On the evening of March 26, the 14th year of Tenmon (1546), in the Makishima Castle castle tower, the samurai who went to Luo to support Hosokawa Harumoto gathered together to discuss future countermeasures. From the four lower Administrative Department Daisuke Imagawa
Yoshimoto, who is sitting at the guest seat on the left, is the third most powerful person in the room besides Hosokawa Harumoto. The second most important person in the room is Nobuyori Rokkaku, who is in the fourth position from the fourth position below.
Sitting opposite Yoshimoto Imagawa - the chief on the right hand side. And next to Yoshimoto Imagawa, sitting next to him is Takeda Harunobu, the fifth-ranking chef.
Everyone present was the daimyo of each family or the generals of each army. There was only one exception - Taiyuan Yuksai, who was sitting diagonally behind Imagawa Yoshimoto. He was specially invited to attend the meeting as the head of the Imagawa family -
- Of course, no one in the lobby would question it, because everyone understood the old monk’s bottomless strategy.
"Your Majesty, please express your condolences." Everyone expressed their condolences to Hosokawa Harumoto who was sitting in the chair before sitting down - after all, in the recent Awa coup, Yoshihide Miyoshi murdered Hosokawa Harumoto's younger brother (some say
Cousin) Hosokawa Motaka, seized control of Awa. However, Hosokawa Harumoto did not look sad, he just returned the favor in a routine manner. After all, his younger brother had never dealt with him, and he had already
Wanting to take back Awa, it would not be a loss for Hosokawa Harumoto to have an outsider kill Hosokawa Motaka, it would be better than deposing the clan himself.
"Whoever can put an end to the rebellion of our Hosokawa family in this battle and take down the head of Miyoshi Chokei, I will grant the freed country of Awa to him." So, with a stroke of his pen, Hosokawa Harumoto boldly declared
He gave away an entire country as a reward. Among the daimyo here, the one with the largest territory only has a few hundred thousand koku. The fatness of Awa country's 180,000 koku is not unattractive - for those who have all the wealth,
The number of small daimyo who only have about 100,000 koku is even more astronomical.
As expected, when the grand prize was announced, everyone was shocked. The little daimyo's eyes widened one by one, as if saliva began to flow in their mouths. The daimyo began to think about the reliability of Hosokawa Harumoto's award - in public
If you tell me, you won't regret it, right? Even if you withhold it afterwards, it is still a big reward. It is just that it is too far away from your ability, so how to manage this enclave is a big problem.
Only Imagawa Yoshimoto looked unconcerned and secretly complained that Hosokawa Harumoto was a bit heartless - after all, he was also his brother, and the tea was cold before the bones were cold? Is the territory about to be confiscated? I have never heard of Hosokawa Mochi.
Long is no longer an heir. Logically speaking, shouldn't this territory be passed on to the children?
"Under a heavy reward, there must be a brave man. Your Majesty is so generous, so those three good repair heads must be in hot demand." Saito Michizan answered with a smile. As the person with the poorest background among the people here, he is not
He would pass up the opportunity to get close to Hosokawa Harumoto.
"It can't be that easy." But after hearing this, Hosokawa Harumoto shook his head and sighed, "The world is deteriorating, and people's hearts are not as good as they used to be. I thought that by raising my voice, all the people with lofty ideals in the world would be loyal to the shogunate."
People will gather in Jingluo to fight against the rebels with me. Who would have thought that the traitor of Sanhao Changqing would actually attract friends and collude with a Guanxi Xiaoxiao to help him. I don’t know which of them were deceived by the traitors, and which of them were originally
It’s just that you are rebellious!”
"Are there many people coming from Kansai?" Takeda Nobutoyo, the daimyo of Wakasa Province, asked a little uneasily, causing the daimyo present to roll their eyes.
"He doesn't even know this?" Takeda Harunobu frowned when he heard this, and quietly complained to Imagawa Yoshimoto sitting next to him: "Isn't that right? His own territory is in Kinki, right next to it.
Kansai, don’t you even have an intelligence network at all? My family really deserves the name “Takeda”.”
"I don't know either." Imagawa Yoshimoto replied matter-of-factly, almost choking Takeda Harunobu.
"Izu Mamoru (Takeda Nobutoyo) is the son-in-law of the commander-in-chief (Rokkaku Sadayori), right? He and the commander-in-chief (Hosokawa Harumoto) are brothers-in-law. He may just be here to help his relatives. He doesn't have many soldiers, so why worry about that?
"How much?" Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled as he excused Takeda Nobuyo, as if he was also covering up for himself.
"But you are not related to them, and the Imagawa army you brought is the third most powerful force in our coalition. How could you not know this?" Takeda Harunobu angrily pointed the muzzle of his complaint at Imagawa Yoshimoto.
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"that is not
You have my teacher." Imagawa Yoshimoto turned his head and pursed his lips towards Taiyuan Xuezhai, and Taiyuan Xuezhai also glared at Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"Okay, stop teasing me, tell me who are here." Imagawa Yoshimoto quietly tugged on Takeda Harunobu's lapel again.
"There are many people." Takeda Harunobu paused, and then spoke for Imagawa Yoshimoto: "The Miyoshi family's own people, 5,000 people from the Hatakeyama family, our allies, 4,000 people from the Hatano family, 3,000 people from the Isshiki family, and so on.
People from the Uchi family, people from the Otomo family, 3,000 people from the Mori family, people from the Niko family, 6,000 people from the Yamana family, 4,000 people from the Kono family, 3,000 people from the Urakami family, 3,000 people from the Akamatsu family, and 2,000 people from the Mimura family
.”
"Why are there so many famous Chinese people here?" Imagawa Yoshimoto just couldn't understand. "And there are those from Kyushu? What does the matter in Kinki have to do with them?" - It doesn't seem at all that the Imagawa family has come all the way to meddle in other people's affairs.
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"This is a long story." Takeda Harunobu had no choice but to become a teacher again and explained to Imagawa Yoshimoto: "Back then Ouchi Shao Er (Ouchi Yoshitaka) invaded Kyushu and repaired with Otomo (Otomo Yoshikan)
The fight almost forced the Otomo family to run out of ammunition and food. At the critical moment, the ancestor Kōhoden (Ashikaga Yoshiharu) sent someone to mediate and saved the Otomo family from the fire. Since then, the Otomo family has maintained an extremely close relationship with the shogunate.
Thanks to our relationship, we used the name of the shogunate to conquer Kyushu."
This chapter is not over yet, please click the next page to continue reading! "So, after the news of the murder of Gongfangden came out, the samurai in Otomo's family became excited. In order to maintain his prestige in Otomo's family and in Kyushu, Otomo
Xiu Xiu must make a gesture of revenge for the Gongfang Palace. Of course, Xiu Xiu himself is a seasoned politician, so he naturally doesn’t really care about the so-called “revenge” and “favor.” So he doesn’t care at all who murdered the ancestral official.
Fangdian, all he had to do was make this gesture. So, he ignored the leader (Harumoto Hosokawa) and chose to send troops to join Miyoshi Repair. It is said that the reward given by Miyoshi Repair was more generous
, promised him the "Kyushu Quest"."
"Otomo repair sent his legitimate son Otomo Shintaro (also known as Otomo Sorin) to lead the army to Luo, and also invited the Ouchi family who was an ally. At this time, the Ouchi family was in the midst of fierce internal fighting. The originally wise and powerful Ouchi Shao Er
After the loss of his son (Ouchi Harumchi), he was in a state of despair. He no longer interfered with politics and military affairs, and entrusted everything to the leader of the Bunji faction, Sagara Toe (Sagara Takehiro). Well, your situation is similar to Goro." Takeda Harunobu
I did not forget to intersperse a comment about Imagawa Yoshimoto in the explanation, and then continued:
"However, the dogmatic faction in the family was deeply dissatisfied with Ouchi Shaoer's lack of enterprising attitude, and could not accept Sagara Enie's monopoly of power. The dogmatic faction headed by Tao Owari (Tao Takafusa) and Naito Shimono (Naito Yukimori) therefore
Seizing the opportunity of the Ouchi family's invitation to go to Luo Kuang, he continued to make remonstrances, asking Ouchi Shaoer to imitate his father Ouchi Kandai (Ouchi Yoshihiro), lead his army to Luo Kuang to support the shogunate, and once again restore the prestige of the Ouchi family."
"In the end, the Wenzhi faction and the Dogmatist faction reached a subtle tacit understanding. The Dogmatist faction wanted to go out to gain military glory, while the Wenzhi faction wanted to take the opportunity to squeeze the Dogmatist faction out of the center of power and alienate their relationship with Ouchi Shaoer. So Xiang Liangyuan,
Jiang finally agreed that Tao Ouchi and Naito Shimo would replace Ouchi Shaoer and lead Ouchi's army and Ouchi's army to Luo."
"So, the Ouchi family sent their powerful families such as the Aki clan, the Mori family, the Yoshikawa family, and the Kobayakawa family, as the vanguard, to take the Sanyo Road to Luo by land. And to do this, they had to pass through the Bingo Kokugami Border Castle under the control of the Niko family.
Tao Weizhang may have had this kind of calculation. Any attempt to imitate the imperial eunuch and lead Shangluo was just a pretense. His goal was just to gain military power and conquer the Nizi family on the grounds of Shangluo."
"As a result, the same funny situation happened in Kansai as we did in Kanto." Takeda Harunobu laughed twice, "The Nizi family did not want to face the coalition forces, so they took advantage of the trick and sent Nizi Punishment Bureau (Nizi Kunhisa) of the Shingu Party to lead the army, claiming
We must go to Luo together with the Ouchi family and the Otomo family to support the repair doctor Miyoshi Changqing. In the name of righteousness, we will put the Ouchi family and the Otomo family on the fire, forcing the two families to pinch their noses and recognize this ally. Of course.
, the condition of the Nizi family is that the Mori family, as the advance team, has to walk in the queue of the Nizi family, and becomes the hostage of the Nizi family opening the back passage to the Ouchi family and the Otomo family. "
"These three Western giants
Wuba went on the expedition together, how could the little daimyo in Kansai dare to say "no"? Therefore, in order to avoid being destroyed and divided in the name of "impeding the Shangluo Army", the daimyo who were coerced along the way had no choice but to declare to join Miyoshi.
Repair one side, send troops to coordinate with Luo, and eventually the snowball gets bigger and bigger, and it becomes like this."
"The result is..." Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't help but feel that the situation in front of him was a bit magical, "A battle between the world's daimyo?"
"Yes, it is a war comparable to the Onin Rebellion 70 years ago." Takeda Harunobu nodded slowly and glanced sideways in the direction of Kyoto, "They are stationed to the north of us now, stationed in Kyoto."