sloppy and naive, and his military strategy is still in a blank state of development, he still has the advantage of being smart, studious and proficient in etiquette and culture. He has extraordinary attainments in Waka, Cuju, tea ceremony, calligraphy and was trained by his father.
He has excellent internal affairs skills and only needs to cultivate basic political concepts and handling methods to become an outstanding talent.
If the Imagawa family really joins the Kanto family, their depressed family members will be able to stand up and take charge. Maybe they can launch a major counterattack to fight back the invading Takeda family. I believe Takeda Shingen, who is celebrating his victory and triumph, will be very happy.
He quickly realized this, but even if he thought about this contradiction, there was nothing he could do.
I believe any samurai can see that Takeda Shingen did not dare to offend the Kanto public easily. He was beaten and retreated in the battle and had little ability to fight back. He used tricks to deal with Echigo several times and was exposed.
They were all destroyed, and in turn, he used a move secretly launched at the critical moment, almost cutting off the head of Takeda Shingen's neck. This move had long ago completely extinguished Takeda Shingen's thoughts of fighting against Kanto Kōfō. At this time, it was
I would never dare to provoke the Duke of Kanto.
The Kanto government is eyeing the Suruga Kingdom. If Takeda Shingen dares to make big moves, he is committing suicide. If he does nothing, he will commit suicide slowly. All he can do is to speed up the attack on Tokaido, and strive to gradually use the method of expansion, enfeoffment and transfer of enfeoffments.
Dismantling the Suruga clan, but it is still unclear how many changes this will cause. Under this situation, the Takeda family will probably not be able to live smoothly.
The most indispensable thing in the world is smart people. Even the yellow-haired and blue-eyed Southern Barbarians they look down upon can build enviable ships and destroy the country. There is no shortage of smart people in the Imagawa retainers, but some people can see clearly.
There are some changes, but lack of decisiveness. I always look forward and worry about gains and losses, and miss good opportunities again and again.
But this time it was really different. It was revealed that the Takeda family had shown that these people were determined to burn the boat. Seeing that the Takeda family's ship, which was luxurious on the surface but hidden dangers everywhere, was in danger, these samurai immediately began to figure out how to use better opportunities to betray
, smart samurai have guessed that Asahina Nobuyuki probably has connections to the Ashikaga family, so that he can be the first to get the news when no one is aware of the changes in Kanto.
"I vaguely remember that Suruga Morden is an old acquaintance of Yamamoto Sado Morden! Sado Morden sat in Omi and continuously defeated Asakura and Asai, two powerful names. Their strength is unfathomable!" After Okabe Motobu's reminder, let him
Many samurai present remembered that Asahina Motonaga had a great debt of gratitude to Yamamoto Tokiyuki. Asahina Nobuki also studied military strategy and city building techniques with him for a period of time, and he could barely be considered a teacher and a friend.
This relationship made the samurai present have other thoughts. Asahina Nobuyuki had probably secretly surrendered to the Ashikaga clan, climbed the big tree and came back to serve as a secondary force to reversely mobilize their group. This was
The rhythm of making great achievements and receiving rewards. Immediately, the eyes of the warriors turned red with envy.
Everyone likes to hug their thighs, but some thighs unfortunately cannot be hugged because they have serious conflicts with their own interest groups and interest orientations. The samurai of the Suruga Forefathers are extremely reluctant to join the Takeda family. If they are allowed to join the Takeda family now,
It is almost impossible for the Matsudaira family. But Ashikaga Yoshitoki is not among them. Taking refuge with him is definitely in line with the interests of the samurai of the Imagawa family tree and will not betray his own interest class.
"I can still recall the figure of the lame, one-eyed samurai wandering outside Sunfu Castle. Who would have thought that in less than twenty years, the circumstances of this life would change so much!" Kazuyama's Yuan was extremely envious.
, I wish I was the lame ronin who was drafted to Sanhe.
The excited samurai exchanged topics about Kanto in low voices, trying to extract more useful information from Asahina Nobuyuki's mouth. Several members of the Asahina family were also happy to enjoy the treatment of being surrounded by stars. Ashikaga Yoshitoki's
The great success shocked and inspired many samurai's fading confidence, and some samurai began to consider the advantages of Ashikaga Yoshitoki.
First of all, the Ashikaga family is very powerful. Its elite men are brave and good at fighting. It is not an exaggeration to call them the strongest in Kanto. As for the generals, they have a luxurious combination. Ashikaga Yoshitoki himself is a top military general, commanding more than a dozen troops.
He has never lost a joint battle under his command in 2008. Teru Uesugi has been leading the army for more than ten years and has never failed in a joint battle under his personal command. The remaining generals all have the strength of Hojo Tsusunari.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the Takeda family can resist it.
Secondly, Ashikaga Yoshitoki has always had a good reputation in the Kinai and Eastern countries. Thirdly, he respects the laws and traditional order of the shogunate. He dominates nearly ten countries including the Kanto region and still maintains a respectful attitude towards the shogunate. This alone can definitely make a big impact.
Several generations of family governors from Kamakura Lord to Furukawa Lord.
At that time, the Kamakura Crown Prince started with the second-generation Lord Ashikaga Ujimitsu. He and his brother Ashikaga Yoshimitsu were trying to compete for the position of general of the conquest of barbarians. At that time, the actual territory owned by the Kamakura Crown Prince was very small, and they could command it.
Kanto purely relies on bloodline status to rally the people of Kanto, but Ashikaga Yoshitoki is not like that. The direct leader he has is large enough to scare most samurai. It is really not easy to stick to the original oath.
Once again, as long as you don't resolutely oppose him, you will eventually be forgiven. In the early years, he also liked to use the form of killing and killing to intimidate. As he gained more experience in governing, he gradually eliminated most of the violence in his temper, and the punishment for most opponents was nothing more than
Reduction of seals, transfer of titles, exile, and hanging will only be considered for the most heinous crimes. As for more severe decapitations, they are rarely used.
This change may seem inconspicuous, but it is actually very important to the Suruga Forefathers. It shows that the new master's temper is becoming gentler, and he can be more tolerant and understanding of the Suruga Forefathers who have lost their moral integrity. At least this
Helping the samurai doesn't have to worry about being boiled in warm water, or being sent to the front lines to die. This already makes them feel extremely satisfied.
Before leaving, Asahina Nobuyuki said a meaningful conclusion: "Many things in Kanto are about to change. Is the Tokaido still far away?"
Takeda Shingen, who was far away in Tsugasakikan, was not aware of the small changes that had taken place in Sunfu. This does not mean that the Kai samurai were not vigilant against the Suruga Forefathers. Takeda Nobushige was clearly aware of the strange movements of the Suruga Forefathers.
, as the first lord of Sunfu Castle who occupied Suruga, his duty is to keep an eye on the people of Suruga and observe the changes in Toe Country and Izu Country to report the latest information at any time to lay a solid foundation for the next expansion.
"Should I tell my brother? But Lord Jinfu..." Takeda Nobushige felt confused and shaken while holding Ashikaga Yoshitoki's autographed letter.
Ashikaga Yoshitoki, who was about to ascend the throne, admitted in his letter that Takeda Yoshinobu had been successfully transferred by him. He originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity of going south to Kanto to open up the situation and appoint Takeda Yoshinobu as the governor of the Takeda family, but he did not expect the speed with which Takeda Shingen would act.
So quickly. A devastating disaster hit Takeda Yoshinobu before he was fully prepared. It is indeed not wrong to say that he rebelled. At most, it was just a matter of keeping the information secret and was not discovered by Takeda Shingen at the first time.
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Although the news of his nephew's attempted rebellion and his confinement and suicide was shocking, it still did not make Takeda Nobushige feel conflicted and his confidence was severely damaged. The following letter boldly proposed that he intends to support his legitimate son Takeda Rokurojiro and inherit the Takeda clan as a family governor.
plan. The letter clearly told Takeda Nobushige that his brother was ridiculed by the world for his capriciousness and unfaithfulness. If he was allowed to continue his unscrupulous actions, the Takeda family would only be humiliated and destroyed.
"Is this a warning that if I don't cooperate, the Takeda family will be destroyed?" Takeda Nobushige frowned slightly. He is no longer the person he was twenty years ago who only knew how to prove himself with loyalty and bravery, and tried his best to assist the family governor in exchange for
The young man who came to be understood and cared for by his elder brother, Takeda Shingen, was no longer the young family governor who was willing to entrust his wife to his younger brother.
People's hearts are always changing. Twenty years have transformed the young and determined Takeda Harunobu into the cunning and cunning Takeda Shingen who knows how to judge the situation. Takeda Nobushige is also quietly making subtle changes. He doesn't even remember what he did to him.
Takeda Shingen's loyalty became blurred, perhaps at the moment when he received Ashikaga Yoshi's handwriting in Shinano a few years ago.
Standing up and walking to the bookcase, he gently opened the secret compartment and took out a scroll. Takeda Nobushige held the painting and sighed: "In the Battle of Fujigawa, Minamoto Yoritomo and Takeda Nobuyoshi teamed up to defeat Taira Nobusei... This was an early hint from His Highness Kakata
My ambition also hints at the future direction of the Takeda family..."
Speaking of which, Takeda Nobuyoshi's voice suddenly dropped and he looked lonely. It was precisely after the Fujikawa battle that Takeda Nobuyoshi, who felt that his prestige had greatly increased, once competed with Minamoto Yoritomo for the pillar of the Gen clan, and was finally defeated by Minamoto Yoritomo's superb performance.
Under the strategic tactics, powerful members of the family including Kagami Tohko, Ogasawara Nagakiyo and his son rebelled, completely eliminating the opportunity to compete for the pillars of the Genji family.
Then Yoritomo Minamoto made a plan to exclude the Kai Gen clan, assassinating Takeda Nobuyoshi's eldest son Ichijo Tadayori, exiled Itagaki Kanenobu for violating the imperial edict, and executed his younger brother Yoshinobu Yasuda for treason, and also charged him with the same treason.
They executed Takeda Yugi, the legitimate heir to the family governor, and strongly supported Kagami Tohko, who was against Nobuyoshi of the Takeda family, and Ogasawara Nagakiyo and his son, who forced Takeda Nobuyoshi to death in fear.
Takeda Nobushige was familiar with that period of history. Their ancestor, Takeda Nobumitsu, was originally a separate branch of Izawa Nobumitsu. After the death of the family governor heir who inherited the "Yi" character of the Kawachi Genji family, his lineage was inherited with the common character "信"
Coming down, the difficulty is not as difficult as an outsider would understand.
Therefore, he was very worried about standing in the wrong team again and causing the Takeda family to suffer a greater blow than this. Although the annihilation of this clan could not wipe out the blood of the Takeda family, the cessation of the direct line also meant the cessation of inheritance. Another person who came from a separate family
How meaningful is it for "Iza Nobumitsu" to succeed him?
Walking to the terrace and looking at the night view of the declining Sunfu Castle, only a few lights were still on. Takeda Nobushige looked melancholy, and after a long time he sighed: "Should I choose loyalty and support my brother to continue fighting, or should I choose reason?