After the chaos in Nishi Mikawa was resolved, Imagawa Yoshimoto raised his troops and returned eastward, heading towards the home route. Along the way, Furunoji Yutaka reluctantly looked back to the west on horseback countless times, but he just sighed again and again.
"What? You don't want to leave?" Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at his brother in confusion.
"Oda Nobuhide is right there. The closest place to us is only 20 miles away." Furunoji Yutaka pinched the horse's mane angrily, making the horse even a little irritable when he sat down. "For several years, I have only dreamed about it.
I will chop him down with my own hands and take back my city... I was the closest to him before, but I couldn't do it, which is really uncomfortable."
"Then why didn't you propose sending troops to start a war with the Oda family?" Imagawa Yoshimoto did not tell his subordinates about the transaction between him and Yamaguchi Kotsugi, so naturally Furunoji Yutaka did not know about it either.
"At that time, the army was just for the Matsudaira family to seize chestnuts from the fire. There was a possibility that the situation would be overturned and a good situation would be lost. How could I give such advice? Everything should be based on the interests of the Imagawa family. What does my personal grudge mean?" What about the Furuno family?
Feng sighed again, and then shook his head vigorously to expel the frustration from his mind.
"But didn't we make an agreement before that you would come back to Imagawa's house with me only if I help you take revenge on Oda Tansho?" Imagawa Yoshimoto mentioned the agreement they made in Kyoto, "Then you and I will go back to Imagawa's house."
Shouldn't the first goal be revenge, why are you considering the interests of the Imagawa family?"
"Isn't it because I have an incompetent brother?" Yutaka Furuno complained with some resentment, "As the governor of the house, he doesn't worry about anything and can only let others do what he does. In Imagawa Hall, there is Master Yukisai, and outside
You can only rely on my brother."
"Okay, haha, there is really no way!" Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled and hit his head with a folding fan, "Then you can help me worry about it and tell you how to deal with Yoshida Castle and the Toda family?"
After saying that, Imagawa Yoshimoto got off his horse and got into the sedan next to him, leaving the dark lines on Furuno's plump face outside.
"Aren't you talking about official business?" Ginkgo was listening to the conversation between the two, but was startled when she saw Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly come in.
"What's so nice about that? It's boring." Imagawa Yoshimoto said as he untied all his clothes and put on a comfortable cloth. He hugged Ginkgo and leaned against the quilt. He smiled mischievously and said,
"Beauty comes first, who will come to court early?"
On October 13, the 9th year of Tenmon (1540), the Imagawa army returned to Yoshida Castle. When the Furuno clan sent out all its troops to rescue Imagawa Yoshimoto, the almost empty Yoshida Castle was beaten back by the Toda family. Makino
Hosei had no choice but to withdraw his troops and return to Ukubo Castle. But as Imagawa Yoshimoto supported Matsudaira Hirotada to regain control of Nishi Mikawa and raised his troops to return to the division - Toda Yasumitsu immediately realized that his good days were over.
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Therefore, Yasumi Toda hurriedly sent all his troops back to his territory and gave up Yoshida Castle. He tied his hands and knelt down on the bridge in Toyokawa north of Yoshida Castle to welcome the arrival of Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"Do you think this can wash away your guilt of rebellion?" Yutaka Nagoya, who was the first to arrive on horseback, asked coldly, standing in front of Ma and Yasumitsu Toda.
"So that the Fifth Young Master will know that I have always been loyal to the Imagawa family, but I have never had any rebellious thoughts! It's just that I have always disliked the traitor Makino Yasunari. Seeing his clever words and seductions, I deceived Kamikawa and took Yoshida Castle back.
, I can't hold back this tone no matter what! In a fit of anger, I did something stupid!" Toda Yasumitsu cried emotionally with snot and tears, "The ones I'm beating are only the Makino family, the Fifth Young Master was sending reinforcements at that time.
Come on, why don't you stop? How dare you make enemies of the Imagawa family?"
"That's because you couldn't defeat it, so you had to besiege the city. As soon as I left, didn't you take Yoshida Castle back?" Furunoji Yutaka sneered twice and asked fiercely, "Besides, before you attacked Nagato,
Doesn’t it count as attacking the Imagawa family by His Highness’s (Uden Nagamochi) subordinates?”
"I know my mistake! I know my mistake!" Toda Yasumitsu kowtowed hurriedly like pounding garlic.
"Your Highness, the Governor, doesn't want to see you. Go back to Tahara Castle yourself." Yutaka Furuno pointed at Toda Yasumitsu's nose and cursed, "Does the Toda family have any objections to taking back Yoshida Castle and the surrounding stone territory?"
"Don't you dare!" Yasushi Toda leaned over and replied with his bald head, not daring to raise his head. "From now on, I will do my best to be loyal to the Imagawa family. I will never refuse even if I go to the sword or the sea of fire to make up for the big mistake I made at this moment."
!Thank you to Fifth Young Master Haihan! Thank you to His Highness the Family Governor for your magnanimity!"
"Go away." Furunoji Yutaka cursed, and Toda Yasumitsu ran away in despair.
As soon as Toda Yasumitsu left, Makino Yasunari followed him and respectfully asked to see Imagawa Yoshimoto. Imagawa Yoshimoto then opened the curtain of the sedan and accepted his greetings.
"Yoshida Castle has been taken back, and Makino Dewa Mamoru can return to his own skills." Imagawa Yoshimoto simply explained a few words to Makino Yasunari. Unexpectedly, Makino Yasunari shook his head and refused.
"Your Highness, I am not ungrateful! It's just that this Yoshida City is an important town in Mikawa. The Makino family is weak, but it is the crime of harboring a treasure. If the Toda family and other wealthy families attack again, I will definitely not be able to protect it, and it will only be in vain.
It caused instability in the situation in Dongsanhe."
After Makino Yasunari finished these words, he leaned down very sincerely, "Therefore, I am bold and willing to offer Yoshida Castle to the Imagawa Lord's family. Please leave troops in Yoshida Castle to control the situation in Higashi Mikawa.
It won't be too late to return it to the Makino family when Mikawa is pacified one day."
After Makino Yasunari left, Imagawa Yoshimoto was somewhat surprised and complained to Nagoya Furuno: "The way Makino Dewa Mamoru behaved at the banquet was like a straight-forward rough man, but he didn't expect that he was also rough and refined? Yoshida
If the city is left to him, it might be taken away again someday, and then he will be embarrassed to ask us to help him get it back again. If we give Yoshida Castle to us, we can help him become the master of several wealthy families around him.
With the power, the Makino family can develop safely; there is no need to worry about the defense of Yoshida Castle, and the stability of Higashi Mikawa is also guaranteed."
"Who can survive in these troubled times, who is not a smart person? Who is ignorant of current affairs? Be it Yasumi Toda or Yasunari Makino, they are both very smart." As Yutaka Furuno said, he took the opportunity to ridicule Imagawa Yoshimoto.
One sentence, "I bet there is no fool among the family governors except you, fourth brother."
On October 18, the 9th year of Tenmon (1540), the Imagawa family's army returned to Imagawakan and disbanded the troops. While Imagawa Yoshimoto asked Ginkgo to return to the room quietly, he went to Taiyuan Xuezai to report the results of the battle - and then the room
A violent quarrel broke out.
"Old man, why don't you keep your word? You promised to show me your broken box after this success. Why are you still hiding it?"
"You have the nerve to call it a success?" Taiyuan Xuezhai waved the document submitted by Furunoji Yutaka and said while chewing on a chicken leg, "You fell into someone's plan to weaken the army and were almost captured alive. The Matsudaira family was in chaos.
, Dongsanhe has rebelled! You are going to cause trouble!"
"Then the result is good!" Imagawa Yoshimoto spread his hands and circled Taiyuan Xuezhai, arguing with reason, "The Matsudaira family has become our allies, and those who opposed us in the Matsudaira clan have also been purged.
The Kira family has been replaced by a head who is close to us, and Yoshida Castle, the gateway to Higashi Mikawa, has also come into our hands!"
"You could have achieved this result without having to put in so much effort, and you brat, are you satisfied with the result?" Taiyuan Xuezhai stood up as he spoke, and threw the chicken bones into the trash can.
As soon as he threw it, he would slap Imakawa Yoshimoto with his oily hands, scaring the latter so much that he stepped back.
"You have formed an alliance with the Matsudaira family, and you have also recognized His Highness Guangtada as your sworn brother. Doesn't our relationship with the Matsudaira family have been decided? An alliance of equal brothers! You could have taken advantage of the crisis and let the Matsudaira family
Send a hostage to us and treat us as a semi-vassal! And you have gained nothing from the Matsudaira family! Besides, do you think the Matsudaira family has been cleaned up? The Sakurai Matsudaira family and the Miki Matsudaira family are still there.
The head of the Miki Matsudaira family, Matsudaira Nobutaka, did not even receive much punishment."
"Also, you could have taken the opportunity to clean up the wealthy families in Dongsanhe who had changed, and let them spit out a few pieces of meat. In the end, as long as you came to Yoshida Castle and Ishi's territory, we had to send a lot of troops to maintain the stability of Dongsanhe.
If you go, aren't you making yourself unhappy?"
"Ah?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was stunned when he heard this, "I thought you would be happy to see us extend our power into Mikawa, teacher."
"Then we have to calculate the cost. If we have Shi's territory there, we will definitely have to send people to maintain it. The tax revenue from the territory can also cover the expenses. But now we only have Shi's territory there, but we want to be in a place where there are many wealthy families.
Do you think it’s a good deal to gain a foothold in Dongsanheli, but we have to spend a small 2,000 men to garrison it?”
Taiyuan Xuezai sighed repeatedly, and then scratched his shiny head with an oily hand, "Let's do this, transfer the Jinxibei of Yamada Ukonoe guard (Yamada Keitaka) who was originally stationed in Nishizaki Castle in the far Jiang River.
Yoshida Castle, let Jinmi go with him. The guard Yamada Ukonoe will be in charge of the military, and Ohara Jinmi will be in charge of government affairs and the dirty work in the dark."
"However, a reserve force of 1,200 people is too thin. But if two banner reserve forces are sent there, how can we maintain the defense of other places?" Taiyuan Xuezhai became more and more worried as he thought about it, and finally sighed, "It's really worrying...
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"And this is a huge financial burden. It will really cause problems for me as a teacher." Taiyuan Xuezhai used his other oily hand to knock Imagawa Yoshimoto hard on the head, "That's it.
Like this, you still point to me as your teacher to show you the treasure box? Go ahead and dream!"